QSL cards

Amateur radio QSL card sent by EL2BE in Liberia, confirming a 21 MHz CW QSO on November 29, 1969 with W2FPM. A LRAA QSL stamp is affixed on the card to cover mailing via the IARU QSL bureau system.

Amateur radio QSL card sent by EL2BE in Liberia, confirming a 21 MHz CW QSO on November 29, 1969 with W2FPM.

QSL card by EA3IV confirming a QSO with I1LSA on 14120 kHz (AM) on June 26, 1968 at 12:10 GMT. The sender has affixed a QSL stamp marked URE TRAFICO QSL in order to send the card via bureau.

QSL card frim K5LAD to W0PLN confirming a phone (AM) QSO on 3942 kHz on January 22, 1966. Public domain image (published in the USA without a © note) posted to Twitter by @HamRadioPorn . Twiter link: twitter.com/HamRadioPorn/status/936406560082989056

QSL letter issued by medium wave private station Pyrgos Broadcasting Station, Greece to OVE L. T. Fransson, confirming reception on 1446 kHz in 1963.

QSL letter from British GPO station GCW-29. (14629405429_ce37feea2b_b) Crown Copyright expired in 2013.

Vintage ISWL -style SWL QSL card sent by SWL G-10044 to ham radio station G2FIX (Albert C. A. Newman) reporting a 7 MHz phone QSO on 6 January 1963 at 09:40 GMT. G-10044 was RAF Sqn Ldr P. E. Lewis, also BRS24515.

QSL letter sent by the Radio Direction of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) to SWL Lars Anderson. It confirms reception of a voice mirror on the HF/SSB telephone circuit to New York, SZF4 on 10105 kHz. It is signed by Stefanos Eletheriou (Στέφανος Ελευθερίου), who had issued the first official Greek amateur radio licenses in 1937, when he was working for the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones.

QSL card sent by SV1AA to VE1XY, confirming a 28 MHz phone QSO in 1960.

Vintage QSL card from ZP5CF to GD3ENK confirming a 28 MHz phone QSO on 1955-09-19 at 14:05 UTC, mailed with regular Paraguay postage stamps and in addition stamped by with a rubber stamp imprint by the Secretariat of Radio Club Paraguayo (address side).

Vintage QSL card from ZP5CF to GD3ENK confirming a 28 MHz phone QSO on 1955-09-19 at 14:05 UTC (text side).

QSL AJ6AC (1956) Rare MARS QSL card

Vintage W1AW QSL card dated August 15, 1956 to W3WKP. Signed by W1QIS. Posted with 2c US stamp, postmarked HARTFORD, CONN. Now in the public domain (published in 1956 or earlier without © notice)

Vintage W1AW QSL card dated August 15, 1956 to W3WKP. Signed by W1QIS.

QSL card confirming reception by Ove Hanstrom of a shortwave broadcast by the Voice of America on 1955-11-21 from a transmitter installed on USCGC Courier WAGR-410 , anchored off Rhodes Island, Greece, on 6185 kHz.

QSL card from South Orkney Islands station LU0FG to LU4FAO confirming a 3.5 MHz QSO.

Address side of BRS-6538 SWL card, franked with a UK 1½D Wilding definitive, cancelled at Sutton, Surrey on February 14. 1955. The stamp is now in the Public Domain (expired Crown Copyright).

Mailed British QSL/SWL card, sent by SWL S. H. Stephenson, BRS-6538, to W7ESK, reporting reception on 14195 kHz with a National HRO receiver (1955).