{"id":13499,"date":"2015-06-08T11:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2015-06-08T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:31:29","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-turkey-english-language-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-turkey-english-language-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Turkey, English language service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13500\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Turkey.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey\" width=\"750\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Turkey.jpg 750w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Turkey-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_3_1433775970316_3871\">For your listening pleasure: the <strong>Voice of Turkey<\/strong> English language service.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_3_1433775970316_3873\">This program was recorded on June 7, 2015, starting around 2205 UTC on 9830 kHz. \u00a0I started recording the program a few minutes after the top of the hour when\u00a0a digital transmission\u00a0on the same frequency finally went off air. I made this recording with the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-review-of-the-titansdr-pro-software-defined-receiver\/\">TitanSDR Pro<\/a>\u00a0hooked up to my horizontal delta loop antenna.<\/p>\n<p>You will actually hear a few seconds of the digital broadcast at the very beginning of the recording. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfTurkey9830kHz07JUN152205Z\/VoiceOfTurkey-9830kHz-07JUN15-2205Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13499-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfTurkey9830kHz07JUN152205Z\/VoiceOfTurkey-9830kHz-07JUN15-2205Z.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfTurkey9830kHz07JUN152205Z\/VoiceOfTurkey-9830kHz-07JUN15-2205Z.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfTurkey9830kHz07JUN152205Z\/VoiceOfTurkey-9830kHz-07JUN15-2205Z.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Turkey English language service. This program was recorded on June 7, 2015, starting around 2205 UTC on 9830 kHz. \u00a0I started recording the program a few minutes after the top of the hour when\u00a0a digital transmission\u00a0on the same frequency finally went off air. I made this recording with [&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":[56,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[4106,737,1059,106,3885],"class_list":["post-13499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-turkey","tag-voice-of-turkey","tag-vot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3vJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6700,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-turkey\/","url_meta":{"origin":13499,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Turkey","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A few days ago, I posted a recording of the Voice of Turkey that noticeably lacked coverage of the Gezi Park protests. 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