{"id":5974,"date":"2013-03-22T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:53:04","slug":"steve-remembers-his-qsl-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/steve-remembers-his-qsl-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven remembers his QSL collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The Nomadness (Photo: Steven Roberts)<\/p><\/div>\n

Steven Roberts<\/a>\u00a0recently sent me a message with photos of a QSL card collection he once had. You see, several years ago he started the process of living on his boat, The Nomadness<\/em>, full-time. It required that he pare down his belongings to only the essentials; he made the decision to sell his QSL card collection.<\/p>\n

Steve confesses:<\/p>\n

“Kind of sorry I sold them now, but I have to let things go before I sail off, die, or otherwise render my tonnage irrelevant!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve said that most of the card collections below are from around 1966-67; others from about 1980.\u00a0Click on the images to see larger versions:<\/p>\n

\"europe-qsl\"<\/a>

Europe<\/p><\/div>\n

\"north-qsl\"<\/a>

North America<\/p><\/div>\n

\"south-qsl\"<\/a>

South America<\/p><\/div>\n

\"bcb-qsl\"<\/a>

Broadcast Band<\/p><\/div>\n

\"christian-qsl\"<\/a>

Christian Broadcasters<\/p><\/div>\n

\"eu-asia-qsl\"<\/a>

EU\/Asia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"africa-qsl\"<\/a>

Africa<\/p><\/div>\n

You can follow Steven’s adventures with The Nomadness<\/em> on his blog:\u00a0http:\/\/nomadness.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Roberts\u00a0recently sent me a message with photos of a QSL card collection he once had. You see, several years ago he started the process of living on his boat, The Nomadness, full-time. It required that he pare down his belongings to only the essentials; he made the decision to sell his QSL card collection. […]<\/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":[894,5,1154],"tags":[248,899,1795,1667,1794],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qsl-gallery","category-swlers","category-travel","tag-qsl","tag-qsl-cards","tag-qsls","tag-steven-roberts","tag-the-nomadness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1ym","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7588,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/buy-a-hi-tech-sail-boat-complete-with-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5974,"position":0},"title":"Buy a hi-tech sailboat, complete with shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With all of the recent posts on maritime radio, I can't help but jump slightly off-topic for a moment... 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