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:
UTC date at which the QSO began (using English month abbreviations, independent of your PC's locale)
UTC time at which the QSO began
QSO Frequency (If the QSO Frequency is missing, DXKeeper will use the QSO Band instead)
solicitation for a return QSL if the QSO's QSL_Sent field is set to R (see QSL Workflow)
thanks for the return QSL if the QSO has been confirmed via QSL card or, if the Set outgoing card/label QSL ? to "thanks" box is checked, if the QSO has been confirmed via LotW
QSL route (if the Include QSL Mgr in Confirmation box is checked and if the Via item appears to contain a valid callsign -- a single word containing at least one number and one letter but no symbols other than /)
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 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:
UTC date at which the QSO began (using English month abbreviations, independent of your PC's locale)
UTC time at which the QSO began
QSO Frequency (If the QSO Frequency is missing, DXKeeper will use the QSO Band instead)
RST rcvd (the signal report your QSO partner gave you)
any of the following information logged with the 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.
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
1.1" x 3.2" (Dymo 30252) single labels
1" x 4" (Avery 8161 for inkjet printers, Avery 5961 for laser printers) 2-column labels.
1" x 2.625" (Avery 8160 for inkjet printers, Avery 5960 for laser printers) 3-column labels
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:
UTC date at which the QSO began (using English month abbreviations, independent of your PC's locale)
UTC time at which the QSO began
QSO Frequency (If the QSO Frequency is missing, DXKeeper will use the QSO Band instead)
solicitation for a return QSL if the QSO's QSL_Sent field is set to R (see QSL Workflow)
thanks for the return QSL if the QSO has been confirmed via QSL card or, if the Set outgoing card/label QSL ? to "thanks" box is checked, if the QSO has been confirmed via LotW
QSL route (if the Include QSL Mgr in Confirmation box is checked and if the Via item appears to contain a valid callsign -- a single word containing at least one number and one letter but no symbols other than /)
3-column QSL labels contain the callsign of the station worked, and the following information for each QSO:
UTC date at which the QSO began (using English month abbreviations, independent of your PC's locale)
UTC time at which the QSO began
QSO Frequency (If the QSO Frequency is missing, DXKeeper will use the QSO Band instead)
if the Include QSL Mgr and Pse/Tnx QSL box is checked
solicitation for a return QSL if QSL_Sent field of any QSO on the label is set to R (see QSL Workflow)
thanks for the return QSL if all QSOs on the label have been confirmed via QSL card or, if the Set outgoing card/label QSL ? to "thanks" box is checked, via LotW
QSL route
(if the Include
QSL Mgr in Confirmation box is checked and if
the Via
item appears to contain a valid callsign -- a single word
containing at least one number and one letter but no symbols other than /)
Envelopes can be directly printed with
your return address, as specified on the QSL Configuration window's Envelopes tab
the address of the station worked with the address information from the logged QSO
an Airmail indication, as specified on the QSL
Configuration window's Envelopes
tab
Single labels, two-column labels, and three-column labels can be printed with the
your return address, as specified on the QSL Configuration window's Envelopes tab
the address of the station worked with the address information from the logged QSO
Label dimensions are specified on the QSL Configuration window's Address Labels tab. On installation, DXKeeper is pre-configured to support
1.1" x 3.2" (Dymo 30252) single labels
1" x 4" (Avery 8161 for inkjet printers, Avery 5961 for laser printers) 2-column labels.
1" x 2.625" (Avery 8160 for inkjet printers, Avery 5960 for laser printers) 3-column labels
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