{"id":7502,"date":"2013-10-05T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T13:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7502"},"modified":"2013-10-05T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T13:06:53","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CRI-bandwidth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7503\" alt=\"CRI-bandwidth\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CRI-bandwidth-300x265.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CRI-bandwidth-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CRI-bandwidth-100x88.png 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CRI-bandwidth.png 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Like most Friday mornings, yesterday at 11:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,580 kHz to listen to Radio Australia news and ABC National&#8217;s technology program <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/download-this-show\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Download This Show<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the signal out of Shepparton, Australia was as strong as ever, I heard adjacent interference from China Radio International.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, looking my <a title=\"A review of the WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC \u201cExcalibur\u201d software defined radio (SDR)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">WinRadio Excalibur<\/a>&#8216;s spectrum display (see image on right), you can see that CRI&#8217;s signal on 9,570 kHz was actually producing noise 15 kHz on either side of their AM carrier (for a total bandwidth of 30 kHz!). Radio Australia&#8217;s signal was much cleaner, sticking to their allotted 10 kHz bandwidth limit.<\/p>\n<p>The recording of Radio Australia was still quite good, despite the interference, because I was able to run the Excalibur&#8217;s AM sync detector locked on the (less noisy) upper side band.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download the recording\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioAustralia9.58MHz04OCT131100Z\/RadioAustralia-9.58MHz-04OCT13-1100Z.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\/RadioAustralia9.58MHz04OCT131100Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Friday mornings, yesterday at 11:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,580 kHz to listen to Radio Australia news and ABC National&#8217;s technology program Download This Show. While the signal out of Shepparton, Australia was as strong as ever, I heard adjacent interference from China Radio International. Indeed, looking my WinRadio Excalibur&#8216;s spectrum display (see [&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":[56,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[141,2075,2222,4118,368,1168,4106],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-china-radio-international","tag-download-this-show","tag-interference","tag-podcast","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-shepparton","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1X0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5699,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-australia-jazz-notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7502,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Australia, Jazz Notes","author":"Thomas","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning at 13:30 UTC, I enjoyed listening to 11,945 kHz, home of Radio Australia and their Wednesday music show, Jazz Notes. 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