{"id":61368,"date":"2024-12-12T06:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61368"},"modified":"2024-12-12T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:56:11","slug":"bobs-1968-radio-tirana-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/bobs-1968-radio-tirana-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob’s 1968 Radio Tirana QSL Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Bob Colegrove<\/a>, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kudos to Don Moore for his excellently crafted article on Albanian radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[…]Perhaps some might be interested to see a 1968 QSL from R.
\nTirana.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Bob Colegrove<\/p>\n

Thank you for sharing this excellent Radio Tirana QSL card, Bob!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bob Colegrove, who writes: Kudos to Don Moore for his excellently crafted article on Albanian radio. […]Perhaps some might be interested to see a 1968 QSL from R. Tirana. Regards, Bob Colegrove Thank you for sharing this excellent Radio Tirana QSL card, Bob!<\/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":[3,894,43],"tags":[7988,4152,4997],"class_list":["post-61368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bob-colegrove","tag-radio-tirana","tag-radio-tirana-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fXO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18378,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/pauls-rare-and-classic-shortwave-qsl-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":61368,"position":0},"title":"Paul’s rare and classic shortwave QSL cards","author":"Thomas","date":"April 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple months ago at my local ham radio club meeting (the NCDXCC), my buddy Paul Greaves (W4FC) mentioned that his passion for amateur radio DXing originated with shortwave broadcaster DXing. 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