{"id":22705,"date":"2016-12-07T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22705"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T11:44:11","slug":"1940-pearl-harbor-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/1940-pearl-harbor-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"1940 Pearl Harbor QSL card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22707\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL.jpg\" alt=\"pearl-harbor-qsl\" width=\"794\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL.jpg 794w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pearl-Harbor-QSL-624x402.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivateBrief\/status\/806189384244596736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Patalon<\/a>, who shares the following QSL card\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivateBrief\/status\/806189384244596736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hamradio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hamradio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QSL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QSL<\/a> card from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PearlHarbor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PearlHarbor<\/a> in 1940. Sobering to consider what was to come. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARRL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARRL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SWL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/radio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#radio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uBLNWbTOPz\">pic.twitter.com\/uBLNWbTOPz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @PrivateBriefing (@PrivateBrief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivateBrief\/status\/806189384244596736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Patalon, who shares the following QSL card\u00a0via Twitter: Cool #hamradio #QSL card from #PearlHarbor in 1940. Sobering to consider what was to come. #ARRL #SWL #dx #radio pic.twitter.com\/uBLNWbTOPz &mdash; @PrivateBriefing (@PrivateBrief) December 6, 2016 Thank you, Bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[545,3,305,894,288,43],"tags":[3339,5710,2426,676],"class_list":["post-22705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bill-patalon","tag-k6shg","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Ud","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-a-1970s-cb-radio-qsl-card-print-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":22705,"position":0},"title":"The story of a 1970s CB Radio QSL card print house","author":"Thomas","date":"April 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who shares the following story of a popular CB Radio QSL Card design and print house: 73s and 88s :: The Ballad of Runnin Bare and Lil White Dove We set a custom screensaver on Our AppleTV. 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