{"id":44170,"date":"2020-07-05T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44170"},"modified":"2020-07-05T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T15:11:03","slug":"some-serious-radio-nostalgia-a-1956-operation-deepfreeze-hamgram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/some-serious-radio-nostalgia-a-1956-operation-deepfreeze-hamgram\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Serious Radio Nostalgia: A 1956 “Operation Deepfreeze Hamgram”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jack, who writes:<\/p>\n

Greetings,<\/p>\n

I was going through some old paperwork that belonged to my father-in-law, and I found a Christmas Greeting Card postmarked December 1956.<\/p>\n

The card contains greetings from the Antarctic, received by the Radio Amateurs of Greater Syracuse, then forwarded to my father-in-law at his posting at NAAS Barin Field in Foley, Alabama.<\/p>\n

I thought you might find this old piece of amateur radio history to be interesting. I attached images of the card.<\/p>\n

I am new to the SW listening world, and I have found your blog to be very helpful. My Tecsun PL-660 is keeping me quite busy.<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Jack<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photos<\/h1>\n

(Click to enlarge)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Wow!\u00a0 Thank you so much for sharing this, Jack! I think we all need a little “Christmas in July” cheer right about now!<\/p>\n

I’m so happy to hear you enjoy the SWLing Post<\/em> and happy that Tecsun PL-660 is serving you well. It’s a great little radio!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jack, who writes: Greetings, I was going through some old paperwork that belonged to my father-in-law, and I found a Christmas Greeting Card postmarked December 1956. The card contains greetings from the Antarctic, received by the Radio Amateurs of Greater Syracuse, then forwarded to my father-in-law at his posting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[545,3,305,894,288,43],"tags":[8645,8644,248,899,4110],"class_list":["post-44170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-hamgram","tag-operation-deepfreeze-hamgram","tag-qsl","tag-qsl-cards","tag-qsl-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-buq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27551,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/lennarts-radio-fax-qsl-card-and-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":44170,"position":0},"title":"Lennart’s Radio FAX QSL card and letter","author":"Thomas","date":"August 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Lennart Weirell, who shares the following I read the posting about Radio FAX, and I heard the station 1988-10-23, but on MW 1611 kHz a frequency they also used. 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