Radio RSA Shortwave Interval Signal 1977
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Radio RSA: The Voice of South Africa was the international broadcasting service of the Republic of South Africa. It was run by the South African Broadcasting Corporation from its inception on 1 May 1966 until its demise in 1992
An interval signal, or tuning signal, is a characteristic sound or musical phrase used in international broadcasting and by some domestic broadcasters, played before commencement or during breaks in transmission, but most commonly between programmes in different languages. It serves several purposes:
It assists a listener to tune his or her radio to the correct frequency of the station. This is because most older and cheaper radio receivers do not have digital frequency readout.
It informs other stations that the frequency is in use.
It serves as a station identifier even if the language used in the subsequent broadcast is not one the listener understands.
Hat Tip to intervalsignals.net
One of the most exciting dx games/events was when Radio RSA hosted a competition. They announced their programme and freq. Then they said they would go to another band and freq and there they would announce their next move. First it was 250kW, then 100kW and the next at 50kW and then 10. It was like a treasure hunt. I became 1st runner-up and got a beautiful book about S.Africa and a full A4 enlargement of their QSL. What fun we had and the interval signal was the one that was played for each leg of the competition. Glory days of SW. and we are blessed to have experienced and enjoyed those years.💖❤
That must have been interesting and fascinating. I remember this station very well.
Excellent post. Great, great memories❤
One of the most beautiful Interval signals that boomed in...
Thanks for posting this. I worked at Radio RSA from 1982 to 1986 in their frequency planning department. Sometimes I would take part in the DX program. Happy days back then.
I listened from 1978 onwards , i still have a DX card dated 1990 , with the picture of the traffic at night time in Jo`burg
I remember listening to this radio call sign for the first time with my Dad back in 1978...
You have communicated my mind! wawoo! by that time it was only my father with the radio.I remember him tuning it early morning with that signature tunein! it was always wonderful.
Amazing, me too. I remember listening to their program Saturday Night RSA circa 1976..
great memories, I had a QSL card from Radio RSA back in the late 70's. They sent me a program guide for years afterwards. Glad the apartheid regime was overthrown, but I still have fond memories of listening to Radio RSA.
Those were the days of some great SWLing
I heard this beautiful call sign of RSA many years ago....perhaps 1981...one of the sweetest radio signals....
i could intercept the signal from South Asia, so farcaway from South Africa! Feeling nostalgic....
Very sad RSA stopped broadcasting in 1992!
One of the best interval signals.
one of my favorite intervals. i also liked Radio Nederland, Radio Australia and Radio Japan.
Ever listened to Happy Station Show with Tom Meyer on Sundays?
@@smcdonald9991 when i could remember to tune it in.
@@smcdonald9991 I would tune that in whenever I could.
I remember and looked forward to this program back in the day plus dorian and Rocco lets speak affrikaans
I Grew up with This Song it is so cool I heard this 70s and 80s... Radio listerng Will never be The sane
Radio RSA was the first SW broadcast station I ever heard. I'll never forget the interval signal, the birds and the folk guitar tune, and then the programs. I still have the National Geographic map of Southern Africa I used, with which I would look up and ID the various cities and regions they mentioned in their broadcasts. I always heard R. RSA on the 25 meter band, during the late afternoon. Even heard them play a song by the SA rock band Rabbitt, probably in 1977. Thanks for posting this sound clip. I still tune the SW bands from time to time. Ironically, I've heard Southern Africa on 25 meters and 31 meters a couple times recently -- some religious broadcasters transmitting from Madagascar, and a VOA outlet in Botswana. All on a portable, Grundig G2. So even though the past several years have been hard on SW, there still are days where one can hear something. You just have to get lucky, i guess, when the ionosphere is friendly. :-) Peace out to all.
Remember a band called Stingray? Also from RSA.
@@RJDA.Dakota Yes, I saw one of Stingray's albums in a used record store here (probably a compilation album -- that usually happened with overseas acts, especially from Oz or the RSA, and even second tier UK acts) once (the LP was in brand new condition) and bought it. Very good band, although I preferred Rabbitt overall.
@@chriscampbell9191 Stingray has a local connection as well because a local FM station played their songs. Outside of that I heard from them because of an intro on either Radio RSA or Springbok Radio. Springbok was a commercial service on 4810 kHz at one time. It was amazing to hear local broadcast radio from South Africa. 🇿🇦
@@RJDA.Dakota I might have heard Springbok Radio once, but I don't remember clearly if I did or not. I always tried for that, Radio Sonder Grense (?) and other Southern African SW outlets, but never was lucky enough to hear any. Just Radio RSA. Now, I seem to hear VOA out of Botswana frequently enough, and the various stations out of Madagascar.
As for RSA music, mostly I just know about Rabbitt, and Stingray. Thee was a folk singer out of RSA or Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) named Tony Bird whose album I got. And Juluka, of course. I got their single when it was played on local radio here. I never heard those other bands on R. RSA, though... Just Rabbitt..
Since the internet, of course, I've checked out a few RSA bands and artists from that era, as well as later on. A lot of them are quite good.
R. S.A. lo escuché desde los Años 70*.
WOW!!
Those were the days!!!
Brings back good memories of SWLing.
I used to listen to Radio RSA on 25.790 in the early 1970's. Remember it well.
Always used to love listening to 25790 every weekend in the USA mornings. Especially during my winter in 1980s.
Also grew up hearing my dad listen to this in Michigan on the shortwave. Happy days!
I listen to this every Republic Day😢
I used to love picking this up on my shortwave back in the early 1970s. long before there was an internet. I was sorry to see shortwave gradually die off....but then we did gain the internet. Time brings on changes and they're not all bad.
Not all good tends to rob people of their minds
@@davids8449 Yeah, it does to some people. Conspiracy theorists have been around since the dawn of time and shortwave radio had its fair share.
I picked up this beautiful interval signal in the mid 1980's on a budget model Realistic Communications receiver.
@@paulsalazar858 I also had a Realistic DX-150A shortwave radio. Unfortunately I threw it away many years ago when shortwave was dying but now I see online that collectors want these old radios.
@@CaneFu I got rid of after I got a Sony ICF-2010. I still have that one. Mostly listen to Radio Havana Cuba. seems to be the only one left and some Voice of America.
Used to love this interval signal back in the day.
Yes I remember this well, tuning in on my short wave radio ( RCA 88) thanks, thought I would never hear that again
You did well tuning in I well remember trying to tune in myself on the same make of set marvellous day's
Such great memories,tuning in back in 70s radio RSA...in southern NH
It was great
Sooo nostlgic ! Thnx for sharing it..
I heard this station in the 1980's in german language. Especially the Friday DX show called "Kurzwellenreiter".
I used to listen to this radio in Brazil in the 80’s
nice memories of that station, thanks for sharing audio, qsl and publications. Greetings from Mexico 73!
Since I am a fan of the PHILLIPS L4 World Transistor Radio, I used to wake up early in the morning for the 4am and 5am signature calls. Its the bird sound that did it for me.
I remember RSA from the 1960s ! Great memories ! Thank you !
...descubri por los 80 esta emisora era yo swling y radioamateur.(cx3et) RSA tenia un programa en español que yo solia escuchar, ,les mande un report, ellos acusaron recibo y en un programa la locutora me nombra de un swl de san jose en uruguay me saludaban a travez del eter., yo saltaba de contento.,me enviaron una qsl folletos y un mapa de sud africa, los recepcionaba con un radiograbador Pioneer....que buenos tiempos de broadcastings de onda corta....ya no es igual...
It’s been a long time since anybody used the 25 MHz band for SW Broadcast.
There are still broadcasters using the 25 meter band. Overall SW conditions since 2016 have made it hit and miss, however. I've heard religious broadcasters from Madagascar on the 25 meter band recently, so there are still some signals to be heard -- if one tunes in during a 'good' day. Amazonia on 11780 is back on various evenings here in the US, depending on propagation. It was MIA for several years.
@@chriscampbell9191 You are confusing 25 meter band with the 25 Megahertz Band (25.79 MHz in 11 meter band) which even during peak years was lightly used. It was only reliable during peak sunspot years, and mostly north-south paths, which was perfect to broadcast to the African continent from South Africa.
@@wecontrolthevideo Ah, yeah. Your're right. Sorry about that. FWIW, I never heard any broadcasters use the 25 Mhz, 11 Meter SWBC band, even during the Cold War years. It was always dead here. But I live pretty far north (47 degrees N). Same with the 13 meter band. Highest SWBC I heard used by broadcasters was the 16 meter band.
@@chriscampbell9191 Bruce was referring to 25 MHz (11 m) not 25 m. Use of 25 MHz works best when sunspots are at maximum.
@@colinmiller812 I am aware of that, as I commented just above, where I added that I never heard the 25 Mhz band ever used, in my location. 73
British, German and Dutch service on 16 and 13 meter band , in the 70's.
In California I first heard in 1969. On a little portable shortwave radio 📻 .Miss those days!
I remember a great radio signal was on 25790Khz on 11m and 21590khz on 15m every afternoon around 14:00 UTC
Love this opening song Die Very Walt Kitty....Is great....listrned to this on 3mhz MW and 6mhz SW also..on a Multi Band Radio 1970 and 1980s
Ver in die wêreld Kitty
RSA never used MW, That must have been a receiver fault.
日本でも
良く聞こえる
アフリカ局で有名でした。
QSLカードも
持っている物が
何枚も写っていて
とても
嬉しいです。
懐かしいなぁ‼️これを聴きながら
周波数を合わせてました😅
From 1973 to around 1978 I could pick them up with a basic receiver and a whip antenna, over 10,000 miles. They were around 11,700 kHz in the 25 meter band. Now with the sunspot cycle the way it is, I'm lucky if I can pick up Cuba.
Any thing above 13mhz is dead...or Local
Probably the last cycle where 11 meters was consistently useable,
greetings from México.
This signature tunein was great.
I have several QSL cards from Radio RSA.
The worst countries government wise, had the nicest interval signals and
Programming
懐かしい。英文タイプライター買ってもらい受信レポート作成してたな。まだIRCが10枚以上残ってる。
Saludos desde México.
I think it's been 40 years since any SW broadcaster was up on 25 MHz
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Greetings from México
I used to.pick up.this signal.on my walkie talkie in the late seventies
I used to listen it on my cb walkie talkie, signal was so strong to cover the local cb communications here in north Italy, due to my poor super regen transceiver
In the US I would also hear WWV transmitting on 25 MHz, in addition to the entire Citizens Band all at once on my walk-in talkie because of the super regen receiver.
What’s the title of the music at the end?
It's called Fanfare by Gideon Fagan, based on the old SA National Anthem in use back then.
I first heard it in ivory coast
Ver in der verld Kitty, if memory serves.
Come speak Afrikaans with DOREAN and rocco on radio RSA. RADIO RSA
Oh those halcyon years South Africa (ok, Apartheid was a bad thing, but look at South Africa now...... :-( )
I agree, I grew up there and its definitely not the same, corruption etc. Oh well...
All High Band Frequencies 17mhz to 25mhz....it is dead or Local now....at Night above 12 there is nothing....doing the day below 12 it is weak or nothing!!!
Solar cycle has made it that way since 2016, at least from my region of the US.
understand some words on english.