{"id":42830,"date":"2020-04-14T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42830"},"modified":"2020-04-14T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T11:44:52","slug":"interview-on-the-icq-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/interview-on-the-icq-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview on the ICQ Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42831\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL-300x90.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL-768x229.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ICQ-Podcast-K4SWL-624x186.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m honored to have been interviewed by Frank Howell (K4FMH) for the ICQ Amateur \/ Ham Radio Podcast. The interview was posted as a podcast this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar, the ICQ podcast is posted every fortnight and runs about 1.5-2.5 hours or so depending on news items and features. Here&#8217;s the description of this episode (#322):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Ed Durrant DD5LP, Frank Howell K4FMH and Bill Barns N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur \/ Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode\u2019s feature is &#8211; Passion of Shortwave Listening with Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show can be streamed via the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5E6VPQvnC4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICQ podcast YouTube channel<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icqpodcast.com\/download-the-show\/2020\/4\/12\/icq-podcast-episode-322-shortwave-listening-thomas-witherspoon-k4swl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5E6VPQvnC4A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icqpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The ICQ Podcast website<\/a> also links to the many ways you can subscribe and listen to their shows published every two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Frank for inviting me to be interviewed&#8211;I really enjoyed talking shortwave with a fellow shortwave radio enthusiast (<em>and long-time SWLing Post reader!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m honored to have been interviewed by Frank Howell (K4FMH) for the ICQ Amateur \/ Ham Radio Podcast. The interview was posted as a podcast this weekend. If you&#8217;re not familiar, the ICQ podcast is posted every fortnight and runs about 1.5-2.5 hours or so depending on news items and features. Here&#8217;s the description of [&hellip;]<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[545,3,1557,5099,43],"tags":[6832,8438,2260,755,317],"class_list":["post-42830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-podcast","category-qrp","category-shortwave-radio","tag-frank-howell","tag-icq-podcast","tag-k4swl","tag-swling-post","tag-thomas-witherspoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b8O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60026,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/franks-analysis-do-hams-still-listen-to-shortwave-they-do-in-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":42830,"position":0},"title":"Frank&#8217;s Analysis: &#8220;Do Hams Still Listen to Shortwave? 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