Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Walker, who shares the following field recording of the Voice of America on 9,775 kHz made in McGrath, Alaska on November 25, 2024. Paul notes:
VOA on 9775 via Botswana in English with (one minute and eight seconds) of a dead carrier, then sign-on and programming begins.
Photo: NASA
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Nigel Thornbury, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Voice of America (VOA)
Date of recording: July 11, 1979
Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-5900 long wire
VOA SiTE B Curtain Antenna Array Near Greenville, North Carolina
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, who shares the following recording and notes from his excellent website Inches Per Second:
Here are two more [shortwave recordings], which I recently came across. These are both segments of episodes of "The Voice of America Jazz Hour", circa 1980, each of which features live recordings of Jazz performers in concert in Europe. I suspect that the recordings shared within this programming might be quite rare, if in fact these tapes were made for VOA and not generally broadcast or released elsewhere. However, it could also be that these performances are actually from released albums, or at least that these performances were later released. By some weird coincidence, these two segments are both 35-36 minutes, even though the show original ran an hour.
The styles of jazz performance heard here are not at all similar the styles within jazz that 1I prefer, and I therefore know nothing about these performers nor have I tried to research them or these performances. But perhaps some of you out there have a taste for this, and I don't ever want to limit this site to things that I want to hear. If anyone has information to share about these recordings, by all means, do, and I'll pass it along.
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.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following short recording of VOA’s Hausa language service recorded on February 26, 2022 in McGrath, Alaska on 11,900 kHz at 20:58 UTC. This recording was made with a Tecsun PL-880, DXE preamp and two tunable HF loop antennas.
Paul notes: “Hausa language gets lopped off for an English sign-off message and Yankee Doodle Dandy followed by a carrier cut 1 minute 20 seconds later.”
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Notes: VOA Communications World hosted by Kim Andrew Elliott. Topics covered included:
- BBC to end shortwave World Service broadcasts to US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Radio Netherlands to broadcast on BBC vacated frequencies for two weeks
- Interview with Ralph Brandi who headed up a "Save BBC" campaign
- Radio Canada website hacked
- VOA new Spanish language program for the Andean region of South America
- 75th Anniversary of RTE in IrelandBroadcaster: Voice of America
Date of recording: 6/30/2001
Starting time: Unknown
Frequency: Internet Stream
Your receiver and antenna: Internet Stream
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
VOA Communications World 7/1/1995
VOA's Communications World presented by Kim Andrew Elliott. Topics discussed included:
- Report on WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, MN) running a modified newscast on another local TV station (KLGT-TV) at the same time and interviews Brian Lambert of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper. Plus, discussion on radio competition in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area.
- Plans of America's public radio broadcasters to distribute programming in Europe
- Radio of-demand and its potential for domestic and international broadcasting
- Interview with VOA's Southeast Asia correspondent, Dan Robinson, about broadcasting in ThailandBroadcaster: Voice of America
Date of recording: 7/1/1995
Starting time: Unknown
Frequency: Unknown
Receiver location: Orono, MN
Receiver and antenna: ICOM R71A, Longwire
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.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Matt Todd, who shares the following recording and notes:
The VOA had an apparent issue with their sign on. The interval signal was played twice, then an ID for Radio Free Europe and then an Asian language programing was joined in progress.
Date of recording: 1/11/2021
Starting time: 1900 UTC
Frequency: 9.8 MHz
RX location: Hugo, MN
Receiver and antenna: SDRplay with a wire loop attic antenna
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, for sharing the following recording and notes:
Voice of America studio quality recording of shortwave coverage of Apollo 11. Starts with newscast on the status of Soviet Luna 2 orbiter that was also sent to the moon, Egyptian-Israel conflict at the Suez Canal, Organization of American States call for a cease fire between El Salvador and Honduras, entire cabinet in South Vietnam resigns, American air attacks against the Viet Cong, etc. Followed by latest updates on Apollo 11 (lunar module is on the moon), international reaction to landing on the moon, etc.
Date of recording: 7/20/1969
Starting time: 1730 UTC
US President, John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:
Voice of America shortwave broadcast from Greenville, NC with English language coverage of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy as they struggle with CBS Television saying President Kennedy is dead and NBC Television saying that he is still alive. Transmission switches to a VOA Polish language broadcast near the end of the recording. Recording provided to me by broadcast historian, Todd Kosovich.
Broadcaster: Voice of America
Date of recording: 11/22/1963
Starting time: Approximately 1300
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording.
Note that we occasionally post recordings that are not airchecks or off-air recordings when they relate to the shortwave radio listening hobby. This is one such recording. Tom shares the following notes:
Notes: Voice of America (VOA) "Talk to America" show from 2005 hosted by Doug Bernard discussing clandestine radio. Guests included Nick Grace, Clandestine Radio Watch and Richard Lafayette, Global Crisis Watch.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stephen Spicer, who shares the following recording and notes:
Reception location: Melbourne, Australia
Receiver and antenna: AWA CR6A with end feed antenna
Notes: A broadcast by Apollo 8 of the first views of the moon in 1968. The broadcast was transmitted by the Voice of America, and received in Melbourne, Australia on an AWA CR6A communications receiver. The transmission frequency and exact time are unknown.
The following recording of the Voice of America French language service to Africa was recorded on June 17, 2020 at 21:00 UTC on 9740 kHz at a remote KiwiSDR site in the arctic region of Finland.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bruce Atchison, for sharing the following recording and notes:
Recorded Communications World off VOA in January of 2003 but I forget the frequency. I used my Uniden CR-2021 receiver.
Note that Bruce is actually featured in this episode with Kim Andrew Elliott!
Voice of Korea, DPRK recorded in London, UK on June 13, 2018 at 1300 UTC on the frequency of 15245 kHz using a Tecsun PL-310 radio with a clip-on long wire antenna. In this broadcast, the official announcement is made regarding Kim Jong Un's meeting with the US president, Donald Trump, in Singapore. The transmitter has a power rating of 200 kW and is located in Kujang, DPRK. One hour into the recording, the radio was tuned upwards into the frequency of 15580 kHz to record the news bulletin from the Voice of America. The transmitter of the latter station is located in Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana and has a power rating of 100 kW.
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.
VOA (Tuesday March 31,1981)
Voice of America (shortwave) 9670khz. 0600 GMT.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/Pres.ReaganAssassinationAttempt1981
13 May 1965. LBJ speech on Vietnam to a group of American editorial cartoonists. Shortwave coverage from the Voice of America (VOA)
Excerpt from President Johnson's speech. Recorded off-air from the Voice of America (VOA) by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Transcript of speech-
http://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/speeches/speech-5934
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