{"id":27492,"date":"2017-08-09T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27492"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:11:32","slug":"can-you-help-ben-identify-this-test-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/can-you-help-ben-identify-this-test-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Ben identify this test transmission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24367\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sony-SW100-Dial-6160-Loomish-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ben (PA2OLD), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Saturday August 5 we heard a test broadcast at 6160 kHz AM in English, early in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to broadcast for Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and England.<br \/>\nI have a video of this test broadcast [below].<\/p>\n<p>We have not discovered who is behind this radio station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/Qmx4lvAJthI?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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qmx4lvAJthI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, Ben. Can anyone ID this test broadcast? \u00a0Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ben (PA2OLD), who writes: On Saturday August 5 we heard a test broadcast at 6160 kHz AM in English, early in the evening. They are going to broadcast for Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and England. I have a video of this test broadcast [below]. We have not discovered who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,43,1,304],"tags":[6409,34,4333,1917],"class_list":["post-27492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-uncategorized","category-videos","tag-ben-pa2old","tag-shortwave","tag-test-broadcasts","tag-test-transmissions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-79q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60366,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/texas-radio-shortwave-test-broadcast-august-11-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":27492,"position":0},"title":"Texas Radio Shortwave Test Broadcast: August 11, 2024","author":"Thomas","date":"August 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave who shares the following announcement: Because propagation was terrible on August 5th, we're again testing on 9670 kHz next Sunday, August 11, at 0300 UTC. 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Ahead of this, two frequencies will be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","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\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44265,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/lra36-radio-nacional-arcangel-san-gabriel-test-broadcast-saturday-july-11-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":27492,"position":2},"title":"LRA36: Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriel test broadcast Saturday July 11, 2020","author":"Thomas","date":"July 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adrian Korol, who shares the following notice from the Argentine Antarctic station, LRA36: Saturday, July 11, from 1400 to 1500 UTC, a test broadcast from LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriel on 15476 khz using USB. 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