This is a follow-up to a post from Sunday.
On Wednesday night, Sarah handed me an envelope from the day’s mail that had the appearance of a QSL card. I took out my knife and opened it. It had a some sample QSL cards, along with a brochure inside. I scratched my head for a moment and concluded that I had just received my first QSL card for a blog post.
This curious turn of events brings me around to a couple of points. For those of you who don’t know, this blog is aggregated by AmateurRadio.com (and it is syndicated on my Facebook profile). My agreement with the owner of AmateurRadio.com is that he provides me with visibility in return for select content from my blog. The QSL printer who sent me the samples is one of his advertisers. Thanks, by the way! The cards were very beautiful and of high quality and I will consider him to print photo cards for my next DX operation. In full-disclosure, I received nothing from the printer who printed my cards in return for mentioning them. But, I should clarify that the blog is something I do for fun and I’m not really in the business of product endorsements.
A final point of clarification is that my beef with the available QSL cards was not so much the quality available, but amount of semi-relevant stuff hams try to cram onto the card. I guess if 10 meters ever opened up again regularly, we might start getting asked for our “Ten-Ten” numbers again. After listening to the V31BB clip about the secret decoder ring, I’m sort of ashamed to admit that I have one. Strike that from the card! The long and the short of the original post was that I wanted an uncluttered, distinctive card. And, I think I found it.
