{"id":61829,"date":"2025-01-24T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61829"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:49:45","slug":"dan-revisits-radio-japan-a-half-century-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/dan-revisits-radio-japan-a-half-century-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Revisits Radio Japan: A Half-Century Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dan Greenall, who shares:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Running into an old friend<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hi Thomas<\/p>\n

I was doing some random tuning on shortwave this evening using the KiwiSDR at VK2ATZ in New South Wales, Australia, when I came upon a repeating music box-like tune on 13705 kHz that I thought had a familiar sound to it. It was like running into someone who you hadn’t seen in many years and trying to place where you knew them from. Yes, the sound was a bit different, perhaps even a little slower (age does that ?), but then it came to me, could it be Radio Japan, the overseas service of NHK? A quick check at Short-Wave.info revealed this was indeed NHK World Radio.<\/p>\n

It felt like I had found an old friend, one that I knew from my high school days over a half century ago. Still recognizable after all those years, and it felt good to know that they are still around.<\/p>\n

Attached are two recordings:<\/p>\n

Radio Japan, interval signal and bilingual ID, as heard in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada on 9505 kHz in 1970:<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Radio-Japan-1970.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

NHK World Radio, interval signal and sign on in Thai on 13705 kHz, January 23, 2025 at 2300Z (via VK2ATZ KiwiSDR):<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NHK-World-Radio-Japan-via-vk2atz.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2025-01-23T22_58_22Z_13705.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

73<\/p>\n

Dan Greenall
\nLondon, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares: Running into an old friend Hi Thomas I was doing some random tuning on shortwave this evening using the KiwiSDR at VK2ATZ in New South Wales, Australia, when I came upon a repeating music box-like tune on 13705 kHz that I thought had a familiar […]<\/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":[3194,3,305,746,43],"tags":[10271,1545,4094,1600,4106],"class_list":["post-61829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-nhk","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-japan","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g5f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6267,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-nhk-radio-japan\/","url_meta":{"origin":61829,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: NHK Radio Japan","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For you listening pleasure: thirty minutes of NHK Radio Japan's English language service. 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