The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Gert Irmler, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: HJZW Radio Almirante, Riohacha - Colombia Date of recording: October 30, 1978 Starting time: 01:17 Frequency: 1.200 Reception location: Schwäbisch Gmünd, BW - Germany Receiver and antenna: Grundig Satellit 2000, loop antenna Notes: HJZW R Almirante Riohacha, CLM QRG: 1200 kHz QTH: Schwaebisch Gmuend / Germany - distance to Riohacha 5.285 mi Px: S, anns, IDs, Vallenato mx, "Guajira" SINPO: 24432 Extremely rare recording of that Colombian AM broadcaster - confirmed as 'first time logged in Germany' by our national ADDX association. The famous 'Alltime DX list' of the 'Medium Wave Circle' contains following entry: "HJBZ Ondas del Riohacha, Riohacha, Colombia (ex HJZW R Almirante) (not listed in 2020 WRTH) - first log in the UK 11/78; NG" - Hey! My officially confirmed log is from Oct. 1978 :))

Many thanks to Anthony Messina for sharing the following recordings and notes: Broadcaster: Voice of Korea Date of recording: January 28, 2024 Starting time: 6pm UTC (1pm EST) Frequency: 13760khz, 9730khz, 7570khz Your location: SDR Your receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR Mode: AM Notes: Recorded via an SDR based in Japan. A collection of recent VOK recordings. Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more

Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio Austria International from March 12, 1989.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Liam Spencer, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Romania International DX Mailbag Show Date of recording: January 22, 2024 Starting time: 01:42 UTC Frequency: 7.325 MHz RX location: KiwiSDR in Massachusetts Receiver and antenna: MAG LOOP 80M DIPOLE Notes: This is the DX Mailbag show for the week of 22nd of January, 2024. I used a KiwiSDR in Massachusetts.

Many thanks to hb9gce for these four recordings of Bible Voice Broadcasting.

Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Adventist World Radio from 2009 through 2021.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recordings and notes: Broadcaster: USSR shortwave broadcasters 1970's Frequency: various Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna Notes: Around 1970, there were other stations in the Soviet Union (USSR) that could be found on the shortwaves besides Radio Moscow. Programming on most of these outlets was all in Russian. Radiostansiya Rodina (Homeland) is heard here with their interval signal and identification in Russian sometime in 1971. Shortwave frequency was likely 7100 kHz. Radiostansiya Atlantika broadcast to the Soviet fishing fleet circa 1970. Radiostansiya Mayak (lighthouse) could also be heard on various frequencies during the early 1970's. Radio Station Peace and Progress, the Voice of Soviet Public Opinion, had some English language programs.

Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Tirana from 1989 through 2013.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Gert Irmler, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Douala, Cameroon Date of recording: March 21, 1983 Starting time: 04:24 UTC Frequency: 4.795 MHz Reception location: Schwäbisch Gmünd, BW - Germany Receiver and antenna: Grundig Satellit 2000, 30m longwire Notes: Px: F/E, s/on, IS, IDs, NA, mx SINPO: 34232 Provincial station in Cameroon's tropical coastal region 'Littoral/Douala', some interruptions after sign on, then sudden termination of signal.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Trans World Radio Bonaire "The DX Special" circa 1974 Frequency: 11.815 MHz Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-150A with a long wire antenna Notes: Trans World Radio from the island of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles broadcast on shortwave from 1964 to 1993. They used to put a strong signal into my receiver location in southern Ontario, Canada. The station also used to air a program called "The DX Special", hosted by Al Stewart, which appears to have been produced in their Monte Carlo studio. I recently came across a short recording I made circa 1974, where I happened to catch the end of one of these programs.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Notes: Radio Rabaul on the island of New Britain, PNG, was a rare visitor to my radio shack in 1971. I was able to make this brief recording (along with one of Radio Bougainville submitted separately) using an open mike in front of the speaker on the Hallicrafters S-52. I posted my first recording of Radio Rabaul in April 2022. Recently, I discovered this second short recording I likely made on that same day, possibly a little later as the signal was beginning to fade. The language was likely Pidgin however you can clearly hear them give out their frequency of "3 point 3 8 5" around the 24 second mark. A 3-tone chime on the hour and station ID are given at the end of the recording. Broadcaster: Radio Rabaul Date of recording: 10/21/1971 Frequency: 3.385 MHz Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

VOA SiTE B Curtain Antenna Array Near Greenville, North Carolina Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, who shares the following recording and notes from his excellent website Inches Per Second: Here are two more [shortwave recordings], which I recently came across. These are both segments of episodes of "The Voice of America Jazz Hour", circa 1980, each of which features live recordings of Jazz performers in concert in Europe. I suspect that the recordings shared within this programming might be quite rare, if in fact these tapes were made for VOA and not generally broadcast or released elsewhere. However, it could also be that these performances are actually from released albums, or at least that these performances were later released. By some weird coincidence, these two segments are both 35-36 minutes, even though the show original ran an hour. The styles of jazz performance heard here are not at all similar the styles within jazz that 1I prefer, and I therefore know nothing about these performers nor have I tried to research them or these performances. But perhaps some of you out there have a taste for this, and I don't ever want to limit this site to things that I want to hear. If anyone has information to share about these recordings, by all means, do, and I'll pass it along.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Clube de Mocambique 1973 Date of recording: 1970 Frequency: 4.855 MHz Recpotion location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-150A with a long wire antenna Mode: AM Notes: An infrequent visitor to my listening post in the early 1970's, Radio Clube in Lourenco Marques used a modest 25 kw of power but could occasionally be heard here in southern, Ontario, Canada on 4855 kHz around 0400 or 0500 hours UTC. Their signal had to travel over 13,000 km to reach my receiver and had to fight through the constant static crashes typically found on the 60 metre shortwave tropical band. They commonly aired programs of pop music, and in this brief recording, circa 1973, you will first hear the tune of "In the Summertime." It is followed by the LM chime and identification in Portuguese beginning "Aqui Portugal Mocambique..."

COPYRIGHT NDR Live, off-air, three-hour recording of the 70th anniversary broadcast of the special annual Gruss an Bord program from German broadcaster NDR, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, on 24 December 2023 beginning at 18:00 UTC. The broadcast features music and greetings to and from mariners around the world. The Christmas greetings were recorded at two events in Leer and Hamburg. Relatives and friends had the opportunity to wish their loved ones at sea a happy holiday and a happy new year. The Leer event was recorded on 10 December in the Kulturspeiche and featured the Bingumer Shanty Choir and Anne-Fleur Gabor and her band while the Hamburg event was recorded on 17 December in the Duckdalben International Seamen's Club featured the Swedish-South African duo "Fjarill." The broadcast was primarily in German with some greetings in other languages. Many of the songs were in English, too. In addition to being carried on the NDR Info and NDR Info Spezial networks, the broadcast was transmitted around the world on shortwave using transmitters in Nauen (NAU), Germany; Issoudun (ISS), France; Tashkent (TAC), Uzbekistan; and Okeechobee, Florida (RMI), U.S.A.; and was organized by Media Broadcast. The schedule (in UTC) was: 1800-2100 on 6030 ISS 250 kW / 251 deg to North/East Atlantic 1800-2100 on 6080 TAC 100 kW / 301 deg to West/Central Europe 1800-2100 on 9635 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg to Indian Ocean - West 1800-2100 on 11650 ISS 250 kW / 148 deg to Indian Ocean - SoAf 1800-2100 on 13725 NAU 250 kW / 205 deg to Southern Atlantic 1800-2100 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to North/West Atlantic RMI, Radio Miami International, initially had problems with the start of the broadcast and missed about the first 17 minutes. The recording is primarily of the transmission on the frequency of 11650 kHz for the first two hours and the first part of the third and 6030 kHz for the rest of the third hour as the signal degraded slightly on 11650 kHz with some adjacent frequency interference. Since the receiver was initially tuned to 15770 kHz at the beginning of the broadcast until retuning to 11650 kHz, the first minute and a half of the broadcast was replaced in the recording with the corresponding part of the archived NDR studio recording The program was received outdoors on a Belka-DX receiver in pseudo-synchronous (AM2) mode with a bandwidth of 50 Hz - 2.7 kHz with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Reception was good for the most part on both recorded frequencies.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Daniel Salo, who shares the following recordings—all made in 2002 in the Boston, MA area—of The Christian Science Monitor broadcast on WSHB.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recordings of Wetterdienst Wetterfunksender made in McGrath, Alaska on November 4, 2023:

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Anthony Messina, who shares the following recordings and notes: Broadcaster: KCBS Pyongyang Date of recording:Various (2022-2023) Frequency: Various frequencies Reception location: Various locations Receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR Mode: AM Notes: This is a collection of recent recordings I made of DPRK SW radio stations.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: Radio Free Speech (pirate) Date of recording: December 15, 1996 Starting time: 1330 UTC Frequency: 6.955 MHz Reception location: Thamesford, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna Notes: Radio Free Speech was a shortwave pirate radio station heard regularly in the late 1990's here in Southern Ontario, Canada. Here are a few blended airchecks from their Christmas Special broadcast on December 15, 1996 around 1330 hours UTC. This was on 6955 kHz and the announcer was "Bill O. Rights."

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recordings and notes: Broadcaster: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1970's Date of recording: circa 1970s Frequency: various Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna Mode: Single Side Band Notes: Back in the days before the internet, radiotelephone communications were commonplace, and "voice mirrors" such as these from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company could be heard (usually in sideband mode) all over the shortwaves. These were broadcast so the receiving station could tune them in prior to actual traffic. These recordings (Dixon and Oakland, California; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and New York City) are from the early 1970's, and receiving location was Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. Receiving equipment consisted of a Hallicrafters S-52 hooked up to a longwire antenna.

Mark Fahey’s KiwiSDR WebSDR Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bryce Belcher, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: The 72 Ragchew Net Date of recording: December 07, 2020 Frequency: 7272 kHz Receiver location: Washington DC Receiver and antenna: The NA5B WebSDR From Washington DC Mode: Single Side Band Notes: This is my recording of The 72 Ragchew Net. This net is conducted every week on 7272 MHz. Recorded around 1150 UTC (11:50 AM). Recorded using the NA5BWebSDR from Washington DC. This webSDR covers shortwave, but also some VHF.