G5VZ QSL Cards

Since holding the G5VZ call I have had a number of QSL card designs.

Thumbnail image of SWL report card — SWL Report Card – created before we had a postcode for this address!

Here is the first printed card I ever had – a SWL report card from spring 1968 when I had the RSGB Associate number A5935.

A gummed paper label – these were issued is large quantities by the bureau. I think I received 100 of which I used about twenty in several years. Arthur Milne, G2MI was a major influence in amateur radio in the south east of London, as well as further afield.

I also found in an envelope with the older SWL cards a gummed label for sending cards to the RSGB bureau –

The G5VZ cards show a gradual development of design through homebrew influence, to obviously ‘homemade card’ designs to more recently-adopted retro designs.

As a tradition of ham radio, I like QSL cards to celebrate the old while embracing the new. Some of the themes for these cards are very much influenced by cards I received back in the sixties, for sure.

They are presented here in more or less reverse chronological order.

Anyway, these are the cards

Thumbnail image of WG5VZ QSL card — US call WG5VZ

After I passed the Technician, General and Extra US exams I was initially given the call AE7FU, having a US address in Washington State at that time. I wasn’t too enamoured by the call, to be honest.

I went the vanity call route and since about 2010 have held WG5VZ.

Sadly, though, the email address on this card sayd wg5vz@arrl.org when, in fact, it should be at arrl.net. I alter them by hand on the very few cards I send!

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