{"id":4604,"date":"2012-10-07T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2012-10-09T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T10:06:24","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-test-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-test-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC test transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kbcradio.eu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4605\" title=\"wolfmanjack2-300x181\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wolfmanjack2-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wolfmanjack2-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wolfmanjack2-300x181-100x60.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last night, I listened to and recorded <a title=\"KBC website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kbcradio.eu\" target=\"_blank\">The Mighty KBC<\/a>&#8216;s test transmission on 9.4 MHz. The broadcast lasted 2 hours and was quite successful.<\/p>\n<p>They had a little distortion in the signal for the first half-hour or so, but once that issue was resolved, audio was excellent. This was, after all, a test transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I was using the WinRadio Excalibur receiver and a rather large horizontal sky loop antenna&#8211;not a portable radio. But based on their signal level as compared with the adjacent Voice of Greece transmission (9.42 MHz), I expect they could have been easily heard on a portable radio here in eastern North America.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the broadcast, <a title=\"Click to download an MP3 of the broadcast\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TheMightyKbcTestTransmissionOct720129.4Mhz\/TheMightyKBCTest-9.4MHz-7Oct12-0000-.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download a full recording<\/a> or listen below. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheMightyKbcTestTransmissionOct720129.4Mhz\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next week: another test broadcast scheduled<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Update: Note that The Might KBC will broadcast another test transmission on Sunday 21 September from 00.00 &#8211; 02.00 UTC on 9,500 kHz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I listened to and recorded The Mighty KBC&#8216;s test transmission on 9.4 MHz. The broadcast lasted 2 hours and was quite successful. They had a little distortion in the signal for the first half-hour or so, but once that issue was resolved, audio was excellent. This was, after all, a test transmission. Mind [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,746,43,1409],"tags":[4106,737,1281,573,1383],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-specials","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-special-broadcasts","tag-the-mighty-kbc","tag-the-mighty-kbc-test-transmission"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1cg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4768,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/another-mighty-kbc-transmission-into-northsouth-america-nov-4th\/","url_meta":{"origin":4604,"position":0},"title":"Another Mighty KBC transmission into North\/South America&#8211;Nov 4th","author":"Thomas","date":"October 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC\u00a0is once again broadcasting into North and South America on 9,500 kHz, Sunday, November 4th (00:00-02:00 UTC). 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