{"id":7184,"date":"2013-09-03T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2013-09-03T07:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T11:27:48","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5300\" alt=\"greece\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greece.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greece.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greece-100x62.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lately, the <a title=\"VOG posts \" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/Voice-of-Greece\">Voice of Greece<\/a> has been playing very long sets of music; and not all of it Greek. I assume the break in format has to do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/ert-cuts\">reorganization of Greek national broadcasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe VoG could be cut without notice. With heavy budget cuts being dealt to national broadcasting, I doubt investment in shortwave radio will continue since they no longer even have an English language service. This is one of the reasons I&#8217;ve devoted a lot of recording time to VoG as of late. Admittedly,\u00a0I certainly hope I&#8217;m wrong about my prediction.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1st, I recorded over five hours of VoG, starting around 22:00 UTC. After about an hour of Greek commentary, you&#8217;ll hear music ranging from contemporary to classical.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"download the recording\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VOG9.420MHz01SEP132200Z\/VOG-9.420MHz-01SEP132200Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/VOG9.420MHz01SEP132200Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, the Voice of Greece has been playing very long sets of music; and not all of it Greek. I assume the break in format has to do with the reorganization of Greek national broadcasting. I believe VoG could be cut without notice. With heavy budget cuts being dealt to national broadcasting, I doubt investment [&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":[56,442,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[2056,1974,737,801,800,802],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ert","tag-ert-cuts","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-vog","tag-voice-of-greece","tag-voice-of-greece-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1RS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7060,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-8-14-but-no-signal-last-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":7184,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Greece 8-14, but no signal last night","author":"Thomas","date":"August 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a little concerned: last night I couldn't hear the Voice of Greece on 9,420 kHz. Not even a carrier. Though I've noticed they've had intermittent transmitter problems in some broadcasts (you can even hear it in the first minutes below) they haven't gone off the air this long in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"greece","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greece.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13554,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-listeners-hear-the-voice-of-greece-once-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":7184,"position":1},"title":"Shortwave listeners hear the Voice of Greece once again","author":"Thomas","date":"June 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Moshe, writes with some good news from the Voice of Greece: I'm listening to VOG at 9420kHz, At 11:27 local time 08:27UTC, 11\/06\/2015 the station identified itself as \"Ezo Athina, I Foni Dis Elladas\": \"This Is Athens, The Voice Of Greece\". Immediately after receiving Moshe's message, another Post\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"greece","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/greece.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/greece.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/greece.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/greece.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13678,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":7184,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Greece","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Early this morning, around 01:14 UTC, I tuned to 9,420 kHz with the Elad FDM-S2 and heard the Voice of Greece for the first time since the Greek national broadcaster,\u00a0ERT had been restored. SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, also noted the strong signal from Greece. \u00a0He has kindly shared the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Elad-FDM-S2-VOG","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Elad-FDM-S2-VOG-1024x750.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Elad-FDM-S2-VOG-1024x750.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Elad-FDM-S2-VOG-1024x750.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11165,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/ert-open-former-voice-of-greece-moves-to-9415-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":7184,"position":3},"title":"ERT Open (former Voice of Greece) moves to 9,415 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"October 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many listeners have noticed that the former Voice of Greece (ERT Open) has moved from 9,420 kHz to 9,415 kHz. This must be due to interference from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) who has been\u00a0transmitting\u00a0on 9420 kHz as well. Here in North America, even when IRIB was broadcasting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"View from the town of Litochoro, in the foothills of Mount Olympus, Greece. 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