{"id":43040,"date":"2020-04-28T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=43040"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:07:46","slug":"the-story-of-a-1970s-cb-radio-qsl-card-print-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-a-1970s-cb-radio-qsl-card-print-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of a 1970s CB Radio QSL card print house"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who shares the following story<\/a> of a popular CB Radio QSL Card design and print house:<\/p>\n

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73s and 88s :: The Ballad of Runnin Bare and Lil White Dove<\/h2>\n

We set a custom screensaver on Our AppleTV. Told it to pull images from Flickr tagged with \u201cBritish Columbia.\u201d After my wife and kids and I spent a few weeks in Vancouver and in various places on Vancouver Island, it had become one of our favorite places. We missed it.<\/p>\n

And so, at night, after a show or movie ended and the AppleTV sat idle for a few minutes, a slideshow would automatically begin. The Parliamentary Buildings in Victoria, the Inner Harbor, the wild, rocky, tidepool-rich shores of Tofino, the murals of Chemainus.<\/p>\n

Then, every once in a while, an illustration of some sort. I couldn\u2019t tell what. A one-panel comic? Some kind of advertisement or flyer? It would be gone from the screen before I could really get a good look. Weeks would go by and I wouldn\u2019t see it until, once again, there it was. It looked old, like something from the 60s or 70s. And it had numbers on it, like a code or a message: 73s and 88s.<\/p>\n

It was the numbers that got me. Like the park rangers in The Shining calling for Wendy Torrance on the radio: \u201cThis is KDK-1 calling KDK-12. KDK-1 calling KDK-12. Are you receiving me?\u201d They seemed to be saying something. But what? I had to find out. So, I took to Google, and began my search.[…]<\/p>\n

Click here to continue reading the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

FYI: Although the CB Radio landscape is quite different than it was in the 70s, most modern shortwave radio receivers can tune to CB channels. Here’s a quick tutorial from our archives.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Told it to pull images from Flickr tagged with \u201cBritish […]<\/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":[508,2644,3,305,894,288],"tags":[5711,8473,604,7075],"class_list":["post-43040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-cb","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","tag-cb","tag-cb-qsl-cards","tag-cb-radio","tag-ulis-fleming-k3lu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bcc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42446,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/one-amazing-swls-qsl-card-from-1995\/","url_meta":{"origin":43040,"position":0},"title":"One amazing SWL QSL card from 1995","author":"Thomas","date":"March 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who shares the following note: I have one of the most detailed SWL QSL cards that was given to me by Fred Laun, K3ZO who is a very well known Contester and DXer. 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