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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
September 29, 2006
This week, visit Web sites that collect memories such as QSL cards that immortalize radio contacts long after they are over.
A Vintage QSL Card Collection is one of the online assemblies of QSL cards featured in this week's installment of Surfin'. |
Bob Green, W8JYZ, suggested that it was time that Surfin' collected QSL card Web sites again. I looked it up, and the only time I collected QSL sites was in December 2004, which in Internet years, is a long time ago. With that in mind, I agreed to tackle W8JYZ's suggestion and rounded up a new collection of confirmation card Web sites.
I quickly discovered that there are a lot more sites to round up than there were two years ago. For what it's worth, the four Web sites mentioned here two years ago are still up and running: They are:
Harvard Wireless Club Antique QSL Cards Web page displays fascinating ham radio QSL cards from the mid-1920s.
K8CX QSL Card Gallery has hundreds of ham radio QSL cards, as well as a search engine to search the collection by call sign.
Old Time QSL Collection displays a collection of broadcast band and shortwave station QSL cards from the 1930s.
SWL Shortwave Radio Listeners QSL Card Museum is a shortwave broadcast station QSL cards collection.
The following QSL card Web sites are new this week:
W8JYZ'z own Web site, QSL Cards from the Past, has a collection of QSL cards.
A Vintage QSL Card Collection is an amazing collection of 250 QSL cards from the 1926-1928 era.
CBS Hams QSL Cards displays the QSL cards of the members of the Retired CBS Engineers Association.
Martin Elbes QSL-Seiten is a collection of commercial and national broadcast shortwave, AM, FM and medium band stations. Even though this site is in German, you shouldn't have any problems navigating.
My Pirate (Offshore) QSL Cards collects QSL cards from maritime pirate broadcast stations that competed with legit British and Dutch stations from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s. In addition to viewing QSLs, you can listen to audio clips of some of those pirate stations here.
QSL Cards documents the vast ham radio QSL card collection of Jim Wyant, W7AH.
QSL Cards -- OE1002419 -- Kurt Brandstetter -- Vienna displays the ham radio QSL card collection of Austrian shortwave listener station OE1002419.
Some of My Favorite QSL Cards are the favorite Amateur Radio QSL cards of Jack Wagoner, WB8FSV.
South Pole QSL Cards assembles QSL cards from Antarctic Amateur Radio operations.
trsc.com QSL Verification Collection has commercial and national shortwave broadcast station QSLs.
University of Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club QSL Cards collects QSL cards from the university's ham radio club stations, W3ABT and N3KZ.
UTARC -- QSL Cards shows the QSL cards of the University of Texas Amateur Radio Club from the 1930s to the present day.
The W7HR QSL Card Gallery is a collection of Amateur Radio DX station QSL cards
Until next time, keep on surfin'.
Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, writes Surfin' on a weekly basis, rain or shine, QSL or no QSL, VLF or UHF. To discuss neat stuff, especially if it's related to radio, send e-mail or add comments to his blog.
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