{"id":10571,"date":"2014-08-20T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:33:23","slug":"picnicking-and-swling-by-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/picnicking-and-swling-by-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnicking and SWLing by the lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tecsun-R1212a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, while traveling\u00a0near Oklahoma City, I stopped by Lake Thunderbird State Park<\/a> for lunch and a little shortwave listening.<\/p>\n

Blue sky above, sparkling water below,\u00a0and a tasty\u00a0homemade\u00a0lunch in an RFI-free environment\u00a0were ideal conditions for\u00a0portable SWLing. I used my little Tecsun R1212A which was easily packed in the picnic bag. Many broadcasters in the higher bands; most notably, Deutsche Welle’s Hausa service, which was quite\u00a0strong.<\/p>\n

As always, my motto: “Have radio, will travel!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, while traveling\u00a0near Oklahoma City, I stopped by Lake Thunderbird State Park for lunch and a little shortwave listening. Blue sky above, sparkling water below,\u00a0and a tasty\u00a0homemade\u00a0lunch in an RFI-free environment\u00a0were ideal conditions for\u00a0portable SWLing. I used my little Tecsun R1212A which was easily packed in the picnic bag. Many broadcasters in the higher bands; […]<\/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":[3,43,1154,1167],"tags":[3191,3192,3122,4115],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-travel","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-tecsun-r1212a","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Kv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10267,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/swling-on-a-mountain-with-the-tecsun-r1212a\/","url_meta":{"origin":10571,"position":0},"title":"SWLing on a mountain with the Tecsun R1212A","author":"Thomas","date":"July 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week we visited Mount Mitchell,\u00a0the highest elevation in North America east of the Mississippi River. 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