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\"(Source:<\/a>

(Source: VOA Radiogram)<\/p><\/div>\n

Gerhard, W6XH, recently purchased a vintage 1938 Philco console receiver, then used it to decode a VOA Radiogram. \u00a0Brilliant!<\/p>\n

Check out the post on voaradiogram.net.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gerhard, W6XH, recently purchased a vintage 1938 Philco console receiver, then used it to decode a VOA Radiogram. \u00a0Brilliant! Check out the post on voaradiogram.net.<\/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":[1271,1114,3,305,26],"tags":[1790,1664,2087,10,1718,2088],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-digital-modes","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-digital-text","tag-kim-elliott","tag-philco","tag-voa","tag-voa-radiogram","tag-w6xh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1PY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22118,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/nicholas-uses-android-phone-and-18-receiver-to-decode-voa-radiogram\/","url_meta":{"origin":7066,"position":0},"title":"Nicholas uses Android phone and $18 receiver to decode VOA Radiogram","author":"Thomas","date":"November 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0Nicholas Pospishil, who shares this photo and notes: \"VOA Radiogram on 5745 kHz. 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