{"id":1329,"date":"2011-07-17T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2011-07-17T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T14:05:51","slug":"jonathan-marks-re-publishes-the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-dxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/jonathan-marks-re-publishes-the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-dxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Marks re-publishes “The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jonathan Marks has re-released\u00a0The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing<\/a>. In his own words:<\/p>\n

It is thirty years ago since I wrote a rather silly parody on both international radio broadcasting based on my favorite radio series at the time, the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. There seemed to be so much to make fun of at the time…the boring propaganda at the height of the Cold War, jamming, the waste of energy shouting from one country to another, and the variable quality of reaction from listeners. I don’t think it was the listeners’s fault that most of the feedback was very technical, to do with signal strength and QSL cards rather than comments on the programme. May be people were being too polite.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]There wasn’t much time to write radio drama on the second floor of the Radio Netherlands building. And there was no budget to hire actors. So I just rattled it off on a typewriter and asked colleagues to come and read their parts in a lunchtime recording session. This was all two track material, sliced together with a chinagraph pencil and a razor blade. In total we made 5 in 1981 to fit the 5th Thursday in the month, and then one more in 1982 as a Christmas special.<\/em><\/p>\n

To listen to all five episodes, simply cruise to the Media Network Vintage Vault<\/a> and start with Episode 1<\/a>. It’s well worth a listen and a nice little piece of 1981 RNW ingenuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Marks has re-released\u00a0The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing. In his own words: It is thirty years ago since I wrote a rather silly parody on both international radio broadcasting based on my favorite radio series at the time, the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. There seemed to be so much to make fun of at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,56,460],"tags":[246,64,461],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-funny","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-rnw","tag-the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-dxing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-lr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10446,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/victor-goonetilleke-the-joy-of-dxing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1329,"position":0},"title":"Victor Goonetilleke: The joy of DXing","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Goonetilleke has kindly shared a passage he recently posted to Facebook. 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