Special transmission of Vatican Radio broadcasting Easter Vigil as of 1725 UTC on April 8, 2023 on the shortwave frequency of 13830 kHz to Africa in English. The recording contains part of the transmission (80 minutes). The recording has been made in Europe using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Gert Irmler, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: R Satélite Santa Cruz / PRU - 6724.5 kHz
Date of recording: 1/17/1995
Starting time: 03:14
Frequency: 6.724 MHz
Reception location: Schwäbisch Gmünd, BW - Germany
Receiver and antenna: Grundig Satellit 2000, 30m longwire
Notes: OAX2L R Satélite Santa Cruz, Perú
QRG: 6724.5 kHz
QTH: Schwaebisch Gmuend / Germany
Rec: 17th Jan. 1995 - 03:14 UTC (GMT)
Rx, Ant: Grundig Satellit 2000, 30m longwire
Px: S, Huaynos, jingles, ID, N.A., s/off
SINPO: 34333
Note: Transmitter power acc. to WRTH: 0.15 kW
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Nacional del Paraguay
Frequency: 9.735
Recption location: Thamesford, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna
Notes: It was always a treat to find Radio Nacional del Paraguay in Asuncion on 9735 kHz. and listen to their amazing music typical of that part of South America. This recording was made in early 1997 but is of unfortunately short duration. Announcements including station identification are in Spanish.
BBC in English recorded in Europe on 26 March 2023 at 1733 UTC, the shortwave frequency of 21470 kHz in the 13 meter band. Recording made using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: United Arab Emirates Radio from Abu Dhabi
Frequency: 9.605
Reception location: London, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna
Notes: Here is short clip of United Arab Emirates Radio from Abu Dhabi in English (circa 1990) broadcasting in the 31 metre band on 9605 khz, as heard in London, Ontario, Canada. Using a Panasonic RF-3100 portable receiver and a long wire antenna.
Radio Channel 292 recorded on March 19, 2023 at 1348 UTC broadcasting on shortwave frequency of 9670 kHz. Recording made using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Liam Spencer, who shares the following recordings and notes:
Broadcaster: BBC World Service
Date of recording: 1/26/2023
Starting time: 01:00 UTC
Frequency: 15.310 MHz
Reciever location: KiwiSDR in Philippines/Thailand
Antenna: 40M delta loop
Notes: This is part one of two of a one hour broadcast from the BBC World Service Relay in Kranji, Singapore. Reason I had to do two parts was due to the signal becoming weak on the KiwiSDR in the Philippines, So I switched to one in Thailand which had a stronger signal.
Broadcaster: BBC World Service
Date of recording: 1/27/2023
Starting time: 01:00 UTC
Frequency: 15.310 MHz
Receiver location: KiwiSDR in Thailand
Antenna: Wellbrook Loop FLX1530LN
Notes: Part 2, the first KiwiSDR I used the signal became to weak to listen to I switched to one in Thailand which had a better signal.
Part 2 covers from 01:11 UTC to 1:59 UTC.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: PTT voice mirrors from the 1970's Part 3
Frequency: various
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes:
Point to point stations were commonly found on shortwave in the 1970's outside of the normal SWBC bands. They could often be heard transmitting a repeating test message so a receiving station could tune them in prior to conducting radiotelephone traffic.1. U.S. Army radio station ACA, Panama Canal Zone
2. Oostende Radio, Belgium
3. PTT, Dakar, Senegal
4. Reugen Radio, German Democratic Republic
5. Venezuelan Telephone Company, Caracas
6. French Telecommunications Service, Djibouti
7. British Post Office Phototelegraph Network (no location given)
8. Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation,
Yamachiche, Quebec
9. ENTEL, Bogota, Colombia
10. Belgian Telegraph and Telephone Administration, Brussels
11. British Post Office, London, England
12. France Cables and Radio Company, Fort Lamy, Chad
13. PTT, Blantyre, Malawi
14. East African External Telecommunications Company Limited,
Nairobi, Kenya
15. International Telecommunications Corporation, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
16. Office Congolais des Postes et Telecommunications, Kinshasa,Democratic Republic of the Congo
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Frequency: various
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Your receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes:
Point to point stations were commonly found on shortwave in the 1970's outside of the normal SWBC bands. They could often be heard transmitting a repeating test message so a receiving station could tune them in prior to conducting radiotelephone traffic.1. Radio Telephone Circuit, Godthaab, Greenland
2. PTT, Papeete, Tahiti
3. AFA, USAF Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA
4. AFI, USAF McClellan AFB Sacramento, CA, USA
5. Imperial Board of Telecommunications of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
6. Radiografica Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
7. International Radio Telephone Service, Havana, Cuba
8. France Cables and Radio Company, Douala, Cameroon
9. French Telecommunications Service, Noumea, New Caledonia
10. AEZ, U.S. Army, Asmara, Ethiopia
11. French Telecommunications Service, Fort de France, Martinique
12. CUW, USAF Aerospace Communications Complex, Lajes AFB, Azores
13. Malgache Republic International Telecommunications Company,
Tananarive, Madagascar
14. French Telecommunications Service, Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe
15. France Cables and Radio Company, Niamey, Niger
16. French Telecommunications Service, St. Pierre et Miquelon
17. France Cables and Radio Company, Monrovia, Liberia
Vatican Radio broadcasting Holy Mass in English. Recorded in Europe on 24 February 2023 at 11.30 UTC. Shortwave frequency of 15595 kHz. Received using Kenwood R-5000 and Wellbrook ALA1530+ antenna.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: PTT voice mirrors from the 1970's Part 1
Frequency: various
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes:
Point to point stations were commonly found on shortwave in the 1970's outside of the normal SWBC bands. They could often be heard transmitting a repeating test message so a receiving station could tune them in prior to conducting radiotelephone traffic. These recordings were all made at Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, using either a Hallicrafters S52 or Realistic DX150A receiver hooked up to a long wire antenna.
1. Australian Overseas Radiotelephone Service, Sydney
2. Reykjavik Radio, Iceland
3. Moscow Radio Telephone Station, USSR
4. Radio Telephone Station, Warsaw, Poland
5. Overseas Station Berlin, German Democratic Republic
6. Yugoslav Telegraph and Telephone Administration, Belgrade
7. Swiss Telegraph and Telephone Administration, Bern
8. ITALCABLE, Rome, Italy
9. Netherlands PTT, Amsterdam
10. Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, Nicosia
11. Cairo Radio Telephone Terminal, Arab Republic of Egypt
12. PTT and Radio Administration, Tel Aviv, Israel
13. Saudi Arabian Post, Telegraph and Telephone Administration, Jeddah
14. Moroccan Radio Electrical Centre, Rabat
15. Companhia Portuguesa Radio Marconi, Luanda, Angola
16. RCA Global Communications, New York City
17. France Cables and Radio Company, Lome, Togo
18. Zambian Post Office, Lusaka
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Clinton Turner, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Nederlands
Date of recording: 4/20/1980
Starting time: 0530
Frequency: 6.165 MHz
Recption location: North Logan, UT
Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-1600 with random wire approx. 50' (15M)
Notes: Happy Station Show with Tom Meijer, 20 April, 1980 - off-air recording
Overview of 1980 Eurovision Song Contest, letters
Live, off-air, three-hour excerpt of a recording of the provincial Cuban station Radio Metropolitana, CMBL, Havana, Cuba, on 10 November 2022 beginning at about 20:00 UTC. The station operates on an frequency of 910 kHz from a transmitter in the Villa Maria area of the Distrito de Guanabacoa municipality of Havana with a power of 5 kW and an omnidirectional antenna. The station also transmits on 98.3 MHz in the FM band.
The transmission was received on a Tecsun PL-880 portable receiver with its built-in ferrite-bar-loop antenna in Marathon, Florida, in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception was fairly good with some background noise due to the slightly weak signal associated with the over 200 km long-range reception.
Radio Metropolitana is part of the group of stations that make up the Provincial Directorate of Radio in Havana with studios in the FOCSA building in Havana's Vedado district. It is on the air 24 hours a day and offers cultural programming with a strong presence of music aimed at families in the capital city. Its slogan is "La radio de casa" and its theme tune is a fragment of the familiar song "El Manisero" ("The Peanut Vendor") by Cuban composer Moisés Simons. Both can be heard frequently in this recording.
The recording begins with a song by Puerto Rican singer Kany García followed by the program "De Buena Tinta" (literally "of good ink" but an idiomatic expression meaning "on good authority") beginning at 20:00 UTC. This is a news program for residents of Havana including events taking place, weather, and sports. At 20:30 UTC, there is the program "La Novela" (The Novel) with an instalment of "La Flor de los Sueños" (The Flower of Dreams). Next is "Un Amigo Cincero" (A Sincere Friend), a brief program on the literature of José Martí. The program "Por La Habana" (Around Havana) begins at 21:00 UTC. This program is mostly music with Cuban jazz, blues, and funk. Between every few musical items is a discussion of indigenous languages in Latin America and elsewhere and their impact on music. At 22:30 UTC, the program "Para Luego es Tarde" (meaning colloquially "no time like the present") begins. This edition features a discussion about corn (maize), its history and how it is grown, harvested, marketed, prepared for food and other uses. Midway through the program there is a musical interlude with a short discussion about the Bee Gees with excerpts of several of their songs. During some of the programs in the recording, mention is made of the 503rd anniversary of the founding of Havana on 16 November 1519. Public service announcements about health and other matters are also present throughout the recording.
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty presumably test shortwave transmission on the frequency of 3975 kHz at 22.24 UTC on 8 February 2023. Received using SDR web receiver located in Germany.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: United Arab Emirates Radio from Dubai
Date of recording: circa 1983
Frequency: 21.655 MHz
RX location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna
Notes: By the 1980's, UAE Radio stations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi were using high powered transmitters and could often be heard nice and clear here in Southern Ontario, Canada with English language programs.
Here is an aircheck circa 1983 from United Arab Emirates Radio from Dubai broadcasting on 21655 kHz.
BBC in French broadcasting towards Africa in 13 Meter Band. Recorded in Europe February 5, 2023 at 12.00 UTC, the shortwave frequency of 21500 kHz. Recorded using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna placed very close to the building wall (therefore gathering some noise interference).
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Moscow
Date of recording: Unknown
Starting time: Unknown
Frequency: Unknown
Reception location: Plymouth, MN
Receiver and antenna: Hammarlund HQ-180
Notes: Radio Moscow's Moscow Mailbag hosted by Joe Adamov from 1978. Questions ranged from why a woman asks the questions on Moscow Mailbag and a male (Joe) gets to answer them, why does the Soviet Union ignore positive aspects of Western society, dissidents in the Soviet Union, and more.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker who shares this recording of Radio Romania International’s Hebrew Language Service. This recording was made in McGrath, Alaska, on 7,370 kHz at 17:31 UTC on November 20, 2022. Paul notes. “this is RRI with their once weekly 30 minute broadcast in Hebrew on 7370 from Galbeni, to the Middle East
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of VOA made on November 22, 2022 at 20:34 UTC on 11,850 kHz in McGrath, Alaska. Paul notes that this was actually a program feed error because the Kirundi Language Service is normally broadcast at this time and on this frequency.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recordings and notes:
Broadcaster: Voice of America Okinawa Rhodes Philippines Greenville Woofferton 1970's
Date of recordings: various
Frequency: various
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Notes: In the 1970's, Voice of America relay transmitter sites often gave their location between programs. Some VOA programs were relayed via the BBC site at Woofferton, England (audio from 1971).
Reception of Rhodes in the 41 metre band was not easy here in Ontario, Canada as evidenced by that recording.
The transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina was their largest operation. That recording is circa 1973.
The Okinawa relay was heard on 7165 kHz, and Philippines relay 15185 kHz, both recorded in 1971.
The Yankee Doodle tune was played during most of these interludes.
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