History of CB Radio QSL Cards WANTED--Please read/share!!

Qsl cards · Oct 6, 2020

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Hello! My name is Erin and I am interested in finding people who know about the history of CB culture in its prime, especially the printing and exchanging of QSL cards. I am a historian and documentarian who bought a CB as soon as I got my first car. I lived three blocks off the highway and eventually connected the CB indoors and would chat with truckers from my basement. They were often surprised to hear a sixteen-year-old girl on the other end! hahaha. Anyway, three summers ago I found the most amazing thing that I never knew existed---two sets of QSL cards from an antique store in the Wisconsin Dells. Since then, I've been hooked! As a historian, I'd like to find out more from those who participated in the creation and trade of their QSLs. I'm looking to tell the story of a few of those who remember the excitement of this type of pre-facebook social networking.

If you can, please consider and answer/contact me with responses to the following questions here or in a message:

1.Did you have a QSL card?
2. Did you trade them?
3. Do you have a collection?
4. Do you know others who traded? Who may still have a collection?
5. Or do you have merely a strong recollection of QSL trading?

I don't know if I have to say this or not, but I'm really not interested in the Ham radio QSLs. They are too polished and don't represent what I think the CB did to people at the time.

That said, I'd love to be put in contact with anyone who has information or items to share with me! Please be in touch with any leads on sources you may have!

P.S. My birthdate is 10-4, so you know this was meant to be! ;]
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My name is Gary and I have like 300qsl trading cards my grandma was big into the trading cards she even had her own cards with her name on them with here cb handle I'm interested in selling them.

Qsl cards · Oct 6, 2020

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Qsl cards · Oct 6, 2020

I have about 300 of the qsl cards they ma and pa kettle they got road runner and there all kinda dirty if you no what I mean my name is Gary I'm interested in saleing them

Road*Runner · Oct 6, 2020

I got started early in CB radio. I lived in a rural area, and it was the way everyone communicated. At that time you also had to have an FCC license. Every small town in the county had their "own" channel. Also at that time there were only 23 channels. All the kids at school also used them. Kids would be on right after school, and the adults would take over later in the evening. It was a great time to be alive! I discovered QSL cards by accident. I talked to a guy in Australia I think it was. ( first time experiencing "skip") About a month later I got a QSL card from him. I thought that was the greatest, and it got me started. I did have a huge collection, but lost them in a house fire. I also became a HAM operator and continued the hobby.

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