{"id":20736,"date":"2016-08-22T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20736"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:20:25","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-baghdad-august-8-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-baghdad-august-8-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Baghdad, August 8, 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20738\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/radio-baghdad-qsl.jpg\" alt=\"radio baghdad qsl\" width=\"624\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/radio-baghdad-qsl.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/radio-baghdad-qsl-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Al Quaglieri, who shares the following recording, QSL (above) and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a nice recording I made of the first 13 minutes of Radio Baghdad&#8217;s English broadcast one day around August 8, 1990. It begins with some music and then there&#8217;s a newscast. For a couple of months, I sent such recordings down the phone line to CBS News in New York, who were eager to hear them. This, alas, is the only one I kept. Hard to believe it was nearly 26 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/clyp.it\/hv1usjrm\/widget\" width=\"100%\" height=\"160\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My how that does bring back memories! Thank you for sharing this excellent recording, Al!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Al Quaglieri, who shares the following recording, QSL (above) and notes: Here&#8217;s a nice recording I made of the first 13 minutes of Radio Baghdad&#8217;s English broadcast one day around August 8, 1990. It begins with some music and then there&#8217;s a newscast. For a couple of months, I sent [&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":[5387,5386,4106,4082,737],"class_list":["post-20736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-al-quaglieri","tag-radio-baghdad","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5os","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36024,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-peace-from-baghdad-december-29-1990\/","url_meta":{"origin":20736,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Peace from Baghdad &#8211; December 29, 1990","author":"Thomas","date":"February 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, who has recently uploaded an off-air recording of the Voice of Peace to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. 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It was also the last broadcast of the popular DX program DX-tra. 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