{"id":59186,"date":"2024-03-10T06:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59186"},"modified":"2024-03-10T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:40:23","slug":"paul-is-impressed-with-the-xhdata-sihuadon-r-108-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/paul-is-impressed-with-the-xhdata-sihuadon-r-108-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul is impressed with the XHDATA\/SIHUADON R-108 Shortwave Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul Jamet, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n

Near my home, there’s a small pond where shortwave reception is often very good…<\/p>\n

Receiver: XHDATA SIHUADON R-108 with single telescopic antenna (No external antenna)
\nRecording with a smartphone placed close to the receiver, which explains the ambient noise, especially the wind noise in the microphone.<\/p>\n

Here are two recordings:<\/p>\n

1 – The Voice of Korea in English<\/strong>; at the end of the recording, the frequencies are announced. Note that the Voice of Korea broadcasts to Europe in English from 3 pm to 4 pm UTC on 12015 kHz … But I got the best reception on 12020 kHz; this is not due to a defect in the receiver. At the same time, I also received 5\/5<\/p>\n

2 – RFA (Radio Free Asia) in Tibetan<\/strong> from the island of Tinian precisely on 12125 kHz; Cf. attached file; very strong signal<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/2024-03-08-voice-korea-12020k-hz-15h-51-utc\/2024-03-08_RFA_12125kHz_Tibetan_15h59UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

[…]Voice of Korea is becoming commonplace, but what’s interesting is to be able to pick up these distant stations with a little 45\u20ac receiver! I’m very happy with this little receiver for listening to shortwave.<\/p>\n

Click her to check out the XHDATA\/SIHUADON R-108 at XHDATA.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who writes: Hi Thomas, Near my home, there’s a small pond where shortwave reception is often very good… Receiver: XHDATA SIHUADON R-108 with single telescopic antenna (No external antenna) Recording with a smartphone placed close to the receiver, which explains the ambient noise, especially the wind noise […]<\/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":[3,26,746,43],"tags":[9691,4106,4082,10484,6621,10483],"class_list":["post-59186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-paul-jamet","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-sihuadon-r-108","tag-xhdata","tag-xhdata-r-108"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-foC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55682,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/paul-explores-the-incredibly-affordable-xhdata-d-219\/","url_meta":{"origin":59186,"position":0},"title":"Paul explores the incredibly affordable XHDATA D-219","author":"Thomas","date":"February 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Paul Jamet, who shares the following article that was originally published in the Radio Club du Perche Newsletter. 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