{"id":63322,"date":"2025-07-03T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63322"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:24:31","slug":"podcast-explores-history-of-parque-do-rodeador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/podcast-explores-history-of-parque-do-rodeador\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Explores History of Parque do Rodeador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30771\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg 772w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1-624x382.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Rich Cuff for this tip: EBC has released <a href=\"https:\/\/radios.ebc.com.br\/servico-internacional-de-radio\/2025\/07\/listen-all-episodes-radio-documentary-parque-do-rodeador-half\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parque do Rodeador: Half a Century of Transmissions<\/a>, a five-part radio documentary (in English) exploring the history of Brazil\u2019s Rodeador Transmission Park\u2014one of Latin America\u2019s most powerful broadcast centers. Launched in 1974 during the Cold War, it enabled R\u00e1dio Nacional\u2019s shortwave and medium wave signals to reach across continents. The series covers its political and technical legacy, including Brazil\u2019s international broadcasting efforts, the challenges of aging infrastructure, and the future of digital shortwave. <a href=\"https:\/\/radios.ebc.com.br\/servico-internacional-de-radio\/2025\/07\/listen-all-episodes-radio-documentary-parque-do-rodeador-half\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Rich Cuff for this tip: EBC has released Parque do Rodeador: Half a Century of Transmissions, a five-part radio documentary (in English) exploring the history of Brazil\u2019s Rodeador Transmission Park\u2014one of Latin America\u2019s most powerful broadcast centers. Launched in 1974 during the Cold War, it enabled R\u00e1dio Nacional\u2019s shortwave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,1557,288],"tags":[1594,2002,10850],"class_list":["post-63322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-podcast","category-radio-history","tag-brazil","tag-rich-cuff","tag-rodeador-transmission-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gtk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45509,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/university-of-brasilia-and-the-ministry-of-science-technology-and-innovation-to-experiment-with-2-5-kw-drm-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":63322,"position":0},"title":"University of Brasilia and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to experiment with 2.5 kW DRM transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"September 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: DRM Consortium) A new era begins for Brazilian radio broadcasting with the arrival and installation of a first shortwave digital radio DRM transmitter developed and manufactured in the city of Porto Alegre by BT Transmitters. 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