[Boatanchors] Walter Ash Radio

[manualman@juno.com]

The cheapest set of cards I ever received, they were free, came from Pan
American Airways. Send in your name, address, and call and they print you
up a 100 cards. Nice background picture of their Pan American Clipper
with a white square in the lower portion of the card with your call in
red block letter font. Most came this way, but a few, including my cards,
came with the call in a Classic font. Nice card, and I still have a few
that are unused.
Pete, WA2CWA

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:55:20 -0400 "Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL"
<kgrimm@adelphia.net> writes:
> > Don't remember ever getting cards printed by Walter Ashe. However, 
> do
> > remember tons of cards, white stock, red block letters, blue/black 
> ink
> > printed by World Radio Laboratories coming from hams back in my
> > Novice/General days.
> > Pete, WA2CWA
> 
> There were several sources for cheap, or reasonably priced, QSL 
> cards in
> the 50's.  Both WRL and Walter Ashe made them available and I 
> suspect
> that WRL was a tad cheaper since they seemed to be more widely 
> used.
> However, for the cheapest one going, GE made a plain card available 
> on
> which you could put your call, either by hand (cheapest), or with a
> rubber stamp and ink pad.
> 
> Ken K4XL
> k4xl@arrl.net

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