Re: [A-DX] QSL-Archiv(e)

Norbert Reiner
Mittwoch, 12. März 2025, 11:56 Uhr

Dear Andrea,
Thank you very much for your very emotional email about our friend Dario Monferini. I've been a member of playdx since the early 1990s and regularly published my QSLs. Thanks to Dario, playdx was more than a DX club; it was a familiar institution. I exchanged letters (and later emails) with Dario from time to time, and we once spoke on the phone.
Dario seemed to me to be an open person, enthusiastic about the DX hobby, but also a sometimes difficult one. In any case, it's a pleasure to have known him.
And please don't blame yourself for the loss of so much of Dario's collection; it was simply a difficult time back then.
Thanks again, all the best,
Norbert
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Norbert Reiner
76131 Karlsruhe
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Betreff: Re: [A-DX] QSL-Archiv(e)
Datum: 2025-03-12T10:48:35+0100
Von: "Andrea Lawendel via groups.io" 
An: "a-dx@..." 

Hi Norbert

I'm only now realizing the matter had reached A-DX subscribers, sorry for
this late post.

I'm afraid Dario's immense collection went almost completely lost after his
death.
In his latest months, Dario was hospitalized under Italian and Milan's
public assistance regulations, that means his only real estate possessions
were forcibly rented to pay for his care and later on auctioned to new
owners. Giampiero Bernardini, who was close to him till last, told me that
he got news by a public office when Dario's apartment was to be emptied
after his demise and managed to save a couple of bags of material (which I
never saw and I believe should still be in Giampiero's hands).

All the rest was sold to recyclers or simply went to the dump. It's a very
sad loss for which I feel partially guilty. Me and Dario weren't so close
as of lately, mainly because on the discussions we've had due to his
support to Bellabarba, the notorious QSL faker. But we were still partially
in contact. Hadn't it been for the Sars Covid emergency, perhaps, together
with other friends we could have managed his conditions and new residence
better, providing for an exit strategy for his chaotic archive. I had
planned to make an appointment to visit him in the retirement home hosting
him, in the northern part of Milan, but having similar problems with my
late mother, in a different structure, I never found time for that. I
should have done better, but at the time I thought Giampiero and other DX
colleague were planning for this with Dario, who was still able to
interact.

And that's all, sorry. It's more than sad, because we all had contributed
to that collection more or less, it was part of the personal history of a
small group of people who had started their radio interest with Dario and
Play DX in the 70's and are still active today.

Ciao
Andy Lawendel, Milan

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM Norbert Reiner via groups.io  wrote:

> Liebe A-DX-Runde,
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> dieser Tage habe ich auf noch einmal den
> Nachruf von Fabrizio Carnevalini (eingestellt am 31.10.2022 durch
> Giampiero
> Bernardini) auf unseren unvergessenen Freund Dario Monferini gelesen.
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> Offensichtlich ist Darios großartige Sammlung von QSL-Karten, Wimpeln,
> Stickern und Dingen von / rund um Radiostationen in aller Welt einfach
> entsorgt worden. Das mag (auch) den speziellen Umständen, in denen Dario
> gelebt hat, geschuldet gewesen sein. Mich (und wohl die meisten von uns)
> macht das Ganze sehr traurig.
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> Kaum jemand von uns dürfte in der nächste Generation seiner Familie
> Hobbyfreunde haben, so stellt sich immer wieder die Frage: Wohin mit den
> QSL-"Schätzen" nach dem letzten Stündlein?
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> Da ist einmal das Dokumentationsarchiv Funk / DokuFunk. Nehmen die große
> Bestände an Rundfunk- und Utility-QSLs?
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> Gibt es noch andere Institutionen, die QSL's archivieren oder zumindest
> die
> wirklich seltenen Exemplare identifizieren?
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> Euch Allen noch einen schönen Sonntag.
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> 73,
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> Norbert
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> Norbert Reiner
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> 76131 Karlsruhe
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