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Vintage QSL stamp issued by LMRE , the national amateur radio society for Mexico, in the late 1980s. It is affixed on a QSL card sent by XE1CU to VK5WL, confirming a QSO on April 15, 1987.

Vintage QSL stamp issued by VERON , the national amateur radio society for the Netherlands, in the early 1950s. It is affixed on a QSL card sent by PA0ZL to VK5JS, confirming a QSO on March 14, 1950.

QSL stamp issued by the Unión Radioaficionados Españoles (URE) in the late 1970s, affixed on a QSL sent by EA3VV to VK5WL in 1982.

Three rotor Enigma crypto, photo by leighklotz uploaded on Flickr under a CC-BY-2.0 free license. Flickr file: www.flickr.com/photos/leighklotz/44672876554 Short URL: flic.kr/p/2b4AaPy This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License .

ROMANIA: Postage stamp of 1,85L for the centenary of the Metre Convention of 1875, (1975)

GREECE: Postage stamp of 200 drachmae, issued for the USECO International Year of the Ocean 1998, showing R/V AEGAEO, SXYY (IMO: 8412429) of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - ΕΚΘΕ (1999).

Electronic QSL from Swedish QRPp propagation beacon SA6RR on 10133 kHz.

Beacon "ICO" on 10238.15 kHz CW from locatior JN86JH, received on 2019-02-24 at 15:15 UTC. Locator JN86jh is in the Donja Dubrava area of Croatia.

GREECE: Postage stamp of 1933 Zeppelin issue, 100 dr. The set consisted of three values: 30, 100 and 120 drachmae. It was issued on 1933-05-02 and remained on sale until 1933-05-27. It was issued for the flight of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on May 29 form Rome to Rio de Janeiro. The stamps were designed by A. Gavallas and printed by Aspiotis-ELKA in Corfu. The Greek "Zeppelin" stamps are common in mint (hinged or not) condition, but rare in used condition. For more info about Zeppelin stamps, refer to Zeppelin mail article on Wikipedia.

This ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) station serves the Swiss Air Force for the programming of self-protection systems, the identified air and ground situation picture and for intelligence purposes. Photograph by kecko on a mountain at the north-east border of Switzerland, Sep 1, 2010. (classified / no geotags) Source: Wikimedia Commons . Flickr file: flickr.com/photos/70981241@N00/4951934336 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License .

Vintage clear glass Vis-O-Glow lightning arrester, Mfg. by L.S. Brach Mfg. Corp., Newark, N.J., U.S.A., circa 1920s. This device was used as the terminal for a long wire or L-antenna downlead. Photo by Joe Haupt published as CC-BY-SA-2.0 on Flickr. Flickr file: www.flickr.com/photos/51764518@N02/8562593046 Short URL: flic.kr/p/e3DwAA This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 International License .

An old homemade bandpass filter for 145 MHz. Back in the 1990s, this filter was used with with a small DJ120 handie talkie for packet radio. I took it out of retirement to combat receiver overloading of my Icom IC7100 during ISS SSTV reception. (DSC_0219)

Loewe MW (broadcast band) receiver model OE 333, made in Germany in 1926. The reciever uses a multisection 3NF tube/vale, The device was produced to evade paranoid German taxes levied on a per valveholder basis. As the Loewe set had only one valveholder, it was able to substantially undercut the competition Photo by Loewe_AG, uploaded on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0 free license. Wikimedia Commons file: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1926_Local_receiver_OE_333.jpg This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License .

Stamp of 18p of Solomon Islands commemorating amateur radio H44SI. Issued for World Communications Year in 1983.

German stamp for the centennary of radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi. (1995)

Rubber stamp cachet used by the Réseau des Emetteurs Francais ( REF ), the national amateur radio society for France, for complimentary mailing of QSL cards at the Exposition-Fair of Le Havre in 1951.

A type A fire engine from the 1st Fire Station of Athens responding to a paranoid domestic LPG fire/explosion hazard in our building! (DSCN1169)

QSL stamp issued by the Unión Radioaficionados Españoles (URE) in the late 1940s, affixed on a QSL sent by EA5AF to VK5JS in 1950.