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U.S. Wireless Station and Highland Light, North Truro, Cape Cod, Mass.

NASA used its remotely piloted MQ-9 Ikhana aircraft to test technology it helped develop or recommended to the U.S. Forest Service, including a system to send sensor data to decision makers on the ground in near real time. (Public domain photo by NASA/Lori Losey) URL: www.nasa.gov/general/tech-today-remote-sensing-technology-fights-forest-fires

RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV at Larisa AB JPEG version

Old Persian #R34 revenue stamp (circa 1886) for sea transport tax.

Yesterday I received my copy of issue 745 of "Philotelia" magazine. It was mailed in a paper cover, which was franked with a nice pair of personalized Greek stamps of €0.67, with an attachment depicting the logo of the Hellenic Phlatelic Society !

ARGENTINA, $11, 2016. Postage stamp to honour Greek sailors who fought for the national independence of Argentina in the early 19th century.

Wardle 2-4-0T steam locomotive at N. Greenwich Station, circa 1900.

HTO Tower, Thessaloniki. Vintage mailed postcard mailed to the UK in 1972. The tower of Hellenic Telecomunications Organization (HTO - OTE) at the site of Thessaloniki International Exhibition. The tower was designed by architect Alexander Anastasiades and was completed in 1965. Around 1970 it was used to support antennas for a VHF mobile telephone service. Today it houses a rotating coffee shop and cellular telephone facilities of COSMOTE.

Address side of the 1972 postcard with a brief message by Tina to Ann + Pell in England, franked with two beautiful greek stamps of the early 1970s.

SX-DAN: Olympic Airways De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4B (CN 6440). Printed in Greece by Contogonis-Malicoutis between 1960 and 1969.

Unused vintage postcard, own collection. FCC Central Monitoring Station, Grand Island, Nebraska. Monitors the Radio Stations of the World. Anonymous artist. Published by Curteich Chicago without copyright notice after 1934.

Official postcard of Olympic Airways showing one of their Boeing 707-320 in flight. Mailed from Athens, Greece to London, UK on October 9, 1967.

Postcard issued by Editions P.I., GUY-PARIS, estimated date early 1990s, shows Airbus A300B4 SX-BEB of Olympic Airways on the ground. Postcard, own collection.

QSL card confirming a 3.7 MHz SSB contact with station OH8X ( RadioArcala ) in Finland, during the 2013 CQ WW SSB contest. At the time the station used the iconic low band HF yagi antenna shown on the QSL card: 3 elements on 160 m, 5 elements on 80 m and 4-over-4 elements on 40 m. Unfortunately the antenna collpsed during a storm a few weeks later, on December 3, 2013.

QSL card from DL0MCM/LH confirming a 7 MHz CW contact during the 2021 International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend. The station operates aboard museum ship M/V Dresden (DAVK), permanently moored in Rostock Port, Germany.

The tower of Hellenic Telecomunications Organization (HTO - OTE) at the site of Thessaloniki International Exhibition. The tower was designed by architect Alexander Anastasiades and was completed in 1965. Around 1970 it was used to support antennas for a VHF mobile telephone service. Today it houses a rotating coffee shop and cellular telephone facilities of COSMOTE. (20240310_172159.jpg) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

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