{"id":14566,"date":"2015-09-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14566"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:00:39","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-channel-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-channel-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Channel Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SABC\"<\/a>Despite dismal propagation<\/a>, I was quite happy to receive a relatively strong signal earlier this week\u00a0(31 August 2015) from Channel Africa<\/em>, starting around 16:40 UTC on 15,235 kHz.<\/p>\n

This recording begins with the French language service (already in progress), followed by the English language service.\u00a0Receiver used was a WinRadio Excalibur<\/a>\u00a0connected to a large horizontal delta loop antenna.<\/p>\n

Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ChannelAfrica15.235MHz31AUG201516\/ChannelAfrica-15.235MHz-31AUG2015-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Remember: this,\u00a0along with many more recordings, are available in podcast form via the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>. Click here to view on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite dismal propagation, I was quite happy to receive a relatively strong signal earlier this week\u00a0(31 August 2015) from Channel Africa, starting around 16:40 UTC on 15,235 kHz. This recording begins with the French language service (already in progress), followed by the English language service.\u00a0Receiver used was a WinRadio Excalibur\u00a0connected to a large horizontal delta […]<\/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":[3,746,43,1167],"tags":[180,4168,4106,4169,737],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-africa","tag-channel-africa","tag-recordings","tag-sabc","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3MW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28701,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/from-the-shortwave-archives-radio-rsa-reviews-the-sony-icf-2001\/","url_meta":{"origin":14566,"position":0},"title":"From the Shortwave Archives: Radio RSA reviews the Sony ICF-2001","author":"Thomas","date":"October 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned many times before what a joy it is to curate the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA). 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