{"id":42493,"date":"2020-03-25T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42493"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:25:33","slug":"adams-andes-dxers-international-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/adams-andes-dxers-international-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam’s Andes DXers International certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Adam Smith, who shares the following certificate and writes:<\/p>\n

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I was going to share a piece of history I just came across going through some of my shortwave radio boxes. Lots of QSLs but this its a membership in ANDES DX Club!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good times!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you for sharing this bit of shortwave radio nostalgia, Adam! Any others in the SWLing Post<\/em> community belong to the Andes DXers International? Do you still have your certificate? Please comment!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adam Smith, who shares the following certificate and writes: I was going to share a piece of history I just came across going through some of my shortwave radio boxes. Lots of QSLs but this its a membership in ANDES DX Club! Good times! Thank you for sharing this […]<\/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":[5935,3,305,288,7566,43],"tags":[8389,8388,1031,4094,4082],"class_list":["post-42493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radio-memories","category-shortwave-radio","tag-adam-smith","tag-andes-dxers-international","tag-dxing","tag-nostalgia","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b3n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63579,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/hcjb-quito-ecuador-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":42493,"position":0},"title":"HCJB Quito, Ecuador – Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"August 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: In the 1970s, the powerful signal from radio station HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador, could be heard with station identifications (similar to this one circa 1971) being given between programs. 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