{"id":6593,"date":"2013-05-29T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2013-05-30T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T18:45:51","slug":"radio-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/radio-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The front cover of MT features a photo I took at Pointe-\u00e0-la-Renomm\u00e9e lighthouse and Marconi station in Quebec, Canada. Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful lighthouses I’ve ever seen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of you may remember that I took an extended vacation last year in the maritime region of Canada.<\/p>\n

Monitoring Times Magazine just published an article I wrote about the vacation which includes a visit to Sackville, New Brunswick<\/a>, four weeks in an off-grid cabin in eastern Prince Edward Island and a trip through the Gaspe region of Quebec.<\/p>\n

Looking back, it’s amazing how much radio time I packed into that trip.<\/p>\n

Read the full article in the June 2013 issue of Monitoring Times magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember that I took an extended vacation last year in the maritime region of Canada. Monitoring Times Magazine just published an article I wrote about the vacation which includes a visit to Sackville, New Brunswick, four weeks in an off-grid cabin in eastern Prince Edward Island and a trip through the […]<\/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":[8,3,1154],"tags":[1956,1953,1955,1954,1043],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-travel","tag-marconi-stations","tag-monitoring-times","tag-prince-edward-island","tag-quebec","tag-sackville-new-brunswick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32886,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/give-your-radios-a-vacation\/","url_meta":{"origin":6593,"position":0},"title":"Give Your Radios a Vacation!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2013, I wrote the following feature for the Monitoring Times Magazine. 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