{"id":10809,"date":"2014-09-14T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2014-09-14T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:24:16","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-sri-lanka-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-sri-lanka-broadcasting-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10810\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sri-Lanka-NASA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10810\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10810\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sri-Lanka-NASA-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka as viewed from the International Space Station (Source: NASA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sri-Lanka-NASA-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sri-Lanka-NASA-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sri-Lanka-NASA.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Lanka as viewed from the International Space Station (Source: NASA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: forty three minutes of the <strong>Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation,\u00a0<\/strong>recorded\u00a0on 11,905 kHz at 01:15 UTC, Sept 11, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka BC is not an easy broadcaster to receive in eastern North America, but band <a title=\"Incredible band openings tonight\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/incredible-band-openings-tonight\/\">conditions on the 10th and 11th were particularly favorable<\/a> in the higher bands. As you\u2019ll hear in the recording, the signal out of Trincomalee was reasonably strong; I used the WinRadio Excalibur receiver with my horizontal delta loop antenna.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, looking through <a title=\"SRAA\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>, this may be the first time I&#8217;ve recorded Sri Lanka BC.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1410704461304_52885\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/SriLankaBC11.905MHz11SEP20140115Z\/SriLankaBC-11.905MHz-11SEP2014-0115Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/SriLankaBC11.905MHz11SEP20140115Z\/SriLankaBC-11.905MHz-11SEP2014-0115Z.mp3\">Click here to download the full recording<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/SriLankaBC11.905MHz11SEP20140115Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: forty three minutes of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation,\u00a0recorded\u00a0on 11,905 kHz at 01:15 UTC, Sept 11, 2014. Sri Lanka BC is not an easy broadcaster to receive in eastern North America, but band conditions on the 10th and 11th were particularly favorable in the higher bands. As you\u2019ll hear in the [&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":[56,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[4106,2479,3239,3241,3240],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lanka-bc","tag-sri-lanka-broadcasting-corporation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Ol","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23519,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/citing-a-diminishing-audience-us-to-close-iranawila-station-in-sri-lanka\/","url_meta":{"origin":10809,"position":0},"title":"Citing a diminishing audience, US to close Iranawila Station in Sri Lanka","author":"Thomas","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: US Embassy in Sri Lanka) The United States values its strong relationship with Sri Lanka and our bilateral partnership over the past 60 years. 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