On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Larry Tyree wrote:
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> Speaking of Romeo... in my last shipment of QSLs from the W6 bureau,
> I received an interesting QSL card. It is for a QSO I never had on
> December 28th at 0449 (you might remember that was a GREAT night with
> about 28 Europeans worked).
>
> The callsign is P5/R0MEO and has the following info:
>
> "TNX QSL & GREENSTAMPS"
>
> "NORTH KOREA... its anywhere you want it to be."
>
> "QSL DIRECT ONLY!"
>
> It is a white card with a colorful map of Asia in the background and
> about a dozen stars with "QTH" by each one. None of them appear in
> Korea.
>
> The card is printed by WX9X "Pirate QSL - Limited Edition" and they
> have a skull and crossbones for thier logo. Finally, the address:
>
> ROMEO STUFFURBUCKO
> Box P7RS5
> North Korea, Europe, Asia, Mid East.
>
> By the way, my antenna works good to Korea! I got a 599. Gee, and
> it was probably light out at 0449Z.
>
> 73 Tree N?TR
> tree@contesting.com
>
> PS: Don't get all excited about this card. It was signed: "73- T"
> which made it obvious where the source was. Anyone else ever seen
> this card? Maybe it is a collector's item.
There were a bunch of these floating around at the W9DXCC convention a
couple of weeks ago. I have one!
73,
Gary K9GS
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