{"id":46625,"date":"2020-11-25T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46625"},"modified":"2020-11-24T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:02:18","slug":"a-true-treasure-trove-international-radio-club-of-america-free-reprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/a-true-treasure-trove-international-radio-club-of-america-free-reprints\/","title":{"rendered":"A True Treasure Trove: International Radio Club of America Free Reprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IRCA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46626\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IRCA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IRCA.jpg 525w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IRCA-300x63.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Nick Hall-Patch, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 1964, the International Radio Club of America has been documenting medium wave DXing and DXers&#8217; efforts to improve their understanding of radio reception and to develop better listening techniques.\u00a0 During that time, over 900 articles have been written, that have furthered the art of DXing.\u00a0 Many of these continue to be relevant to the more general radio hobbyist, including articles about antennas, radio propagation, receivers and accessories, plus general technical information.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, those articles were available only to club members, but they are now available to all.\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ircaonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ircaonline.org<\/a>, and click on the &#8220;Free IRCA Reprints&#8221; button to download your own copies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh wow! What an amazing and deep treasure trove of articles! Thank you so much for the tip, Nick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nick Hall-Patch, who writes: Since 1964, the International Radio Club of America has been documenting medium wave DXing and DXers&#8217; efforts to improve their understanding of radio reception and to develop better listening techniques.\u00a0 During that time, over 900 articles have been written, that have furthered the art of [&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":[373,3607,627,3,43],"tags":[4105,9002,9001,9003,34],"class_list":["post-46625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-how-to","tag-international-radio-club-of-america","tag-irca","tag-nick-hall-patch","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-c81","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62943,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/irca-reprints-index-adds-more-dxing-resources\/","url_meta":{"origin":46625,"position":0},"title":"IRCA Reprints Index Adds More DXing Resources","author":"Thomas","date":"May 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Nick Hall-Patch, who writes: The International Radio Club\u2019s Reprints list continues to expand, now approaching 1200 separate articles. The club has recently published an update to the Reprint index, at https:\/\/dxer.ca\/images\/stories\/2025-DA\/irca-reprint-index.pdf and at https:\/\/www.ircaonline.org\/editor_upload\/File\/reprints\/irca-reprint-index.pdf, so that everyone can get access to the latest addition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IRCA-Reprints-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IRCA-Reprints-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IRCA-Reprints-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IRCA-Reprints-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 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