{"id":63922,"date":"2025-09-13T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63922"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:46:33","slug":"shortwave-in-a-joe-meek-track-help-identify-these-1966-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/shortwave-in-a-joe-meek-track-help-identify-these-1966-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave in a Joe Meek Track? Help Identify These 1966 Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63923\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Meek-Glenda-Collins-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor and buddy, One Deck Pete, who writes with a question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I am not sure if I have sent you this before but this alternative version of a Joe Meek produced single has what I think are shortwave samples bookending it and also a couple of times during the tune.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehXdCQg92m4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>[Note that Pete originally posted this video <a href=\"https:\/\/weedsuptomeknees.uk\/2025\/09\/13\/listen-carefully\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on his own blog<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Have you any guesses what they could be? It was produced in 1966, Joe Meek was a bit of an electronics wizard and I was told subscribed to <em>Practical Wireless<\/em> and loved a sound effect. It sounds like some fast Morse, telemetry or RTTY but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Perhaps it isn\u2019t shortwave-based but it sounds like it to me!<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about it <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers? What are those digital sounds at the beginning and end of this recording? (Bonus points if you can decode!)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and buddy, One Deck Pete, who writes with a question. I am not sure if I have sent you this before but this alternative version of a Joe Meek produced single has what I think are shortwave samples bookending it and also a couple of times during the tune. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[442,3,305],"tags":[10906,10066,511],"class_list":["post-63922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-joe-meek","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-sounds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gD0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40004,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/free-radio-skybird-returns-october-5-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":63922,"position":0},"title":"Free Radio Skybird returns October 5, 2019","author":"Thomas","date":"October 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Pete Madtone) Saturday night (in a shortwave) style On\u00a0Saturday 5th October\u00a0at\u00a02200 UTC\/ 2300 UK\u00a0there\u2019s a new transmission from DJ Frederick\u2019s\u00a0Free Radio Skybird\u00a0on\u00a06070 khz\u00a0on shortwave. 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