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NOW YOU CAN ALSO READ
ALL 1960-2000 BACK ISSUES
OF SIGNAL MAGAZINES
IN ACTUAL SIZE & COLORS
as they were printed on paper
in those 40 years - over 100 separate issues, 50.000 penpals and photos,
collectors, mail order ads, penpal clubs far over from 100 countries,
news, editorials...
1960-1969
= 6.500 penpals
1970-1979
= 10.850 penpals
1980-1989
= 16.700 penpals
1990-1999
= 18.400 penpals
SIGNALPENPALS.NET 1997-2017
on web already for 20 years...
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1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
READ ANY PAGE OF SIGNAL 1960-2018
ALL THOSE GIRLS & MEN
on left and right are advertising
now in www.signalpenpals.net...
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019
This card is swapped hourly, it was originally sent to my grandmother and grand aunts in 1900-1910-1920...
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Read the editorial of Signal 70/1990
It was written by me almost 30 years ago... Has the World or Signal Penpal Magazine changed a bit thereafter ? Take a look !
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 22:05:33
Our website is very popular in many African countries, ads from there are published daily...
Also I like Africa, especially different art items, and have received several wooden and metal carvings, oil paintings and drawings,
cloth items, leather drums, dozens of sheets of mint postage stamps, hundreds of FDCs, in 1960-2018 from the advertisers worldwide as payment and as gifts. Thank you !
The above fine African art pillow cover was anyhow found in the local flea markets.
- Raimo Kaarna, the publisher
Some snailmail letters received after summer 2018
Opened and read them just lately and found dozens of penpal ads and photos...
Scanned several photos and wrote the texts for the advertisements today and found this work very interesting and nice.
I'll definitely continue adding about 5-10 listings daily from now on. Select your new friends and
WRITE SNAILMAIL LETTERS,
it is more interesting than writing short emails.
You can enclose paper photos, coins or banknotes, viewcards or any other gifts or collectors items
in your envelopes !
How can you do it via email? - I really enjoyed my work with the snailmail letters!
Even my heart loves snailmail letters...
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED - HAVE YOUR LOCAL FRIENDS ADVERTISE HERE !!!
IN JUNE 2018 I WROTE:
"The printed Signal magazine - signalpenpals.net - is a one-man-hobby-business. Every word in all the penpal listings has been written, edited and layouted by just one person, me - Raimo Kaarna. I am now 75 years old.... This older age forces me to reduce my 'work burden' - I have to take it easier. Therefore year 2017 was the last year when the Signal had two different versions -
this web edition on the internet and the smaller one printed on paper."
Did you know I publish a few other sites, too ?
penpal, collectors, mail order papers 1960-2018
www.globalcollectors.net - swap anything
www.lahtelaista.net - use 'translate.google.com'
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Have you tested
THE FASTER OPENING SIGNAL lately, within one week or so... It is a bit different from this bigger and slower version but
you can read
ALL THE PENPAL LISTINGS FROM TWENTY YEARS - 1997-2017 - easily just by clicking a few links ! Use Signal's own search to find your old friends again or your own old penpal ads.
Should the text be updated ?
The world around us undergoes changes every day. Also our website - signalpenpals.net - keeps changing. Take a look at year 1997, then 2007 and 2017... In 2003 I had to start a new web page EVERY DAY,
some 30-60 readers sent their free penpal ads and photos for publishing, that was before the period of 'social media' and facebook or other similar sites. The internet giants have done great harm to smaller websites, many have
even died, gone out of 'business' as you know.
The Signal is not 'a business', it is a free service to those who want want personal contacts - penpals - collectors - soulmates - dating - even meeting -
behind the borders of countries, behind the language barriers... FREE !!!
RAIMO KAARNA, the publisher
WWW.SIGNALPENPALS.NET -
ONLY THE WEB EDITION is available
from 2018 onwards, FREE of course.
Having been publishing the Signal penpal magazine since January 1960 at the age of 16 I've
come to a turning point in this publishing hobby... In 58 years the postman has carried nearly 200.000 letters to my earlier
box address and to my home office street address. And I've personally packed the printed Signal-magazines into almost 200.000 envelopes
and taken them to the nearest post office to send them to you, the readers. The total amount of printed paper Signals is almost 400.000 copies !
The printed Signal magazine - signalpenpals.net - is a one-man-hobby-business. Every word in all the penpal listings has been written,
edited and layouted by just one person, me - Raimo Kaarna. I am now 75 years old....
This older age forces me to reduce my 'work burden' - I have to take it easier. Therefore year 2017 was the last year when the Signal had
two different versions -
this web edition on the internet and the smaller one printed on paper.
From 2018 onwards
ONLY THE WEB EDITION
WWW.SIGNALPENPALS.NET
is available, FREE of course.
If you want to get PRINTED SIGNALS you have to print them yourself with your computer and your printer.
Raimo Kaarna in 1989 at his office in the daily newspaper Etelä-Suomen Sanomat in Lahti Finland
Hundreds of newspapers and magazines around the world have 'killed' their printed editions and gone entirely into the electronic publishing versions only.
I was working in the local daily newspaper called Etelä-Suomen Sanomat - circulation over 50.000 - from 1966 to 1989. My job was to
write ad texts, do the lay-outs, take care of ad space marketing and sales, design brochures and circulars, sales letters, keep up customers mailing lists etc.
Similar work as with the printed Signal or nowadays with the signalpenpals.net, and my other websites.
I have stopped my paid subscription to my earlier employer's newspaper several years ago, even though I am an ex-newspaper professional.
Anyhow I keep reading four different newspapers - the electronic versions - every day. And it costs to me simply NOTHING, the printed versions of
these four Finnish newspapers would cost over 1.000 euros or 1.000 USA dollars yearly.
Keep reading the web edition of the Signal = www.signalpenpals.net - it is FREE !
Also your personal penpal listings are FREE, one ad monthly.
If you prefer international collectors swapping ads go to my other site - www.globalcollectors.net - your exchange wants and offers listed free.
Do you know what kind of printed penpal papers or collectors magazines were issued in the last 50 years ?
Then visit www.penpalclubs.net.
If you speak also the Finnish language look at www.lahtelaista.net - my website about my hometown Lahti - 100.000 inhabitants -
in Finland. Also this website can be google-translated into English and 90 other languages.
SIGNAL'S COMPUTERS IN 2018
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SIGNAL READERS BACK IN 1970'S 80'S
Raimo Kaarna, some letters from the readers
Signal had its own offset printing press earlier
Later it was printed on web offset presses
Publisher's ex-wife with two Algerian readers
A cold beer refreshens the publisher
U.S. robot or puppet reader in the 80's
Mr R P Agrawal, Indian businessman searching for...
The publisher resting and enjoying the sun
Happy 50th Anniversary of the Signal
In West Germany a reader glanced the ads
Raimo Kaarna in his Signal office
Leyland K Stoddart in Philippines, philatelist and publisher
Young reader in Hungary, Focht Sandor's son Arpad
In Indonesia Arcole Ary Tandy helped Signal in circulation
The publisher with a few letters, banknotes
India - is this photo from Amritsar?
Readers even in Libya, Kauidder Mekki
Signal's computers in the 80's, excellent
Some of the archieves back in 80's and 90's
Signal has been quite popular in India
The readers had to pay for their ads and Signals
This reader, Wilfried Elsner, is from West Germany
Thousands of Ghanaian Cedis, valueless now
Two personal computers of the past years
The latest tabloid Signals were issued in 2004
Mimi from Indonesia visited Signal in 2014
The Signals were laser printed in color in 2014
That's what the SIGNALs looked like from 1979 to 2004...
The size was usually tabloid, 5.000 copies.
SIGNAL issues from 1969 to 1973 were magazine size. 10.000 copies per issue...
Signals 1988-89, photocopied
Offset printed Signals 1990-91
All Signals 1995-2007 were digitally printed by your publisher
 
Signals 2007-08 color laser printed
SIGNALs 1960-69 were mimeographed and offset printed, 1.000 circulation, my address the same as now in 2013.
Thursday,
March 8 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
That's what your publisher looked like back in 1983, thirty five years ago...
Take also a look at THE EDITORIAL of the 24-page multicolor SIGNAL INTERNATIONAL
tabloid issue 60 - 8.000 circulation - 1700 ads worldwide. Read some 'old news' about
Signal's new computers, guess how many letters were received yearly or daily...
Worth reading if you want to learn something about penpal magazine publishing history.
I'll scan more 'old news' from the past Signals for you later.
www.signalpenpals.net
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www.signalpenpals.net
Happy reading -
Happy New Year 2018
to all the Signal readers
Bangladesh calling - Signal on front cover
Signal's publisher received his Indian designed Adam-tablet from China in 2011
This New Year card is changed hourly
All the cards are from 1900's, 1910's and 1920's and
originally mailed to the grand aunties of Signal's publisher, Raimo Kaarna.
January 12, 2018
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Man - Animated Short Film by Steve Cutts
WORLD TODAY - THE LIE WE LIVE
Santa Claus (the publisher) and his brother?
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