{"id":5322,"date":"2013-01-07T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2013-01-07T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:06:45","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-nacional-da-amazonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-nacional-da-amazonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: R\u00e1dio Nacional da Amaz\u00f4nia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5323\" alt=\"RadioNacionalDaAmazonia\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia.jpg 265w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia-100x62.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/>This past weekend, Radio Nacional da Amazonia had a booming signal into North America on 11,780 kHz. I recorded their broadcast throughout the night, assuming it would eventually fade; however, it did not.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re in the mood for some Brazilian music and commentary today, this eight-hour recording of Radio Nacional da Amazonia should satisfy.<\/p>\n<p>This was recorded on Sunday, January 6th\u2013starting around 02:30 UTC\u2013on 11.78 MHz. <a title=\"Radio Nacional da Amazonia 11.78 MHz\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia-11.78MHz-06J.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording as an MP3 file<\/a> (276 MB!), or listen in the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioNacionalDaAmazonia\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note to those subscribed to our <a title=\"The SWLing Post Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-swling-post-podcast\/\">podcast<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was a bit reluctant to include a link to the podcast feed as this file is so large; I rarely make eight-hour recordings. I did offer it up, however, based on the fact that there are so many other podcasters who regularly serve up files in excess of 250 MB. If you believe this file is too large to be included as a podcast, please comment; I certainly don&#8217;t want to choke up your bandwidth or overwhelm your iPod! \u00a0But it&#8217;s wonderful listening.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Radio Nacional da Amazonia had a booming signal into North America on 11,780 kHz. I recorded their broadcast throughout the night, assuming it would eventually fade; however, it did not. So, if you&#8217;re in the mood for some Brazilian music and commentary today, this eight-hour recording of Radio Nacional da Amazonia should [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,746,43],"tags":[1594,1593,1064,611,737],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-brazil","tag-radio-nacional-da-amazonia","tag-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1nQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6383,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-nacional-da-amazonia-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5322,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: R\u00e1dio Nacional da Amaz\u00f4nia","author":"Thomas","date":"April 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, R\u00e1dio Nacional da Amaz\u00f4nia had a booming signal into North America on 11,780 kHz. 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