7J3AQB/4 QSLs

I printed five different QSL card designs for my Japanese callsign over the course of three years of operating ham radio in Japan. Tottori is perhaps most famous for the massive Tottori Sand Dunes along the Japan Sea coast, so I made the dunes the subject of my first Japanese QSL design. Together with the nearby Uradome coastline, this part of Japan makes up the Sanin Coast National Park.

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Found this photo of the dunes in a Tottori tourist brochure and thought it would make a beautiful card.

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One of my favorite Japanese singers, Maki Oguro.
I really like the composition of this photo with lovely Maki off to the right, leaving space to the left for the text.

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I soon found out that many Japanese people use pictures from their trips on their QSLs. This annoyed me at first, as the photos usually did not match the county or callsign on the face of the card. But after a couple of years I got used to the idea and decided to try one myself. The photo is from my trip to Myanmar, one of my favorite photos of all time.

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My last Japanese card was printed just six months before leaving the country, and Hawaii was understandably at the forefront of my mind in those days. The card features a photo from Volcanoes National Park, my favorite place in Hawaii. The Japanese characters in the bottom left say "Home QTH Hawaii".