QSL Cards, Reply Cards, QSL Labels, Envelopes, and Address Labels

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QSL cards

QSL cards are printed four to each sheet of paper; you can specify each card's width and height in inches or millimeters. A printer capable of handling card stock is recommended. Information to be printed on each card can be specified on the QSL Configuration window's QSL Cards tab. Each printed page can be thought of as having four quadrants, with quadrant 1 in the upper left, quadrant 2 in the upper right, quadrant 3 in the lower left, and quadrant 4 in the lower right. DXKeeper places QSL cards into quadrants in a specific order that, if maintained, avoids the need to sort the final deck by DXCC prefix after the cards are separated with a paper cutter. To achieve this order, start with the cards in quadrant 1, then append the cards in quadrant 2, then quadrant 3, and finally those in quadrant 4.

QSL cards contain the callsign of the station worked, and the following information for each QSO:

Settings on the QSL Configuration window's QSL Cards tab let you suppress printing of the Operator callsign (for QSL cards preprinted with this information) or print separation guides.

Additional information from the logged QSO  - QSL note, QSL route, IOTA designator, CQ and ITU zones, etc. -- can be optionally printed on each QSL card via settings on the QSL Configuration window's QSL Cards tab using substitution commands.

Reply cards

Reply cards are QSL cards that you print for your QSO partner to sign and send back to you. They're traditionally used as "Mobile Reply Cards" by ops pursuing the USA-CA award, but can also be used to obtain confirmation from stations that do not have QSL cards of their own.

Reply cards are printed four to each sheet of paper using the same width and height settings in inches or millimeters specified for QSL cards.. A printer capable of handling card stock is recommended. Information to be printed on each card can be specified on the QSL Configuration window's QSL Cards tab. Each printed page can be thought of as having four quadrants, with quadrant 1 in the upper left, quadrant 2 in the upper right, quadrant 3 in the lower left, and quadrant 4 in the lower right. DXKeeper places QSL cards into quadrants in a specific order that, if maintained, avoids the need to sort the final deck by DXCC prefix after the cards are separated with a paper cutter. To achieve this order, start with the cards in quadrant 1, then append the cards in quadrant 2, then quadrant 3, and finally those in quadrant 4.

Reply cards display your station callsign, a confirmation from the station worked, and the following information for each QSO:

Unlike QSL cards, which can place user-specified information in each corner, Reply cards display fixed information in 8-point Arial font:        

Corner Information
upper-left Reply card
upper-right QSO partner's DXCC entity name
lower-left date printed in specified format
lower-right signature line

Also unlike QSL cards, Reply cards do not include a background image.

 

QSL Labels

Single labels, two-column labels,  and three-column labels can be printed with QSL information; label dimensions are specified on the QSL Configuration window's QSL Labels tab. On installation, DXKeeper is pre-configured to support 

as shown in this table::

Setting single labels 2-column labels 3-column labels
labels per column   10 10
Row 1 offset   .5 .5
Row height   1 1
Column 1 offset   0 0
Column 2 offset   4.125 2.75
Column 3 offset     5.5
Label height 1.1    
Label width 3.2 3.875 2.5

You can specify QSL label dimensions in either inches or millimeters. Note that setting a column offset to 0 reduces the number of label columns per page.

Single and 2-column QSL labels contain the callsign of the station worked, and the following information for each QSO:

3-column QSL labels contain the callsign of the station worked, and the following information for each QSO:

Envelopes

Envelopes can be directly printed with

Address Labels

Single labels, two-column labels,  and three-column labels can be printed with the 

Label dimensions are specified on the QSL Configuration window's Address Labels tab. On installation, DXKeeper is pre-configured to support

You can specify Address label dimensions in either inches or millimeters. Note that setting a column offset to 0 reduces the number of label columns per page