{"id":8825,"date":"2014-02-23T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2014-02-23T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:10:25","slug":"more-1968-recordings-on-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/more-1968-recordings-on-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"More 1968 recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8545\" alt=\"IMG_0135\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve now added a total of five recordings by <a title=\"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of America, circa 1968\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-america-circa-1968\/\">David Firth<\/a>, circa 1968, to the SW Radio Audio Archive. Click below for direct links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/6wg3v41c5d3r3ahncswaoiv4ozv1iw\" target=\"_blank\">Voice of America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Radio Australia 1968 recording\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/l1eeczq93r4y2jsabqnk248qocx1wa\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/0ngld20pnogg19543yw9mq8rt0ggua\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Peking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/eizyyplrbeoq31n7eoyfkvb9cvvtf3\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Switzerland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/2i3k6b80959ilkwz45s0v7s2uhe54k\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Moscow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that you can subscribe to the SW Radio Audio Archive as a podcast <a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/id654690909\" target=\"_blank\">via iTunes<\/a> or by using the following RSS feed:\u00a0<a title=\"SWAA RSS Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive?format=rss\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive?format=rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now added a total of five recordings by David Firth, circa 1968, to the SW Radio Audio Archive. Click below for direct links: Voice of America Radio Australia Radio Peking Radio Switzerland Radio Moscow Note that you can subscribe to the SW Radio Audio Archive as a podcast via iTunes or by using the [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,960,3,305,1557,288,43],"tags":[2586,2601,368,4091,768,1302,2602,2603,2479,2600,1957,182],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-podcast","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-2586","tag-david-firth","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-moscow","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-radio-peking","tag-radio-switzerland","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-swaa","tag-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8795,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-america-circa-1968\/","url_meta":{"origin":8825,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of America, circa 1968","author":"Thomas","date":"February 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to David Firth, who is kindly sharing shortwave radio recordings he made on reel-to-reel recording equipment in the late 1960s. 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This recording is in the queue to be published on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, but I thought I'd share it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tape-Reel-Original-Photo-by-Maxim-Kostenko-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":63164,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/pauls-treasure-trove-of-1980s-shortwave-interval-signals-and-idents\/","url_meta":{"origin":8825,"position":3},"title":"Paul&#8217;s Treasure Trove of 1980s Shortwave Interval Signals and Idents","author":"Thomas","date":"July 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently received a fascinating message from long-time SWLing Post reader Paul, who has graciously shared a remarkable collection of shortwave radio recordings he made from his home near London in the 1980s. 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