Episodes
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Vivian Gonçalves, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: RÁDIO CANÇÃO NOVA Date of recording: October 29, 1990 Starting time: 20:57 UTC Frequency: 1020 kHz Reception location: Cachoeira Paulista, SP Receiver and antenna: Yaesu FRG-8800 with an indoor wire antenna. Direct recording into a cassette recorder. Mode: AM Notes: edição da Voz do Brasil em 29-10-1990, segunda-feira
Published 11/15/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Croatia from 2008 and 2011:
Published 11/08/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Prague from 1989, 2008, and 2009:
Published 11/01/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Vatican Radio:
Published 10/25/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Bulgaria from 2008-2011:
Published 10/18/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Belarus from 2008 and 2010:
Published 10/11/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of RTBF:
Published 10/04/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: WRNO Date of recording: October 10, 1982 Starting time: 2300 Frequency: 11.955 MHz Reception location: South Bend, Indiana Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2001 Notes: Here are two back-to-back episodes of Glenn Hauser's World of Radio from October 10, 1982 and October 24, 1982. WOR normally aired on WRNO on Sundays at 2330 UTC on 11.955 MHz. A change of frequencies was announced in this...
Published 09/27/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Here is a brief recording of Radiodiffusion Nationale Centrafricaine from Bangui on 5038 kHz shortwave circa 1971. Reception was made in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, where the best reception from African stations was usually late afternoon or early evening local time, just about the time many of these stations were signing off for their broadcast day. Programming was in the French language. Broadcaster:...
Published 09/17/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Shortwave transmissions from Radio Afghanistan from Kabul in English were difficult to hear at my location in eastern North America. Here is a brief recording, made sometime in 1971, of the station as they concluded their half hourly English broadcast at 1830 hours UTC on 15.265 MHz in the 19 metre band. The other frequency they used for this transmission is given as 17.775 MHz. Broadcaster: Radio...
Published 09/10/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Österreich 1 from 2008:
Published 08/30/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recording, along with his original artwork (above), and notes: Opening of Japanese government shortwave radio programs aimed at Japanese citizens abducted by DPRK between 1977 and 1983: "Furusato No Kaze" (in Japanese) and "Nippon No Kaze il bon ue" (in Korean). Broadcasted from a transmitter in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and listened in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Published 08/23/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, curator of the website Inches Per Second, who shares the following recording and notes: Periodically, I have shared parts of the large collection of shortwave recordings, most of them of Australian programming, which I picked up... somewhere, at some point. I've shared most of it, at this point, but have a few tapes left. I held off on this because the quality is fairly poor, then near the end becomes abysmal, but I thought I should share it, since...
Published 08/16/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording, images, and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Santa Cruz Bolivia 1996 Date of recording: November 9, 1996 Frequency: 6.135 MHz Reception location: Thamesford, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna Notes: Radio Santa Cruz from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia was heard here in southern Ontario, Canada on occasion when propagation favored a North-South path. This brief Spanish...
Published 08/09/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Sarah Boucher, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: VLR-6 Date of recording: December 03, 1972 Starting time: 14:00 Frequency: 6.15 MHz Your location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Notes: Nightly sign off of VLR-6 announcement by Mary Adams, followed by the then-national anthem
Published 08/02/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: The majority of my vintage shortwave recordings are unfortunately quite brief. This is mostly due to the fact that they were only kept as "proof" of reception and not generally for program content. I can still remember the thrill of hearing Radio Japan in Tokyo for the first time back in 1970. I used to pick them up on 9505 kHz shortwave around dawn local time here in southern Ontario, Canada. This is...
Published 07/26/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Al Quaglieri, who shares the following recordings and notes: These are two episodes of an internet "broadcast" I put together sometime in the early 1990's, I believe:
Published 07/19/24
Olivier Hubert with BBC presenter Cerys Matthews for the BBC Midwinter Broadcast (Source: BAS and BBC) Many thanks to SRAA contributor, TomL, who shares the following recording of the BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica, recorded on June 21, 2024 at 21:30 UTC on 11,685 kHz. TomL notes: BBC 2024 Midwinter broadcast to Antarctica. 11685 kHz using AM-Sync (LSB). Location Campton Hills Forest Preserve, St. Charles IL....
Published 07/12/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Dada Gorgud, the Voice of Azerbaijan February 21,1999 Date of recording: February 21, 1999 Frequency: 9.165 MHz Reception location: Coe Hill, Ontario Receiver and antenna: Drake SW-8 and a very long wire antenna Notes: Radio Dada Gorgud, the Voice of Azerbaijan from Baku, as heard in Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada, on February 21, 1999 at 0314 UTC on a frequency of 9165 kHz. Using a...
Published 07/05/24
Photo: NASA Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Nigel Thornbury, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Voice of America (VOA) Date of recording: July 11, 1979 Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-5900 long wire
Published 06/28/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recordings and notes: Foreign BCB DX 1970's Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 or Realistic DX-150A and a longwire antenna Notes: Although I did not focus much on foreign broadcast band (medium wave) DXing in the 1970's, I did manage to save a few brief recordings of a handful of stations logged from my location in southern Ontario, Canada. 1. Radio Margarita, La...
Published 06/21/24
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Radyo Pilipinas, recorded in McGrath, Alaska, on May 24, 2024 at 19:28 UTC on 12,120 kHz:
Published 06/14/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio Joystick from 2018:
Published 06/07/24
Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio DARC:
Published 05/31/24