The Ham Coach: eQSL - a fun way to collect QSL cards when space is limited

There is a wonderful site that I have been using for years and thought I have already mentioned it on my blog.

The site is: http://www.eqsl.cc/

eQSL allows you to join for free and has a good variety of QSL card designs that you can select to use. Here is what my eQSL card looks like:

If you are heavy into contesting they offer the options of different ways to support the site and in turn provide services:

Regular Membership
Free of charge. All basic services:

Upload ADIF logs or manually enter log information
Select one of 2 different card design styles
Select from a wide variety of card graphics
Notifications of new eQSLs arriving
Ability to print incoming eQSLs on your local printer

Bronze Membership

To qualify: Must have made a donation in the past 12 months.
All privileges of Regular Membership, plus:

Receive a deluxe Public Member Profile (see details)
Able to participate in our eAwards program (eWAS, eDX100, eZ40, etc.)
Able to upload your own custom graphic for your eQSL (Style 3 or 4)
Able to use eQSL Designer Tool for a custom layout (Style 4)
Able to use premium graphics in our image library
Able to have eQSL cards printed with "handwritten" fonts and mailed to you

Note: Whenever the total of your donations over 12 months no longer adds up to the minimum required for this membership level, you will be downgraded to the next lower level.

Silver Membership
To qualify: Must have made a donation of at least $30 in the past 12 months or $60 in the past 24 months. All privileges of Bronze Membership, plus:

Access to the awesome Propagation Forecaster
eQSL thumbnail graphics shown for each card received in InBox and Archive screens
Special "Silver Member" logo available on Style 4 eQSL designs
Support e-mails answered ahead of bronze and regular members
Listing in the "Silver member" section of the Donor Listing

Other new features to be announced soon.
Note: Whenever the total of your donations over 12 months no longer adds up to the minimum required for this membership level, you will be downgraded to the next lower level.

Gold Membership
To qualify: Must have made donation(s) totalling at least $300 (it was $200 before August 1, 2011) at any time in the past, and you must have Authenticity Guaranteed status. The Gold membership is essentially a life-time membership. (You can set up a PayPal subscription of $25 a month, and 12 months later you'll have made $300 in donations.) If you have met the donation requirement but do not have AG status, you will have a Silver membership. All privileges of SilverMembership, plus:

FREE, one of several possible Gold member rewards with the eQSL.cc logo (a $14.99 value), depending on what is in stock at the time of selection. Currently we have: Bird's Eye View DVD,
FREE, a Postage Account credit of $2 each month. You can use this to have eQSLs from your InBox or Archive printed and mailed to you, or use it for other postage/merchandise
Special "Gold Member" logo available on Style 4 eQSL designs
Support e-mails move to the front of the queue
Listed at the top of the Donor Listing, ranked by total donation

eQSL is really easy to use. When you make a contact you simply go to the site, select Log Entry and enter the call sign of the person you made contact with along with the information from your QSO.

If the contact's email is public he will get an email saying that a QSL card has arrived for him and provide him with a link to view it.

One cool thing about eQSL is that it has a verification system to authenticate hams. This means that eQSL has checked the operator for a valid license and address.