Silent Key / Portraits and Stations

The Portraits are derived from self portraits ham radio operators used on their QSL cards.
For Stations, a friend returned to the return address on one of the cards and recorded what he found.

The series Silent Key charts the geopolitical map of the 20th Century as represented through QSL cards – printed traces of individual contacts which track a convoluted global narrative. “Silent Key” is ham lingo for a radio operator who has died. Other parts of the series are the Antennas and Deleted Entities.

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Cindy Bernard, ZL420, G. Bell Dunedin, New Zealand, 1934 Active / Silent Key, Unknown
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Cindy Bernard, W6ANN, Bill Adams San Pedro, United States, 1947 Active 1924 - 1999; Silent Key, 1999
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Cindy Bernard, VP4TF, C.N.P. Weatherhead Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad, 1947 Active / Silent Key, Unknown
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Cindy Bernard, CR7LU, Lucia Santos Tomé Beira, Mozambique, 1953 Active, 1952 to date
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Cindy Bernard, UA4ZA, Vladislav A. Petukhov Cheboksary City, USSR (today, Russian Federation), 1967 Silent Key, 2000
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Cindy Bernard, 4S7DA, Denver A.C.E. Wijesuriya Katunayake, Ceylon (today, Sri Lanka), 1969 Active, 1964 to date
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Cindy Bernard, JF1IST operating as 3Y5X, Jin Fujiwara Bouvet Island, 1990 Active, 1972 to date