QSL Cards Once a contact between amateur radio stations has been succesfully completed, it was good practice to send a card (a so called QSL Card) indicating the succesfull contact, with a short description of the station and the report to the other station as a confirmation. Slowly but surely we see a migration to electronic QSL, using certain websites. In order to qualify for certain awards, one need the original paper QSL Cards. In the world of EME (earth-moon-earth) it is still common practice to confirm each contact - or at least each first contact - with a station with a paper QSL card. Similarly, every forst contact between two countries (or DXCC entities) on a particular amateur radio band is confirmed. Below there are a number of these cards, especially those indicating a first between Austria and another country are ones that I am very proud of.

First OE - A61 - U.A.E

First OE - 3Y0 - Peter 1 Island

First OE - VK9X - Christmas Island

First OE - PY - Brazil

First OE - PJ4 - Netherlands Antilles

First OE - ZA - Albania

Note that all the above contacts were made on 144 MHz, on which many radio amateurs believe that there is no possibility to make long distance contacts. This proofs better.

Some more cards...

First OE - PJ7 St Maarten (waiting to arrive)