{"id":35224,"date":"2019-10-13T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35224"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:34:57","slug":"radiotapes-com-a-treasure-trove-of-airchecks-from-the-minneapolis-st-paul-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/radiotapes-com-a-treasure-trove-of-airchecks-from-the-minneapolis-st-paul-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"RadioTapes.com: a treasure trove of airchecks from the Minneapolis\/St. Paul markets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of our contributors on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, Tom Gavaras, has been sharing some brilliant airchecks. I also discovered that Tom runs an amazing site simply chock-full of Minneapolis\/St. Paul airchecks. Tom writes:<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n

[…]As an FYI … I own\/run a website called RadioTapes (www.RadioTapes.com<\/a>). It features more than 2,000 airchecks of Minneapolis\/St. Paul radio stations dating back to 1924. You will also find some shortwave recordings that I previously posted (on the Special Postings page).<\/p>\n

In addition to my collection, the website includes airchecks provided by more 100 contributors. RadioTapes also has a Facebook page<\/a> with 1,400 followers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Post readers:<\/em> I strongly suggest you check out Tom’s amazing archive of airchecks.\u00a0 If you ever lived in or DXed the Minneapolis\/St. Paul market, you’ll certainly hear some familiar voices and IDs.<\/p>\n

Thank you Tom!<\/p>\n

Click here to check out RadioTapes.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of our contributors on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, Tom Gavaras, has been sharing some brilliant airchecks. I also discovered that Tom runs an amazing site simply chock-full of Minneapolis\/St. Paul airchecks. Tom writes: Hi Thomas, […]As an FYI … I own\/run a website called RadioTapes (www.RadioTapes.com). It features more than 2,000 airchecks of […]<\/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":[373,3781,3,305,288],"tags":[1561,8058,8057,2479,1958,7425],"class_list":["post-35224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-archives","tag-radio-tapes","tag-radiotapes-com","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-sraa","tag-tom-gavaras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9a8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63514,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tom-shares-qsl-collection-from-over-210-countries\/","url_meta":{"origin":35224,"position":0},"title":"Tom Shares QSL Collection from Over 210 Countries","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tom Gavaras, who recently reached out with an update: \u201cI want to make you aware that I have posted almost all of my shortwave QSL cards online, representing more than 210 broadcast countries. 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