{"id":15943,"date":"2015-12-01T07:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2015-12-01T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T11:57:33","slug":"can-you-help-joel-id-this-vietnamese-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/can-you-help-joel-id-this-vietnamese-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Joel ID this Vietnamese station?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14917\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\" alt=\"SX-99-Dial-Nar\" width=\"751\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg 751w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Joel, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is there a section of <em>SWLing Post<\/em> for SWL&#8217;s who manage to catch a highly unusual broadcast about which some of your members may have information? I refer to catching an S4+ transmission in northern Vietnamese from 1600-1630 GMT on 11,840 kHz last November? As linguist, SWL, ham and retired foreign service officer, this one has me totally stumped.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joel, I&#8217;m hoping a reader can assist you with your question. My only guess would be that this was a Vietnamese broadcast from\u00a0KTWR\u00a0Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Please comment\u00a0if you can help Joel identify this station!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, Joel, writes: &#8220;Is there a section of SWLing Post for SWL&#8217;s who manage to catch a highly unusual broadcast about which some of your members may have information? I refer to catching an S4+ transmission in northern Vietnamese from 1600-1630 GMT on 11,840 kHz last November? As linguist, SWL, ham and retired [&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":[3,43,1167],"tags":[4467,4082,4468],"class_list":["post-15943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-11840-khz","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-vietnamese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-499","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54694,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/carlos-shortwave-art-and-recording-of-nhk-world-november-18-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":15943,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art and recording of NHK World (November 18, 2022)","author":"Thomas","date":"November 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares\u00a0his radio log art\u00a0of a recent Voice of Korea broadcast. 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