Page Updated - 09.Oct.08
QSL Collection - Winston-Salem/Forsyth County NC
196 Cards

Many of these old QSL cards came from operations in the mid to late 1950s when the local meeting frequency was 3803 kc/s.  These were the days of AM and the Winston-Salem group would meet frequently on this frequency and on Saturday mornings there was always an informal "net," followed by a weekly breakfast at Banner's Restaurant on Reynolda Road near what later became Reynolda Manor Shopping Center.

At this time Western Electric was a major Winston-Salem employer and brought lots of highly-skilled electronics engineers and technicians to the area; many of them hams.  Likewise, Piedmont Airlines, with its Winston-Salem headquarters, added several amateurs to the local community.

Many of the other cards came from the early 1960s when there was a lot of activity on what was a newly-discovered band, two meter AM.  Bolstered by the Heathkit HW-30 "Twoer" 2M transceiver with a super regenerative receiver that could receive a strong signal over half the band, lots of formerly inactive hams suddenly were back on the air and local contacts flourished once again.