{"id":23923,"date":"2017-02-03T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:03:55","slug":"video-vl8a-alice-springs-parting-message-in-cw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/video-vl8a-alice-springs-parting-message-in-cw\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: VL8A Alice Springs&#8217; parting message in CW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-e1480988790507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22384\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Langley who shares the following video of VL8A Alice Springs signing off for the final time on January 31, 2017:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Operator at the Alice shortwave transmitter sends a parting message via morse code: Goodbye this is station vl8a ceasing transmission. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l48bYKe2QI\">pic.twitter.com\/l48bYKe2QI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Maddocks (@MaddocksThomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaddocksThomas\/status\/826256315198476288\">January 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This video was originally posted to Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaddocksThomas\/status\/826256315198476288\" target=\"_blank\">by Tom Maddocks<\/a>. You might have also noticed this clip <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/radio-australia-shortwave-services-silenced-like-listening-to-our-old-aunt-passing-away\/\">in a previous ABC video we posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Richard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley who shares the following video of VL8A Alice Springs signing off for the final time on January 31, 2017: Operator at the Alice shortwave transmitter sends a parting message via morse code: Goodbye this is station vl8a ceasing transmission. pic.twitter.com\/l48bYKe2QI \u2014 Tom Maddocks (@MaddocksThomas) January 31, 2017 [&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":true,"_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":[960,3,304],"tags":[2924,1920,3516,5911,5910],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-videos","tag-abc-cuts","tag-radio-australia-cuts","tag-richard-langley","tag-vl8a-alice-springs","tag-vl8a-closure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6dR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25058,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-last-evening-of-the-northern-territory-shortwave-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":23923,"position":0},"title":"The Last Evening of the Northern Territory Shortwave Service","author":"Rob Wagner","date":"April 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been holding off posting three recordings I made on January 30, documenting a few minutes of the final evening of the ABC Darwin broadcasts from the transmitters at Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine. 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