{"id":43359,"date":"2020-05-17T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=43359"},"modified":"2020-05-17T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:18:41","slug":"pentti-stenmans-impressive-collection-of-swl-recordings-qsls-and-pennants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/pentti-stenmans-impressive-collection-of-swl-recordings-qsls-and-pennants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentti Stenman&#8217;s impressive collection of SWL recordings, QSLs, and pennants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43360\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant.png 829w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Costa-Rica-Pennant-624x301.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just ran across this guy&#8217;s site Pentti Stenman, who is in Finland.<br \/>\nCheck out his audio and QLS, pennants as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pentti&#8217;s collection is impressive indeed! Since he&#8217;s in Finland, some of his site is in Finnish, but it&#8217;s still quite easy to navigate and you can have Google translate it into any language.<\/p>\n<p>I have pasted direct links below to Pentti&#8217;s various galleries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QSL Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/R_Cooperativa-QSL-Pentti.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-43361\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/R_Cooperativa-QSL-Pentti-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/R_Cooperativa-QSL-Pentti-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/R_Cooperativa-QSL-Pentti.png 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu toggled-on\">\n<li id=\"menu-item-1833\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-1756 current_page_item menu-item-1833\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-current=\"page\">Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1832\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1832\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1831\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1831\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1830\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1830\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/south-east-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South East Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1829\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1829\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1828\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1828\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North America<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1827\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1827\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/central-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central America<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1825\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1825\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/south-america-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South America 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1826\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1826\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/qsl-albums\/south-america-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South America 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/pennants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pennants<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recordings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu toggled-on\">\n<li id=\"menu-item-1740\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1740\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1739\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1739\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asia (except SEA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1733\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1733\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/south-east-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South East Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1738\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1738\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1737\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1737\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/central-america-and-caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central America &amp; Caribbean<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1736\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1736\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/south-america-and-antarctic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastern South America &amp; Antarctic<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1735\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1735\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/andean-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andean Region<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1734\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1734\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu\/dx-voices-of-the-past-and-present\/europe-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Europe &amp; North America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks again, Dan, for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Just ran across this guy&#8217;s site Pentti Stenman, who is in Finland. Check out his audio and QLS, pennants as well&#8230; http:\/\/www.penan.net\/dx-kuuntelu Pentti&#8217;s collection is impressive indeed! Since he&#8217;s in Finland, some of his site is in Finnish, but it&#8217;s still quite easy to navigate [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[2635,8520,8519,899,1302,4106,4082],"class_list":["post-43359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-robinson","tag-pennants","tag-pentti-stenman","tag-qsl-cards","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bhl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63733,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mexico-on-shortwave-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":43359,"position":0},"title":"Mexico on Shortwave \u2013 Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"August 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dan Greenall Back in the early 1970\u2019s, a wide variety of Mexican stations could be heard on shortwave as evidenced by the loggings columns in the SPEEDX club\u2019s monthly bulletins. 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