{"id":10644,"date":"2014-08-31T08:24:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2014-08-31T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:24:05","slug":"radio-australia-swling-in-the-colorado-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/radio-australia-swling-in-the-colorado-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia: SWLing in the Colorado Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10645\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO.jpg\" alt=\"Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-RA-CO-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;m in Keystone, Colorado at about 9,300&#8242; (2,835 M) above sea level; mornings are crisp and chilly (38F\/3C), but that doesn&#8217;t stop me from putting on a jacket, heading to the balcony and listening to Radio Australia on 9,580 kHz. Despite flaky solar conditions (flaky, frankly,<em> is an understatement<\/em>) I managed to snag RA Wednesday morning (13:58 UTC) on my Sony ICF-SW7600GR. There was a little fading, and a little local noise, but overall signal quality was quite good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10649\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gnav_logo.gif\" alt=\"gnav_logo\" width=\"197\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>This recording starts a couple of minutes before the top of the hour; you&#8217;ll hear the TOTH news brief and then <em><strong>triple j<\/strong>&#8212;<\/em>a brilliant show dedicated to new Australian music.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RA9580kHz27AUG141400Z\/RA-9580kHz-27AUG14-1400Z.MP3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RA9580kHz27AUG141400Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Keystone, Colorado at about 9,300&#8242; (2,835 M) above sea level; mornings are crisp and chilly (38F\/3C), but that doesn&#8217;t stop me from putting on a jacket, heading to the balcony and listening to Radio Australia on 9,580 kHz. Despite flaky solar conditions (flaky, frankly, is an understatement) I managed to snag RA Wednesday [&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":[56,442,3,746,1154,1167],"tags":[86,2742,1546,368,4106,1153,121,4115,3205],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","category-recordings","category-travel","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-abc","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-ra","tag-radio-australia","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-travel","tag-sony-icf-sw7600gr","tag-travel","tag-triple-j"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2LG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10586,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/swling-in-new-mexico-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":10644,"position":0},"title":"SWLing in New Mexico: Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"August 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I was very happy to tune to Saturday Night Country on Radio Australia (9,580 kHz). 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