{"id":48967,"date":"2021-05-21T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48967"},"modified":"2021-05-21T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:28:57","slug":"passing-by-the-delano-transmitting-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/passing-by-the-delano-transmitting-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing by the Delano Transmitting Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tracy Wood, who snapped the photo above as he passed by this former IBB facility. Tracy noted:<\/p>\n

The antenna field is still intact.<\/strong>
\nAs a kid, the signals would leak into cheap AM radio sets in Oregon.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could only imagine they would!\u00a0 Thanks for sharing this, Tracy. Amazing to see that the antenna field is still standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who snapped the photo above as he passed by this former IBB facility. Tracy noted: The antenna field is still intact. As a kid, the signals would leak into cheap AM radio sets in Oregon. I could only imagine they would!\u00a0 Thanks for sharing this, Tracy. Amazing […]<\/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":[56,960,3,288,43],"tags":[7394,543,10,2693,2694,182],"class_list":["post-48967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-tracy-wood-k7uo","tag-transmitter-site","tag-voa","tag-voa-delano","tag-voa-delano-california","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cJN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60161,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/three-photos-of-the-voa-delano-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":48967,"position":0},"title":"Three photos of the VOA Delano site","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes: Photos of former VOA Delano. 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