No question - one of the highlights in amateur radio is receiving QSLs, those documents precisely and in great detail confirming a radio contact (QSO) that has taken place between two stations. Moreover, some people regard  QSL cards as "the final courtesy of a QSO". I believe this to be absolutely true - provided we are talking about genuine paper cards, designed and sent to you  by your QSO-counterpart as sort of his very personal and unique identification. A "business card" for radio people, so to speak. I use to receive more than fifty QSL cards from the DARC's QSL bureau once every month and another half-a-dozen cards, maybe, coming by mail. I every now and again ask myself: Which, in terms of graphic or photographic design, is the most appealing or remarkable card, and which, in terms of usefulness for a certain diploma or another self-set target, is the most helpful? And in addition to that: How did the operator or the group of operators represented by the card had performed in the contact(s) I had with him or them? What has my experience with the QSL manager been? And after all: which QSL possibly covers all these aspects in a more than just positive way?

A decision like that, monthly as it is, can only be a very subjective one. Nonetheless, I would not really like to keep my decision from you. So here it is:  Hadi's QSL of the Month, the QSL-card for my (virtual) clip-on picture frame.

December 2022 (will not be continued)