{"id":61740,"date":"2025-01-18T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61740"},"modified":"2025-03-15T07:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:36:25","slug":"the-curious-case-of-the-nibi-nibi-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-curious-case-of-the-nibi-nibi-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Radio Corner: The Curious Case of the Nibi-Nibi Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61742\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1-768x433.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Globe-1-624x352.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bob Colegrove, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">No mention of UTC or frequency in the attached. Made my day, but some folks apparently were not amused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61741 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi.jpg\" alt=\"Nibi-Nibi Islands A few months ago there appeared in the bulletins of various clubs and organizations an item about a new station located in the Nibi-Nibi Islands. Additional reports on this station have been received from time to time, with the latest report containing information on new programming. The National Geographic Society claims that there is no such island. And investigation into the situation by several veteran DX'ers has failed to locate the original source of the information. It is believed now that the entire episode was a hoax. While it may have begun as a harmless prank, it has, nevertheless, consumed the time and efforts of the editors of many clubs, organizations, and DX programs. This sort of thing has no place in short-wave listening. It is sincerely hoped that all DX'ers will be on the lookout for such obviously phony reporting and will do all they can to discourage any repetition of this kind.\" width=\"1395\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi.jpg 1395w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nibi-Nibi-624x281.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1395px) 100vw, 1395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Source was &#8220;Short-Wave Report&#8221; by Hank Bennett, Popular Electronics, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., New York, p. 86, March 1959.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Regards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bob Colegrove<\/p>\n<p><strong>This absolutely made my day as well, Bob! What a delightful bit of pranksterism from our esteemed DXing history.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bob Colegrove, who writes: Hi Thomas, No mention of UTC or frequency in the attached. Made my day, but some folks apparently were not amused. Source was &#8220;Short-Wave Report&#8221; by Hank Bennett, Popular Electronics, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., New York, p. 86, March 1959. Regards, Bob Colegrove This absolutely made [&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":[460,3,305],"tags":[7988,4101,10672,1302],"class_list":["post-61740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-bob-colegrove","tag-funny","tag-nibi-nibi-islands","tag-radio-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g3O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65188,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bobs-radio-corner-what-is-it-about-radio-dials\/","url_meta":{"origin":61740,"position":0},"title":"Bob&#8217;s Radio Corner: What Is It About Radio Dials?","author":"Thomas","date":"January 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"- Recollections of Bob Colegrove In the late \u201860s, I worked as a mechanical assembler at Communications, Electronics Inc. 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