{"id":6934,"date":"2013-06-15T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T20:58:14","slug":"wyfr-shortwave-signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/wyfr-shortwave-signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"WYFR shortwave signing off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Family Radio&#8217;s WYFR shortwave service will be ending on June 30, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years.jpg\" alt=\"WYFR 50 years\" class=\"wp-image-6939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WYFR-50-years-400x271.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WYFR 50 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortwave transmitting is very expensive, and no doubt, competing IP distribution technology and diminishing returns on such investment must play a factor in this decision.&nbsp; Family radio has been struggling ever since the world did not end as predicted in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that site has fourteen 100KW HF transmitters and eighteen antennas of various type.&nbsp; There is a complete photo album here: <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/115519153277489147905\/WYFR?noredirect=1#5149450014785168130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/115519153277489147905\/WYFR?noredirect=1#5149450014785168130<\/a> courtesy of Kent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kind of sad to see them go, I don&#8217;t know what their plans are after June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Radio&#8217;s WYFR shortwave service will be ending on June 30, 2013. Shortwave transmitting is very expensive, and no doubt, competing IP distribution technology and diminishing returns on such investment must play a factor in this decision.&nbsp; Family radio has been struggling ever since the world did not end as predicted in 2011. I believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/wyfr-shortwave-signing-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WYFR shortwave signing off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[205,231,50,157],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-hf","tag-shortwave","tag-swl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}