{"id":10446,"date":"2014-08-05T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10446"},"modified":"2014-08-05T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:51:05","slug":"victor-goonetilleke-the-joy-of-dxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/victor-goonetilleke-the-joy-of-dxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Goonetilleke: The joy of DXing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9503\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg\" alt=\"SX-99-Dial\" width=\"640\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-100x18.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Victor Goonetilleke has kindly shared a passage he recently posted to Facebook. Victor pretty much sums up why I still listen to the shortwaves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For almost four score and 5 I enjoyed shortwave radio. Yes I was a DXer, and a dedicated listener. The thousands of hours of broadcasts I listened from the BBC, VOA, RNW, DW, RFI, Swiss Radio, NHK and many more of the international broadcasters influenced me over the years. The knowledge I gathered was transferred to hundreds of homes as I taught my students in class rooms and as a lecturer too in higher Colleges, in many social gatherings, day to day conversations with important people and everyday folks, what I gathered from my radio made them realize that there was a story out there.<\/p>\n<p>And as the years went by one by one those stations started to go away and I became more and more a DXer and finally I have only those signals to bring me joy.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight would you blame me for being a DXer, abandoned by the international broadcasters, if I sit back and enjoy this music through the crackle of shortwave and happy that I have a radio which few seems to understand these days.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to the recording Victor made by clicking here:\u00a0<a title=\"Listen to Victor's recording\" href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/tcryw2ymt38gz8y6zaw4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/tcryw2ymt38gz8y6zaw4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would also encourage you to read <a title=\"BBG Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/bbgwatch.com\/bbgwatch\/american-policies-are-being-blasted-to-bits-while-voice-of-america-shortwave-radio-goes-silent-in-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victor&#8217;s guest commentary on BBG Watch<\/a>\u00a0which was prompted by\u00a0the BBG pulling the (shortwave) plug on much of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in 2003, Jonathan Marks interviewed Victor Goonetilleke; you can watch the full interview below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7924483\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7924483\">Visit with Victor Goonetilleke 2003<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jonathanmarks\">Jonathan Marks<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Goonetilleke has kindly shared a passage he recently posted to Facebook. Victor pretty much sums up why I still listen to the shortwaves: &#8220;For almost four score and 5 I enjoyed shortwave radio. Yes I was a DXer, and a dedicated listener. The thousands of hours of broadcasts I listened from the BBC, VOA, [&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":[56,960,4,3,305,43,1],"tags":[1031,246,4082,3141],"class_list":["post-10446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-interviews","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-uncategorized","tag-dxing","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-victor-goonetilleke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Iu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10377,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-straits-times-western-radio-broadcasters-tuning-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":10446,"position":0},"title":"The Straits Times: &#8220;Western radio broadcasters tuning out&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"July 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, for sharing this article from The Straits Times which interviews our friend Victor Goonetilleke. 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