{"id":3697,"date":"2012-07-21T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T22:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2012-07-22T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T16:39:09","slug":"bob-padulas-history-of-australian-shortwave-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/bob-padulas-history-of-australian-shortwave-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Padula&#8217;s history of Australian shortwave broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3737\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3737\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3737\" title=\"BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BobPadula-WarrandytePoundBend.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Padula at Warrandyte State Park, near Melbourne, Australia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently discovered that Bob Padula, long-time shortwave radio enthusiast and publisher of <a title=\"Australian DX Report\" href=\"http:\/\/adxr.podbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian DX Report<\/a>, has an online project entitled\u00a0<em><strong>The History of Shortwave Radio In Australia<\/strong><\/em>. It&#8217;s a thorough and informative read and is available free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bob Padula's History of Shortwave Radio in Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/bpadula.tripod.com\/australiashortwave\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out on Bob&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that Bob Padula, long-time shortwave radio enthusiast and publisher of The Australian DX Report, has an online project entitled\u00a0The History of Shortwave Radio In Australia. It&#8217;s a thorough and informative read and is available free of charge. Check it out on Bob&#8217;s website.<\/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":[8,305,288,43],"tags":[887,1172,368,4091,1098,1173],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-australia","tag-bob-padula","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-history","tag-shortwave-radio-history","tag-the-history-of-shortwave-broadcasting-in-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-XD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31452,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/phil-notes-some-updates-regarding-radio-australia-shepparton-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":3697,"position":0},"title":"Phil notes some updates regarding Radio Australia Shepparton site","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ian P, who writes: Bob Padula noted some interesting information on his latest podcast--this was also played on last weeks episode of Wavescan. 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Peter Marks writes: The celebration of 80 years of international broadcasting from Australia continues. The ABC has published \"Australia Calling: A look at 80 years of Radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-06.32.10.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60216,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bob-shares-a-1968-off-air-recording-of-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3697,"position":2},"title":"Bob shares a 1968 off-air recording of Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"July 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Purse, owner and curator of the excellent\u00a0Inches Per Second audio archive and blog, who recently posted a 1968 recording of Radio Australia. This recording is in the queue to be published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, but I thought I'd share it\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\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41227,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/now-unblocked-watching-the-new-radio-australia-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":3697,"position":3},"title":"Now Unblocked: Watching the new Radio Australia documentary","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, we posted a note about the new documentary, \"Australia Calling: 80 Years of International Broadcasting.\" At the time, I mentioned that the video was geo-blocked--meaning, you could not watch the video outside Australia without using a VPN. 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