Terre Haute Postcards - QSL Cards

More postcards from my collection...

Citizen's Band Radio - KLK 4631

This citizen's band radio card has the following printed text...

Citizen's Band Radio Station
Channels 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22
Kind Lonely Kid
KLK 4631
Frederick and Vanetta Brown
P. O. Box 963 Terre Haute, Indiana
Can't get out far but I talk alot
Wentz Print Shop

Citizen's Band Radio - KNK 2399

This citizen's band radio card has the following printed text...

A Shot form The Wabash Cannon Ball
KNK 2399
Indola Citizens Band Radio Club logo
John W. Tarpy
426 North 12th Street Terre Haute, Indiana
Martronics On Base

Wentz Print Shop
629 Sixth Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.

Ham Radio - W9AX0

This ham radio card, posted from Terre Haute on February 21st, 1930, has the text...

W9AXO
ARRL logos - American Radio Relay League
Rdo. 8BCY Ur. 40h Sigs wkd hr at. 2.6 M, ST. 1930
Aud. R. 6 Note AC Qss Qsss Qrm Yes Qrn
Transmitter Receiver
TP-T6 Ckt 16 Wtts SG. Y Type es 2 step
1-210 Tubes 375 Vlts Fones
Dx all dist
Remarks
H. C. Hughes, 2400 Putnam St., Terre Haute, Ind.
H. M. Seldon, Cranesville, PA.

Ham Radio - W9DET

This ham radio card, posted from Terre Haute on January 10th, 1940, has the text...

W9AXO
ARRL logos - American Radio Relay League
J. Ray Fulton, Jr., 207 S. 14th St.

These cards are known as QSL cards. In both CB and ham radio parlance a Q code message can mean a statement or a question. In this case, QSL means either "do you confirm receipt of my transmission?" or "I confirm receipt of your transmission". QSL cards are a written confirmation of contact between two stations and the earliest dated from around 1916. They were either swapped when operators met or sent through the mail between operators.

Citizen's Band Radio was very popular in the 1970's.

By 1914, there were thousands of Amateur Radio operators in the United States. Hiram Percy Maxim, a leading Hartford, Connecticut, inventor and industrialist saw the need for an organization to band together this fledgling group of radio experimenters. In May 1914, he founded the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) to meet that need, today it has approximately 156,000 members.

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