{"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’s history of Australian shortwave broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Padula at Warrandyte State Park, near Melbourne, Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

I recently discovered that Bob Padula, long-time shortwave radio enthusiast and publisher of The Australian DX Report<\/a>, has an online project entitled\u00a0The History of Shortwave Radio In Australia<\/strong><\/em>. It’s a thorough and informative read and is available free of charge.<\/p>\n

Check it out on Bob’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s a thorough and informative read and is available free of charge. Check it out on Bob’s website.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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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