Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tony King, who shares the following recording Radio Nederland Biak made in the 1980s on 7190 kHz and notes:
Biak was Dutch East Indies. It became part of Indonesia. The announcement is :" radio Omroep New Guinea" (new gin ear) and the content I think originated in the Netherlands as transcriptions and shipped to the colony.
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Many thanks to DRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Atlantico del Sur was a Spanish language radio station operated by the British Ministry of Defense during the Falklands War as part of its psychological operations aimed at Argentine troops. The station broadcast from a BBC transmitter on Ascension Island from May 19 until June 15, 1982. You can hear in the background a jamming transmitter from Argentina throughout the recording.
Starting time: 2300 UTC
Frequency: 9.710 MHz
RX location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
BBC shortwave newscast during the Falklands War reporting that British troops have landed on the Falklands Island.
RX location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tony King, who shares the following recording of Radio Nederland’s Surinam service made in the 1980s on 4850 kHz:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tony King, who shares the following recording of the American Forces Antarctic Network (AFAN) at McMurdo Station recorded in the 1980s on 6012 kHz SSB in New Zealand:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Shortwave broadcast of Radio Difusora Nacional de Nicaragua in Spanish received in December 1978 on 5945 kHz.
Frequency: 5.945 MHz
RX location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
QSL Image Source: Bruender.de
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Jamahiriya English language shortwave broadcast from Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya consisting of a newscast, Focus on the Jamahiriya (a general look at the cultural, political, social and economic lives in the Jamahiriya) and music. In the background, you can hear the interval signal for Radio Nacional de España.
Frequency: 11815 MHz
RX location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Earth program on WRNO Worldwide (New Orleans) in 1984 hosted by Jeff White and includes letters from listeners, commercials, music and announcements that Radio Earth broadcasts would be leaving WRNO and moving to Radio Clarin in the Dominican Republic.
Date of recording: 9/21/1984
Starting time: 0300 UTC
Frequency: Unknown
RX location: Minnetonka, MN
Receiver and antenna: ICOM R71A with longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Enrique Fernandez, who shares the following recording and notes:
The Voice of Free Sahara, 32 kpbs mp3 ripped from a cassette recording. Received with a Sony 2010 and a 40 meter long wire from the France-Switzerland border in 2002.
There is a clear ID at 1”33”.
Frequency: 7.46 MHz
Date/Time: 11 February 2002 at 2333 UTC
Note that the quality of this recording is rather poor due to tape degradation:
Imgae: Universal Radio
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Nigel Thornbury, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Voice of Malaysia
Date of recording: April 1979
Starting time: 0625
Frequency: 6.175
RX location: Singapore
Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-5900W, random wire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the folowing recording and notes:
KUSW Shortwave from Salt Lake City, Utah recorded on December 26, 1987 received at 2040 UTC on 17715 kHz. Includes rock music, national commercials, newscast, frequency schedule and announcements by John Florence. Ends with something similar to an interval signal. Music and commercials are scoped.
Broadcaster: WUSW Worldwide Radio
Date of recording: 12/26/1987
Starting time: 2040 UTC
Frequency: 17.715 MHz
RX location: Minnetonka, MN
Receiver and antenna: ICOM R71A with longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stephen Spicer, who shares the following recording and notes:
Reception location: Melbourne, Australia
Receiver and antenna: AWA CR6A with end feed antenna
Notes: A broadcast by Apollo 8 of the first views of the moon in 1968. The broadcast was transmitted by the Voice of America, and received in Melbourne, Australia on an AWA CR6A communications receiver. The transmission frequency and exact time are unknown.
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Williams, who shares the following recording and notes:
Recorded by Short Wave Listener WPE9JEL from Crown Point during the 1960s. Receiver: Hallicrafters SX-110, Antenna: Random Wire. There are some duplicates that were not edited out - sorry about that.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Clarin (Dominican Republic) with This is Santo Domingo with Rudy Espinal broadcast in 1978. This English language broadcast includes music from the Dominican Republic, talk about a recent power outage, SPEEDX (Society for the Preservation of the Engrossing Enjoyment of DXing) magazine, ANARC (Association of North American Radio Clubs) convention at Radio Canada International in Montreal, and a NASWA (North American Shortwave Association) DX Report with Glenn Hauser.
Date of recording: 12/12/1978
Starting time: 0300 UTC
Frequency: 11.700 MHz
Recption location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Moscow World Service English language broadcast including Moscow Newsreel about the third anniversary of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, newscasts, music from Moldova, and Soviet Panorama.
Starting time: 0720 UTC
Frequency: Unknown
Reception location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Recording of Radio Kuwait during the start of the invasion by Iraq. My understanding is that the broadcast originated from the Radio Kuwait transmitter site, which had not yet been occupied by Iraqi forces. Transmission consisted of music and announcements in Arabic. If anyone can translate/summarize some of the announcements, it would be appreciated.
Reception location: Minnetonka, MN
Receiver: ICOM R71A
Photo by Sébastien Goldberg on Unsplash
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Tom Laskowski who shares the following recording and notes:
Here is a nice recording of the sign-on and programming of Myanmar Radio, the National Radio Service of Myanmar, broadcasting from Yangon. I was using the Web-based SDR at the University of Twente for this recording. I have been trying for years to add this country to my shortwave logbook but it still eludes me to this day. The best I have been able to get from this station is a very weak carrier but no audio on 5.985 MHz at their sign-on time. This recording lasts about 1h 16m. This may be one of the most exotic countries still left on shortwave.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, for the following recording and note:
The Voice of Vietnam, broadcast over Radio Havana Cuba, announcing the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war.
Reception location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Radio Moscow coverage of the end of the coup attempt. Per Wikipedia: The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, was an attempt made by members of the government of the Soviet Union to take control of the country from Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated, which decentralized much of the central government's power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance led by Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who had been both an ally and critic of Gorbachev. Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to power, the event destabilized the USSR and is widely considered to have contributed to both the demise of the CPSU and the dissolution of the USSR.
Date of recording: 8/22/1991
Starting time: 0300 UTC
Frequency: Unknown
Reception location: Minnetonka, MN
Receiver and antenna: ICOM R71A
Thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Robinson for these notes and audio of Radio Kahuzi
Radio Kahuzi, a U.S.-funded religious station located in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo has been heard by DX’ers in a number of countries since the mid-2000’s and had been in operation since the 1990s. It was founded by U.S. evangelist Richard McDonald and his wife Kathleen, and was most easily heard via Europe-based SDRs, signing off at anywhere between 1800 and 1830 UTC.
In 2019, the station began to be heard more frequently on its 6,210.20 khz frequency — but was impacted by frequent power outages in the national electricity company of the DRC. In 2020, Radio Kahuzi was still being heard by DX’ers using European SDR sites, with certain locations such as Switzerland, UK, and Sweden bringing the best signals. I did a number of comparison videos showing reception of Kahuzi at these various locations. Interestingly, propagation conditions were such that Kahuzi’s signal had a very rapid rise from about 1700 UTC through to its sign off time around 1800 to 1830 UTC, and was often mistaken by some listeners as a European pirate signal in the 48 meter band.
In February 2020, Richard McDonald reported that power had been increased from 500 to 750 watts with reception in Bukavu 1/4 to 1/2 stronger, adding that they hoped the 750 watt level could be maintained “unless problems develop.” He also said the station had just installed a new digital studio.
In April 2020, McDonald reported problems with lightning strikes in the area with intermittent power issues. McDonald noted that the station had been hoping to begin distance education as the COVID-19 situation was beginning to have impacts: “We are the only radio that can reach all the 8 territories and local schools.”
As of mid-May 2020, Radio Kahuzi remained off the air as DX’ers held out hope that Kahuzi would return to the air. In an email, Richard McDonald reported “complications” regarding the power schedule of the regional power company saying he was hoping RK can get back on the air “between 8 AM to 7 PM”. Here is one of the best recordings of Radio Kahuzi, which took place using the SDR site in Ticino, Switzerland — the station has a unique sign off, playing an instrumental version of a Bluegrass song.
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