{"id":27469,"date":"2017-08-09T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:45:05","slug":"radio-fax-christopher-seeks-more-information-about-britains-number-two-short-wave-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/radio-fax-christopher-seeks-more-information-about-britains-number-two-short-wave-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Fax: Christopher seeks more information about &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Number Two Short Wave Station&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Radio-Fax-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27474\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Radio-Fax-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Radio-Fax-Logo.jpg 532w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Radio-Fax-Logo-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Christopher Brennen, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hope you\u2019re keeping well. I stumbled across this site and thought you might be interested:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radiofax.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/radiofax.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a little too young to know anything about this; not only was I five \/ six when they first started but I also had no idea about shortwave radio at the time! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Do any of your readers know anything more about it (it is fairly detailed on this site, but perhaps someone reading was involved in some way?)<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a shortwave combination of the IBA Engineering Broadcasts for the trade that were shown on TV\u00a0and something akin to the current InRadio (<a href=\"http:\/\/inrad.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inrad.io<\/a>).<\/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\/_K5sVQMUBCs?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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_K5sVQMUBCs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the little IBA jingle at the start of that clip was also used &#8211; in a higher key &#8211; by Granada Television in the North West of England for some of their idents:<\/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\/D30IKp6PCC8?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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D30IKp6PCC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Granada was my \u2018home\u2019 ITV region so I\u2019m very familiar with that jingle.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for the SWLing Post!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks, Christopher!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers can comment with more details about the Radio Fax service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Christopher Brennen, who writes: I hope you\u2019re keeping well. I stumbled across this site and thought you might be interested: http:\/\/radiofax.org I am a little too young to know anything about this; not only was I five \/ six when they first started but I also had no idea about [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[5019,1076,34,4082],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-christopher-brennen","tag-radio-fax","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-793","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18560,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/christopher-seeks-title-of-shortwave-broadcasters-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":27469,"position":0},"title":"Christopher seeks title of shortwave broadcaster&#8217;s book","author":"Thomas","date":"April 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Christopher Brennen, writes: I'm wondering if you or the wider community can help? 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