{"id":18378,"date":"2016-04-20T06:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18378"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:35:25","slug":"pauls-rare-and-classic-shortwave-qsl-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/pauls-rare-and-classic-shortwave-qsl-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul’s rare and classic shortwave QSL cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QSL<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple months ago at my local ham radio club meeting (the NCDXCC<\/a>), my buddy Paul Greaves (W4FC) mentioned that his passion for amateur radio DXing originated with shortwave broadcaster DXing. He told me:<\/p>\n

“When I was a teen I could\u00a0<\/em>hardly wait to check the PO Box to see what treasures were awaiting me. After\u00a0<\/em>getting a QSL card many times there were many more mailings with program <\/em>schedules and propaganda. I even got Chairman Mao’s little Red Book.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul noted that he had quite a few SWL QSL cards, so naturally I asked if he’d share a few of his favorites with the SWLing Post<\/em>. He kindly obliged.<\/p>\n

Click on the images below to enlarge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"ABCRadioFront-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ABCRadioBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"GhanaBroadcastingCorpOpenFront-001\"<\/a> \"GhanaBroadcastingCorpFront-001\"<\/a>\"GhanaBroadcastingCorpBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Radio4VEHFront-001\"<\/a> \"Radio4VEHBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioAustriaFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioAustriaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioBelizeFront-001\"<\/a>\"RadioBelizeBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioBerlinInternationalFront-001\"<\/a>\"RadioBerlinInternationalBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioBucharestFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioBucharestBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioBudapestFront-001\"<\/a>\"RadioBudapestBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioCairoFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioCairoBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioDenmarkFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioDenmarkBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioFinlandFront-001\"<\/a>\"RadioFinlandBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioKievFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioKievBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioNacionalDeEspanaFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioNacionalDeEspanaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioSofiaFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioSofiaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioSwedenFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioSwedenBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioTiranaFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioTiranaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RadioVoiceOfTheGospelFront-001\"<\/a> \"RadioVoiceOfTheGospelBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"USStationBalboaFront-001\"<\/a> \"USStationBalboaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"VaticanRadioFront-001\"<\/a> \"VaticanRadioBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"VoiceOfNigeriaFront-001\"<\/a> \"VoiceOfNigeriaBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WWVHFront-001\"<\/a> \"WWVHBack-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wow–thank you so much for sharing these, Paul! What a beautiful QSL collection!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers: If you also have some classic SWL QSL cards you’d like to share here on the SWLing Post,<\/em> please contact me<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple months ago at my local ham radio club meeting (the NCDXCC), my buddy Paul Greaves (W4FC) mentioned that his passion for amateur radio DXing originated with shortwave broadcaster DXing. He told me: “When I was a teen I could\u00a0hardly wait to check the PO Box to see what treasures were awaiting me. After\u00a0getting […]<\/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":[508,56,3,305,894,288,43],"tags":[4986,4994,4982,4998,4988,4990,5001,5000,4985,4999,4987,4995,4992,4703,4984,4983,4997,4993,4996,4991,4989,3692],"class_list":["post-18378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-australia-broadcasting-commission-qsl","tag-finnish-broadcasting-company-qsl","tag-ghana-broadcasting-corporation-qsl","tag-radio-4veh-qsl","tag-radio-austria-qsl","tag-radio-belize-qsl","tag-radio-berlin-international-qsl","tag-radio-bucharest-qsl","tag-radio-budapest-qsl","tag-radio-cairo-qsl","tag-radio-denmark-qsl","tag-radio-finland-qsl","tag-radio-kiev-qsl","tag-radio-nacional-de-espana","tag-radio-sofia-bulgaria-qsl","tag-radio-sweden-qsl","tag-radio-tirana-qsl","tag-radio-voice-of-the-gospel-qsl","tag-us-naval-communication-station-balboa-qsl","tag-vatican-radio-qsl","tag-voice-of-nigeria-qsl","tag-wwvh-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Mq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41675,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/2020-radio-prague-qsl-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":18378,"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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