{"id":16341,"date":"2015-12-20T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16341"},"modified":"2015-12-19T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:44:50","slug":"alcaravan-radio-christmas-qsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/alcaravan-radio-christmas-qsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaravan Radio Christmas QSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0Rafael Rodr\u00edguez R.,\u00a0QSL Manager for Alcaravan Radio, for sharing this\u00a0Christmas QSL Card:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16342\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AlcaravanRadio.jpg\" alt=\"Alcaravan Radio QSL Card Christmas\" width=\"923\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AlcaravanRadio.jpg 923w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AlcaravanRadio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AlcaravanRadio-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0Rafael Rodr\u00edguez R.,\u00a0QSL Manager for Alcaravan Radio, for sharing this\u00a0Christmas QSL Card:<\/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":[373,433,3,894,43],"tags":[1814,1864],"class_list":["post-16341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-alcaravan-radio","tag-alcaravan-radio-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6233,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/alcaravan-radio-qsl-and-photos-of-transmitter-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":16341,"position":0},"title":"Alcaravan Radio QSL and photos of transmitter site","author":"Thomas","date":"April 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After posting this recording of Alcaravan Radio a few weeks ago, I sent in a reception report to\u00a0the station--within a day, I received this QSL\u00a0along with photos of the station's transmitter and antenna site (see below). 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