Radio Peking- Sunday April 26, 1970
09-30 GMT. 19 metres
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder,
Brisbane, Australia.
China's first satellite information-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fang_Hong_I
Other broadcasts-
https://archive.org/details/@i_holder
Other broadcasts-
Shortwave broadcast from Radio Japan to Australia.
Sunday 22 March 1970 between 10-00 and 11-00 GMT.
17855 khz
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder,
Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts-
Israel Radio (shortwave coverage).
12.00- 12-30 GMT/ 15485 khz/
Sunday 20 November 1977 (Australian Time)
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder,
Brisbane, Australia
Information on the Sadat/Israel visit (1977)-
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_sadat_1977.php
Other broadcasts-
https://archive.org/details/@i_holder
Shortwave broadcast recorded off-air by
Ian Holder, Queensland, Australia.
King Hussein of Jordan's funeral (BBC World Service) (8 Feb1999)
Other broadcasts on this topic-
HONG KONG HANDOVER JUNE 1997
Daily coverage of the Hong Kong Handover between Britain and China in 1997.
The broadcasts are mainly from China Radio International (CRI) which was previously Radio Peking/Beijing.
Other broadcasts are from the BBC World Service and Radio Singapore International.
Intros and off-air recording by Ian Holder, Australia.
Information on the Hong Kong Handover-
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0630.html
Fall of the Berlin Wall
(Shortwave broadcast 11 Nov. 1989)
BBC News (11-00 GMT. 15360 khz)
Other broadcasts on the Berlin Wall can be found
at this site-
Voice of America shortwave coverage of the landing of
an unmanned spacecraft (Viking 1) on Mars.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Viking 1 (1976) information-
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/viking-1/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunset-at-the-viking-lander-1-site
Other broadcasts-
https://archive.org/details/@i_holder
Friday 23 August,1968. Radio Moscow transmission to Australia
31 metres 13-30 hrs GMT. Announcer, Boris Novikov (1925- 1997)
Twenty nine years after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938,
followed by WW2, the Warsaw Pact countries led by Russia invaded the country.
This shortwave broadcast was recorded off-air in Australia by Ian Holder and gives the Russian view of the event. Less than two years after the fall of Communist Russia in 1991, the Republic of Czechoslovakia ceased to exit.
It was divided into two countries- Czech and Slovakia.
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/TheCzechCrisis1968
Russian Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) information-
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/soviet-invasion-czechoslavkia
SPACE SHUTTLE (1st launch) (Ap12,1981)
Inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle.
Broadcast via shortwave on the
American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).
Relay of the American Broadcasting Company radio commentary.
Sunday April 12, 1981. 11-50 GMT. 9700 khz.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Space Shuttle information-
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2488.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
Other broadcasts-
https://archive.org/details/@i_holder
Shortwave broadcasts. Various excerpts & IDs
from the shortwave dial, 1987.
Many of these stations have now gone from the shortwave dial.
Note: Not all excerpts are identified.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts-
Vatican Radio- Announcement of Pope’s death
2210 GMT 6 Aug 1978 (i.e. 7 Aug 1978 Eastern Standard Time,
Australia) 9615 KHZ
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/DeathOfPopePaulV1Aug1978
Radio Peking- Death of Mao Zedong (9 September 1976)
The death of Chairman Mao at 82 in 1976 brought to an end
the Cultural Revolution which cost millions of lives.
Monitored from Radio Peking shortwave service.
Commentary in English and funeral music.
Recording made off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts-
Radio Moscow- News (15 Nov. 1982)
[07-00 GMT 13 metres. 21530 khz]
Radio Moscow- Brezhnev Memorial Service
[9-10 GMT – 10-05 GMT. 21530 khz]
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts on this topic-
*Date calculated by East Australian Time.
01.Radio Japan- January 7, 1989- 07.50GMT- 15270khz
02.Radio Japan- January 7, 1989- 09.10GMT- 11885khz
03.Radio Japan- January 7, 1989- music, news
04.Radio Japan-funeral, news, comment (Feb 24, 1989)
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts on this topic-
Voice of Vietnam- Chinese Invasion of Vietnam-
18 Feb 1979. 20-30 GMT (i.e. 6-30 am Eastern Standard Time.
19 Feb 1979) 10-40 KHZ
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts-
On October 31st, 1968 US President Lyndon Johnson announced that all bombing of North Vietnam would cease as a result of North Vietnam coming to the conference table. In his televised speech President Johnson said, "I have now ordered that all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam cease as of 8 a.m., Washington time, Friday morning. I have reached this decision on the basis of the developments in the Paris talks. And I have reached it in the belief that this action can lead to progress toward a peaceful settlement of the Vietnamese war.
BBC shortwave broadcast recorded off-air
by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts-
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who notes:
This is the English service broadcast for The Voice Of Korea to "Latin America" from Kujang, North Korea. Recorded 0430-0530UTC October 17, 2016 using a Tecsun PL880, Welbrook ALA1530LNP, EmTech ZM2 antenna tuner and DXEngineering HF Preamp.
Listening location is Galena, Alaska. A village of 500 people in the rural central interior, 300 miles east of Nome and 300 miles west of Fairbanks
Live, off-air, approximately one-and-one-half-hour recording of Radio Cairo in English on 17 August 2016 beginning about 23:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 9965 kHz. According to a High Frequency Coordination Conference registration, the signal originates from a 250 kW transmitter at the Abis transmitter complex, near Alexandria, Egypt, and was beamed 325° to western Europe and eastern North America. Radio Cairo is operated by the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, the public broadcaster of Egypt, operated by the Egyptian government.
The broadcast includes music and various features, including news (at about the 15-minute mark in the recording) and "Arabic by Radio" -- lesson 94 (starting around the 52-minute mark). The broadcast concludes with the news in brief, sign-off announcement, and about five minutes of music before time pips for 00:30:00 UTC. Times mentioned in the broadcast are Cairo local times, that is, in Central African Time (UTC + 2 hours).
Most Radio Cairo transmissions currently suffer from extremely poor modulation making them completely unintelligible. This recording is a rare example where the broadcast is somewhat understandable for the most part. However, the audio is muffled at times with music passages sounding somewhat better than most of the spoken word. The "Arabic by Radio" segment is, on the other hand, quite clear. The original recorded audio has been amplified by 400% to produce the archived audio file.
The broadcast was received by the Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a "Mini-Whip" antenna in AM mode with 5.09 kHz RF filtering. Reception must be considered only fair despite a strong signal since modulation was weak and slightly distorted or "muddy." However, there was no interference and negligible signal fading.
For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Greece.
Recorded in North Carolina on October 22, 2016 starting around 22:00 UTC on 9,420 kHz. Receiver used was the Titan SDR Pro connected to a Skyloop wire antenna.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej was an amateur radio operator with call sign HS1A. He was featured on this postage stamp issued by Thailand in 1997.
Live, off-air, one-hour recording of Radio Thailand World Service (HSK9) in English on 15 October 2016 beginning a few seconds before 19:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 9390 kHz. The signal originates from a 250 kW transmitter at the International Broadcasting Bureau facility in Ban Dung District, Udon Thani, in northeastern Thailand, and was beamed 329° to Europe. Radio Thailand World Service is operated by National Broadcasting Services of Thailand and is carried over AM and FM stations in Thailand as well as being relayed on shortwave.
This broadcast was one of the first English-language Radio Thailand World Service broadcasts produced after the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, which occurred on 13 October. The Radio Thailand World Service broadcasts are prerecorded and there were no announcements of the death of the king during the shortwave transmissions on 13 October. Regular programming on Radio Thailand World Service was suspended on 14 October in homage to the king and replaced with archival material on the king's projects during his reign. Also, 14 October was declared as a public holiday for Thai citizens to pay their respects to the king. The recording starts with time pips, the bell peals interval signal, sign-on announcement, and then the prerecorded 7:00 a.m. (Indochina Time) "Morning News Hour." The national and global news bulletins as well as the business news have extensive reports about the death of the king and the national and international response. The segments "ASEAN Focus," "Take on Thailand" (with an item on the Broadcasting Museum in Bangkok), "Weather Flash," and "What's on in Thailand" fill out the hour. The broadcast also includes government and public service announcements as well as commercials.
The broadcast was received by the Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a "Mini-Whip" antenna in AM mode with 9.0 kHz RF filtering. Reception was very good with a strong signal, no interference, and negligible fading.
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