QSL Photo Gallery

A QSL card is a formal confirmation that a radio listener has heard a broadcaster. It is received by the listener in acknowledgement for a report of reception sent to the radio station. QSL cards are as old as radio itself.

I no longer collect QSL cards. In fact, many of those from my original collection can be found in the homes of other DXers and radio enthusiasts around the world. Here is a small sample of QSL cards I collected from radio stations during the 1970's and 80's. Many of them are rare or quite uncommon.

  

One of the very rare QSLs from my collection and an extremely difficult station to hear in Melbourne. AFAN at McMurdo Base in the Antarctica from 1981. The radio station no longer exists on the shortwave bands.

  

 During the last days of the South Vietnamese government, VTVN was broadcasting news of the war around the world.

   

This QSL from A3Z in the Kingdom of Tonga is for a mediumwave (AM) broadcast heard on 1020 kHz in 1983. I love the postage stamps shaped as bananas and pineapples!
  

Afghanistan has always been a difficult country to hear on shortwave and even more difficult to QSL. This card was received in 1971 and took many months to arrive in my letterbox!
  

Here is a card from the country formerly known as Portuguese Timor, received in 1973. After this time, the Portuguese relinquished control to Indonesia. Then began the long struggle for liberation by the FRETLIN and the people of what we know today as East Timor.

 A nice QSL card from the West African country of Senegal, with a musical touch.

  And this card below has a story all of it's own contained within the card itself. You can see three name changes for this country while the card was in production! The sticker shows a name change - from Southern Rhodesia to Rhodesia, while under the sticker it is hiding the former name of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. These days, the old Rhodesia is made up of parts of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Quite a history lesson, eh?!