{"id":13181,"date":"2015-05-07T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2015-05-07T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:28:28","slug":"tx-factor-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/tx-factor-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Factor Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TX-Factor-Episode-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13183\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TX-Factor-Episode-8.jpg\" alt=\"TX-Factor-Episode-8\" width=\"650\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TX-Factor-Episode-8.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TX-Factor-Episode-8-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, David (G4EDR), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I thought you and the many readers of your SWLingPost would be interested in the latest edition (8) of TX Factor a UK produced online TV programme.<\/p>\n<p>It features two employees of the BBC who are also radio amateurs and shows them in their working environment as studio managers and continuity announcers on BBC radio.<\/p>\n<p>Just navigate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txfilm.co.uk\/txfactor\/txfactor.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.txfilm.co.uk\/txfactor\/txfactor.shtml<\/a> and select watch now for episode 8.<\/p>\n<p>There are also items about Icom UK and Practical Wireless magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for hosting your SWLingPost, I really enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks again, David! Another brilliant episode! At time of posting, the TX Factor site was down, but their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCnfnPpcvCwxqlNDHX_bJIXg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>, of course, is working fine. I&#8217;ve embedded the video below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VHAjRvLQhEw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My buddy Eric (WD8RIF) also alerted me that this episode had been published. I love watching TX Factor&#8211;I&#8217;m so impressed with both their programming and production quality.<\/p>\n<p><em>TX Factor Team: Keep up the good work!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, David (G4EDR), who writes: &#8220;I thought you and the many readers of your SWLingPost would be interested in the latest edition (8) of TX Factor a UK produced online TV programme. It features two employees of the BBC who are also radio amateurs and shows them in their working [&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":[56,545,304],"tags":[389,104,4102,3829],"class_list":["post-13181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-ham-radio","category-videos","tag-amateur-radio","tag-bbc","tag-ham-radio","tag-tx-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3qB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29243,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/video-tx-factor-episode-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":13181,"position":0},"title":"Video: TX Factor Episode 19","author":"Thomas","date":"November 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source:\u00a0TX Factor) In this show we kick off with part one of our reports from Hamfest 2017 with a preview of the Icom IC-7610 and IC-R8600 rigs. 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