{"id":7438,"date":"2016-09-20T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:03:04","slug":"qsl-card-takes-37-years-to-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=7438","title":{"rendered":"QSL CARD TAKES 37 YEARS TO ARRIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ap2mq-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ap2mq\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ap2mq-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ap2mq.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I worked AP2MQ Mansoor Qureshi in Pakistan in March of 1979.  I was using a Swan TB4H (4 element tribander) at 85 feet with my Drake 4A line from my Spokane Valley home.  Pakistan, being a rare DX for me then (and even now), I sent him a QSL card and probably $2 for return postage, but never heard from him.  Many years later in 2002, when I went from manual logging to a computer logging program called WIN-EQF, I started to put my manually logged contacts into the new logging program, but in reverse order from 2002 backwards.  I went through all my hand written logs and found that I had never received a card in return from AP2MQ and I needed that entity for my DXCC.  There was a Japanese QSL manager listed for him so I sent another card and another $$ to him with no results.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5 of this year (2016), I received a letter addressed from Mansoor Qureshi in Overland Park, KS with two QSL cards for the original contact.  Wow! His QRZ.com information still shows he is in Pakistan, so I do not know any more details.  Incidentally, the card confirms Pakistan both for SSB and Ten Meters which I need!!!  I worked another Pakistan on CW later in life to give me that country for general DXCC purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Have you got a story like this?<\/p>\n<p>Steve K7AWB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}