The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

The Radio Heritage Foundation is pleased to provide a mirror of this fascinating audio archive site.

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)

We are providing this mirror as a backup service. There are much better descriptions of the recordings in the Archive itself at https://shortwavearchive.com/ and we encourage you to visit and contribute there.

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  • Maritime Radio HLS Seoul Korea: October 31, 1998
    by T Witherspoon on March 14, 2025 at 10:19

    Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Maritime radio HLS Seoul KoreaDate of recording: October 31, 1998Frequency: 8.725 MHzReception location: Coe Hill, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antennaMode: Single Side BandNotes: Maritime radiotelephone station HLS in Seoul, Korea continued to operate in the late 1990’s on shortwave. Instead of a repeating voice mirror, this station played Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” over and over so that the receiving station could tune them in. This recording is from October 31, 1998 at Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada, and the frequency they were using was 8725 kHz upper sideband. My receiver was a Panasonic RF-3100 hooked up to a long wire antenna.The station was identified by Richard “RD” Baker, editor of Communications Confidential, in the January 1999 issue of Popular Communications magazine. In his Reader Mailbag section, he wrote:”Dan Greenall in Ontario, Canada, has been hearing a new (at least to folks in North America) maritime marker on 8725.0 USB: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony “Ode to Joy” is repeated. In trying to track this marker down, we sent the call out over the WUN Club’s listserver. Costas Krallis in Greece, Fabrizio Magrone in Italy. Alex Wellner and Robin Harwood. both in Australia. all became involved. They soon began logging the marker on other maritime frequencies. Eventually, it was noted on 6513, 8725, 8797, 13161, and 17341. Only one station has those frequencies in common: HLS, Seoul Radio. South Korea. The marker was completely IDed within 32 hours!”

  • Radio Erena Dimtse: May 15, 2021
    by T.D. Walker on March 7, 2025 at 22:07

    Many thanks to hb9gce for this recording of Radio Erena Dimtse from 2021:

  • China National Radio 1 (Sign On): January 30, 2023
    by T Witherspoon on February 24, 2025 at 12:04

    KiwiSDR (Photo by Mark Fahey) Many thanks to SRAA contributor Liam Spencer, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: China National Radio 1 The Voice of ChinaDate of recording: January 30, 2023Starting time: 20:24 UTCFrequency: 6.125 MHzReception location: KiwiSDR in JapanReceiver and antenna: Self-made YouLoopNotes: China National Radio signing on with the interval signal and some music. If my sources are correct this sign on only occurs on Mondays. The echo is due to two different transmitters on the same frequency

  • Deutsche Welle (Kigali, Rwanda Relay): Circa 1971
    by T Witherspoon on February 17, 2025 at 13:13

    Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Deutsche Welle, Kigali, Rwanda relay 1971Frequency: 11.965 MHzReception location: Ancaster, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antennaNotes: When this recording was made in 1971, the easiest way to add Rwanda to your “countries heard” totals was to log the Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany) relay in Kigali. The station could be heard quite well here in southern Ontario, Canada even though broadcasts were not directed to eastern North America. My QSL card has them using 11965 kHz, however I am not fluent in German and this recording could possibly have been made on a different frequency. This relay station was closed down in 2015 after 50 years of operation.

  • Radio Veritas Asia (Quezon City, Philippines): September 28, 1999
    by T Witherspoon on February 10, 2025 at 06:32

    Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City, PhilippinesDate of recording: September 28, 1999Starting time: 1200 UTCFrequency: 9.505 MHzReception location: Coe Hill, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Drake SW-8 and a very long wire antennaNotes: Here is Radio Veritas Asia in Quezon City, Philippines as recorded at a DX camp in Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada on September 28, 1999. Part of their interval signal is heard along with a station ID in English. They give their frequency as 9505 kHz and the time as 1200 UTC.

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Earlier Recordings…

An archive of earlier recordings from the Archive can be found by clicking here.