Re: [IRCA] QSL COLLECTIONS

[Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

How about a Radio museum starting from the early days? I would think old QSL cards and letters would be on interest.There are some Radio museums out there. I wonder if anyone has contacted one? 

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> From: Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:03:20 -0500
> Subject: [IRCA] QSL COLLECTIONS
> 
> I'm a member of both radio clubs as well as a Museum Board member overseeing 
> acquisitions for the Pavek Museum...a well-regarded home for Radio/TV 
> history.  www.pavekmuseum.org
> 
> I/we have the utmost respect and admiration for the incredible patience, 
> work and follow-up that goes into amassing any QSL collection.
> 
> The problem that museums encounter with potential QSL-collections is what we 
> learn from our research and acquisition-qualifications:
> 
> 1.  Sadly, logging a group of stations from a long distance is no longer 
> considered unique enough to be of historical significance.  At the Pavek we 
> show what a QSL card is and what a "Verie" means to so many.
> 
> But adding a large display of QSL cards really doesn't further the 
> information we've presented, which is this: "there are folks out there doing 
> this, and these two items are their instruments of record.  Many have 
> amassed thousands of these cards."
> 
> That takes a minute or two...waaaayyy outside the attention-span of so many 
> today <g>
> 
> 2.  A QSL collection is really a PERSONAL accomplishment and stimulates 
> happy memories when we review our cards.  As such...unless the collector is 
> himself a newsworthy person (say, a Walter Mondale)...a museum would have no 
> historical context in which to display the collection.
> 
> I think most other museums have found the same thing to be true.
> 
> BUT: great QSL collections should not be lost!  Hopefully we can bequeath 
> them to someone a generation or so down the line, who might then be inspired 
> to continue the hobby!
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Durenberger
> DX Audio Service
> 
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