SWLing PostJan 18

Bob’s Radio Corner: What Is It About Radio Dials?

https://swling.com/blog/2026/01/bobs-radio-corner-what-is-it-about-radio-dials/

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Bob’s Radio Corner: What Is It About Radio Dials?

– Recollections of Bob Colegrove In the late ‘60s, I worked as a mechanical assembler at Communications, Electronics Inc. (CEI) in Rockville, Maryland (acquired by Watkins-Johnson Company).  …

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SWLing PostJan 13

A DXer looks back at the Voice of America

https://swling.com/blog/2026/01/a-dxer-looks-back-at-the-voice-of-america/

#DanGreenall #RadioHistory #RadioNostalgia #USAGM #VOA #VoiceOfAmercia

A DXer looks back at the Voice of America

by Dan Greenall 50 years ago, Voice of America broadcasts could be found all over the shortwave dial. In addition to a number of transmitter sites located stateside, the VOA used to broadcast from …

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SWLing PostJan 2

Taiwan on Shortwave – Then and Now

https://swling.com/blog/2026/01/taiwan-on-shortwave-then-and-now/

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Taiwan on Shortwave – Then and Now

by Dan Greenall For nearly a half-century, The Voice of Free China broadcast programs via shortwave to a worldwide audience from Taipei, Taiwan. As a relatively new SWL in the early 1970’s, I was a…

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SWLing PostDec 27

Video: When Shortwave Radio Connected Soldiers Overseas with Their Families in WWII

https://swling.com/blog/2025/12/video-when-shortwave-radio-connected-soldiers-overseas-with-their-families-in-wwii/

#CommandPerformance #FredWaterer #RadioHistory #RadioNostalgia #TheHistoryGuy #WWII

SWLing PostNov 29

Anachronism Alert: FM on a Radio in the WWII Blitz?

https://swling.com/blog/2025/11/anachronism-alert-fm-on-a-radio-in-the-wwii-blitz/

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Anachronism Alert: FM on a Radio in the WWII Blitz?

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul, who writes: Hi Thomas, while watching this documentary from the BBC telling how people Northern Ireland survived the Blitz in World War 2. I spotted thi…

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SWLing PostOct 3

Vatican Radio – Then and Now

https://swling.com/blog/2025/10/vatican-radio-then-and-now/

#DanGreenall #RadioHistory #RadioNostalgia #Recordings #ShortwaveRadio #VaticanRadio

Vatican Radio – Then and Now

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following post: When I began shortwave listening back in 1969, Vatican Radio was one of the first stations I came across. That sa…

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SWLing PostSep 17, 2025

Preserving Radio History in Your Community

https://swling.com/blog/2025/09/preserving-radio-history-in-your-community/

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Preserving Radio History in Your Community

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who writes: I have lived in southern Ontario, Canada my entire life, have been DXing since the late 1960’s and have held the amateur radio call …

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SWLing PostSep 14, 2025

Bob’s Radio Corner: Uncle Clayton and His National NC-188

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Bob’s Radio Corner: Uncle Clayton and His National NC-188

As recalled by Bob Colegrove Uncle Clayton was my very first SWLing buddy.  In the late ‘50s there was no Internet – very few ways for SWLs to interact with one another.  There were clubs that publ…

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SWLing PostAug 8, 2025

HCJB Quito, Ecuador – Then and Now

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/hcjb-quito-ecuador-then-and-now/

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HCJB Quito, Ecuador – Then and Now

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: In the 1970s, the powerful signal from radio station HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador, could be heard with station i…

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SWLing PostAug 3, 2025

Dan Unearths Radio Memories: A 1990s Treasure Trove of Broadcast Ephemera

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/dan-unearths-radio-memories-a-1990s-treasure-trove-of-broadcast-ephemera/

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Dan Unearths Radio Memories: A 1990s Treasure Trove of Broadcast Ephemera

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas Before the days of the internet and e-mail, handwritten or typed reception reports mailed out to broadcast stations would …

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