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British Forces Broadcasting Service - One of the most interesting stations of past decades was the British Forces Broadcasting Service, which over the years operated shortwave transmitters from many interesting places in Africa and Asia. The last of these to close was Singapore, in Listeners were pleasantly surprised when much stronger BFBS signals appeared in in support of Britain's Operation Granby in the Gulf War, and again in during the Iraqi invasion.

Although American shortwave did not come under government control until November , one of the missions of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs CIAA , which was headed by Nelson Rockefeller, was to facilitate private American shortwave broadcasting to Latin America.

One strategy was to insert in Latin American publications advertisements that promoted American shortwave. Here is a file containing 14 such Spanish-language advertisements that appeared in the Latin American version of Reader's Digest in and Even though the name "Voice of America" was by then in regular use, these ads made no mention of it, referring to the stations generically as "Las Emisoras de los Estados Unidos.

Subtitled "A Guide to the German Language for English-speaking Listeners of the German Short Wave Station," its 24 nicely-illustrated lessons are built around radio-related topics: announcements, greetings to listeners, music, talks, drama, news, etc.

The course ends with a contest. The booklet's Introduction contains some background on the course. But Sharq started out in Jaffa, Palestine. Mick's father, James, was a wireless mechanic in the RAF, assigned to Special Operations and involved in maintaining radio equipment for British spies parachuted into Europe.

In he was posted to Jaffa to be the technical lead at Sharq. He also did remote recording at various places across the Middle East. James declined to go to Cyprus when the station moved there, returning to civilian life instead. Although he did not pursue a career in broadcasting, his stories were instrumental in convincing Mick to take up a career in electronics.

You will find the photos here. Mick has also sent two extracts from an interesting diary now in the Imperial War Museum archive written by Major C. Law, who spent time at Sharq al Adna and also in Jerusalem, and we have also posted these abstracts as a file here.

In the first extract four pages , Major Law relates how and why the station was set up, and he makes some other interesting observations from those times. The second extract five pages appears to relate to the British Mediterranean Station, a sister operation of Sharq al Adna that used the Sharq facilities to broadcast beyond the Arab world. If you want to know the full story of Sharq al Adna, ask your library to get you this article by Douglas A.

Many thanks to Mick Griffiths for sharing this interesting information with us. These were all mediumwave. In addition, however, the station transmitted programming to the three stations by way of a 10 kw. SSB feeder transmitter in Monrovia, which operated in the 49 and 75 meter bands and could be heard in the U. Radio Japan and Radio Netherlands Relays - For several decades, relay arrangements have been an important part of international shortwave broadcasting.

Here are several items pertaining to the start of relays of Radio Japan and Radio Netherlands. From Japan, we have posted two issues of Radio Japan News, the station's newsletter for listeners. We have reproduced the English pages only. The all-English, four-page issue relates the story of the start of Radio Japan relays from Sri Lanka, and also contains a timeline of Radio Japan's post-war development. We have also posted a promotional item, "Radio Netherlands International Bonaire Relay Station," which appears to have been written circa Radio Portugal DX Club - Lots of the big stations had "clubs" of various kinds, geared mainly to solicit mail from listeners.

Although the Radio Portugal DX Club, which was formed in , also solicited reception reports, it provided some other useful benefits as well, including the forwarding of reports to other stations throughout the Portuguese-speaking world and the issuance of certificates rewarding the QSLing of stations in the Portuguese world.

Certificates were available at the station Bronze , 20 Silver , and 50 Gold station levels. The club also had two pages in Radio Portugal's quarterly listener magazine. Here is a brochure explaining how the club operated and detailing the certificate program. Due to the difficulty of hearing many of the African stations, American listeners were allowed to submit QSLs from Brazil in order to satisfy half the African station requirement.

The cover of the brochure shows one of the certificates. Does anyone have one? We would be happy to post it on ontheshortwaves. Robert H. Bowman, co-founder of the Far East Broadcasting Corp. It contains some information about XMHD, a Chinese station of the s from which we have earlier posted a 78 rpm promotional recording see below under "Recordings" or click here.

Thanks to Jim for bringing us this information. Starting out in as the Voice of Tangier, it was reborn as Trans World Radio, Monaco in , and over the years expanded to sites in Bonaire, Swaziland, Guam and elsewhere. But did you know that it began in as the Voice of Tangier, operating at first with 2. Here is a booklet, "Reaching Russia," about one of the station's goals: putting its signal into the Soviet Union.

More religion and Russia than radio, the booklet contains some pictures and other info about the station. Here is an ROFA newsletter that appears to date from early Note the references to the apparently still-imprisoned John McCain. Originally watts, it soon increased power to watts, and it moved to Mason, Ohio in having become W8XAL in It increased power to 10 kw.

Like all the privately owned American shortwave broadcasters of the time, it had its own Latin American service, which expanded greatly when the station went into U.

This brochure appears to date from around mid The pamphlet was prepared by two Westinghouse radio engineers for the Institute of Radio Engineers convention in Pittsburgh. Westinghouse "Radio Broadcasting News" - It has suffered some water damage during its 90 year life, but that makes this item we all the more interesting. Interestingly, the masthead says that May 7, was their "Seventy-second Week Broadcasting.

If May 7 was their 72nd week, the first week would have been the week of December 26, Perhaps the station did not consider November 2 as its "official" start? In any event, KDKA is generally acknowledged to have been the world's first shortwave broadcaster, and May 7, was before those shortwave transmissions began.

So this pamphlet dates from before commencement of shortwave operations by the world's first shortwave broadcaster. In the middle of the pamphlet, pages , is a reproduction of six listener letters received by the station back then.

The letters are not easily legible in the original or in the electronic copy. However, when scanned at high resolution they become easily readable, and we have now posted a PDF of these letters here. The letters, which are all in English save one, and at least five of the six from the date on one is illegible , are from the following places, starting at the center-top and going clockwise: Cape May, NJ; Douglas, AZ; Geidam, Nigeria; Rangoon, Burma handwritten ; and Hartford, CT year unclear.

I believe the handwritten letter at center-bottom, only partially visible, is in French; it appears to be from Beni Abbes, which is in western Algeria. From the Rangoon letter: "I have strict instructions from my wife to wake her up as soon as you come through and although it is bitterly cold at that time she gets out of her warm bed. As I only have one pair of phones at present I have to sit on the arm of her chair and every time there comes a particularly nice or loud piece she lifts up one phone slightly and I am allowed to bend down and listen.

The first is a short message from the station's friendly owner and founder, Amando Cespedes Marin. The second is a 4-page pamphlet, "The Voice of Costa Rica. During that month, TI4NRH broadcast a series of 31 special programs, each dedicated to a particular station, club, publication or person in the shortwave world. Among the business handled at "Radio-France," Saint-Assise, was telegram traffic.

Here is a French-English promotional pamphlet that "Radio-France" made available to those wishing to send telegrams. It includes a list of corresponding stations in other countries, rate information, and three blanks for composing telegrams.

Some of the stations listed were also known to carry some broadcast programming, including Transradio Internacional in Argentina, Amalgamated Wireless in Australia, and Transradio Espanola in Spain. Radio France Centre de T.

It was at Saint-Assise, 25 miles southeast of Paris. Here are four files with postcard views of the installation. Principally a longwave station, it was at first divided into two parts. The continental station, designed to serve Europe, could put out up to kw. A shortwave transmitting capability was added later, and a receiving station was located at Villacresnes.

The aerial structure included 16 towers, 44 miles of cable, 50 miles of copper ground wire, ands a mile-square's worth of copper plates. The postcards are in four files.

File 1 The first contains three outside views of the administrative facilities, a view of the transcontinental left and continental right stations and antenna farms, and a view of one of the tower bases: File 2 the second contains four views of the transcontinental station; File 3 the third contains six views of the continental station; and File 4 the fourth contains three views of the shortwave station.

And it was no less a leader in the new field of international radio propaganda. Starting circa , the station replied to listener letters with a small 4 inch 78 rpm record. Here are scans of the record, together with MP3 files of the audio content, which is in German on one side, English on the other. Here is one from the British forces mediumwave station, Rome, for the week beginning December 24, Ward, Otto Koischwitz "O. This is an example of how a DX event of the past can be brought to life through the use of multiple resources in this case a newspaper clipping, bulletin collections, and the CPRV files.

WWJ - The battle over who was the "first" broadcasting station in the U. It looks like the pamphlet dates from the late s or early s. The station traces its lineage back to a predecessor amateur station, 8MK, which carried the newspaper's reports of the Michigan primaries over two months before the initial KDKA broadcast. African External Service Schedules - Here are several schedules of African stations that had external services transmitting on the international HF bands.

Leopoldville , c. Madagascar , one-hour service on kHz. Among the best sources of signals were the stations in the countries of what was then called French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa.

By , most of these countries had become independent, and their stations were affiliated with SORAFOM, Societe de Radiodiffusion de la France d'Outre-Mer, a French government organization formed in to aid development of broadcasting in the former French territories.

As can be seen, most of the shortwave transmitters were 4 kw. Despite this low power, many were routine catches on east coast afternoons. It describes the NBC networks "red" and "blue" in those days , studios and artists, and then discusses NBC global activities. NBC was the source of much of the programming that went out over American shortwave stations in those days, and a good deal of company promotion centered around the shortwave programs that were prepared for reception abroad and the foreign programming that was received here and rebroadcast over NBC domestic stations.

You can get the flavor of this in some of the pages in the second half of this pamphlet. A list of NBC network stations, including shortwavers, is on the next-to-the-last page. The printed part of the folder also contains comments from prospective readers of the book, plus a summary of the book's contents. Set your PDF reader for side-by-side viewing for best effect on this one. And did ACM read it over the air?

Radio Canada International Monitoring Station - Here is some information about the RCI monitoring station in Stittsville, Ontario: some technical information about the RCI transmitter and monitoring plants ; a description of the monitoring station ; and some photos taken at Stittsville.

Thanks to Harold Sellers for this. Lyngby Radio ceased operating on shortwave on October 1, Thanks to Jim Cumbie of Texas for sending this in. The company, a semi-official organization, was formed in to assume control over the government commercial utility radio stations. There are six cards: a map of the country's stations, views of the Kaizo and Fukuoka receiving stations, and views of the Yosami, Haranomachi and Tomioka transmitting stations.

Broadcasting from the Prato Smeraldo site, "2RO" had a well-developed foreign service, as reflected in this June program schedule. Radio Ghana - No doubt it has been some time since the postman has brought you a schedule for the External Service of Radio Ghana.

Here is one for the period January-March Along with African political news, it contains the schedules for the station's six English services, two French services, and two Arabic services, together with services in Portuguese, Hausa and Swahili.

Just reading the frequencies on the back cover reminds us -- not that we need it -- how much the shortwave scene has changed. Ghana's external service began in the early s. In it was on , , , , , , kHz. It is hard to believe that it was over 30 years ago.

Martin was actively involved in the development of the SIBC, and has sent a booklet which he produced commemorating the opening of the SIBC Broadcasting House in , together with a broadcasting-related First Day Cover issued by the Solomons in A mediumwave station, it operated on kc. The Voice of Denmark - Here is a file containing three issues of "The Voice of Denmark," a quarterly newsletter published by that station's shortwave department. Included are the newsletter's first issue, published in the fourth quarter of , plus issues from the third quarter of and the first quarter of Intended to appeal to a broad audience, there were articles in English, Danish and Spanish.

The issue contains an introduction to the station and a description of the English department; the issue has an article and photo of WRTH publisher and Voice of Denmark DX bulletin preparer O. Each issue contains a schedule of the station's shortwave broadcasts. During the war, both had served as the colonial voice of their home countries. Afterwards, they retained a certain autonomy, broadcasting to the world from their exotic locations. The pamphlet we have posted from OTC appears to have been issued around , and contains information about Belgium, the Congo, and the station itself.

Its audience orientation made it a favorite among shortwave listeners everywhere, and it often carried special programs for particular clubs. As noted in the pamphlet, it had DX programs in multiple languages, and OTC received so many letters from Sweden that it had a regular program in Swedish.

It lost its distinct identity in , after which it served as a relay of Brussels until Congolese independence in brought its closure. Radio Australia - In "days of yore," many of the larger SWBC stations issued informative printed schedules to listeners on their mailing list. Some of these contained extensive program, time and frequency information. Here is one such schedule from Radio Australia. This one is from April it was issued quarterly. Al introduces the recording, and notes that it was made on a DX receiver.

Thanks to John Herkimer for the recording. Operating 50 kw. Although clearly intended for promotional purposes, this piece contains some interesting history and evidences the national mood at the time, and the belief in the efficacy of international broadcasting.

Of special interest is the "Addenda" blue pages at the end. It was added after Pearl Harbor, which apparently occurred while the pamphlet was being printed. This is London Calling! Such was the case with this item from the BBC. The BBC "brings you the voices of the men and women of Britain, speaking to you while the sirens wail in the streets and the gunfire roars in the London sky. Pass this folder to your friends or send us the names and addresses of those you think would like to have information about the BBC short-wave programmes.

RADEX says the power was 1, watts, but the pamphlet says the transmitter was a 5, watter; see p. What makes this item interesting is the detail it contains about the station's appearance and operation. On the DX side, from p. Could it be true, as mentioned on p. It is indeed a small world. Here is a brief, readable history of Radio Canada International. This pamphlet was prepared by RCI on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and covers the years It is printed in both English and French; these are the English pages.

Four Articles from Radio Amateur - Here are four short articles, with photos, from several issues of the British publication Radio Amateur, which carried some shortwave broadcast news, including features.

It was widely heard throughout the world, and Sr. ACM was a well-known figure among DXers. Thanks to PopComm for permission to post these. WUMS was one of the longest operating pirates, usually heard on the broadcast band.

Here is a pamphlet that was issued by VOA at the time. Radio Biafra - How many remember the original Radio Biafra from ? The Deutscher Kurzwellensender - The Deutscher Kurzwellensender, Berlin, was one of the most powerful shortwave broadcasters in the s. Jacko, the Broadcasting Kookaburra Early U. While the emphasis in two of the articles is on the technical side, all articles provide interesting insights on how leading elements of the broadcast industry viewed international shortwave at the time.

It was published with the approval of the BBC, but apparently was authored by "The British Council" as one of its "Britain Advances" series covering "some of the things in which Britain has contributed notably to modern progress.

Portishead Radio - Here is a well-illustrated history of the U. Jim Cumbie of Dallas, Texas has sent in some interesting items about U. Check out the poem, "Radio Seduction," on the last page.

KFKX was built in connection with the experimental use of shortwave c. Although the pamphlet makes no mention of the Hotel Clarke in connection with the station, part of KFKX was once located there, as indicated on this postcard view of the hotel which, judging from the cars, looks like it was issued around the same time as the pamphlet Broadcasting and the Australian Post Office, - Here is a brief but very nice and illustrated history of broadcasting in Australia published in Note the barracks; the site was guarded.

This is actually a QSL--see the handwritten verification statement on the inside front cover. There is also mention of shortwave on pages and page This is probably vintage or thereabouts. This pamphlet is a great window into various aspects of radio life in Check out the "Ten Radio Commandments" on p.

And if you're in the neighborhood, use the free pass for a station tour! I believe and kc. Rather than enter his dial settings in the spaces provided, this listener preferred to make his notes on the cover! This issue commemorated their fifth anniversary of overseas broadcasting. Included is a brief summary of their first five years, their schedule, some letters from listeners, and a map showing the number of listener letters received during the five year period.

Miscellaneous Radio Items - Walt Salmaniw of Victoria, British Columbia, has been doing a little shack cleaning and sent some scans of some interesting miscellaneous things from the period. Times and frequencies for many of the "J" stations are shown. FBS via R. This pamphlet probably dates from the s. Here is a brochure about the service, produced by the Oblate Fathers circa , along with an accompanying postcard. A schedule in Portuguese from Radio Clube de Angola. Estacion Paradizabal - Cover of Argentine magazine 'Revista Radiotelefonica,' , showing a drawing of the antenna of the first station in Montevideo, Estacion Paradizabal, located on the roof of the Hotel Florida - from Horacio A.

Nigro, Uruguay. A photo from Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, from an Argentine magazine showing the control room for a station in "Gold Coast, Africa" that may be the predecessor to the current Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

These were recordings on cardboard blanks that World War II servicemen made for the folks back home. Read about them, and hear some examples.

Brazil V - Here is a collection of 17 recordings of Brazilian shortwavers. Whether because Brazilians sounded a little less exotic, or because many operated in the higher frequency bands, or because Portuguese was less familiar to the ear than Spanish, Brazil never had quite the DX cachet as Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, even though many were equally good DX--and they were better QSLers.

Aparecida , , []; 3 R. Araguaia , , []; 4 R. Clube de Teresina , , []; 5 R. Clube do Para , , []; 6 R. Cultura , Sao Paulo, , []; 7 R. Educadora da Bahia , Salvador, , []; 8 R.

Educadora , Guaraja-Mirim, , [, ]; 9 R. Guaruja Paulista , , [, , , ]; 10 R. Ipanema , Rio de Janeiro, , [, ]; 11 R. Nacional de Brasilia , , [, ]; 12 R. Panamericana , Sao Paulo, , []; 13 R. Rural, Santarem, , []; 14 R. Tabajara , Joao Pessoa, , []; 15 R. Trans Mundial , Sao Paulo, , [, ]; 16 Rdfsra. Acreana , Rio Branco, , []; and 17 Rdfsra. Pocos de Caldas , , []. The ID location is shown in [brackets]. Amazonas , Iquitos, , [, ]; 6 R.

Ancash , Huaraz, , [, ]; 7 R. Arequipa , , []; 8 R. Chota , , []; 9 R. Continental , Arequipa, , [, ]; 10 R. El Sol de los Andes , Juliaca, , []; 11 R. Horizonte , Chachapoyas, Huancayo , Colosal , Neiva, kHz. Macarena , Villavicencio, Nueva Vida , Cucuta, kHz.

Santa Fe , Bogota, kHz. Super de Bogota , kHz. Super de Cali , kHz. Super de Medellin , kHz. Transamazonica , San Jose del Guaviare, It listed 55 active frequencies. Mexico - For east coast listeners, signals from the low-powered Mexican shortwave stations often suffered from interference of one kind or another, so you will have to listen carefully for the IDs [times in brackets] on some of the recordings that we have posted here.

Of these, only Radio Educacion is still on the air. Huayacocotla , Huayacocotla, kHz. Mil , Mexico City, kHz. Educacion , Mexico City, kHz. Mexico , Mexico City, kHz. Transcontinental de America , Mexico City, kHz. Nucleo Oro , Veracruz, kHz. Universidad , San Luis Potosi, kHz.

Colombia III - Here is a baker's dozen of recordings of shortwave stations of the past from Colombia. Autentica , Villavicencio, kHz. Cinco , Villavicencio, kHz. Lider , Bogota, kHz. Melodia , Bogota, kHz. Neiva , Neiva, kHz. Sucesos de Colombia , Bogota, kHz. Surcolombiana , Neiva, kHz. Argentina - Among South American countries, shortwave from Argentina was distinctive in several ways. Argentine stations boasted more power than most other stations, and they did not use the tropical bands.

While this combination meant stronger signals, often it also meant QRM as some of the posted recordings demonstrate. And occasionally a mediumwave or FM station would show up on another station's shortwave transmitter, or would be used as a seemingly-impromptu modulation source for an out-of-band utility transmitter, or for a special transmission. All these things added to the color of DXing Argentine shortwave.

Here are some recordings from years past [ID locations are in brackets]. Regular shortwave broadcasters. Costa Rica - These recordings should bring back some memories. They were made in various years between and Index numbers [in brackets] are the ID locations. The stations: 1 R. Capital , San Jose, kHz, []. Casino , Puerto Limon, kHz, []. Columbia , San Jose, kHz, [, ]. Impacto , San Jose, kHz, [English ]. Noticias del Continente , San Jose, kHz, [, , ].

Reloj , San Jose, kHz, []. Rumbo , Cartago, kHz, [, , ]. Because they were recorded locally, sometimes in-studio, they have excellent audio. Thanks to Tetsuya and Horacio, we are adding them here as well CD1 - CD 2 together with an index of the stations which shows the index numbers where the individual recordings can be found.

The back of the jacket contains some interesting notes, including a detailed description of the recordings Side B is a "Zero Hour" broadcast.

The jacket says that the woman pictured on the album cover is Lotus Long, who played Tokyo Rose in the movie of the same name.

We have also posted a lobby card for the movie. Iva Toguri D'Aquino died in Chicago in Observed one GI, "Lots of us thought she was on our side all along. These are from around one from , and are mostly shortwave, with a few mediumwavers. MW, c. It was titled "World on the Air. They appear to be studio quality, not made off the air; and there are lots of memories here. We are posting the insert that accompanied the cassette , and also an index to the recordings as they appear online arranged somewhat differently from on the cassette , with the locations in the composite online recordings where the individual stations can be found.

Bolivia I - For many years, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia comprised the triumvirate of Andean countries whose shortwave stations were sought out most often by DXers. There were many stations, and they conveyed the kind of local authenticity that long-distance shortwave could provide.

The Bolivian stations were generally the least well heard. Here are some Bolivian recordings made at various times since the s. Only a few Bolivian stations are still on shortwave including R. Mosoj Chaski, which is among the recordings. ID locations are in [brackets]. El Mundo , Santa Cruz, kHz. Fides , La Paz, kHz. La Cruz del Sur , kHz. Luis de Fuentes , Tarija, kHz. Mosoj Chaski , Cochabamba, kHz. Municipal , Caranavi, kHz. Norte , Montero, kHz. Nueva America , La Paz, kHz.

Panamericana , La Paz, kHz. Pio Doce , Siglo Veinte, kHz. Pio Doce , , this one in []; 12 R. San Miguel , Riberalta, kHz. San Miguel , this time on kHz. Originating in Los Angeles, it was carried nationwide. Briem was a DXer himself, and he invited many well known DX luminaries to take part in the discussion, either in person or by phone.

Briem retired at the end of He died in The recording is 2 hours, 50 minutes in length. Venezuela III - We present our final group of recordings from Venezuelan shortwave stations of the past. Barquisimeto , , []; 3 R. Bolivar , Ciudad Bolivar, , []; 4 R. Capital , Caracas, , [ Continente , Caracas, , []; 6 R. Juventud , Barquisimeto, , [, ]; 7 R.

Los Andes-R. Mil Cuarenta , Merida, , [, ]; 8 R. Mara , Maracaibo, , []; 9 R. Maturin , , [, ]; 10 R. Mundial , Caracas, , []; and 11 R. Occidente , Tovar, , [, ]. Venezuela II - Venezuela used to have tons of shortwave broadcasters.

Now there are none, the last one having left shortwave around Here is a second group of recordings, mostly from the s ID locations are in brackets : 1 Catatumbo Internacional , Maracaibo, , []; 2 R. Impacto Valencia , , []; 4 R. Popular , Maracaibo, , [, , ]; 5 R. Rumbos , Caracas, , [, ]; 6 R. San Sebastian , , []; 7 R.

Sucre , Cumana, , []; 8 R. Tropical , Caracas, , [, ]; 9 R. Turismo , Valera, , []; 10 R. Universo , Barquisimeto, , []; 11 R. Valera , , []; 12 R. Brazil IV - We have already posted three groups of recordings from Brazilian stations. Here are recordings of 12 additional stations. ID locations are in brackets. Some of these required some digging, so listen carefully. Capixaba , Vitoria, , []; 3 R.

Clube Marilia , , []; 4 R. Congonhas , , []; 5 R. Cultura Filadelfia , Foz do Iguazu, , []; 6 R. Cultura Ondas Tropicais , Manaus, , []; 7 R. Educacao Rural de Tefe , , []; 8 R. Itatiaia , Belo Horizonte, , []; 9 R. Nacional de Tabatinga , , []; 11 R.

Olinda , , []. The Brazil shortwave entries in the World Radio TV Handbook occupied three and one-half columns; in they occupy one column including inactives. Thanks to Larry for permission to post these. These date to the years Centinela del Sur , Loja, , []; 8 R.

Federacion , Sucua, , [, ]; 9 R. Luz y Vida , Loja, , []; 10 R. Nacional Progreso , Loja, , []; and 11 R. Rio Tarqui , Quito, , []. Ecuador I - Here are 13 recordings of shortwave stations in Ecuador. All these stations--indeed all shortwave broadcast stations in Ecuador save for the reduced-footprint HCJB--are now off shortwave.

The recordings are: 1 Compania Radiodifusora del Ecuador C. Casa de la Cultura , Quito, , []; 5 R. Cenit , Portoviejo, , []; 6 R. Cuenca , , []; 7 R. Iris , Esmeraldas, , [, , ]; 8 R. Melodia , Quito, , []; 9 R. Popular , Cuenca, , []; 10 R. Rio Amazonas , Macuma, , []; 11 R. Splendit , Cuenca, , [, ]; 12 R. Tropical , Esmeraldas, , [, ]; and 13 R.

Zaracay , , []. Radio Australia - It was a bad week. One of the selling points for preserving these services was their ability to provide emergency broadcasting during cyclones. We have posted two examples. Both were heard on kHz. Radio Australia had been providing emergency broadcasting services for many years, as evidenced by a QSL for the Shepparton relay of mediumwave 8DR-Darwin , which had lost its transmitter during Cyclone Tracy, Christmas The 8DR programming was sent to Shepparton where it was relayed back on shortwave for the benefit of the 30, Darwin evacuees and also for the surviving Darwin mediumwave stations, which picked it up and relayed it.

The Radio Australia shortwave transmitters in Darwin, which had come on the air in , were also knocked out, and returned to limited service only in Some 71 people died in Cyclone Tracy. It operated almost exclusively on shortwave, and there were five language services: Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian. For a long time, jamming of RFE by Soviet bloc countries was intense.

In the higher bands, such as 16 and 19 meters, you would move from jammer to jammer as you tuned across the band. There were, however, some periods when jamming was suspended, usually in connection with detente or some other event that reduced east-west tensions. RFE would also broadcast an occasional English program , such as the one we have posted from in the RFE Czech service "You are listening to a Czechoslovakian samizdat commentary on the Czechoslovakian service of Radio Free Europe".

The programs were prepared in California. KYOI was not a commercial success--the boom in Japanese shortwave listening had already passed. This was an interesting event, as powerhouse WWCR, which used the frequency at the same time, agreed to clear the chanel for a half hour so that AWR could be heard on May 3 and again on May Radio Metropolis was a short-lived private station. Formal inauguration was on Christmas Day.

Radio Minurca had been on FM for about four months when it commenced use of this 20 kw. It left the air on February 1, They were a special connection between station and listener where the station told the listener explicitly that it wanted to hear how its signal was doing. Here are four of these tests from times past. This includes the announcement of the drawing [] where they were offering a Peugot won by someone from Ivory Coast QSL.

January 15, , UTC. To get the most from these recordings, boost the treble on your equalizer QSL. Here are some interesting clandestine stations of the day heard by him and some other DXers. They are all from circa Here are audio clips of 13 Chilean stations. The numbers in brackets are the ID locations on the clips. Agricultura , Santiago, kHz. Calama , , [, ]; 3 R.

Colo Colo , Santiago, utility station pickup , [, ]; 4 R. Cooperativa de Santiago , , [, , , , , ]; 5 R. Esperanza , Temuco, Mineria , Santiago, , [, , ]; 7 R.

Nacional del Chile , Santiago, , []; 8 R. Portales , Santiago, , []; 10 R. Santa Maria , Coihaique, , []; 11 R. Years later the practice continued on a reduced basis, usually as part of a major DX contest. The club arranged a special half-hour shortwave broadcast from Radio Syd, Banjul, Gambia, a station not normally on shortwave. Radio Syd had a long history, having operated for years as an offshore mediumwave pirate in Europe.

In it relocated to Gambia and went ashore. Although information on the transmission was distributed only to contestants, word got out to others a few days in advance of the transmission.

Reports were to be sent to the club, which printed and filled out the QSLs and then dispatched them to Gambia for mailing. Some reports were received. Here is a recording of the last 11 minutes of the broadcast , as heard in Massachusetts, including English IDs at , , and , plus a file containing the "official" QSL and also a letter received directly from the station.

There are six recordings, one from 1 R. These were the days of glasnost and perestroika, and I doubt that anything like this had ever gone out over Radio Moscow before.

Dominican Republic I - In there were 20 shortwave stations broadcasting from the Dominican Republic. Today there are none. Here are some recordings of Dominican Republic stations of the past, specifically these all in Santo Domingo except where indicated; numbers in parens. It suffered a serious fire in , and if it is still on the air at all it would likely be FM only. Here are some graphics and two songs from an LP record produced by ELWA and issued in what appears to be the early s.

You will find the album jacket, front and back, which depicts a more peaceful time in Liberia; the labels on the record, and two songs: "Give the Winds A Mighty Voice" the melody used as the ELWA tuning signal , and a Yoruba Chorus selection called "Sounds of Africa," narrated by station staff member Joseph Gbadyu.

In its heyday, ELWA had a North America service and was widely heard on many higher frequencies in addition to its final shortwave channel of kc. This record brings back fond memories of a friendly shortwave voice from the past. One of the first of the pirates was WFAT. Some of these stations were fairly widely heard, and their mastery of telephone loop technology permitted them to take listener phone calls while on the air.

They provided early encouragement for the development of community-oriented broadcast band and FM pirate radio. It is a minute recording; stick with it, the audio improves. WGEO operated with kw. The VOA stateside stations continued to announce their own call letters and their corporate parentage long after that, however.

You can click on the "play button" for each label to hear the audio from that record. In general they are short announcements, in English except where otherwise noted, with the same announcement repeated in multiple tracks on the same side of the record. The exact dates of most of the recordings is unclear. In the How to Listen to the World p. The stations were grouped on the tape alphabetically, by continent, with a brief introduction before each clip.

Here are two separate mp3 files Side 1 and Side 2 of the tape. Chinchaycocha , Junin, , []; 2 R. Cutervo , , [, and ]; 3 R. Libertad de Trujillo , , []; 4 R. Onda Popular , Bambamarca, , []; 5 R.

Pucallpa , , []; 7 R. San Juan de Chota , , []: and 8 R. Santa Rosa , Lima, , []. Here are some recordings of Peruvian stations from the s and s, usually during the morning hours following sign on IDs at :xx : The stations are: 1 R. America , Lima, kHz. Atlantida , Iquitos, , [ and ]; 3 R. La Cronica , Lima, , [ and ]; 5 R.

Los Andes , Huamachuco, , [, and ]; 6 R. La Voz del Altiplano , Puno, , []; and 7 R. Moyobamba , , []. Some copies were also available at various DX gatherings. Honduras - This time we visit Honduras, and present some station recordings, mainly from the years to In those years, unlike now, Honduras had many stations on the air. They were commercial or religious stations, mainly on the 49 and 60 meter bands, and typically signing on around UTC, when east coast reception was the best.

Brazil III - These are 90 meter band stations. Educadora , Uberlandia, , , IDs at and ; 3 R. Iguatemi , Osasco, , , ID at ; 4 R. Tamandare , Recife, , , ID at ; and 6 R. Tapuyo , Mossoro, , , ID at Brazil II - These are 60 meter band stations heard between and , and believed now all off shortwave. Henrik observes that on November 15 of that year, all the programs of R.

Soc Feira de Santana were dedicated to their foreign listeners, including himself. The speed is a bit slow, but if you download the file and save it, and set Windows Media Player to "fast," it sounds close to normal. Thanks, Henrik. Brazil I - Here are some recordings of Brazilian stations from the s and s. For each one we have indicated the place :XX where the station name is heard. The stations are: R. Universo , Curitiba, kHz. Bandeirantes , Sao Paulo, , ; R. Marumby , Florianopolis, ; R.

Rio Mar , Manaus, , ; R. Tupi , Sao Paulo, , ; R. Cultura de Porto Alegre , , , ; R. Record , Sao Paulo, ; and R. Jornal do Comercio , Recife, , Thanks again, Mike.

We are posting some nice recordings made by Mike Csontos of Lima, New York during the years His listening post was near Schenectady, New York, and he was using a foot longwire antenna. These recordings bring back some great memories. Most of these were made in the s, which doesn't seem that long ago, except that all of them, and nearly all the other Colombian stations that once populated the 60 and 49 meter bands, are now long gone from SW.

Bucaramanga , kHz. Guatapuri , Valledupar, kHz. Mira , Tamuco, kHz. Sutatenza , Bogota, kHz. Also in the group is a more recent recording, Ecos del Orinoco , Puerto Carreno, testing on kHz. Did anyone ever QSL them? Venezuela I - Here are some recordings of Venezuelan shortwave stations made in the s. They are: La Voz del Tigre , kHz. Maracaibo , kHz. Shortwave Stations - Here are some recordings of some of the U. Most were made while the stations were still testing. Clandestine Stations I - If there was a "golden age" of DXing clandestine stations for North American listeners, it began in the late s when numerous stations opposed to the governments in Nicaragua, Cuba, and El Salvador took to the air.

Most operated in and around the 40 meter ham band and suffered interference accordingly. Here are some that may bring back memories. From Cuba-- R. Abdala , kHz.

Libertad Cubana , kHz. Sandino , kHz. Added: A recording of R. Here is a recording of the last mailbag show, aired on December 28, Citadelle, kHz, ; from El Salvador, R.

Belize, kHz, Along with the audio clips are QSLs for the stations heard during that period. The "Tupamaros" - Here are 2 historic audio clips recorded by Horacio Nigro of radio broadcasts of the "Tupamaros" - "Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional," a subversive leftist group that flourished in Uruguay in the s and 70s. Nicaragua - Some recordings from Nicaraguan stations no longer on shortwave. Here is the station's recording along with Jerry's QSL of the reception. Radio Free America was Dr.

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