QSL Cards, A65CA etc.

I received a package of QSL cards from the JARL bureau the day before yesterday.

A couple of cards have been picked up from them and are shown here.

A6, the U. A. E. is not a rare entity for most DXCC hunters, but it is a new one for me.

I did not bother sending my card and an SAE directly to the station, and am pleased to recieve this card via the bureau all right.

The contact with A65CA was made in October 2010 from a parking lot along the Okutama Park Way, in WFF JAFF-005, the Chichibu-Tama National Park, using a fishing-rod vertical antenna on top of my car. I was called by this station and it may be a rare case to be called from the Middle East when operating in JA1 region. The operator seems to be hunting WFF stations because he is a Russian. This may show how lucrative a WFF activation from Japan is at present. I should keep it to myself and had better not to translate this paragraph into Japanese.

He asks other operators not to confuse his callsign with AB6CA in his QRZ.com page. That was exactly what I was about to do. I remember that his call made me wonder why there was a caller from the U.S. when all other callers were from Europe and Asia.

The operator's voice recorded in Costa Rica by TI2CDA can be heard by YouTube.

I do not hunt WFF stations seriously from my home as it is almost impossible to have contacts with European portable stations from my present home station. The contact with DA0CW/p, portable Nature Park Hassberge, WFF DLFF-064, in August last year on 17 meter band, CW, is a rare exception. I found its signal and succeeded to have a contact helped probably by operator's good ears and by some luck.

一昨日にＪＡＲＬから届いたカードの中から２枚を紹介します。

A6は、それほど珍しいものではないと思いますが、当局にはニュー・エンティティーです。交信の状況がちょっと珍しいかと思うので、出してみました。日本語で書くとＷＦＦ移動運用の「美味しさ」が広まってしまって、参加者が増えすぎてしまうかも知れないので（？）、知りたい方は英語を読んでください。

A65CAは、QRZ.com のページで、AB6CA と間違う局が多いので注意してほしいと書いていましたが、まさにその間違いをしそうで、一瞬、なぜ今ごろ北米が聞こえるのかといぶかしく思ったことを思い出します。

A65CAのフォーンのシグナルがTIの局に録音されてユーチューブに出ていました。ちなみに録音したTI2CDAは、ヘックス・ビームのユーザーのようです。

DL0CW/p は、ホームからのアクティビティーが低く、WFFもハンティングの方は真面目にやっていない（できない）当局にとり、珍しい１枚なので、登場願いました。去年の８月にこの交信ができたのは、先方の耳の良さと幸運に助けられてのことでしょう。

私のＷＦＦ移動の発行カードは、既製カードに小さな運用地の写真を入れたものが多いのですが、時おりカラー印刷で作ることもあり、その時は、このカードのようにＷＦＦのロゴ・マークを入れています。