{"id":11495,"date":"2014-11-24T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:14:56","slug":"a-digital-announcement-from-stf-radio-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/a-digital-announcement-from-stf-radio-international\/","title":{"rendered":"A digital announcement from STF Radio International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/STFradio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9190\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/STFradio.jpg\" alt=\"STFradio\" width=\"639\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/STFradio.jpg 639w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/STFradio-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/STFradio-100x33.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"STF Radio International\" href=\"http:\/\/stfradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">STF Radio International<\/a> just shared the following digital announcement. Yes, you&#8217;ll need to decode <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/6955s\/stf-radio-2-digital-announcement\" target=\"_blank\">this message from SoundCloud<\/a>\u00a0with <a title=\"fldigi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w1hkj.com\/Fldigi.html\" target=\"_blank\">an application like FLDigi<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/178447250&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>STF also mentioned that a text version of this announcement with follow in the next few days (but surely it&#8217;s more fun to decode the digital version!).<\/p>\n<p>You should make the time to decode\u00a0STF Radio International broadcasts if at all possible. \u00a0<a title=\"QSL cards: STF Radio International sets a benchmark\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/qsl-cards-stf-radio-international-sets-a-benchmark\/\">Their QSL cards are some of the best in the business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STF Radio International just shared the following digital announcement. Yes, you&#8217;ll need to decode this message from SoundCloud\u00a0with an application like FLDigi: STF also mentioned that a text version of this announcement with follow in the next few days (but surely it&#8217;s more fun to decode the digital version!). You should make the time to [&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":[56,1114,3,1409,1167],"tags":[4114,3159,2718,3160],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-news","category-specials","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-digital-modes","tag-stf","tag-stf-radio","tag-stf-radio-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Zp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9188,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/stf-radio-international-this-weekend-via-kbc\/","url_meta":{"origin":11495,"position":0},"title":"STF Radio International this weekend via KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"April 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I received an email from STF Radio International, a new venture that broadcasts digital modes over shortwave (similar to VOA Radiograms). 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