{"id":7492,"date":"2013-10-06T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2013-10-06T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T11:29:34","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-progreso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-progreso\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Progreso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7514 alignright\" alt=\"Havana, Cuba (Photo: Wikimedia)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01-300x116.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01-100x38.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a title=\"Starting tonight, Radio Progreso on shortwave\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/radio-progreso-signing-on-at\/\">I noted<\/a> that Cuban medium wave station, <em>Radio Progreso<\/em>, was to begin broadcasting on 4,765 kHz shortwave, beginning October 1st at 00:30 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>I listened between 00:30 and 2:30 UTC on Oct 1st, but heard nothing other than the weak carrier from (possibly)\u00a0<em>Radio Emissora De Educao Rural<\/em>. However, the following evening at 01:00 UTC (October 2nd) I did hear a strong signal from Radio Progreso.<\/p>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: the recording I made of Radio Progreso on October 2, 2013, starting around 01:00 UTC. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioProgreso4.765MHz02OCT130100Z\/RadioProgreso-4.765MHz-02OCT13-0100Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a> or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioProgreso4.765MHz02OCT130100Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I noted that Cuban medium wave station, Radio Progreso, was to begin broadcasting on 4,765 kHz shortwave, beginning October 1st at 00:30 UTC. I listened between 00:30 and 2:30 UTC on Oct 1st, but heard nothing other than the weak carrier from (possibly)\u00a0Radio Emissora De Educao Rural. However, the following evening at [&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":[56,442,1557,746,1167],"tags":[1396,2196,2197,2198,4082],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-radio-havana-cuba","tag-radio-progreso","tag-radio-progreso-shortwave","tag-radio-progreso-shortwave-broadcast","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1WQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7439,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/radio-progreso-signing-on-at\/","url_meta":{"origin":7492,"position":0},"title":"Starting tonight, Radio Progreso on shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Arnie Coro at Radio Havana Cuba, the Cuban medium wave broadcaster Radio Progreso will begin an \"experimental\" shortwave broadcast on\u00a04,765 kHz from\u00a000:30 till 04:00 UTC on October 1st, 2013.\u00a0For those of us living in North America, this broadcast will begin at 08:30 PM EDT tonight. I will attempt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Radio-Progreso-Cuba","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio-Progreso-Cuba-300x89.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8857,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-progreso-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":7492,"position":1},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Progreso","author":"Thomas","date":"February 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: one hour, twenty eight minutes of Radio Progreso (Cuba), recorded on February 28, 2014 starting around 2:15 UTC on 4,765 kHz. Though I'm not certain, I'm pretty sure this includes a radio soap opera. Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Radio-Progreso-Cuba","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio-Progreso-Cuba.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35731,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/seeking-information-1959-radio-progreso-broadcasts-by-daniel-fignole-and-louis-dejoie\/","url_meta":{"origin":7492,"position":2},"title":"Seeking information: 1959 Radio Progreso broadcasts by Daniel Fignol\u00e9 and Louis Dejoie","author":"Thomas","date":"January 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post community: perhaps you can help with an inquiry I recently received. Radio historian, Alejandra Bronfman, writes: Dear Thomas; I\u2019m a historian of radio in the Caribbean, and David Goren suggested I contact you with a question about some 1959 broadcasts I\u2019m trying to track down. 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