Equipment & Software -- Nothing Fancy Needed

Most of my equipment is several years old -- you don't need leading-edge technology to homebrew your QSLs.

Equipment

I use a Gateway computer with a Pentium 200 pro chip and 72 megs of ram, but any computer which will run the word processing software will suffice. Until recently my Gateway was connected to an Epson Stylus Color 500 printer, which required a special Epson paper for best results. Now I'm using an inexpensive Lexmark 3200 printer, which prints a good-looking card on generic paper (Riverside Array coated inkjet paper) which costs just one cent per QSL.

For those QSLs which include scanned photos, I use an OpticPro 4800P flatbed scanner. (This is optional.) If I later scan the printed QSL to e-mail to the other ham, I use the same scanner.

Software

The PC is running Microsoft Word 97 as the word processor software.

To process any scanned images, I use Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.0 software.

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