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The Texas QSO Party

After 200+ contacts during the 2023 Texas QSO Party, the LASA High School Amateur Radio Club had logged 200+ contacts but didn't have the man-power to handwrite all of the QSL cards as they usually had in years past for School Club Round-up. The club elmer, Joe Fisher (K5EJL), suggested that the membership ought to find some way to print each of the QSL cards with all of the QSO data already filled out. Fast-forward a few months and James Ervin (KI5UXW) finally had some time to address this issue in anticipation of the upcoming 2024 February School Club Round-up...

The Birth of uniqsl

Drawing upon his knowledge of Python acquired through computer science classes and his NASA STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (NASA SEES) project, James put together a working prototype on Replit (named UniQSL-1) that took 10 QSOs from ADIF log from QRZ.com and provided the user a printable PDF. After ironing out a few bugs and reworking some of the code to handle much larger QSO volumes, UniQSL-2 was born.