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Introduction
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Radios of my youth
The household I grew up in had a number of desktop radios that picked up shortwave. As a teen I would marvel at the foreign voices and music that came from around the world on “SW” (as in shortwave bands). It was also when I started listening tot he BBC World Service, which to this day remains my most listened to radio station.
In the late 80’s and in my early teens, I got my first ‘real’ shortwave radio, a Realistic DX-100 from Tandy Electronics or Radio Shack as it was known in the USA. I then progressed to the ‘space age’ Sony ICF-2001 around 1980 and then got an Icom IC-R70 in 1983. These were for Medium Wave and Shortwave DXing.
I had some success with FM DXing using a Realistic STA-111 receiver and for scanning I used a Realistic Pro-2020. I was a member of the Southern Cross DX Club. And of course I had a CB Radio (President Grant).
Log of cards
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QSL cards
A QSL card is a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio or citizens band stations; a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station; or the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party listener. A typical QSL card is the same size and made from the same material as a typical postcard, and most are sent through the mail as such. (Wikipedia) (Shortwave Radio Museum)
QSL cards by continent
Africa
- Algeria – RT Algerienne
- Benin – La Voix de la Revolution
- Canary Islands – Radio Exterior de España
- Gabon- Radiodiffusion Television Gabonaise
- Ivory Coast – Radio Abidjan
- Lesotho – Lesotho National Broadcasting Service
- Nigeria – Voice of Nigeria
- Rwanda – Deutsche Welle
- Sengal – Radiodiffusion Television du Senegal
- Tanzania – Radio Tanzania
- Zambia – Zambia Broadcasting Services
