{"id":44500,"date":"2020-07-26T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44500"},"modified":"2020-07-26T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T13:53:50","slug":"toms-amazing-1986-voyager-experimental-aircraft-flight-communications-recording-and-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/toms-amazing-1986-voyager-experimental-aircraft-flight-communications-recording-and-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom’s amazing 1986 Voyager Experimental Aircraft flight communications recording and QSL card"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Voyager aircraft circles before landing at Edwards Air Force Base (Source: NASA via Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the most amazing things about hosting and curating a massive<\/em> collection of shortwave radio recordings is listening to each recording as they\u2019re published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, has shared some brilliant off-air and studio recordings over the years including the following shortwave recording of Voyager Experimental Aircraft flight communications with Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in 1986.<\/p>\n

I haven’t even published the recording on the archive yet, as he just submitted it. Tom notes:<\/p>\n

Rutan Model 76 Voyager Experimental Aircraft was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager.<\/p>\n

The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base’s runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended 9 days later on December 23, setting a flight endurance record.<\/p>\n

This shortwave recording is a sample of some of the communications between Dick Rutan and his ground crew including a debate if Dick should walk out of the aircraft after it lands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom made this recording with an ICOM R71A receiver in Minnetonka, MN, and believes the date of this recording is December 22, 1986:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/ia601404.us.archive.org\/10\/items\/voyager-experimental-aircraft-december-1986\/Voyager_Experimental_Aircraft_December_1986.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

QSL card<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This is simply amazing, Tom! Thank you so much for sharing your recording and<\/em> QSL card with us. A proper radio treasure!<\/p>\n

Post readers<\/em>:<\/strong> click here to check out the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a> and click here to browse some of Tom’s contributions<\/a>. Also, click here to read our previous post<\/a> about Tom’s amazing RadioTapes.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most amazing things about hosting and curating a massive collection of shortwave radio recordings is listening to each recording as they\u2019re published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA). SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, has shared some brilliant off-air and studio recordings over the years including the following shortwave recording of Voyager Experimental […]<\/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":[3,746,43],"tags":[8278,2479,737,7425,8694],"class_list":["post-44500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-archive","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-tom-gavaras","tag-voyager-experimental-aircraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bzK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45891,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/studio-recording-radio-moscow-new-years-eve-show-with-joe-adamov-january-1-1980\/","url_meta":{"origin":44500,"position":0},"title":"Studio Recording: Radio Moscow New Year’s Eve Show with Joe Adamov: January 1, 1980","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Tom Gavaras, shared this studio recording of Radio Moscow from January 1, 1980. 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