My QSL Card Collection is Online!

I’ve been wanting to do something with my collection for a long time, so I bought a new scanner to help get the job done.
QSL Cards
QSL Cards

My collection of print (and some digital) QSL cards is now online! It’s something I’d been hoping to do for a while, and now it’s finally done.

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Scanning Paper Cards

After years of owning a flat bed scanner I knew that using one to scan my QSL cards was going to be a huge pain in the ass. So I did some searching on the Intert00bz and found Robert K3RRR’s page, which declares, “Finally, A Scanner That Will Scan QSL Cards!” Okay, I thought, I’ll bite. He reports having good results with the Brother Mobile Color Page Scanner, DS-620. I’m not sure when he wrote that, but that model is discontinued. The updated version is the DS-640, but I splurged for the DS-740D so I could have duplex scanning. It was relatively easy to set up, and with the press of a button I can scan both sides of a card in seconds. (Renaming the files to match the callsigns was not nearly as fast.)