"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975
or
1976.


Radio Netherlands from Bonaire in 1970.

My favorite card is from WINB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The card itself
isn't much. It's small, with a line drawings of a globe and a microphone,
the words World InterNational Broadcasters and is rubber stamped with the
Rev. John Norris' signiture. WINB was the first of the now common
evangalical political shortwave stations. Rev. Norris lost an important
free speech case in the Supreme Court dealing with another of his radio
stations. The wording of that decision, however, eventually became one of
the important elements in the downfall of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. The
card is a sort of periphial connection to one of the names responsible for
the current political free speech radio environment here in the US.

I stopped QSLing around 1972. My only regret is never having sent a
reception report to Alan Maxwell.

Frank Dresser