Tragedy (And Thousands of QSL Cards) Strikes Bureau Manager

By WBØRUR, on the scene

YAKIMA, Massachusetts – The National Radio Retransmission Legion’s (NRRL) vanity call sign QSL card manager has been found badly injured beneath thousands of QSL cards.

Amateur radio operator Theodore Rosenheimer served in the volunteer role since 1985.

“We were called to 4905 East Rockingham Boulevard at approx 4:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon,” says Yakima Police Department Sgt. Fergus “Rocky” O’Leary. “When we arrived, we found the man (Rosenheimer) buried under a pile of postcards of some sort, dating back to the late 1980s.”

In fact, says O’Leary, officers were forced to clear a path through seven-foot-tall stacks of cards to reach Rosenheimer, who lived alone.

“You ever been in a corn maze?” asked O’Leary. “That’s what it was like. But, at the end of the maze there wasn’t apple cider and pumpkin carving. Just piles of postcards and a disturbing odor.”

QSL cards found in the two-story house ranged from before the fall of the Berlin Wall to as recent as last month.

Experts believe a small seismic disturbance centered in nearby West Haven, Mass., vibrated the cards at Rosenheimer’s residence. The temblor caused them to shift and start a veritable QSL card avalanche.

Police analysts say the unsuspecting Rosenheimer had just unpacked a new Yaesu FT 5000 (with high-end roofing filters) and was seated at his radio desk (where his Kenwood TS-990s is located) when the accident occurred.

Rosenheimer is expected to make a full recovery.

A member of the local radio club and longtime friend of Rosenheimer, ham operator Adolphus Jones, ADØLF, observed: “It certainly explains why I never got any envelopes containing cards from the bureau.”

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