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\"\"<\/a>

Mario Monti, Prime Minister of Italy<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: Kim Elliott<\/a> via ABC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Italy’s Mario Monti, the sober economist nominated to replace the larger-than-life Silvio Berlusconi, is a former European commissioner who is markedly different from the outgoing premier.<\/p>\n

[…]Asked about any acts of rebellion in his youth, he conceded that there really were none and said he just studied hard, enjoyed cycling and was passionate about listening to foreign news on his short-wave radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>. As Kim Elliott pointed out<\/a>,\u00a0it’s a shame he became prime minister four years after Italian public broadcaster RAI<\/a> abandoned its extensive international shortwave broadcast schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Kim Elliott via ABC) Italy’s Mario Monti, the sober economist nominated to replace the larger-than-life Silvio Berlusconi, is a former European commissioner who is markedly different from the outgoing premier. […]Asked about any acts of rebellion in his youth, he conceded that there really were none and said he just studied hard, enjoyed cycling […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[690,169],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mario-monti-shortwave-radio","tag-rai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-AD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16254,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/ebay-find-mullard-meteor-600a\/","url_meta":{"origin":2271,"position":0},"title":"eBay find: Mullard Meteor 600A","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Monti, who knows that I have a serious affinity\u00a0for 1940s era receivers.\u00a0Monti writes from his home in Australia: I had to send you this link Thomas. 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There's a NIB Yaesu FRG-100 on eBay; see pic attached. Amazing that there is one around like that. Hefty price [$748.00] but reasonable as used ones go for $350 - $410 lately. 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