Dear Sirs, I'm Carlos G. Correa, PY1483SWL, and I come here to turn to SWARL for what I am going to expose.

The listening activity is very old, even older than amateur radio, since there was already listening to commercial radios around the world. It was common for radios to receive confirmation cards that they responded by sending cards, streamers, flyers with the radio's programming, among others. It was not uncommon for these radio stations to have staff dedicated to listening in their programming, which motivated the growth of the SWL movement.

With the advent of

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PERIOD CALL REF
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Owing to the ongoing and fluid nature of the COVID-19 situation globally,
announced activities

The winner of the 8th Short Listening Period (SLP) Contest of this year is Igor Ivanchenko UB50734221 with a score of 31603. Second placed was Francois Conraux F-80248 scoring 13973 and Helmut Grund DE2HUG became third with 12054 points.

The complete result table is available on: https://www.veron.nl/vereniging/commissies-en-werkgroepen/nl-commissie/swl-contesten-nlc/

My best wishes to you for the X-mas season and good luck in 2022!

73, Ruud NL290, SWL contest