{"id":5332,"date":"2013-01-08T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:12:11","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: All India Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5334\" alt=\"taj_mahal\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/taj_mahal-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/taj_mahal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/taj_mahal-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/taj_mahal.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On of my favorite shortwave stations for music, besides\u00a0<a title=\"Posts with Voice of Greece\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/voice-of-greece\" target=\"_blank\">Voice of Greece,<\/a> is All India Radio (AIR). Since their broadcasts originate on the other side of the planet (from my location), their signal bounces off the ionosphere many times before I ever hear it. I actually like the result of this; the static of space makes their already beautiful music sound even more textured, enhancing the distance of its source, and heightening the music&#8217;s sense of mystery and nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this AIR broadcast on Sunday, January 6th\u2013around 02:30 UTC\u2013on 11.74 MHz. <a title=\"All India Radio - 11.74 MHz shortwave\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AllIndiaRadio-11.74Mhz-06Jan2013-0230Utc\/AllIndiaRadio-11.74MHz-06Jan13.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can download the MP3 by clicking here<\/a>, or simply listen in the embedded player below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AllIndiaRadio-11.74Mhz-06Jan2013-0230Utc\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On of my favorite shortwave stations for music, besides\u00a0Voice of Greece, is All India Radio (AIR). Since their broadcasts originate on the other side of the planet (from my location), their signal bounces off the ionosphere many times before I ever hear it. I actually like the result of this; the static of space makes [&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],"tags":[52,53,4106,611,737],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","tag-air","tag-all-india-radio","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1o0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5356,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio-on-the-bonito-radiojet\/","url_meta":{"origin":5332,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: All India Radio on the Bonito RadioJet","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After posting my latest All India Radio recording, SWLing Post reader, Pete, suggested that I check out their broadcasts starting around 21:00 UTC on\u00a011,670 and 9,445 kHz, as they are quite strong into North America. 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Since their broadcasts originate on the other side of the planet (from my North American location), their signal bounces off the ionosphere many times before I ever hear it. 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