Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording and notes:
873 kHz KCBS Sinuiju, North Korea at 1633UTC on Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 with instrumental North Korean music. Signal held out pretty decently for over 6 minutes. 250KW 3500 miles.
Receiver location: McGrath, Alaska
Receiver and antenna: C.Crane CC Skywave and Gary DeBock 5" FSL antenna
Recording of Radio Mystery 21, October 15, 2021 at 1827 UTC (shortwave frequency of 4870 kHz)
Station: Radio Mystery 21
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 4870 kHz shortwave
Date: October 15, 2021
Time: 18.27 UTC
Transmitter location: unknown
Transmitter power: unknown
Receiver: SONY ICF 2001D (running on batteries - to evade noise from power mains)
Location of receiver: in the building
Antenna: 1,2 meter CB-radio antenna
Antenna location: outdoor, around 4 meters above Earth level, 3 meters away from the building
Recording device: wav portable recorder
Additional equipment: RF-Systems AA-1 antenna adaptor for portable receivers
Recording of Radio Delta, October 10, 2021 at 12.59 UTC
Station: Radio Delta
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 6020 kHz shortwave
Date: October 10, 2021
Time: 12.59 UTC
Transmitter location: Elburg, the Netherlands
Transmitter power: 1 kW
Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30 meter longwire
Atenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder
Recording of Radio Africa Network via WRMI, October 10, 2021
Station: Radio Africa Network
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 21525 kHz shortwave
Date: October 10, 2021
Time: 1359 UTC
Transmitter location: Okeechobee, Florida, USA
Transmitter power: 100 kW
Receiver: Kenwood: R-5000
Location of receiver: outdoor
Antenna: 30 meter longwire
Antenna location: outdoor, around 8 meters above Earth level
Recording device: wav portable recorder
Radio Channel 292 recorded in Europe from shortwave frequency of 9670 kHz on Oct. 2, 2021 at 1220 UTC. The transmitter location is in Germany. The power of transmitter is 10 kW. The recording contains part of a programme on radio history. The recording has been made using portable receiver SONY ICF SW1. The receiver was placed outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made interference). During the recording only the internal telescopic 0,5 meter antenna was used. To make the recording old SONY portable cassette tape recorder has been utilised (to evade additional noise usually produced by mp3 portable recorders).
Radio WRMI recorded in Europe from shortwave frequency of 15770 kHz on Oct. 2, 2021 at 1259 UTC. The recording contains "Wavescan"programme of AWR (it is a programme concerning various aspects of shortwave broadcasting and listening).
The recording has been made using portable receiver SONY ICF SW1. The receiver was placed outdoor (far away from buildings to limit the man-made interference).
During the recording only the internal telescopic 0,5 meter antenna was used. The quality of signal shows that also with very simple antenna quite good reception can be achieved when no local noise interference is disturbing the reception.
To make the recording an old SONY portable cassette tape recorder has been utilised (portable wav or mp3 recorders usually produce some noise disturbing the shortwave signal but the old cassette tape recorders are much better in this regard and practically produce no noise interference). At the left side of the receiver SONY ICF SW1 has a special socket for making recordings onto the tape recorders. The level of audio signal output provided on SONY ICF SW1 recording socket seems to be perfectly matching the microphone input socket of cassette tape recorders (I tried two different ones with good results for shortwave recordings). The actual audio quality of SONY ICF SW1 is however much better than the audio of the recording because of poor audio frequency range being recorded on portable casette tape recorders (in this aspect modern mp3 recorders are much better, but using them one must accept some additional noise from recorder, especially annoying when recording weaker shortwave signals).
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stewart Killeen, who shares the following recording and notes:
Notes: Shannon Volmet - SIGMET. A Shanwick Radio broadcast from the North Atlantic Communications Centre, providing meteorological information for aircraft in flight within the Shanwick area of international airspace (northeast part of the Atlantic).
Name: Stewart Killeen
Date of recording: 8/5/2021
Starting time: 0935UTC
Frequency: 5.501MHz
Reception location: Dublin, Ireland
Teceiver and antenna: Tecsun PL-660
Mode: AM
QSL card for reception of a transmission from Radio Prague on 7 May 1964. ORL is the transmitter call sign.
Live, off-air, recording of the broadcast of two special sequential half-hour programs of Radio Prague International celebrating its 85th anniversary. The programs were broadcast via WRMI, Radio Miami International, using a transmitter at Okeechobee, Florida, on 31 August 2021 from 21:00 to 22:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 15770 kHz. The listed transmitter power is 100 kW with an antenna beam azimuth of 44°. The recording includes WRMI station identifications.
Czech Radio officially began its international service on 31 August 1936. Eventually, the service became known as Radio Prague, then for a brief time in the 1990s as Radio Czechoslovakia International and most recently as Radio Prague International. Radio Prague International is mostly an on-line service now with its own transmitters having been shut down on 31 January 2011. It continued to broadcast over the single WRMI transmitter in Miami and currently relays its daily programs in English, French, and Spanish using the WRMI transmitter complex in Okeechobee.
The special anniversary programs include archival recordings, interviews, and comments from listeners. The first half-hour program is in English followed by a second half-hour program in French.
The broadcast via WRMI was received outdoors on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver in AM mode with 2.3 kHz filtering and a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna strung to a nearby tree in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Reception was mostly quite good.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Wang, who shares the following recording and notes:
DPRK's international radio service was named "Radio Pyongyang" until year 2002. Now it is called "Voice of Korea".
In Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages, there are different words to distinguish the north and south.
In English language, word "Korea" may stand for both.
I think the name "Radio Pyongyang" is clear, does not have ambiguity. The name "Voice of Korea", we cannot guess which side it is from.
The radio recording was on the Military Foundation Day in DPRK, 25 April 1999. Its content is the celebration of the festival.
The programmes are political promotion news, editorials, songs and music.
The distance from receiving place Shenyang to Pyongyang is about 374.3KM, to Seoul is about 565.4KM, and to Beijing is about 660.5KM.
The two distances are shorter than to China's capital, it is easier to receive the radio programmes from the Korean Peninsula, and no special equipment is required.
Sometimes in the night, in the mid wave band, the radio transmission from North Korea can "mix" with Shenyang local radio signal, unintentionally interferes the local broadcast.
Broadcaster: Radio Pyongyang
Date of recording: 4/25/1999
Starting time: 11:00
Frequency: 9.445 MHz
Reception location: Shenyang China
Receiver and antenna: Philips Radio Receiver and Casette Recorder AW7509 with antenna on it
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Wang, who shares the following recording and notes:
Frequency: 9.350MHz
Reception location: Shenyang China
Receiver and antenna: MeiDuo Radio Receiver and Casette Recorder CP6941 with antenna on it.
Notes: This is a record of VOA Korean Service on the year 2002, I cannot remember the exact month and day of the record. But I think it is on the second quarter of that year.
The background has serious radio interference from the DPRK.
I do not speak Korean, and I did not invoke machine speech recognition to extract transcriptions. I would like to share, anyone who speaks Korean is welcome to interpret the content of the recording.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following frequency announcement recording of Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, recorded on 11,780 kHz. The date of the recording is July 14, 2021 (time not noted) and reception location was McGrath, Alaska.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recording of Vatican Radio made on August 17, 2021, on 13,380 kHz at 18:00 UTC.
Note that Carlos Latuff, is not only a devoted radio enthusiast, but also a prominent political cartoonist in Brazil and throughout the world. Carlos has kindly included his listening report with his original artwork in the image above. Thank you for sharing, Carlos.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of the Voice of Vietnam Interval Signal.
This was recorded on 11,885 kHz, July 24, 2021 at 19:00 UTC in McGrath, Alaska.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Date of recording: 7/29/1997
Frequency: 6.955
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna
Mode: AM
Notes: This shortwave pirate broadcaster could be heard well here in Southern Ontario in the late 1990's. They finished each program with their theme song "Secret Agent Man."
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stewart Killeen, who shares the following recording and notes:
The final show entitled Generation 3.0 at the close of service on Radio Romania International recorded on the 29th July 2021, Dublin Ireland.
Date of recording: 7/29/2021
Starting time: 2149UTC
Frequency: 13.645 MHz
Receiver location: Dublin, Ireland
Receiver and antenna: Tecsun PL-660
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Stewart Killeen, who shares the following recording and notes:
Excerpt from the Round Table China talk show broadcast on China Radio International at 7.419 MHz 08 July 2021 at 22:00 UTC (Dublin, Ireland)
Broadcaster: China Radio International
Date of recording: 7/8/2021
Starting time: 22:08 UTC
Frequency: 7.419 MHz
Reception location: Dublin, Ireland
Receiver and antenna: Tecsun PL-660
Midday at Rothera Research Station in midwinter. Credit: Klara Weaver, Rothera Research Station.
A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2021 beginning at 21:30 UTC. The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews, featured messages and music for the staff of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) overwintering in Antarctica. In addition to personal messages from family and friends, there were special messages from BAS personnel and others including one from Sir David Attenborough accompanied by a blackbird. The transmitter had a "crash start" and the first two words of the introductory announcement ("This is") were cut.
The recording is of the transmission on a frequency of 7305 kHz from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station (300 kW rated transmitter power, antenna beam 182 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 was fairly good with little noise and fading and reasonable signal strength, which was better than that on the parallel frequencies of 9505 kHz from Woofferton and 6170 kHz from Ascension Island. A fourth frequency, 6035 kHz, transmitted from Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates, was not heard. At the very end of the program, there is some slight adjacent frequency interference.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dave Zantow, for sharing the following recording and notes:
Kol Israel (15:01)
September 12, 2001 at 0400 UTC
15640 kHz
Receiver used was a Japan Radio Co. NRD-545 (Sync on and 10 kHz bandwidth). One can hear minor DSP artifacts (burps) mixed in the background. Of course a common trait for the NRD-545.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dave Zantow, who shares the following recording and notes:
BBC World Service (16:49)
September 12, 2001 at 0000 UTC on 5975 kHz
Receiver used was a Japan Radio Co. NRD-545 (Sync on and 10 kHz bandwidth). One can hear minor DSP artifacts (burps) mixed in the background. Of course a common trait for the NRD-545.
Image by Moritz Mentges
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Matt Todd, who shares this bit of HF aviation traffic he recently recorded. Matt notes
Air to ground communications between Spirit 558 and New York. A phone patch was established to allow the aircraft to talk to a doctor on the ground about a person who had a seizure while on board the flight.
Date of recording: 5/11/2021
Starting time: 0256 UTC
Frequency: 8.933
Reciever location: Hugo, MN
Receiver and antenna: Sdr Play with a wire loop antenna around the perimeter of the attic
Mode: Single Side Band
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