{"id":15725,"date":"2015-11-22T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:22:03","slug":"wwv-history-richards-qsl-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/wwv-history-richards-qsl-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"WWV History: Richard’s QSL cards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"WWV-First-Sign-SM\"<\/a>

Sign from the original WWV tranmitter site in Maryland, currently posted outside of the Fort Collins, Colorado transmitter building. (Photo: Thomas Witherspoon)<\/p><\/div>\n

Commenting on our post about Myke’s new release of At The Tone<\/em><\/a>, SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Richard Langley writes:<\/p>\n

I must have first heard WWV shortly after putting together the Knight-Kit Span Master I received for Christmas 1963. I still have my log books from my high school days, which include an entry for Radio Habana on 29 December 1963 for which I subsequently received a QSL card. But I guess I didn’t log all my receptions. The first entry for WWV is dated 3 June 1966 in the last year of WWV’s operation from Greenbelt, Maryland (on government land that subsequently became the site of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"WWV_QSL_front\"<\/a>\"WWV_QSL_back\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a QSL card for the reception of the 5 MHz signal featuring a drawing (in pink) of the Jefferson Memorial [see above].<\/p>\n

The next entry is dated 1 December 1966, the first day of WWV’s operation from Fort Collins, Colorado.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"WWV_firstday_QSL_front\"\"WWV_firstday_QSL_back\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have one of the special QSL cards issued for confirmation of first-day reception for my report on the 20 and 25 MHz signals [see above].<\/p>\n

I’m sure I heard WWVH early on too but my first log entry is dated 29 March 1967. I never did QSL them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Richard: Thanks so much for sharing these special QSL cards. Wow! I had never seen the first day card from WWV Fort Collins before–what a treasure you have there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commenting on our post about Myke’s new release of At The Tone, SWLing Post contributor Richard Langley writes: I must have first heard WWV shortly after putting together the Knight-Kit Span Master I received for Christmas 1963. I still have my log books from my high school days, which include an entry for Radio Habana […]<\/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":[3,305,894,288,43],"tags":[224,900,899,3516,68,4425],"class_list":["post-15725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-qsl-card","tag-qsl-card-gallery","tag-qsl-cards","tag-richard-langley","tag-wwv","tag-wwv-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-45D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33566,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/richards-25-mhz-wwv-qsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":15725,"position":0},"title":"Richard’s 25 MHz WWV QSL","author":"Thomas","date":"August 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Richard Schreiber (KE7KRF), who writes: The NIST article about WWVH was very interesting and informative. 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