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There was CB RADIO...Your Grandparents' Internet & Your Internet's Grandparent!!!
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The lost postcard art of the QSL card, quirky and colourful mass mail exchange of the CB radio craze!!!
Yes, CB radio: the chatroom of the past, one of the first true network cultures!
A weird & wonderful window onto 1960s-70s North American culture, from local to global!
A tribute to the millions of CBers who lit up the airwaves and the tens of thousands who QSLed!
myQSL.org is the world's largest CB radio QSL card gallery!!!
Now showcasing over 3800 of 150,000 cards, including almost 700 for sale in the STORE & Etsy shop!

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Last Update: August 22, 2008!

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Character & CB categories will gradually be merged. Click on a thumb for its theme page! Unlinked categories are coming soon!

The myQSL.org BLOG! Get acquainted with the CB QSL universe here! Assorted new cards!

1. Characters Get to know CBers, cause they're not just truckers!!! 76 categories & counting.

a. CHARACTERS including LADIES! GENTLEMEN! COMMONFOLK! (stock images, templates, etc.) CBers at home! (Base) CBers on the road! (Mobile) CBers outdoors! AIR! (Pilots, Flyers, etc.) Aliens! Angels! Animal-human interactions! Animal riders! (horses, elephants, etc.) Announcers! Antenna & tower climbers! Astronauts! Athletes/Active! Bachelors! Bikers! Brutes! Campers! Cavemen! Clowns! Southern Confederate army/sympathizers! Couples! "Odd" couples! Cowboys! Criminals! CULTURES! Cyclists! Devils! People with Disabilities! Drinkers! Drivers! Elderly! Electrocuted! FAMILIES! Farmers! Fishermen! Freud with a naked woman in his forehead! Ghosts! Handymen! Hillbillies! Hippies! Historical! Hoboes! Horseback riders! Hunters! Indians! Jesus Christ! Jokers & jesters! Kids! Knights! LADIES! Law enforcement! Leprechauns! Magicians! MARINE! (Boaters, Sailors, Etc.) Military! Musicians! Nudes! ODD! Pirates! Prospectors! RADIO-related! Religious! Reversible faces! Robin Hood! Royalty! Santa Claus! SEXY! Skeletons! Skulls! Smokers! Snowmen! Superheroes! TELEPHONE callers! Toilet users! TRUCKERS! Vikings! Warriors! Wheelchair users! Wizards, witches, sorcerers! Workers!
b. COPYRIGHT CHARACTERS including Disney! Flintstones! Looney Tunes including the Roadrunner! Peanuts including Snoopy! Ratfink style characters! Smokey Bear!
c. ANIMALS including bears! Birds including chickens & Owls! Cats! Deer! Dogs! Fish! Foxes! Horned! (Goats, rams, sheep!) Horses, donkeys & mules! Insects! Pigs & hogs! Primates! Rodents! (Mice, rats!) Squirrels! Wildcats! Wolves!

2. Subjects Everything under the sun!!!
a. RADIO! 10-codes! Ads! Antennae! Clubs & their logos! Jokes including the CBers prayer & Skip Licenses! Meets! (Jamborees & Coffee Breaks) Mics! Rigs! Shacks! Towers!
b. REGIONAL! USA! Canada! States including Alabama! Alaska! Arizona! Arkansas! Colorado! Florida! Illinois! Kansas! Louisiana! Michigan! Missouri! Ohio! Pennsylvania! Washington! West Virginia! Provinces including British Columbia! Manitoba! Newfoundland! Nova Scotia! Northwest Territories! Ontario! Prince Edward Island! Quebec! Saskatchewan! Yukon Territory!

c. VEHICLES! Cars! Longhaul trucks! Buses! Campers & trailers! Old cars! Pickup trucks! Carriages! Motorcycles! Vans! Work vehicles! Fire/ambulance!

d. VARIOUS SUBJECTS! Abstract! Ads! Alcohol! "Bases & mobiles" (houses & cars)! Bicycles! Boats! Body parts including handshakes! Buildings & structures! Cameras! Clocks, watches & timepieces! Clothing! Coats of arms & crests! Comics & gags including "off color"! Southern Confederacy! Coffee! Cultures including totem poles & native American Indian iconography! Food & drink! Games including billiards! playing cards!chess/checkers & dice! Government! Guns & weapons! Holidays! Horseshoes! Houses! Houses and cars! Hunting! Jewels! Lighthouses! Machines Money! Music! Names (plays or visual puns on family names)! Nature! Planes! Plants including trees, flowers & clovers! QSL CARDS ABOUT QSL CARDS including temporary substitute QSL cards! Religious! Scenes! Signs! Smokes! Space & the future! Southern Confederacy! Sports! Trains! THINGS! Tools & parts! Wheelchairs! XXX!

3. Design Styles and features of QSL cards like Photos! Special materials including actual wallpaper! Colors! Picture postcards! Postmarks! Mini cards! Oversize cards! Club logos! Meet invitations! Blank forms! Filled forms! Back matter (letters, club stamps, notes, etc)! Text-only!

4. Art!!! Works of custom commissioned cardsized art by dozens of amateur & pro illustrators! Artists like [symbol], AHF, Bluejay, "Blue Toronto", Christle Vaughn, The City Mapper, Crystal Ball DM, Denise Hermann, Don Haffner/Picasso, Doodler, DP the Viking, Hot Shot, Hunter, JM DeLong, Jockey, Jylegs, King Kards, Muzzle Loader QSL Club (Runnin Bare), The Old Man, OS, Papa Bear, Runnin Bare, Shepherd, Star David, Tigress, TM Short, Topper, Wildebeest, & many more to come!

5. Vive Le Quebec! Qrazy QSL Cards featuring all of the above EN FRANCAIS + 10x WEIRDER!!!

6. International QSLs: As if you hadn't seen enough, SEE THE WORLD in cards from CBers all over the earth!!!

7. "Modern" QSLs: International CB QSLs exchanged after the North American CB craze (1960s-80s), through the 1990s to the modern day.

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Warning: these are not sophisticated directories! They are not linked to card browsing within the site; currently they exist to make public as much data as possible from the myQSL.org collection. If you find any data you would like to follow up on, email info@myQSL.org!
1. By CB Radio Callsigns/Call Letters/Licenses 2. By CB Handle/Nickname 3. By City/State/Province

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