For your listening pleasure: thirty minutes of Radio Romania International's English Language service.
This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2014 in eastern North America around 5:30 UTC on 9,700 kHz.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Greg Shoom, for this recording of music from the late 1970s. Greg describes the recording:
"This is a compilation of Ecuadorian and perhaps other South American music recorded on shortwave in the late 1970s (1976-1978 time-frame I think). Mostly from HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. I listened regularly to their DX Partyline program back then, and they usually included one piece of Ecuadorian music on each episode. I think most of these songs come from there. Sorry that I don't have any record of station IDs, song titles, dates, times, or frequencies for this recording."
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For your listening pleasure: thirty minutes of the Voice of America's English Language service to Africa.
This broadcast was recorded on May 5, 2014 in eastern North America around 20:59 UTC on 15,580 kHz.
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This morning, I was able to catch the first thirteen minutes of Radio Thailand's English language service on 9,390 kHz shortwave. I was curious if RT would mention the Thailand military coup or at least broadcast a sanctioned message from the military authorities. Yet I heard no mention of the coup whatsoever. And why not? Yesterday, General Prayuth Chan-ocha ordered all domestic TV and radio outlets to halt normal broadcasting and only include content the military provides.
I was only able to record the first 13 minutes of the RT evening news as we had a powerful thunderstorm that forced me to unplug my external antenna. You'll note the static crashes in the recording.
The format sounds like a typical RT broadcast, save the lack of national news; instead, the hosts jump straight into global news, mentioning Nigeria, the Philippians, and the economy. Here's the recording:
As a contrast, here is a recording SRAA contributor, Frank, made of Radio Thailand on May 14th, prior to the coup:
It will be interesting to hear how the nature and content of RT's news changes with time while the country is under martial law.
PYONGYANG METRO STATION (ORIGINAL SOURCE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of the Voice of Korea's English language service.
Frank recorded this broadcast of VOK from his home in Europe on May 15, 2014, on 11,645 kHz, starting at 16:00 UTC, using a Kenwood R-5000 receiver and a Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of the Voice of Turkey English language service.
Frank made this recording on 9,830 kHz at 22:00 UTC, May 14th, 2014. Frank used his Kenwood R-5000 and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ to capture this broadcast.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of Radio Sultante of Oman English language service.
Frank made this recording on April 24, 2014 at 14:30 UTC on 15,140 kHz. Frank used his Kenwood R-5000 and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ to capture this broadcast.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Chris for this short Radio Exterior de España (REE) aircheck
Chris made this recording on April 25, 2014 at 00:55 UTC on 6,055 kHz. You'll hear a classic Flamenco tune from 1971 and sign off with the REE interval signal. The recording was made with an Eton E1 and smartphone microphone recording app.
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of the Voice of Iran English language service.
Frank recorded this broadcast from his home in Europe on April 24, 2014, on 7,315 kHz, starting at 19:20 UTC. He used a Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.
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For your listening pleasure: 1 hour and 7 minutes of pirate radio station, Wolverine Radio–recorded April 27, 2014 starting around 1:10 UTC.
Wolverine was broadcasting on 6,945 kHz in the upper side band. Typical of Wolverine, lots of music variety which spans the decades and no commentary other than station ID throughout.
I decoded Wolverine’s SSTV QSL (see right) with Chris Smolinski's SSTV app for iPhone. As you'll hear, overall signal strength and audio fidelity were excellent.
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of the Voice of Turkey English language service.
Frank recorded this broadcast from his home in Europe on April 23, 2014, on 9,785 kHz, starting at 18:30 UTC.
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For your listening pleasure: over one hour of the pirate radio station, MAC Shortwave.
I recorded this broadcast on April 27, 2014 starting around 00:05 UTC, on 6,950 kHz AM. This broadcast features host "Jimmy Stewart" who plays a set of big band music.
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of All India Radio.
Frank recorded this broadcast from his home in Europe on April 21, 2014, on 7,550 kHz, starting at 17:45 UTC.
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Greg Shoom, for this recording of the pirate radio station, Wolverine Radio. Greg comments:
"This is the last 25 minutes of a broadcast of shortwave pirate Wolverine Radio. I stumbled across it a few minutes earlier. This was recorded on a Sony digital audio recorder."
Greg recorded this broadcast in Harrowsmith, Ontario, Canada on April 20, 2014, on 6,945 kHz USB, starting at 02:20 UTC. He used a Kaito KA1103 receiver with its built-in telescopic antenna.
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of the International Radio of Serbia. This broadcast includes multiple languages: Russian, English, Spanish, Serbian and French.
Frank recorded this broadcast from his home in Europe on April 18, 2014, on 6,100 kHz, starting at 18:00 UTC. Frank used a Kenwood R-5000 receiver and a Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna. This broadcast originates from International Radio of Serbia's transmitter site in Bijeljina (250 kW).
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Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Frank, for this recording of China Radio International's English language service.
Frank recorded this broadcast from his home in Europe on April 19, 2014, on 17,490 kHz, starting at 07:00 UTC.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Greg Shoom, who shares this recording of interval signals from 1976-1977. He has kindly logged the interval signals as:
Deutsche Welle
R. Nederland
Voice Mirror of the PTT Habana, Cuba
Voice of Spain
History of R. Nederland's interval signal
R. Nederland Arabic service
Unidentified interval signal 2
R. Canada International
R. Nacional de Brasilia
Interval signal history from R. Nederland
R. RSA
Voice of Iran
R. Habana Cuba
BBC Spanish Service
Voice of Turkey
Recorded 1976 and 1977 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Shola highlands are found in Kudremukh National Park, Chikmagalur which is part of the Western Ghats. (Photo source: Karunakar Rayker)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Mark Fahey, who has shared this Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) recording of All India Radio.
Mark explains:
"Almost every morning at 5:45AM (Sydney time) I have my first cup of coffee and eat breakfast and listen to the All India Radio Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Hindi language evening broadcast to Europe. At this time of year in Australia (April) the broadcast starts in darkness and ends as the sun is rising. The broadcast originates from the Khampur (Delhi) transmission facility.
I have a deep love for India and have spent a large part of my life working and living there, so I take every opportunity to listen to All India Radio in both DRM and analogue mode.
Digital DRM provides the opportunity for fade and noise free reception. But as you can hear on this recording, AIR introduces plenty of unintended noise into their programs even before the broadcast reaches the transmitting antenna. The 50Hz hum is a feature I notice in all AIR DRM broadcasts. On some occasions (perhaps every few months) they "forget" to patch the audio path correctly to the transmitter and all that is heard is the hum without any programming for the hour!"
This recording was made on April 14, 2014 starting at 19:45 UTC on 9,950 kHz. Mark received this broadcast at Freemans Reach, NSW, Australia (60 km North West of Sydney), on a WinRadio WR-G31DDC Excalibur Receiver and Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop antenna.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Luis Valderas, who shares this short recording: an introduction to Kol Israel's Spanish language service.
This recording was made on a portable Philips radio with telescopic antenna. Though the exact date is unknown, Luis has noted the frequency as 17,630 kHz and time of day as 23:30 UTC:
Kedarnath range behind the Kedarnath temple early morning. (Photo source: Kaustabh)
For your listening pleasure: fifty two minutes of All India Radio's English language service
This broadcast was recorded in North America on Saturday, April 12, 2014 starting around 9:40 UTC on 9,445 kHz.
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