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[IRCA] CHINESE QSLs

Chris Kadlec wrote:
> Everyone has to start somewhere. You just persist and find ways to gain knowledge, improve your hobby for yourself and others, and one day it's all effortless.



Before we visited China in 1979, I did quite a bit of research utilizing many available sources including FBIS, the WRH (no WRTVH back then) and DX reports. It was challenging because everything available was in anglicized Pinyin. Fortunately, I came across a province-by-province atlas with everything in anglicized Mandarin. The result was a freq-by-freq bandscan of what I âmightâ hear. I taped extensively and got to the point where I very often could identify where a âbo dian taiâ was from. To fill in the gaps, I befriended a lovely SF Safeway checker who was from Taiwan but was fluent in Mandarin. She not only identified the ones I couldnât, she translated my English language reports into Mandarin. I sent these with cassettes and got a lot of Chinese veries I otherwise would not have gotten. So Chris, you are absolutely right. Thanks for providing us with all the Asian DX information!

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380






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