I'm now 69 years old. I started SWL DXing at age 11 back in the mid-60s. Then caught the ham radio bug in high school. Once of my plans was to return to some serious SWLing in retirement. Sorry to discover that nothing is more certain than change. Those ionospheric fading signals are music to my ears and fill my heart with joy. 73 . . .
My Gosh, your words seem have come from me! May I use them: 'Those ionospheric fadind signals are like music to my ears and fill my heart with joy'. Exactly how I feel. You said it all. Congrats!
I am going to upload my video of a radio jungle 😂 n the far end of the Long wave take note let me know what it is I last heard it in 1978 I think it is a German station
Those certainly were the days. Valves glowing in my Cossor broadcast receiver, while I tuned around the SW band, avidly listening to the many broadcast stations. I remember some of these ID tunes, so sad those wonderful times have long since past. Thanks for putting this video together, happy memories!
@@dxermanto Now that I'm retired i would love to get back into the hobby. But unfortunately the hobby hardly exists anymore. I still listen, but there is so little remaining.
It's funny, I got my first shortwave radio when I was in 4th grade. A simple AM only from Sears. It was magical to be able to receive stations from all over the world! I spent the first week in my bedroom, staying up late with an earphone, so I didn't bother my brother with whom I shared a bedroom. Once my parents learned that I was listening to Moscow and Havana, They were concerned. This was, of course at the height of the Cold war. I was banished to our cold, unfinished basement, my parents thought I wouldn't brave the cold, dark and dank basement. I often donned gloves and a jacket to listen to my beloved shortwave radio!
I started dxing when I was 10 years old in 1987 my grandfather gave me his old Zenith transoceanic D7000 and I would listen to these interval signals with amazement. They were hauntingly wonderful and they will be in my head for all time as others have expressed its sadly reminds me of a time that is gone forever but the memories are wonderful. I remember all my logs a notebook paper and typing out reception reports to get QSLs and station schedules.. thank you very much for this video
Thanks for bringing back so many memories. It’s good to know that so many people around the world still recall such vivid recollections of sounds from years ago.
They used to have things like Essay Competitions, first prize a week in the wonderful communist city of Prague. (And there was a joke that the second prize was two weeks ...)
This almost brings a tear to my eye remembering my teenage mind being expanded to the world out there through SWL. I switched on a short wave radio while ago and nothing, just pretty much empty air.
This is the reason why some SW stations shut their service. Some remain in AM frequencies, some shut to sell their spectrums, some shut by the law of the government, and some shut by lack of funds. Only Chinese SW remains in Asia. In the Philippines, a Christian organization Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) stopped two-thirds of its SW services, leaving DZH-6 (6+ MHz) as the only SW station transmitted by 2 towers in Bocaue, Bulacan and Iba, Zambales. FEBC's National Shortwave Service DZB-2 shut around 80s due to the birth of other stations, such as DYVS-AM in Bacolod, DXAS-AM in Zamboanga City, DXFE-AM in Davao City, etc. Meanwhile, some SW masts were resided in Concepcion, Tarlac as to be broadcasted for the Marine broadcasts of the Philippine Navy (with ownership of Voice of America and Radio Philippines). In Obando, Bulacan, Radio Veritas, a Catholic-based organization owned by the Catholic Media Network and the Philippine Archdioceses across the nation (on behalf of the Archdiocese of Manila, who owns the Catholic Media Network and the one who has its responsibility to take care of Radio Veritas' programming), broadcasts its SW service in a mast that holds DZXL-AM and DZRV-AM. Among these SW stations, others had their SW services reached in the Philippines. Mostly are Chinese, mashing with BBC World Radio and others (relays their signals in Concepcion, Tarlac). I had discovered Radio Taiwan International on 1375 KHz, then additional broadcasts of RTI on 700 KHz. On SW2, BBC World Radio mashed FEBC in 9.33 MHz, then sliding to .39 that RTI evens locked all freqs. Luckily, PBS remains free in 15.00+ MHz.
Grahame Manns There’s still a lot to hear... utility stations, Radio National in Amazonia, BBC still on Ascension Island, African Pathways Radio. Just have to look and listen to try to find them. Not to mention Radio New Zealand Pacific.
I'm 38 years-old, when I was 5, I used to stay every day, half an hour or more with my father, in an early hour, searching and listening to shortwave stations, it was a great moment.
I remember I heard the F.E.B.A Seychelles interval signal several times in the 80's but I was never able to identify it back then. Thanks for this video!
Some of the very best times of my life - using my Hammarlund Super Pro on a cold winter night to pull in and identify signals by frequency and language from all over the world. I owned all of the best receivers but the Super Pro outperformed them all. Very sad to hear almost nothing but static now. So thankful for those times but I wish I could share the experience with my grandchildren.
Brings back good memories. Thanks for posting it. As a monitoring station, WYFR would send me cassette tapes of the programs that I monitored. I had dozens of Harold Camping tapes... I used a Realistic DX-100 and kept my log (via a TI 99/4A) in a BASIC program that I wrote myself, with a Panasonic cassette recorder for storage (pretty high-tech for a 15 year-old).
Thanks for sharing all these nice warming memories🙂. I spendt a lot of time in my room in the late 70's and the 80's surfing the shortwave bands and it was always a thrill when you hit the right frequencies and these intervsl signsls aired at that exact moment. I still surf a lot on shortwave bands today with my radio,and the best thing bout it is that now you can buy radioes with SSB,and that makes it all even better👍!
Ja schön...Ich hab auch noch einige Tonbandaufnahmen von einstigen Kurzwellensender... Da kommen echt einige Erinnerungen einsamer Kurwellentage hoch...Gut gemacht...
Long nights back in 1982 sat with a flask of coffee and a Trio R1000,Datong Audio Filter and longwire ATU trying to catch darkness path tropical DX from Latin America here in the UK,and the occasional gem like Radio Tahiti closedown signal.A childhood hobby that got me a 40 year career in telecomms.
I consider myself lucky that one day in 1975, I picked up the family portable transistor radio and started twiddling the station knob. A whole new world opened up in front of me. To increase power of reception I stretched out its telescopic antenna and stuck in the heating radiator in my room. The rest is history. My first Hammarlund receiver followed by FRG-7 and finally Japan Radio 515. I have QSLs from countries that have gone exticnt: Rhodesia to name one.
Does anyone remember the Dxing greats including Victor Gunetellike from Sri Lanka, Dick Speakman from Australia. I can't remember who hosted the Radio Nederland Dx program but it was absolutely the best. Where is everyone?
As far as I remember back then, the man at the mike in Hilversum was Jonathan Marks. He is still around with a critically minded blog with media matters
Thank you dear friend for Uploading various interval signals along with some QSL cards. Fortunately, I too possess some of the QSL you displayed. Old memories hunt me still. Thank you for the efforts.
I remember the one at 0:45 going on for what seemed like (and may have been) hours; I think as well as ident., they were used to retain the frequency. If you listened for a while, it could induce a trance/zen-like state ...
SWL in the 80s and 90s.Still have my QSL collection.Nice to hear the IS signals.Pulled in quite a lot with my little portables, Philips, Grundig etc.Thanks for the upload .Nice collection of QSLs.
Saudades de uma época de ouro nas Ondas Curtas (Short Wave). Como DXista, só posso lembrar às horas que passava na caça de novas rádios internacionais em SW. No meu Philco Transglobe 9 band, com antena externa monofilar, cobrindo dos 11metros até 120 metros. Desde 1976 na escuta. Abraços, desde Rio de Janeiro/Brasil. 73'.
Shortwave radio sounds eerie at night... For some reason, the topics listed below come to mind. 'Cold War' 'Nuclear bomb' 'Spy' 'Secret agency' 'Ideological conflict' 'Other military things'
The distortion just makes it. I have a cassette (!) _some_where of Liliburlero from the BBC - complete with the sort of fades that overloaded the set on the upswing, Morse code interference, and I think even six equal pips at the end. Ah, memories ...
Great memories - early years listening to SW broadcast stations on an old Philco valve radio, then teenage years building valve and transistor regenerative receivers etc. obtained my full amateur licence in the seventies, but now can barely hear anything because of all the crap radiated from VDSL, switch mode power supplies and the like. At least I was privileged to have done these things, but they've gone forever, and it's very sad. The price of progress I suppose..........
Thanks. Like today's social media, we had our share of BS on SW stations in years gone by, but somehow it wasn't as intimating with information as it is today. And while I marvel at modern technologies I think I was able to learn more truth about the world when I had to actively search for it on my radio.
Modern tech is designed to be automated, seamless and featureless. I know this sounds nerdy at best and alarmist at worst, but I truly think modern tech is leading us down a deadly path
I was an engineer on BBC Skelton and Woofferton in the '60s and early '70s. My ageing brain is still full of BBC World Service (and VOA from Woofferton) station ID's, and interval signals! - Talk about "earworms"! I've tracked down many of them thanks to The Web but have failed miserably to find the old BBC "V's" interval that was still being transmitted long after the War! Can anyone out there point me in the right direction to find it and refresh my memory please?
Once the greatest hobby ever... Internet made it too costly to continue. Remember many were running 250KW to 500KW with about 35% efficiency... That's a lot of juice!
Aimee Semple McPherson was the first woman to own a Radio Station and have a Radio License in 1924. Her station was KFSG in Los Angeles, California and the station was housed at the Angelus Temple, the founding church of the Four Square Gospel Church. I don't know if it was ever Shortwave but it did air until the station was closed down in 2004 with the Towers of the brightly lit KFSG call letters removed from the top of the Angelus Temple. The church is still one of the largest in Los Angeles and at the time, the neon lit call letters could be seen from many parts of downtown Los Angeles. Sister Aimee ran the Station at such high frequencies it drowned out the other radio stations in Los Angeles at the time and as a result helped the FCC to set up standard rules governing the strength of a radio station.
Brings back DXing memories with a Panasonic SW receiver in the 70s-80s. Seems like every nation around had an English language broadcast. You missed Radio Tirana, though. Those broadcasts were a real hoot.
Like many here have said, so many memories. Sitting in my parent's basement in the wee hours during the weekend back in the early 80s pulling DX from PNG, Indonesia, Brazil, Tahiti all the while the snow piling up outside on those bitterly cold Minnesota nights. With the headset pressed tightly to my ears, getting just enough audible content through all of the propagation fade-outs, static, QRM from the likes of WYFR or Radio Havana Cuba to put into a reception report that would hopefully result in that elusive QSL from Voice Of Mongolia, SABC domestic broadcasts, or a half a dozen Peruvian stations and so on. Then having to wait weeks and months hoping to see that mailbox stuffed with a package containing that prized QSL and hopefully other goodies like stickers, pennants, etc (the Communist countries really went all out on the propaganda). God only knows what my letter carrier (mailman back then) thought when they put in the mailbox an envelope marked Moscow, Havana or Peking. Good times...
1. Adventist World Radio via Radio Portugal (RDP) 2. BBBE (BBC to Europe, non-English programme) 3. Radio Czechoslovakia (old) 4. Deutsche Welle 5. FEBA Seychelles 6. FEBC Phillipines 7. HCJB Ecuador 8. Radio Thailand 9. The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran 10. Radio Pyongyang 11. KBS World Radio 12. KOL Israel 13. NHK World Radio Japan 14. NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Company 15. Radio Polonia (old) 16. Radio Australia 17. Radio Budapest (old) 18. Radio Canada International 19. ??? 20. Radio France Internationale 21. Radio Netherlands Worlwide 22. Radio Romania International 23. Radio RSA 24. Radio Sweden (new) 25. Radio Slovakia International 26. Radio Peking 27. Voice of Turkey 28. Radio Tashkent 29. Radio Pyongyang 30. Vatican Radio 31. Radio Taiwan International 32. Swiss Radio International 33. ??? 34. Voice of Indonesia 35. Voice of America 36. WYFR aka Family Radio 37. ??? 38. Voice of Mongolia 39. China Radio International aka China National Radio
it's still in use in 2024. at 5pm romanian time on radio romania actualitati / international / cultural / muzical / antena satelor(rip antena satelor 1991 ? - 2024)
Well done. Wish I had saved my recordings. Indeed those late nights and early mornings to catch a rare signal were such a thrill as was climbing all over the house to build the biggest antenna possible. I feel a loss for my children!
The first one ( Adventist World Radio ) is still broadcasting, but doesn't play this interval signal. hope they decide to transmit this nice song again at the beginning of their broadcasting
Although I cannot imagine that Radio Vaticana's interval signal was based on a hymn which is sung in some sacred events like Papal inagurations. If I may recall, "Christus Vincit" is the title of that melody.
Hi, I also searched in the mid 80s on my short wave radio for new stations. There was a strain what did only send numbers in German. I remember the woman always said FÜNEF instead of FÜNF. Sadly,DEUTSCHE WELLE stored airing in German but caring on in SWAHILY. Very annoying! Today I am happy to listen sometimes to BBC AFRICAN SERVICES when u am in Botswana in the road to EswatinI from Namibia. Thanks for the memories!
What vintage was the Radio RSA clip? I listened to it a lot in the early to mid 70s and remember a short tune played on a guitar. The two did have those chirping birds in common, though!
On the far end of the Long wave there I recall in 1977 a beautiful jingle from a German station past radio 2 old frequency wonder if it is still on air
This is excellent. Thank you very much for sharing. can you let me know how i can download a specific intervl signal and make it the alarm / sound on my smart phone?
I remember Radio Austrailia's English service would come on at 3am eastern time. I used to tape the broadcast using a timer. Ah the good ole days.
I'm now 69 years old. I started SWL DXing at age 11 back in the mid-60s. Then caught the ham radio bug in high school. Once of my plans was to return to some serious SWLing in retirement. Sorry to discover that nothing is more certain than change. Those ionospheric fading signals are music to my ears and fill my heart with joy. 73 . . .
Thanks for sharing Nostalgic times
Same here.
Same.
My Gosh, your words seem have come from me! May I use them: 'Those ionospheric fadind signals are like music to my ears and fill my heart with joy'. Exactly how I feel. You said it all. Congrats!
Very nostalgic feelings !!! 😍
Instantly transported back to a time when there was magic in the world and all you needed was a radio, long wire and time to find it
Getting nostalgic
Brings back so many memories. Darn internet messed up a beautiful hobby.
+Svetlana Rodriguez
Yes it's our nostalgia and reminds our Golden days, thanks for watching.
I miss it so much, such a strangely romantic sound.
Yes
I am going to upload my video of a radio jungle 😂 n the far end of the Long wave take note let me know what it is I last heard it in 1978 I think it is a German station
It will be a little later in the evening when I will play that jingle on my keyboard
Those certainly were the days. Valves glowing in my Cossor broadcast receiver, while I tuned around the SW band, avidly listening to the many broadcast stations. I remember some of these ID tunes, so sad those wonderful times have long since past. Thanks for putting this video together, happy memories!
Feeling nostalgic, thanks for sharing your cool compliments, 73's
So many wonderful memories . Long winter nights in a basement room listening to the world. Thanks for sharing.
yeah, miss all time those great days and tunes!!!
@@dxermanto Now that I'm retired i would love to get back into the hobby. But unfortunately the hobby hardly exists anymore. I still listen, but there is so little remaining.
All gone now 😢😢
It's funny, I got my first shortwave radio when I was in 4th grade. A simple AM only from Sears. It was magical to be able to receive stations from all over the world! I spent the first week in my bedroom, staying up late with an earphone, so I didn't bother my brother with whom I shared a bedroom.
Once my parents learned that I was listening to Moscow and Havana, They were concerned. This was, of course at the height of the Cold war. I was banished to our cold, unfinished basement, my parents thought I wouldn't brave the cold, dark and dank basement. I often donned gloves and a jacket to listen to my beloved shortwave radio!
Thanks for your Golden memories 💛 ✨️
Radio Deutsche Wella and RSA were the best memories of me waking up at 4am and 5am just to listen to their indent time signals.
Great memories indeed!!!
I started dxing when I was 10 years old in 1987 my grandfather gave me his old Zenith transoceanic D7000 and I would listen to these interval signals with amazement. They were hauntingly wonderful and they will be in my head for all time as others have expressed its sadly reminds me of a time that is gone forever but the memories are wonderful. I remember all my logs a notebook paper and typing out reception reports to get QSLs and station schedules.. thank you very much for this video
Same about me I have started early in 1987, Thanks for your feedback.
Same
@@dxermanto I started in 1976
Thanks for bringing back so many memories. It’s good to know that so many people
around the world still recall such vivid recollections of sounds from years ago.
Thanks for watching and writing good nostalgic feelings
I never heard of shortwave radio listening before (20 yrs old), now I know why it's such an interesting hobby 👍
Yes still am a fan of sw hobby
Yes still am a fan of sw hobby
Do you have sw on your radio?
@@gorankoilic6571 No
Same here.
saturday nights surfing the world and those elusive catches, got my letter read on radio Prague....great hobby
Thanks fellow DX er
They used to have things like Essay Competitions, first prize a week in the wonderful communist city of Prague. (And there was a joke that the second prize was two weeks ...)
This almost brings a tear to my eye remembering my teenage mind being expanded to the world out there through SWL. I switched on a short wave radio while ago and nothing, just pretty much empty air.
It's true, a few Chinese stations persists in sw, most of popular stations stopped broadcasting Decades ago.
This is the reason why some SW stations shut their service. Some remain in AM frequencies, some shut to sell their spectrums, some shut by the law of the government, and some shut by lack of funds. Only Chinese SW remains in Asia.
In the Philippines, a Christian organization Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) stopped two-thirds of its SW services, leaving DZH-6 (6+ MHz) as the only SW station transmitted by 2 towers in Bocaue, Bulacan and Iba, Zambales. FEBC's National Shortwave Service DZB-2 shut around 80s due to the birth of other stations, such as DYVS-AM in Bacolod, DXAS-AM in Zamboanga City, DXFE-AM in Davao City, etc. Meanwhile, some SW masts were resided in Concepcion, Tarlac as to be broadcasted for the Marine broadcasts of the Philippine Navy (with ownership of Voice of America and Radio Philippines). In Obando, Bulacan, Radio Veritas, a Catholic-based organization owned by the Catholic Media Network and the Philippine Archdioceses across the nation (on behalf of the Archdiocese of Manila, who owns the Catholic Media Network and the one who has its responsibility to take care of Radio Veritas' programming), broadcasts its SW service in a mast that holds DZXL-AM and DZRV-AM. Among these SW stations, others had their SW services reached in the Philippines. Mostly are Chinese, mashing with BBC World Radio and others (relays their signals in Concepcion, Tarlac). I had discovered Radio Taiwan International on 1375 KHz, then additional broadcasts of RTI on 700 KHz. On SW2, BBC World Radio mashed FEBC in 9.33 MHz, then sliding to .39 that RTI evens locked all freqs. Luckily, PBS remains free in 15.00+ MHz.
Indeed, my Icom ICF sits silently in my room as a momento from the past!
Grahame Manns There’s still a lot to hear... utility stations, Radio National in Amazonia, BBC still on Ascension Island, African Pathways Radio. Just have to look and listen to try to find them. Not to mention Radio New Zealand Pacific.
Stations can still be heard in Europe. Listen online via the Univ Twente SDR.
I'm 38 years-old, when I was 5, I used to stay every day, half an hour or more with my father, in an early hour, searching and listening to shortwave stations, it was a great moment.
Great memories
I remember I heard the F.E.B.A Seychelles interval signal several times in the 80's but I was never able to identify it back then. Thanks for this video!
Appreciate your feedback, 73's
FEBA broadcast in a very large number of languages. They did have an English service but your chances of getting an English identification were slim.
Some of the very best times of my life - using my Hammarlund Super Pro on a cold winter night to pull in and identify signals by frequency and language from all over the world. I owned all of the best receivers but the Super Pro outperformed them all. Very sad to hear almost nothing but static now. So thankful for those times but I wish I could share the experience with my grandchildren.
Really missing the old days. when I used to listen to these singature tunes.
Me too
Brings back good memories. Thanks for posting it.
As a monitoring station, WYFR would send me cassette tapes of the programs that I monitored. I had dozens of Harold Camping tapes...
I used a Realistic DX-100 and kept my log (via a TI 99/4A) in a BASIC program that I wrote myself, with a Panasonic cassette recorder for storage (pretty high-tech for a 15 year-old).
Yes, very nostalgic feelings
Ah yes! The DX100 was my first receiver with BFO. I still have two of them in mint condition. Hope you are well.
I used to listen to all of them every day when I was very young. Collect qsl as well, a huge collection.
Me too
The Radio Sweden jingle is haunting beyond words
+Tomorrow We Live
Hmm
The Radio Sweden jingle is at 7:47, for quick reference for those looking for it :)
@@maxzines5759 Thank you
Yes, it was unmistakable and was the sound of those northern winters.
Thanks for sharing all these nice warming memories🙂. I spendt a lot of time in my room in the late 70's and the 80's surfing the shortwave bands and it was always a thrill when you hit the right frequencies and these intervsl signsls aired at that exact moment. I still surf a lot on shortwave bands today with my radio,and the best thing bout it is that now you can buy radioes with SSB,and that makes it all even better👍!
I miss that too much.
I was addicted to radio.
Yes, those were golden memories
Me too. Listening to them, dreaming going abroad, that's what I did. They helped me to know the languages and the countries.
Ja schön...Ich hab auch noch einige Tonbandaufnahmen von einstigen Kurzwellensender... Da kommen echt einige Erinnerungen einsamer Kurwellentage hoch...Gut gemacht...
Thanks dear dxer
Thank you for sharing,remembering those days when I was student
Yes that's great and nostalgic Times
Long nights back in 1982 sat with a flask of coffee and a Trio R1000,Datong Audio Filter and longwire ATU trying to catch darkness path tropical DX from Latin America here in the UK,and the occasional gem like Radio Tahiti closedown signal.A childhood hobby that got me a 40 year career in telecomms.
What great memories, I did dxing from 1975, when the Cold War, was at it's height! Great times!
Feel nostalgic, thanks for watching
I used to find these repetitive signals hypnotic.
Great to hear these after all this time. SW was a great hobby
Yes it was!
I recognise quite a few of these I picked up during the 90's - thankyou so much for putting this video together.
Thanks a lot for your time
I miss them all so much...
Me too
I consider myself lucky that one day in 1975, I picked up the family portable transistor radio and started twiddling the station knob. A whole new world opened up in front of me. To increase power of reception I stretched out its telescopic antenna and stuck in the heating radiator in my room. The rest is history. My first Hammarlund receiver followed by FRG-7 and finally Japan Radio 515. I have QSLs from countries that have gone exticnt: Rhodesia to name one.
thanks for sharing your memory regarding dxing hobby and watching my video. please watch my other videos on dxing and stay with me...
Does anyone remember the Dxing greats including Victor Gunetellike from Sri Lanka, Dick Speakman from Australia. I can't remember who hosted the Radio Nederland Dx program but it was absolutely the best. Where is everyone?
As far as I remember back then, the man at the mike in Hilversum was Jonathan Marks. He is still around with a critically minded blog with media matters
Thank you dear friend for Uploading various interval signals along with some QSL cards. Fortunately, I too possess some of the QSL you displayed. Old memories hunt me still. Thank you for the efforts.
Highly appreciated your feedback 😊
I remember hearing the second tone in the late 1980s so thank you ive been looking for this ages !
Still I listen shortwave in my old transistor but English transmission is nowhere except a few one, love from India
That's really hurt us
Try WBCQ in Maine.
I remember the one at 0:45 going on for what seemed like (and may have been) hours; I think as well as ident., they were used to retain the frequency. If you listened for a while, it could induce a trance/zen-like state ...
Thank you so much, happy dxing
Intense nostagia. Thank you for posting these.
Welcome dxer
SWL in the 80s and 90s.Still have my QSL collection.Nice to hear the IS signals.Pulled in quite a lot with my little portables, Philips, Grundig etc.Thanks for the upload .Nice collection of QSLs.
Thanks dear dxer
Nice bit of history with a lot of memories for those who listened. Excellent upload, 73's Lee.
thanks for your compliments
Thank you for sharing. I remember hearing many of these from receiving them while DXing when I was a kid.
+Michael Lewis
Thanks for watching, yes that's why I have shared this video. 73's
i also was a dx-er in late 80s-start of 90's and also keep a thick pile of QSL cards in a distant dusty drawer )
Thanks for sharing your story 😊
what good memories listenig these interval signals
Our nostalgia
Saudades de uma época de ouro nas Ondas Curtas (Short Wave). Como DXista, só posso lembrar às horas que passava na caça de novas rádios internacionais em SW. No meu Philco Transglobe 9 band, com antena externa monofilar, cobrindo dos 11metros até 120 metros. Desde 1976 na escuta. Abraços, desde Rio de Janeiro/Brasil. 73'.
Love from Bangladesh, 73's
Shortwave radio sounds eerie at night... For some reason, the topics listed below come to mind.
'Cold War' 'Nuclear bomb' 'Spy' 'Secret agency' 'Ideological conflict' 'Other military things'
Numbers Stations in the middle of the night.😊.Yes was a bit unsettling.
R.I.P. Radio Australia. 😔😔😔
Yes that really hurt us
love the lo fi quality-it adds a lot of character. I used to hear a few of these just on a crystal set-lol.
The distortion just makes it. I have a cassette (!) _some_where of Liliburlero from the BBC - complete with the sort of fades that overloaded the set on the upswing, Morse code interference, and I think even six equal pips at the end. Ah, memories ...
Great memories - early years listening to SW broadcast stations on an old Philco valve radio, then teenage years building valve and transistor regenerative receivers etc. obtained my full amateur licence in the seventies, but now can barely hear anything because of all the crap radiated from VDSL, switch mode power supplies and the like. At least I was privileged to have done these things, but they've gone forever, and it's very sad. The price of progress I suppose..........
Thanks for sharing your story 😊
Thanks. Like today's social media, we had our share of BS on SW stations in years gone by, but somehow it wasn't as intimating with information as it is today. And while I marvel at modern technologies I think I was able to learn more truth about the world when I had to actively search for it on my radio.
Modern tech is designed to be automated, seamless and featureless. I know this sounds nerdy at best and alarmist at worst, but I truly think modern tech is leading us down a deadly path
@@EaglehawkMoonfang Indeed.
i think "Laughing kookaburra" gave us the strong impression from Australia 😁
Yes That was my favorite 😍
Dawne czasy kiedy późnym wieczorem słuchałem stacji z całego świata 🙂 ech wspomnienia
Wonderful sound segnal
Thanks for listening
QSL cards collection was a wonderful Hobby
Thanks 😊
brings back some good old memories,really i enjoyed SWL,thanks for sharing
Welcome
I was an engineer on BBC Skelton and Woofferton in the '60s and early '70s. My ageing brain is still full of BBC World Service (and VOA from Woofferton) station ID's, and interval signals! - Talk about "earworms"! I've tracked down many of them thanks to The Web but have failed miserably to find the old BBC "V's" interval that was still being transmitted long after the War! Can anyone out there point me in the right direction to find it and refresh my memory please?
The BBC V signal is at the start of this video: ruclips.net/video/Yhwc-sV7GAE/видео.htmlsi=jghi1xoBKr6U41Pb
Shortwave was fun to listen too back in 1978 1979 1980 1990 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999
Yes still love those golden memories
Oh I remember these well brings back good fond memories thank you for the video
Yeah that's Golden memories
Once the greatest hobby ever... Internet made it too costly to continue. Remember many were running 250KW to 500KW with about 35% efficiency... That's a lot of juice!
Yeap, you said right. Our nostalgic Hobby reminds our Golden times.
Golden days of s.w.when it was full of stations from every corner of the globe
Yes, we miss those days 😢
Aimee Semple McPherson was the first woman to own a Radio Station and have a Radio License in 1924. Her station was KFSG in Los Angeles, California and the station was housed at the Angelus Temple, the founding church of the Four Square Gospel Church.
I don't know if it was ever Shortwave but it did air until the station was closed down in 2004 with the Towers of the brightly lit KFSG call letters removed from the top of the Angelus Temple. The church is still one of the largest in Los Angeles and at the time, the neon lit call letters could be seen from many parts of downtown Los Angeles.
Sister Aimee ran the Station at such high frequencies it drowned out the other radio stations in Los Angeles at the time and as a result helped the FCC to set up standard rules governing the strength of a radio station.
Thanks for your informations, 73's
Brings back DXing memories with a Panasonic SW receiver in the 70s-80s. Seems like every nation around had an English language broadcast. You missed Radio Tirana, though. Those broadcasts were a real hoot.
Thanks for sharing your feedback 😀
Like many here have said, so many memories. Sitting in my parent's basement in the wee hours during the weekend back in the early 80s pulling DX from PNG, Indonesia, Brazil, Tahiti all the while the snow piling up outside on those bitterly cold Minnesota nights. With the headset pressed tightly to my ears, getting just enough audible content through all of the propagation fade-outs, static, QRM from the likes of WYFR or Radio Havana Cuba to put into a reception report that would hopefully result in that elusive QSL from Voice Of Mongolia, SABC domestic broadcasts, or a half a dozen Peruvian stations and so on. Then having to wait weeks and months hoping to see that mailbox stuffed with a package containing that prized QSL and hopefully other goodies like stickers, pennants, etc (the Communist countries really went all out on the propaganda). God only knows what my letter carrier (mailman back then) thought when they put in the mailbox an envelope marked Moscow, Havana or Peking.
Good times...
VOA were the best.Used to get a beautiful calendar,plus a metal keyring once.😊
1. Adventist World Radio via Radio Portugal (RDP)
2. BBBE (BBC to Europe, non-English programme)
3. Radio Czechoslovakia (old)
4. Deutsche Welle
5. FEBA Seychelles
6. FEBC Phillipines
7. HCJB Ecuador
8. Radio Thailand
9. The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran
10. Radio Pyongyang
11. KBS World Radio
12. KOL Israel
13. NHK World Radio Japan
14. NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Company
15. Radio Polonia (old)
16. Radio Australia
17. Radio Budapest (old)
18. Radio Canada International
19. ???
20. Radio France Internationale
21. Radio Netherlands Worlwide
22. Radio Romania International
23. Radio RSA
24. Radio Sweden (new)
25. Radio Slovakia International
26. Radio Peking
27. Voice of Turkey
28. Radio Tashkent
29. Radio Pyongyang
30. Vatican Radio
31. Radio Taiwan International
32. Swiss Radio International
33. ???
34. Voice of Indonesia
35. Voice of America
36. WYFR aka Family Radio
37. ???
38. Voice of Mongolia
39. China Radio International aka China National Radio
Number 19 is Radio Exterior España of the RTVE.
37 is radio UAE
33 is from Croatia
On the eve of Y2K I listened as the time changed in each region.
7:08 Radio Romania International interval signal 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
It's really nostalgic 😢
it's still in use in 2024.
at 5pm romanian time on radio romania actualitati / international / cultural / muzical / antena satelor(rip antena satelor 1991 ? - 2024)
04:47 I heard this interval tunes since 7 yo, now i'm 37
Yes dxer
Rats - the one I'm remembering isn't in you wonderful list... Thanks loads :-)
Thank you so much
Che bello questo video, la cosa bella che mi è capitato per caso, da appassionato non potevo perdermelo. Complimenti👍
Thanks for stopping by, happy dxing
@@dxermanto after one year I still got this viedo, amazing youtube knows my taste
Well done. Wish I had saved my recordings. Indeed those late nights and early mornings to catch a rare signal were such a thrill as was climbing all over the house to build the biggest antenna possible. I feel a loss for my children!
Saludos desde México.Greetings from México.Namste.Shalom.
Thanks a lot dxer
RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL is still on the air
Yes, both sw and internet
Used to be Radio Bucharesti. Remember receiving nice Romanian music records from them
Still using the same interval signal as at 7:16
I am listening to it.
RFI also.
Swell collection! Thank you.
+Christopher Petroff thanks for watching my video.
Great shortwave intro recording, Thanks for sharing
+Canadian Treasure Hunter
THANKS
i like qsl cards collection.
Thanks
thank you for this video!
welcome.
Oh, the flashbacks!!
Yes dxer
I remember when ther wore lots of stations on shortwave
南アフリカ共和国のRADIO RSAのインターバルシグナル、有名なギターと小鳥のやつじゃないんですね
DXing was a Wonderful Art and Hobby
Yes 💯
昔は夜中に短波放送を聞きましたね。今ではインターネットでサンスポット関係なしでFBに出来ます。
But SW Radio 📻 is Great
With many stations now off air the imagination goes back to those early days off radio in its infatcy
HCJB's DX Partyline was a favourite of mine.
Very popular that time
Memories!
I always wondered where the time signal was that you identified as coming from Pula (all I ever seemed to hear was the signal)
The first one ( Adventist World Radio ) is still broadcasting, but doesn't play this interval signal. hope they decide to transmit this nice song again at the beginning of their broadcasting
You are right brother, thanks for watching, please stay with my channel
Although I cannot imagine that Radio Vaticana's interval signal was based on a hymn which is sung in some sacred events like Papal inagurations. If I may recall, "Christus Vincit" is the title of that melody.
Adventist World Radio Is Speaking Korean?
안녕하세요
0:59 I can see (hear?) where the modern DW gets its channel marker.
Hi,
I also searched in the mid 80s on my short wave radio for new stations.
There was a strain what did only send numbers in German.
I remember the woman always said FÜNEF instead of FÜNF.
Sadly,DEUTSCHE WELLE stored airing in German but caring on in SWAHILY.
Very annoying!
Today I am happy to listen sometimes to BBC AFRICAN SERVICES when u am in Botswana in the road to EswatinI from Namibia.
Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for sharing your words, happy dxing 73's
7:08
RRI actually still uses the same interval signal.
greetings from México.
Love from Bangladesh
Cool stuff
Thanks 😊
1:57
For now Radio Thailand use this sound for open stations
(I will paste link of sound at comment)
Yes, you said right
ILove this musical instruments VOA longlive
Thanks for watching.
What is the one at 6:23? It sounds like the "Figaro..." signal I've been trying to find!
What vintage was the Radio RSA clip? I listened to it a lot in the early to mid 70s and remember a short tune played on a guitar. The two did have those chirping birds in common, though!
Radio RSA tune still my fav one
Guao! que bonitos recuerdos!
Thanks for visiting. Please stay with my channel.
I had quite a few of those QSLs.
روعة
Thanks 😊
Saludos desde México.
Saludos desde Nuevo Mexico. Estados Unidos
Greetings From Bangaldesh
On the far end of the Long wave there I recall in 1977 a beautiful jingle from a German station past radio 2 old frequency wonder if it is still on air
Can anyone help with this
Hi,
Maybe it was DEUTSCHE WELLE or DEUTSCHLANDFUNK?
@@dadd3649 Deutschlandfunk used to come on in English daily on MW, so you could be right.(half hour or so I think).RAI from Italy did the same.😊
Only Radio Romania survived in the whole lot 😢
Missing them all
This is excellent. Thank you very much for sharing. can you let me know how i can download a specific intervl signal and make it the alarm / sound on my smart phone?
昔は簡単に海外旅行に行けませんでした。放送聞いて海外に行った気分に。
True
That feeling was amazing! I miss the days when I was a teenager
I'm 58 now... I'm missing those days.
Me too, golden and nostalgic days....