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[HCDX] QSL Report from Al Muick, week ending 24 September
AUSTRIA, Radio Austria International, 9820, f/d City of Salzburg QSL
letter in 21 days for report in German and US $2.00. I also had Cousin
Ilse drop by the station to inquire if they had received the report (she
had nothing better to do anyway!).
USA, KJES, Vado New Mexico, 11714.8, f/d "Sunset at KJES" letter in 24
days for US $1.00 and English report via 1st Class Mail.
Always nice to see some mail from Austria, and the wintry scene in that
picture on their letter took me back to some funny misadventures in
Salzburg in recent years. One of the better beers in the world, Stiegl,
comes from Salzburg. I remember the old days, when Radio Austria used
to actually have a QSL card. What one gets now is a letter with a
"card" printed on the back, showing dashed lines and a scissors where
one is supposed to cut it off. Budget cutbacks have forced this and
much worse cuts worldwide.
The KJES letter would have made a beautiful card! The picture on the
letter is really almost a prize-winner. I hope they someday manage to
get this on an actual card, as the paper printing does not do justice to
the beauty of it.
I have sent follow-ups to over 50 (!) stations via registered airmail in
the past two months, for reports as old as 15 months from my times in
Afghanistan. This morning, I received an email from Abu Tabib Md. Zia
Hasan, the Senior Engineer for Bangladesh Betar (rrc@xxxxxxxxx), saying
that they would be sending the QSL very soon, but that they never
received the original report. Of course, this does not explain two
previous reports to this email address which went unanswered. He says
to please note their correct mailing address (slight variation of WRTH
2011): Senior Engineer, Research and Receiving Centre, Bangladesh
Betar, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In tracing back all my missing QSLs, each and every one of them that
never got a reply, was sent via the US Army Post Office on Kandahar
Airfield. This is not very encouraging..... I'm not (yet) pointing
fingers, but after some more empirical data, I may lay a smoldering
letter in the inbox of the APO Inspector General.
The amazing thing for me is that the registered airmail letter to
Bangladesh was sent on the 20th of September, and the email was on the
28th of September. Given handling and transport times, the letter took
about 7 days to reach its destination, which for me, at the price of
around $14.48, is a better deal than any courier service. Hats off to
the USPS for this one!
73
Al Muick
Whitehall PA USA
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