{"id":63514,"date":"2025-07-28T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63514"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:53:16","slug":"tom-shares-qsl-collection-from-over-210-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tom-shares-qsl-collection-from-over-210-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Shares QSL Collection from Over 210 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Radio Australia from the collection of Tom Gavaras<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Tom Gavaras, who recently reached out with an update:<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make you aware that I have posted almost all of my shortwave QSL cards online, representing more than 210 broadcast countries. They can be viewed at: https:\/\/radiotapes.com\/qsl\/<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What an incredible achievement! Tom\u2019s QSL collection spans decades of shortwave radio history and includes verification cards from a vast range of international broadcasters.<\/p>\n

Browse the collection here: https:\/\/radiotapes.com\/qsl\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks again, Tom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tom Gavaras, who recently reached out with an update: \u201cI want to make you aware that I have posted almost all of my shortwave QSL cards online, representing more than 210 broadcast countries. They can be viewed at: https:\/\/radiotapes.com\/qsl\/\u201d What an incredible achievement! Tom\u2019s QSL collection spans decades of […]<\/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":[3,305,894,43],"tags":[899,7425],"class_list":["post-63514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-qsl-cards","tag-tom-gavaras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gwq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44500,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/toms-amazing-1986-voyager-experimental-aircraft-flight-communications-recording-and-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":63514,"position":0},"title":"Tom’s amazing 1986 Voyager Experimental Aircraft flight communications recording and QSL card","author":"Thomas","date":"July 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most amazing things about hosting and curating a massive collection of shortwave radio recordings is listening to each recording as they\u2019re published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA). 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