{"id":63595,"date":"2025-08-09T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63595"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:44:30","slug":"paul-shares-a-special-qsl-card-from-rtis-german-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/paul-shares-a-special-qsl-card-from-rtis-german-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul shares a special QSL card from RTI&#8217;s German service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Paul Jamet, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hello Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yesterday, I received two QSL cards from the German RTI service. These cards confirm my recordings from June 28, 2025, made during transmission tests from Tamsui.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63597\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1757\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r.jpg 1757w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_r-624x454.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1757px) 100vw, 1757px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63598\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1757\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v.jpg 1757w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v-1536x1126.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-08_RTI-DE_QSL_v-624x457.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1757px) 100vw, 1757px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For your information, I am sending you a copy of the front and back of one of them. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taiwan_blue_magpie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the bird depicted on this QSL card is The Taiwan blue magpie (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan magpie, Formosan blue magpie, or the \u201clong-tailed mountain lady\u201d, is a bird species in the crow family. It is endemic to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Have a nice summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Paul JAMET<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this card, Paul!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, who writes: Hello Thomas, Yesterday, I received two QSL cards from the German RTI service. These cards confirm my recordings from June 28, 2025, made during transmission tests from Tamsui. For your information, I am sending you a copy of the front and back of one of [&hellip;]<\/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":[1884,1885],"class_list":["post-63595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-taiwan-international","tag-rti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gxJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53286,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/full-schedule-of-rti-transmission-tests-and-special-qsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":63595,"position":0},"title":"Full Schedule of RTI Transmission Tests and Special QSL","author":"Thomas","date":"July 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gerard Koopal, who writes: Dear Thomas, [Per the email message below] from Radio Taiwan International, they will bring a direct transmission from Tamsui, Taiwan in German and French. For correct reception reports there is a special QSL card available. 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