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Re: Electronic QSL


 

My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any awards, they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other operator.? I have started to get a few, so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply to those that I do receive.

73 de Chuck, WS1L



On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 5:01?PM Dave AA6YQ via <aa6yq=[email protected]> wrote:
+ AA6YQ comments below

I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work) with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?

+ Rather than generate a QSL card image populated with QSO information and place it in the Windows Clipboard, perhaps a new "Generate text QSL" right-mouse menu command could be an augmented version of the current "Copy to Windows Clipboard" command that include signal reports and the "QSL Message" item (if logged). This could be generated in multi-line format, e.g.

Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date:? 2025-04-28
Time:? 07:58:45Z
Notes: Tnx QSL!

73 de AA6YQ

+ and quickly pasted into a return email message.

+Comments, suggestions, better ideas?

? ? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ






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