{"id":7516,"date":"2013-10-07T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2013-10-07T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:42:15","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5539\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5539\" alt=\"&quot;Dad, that's The Mighty KBC! Turn it up!&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Dad, that&#8217;s The Mighty KBC! Turn it up!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 7,375 kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. This was the first time I tuned to their winter frequency this season and wasn&#8217;t sure how strong their signal would be on a relatively noisy night on the bands.<\/p>\n<p>KBC&#8217;s signal was blowtorch strength into North America. It could have been easily received on even the most simple of portable radios.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve come to expect, the Mighty KBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Giant Jukebox<\/em>\u00a0of music has a lot of rock-n-roll and Euro-pop variety, spanning the decades; DJ, \u201cUncle Eric\u201d knows how to entertain and spin the tunes! Uncle Eric includes\u00a0Kim Elliott&#8217;s digital text modes in this broadcast&#8211;if you missed the live broadcast, you can even decode the messages from the recording below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KBC7.375MHz06OCT130000Z\/KBC-7.375MHz-06OCT13-0000Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/KBC7.375MHz06OCT130000Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 7,375 kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. This was the first time I tuned to their winter frequency this season and wasn&#8217;t sure how strong their signal would be on a relatively noisy night on the bands. KBC&#8217;s signal was blowtorch strength into North America. It could [&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":[56,442,746,43,1167],"tags":[1665,576,1664,1459,4106,611,737,573],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-digital-text-modes","tag-kbc","tag-kim-elliott","tag-mighty-kbc","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-the-mighty-kbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Xe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10380,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":7516,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday at 00:00-02:00 UTC, I tuned to 9,925\u00a0kHz to listen to The Mighty KBC. 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