{"id":53463,"date":"2022-07-14T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53463"},"modified":"2022-07-14T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:30:18","slug":"listening-to-shortwave-australia-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/listening-to-shortwave-australia-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Shortwave Australia this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m traveling at present and staying in a hotel where, let’s just say, QRM is heavy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I decided to cruise the KiwiSDR network and found myself on the VK2GGC KiwiSDR<\/a> in Hunter Valley NSW, Australia. As I was band-scanning, I stumbled upon Shortwave Australia on 4,835 kHz around 9:40 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was great hearing this low power shortwave broadcaster on the air again!\u00a0 Check out the recording below with ID:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/vk2ggc.ddns.net_2022-07-14T09_38_46Z_4835.00_sam\/vk2ggc.ddns.net_2022-07-14T09_38_46Z_4835.00_sam.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to download audio.<\/a><\/p>\n

WebSDRs are such a wonderful resource when you truly need to escape QRM. It’s fun to travel the globe and tune through the bands like a local. Again, it’s great to hear Shortwave Australia again–I’m curious if anyone has logged them as DX from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m traveling at present and staying in a hotel where, let’s just say, QRM is heavy. I decided to cruise the KiwiSDR network and found myself on the VK2GGC KiwiSDR in Hunter Valley NSW, Australia. As I was band-scanning, I stumbled upon Shortwave Australia on 4,835 kHz around 9:40 UTC. It was great hearing this […]<\/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":[3,43,158],"tags":[4741,9896,737],"class_list":["post-53463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-kiwisdr","tag-shortwave-australia","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dUj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29758,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/breaking-news-australian-broadcaster-4kz-now-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":53463,"position":0},"title":"Breaking News: Australian broadcaster 4KZ now on shortwave!","author":"Thomas","date":"December 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Phil Brennan (VK8VWA), who notes that 4KZ started broadcasting today in Australia. Phil notes: At last! ID for 4KZ confirmed at 0750 [UTC] Wednesday 20 December on 5,055 kHz. Thank you, Phil--and thanks for following this development so closely over the past few weeks.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innisfail-Queensland-Australia-4KZ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innisfail-Queensland-Australia-4KZ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innisfail-Queensland-Australia-4KZ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21542,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/marks-multi-user-sdr-is-now-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":53463,"position":1},"title":"Mark’s multi-user SDR is now online","author":"Thomas","date":"September 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, has just announced that his new Beaglebone-powered KiwiSDR receiver is online. \u00a0Mark notes: Please try out my multi-user 0-30MHz SDR[.]\u00a0The test system is operating from my monitoring station at Freemans Reach in south east Australia (near Sydney). [...]The test system is fully self contained and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antennas"","block_context":{"text":"Antennas","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/antennas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mark-fahey-beagle-kiwi-sdr","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mark-Fahey-Beagle-Kiwi-SDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mark-Fahey-Beagle-Kiwi-SDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mark-Fahey-Beagle-Kiwi-SDR.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mark-Fahey-Beagle-Kiwi-SDR.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":30277,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ivan-compares-the-airspy-hf-to-the-kiwisdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":53463,"position":2},"title":"Ivan compares the AirSpy HF+ to the KiwiSDR","author":"Thomas","date":"January 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: I have been running a public Kiwisdr server for a while and yesterday decided to plug in the new Airspy HF + into the same antenna for a side to side comparison. 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