{"id":25390,"date":"2017-04-27T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25390"},"modified":"2017-04-27T06:41:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:41:23","slug":"video-the-abc-central-west-radio-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/video-the-abc-central-west-radio-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The ABC Central West radio transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter (G4OYX), who shares a link to this excellent video tour<\/a> of the\u00a0ABC Central West radio transmitter in\u00a0Cumnock, NSW, Australia.<\/p>\n

Click here to view at ABC.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter (G4OYX), who shares a link to this excellent video tour of the\u00a0ABC Central West radio transmitter in\u00a0Cumnock, NSW, Australia. Click here to view at ABC.<\/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":[373,433,3,304],"tags":[86,6155,2742,4716],"class_list":["post-25390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-videos","tag-abc","tag-abc-central-west-radio-transmitter","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-dave-porter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Bw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4902,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-maintenance-on-an-abc-shortwave-antenna-and-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":25390,"position":0},"title":"Video: Maintenance on an ABC shortwave antenna and transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"November 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Paul Thurst on the blog Engineering Radio,\u00a0I discovered this\u00a0excellent video of the engineering staff of ABC (Radio Australia) servicing some of their HF antennas and transmitters. \u00a0Having visited several shortwave transmission sites myself, I truly appreciate this peek inside Radio Australia. 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