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The W9IWE QSL Card Story
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I have an Old QSL Card in my collection dated July 25, 1932. The card is confirming a QSO between W9IWE in Chicago and W9PZD in the Chicago Suburb of Oak Park, IL.
Tom Hahn, W9IWE who lived at 6005 Patterson Ave, near Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side. sent a hand written QSL Card to confirm his QSO with W9BZD. On the card he apologized for the "poor imitation of a QSL Card "saying this was one of his first QSOs.
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75 years later, W1OHM, Bill Ohm who lives in Nashua, NH was looking through his father's old desk and found art work showing an old QSL design with a picture of a 1930s radio shack. Bill googled the call sign and found my website listed as having an old QSL Card with that same call sign. Bill took a picture of the art work and sent me an email offering to donate the art work to my collection. I gladly accepted.
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To quote a well know radio announcer,
"And now the Rest of the Story",
W1OHM, Bill Ohm's father was an amateur photographer and an avid SWLer. Bill suspects that his father shot the photo's of the radio shack and helped our subject W9IWE Tom Hahn, design and obtain his first real Ham Radio QSL Cards.
Thank you, Bill
Bob Green W8JYZ
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