Category Archives: Podcast

1976 recording of RNW added to the Shotwave Radio Audio Archive

Greg Shoom, a new contributor to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, has just submitted a 1976-1977 off air recording which includes:

The Happy Station Show hosted by Tom Meijer (Christmas 1976 edition),
an unidentified program called “Why Join a DX Club“
and several longwave radio beacons.

Click here to listen to this recording on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.

Remember, you can subscribe and download the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive collection (free!) as a podcast via iTunes or the SWAA RSS feed.

Many thanks to Greg Shoom for sharing this excellent recording!

Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Station of Macedonia (Voice of Greece)

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For your listening pleasure: two hours, fifteen minutes of the Radio Station of Macedonia (a.k.a. Voice of Greece) recorded on March 6, 2014 starting around 01:50 UTC on 9,420 kHz.

Click here to download as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:

Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Shortwave Shindig

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Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Matthew Williams, who recorded The Shortwave Shindig on 7,570 kHz at 2:00 UTC on March 15, 2014. Matthew was using his Kenwood TS-590S and an 80 meter doublet antenna at his home in New York state.

Here’s his recording, hot off the press:

If others were able to record The Shortwave Shindig, please comment with a link to your recording, your location and your receiver. I will post them on them on Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.

Many thanks for making this recording, Matthew!

Check out David Goren’s website Shortwaveology.net and his Facebook page for more shortwave radio productions.

More 1968 recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

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I’ve now added a total of five recordings by David Firth, circa 1968, to the SW Radio Audio Archive. Click below for direct links:

Note that you can subscribe to the SW Radio Audio Archive as a podcast via iTunes or by using the following RSS feed: http://shortwavearchive.com/archive?format=rss

Eight new recordings in the Media Network Vintage Vault

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RNW headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands (photo coutesty: RNW)

RNW’s former headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands (photo: RNW)

Jonthan Marks has just informed me that he’s added new studio recordings to the Media Network Vintage Vault.

They include:

7.10.1992. AM Stereo; what went wrong?
28.01.1999 Radio’s Future
31.12.1999 Radio New Zealand Profile
25.02.1999 Budel Radio Museum
22.04.1999. Radio Minurca
16.01.1997. Radio Ham Revisited
12.08.1999 Birthday and the Congo
11.02.1999. Remembering JYI Jordan
Of course the MN Vintage Vault has many more recordings!

Jonathan comments, “I think you might like the Radio New Zealand stuff. Sounds like it was recorded yesterday.”

The New Zealand Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) provides the interval signal for RNZI (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Indeed it does!

To top it off, I’m still amazed RNZI is still on the air and pumping out an amazing signal into North America. Click here for a recording made only one week ago.

Having never heard a New Zealand Bellbird live, I was most impressed to hear how RNZI (in the 1950s!) modified the Bellbird’s call for the distinctive RNZI interval signal. Don’t want to give it away, though, listen for yourself.

Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Station of Macedonia (VOG)

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For your listening pleasure: 1 hour 29 minutes of The Radio Station of Macedonia (formerly Voice of Greece). This broadcast was recorded on January 28, 2014 around 1:50 UTC on 9,420 kHz.

During much of the month of December (2013), the Avlis transmitter on 9,420 kHz was off line. Since its return, modulation (as you’ll here) is not quite as good as before. Still, the signal is strong and I’m happy it’s active, even though purely a relay of ERT 3, the Radio Station of Macedonia.

Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:

Pirate Radio Recordings: UNID (percussion)

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On New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and heard a relatively strong pirate station.

For at least 51 minutes, this unidentified pirate played various percussion music, much of which sounded like recordings of live drum circles. I never heard an ID during the broadcast, nor did anyone on the HF Underground board.

Listen for yourself: click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below.