{"id":20010,"date":"2016-07-21T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20010"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:18:29","slug":"video-dan-listens-to-rnzis-sunday-night-with-grant-walker-on-a-hammarlund-sp-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/video-dan-listens-to-rnzis-sunday-night-with-grant-walker-on-a-hammarlund-sp-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dan listens to RNZI&#8217;s Sunday Night with Grant Walker on a Hammarlund SP-600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DanH-SP-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20011\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DanH-SP-600.jpg\" alt=\"DanH-SP-600\" width=\"621\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DanH-SP-600.jpg 621w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DanH-SP-600-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Daniel Hawkins, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of my favorite Radio New Zealand International programs is Sunday Night with Grant Walker. This program is heard on RNZ in New Zealand from 8:06-10:00 p.m. and is run at the same time on RNZI. Sunday Night features hit oldies and one interview. Each program highlights oldies from one year. Last Sunday was 1977 and the week before was 1955. My video from last Sunday includes a favorite that I haven\u2019t heard for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The RNZI broadcast of Sunday Night is 0806-1000 UTC Sunday on 9700 kHz. That\u2019s 1:06-3:00 a.m. Sunday, PDT. Definitely a show for night owls. West Coast reception is nearly spectacular for the distance: 6,600 miles from my location in Davis, CA, USA. The radio used for the video is a Hammarlund SP-600 JX-21, built in 1956 or 1957. Yes, the tuning dial is a little off on this band. I\u2019m using the 8 kHz selectivity setting with fully advanced AVC. The antenna is a 106\u2019 outdoor random wire. The speaker is antique as well: a 10\u201d Jensen PM-10C with matching transformer connected to the 600 ohm audio output on the SP-600.<\/p>\n<p>DanH<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/ZvelQ-zlZes?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;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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZvelQ-zlZes\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wow! Thank you for the program recommendation, Dan! \u00a0I, too, have an SP-600&#8211;there are few valve receivers that can rival it for both audio fidelity and sensitivity. What a beauty of a rig you have there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Daniel Hawkins, who writes: One of my favorite Radio New Zealand International programs is Sunday Night with Grant Walker. This program is heard on RNZ in New Zealand from 8:06-10:00 p.m. and is run at the same time on RNZI. Sunday Night features hit oldies and one interview. Each program [&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":[3194,43,304,4796,1167],"tags":[5115,5259,4344,5260],"class_list":["post-20010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-danh","tag-daniel-hawkins","tag-hammarlund-sp-600","tag-sunday-night-with-grant-walker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5cK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24798,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/dan-sheds-light-on-various-hammarlund-sp-600-models\/","url_meta":{"origin":20010,"position":0},"title":"Dan sheds light on various Hammarlund SP-600 models","author":"Thomas","date":"March 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Daniel Hawkins, who leaves the following comment in reply to our previous post about the Northern Radio SP-600 and discussion about\u00a0diversity operation. 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