Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Sarah Boucher, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: VLR-6
Date of recording: December 03, 1972
Starting time: 14:00
Frequency: 6.15 MHz
Your location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Notes: Nightly sign off of VLR-6 announcement by Mary Adams, followed by the then-national anthem
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, for sharing the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Action Radio (Guyana Broadcasting Service)
Date of recording: 3/12/1972
Starting time: believe it was around 0900 UTC
Frequency: 3.290 MHz
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Notes: "Action Radio" (the Guyana Broadcasting Service) from Georgetown recorded signing on for the day in March 1972 on 3290 kHz shortwave. Their guitar interval signal is heard at first, a short musical interlude, then announcements in English giving frequencies used and local time as 5 o'clock in the morning. Initially taped on a reel-to-reel recorder, a copy was made shortly thereafter on a cassette (now 50 years old) from which this digital version was made.
by Dan Robinson
In 1972, the Voice of the Revolution, Guinea’s national radio carried the funeral ceremony for Francis Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president after independence. Quoting from the history: “Nkrumah was born in the Gold Coast (later Ghana) in 1909 and was educated there before going to the United States in 1935 where he attended Lincoln University and later, the University of Pennsylvania. Nkrumah spent 10 years in the U.S., and later went to England to study at the London School of Economics. At the same time, he intensified his political activities for the independence of his homeland, which he led to full nationhood on March 6,1957. He was toppled in 1966 in a coup by army officers and remained in exile in neighboring Guinea until his death in April 1972 in Bucharest, Romania, where he had gone for medical treatment.
As reported by AFP from Accra: “The body of Kwame Nkrumah was flown back here today in a special Guinean Air Force plane. The military government or declared all flags to be flown at half‐staff until the former President is buried in Nkroful, a village 190 miles southwest of here where he was born on Sept. 1, 1909.
Return of the pan‐African leader's body to Ghana marks the culmination of protracted negotiations between the governing National Redemption Council here and President Sékou Touré of Guinea. Mr. Nkrumah died on April 27 in Rumania, where he was receiving medical treatment, and his body was taken to Guinea.
At first, President Touré refused Ghanaian requests for the body and gave Mr. Nkrumah a state funeral in Conakry, the Guinean capital. The Ghanaian had spent most of the years of his exile in Conakry, following his overthrow in 1966 in Ghana's first military coup. He was given the symbolic title of Co‐President of Guinea by President Touré.
Radio Conakry, also known as The Voice of the Revolution, was frequently heard by listeners around the world, usually on its shortwave frequencies including 9,650 kHz and 7,125 kHz. Nkrumah had used the station to make speeches from Guinea to the people of Ghana in 1966.
In this recording, made in Pennsylvania in 1972, you hear part of what appears to be a funeral observance held in Conakry, mostly in French but some English. Radio Conakry remained on shortwave into the 2000s, but later was intermittent. After repairs to its transmitter, it returned to shortwave in 2016 and was still being heard as of early 2021, though at weaker levels than before, and mostly in European locations.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Russ Edmunds, who has kindly shared another collection of mediumwave airchecks (click here to check out all of his contributions).
Russ notes that the reception location was Parsippany, NJ (in a garden apartment) using a Hammarlund modified HQ-150 and a 4' air core amplified loop.
Russ also shares details about each recording in the following table. All recordings have been embedded below:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Russ Edmunds (WB2BJH), for sharing this collection of mediumwave airchecks dating from 1969 to 1978. (Click here to check out all of Russ’ contributions.)
If you’ve subscribed to the SRAA podcast, you might only automatically download the first of these recordings. I would encourage you to view and listen to all 29 recordings on this dedicated Shortwave Radio Audio Archive post.
Click here to download a spreadsheet with full details of each clip.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Srebnick, who shares the following recording and notes:
This is a very enjoyable review of the first 25 years of Radio Nederland, hosted by Jerry Cowan. It is the complete broadcast with the news, which at the time was feed via HF from Hilversum to Bonaire. The panel of guests include Bruce Parsons, Neville Gray, as well as the head of the English Department of Radio Nederland, Van Dulken.
It was recorded off air in Queens, NY on 11,730 kHz between 0200-0320 GMT (April 16 GMT). It came from the relay site in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles where RNW had a powerful relay transmitter site. There is some interference but not enough to diminish your enjoyment.
Radio Nederland
25th Anniversary- Saturday April 15, 1972.
(Shortwave 31 metres. 9715 khz.
0800- 0920 GMT)
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Last Apollo flight to the Moon.
Voice of America (VOA) shortwave coverage.
Broadcast begins Thursday [Australian time]
Dec. 7 1972 at 02-30 GMT.
Information on the mission of Apollo 17-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Cernan
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Relay from the U.N. (29 September 1972)
Speech by Abba Eban (Israel’s Foreign Minister terrorist attacks).
Shortwave from New York. 20-20 GMT 19 meters.
Information-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Eban
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/nov/18/guardianobituaries.israel
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Abba Eban- UN Radio 29 September 1972
Josephine Baker. Shortwave broadcast from the Voice of America,
January 1972.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
More information on Josephine Baker-
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/about/biography.html
The Duke of Windsor in 1945
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Ian Holder for the following recording. Ian notes that this recording features the BBC World Service news bulletin which reports on the death of the Duke of Windsor.
This recording was made on May 28, 1972 around 13:00 GMT on 11.75 MHz:
10th anniversary of Radio Gambia postage stamp (Source: Radio Filatelia)
Many thanks to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Dan Robinson, who submits this short recording of Radio Gambia from June 26, 1972.
Dan comments:
"This classic recording of Radio Gambia was made as the station signed on just before 0600 UTC on 4.820 khz. That frequency was plagued by utility station interference at the time, making reception of Gambia one of the most challenging tasks for SWLs. This recording was made from a Hammarlund HQ-180C receiver."
As Dan states, this is not armchair listening... it's much, much better. It's what real DX is all about: back in time forty-two years, through the static, one uncovers the faint voice of Radio Gambia.
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