{"id":51381,"date":"2021-12-29T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51381"},"modified":"2021-12-29T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:26:51","slug":"exercising-over-the-air-carlos-shortwave-art-and-recording-of-radio-oromiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/exercising-over-the-air-carlos-shortwave-art-and-recording-of-radio-oromiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercising Over the Air: Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art and Recording of Radio Oromiya"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff<\/a>, who shares yet another example\u00a0of his radio log art<\/a>, this time for clandestine station, Radio Oromiya.<\/p>\n

Carlos notes:<\/p>\n

Thomas, as you know I’m monitoring broadcastings from and to war-torn Ethiopia, documenting the conflict via shortwave broadcastings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is particularly curious.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The presenter is counting from zero to ten, in Oromo language. At first I thought it was a number station or codified message of some sort.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But thanks the patience and kindness of Ethiopian Twitter users, I realized that I listened to a physical fitness training via radio, part of Ethiopian govt’s effort to fight sedentarism and encourage its citizens to engage regular physical activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n