Make Your SWL Station Look PRO!
We browse many forums and listen to Ham operators asking others how to handle or does anyone respond to SWL’s sending QSL Cards. Some HAM operators are not sure if it counts to their contact list. This is the reason we work with eQSL – When you create your account you must choose HAM operator or SWL – If you choose SWL the correct wording and information will be automatically added to your QSL cards.
By it being confirmed in the system it then will count to the contact list and hopefully they will send you QSL back. eQSL is always mentioned in these cases which shows they are the service that serious SWL’s should be using. Here is a HAM asking the question in a forum – https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/12935/qsl-cards-from-shortwave-listeners
Another good service we recommend is SWARL www.swarl.org – You can apply for FREE for a call sign for SWL and the prefix is country/city specific just like a HAM radio call sign. We found this to be very cool and helpful when we actually contacted HAM operators.
Which is the other reason we created www.swlqsl.com to give SWL’s 2 places to be confirmed when they reach out to the HAM radio community. Our QSL cards have our website on them and the member’s level so this means the HAM receiving cards can look at your eQSL profile and then search our database which allows you to:
- Showcase your Call sign certificate
- Any QSL’s that are unique
- Your photos of your gear or city
- Any DX Awards and certificates
- We even have built in messaging service – so that other SWL’s or HAMs can leave your messages on your page!
When you join as a Lifetime member you only pay $5.99 one time and you’re done! That goes to helping us keep the service live and adding new features in the future. eQSL saves you money and provides a few ways to customize your cards and tracks your contacts.
eQSL also has awards for SWL’s in their system which is cool! Their membership is literally $1 a month very nice – so if you have a shortwave radio / pen and paper for logging at home or on the go and eQSL & SWLQSL – you are really set to pick up contacts from anywhere in the world & send QSL’s and have a great profile page representing you and your country or city for under $20!
On QRZ.com members are paying $35.00 per year for the same sort of service, so we think once SWL’s start checking us out we will be the QRZ for SWL!
Have a great day
SWLQSL Team www.swlqsl.com
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