Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Walker, who shares the following field recording of the Voice of Korea on 11,910 kHz made on August 29, 2025 at 18:51 UTC in McGrath, Alaska. Paul notes that the recording begins in French then moves to their English language service.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor David Goren, who shares the following recording of Radio Gjirokaster recorded in January 1988. David notes that a column in MT from 1988 reported the frequency as 5057 kHz, although he logged it as 5060 kHz at the time. David was using his Panasonic RF-2900 as a receiver. He has also kindly shared the following photos of his logs and the cassette tape notes. David notes:Found this little scrap on an old cassette…it’s the middle of a recording of the Road Gang, the trucking show I was obsessed with at the time…and of course I would tune around during it sometimes and I marked the cassette…I have Gjirokaster and Yerevan in the same segment
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recording and illustrated listening report for this Voice of Vietnam broadcast celebrating their 80th anniversary. This recording was made on September 7, 2025 at 20:39 UTC on 11,885 kHz from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Nikos Mitrogiannopoulos, for sharing a recording of this Happy Station Show record. Nilos notes:My uncle was one of the founders of DXing in Greece, named Nikos Dendrinos. I found a record of Happy Station in his archive after his death.Nikos also shared the following photo of his uncle, Nikos Dendrinos: Thank you, Nikos, for sharing this amazing recording and honoring your uncle’s passion for DXing.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Radiodiffusion du Dahomey, Circa 1971Frequency: 4.870 MHzReception location: Ancaster, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antennaNotes: Prior to 1975, the country of Benin in West Africa was called Dahomey. This recording, made in 1971, is Radiodiffusion du Dahomey in Cotonou signing off for the day. While the signal level on 4870 kHz is only fair at best, the announcement in French can be heard giving frequency information followed by "Ici Cotonou, Radiodiffusion du Dahomey" just before the end of the recording. Reception location was Ancaster, Ontario, Canada and equipment used was a Hallicrafters S-52 and a long wire antenna. Also attached is a short recording from the 1990's of Radiodiffusion Nationale du Benin in French with a voice announcement and ID just prior to sign off. Also on 4870 kHz, but using a Panasonic RF-3100 receiver and a long wire antenna in Thamesford, Ontario, Canada.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Nikos Mitrogiannopoulos, for sharing the following studio recording and notes:Broadcaster: Rasdio Canada International (Shortwave Club)Date of recording: October 06, 1973Notes: This is the anniversary broadcast of the Radio Canada Shortwave Club for the celebration of the “World DX Friendship Year 1973.” The program features Bob MacGregor, announcer of Radio Canada, as well as announcers from Radio Netherlands, London, Stockholm, and New Zealand. Unfortunately, I could not make out their names. All of them are speaking live. Finally, there is an interview from Greece with Nikos Dendrinos, who was also the originator of the anniversary year.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Liam Spencer, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Radio Romania InternationalDate of recording: March 04, 2024Starting time: 01:40 UTCFrequency: 7.325 MHzReception location: Berthoud, Colorado, USAReceiver and antenna: Unbranded AM, FM, SW receiver with telescopic antennaNotes: Recording of Radio Romania's DX Mailbag dated Saturday, March 2nd, 2024. This recording was made the following Monday when they repeat the DX Mailbag.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Emanuele Pelicioli, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Swiss Radio InternationalDate of recording: Circa 1993Starting time: 14 CETFrequency: 6165 kHzReception location: Bergamo, ItalyReceiver and antenna: Multiband Radio FennerNotes: This recording was originally on tape, I made it in 1993. I don't remember which month. It was from Studio Aperto, the Italian program of Swiss Radio International, which airs on Sunday at 14 CET. They used to read listeners' letters and create mini-games. This was the first time they read one of my letters.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Martin Knotek, for sharing the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: The BuzzerDate of recording: August 08, 2025Starting time: 19:17 UTCFrequency: 4625 kHzYour location: Zlin, Czech RepublicReceiver and antenna: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/Mode: Single Side BandNotes: The Buzzer online 08. 08. 2025 v 19:17 UTC.You can hear the Russian anthem about halfway through the recording.The Buzzer (UVB-76) is a mysterious Russian shortwave radio station that has broadcast a constant buzzing sound since the late 1970s, occasionally interrupted by voice messages in Russian, with its true purpose still unconfirmed.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Republic of Yemen Radio via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia transmitterFrequency: 11.935 MHzReception location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaReceiver and antenna: remote Kiwi SDRNotes: Two recordings of Republic of Yemen Radio broadcasting in Arabic on 11935 kHz shortwave from a transmitter located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Reported transmitter power is 50 kw.February 15, 2025 at 1959 UTC, good signal, no hum, received using SDR located in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaApril 9, 2025 at 1658 UTC, bad hum or buzz on their signal, received using SDR located in Riyadh, Saudi, ArabiaThis station has not been heard more recently.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: WYFR Scituate MA transmitterDate of recording: May 02, 1974Frequency: 17.785 MHzReception location: Ancaster, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Realistic DX-150A with long wire antennaNotes: Your Family Radio, WYFR is heard here via their Scituate, Massachusetts transmitter on May 2, 1974 at 2200 hours UTC on 17785 kHz shortwave.The station has a very colorful history:W2XAL (1927–1929)W1XAL (1929–1939)transmitter moved from Boston to Scituate, MA in 1936WRUL (1939–1966)WNYW (1966–1973)WYFR (1973-2013)transmitter moved to Okeechobee, FL in 1977transmitter purchased by WRMI in December 2013
COURTESY BAS A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2024 beginning at 21:30 UTC. The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews, featured messages and music for the 47 members of the staff of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) overwintering in Antarctica at the Rothera (Antarctic Peninsula) and King Edward Point and Bird Island (South Georgia) research stations. In addition to personal messages from family and friends, there were interviews with Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of BAS; Olivier Hubert, a former chef at Rothera and the Halley VI research station; and Nadine Frontier, a marine biologist at King Edward Point; and Allie Clement, an ocean scientist at Rothera. The transmitter came on the air with a test tone (1108 Hz plus harmonics) about a minute before the program started. As sometimes happens, the first few words of the introduction were missed.The recording is of the transmission on 11685 kHz from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station. The sender had a registered power of 300 kW with antenna beam 182 degrees. The transmission was received on a Belka-DX receiver with a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna outdoors in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada, in pseudo-synchronous (AM2) mode with 50 Hz - 2.7 kHz bandwidth. Reception was quite good with little noise or fading and very good signal strength. The additional parallel frequencies of 9585 kHz from Woofferton and 9870 kHz from Ascension were heard but not as well as 11685 kHz. There was a break in transmission at about the 21-minute mark in the recording for approximately one minute. A studio quality, slightly longer, podcast version is available on the BBC World Service website.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.This particular compilation focuses on: Eastern Europe and USSRAll recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.ALBANIA: Radio Tirana (0)BELARUS: Radio Minsk (1.18)BULGARIA: Radio Sofia (1.41)CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Radio Prague (2.29)ESTONIA: Radio Tallin (2.50)GERMANY (EAST): Radio Berlin Int (3.49)HUNGARY: Radio Budapest (5.22)LATVIA: Radio Riga (6.31)LITHUANIA: Radio Vilnius (7.14)POLAND: Radio Polonia (8.30)ROMANIA: Radio Bucharest (9.37)UKRAINE: Radio Kiev (10.41)USSR: Radio Moscow World Service (12.17)Radio Station Peace & Progress (13.35)Radio Station Rodina (13.59)YUGOSLAVIA: Radio Yugoslavia (14.21)
copyright NDR Live, off-air, three-hour recording of the special annual Gruss an Bord program from German broadcaster NDR, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, on 24 December 2024 with an introductory "warm-up" segment beginning shortly after 18:00 UTC with Gruss an Bord itself starting at 19:00 UTC. The "warm-up segment" featured reports on seafaring, its economic relevance, and everyday life at sea. Gruss an Bord features music and greetings to and from mariners around the world. The Christmas greetings were recorded at an event in Hamburg. Unlike for the past several years, there was no event in Leer.Relatives and friends had the opportunity to wish their loved ones at sea a happy holiday and a happy new year. The Hamburg event was recorded on 8 December in the Duckdalben International Seamen's Club and was hosted by Birgit Langhammer and Ocke Bandixen. Music was provided by the Swedish-South African duo "Fjarill." The broadcast was primarily in German with some greetings in other languages.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 at Nauen, Germany; Moosbrunn, Austria; Issoudun, France; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and Okeechobee, Florida, U.S.A.; and was organized by Media Broadcast.The frequencies (kHz) were: 6030 (via Issoudun) for the Northeast Atlantic, 6080 (via Tashkent) for Europe, 9635 (via Moosbrunn) for the Indian Ocean,11650 (via Issoudun) for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 13830 (via Nauen) for the Southern Atlantic, and15770 (via Okeechobee) for the Northwest AtlanticThe "warm-up" segment was not carried on the NDR Info Spezial network, which broadcast the children's program Mikado instead. And as the Moosbrunn transmitter took the feed from the NDR Info Spezial network, the "warm-up" segment didn't go out on this shortwave transmitter.The recording is of the transmission on the frequency of 11650 kHz for the full three hours.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 fairly good for the most part with a bit of noise at times.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.This particular compilation focuses on: Western EuropeAll recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule, and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.AUSTRIA: Radio Austria International (0)CYPRUS: Cyprus Broadcasting Company (1.40)DENMARK: Radio Denmark (3.09)FINLAND: Radio Finland (4.29)FRANCE: Radio France Internationale (5.30)GERMANY (WEST): Deutsche Welle (6.30)GREECE: Voice of Greece (7.53)ITALY: RAI (9.24)MALTA: Radio Mediterranean (11.00)NETHERLANDS: Radio Netherlands (12.21)NORWAY: Radio Norway (13.34)PORTUGAL: Radio Portugal (15.34)SPAIN: Spanish Foreign Radio (16.32)SWEDEN: Radio Sweden (18.17)SWITZERLAND: Swiss Radio International (19.53)Red Cross Broadcasting Service (20.38)UNITED KINGDOM: BBC World Service (21.49)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.This particular compilation focuses on: Africa and the Middle EastAll recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule, and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.ALGERIA: Radio Algiers (0)EGYPT: Radio Cairo (1.03)IRAN: Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2.33)IRAQ: Radio Baghdad (4.17)ISRAEL: Kol Israel (6.33)KUWAIT: Radio Kuwait (8.00)LEBANON: Voice of Lebanon (9.29)LIBYA: Radio Jamariyah (10.18)NIGERIA: Radio Nigeria (12.15)QATAR: Qatar Broadcasting Service (13.53)SAUDI ARABIA: Broadcasting Service of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (14.21)SOUTH AFRICA: Radio RSA (15.45)SYRIA: Radio Damascus (17.37)TURKEY: Voice of Turkey (18.40)UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: UAE Radio (19.50)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.This particular compilation focuses on: Asia & the PacificAll recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule, and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.Afghanistan: Radio Afghanistan (0)Australia: Radio Australia (1.55)Bangladesh: Radio Bangladesh (3.18)China: Radio Peking (4.23)India: All India Radio (6.16)Japan: Radio Japan (7.29)Korea (North): Radio Pyongyang (9.02)Korea (South): Radio Korea (12.26)Malaysia: Voice of Malaysia (14.22)New Zealand: Radio New Zealand (15.49)Pakistan: Radio Pakistan (16.13)Saipan: KFBS & KYOI (16.44)Taiwan: Voice of the Free China (18.14)Tajikistan: Radio Dushanbe (19.01)Uzbekistan: Radio Tashkent (19.22)Vietnam: Voice of Vietnam (20.16)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.This particular compilation focuses on: The AmericasAll recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule, and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.Bonaire: Trans World Radio (3.31)Brazil: Radio Nacional do Brasil (4.32)Canada: Radio Canada Int (6.58)Chile: Voice of Chile (8.48)Colombia: Radio Nacional (11.06)Radio Sutatenza (12.00)Cuba: Radio Havana (12.48)Dominican Republic: La Voz del CID (14.20)Radio Clarin (15.01)Ecuador: HCJB (15.43)Grenada: Radio Free Grenada (17.36)Nicaragua: Voice of Nicaragua (18.42)USA: Voice of America (19.54)Radio Earth (20.33)KCBI (21.39)WHRI (22.13)WRNO (22.38)WYFR (22.49)UN Radio (23.22)Venezuela: Radio Turismo (24.48)Radio Tachira (25.31)YVTO (26.06)
Photo of Taipei Photo by TangChi Lee Many thanks to SRAA contributor Kanwar Sandhu, who shares the following test broadcast recording of Radio Taiwan International recorded on June 29, 2025, at 1730 UTC on 11995 kHz:
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: All India Radio 1971Frequency: 11.810 MHzReception location: Ancaster, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antennaNotes: This transmission to southeast Asia from the general overseas service of All India Radio was heard surprisingly well in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada on 11810 kHz shortwave back in 1971. Their familiar interval signal is heard at first, followed by sign on in English.
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this is brilliant just brilliant so must aura shrouds this till today it's just crazy