{"id":60216,"date":"2024-07-14T06:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60216"},"modified":"2024-07-14T06:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:55:53","slug":"bob-shares-a-1968-off-air-recording-of-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bob-shares-a-1968-off-air-recording-of-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob shares a 1968 off-air recording of Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bob Purse, owner and curator of the excellent\u00a0Inches Per Second<\/a><\/em> audio archive and blog, who recently posted a 1968 recording of Radio Australia. This recording is in the queue to be published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>, but I thought I’d share it here first since I know there are so many Post<\/em> readers who are fans of Radio Australia.<\/p>\n

Bob shares the following notes with his recording on Inches Per Second<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Periodically, I have shared parts of the large collection of shortwave recordings, most of them of Australian programming, which I picked up… somewhere, at some point. I’ve shared most of it, at this point, but have a few tapes left. I held off on this because the quality is fairly poor, then near the end becomes abysmal, but I thought I should share it, since there is an audience for these recordings. The newscast heard here makes it clear (specifically, the golf results, among other stories) that at least part of this tape is from the second week of March, 1968. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/od.lk\/d\/M18zMDUwMzI1NDVf\/Even%20More%20Austrailian%20Shortwave.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Note that this recording will also be available on the SRAA<\/a> on August 16, 2024. Thanks again for sharing this, Bob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Purse, owner and curator of the excellent\u00a0Inches Per Second audio archive and blog, who recently posted a 1968 recording of Radio Australia. This recording is in the queue to be published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, but I thought I’d share it here first since I know […]<\/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":[3,305,746,43],"tags":[368,4106,10560],"class_list":["post-60216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-australia","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fFe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6838,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/seeking-1970s-era-recordings-of-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":60216,"position":0},"title":"Seeking 1970s era recordings of Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"July 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, I\u00a0received\u00a0a message from Sam, via the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. \u00a0He writes: Nice website! 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