{"id":14732,"date":"2015-09-10T07:41:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2015-09-10T07:41:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:41:30","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-biafra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-biafra\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Biafra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RadioBiafra\"<\/a>Last week, I received a tip from SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson:\u00a0Radio Biafra<\/em>, a new clandestine station, was audible on 15,560 kHz via the Universite Twente Web SDR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite miserable propagation conditions, I tuned my receiver\u00a0to 15,560 kHz and was surprised to hear a weak signal from Radio Biafra, here in North Carolina. I recorded a few minutes before conditions changed and Biafra’s\u00a0signal began to fade.<\/p>\n

This was the first time I had logged Radio Biafra, so I was amazed to have copy clear enough to understand.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> has a short entry for Radio Biafra:<\/p>\n

Radio Biafra also known as Voice of Biafra, is a radio station that was originally founded by the government of the Republic of Biafra but is currently operated by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Believed to have had its first transmission before the Nigeria-Biafra war, the radio station was instrumental in the broadcast of speeches and propaganda by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to the people of the Republic of Biafra.<\/p>\n

[…]Radio Biafra currently transmits via the internet and shortwave broadcast targeted majorly around Eastern Nigeria. Radio Biafra claims to be broadcasting the ideology of Biafra \u2013”Freedom of the Biafra people”.<\/p>\n

[…]Radio Biafra has been met with mixed reactions. While some critics have criticized the station for “inciting war” through its programmes and “preaching hate messages” against Nigeria which it refers to as a \u201czoo\u201d, an editor for Sahara Reporters wrote in defence of the radio station after he compared Radio Biafra with the British Broadcasting Corporation Hausa service.<\/p>\n

On 14 July 2015, it was reported in the media that the radio station had been jammed because it did not have a broadcast license from the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission. However, the radio station in a swift reaction labelled such claims as “lies” and went on to release its new frequency details to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To put this in perspective, the Wikipedia entry for Radio Biafra<\/a> is rather new, having only been created in August, 2015.<\/p>\n

The following recording was made using my WinRadio Excalibur<\/a> hooked up to a large skyloop antenna:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioBiafra15.56MHz04Sep20151808Z\/RadioBiafra-15.56MHz-04Sep2015-1808Z.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

This two hour recording, by Dan Robinson, was made\u00a0via the Universite Twente Web SDR<\/a> in the Netherlands:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/WebsdrRecordingStart20150904T175515Z15560.0kHzRadioBiafra2HourBroadcast18002000UTC\/websdr_recording_start_2015-09-04T17-55-15Z_15560.0kHzRadioBiafra%202%20hour%20broadcast%201800-2000UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Post<\/em> Readers: <\/strong>Have you logged Radio Biafra in your part of the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I received a tip from SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson:\u00a0Radio Biafra, a new clandestine station, was audible on 15,560 kHz via the Universite Twente Web SDR. Despite miserable propagation conditions, I tuned my receiver\u00a0to 15,560 kHz and was surprised to hear a weak signal from Radio Biafra, here in North Carolina. I recorded […]<\/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":[869,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[180,4202,4109,870,3559,4201],"class_list":["post-14732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clandestine","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-africa","tag-biafra","tag-clandestine","tag-clandestine-radio","tag-nigeria","tag-radio-biafra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3PC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37091,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-dream-of-biafra-lives-on-in-underground-nigerian-radio-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":14732,"position":0},"title":"“The dream of Biafra lives on in underground Nigerian radio broadcasts”","author":"Thomas","date":"May 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who shares the following story about Radio Biafra from the LA Times: Every evening as 5 o\u2019clock approaches, the clogged, perpetually dusty streets of this industrial city in southeastern Nigeria begin to empty. 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