Guideline QSL-cards Delta-Xray Radio Club has made a set of Guidelines in order to support our members when designing and printing QSL-cards. Read the Guidelines below... Intentions We like our member to decide for themselves, but we kindly ask you to remember that QSL-cards represents not only you - they also represent the club. Therefore we strongly recommend you to follow these simple Guidelines concerning QSL-design and QSL-print. To have high quality QSL-cards, we recommend you to spend the money needed. Guidelines Design (size): We recommend that the size of the QSL should be the "Ham-Size" (14,0 cm x 9,0 cm) - these cards are slightly smaller than the "normal" QSL's (15,0 cm x 10,0 cm) - but the Cards are more easy to handle (for instance: they fit better in an Envelope etc.) Design (colours and design): You can design the card almost exactly as you like it. Feel free to be inspired from our gallery of cards, see our site. The design of these cards are all approved by the club. You can even download "templates" for further work (Please contact Soren for further instructions.) We kindly ask you to insert the the clubs logo and font, found at the Download Area. Please remember that a QSL-card is a confirmation card for a QSO, not a gallery in many fonts, text-effects etc. Please check your card for misspelling and errors in general. Design (support from Delta-Xray): We will, if possible, help and support you, however we cannot promise you to design your cards. If you cannot design the cards yourself, we recommend you to use the templates from our site and change name, address and callsign (Please contact Soren for further instructions). In case you receive help, please be nice and pay the expenses for the people helping you. In this way he/she might also help the one asking for help after you :-) Design (Evaluation/approve): To secure that the design will not compromise the club, we recommend you to be in dialogue with the Club while designing the card, so you are sure, that your design will be approved. Please contact Tom for dialogue. It is important to the club, that the designs are nice, clean, beautiful and without erotic, pornographic or abusive/provoking images in any way. Attention: The final design must be Approved by the Club before you print the cards. Please contact Tom for dialogue. Thanks. Design (minimum requirements): To secure that your QSL-card contains all needed information, you can visit "DXRC QSL-card Design School". Here we have listed what we believe should be remembered while designing a QSL-card. To visit the "always remember-list" click here. Upload to our internetsite When the card is designed and ready for print, we would like to upload the approved card to our Library of cards, and even ask you for permission to give other members a chance to use your card in design via a template. Please send the files to Soren in High Resolution - Soren will then upload the card to our internetsite. (If Files are bigger than 1Mb each, please use our FTP-server). Print (who should print the cards?) You can use whatever printer you want. Please use a printer giving you high quality, as the cards will represent not only you - but also the club. The club uses Cool QSL as printer, as the quality is good and prizes are acceptable. Print (paper quality): We strongly recommend that the Paper quality should be better than 220 gr/mē to avoid too slappy QSL's. All Printers can supply this quality - just ask them for it. The QSL's printed by the club is printed at 300 gr/mē to give best possible quality. A thicker paper-quality might be a few bucks more expensive, but often worth to accept. Print (plastic coating): In order to represent the club in best possible way, we recommend you to order the cards with plastic foil - we recommend a good quality of foil. Plastic foil is a thin piece of plastic covering the card. If using a bad quality of foil, there soon can be problems with the foil - the foil might get loose and the Cards then look ugly. Again, this is a few bucks more expensive, but worth spending money at. Print (number to print): You can print as many or as few cards as you like. We recommend you to print approx. 1.000 cards, as this give you good harmony between design-time and prize in total contra number of cards received. Print (send cards to DXRC): When you have received your printed QSL-cards from the printer, please emmidiately send 15 cards to DXRC - use this address, please: DXRC Bureau P.O. Box 202 2640 Hedehus Denmark Cards must be sent for final approvement. Thanks. Back to Guidelines. Latest update: 07/11/2008