Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares illustrated radio listening report of a recent transmission from the Russian Navy in Morse Code.
Carlos notes:
Part of CW (Morse) message from Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, frequency of 17615 kHz, listened in Florianopolis, Brazil, distance of 11534 km.
Many thanks to SWLing Post and Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post:
by Dan Greenall
A few years ago, during the Covid lockdowns, I rediscovered a box full of my old audio cassette tapes on the bottom shelf of a cupboard in the basement. These cassettes contained many vintage recordings I made between 1970 and 1999, including shortwave, AM, FM and even a bit of TV audio.
I suppose I was a bit lucky, but sometimes not so much.
The box was closed and had basically been in a dust free, climate controlled environment for the previous 22 years (1999-2021). Prior to that (1970-1999), the cassettes were subject to much use and reuse, often being left out (for convenience) unprotected, then being packed up and moved a few times to a new QTH, always within southern Ontario, Canada.
In the early 1970’s, and on a student’s budget, I even resorted to repurposing a couple of cheap demonstration music cassettes by placing a piece of scotch tape over the ends so I could record over the existing music. Inevitably, some “prize” recordings were accidently erased over the years when a cassette was needed urgently and one was thrown hastily into the recorder without a proper check.
Around 1983, I made a decent recording of Radio Mogadishu in Somalia on the out of band frequency of 6790 kHz, but it seems to have been corrupted from being left in the recorder and not discovered until it was too late. Unfortunately, the mistake occurred right over the moment of the actual station ID:
In spite of all of this, I need to feel fortunate that so many of my recordings actually survived for 30, 40 and even 50+ years in spite of my neglecting them for so long. A great deal of this material has since been sorted through and digitised, then saved on the Internet Archive in order to preserve this radio history. I have also regularly submitted some of these recordings to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.
Here is a link to my material on Archive.org, which I am constantly adding to. Most files have audio, however, some are “read only.”
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Part of Radyo Pilipinas’ news bulletin (in English) about preparations ahead of tropical storm “Marce” landfall. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Click here to view on YouTube.
Carlos adds:
Radiofax received this afternoon (20h UTC) in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, #Brazil.
Severe tropical storm “Yinxing” (Marce) via Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, #China. Frequency of 12382 kHz.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recordings of two Canadian Volmet stations. Carlos received these transmissions in Juiz de Fora, Brazil:
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Taiwan International broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Part of Radio Taiwan International news bulletin (in Spanish) about super typhoon “Kong-rey”. Enhanced audio. Listened at UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares illustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice of Korea broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Part of Voice of Korea’s news bulletin (in English) about yesterday’s DPRK long-range missile test. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional de España. Carlos also inclused some bonus Radiofax images of Super Typhoon Kong-rey.
Carlos notes:
Part of Radio Nacional de España news coverage (in Spanish) of catastrophic rains in Valencia, Spain. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Click here to view on YouTube.
Bonus: Super typhoon “Kong-rey” heading Taiwan, via Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (chart) and Japan Meteorological Agency (satellite image). Both radiofax received in Juiz de Fora.
