{"id":10066,"date":"2014-06-27T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2014-06-27T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:01:33","slug":"qsl-international-radio-for-disaster-relief-irdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/qsl-international-radio-for-disaster-relief-irdr\/","title":{"rendered":"QSL: International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0reader, Michael Guerin, writes:<\/p>\n

“Just received [this QSL card] from HFCC in Czech Republic. Heard Radio Australia’s test program with fair copy. Sent report by mail the next day to both HFCC and RA.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"IRDR-QSL-Michael-Front\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IRDR-QSL-Michael-Back\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks for sharing this card, Michael! I’m impressed the HFCC issued them so quickly.<\/p>\n

Did you miss the IRDR test broadcast<\/a>? \u00a0Stay tuned<\/a>–I’m hopeful they’ll repeat this test in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post\u00a0reader, Michael Guerin, writes: “Just received [this QSL card] from HFCC in Czech Republic. Heard Radio Australia’s test program with fair copy. Sent report by mail the next day to both HFCC and RA.” Many thanks for sharing this card, Michael! I’m impressed the HFCC issued them so quickly. Did you miss the IRDR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,894,43,1167],"tags":[633,2707,2990,3063,248],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-hfcc","tag-international-radio-for-disaster-relief","tag-irdr","tag-michael-guerin","tag-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Cm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9796,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/international-radio-for-disaster-relief-includes-special-qsl-june-5-6-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":10066,"position":0},"title":"International Radio for Disaster Relief includes special QSL: June 5 – 6, 2014","author":"Thomas","date":"June 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The High Frequency Co-ordination Conference's (HFCC) test of the International Radio for Disaster Reduction (IRDR)\u00a0broadcasts are\u00a0on track for June 5-6, 2014. 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