{"id":764,"date":"2016-01-25T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/1936-shortwave-listener-qsl-card\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:07:55","slug":"1936-shortwave-listener-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/1936-shortwave-listener-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"1936 Shortwave Listener QSL card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Image25282202529.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Image25282202529.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>I found this today while rummaging around in the shack. It is starting to fall apart so I figured I better digitize it before it turns into dust. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>July 24, 1936. 7 am in Central Germany. 29.0 degrees Centigrade. Clear skies? German Shortwave Receiving Station DE 2518\/F monitored W5AIR&#8217;s contact with Irish station EI7F on 20 meter CW. The receiver was an OV2 Schnell tube (almost certainly a regen) fed by a 38.5 meter long antenna. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Conditions must have been pretty good &#8212; they were approaching the peak of sunspot cycle 17. <\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p> <b>In 1954 W5AIR was assigned to Garold D. Sears. He was probably the operator. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this today while rummaging around in the shack. It is starting to fall apart so I figured I better digitize it before it turns into dust. July 24, 1936. 7 am in Central Germany. 29.0 degrees Centigrade. Clear skies? German Shortwave Receiving Station DE 2518\/F monitored W5AIR&#8217;s contact with Irish station EI7F on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/1936-shortwave-listener-qsl-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1936 Shortwave Listener QSL card&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,100,27,31,148,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","category-old-radio","category-propagation","category-radio-history","category-regens","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}