{"id":10380,"date":"2014-07-28T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2014-07-28T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:01:46","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10383\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"DX-402-KBC-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,925\u00a0kHz to listen to <em>The Mighty KBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>KBC\u2019s signal was clean and blowtorch strength into North America.\u00a0Though I used my <a title=\"A review of the WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC \u201cExcalibur\u201d software defined radio (SDR)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\">WinRadio Excalibur<\/a> to record the broadcast, I stepped outside with my recently acquired <a title=\"Great deal: $27 RadioShack shortwave portable with SSB\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/great-deal-27-radioshack-shortwave-portable\/\">RadioShack DX-402<\/a>\u00a0(above) and heard KBC as if were a local station.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve come to expect, <em>The Mighty KBC\u2019s Giant Jukebox<\/em> of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades.<\/p>\n<p>This broadcast begins\u00a0with a tribute to <a title=\"Read on WikiPedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysian Airlines Flight 17<\/a> which had a large number of passengers from\u00a0the Netherlands, where <em>The Mighty KBC<\/em> is produced.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"From the Internet Archive\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC9.925MHz27JUL140000Z\/KBC-9.925MHz-27JUL14-0000Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/KBC9.925MHz27JUL140000Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,925\u00a0kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. KBC\u2019s signal was clean and blowtorch strength into North America.\u00a0Though I used my WinRadio Excalibur to record the broadcast, I stepped outside with my recently acquired RadioShack DX-402\u00a0(above) and heard KBC as if were a local station. As we\u2019ve come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[3142,576,1459,3097,4106,573],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-giant-jukebox","tag-kbc","tag-mighty-kbc","tag-radioshack-dx-402","tag-recordings","tag-the-mighty-kbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Hq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7516,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":10380,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"October 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 7,375 kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. 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Their signal from Nauen, Germany was packing 125 kW--it was amazingly\u00a0strong into North America. As we\u2019ve come to expect, the KBC\u2019s\u00a0Giant Jukebox\u00a0of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Art of Noise kicks off this Mighty KBC broadcast. 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As we\u2019ve come to expect, the Mighty KBC\u2019s\u00a0Giant Jukebox\u00a0of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades; DJ, \u201cUncle Eric\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DJ Eric van Willegen, \"Uncle Eric\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eric-kbc-300x210.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5666,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc\/","url_meta":{"origin":10380,"position":3},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on 9,450 kHz. 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