{"id":12089,"date":"2015-01-29T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12089"},"modified":"2015-01-29T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:41:34","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VON-BH<\/a>For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Nigeria<\/em>–recorded on January 28, 2015, starting at 10:00 UTC on 9,690 kHz.<\/p>\n

The past few days, the signal out of\u00a0Ikorodu has been much stronger than normal, so I’ve spent several afternoons listening to the wonderful sounds and music from the Voice of Nigeria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfNigeria9.68987MHz28JAN2015\/VoiceOfNigeria-9.68987MHz-28JAN2015-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Nigeria–recorded on January 28, 2015, starting at 10:00 UTC on 9,690 kHz. The past few days, the signal out of\u00a0Ikorodu has been much stronger than normal, so I’ve spent several afternoons listening to the wonderful sounds and music from the Voice of Nigeria. Click here to download the […]<\/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":[56,3,746,1167],"tags":[3560,3559,4106,737,3558],"class_list":["post-12089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ikorodu","tag-nigeria","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-voice-of-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-38Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13971,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-nigerian-armed-forces-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":12089,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Nigerian Armed Forces Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"July 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"At 06:00 UTC\u00a0this morning, I recorded\u00a0one hour of the Nigerian Armed Forces Radio test on 13,775 kHz. 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