{"id":2749,"date":"2012-02-13T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:01:10","slug":"today-is-world-radio-day-support-a-cause-via-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/today-is-world-radio-day-support-a-cause-via-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is World Radio Day: Support a Cause via Shortwave Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortwave Radio Listeners may occasionally feel that their hobby is a passive one–one of simply listening. I’m here to tell you that it is not.<\/em><\/p>\n

SWLers are among the more enlightened of media hobbyists, and here’s why: 1) they tend to be intensely curious about the world, 2) they tend to cultivate a nostalgic appreciation of the past, of the world’s history and what it teaches, and 3) as a result, they understand the power that radio still holds for much of our world today, especially those the not<\/em>-so-world-wide internet has forgotten or overlooked, and those that political strife oppresses.<\/p>\n

This World Radio Day, you can change that false label of “passive”<\/em> to active<\/em>, and create change by contributing to a charity near and dear to my heart<\/a>–Ears To Our World (ETOW).<\/p>\n

ETOW<\/a> is a shortwave radio charity that sends self-powered shortwave radios to schools and communities in third world countries.\u00a0 This is because ETOW<\/a>\u00a0believes that access to information <\/em>is access to education.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, every <\/em>day is World Radio Day at ETOW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Children in South Sudan listening to music on their self-powered shortwave radio supplied by Ears To Our World.<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here to donate to Ears To Our World<\/a>, and make World Radio Day a lasting reality for needy schools throughout our world.<\/p>\n

Happy World Radio Day!\u00a0 To quote ETOW’s tagline:\u00a0 Listen and learn.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More power to you, SWLers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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SWLers are among the more enlightened of media hobbyists, and here’s why: 1) they tend to be intensely curious about the world, 2) they tend to cultivate a nostalgic appreciation […]<\/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":[81,3,43],"tags":[178,218,4082,884,883,885,619],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ears-to-our-world","tag-etow","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-3rd-world","tag-shortwave-radio-charity","tag-shortwave-radio-education","tag-world-radio-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64316,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/bobs-radio-corner-shortwave-multiplex\/","url_meta":{"origin":2749,"position":0},"title":"Bob’s Radio Corner: Shortwave Multiplex?","author":"Thomas","date":"October 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Reported by Bob Colegrove Incurable DXers are always looking for new challenges.\u00a0 So it was, I recently did some scanning between 42 and 45 meters (~6600 to 7000 kHz).\u00a0 Trenton Military on 6754 kHz and the MARS net on 6913 kHz are regulars here, as are a selection of pirates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fig.-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fig.-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fig.-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fig.-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fig.-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/a-shortwave-mango-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":2749,"position":1},"title":"The Magno Medium Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Areaware, a New York City based eco-retailer, showed off their Magno radio product line by designer Singgih Kartono at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. 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