For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Turkey English language service.
This recording was made on June 8, 2015 starting at 2200 UTC on 9830 kHz. My recording was cut short due to an approaching thunderstorm (indeed, static crashes are quite audible in the recording).
Note that this broadcast was made the day after Turkey's elections, when Erdogan's governing party in lost its parliamentary majority.
For your listening pleasure: the Voice of Turkey English language service.
This program was recorded on June 7, 2015, starting around 2205 UTC on 9830 kHz. I started recording the program a few minutes after the top of the hour when a digital broadcast on the same frequency finally went off the air. You will actually hear a few seconds of the digital broadcast in the recording below:
The following recording of All India Radio was made on November 20, 2008 beginning around 1458 UTC on 9870 kHz.
This off air recording comes from a collection of archived recordings by SWAA contributor, Terry Wilson.
Terry made this and all of his recordings in the Midwestern US on either the Ten-Tec RX-320D or Eton E1XM receivers. He used the recording facility of the Shortwave Log software. Terry notes that any "QRM includes city power lines, street lights with bad ballasts, household electronics, and interference from Radio Havana Cuba."
Many thanks for sharing these recordings, Terry! For more recordings from this collection, simply follow this tag: Terry Wilson.
You can listen to the full recording below, or download as an MP3 with the link provided:
The Mighty KBC broadcast via the TitanSDR Pro
For your listening pleasure: three hours of The Mighty KBC.
This broadcast was recorded on May 24, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 9,925 kHz. I used the TitanSDR Pro hooked up to my large skyloop antenna to capture this recording; in truth, the signal was so strong it could've been easily received on a portable here in eastern North America.
Use the embedded player below to listen to the recording. A download link has also been provided for your convenience:
This recording of Radio Romania International was made on May 25, 2015, starting around 00:00 UTC on 9730 kHz using a TitanSDR Pro software defined receiver.
The following recording of Radio Sonder Grense was made on October 14, 2012 beginning around 0326 UTC (frequency unknown).
This off air recording comes from a collection of archived recordings by SWAA contributor, Terry Wilson.
Terry made this and all of his recordings in the Midwestern US on either the Ten-Tec RX-320D or Eton E1XM receivers. He used the recording facility of the Shortwave Log software. Terry notes that any "QRM includes city power lines, street lights with bad ballasts, household electronics, and interference from Radio Havana Cuba."
Many thanks for sharing these recordings, Terry! For more recordings from this collection, simply follow this tag: Terry Wilson.
You can listen to the full recording below, or download as an MP3 with the link provided.
Many thanks to Anthony Messina, for this recording of the Voice of Korea sign off on 15.180 MHz using his Grundig Satellite 750 with External Solarcon in Haddon Heights, NJ USA. Anthony comments:
"Recorded using a panasonic tape recorder to do it the old fashioned way. At the end I mention exactly what time I recorded this."
Deutsche Welle in English, recorded in Europe at 0700 GMT on 9 May 2015, transmitting on the shortwave frequency of 15275 kHz
Voice of Vietnam broadcasting in English to Europe at 2030 UTC. Transmitted at 100 kw from Hanoi-Sontay. Received and recorded with a Degen DE1121 and an indoor homebrew broomstick antenna in Sydney, Australia.
Radio Six International recorded in Europe on April 25, 2015 at 1400 UTC, shortwave frequency of 9405 kHz, transmitting via Sala 10 kW transmitter, from Sweden
PCJ Radio International in English via Sala 10kW transmitter, Sweden on 9405 kHz, 2000-2100 UTC, April 23, 2015, recorded in Europe
SRAA contributor, David Malins notes:
Was a high school student of 13-14 years old at the time of the recording who was interested in broadcasting and music - Recorded onto compact cassette at home of grandparent with a large enough back garden to mount a 20-30metre long wire antenna. Remastered recording via audacity for one of shortwaves' very few technical programmes on Shortwave at the time (never managed to tune into a second programme of the series at the same sort of time, despite searching on the web and on the same frequency range that the broadcasts usually were).
The recording is 7:30mins in length, featuring limited talk about "CIBAR", a section dedicated to what "worldband radio" is in regards to Shortwave, the book "Passport to Worldband Radio" and other bits and pieces when it moved onto a personal feature about a George Jacobs (which is when I stopped the tape, having been more interested in the technical and 'how it works' side of broadcasting news). (Never managed to find the name of the programme, but the presenter clearly states November 10th 2001 and the location where the programme was produced in regards to the type of outside antenna he was hoping to rig up before the winter in that part of the states.)
Many thanks for this contribution, David!
Update: Several listeners have written to confirm that this recording is of Kim Andrew Elliott's "Communications World" from the VOA.
This off-air recording of the English language service of Radio Romania International was made on April 23, 2015, a few moments prior to 00:00 UTC on 9730 kHz. I used the Elad FDM-S2 and a sky loop antenna. This was received in North Carolina, USA.
PCJ Radio International via Sala transmitter, Sweden on 9405 kHz - Nash Holos programme, 2000-2100 UTC, April 22, 2015, recorded in Europe (broadcast started around 15 minutes before regular programming)
For your listening pleasure: the pirate radio station Radio Casablanca.
This recording was made on April 17, 2015 starting around 00:00 UTC on 6490 kHz AM. I made this recording using my WinRadio Excalibur and horizontal delta loop antenna in North Carolina, USA.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Terry Wilson, who shares this recording of Radio Bulgaria from January 24, 2012 on 7,400 kHz starting around 0148 UTC:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, for sharing this beautiful QSL card from the early days of the DW Kigali relay station.
Yesterday, Deutsche Welle transmitted its final broadcast from the Kigali, Rwanda relay station. Since I’ve only had moderate luck hearing the Kigali site the past few days–especially on 31 meters–I fired up the TitanSDR Pro (which is still currently under review) and set it to record all three final afternoon broadcasts from Kigali on 12,005, 15,275 and 17,800 kHz
Kigali produced a very strong signal on 17,800 kHz. The TitanSDR recorded the full broadcast, starting with one minute of the transmitter tuning, then one hour of DW’s French language service, followed by one hour of DW’s Hausa language service…then the transmitter went silent.
The recording begins around 1659 UTC on March 28, 2015 on 17,800 kHz:
SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, was fortunate enough to capture this broadcast of VOA Science World where he (Richard Langley!) is interviewed. There are few opportunities for a true DXer to hear themselves over shortwave, thus this is a special recording indeed.
Richard notes:
Live half-hour recording of the Voice of America in English on 14 March 2015 beginning at 02:56:30 UTC on a frequency of 6080 kHz. The broadcast, directed to Africa, is from Vatican Radio's Santa Maria di Galeria transmitter site (250 kW transmitter power, antenna beam 165 degrees). The African-music tuning signal is followed by VOA News and the program Science World featuring an interview with Dr. Richard Langley from the University of New Brunswick on how GPS is being used to study irregularities in the ionosphere and their effects on radio signals.
The broadcast was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with its built-in whip antenna in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Signal quality was only fair so the recorded file was electronically filtered to reduce background noise. There is still a noticeable jamming signal on the frequency.
SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes:
Live two-hour recording of the PCJ Radio International special 6th anniversary broadcast in English via WRMI on 14 March 2015 beginning at 23:00 UTC on a frequency of 7570 kHz.
The broadcast was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with its built-in whip antenna in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Signal quality was generally good. There is very slight co-channel interference from the Voice of Korea. Its interval signal can be heard near the beginning of the recording.
Reception improves a bit during the recording.
SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes:
Live one-hour recording of the PCJ Radio International special broadcast celebrating the 70th anniversary of Radio Canada International in English via WRMI on 16 March 2015 beginning at 01:00 UTC on a frequency of 7570 kHz.
The broadcast was received on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver with its built-in telescopic whip antenna in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Signal quality was generally good.
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