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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive — Technology
The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive is a podcast that contains off-air recordings from the shortwaves. These recordings represent the wide variety of stations found on the shortwave, long wave and medium wave radio spectrums (30-30,000 kHz)

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Radio Canada International (SWL Digest with Ian McFarland): April 26, 1986 Dec 18, 2025
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View from the roof of the RCI Sackville, New Brunswick Transmitting Station (Photo: Thomas Witherspoon)

Many thanks to SRAA contributor William Parmley, who found several cassette tapes with off-air recordings he made in the 1980s. Here are Bill’s notes for this recording:
SWL Digest on Radio Canada International with Ian McFarland, April 26, 1986, plus an excerpt from the same program on the next day, April 27, 1986. Includes a brief telephone interview with me. (40:57)
Radio Canada International (SWL Digest): April 26, 1986 William Parmley Download

BBC World Service (Giotto Space Probe): March 13, 1986 Dec 11, 2025
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An image of the Giotto spacecraft during construction (Source: ESA)

Many thanks to SRAA contributor William Parmley, who found several cassette tapes with off-air recordings he made in the 1980s. Here are Bill’s notes for this recording:
BBC transmission live during the encounter of the Giotto space probe with Haley’s Comet, March 13, 1986. (43:45)

Comet Halley at Giotto spacecraft's closest approach (Source: ESA)

BBC World Service (Giotto Space Probe): March 13, 1986 William Parmley Download

BBC World Service (Giotto Space Probe): March 13, 1986 Dec 11, 2025
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An image of the Giotto spacecraft during construction (Source: ESA)

Many thanks to SRAA contributor William Parmley, who found several cassette tapes with off-air recordings he made in the 1980s. Here are Bill’s notes for this recording:
BBC transmission live during the encounter of the Giotto space probe with Haley’s Comet, March 13, 1986. (43:45)

Comet Halley at Giotto spacecraft's closest approach (Source: ESA)

BBC World Service (Giotto Space Probe): March 13, 1986 William Parmley Download

Radio Macapa Brasil: Circa Late 1980s Dec 04, 2025
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor David Goren, who shares the following recording and notes.
This recording captures Radio Macapá, Brazil, clearly identified several times on the air. David discovered it on a cassette tape.
While the exact date is uncertain, David believes it could be from 1988, though he notes he was still recording to cassette into the early 2000s. The absence of CODAR interference—common on the bands starting in the early 1990s—suggests the recording likely predates that period.
Though not as unusual as some of David’s other finds, this recording remains a fine example of Brazilian shortwave broadcasting and a valuable slice of radio history. Enjoy and feel free to comment with any other details that may help date this recording.
Radio Macapa Brasil: Circa Late 1980s David Goren Download

Radio Australia: September 12, 1970 Nov 27, 2025
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, who shares the following recording and notes from his excellent website Inches Per Second:
Somewhere along the line I managed to acquire a whole bunch of someone's tapes of Australian shortwave broadcasts from the 1960's and 1970's. My un-listened-to tapes in my basement have gotten jumbled around several times over the years, so a lot of collections which were once stacked all in one place are now scattered amongst the stacks down there. And so it is that this week, I found yet another tape of Australian shortwave recordings. The recordings only include the day of the week and the date, not the year, but based on those days and dates, and the contents of the broadcasts, I am surmising the first of these to be from September of 1968 and the other to be from nearly exactly two years later.
The 1970 tape [included here] is considerably clearer in sound quality [than the 1968 recording posted last week].
Radio Australia: September 12, 1970 Bob Purse Download

Radio Australia: September 23, 1968 Nov 20, 2025
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, who shares the following recording and notes from his excellent website Inches Per Second:
Somewhere along the line I managed to acquire a whole bunch of someone's tapes of Australian shortwave broadcasts from the 1960's and 1970's. My un-listened-to tapes in my basement have gotten jumbled around several times over the years, so a lot of collections which were once stacked all in one place are now scattered amongst the stacks down there. And so it is that this week, I found yet another tape of Australian shortwave recordings. The recordings only include the day of the week and the date, not the year, but based on those days and dates, and the contents of the broadcasts, I am surmising the first of these to be from September of 1968 and the other to be from nearly exactly two years later.
The 1968 recording starts off difficult to hear and grows progressively worse - this is not an easy to listen to tape - such are the vagaries of listening to short wave broadcasts. The 1970 tape is considerably clearer in sound quality.
Radio Australia: September 23, 1968 Bob Purse Download

BBC World Service Annual Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast: June 21, 2025 Nov 17, 2025
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HMCS margaret Brooke off rothera station during the canadian antarctic science research expedition on March 15, 2025 (Courtesy of Dr. kevin wilcox)

A live, off-air, half-hour recording of the BBC World Service special Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 21 June 2025 beginning at 21:30 UTC.
The broadcast, hosted by Cerys Matthews and which celebrated the 70th anniversary of the first BBC broadcast to Antarctica, featured messages and music for the 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 was a message from Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of BAS, who highlighted the construction of the Discovery Building at Rothera, and a very special message from King Charles III, a first for a monarch, highlighting climate change. He said "Each observation, measurement and calculation you undertake adds to the world's understanding of the Earth's fragile systems."
The recording is of the transmission on 12065 kHz from the BBC's Woofferton, England, transmitting station. The broadcast was received by the Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a "Mini-Whip" antenna in AM synchronous mode with 5.08 kHz RF filtering. Reception was quite good with little noise or fading and good signal strength. The additional parallel frequencies of 5960 kHz from Al'Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates, and 9575 kHz from Ascension were heard but not as well as 12065 kHz.
BBC World Service Annual Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast: June 21, 2025 Richard Langley Download

All India Radio: August 20, 2025 Nov 13, 2025
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor Carlos Latuff, who shares the following field recording of All India Radio on 9620 kHz made on August 20, 2025 at 19:34 UTC in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
All India Radio: August 20, 2025 Carlos Latuff Download

Voice of Korea: August 29, 2025 Nov 06, 2025
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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.
Voice of Korea: August 29, 2025 Paul Walker Download

Radio Gjirokaster: January 1988 Oct 30, 2025
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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
Radio Gjirokaster: January 1988 David Goren Download

Radio Gjirokaster: January 1988 Oct 30, 2025
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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
Radio Gjirokaster: January 1988 David Goren Download

Voice of Vietnam (French Language Service--80th Anniversary): September 7, 2025 Oct 23, 2025
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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:
Voice of Vietnam (French Language Service--80th Anniversary): September 7, 2025 Carlos Latuff Download

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