The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive is a podcast that contains off-air recordings from the shortwaves. These recordings represent the wide variety of stations found on the shortwave, long wave and medium wave radio spectrums (30-30,000 kHz)
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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive is a podcast that contains off-air recordings from the shortwaves. These recordings represent the wide variety of stations found on the shortwave, long wave and medium wave radio spectrums (30-30,000 kHz)
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English
Website:
http://shortwavearchive.com/
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thomas@swling.com
Episodes
Radio Malaysia (Interval Signal): Circa 1971
4/19/2024
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 1971 (interval signal)
Date of recording: 1971
Frequency: 6.175
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Notes: Southeast Asia was one of the toughest areas to DX in my early years of SWLing from my receiving post in southern Ontario, Canada. Radio Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur on 6175 kHz made it through one morning in 1971 with their interval signal, then a very lengthy pause (about 35 seconds) before announcement in an Asian dialect. The lack of QRM and QRN helped to make this reception possible. For this, I was rewarded with their very attractive QSL card.
Duration:00:00:01
HJZW Radio Almirante (Riohacha, Colombia): October 30, 1978
4/12/2024
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 :))
Duration:00:05:58
Voice of Korea: Three Recordings, January and February 2024
4/5/2024
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.
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Duration:00:19:59
Radio Austria International: March 12, 1989
3/22/2024
Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio Austria International from March 12, 1989.
Duration:00:01:14
Radio Romania International (DX Mailbag Show): January 22, 2024
3/15/2024
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.
Duration:00:10:05
Bible Voice Broadcasting: Four Recordings, 2018-2023
3/8/2024
Many thanks to hb9gce for these four recordings of Bible Voice Broadcasting.
Duration:00:01:52
Adventist World Radio, Austria: Four Recordings, 2009-2021
3/1/2024
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Adventist World Radio from 2009 through 2021.
Duration:00:06:19
USSR Shortwave Broadcasters: Circa 1970's
2/23/2024
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.
Radio Tirana: Recordings 1989 - 2013
2/16/2024
Many thanks to hb9gce for these recordings of Radio Tirana from 1989 through 2013.
Duration:00:00:42
Radio Douala, Cameroon: March 21, 1983
2/9/2024
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.
Duration:00:04:07
Trans World Radio Bonaire "The DX Special": Circa 1974
2/2/2024
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.
Duration:00:00:03
Radio Rabaul: October 21, 1971
1/26/2024
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
The Voice of America Jazz Hour: Circa 1980
1/19/2024
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.
Duration:00:35:14
Radio Clube de Mocambique: Circa 1973
1/12/2024
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..."
NDR - Gruss an Bord: December 24, 2023
1/7/2024
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.
Duration:02:59:53
WSHB (Christian Science Monitor): Five recordings
1/5/2024
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.
Duration:00:58:58
Wetterdienst Wetterfunksender: November 4, 2023
12/22/2023
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recordings of Wetterdienst Wetterfunksender made in McGrath, Alaska on November 4, 2023:
Duration:00:07:02
Voice of Korea/KCBS (Assorted Recordings): 2022-2023
12/20/2023
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.
Duration:00:30:58
Radio Free Speech (Pirate): December 15, 1996
12/15/2023
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."
Duration:00:00:02
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) Voice Mirrors circa 1970's
12/8/2023
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.