From news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Wed Sep 15 15:31:11 EET DST 1993 Article: 22785 of rec.radio.shortwave Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu ("Don Moore" ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: DX Humor - QSL Report Date: 14 Sep 1993 12:07:11 -0500 Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Lines: 95 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu QSLs and Other Goodies Edited by Ray Framus BOLIVIA: Radio Sin Miguel 3320 Full data "Looking for Miguel" card in 38d for a box of sandwich bags (Carson Humboldt) Partial data "Finding Miguel gift-wrapped in 37 seperate Mason jars" cd in 64d for a booklet on poultry diseases (Ray Framus) BOTSWANA: Radio Botswana 4820 "Common Barnyard Animals" cd in 2 mo for a bag of feed. Also rcv'd sked & cowbell (Jack Mann) F/d "Famous Cowbells" cd, number 3 in series of 10, in 3 months (Clay Hastings) P/d "Famous Other Things Found in Barnyards" cd number 2 of 8 in 5 wks. One of the few scratch 'n' sniff QSLs I've rcv'd from Africa! (Dillon Hollister) BURUNDI: R Burundi 3300 F/d letter in 27d for a French rpt and a 5x7 color picture of me eating live goldfish in the nude. I said that if they didn't answer me I'd send them an 11x14 next. It works everytime! (Bill Kyle) CHAD: Rdif Tchadienne 4905 F/d "No llamas here" cd in 66d for a collection of selected airline barf bags (Jack Mann) COLOMBIA: CARACOL 5075 F/d "Boiling our Goldfish" cd in 3 semifortnights (Christina Van Helder) At least it's not as gross as last year's "Boiling Our Housecats" card was! - Ray ECUADOR: HCJB 9745 Veri from the Union of Exiled Ugandan DX Clubs for their monthly feature on DX Partytime (Jack Bradbury) Their usual "Screw up your mind with DXing" card, I presume? - Ray IRAN: IRIB 15084 F/d cd, booklets, autographed photo of Khomeini ("To my good friend, Dillon"), & $100 check from Khomeini in 35 days for English rpt & a picture of me burning a copy of the book "The Satanic Verses" (Hollister) How do you rate? The only sent me 30 bucks! Still, we shouldn't complain. Things haven't been this good since the 1960s when the CIA offered free clandestine station QSLs for life to anyone who would assassinate Castro. - Ray ISRAEL: Kol Israel 11635 "Brave Israeli soldiers catch yet another 3 year old Palestianian terrorist" cd for 6 pounds of plutonium. KOREA, NORTH: Radio Pyongyang 11600 F/d "Great Leader Kim-il Sung in BLANDX boxer shorts burning North American Reception Reports" (Hiroshi Wistokowsky, Japan) Talk about adding insult to injury! - Ray LESOTHO: Radio Lesotho 4800 F/d "Our National Llama painting team" cd in 66d (Humboldt) LIBYA: R Hamneggyah 11815 F/d photo of Khadaffi in BLANDX boxer shorts burning a copy of "The Satanic Verses". Very sexy!! (Van Helder) Was there a llama in the background on yours, too? -Ray MEXICO: Radio Universidad 6045 F/d "Pedro Montaner Building of Chemical Sociology" card in 66d (Bill Rumbley) "Buildng of Historical Sanitation Studies" cd in 52d (Hastings) PERU: Radio Ain'tcash 4990 F/d Spanish letter from V/s Moreno Romero (or is it the otherway around?) in 20 days. Moreno says he is 6 years old, married, and the mother (possibly father) of 42 children. Living in Argentina, he commutes to Lima daily for work at the station. My Spanish is improving! (Bill Kyle) Yep. Amazing, last year when I QSLed them he was 5 years old and the father of only 40 children! - Ray SANDI ARABIA: BSKSA 11855 F/d "Typical Saudi Censor Engrossed in Cutting the Pictures out of Penthouse" cd (Rumbley) Was that the issue of Penthouse with the llama pictorial? -Ray SWEDEN: R Sweden 11715 F/d "Antonyms of Fish" cd in 37d (Hastings) 9585 "George Wood's Favorite Synonyms" cd in just 18d (Hollister) 11770 P/d "Popular Swedish Homonyms" cd in .000049 decades (Dernoff) TANZANIA: R Tanzania 4785 P/d "Send More Australian Beer" cd in 3.397 months (Hastings) UKRAINE: Radio Kiev 15215 F/d "Two Typical Ukrainian Men Trying to Grow the Same Moustache" cd in 62.19 days (Hollister) RADIO KIEV ?!?!?!?! What's wrong, Hollister?? Can't you QSL anything any better than this?? What a dolt!! - Ray Veri-signers: Rdif Burkina Faso 4815 B. R. Ibeme; Rdif Malienne 5995 M. Etoo; Radio Veriloco, Bolivia 3340 D. I. Rector or G. E. Rente. ************************************************************** The above items were excerpted from the 1989 edition of BLANDX, the annual DX humor magazine. Contributions are currently being accepted for the 1993 edition of BLANDX. This file and other DX humor files from BLANDX posted to rec.radio.shortwave may be reposted electronically in their entirety and without changes anywhere provided a message is sent to me informing me where it is being posted to and by whom. Anyone wishing to use this material in a publication should contact me first, although permission will normally be freely given. ************************************************************ * * Don Moore * What were once vices * MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu * are now * 11434 140th St. * good DXing habits. * Davenport, IA * * 52804-9538 USA * BLANDX 1990 * * * ************************************************************