{"id":31726,"date":"2018-04-20T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31726"},"modified":"2018-04-20T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:35:20","slug":"international-marconi-day-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/international-marconi-day-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"International Marconi Day Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Eric McFadden, for sharing the following announcement for International Marconi Day. Eric states, “I love the presentation of this invitation!<\/em>” Me too, Eric!
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden, for sharing the following announcement for International Marconi Day. Eric states, “I love the presentation of this invitation!” Me too, Eric!<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43],"tags":[2887,1314,6990,2888],"class_list":["post-31726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-eric-mcfadden","tag-guglielmo-marconi","tag-international-marconi-day","tag-wd8rif"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8fI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57498,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/marconi-radio-international-test-transmissions-august-14-and-15-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":31726,"position":0},"title":"Marconi Radio International test transmissions August 14 and 15, 2023","author":"Thomas","date":"August 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who shares the following announcement: MARCONI RADIO INTERNATIONAL LAST 2023 DAY SCHEDULE Please be advised that Marconi Radio International (MRI) will be on the air this week with test transmissions on 14 and 15 August 2023, as follows: 17.00-18.30 UTC. 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