{"id":58424,"date":"2023-12-11T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58424"},"modified":"2023-12-11T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:54:42","slug":"announcing-don-moores-latest-book-tales-of-a-vagabond-dxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/announcing-don-moores-latest-book-tales-of-a-vagabond-dxer\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Don Moore&#8217;s latest book: Tales of a Vagabond DXer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/don-moore\/?swcfpc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Moore<\/a>\u2013noted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donmooredxer.com\/books\/peru.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author<\/a>, traveler, and DXer\u2013for sharing the following announcement about his latest book! <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Don is a brilliant author&#8211;you&#8217;ll enjoy accompanying him on his travels and radio journey in this latest book. I highly recommend all of his work!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><b><i>Tales of a Vagabond DXer<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VagabondDXerCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58425 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VagabondDXerCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VagabondDXerCover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VagabondDXerCover-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tales of a Vagabond DXer<\/i> by Don Moore is a new book focusing on Latin American radio and DXing. In this 300-page volume, Don blends together stories from his radio station visits, his travels, and his experiences as a DXer. Don has been an active member of the DX listening hobby for over five decades. His interest in Latin American radio inspired him to serve in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has traveled extensively in Latin America and visited more than 150 radio stations in the region. He has written dozens of articles on Latin American DXing for radio hobby publications including <i>Monitoring Times<\/i>, the <i>NASWA Journal<\/i>, <i>Review of International Broadcasting,<\/i> and <i>Passport to World Band Radio<\/i>. Today, Don is a regular contributor to the <i>SWLing Post Blog<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tales of a Vagabond DXer<\/i> is available from Amazon.com in trade-sized paperback for $12.99 or Kindle eBook for $4.99, or for equivalent prices in local currencies on non-US Amazon stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3t98tZt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3t98tZt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kindle: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/47O3Nak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/47O3Nak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: the Amazon Affiliate links above not only support author Don Moore, but Amazon shares a small percentage of the final sale with the SWLing Post as well.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and friend Don Moore\u2013noted\u00a0author, traveler, and DXer\u2013for sharing the following announcement about his latest book! Don is a brilliant author&#8211;you&#8217;ll enjoy accompanying him on his travels and radio journey in this latest book. I highly recommend all of his work! &nbsp; Tales of a Vagabond DXer Tales of a [&hellip;]<\/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":[251,5935,433,3,43,1154],"tags":[1810,10391],"class_list":["post-58424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dx","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-travel","tag-don-moore","tag-tales-of-a-vagabond-dxer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fck","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61361,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/perfect-gift-or-holiday-read-tales-of-a-vagabond-dxer-by-don-moore\/","url_meta":{"origin":58424,"position":0},"title":"Perfect Gift or Holiday Read: Tales of a Vagabond DXer by Don Moore","author":"Thomas","date":"December 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I had the pleasure of posting the latest installment of Don Moore\u2019s \u201cPhoto Album\u201d series\u00a0on the SWLing Post. 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