Radio, 1981 - 1985
QSL cards, stickers and pennants from radio stations, mainly circa 1981-1985
Old ones found in a cupboard at my mother's house. I had hundreds of these, mostly lost...
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QSL letter from Radio Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Used to be a regular on 6910Khz short wave.
Sticker from Radio Delmare, The Netherlands.
Card from Free Radio Service Holland.
Sticker from Radio Hotel Amigo, The Netherlands.
Pennant from Radio Orang Utang, The Netherlands.
Sticker from Radio Orang Utan. Operator Freddie used to be heard regularly in Scotland with 200 watts on 1508kHz Medium Wave.
QSL letter from Radio Orang Utan.
Sticker from Radio Pelsjager, The Netherlands.
QSL card from Radio Torenvalk, The Netherlands. Operators Hans and Uncle Jan.
QSL letter from Radio Torenvalk. I had a long correspondence with these guys, who ended up selling their transmitter and changing frequency to 1094kHz, on my advice, to improve reception in the UK. It worked for a while.
Sticker from Radio Torenvalk.
Sticker from Britain Radio International, from the 1980s but still going.
Card from Falcon Radio, UK.
Card from Spectrum World Broadcasting, UK or Ireland?
Sticker from Radio Stella, Scotland.
Europe
Questionnaire from Radio Sofia, Bulgaria.
Pennant from Radio France Internationale.
Contest certificate from Deutschlandfunk, West Germany, 155 Long Wave.
Deutschlandfunk had a daily English Service on 1269kHz Medium Wave in the 1980s...
An issue of Budapest International, from Radio Budapest, Hungary (note the questionnaire answer by JK Galbraith).
Commemorative card from Radio Budapest.
Signed photo of Tom Meijer, who used to present the Sunday programme "Happy Station" on Radio Netherlands.
Sticker from NRK Norway.
1983 pocket calendar from Radio Bucharest, Romania.
Pennant from Radio Sweden.
Sticker from Manx Radio, Isle of Man (still there on 1368kHz).
Programme Schedule from Radio Moscow, USSR (with Olympic games graphic).
North America
Poster from CJCH 920 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sticker from CJCH.
QSL card from Radio Canada International.
Sticker from WCAU 1210 Philadelphia PA, USA.
Sticker from WHN 1050 New York NY, USA.
Sticker from short wave station WRNO New Orleans, USA.
Plastic ruler from the Voice of America, USA.
South America & the caribbean
Cover of a printed speech by Fidel Castro, courtesy of Radio Havana Cuba.
QSL letter from short wave time-signal station HD210A, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
50th Anniversary QSL card from HCJB, Quito, Ecuador.
Sticker from HCJB.
Sticker from Radio Suriname.
Front of folder from short wave time-signal station YVTO Caracas, Venezuela.
Back of folder from YVTO.
Asia
Pennant from Radio Beijing, China.
QSL card from Radio Japan.
Pennant from Radio Seoul, South Korea.
Pennant from Radio Pyongyang, North Korea.
Wibbly Wobbly Picture Film sent to me by Radio Pyongyang (1983 calendar).
Card from Radio Oman.
Back of card from Radio Oman, confirming first report received from Scotland...
Pennant sticker from The Voice of Free China, Taiwan.
Cover of a printed speech from the Voice of Free China.
Sticker from the Voice of Turkey.
Paper pennant from The Voice of Vietnam.
Card from the Voice of Vietnam.
Australasia
1981 pocket calendar from Radio Australia.
Paper pennant from Radio New Zealand.
Other
Card acknowledging participation in "The Woodpecker Project", monitoring short wave interference caused by Cold War era over-the-horizon radar.
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