{"id":60004,"date":"2024-06-15T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T11:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60004"},"modified":"2024-06-15T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T11:03:45","slug":"today-uncle-bills-melting-pot-features-music-from-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/today-uncle-bills-melting-pot-features-music-from-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot features music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57004\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Norelco-Dial-Angle-Dark-1-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, June 15, 2024<br \/>\nOn June 15, 2024, we will feature music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.<br \/>\nTimes &amp; Frequencies (note new schedule) are:<br \/>\n<strong>1700-1800 UTC 9670 kHz<\/strong> with beam E-F towards South Asia (but quite good in Russia also)<br \/>\n<strong>1900-2000 UTC 3955 &amp; 6070 kHz<\/strong> (omnidirectional for Europe and beyond)<br \/>\n<strong>2300-2400 UTC 3955 kHz<\/strong> (omnidirectional for Europe and beyond)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">All transmissions from Channel 292, Rohrbach, Germany<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reception reports from websdrs (as well as regular radios of course) are honored with eQSLs IF<br \/>\n1. The entire program is reported<br \/>\n2. If a web sdr, which specific one is included in the report<br \/>\nShorter reports will be acknowledged with a brief note of thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, June 15, 2024 On June 15, 2024, we will feature music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Times &amp; Frequencies (note new schedule) are: 1700-1800 UTC 9670 kHz with beam E-F towards South Asia (but quite good in [&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":[442,3],"tags":[4685,5983],"class_list":["post-60004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-bill-tilford","tag-uncle-bills-melting-pot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fBO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60159,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/from-the-isle-of-music-and-uncle-bills-melting-pot-schedules-for-july-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":60004,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music and Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot Schedules for July 2024","author":"Thomas","date":"July 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: 1. 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From the Isle of Music, November 9, 2024 We will take a break from Cubadisco 2024 nominees to recognize the centenary of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","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\/2020\/04\/Radio-Dial-Nostalgia-e1587750226607.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Radio-Dial-Nostalgia-e1587750226607.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Radio-Dial-Nostalgia-e1587750226607.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Radio-Dial-Nostalgia-e1587750226607.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":61034,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/revised-b24-for-from-the-isle-of-music-and-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":60004,"position":3},"title":"Revised B24 Schedule: From the Isle of Music and Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"November 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: Due to a surprise appearance by CRI at 1800 UTC, the originally-scheduled transmissions of FTIOM and UBMP at that hour are being pushed back to 2200 UTC. 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