{"id":65452,"date":"2026-02-28T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65452"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:42:32","slug":"after-102-years-on-am-abc-perth-moves-to-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/after-102-years-on-am-abc-perth-moves-to-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"After 102 Years on AM, ABC Perth Moves to FM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image Source: ABC<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributors Alan and Tracy Wood for sharing the following news. Tracy writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas –
\nThis has an SWL connection as VLW9 and VLW15 ABC-Perth were widely heard in the glory days of shortwave.<\/p>\n

The article has several other stories linked to radio, the tower one being the most interesting.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-23\/abc-radio-perth-switches-to-102-5fm\/106369210<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracy Wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Alan and Tracy Wood for sharing the following news. Tracy writes: Thomas – This has an SWL connection as VLW9 and VLW15 ABC-Perth were widely heard in the glory days of shortwave. The article has several other stories linked to radio, the tower one being the most interesting. https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-23\/abc-radio-perth-switches-to-102-5fm\/106369210 […]<\/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":[373,433,3],"tags":[86,11050,887],"class_list":["post-65452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-abc","tag-abc-perth","tag-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h1G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60168,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/dan-asks-what-is-your-longest-dx\/","url_meta":{"origin":65452,"position":0},"title":"Dan asks: “What is your longest DX?”","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: What is your longest DX (from transmitter to receiver)? 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