{"id":33911,"date":"2018-09-02T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33911"},"modified":"2018-09-02T06:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T10:24:55","slug":"dan-catches-the-bhutan-broadcasting-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/dan-catches-the-bhutan-broadcasting-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan catches the Bhutan Broadcasting Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BBS-logo-Bhutan-Broadcasting-Service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33922\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BBS-logo-Bhutan-Broadcasting-Service.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BBS-logo-Bhutan-Broadcasting-Service.jpg 400w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BBS-logo-Bhutan-Broadcasting-Service-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who discovered that the Bhutan Broadcasting Service was on the air Friday with an uncharacteristically strong signal into Europe. Dan made the following screencast of his reception using the <a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Twente WebSDR<\/a>\u00a0on August 31, 2018 on 6,035 kHz starting around 2024 UTC:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/287808940?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"440\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/287808940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch via Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing, Dan! I hope to hear them on the air again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who discovered that the Bhutan Broadcasting Service was on the air Friday with an uncharacteristically strong signal into Europe. Dan made the following screencast of his reception using the University Twente WebSDR\u00a0on August 31, 2018 on 6,035 kHz starting around 2024 UTC: Click here to watch via [&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":[3,746,43],"tags":[7264,3181,7263,2635,4106],"class_list":["post-33911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbs","tag-bhutan","tag-bhutan-broadcasting-service","tag-dan-robinson","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8OX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9106,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-shortwave-shindig-t-you-know-you-want-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":33911,"position":0},"title":"The &#8220;Shortwave Shindig&#8221; T: you know you want one","author":"Thomas","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[Update (04\/10\/14): Check out promotional pricing for SWLing Post readers below.] Remember that incredible live Shortwave Shindig broadcast of\u00a0a few weeks ago? 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