{"id":33549,"date":"2018-08-14T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33549"},"modified":"2018-08-13T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:31:47","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-netherlands-media-network-april-9-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-netherlands-media-network-april-9-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: RNW Media Network, April 9, 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2426\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RNWmadagascar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2426\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RNWmadagascar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RNWmadagascar.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RNWmadagascar-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RNWmadagascar-100x50.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former RNW Madagascar site (Photo courtesy of RNW)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SRAA<\/a><\/em> contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following off-air recording of Radio Netherlands and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with RCI&#8217;s Shortwave Listener&#8217;s Digest, Radio Netherlands Media Network was another favorite DX program of mine.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a recording of an episode from April 9, 1982 which is the first recording of this program from my archive.<\/p>\n<p>The show highlights are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Media coverage of the Falklands War from the British and Argentinian sides,<\/li>\n<li>Pete Meyers with a report that Radio New Zealand did not shut down, the US-Cuban media war,<\/li>\n<li>Richard Ginbey with African media news and<\/li>\n<li>John Campbell with a clandestine radio report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Audio quality is only fair for this recording.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of recording:\u00a0<\/strong>4\/9\/1982<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting time:<\/strong>\u00a00230<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frequency:<\/strong>\u00a09.590 MHz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Receiver location:<\/strong>\u00a0South Bend, IN<\/p>\n<p><strong>Receiver<\/strong>: Realistic DX-302<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-33549-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioNetherlands95909April19820230\/RadioNetherlands-9590-9April1982-0230.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioNetherlands95909April19820230\/RadioNetherlands-9590-9April1982-0230.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioNetherlands95909April19820230\/RadioNetherlands-9590-9April1982-0230.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioNetherlands95909April19820230\/RadioNetherlands-9590-9April1982-0230.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download this audio file.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you , Tom! That is, indeed, a most welcome blast from the past!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following off-air recording of Radio Netherlands and notes: Along with RCI&#8217;s Shortwave Listener&#8217;s Digest, Radio Netherlands Media Network was another favorite DX program of mine. Here is a recording of an episode from April 9, 1982 which is the first recording of [&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":[56,960,3,746,43],"tags":[574,263,4106,64,952,737,4224],"class_list":["post-33549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-media-network","tag-radio-netherlands","tag-recordings","tag-rnw","tag-rnw-media-network","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-tom-laskowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8J7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11993,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-special-radio-netherlands-broadcast-via-wrmi\/","url_meta":{"origin":33549,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Special Radio Netherlands broadcast via WRMI","author":"Thomas","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I received a message from\u00a0Peter De Groot, who announced a special broadcast of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). 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