{"id":13345,"date":"2015-05-29T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13345"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:06:15","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13346\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13346\" class=\"wp-image-13346 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg\" alt=\"KBC-On-TitanSDR\" width=\"1012\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TitanSDR&#8217;s narrowband scope tuned to the KBC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: three hours of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbcradio.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mighty KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9,925 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>I used the TitanSDR Pro hooked up to my skyloop antenna to capture this recording&#8211;in truth, though, the signal was so strong it could&#8217;ve been easily received on a portable here in eastern North America.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1432908705091_3986\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC9925kHz24May20150000UTC\/KBC-9925kHz-24May2015-0000UTC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a> or simply use the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13345-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC9925kHz24May20150000UTC\/KBC-9925kHz-24May2015-0000UTC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC9925kHz24May20150000UTC\/KBC-9925kHz-24May2015-0000UTC.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC9925kHz24May20150000UTC\/KBC-9925kHz-24May2015-0000UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: three hours of The Mighty KBC. This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9,925 kHz. I used the TitanSDR Pro hooked up to my skyloop antenna to capture this recording&#8211;in truth, though, the signal was so strong it could&#8217;ve been easily received on a portable [&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":[442,3,43],"tags":[3142,576,1459,4106,737],"class_list":["post-13345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-giant-jukebox","tag-kbc","tag-mighty-kbc","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3tf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7516,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":13345,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"October 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 7,375 kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. 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KBC\u2019s signal was clean and blowtorch strength into North America.\u00a0Though I used my WinRadio Excalibur to record the broadcast, I stepped outside with my recently acquired RadioShack DX-402\u00a0(above) and heard KBC as if were a local\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DX-402-KBC-2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11194,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":13345,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"October 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Sunday, I tuned to The Mighty KBC on 7,375 kHz, starting at 0000 UTC. The KBC signal out of Europe was blow-torch strength. The Mighty KBC\u2019s Giant Jukebox\u00a0is chock-full of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades. DJ \"Uncle Eric\" never disappoints. 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