{"id":61189,"date":"2024-11-26T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61189"},"modified":"2024-11-23T08:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T12:43:54","slug":"tom-recommends-swl-youtube-channel-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/tom-recommends-swl-youtube-channel-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom recommends SWL YouTube channel from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10202\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, TomL, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I wanted to share with you a YouTube channel &#8220;SWL&#8221; from Andre in Johannesburg, SA. He is an avid SWLer and routinely does head-to-head comparisons of portable radios. He has been doing weekly Radio News the last couple of months and has a very pleasant delivery of news and reception reports. Let&#8217;s give him some love and share his YouTube channel on SWLing Blog so people can be introduced to him. He plans to keep doing these weekly news readings as long as there is interest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvdw9FAhIjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In this video<\/a> he talks about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Tecsun PL660 discontinued, PL680 will be higher priced.<\/li>\n<li>AWR stops using Moosbrunn, Austria site.<\/li>\n<li>BBC Somali broadcast inconsistencies.<\/li>\n<li>Two reception reports from Istanbul and India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvdw9FAhIjk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, TomL, who writes: I wanted to share with you a YouTube channel &#8220;SWL&#8221; from Andre in Johannesburg, SA. He is an avid SWLer and routinely does head-to-head comparisons of portable radios. He has been doing weekly Radio News the last couple of months and has a very pleasant delivery [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fUV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44810,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/vals-morse-code-videos-and-practice-sessions\/","url_meta":{"origin":61189,"position":0},"title":"Val&#8217;s Morse Code videos and practice sessions","author":"Thomas","date":"August 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Valery Titievsky, who writes: Perhaps it will be interesting to SWLing Post subscribers. 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