{"id":40609,"date":"2019-11-13T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40609"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:08:01","slug":"cq-serenade-very-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/cq-serenade-very-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"CQ Serenade – Very Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This link was forwarded to our Amateur Radio Club by a member (who is quite proficient in Morse code, unlike me!) and I just had to share it with Thomas and the SWLing gang!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.on6zq.be\/w\/index.php\/Audio\/CqSerenadeFr<\/a><\/p>\n

There is both a French version and an English version of the song, so enjoy them both!<\/p>\n

Robert Gulley, K4PKM (formerly AK3Q), is the author of this post and a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Robert also blogs<\/em>\u00a0at All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This link was forwarded to our Amateur Radio Club by a member (who is quite proficient in Morse code, unlike me!) and I just had to share it with Thomas and the SWLing gang! https:\/\/www.on6zq.be\/w\/index.php\/Audio\/CqSerenadeFr There is both a French version and an English version of the song, so enjoy them both! Robert Gulley, K4PKM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[442,3,305],"tags":[90,4100,1302],"class_list":["post-40609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-cw","tag-music","tag-radio-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ayZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63008,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/spotted-in-countdown-can-you-identify-this-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":40609,"position":0},"title":"Spotted in Countdown: Can You Identify This Radio?","author":"Thomas","date":"May 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Robert, who writes: Hi Thomas - I am a huge fan of space movies and recently watched the 1967 film \u201cCountdown\u201d starring James Caan and Robert Duvall. 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