This website is also located at http://k6eid.com/index1.html
that does not have the advertisements and popups. Please visit there for better
viewing!
Coming
to you via the World Wide Web from Marietta, Georgia, the home of Kennesaw
Mountain, site of one of the major battles in the War for Southern Independence
This site has images of numerous
QSL cards from short wave stations that were popular in the 1930s to 1950s. Many
of the countries represented no longer exist as the political entity they were
forty to sixty years ago. I hope you enjoy reliving a bit of radio history as
represented by this collection of antique verifications!
Photos of
Phil Finkle, then SWL-W6 in
Burbank
CA
, in 1954 and now K6EID in
Marietta
,
GA
in 1994.
This website is hosted by Phil Finkle (K6EID) of
Marietta, GA. I was a member of the ISWL, JSWC, NNRC, ADXC, and URDXC as well as
a Popular Electronics monitor. My first
receiver was a Silvertone floor model which was moved from our living room in
1953 when we got our first TV set. After this, I had an old Zenith table radio
which was of WWII vintage. My first real communications received was a
Hallicrafters S-40B that I bought on time from a Burbank CA auto repair place
that had taken it in on trade. I paid for it with earnings from my paper route.
My next receiver was a Hallicrafters SX-71 which served me for many years. Later
I bought the epitome of receivers, a Collins 51J4 which I still have. I was
editor of the West Coast Section of the URDXC bulletin in 1956.
Thanks to Mike Christie, K4MZ,
of
Crawfordville
,
FL
, for sending in his QSLs from some of the rare SWBC stations of this 1950s!
Mike passed away in 2003, May God grant him eternal rest.
Also many thanks to Richard
Jary of Australia who sent us images of QSLs gathered by Wal Durbin, Willoughby,
NSW in the 1930s!
I
also have another site that currently has SWBC QSLs from 1960s forward to today,
Utility and MW and LW QSLs. Please take a few minutes and visit it at:
The
Classic and Not So Classic Short Wave, Medium and Long Wave, and Utilities QSL
Home Page!
