Featuring classic SWBC QSLs from the 1930s-1950s!

Coming to you via the World Wide Web from Marietta, Georgia, the home of Kennesaw Mountain, site of one of the major battles in the War for Southern Independence

This site has images of numerous QSL cards from short wave stations that were popular in the 1930s to 1950s. Many of the countries represented no longer exist as the political entity they were forty to sixty years ago. I hope you enjoy reliving a bit of radio history as represented by this collection of antique verifications!

Photos of Phil Finkle, then SWL-W6 in Burbank CA , in 1954 and now K6EID in Marietta , GA in 1994.

This website is hosted by Phil Finkle (K6EID) of Marietta, GA. I was a member of the ISWL, JSWC, NNRC, ADXC, and URDXC as well as a Popular Electronics monitor. My first receiver was a Silvertone floor model which was moved from our living room in 1953 when we got our first TV set. After this, I had an old Zenith table radio which was of WWII vintage. My first real communications received was a Hallicrafters S-40B that I bought on time from a Burbank CA auto repair place that had taken it in on trade. I paid for it with earnings from my paper route. My next receiver was a Hallicrafters SX-71 which served me for many years. Later I bought the epitome of receivers, a Collins 51J4 which I still have. I was editor of the West Coast Section of the URDXC bulletin in 1956.

Thanks to Mike Christie, K4MZ, of Crawfordville , FL , for sending in his QSLs from some of the rare SWBC stations of this 1950s! Mike passed away in 2003, May God grant him eternal rest.

Also many thanks to Richard Jary of Australia who sent us images of QSLs gathered by Wal Durbin, Willoughby, NSW in the 1930s!

 I also have another site that currently has SWBC QSLs from 1960s forward to today, Utility and MW and LW QSLs. Please take a few minutes and visit it at:

The Classic and Not So Classic Short Wave, Medium and Long Wave, and Utilities QSL Home Page!

Click here! - QSLs 1960-2000+

Please select from the following list to move to the pages with the respective QSL card:

ALGERIA (FRENCH DEPARTMENT) - Radio Algerie

ARGENTINA - Radio El Mundo

AT SEA - VK9MI Ship Broadcasting Station

BELGIAN CONGO - Radio Congo Belge

BELGIUM - ORU - The International Goodwill Station

BERLIN (AMERICAN SECTOR) - RIAS - Berlin

BOLIVIA - La Cruz del Sur

BRITISH GUIANA - Radio Demarara

BRITISH HONDURAS - British Honduras Broadcasting Service

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO - Radio Sabah

BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service

BRITISH SOMALILAND - Radio Somali

BULGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC - Radio Sofia

CANADA - CBUX

CANADA - CFVP

CANADA - CHNX

CANADA - VE9AI

CEYLON - Radio Ceylon

CEYLON - Voice of America

COSTA RICA - El Faro del Caribe

CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLES REPUBLIC - Radio Prague

DENMARK - Voice of Denmark

DODECANESE ISLANDS (RHODES) - VOA- USCGC Courier

My Page with 1960s and forward QSLS - QSLs 1960-2000+

The K6EID Home Page - K6EID