KSKO Christmas Special (rebroadcast) via WRMI: December 24, 2020
/For your listening pleasure: KSKO Christmas Special broadcast via WRMI on 5950 kHz starting at 2300 UTC on December 24, 2020.
For your listening pleasure: KSKO Christmas Special broadcast via WRMI on 5950 kHz starting at 2300 UTC on December 24, 2020.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Matt Todd, who shares the following recording and notes:
China Radio Plus Broadcast recorded December 19, 2020 at 1502 on 15700khz in Hugo, MN. The transmitter did not seem to be turned on until 1502 despite the scheduled start time of 1500.
00:00 News
03:35 Footprints - About the Gaokao
28:27 I Love Podcasts - "Why We Love the Song Dynasty" and "Ties From the West"
Receiver location: Hugo, MN
Receiver and antenna: Sdr Play with a wire loop antenna around the perimeter of the attic
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Sam Ward, who shares the following studio recording and notes:
[This] recording is of the Shortwave Listener's Corner program from December 27, 1987. This edition of the program was a bit unusual in that I don't think they read anyone's letters, but the program definitely does have an Arctic theme to it, plus, Radio Canada International plays a few Christmas carols sung in the Inuktitut language. I certainly appreciate Ian McFarland giving me this studio recording of the show, since I missed it when it was first broadcast.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Lee Herterich, who shares the following recording and notes:
This is an off-the-air recording of shortwave radio station Radio Baghdad made on September 26, 1990. The political situation was about to lead to the first Iraq war. This was the European service on a frequency of 13,660 khz. which was aired between 20-22 UTC. It was recorded in the Boston USA area. Receiver was a Yaesu FRG-8800 with an indoor wire antenna. Direct recording into a cassette recorder.
Date of recording: 9/26/1990
Starting time: 21:15 UTC
Frequency: 13,660 kHz
Reception location: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts USA
Receiver and antenna: Yaesu FRG-8800 with an indoor wire antenna. Direct recording into a cassette recorder.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jared Dancel, who shares the following recording and notes:
First 20 minutes of broadcast from Voice of Korea. The news portion includes a letter (heard in the 14 minute mark) from the North Korean leader Kim-Jong Un to the US President Donald Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, which at the time, were recovering from the coronavirus.
Date of recording: 10/3/2020
Starting time: 10:01
Frequency: 11.735Mhz
Location: Tarlac, Philippines
Receiver and antenna: Tescun R9012 with telescopic antenna
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Rawdon, who shares the following recording and notes:
Announcement explaining the reason for a reduced signal strength. Cyclone Tracy put the Darwin transmitter site off air. News bulletin plus other selected items that were broadcast relating to the evacuation of Darwin. Because the local 8DR MW transmitter was damaged a microwave link was set up between Darwin and Shepparton with the programme transmitted back to Darwin on shortwave.
Date of recording: 12/25/1974
Starting time: 2100 UTC
Frequency: 9.58 MHz
Your location: Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 26 December NZDT
Receiver and antenna: Trio 9R59DSM communications receiver with a random length long wire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Anthony Pavick, who shares the following recording and notes:
Edition 1 of Pop Shop Radio as broadcast by Channel 292 in Rohrbach Waal in Germany on 6070 kHz at 1600 UTC to 1700 UTC on 12 September 2020.
This was a rebroadcast of a show first broadcast on 9 September 2020 at 1800 UTC on same station and frequency.
This recording is 'as received' via the WebSDR at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and as such has all the wonderful static and interference you'd expect.
Show is produced in British Columbia in Canada.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tony King, who shares the following recording and notes:
PERU: Radio Juliaca, Juliaca Peru July 1959. 5015 kHz OAX7X OAX7Z The station came on the air this month and this would appear to be a test transmission playing old time western tunes, mix experiments, and regular ID's. This caption was rebroadcast on Keith Glover's Radio Australia's Mailbox programme the same month as an item of interest to DX listeners.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Notes: Radio Australia shortwave broadcast with coverage of President Nixon's resignation speech on August 8, 1974.
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:
Shortwave coverage of the fall of Saigon as heard on Radio South Africa (RSA), Radio Nederland, Radio Japan and Radio Moscow on April 30, 1975. Voice of Vietnam coverage has been posted previously.
Date of recording: 4/30/1975
Starting time: Various
Frequency: Various
RX location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180, longwire
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tony King, who shares the following recording and notes:
HAITI: Voice of Cap Haitien 9635 kHz recorded in 1971 broadcasting in EE which is unusual but obviously there was a strong EE market at the time.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Eddie Malphrus‎, who shares the following recording and notes:
It was 41 years ago today that my letter was read on-air during HCJB's Weekend Passport program. The show aired 2x on Sundays and I listened to the early broadcast - and therefore was ready to record during the evening broadcast. It's still fun to listen back to this brief but memorable moment.
[The recording] includes a puny-sounding "me" at 15 years old, testing the mic on my cassette recorder. I left it in as it was part of my memory. :)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Pete Polanyk, who shares the following short clip and notes:
A very spooky thing happened to me earlier. I was going through some old punk cassettes […] and on the B side of one of them was some shortwave recording from 1981! I haven't been through it all in any detail yet but here's a couple of minutes of Radio Canada International from 1981:
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.
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
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
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