{"id":10579,"date":"2014-08-20T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2014-08-20T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:12:42","slug":"will-voice-of-russia-return-to-shortwave-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/will-voice-of-russia-return-to-shortwave-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Voice of Russia return to shortwave October 2014?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HFCC-VOR-A14Sched-001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post reader, Stephen Cooper<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n

“Voice of Russia to return to shortwave October 1, 2014. A new schedule has been uploaded to HFCC from GFC for The Voice of Russia from 1st October including English to North America and Europe:\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/hfcc.org\/data\/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC<\/a>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought, perhaps, these were schedules posted prior to VOR leaving the air, but Stephen notes that VOR has posted and made constant changes to their B14 schedules\u00a0as well. Stephen follows schedules closely as he has a website<\/a> and app<\/a> devoted to shortwave radio schedules.<\/p>\n

This does seem like a lot of effort if VOR has no intention of returning to the shortwaves.<\/p>\n

Stephen also points to this article<\/a>\u00a0which mentions that Russia may be\u00a0bringing back shortwave and a new body might\u00a0be in charge of operations.<\/p>\n

I suspect if VOR is returning to shortwave, it is in reaction to the recent changes at the Voice of America\/Radio Liberty and the promise that HR4490<\/a> might increase a pro-US presence on the air.<\/p>\n

In the end, we might not know until VOR actually resumes shortwave\u00a0broadcasts.<\/p>\n

We will keep you posted! Follow the tag: VOR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Stephen Cooper, writes: “Voice of Russia to return to shortwave October 1, 2014. A new schedule has been uploaded to HFCC from GFC for The Voice of Russia from 1st October including English to North America and Europe:\u00a0http:\/\/hfcc.org\/data\/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC“ I thought, perhaps, these were schedules posted prior to VOR leaving the air, but […]<\/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":[56,3,651,43],"tags":[3082,10,408,409,2094],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-hr4490","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-russia","tag-vor","tag-vor-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2KD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7117,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/voice-of-russias-response-to-reported-shortwave-closure\/","url_meta":{"origin":10579,"position":0},"title":"Voice Of Russia’s response to reported shortwave closure","author":"Thomas","date":"August 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Dominik, for sharing email responses he received from the Voice of Russia regarding news of their closure. 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