{"id":15509,"date":"2015-11-11T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T13:12:29","slug":"sunrise-and-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/sunrise-and-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise and shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151111_071240128_HDR1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15511\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151111_071240128_HDR1-619x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sony ICF-SW100\" width=\"619\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151111_071240128_HDR1.jpg 619w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151111_071240128_HDR1-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that propagation is rather poor this morning: I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-repair-story-vlados-fix-for-the-classic-sony-icf-sw100\/\">Sony ICF-SW100<\/a>, a good cup of coffee, a beautiful sunrise and Radio Australia is loud and clear on 9,580 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>All is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that propagation is rather poor this morning: I have a Sony ICF-SW100, a good cup of coffee, a beautiful sunrise and Radio Australia is loud and clear on 9,580 kHz. All is well.<\/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":[3,1936,26,43],"tags":[3369,495,3395],"class_list":["post-15509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-icf-sw100","tag-sony","tag-sony-icf-sw100"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-429","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11330,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/sony-icf-sw100-difference-between-mki-and-mkii\/","url_meta":{"origin":15509,"position":0},"title":"Sony ICF-SW100: difference between MKI and MKII","author":"Thomas","date":"November 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to our post about the Sony ICF-SW100, Michael comments: \"I've found that, with some patience and a willingness to search outside of eBay, that the ICF-SW100 can be found for under $250. It's more than a fair bit of money for a shortwave receiver. 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The kit's contents currently include: Leatherman Squirt PS4 Slim Line Lock Pick 13 Tension Wrench Short Twist Flex Omni-Glow Mini Type A Glow Sticks Suunto Clipper Photon X-Light Micro\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"CIAEscapeandSurvivalBag","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CIAEscapeandSurvivalBag.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15717,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/video-shortwave-listening-and-radio-astronomy\/","url_meta":{"origin":15509,"position":3},"title":"Video: Shortwave listening and radio astronomy","author":"Thomas","date":"November 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"On Thursday I attended an event at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI)--location of the 2015 SWLing Post DXPedition. 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