spEed-Mail your QSLs

Or, How to send an e-QSL

Would you like to instantly e-mail a copy of the completed QSL to the other ham? It's fun to scan the printed QSL and send it as an e-mail attachment, as well as by snail-mail.

Sometimes you can find a ham's e-mail address in QRZ , Buckmaster's World Wide HamCall Server, FISTS, WM7D, South African Radio League, AltaVista, or other sources. If you find their e-mail address, scan the printed QSL, and send it as a file attached to an e-mail.

I scan the printed QSL at 150 dpi RGB color, then do any filtering or adjusting before reducing it to 3.4" wide. That file is then converted to a JPEG, to reduce the file size to about 65KB. The recipient will have to have software on their computer which will view JPEGs. I've found that most people already have that software. The QSL will display at about 7" wide on most monitors.

Alternately, you can skip the printing and scanning entirely, by using a screen capture utility to pull the digital e-QSL picture right off the computer monitor while it is displayed in your word processing program. The captured file can be reduced to a JPEG, and sent out as an attachment to an e-mail. This method is considerably faster than the print & scan routine. You will want to turn off the form field shading and hide paragraph marks before the screen capture, and pick WordArt fonts which render gracefully on-screen.

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