QSL card's 50-year journey

FISTS Member 2934, Stan K4UK, the US FISTS QSL Manager reports an unusual blast from the past in the latest FISTS newsletter.

In a batch of cards that he has just received from the W4-QSL Bureau was one from W3MCG/VE4. It confirmed his QSO with K4IKF on 21 MC CW in 1958!

That QSO was made during the second weekend of the 1958 CW Sweepstakes.

Back then, Stan’s call was K4IKF. It took almost 50 years for the card to be delivered to him.

Stan said “Amazingly I found my log for the 1958 Sweepstakes Contest and sure enough that contact was in the log.”

“Now I need to find out if Karl R. Medrow is still alive and kicking and whether he still has the W3MCG call. And then I'll need to find some of my old K4IKF cards – How about that for bringing back old memories? – Hi!”

Wireless Institute of Australia