"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

Radio Canada was "pleased to verify your report on the reception of C.B.C.
International Service" broadcast of May 24, 1969, on 21.595 mhz @ 1834 G.M.T.
"Your report has been found to be correct. Thank you and best wishes from
Canada". Basil "Pip" Duke's rubber-stamped signiature is faded, but still
readable. Receiver was a Realistic DX-120, a Xmas gift from the folks. That QSL
led to membership in Radio Canada's Shortwave Club as member # 10,279.