SIGNAL, est. 1960, on web 1997
-one of world's oldest and
largest penpal magazines,
382.000 copies in 49 years
publisher Raimo Kaarna,
Box 150, FI-15111 Lahti, FINLAND * signal@sci.fi
Look at Signal front pages and history 1960-2008,
also many other publications 1960-65 introduced !
Select your penfriends and write direct to them ! FREE !
The advertisements in the Signal consist of the names - age - sex with email and snailmail
addresses, languages, education and hobbies. Select your new friends from the advertisers now
and start writing.
Correspondence via email and snailmail is fun. Tell about yourself, your country, your hometown,
your life, hobbies, friends, dreams, etc.
Meet each other while travelling abroad, have fun together...
Hobbyists, widen your collections. Start swapping phonecards, computer software,
CDs, cassettes, stamps, coins, banknotes, dolls, anything...
Write and tell what you want to get and what you can give in return.
Always take the first step in penpalling - to receive a letter from abroad
you must write a letter! Mention the Signal magazine when writing.
SIGNAL PENPAL MAGAZINE - www.signalpenpals.net
- 1.000.000 web readers in 11 years, hundreds more every day
New penpal listings are received via email and snailmail every day.
They are added to the web edition daily, in the printed magazine later.
Your penpal listing in the web Signal free ! Now also photo ads !
Fill in the penpal forms and rush them now. You may receive first replies
within a few minutes or hours, your ad will be all over the world soon...
Your photo in Signal Classifieds free, the link below...
Your photo on the front page of www.signalpenpals.net
ok through a link to your photo already on web, send the URL to it.
See my personal photos for instance also on the following sites:
- thumbsnap.com
- flickr.com
- fotolog.net
- face-pic.com
- piczo.com
How do I upload pictures?
From the ThumbSnap homepage:
1) Click "Browse" to find an image on your computer to upload.
2) Select "Open" or "OK", click the "Upload" button to send the image.
3) ThumbSnap will provide the code to copy and paste into Signal's ad form.
You can NOT have your own listing every day on a new page
but it
may be repeated later, after 2-3 weeks or so. Meanwhile start correspondence with your new friends,
reply the ads in the Signal !
Phone numbers, politics, porno, hatred are NOT accepted in the ads.
Links to paysites asking for money for your address or to fake penpals = autobot-responders instead of living persons - are NOT accepted.
SIGNAL PENPAL MAGAZINE - printed edition
In 49 years over 382.000 Signal copies have been printed and circulated worldwide.
This means about 2.000.000 readers all over the world, over 200.000 letters received and replied in the previous years in all.
Signal's history ? Take a look at the front cover pages of 1960-2008...
Signal penpal magazine - ad rates of the printed Signal
Penpal listing:....US$ 10 or € 10, with your color photo $ 20, € 20
Classified ads:...US$ 10, € 10 or 15 IRCs per each 50 words
Display ads:........US$ 20, € 20 or 30 IRCs per column inch, 25 mm
Equivalent in any currency OK, cash in advance, banknotes only.
We do NOT acknowledge any advertising orders - your checking copy is the only mail
you'll receive from us. Surface mail from Finland takes about 10 days to Europe,
50 days to America, Asia and Africa, 100 days to Australia. Airmail $ 1 or € 1 per copy extra.
Also International Reply Coupons (= IRCs) ok as payment, buy them at your post offices.
SIGNAL CLASSIFIEDS - in the internet editions FREE !
Several different editions - english - francais - deutsch - russian
SIGNAL GUESTBOOK - send your penpals ads
- use the below form to send your listing to all the Signal readers, see your ad at once!
SIGNAL PENPALS website under your name for US$ 45, € 30
YES - you can have "Your Own Web Magazine" immediately !
3000 pages, 50.000 ads, over 1.000.000 web readers, we do
all the work - you earn 50 % commission on paid orders.
Read full information !
SIGNAL PENPALS chat in real time
- go and start chatting with new friends ! Or use Signal's "private chat", write on each other's screen.
SIGNAL PENPAL MAGAZINE - database
Searchable database, also photos ! New ads welcome !
SIGNAL PENPALS disk edition has
been issued since 1997, the latest was published in January 2001. No longer available.
SIGNAL PENPALS - get your own Signal-Email address FREE !
<your.name@signal.zzn.com>
Check your mailbox and write to Signal advertisers from Signal's front page using
your own signal-email address !
SIGNAL PENPALS MAGAZINE
FI-ISSN 0037-4970 * EST. 1960
www.signalpenpals.net
Publisher Raimo Kaarna
Box 150, FI-15111 Lahti, Finland
email signal@sci.fi
SIGNAL'S MAIN WEBSITES WORLDWIDE:
www.signalpenpals.net - 50.000 friends free
www.worldsignals.net - ads by countries
www.globalcollectors.net - swap anything
www.penpalclubs.net - foreign penpal papers
www.penpalmagazine.net - more friends
www.lahtelaista.net - in Finnish only
- see also signal's web blogs worldwide
- take a look at signal's other websites
