{"id":5547,"date":"2013-02-03T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2013-02-03T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T15:47:37","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-giant-jukebox-and-kim-elliotts-digital-text-on-the-mighty-kbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-giant-jukebox-and-kim-elliotts-digital-text-on-the-mighty-kbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Giant Jukebox and Kim Elliott&#8217;s digital text on The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5341\" alt=\"wurlitzerJukebox\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wurlitzerJukebox-181x300.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wurlitzerJukebox-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wurlitzerJukebox-60x100.jpg 60w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wurlitzerJukebox.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/>The Mighty KBC&#8217;s broadcast from Bulgaria was <em>mighty<\/em> strong last night into North America. I recorded the full 2 hour show of <em>The Giant Jukebox<\/em> on 9,450 kHz beginning at 00:00 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve come to expect from The Mighty KBC, this show has an marvelous mix of rock-n-roll through the decades along with Eric&#8217;s professional DJing. The Mighty KBC has real people behind the music mix, a refreshing alternative to the iHeart Radio and Pandoras of the world.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click and save this MP3 of The Mighty KBC\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TheMightyKbc-ShortwaveTransmission-9.45Mhz-03Feb2013\/TheMightyKBC-9.45MHz-0000UTC-03Feb13.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download an MP3\u00a0of the entire show<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded\u00a0<a title=\"archive.org\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BustANutRadio-6.94Mhz-0545Utc-02Feb2013\" target=\"_blank\">Archive.org<\/a>\u00a0player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheMightyKbc-ShortwaveTransmission-9.45Mhz-03Feb2013\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this recording includes Kim Elliott&#8217;s digital text modes. For those of you who would like to decode it, here are the details:<\/p>\n<p><em>At about 01:30 into the recording, 4xPSK63R is centered on 1000 Hz and MFSK64 centered on 2000 Hz. (For 4XPSK63R, use Fldigi 3.21.65 or newer: OpMode &gt; PSKR &gt; MultiCarrier &gt; 4XPSK63R.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At just before the end of the transmission, an image will be transmitted in the MFSK16 mode. Also, MT63-2000 (long interleave) will be centered on 1500 Hz. This will be an Flmsg formatted transmission, with html. Fldigi and Flmsg can be downloaded from <a title=\"FLDigi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w1hkj.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.w1hkj.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please comment if you were able to decode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty KBC&#8217;s broadcast from Bulgaria was mighty strong last night into North America. I recorded the full 2 hour show of The Giant Jukebox on 9,450 kHz beginning at 00:00 UTC. As I&#8217;ve come to expect from The Mighty KBC, this show has an marvelous mix of rock-n-roll through the decades along with Eric&#8217;s [&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":[56,442,746,43,1167],"tags":[1611,1665,1664,1666,1112,4106,611,737,573],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-4xpsk63r","tag-digital-text-modes","tag-kim-elliott","tag-mfsk16","tag-mfsk64","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-the-mighty-kbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1rt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5666,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc\/","url_meta":{"origin":5547,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on 9,450 kHz. 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