{"id":3902,"date":"2024-03-08T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:27:16","slug":"old-swl-qsl-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/old-swl-qsl-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Old SWL QSL cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of you probably started out as a shortwave listener. I started listening to international broadcasts with an old Deforest-Crosley radio in one of those big old wooden cabinets. Probably with my ear to the speaker I listened to the overseas service of the BBC. I have one of its QSL cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I graduated to a Hallicrafters receiver (can&#8217;t remember which model) which I purchased for $60 in probably 1963. With a long wire antenna strung between two telephone poles in my parent&#8217;s backyard I was able to listen to some really interesting broadcasters. Below I show three of them: Czechoslovakia, Ghana, and the Congo. I received the Czech QSL card five years before they were invaded by the Warsaw Pact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-750x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-750x1030.jpg 750w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-768x1055.jpg 768w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-1118x1536.jpg 1118w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-1490x2048.jpg 1490w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-1092x1500.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-513x705.jpg 513w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Old-QSL-cards-scaled.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you probably started out as a shortwave listener. I started listening to international broadcasts with an old Deforest-Crosley radio in one of those big old wooden cabinets. Probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}