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n5tjd
04-01-2005, 11:50 PM
Here is something I thought would be interesting for those of us that send and receive QSL cards.
Recently, I started QSLing DX contacts, especially the ones with United States managers. The result is I've been getting 2-4 cards a week.
I thought it would be fun for those who want to, to show any card or cards you have received that you think are interesting. It can be any card, stateside, DX, even your own.
I myself have a bunch, but I decided to show one of the ones I got today. Today I received one from Guantanamo Bay, and one from Hawaii. Here is the GTMO one...
http://users.bluebonnet.net/~davistj/images/GTMO.jpg
Knowing my luck no one else will post or add their own pictures. Oh well, I just thought it could be fun to see all kinds of cards people have gotten.
Good idea for a topic! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
I don't own a scanner, but I'll scan a few at work in the morning. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
About 8,200 cw QSO's with this callsign from Martinique two months ago.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #Tom TOØO & KCØW
Hey Tom,
I just realized, I've worked TO0O 3 times..
twice in 2003 and then again this February.
I guess I better send you my qsl!
Gordon
N6WK
Here is one I'm proud of:
I have many on my website
http://www.n6wk.com/QSL%20Cards/3W22S-qsl.jpg
Or this one which I think is pretty rare:
http://www.n6wk.com/QSL%20Cards/R1FJ-qsl.jpg
Quote[/b] (N6WK @ April 01 2005,23:16)]Hey Tom,
#I just realized, I've worked TO0O 3 times..
twice in 2003 and then again this February.
I guess I better send you my qsl!
Gordon
N6WK
Thanks for the Q's , Gordon!!
As with all the cards I receive, I will send you out a TOØO card within 72 hours of receiving your card. There is no reason it should take a DX station a year or more to send you out their card.
Listen for me from Haiti this fall.....I'm going to apply for the call HH5H.
Tom kcØw
n5tjd
04-02-2005, 03:15 AM
Here is a stateside contact. He was bicycle mobile. He has an ICOM 706 on the handle bars and an antenna on the back. I had a pretty good QSO with him. It wasn't a UR 59, QRZed? contact. This is and I think will continue to be one of my most memorable contacts.
I don't currently have a scanner, so I had to take a picture with my digital camera. The white spot is the glare from the flash and the yellow is the reflection of the room's lights.
http://users.bluebonnet.net/~davistj/images/W9XS.jpg
Here is my favorite card. Have gotten quite a few comments on it when i dsend them out.
And another. Will scan some the good ones I received.
n5tjd
04-02-2005, 04:16 AM
Here is a picture of my current card.
http://users.bluebonnet.net/~davistj/images/qslcard.jpg
Quote[/b] (K3UD @ April 02 2005,04:48)]Here is my favorite card. Have gotten quite a few comments on it when i dsend them out.
I have this one posted on my Web Site George.
Thanks for the QSO and the QSL!
Quote[/b] (kc0w @ April 02 2005,02:06)]Thanks for the Q's , Gordon!!
As with all the cards I receive, I will send you out a TOØO card within 72 hours of receiving your card. There is no reason it should take a DX station a year or more to send you out their card.
Listen for me from Haiti this fall.....I'm going to apply for the call HH5H.
Tom kcØw
Thanks Tom,
I will definately Listen for you this Fall.
I'm sending my card out to you tomorrow.
73,
Gordon
af2cw
04-02-2005, 04:37 AM
I have a page on my web site dedicated to posting some of
the qsl's I've received at My Webpage (http://www.kg2hg.com/qsl's/dxqsls.html)
Here is one that I enjoyed getting
http://www.kg2hg.com/hv4nac.jpg
af2cw
04-02-2005, 04:44 AM
Then again this one is nice too
http://www.kg2hg.com/r1anc.jpg
Nice Cards Rich.
I would Love to work the Vatican ! Maybe someday...
Gordon
N6WK
W5MJL
04-02-2005, 05:09 AM
Quote[/b] (KD5WZB @ April 01 2005,17:50)]Here is something I thought would be interesting for those of us that send and receive QSL cards.
Recently, I started QSLing DX contacts, especially the ones with United States managers. The result is I've been getting 2-4 cards a week.
I thought it would be fun for those who want to, to show any card or cards you have received that you think are interesting. It can be any card, stateside, DX, even your own.
I myself have a bunch, but I decided to show one of the ones I got today. Today I received one from Guantanamo Bay, and one from Hawaii. Here is the GTMO one...
http://users.bluebonnet.net/~davistj/images/GTMO.jpg
Knowing my luck no one else will post or add their own pictures. Oh well, I just thought it could be fun to see all kinds of cards people have gotten.
How ironic you should pick that card to display. I have been out of ham radio for 20 some odd years. I purchased a new radio and received it on March 4th. KG4WW was my very first contact on my return.
KB1KIX
04-02-2005, 08:33 AM
With this as my call, did I really have much of a choice???
It's actually a 4x6 photo that I run off as needed, then I have pre-printed stickers for the back and general qso info.
Jonathan
http://www.qsl.net/kb1kix/images/kix8.jpg
ae2ny
04-02-2005, 01:06 PM
Here's the one I am the most proud of so far of all the ones I *DO* have. I don't have many, and virtually no DX cards except for one from Gitmo. But even in mileage, that's not as far as Napa, CA.
http://www.w8ant.net/images/napa.jpg
Anthony - W8ANT
KF0RT
04-02-2005, 02:05 PM
Quote[/b] (kg2hg @ April 01 2005,21:44)]Then again this one is nice too
Nice collection you have on your web site there, Rich!
73, Rob
All of these cards are Great!
Remember whn almost everyone used the cards from the Little Print Shop, or Walter Ashe?
Desktop design and printing at home is a wonderful thing.
73
George
K3UD
n5tjd
04-02-2005, 07:23 PM
I enjoy getting any card, but I love the full color picture kind. Especially for special events or DX operations. I try to make a card that people will like too. I used an image in mine that I took in Austin, TX last May. It is a view looking up into the dome of the state capital. That star at the peak is bigger than you think. It is huge, but since it is I think about 300ft up, it looks small.
af2cw
04-02-2005, 10:19 PM
Quote[/b] (KF0RT @ April 02 2005,09:05)]Quote[/b] (kg2hg @ April 01 2005,21:44)]Then again this one is nice too
Nice collection you have on your web site there, Rich!
73, Rob
Thanks Rob. I add new ones when I get a chance, or think
about it. It's also a good way to keep track for DXCC.
Once I get my scanner hooked up again, I will scan in some cards..
w5alt
04-03-2005, 12:25 AM
My QSL cards are at My QSL Card Webpage (http://mars.comportco.com/~w5alt/myqsls/myqsls.html)
Some of my DX cards are at My DX QSL Webpage (http://mars.comportco.com/~w5alt/qsls/dxqsls.html)
73,
Walt, W5ALT
http://www.electroblog.com:8090/hamradio/kd8atu_newqsl.gif
My current design. I'm going to stick with this one until I come up with a photo with enough clear space for the state map...
(and as a site note, the board admins need to enable PNG images...)
KF0RT
04-03-2005, 02:28 AM
Here's another Vietnam card, this one from when the war was still going:
http://tatanka03.home.comcast.net/XV5ACsm.jpg
Great stuff guys... I need to scan more. (Actually, I need to get on the air more!)
73, Rob
KF0RT
04-03-2005, 02:39 AM
Walt's inclusion of a recent W1AW card in his DXCC list reminded me of this one, confirming a July 8, 1971 QSO on 15 meters CW:
http://tatanka03.home.comcast.net/W1AWsm.jpg
Quote[/b] (K3UD @ April 02 2005,18:50)]All of these cards are Great!
Remember whn almost everyone used the cards from the Little Print Shop, or Walter Ashe?
Desktop design and printing at home is a wonderful thing.
73
George
K3UD
George, Remember when you would get the QSL card proposals with samples BEFORE your license even came in the Mail???
I remember that back when I first got my Novice back in 62 or 63....
Gordon
N6WK
wa4brl
04-03-2005, 05:50 AM
Quote[/b] ]Remember when you would get the QSL card proposals #with samples BEFORE your license even came in the Mail???
I sure remember that. #As you know, that's how most of us learned of our new callsigns back when the FCC license bureau was so slow. #I got mailings with WN4VQY on the mailing labels from both Russprint and Trigger (shudder) Electronics a week before my license showed up. #Made waiting for the license that much harder. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I got a copy of "Your Novice Accent" booklet from ARRL a couple of weeks AFTER i got the license.
Yes Steve, Getting those ads in the mail with your new Call sign did make that wait for your actual license seem like it took years.
I was so excited when I received my first QSL ad with my new Call sign from Walter Ashe Qsl's
Now, It is up on the FCC website in just a few days.
It just isn't the same!
k8mmg
04-03-2005, 06:15 PM
Made this after I came home.
http://www.qrz.com/hampix/r/t/w8xtr.1095916695.jpg
Nice Card Brandon.
Glad you made it back.
73,
gordon
ae2ny
04-04-2005, 12:30 PM
XTR:
*Salutes XTR* My cousin is a Marine out of Camp LeJeune. Glad you made it back too. SEMPER FI!!
Anthony - W8ANT
P.S. Thank you... for everything you did over there. It means the world to me and my family.
KC0LFV
04-04-2005, 01:12 PM
Quote[/b] (w8xtr @ April 02 2005,12:15)]Made this after I came home.
http://www.qrz.com/hampix/r/t/w8xtr.1095916695.jpg
Awesome card. Thanks for your service, and glad you made it back.
k8mmg
04-04-2005, 01:30 PM
I thank everyone for their kind words. To quote any soldier from present day to civil war days: "Was just doing my job"
kc2ige
04-04-2005, 10:46 PM
Here's one card I am very proud of. #It took me awhile to break the pile for this one!
I have some more cards posted at my website:Ham Webpage (http://www.albany.edu/~mr911577/amateur_radio.html)
PS - W8XTR - Thank you
Welcome home Brandon!
Thanks for all you do for us.
73
George
K3uD
n5tjd
04-05-2005, 03:45 PM
Great card, XTR.
Sorry to bump this, just wanted to say it was great to see all those cards. If anyone else wants to add something go ahead. If not, we can just let this thread drift down.
In Scottsdale in the '60's, most of us used cards made locally by good ol' C. Fritz (formerly of Joliet, Ill; samples 25 cents, deductible)! Guess he meant deductible if you then ordered cards; always thought he meant tax deductible and could never understand why. But then, I was 14 at the time. He sure made nice cards.
He was a great guy. I had my DZ cards made in the early 90's when he must have been in his 80's. See my 1966 card (still my favorite) when I was wa7fik and my latest one at the qrz info page for w0dz.
Quote[/b] (K3UD @ April 01 2005,20:48)]Here is my favorite card. Have gotten quite a few comments on it when i dsend them out.
That "Ham Heaven?" card is a hoot! Is that image available elsewhere? I sure would like a poster with that image so that the XYL would get the hint!
73,
Dave/al2i
W5MJL
04-05-2005, 08:44 PM
Here's my favorite. #I haven't put my callsign on it yet, but I can't wait until I do.
http://www.clalloys.com/echoqsl.jpg
k7unz
04-06-2005, 04:41 AM
KA5FAP..........gotta love it!!!
73, Jim/k7unz