Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes:
Hi Thomas
In addition to digitizing many of my old SW and BCB audio files, I have begun setting up some of my QSL galleries on the internet archive in order to help preserve radio history. I am sending along a few links that perhaps old timers and newcomers alike might find of interest.
SWBC stations (sorry, only scanned one side so far)
https://archive.org/details/radio-tampa-tokyo-japan-1987
Utility stations
https://archive.org/details/zhh-st.-helena-inside-view
Time signal stations
https://archive.org/details/vng-australia-1971
BCB stations (mostly my own except for a few very old historic ones that I bought from eBay)
https://archive.org/details/ckoc-hamilton-on-1983
Small Sample from Dan’s QSL Collection:
Hi Dan, Very impressive collection! I’ve never done any BCB DX’ing, so these were quite unusual! Thanks for sharing.
CFOS was the only visible card when I opened it up. The rest is a type up charted list of contacts like a log. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Don, You can click the small arrow to the left or right of the CFOS image to bring up the next one. Also you can go into where it says JPEG files and you will find all of them listed. Thanks!
WOW! Dan thank you for the quality of the scans, they are excellent, cropped perfectly and colour balanced. True archive quality 🙂
My daughter has here grandfathers collection of QSL cards from his radio days back in the 1980’s.
Would there be any interest in making them more widely viewable through something like this archive ?
Regards, Steve.
Absolutely!
Hi Dan
An impressive collection. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
As a former Merchant Marine R/O in the 80s some of the cards brought fond memories.
In those days despite having at my disposal very good receivers and usually listened to utilities
never sent any QSL request. Pity.
Now I am retired and with enough time to pursue the hobby but unfortunatelly almost all the
utes are gone.
Last February I paid a visit to KPH (both, Bolinas and Point Reyes, CA. USA) and that is a tour
everyone of us ough to do. Somehow it was a sort of closure to a 20 years career at sea.
My best regards.
73
Waldo / CX2AD – Montevideo (Uruguay)
These are great. How do you submit something to the digital archive?
Mike N6HBJ
Hi Mike, you first have to register for a free account. There is a basic guide to uploading here
https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/