{"id":66596,"date":"2026-07-15T01:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66596"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:32:34","slug":"the-secret-listeners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-secret-listeners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Secret Listeners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17282\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hello Thomas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This might be of interest to other subscribers who fall into the intersection of a Venn diagram where radio types meet military historians.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wiEmP0dgd7s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Kind regards<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">David<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you, David! We actually shared <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-secret-listeners\/\">this video last year<\/a>, but it&#8217;s such a good one, I thought it&#8217;d be worth reposting.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David, who writes: Hello Thomas. This might be of interest to other subscribers who fall into the intersection of a Venn diagram where radio types meet military historians. Kind regards David Thank you, David! We actually shared this video last year, but it&#8217;s such a good one, I thought [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hk8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47600,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/can-you-help-david-locate-bolivian-mining-radio-station-recordings\/","url_meta":{"origin":66596,"position":0},"title":"Can you help David locate Bolivian Mining Radio Station recordings?","author":"Thomas","date":"February 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy, David Goren, could use your help. 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Take note that this is not\u00a0a radio documentary--rather,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DG-Performance-Shortwave","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DG-Performance-Shortwave-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":37088,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/abc-has-appointed-david-anderson-as-managing-director\/","url_meta":{"origin":66596,"position":4},"title":"ABC has appointed David Anderson as managing director","author":"Thomas","date":"May 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Guardian via Michael Bird) David Anderson, a 30-year veteran at the public broadcaster, has been appointed ABC managing director by the chair, Ita Buttrose, replacing\u00a0the sacked Michelle Guthrie. \u201cMr Anderson is an exceptional media professional with strong content, digital and strategic experience,\u201d Buttrose said. \u201cThe ABC Board resolved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ABC-Australia-Melbourne-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ABC-Australia-Melbourne-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ABC-Australia-Melbourne-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11650,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/david-gorens-cold-war-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":66596,"position":5},"title":"David Goren&#8217;s Cold War mix","author":"Thomas","date":"December 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Feeling nostalgic for the Cold War? \u00a0David Goren recently posted the following audio\u00a0mix and description on his excellent website, Shortwaveology.net: \"This mashup of vintage cold war propaganda (mostly) from Radio Moscow's North American Service was made for The Schizophonic Archive, a part of The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Shortwaveology","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shortwaveology-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66597,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596\/revisions\/66597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}