{"id":5346,"date":"2013-01-10T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:54:14","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5347\" alt=\"NHK-Radio-Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NHK-Radio-Japan.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NHK-Radio-Japan.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NHK-Radio-Japan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NHK-Radio-Japan-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This past weekend, I recorded several stations on the 25 meter band, including (recently posted)\u00a0<a title=\"Shortwave Radio Recordings: All India Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio\/\">All India Radio<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Shortwave Radio Recordings: R\u00e1dio Nacional da Amaz\u00f4nia\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-nacional-da-amazonia\/\">Radio Nacional da Amazonia<\/a>. Though I noted\u00a0<a title=\"Shortwave Radio Recordings: R\u00e1dio Nacional da Amaz\u00f4nia\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-nacional-da-amazonia\/\">Radio Nacional<\/a>&#8216;s booming signal into North America, Radio Japan&#8217;s audio fidelity was simply amazing; very clear, no sign of transmitter hum nor distortion, and only the slightest QSB. Their signal emanated\u00a0from the\u00a0<a title=\"Where in the world is this?\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=05.00,-053.00\" target=\"_blank\">Montsinery site<\/a> in French Guiana&#8211;a mere stone&#8217;s throw away in the shortwave world.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded a little over an hour of their broadcast on 11.935 MHz, January 6th, 2013 starting around 02:30 UTC. The recording features Japanese commentary and a variety of music&#8211;it starts with the show tune\u00a0<em>Memory<\/em> from the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical <em>Cats<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Radio Japan recording (MP3)\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioJapan-11.935Mhz-06January2013\/RadioJapan-11.934985mhz-06jan13.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the MP3 of the recording<\/a>, or listen below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioJapan-11.935Mhz-06January2013\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, I recorded several stations on the 25 meter band, including (recently posted)\u00a0All India Radio and\u00a0Radio Nacional da Amazonia. Though I noted\u00a0Radio Nacional&#8216;s booming signal into North America, Radio Japan&#8217;s audio fidelity was simply amazing; very clear, no sign of transmitter hum nor distortion, and only the slightest QSB. Their signal emanated\u00a0from the\u00a0Montsinery [&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":[56,442,746,1167],"tags":[1545,1600,1064,4106,611,737],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-nhk","tag-radio-japan","tag-radio-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1oe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6267,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-nhk-radio-japan\/","url_meta":{"origin":5346,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: NHK Radio Japan","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For you listening pleasure: thirty minutes of NHK Radio Japan's English language service. This broadcast was recorded an hour ago, at 10:00 UTC on 9,625 (April\u00a019, 2013). \u00a0Though NHK has dropped their English language services into North America, you can still receive their broadcasts targeting other regions quite easily. 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RNZI has authoritative news--with a focus on NZ and the Pacific islands--music, sports and their own unique character, though they operate on a very modest budget by international broadcasting standards. 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