Reconsidering GlobalQSL.com

Back in November 2010 I posted my experiences regarding several duplicate QSL cards I’d received from stations using GlobalQSL. In that posting I only mentioned duplicates from one station but had in fact received several dupes from several stations. That posting is here. In the comments section, one of the two founders of GlobalQSL (4X6UU) [...]

My new way of looking at QSLs

The postman delivered an envelope from the W5 buro today and among the batch were three cards that made me look up at that almost invisible dipole and wonder “Why all the fuss about a tower”?

But about the cards…

I love the convenience of LotW and will never again sort through physical cards, alphabetizing them to apply for an award or measuring my “Confirmed” count with them. They go into a box that goes into a bigger box…and there they sit, alone & forgotten.

As much as I wish I could scan every card and display them online, their sheer number makes that an impossibility but I think I will, from time to time, post a scanned card that has a story to it. Their tangibility allows traditional QSL cards to evoke a memory in the way LotW never will.

LotW is for awards and tracking numbers – band-countries, zones, etc. Paper QSLs have a deeper meaning.

In the meantime, I’ve started a “gallery” of DX cards on this page. Call it “What a dipole can do.”

Not necessarily meeting criteria of evoking a memory (although I did write up the contact with 9X0TL), here what the postman brought today:

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