{"id":9690,"date":"2014-05-21T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2014-05-21T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:12:01","slug":"wpln-host-bradley-george-attributes-shortwave-radio-to-his-career-and-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/wpln-host-bradley-george-attributes-shortwave-radio-to-his-career-and-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"WPLN host, Bradley George, says shortwave radio shaped his career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SX-99-Dial\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Richard Cuff, for sharing this\u00a0article written by Bradley George of\u00a0Nashville Public Radio<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

“From ages 11 to 15, I spent hours hunched over a tiny Magnavox radio, straining to hear the world\u2019s shortwave radio stations.<\/p>\n

The big dogs of international broadcasting \u2014 BBC World Service, Voice of America, Radio Canada International, and Radio Netherlands were easy to pick up. Their signals were strong, and the cheap receiver I had would find them automatically.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, listening to shortwave takes patience and lots of fine tuning. Signals bounce off the earth\u2019s ionosphere, and travel further at night. Stations fade in and out. Imagine someone talking in a gigantic tin can on a beach \u2014 a hollow, static filled sound.<\/p>\n

But through that static comes a grand, global audio bazaar.[…]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it still does today…! In fact, we just posted a recording of the Voice of Korea on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive;<\/a>\u00a0George mentions Radio Pyongyang as memorable QSL.<\/p>\n

Click here to read Bradley George’s full post, with photos, at WPLN.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, for sharing this\u00a0article written by Bradley George of\u00a0Nashville Public Radio: “From ages 11 to 15, I spent hours hunched over a tiny Magnavox radio, straining to hear the world\u2019s shortwave radio stations. The big dogs of international broadcasting \u2014 BBC World Service, Voice of America, Radio Canada […]<\/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":[56,3,5],"tags":[2911,2912,4082,2913],"class_list":["post-9690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-swlers","tag-bradley-george","tag-nashville-public-radio","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-wpln"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2wi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34651,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/hobart-radio-internationals-three-part-interval-signals-specials\/","url_meta":{"origin":9690,"position":0},"title":"Hobart Radio International’s three part interval signals specials","author":"Thomas","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who writes: While listening to my recording of yesterday's Unique Radio broadcast over WINB, I noticed that the Radio Hobart International segment featured the second of a three-part interval signals special. 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