I have a Collection of Old (US and Canadian) Ham Radio QSL Cards dating from the early 1920s.
A complete list of Old QSL Cards now totaling over 53 THOUSAND can be accessed by clicking on the Master File Links below. Over 22 Hundred Online Scans of Old QSL Cards are also available by clicking on the required Scan Link.
Improvements and updates will continue to be made, as the Collection grows and I learn more about this WEB PAGE DESIGN "stuff", so check back often.
Old QSL Cards are an important part of Ham Radio History that need to be preserved. It is my goal to save as many of these Old QSL Cards as possible to keep them from ending up in the Land Fills of America.
Please help me with this important project. I appreciate all donations including Old QSL Cards (1920s - 1989), especially from old Silent Key Estates. Send me that shoe box full of Old QSL Cards that you've been wanting to get rid of.
If you are looking for an old HAM friend (Elmer), relative, or just searching for a card from the former holder of your new "Vanity Call", check my database then email your request (by CALL SIGN). I will make scanned copies of any QSL Cards I have, and make them available to you. I have hundreds of Novice Old QSL Cards listed as well.
HELP ME PRESERVE AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL ARTIFACT OF HAM RADIO HISTORY.
" If you turn on an old dusty tube type receiver, listen very carefully using an old pair of headphones and tune the receiver ever so slowly, you can still hear their faint signals off in the distance ..... "
BOB GREEN
W8JYZ
1362 Elmhurst Dr.
Howell, MI 48843
Member OOTC 4698
www.oldqslcards.com
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Any card listed in the DATABASE File can be yours with a few exceptions. If you spot one and are interested and want to know more about owning the card let me know here. I want to see as many old QSL cards back into the hands of the people they mean the most to. Many of these old historic documents will find their way back to families from whom they were first sent.
All donations received are used to help offset monthly website expenses and to allow me to purchase more old QSL Cards for the collection. All your donations are certainly appreciated. I recently celebrated my 14th year of researching, locating, maintaining and updated this site. Help me continue this project for another 14 years.
I have archived my guestbook to make more room for your comments. Click on the Archive 1 or Archive 2 Link to read more Guestbook entries and comments. The file is in PDF Format.
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A "Special Thanks" to all of you who have helped by donating to my project, given me the help and encouragement to keep this going for more than 10 years. There are now too many to name but you know who you are.
I will continue to offer a VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to Bob Balantine W8SU for his continued Articles, Contributions, and Guidance.
"Gone, but Not Forgotten"
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The original W8JYZ
"Old QSL Cards from
Famous Hams"
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May 11, 2019
- 200 new cards added to the Database 05.11.19
- 300 new cards added to the Database 04.28.19
- 600 new cards added to the Database 03.22.19
- New Guestbook format added. 12.03.18
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If you enjoyed your visit here and found yourself remembering your own recent past and want to assist me, your DONATION will help with funding for this project to save our "Ham Radio History". Thank You!
Over 147 Thousand visits to this website since it's
creation in October 2004.
To view my Old QSL Cards On Line Scans click the links below:
W1 Scans
W2 Scans
W3 Scans
W4 Scans
W5 Scans
W6 Scans
W7 Scans
W8 Scans
W9 Scans
W0 Scans
VE Scans
Once Upon a Theme...
we had again!!
and his gift to Ham Radio
Otto Eppers 8EA
their disabilities
Owners
Leo Meyerson - OM Leo
View these 1930s photos Link
If you are familar with this group or these photos and can share some insight please email. I received these from K5FNG Dave McCombs in Spring, TX. The W8PJB old QSL Card is part of my "QSL Cards from the Past" collection.
Early Warning Notice Click here
This is a Warning Notice issued by the William B. Duck Company in Toledo, OH issuing a Warning to all new wireless operators to be careful of what they see as a "GOOD DEAL" that might not necessarly be. Thank you Bob Balantine for the article.
eHam Link - If you like the "Old Time" Shack Pictures and want to leave a comment, click the link to this eHam Elmers Forum and tell us your thoughts. Some good comments and all are appreciated.
Read about ABC News Anchor
Peter Jennings SWLer.
New full 30 minute Peter Jennings 1986 behind the scenes video unedited from London's ABC Studios
Click here
Bermuda The Nonstop Air Race to Bermuda
Ka-imi-loa The Kaimiloa Expedition
ARRL's Tribute
to Hendersonville's
own Harry Mills K4HU (sk) Be sure to listen to the "All Things Considered" Link. Good Stuff...
NOTICE !!
Old DX QSL Cards not part of the collection are for sale on eBay!!.
9AHX and College Football
Star "Red Grange"
Watch this 1939 Promo Movie
"Radio Hams" A Pete Smith Specialty!!
Watch this 30 minute video produced by Hallicrafters in 1944 showing their War effort to produce Mobile Radio units that would help to coordinate radio communications in the field during WWII.
"The Voice of Victory"
After reading about the old "Spark" transmitters of the early 1900s
have you ever wondered what they really sounded like? Watch Bruce
Kelley(sk) demonstrate these old "Spark Gap" transmitters.
Click here and watch the 10 minute Video.
Read the
W9IWE" QSL Story!!
Last Contact before the Ham Radio Blackout during WWII
W2NYY Read about this Dec. 7, 1941 Ham Radio
contact and the tragedy that followed at Pearl Harbor.
Ham Radio Operations came to a halt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII. Stateside, everybody worked to produce materials needed for the War effort and many contributed by buying WAR BONDS There are no QSL Cards to show during the War years but here are some WAR BONDS posters displayed during those years.
W8QCS Bruce Batchelor's
brush with History in the summer of 1937
U.S.C.G.C. Mackinaw WAGB-83
NRKP The Story behind this Picture
Telegraph Road If you've ever spent time in Detroit, then you've probably drivin on Telegraph Road.
The Story of two QSL Cards
"Living Hams who have made Notable Contributions to our Hobby"
contributor w8su
ELMERS
Early Short Wave Listeners should be remembered for their efforts
If you were an active Short Wave Listener SWL before you got your ticket, you might find your old SWL Card listed on the SWL Page !!
From SWL to Ham Radio by W8SU
SWL Cards
SWL Scans
ARRL Radiogram from 1930
50s looking for that rare DX
SWL's Hard at work
60s SWL's Listening Post
SWLer
Some of my Favorite
Old QSL Cards
Click to read the story
behind this magical card!
Looks like he took a night off from his busy Presidential Campaign
having received the Nomination just a few weeks earlier, to relax
and "Chat with his Ham Radio friends".
More of my Favorite
Old QSL Cards
W9EIL Notice the hand drawn face
W9AGK 1932 30s design not seen in todays cards
W1DDC This is a hand painted card
VE3AY
VE6LL
W1BGZ
VE4ACR
VE4ID
W0UPT
W8IER
W9UIQ a special card
W6DWQ
W7DDU
W6ACN 1st CA. Ham License Plate 1954
W5BQU Tex Burdick
"Big Quick and Ugly" 1955
W1NCX This QSO was made during the Silent Period of WWII??
WA4AZZ and WA4BMC This 1970s station has a lot to look at!!
Dept of Commerce 1928 Original Radio Division Letter to all Amateurs about call sign change
1929 Los Angeles ARRC Convention. Were you there?
1936 Great Lakes Expo in Cleveland OH June 27 -Oct 4
1936. Ya we missed that one too.
Two old Friends of WNC Ham Radio
1954 GCRC W8ATB and W8GJH
Some "Old Time"
Radio Shacks
Response to "Old Time Radio Shacks" has been very good. If you have a favorite picture and would like it posted on this page, please email the picture to me in jpg format. I will make room here for all good pictures of "Old Time Shacks".
LINK Click here for MANY more HAM SHACK PICS.
Wireless Operator about 1910
Operator Harold BEV 1915
W3CXE 1930s
W9GET 1932
W6NXW 1937
W6FFW 1938
W9UKW 1940s
W8RHZ 1950s
W4AA 1950s
K9UMV 1960
W6CBA 1960s
WA8AYB 1962
K4YYR 1960s Mobile
W6AM
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