{"id":62584,"date":"2025-04-15T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62584"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:19:08","slug":"franks-guide-to-listening-to-ham-radio-comms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/franks-guide-to-listening-to-ham-radio-comms\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank’s Guide to Listening to Ham Radio Comms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Icom<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Frank, who notes that he has added a new post to his blog where he shares a simple method for tuning in to radio amateurs using the KiwiSDR network. He wrote this for anyone curious about exploring ham radio activity online. You can check it out here: How to Easily Listen to Radio Amateurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frank, who notes that he has added a new post to his blog where he shares a simple method for tuning in to radio amateurs using the KiwiSDR network. He wrote this for anyone curious about exploring ham radio activity online. You can check it out here: How to […]<\/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":[545,3],"tags":[3009,4102],"class_list":["post-62584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-frank","tag-ham-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ghq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/alexanders-pov-community-disaster-preparedness-favors-ham-radio-in-germany\/","url_meta":{"origin":62584,"position":0},"title":"Alexander’s POV: Community disaster preparedness favors ham radio in Germany","author":"Thomas","date":"December 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: A Message from Germany: Growing Disaster Preparedness favours Ham Radio For a long time most radio amateurs in Germany found themselves in the defensive: Building regulations, combined with EMC standards, heavily restrict antenna possibilities. 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