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Some of My QSL Cards
Cards 1-9
Cards A-E Cards F-J
Cards K-P
Cards R-U Cards V-Z
I thought I would share some of my QSL cards with you. On the following pages
you can see cards for all the DXCC entities that I have worked, except for those
that were confirmed using LoTW. It is my plan to get a card for all entities
eventually, but that may take a while. The entities in
green are the ones I have confirmed, in
blue
the ones I have worked but not yet confirmed, and the ones in
red are entities that I still need to work. I
didn't plan it this way, but you will notice a lot of cards from the period 1987
to 1990 or so. The reason it worked out this way was I was using cards that I
had submitted to the ARRL for DXCC awards, I keep the submitted cards separate
from the rest. It worked out nicely, even if it was an accident. As I was
scanning the cards and adding them to the web pages it brought back memories
from my very beginnings in DX'ing. Later I will add pages with cards that have
special memories for me, like my first contact ever on ham radio, or my first DX
station. I have also noticed that for some operators I have a number of cards
from different locations and I may do some "Thank you" pages for those
operators. You will recognize a lot of the names if you have been DX'ing for a
while. Later I may add notes for the cards with information about the radios and
antennas used. You may be surprised at the low power and simple antennas that
worked some of these places.
The cards with antenna information and power used will be for that
particular card. In most cases there will be other contacts that were made
using a different radio running higher, or even lower, power. Antennas that
were used several years ago may not be here now, so there will be a number
of antennas used over the course of my ham operations. But to the best of my
memory, and to what notes I made at the time, the equipment listed for the
individual cards will be what was used to make those contacts. The reason I
add this information is to illustrate that simple antennas and low power can
be productive and provide you with hours of fun in a great hobby.
The early antennas were all wire antennas of one kind or another. My main
antennas since 2008 are an 80m Delta Loop and a Long Dipole, both fed with
an antenna tuner. The Long Dipole is around 100 ft long as of December 2010,
but I will add length to it to make it 135 ft long in the future. At the end
of 2010 I finally figured out why the 10/15/20 Tribander mounted on the roof
was working so poorly and since then I have been using it on those three
bands. A little hint to those in similar situations, don't hang a 20/40
meter dipole near and above a beam antenna. It really makes the beam antenna
perform badly.
Too see a larger image of each card just click on it. After viewing the larger
image click your browser's back button to return.
Entries for Deleted Entities are marked with an asterisk (*).
It will take a while to scan all the QSL cards and get them posted on these
pages. In the meantime the information is entered in text and color coded as
explained above.