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Offline VK3BVW

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The QSL Card....At What Cost?
« on: May 16, 2015, 0046 UTC »
Things have changed somewhat for shortwave listeners in the last 15 years. With the disappearance from the bands of many international and domestic shortwave broadcasters, it’s much harder now to gather together a large QSL collection.

(An article I wrote for the April issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine).

http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/the-qsl-cardat-what-cost.html

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Re: The QSL Card....At What Cost?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 1824 UTC »
Nice article, Rob!

It reminds me of many of the sleazy tricks to which we had to resort to try to coax a QSL out of a veri signer.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2015, 1828 UTC by jFarley »
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Re: The QSL Card....At What Cost?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2015, 0248 UTC »
Thanks Joe. Those days have gone pretty much now....
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