{"id":14953,"date":"2015-09-28T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14953"},"modified":"2015-09-28T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:38:42","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-rci-bbc-voa-circa-1979-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-rci-bbc-voa-circa-1979-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: RCI, BBC, VOA circa 1979 &#038; 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14531\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"HalliDial\" width=\"640\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">SRAA contributor,<\/a>\u00a0Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few snippets from my old shortwave tapes that were too short to upload individually. These were made using a GE portable multi band that had poor selectivity, hence the annoying ute during the BBC clip.<\/p>\n<p>Times of individual clips are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>00:00 &#8211; 01:59: 1979, July 19 &#8211; RCI, frequency announcements in English and french.<\/li>\n<li>01:59 &#8211; 09:51: 1979, July 20 &#8211; BBC, newscast, bothered by an annoying utility station.<\/li>\n<li>09:51 &#8211; 11:38: 1981, August 28 &#8211; VOA, science news item about Voyager 2<\/li>\n<li>11:38 &#8211; 14:52: 1981, August 29 &#8211; VOA, science news item about Voyager 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RICBBCVOAJuly1979AndAugust1981\/RIC-BBC-VOA-July%201979%20and%20August%201981.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-14953-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RICBBCVOAJuly1979AndAugust1981\/RIC-BBC-VOA-July%201979%20and%20August%201981.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RICBBCVOAJuly1979AndAugust1981\/RIC-BBC-VOA-July%201979%20and%20August%201981.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RICBBCVOAJuly1979AndAugust1981\/RIC-BBC-VOA-July%201979%20and%20August%201981.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SRAA contributor,\u00a0Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes: A few snippets from my old shortwave tapes that were too short to upload individually. These were made using a GE portable multi band that had poor selectivity, hence the annoying ute during the BBC clip. Times of individual clips are: 00:00 [&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":[3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[104,4094,631,4091,30,4106,737,1958,4224,10,182],"class_list":["post-14953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-radio-history","tag-rci","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-sraa","tag-tom-laskowski","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Tb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14836,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voa-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-moon-landing\/","url_meta":{"origin":14953,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: VOA on the 10th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing","author":"Thomas","date":"September 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Tom\u00a0Laskowski,\u00a0who shares this recording of the Voice of America; recorded on July 20, 1979 at 0500 UTC on the 31 meter band. 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