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General Category => QSLs Received => Topic started by: DXerKen on October 13, 2025, 2317 UTC
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I received the following eQSL. Thank you for The Real Underdog Radio.
https://imgur.com/a/IShw06w (https://imgur.com/a/IShw06w)
The dog on the eQSL I received was Togo, the hero dog.
Thank you for telling me all about Togo the hero dog. I found it very interesting to read.
In Japan, there's a bronze statue of Hachiko(Dog) in front of Shibuya Station. Hachiko is famous and has become a popular photo spot for many foreign tourists.
Did you know that?
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Same received here. Thanks, Real Underdog Radio!
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Same received here. Thanks, Real Underdog Radio!
no you didn't get the same one.
there were five rx reports and five completely different eqsl's , each one sent to a different listener along with historical facts about each dog pictured on the qsl .
i know i didn't include explicit instructions on posting them to the hfu qsl section-s , but i was hoping the recipients would have posted what they actually got including the historical info .
perhaps maybe that was to much to expect for the time i put in to send them out ?
now i'll excuse myself to get back to scratching fleas .
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(https://i.postimg.cc/76P9mRk2/UD4.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Mancs
Born in 1994, Mancs (whose name means “Paw,” in Hungarian) was a German Shepherd and a member of the renowned Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc, Hungary, a team that traveled the globe doing search-and-rescue work.
As a member of the squad, Mancs was incredibly gifted at locating earthquake survivors who lay trapped deep beneath the rubble and alerting rescuers. He could locate where people were buried under the earthquake rubble—and not only could Mancs determine if the person was dead or alive, but he could also indicate this to the other members of the rescue crew. If he sensed a dead person, he laid down; when he sensed a live person beneath the rubble, he stood up, wagged his tail and barked.
Alongside his owner László Lehóczki, Mancs helped in several high-profile earthquake rescue missions, including the 2001 earthquakes in El Salvador and India. His most famous case was when he helped rescue a 3-year-old girl who spent 82 hours under the ruins after the 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey.
Mancs died of pneumonia in 2006. In 2015, Mancs was honored posthumously with his team with the European Citizen's Prize for their many years of life-saving efforts. Attending the ceremony as the guest of honor was Hatira Kaplan—the young woman Mancs had rescued in Izmit.