{"id":12954,"date":"2015-04-12T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12954"},"modified":"2015-04-12T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:40:05","slug":"victors-detailed-handwritten-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/victors-detailed-handwritten-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor’s detailed handwritten QSL Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted DXer, Victor Goonetilleke, recently posted this circa 1971 QSL on Facebook and has kindly allowed me to share it here on the SWLing Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Victor-QSL\"<\/a>

Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Victor comments:<\/p>\n

“The Glory Days of Short Wave Radio. Can you imagine someone hand writing all this today?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed! I’m very impressed with the detail this Central African Republic broadcaster included in this QSL card–very neat handwriting! Certainly a gem\u00a0and wonderful memory of hearing this domestic shortwave radio service so far outside its intended broadcast footprint! Thanks for sharing, Victor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noted DXer, Victor Goonetilleke, recently posted this circa 1971 QSL on Facebook and has kindly allowed me to share it here on the SWLing Post: Victor comments: “The Glory Days of Short Wave Radio. Can you imagine someone hand writing all this today?” Indeed! I’m very impressed with the detail this Central African Republic broadcaster […]<\/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":[3,894],"tags":[256,3771,3141],"class_list":["post-12954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-qsl","tag-victor-goonetilleke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3mW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41675,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/2020-radio-prague-qsl-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":12954,"position":0},"title":"2020 Radio Prague QSL Cards","author":"Thomas","date":"January 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who writes: \"These are the new 2020 QSL Cards from Radio Prague International. 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