Hi Jerry, I never tried YU7GWN, but have received several QSLs from V51AS. V51AS is a good QSLer.....when he receives mail, so please don't blame him. Unfortunately, as with much of Africa since the colonial powers left, countries descended into chaos, corruption and theft (go to Nigeria, it's a way of life there!). We see this in the mail theft that routinely happens with mail to V51AS. Sadly this has happened across the whole continent - they're not all as bad as Zimbabwe, but plenty are nearly there. Remember, $2 is often a weekly or monthly wage in Africa and Western aid $$$ end up in the current dictator's Swiss bank account. If I can give any tips (they're old, well-known ones), it's (1) Don't write callsigns or "amateur radio" etc on the envelope (2) fold your green stamps inside your return envelope and make sure that this in turn is folded so that the contents aren't visible even if the corners of your envelope are lifted. Insert it opening down. (3) If you've not got a dark coloured QSL card, shove some carbon paper in there, so the contents aren't visible if it's held to the light (4) try to fold the return envelope so it doesn't look like a return envelope - this is a dead giveaway. Following these, I have a pretty decent return rate from V51AS I'd be surprised if there are such mail problems in Serbia, but YU7GMN is a club station, so mail probably sits there for a while. They're probably more interested in operating/antenna projects etc. Do you know which op you worked? You could probably try him??? Whilst we're on the subject, has anyone received QSLs from XE1KK? Hope this helps. cheers Dave G0OIL
--- On Sat, 15/11/08, Jerry Rappel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jerry Rappel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [DX-CHAT] YU7GMN V51AS QSL's To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 15 November, 2008, 5:19 AM #yiv1517713057 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1517713057 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Has anyone received QSL's from YU7GWN, or V51AS? Thanks, Jerry WWØE ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
