{"id":12339,"date":"2015-03-17T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2015-03-17T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:56:23","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-australia-bureau-of-meteorology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/shortwave-radio-recordings-australia-bureau-of-meteorology\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Australia Bureau Of Meteorology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Australia-BureauOfMeteorology\"<\/a>This morning, I\u00a0re-discovered a recording I made in the early morning hours of January 25, 2015 on 6,230 kHz SSB: the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s marine weather radio service.<\/p>\n

This was actually a new station for me and, no doubt, decent DX (though I’m sure the broadcast is quite audible when conditions are favorable). While I prefer old-school recorded voice for shipping forecasts<\/a>, this nonetheless has a catchy cadence.<\/p>\n

Click here to download the audio as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AustraliaBOM6.23MHz25Jan2015\/AustraliaBOM-6.23MHz-25Jan2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I\u00a0re-discovered a recording I made in the early morning hours of January 25, 2015 on 6,230 kHz SSB: the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s marine weather radio service. This was actually a new station for me and, no doubt, decent DX (though I’m sure the broadcast is quite audible when conditions are favorable). While […]<\/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],"tags":[3634,887,3632,3633,3631,515,2734],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-6230-khz","tag-australia","tag-australia-bom-radio-service","tag-australia-bureau-of-meteorology-radio-service","tag-australia-shipping-forecast","tag-marine-weather","tag-shipping-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3d1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58140,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/qsl-australian-radiofax-received-in-brazil\/","url_meta":{"origin":12339,"position":0},"title":"QSL: Australian Radiofax Received in Brazil","author":"Thomas","date":"November 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: For the first time, I received in Porto Alegre a noisy radiofax from the Bureau of Meteorology of Australia: Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) map. 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