{"id":48979,"date":"2021-05-22T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48979"},"modified":"2021-05-22T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:59:20","slug":"johns-1965-rci-shortwave-club-certificate-triggers-serious-shortwave-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/johns-1965-rci-shortwave-club-certificate-triggers-serious-shortwave-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"John’s 1965 RCI Shortwave Club certificate triggers serious shortwave nostalgia!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View of the western cluster of curtain antennas from the roof of RCI Sackville’s transmissions building. (Photo: The SWLing Post) –Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, John (G3VUO), who shares the following:<\/p>\n

Hi Tomas,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeing [the] article about RCI<\/a> prompted me to remember the halcyon days of SW Listening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I still have my RCI Shortwave Club certificate issued in 1965 when I was only 14 years old!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In those days you had to monitor their broadcasts regularly and send listening reports on (if I remember correctly) green airmail reception forms every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hope the attached may give other readers some memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

73<\/strong><\/p>\n

John G3VUO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow! Thank you for sharing this, John. Those were, indeed, the halcyon days of shortwave radio listening!<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers: Please comment<\/a> if you’ve also received a certificate from RCI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John (G3VUO), who shares the following: Hi Tomas, Seeing [the] article about RCI prompted me to remember the halcyon days of SW Listening. I still have my RCI Shortwave Club certificate issued in 1965 when I was only 14 years old! In those days you had to monitor their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[9282,631,4091,1302,30,9281],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-john-g3vuo","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-rci","tag-rci-shortwave-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cJZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14953,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-rci-bbc-voa-circa-1979-1981\/","url_meta":{"origin":48979,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: RCI, BBC, VOA circa 1979 & 1981","author":"Thomas","date":"September 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SRAA contributor,\u00a0Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes: A few snippets from my old shortwave tapes that were too short to upload individually. 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