Radio Luxembourg - 6090 and bonus CFRX 6070 December 1978

It was another time and place. The 1970’s. Radio was alive and well with no sense whatsoever than the decade to follow would not be exactly the same - well, it was in part… but change would come. Even in the late 1970’s, many old stations had a folksy feel to them - Radio Luxembourg was no exception. Based on whatever they were playing you had no idea what was coming next. In this little recording, we have RTL on 6090 playing a mixed bag of what sounds like light German big band music - or folkie pop - or what have you. Station ID at the end…. drifting into a snippet from our old friend CFRB in Toronto on 6070 Khz. All received on a DX150B and an Inverted-L antenna located on the West Coast of Canada.

Voice of America in English, November 7, 2021: 15580 kHz

Recording of Voice of America in English, November 7, 2021 at 13.58 UTC (shortwave frequency of 15580 kHz)

Station: Voice of America
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 15580 kHz shortwave
Date: November 7, 2021
Time: 1358 UTC
Transmitter location: Botswana
Transmitter power 100 kW
Transmission direction: Africa
Receiver: SONY ICF SW1 portable
Location of receiver: outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made noise interference)
Antenna: internal telescopic 0,5 meter long
Recording device: SONY portable cassette tape recorder

Radio RNZ Pacific, November 11, 2021, 7390 kHz

Recording of Radio RNZ Pacific, November 11, 2021 at 1303 UTC (shortwave frequency of 7390 kHz)

Station: Radio New Zealand Pacific
Place of reception: Europe
Language: English
Frequency: 7390 kHz shortwave
Date: November 11, 2021
Time: 13.03 UTC
Transmitter location: Rangitaiki, New Zealand
Transmitter power 100 kW
Receiver: SONY ICF SW1 portable
Location of receiver: outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made noise interference)
Antenna: internal telescopic 0,5 meter long
Recording device: SONY portable cassette tape recorder

Radio Europa 24, October 31, 2021; 6150 kHz

Recording of Radio Europa 24 in Dutch made in Europe on October 31, 2021 broadcasting on 6150 kHz shortwave

Station: Radio Europa 24
Place of reception: Europe
Language: Dutch
Frequency: 6150 kHz shortwave
Date: October 31, 2021
Time: 13.29 UTC
Transmitter location: Datteln, Germany
Transmitter power 0,25 kW
Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30-meter longwire
Antenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder

Radio OZ-Viola, July 5, 2020, 5825 kHz

Recording of Radio OZ-Viola, July 5, 2020 at 12.40 UTC (shortwave frequency of 5825 kHz)

Station: Radio OZ-Viola
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 5825 kHz shortwave
Date: July 5, 2020
Time: 12.40 UTC
Transmitter location: Denmark
Transmitter power: 0,15 kW
Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30-meter longwire
Antenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder

Radio Free Waves Bay, October 24, 2021, 7298 kHz

Recording of Radio Free Waves Bay, October 24, 2021 at 13.19 UTC (shortwave frequency of 7298 kHz)

Station: Radio Free Waves Bay

Language: Russian
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 7298 kHz shortwave
Date: October 24, 2021
Time: 13.19 UTC
Transmitter location: unknown
Transmitter power: unknown
Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30-meter longwire
Antenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder

Dimtsi Weyane (Tigrinya language, Clandestine): October 21, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following short recording and translation, along with his artwork above:

Dimtsi Weyane, 17750 kHz, broadcasting in Tigrinya language to Tigray region in Ethiopia, from Issoudun, France.

Region is facing a civil war since November 2020.

Signal received at Catacumba Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 21, 2021, 16h57 (UTC).

This recording was translated my Saba Tsen'at Mah'deromt via Twitter:

KCBS Sinuiju (North Korea) 873 kHz: October 21, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording and notes:

873 kHz KCBS Sinuiju, North Korea at 1633UTC on Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 with instrumental North Korean music. Signal held out pretty decently for over 6 minutes. 250KW 3500 miles.

Receiver location: McGrath, Alaska

Receiver and antenna: C.Crane CC Skywave and Gary DeBock 5" FSL antenna

Radio Mystery 21, October 15, 2021, 4870 kHz

Recording of Radio Mystery 21, October 15, 2021 at 1827 UTC (shortwave frequency of 4870 kHz)

Station: Radio Mystery 21
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 4870 kHz shortwave
Date: October 15, 2021
Time: 18.27 UTC
Transmitter location: unknown
Transmitter power: unknown
Receiver: SONY ICF 2001D (running on batteries - to evade noise from power mains)
Location of receiver: in the building
Antenna: 1,2 meter CB-radio antenna
Antenna location: outdoor, around 4 meters above Earth level, 3 meters away from the building
Recording device: wav portable recorder
Additional equipment: RF-Systems AA-1 antenna adaptor for portable receivers

Radio Delta from the Netherlands, October 10, 2021

Recording of Radio Delta, October 10, 2021 at 12.59 UTC

Station: Radio Delta
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 6020 kHz shortwave
Date: October 10, 2021
Time: 12.59 UTC
Transmitter location: Elburg, the Netherlands
Transmitter power: 1 kW
Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30 meter longwire
Atenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder

Radio Africa Network via WRMI, October 10, 2021

Recording of Radio Africa Network via WRMI, October 10, 2021

Station: Radio Africa Network
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 21525 kHz shortwave
Date: October 10, 2021
Time: 1359 UTC
Transmitter location: Okeechobee, Florida, USA
Transmitter power: 100 kW
Receiver: Kenwood: R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30 meter longwire
Antenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder

Channel 292 Radio in English on radio history, October 2, 2021

Radio Channel 292 recorded in Europe from shortwave frequency of 9670 kHz on Oct. 2, 2021 at 1220 UTC. The transmitter location is in Germany. The power of transmitter is 10 kW. The recording contains part of a programme on radio history. The recording has been made using portable receiver SONY ICF SW1. The receiver was placed outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made interference). During the recording only the internal telescopic 0,5 meter antenna was used. To make the recording old SONY portable cassette tape recorder has been utilised (to evade additional noise usually produced by mp3 portable recorders).

AWR "Wavescan" via WRMI, October 2, 2021

Radio WRMI recorded in Europe from shortwave frequency of 15770 kHz on Oct. 2, 2021 at 1259 UTC. The recording contains "Wavescan"programme of AWR (it is a programme concerning various aspects of shortwave broadcasting and listening).

The recording has been made using portable receiver SONY ICF SW1. The receiver was placed outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made interference).

During the recording only the internal telescopic 0,5 meter antenna was used. The quality of signal shows that also with very simple antenna quite good reception can be achieved when no local noise interference is disturbing the reception.

To make the recording an old SONY portable cassette tape recorder has been utilised (portable wav or mp3 recorders usually produce some noise disturbing the shortwave signal but the old cassette tape recorders are much better in this regard and practically produce no noise interference). At the left side of the receiver SONY ICF SW1 has a special socket for making recordings onto the tape recorders. The level of audio signal output provided on SONY ICF SW1 recording socket seems to be perfectly matching the microphone input socket of cassette tape recorders (I tried two different ones with good results for shortwave recordings). The actual audio quality of SONY ICF SW1 is however much better than the audio of the recording because of poor audio frequency range being recorded on portable casette tape recorders (in this aspect modern mp3 recorders are much better, but using them one must accept some additional noise from recorder, especially annoying when recording weaker shortwave signals).

Shannon VOLMET: August 5, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stewart Killeen, who shares the following recording and notes:

Notes: Shannon Volmet - SIGMET. A Shanwick Radio broadcast from the North Atlantic Communications Centre, providing meteorological information for aircraft in flight within the Shanwick area of international airspace (northeast part of the Atlantic).

Name: Stewart Killeen

Date of recording: 8/5/2021

Starting time: 0935UTC

Frequency: 5.501MHz

Reception location: Dublin, Ireland

Teceiver and antenna: Tecsun PL-660

Mode: AM

Radio Prague International 85th Anniversary: August 31, 2021

QSL card for reception of a transmission from Radio Prague on 7 May 1964. ORL is the transmitter call sign.

Live, off-air, recording of the broadcast of two special sequential half-hour programs of Radio Prague International celebrating its 85th anniversary. The programs were broadcast via WRMI, Radio Miami International, using a transmitter at Okeechobee, Florida, on 31 August 2021 from 21:00 to 22:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 15770 kHz. The listed transmitter power is 100 kW with an antenna beam azimuth of 44°. The recording includes WRMI station identifications.

Czech Radio officially began its international service on 31 August 1936. Eventually, the service became known as Radio Prague, then for a brief time in the 1990s as Radio Czechoslovakia International and most recently as Radio Prague International. Radio Prague International is mostly an on-line service now with its own transmitters having been shut down on 31 January 2011. It continued to broadcast over the single WRMI transmitter in Miami and currently relays its daily programs in English, French, and Spanish using the WRMI transmitter complex in Okeechobee.

The special anniversary programs include archival recordings, interviews, and comments from listeners. The first half-hour program is in English followed by a second half-hour program in French.

The broadcast via WRMI was received outdoors on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver in AM mode with 2.3 kHz filtering and a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna strung to a nearby tree in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Reception was mostly quite good.

Radio Pyongyang (Mandarin Service): April 25, 1999

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Wang, who shares the following recording and notes:

DPRK's international radio service was named "Radio Pyongyang" until year 2002. Now it is called "Voice of Korea".

In Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages, there are different words to distinguish the north and south.

In English language, word "Korea" may stand for both.

I think the name "Radio Pyongyang" is clear, does not have ambiguity. The name "Voice of Korea", we cannot guess which side it is from.

The radio recording was on the Military Foundation Day in DPRK, 25 April 1999. Its content is the celebration of the festival.

The programmes are political promotion news, editorials, songs and music.

The distance from receiving place Shenyang to Pyongyang is about 374.3KM, to Seoul is about 565.4KM, and to Beijing is about 660.5KM.

The two distances are shorter than to China's capital, it is easier to receive the radio programmes from the Korean Peninsula, and no special equipment is required.

Sometimes in the night, in the mid wave band, the radio transmission from North Korea can "mix" with Shenyang local radio signal, unintentionally interferes the local broadcast.

Broadcaster: Radio Pyongyang

Date of recording: 4/25/1999

Starting time: 11:00

Frequency: 9.445 MHz

Reception location: Shenyang China

Receiver and antenna: Philips Radio Receiver and Casette Recorder AW7509 with antenna on it

Voice of America (Korean Language Service): circa 2002

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Wang, who shares the following recording and notes:

Frequency: 9.350MHz

Reception location: Shenyang China

Receiver and antenna: MeiDuo Radio Receiver and Casette Recorder CP6941 with antenna on it.

Notes: This is a record of VOA Korean Service on the year 2002, I cannot remember the exact month and day of the record. But I think it is on the second quarter of that year.

The background has serious radio interference from the DPRK.

I do not speak Korean, and I did not invoke machine speech recognition to extract transcriptions. I would like to share, anyone who speaks Korean is welcome to interpret the content of the recording.

Rádio Nacional da Amazônia (Frequency Announcement): July 14, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following frequency announcement recording of Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, recorded on 11,780 kHz. The date of the recording is July 14, 2021 (time not noted) and reception location was McGrath, Alaska.

Vatican Radio (Portuguese Language Service): August 17, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recording of Vatican Radio made on August 17, 2021, on 13,380 kHz at 18:00 UTC.

Note that Carlos Latuff, is not only a devoted radio enthusiast, but also a prominent political cartoonist in Brazil and throughout the world. Carlos has kindly included his listening report with his original artwork in the image above. Thank you for sharing, Carlos.

Voice of Vietnam Interval Signal: July 24, 2021

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Vietnam Interval Signal.

This was recorded on 11,885 kHz, July 24, 2021 at 19:00 UTC in McGrath, Alaska.