{"id":14241,"date":"2015-07-31T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:32:47","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-st-helena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-st-helena\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio St. Helena"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"radiosthelena\"<\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a> contributor, Brian Smith, who\u00a0shares the following recording of Radio St. Helena Day<\/em> 2006 and\u00a0notes:<\/p>\n

“Beginning in 1990, Radio St. Helena was known for transmitting an international shortwave radio broadcast only once a year — and sometimes not even that — on a frequency of 11092.5 kHz USB. I managed to hear its 2006 broadcast to North America for about an hour on Nov. 4 and 5 UTC (straddling the 0000 hour).<\/p>\n

Because of its relatively low power, it was never an easy catch in the American Midwest. That’s why this recording, which lasts just over an hour — I spliced together both sides of a cassette — captures a signal quality that is merely fair at best. But that was typical of Radio St. Helena, whose 1 kw signal in 2006 (it was 1.5 kw in the 1990s) seldom packed much of a punch.<\/p>\n

I was listening on the borrowed rig of a now-deceased friend, Mike Koss, W9SU, and have long since forgotten the type of radio (probably a ham rig) he let me use. However, if memory serves, it was attached to a Beverage antenna that stretched across his 10-acre property in the heart of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

Mike deserves the lion’s share of the credit for the creation of this recording.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In all of the years I tried to hear Radio St. Helena’s annual broadcast, timing never worked on my end; either I was travelling, the station had transmitter problems, or conditions were simply too poor. Many thanks for sharing this recording with us, Brian!<\/p>\n

Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioSt.HelenaProjectEDIT1A2MONO\/Radio%20St.%20Helena%20projectEDIT1A2%20MONO.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Brian Smith, who\u00a0shares the following recording of Radio St. Helena Day 2006 and\u00a0notes: “Beginning in 1990, Radio St. Helena was known for transmitting an international shortwave radio broadcast only once a year — and sometimes not even that — on a frequency of 11092.5 kHz USB. I managed […]<\/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":[3,746,43],"tags":[3963,137,4036,4037,34,2479,737],"class_list":["post-14241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-brian-smith","tag-radio-st-helena","tag-radio-st-helena-2006","tag-radio-st-helena-recording","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3HH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14445,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/pauls-radio-st-helena-day-announcements\/","url_meta":{"origin":14241,"position":0},"title":"Paul’s Radio St. Helena Day announcements","author":"Thomas","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul Walker, who writes: I am a radio personality here in the USA as well as a SW and MW DX'er. 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