Total: 32 postcards

  • Trans World Radio (Netherlands Antilles)

    Postcard-sized but intended to be mailed in an envelope–and so it was–this card dates from 1971 and has reception details handwritten in.  Tape mark on the reverse.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300001

    Price: $10.00

    Trans World Radio (Netherlands Antilles)
  • Deutsche Welle (Germany)

    It’s a postcard, but on very thin paper stock, and would not have well survived the postal system so it was mailed in an envelope.  Reception details are written in.  Recall that this was a star-crossed year for the Olympics.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300002

    Price: $11.00

    Deutsche Welle (Germany)
  • Australian Broadcasting Commission (Perth, W.A.)

    Mailed in 1971 with a postage meter and blue bilingual airmail sticker affixed, the card has reception details typed in.  Grade: 1


    Code: 36300003

    Price: $9.00

    Australian Broadcasting Commission (Perth, W.A.)
  • Radio Berlin International DDR

    Mailed as a postcard with a postage meter from East Berlin in 1972, the reception details are handwritten into the right spaces.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300004

    Price: $11.00

    Radio Berlin International DDR
  • Radio Budapest (Hungary)

    From 1972, this is postcard-sized but always meant to be sent in an envelope, which it was.  Reception details are on the front, while the reverse explains about the station’s Short Wave Club and DX shows.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300005

    Price: $10.00

    Radio Budapest (Hungary)
  • Radio Kiev (USSR)

    Radio Kiev provided this QSL card in 1972, with details typed on the reverse and some marks where the card had slightly stuck to the inside of the envelope they used.  No stamp, no address, no postmark, of course.  Nice historical relic.  73’s!  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300006

    Price: $9.00

    Radio Kiev (USSR)
  • Radio Kiev QSL Request

    Three unused cards are available. Self-addressed (but not stamped) to “Radio Kiev, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR” and all in English, they are report templates for anyone receiving Radio Kiev transmissions and wanting to report details in exchange for a QSL reply. Historical relics, indeed.  Grades: 1

    Code: 36300007

    Price: $12.00

    Radio Kiev QSL Request
  • Demands on Augusto Pinochet

    In the 1970s if one requested a QSL from Radio Prague, they complied, and also sent this pre-printed postcard which was meant to be returned to Augusto Pinochet in Chile as a symbol of protest. The card goes along with a mimeographed sheet of further explanation (36300009). The card has the mark of a rusty paper clip on the reverse, and the price includes the card and the separate explanation.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300008

    Price: $16.00

    Demands on Augusto Pinochet
  • Demands on Augusto Pinochet – explanation

    In the 1970s if one requested a QSL from Radio Prague in Czechoslovakia, they complied, and also sent this pre-printed postcard which was meant to be returned to Augusto Pinochet in Chile as a symbol of protest. The card (36300008) goes along with this mimeographed sheet of further explanation. The card has the mark of a rusty paper clip on the reverse, and the price includes the card and the separate explanation, as you see here.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300009

    Price: $16.00

    Demands on Augusto Pinochet – explanation
  • WYFR (Oakland, California)

    We honestly can think of no reason why we have a QSL card that has not been filled out, but that’s the case here. It would have been probably from the early 1970s. Grade: 1 (but also consider, it shouldn’t be uncompleted.)

    Code: 36300010

    Price: $3.00

    WYFR (Oakland, California)
  • ORF (Osterreichischer Rundfunk) (Austria) (not a postcard)

    This 4″ x 8.25″ item is not a postcard but rather on thinner gray paper with details typed in red on the reverse.  It dates from November, 1971.  There’s a minor tape mark on the reverse.  Grade: 3

    Code: 36300011

    Price: $9.00

    ORF (Osterreichischer Rundfunk) (Austria) (not a postcard)
  • Radio Australia

    5.25″ x 8″ card, mailed in an envelope, from the Overseas Service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Melbourne.  Reception details are handwritten.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300012

    Price: $9.00

    Radio Australia
  • Radio HCJB (Ecuador)

    From 1972. Minor tear on right edge. Not mailed as a card, but filled in by station, so it arrived in an envelope.  Grade: 3

    Code: 36300013

    Price: $8.00

    Radio HCJB (Ecuador)
  • Radio Habana (not a postcard)

    Outsized (3.75″ x 8.5″) QSL, technically not a postcard because there is nothing on the reverse, so what you see is what there is.  Small abrasion on bottom front.   Grade: 2

     
     

    Code: 36300014

    Price: $11.00

    Radio Habana (not a postcard)
  • Radio HRVC (Honduras)

    From this evangelical station in Tegucigalpa, a nice card from 1972, mailed with stamp but no postmark.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300015

    Price: $14.00

    Radio HRVC (Honduras)
  • Radio Liban (Lebanon) (not a postcard)

    From 1971, and not a postcard.  Reverse has details of the report, and a large official rubber stamp from the Lebanese Ministry of Information. Minor corner creasing. Grade: 1  

    Code: 36300016

    Price: $12.50

    Radio Liban (Lebanon) (not a postcard)
  • Radio Nederland

    From 1971, the card was mailed using a postage meter, and has reception details typed on the reverse.  Grade: 1


    Code: 36300017

    Price: $10.00

    Radio Nederland
  • Radio Norway

    The front of this completed card is in great condition but the reverse is very heavily mottled with age.  Mailed in an envelope in 1971, it has reception details typed in.  Grade: 3

    Code: 36300018

    Price: $7.00

    Radio Norway
  • Radio Portugal (not a postcard)

    Oversized (5.75″ x 7.75″) card that might have been a postcard but was mailed in an envelope.  It has two tape marks on the reverse.  There was a pre-printed area to enter reception details, but the station used a very large rubber stamp and entered the information there.  Grade: 3

    Code: 36300019

    Price: $11.00

    Radio Portugal (not a postcard)
  • Radio Praha (Czechoslovakia)

    Where to start … it’s a proper postcard, hand-signed and with reception details typed in.  There are two Czechoslovakian stamps, full Prague postmark, red bilingual par avion rubber stamp, and another rubber stamp commemmorating 35 years of Czechoslovak Foreign Broadcasting (1936-1971).  From 1971, a very nice addition to any QSL collection.  Grade: 1


    Code: 36300020

    Price: $13.00

    Radio Praha (Czechoslovakia)
  • Radio RSA (South Africa)

    From 1971, a completed QSL from Radio RSA, The Voice of South Africa, typed on a postcard but mailed in an envelope so there’s no stamp.  Small tape abrasion on reverse.  Grade: 3

    Code: 36300021

    Price: $8.00

    Radio RSA (South Africa)
  • Radio Sofia (Bulgaria)

    From 1972, this 3.75″ x 6.75″ card could have been a postcard but instead was mailed in an envelope.  Someone sat in that office and typed the full text of each card by hand, leaving only blanks for handwritten reception details.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300022

    Price: $9.00

    Radio Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • Radio Sweden

    Mailed with a postage meter in 1971, the card has blue bilingual airmail sticker affixed, and reception details typed in.  A bit of postal battering.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300024

    Price: $9.00

    Radio Sweden
  • Radio Vaticana (Vatican City)

    You need to be a ham radio hobbyist to appreciate this brilliant (and completed) card. Grade: 2

    Code: 36300025

    Price: $17.50

    Radio Vaticana (Vatican City)
  • RAI (Italy)

    Mailed with a postage meter in 1971, signed and with all reception details.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300026

    Price: $9.00

    RAI (Italy)
  • Switzerland Calling (SBC)

    Mailed in 1971 with a postage meter, the card is signed and has reception details typed in.  Interesting choice of photos for the front.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300027

    Price: $9.00

    Switzerland Calling (SBC)
  • Voice of America

    This blank QSL card from the 1970s (30th anniversary of the station) is mis-registered as you can see from the partial red strip across the top edge.  For once, it’s not our scanner causing the problem.  The reverse is similarly cut off on one side, but that’s how the card came.  Grade: 1

    Code: 36300028

    Price: $9.00

    Voice of America
  • Christian CB Network

    Three of these are available.  The size of a postcard, they have nothing on the reverse.  Grades: 1

    Code: 36300029

    Price: $0.50

    Christian CB Network
  • Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16

    We need to explain this, without actually knowing if our explanation is correct or not.  Voice of America during the 1960s and 1970s made every effort to engage its international listeners.  Coming at the same time as America’s space programme, it appears that VOA created a club (“Club de Oyentes … Unidos por la Verdad”) and issued membership cards.  So this otherwise unused postcard has astronauts on the front (code 36300030A), and some information in Spanish on the back, along with a plastic membership card taped on (code 36300030B).  We suppose any listener could just write in and join–a common practice for shortwave radio back then.  Strictly speaking this is not a QSL, but close enough.  Despite the aging tape, we will call this Grade: 1

    Code: 36300030A

    Price: $18.00

    Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16
  • Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16 (reverse)

    We need to explain this, without actually knowing if our explanation is correct or not.  Voice of America during the 1960s and 1970s made every effort to engage its international listeners.  Coming at the same time as America’s space programme, it appears that VOA created a club (“Club de Oyentes … Unidos por la Verdad”) and issued membership cards.  So this otherwise unused postcard has astronauts on the front (code 36300030A), and some information in Spanish on the back, along with a plastic membership card taped on (code 36300030B).  We suppose any listener could just write in and join–a common practice for shortwave radio back then.  Strictly speaking this is not a QSL, but close enough.  Despite the aging tape, we will call this Grade: 1

    Code: 36300030B

    Price: $18.00

    Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16 (reverse)
  • United Airlines, DC-8 Jet Mainliner (N8028U) – K7TAW

    The more research like this that we do, the more we notice little ironies and unexpected twists.  This Douglas DC-8-21 was manufactured in 1960.  The really bumpy ride started in 1978 when it went over to EgyptAir.  Finally, it was broken up in 1980.  We have two of these cards–issued by the airline–available.  The one in the scan is unused with a small smudge on the reverse (Grade: 2, $4).  The other was mailed in 1962.  It has a stamp and full US postmark, but as it was used as a QSL ham radio card, it also has call letters of that station prominently on the front (Grade: 4, $2).

    Code: 36300031

    Price: $2.00

    United Airlines, DC-8 Jet Mainliner (N8028U) – K7TAW
  • VK5-S.W.L. (Australia)

    Mailed in 1934, with stamp and postmark.  Either the sender or the receiver added a short extra note on the reverse.  Nice for QSL postcard collectors.  Grade: 2

    Code: 36300032

    Price: $6.00

    VK5-S.W.L. (Australia)