Radio RSA: December 31, 1979

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jerry Johnston, who has kindly shared his collection of airchecks with the archive. The following recording and notes originally appeared on Jerry’s website.

Meyerton, South Africa 1979-12-31 2153 GMT 15380/17805 kHz English Radio RSA's 3rd annual New Year's Eve live call in program. I called in at 2320 GMT (separate cut on recoding, 19 minutes in). I was 13 years old at the time. You can hear my voice right before that cut, and again at the very end of the recording.

Duration:   46:15
Filename:  19791231_2153_Radio-RSA_South-Africa_15380.mp3
Bitrate Mode:  vbr      Channel Mode:  mono      Sample Rate:  44100 Hz
Received By:  Jerry Johnston
Receiving Location:  Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Radio Canada International (Shortwave Listener's Digest): July 26, 1982

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:

Date of recording: 7/26/1982

Starting time: 2130

Frequency: 15.325

Reception location: South Bend, IN

Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-302

Notes: Here are two more back to back episodes from my collection of recordings of Shortwave Listener's Digest from Radio Canada International, this time from July 26 and August 02, 1982. This program's highlights are: ANARC 1982 Convention promo, Larry Magne's test of the Sony ICF-6500W, a look at underseas intercontinental cables with Walter Foster of Teleglobe Canada, Glenn Hauser's DX tips. The second program highlights are: coverage of the 1982 ANARC convention with guest co-host Bab Zanotti of Swiss Radio Intl., interview with David Meisel about the solar cycle, a rundown of the awards given out at ANARC 82.

BBC World Service: April 30, 1982

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:

Date of recording: 4/30/1982

Starting time: unknown

Frequency: unknown

Reception Location: South Bend, IN

Receiver: Realistic DX-302

Notes: From April 30, 1982 I submit this recording of London Calling the Falkland Islands. I failed to record the time and frequency of this recording but it likely came from Ascension Island. This recording was made during the height of the Falklands War and many mentions to the conflict can be heard in the broadcast.

Radiodiffusion Télévision Gabonaise: 1979

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jerry Johnston, who has kindly shared his collection of airchecks with the archive. The following recording and notes originally appeared on Jerry’s website.

Libréville, Gabon
1979?     4777 kHz
French     100 kW

Music, talk, ID in French. Time and actual date unknown, possibly 1979.

Duration:   25:04
Filename:  19790000_-_Radiodiffusion-Television-Gabonaise_Gabon_4777.mp3
Bitrate Mode:  vbr      Channel Mode:  mono      Sample Rate:  44100 Hz
Received By:  Jerry Johnston
Receiving Location:  Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Radio Free Grenada: March 1980

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jim Nall, who shares the following recording of Radio Free Grenada made in 1980.

Receiver: Kenwood R-1000

Antenna: Vertical

Reception location: Louisville, KY

ZNS-3, The Light: September 16, 2019

Live, off-air, approximately one-hour recording of AM radio station ZNS-3, "The Light" also known as Radio Bahamas Northern Service, Freeport, Grand Bahama, on 16 September 2019 beginning just before 17:00 UTC. The station operates on a frequency of 810 kHz with a transmitter power of 10 kW and a non-directional antenna.

The recording starts with public service announcements related to the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, which struck The Bahamas at Category 5 strength on 1 September, followed by a music selection. At 17:00 UTC (6 minute, 30 second mark of the recording), ZNS-3 joined ZNS-1, Radio Bahamas, for the "One O'Clock Report" news program. There was extensive reporting of the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. The news was followed by sports, weather, and community announcements. At about 17:18 UTC (24 minute, 50 second mark of the recording), ZNS-3 switched back to its own religious music programming and public service announcements and warnings.

The transmission was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with its built-in ferrite-bar-loop antenna in a hotel room in Miami in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception was clear but slightly noisy and with some periodic pulsating signal interference.

ZNS-3 is one of four radio stations operated by ZNS, the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas. It is a primarily commercial religious music station serving the northern Bahamian islands.

Hobart Radio International via WRMI: January 26, 2020

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Zach Rutledge, who shares the following recording and notes:

This broadcast includes a news segment on the aftermath of the wildfires in Australia, as well as music from Hot Chip and Men At Work. Plus, in place of Jordan's World Of Radio, they play a track from a Monty Python album. This broadcast highlights the higher than average fidelity of WRMI's transmitter on 5850 kHz, and was recorded with an ~8 kHz wide audio bandwidth for improved fidelity.

Broadcaster: Hobart Radio International (via WRMI Okeechobee, Florida)

Date of recording: 1/26/2020

Starting time: 0830

Frequency: 5.850

Reception location: Baldwin County, Alabama, USA

Receiver and antenna: SDRPlay RSP-1, SDRUno, W6LVP active loop antenna

Radio Luxembourg: September 25, 1990 (Part 2)

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Anthony Pavick, who shares the following recording and notes:

Starting time: 2230 UTC

Frequency: 1.440

Reception location: Kirkwall, Orkney

Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2003 with whip antenna

Notes: Aircheck of Radio Luxembourg from late October 1990 (recorded Sep 25, 1990)

Note: The following recording is Part 2, click here for Part 1:

Radio Luxembourg: September 25, 1990 (Part 1)

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Anthony Pavick, who shares the following recording and notes:

Starting time: 2230 UTC

Frequency: 1.440

Reception location: Kirkwall, Orkney

Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2003 with whip antenna

Notes: Aircheck of Radio Luxembourg from late October 1990 (September 25, 1990 recording date)

Note: The following recording is Part 1, click here for Part 2:

HCJB, The Voice of the Andes: June 26, 1994

QSL card from HCJB

Live, off-air, approximately 45-minute recording of English programming from HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, on 26 June 1994 beginning just before 03:00 UTC on 9745 kHz. The signal was beamed to North America from the HCJB transmitter facility at Pifo near Quito, Ecuador, using a 100 kW transmitter.

The recording begins with the final minute or so of the "Musical Mailbag" program hosted by Curt Cole with Michaelene Tetteh, Giselle Russell, Gail Pfeffer, and Ralph Kurtenbach. The interval signal and station identification then precede the time pips for 03:00 UTC. Next, "HCJB World Radio News" is presented by Ralph Kurtenbach including items about World Cup soccer, Haiti, and Rwanda. This is followed by "DX Partyline" with Rick and Lisa McVicar. The episode featured an article on the difference between UTC and GMT by Prof. Richard Langley of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada (me). The recording ends just before the program concludes.

Reception of the broadcast was quite good. At times, some slight co-channel interference can be heard from, presumably, Radio Bahrain (Islamic chanting), and adjacent channel interference from Radio Moscow International / Voice of Russia on 9750 kHz.

The broadcast was received in Hanwell, New Brunswick, Canada, using a JRC NRD-535D receiver operated with a 6 kHz IF filter and with a random-length wire antenna draped around the listening room.

Europe 1 Longwave End of Broadcasting: December 31, 2019

Live off-air recording of the last approximately one hour of programming from the Europe 1 longwave station on 31 December 2019 beginning at 21:30:42 UTC on the frequency of 183 kHz. The signal originated from a 750 kW transmitter (perhaps operating at 375 kW; one of two capable of a joint power of 1500 kW) located between the villages of Felsberg and Burus in the municipality of Überherrn in Saarlouis, Germany, about 1 km from the French border.

Europe 1 is a primarily news and talk station owned by Lagardère Group with programming originating in Paris. It has an extensive FM network covering France and will soon be on DAB+. The longwave station has operated for the past few years using one or two of a pair of 750 kW transmitters and a two-mast antenna originally designated as the reserve antenna (the original four-mast antenna and the old transmitter in the original transmitter hall were all decommissioned following an antenna mast accident). The new transmitting facility was operated remotely by BCE (Broadcasting Center Europe) from Luxembourg.

The final hour of programming was the phone-in help program "Antenne Libre" with Olivier Delacroix.

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 9.00 kHz RF filtering.

NDR - Gruss an Bord: December 24, 2019

Two live, off-air, two-hour recordings of the special annual Gruss an Bord broadcast from German broadcaster NDR, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, on 24 December 2019 beginning at 19:00 UTC. The broadcast features Christmas music and greetings for mariners around the world and a church service. The Christmas greetings were recorded at two events on the second Advent Sunday (8 December) in Leer and on the third Advent Sunday (15 December) in Hamburg.

Relatives and friends had the opportunity to wish their loved ones at sea a happy holiday and a happy new year. The Leer event featured the Bingumer Shanty Choir and Anne-Fleur Schoch and her band while the Hamburg event also featured Anne-Fleur Schoch and her band. At about 21:00, there was a church service from St. Maria Magdelena Catholic Church in Bochum-Wattenscheid. The broadcast was primarily in German with some greetings in English, Filipino, and Indian languages as well as German. Several songs in English, too. A news bulletin (in progress when recording began) preceded the first program segment for a few minutes.

In addition to being carried on the NDR Info and NDR Info Spezial networks, the broadcast was transmitted around the world on shortwave using transmitters in Nauen (NAU), Germany; Moosbrunn (MOS), Austria; Issoudun (ISS), France; and Gavar (ERV), Armenia; and was organized by Media Broadcast.

The schedule for 1900-2100 UTC was:
6030 kHz ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to West/Central Europe
6080 kHz NAU 125 kW / 250 deg to Northern Atlantic
9570 kHz MOS 100 kW / 115 deg to Indian Ocean East
9740 kHz NAU 125 kW / 130 deg to Indian Ocean West
9800 kHz ISS 250 kW / 148 deg to Waters near South Africa
11650 kHz ISS 250 kW / 195 deg to Southern Atlantic
and for 2100-2300 UTC:
6145 kHz NAU 125 kW / 250 deg to Northern Atlantic
6155 kHz ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to West/Central Europe
9590 kHz ISS 250 kW / 148 deg to Waters near South Africa
9675 kHz MOS 100 kW / 115 deg to Indian Ocean Eastbound
9740 kHz NAU 125 kW / 130 deg to Indian Ocean West
9830 kHz ISS 250 kW / 195 deg to Southern Atlantic

The first recording is of the transmission on the frequency of 6080 kHz between about 19:00 and 21:00 UTC. The second recording is of the transmission between about 21:00 and 23:00 UTC on the frequency of 6145 kHz. Near the beginning of the second recording, some other frequencies were tried to confirm the best one.

The transmissions were received outdoors on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada, in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception was quite good for both two-hour segments although the second one got slightly noisy as time progressed.

Radio Austria International (Romania Revolution Special Broadcast): 1990

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tim Harrold, who shares the following recording and notes:

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Romanian Revolution, a recording of "Austrian Shortwave Panorama", Radio Austria International's weekly DX programme presented by David Hermges. This was a special edition broadcast a few days after Romania's 1989 revolution originally broadcast on 31st December 1989 (although this recording is of a repeat from sometime in 1990). Contains off-air recordings of Radio Bucharest and Radio Free Europe (in English, Romanian and other languages) recounting the events of the revolution. (Sent via The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive)

Frequency: 13.730 MHz

Reception location: Birmingham, UK

Receiver and antenna: Toshiba portable, telescopic antenna

Lao National Radio: May 10, 2012

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Timm Breyel, who shares the following recording and notes:

Lao National Radio at 14.00 UTC on 6.130 kHz, 10 May 20112. An English language broadcast of Domestic and Regional News followed this station identification, which was presented by the same female announcer.

Broadcaster: Lao National Radio

Date of recording: 5/10/2012

Starting time: 14.00 UTC

Frequency: 6.130 kHz

Recption location: Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Receiver and antenna: Tecsun S-2000 / 1/4 wave

CBC Radio Nord Quebec: October 29, 2012

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Timm Breyel, who shares the following recording and notes:

CBC Radio Nord Quebec @ 22.30 UTC / 29.10.12 / 9.625 kHz. Record message includes music clip, station ID and announcer presenting news in Native American language.

Broadcaster: CBC Radio Nord Quebec

Date of recording: 10/29/2012

Starting time: 00.00 UTC

Frequency: 9.625 kHz

Reception location: Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Receiver and antenna: Tecsun S-2000/ 1/4 wave

National Radio of Kampuchea: April 19, 2012

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Timm Breyel, who shares the following recording and notes:

National Radio of Kampuchea @ 918 kHz (MW) heard at 23.00 UTC in West Malaysia. Strong reception up to 00.00 UTC; signal was faintly heard up to 05.00 UTC.

Date of recording: 4/19/2012

Starting time: 23.00 UTC

Frequency: 918 kHz

Reception location: Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Receiver and antenna: Tecsun S-2000/ internal ferrite

Super Rock KYOI: March 11, 1986

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Mark Nelson, who shares the following recording and notes:

Super Rock KYOI was a short-wave radio station located at Saipan island in the Pacific region from 1982 to 1989. The station broadcast rock and pop music to China, Japan, USSR, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. This recording includes rock music, IDs, and address. It was originally recorded to cassette tape using a Sony ICF6500W receiver. My location was Minot, North Dakota.

Starting time: 1425

Frequency: 11.900

Receiver location: Minot, North Dakota, USA

Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF6500W with random wire

WRNO (Glenn Hauser's World of Radio): April 11 & 25, 1982

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:

Here are two back to back episodes of Glenn Hauser's World of Radio from April 11 and April 25, 1982. WOR aired on WRNO on Sundays at 2330 UTC on 11.955 MHz plus one other time slot.

Some of the program highlights are

Part 1: Monitoring the Falkland Islands situation, Adrian Peterson presents a feature of the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Service, discussion of the close-down of Radio New Zealand's SW service (note the "Russian Woodpecker" during the RNZ segment), news about Radio CBN, Bolivian radio news, an item about the highest transmitter in the world, Radio Quince de Septiembre being jammed, illegal SW broadcasts to Cuba.

Part 2: A new shortwave station to begin broadcasting during the World's Fair in Knoxville, TN, Radio New Zealand still on the air (mention of me getting a letter from the Prime Minister of New Zealand), Radio Moscow special programming for May Day, Radio Nacional do Brazil schedule, CBC's Morningside program, Radio Ghana back on the air, items from Review of International Broadcasting, items on equipment suppliers Radio West and Shortwave Horizons (Canada), Directory of World Band Radio from Sony, audio clip from Radio Solidarity from Poland, Athens Greece radio hoax.

Frequency: 11.955

Reception location: South Bend, IN

Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2001

Interval Signals: Bangkok Meteorological Radio 1994 "Music Box Interval Signal"

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jerry Johnston, who shares the following recording from his extensive collection off interval signals.

Duration: 2:07

Filename: Bangkok-Meteorological-Radio_Thailand.mp3 (1.27 MB)

Bitrate Mode: vbr Channel Mode: mono Sample Rate: 44100 Hz

Received By: Jerry Johnston

Receiving Location: Maywoods Environmental Laboratory DXpedition, Crab Orchard, Kentucky, USA

Interval Signals: BBC World Service 1980/1981

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jerry Johnston, who shares the following recording from his extensive collection off interval signals.

Duration: 0:34

Filename: BBC_England_(Bow-Bells).mp3 (319.35 kB)

Bitrate Mode: vbr Channel Mode: mono Sample Rate: 44100 Hz

Received By: Jerry Johnston

Receiving Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Duration: 0:33

Filename: BBC_England_(Four-notes-B-B-B-E).mp3 (317.23 kB)

Bitrate Mode: vbr Channel Mode: mono Sample Rate: 44100 Hz

Received By: Jerry Johnston

Receiving Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA