{"id":5666,"date":"2013-02-17T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2013-02-17T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:05:23","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5668\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5668\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5668\" alt=\"tom-petty\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tom-petty-244x300.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tom-petty-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tom-petty-81x100.jpg 81w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tom-petty.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This episode of The Giant Jukebox features one of my favorites from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on 9,450 kHz. Their signal was quite strong into North America and there was very little interference of any sort. As we&#8217;ve come to expect, the KBC&#8217;s <em>Giant Jukebox<\/em> of music has a lot of rock-n-roll variety, spanning the decades.<\/p>\n<p>And as I&#8217;ve mentioned before, perhaps what I love most about The Mighty KBC is their format; it harkens back to the day when my local radio stations had professional DJ&#8217;s behind the mic, people who loved music and loved their job. \u00a0Thanks to Eric and The Mighty KBC for blasting the Giant Jukebox\u00a0across\u00a0the planet! I look forward to their broadcast every weekend.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full recording below in the embedded player, or <a title=\"Download the Mighty KBC broadcast as an MP3!\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TheMightyKBC9.45MHz17FEB130000UTC\/TheMightyKBC-9.45MHz-17FEB13-0000UTC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">simply right click this link and save the MP3 file to your computer<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheMightyKBC9.45MHz17FEB130000UTC\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that Kim Elliott has another installation of digital text modes in this broadcast. At about 01:30 UTC, Olivia 8-2000 will be centered on 1500 Hertz, and PSKR125 centered on 2800 Hertz. At just before 02:00 UTC, images in MFSK32 will be at 1000 and 2000 Hertz, with another image in MFSK16 at 2600 Hertz.<\/p>\n<p>Decode these digital modes using <a title=\"FLDIGI download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w1hkj.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fldigi from www.w1hkj.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on 9,450 kHz. Their signal was quite strong into North America and there was very little interference of any sort. As we&#8217;ve come to expect, the KBC&#8217;s Giant Jukebox of music has a lot of rock-n-roll variety, spanning the decades. And as I&#8217;ve mentioned [&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":[56,1114,746,43,1167],"tags":[1665,576,1664,1666,1706,1459,1708,1707,4106,611,737,573],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-digital-text-modes","tag-kbc","tag-kim-elliott","tag-mfsk16","tag-mfsk32","tag-mighty-kbc","tag-olivia-8-2000","tag-pskr125","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-1to","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6435,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5666,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"May 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on their new summer frequency of 9,925 kHz. 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