My QSL Card Gallery just got a big boost. I added my dad’s sizable collection to my online gallery, bringing the total to over 3,800 cards.

https://ai5.mx/qsl-card-update-202508/

#amateurradio #hamradio #qslcards

Tom Shares QSL Collection from Over 210 Countries

https://swling.com/blog/2025/07/tom-shares-qsl-collection-from-over-210-countries/

#QSLCards #TomGavaras

Dan takes us on a South Pacific Tour!

https://swling.com/blog/2025/07/dan-takes-us-on-a-south-pacific-tour/

#DanGreenall #IntervalSignals #QSLCards #ShortwaveRadioRecordings

I am not generally a buyer of other peoples' QSL cards but I did stumble upon this one from my home town Jackson, Mississippi.

It was sent a couple months after my mom was born, in June 1952. I like it because it's basically a business card from a physics professor at one of the private liberal arts colleges in town.

There is a school in Jackson named Galloway, our high school rivals. Will have to look into connections.

Also, it has a word in the callsign.

#QSLcards #Jackson #MS #Millsaps

#QSL card I found online recently for a reasonable price. I honestly had never heard of Novosibirsk before, (although I may have forgotten having read the city’s name in an old Tom Clancy novel 30 years ago). Turns out it’s a very large city with an interesting history. This #QSLcard from the Siberian town in the former USSR is for a QSO that happened on Feb 24th, 1984. #QSLcards #ke0fftQSLcard #KE0FFT

25 year old #QSLcards #amateurradio

TWR on its Way out from Shortwave

Trans World Radio (TWR) have decided to pull the plug on their shortwave transmissions from Guam, citing high cost of living on Guam, and "aging transmitters". Operations are scheduled to end with October 31, the end of the A25 broadcasting season. To maintain shortwave broadcasts targeting Asia, TWR reportedly plans to maintain "100% of shortwave programming" through other transmitting sites such as Reach Beyond Australia or the Far Eastern Broadcasting Company (FEBC), also known for its Liangyou Diantai (良友电台) transmissions in Chinese.

Radio Berlin Brandenburg’s (RBB) Radio News noted in October last year that, as typical at TWR, some programs were only 15 minutes long, and only broadcast on certain days of the week.

Apart from the cost of living on the island, weather wasn’t a friend of the transmitter site either, as demonstrated particularly resolutely in May 2023 when Typhoon Mawar struck.

#AsiaPacific #KTWR #QSLCards #shortwave

I collect old #QSLcards from places that I have lived and / or worked. I lived and worked at the #PresidioOfMonterey at various times between 1995 and 2007, which is why I bought this QSL card from the POM in 1936 for my collection when I saw it advertised on eBay last week.

What I didn’t know when I purchased the card, was what a storied set of hams were involved in its background.

#QSLcard #ke0fftQSLcard #AmateurRadio #11thCavalry

As I am receiving more and more paper cards (which is great!), I have to rethink the way I am organizing them.
How do you fellow hams organize your received QSL cards? I am both interested in the categorizing aspect (e.g. years, prefixes/countries, modes) and the physical aspect: Albums, boxes, index sheets?

#hamradio #amateurradio #QSLcards

Writing Prompt: Collections

I have a collection of QSL cards. I’m not an amateur radio operator – I’m a listener. I usually listen to broadcasts on shortwave or mediumwave (rarely on longwave, because only a few stations still use longwave frequencies). In the past, I was mainly interested in catching rare signals – my proudest moment as a listener probably was when I got a QSL card from KNLS Radio in Alaska. It wasn’t really a big deal, I guess, but at the time, it felt like one.

That was in the 1980s, and I took a break from listening through the 1990s, except for the occasional listen to keep up-to-date with the news. I picked my hobby up again around 2010, and filled some gaps in my existing collection of QSLs – especially Ascension Island, which is an easy catch (because a rather big shortwave transmitter site operates from there), but not so easy to get a QSL from (because the BBC, who are the main broadcaster from there, don’t do QSLs). Fortunately, Deutsche Welle still confirmed reports while they rented airtime from Ascension. By now however, their shortwave transmissions have become a thing of the past.

As postal services are much more rarely used than in the past, many stations have switched to sending “e-QSLs”. You get an e-mail confirming your report, sometimes with a jpg-QSL attached to it. That doesn’t match the feeling of having a real QSL card in your hands, but e-QSLs are better than no QSLs.

One of these came in just yesterday – see the picture at the start of this post. "QSO" stands for a two-way radio contact. In fact, it was one-way, with the maritime station transmitting and me listening.

Overall, I have turned more into a program listener now. I’m still occasionally adding to my QSL collection, but I’m not looking at it as an active project.

To me, e-QSLs are nice surrogates for the “real” cardbox ones. To foreign broadcasters, I believe, reception reports must be nice surrogates for listener reactions to their actual programs.

To help them stay on air, we should give them "the real thing", too: feedback on their programs, questions that we may have about the countries they are transmitting from, etc..

But let’s not feign conversion when writing to a religious station. That would go a bit too far. 😇

#dailyprompt #dailyprompt1946 #foreignRadio #mediumWave #QSLCards #shortwave

And they're off! Mailed them at the airport I work at. #amateurradio #hamradio #QSLcards

Finally done! #amateurradio #hamradio #QSLcards

Got one going overseas! #amateurradio #hamradio #QSLcards

Finally getting around to doing some neglected QSL cards. #amateurradio #hamradio #QSLcards

Received 3 eQSL’s today from the ARRL CW DX Contest back in February: France, Italy, and Brazil. #ke0fftQSL #KE0FFT #QSLcards #QSLcard

Brazil’s Rádio Nacional scheduled to air Programs in English and Spanish

Rádio Nacional have announced ten-minutes long news bulletins in Spanish and English, starting from March 31 at 10:50 pm local time or – according to El Radioescucha – at 01:50 UTC.

Radio Nácional apparently sees an opportunity, rather than a nuisance, in QSL requests from abroad. Their press release says that thanks to their shortwave transmissions, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia are Brazil’s only broadcaster with international radio propagation. Their central mission is to broadcast a culturally diverse program, to strengthen ties between Amazon communities and to further the Amazon region’s integration with other federal states.

According to Empresa Brasil de Comunicação’s director Thiago Regotto, many of the reception reports come from Spanish- and English-speaking countries. Interviews concerning international issues or cultural topics with international relevance are part of the planned programs.

EBC was in the international news last year when Empresa Brasil de Comunicação reportedly dedicated one of their shortwave transmitters to broadcasts for the South where many regions went through flood disasters.
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#Brazil #domesticRadio #foreignRadio #LatinAmerica #publicDiplomacy #QSLCards #shortwave

Elevate your ham radio connections with personalized QSL cards! 🎨📻 Discover design tips to make your cards memorable. #HamRadio #QSLcards #DesignTips

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/the-art-of-qsl-card-design-making-memorable-contacts/

Another QSL card for you. This one comes from Albania when it was the communist state of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania under the leadership of Enver Hoxha. Rather than being aligned with Soviet Russia it sided with China.

I seem to remember the programmes being really anti USA.

#QSL #QSLCards #ShortWave #ShortWaveRadio

Is there a market for old QSL cards? I have several from the 1960s that I wish to dispose of from radio station around the world (Not HAM stations).

#QSL #QSLCards #ShortWave #ShortWaveRadio