{"id":14674,"date":"2015-09-07T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14674"},"modified":"2015-09-07T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T19:40:18","slug":"frank-shares-1991-recordings-and-original-notes-of-station-ids-and-interval-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/frank-shares-1991-recordings-and-original-notes-of-station-ids-and-interval-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank shares 1991 recordings and original notes of station IDs and interval signals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony-ICF2010\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Frank, writes from Germany:<\/p>\n

First let me say that I enjoy your blog a lot.<\/p>\n

After a 2005-13 hiatus, I have rediscovered a childhood hobby and your reviews have helped me find my way to the post-Sony portable shortwave radio markets.<\/p>\n

First, I obtained my “childhood dream” radio (Sony ICF 2001D), because at the time I made these recordings I was still in school and 1300 DM would have equaled over 1 year of pocket money, so a Supertech SR16HN had to do. I thought I got some fine results with this Sangean-Siemens re-branded receiver then, using a CB half-length antenna, a random wire, and much endurance.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Supertech SR16HN (photo: Radiomuseum.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

I kept regular logs throughout the years, wrote to 50 international and pirate stations for QSL and compiled this cassette.<\/p>\n

A few years before I got that trusty SR16HN, however, I recorded a few number stations (such as G3, Four Note Rising Scale etc) with an ordinary radio cassette recorder, and in 1991 I put them onto this tape as well. The other recordings are done with the same radio placed right in front of the SR 16HN.<\/p>\n

Feel free to make use of these recordings. Most of it are the well-known international state-owned shortwave stations of the past; plus European pirates; plus number stations; and at the end, a few (off-topic) local Am and FM stations interval signals.<\/p>\n

As I said, this collection I made shortly after the Wende\/reunification period, when all former-GDR state broadcasters changed their names, sometimes more than once.<\/p>\n

Please continue your good work on the blogs! Weather permitting I am often outside cycling and always have the tiny Sony ICF 100 with me (which I call my then-student’s dream radio of the later 90ies).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cassette Side 1<\/h2>\n
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Frank’s original hand-written notes. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here to download Side 1<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KWIDs19912\/KW-IDs%201991_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Cassette Side 2<\/h2>\n
\"Click<\/a>

Click to enlage.<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here to download Side 2<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/KWIDs19912\/KW-IDs%201991_2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

\n

Wow! Frank, what a treat to listen to all these station IDs!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I had forgotten how many interval signals have changed over time and how many, of course, have disappeared. This tape represents a\u00a0flood<\/em> of nostalgia for me.<\/p>\n

I should add, too, that I’ve enjoyed hearing so many IDs in German. It’s funny, but we all get hooked on listening to language programming from our native or second languages. It makes me realize just how many broadcasters used to have German language services.<\/p>\n

Again, many thanks, Frank, for taking the time to digitize these recordings and scan your original hand-written notes. This stuff is invaluable, in my book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Frank, writes from Germany: First let me say that I enjoy your blog a lot. After a 2005-13 hiatus, I have rediscovered a childhood hobby and your reviews have helped me find my way to the post-Sony portable shortwave radio markets. First, I obtained my “childhood dream” radio (Sony ICF 2001D), because […]<\/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":[373,3194,960,433,3,305,172,297,288,746,43,5],"tags":[4189,1561,3009,1547,4094,1472,737,3350,4190],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-guest-posts","category-international-broadcasting","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-numbers-stations","category-pirate-radio","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-4189","tag-archives","tag-frank","tag-germany","tag-nostalgia","tag-nostalgic-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-sony-icf-2001","tag-supertech-sr16hn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3OG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11922,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-mikhail-gorbachevs-1991-resignation-speech-via-radio-moscow\/","url_meta":{"origin":14674,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1991 resignation speech via Radio Moscow","author":"Thomas","date":"January 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the advantages of hosting a contributor-driven shortwave radio audio archive, is receiving off-air recordings of defining moments in our world history. 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