{"id":5619,"date":"2009-10-21T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/some-interesting-qsls-from-w7zoi\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:20:31","slug":"some-interesting-qsls-from-w7zoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/some-interesting-qsls-from-w7zoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Interesting QSLs from W7ZOI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/n7fki.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/n7fki.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394912634719023426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wes, W7ZOI, just put up on the web some QSLs from his collection. They are all very interesting. Take a look: <a href=\"http:\/\/w7zoi.net\/qslcards\/qsls.html\">http:\/\/w7zoi.net\/qslcards\/qsls.html<\/a> I especially liked the &#8220;lemon QSO&#8221; card shown above.<\/p>\n<p>While visiting the QSL page, I also came across the story of Wes&#8217;s first encounter with homebrew ham radio. As a kid, he he would listen to a local 75 meter AM operator who was a hardcore homebrewer. On this guy&#8217;s rig, &#8220;even the knobs were homebrew.&#8221; Wes was listening with a crystal radio! What a great way to get started. More on this here: <a href=\"http:\/\/w7zoi.net\/shack.html\">http:\/\/w7zoi.net\/shack.html <\/a><br \/>Thanks Wes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes, W7ZOI, just put up on the web some QSLs from his collection. They are all very interesting. Take a look: http:\/\/w7zoi.net\/qslcards\/qsls.html I especially liked the &#8220;lemon QSO&#8221; card shown above. While visiting the QSL page, I also came across the story of Wes&#8217;s first encounter with homebrew ham radio. As a kid, he he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/some-interesting-qsls-from-w7zoi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Interesting QSLs from W7ZOI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w7zoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}