{"id":59522,"date":"2024-04-14T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59522"},"modified":"2024-04-14T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:15:55","slug":"rnz-changes-its-pips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/rnz-changes-its-pips\/","title":{"rendered":"RNZ changes its pips!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news from Radio New Zealand:<\/strong><\/p>\n

RNZ’s pips are changing – Can you hear the difference? (RNZ)<\/a><\/h1>\nhttps:\/\/podcast.radionz.co.nz\/mnr\/mnr-20240412-0756-rnz_national_its_the_pips-128.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

RNZ National is changing the pips – the beeps that mark the start of each hour which play immediately before the news bulletin broadcast.<\/p>\n

The pips were last changed in 2013 when a lightning strike damaged the clock which sent signals from the Measurement Standards Laboratory’s atomic clock.<\/p>\n

The replacement sound was a little higher. (Continue reading…<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news from Radio New Zealand: RNZ’s pips are changing – Can you hear the difference? (RNZ) https:\/\/podcast.radionz.co.nz\/mnr\/mnr-20240412-0756-rnz_national_its_the_pips-128.mp3 RNZ National is changing the pips – the beeps that mark the start of each hour which play immediately before the news bulletin broadcast. The pips […]<\/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":[56,3],"tags":[4895,259,1264,10506],"class_list":["post-59522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-david-iurescia-lw4daf","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rnz-pips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fu2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58436,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/rnz-shortwave-futureproofing-pacific-broadcasting-transmitter-replacement-underway\/","url_meta":{"origin":59522,"position":0},"title":"RNZ Shortwave: “Futureproofing Pacific broadcasting \u2013 transmitter replacement underway”","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following press release from Radio New Zealand: Futureproofing Pacific broadcasting \u2013 transmitter replacement underway Released at 2:34 pm on 12 December 2023 RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as \u201cTransmitter 1\u201d,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":61851,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/radio-waves-35-years-of-rnz-and-bulgarian-national-radios-new-qsl-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":59522,"position":1},"title":"Radio Waves: 35 Years of RNZ and Bulgarian National Radio\u2019s New QSL cards","author":"Thomas","date":"January 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0Enjoy! 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