About QSL's

To the listeners in the 1920s and 1930s, radio was a participant hobby rather than pure entertainment. Vaudeville comedians suddenly became radio starts, and the kid on the corner was soon the night announcer or engineer at a local radio station. Likewise, the stories in the print media just sat on the table; radio was alive and vibrant, never static. Before long, listeners where glued to their sets, laughing, learning, and even crying. Because there where so few stations, even in metropolitan areas, listeners desiring new or different entertainment where forced to seek out new, and often distant, stations. Soon, looking for distant stations (what we call DXing today) became the main interest of many radio listeners. Listeners wrote letters to distant stations they heard, and stations answered with printed postcards (=QSL-cards, QSL from the radiotelegraph abbreviation for "I acknowledge and confirm") that confirmed the listener actually heard them. Listeners started to collected these QSL-cards and the hobby of radio listening and DXing was born. DX is an acronym for "distant" and refers to stations distant from the listener. (the term DX started as Morse code word)

Electronic QSL Card

With the growth of communication via internet the majority of reception reports are send by e-mail. In return radio stations prefer sending electronic QSL cards, or eQSL cards, because paper cards are getting more expensive and the mail delays are longer. To confirm your reception report I will send you a personalized and attractive eQSL card!

My first eQSL, I made it especially for an Asia contest. For every broadcast I design an unique eQSL.

A very attractive eQSL without overhauling the design, and it's the first eQSL full A4 poster! I received a lot of positive feedback on the design and the way it was personalized.

Paper QSL Card

Front of the Free Radio Nova QSL Card. (Sorry, no more snail-mail)

Back of the Free Radio Nova QSL Card. (Sorry, no more snail-mail)

Former Atlantis Paper QSL Card

Front of my first QSL Card, mail address in those days via Johnny of SRS in Sweden.