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.
Mark Fahey’s KiwiSDR (WebSDR)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bryce Belcher, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Free Whatever
Date of recording: May 08, 2022
Frequency: 6.955 MHz
Receiver and antenna: The NA5B WebSDR Located in Washington DC.
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes: Here is my recording of radio free whatever on 6.955 MHz, recorded on Mother's Day, May 8, 2022. If I remember correctly, I think this may have been recorded around 9:39 PM Eastern. If any of you haven't heard radio free whatever, they pretty much play all types of music. This was recorded using the NA5B webSDR Receiver that is located in Washington DC.
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, Bryce Belcher, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: WTWW “The Voice of Freedom”
Date of recording: 4/25/2022
Starting time: 23:13 UTC
Frequency: 5.085 MHz
Reception location: Columbus Ohio
Receiver and antenna: My Tecsun PL880 with just the telescopic antenna
Notes: My recording of WTWW, the voice of freedom on 5085 MHz from April 25, 2022. The reception was pretty good here in Columbus in this recording. With just the telescopic antenna the station comes in pretty good.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Matt Todd, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: RAE
Date of recording: 10/30/2022
Starting time: 0200 UTC
Frequency: 5.85 MHz
Recption location: Hugo, MN
Receiver and antenna: Airspy HF+ and Youloop
Notes:
Off air recording of RAE Argentina to the World broadcast on WRMI on 5.85 Mhz on October, 30, 2022. Recorded in Hugo, MN.
Program details
00:00 Introduction and info
02:30 News
08:30 Sports
09:30 Feature about Carlos Gardel the best Tango dancer in the world
27:30 News recap
29:00 Sign-off
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker who shares this recording of Radio Romania International’s Hebrew Language Service. This recording was made in McGrath, Alaska, on 7,370 kHz at 17:31 UTC on November 20, 2022. Paul notes. “this is RRI with their once weekly 30 minute broadcast in Hebrew on 7370 from Galbeni, to the Middle East
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of VOA made on November 22, 2022 at 20:34 UTC on 11,850 kHz in McGrath, Alaska. Paul notes that this was actually a program feed error because the Kirundi Language Service is normally broadcast at this time and on this frequency.
The following recording of Paul Walker's Christmas Special on KSKO was recorded on a live relay from Space Line Bulgaria on 5900 kHz on Friday, December 24, 2022 starting around 00:10 UTC.
This recording was made on the U Twente WebSDR in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Ian Pillar, who shares the following recording and notes:
Notes: Number Station Recording
Location Taiwan
Enigma ID V13
Name New Star Broadcasting Station
Voice Female (Mandarin Chinese)
Mode USB + carrierBroadcaster: New Star Broadcasting Station V13
Date of recording: 11/22/2022
Starting time: 0100
Frequency: 13974
Reception location: NSW Australia
Receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR Loop Antenna
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bryce Belcher, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: XFM
Date of recording: Oct 30, 2022
Starting time: 8:45 EST
Frequency: 6865 MHz
Your location: Columbus, Ohio
Receiver and antenna: Tecsun PL-880 with just the telescopic antenna
Mode: Single Side Band
Safe for children?: No
Notes: Some RF noise—the signal gets stronger but was weaker in the beginning of the recording. Recorded October 30, 2022
Please note that pirate radio recordings often contain adult language.
Av. Paulista Consolação, São Paulo (Photo by Gabriel Ramos)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Radio Cidade Oldies made on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 0405UTC on 10215kHz. Note that this is weak signal DXing as Paul’s reception location was McGrath, Alaska.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Radio Exterior de España made on Wednesday, Apr 13, 2022 at 2053UTC on 15520kHz. Paul received and recorded this broadcast in McGrath, Alaska.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Rádio Inconfidência recorded on Thursday, Apr 14, 2022, at 0410UTC on 15190kHz. Reception location was McGrath, Alaska.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Rádio Brasil Central made on Saturday, July 8, 2022 at 0349UTC on 11815kHz. Paul’s reception location was McGrath, Alaska.
Béjaïa, Algeria (Photo by Walid Amghar)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Radio Algerienne made on July 29, 2022 starting at 2038 UTC on 15,100 kHz. This recording was made by Paul in McGrath, Alaska.
The following recording was made on September 28, 2022 starting at 1157 UTC on 7268 kHz (lower sideband).
At this time, Hurricane Ian hit the Florida coast as a category 4 storm and had been downgraded to a tropical storm over the Florida peninsula.
This recording was made using a WinRadio Excalubur software defined radio connected to a skyloop antenna near Asheville, North Carolina.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following recording of Radio Vanuatu recorded on Sunday June 19, 2022 at 0636UTC on 11835kHz in McGrath, Alaska.
Photo by Jack Krier
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Angelo Prieto, for the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Cairo
Date of recording: 8/11/2022
Starting time: 15:00 UTC
Frequency: 9.440 Mhz
RX location: Miami, FL
Notes: This is a recording of Radio Cairo from my personal magnetic tape collection. This being the only recording of Radio Cairo i have, i digitized it and then decided to upload it to The Shortwave Archive. The cassette recorder made a hissing noise in the background of the cassette recording, but the loud buzzing was interference from the original recording.
Princess Elizabeth circa 1945 (Image Source: Public Domain)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Anthony Pavick, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: BBC World Service
Date of recording: 9/8/2022
Starting time: 1600 UTC
Frequency: 12025 kHz
Receiver and antenna: SDR at University of Twente in Holland
Mode: AM
Notes: This is an off-air recording the BBC World Service on Thursday 8 September 2022 from 1600 to 1800 UTC on 12025 khz from the Kranji relay station in Singapore. It is the 90 minutes before the announcement of the passing of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, with the news bulletin at about minute 93
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who shares this recording of Deutsche Welle made on June 11, 2022 at 1515 UTC on 15195 kHz. The reception location was McGrath Alaska and receiver an ATS-25 paired with a loop antenna.
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