{"id":2577,"date":"2012-01-17T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:08:05","slug":"recording-of-radio-bulgaria-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/recording-of-radio-bulgaria-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording of Radio Bulgaria on shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RadioBulgariaLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2569\" title=\"RadioBulgariaLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RadioBulgariaLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RadioBulgariaLogo.jpg 254w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RadioBulgariaLogo-100x96.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>This morning at 00:00 (Universal Time), I recorded the Radio Bulgaria originating\u00a0from their Plovdiv, Bulgaria transmitter, 5,420 miles from my home. I started my recording on 5,900 kHz at 00:00, then moved to and stayed on 7,400 kHz after Radio Havana Cuba started transmitting nearby at 00:30 UTC and bled into their frequency (a very common\u00a0occurrence\u00a0with RHC).<\/p>\n<p>The first hour is (00:00 &#8211; 00:59 UTC) Radio Bulgaria&#8217;s English service, the second hour (1:00 &#8211; 2:00 UTC), their Bulgarian Service and third hour, (2:00 &#8211; 3:00 UTC) French service.<\/p>\n<p>In this recording, you&#8217;ll hear multiple announcements regarding the\u00a0<a title=\"Radio Bulgaria, another broadcaster down: can shortwave be saved?\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/radio-bulgaria-another-broadcaster-down-can-shortwave-be-saved\/\">closure of their shortwave service<\/a> as of Feb 1, 2012. They did mention they will continue services over the internet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/embed\/RadioBulgariaInternational\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"440\" height=\"40\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was recorded with a Zoom H1 on an Alinco DX-R8T&#8211;antenna was a vertical delta loop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at 00:00 (Universal Time), I recorded the Radio Bulgaria originating\u00a0from their Plovdiv, Bulgaria transmitter, 5,420 miles from my home. I started my recording on 5,900 kHz at 00:00, then moved to and stayed on 7,400 kHz after Radio Havana Cuba started transmitting nearby at 00:30 UTC and bled into their frequency (a very [&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":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":[56,81,746],"tags":[792,795,793,794,796,797],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-recordings","tag-radio-bulgaria","tag-radio-bulgaria-bulgarian","tag-radio-bulgaria-closures","tag-radio-bulgaria-english","tag-radio-bulgaria-french","tag-radio-bulgarie-francais"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2673,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/final-transmission-of-radio-bulgaria\/","url_meta":{"origin":2577,"position":0},"title":"Final Transmission of Radio Bulgaria","author":"Thomas","date":"February 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in case you missed it, below I have a full recording of Radio Bulgaria's final transmission in French. 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