Growing up on an isolated farm in South Africa, I was fascinated to turn on the old valve radio upon occasion, and listen to the exotic sounds that seemed to come from the past itself. Later, on safari with my father in the Zambezi valley, I would listen to the stations of Africa, filtering through on a small portable radio. French and Portuguese and tribal languages and music that made Africa feel old and authentic. Inspired by your video, I just switched on an old valve radio that's been sitting on my shelf for years, never used. Would you know it, it hissed nicely to life, and on came LM Radio. I'll see if I can hook up a better antenna wire over the weekend and hopefully get better results.
Absolutely! My earliest SW listening was in 1962, I was about your age. Never forget the magic and mystery on that evening. WWV, WWVH were faves, like lighthouses. Accidentally discovered CHU one night as a young teen. We had to learn about stuff by tuning around for hours, no Internet to query for info and tips.
Evan - most enjoyable! I'm an SWL dating back to 1956. One of my consistent DX catches back in the day was Radio Australia on 11.81 mhz., mornings, before I took off for school. The mysterious interval signal at about 34:00 was a few bars of "Moscow Nights," which became the Top 40 hit by Kenny Ball's Jazz Men from the UK that undoubtedly perturbed Moscow. At the height of glasnost (years later), I sent them a cassette of the trad band recording by Kenny Ball, and they actually played a bit of it on Moscow Mailbag crediting me for providing them with a broadcast- quality recording - likely never before heard on Radio Moscow until that time - missing the good old peaceful shortwave days! Yes, I kept an aircheck.
Evan Doorbell has the radio voice to die for! I'm a big fan for over 2 decades. Great writing, too! I was listening to WWV starting about 1964, with the format Evan describes in accurate detail. Absolutely love Evan's phone freak trips as well as his awesome collection of SW and maritime phone service. I wonder if Evan recalls KOU located in San Pedro, CA back in the day.
@21:08 Appears to be the Two Letter number station that once broadcasted on shortwave radio. As far as I’m concerned, there were 4 variations of this particular station that were active between the late 1960s to mid-to-late 1990s. It was well known by the shortwave community during its days for its ever-changing interval and the automated female voice with a distinct German accent. The station would always broadcast 2 letters from the NATO phonetic alphabet (hence its name), and proceeds with an electronic interval. Afterwards, she would then say “message for” followed by 6 numbers in a group of 19 numbers. There’s more than that, but that’s the basics of this situation. We know that these stations originated somewhere in West Germany. We do believe that these stations were used to send out messages to various intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. This was during the height of the Cold War, and West Germany (along with other prominent countries from both the East and West) were strategic locations for gathering intelligence between the Iron Curtain. Simon Mason made a great compilation as he recording these number stations from the 1970s-1990s. The majority of his recordings ended up on a 5 CD set titled The Conet Project. You can find them easily on the web.
Wow, does this take me back! I discovered BCB (AM) dxing in the mid-60s and then by 1967, I had become hooked on shortwave, purchasing a Lafayette receiver the next year. I've been a ham for, well, decades! Thanks, OM!!
The sound quality is tremendous for shortwave recordings of that era. You probably didn’t have any kind of filtering on the receiver, so 10 kHz heterodynes from stations above and below frequency can easily be heard. Were these recordings made at 7 1/2 IPS on reel to reel? It’s also very evident how quiet the spectrum was in the late 1960’s. I don’t hear any of the electrical noises and carriers, compared to what we put up with today, such as switching supplies, various electronic equipment, leakage from cable lines, computers, modems, blah, blah, blah. Weak signals are much easier to detect.
The recordings I made in 1968-70 were on cassette from a Radio Shack DX-120 receiver, which was wide open with no lowpass filter. There was nothing but a small amount of power line -type noise in the environment.
@@evandoorbell4278 these days PLT interference is almost impossible to avoid! I do often escape into the countryside in my camper van, and get away from the hub-bub. Not only is SW reception easier to navigate, I transmit (licence free) on 11 meter ssb, which here in the UK is legal, often getting clear contacts right across Europe and into the old USSR, When propagation allows Canada and the United States!
Out of all things, I didn't expect to hear Lithuanian when listening to this. Guess I'll have to try my best to translate it :) 30:00 / 31:37 "Dėmesio, kalba Vilnius." literally translates to "Attention, Vilnius is speaking.", but can be understood as "Attention, you are listening to Vilnius.". Evan's translation as "Good evening from Vilnius" isn't _that_ far off. And a band/range of frequencies in Lithuanian would be "dažnių diapazonas" so what he is saying by "this _stenčiu_ and that _stenčiu_ " I have no idea. I have lived my entire life in Lithuania, but I have never heard of such a word. If someone has the recordings of Radio Vilnius from the 70s when they're talking Lithuanian and they mention that word I could definitely translate it. Anyway I love these 2 shortwave programs. Please do more.
Thanks for commenting! I'm really sorry I don't have a recording of the entire sign-on because I'd LOVE to have that translated! I heard it SO many times...
Short Wave is the best!!! I remember my Philips D2935 it was amazing the amount of radios you heard in the early 80. I still have a log book with the details
This is really cool! Thank you. I'm only 15 now, and it's extremely hard to get into this stuff now as there isn't a lot if it, but I find it so interesting! Hope I can get into this stuff more in the future. Thanks!!
I got my first shortwave receiver (a Trio 9r59de ) when I was 10 in 1978!!, then in 1981 here in the UK CB was legalised, now here in Europe AM/FM SSB cb is legal to operate, I often talk to people all over Europe, Canada, and the United States! I still spend time tuning through the shortwave bands, and with what's going on in Ukraine at the moment a lot of shortwave stations that previously shut down have started up again! Our own bbc world service have started broadcasting news programmes into Russia, something they stopped in 2008!!
What a fantastic work, Evan! Congrats. I'm based in Portugal I used to listen to SW back in the 70's and 80's too in my teen years, and I remember many of the sounds you play in this podcast :-) @19:37 it must be some maritime station from Portugal. The tune is a very well known old folk song "Meninas vamos ao vira!" @33:31 the word "mayak" you mention is Russian for "lighthouse" or "beacon" @45:00 the russian anoucer said "It's now 12 o'clock in Moscow"! @46:02 This is soviet "Radio Peace and Progress"'s ID
@@evandoorbell4278 Yes indeed, it is.:-) Regarding the "interval signal" from the maritime station that I've referred to before, just check this out: ua-cam.com/video/9GyAGLTbzt0/v-deo.html at 0:44' This is a recent version from the very traditional Portuguese folk song from the North of the country (Minho region). You will immediately recognize the notes that are in the radio signal. I also used to listen to a lot of shortwave radio back then but I never recall having heard that call sign you taped. It could have been from the maritime radio service aimed at the Portuguese long haul fishing vessels, many of which sailed the waters of Newfounland for many many years. It could relay telephone calls to ships. And that being the case, now I see why you could pick it in the States and I had never heard it here in PT, for it was beamed far away. I remember by that time (70's-80's) above the Broadcast Mediumwave band and the lower end (longer wavelengths) of Shortwave band there was the so called "Maritime Band" and many fishing ships used the service, boith in AM and SSB. I could listen to them. In a remote place in a mountain not far from where I live, there was a trasmitter/antennae site for that service. Anyway it was very refreshing to get to know this channel of yours and to listen all these sounds that although buried back there in my memory immediately popped out on listening to your 2 videos. Maybe I will soon find a way to replay the dozens of tape cassettes I have from those radio years and also do some sound archeology . If they are usable still. Thanks again for these very enjoyable "moments". All the best ;-)
@@jonastender1245 I heard the song on UA-cam and the refrain IS the same melody. Is that song also known in Brazil, by chance? My experience with old cassettes is that the tape itself survives excellently but in most cassettes the pressure pads do not. Don't be quick to judge your old cassettes as "damaged" just because it doesn't play well at first. I had to buy empty cassette shells and transplant about 1000 tapes into new shells, and of all those, only one suffered actual damage to the tape over the years; The rest were perfect after 40 years in storage.
Hi Evan! :-) I don't think that song is popular in Brazil as a whole, other than among the big Portuguese immigrant community there which was considerable at the time. Thanks for the hints on old cassette tapes usage.
Also something else, when WWV was in Maryland, where NASA is now the voice id were pices of 35 mm film, optical sound track, know that because I watched it operate, beautiful piece of equipment…
Thanks. I didn't discover shortwave and WWV until 1969, when I was 14. I wish I had learned about SWL at an earlier age. I got into AM DXing, then shortwave again from 1972 to '82. Love your video and audio. Great old days of radio. I never heard Morse Code on WWV. Interesting.
I remember listening to this as well as the time station from Hawaii , when I lived in the Fiji Islands. I listened on a three band broadcast receiver, that was back in the 70's as a teenager
Wow! Thanks for this! I experienced all of this in the early 70s too and had no idea what it was (and it freaked me out! lol). I had forgotten all about it! Great job researching!
16:45 "ici Saint Lys Radio service radio téléphonique avec les navires en mer, cette transmission est effectué au niveau normal de parole pour permettre le réglage des récepteurs de bord" " here is Saint lys radio radio telephone service for ship at sea, this transmission is done at normal speech level for tuning of the onboard receivers" it's was a french station operated by the post and telegraph administration until Jan 1998
As a short wave listener for many years I use to wonder why the signal use to drift in and out. Now I know why. Shortwave is aimed at the ionosphere it bounces off and down off and down all across the earth in a circular pattern. Now you know 😊
AVAN DOORBELL your introduction to shortwave radio program from 1968 1970 is cool I'm watching your utube videos on my cellphone and I subscribed too your utube channel
Do you have more recordings of WWV from the earlier years when they had a real radio host doing the voice? I've only found one or two recordings from the earlier years.
41:32 "Radiostation 'Fatherland'". We are beginning our broadcast to our compatriots in other countries with a short outline of the speech of Leonid Brezhnev".
@25:30 - that's not a Cuban numbers station, it's Papa November (G15), which was broadcast from West Germany. The Cuban stations broadcast in Spanish and are known as the "Atencion! / Spanish Lady" (V02)
There ARE 2 examples is this group which possibly ARE number stations, between 20:51 and 21:59. "Lima Charlie" has the same format as some known German number stations. I didn't know this when I made this program. The one before "Lima Charlie" I only got once, and I don't know anything about it. It might be a number station, a point-to-point station, or something else. However, I never said anything about a Cuban NUMBER station. The segment which ends at 25:30 was the Cuban point-to-point station used for phone calls from ships. It never broadcast numbers, just phone calls in Spanish, and in 1971 it began also identifying itself. We heard it every day for years and it never said numbers, just phone calls in Spanish, the tone ditties, and the Spanish/English ID in 1971. A recording of "Papa November" is here: www.numbers-stations.com/ns/german/g15/ This has a tone ditty which is nothing like the one used by Cuban point-to-point station.
Another SW Radio Mystery solved. Had wondered what the repeating 10 morse code signal was and why it had stopped.. I'm guessing it was the NJ AT&T Maritime Station.
35:01 I remember Mayak with this new version, as a child in early 90s. And in the early 90s we used to listen to it on AM (MW). Obviously, the sound was far better than on SW.
Hi Evan, Enjoying this video. Been a BCB and SWL DXer since 1965.. An unrelated question. Back in the late 60s, Radio Moscow would play a short lively ditty after IDing or after the news. It was NOT the Moscow Nights music. In 1993, while in Saint Petersburg, I heard the same music being played at the 900 days/nights seige museum/memorial on the road to Pulkovo airport. I have been trying to find this musical interlude for decades. None of the UA-cam videos of Radio Moscow has this piece of music. After 47 trips to Russia and asking about it, I still haven't been able to find ant information. Do you have any ideas. Thanks, George, NJ3H Redmond, Oregon USA
I always chuckled when Sergei Rudin, the Radio Moscow announcer, would wish everybody "good listening," and then the same frequency would then begin a half hour segment of Radio Kiev, Radio Vilnius, Radio Peace and Progress, or some other (then) USSR-based station, just to make certain there was no lull in the propaganda feed!🤠😎
the tic only means WWVH in Hawaii is giving a weather or other messages on the same frequency. you are only hearing WWV in fort Collins COLORADO. you are only.hearing WWV. if you pick up both WWV and WWVH you will hear two tones the 440 and the higher pitch tone at the same time. this is old news to SWLs all over the world. 73
Hi Evan, quite a late find for me. I am from Lithuania and was delighted to find Radio Vilnius recording. I saw another comment below clarifying the meaning of the opening, so won't elaborate on that. However, I'll add my two cents, as I didn't see anything in the comments, regarding ruzzian part. The famous Moscow bells you mentioned, are called куранты (kuranty) in ruzzian and they are in the Kremlin tower: ua-cam.com/video/nKrOYciHluE/v-deo.html Izvestiya (Известия) simply means "news". And yes, that was (and still is) a name of the whole news agglomeration. And good job on translating Radio Motherland! :-D
Really glad you recorded SW sounds as well. I MIGHT have some R2R myself. Will have to look. I was a SW listener and novice ham in the sixties ! I remember the old WWV 5 minute report and was listening when they changed from Maryland to Colorado ! Changed without a glitch ! K7IQ
70s I got introduced to shortwave by going to my uncls whe lived with his mom and dad house my uncl room was up stars he had two shortwave receivers one he had plug in
EVAN DOOR BELL MY HOBBIES ARE PAINTING PICTURES AND LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE AND SSB I HAVE 4 SHORTWAVE RECEIVERS IAM THINKING ABOUT GETTING MY HAM LICENSE
12:02 seconds, it sounded as though that woman was speaking in jelly, but having the jelly near a microphone no a megaphone and boom in it down and first down a microphone. Microphone microphone microphone, microphone, microphone, microphone, Megan Megan Megan Megan Phone
12 seconds in it sounded as though she was talking in jelly through a megaphone, but one minute 11 minutes a.m. sounded as though she was talking in jelly, put into a microphone
How did you manage to maintain the quality of these recordings over the years? Were they made on reel-to-reel or cassette recorders originally? I have many cassette tapes from SW broadcasts in the 1980's onwards and the earlier ones sound very muffled. I assume it was tape degradation, and so am wondering if you just maintained the tapes better or used software to enhance the quality.
Chances are it is NOT tape degradation. 99% of my cassette TAPES had no degradation at all from 1977 to 2017. What DID degrade was the pressure pads in the cassettes themselves. I had to transplant the tapes into new shells, and then almost all sounded perfect.
And another thing I'll mention about cassettes which is often overlooked is head azimuth adjustment. If the recording device was a little out of alignment compared with the playback device you're using now, it can sound muffled. Little turn of the screw on the head and clarity is suddenly restored. Note that it usually requires removing the door or outer portion of the door on the player and on some players it just isn't possible to adjust it while the player is playing. To "reset" it, use a good quality commercially released music cassette. Google for more information on the procedure.
Growing up on an isolated farm in South Africa, I was fascinated to turn on the old valve radio upon occasion, and listen to the exotic sounds that seemed to come from the past itself. Later, on safari with my father in the Zambezi valley, I would listen to the stations of Africa, filtering through on a small portable radio. French and Portuguese and tribal languages and music that made Africa feel old and authentic. Inspired by your video, I just switched on an old valve radio that's been sitting on my shelf for years, never used. Would you know it, it hissed nicely to life, and on came LM Radio. I'll see if I can hook up a better antenna wire over the weekend and hopefully get better results.
South Africa had a time signal back in the day. ZUO was the call sign.
I go back to the 60s for short wave. WWV was one of the first stations I heard. I was about 5 . Thanks. This is awesome.
Absolutely! My earliest SW listening was in 1962, I was about your age. Never forget the magic and mystery on that evening. WWV, WWVH were faves, like lighthouses. Accidentally discovered CHU one night as a young teen. We had to learn about stuff by tuning around for hours, no Internet to query for info and tips.
Evan - most enjoyable! I'm an SWL dating back to 1956. One of my consistent DX catches back in the day was Radio Australia on 11.81 mhz., mornings, before I took off for school. The mysterious interval signal at about 34:00 was a few bars of "Moscow Nights," which became the Top 40 hit by Kenny Ball's Jazz Men from the UK that undoubtedly perturbed Moscow. At the height of glasnost (years later), I sent them a cassette of the trad band recording by Kenny Ball, and they actually played a bit of it on Moscow Mailbag crediting me for providing them with a broadcast- quality recording - likely never before heard on Radio Moscow until that time - missing the good old peaceful shortwave days! Yes, I kept an aircheck.
Wow 1956. The year before I was born. I usually caught radio Australia on 9.58 iirc
Evan Doorbell has the radio voice to die for! I'm a big fan for over 2 decades. Great writing, too!
I was listening to WWV starting about 1964, with the format Evan describes in accurate detail.
Absolutely love Evan's phone freak trips as well as his awesome collection of SW and maritime phone service.
I wonder if Evan recalls KOU located in San Pedro, CA back in the day.
Thanks!
Never encountered KOU. Nowadays it’s hard to find out what it was
@@evandoorbell4278 hi again! Still would like to interview you on thoughts the evolution of communication and perhaps AI.
@21:08 Appears to be the Two Letter number station that once broadcasted on shortwave radio. As far as I’m concerned, there were 4 variations of this particular station that were active between the late 1960s to mid-to-late 1990s. It was well known by the shortwave community during its days for its ever-changing interval and the automated female voice with a distinct German accent. The station would always broadcast 2 letters from the NATO phonetic alphabet (hence its name), and proceeds with an electronic interval. Afterwards, she would then say “message for” followed by 6 numbers in a group of 19 numbers. There’s more than that, but that’s the basics of this situation.
We know that these stations originated somewhere in West Germany. We do believe that these stations were used to send out messages to various intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. This was during the height of the Cold War, and West Germany (along with other prominent countries from both the East and West) were strategic locations for gathering intelligence between the Iron Curtain.
Simon Mason made a great compilation as he recording these number stations from the 1970s-1990s. The majority of his recordings ended up on a 5 CD set titled The Conet Project. You can find them easily on the web.
Soviet radiostation had this plethora of jingles because there were actually 15 independent states within the USSR, with own language, etc.
Wow, does this take me back! I discovered BCB (AM) dxing in the mid-60s and then by 1967, I had become hooked on shortwave, purchasing a Lafayette receiver the next year. I've been a ham for, well, decades! Thanks, OM!!
I'm starting to think that we led parallel lives. I can see that I'm going to become addicted to your channel. The memories come flooding back
I was new to Morse code around 1978. Got my Novice amateur radio license in 1969. I remember WWV using Morse. That was real cool to me.
The great peak of the solar cycles. So fortunate you have captured this great time.
The sound quality is tremendous for shortwave recordings of that era. You probably didn’t have any kind of filtering on the receiver, so 10 kHz heterodynes from stations above and below frequency can easily be heard. Were these recordings made at 7 1/2 IPS on reel to reel?
It’s also very evident how quiet the spectrum was in the late 1960’s. I don’t hear any of the electrical noises and carriers, compared to what we put up with today, such as switching supplies, various electronic equipment, leakage from cable lines, computers, modems, blah, blah, blah. Weak signals are much easier to detect.
The recordings I made in 1968-70 were on cassette from a Radio Shack DX-120 receiver, which was wide open with no lowpass filter. There was nothing but a small amount of power line -type noise in the environment.
And haarp,Russian woodpecker, 5g towers , microwave ovens ,cell phones( + iPhone , apps + smartphones) . They rile up the earth's weather machine/ atmosphere.
@@evandoorbell4278 these days PLT interference is almost impossible to avoid! I do often escape into the countryside in my camper van, and get away from the hub-bub. Not only is SW reception easier to navigate, I transmit (licence free) on 11 meter ssb, which here in the UK is legal, often getting clear contacts right across Europe and into the old USSR, When propagation allows Canada and the United States!
Out of all things, I didn't expect to hear Lithuanian when listening to this. Guess I'll have to try my best to translate it :)
30:00 / 31:37 "Dėmesio, kalba Vilnius." literally translates to "Attention, Vilnius is speaking.", but can be understood as "Attention, you are listening to Vilnius.". Evan's translation as "Good evening from Vilnius" isn't _that_ far off.
And a band/range of frequencies in Lithuanian would be "dažnių diapazonas" so what he is saying by "this _stenčiu_ and that _stenčiu_ " I have no idea. I have lived my entire life in Lithuania, but I have never heard of such a word.
If someone has the recordings of Radio Vilnius from the 70s when they're talking Lithuanian and they mention that word I could definitely translate it.
Anyway I love these 2 shortwave programs. Please do more.
Thanks for commenting! I'm really sorry I don't have a recording of the entire sign-on because I'd LOVE to have that translated! I heard it SO many times...
Short Wave is the best!!! I remember my Philips D2935 it was amazing the amount of radios you heard in the early 80. I still have a log book with the details
This is really cool! Thank you. I'm only 15 now, and it's extremely hard to get into this stuff now as there isn't a lot if it, but I find it so interesting! Hope I can get into this stuff more in the future. Thanks!!
I got my first shortwave receiver (a Trio 9r59de ) when I was 10 in 1978!!, then in 1981 here in the UK CB was legalised, now here in Europe AM/FM SSB cb is legal to operate, I often talk to people all over Europe, Canada, and the United States! I still spend time tuning through the shortwave bands, and with what's going on in Ukraine at the moment a lot of shortwave stations that previously shut down have started up again! Our own bbc world service have started broadcasting news programmes into Russia, something they stopped in 2008!!
Also, you might enjoy listen to Amateur Radio, also called ham radio. Search for it online and you will find frequencies.
And, you might enjoy listening to OfficialSWLChannel on UA-cam.
What a fantastic work, Evan! Congrats. I'm based in Portugal I used to listen to SW back in the 70's and 80's too in my teen years, and I remember many of the sounds you play in this podcast :-)
@19:37 it must be some maritime station from Portugal. The tune is a very well known old folk song "Meninas vamos ao vira!"
@33:31 the word "mayak" you mention is Russian for "lighthouse" or "beacon"
@45:00 the russian anoucer said "It's now 12 o'clock in Moscow"!
@46:02 This is soviet "Radio Peace and Progress"'s ID
Great to hear from you! And it's mind blowing to find out about that Portuguese song 54 years after I first heard that signal.
@@evandoorbell4278 Yes indeed, it is.:-) Regarding the "interval signal" from the maritime station that I've referred to before, just check this out:
ua-cam.com/video/9GyAGLTbzt0/v-deo.html at 0:44'
This is a recent version from the very traditional Portuguese folk song from the North of the country (Minho region). You will immediately recognize the notes that are in the radio signal.
I also used to listen to a lot of shortwave radio back then but I never recall having heard that call sign you taped. It could have been from the maritime radio service aimed at the Portuguese long haul fishing vessels, many of which sailed the waters of Newfounland for many many years. It could relay telephone calls to ships. And that being the case, now I see why you could pick it in the States and I had never heard it here in PT, for it was beamed far away.
I remember by that time (70's-80's) above the Broadcast Mediumwave band and the lower end (longer wavelengths) of Shortwave band there was the so called "Maritime Band" and many fishing ships used the service, boith in AM and SSB. I could listen to them. In a remote place in a mountain not far from where I live, there was a trasmitter/antennae site for that service.
Anyway it was very refreshing to get to know this channel of yours and to listen all these sounds that although buried back there in my memory immediately popped out on listening to your 2 videos. Maybe I will soon find a way to replay the dozens of tape cassettes I have from those radio years and also do some sound archeology . If they are usable still. Thanks again for these very enjoyable "moments". All the best ;-)
@@jonastender1245 I heard the song on UA-cam and the refrain IS the same melody. Is that song also known in Brazil, by chance?
My experience with old cassettes is that the tape itself survives excellently but in most cassettes the pressure pads do not. Don't be quick to judge your old cassettes as "damaged" just because it doesn't play well at first. I had to buy empty cassette shells and transplant about 1000 tapes into new shells, and of all those, only one suffered actual damage to the tape over the years; The rest were perfect after 40 years in storage.
Hi Evan! :-) I don't think that song is popular in Brazil as a whole, other than among the big Portuguese immigrant community there which was considerable at the time. Thanks for the hints on old cassette tapes usage.
Evan Doorbell, that NASA 36- bit timecode from2:18 to 2 : 4 2 AND 6:05 to 7 : 1 0 . I heard that last in 1971. Thanx for bringing it back.
You're welcome. However, I didn't know it had something to do with NASA. Star Trek, yes. :-)
@@evandoorbell4278 you're right. Star Trek "All Our Yesterdays" Season 3 Episode 23
Also something else, when WWV was in Maryland, where NASA is now the voice id were pices of 35 mm film, optical sound track, know that because I watched it operate, beautiful piece of equipment…
Thanks. I didn't discover shortwave and WWV until 1969, when I was 14. I wish I had learned about SWL at an earlier age. I got into AM DXing, then shortwave again from 1972 to '82. Love your video and audio. Great old days of radio. I never heard Morse Code on WWV. Interesting.
Thanks!
WWV had morse code from 1969 until July 1971, when they started announcing the time every minute instead of every 5.
@@evandoorbell4278 Just FYI - I recall WWV using Morse Code in the mid 1960s also.
I remember listening to this as well as the time station from Hawaii , when I lived in the Fiji Islands. I listened on a three band broadcast receiver, that was back in the 70's as a teenager
You can hear chu on the empire strikes back as well! Love your videos:)
Wow! Thanks for this! I experienced all of this in the early 70s too and had no idea what it was (and it freaked me out! lol). I had forgotten all about it! Great job researching!
I love your words of wisdom at the end, so true!
theres so much nightmare inducing things in radio
and if you're feeling particularly alone, landline too
Yes, Destinys Child, Beyonce, etc
Not really.
16:45 "ici Saint Lys Radio service radio téléphonique avec les navires en mer, cette transmission est effectué au niveau normal de parole pour permettre le réglage des récepteurs de bord" " here is Saint lys radio radio telephone service for ship at sea, this transmission is done at normal speech level for tuning of the onboard receivers"
it's was a french station operated by the post and telegraph administration until Jan 1998
As a short wave listener for many years I use to wonder why the signal use to drift in and out. Now I know why. Shortwave is aimed at the ionosphere it bounces off and down off and down all across the earth in a circular pattern. Now you know 😊
AVAN DOORBELL your introduction to shortwave radio program from 1968 1970 is cool I'm watching your utube videos on my cellphone and I subscribed too your utube channel
EVAN DOOR BELL your introduction to shortwave radio pgm2 . 1968_1970 this cool
Do you have more recordings of WWV from the earlier years when they had a real radio host doing the voice? I've only found one or two recordings from the earlier years.
2:20 this sounds like legit electronic music for a second
Drive past the WOO site once. Looked very imposing. But this view isn't so bad! The building still exists, though the antenna field is long gone.
41:32 "Radiostation 'Fatherland'". We are beginning our broadcast to our compatriots in other countries with a short outline of the speech of Leonid Brezhnev".
@25:30 - that's not a Cuban numbers station, it's Papa November (G15), which was broadcast from West Germany. The Cuban stations broadcast in Spanish and are known as the "Atencion! / Spanish Lady" (V02)
There ARE 2 examples is this group which possibly ARE number stations, between 20:51 and 21:59.
"Lima Charlie" has the same format as some known German number stations. I didn't know this when I made this program.
The one before "Lima Charlie" I only got once, and I don't know anything about it. It might be a number station, a point-to-point station, or something else.
However, I never said anything about a Cuban NUMBER station. The segment which ends at 25:30 was the Cuban point-to-point station used for phone calls from ships. It never broadcast numbers, just phone calls in Spanish, and in 1971 it began also identifying itself. We heard it every day for years and it never said numbers, just phone calls in Spanish, the tone ditties, and the Spanish/English ID in 1971.
A recording of "Papa November" is here: www.numbers-stations.com/ns/german/g15/ This has a tone ditty which is nothing like the one used by Cuban point-to-point station.
Another SW Radio Mystery solved. Had wondered what the repeating 10 morse code signal was and why it had stopped.. I'm guessing it was the NJ AT&T Maritime Station.
EVAN DOOR BELL my hobbies are painting pictures and listening to shortwave and ssb I have 4 shortwave receivers
35:01 I remember Mayak with this new version, as a child in early 90s. And in the early 90s we used to listen to it on AM (MW). Obviously, the sound was far better than on SW.
Fascinating stuff. I'm curious as to what sort of tone generation equipment those semi-randomly-generated signals were using...
38:30
is so weird hearing you talk about radio rather than phones
Hi Evan,
Enjoying this video. Been a BCB and SWL DXer since 1965..
An unrelated question. Back in the late 60s, Radio Moscow would play a short lively ditty after IDing or after the news. It was NOT the Moscow Nights music.
In 1993, while in Saint Petersburg, I heard the same music being played at the 900 days/nights seige museum/memorial on the road to Pulkovo airport. I have been trying to find this musical interlude for decades. None of the UA-cam videos of Radio Moscow has this piece of music. After 47 trips to Russia and asking about it, I still haven't been able to find ant information.
Do you have any ideas.
Thanks,
George, NJ3H
Redmond, Oregon USA
I always chuckled when Sergei Rudin, the Radio Moscow announcer, would wish everybody "good listening," and then the same frequency would then begin a half hour segment of Radio Kiev, Radio Vilnius, Radio Peace and Progress, or some other (then) USSR-based station, just to make certain there was no lull in the propaganda feed!🤠😎
How cool is that
Your comment the Soviet media versus our media is spot on, especially now, 4 years later!
the tic only means WWVH in Hawaii is giving a weather or other messages on the same frequency. you are only hearing WWV in fort Collins COLORADO. you are only.hearing WWV. if you pick up both WWV and WWVH you will hear two tones the 440 and the higher pitch tone at the same time. this is old news to SWLs all over the world. 73
EVAN DOOR BELL you should get a mw lw fm sw ssb desktop receiver
Hi Evan, quite a late find for me. I am from Lithuania and was delighted to find Radio Vilnius recording. I saw another comment below clarifying the meaning of the opening, so won't elaborate on that. However, I'll add my two cents, as I didn't see anything in the comments, regarding ruzzian part.
The famous Moscow bells you mentioned, are called куранты (kuranty) in ruzzian and they are in the Kremlin tower: ua-cam.com/video/nKrOYciHluE/v-deo.html
Izvestiya (Известия) simply means "news". And yes, that was (and still is) a name of the whole news agglomeration.
And good job on translating Radio Motherland! :-D
EVAN DOOR BELL I was born in March 23 1963 I am 59 years old
EVAN DOOR BELL your utube videos are so cool 😎
EVAN DOOR BELL iam thinking about getting a Tecsun H.50 1x
Mw lw fm sw ssb 5 band desktop receiver
Really glad you recorded SW sounds as well. I MIGHT have some R2R myself. Will have to look. I was a SW listener and novice ham in the sixties ! I remember the old WWV 5 minute report and was listening when they changed from Maryland to Colorado ! Changed without a glitch !
K7IQ
Cool -- I didn't realize it started in MD. Thanks! I was a WN6 back then, too.
I was WN7IWN around 1967-1968
I'm looking for audio from Radio Moscow International, 1985, science-desk replies to letters.
I don't have any RMI program recordings... Anyone?
Yes I remember
70s I got introduced to shortwave by going to my uncls whe lived with his mom and dad house my uncl room was up stars he had two shortwave receivers one he had plug in
EVAN DOOR BELL me and my cousin are going to a swap meet in November 6 Sunday morning at 8:30 am in Milwaukee
EVAN DOOR BELL MY HOBBIES ARE PAINTING PICTURES AND LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE AND SSB I HAVE 4 SHORTWAVE RECEIVERS IAM THINKING ABOUT GETTING MY HAM LICENSE
43:47 'Izvestiya' means 'news'
I guessed the N6 was for propagation but did not know.
I was born in 19 63 I did not have shortwave receiver then it was in the 80s
In the 80s 90s I had my first shortwave receiver
gracias
12:02 it sounds like Siri is talking in jelly fruit. Oh my megaphone.
12:02 seconds, it sounded as though that woman was speaking in jelly, but having the jelly near a microphone no a megaphone and boom in it down and first down a microphone. Microphone microphone microphone, microphone, microphone, microphone, Megan Megan Megan Megan Phone
12 seconds in it sounded as though she was talking in jelly through a megaphone, but one minute 11 minutes a.m. sounded as though she was talking in jelly, put into a microphone
It's _always_ midnight in Moscow baby, hot cha cha!
Great Song!!! Village Stompers rocked on it!
How did you manage to maintain the quality of these recordings over the years? Were they made on reel-to-reel or cassette recorders originally? I have many cassette tapes from SW broadcasts in the 1980's onwards and the earlier ones sound very muffled. I assume it was tape degradation, and so am wondering if you just maintained the tapes better or used software to enhance the quality.
Chances are it is NOT tape degradation. 99% of my cassette TAPES had no degradation at all from 1977 to 2017. What DID degrade was the pressure pads in the cassettes themselves. I had to transplant the tapes into new shells, and then almost all sounded perfect.
@@evandoorbell4278 I had no idea... and will try that, thanks!
@@jjohnstn Jerry, be patient - the process requires a very steady hand and the dexterity of a jeweller.
And another thing I'll mention about cassettes which is often overlooked is head azimuth adjustment. If the recording device was a little out of alignment compared with the playback device you're using now, it can sound muffled. Little turn of the screw on the head and clarity is suddenly restored. Note that it usually requires removing the door or outer portion of the door on the player and on some players it just isn't possible to adjust it while the player is playing. To "reset" it, use a good quality commercially released music cassette. Google for more information on the procedure.
EVAN DOOR BELL ME AND MY COUSIN ARE GOING TO A SWAP MEET IN NOVEMBER 6 SUNDAY MORNING AT 8:30AM 🌄 IN MILWAUKEE
EVAN DOOR BELL iam thinking about getting a Tecsun H.501X
MW LW FM SW SSB 5 BAND TABIE TOP RECIVER
I found the ticky tok station
Ha ha ha ha ha ha it sounds like a Indian man speaking in a very very funny voice but with a lot of paperwork flying because of a ceiling fan
The comment at the end was poignant and commenting in 2022, I'm afraid it has only gotten worse.
How cool is that