[Fists] A Simple note on QSLing

[hank k8dd]

Lots of good ideas on QSL cards .....
If you don't need a whole lot of cards ...... not enough to buy a couple hundred
or thousand, you can make a nice card with MS Publisher (or any publishing
program) or MS Word (or most any word processor) and print 4 to the page in
 landscape mode.  When you have 4 to print, print a page and fill them out by
hand.  Or fill them out on the screen and print them and sign the cards and
cut them apart and put them in the mail!
Another good program to print cards is BV Label Management, which is a free
 download - http://www.df3cb.com/bv/    The documentation isn't the greatest,
but if you have time to mess with it, you can make a real nice card or a
generic card.  And you can change the address whenever you need to.
 And if you end up making a two sided QSL card please please make sure
that you put your call on both sides!  Makes it easier for those of us who get
to answer thousands of cards a year for DX operations!

73    Hank    K8DD



On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, David Ring <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> Sending CC's may delay your post. If you feel that your post needs to go to more than one destination please send them separately.
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> I have such a solution to people just moved, or moving or afraid they will move.
>
> 1.)  If they are going to move locally, and there is little doubt that
> they ** will always ** go past the post office in XYZ town, get a Post
> Office Box there and change their address to that.  Of course that
> won*t help if you change towns or change counties.  At least you won*t
> have to change your address.
>
> 2.) If you are in between jobs, or unstablity is in your life, then
> print up a nice QSL about you and your activities, clubs, interests,
> and maybe some other history.  Then get a clear matt finish sticker
> (they are sold) with your name and mailing address on it - and put it
> on the bottom - or when you design your QSL card, leave a space for it
> at the bottom left (or right) of the card.
>
> 3.  A big giant size call sign card with report on one side.  Use the
> other for address and your label for return address - or an ink stamp.
>  The QTH info is now on the mailing side.  Change addresses, no
> problem!  Also a picture of you and your call works!
>
> 73
>
> David N1EA
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> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Tomas Hood <nw7us.heliophile at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sending CC's may delay your post. If you feel that your post needs to go to more than one destination please send them separately.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  > I was thinking the same thing. Even when I send SASEs I don't get 100%.
> >
> >  As a person guilty of not returning a QSL card, I will confess what
> >  has happened. In my case, I did not have any QSL cards available to
> >  reply with.  My intentions had been to have some printed, but then
> >  life happened... and I near forgot.
> >
> >  I'm trying to get some new cards made, now.  The issue is that I have
> >  to create TWO sets of cards.  One for the old QTH, and now a new QTH.
> >  That is a bit costly... unless I just send out a very low-quality
> >  card.  I don't like to do that, but perhaps that would be better than
> >  not sending at all.
> >
> >  I confess this so that it might shed light on why some cards never
> >  come when you've sent a request...
> >
> >  Tomas David Hood
> >
> >  Amateur Radio Operator, NW7US
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