DXing In The 80's

During a bit of spring cleaning the other day, my wife found these old QSL cards dating back to the early 1980's. The one above was mine, AW26. I was immediately sent back to a time when CB and particularly DX was outlawed and it was a very clandestine operation to set up a radio station then. The QSL cards had to be sent by post because there was no internet. All very exciting! So here are a few more of them:-

This was from 1EP in Italy, handle "Hawkeye".

Kilo Sierra in Germany, handle "Meteor"

My wife also got in on the act using the callsign ESW26 and made this contact with "Anarchist" in Germany.

There were also a few from USA as you can see here:-

And also good old 'Blighty'

A snapshot in time. I really enjoyed finding these again. What would be very nice would be to get in contact with some of these people if they are still around.