Earle Smith Photo

The QSL card has a story behind it. Lynn (Tennant) and his long time buddy (whose name I can't recall now), with time on their hands at Alert, took a lino block, made a printing stamp from it and produced the basic QSL card. Then they, and others, would fill in the colours as needed, all by hand. I was the only one allowed to operate my personal ham station VE8AT up there at that time so ran all of the phone patches, etc., for the team. They appreciated my efforts enough to handmake the QSLs. One now resides in the Telecom Museum at Kingston, so I understand.