{"id":63280,"date":"2025-06-27T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63280"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:50:41","slug":"feba-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/feba-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"FEBA, Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34616\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It seems that fewer shortwave broadcasters utilize an interval signal these days. However, of the ones that do, at least a couple seem to have stood the test of time, going back over 50 years. The bellbird from Radio New Zealand comes to mind, and then FEBA, once broadcasting from the Seychelles Islands, and now airing programs from different transmitter sites, continues to use \u201cWhat a Friend We have in Jesus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Listen to this signature tune here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">FEBA Seychelles recorded February 22, 1973 around 1800 UTC on 11955 kHz, as heard in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63280-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-Seychelles-1973.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-Seychelles-1973.mp3\">https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-Seychelles-1973.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">FEBA radio via transmitter at Al-Dhabbiyah, UAE (using SDR at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) recorded June 24, 2025 signing off at 0230 UTC on 9540 kHz:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63280-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-via-21472.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2025-06-24T02_27_48Z_9540.00_am.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-via-21472.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2025-06-24T02_27_48Z_9540.00_am.mp3\">https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FEBA-via-21472.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2025-06-24T02_27_48Z_9540.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Can you think of any others?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">73<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dan Greenall,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: It seems that fewer shortwave broadcasters utilize an interval signal these days. However, of the ones that do, at least a couple seem to have stood the test of time, going back over 50 years. The bellbird from Radio New Zealand comes to mind, and [&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":[3,305,746,43],"tags":[10271,7764,10848,94],"class_list":["post-63280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-far-east-broadcasting-company","tag-feba","tag-interval-signals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gsE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64745,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dxing-the-middle-east-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":63280,"position":0},"title":"DXing the Middle East &#8211; Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"November 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dan Greenall This region consists of the western part of Asia from Turkey to Iran including the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt. 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There is usually a rooster\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62314,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/finding-the-kookaburra-on-shortwave-past-and-present\/","url_meta":{"origin":63280,"position":3},"title":"Finding the Kookaburra on Shortwave\u2014Past and Present","author":"Thomas","date":"March 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas I still have warm memories of tuning into Radio Australia on 9580 kHz at sunrise during my early days of shortwave listening. 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