{"id":61851,"date":"2025-01-27T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61851"},"modified":"2025-01-27T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:37:50","slug":"radio-waves-35-years-of-rnz-and-bulgarian-national-radios-new-qsl-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/radio-waves-35-years-of-rnz-and-bulgarian-national-radios-new-qsl-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Waves: 35 Years of RNZ and Bulgarian National Radio\u2019s New QSL cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s<\/em> Radio Waves<\/em>, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0<\/strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor\u00a0David Iurescia for the following tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting to the region (RNZ)<\/a><\/h2>\n

January 24, 1990, the same day the Auckland Commonwealth Games opened, RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region.<\/p>\n

Its news bulletins and programmes were carried by a brand new 100kW transmitter. The service was rebranded as RNZ Pacific in 2017. However its mission remains unchanged, to provide news of the highest quality and be a trusted service to local broadcasters in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n

Although RNZ had been broadcasting to the Pacific since 1948, in the late 1980s the New Zealand Government saw the benefit of upgrading the service. Thus RNZI was born, with a small dedicated team.<\/p>\n

The first RNZI manager was Ian Johnstone. He believed that the service should have a strong cultural connection to the people of the Pacific. To that end, it was important that some of the staff reflected parts of the region where RNZ Pacific broadcasted. He hired the first Pacific woman sports reporter at RNZ, the late Elma Ma’ua. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The BNR\u2019s QSL cards for 2025 present the beauty of Bulgaria (BNR)<\/a><\/h2>\n

Dear friends, we are happy to announce that the Bulgarian National Radio\u2019s QSL cards for 2025 are now available. The two series \u2013 one with 6 postcards and the other with 12 postcards \u2013 are entitled “The Beauty of Bulgaria.”<\/p>\n

The series of 6 cards confirms that you have listened to Radio Bulgaria\u2019s programming in any of its languages.<\/p>\n

To receive this series, you need to send reports, indicating the date and the language of the programme you have listened to, as well as content details. QSL cards are sent upon receipt of the necessary number of reports, irrespective of the language in which the programmes were heard on our website. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor\u00a0David Iurescia for the following tips: RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting to the region (RNZ) January 24, 1990, the same day the Auckland Commonwealth Games opened, RNZ International […]<\/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":[960,3,894,43],"tags":[5797,792,259,8259,1264],"class_list":["post-61851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bnr","tag-radio-bulgaria","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-radio-waves","tag-rnz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g5B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60313,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/rnz-inaugurates-new-analog-and-drm-ampegon-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":61851,"position":0},"title":"RNZ Inaugurates New Analog and DRM Ampegon Transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"August 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news release via the DRM Consortium:\u00a0 DRM RNZ Shortwave Transmitter For Pacific Inaugurated On August 1st the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister came to RNZ House in Wellington to mark the start of the use\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-08.55.35.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":53866,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rnz-pacific-resumes-shortwave-analogue-service-to-pacific-region\/","url_meta":{"origin":61851,"position":1},"title":"RNZ Pacific resumes shortwave analogue service to Pacific region","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RNZ via Alokesh Gupta) RNZ Pacific resumes shortwave analogue service to Pacific region (RNZ) From September 1, RNZ Pacific will resume its shortwave analogue service to the Pacific region between the hours of 5 and 9am New Zealand time. 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