{"id":24025,"date":"2017-02-06T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:17:21","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-romania-international-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-romania-international-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Romania International"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like a lot of shortwave radio listeners, since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed tuning my radio to parts of the world where events are unfolding. \u00a0There’s something tangible–something that is transportive–when you listen to a news coming directly from the source, on air and originating from halfway across the planet.<\/p>\n

I believe, listening to government broadcasters, you get a much better picture of what is actually happening. For example, sometimes the broadcaster devotes the whole news hour to an important event, or (perhaps even more telling!) doesn’t mention anything at all! The Voice of Turkey comes to mind as a recent example<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening, I tuned to Radio Romania International–one of my favorite little international broadcasters.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been following the news, you’ll know that there have been\u00a0six consecutive\u00a0days of massive protests to stop a Romanian law that would have eased corruption penalties<\/a>. This is the sort of thing a lot of broadcasters– being the mouthpiece for their current administration or ruling party–would either ignore or bury in their news report.<\/p>\n

I was happy to hear that RRI at least featured the protest as their very first news item.<\/p>\n

This recording was made on 5,960 kHz starting at 0100 UTC on February 06, 2017. Receiver used was a WinRadio Excalibur with a large horizontal delta loop antenna here in North Carolina. The following recording includes a few minutes of the RRI interval signal. Enjoy:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RRI5.96MHz06Feb20170100UTC\/RRI-5.96MHz-06Feb2017-0100UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to download as an MP3.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a lot of shortwave radio listeners, since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed tuning my radio to parts of the world where events are unfolding. \u00a0There’s something tangible–something that is transportive–when you listen to a news coming directly from the source, on air and originating from halfway across the planet. 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This recording was made on May 25, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9730 kHz. I used the TitanSDR Pro software defined receiver and skyloop external antenna to make this off-air recording. \u00a0In truth,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RRI","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RRI.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RRI.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RRI.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6297,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-romania-international-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":24025,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Romania International","author":"Thomas","date":"April 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today at 20:30 UTC, Radio Romania International's signal on 11,745 kHz\u00a0was\u00a0 quite strong, as it so often is. \u00a0RRI is one of the few broadcasters that still target Europe and the eastern US on shortwave. RRI is a treasure of a station, too, with true local flavor--Romanian news, music, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Victory Avenue (Calea Victoriei), a major avenue in central Bucharest (Source: Wikimedia Commons)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hotel_Continental_-_Calea_Victoriei-300x168.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10131,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-romania-international-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":24025,"position":3},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Romania International","author":"Thomas","date":"July 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure:\u00a0Radio Romania International\u2018s English language service. I recorded this broadcast with the\u00a0WinRadio Excalibur\u00a0on July 2,\u00a02014, starting at 00:00 UTC\u00a0on 9,700 kHz. This broadcast originates from\u00a0RRI\u2018s\u00a0Tiganesti\u00a0transmitter site. 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