[A-DX] "Monitoring Times"- USA

["paul gager" <aon.912332257@xxxxxx>]

Aus "Monitoring Times" , january 2006 (hc) USA

Von Ken Reitz,KS4ZR

QSL Mania: The Radio Hobbyist's Obsession

[...]But there are cards dating from 1921 which indicate that by then such
exchanges were common.[..]

A Home for Old QSLs
After decades of collecting QSL cards, you would think that someone
somewhere would have started a depository to save the best of these cards
from the landfill. A few small efforts have been made by various collectors
and radio museums, but until a few years ago a serious, permanent location
for a massive accumulation of QSLs and associated ephemera was not found.

Then came the International Foundation QSL Collection- a nonprofit, all
volunteer organization located in the center of Vienna, austria, in a
building directly across from ORF Funkhaus( Austria Radio's Broadcast
House). The Foundation has amassed, cataloged, and scanned tens of thousand
of documents relating to QSLs for both amateur radio and international
broadcast stations. There are almost 4 million amateur QSLs on file at the
foundation, and the broadcast collection has over 17, 000 QSL cards,
diplomas, bumper stickers, and photographs. You can browse some of the most
interesting items in their collection on- line.

www.qsl.at
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73,
Paul



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