The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Antonio Ribeiro da Motta, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: KGEI San Francisco CA USA Date of recording: April 01, 1978 Starting time: 2030 UTC Frequency: 9615 kHz Recpotion location: São José dos Campos SP Brazil Receiver and antenna: Philco Transglobe B481 Longwire 22 mt Notes: Recording of the program Departiendo con La Juventud presented by Mario Barahona (in memorian). There are 2 programs that were merged: days 01 and 02/04/1978.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall who shares the following recording and notes: Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna Notes: Prior to July 1, 1971, time and standard frequency station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado was giving ID's in Morse code as well as voice every 5 minutes. They were best heard here in southern Ontario, Canada on 10 and 15 MHz.

Radio Canada International: Sackville, New Brunswick Transmitting Station Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes: BROADCASTER: Radio Canada International DATE OF RECORDING: August 22, 1982 STARTING TIME: 2107 UTC FREQUENCY: 15.325 MHz RX LOCATION: South Bend, Indiana RECEIVER AND ANTENNA: Realistic DX-302 NOTES: Here are two more episodes from my collection of recordings of Shortwave Listener's Digest from Radio Canada International, this time from August 22, 1982 and September 04, 1982. Part one program highlights are: a continuation of the discussion of undersea cables, Glenn Hauser's DX Tips part one, a look at clocks for use in SWLing and more DX Tips. Part two program highlights are: a short comment regarding ANARC 1982, Mailbag questions, ANARC 1982 recap with an interview with David Meisel and an item on the New World Information Order, Glenn Hauser's DX Tips. The recording from 9/4/82 is poor due to adjacent-channel QRM.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dennis DeMarco, who shares the following recording and notes: [NOTE: Dennis, please check your SPAM folder, we have been trying to contact you. Thank you!] Broadcaster: Radio Canada International Date of recording: February 13, 1983 Starting time: Unknown Frequency: 11.850 MHz Reception location: Philadelphia, PA Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-120 Notes: Here's "The Shortwave Listeners Digest" from RCI as heard on 2-13-1983 with host Ian McFarland. This audio begins with an RCI newscast and is complete. Radio was Realistic DX-120 with a wire just thrown out of a window.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Ever wonder what it would be like to time travel? Well, just sit back and relax in your favourite armchair, put on the headphones and enjoy the short six and a half minute trip back to 1973. Here is a collection of 23 AM broadcast band radio airchecks / ID's from 23 U.S. states as recorded at Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. Equipment used was a Realistic DX150A hooked up to a long wire antenna. Please bear in mind these recordings were made using an open mike placed in front of the speaker. For example, WTMJ Milwaukee makes an NBC colour TV announcement (blooper) and you will hear a voice in the background ask "how can that be"? 1. KKJO St. Joseph, MO 1550 2. WCFL Chicago, IL 1000 3. WWWE Cleveland, OH 1100 4. WOWO Fort Wayne, IN 1190 5. WHO Des Moines, IA 1040 6. WLAC Nashville, TN 1510 7. WWL New Orleans, LA 870 8. WBAP Ft. Worth-Dallas, TX 820 9. WSB Atlanta, GA 750 10. WBZ Boston, MA 1030 11. WHAS Louisville, KY 840 12. WWVA Wheeling, WVA 1170 13. WRVA Richmond, VA 1140 14. WCCO Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 830 15. KAAY Little Rock, AR 1090 16. WTIC Hartford, CT 1080 17. WBAL Baltimore, MD 1090 18. WJAR Providence, RI 920 19. WVOK Birmingham, AL 690 20. KOMA Oklahoma City, OK 1520 21. WTMJ Milwaukee, WI 620 22. KSL Salt Lake City, UT 1160 23. KFAB Omaha, NE 1110

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Antonio Ribeiro da Motta, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Logos - Chazuta - Peru Date of recording: December 20, 2017 Starting time: 1156 Frequency: 4810 kHz Recption location: São Luiz do Paraitinga SP Brazil Receiver and antenna: SDRplay RSPA1 Notes: Recording made in São Luiz do Paraitinga state of São Paulo Brazil. Starts at 1156 UTC. Recording made using an SDRplay model RSPA1 receiver coupled to a G5RV antenna. The program was broadcast in Spanish and Quechua languages.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Gert Irmler, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: R Bucaramanga / CLM Date of recording: July 05, 1978 Starting time: 02:59 Frequency: 4.845 Reception location: Schwäbisch Gmünd, BW - Germany Receiver and antenna: Grundig Satellit 2000, 30m longwire Notes: HJGF R Bucaramanga, Colombia QRG: 4845 kHz QTH: Schwaebisch Gmuend / Germany Rec: 5th July 1978 - 02:59 UTC (GMT) Rx, Ant: Grundig Satellit 2000, 30m longwire Px: S, mx, ID w/QRGs SINPO: 33333 Note: Station was founded in 1934. At 1:23 ID in MP3. Above related page from my old DX logbook, when I was 15 yrs old.

WWV Station sign at WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Myke Dodge Weiskopf, who shares the following recording and notes: BROADCASTER: WWV DATE OF RECORDING: December 08, 1991 STARTING TIME: 0218 FREQUENCY: 5000 kHz RECEPTION LOCATION: Rockford, Illinois, USA RECEIVER AND ANTENNA: Unidentified boombox NOTES: NIST Radio Station WWV as it sounded on 8 December 1991 at 0218 UTC. Due to the high cost of maintaining the aging drum-based voice announcement machines, NIST implemented a digital voice announcement system in 1991. The new male voice, belonging to Eric Smith, started at WWV on 13 August. The voice of WWVH belonged to Johanna Stahl. The voices were sorely lacking in high EQ at first, but were sharpened with an audio filter on 27 August. The modification did not help, and after months of equipment failures and complaints about the poor quality, NIST retired both voices on 11 August 1992. An excerpted version of this recording is found on "At the Tone: A Little History of NIST Radio Stations WWV & WWVH." This unedited version is being shared by special arrangement for the Shortwave Archive.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Time signal station VNG Lyndhurst Victoria Australia Date of recording: December 13, 1971 Frequency: 4.500 MHz Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna Mode: AM Notes: Recorded on December 13, 1971, here is the announcement given by station VNG in Lyndhurst, Victoria, Australia transmitting with 10 kw on 4.5 MHz shortwave. This station was active from 1964 to 1987. Receiving location was Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. Amazingly, the recording was made on a cheap Demonstration Musicassette that had tape placed over the ends so it could be reused. It still plays today and was used to produce this digital version. The announcement is given twice and goes: "This is an Australian Post Office standard frequency and time signal transmission from VNG, Lyndhurst, Victoria on 4.5, 7.5, or 12 Megahertz." This was given during the 15th, 30th, 45th and 60th minute of each hour according to their QSL card.

Live off-air recording of some of the last day of programming from the Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Radio 1 longwave station on 14 April 2023 beginning at 11:55 UTC on the frequency of 252 kHz. The signal originated from a transmitter located at Clarkestown/Summerhill, County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland, reported to operate with a power of 150 kW during the day (and 60 kW during the night). The transmitter was capable of operating at 300 kW. The station used a 248-metre high single-mast antenna. RTÉ Radio 1 is a general-interest, news, talk, and music station. It now uses FM, satellite, streaming, and cable services. The recording starts with the final minutes of the "Louise Duffy Show," followed by the "RTÉ News at One" (which featured reports on U.S. Pres. Joe Biden's visit to Ireland) and then the first 13 minutes or so of "Liveline," an interview and phone-in chat show. The recording ends with an announcement of the shutdown of the longwave service. Reception of the 252 kHz signal was reasonably good but it suffered from slight co-channel interference from a station in Algeria and local noise at the reception site. RTÉ Radio 1 programming on 252 kHz ended at 23:03 UTC on 14 April 2023 and was replaced with a repeated announcement of the cessation of broadcasting on longwave and information about other ways to hear RTÉ Radio 1. It begins with the RTÉ Radio 1 interval signal "O’Donnell Abú." Examples of the announcement are included in the second three-and-a-half-minute recording which starts at about 12:34 UTC on 15 April 2023. In this recording, most of the interference has been removed by an audio filtering technique. The closedown announcements ended on 18 April 2023 at 09:59 UTC and the transmitter then fell silent. The broadcasts were received by the Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a "Mini-Whip" antenna in synchronous AM mode with 5.08 kHz RF filtering.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bryce Belcher, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: The Hurricane Watch Net Date of recording: September 27, 2022 Starting time: 14:38 UTC Frequency: 14.325 mhZ Reception location: Washington DC Receiver and antenna: The NA5B webSDR from Washington DC Mode: Single Side Band Notes: My recording of the hurricane watch net daytime on one, 4.325 MHz. This was recorded one day before hurricane Ian destroyed the west coast of Florida. This was recorded using the NA5B WebSDR in Washington, DC.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Việt Anh Phạm, who shares the following recording and notes: Date of recording: May 21, 2023 Starting time: 1530 UTC Frequency: 15.67 MHz Reception location: Northern Vietnam. Receiver and antenna: TECSUN PL-380 with long wire Notes: An audio recording of Wavescan- the international DX program from World Adventist Radio on May, 21st, 2023. It is produced by WRMI in FL, USA. This recording was made by connecting the mic in port of my Android phone to my radio (Tecsun PL-380) tuned to 15670 kHz with a 5-meter-long wire as an antenna. The signal was transmitted from KSDA- Guam with a power of 100 kW. My radio has a band-width changing function so I used it to optimize audio quality, which resulted in the audio being muffled a little bit at the beginning. QTH: Northern Vietnam Note that the frequency announcement at the beginning did not match with the actual frequency I tuned to.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Time signal station WWVH in Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii was occasionally heard over WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado from my receiving post in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada in the 1970's, particularly on 10 MHz or 15 MHz. Here is a recording of their voice announcement from 1971, when they were still using the term Greenwich Mean Time as opposed to Coordinated Universal Time. The familiar "Aloha" is heard at the conclusion of the announcement. Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

Photo by Agê Barros Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Prior to July 1, 1971, time and standard frequency station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado was giving ID's in Morse code as well as voice every five minutes. They were best heard here in southern Ontario, Canada on 10 and 15 MHz. Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Early in 1973, WWV made this announcement that they would make regular broadcasts of planned ATM (Apollo Telescope Mount) schedules by the new Skylab space station. Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

Radio Delta broadcasting in English and Dutch on the shortwave frequency of 6060 kHz. Recording made in Europe July 8, 2023 at 1836 UTC using portable SONY ICF SW07 receiver operating on bateries. Receiver has been utilised outdoors to evade noise from building interference. As antenna only 1 meter telescopic internal antenna was used. Please note that in the recordings two short parts have been removed because of strong noise which covered these parts of station's signal (the noise has been generated by a bulb from a street lamp).

Radio WMLK broadcasting in English on the shortwave frequency of 15150 kHz. Recording made in Europe July 5, 2023 at 0416 UTC using portable SONY ICF SW7600G receiver operating on bateries. As antenna only 2 meters of wire was used put on a tree outdoors.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: KC2XIO was an experimental radio station operated by the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado between July 1970 and May 1971. This was to gather information in preparation of the format change for WWV and WWVH which happened in July 1971. Here are two recordings of their voice announcement (one male and one female) as heard in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada on a Hallicrafters S-52 receiver that was hooked up to an outdoor longwire antenna. The frequency used for these test transmissions was 13560 kHz shortwave. Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Antonio Ribeiro da Motta, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Peace & Progress Date of recording: December 30, 1983 Starting time: 0100 UTC Frequency: 11795 kHz Reception location: São José dos Campos SP Brazil Receiver and antenna: Philco Transglobe B481 Longwire 22 mt Notes: Portuguese transmission of Radio Peace and Progress

A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2023 beginning at 21:30 UTC. The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews, featured messages and music for the 37 members of the staff of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) overwintering in Antarctica at the Rothera (Antarctic Peninsula) and King Edward Point and Bird Island (South Georgia) research stations. In addition to personal messages from family and friends, there were interviews with Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of BAS and Nadia Frontier, a marine biologist from BAS and former winterer. The transmitter came on the air with a test tone (1108 Hz plus harmonics) about a minute before the program started. As sometimes happens, the first few words of the introduction were missed. The recording is of the transmission first on a frequency of 12005 kHz but after a few minutes it was switched to 13810 kHz due to interference (QRM) on the former frequency. Both frequencies were from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station. The sender of the 12005 kHz frequency had a registered power of 300 kW with antenna beam 182 degrees, while that for 13810 kHz was registered as 250 kW with an antenna beam of 180 degrees. The transmission was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna outdoors in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada, in AM mode with 2.3 kHz RF filtering. Reception on 13810 kHz was quite good with little noise or fading and very good signal strength. The additional parallel frequency of 7255 kHz from Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates, was not heard.