{"id":63025,"date":"2025-05-25T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63025"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:16:19","slug":"hcjbs-legacy-lives-on-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hcjbs-legacy-lives-on-in-western-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"HCJB\u2019s Legacy Lives On in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Bill Meara, who recently connected with VK6JMS\u2014an amateur radio operator working from none other than HCJB\u2019s former shortwave site in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In his latest SolderSmoke post<\/a>, Bill shares details about the station\u2019s legacy, its impressive TCI antennas, and the ministry that still broadcasts to the Asia Pacific today.<\/p>\n

Click here to check it out.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bill Meara, who recently connected with VK6JMS\u2014an amateur radio operator working from none other than HCJB\u2019s former shortwave site in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In his latest SolderSmoke post, Bill shares details about the station\u2019s legacy, its impressive TCI antennas, and the ministry that still broadcasts 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":[3,43],"tags":[3254,2852,4082],"class_list":["post-63025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bill-meara","tag-hcjb","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gox","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58831,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-intercept-watch\/","url_meta":{"origin":63025,"position":0},"title":"“The Intercept Watch”","author":"Thomas","date":"January 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Meara who writes: Thomas: I found this in an old radio magazine. 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