{"id":8467,"date":"2014-01-03T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2014-01-03T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:39:05","slug":"longwave-radio-recordings-wg2xfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/longwave-radio-recordings-wg2xfg\/","title":{"rendered":"Longwave Radio Recordings: WG2XFG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8386\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BrianJustin-LW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8386\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8386\" alt=\"Brian Justin with his homebrew transmitter (Source: http:\/\/w4dex.com\/500khz\/wd2xsh31.htm)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BrianJustin-LW-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BrianJustin-LW-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BrianJustin-LW-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BrianJustin-LW.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Justin with his homebrew transmitter (Source: http:\/\/w4dex.com\/500khz\/wd2xsh31.htm)<\/p><\/div>\n<p id=\"yui_3_10_1_1_1388770438571_3485\">A few weeks ago,\u00a0<a title=\"WG2XFQ: Brian Justin\u2019s holiday longwave broadcasts\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/wg2xfq-brian-justins-holiday-longwave-broadcasts\/\">I posteded an article about\u00a0Brian Justin\u2019s holiday longwave broadcasts<\/a> commemorating\u00a0Reginald Fessenden\u2019s Christmas Eve 1906 AM voice transmission.<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/wg2xfq-brian-justins-holiday-longwave-broadcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time in the longwave portion of the radio spectrum, so this special event station gave me an excuse to venture a little lower on the radio dial. \u00a0Fortunately, LW propagation was in my favor, and Justin&#8217;s signal made it the 215 miles to my home. While it&#8217;s not armchair listening, it&#8217;s most impressive, especially considering the transmitter used is &#8220;home-brewed&#8221; with modest output power.<\/p>\n<p>This recording of WG2XFG was made when the signal seemed to be at its strongest on December 26th, 2013 starting around 12:40 UTC (Christmas evening, EST). <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/WG2XFQ0.486MHz26DEC131240UTC\/WG2XFQ-0.486MHz-26DEC13-1240UTC.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\/WG2XFQ0.486MHz26DEC131240UTC\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago,\u00a0I posteded an article about\u00a0Brian Justin\u2019s holiday longwave broadcasts commemorating\u00a0Reginald Fessenden\u2019s Christmas Eve 1906 AM voice transmission. I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time in the longwave portion of the radio spectrum, so this special event station gave me an excuse to venture a little lower on the radio dial. \u00a0Fortunately, LW [&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":[2436,305,288,746],"tags":[2438,4123,4094,4091,2437,1281,2441,2439,2440],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","tag-brian-justin-wa1zms4","tag-longwave","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-history","tag-reginald-fessenden","tag-special-broadcasts","tag-special-event-broadcasts","tag-wa1zms4","tag-wg2xfq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2cz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29639,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/wi2xlq-brian-justins-annual-longwave-broadcast-dec-24-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":8467,"position":0},"title":"WI2XLQ: Brian Justin\u2019s annual longwave broadcast Dec 24-26","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Now an\u00a0annual Christmas tradition, Brian Justin (WA1ZMS) will put his longwave\u00a0experimental station WI2XLQ on the air to commemorate the\u00a0110th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden\u2019s first audio transmission. 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