{"id":7379,"date":"2013-09-22T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T23:01:19","slug":"the-mighty-kbc-on-a-home-brew-single-tube-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-mighty-kbc-on-a-home-brew-single-tube-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty KBC on a home brew, single tube receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;1930&#8217;s style&#8221; receiver via\u00a0<a title=\"Jack Donio's channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jackdonioenschede?feature=c4-feed-u\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Donio<\/a>\u00a0playing The Mighty KBC:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9rxsKpMYcw\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;1930&#8217;s style&#8221; receiver via\u00a0Jack Donio\u00a0playing The Mighty KBC:<\/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":[56,305],"tags":[2169,2170,2167,2168],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-nostalgia","tag-home-brew","tag-homebrew-tube-receiver","tag-jack-donio","tag-single-tube-receiver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1V1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4804,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-on-9500-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":7379,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC on 9,500 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"November 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, The Mighty KBC broadcast a two hour mix of music to the world on 9,500 kHz. 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