Amateur Radio, Radar, Lidar & Radio on Postage Stamps

I love  collecting stamps and vintage baseball cards and have quite a collection of both… but I have NEVER seen this many RADIO STAMPS in one setting!  Kirt Blattenberger, KB3UON, has a really cool website with lots of neat things to read.  This caught my eyes INSTANTLY.  Thank you, Kirt!  His quote and stamp array begins below.

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Over the past many decades, my involvement in stamp collecting (philately) has waned and ebbed with the amount of time available to dedicate to it. Commemorative stamps – from all countries – have always been of the greatest interest to me. Even if you are not a philatelist, your interest in radio should be piqued by the large number of postage stamps that have been issued in radio’s honor. Although I do not own most of the stamps pictured here, there are some that are in my collection. This is a small cross-section of what is available. Over time, I have added to the list and will continue to do so. Please let me know if you have relevant stamps to add.

I was amazed to discover how many countries have postage stamps recognizing the important role that weather radar has played in history.

Note: Many of these images are uncredited because although I might have retrieved them from a particular website, they appear to be replicated in many places. Therefore, the true origin is not known. My policy is to always provide attribution as part of the “Fair Use” law when the source is certain. I will be glad to link back to the owner’s website if evidence of ownership is provided.

Amateur Radio Postage Stamps
Amateur Radio USA Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Luxembourg Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio China Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Germany Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Bosnia Postage Stamp
Amateur Radio Japan Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Canada Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Viet Nam Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Bulgaria Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Bhutan Postage Stamp
Amateur Radio Bulgaria Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Zazzle Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Russia Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Zazzle Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Poland Postage Stamp
Amateur Radio Qatar Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Tuvalu Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Slovania Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Austria Postage Stamp	Amateur Radio Sweden Postage Stamp
Radio Postage Stamps
Radio USA Postage Stamp	Radio USA Postage Stamp	Radio USA Postage Stamp	Radio USA Postage Stamp	Radio USA Postage Stamp
Radio USA Postage Stamp	Radio East Germany Postage Stamp	Radio Slovenia Postage Stamp	Radio Russia Postage Stamp	Radio Canada Postage Stamp
Radio Germany Postage Stamp	Radio East Germany Postage Stamp	Radio Russia Postage Stamp	Radio Belgium Postage Stamp	Radio Russia Postage Stamp
Radio Pitcairn Island Postage Stamp	Radio Tuvalu Postage Stamp	Radio India Postage Stamp	Radio Moscow Postage Stamp	Radio Gremany Postage Stamp
Radio Republic of Transkei Postage Stamp	RadioRadio Republic of Transkei Postage Stamp	RadioRadio USSR Postage Stamp	Radio Monte Carlo Postage Stamp	RadioRadio Cuba Postage Stamp
RadioRadio Romania Postage Stamp
Radar Postage Stamps
Radar China Postage Stamp	Radar Antenna Barbados Postage Stamp	Sea Radar Solomon Islands Postage Stamp	Radar Altimeter Gilbert & Ellice Islands Postage Stamp	Meteor Tracking Radar Fiji Postage Stamp
HF Radar France Postage Stamp
Weather Radar Postage Stamps
Weather Radar Jamaica Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Belize Postage Stamp	Weather Radar North Korea Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Iran Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Iran Postage Stamp
Weather Radar Senegal Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Philippines Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Qatar Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Libya Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Malagasy Postage Stamp
Weather Radar United Nations Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Viet Nam Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Taiwan Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Spain Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Central African Republic Postage Stamp
Weather Radar Belgium Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Afghanistan Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Austria Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Bahamas Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Bahamas Postage Stamp
Weather Radar Afghanistan Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Bangladesh Postage Stamp	Weather Radar Canadian Postage Stamp
Lidar Postage Stamps
Lidar France Postage Stamp	Lidar Australia Postage Stamp
Electricity Postage Stamps
Electricity British Postage Stamp
Also of interest are Radio Reception Stamps that were used by commercial radio stations to officiate reception of signals. These were not official Postage Stamps
KDKA Pittsburgh, PA Radio Reception Stamp	KFUM Colorado Springs, CO Radio Reception Stamp	KFSO San Francisco, CA Radio Reception Stamp	KFQZ St. Louis, MO Radio Reception Stamp	WTIC Hartford, CT Radio Reception Stamp
CNRO Ottawa, Ontario Radio Reception Stamp	WDAF Kansas City, KS Radio Reception Stamp	WBEN Buffalo, NY Radio Reception Stamp	WGBF Evansville, IN Radio Reception Stamp	WSYR Syracuse, NY Radio Reception Stamp

A more comprehensive list can be found on the Ground-Based Remote Sensing in Meteorology (Radar, lidar, sodar, etc.) website from Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University.

This website has a few other communications Postage Stamps.

Yet another source is Joseph Morris‘ Flickr collection.