{"id":23370,"date":"2017-01-12T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23370"},"modified":"2017-01-12T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T03:22:52","slug":"radyo-pilipinas-from-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/radyo-pilipinas-from-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Radyo Pilipinas From 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23371\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP-624x396.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/VOP.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I now regret is that I didn&#8217;t make more recordings of radio stations from my listening days in the 1970s and 80s. I have very few audio examples of stations operating at that time. So disappointing!<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;.a few weeks\u00a0ago, I stumbled across a recording I made in December 1973 of Radyo Pilipinas, The Voice of the Philippines (DZRP). \u00a0After a bit of audio engineering on the deteriorating old cassette tape, I&#8217;ve managed to somewhat improve the tone quality. I also found an image of the QSL card from that exact transmission on December 11, 1973 on 9580 kHz. I&#8217;ve posted the recording on YouTube &#8211; click the embedded video below.<\/p>\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\/Q_ntSiU9uVs?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>This is for those of you who can remember and for those who enjoy some radio history!<\/p>\n<p>These days, Radyo Pilipinas still has a small presence on the shortwave bands with the following schedule:<\/p>\n<p>To the Middle East in English and Tagalog from the Tinang relay site (250 kW)<br \/>\n0200-0330 on 15640, 17700 and 17820 kHz<br \/>\n1730-1930 on 9925, 12120 and 15190 kHz<\/p>\n<p>73 and have a great weekend everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Rob Wagner VK3BVW<\/p>\n<p><em>Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, is the author of this post and a regular\u00a0contributor to the SWLing Post. He\u00a0also blogs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medxr.blogspot.com.au\/\">Mount Evelyn DX Report<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I now regret is that I didn&#8217;t make more recordings of radio stations from my listening days in the 1970s and 80s. I have very few audio examples of stations operating at that time. So disappointing! However&#8230;.a few weeks\u00a0ago, I stumbled across a recording I made in December 1973 of Radyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"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":[960,288,746],"tags":[3609,737],"class_list":["post-23370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-radio-history","category-recordings","tag-rob-wagner","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-64W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62421,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/silent-signals-recordings-from-shortwave-stations-affected-by-recent-shutdowns\/","url_meta":{"origin":23370,"position":0},"title":"Silent Signals: Recordings from Shortwave Stations Affected by Recent Shutdowns","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recordings and writes: Hi Thomas As a result of recent actions by the Trump administration, a number of shortwave stations have recently gone silent. 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