Many thanks to Anthony Messina for sharing the following recordings and notes:
Broadcaster: Voice of Korea
Date of recording: January 28, 2024
Starting time: 6pm UTC (1pm EST)
Frequency: 13760khz, 9730khz, 7570khz
Your location: SDR
Your receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR
Mode: AM
Notes: Recorded via an SDR based in Japan. A collection of recent VOK recordings.
Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio Austria International from March 12, 1989.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following recording and notes on Radio Pax
Though shortwave listeners around the world heard the main Radio Clube de Mozambique stations in what could be called the heart of the shortwave era — the 1960’s through the 1980s — another station also broadcast from the east African country. That was Radio Pax, the Catholic station in Beira, Mozambique, which dates back to 1954. Amazingly, Radio Pax still exists today complete with a Facebook page. But there is no longer any shortwave. In 1974, while living in southern Africa as an exchange student I had the thrill of being able to hear Radio Pax on 3,960 khz, one its two shortwave frequencies and made tis recording using a Drake SPR-4 receiver on a longwire located in Mbabane, Swaziland.
WRNO was the U.S. shortwave station founded by Joseph Costello III as described here and went on the air in February 1982 as a commercial international broadcaster. Another recording can be found in the archive but this is one of the earliest recordings of the station after it first went on the air.
As described by Wikipedia, WRNO was the first privately owned shortwave station licensed in several years at the time of its approval by the FCC: “Before Costello's efforts, there were only three non-governmental American shortwave broadcasters on the air; by the end of the decade, that number had increased to sixteen.[2] WRNO shortwave had a rock music format, branded as the "World Rock of New Orleans" and operating from noon to midnight (GMT-6) daily. Originally a separate broadcast from the FM station, eventually WRNO turned to simulcasting WRNO-FM, which also had a rock music format. During the early 1990s WRNO turned to leasing airtime to religious and political commentators (for a time, it was the shortwave home of Rush Limbaugh's program) until a damaged transmitter forced the station off the air for several years.” In 2001 the station was purchased by Good News World Outreach, a non-profit religious broadcaster.” This article in SWLing Post shows the transmitter of WRNO as of 2009.
A bit of shortwave trivia not widely known — Joseph Costello appeared in the first pilot of “Communications World” the VOA program for shortwave listeners originated by Dan Robinson, who went on to be a foreign correspondent, congressional reporter, and chief White House correspondent for VOA through the 1980’s, 1990s and 2000s.
As detailed in this article, Bizim Radio was one of the oldest clandestine stations and represented the Turkish Communist Party (Bizim means “our” radio). Bizim Radio started broadcasting in 1958 and lasted until 1989 when it was reported that the station would close after more than 30 years in operation. Bizim Radio was one of many clandestines audible on the east coast of North America and was a regular along with Radio Espana Independiente, Radio Euzkadi, and other stations often using odd frequency ranges such as the 10 and 13 mHz bands.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following recording
Radio Clandestine was one of the main U.S. pirates on shortwave in the 1970s and 1980s — this recording was made in Washington, DC on a Hammarlund HQ-180A. I do not recall the frequency. This recording includes the famous spoof of Radio Moscow…and sign off with the equally famous R.F. Burns. At another link here in the archives, Andy Robins provides a separate recording of Radio Clandestine recorded in 1980 and notes that the station was known for using frequencies inside the regular shortwave broadcasting bands, unlike other pirates that tended to use frequencies just above or below the 40-meter amateur radio band.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following recording:
Rádio Clube do Pará recorded in Lanzarote, Las Canarias, Spain on December 29, 2018 at 0100 UTC on the frequency of 4885 kHz using Tecsun PL-680 and a piece of wire attached to its telescopic antenna. The transmitter is located in Belem, Brazil. This non-directional transmission had a power rating of 5kW and a multi-path propagation echo can be heard in the recording.
Radio Thailand transmitted at 250 kw from Udon Thani. Received and recorded with the Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
RTM Sarawak FM in Malay transmitting at 100 kw from Kajang. Received and recorded with a Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew passive broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Radio Thailand Newsmagazine in English. From Udon Thani. Received and recorded with the Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew passive broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation received in Sydney, Australia, on the frequency of 9545 kHz. Music, talk, and the news in Pijin at 0800. Transmitted at 10 kw from Honiara. Recorded with the Degen DE1121 and a 40' longwire.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia, at 1400 UTC on 9390 kHz with the Degen DE1121 and a homebrew indoor passive broomstick antenna. Transmitted at 250 kw from Udon Thani.
Many thanks to SWAA contributor, Hans de Zeeuw, for this short recording of The Voice of Indonesia radio in English.
Recorded in Scotland on the 21st of January, 2013, on 9,526 kHz, starting at 17:31 UTC. Hans uses a Microtelecom Perseus receiver and a Wellbrook ALA 1530 antenna.
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Jan Oversteen sends us this recording of the Happy Station Show and comments:
"Part of the Happy Station Show from July 26, 1992. This is the broadcast in where Tom Meijer announced that Pete Meijers is going to take over the program."
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