The data listed with each QSL card is the actual date, time and SINPO for the reception report. They are arranged in the order I received them, the last in the line is on top of the list. Some of the cards you can click and look at in higher resolution.

All reception reports up until 1972 were taken at home just north of Stockholm, Sweden. I had a dipole for the 40 m amateur band strung 10 meter above the ground and that served quite well with the antenna tuner in the 9-R59. Reports dated between 1972 and 1980, when I was less active due to my work, were taken in Sachseln, central Switzerland where I lived from 1972 until 1978. In Switzerland I used a 15 meter long wire strung in the attic of our apartment building.

The QSL cards are presented in the order when they arrived in my letterbox with the latest QSL card on top of the page.

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Radio Sweden with a regular shortwave transmission which I logged while staying in Japan for 6 months 1976-1977. I have lost the details of this reception and I cannot recall which receiver I used. The QSL card was delivered to my home address at Nakaya Heights in Shizuoka, Japan.

The QSL card arrived ? days later. (QSL No. 97)

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Radio Sweden with an experimental single sideband (SSB) broadcast transmission from a 30 kW PEP transmitter at the short wave broadcasting station H�rby in southern Sweden.
For this log I used the Yaesu FR-101 and a long wire.
The programme consisted of a programme of the Stockholm suburb of V�llingby and its infrastructure.

The QSL card arrived 10 days later. (QSL No. 96)

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London Broadcasting Co. on medium wave sent a letter QSL (picture later). The programme consisted mostly of music and a phone-in with focus on "Folklore and superstition" .
The letter QSL arrived 224 days later. (QSL No. --)

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Capital Radio was another local radio station in London with 100 kW output. However, I lived in Sachseln Switzerland, and not far from me on the other side of the lake there was a Swiss transmitter interfering on 1562 kHz that made listening impossible until midnight.
For this log I used the ELAC 3402 T and a long wire.
The programme consisted mostly of advertising and music.
A phone number was given and you could phone in requests.

The QSL card arrived 21 days later. (QSL No. 95)

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Scotland's first local radio station, difficult to hear in Switzerland because of the interference from AFN in Germany on the same frequency.
The programme consisted mostly of advertising and music. During those 24 minutes there were advertising for Carlsberg, carpets and cigars.

The QSL card arrived 141 days later. (QSL No. 93)

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The Voice of Hope with a religious programme in Swedish.
At the end of the broadcast an address in Gothenburg, Sweden was given.

The QSL card arrived 24 days later. (QSL No. 92)

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Nova Scotia popped up now and then on medium wave during the night in Stockholm.
Here it is CHNS with 10 kW on 960 kHz located in Halifax.
The programme consisted of a religious broadcast "Back to the Bible" news, and a commentary about a strike on the airport in Halifax.

The QSL card arrived 82 days later. (QSL No. 87)

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WINS in New York on medium wave sent a letter QSL (picture later). The programme consisted mostly of news and commentary, about Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations and strikes .

The letter QSL arrived 8 days later. (QSL No. 86)

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Yet another catch on medium wave during the night in Stockholm.
This time it was WHN with 50 kW on 1070 kHz located in New York.
The programme consisted of news, sports news, weather reports, commentary and popular music.

The QSL card arrived 8 days later. (QSL No. 85)

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A low-power station in Norway used to be on air every other year during the Students Week in Trondheim, Bergen and in 1966 apparently in Oslo.
The programme format was pop music with the odd advertisement for Volkswagen automobiles.

The QSL card arrived 46 days later. (QSL No. 84)

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Again, another Canadian station which you could hear frequently during the night in Stockholm was CBA in Sackville on 1070 kHz.
A quite interesting discussion (or phone-in) about the native Indians in Canada.

The QSL card arrived 40 days later. (QSL No. 78)

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Manx Radio on the tiny island Isle Of Man on 1295 kHz was another seldom catch. Crowded medium wave band, very low transmitter power, on top of that a directional antenna so Stockholm was out of the target area.
The programme format was very much like the offshore Pirate Stations around Britain's coasts.

The QSL card arrived 15 days later. (QSL No. 77)

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CJCB on 1270 kHz was another Canadian station which you could hear frequently during the night in Stockholm when the European stations had switched off.
The programme was a mixture of popular music, news and weather forecasts.

The QSL card arrived 25 days later. (QSL No. 74)

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RTF with a broadcast, first in English, then in French. The English part was about the Grenoble University, the French was mainly news and commentary.

The QSL card arrived 6 days later. (QSL No. 72a)

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World Inter-National Broadcasters was (and still is) a religious broadcaster in Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The programme in English language consisted of religious talk and religious music.

The QSL card arrived 64 days later. (QSL No. 72)

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Pyrgos from Greece sent a letter QSL. The programme in Greek language
consisted of tourist promotion and Greek music.

The QSL card arrived 10 days later. (QSL No. 71)

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WEZE from Boston, USA, was possible to hear after the radio stations in Europe went off air during night. Low solar activity made the medium wave band quiet. The programme was called "Wonderful world of music" and consisted of just that - soft music for relaxing. Surprisingly good reception of this signal despite the low output of just 5 kW.

The QSL card arrived 45 days later. (QSL No. 69)

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Radio Americas from Florida, USA could be heard after the European radio stations went off air at night and when solar activity was low and the bands were quiet. The programme was in Spanish and consisted mainly about anti-communist propaganda towards Cuba and Castro.

The QSL card arrived 54 days later. (QSL No. 68)

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WNEW New York USA could be heard after most European radio stations went off air at night in 1964, when solar activity was low and the bands were quiet. The programme was mostly news and music with the occasional advertisement in between.

The QSL card arrived 12 days later. (QSL No. 65)

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ETLF, Radio Voice of the Gospel transmitting from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1964. The programme was a religious broadcast. Transmissions were directed to Africa, Asia and the Middle East
as well as regional transmissions.

The QSL card arrived 58 days later. (QSL No. 63)

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Windward Islands, the West Indies, in Grenada from 1964. The programme consisted mostly of music.

The QSL card arrived 40 days later. (QSL No. 62)

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Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos, Nigeria from 1964. The programme consisted mostly of music.

The QSL card arrived 14 days later. (QSL No. 61)

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The Congolese Broadcasting Network, Radio Leopoldville, "The Heart of Africa", Congo, 1962 took a record of almost one year to send an answer. The programme consisted of news in English and Portuguese and music. The location of the transmitter was given as 15�20'E / 04�20'S.

The QSL card arrived 312 days later. (QSL No. 60)

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Sender Freies Berlin took a long time to answer. The transmitter was located in West Berlin. The programme consisted of a sports review in German and a music programme featuring Joseph Haydn.

The QSL card arrived 180 days later. (QSL No. 59)

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ELWA, a Christian broadcaster from Liberia from 1963. The programme consisted mainly of religious broadcasting in English.

The QSL card arrived 86 days later. (QSL No. 58)

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Trans World Radio in Monte Carlo, Monaco from 1963. The programme consisted mainly of religious broadcasting in the German language.

The QSL card arrived 46 days later. (QSL No. 55)

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Radio Clube de Mo�ambique "The Station for Happy Listening" in Louren�o Marques from 1963.
It must have been good listening as I logged the station for an hour.
The programme consisted mostly of Jazz music.

The QSL card arrived 39 days later. (QSL No. 54)

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A QSL card with a socialist message in honor of the year 1962 as the "Year of planification". In those days Cuba followed closely in the footsteps of their mentor, the USSR.

The QSL card arrived 39 days later. (QSL No. 53)

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WWV in Boulder Colorado on 15 MHz, a time signal station with extremely high frequency accuracy. In those days before synthesized PLL receivers the signal(s) were used to calibrate for example the 100 kHz crystal oscillator I had built into my receiver to keep track of the 100 kHz marks on the radio scale. Obviously, the "programme" consisted of blips every second followed by regular voice announcements.

The QSL card arrived 20 days later. (QSL No. 52)

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Radio Nederland in Dutch 14th February 1963.
The programme consisted mostly of news and light music.

The QSL card arrived 32 days later. (QSL No. 51)

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Radio Rumania from 17th February 1963. The QSL card depicts an almost deserted Mamaia Beach (sounds almost like "Miami Beach"!) with a couple of Soviet style hotel buildings.
The boring programme was in French and consisted mostly of communist propaganda.

The QSL card arrived 29 days later. (QSL No. 50)

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Norea Radio via Monte Carlo, Monaco from 17th February 1963.
The programme was in Norwegian and consisted religious messages.

The QSL card arrived from Norway 22 days later. (QSL No. 49)

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Radio Bremen from 15th February 1963.
The programme was in German and consisted of music and news.

The QSL card arrived 19 days later. (QSL No. 48)

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A classic late-answerer is Radio Australia. In those days you would have to wait for an answer for about six months. The waiting was worthwile: The answer was a nice QSL card from the other end of the world. The answer arrived 19th February 1963.
The programme was in English and consisted mainly of news and music.

The QSL card arrived 253 days later. (QSL No. 47)

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I got a QSL from Radio Roma at last. This was the third attempt, but it took a long time to get an answer. It arrived on the 24th January 1963.
The programme was in English and consisted mainly of news and music.

The QSL card arrived 148 days later. (QSL No. 46)

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Saarl�ndischer Rundfunk, West Germany from 16th December 1962. The programme was in German and consisted of news, sport news and a concert.

The QSL card arrived 30 days later. (QSL No. 45)

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WRUL from November 1962 with a different QSL card.
The programme in English was called "The world we live in".

The QSL card arrived 40 days later. (QSL No. 44)

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Radio C�te d'Ivorie, Ivory Coast from 6th October 1962.
The programme was in French and consisted mainly of news and music.

The QSL card arrived 55 days later. (QSL No. 43)

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Lettlands Radio, Riga Latvia in Swedish. The programme was about film, the year 1812 and news.

The QSL card arrived 45 days later. (QSL No. 42)

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VUD Dehli, India according to my notes. The QSL card says All India Radio. My report was dated 3rd September and was for some reason confirmed by AIR as "11th September". The programme was in English and consisted mainly of music.

The QSL card arrived 76 days later. (QSL No. 41)

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Radio Nacional, Spain in French. The programme consisted mainly of music and news.

The QSL card arrived 11 days later. (QSL No. 37)

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Polskie Radio Warschawa in Swedish and English. The programme consisted mostly of music and news.

The QSL card arrived 18 days later. (QSL No. 36)

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Ghana Broadcasting System from Accra, Ghana. The programme consisted mostly of music.
A simple piece of paper cut by scissors and lined with "@" - an early predecessor of an e-mail?

The QSL card arrived 40 days later. (QSL No. 34)

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Radio South Africa from Paradys, near Bloemfontein, South Africa.
The programme details mentions "The Dixie Cola Club".

The QSL card arrived 35 days later. (QSL No. 33)

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Radio Berlin International transmitted East German propaganda to Europe from the German Democratic Republic, East Germany. The QSL Card was printed in Swedish and the
programme I listened to was in Norwegian.

The QSL card arrived 76 days later. (QSL No. 32)

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AFN was located in Berlin, West Germany. The reception on medium wave was not always easy.

The QSL card arrived 22 days later. (QSL No. 31)

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RIAS was located in the American sector of Berlin, West Germany.

The QSL card arrived 7 days later. (QSL No. 30)

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Radio Luxembourg was a MUST for us in Sweden in order to enjoy some kind of popular music before Radio Nord started in 1961. The radio scene changed drastically in Europe during the 60's, but the pioneer was definitely Radio Luxembourg.
The programme I logged was the popular programme "Top 20".

The QSL card arrived 14 days later. (QSL No. 29)

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Voice of America from the ship Courier at Rhodes, Greece from 7th August 1962. On the same day I got a QSL card from VOA from Saloniki, Greece from 16th July 1962 on 7260 kHz, 41.32 m. Both programmes were news and commentary.

The QSL cards arrived together 42 days after the day I posted them. (QSL No. 27 and 28)

Other QSL cards from VOA (all look the same):

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Norddeutscher Rundfunk, short wave transmitter Norden/Osterloog,
West Germany on 2nd September 1962.
Transmitter location: 07� 12' E / 53� 38' N
The programme was in German and consisted of sports commentary and music.

The QSL card arrived 5 days later. (QSL No. 26)

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Radio Free Europe, West Germany on 15th July 1962. The programme was mostly music.

The QSL card arrived 22 days later. (QSL No. 25)

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Egyptian Broadcasting Cairo, Egypt on 31st May 1962. The programme was news and commentary in English about Egyptian industry, then music.

The QSL card arrived 73 days later. (QSL No. 24)

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Deutsche Welle, West Germany on 29th April 1962. The programme was news and commentary in English and French and some music.

The QSL card arrived 70 days later. (QSL No. 23)

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Radio Budapest, Hungary on 6th June 1962. The programme was news in English and mostly music.
Interesting is that the frequency 6195 kHz is not listed on the QSL card, instead they wrote "48.1, 6236 kHz". The black and white QSL card depicts the Sz�chenyi Chain Bridge, Sz�chenyi l�nch�d.

The QSL card arrived 30 days later. (QSL No. 21)

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S�ddeutscher Rundfunk, West Germany on 30th May 1962. The programme was called "Musik bis in den Morgen" and consisted mostly of light music.
Interesting is that the frequency 3960 kHz is not listed on the QSL card, only 6030 kHz.

The QSL card arrived 9 days later. (QSL No. 20)

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Radio Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 20th April 1962. The programme was news and commentary in English. I cut the log short because of lots of QRM: on the channel.
A nice and detailed QSL card with a black and with a panorama photo of Korcula.

The QSL card arrived 26 days later. (QSL No. 19)

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Radio Peking, China no information but the year was 1962.
Programme content was news, music and misc. English talk.
Arrived with lots of propaganda material. Otherwise not one word written on the QSL card.
Later I got propaganda once a month regarding the border dispute with the USSR for years on end. I also got Mao's little red book (I should have kept it as a souvenir...).

The QSL card arrived 68 days later. (QSL No. 18)

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Radio Moscow Soviet Union, A Norwegian language broadcast from 30th March 1962 on 7340 kHz.
Arrived with some propaganda material and other bits and pieces.
Otherwise no detailed information on the QSL card.

The QSL card arrived 73 days later. (QSL No. 17)

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Radio Sofia Bulgaria, English language broadcasts from 10th April 1962 on 9700 kHz. The programme consisted of news, commentary and "propaganda".
Arrived with a Post Card of Mamaia Beach resort and some other bits and pieces. Otherwise no detailed information on the QSL card.

The QSL card arrived 38 days later. (QSL No. 16)

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Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Guidance Broadcasting station, Baghdad from 3rd March 1962 on 908 kHz.
Otherwise no information on the QSL card. The programme consisted mainly of music.

The QSL card arrived 42 days later. (QSL No. 15)

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Emissora Nacional, Portugal from 10th April 1962 on 15285 kHz.
My notes mentions "News and press reviews". Otherwise no detailed information on the QSL card.

The QSL card arrived 21 days later. (QSL No. 14)

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Radio Ankara, Turkey from 31th March 1962 on 9515 kHz.
My notes mentions "English music". Very nice hand-writing on the QSL card.
The QSL card arrived 17 days later. (QSL No. 13)

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Tjeckoslovakiens Radio from 22nd March 1962 on 6055 kHz.
The QSL card was in Swedish and had a nice standard text.
The programme consisted of news, sports and talk.

The QSL card arrived 21 days later. (QSL No. 12)

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Radio Monte Carlo from 4th March 1962 on 1466 kHz.
Otherwise no detailed information on the QSL card.
A medium wave transmission from Monaco. Programme contents: Music requests.

The QSL card arrived 18 days later. (QSL No. 11)

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Belgian National Broadcasting Institute from 2nd March 1962 on 926 kHz.
A medium wave transmission from Br�ssel II. Programme contents: Stars, comics and music.

(QSL No. 10)

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Swiss Shortwave Service from 16th February 1962 on 11865 kHz. The transmitter was HER 5 was on air towards India and Pakistan but was heard loud and clear in Stockholm. The QSL card was designed by a famous Swiss artist named Celestino Piatti.
Little did I know that 10 years later I would be living in Switzerland.
Programme content: Piano concerts.

The QSL card arrived 7 days later. (QSL No. 9a)

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WRUL from 20th February 1962 on 17760 kHz. I have not many details left of this report and my notes only mentiones "Glenn". On the QSL card there are no details at all.

The QSL card arrived 16 days later. (QSL No. 9)

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�sterreichischer Rundfunk, Wien 1 from 23rd January 1962 on 1475 kHz. My programme details mentions "News and Dancing Music".

The QSL card arrived 14 days later (QSL No. 8)

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HCJB Equador, "The Voice of the Andes", from 5th September 1961 on 17890 kHz.

The QSL card was signed (stamped) by Abe C. Van Der Puy. (QSL No. 7)

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Radio Nederland from 24th September 1961 on 6020 kHz. The QSL card is one of the 2000 special cards to commemorate the inauguration of Radio Nederland's new studio building.
Note: The "Happy Station" Programme.

Estimated answer within 19 days (QSL No. 6)

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VOA, KNBH Dixon with scarce details, probably from 7th September 1960 (QSL No. 5)

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BBC with a note on the back:
"(x) your report was in accordance with our published schedule." (QSL No. 4)

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CKNC via CBC Radio Canada (Sackville) from 10th July 1960 on 17820 kHz. (QSL No. 3)

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Armed Forces Radio Service from 22nd July 1960 on 0000 kHz. (QSL No. 2)

Other QSL cards from AFRTS (all look the same):

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Radio Sweden from 19th July 1960 on 1187 kHz, 254.7 m.

Estimated answer within 8 days (QSL No. 1)