{"id":65166,"date":"2026-01-13T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65166"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:01:19","slug":"a-dxer-looks-back-at-the-voice-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-dxer-looks-back-at-the-voice-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A DXer Looks Back at the Voice of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dan Greenall<\/strong><\/p>\n

50 years ago, Voice of America broadcasts could be found all over the shortwave dial.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to a number of transmitter sites located stateside, the VOA used to broadcast from a number of other facilities located in overseas countries in order to help get its signal into all corners of the globe.\u00a0 Many of these \u201crelay\u201d stations made for challenging DX catches and there was even an award offered by NASWA to those providing sufficient proof of reception of them all.\u00a0 An example of this can be found on this link: https:\/\/k5nd.net\/2011\/06\/voice-of-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The familiar tune of Yankee Doodle (heard at the beginning and end of a transmission) along with station ID in English would often include the particular transmitter site in use.\u00a0 Several old recordings of these can be found on my links to these on the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n