{"id":11959,"date":"2015-01-11T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2015-01-11T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:04:13","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-berlin-international-final-episode-of-dx-tra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-berlin-international-final-episode-of-dx-tra\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Berlin International, Final episode of DX-tra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a> contributor, Richard Langley, who writes:<\/p>\n

[The following is a] recording of the penultimate English broadcast from Radio Berlin International (RBI) and the last broadcast in the particular time slot. It was also the last broadcast of the popular DX program DX-tra.<\/p>\n

RBI ceased broadcasting at the end of the day on 2 October 1990, the day before German reunification took place.<\/p>\n

In addition to the final episode of DX-tra, the recording features the news (in progress as the recording starts a minute or two after 00:45), Commentary, RBI Press Review, and Spotlight on Sport. There are several “goodbye” songs including “The Final Countdown” by the Swedish hard rock band Europe, and “Goodbye Blue Sky” by Pink Floyd and some announcer goodbye comments like “the voice of the disappearing German Democratic Republic,” “that was it,” and “the last day of the good old GDR.”<\/p>\n

The 45-minute recording ends with the familiar RBI interval signal and, at 01:30 UTC, the first part of the German-language transmission, also the last in its time slot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This recording was made in Hanwell, NB, Canada, with a\u00a0Sony ICF-7600D receiver and supplied wire antenna draped around Richard’s home office. This recording begins around 0045 UTC, October 2, 1990 on a frequency of 9,730 kHz.<\/p>\n

Click here to download this recording<\/a>\u00a0as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioBerlinInternational9.730MHz02October19900045UTC\/RadioBerlinInternational-9.730MHz-02October1990-0045UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Richard Langley, who writes: [The following is a] recording of the penultimate English broadcast from Radio Berlin International (RBI) and the last broadcast in the particular time slot. It was also the last broadcast of the popular DX program DX-tra. RBI ceased broadcasting at the end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[3523,3526,3524,3525,4106,3516,2479],"class_list":["post-11959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-berlin-international","tag-radio-berlin-international-recording","tag-rbi","tag-rbi-dx-tra","tag-recordings","tag-richard-langley","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-36T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63824,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/dan-shares-recordings-of-the-golden-days-of-european-shortwave-listening\/","url_meta":{"origin":11959,"position":0},"title":"Dan Shares Recordings of the Golden Days of European Shortwave Listening","author":"Thomas","date":"August 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post: Europe on shortwave in the 1970\u2019s by Dan Greenall During the golden years of shortwave listening, many European countries had an international shortwave service and broadcast programs to North America (where I live) in English. 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