For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Nigeria--recorded on January 28, 2015, starting at 10:00 UTC on 9,690 kHz.
This recording was made with a WinRadio Excalibur SDR hooked up to a horizontal delta loop wire antenna--location is eastern North America (North Carolina).
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This broadcast of All India Radio was recorded in eastern North America on January 26, 2015 beginning at 2145 UTC, shortwave frequency of 9,445 kHz.
This recording was made in eastern North America using a WinRadio Excalibur SDR connected to a large horizontal delta loop antenna.
For your listening pleasure: almost 2 hours of Helliniki Radiophonia (ERT Open). This broadcast was recorded on January 25, 2015 on 9420 kHz starting around 2200 UTC.
This broadcast of All India Radio was recorded in eastern North America on January 25, 2015 beginning at 2145 UTC, shortwave frequency of 9,445 kHz.
All India Radio in English to Oceania on 11740 kHz at 2045 UTC. Transmitted at 250 kw from Panaji. Received and recorded with a Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
For your listening pleasure: beHAVior Night, a shortwave radio show which showcases music from the first four decades of the 20th Century.
This show was recorded on Friday, January 16, 2015, beginning at 2000 UTC on 7495 kHz:
All India Radio in English, recorded in Europe on 22 January 2015 at 1745 GMT, shortwave frequency of 7550 kHz (Bengaluru, Doddaballapur transmitter site in India, 500 kW transmitter power)
For your listening pleasure: the English language service of Radio Thailand–recorded on January 23, 2015 at 1230 UTC on 9,390 kHz.
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For your listening pleasure: the English language service of Radio Slovakia–recorded on January 23, 2015 at 1230 UTC on 9,955 kHz.
This broadcast of Radio Slovakia comes by way of the World Radio Network and is relayed by Radio Miami International (WRMI).
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Voice of America in English recorded in Europe at 0300 UTC from the shortwave frequency of 6080 kHz on January 23, 2015 (Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican City, transmitter site, 250 kW of power)
Radio Taiwan International English programming. Transmitted at 500 kw from Issoudun, France. Received and recorded with the Degen DE1121 and a homebrew indoor broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Radio Revival Sweden, test broadcast on shortwave frequency of 9875 kHz on 22 January 2015 at 1400 GMT (transmitter site in Sala, Sweden, transmitter power of 10 kW), recorded in Europe
Radio Revival Sweden, test broadcast on shortwave frequency of 9815 kHz on 22 January 2015 at 1200 GMT (transmitter site in Sala, Sweden, transmitter power of 10 kW), recorded in Europe
Radio Thailand transmitted at 250 kw from Udon Thani. Received and recorded with the Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Last week, I received a message from Peter De Groot, who announced a special broadcast of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW).
RNW has been off the air for more than 2.5 years, so we can assume this was not sponsored by RNW.
Though scheduling (and the fact I forgot to start a spectrum recording–!) interfered with my ability to listen to the first broadcast on January 17, I was able to catch the January 18 broadcast at 01:00 UTC on 7,570 kHz. The show was relayed by WRMI.
The broadcast came in so strong, when I heard the interval signal, it instantly transported me back to the days when Hilversum targeted eastern North America. Gave me chill bumps.
I was able to record the entire program but did not include the WRMI station ID before and after the special.
For your listening pleasure, one full hour of Radio Netherlands Worldwide via WRMI in Florida USA–click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy:
RTM Sarawak FM in Malay transmitting at 100 kw from Kajang. Received and recorded with a Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew passive broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Radio Thailand Newsmagazine in English. From Udon Thani. Received and recorded with the Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew passive broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Many thanks to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Richard Langley, who writes:
[The following is a] recording of the penultimate English broadcast from Radio Berlin International (RBI) and the last broadcast in the particular time slot. It was also the last broadcast of the popular DX program DX-tra.
RBI ceased broadcasting at the end of the day on 2 October 1990, the day before German reunification took place.
In addition to the final episode of DX-tra, the recording features the news (in progress as the recording starts a minute or two after 00:45), Commentary, RBI Press Review, and Spotlight on Sport. There are several “goodbye” songs including “The Final Countdown” by the Swedish hard rock band Europe, and “Goodbye Blue Sky” by Pink Floyd and some announcer goodbye comments like “the voice of the disappearing German Democratic Republic,” “that was it,” and “the last day of the good old GDR.”
The 45-minute recording ends with the familiar RBI interval signal and, at 01:30 UTC, the first part of the German-language transmission, also the last in its time slot.
This recording was made in Hanwell, NB, Canada, with a Sony ICF-7600D receiver and supplied wire antenna draped around Richard’s home office. This recording begins around 0045 UTC, October 2, 1990 on a frequency of 9,730 kHz.
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It’s been a while now since 9,420 kHz–a former Voice of Greece frequency–should have gone off the air. Fortunately, it has not.
The station is no longer referred to as the Voice of Greece; it’s now a relay of ERT Open, otherwise known as the Helliniki Radiophonia (you’ll hear this name in the station ID).
January 2, 2015, I recorded nearly four hours of Helliniki Radiophonia starting around 2230 UTC.
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The music begins, in earnest, a little after 17:00–enjoy:
One of the advantages of hosting a contributor-driven shortwave radio audio archive, is receiving off-air recordings of defining moments in our world history. This is certainly one of them.
SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes:
"I've started to convert some of my old cassette shortwave recordings to mp3 files. I've uncovered a box of about 25 tapes with recordings mostly from 1990 and 1991. This was an interesting era for shortwave. There was the reunification of Germany, the breakups of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and then the First Gulf War. I monitored some of these events using my venerable Sony ICF-7600D receiver with the supplied wire antenna draped around my home office. I bought this receiver during a trip to Hong Kong (and the P.R.C.) in 1985. It was my first decent shortwave radio and I still have it but it has since been joined by several other receivers.
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[The following] is a recording of President Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation speech as broadcast live by the World Service of Radio Moscow. As the announcer says, "a moment of history in the making." It begins at about the three-minute mark of the recording (at 17:00 UTC). The speech is followed by a program of classical music (filler), the News in Brief at 17:30 UTC, followed by part of the program "Africa as We See It."
Click here to download this recording of Radio Moscow World Service from December 25, 1991 on 17,670 kHz, beginning at 1657 UTC.
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