The UTwente SDR
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Davi Sousa, who shares the following recording of Radio Romania International and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Romania International
Date of recording: 7/29/2019
Starting time: 1900
Frequency: 9.61 MHz
Receiver location: The Netherlands
Receiver and antenna: Web SDR at University of Twente with miniwhip antenna
Notes: Program in Spanish from Radio Romania International to Spain
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, John McMullan, who shares the following recording and notes:
Shortwave aircheck of ALT UNIVERSE TOP 40, recorded from its broadcast on Channel 292, 7440 kHz on June 29, 2019.
Date of recording: 6/29/2019
Starting time: 11:00 UTC
Frequency: 7.440
Your location: USA
Receiver and antenna: WEBsdr (The Netherlands)
Notes: Mild static from the beginning and throughout. Fades and digital skips periodically.
The UTwente SDR
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Davi Sousa, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Korea and notes:
Date of recording: 7/29/2019
Starting time: 1900
Frequency: 13.76 MHz
Receiver location: The Netherlands
Your receiver and antenna: Web SDR at University of Twente with Mini-Whip antenna
Notes: Spanish program from Voice of Korea to Europe
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:
Last night I took advantage of a clear Saturday night to head out to my favorite "dark sky" astronomy site south of Bourbon, Indiana to do some stargazing. I took my 5" telescope along with my favorite "accessory", my newly cleaned, aligned and recapped RF-2200. While waiting for sunset and darkness I recorded one hour of The Mighty KBC's Giant Jukebox and followed that up with a recording of three hours of Toronto's CFZM "Zoomer Radio and their weekly program Saturday Night Bandstand. While not SWBC, listening to Zoomer is a great way to spend a Saturday night under the stars. There is some fading and a strange growling noise which I believe was caused by having my digital recorder too close to the radio. Also some thunderstorm static can be heard from storms which popped up near the end of the recording. Both recordings were made with either the RF-2200's whip antenna for KBC or the internal ferrite swivel antenna for CFZM. Enjoy!
Broadcaster: CFZM
Date of recording: 7/28/2019
Starting time: 0210
Frequency: 740 kHz
Location: Bourbon, IN
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:
Last night I took advantage of a clear Saturday night to head out to my favorite "dark sky" astronomy site south of Bourbon, Indiana to do some stargazing. I took my 5" telescope along with my favorite "accessory", my newly cleaned, aligned and recapped RF-2200. While waiting for sunset and darkness I recorded one hour of The Mighty KBC's Giant Jukebox and followed that up with a recording of three hours of Toronto's CFZM "Zoomer Radio and their weekly program Saturday Night Bandstand. While not SWBC, listening to Zoomer is a great way to spend a Saturday night under the stars. There is some fading and a strange growling noise which I believe was caused by having my digital recorder too close to the radio. Also some thunderstorm static can be heard from storms which popped up near the end of the recording. Both recordings were made with either the RF-2200's whip antenna for KBC or the internal ferrite swivel antenna for CFZM. Enjoy!
Broadcaster: The Mighty KBC
Date of recording: 7/28/2019
Starting time: 0100
Frequency: 9.925
Location: Bourbon, IN
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Emilio Ruiz, who shares the following recording and notes:
With great emotion I participated in the reception (SWL) of the historic KPH station in the Night of Nights XX event (July 12th 2019)
I hope the recording will be useful for all the enthusiastic friends of the telegraphy and the radio.
Broadcaster: KPH
Date of recording: 7/12/2019
Starting time: 00:01:00
Frequency: 12.695,5 MHz
Location: Chiapas, Mexico (GRID: EK36kp)
Receiver and antenna: Kenwood R-600, antena longwire (10 meters aprox.) earth conection.
Mode: Morse Code
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Joshua Chambers, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Voice Of Turkey
Date of recording: 7/5/2019
Starting time: 22:00 UTC
Frequency: 9.860MHz
Location: DERBY, UNITED KINGDOM
Receiver and antenna: Airspy HF+ & SV2CZF TLA500C.2 Loop Antenna
Notes: Signal Varies Throughout the Broadcast, quality is hearable though for the most.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bronwyn Cragg, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Korea from June 7, 2019 starting at 16:00 UTC on 11.645 MHz. Bronwyn made this recording using the WebSDR at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bronwyn Cragg, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Korea from June 6, 2019 starting at 16:00 UTC on 11.645 MHz. Bronwyn made this recording using the WebSDR at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bronwyn Cragg, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Korea from June 11, 2019 starting at 16:00 UTC on 11.645 MHz. Bronwyn made this recording using the WebSDR at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bronwyn Cragg, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Korea from June 13, 2019 starting at 16:00 UTC on 11.645 MHz. Bronwyn made this recording using the WebSDR at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Mexico City, Mexico (Photo by Jezael Melgoza @jezael)
For your listening pleasure: Radio Educación (XEPPM) from Mexico City. This recording was made on April 6, 2019 starting around 0058 UTC on 6,185 kHz. The receiver used was a WinRadio Excalibur hooked to a large horizontal delta loop antenna—the recording was made in North Carolina, USA.
This recording includes music and news—all in Spanish. Enjoy:
For your listening pleasure: Radio Educación (XEPPM) from Mexico City. This recording was made on April 1, 2019 starting around 0125 UTC on 6185 kHz. The receiver used was a WinRadio Excalibur hooked to a large horizontal delta loop antenna—the recording was made in North Carolina, USA.
Although XEPPM’s 1,000 watt signal often makes it into North America, it’s rare that it’s so clear and conditions are so quiet. Their jazz selection on this date was excellent. Enjoy:
In February 2019, the South Africa-based company, Sentech, announced that they would close the Meyerton Transmitting Station effective March 31, 2019. Channel Africa used the Meyerton site for all of their shortwave broadcasts, so the closure meant and end to Channel Africa’s shortwave service. At time of posting, there is no news of other relay stations taking over the Channel Africa service.
The following two hour five minute recording of Channel Africa was made on Friday, March 29, 2019 starting about 1558 UTC on 15235 kHz.
The first hour (1600 - 1657 UTC) is Channel Africa’s French Language service.
The second hour (1700 - 1757) is Channel Africa’s English language service.
After the transmitter carrier dropped at the end of the English Language service broadcast, it did come back on for a brief period of time relaying a few minutes of what I believe may have been the program, “Chinyanja-Nkhani Ndi Zochitika Mu Africa.” I assume this was simply a mistake on the part of the station. I did leave this archived recording.
This recording was made using a WinRadio Excalibur SDR receiver connected to a large horizontal delta loop antenna. The receiver location was North Carolina, USA. Enjoy:
For your listening pleasure: The Voice of Greece recorded on March 26, 2019 starting at 22:50 UTC on 9.42 MHz. The receiver was a WinRadio Excalibur SDR and the antenna a large horizontal delta loop. This was received and recorded in North Carolina, USA.
For your listening pleasure: Radio Exterior de España recorded on March 26, 2019 starting at 22:53 UTC on 9.69 MHz. The receiver was a WinRadio Excalibur SDR and the antenna a large horizontal delta loop. This was received and recorded in North Carolina, USA.
Auckland, New Zealand by Dan Freeman
The following recording of Radio New Zealand International—primarily in English with service to the Pacific islands—was made on March 16, 2018 starting at 13:40 UTC on 6115 kHz. The receiver was a KiwiSDR located in Canberra, Australia.
Note that the news headlines (10 minutes into the recording) mention the Christchurch mosque shootings massacre.
The following recording of the Persian language service of Radio Farda was made on March 16, 2018 starting at 11:30 UTC on 9990 kHz. The receiver was a KiwiSDR located in Maui, Hawaii using an 80-10 off-center dipole.
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