I had a strange EQSL card arrive today. It was for a contact I made in 2021?
Talk about administrative backlog!
Talk about administrative backlog!
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I love the design of that card. It looks like something from the 1970’s or early 1980’s.
Is it a printed card or is the text typed using an actual typewriter? I’d almost buy a typewriter to make cards with off of the back of that design. It’s great!
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It’s a digital recreation, generally sent by email. Yes, very
cool looking. Keeping up with the spirit of QSL cards too through the post, that often turn up years after the QSO.
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It was emailed to me. As you say it is a lovely aesthetic. I remember in the seventies creating community newsletters with a typewriter and rub down lettering (Letraset).
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A few weeks ago, I received this QSL card in the mail from the USKA QSL service.
WOW, where did this card get so delayed?
The mystery was solved when I looked in my very first paper logbook: This QSO is logged and has a cross in both the “QSL sent” and “QSL received” fields.
So it’s a duplicate, which is of course also welcome, hi.
Many thanks, Othmar!
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Sometimes they take a while, but I like that 
Olde Time aesthetic. 
I got an LotW confirmation last week relating to a QSO made in 2013, and my last envelope from the QSL bureau had a card relating back to 2020. You’ll find that in ten (or twenty) years time you’ll still be getting the odd QSL relating to contacts you made in 2021 (assuming, by that time, that your callsign of the time can still be connected to you).
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For LoTW and eQSL people eventually get round to signing up and upload their whole log and so it sends out confirmations for all the QSOs all the way back to when the electronic log starts. Or perhaps the op decides to type in their old paper log books and these get uploaded. I often get LoTW confirmations several years old.
I have had a few emailed QSL cards in this style recently from a (relatively) new eqsl platform (qslworld . com). As Richard @G4TGJ says probably the result of people joining and loading historic logs to the service.
Most of the QSL’s received this way have been duplicates for QSOs from 3 or 4 years ago that the op had already sent an (e)sql via other services - eqsl, hamlog, hrdlog, direct email etc. About 50% of them when I click the link to view/download the QSL I just get a message saying “invalid encrypted data”.
I also seem to recall a lot of negative comments about the service when it started with people accusing it of being “spam” and harvesting email addresses from qrz profiles - there might have been a thread on here at the time.
EDIT: Just found the op of the service posted a open letter on the service soon after it was launched
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Wow! I saw that one from 1975. That goes a ways back. I received one last week on LOTW from W6QL/Z2 from 1986. So, don’t give up when waiting for confirmations.
Sometimes they eventually show up.
I think the duplicates from the bureau are caused by cards “crossing in transit”.
I receive several every time that say “PSE QSL” when I have already sent one, then a year or two later another from the same person saying “TNX QSL”.
73,
John, K6YK
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