{"id":6435,"date":"2013-05-05T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2013-05-05T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:35:59","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6436\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/220px-Art_Of_Noise.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6436\" alt=\"The Art of Noise kicks off this Mighty KBC broadcast. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/220px-Art_Of_Noise.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/220px-Art_Of_Noise.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/220px-Art_Of_Noise-96x100.jpeg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art of Noise kicks off this Mighty KBC broadcast. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on their new summer frequency of 9,925 kHz. Their signal from <a title=\"Nauen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nauen_Transmitter_Station\" target=\"_blank\">Nauen<\/a>, Germany was packing 125 kW&#8211;it was amazingly\u00a0strong into North America. As we\u2019ve come to expect, the KBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Giant Jukebox<\/em>\u00a0of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades; DJ, &#8220;Uncle Eric&#8221; knows how to entertain and spin the tunes!<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full recording below in the embedded player, or\u00a0simply <a title=\"Save the MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/MightyKBC9.925MHz05May130000Z\/MightyKBC-9.925MHz-05May13-0000Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">right click this link and save the MP3 file to your computer<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/MightyKBC9.925MHz05May130000Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice that Kim Elliott has another installation of digital text modes in this broadcast.\u00a0Decode these digital modes using\u00a0<a title=\"FLDIGI download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w1hkj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fldigi from www.w1hkj.com<\/a>. Be sure to check out Dr. Elliott&#8217;s <a title=\"VOA Radiogram\" href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\/post\/49587553626\/mfsk-modes-at-various-speeds-on-the-mighty-kbc\" target=\"_blank\">VOA Radiogram<\/a> website for full details about this broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on their new summer frequency of 9,925 kHz. Their signal from Nauen, Germany was packing 125 kW&#8211;it was amazingly\u00a0strong into North America. As we\u2019ve come to expect, the KBC\u2019s\u00a0Giant Jukebox\u00a0of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades; DJ, &#8220;Uncle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[56,1114,442,1557,746,43,1167],"tags":[576,79,4106,1477,573],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-music","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-kbc","tag-podcasts","tag-recordings","tag-the-giant-jukebox","tag-the-mighty-kbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1FN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10380,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":6435,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,925\u00a0kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. KBC\u2019s signal was clean and blowtorch strength into North America.\u00a0Though I used my WinRadio Excalibur to record the broadcast, I stepped outside with my recently acquired RadioShack DX-402\u00a0(above) and heard KBC as if were a local\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DX-402-KBC-2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DX-402-KBC-2-1024x583.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5666,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc\/","url_meta":{"origin":6435,"position":1},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC broadcast again early this morning (from 00:00-02:00 UTC) on 9,450 kHz. Their signal was quite strong into North America and there was very little interference of any sort. As we've come to expect, the KBC's Giant Jukebox of music has a lot of rock-n-roll variety, spanning the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"tom-petty","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tom-petty-244x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13345,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":6435,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: three hours of The Mighty KBC. This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9,925 kHz. I used the TitanSDR Pro hooked up to my skyloop antenna to capture this recording--in truth, though, the signal was so strong it could've been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"KBC-On-TitanSDR","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/KBC-On-TitanSDR.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8948,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":6435,"position":3},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"March 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: two hours of The Mighty KBC, recorded on March 9, 2014 starting at 00:00 UTC on their winter frequency of 7,375 kHz. 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