I am a big proponent of electronic QSLing. A big bonus of this site is the ability to see a qsl card versus ONLY CONFIRMATION. Are there any plans to allow a download of all qsl cards to jpg or something similar?

73! Loy

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KN4SA Loy S. Bean

Loy,
Look at the thread "Support - English Speaking > Download of eQSL Cards" and you will see why this is not a good idea. You should do a 'save as' for each card as you display it from your Inbox or Archive. Keep them in a My Pictures folder on your PC.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac

Hi Loy.
Don't know if you got this sorted or don't even know if this will help. Go to link below see what you think. Works for me.

http://wd5eae.org/Software.html

73's Haz.

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M3ZYF Haz

Haz,
If too many people with large archives use this at the same time, it will slow down this service. N5UP (Dave) the owner of the site has asked us not to use the eQSL_Down.zip program.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac

Roger that Andy.
I've went back to doing it my old way anyhow. I find it easier to look, save as and log, as I recieve my eQSL's. Much more fun as I check each day anyhow.

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M3ZYF Haz

Thanks for the suggestions. The download utility doesn't work with Vista 64 which I use. I know many hams use it.

I do like eqsl.cc and support it but it's ridiculous not to have facility to download the cards. I have 1500 cards archived. It would be too time consuming to view each card and save them. The site should have added some features such as this after many years of being online. It just doesn't make sense.
73, Loy

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KN4SA Loy S. Bean

Loy,
Here is the explenation we got last year from Dave N5UP (webmaster):

"I just spent several minutes trying to track down a 60% CPU
utilization with a high network bandwidth. I finally discovered 3
German users were mass-downloading their eQSL graphics.
As I mentioned before, the system has to generate each eQSL graphic at
the time you request it. It is not simply a matter of downloading a
static file. Large volume graphics generation is not a good idea, and
if it is abused, I'll have to implement a throttle rather than
allowing a few people to jeopardize the speed of the system for the
rest of the members.
73,
Dave Morris, N5UP
Webmaster, eQSL.cc"

Hope this helps to explain the reason for the request.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac

Andy,

Thanks for your continued explanation. I totally understand what you are saying.

If LOTW was doing it, eQSL would be too.

eQSL is known for it's graphic card versus JUST confirmation by LOTW. Telling someone to download 2000 jpgs one at a time is comical. I won't support eQSL monetarily any longer. Seems most suggestions here are shot down. Why even have a suggestions thread?

73, Loy

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KN4SA Loy S. Bean

Hi Loy and all..

I am of the same opinion. Eqsl is a great way of qsl'ing. ButI have neither the time or effort to download all my cards 1 at a time..

I beacame a Silver member of Eqsl TO TRY AND EASE THE LOAD of Paper Qsl's.
Only to find this difficulty.. I think this is why a lot of people will not use the eqsl system.
Until the situation is rectified no more donations will be coming from me..
Why not have the facility for paid members.. I might attract more money ????
Paul G0UZP

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G0UZP Paul Zrobok

I'm the one who started all this.
Very, very sorry now. If I had thought about it I would have realized the excessive load this feature would place on the system - paid member status or not! eQSl fills a void in the on-line QSL business and I have no real complaint about it. I was seeking to find if the system already had such a feature and I just wasn't finding it. Now I know.

Open comment to Dave Morris: Great system. Keep up the good work and thanks.
73

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K9ZXO J. Mitch Hopper

Don't despair, people. I have almost finished moving all our software over from 32-bit to completely new 64-bit routines, which will allow us to graduate from 3GB of maximum RAM to 12GB, upgrade the application server, and hopefully get out from under some buggy graphics routines that caused Java heap overflows and crashes.

That will then make it possible for me to implement some batch downloading routines, maybe to allow printing eQSLs 4-up on a letter size page, or other things.

Right now you have to realize that every eQSL is generated on-the-fly as it is being displayed. To have to crank out 2,000 eQSLs at once would put a horrendous load on the processor, and if I had 100 people all doing that, well, I'd have to start charging $10 a month per person just to cover the new servers and bandwidth I'd have to start using.

Hang in there, I do listen to every suggestion, consider many of them, and implement the best.

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Of course, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong!

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP

Unfortunately most eQSLs look alike (as they use a limited set of standard graphic layouts). So, no much fun in downloading and printing them (or even displaying them)

Nevertheless, I agree with those stating that a service having the word "QSL" in its name should allow interested people to download graphic cards.

The processor load problem could be alleviated taking advantage from the fact that most eQSLs look alike.

For instance, an idea could be that of downloading the eQSL standard graphic layouts from the eQSL server just once, and to keep them stored on the PC. Then, the eQSLs download process would consist in just getting the QSO data and QSL-to-layout mapping. Reconstructing the eQSL would become the task of a local PC application.

Although the eQSLs using a custom graphic layout should obviously have to be fully downloaded, nevertheless a very significant saving should be achievable.

With regard to automating the print of 4 eQSLs per A4 page, this is easy task for IrFanView. However, I am not sure whether it works with US-sized pages (fatter and shorter).

73

Tony I0JX
Rome, Italy

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I0JX Antonio Vernucci

Hows about thinking sideways on this - could the auto-generated qsl card graphic be attached to the email sent to inform you of an incoming eQSL (possibly only ones that are confirmed) or when they are confirmed. I can see this loading the servers somewhat around the end of a big contest though.

It would be a case of 'save as' from the email to drop the eqsl graphic into a directory of your choice then.

For those who wonder why people download eQSLs...

I have one of the electronic picture frames loaded with a set of eQSLs downloaded some long time ago which:
- Makes a nice reminderof qsos at the time
- is often commented on by visitors
- could be set as a slideshow wallpaper for a pc (Linux, Mac (i think) and later versions of Windows)
- could be used to demonstrate eQSL in a radio club / demo

Dave H G0CER

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G0CER Dave Harris

Hi,
I suggest the folks at eQSL.cc offer an option to download the eSQL cards for a nominal fee. The fee could be used to recover processing and bandwidth costs, plus a fair profit. Ideally there would be an interface that would allow you to sort all cards by Call Sign or by Date. Maybe show an icon view of the card. The interface would have a check box so you could select the cards you want. You could then check the desired cards. The images would be saved as separate JPEG files and combined into one or more Zip Files of 1 Meg or so in size. The Zip files could then be emailed to you. Alternately, the files could be burned to a DVD and snail mailed to you for an additional fee. Or printed and mailed to you for a bigger fee (I think you already offer the priinting option) The processing could be done when there is minimal load on the server. Better yet, the owners of ESQL.CC would be able to afford a report server to run this service.

I work in Information Technology for a living. Think of the above as an opportunity, not a problem!

My two cents (for one QSO Card :-) 73's

Ken. KB3MDT

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KB3MDT Kenneth Feldman

Hi,

I have been using WD5EAE's software for a few years without great problems.
But I never loaded several hundred eqsls at once.
Regularly, once a week, it does not place a heavy load on the server
since all my existing eqsls are skipped , only new ones are downloaded.
And I first check the server load %, there are hours to avoid.......

Guy F6DKQ

Unfortunately, WD5EAE's software first downloads all your archive+inbox content(adif), then
the pictures, or else it would be possible to make partial downloads, by dates....

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F6DKQ Guy FALCOZ