Listened to many of these on a bendix RA10 aircraft receiver with a remote head. Made me quite sad as it reminded me of how old I am... "Greetings, dear listeners from the Peoples Republic of Albania" sitting in the bath on a Saturday night. Simpler times.
I picked up 9560 this morning at 14:50 UTC. It was quite clear. I’m just outside of Kansas City. I usually don’t get anything outside of the US other than Cuba that early in the morning.
Oh wow - UK memories of tuning in to Radio Albania in the 1970s and hearing how awful life was in the west and how great it was in Albania. Tractor production seemed to be the measure of success back in those days. Thanks for posting.
In 1965 I received a Halicrafters S120 radio for my 11th birthday! I was fascinated for hours every day and evening as to what I was hearing, all around the world!⚡📟🎧
When I was stationed in West Germany during the Cold War in the 70s I use to work as a Desk Sergeant in a Military Police Station during the midnight shifts.....and I would alway listen to Cold War short wave stations for Radio Moscow, Albania, and Eastern Europe...fascinating time for listening to short wave radio and hams...missed those nights and late night radio...way before Art Bell...
I loved the interval signals of Radio Sofia Bulgaria, Radio Budapest Hungary,Radio Canada Interntional, Radio Sweden, and the Swiss broadcasting.I sure do miss those days of shortwave radio.
When I was 8 (1992) I took a radio from my grandfather. I remember I was fascinated by the multitude of languages out there. That is how I became a polyglot and a translator ))).
I recognized the call sound from Radio Tirana, Radio Canada International, Voice of America, Radio Netherland International, Deutsche Welle, Vatican Radio, Radio Moscow, Radio Beijing, Radio Sweden, Radio Norway, Radio France International, Kol Israel, RTBF, Voice of Turkey, Swiss Radio International, Africa N°1 Radio Exterior de España. My favourites were VOA, Deutsche Welle, RFI, RCI, RNW (Radio Netherlands) and RTBF and the BBC (not mentioned). Started SWL from 1981 to 1986 when I was in Africa. Fun times. Shortwave radio was our source of information when the marcos dictatorship in the Philippines was overthrown in 1986. I remember, some of our Filipino friends came over to listen to get the latest info.
BTW you can still hear the interval signal from Pyongyang (30:21) in North America on 9435 KHz in the mornings. It may be the last true interval signal broadcast.
Few people are left alive to day who remember the origin of the interval signal. In the early days of shortwave broadcasting, the late 1920s and early 1930s, most listeners were using regenerative receivers, such as the famous National SW-3, which are more difficult and time-consuming to tune than superhets. The interval signal was intended to give listeners a few minutes to touch up their tuning and regeneration, which interacted in most radios. Regeneratives disappeared in the years after World War Two, but the custom of having an interval signal continued until computerized control of broadcasting came in in the '90s. Computerized control has never been made to work reliably; to this day it is unusual to hear the beginnings and ends of programs on shortwave broadcasters that are computer-controlled (almost all of them).
Anyone else find this whole video weirdly relaxing/soothing? Helps that half the interval signals sound like they're coming out of a music box. Sometimes when I can't sleep I like to play this and imagine I'm surfing the shortwaves of 40-50 years ago, something I sadly never got to experience growing up in the 90's/2000's. Thanks for posting.
I'm not sure if I understand your request correctly. It seems like you might be looking for information about a radio broadcast on July 21, 2016, from Radio MiAmigo in German and English to Western Europe (WeEu) on the frequency 11850 kHz from Yerevan Gavar. Radio MiAmigo is a well-known offshore radio station with a history dating back to the 1970s. However, I don't have access to specific historical radio broadcast schedules or recordings from that date, and my knowledge is limited to information available up to January 2022. If you have a specific question or need information related to Radio MiAmigo or a particular aspect of that broadcast, please provide more details, and I'll do my best to assist you.
I started listening to Shortwave in 1972 , I was 10 at the time. My uncle traded for a 1930s giant SW radio and had no where to keep it so my Dad let him keep it at our house. It was great no one used it but me . about a year later he traded it off and I was hart broken but a couple months later he traded for another one and it came to our house also and it was there about a year. My uncle would trade on anything but no more Shortwaves. I still have the hobby today but not my uncle. Thanks for the video.
0:00 KNLS 0:30 Radio Tirana 1:04 Adventist World Radio via Radio Andorra 1:33 Radio Anguilla 1:51 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel 2:15 Radio Yerevan 2:39 BBC Ascension 3:13 Radio Australia 4:04 Radio Baku 4:54 Radio Bangladesh Betar 5:24 Radio Minsk 5:43 Radio Cancao Nova 6:10 Radio Sofia 7:00 China Radio International 7:40 China National Radio 8:28 Radio Havana 8:51 Radio Canada International 9:24 Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation 10:29 Radio Prague Czechoslovakia 10:50 Radio Denmark 11:20 HCJB Ecuador 12:10 Radio Tallin 12:38 Radio Finland 13:08 Radio Tahiti 13:45 Pyrgos Broadcasting Station 14:10 Rhodes 1260 KHz 15:00 Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran 15:40 Radio Riga 15:52 Trans World Radio 16:22 Voice of Mongolia 17:15 Radio Netherlands 17:45 Blue Danube Radio 18:09 Radio Polonia 18:46 Adventist World Radio via Portugal 19:19 Deutsche Welle 19:46 ? 20:14 Radio Vilnius 20:44 Radio Bucharest 21:10 WYFR 21:45 Vatican Radio 22:02 North American Service of Radio Moscow 22:35 Radio Mayak 23:02 Voice of Russia 23:48 Radio Yugoslavia 24:28 Radio Sweden old signal 25:05 Swedish Telecommunications Administration experimental broadcast 26:13 Rado Skopje 27:35 Radiotelevisione Italiana 28:20 All India Radio 29:12 Radio Norway 29:35 Radio Paris 29:50 Radio France International 30:20 Radio Pyongyang 31:21 Kol Israel 31:39 RTBF International 31:59 Radio Veritas Asia 32:29 Radio Kyiv 32:50 Radio Thailand 33:37 Voice of Turkey 34:07 Swiss Radio International 34:37 Trans World Radio Swaziland 35:15 Radio Budapest 36:04 Radio Berlin International 36:40 Deutschlandfunk 37:10 Voice of Indonesia 37:45 Radio Iceland 38:20 Unknown Iraqi broadcaster 38:45 Africa №1 39:25 Radio Exterior de Espana 40:45 Kyrgyz Radio
As a teenager in the early 80s I would tune into Radio Moscow and dream of living in a world that wasn’t dominated by capitalism. I was fortunate to visit the soviet union and Cuba later on. The world would be a better place if the USSR was still there 😔
Heard this tune as a kid when we visited Leningrad. Receiver integrated into the hotel room had preset stations and one of them would play this three times every hour on the hour, or that's how I understood it. One of the melodies that will never fade from my memory, so so nostalgic 😍
