{"id":14216,"date":"2015-07-30T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14216"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:28:24","slug":"londonshortwave-scannnig-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/londonshortwave-scannnig-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"LondonShortwave: &#8220;Scanning the skies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7302015-124403-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14221\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7302015-124403-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 7302015 124403 PM\" width=\"650\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7302015-124403-PM.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7302015-124403-PM-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, LondonShortwave, who shared (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\/status\/626202310750928896\" target=\"_blank\">via Twitter<\/a>) this video with recordings made with\u00a0his portable SDR in a London park:<\/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\/_h9ZBN4B9NA?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;start=37&#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>Brilliant recordings, LS, and amazingly QRM-free!<\/p>\n<p>You can follow LondonShortwave <a href=\"http:\/\/london-shortwave.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">on his blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/londonshortwave\" target=\"_blank\">via Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, LondonShortwave, who shared (via Twitter) this video with recordings made with\u00a0his portable SDR in a London park: Brilliant recordings, LS, and amazingly QRM-free! You can follow LondonShortwave on his blog and via Twitter.<\/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":true,"_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":[3,3196,746,43,158,304],"tags":[2504,2704,3195,157,4087],"class_list":["post-14216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","category-videos","tag-londonshortwave","tag-london-shortwave","tag-portable-sdr","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Hi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10293,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/designing-a-truly-portable-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":14216,"position":0},"title":"Designing a truly portable SDR","author":"Thomas","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, London Shortwave, is working on a portable SDR (software defined radio) system based on his Toshiba Encore 8\" Windows tablet, FunCube Dongle Pro+, and supported by the excellent SDR# application. 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He made the following screencast\/video\u00a0where he toggles the IF noise reduction feature while receiving the BBC World Service's Pashto language service on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How To&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How To","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"LondonShortwave-ParkSDR","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LondonShortwave-ParkSDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LondonShortwave-ParkSDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LondonShortwave-ParkSDR.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21015,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/london-shortwaves-portable-spectrum-capture-lab\/","url_meta":{"origin":14216,"position":2},"title":"London Shortwave&#8217;s portable &#8220;spectrum capture lab&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, London Shortwave, just posted a photo of his portable SDR setup on Twitter and noted: \"Portable spectrum capture lab back in operation. Grabbing the grey line hour on the 49 mb. Listening to Radio Fana!\" Wow! \u00a0I love this go kit! 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