{"id":11194,"date":"2014-10-25T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2014-10-25T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:28:52","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kinks_Lola_Uk_Cover\"<\/a>Last Sunday, I tuned to The Mighty KBC<\/em> on 7,375 kHz, starting at 0000 UTC. The KBC signal out of Europe was blow-torch strength.<\/p>\n

The Mighty KBC\u2019s Giant Jukebox<\/em>\u00a0is chock-full of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades. DJ “Uncle Eric” never<\/em> disappoints.<\/p>\n

If band conditions are as good as last night, you should be able to hear The Mighty KBC<\/em>\u00a0quite easily tonight.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s a recording from last week to wet your appetite:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC7375kHz2014OCT180000Z44FDMSW\/KBC-7375kHz-2014OCT18-0000Z_44-FDMSW.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday, I tuned to The Mighty KBC on 7,375 kHz, starting at 0000 UTC. The KBC signal out of Europe was blow-torch strength. The Mighty KBC\u2019s Giant Jukebox\u00a0is chock-full of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades. DJ “Uncle Eric” never disappoints. If band conditions are as good as last night, you should be […]<\/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":[56,442,3,43,1167],"tags":[1665,576,1664,1459,4106,611,737,573],"class_list":["post-11194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-digital-text-modes","tag-kbc","tag-kim-elliott","tag-mighty-kbc","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-the-mighty-kbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Uy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13345,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":11194,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: three hours of The Mighty KBC. This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9,925 kHz. 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