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This week, visit Amateur Radio’s past by viewing a huge compilation of online QSL cards.

Old QSL Cards Web site is the repository for W8JYZ’s vast collection of QSL cards.

Sixteen thousand cards is an impressive achievement, so if I wore a hat, I would doff in honor of Bob Green, W8JYZ, and his Old QSL Cards Web site where you can find his voluminous collection.

The last time Surfin’ featured QSL card Web sites (back in the fall of 2006), I mentioned W8JYZ’s site, but it has undergone a metamorphosis and deserves a mention here again.

You can access the online collection by call area (W1 to W0 -- and VEs, too) or you can access the cards by the various topical categories that W8JYZ has organized. The topics include QSL cards from females and radio clubs, comical QSL cards, military QSLs as well as comical cards. There is a section of QSL cards from famous hams and SWL cards, too.

This is a great site for discovering new and interesting things about Amateur Radio. Just select a link and take it all in. For example, poking around the famous hams section, I learned about a few new famous faces in the ham radio community.

Thank you Dave Hassler, W7CCC, for the lead on W8JYZ’s Web site.

Until next time, keep on surfin’.

Editor’s note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, has his QSL cards online, too. To communicate with Stan, send him e-mail or add comments to his blog. By the way, every installment of Surfin' is indexed here, so go look it up.