VE3HO - QSL Card Design


	V E 3 H O QSL Card Design Page Canadian Amateur Radio Station Garth Hamilton P. O. Box 1156 Fonthill, Ontario Canada L0S 1E0 To send me e-mail click here

As part of my Amateur Radio Hobby I enjoy creating QSL Cards in particular cards base on maps showing the location of the station. I also design other cards styles but my preference is for the one sided Map QSL. In the early stage I used Pen and Ink to draw my cards using typical drafting tools I used in Drafting class. Now, As a DXBase logging program user and former QSL MGR, I found the sophistication of DXBase QSL Label and Card Design Module capable of more sophisticated card designs that can be printed directly from your own colour ink jet printer on photo paper or plain card stock or designed and printed over sized as artwork masters for your traditional QSL Card commercial printer such as IT9EJW. They can be in colour or black and white and in different resolutions producing cards of different qualities and printing speeds. Obviously the higher the quality the slower the printing speed on any given printer. While I am a QSL card designer I am not a printer so I do not contract for QSL Card ORDERS, but can design a QSL and supply it in PDF format that you can take to your printer of choice. I have been happy with IT9EJW and his work on numerous card he has done for me and others but there are many other sources around for pre-printed QSL cards just Google QSL Cards. Here are two cards I designed and were printed for me by IT9EJW. click on an image to see a larger version and use your "BACK" button to return here The pictures for the ZD8Z card came from GW0ANA while the ones for my own card were taken with a 35mm camera from a helicopter over Niagara Falls and cropped to fit the format size of the card from a scanned image. Here are some of the other versions of cards created for ZD8Z and printed commercially or on my local ink jet printer. click on an image to see a larger version and use your "BACK" button to return here The card on the left is printed by inkjet printer on photo paper, the middle is economy colour printed almost as fast as black and white on flat card stock, and the right hand picture is printed in black and white. click on an image to see a larger version and use your "BACK" button to return here These card were bulk printed and the QSO data printed on the reverse side using the logging program. On the older 486 based computers this was necessary to get the speed to answer several hundred cards in short order, however today they could be computer generated by over laying the image with QSO information in a shaded block which would obscure the background where required. Some of the nicest cards that I think I have done in an artistic sense are these two cards. click on an image to see a larger version and use your "BACK" button to return here The CI8HO card I designed for an operation in the Canadian Artic when I operated from Resolute, NWT. The other card I designed for JA1BK's operation from Iceland but it was not used in favour of a picture QSL card. QSL Gallery back to top of page

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