Category: THE SHORTWAVE RADIO AUDIO ARCHIVE

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 1971

Frequency: 4.870 MHz

Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna

Notes: 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, 1973

Notes: 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 International

Date of recording: March 04, 2024

Starting time: 01:40 UTC

Frequency: 7.325 MHz

Reception location: Berthoud, Colorado, USA

Receiver and antenna: Unbranded AM, FM, SW receiver with telescopic antenna

Notes: 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 International

Date of recording: Circa 1993

Starting time: 14 CET

Frequency: 6165 kHz

Reception location: Bergamo, Italy

Receiver and antenna: Multiband Radio Fenner

Notes: 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 Buzzer

Date of recording: August 08, 2025

Starting time: 19:17 UTC

Frequency: 4625 kHz

Your location: Zlin, Czech Republic

Receiver and antenna: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

Mode: Single Side Band

Notes: 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 transmitter

Frequency: 11.935 MHz

Reception location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Receiver and antenna: remote Kiwi SDR

Notes: 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, Ethiopia

April 9, 2025 at 1658 UTC, bad hum or buzz on their signal, received using SDR located in Riyadh, Saudi, Arabia

This 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 transmitter

Date of recording: May 02, 1974

Frequency: 17.785 MHz

Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-150A with long wire antenna

Notes: 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 1936

WRUL (1939–1966)

WNYW (1966–1973)

WYFR (1973-2013)

transmitter moved to Okeechobee, FL in 1977

transmitter purchased by WRMI in December 2013

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.