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Not much to say here other than it’s cold outside, but the BC-348 is keeping me warm inside. There are few radios in my collection I love more than this one.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>She’s built like a tank and warms my shack and my soul!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not much to say here other than it’s cold outside, but the BC-348 is keeping me warm inside. There are few radios in my collection I love more than this one. She’s built like a tank and warms my shack and my soul!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,43,4796],"tags":[3803,1421,2812,2813],"class_list":["post-47876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-bc-348-am","tag-bc-348-q","tag-signal-corps-bc-348","tag-signal-corps-bc-348-q"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-csc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17257,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/listening-to-the-voice-of-greece-on-the-signal-corps-bc-348-q\/","url_meta":{"origin":47876,"position":0},"title":"Listening to the Voice of Greece on the Signal Corps BC-348-Q","author":"Thomas","date":"February 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday evening, I warmed up my Signal Corps BC-348-Q and tuned\u00a0to 9,420 kHz to see if the Voice of Greece happened to be on the air. 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