{"id":871,"date":"2010-10-01T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T10:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2010-10-10T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T10:47:29","slug":"myke-weiskopf-on-american-public-medias-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/myke-weiskopf-on-american-public-medias-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Myke Weiskopf on American Public Media&#8217;s &#8220;The Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Myke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-872\" title=\"Myke\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Myke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>Myke Weiskopf, lifelong shortwave radio listener and archivist, shares his passion for shortwave radio on APM&#8217;s &#8220;The Story&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Myke Weiskopf wrote to us to say: &#8220;I&#8217;m an old-school radio man, sound-gatherer, and old-world obsessive. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to take my shortwave all over the world &#8230; I&#8217;ve posted recordings from broadcasts in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan&#8230;&#8221;  (His list goes on \u2026 and these are just the A\u2019s!) This past summer, Myke went to Bulgaria and had a chance to meet the woman who started it all: the very first Bulgarian woman he heard singing on the radio whose voice has haunted him ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Myke&#8217;s interview closes out this episode of &#8220;The Story&#8221;&#8211;you can listen to it online <a href=\"http:\/\/thestory.org\/archive\/the_story_1135_Ahmed.mp3\/view\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Myke&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myke.me\/\">Myke.me<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thestory.org\/archive\/the_story_1135_Ahmed.mp3\/view\">Myke&#8217;s interview on The Story<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myke Weiskopf, lifelong shortwave radio listener and archivist, shares his passion for shortwave radio on APM&#8217;s &#8220;The Story&#8221;: Myke Weiskopf wrote to us to say: &#8220;I&#8217;m an old-school radio man, sound-gatherer, and old-world obsessive. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to take my shortwave all over the world &#8230; I&#8217;ve posted recordings from broadcasts in Afghanistan, Albania, [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[4079,311,4082,310,312],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news","category-swlers","tag-interviews","tag-myke-weiskopf","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-swls","tag-the-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-e3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13446,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/socotra-island-myke-posts-tracks-from-his-2013-travels\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":0},"title":"Socotra Island: Myke posts tracks from 2013 travels","author":"Thomas","date":"June 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Myke Dodge Weiskopf, over at ShortWaveMusic,\u00a0writes: \"Hello friends: Long time no see. I've finally posted the final 21 tracks from our 2013 season on Socotra Island: transmissions from Eritrea, China, Iran, and Tajikistan. Enjoy.\" For more information about Myke's on-going project, ShortWaveMusic, check out his website. Great to see a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Myke","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Myke.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6981,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/all-night-flight-myke-takes-us-on-an-audio-journey\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":1},"title":"All Night Flight: Weiskopf takes us on an audio journey","author":"Thomas","date":"August 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a big fan of practically anything that Myke Dodge Weiskopf produces. 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