{"id":8025,"date":"2013-11-28T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T12:59:42","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8028\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crete_Iraklio1_tango7174-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8028\" alt=\"Crete, Greece (Source: Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crete_Iraklio1_tango7174-001.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crete_Iraklio1_tango7174-001.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crete_Iraklio1_tango7174-001-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crete_Iraklio1_tango7174-001-100x40.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crete, Greece (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the future holds for the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/ert-cuts\">Voice of Greece<\/a>. In many ways, I feel that the national shortwave broadcaster is already operating on borrowed time&#8211;but perhaps I&#8217;m wrong. I&#8217;ve been recording VOG a lot lately on 9,420 kHz and 7,475 kHz; most broadcasts these days contain very little commentary, only hours of a wide variety of international music with the occasional station ID (which, by the way, has recently changed). I feel like they&#8217;re just working to keep their seats warm.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, it&#8217;s Thanksgiving here in the States&#8211;my favorite national holiday&#8211;and I&#8217;m certainly thankful for all of the kind <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers out there. You are the reason I have so much enthusiasm for maintaining this site. There&#8217;s community here, and I, for one, like it. <em>Thank you all&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re celebrating Thanksgiving&#8211;and\/or, are just relaxing over the weekend&#8211;I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy a bit of this Voice of Greece recording. \u00a0I say &#8220;a bit,&#8221; as it is <em>nearly five hours long<\/em>. I started this recording around 20:30 UTC on November 26th, 2013 (9,420 kHz).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Voice of Greece\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VOG9.42MHz26NOV132030Z\/VOG-9.42MHz-26NOV13-2030Z.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=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/VOG9.42MHz26NOV132030Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No matter where you live, here&#8217;s wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the future holds for the Voice of Greece. In many ways, I feel that the national shortwave broadcaster is already operating on borrowed time&#8211;but perhaps I&#8217;m wrong. I&#8217;ve been recording VOG a lot lately on 9,420 kHz and 7,475 kHz; most broadcasts these days contain very little commentary, only hours of [&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":[56,746,43,1167],"tags":[1974,4118,4106,801,800],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ert-cuts","tag-podcast","tag-recordings","tag-vog","tag-voice-of-greece"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-25r","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":8025,"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":13678,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":8025,"position":1},"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":4271,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-radio-croatia-and-radio-romania-international\/","url_meta":{"origin":8025,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Greece, Radio Croatia and Radio Romania International","author":"Thomas","date":"August 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening enjoyment: \u00a0Voice of Greece (9,420 kHz), Radio Croatia (9,925 kHz) and Radio Romania International (9,700 kHz). 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I only hear them perhaps once or twice per week now. 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