Category: THE SHORTWAVE RADIO AUDIO ARCHIVE

Recording of Radio Europa 24 in Dutch made in Europe on October 31, 2021 broadcasting on 6150 kHz shortwave

Station: Radio Europa 24
Place of reception: Europe
Language: Dutch
Frequency: 6150 kHz shortwave
Date: October 31, 2021
Time: 13.29 UTC
Transmitter location: Datteln, Germany
Transmitter power 0,25 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

Recording of Radio OZ-Viola, July 5, 2020 at 12.40 UTC (shortwave frequency of 5825 kHz)

Station: Radio OZ-Viola
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 5825 kHz shortwave
Date: July 5, 2020
Time: 12.40 UTC
Transmitter location: Denmark
Transmitter power: 0,15 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

Recording of Radio Free Waves Bay, October 24, 2021 at 13.19 UTC (shortwave frequency of 7298 kHz)

Station: Radio Free Waves Bay

Language: Russian
Place of reception: Europe
Frequency: 7298 kHz shortwave
Date: October 24, 2021
Time: 13.19 UTC
Transmitter location: unknown
Transmitter power: unknown
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

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following short recording and translation, along with his artwork above:

Dimtsi Weyane, 17750 kHz, broadcasting in Tigrinya language to Tigray region in Ethiopia, from Issoudun, France.

Region is facing a civil war since November 2020.

Signal received at Catacumba Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 21, 2021, 16h57 (UTC).

This recording was translated my Saba Tsen'at Mah'deromt via Twitter:

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).