{"id":34953,"date":"2018-11-24T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34953"},"modified":"2018-11-24T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T12:12:42","slug":"talking-shortwave-and-spectrum-on-the-radio-survivor-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/talking-shortwave-and-spectrum-on-the-radio-survivor-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking shortwave and spectrum on the Radio Survivor podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, I had the honor of speaking with Eric Klein and Jennifer Waits on the excellent Radio Survivor podcast<\/a>. It’s rare that in one show I get to spread so much shortwave radio love–thanks for making that happen Radio Survivor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Perhaps you are like me and you have wished that you could go back in time and spin a radio dial and just listen to and browse the full radio spectrum from another time and place. Our guest on the show, Radio Anthropologist Thomas Witherspoon, is building a website for just such a thing. It\u2019s called the Radio Spectrum Archive and it is not magic, it uses a piece of technology called a software defined radio that makes recording a full spectrum of Shortwave, AM and even FM radio (if you have the computing power to handle the load) a very real possibility. Thomas Witherspoon is also the primary contributor to The Shortwave Listening Post (www.swling.com) so we are going to learn a few things about the wonder that is shortwave radio on planet earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttp:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/s\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS_168_Shortwave_Spectrum_Archiving-WEBedit.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here<\/a> to download the podcast audio.<\/p>\n

Click here to listen via Radio Survivor<\/em>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I had the honor of speaking with Eric Klein and Jennifer Waits on the excellent Radio Survivor podcast. It’s rare that in one show I get to spread so much shortwave radio love–thanks for making that happen Radio Survivor: Perhaps you are like me and you have wished that you could go back […]<\/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":[960,3,43,158],"tags":[6605,5163,2479,755,317],"class_list":["post-34953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-radio-spectrum-archive","tag-radio-survivor","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-swling-post","tag-thomas-witherspoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-95L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51070,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/radio-preservation-task-force-announces-partnership-with-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive-and-radio-spectrum-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":34953,"position":0},"title":"Radio Preservation Task Force announces partnership with the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive and Radio Spectrum Archive","author":"Thomas","date":"December 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm honored to announce that the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive and the Radio Spectrum Archive are now partners of the Radio Preservation Task Force. 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