{"id":59604,"date":"2024-05-05T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59604"},"modified":"2024-05-05T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:54:54","slug":"dans-digital-archive-of-qsl-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dans-digital-archive-of-qsl-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan’s digital archive of QSL Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas<\/p>\n

In addition to digitizing many of my old SW and BCB audio files<\/a>, I have begun setting up some of my QSL galleries on the internet archive in order to help preserve radio history. I am sending along a few links that perhaps old timers and newcomers alike might find of interest.<\/p>\n

SWBC stations<\/strong> (sorry, only scanned one side so far)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/radio-tampa-tokyo-japan-1987<\/a><\/p>\n

Utility stations<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/zhh-st.-helena-inside-view<\/a><\/p>\n

Time signal stations<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/vng-australia-1971<\/a><\/p>\n

BCB stations<\/strong> (mostly my own except for a few very old historic ones that I bought from eBay)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ckoc-hamilton-on-1983<\/a><\/p>\n

Small Sample from Dan’s QSL Collection:<\/h1>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas In addition to digitizing many of my old SW and BCB audio files, I have begun setting up some of my QSL galleries on the internet archive in order to help preserve radio history. I am sending along a few links that perhaps […]<\/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":[3,305,894,288,43],"tags":[10271,899,4110],"class_list":["post-59604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-qsl-cards","tag-qsl-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fvm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61491,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/rediscovering-the-golden-age-of-utility-dxing\/","url_meta":{"origin":59604,"position":0},"title":"Rediscovering the Golden Age of Utility DXing","author":"Thomas","date":"December 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas Back in the 1970's, I used to enjoy hunting for \"utility\" radio stations outside the regular SWBC bands. 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With his permission, I'm posting them for other readers to view. In fact, Mike has inspired me to start a new QSL Gallery category. 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