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February is a short month. So it’s fitting to also have a small number of cards come through the inbox. Here are a few that are of some interest. This card from OH0Z confirms a CW contact on 10M. Aland Island is a group of autonomous Finnish Islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea. […]

Here are few QSL Cards from contacts made with “countries” that no longer exist (deleted DXCC entities). It’s not as though they were erased from the map. Rather, they no longer count for a separate DXCC credit as they once did. The Abu Ail lighthouse in the Red Sea had been under French or British […]

Here are a few of the more interesting QSL cards to come my way in the last couple of months. A glimpse into how I keep my QSL Cards safe and secure once I get possession. My sentry cat Oliver is hard at work, as always. I had confirmed contacts with Sao Tome and Principe […]

Here are some of the latest cards to arrive at my QTH. I worked Raul (EA5KA) during his visit to Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean where he operated as CE0Y/EA5KA. This QSL card confirms contacts on new bands on 30M and 17M, both using CW. I had confirmed the Ducie Island, also in the […]

February is the shortest month. Would a short month also mean fewer incoming QSL cards to report? I worked CQ8M on the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean on 40M SSB. The QSO was made from a remote station in New York. I’m impartial to QSL cards with maps. This card from FK8HA has one […]

Wrapping up 2021 with a number of QSL cards that have been received in the last few weeks. There are a couple of all time new ones (ATNO) to show for my efforts. I had worked Colombia many times in the past but I did not have much in the way of physical QSL cards […]