Very nostalgic, I remember listening to SW on our Philips broadcast radio when I lived in the Fiji Islands. I used a long wire antenna just to pick up the signals from around the world in 70's
Wow. I remember these days vividly, and I truly miss them. There is almost no mystery left in modern life. Loved listening to Media Network from RNW. I was traveling in Africa in 1986 and we heard the news about Chernobyl on the SW radio.
I was also in Africa but in 1991 and heard of the dissolution of the USSR on my Sony shortwave radio which was my only source of information -- no TV or newspaper. Other news I distinctly remember hearing on my SW radio: the 1977 KLM-PanAm plane accident in the Canary Islands, and the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.
I was 9 years old when Chernobyl happened. I'm from Ireland. A year or two before Chernobyl happened I used to listen to Radio Manx and Radio Merseyside on the AM banD and I used to think that the Isle of Man and Liverpool were these far off places. When I discovered the shortwave band on my dad's radio and started listening to the shortwave stations from Tirana, Moscow, Prague, London, Budapest, Stockholm it was like a whole new world had opened. Occasionally the really weird and wonderful would come through. Radio Turkey, Cairo. Algeria, Greece. I also listed to News reports about chernobyl from stations in central europe. Really Good memories.
I remember back in the mid 1960's my dad had an old tube type floor model radio with multi short wave bands. It also had the green tuning eye. I would set in front of that old radio for hours listening to all the strange sounds and stations, wondering where they were coming from.
I drove my parents crazy in the early 80s as living in a remote town I tuned into Radio Moscow and Berlin DDR Radio all the time with all the hours of Communist propaganda ! Lol
My brother and I used to listen to Joe Adamov and Vladimir Pozner all the time. My father would yell "TURN THOSE IDIOTS OFF!" So of course we listened more often, especially when he was within earshot of our DX160. But my late father was wrong...we did not grow up to be communists!
Thank you so much for sharing these recordings. I was listening to most of the stations you mentioned in the recording during my school days on my GEC 4 Bands valve type receiver. I request you to share more such items in future too.
Always remember my first homebrew regen at 14 years old short wave just seemed so crammed with strange sounds now almost silent hope the buzzer never disappears .
@@LongLost42 and it’s only getting worse, i wish i could’ve experienced time back then, being a kid growing up now i feel like this world isn’t meant for me
@@bradentheman1373 ah man, I get it. I wish I would have been born in the 60s and experienced those years, the 70s, and so on. I experienced at least five years of the 80s ( meaning memory and abilities to recall those times) and the were great. The 90s were awesome in almost every way. I had lots of hope for the world on 12/31/1999, but then 9/11 happened and the world slide down the spiral. This isn't the world I grew up in, and I know every generation says something like that, but it's not. There's some good in it, some good people, but God, it's a mess that seems to get worse. I raised my ex step kids to learn all they can, how to fight, how to feel people out, how to survive. But I also taught them how to live, care, and love others. It's too to them to do what they will (they stopped taking to me when their mom moved with them to her new husband) and I hope others start teaching too. I feel you though, man. I feel my time here stopped and I'm just here for whatever reason. But I got my mom to take care of, my cats, end of the day, guess that's all I need. You'll find a purpose and a way through this mess called earth. Don't give up, man.
I loved shortwave radio, I was amazed by listening to radio stations and signals from around the world during my teenage in the 90's. I was living in Jordan, and I remember listening and writing to international stations like: Swiss International Radio, Radio Austria ORF, BBC English and Arabic service, Radio Romania, Radio Deutsche Welle, Radio Canada International, Voice of America, China Radio, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Monte Carlo Radio... etc.
Very rare recording of the Moscow telephone station I remember listening to this on my Philips compass shortwave receiver with long wire in the garden and my radiator as a ground glory days not much on now most of shortwave is boring nowadays all the Dx clubs have gone from most of the international broadcasters such a shame the Internet has killed everything
Hi Christopher, many thanks. Yes one of my first recordings that :) I agree with you, things have changed far too much, life was more simple, and more amazing back then, however the internet has allowed us to meet so not all bad :)
@@MikesMovies many thanks for getting. Back to me here is my email address. Just incase. You have any recordings to send I would love to buy any that you may have christopherfrancismarkcullin@hotmail.co.uk
The announcer on the Moscow Radio Telephone Station clip is Doris Maxina. A British aristocrat who was a convinced communist and who married the chauffeur of the Soviet Ambassador to London. If there is anyone out there who knows anything more about Doris please add a comment.
Nostalgia! I used to listen to a lot of international radio stations. Esperanto broadcasts from Poland and Radio Beijing, radio theater on BBC radio and many more. It was very exciting to catch the radio signals of distant countries. I dreamt about building a Heathkit shortwave radio, but they were too expensive for me (Or rather my parents). When I was around 11-12 (I'm a 1951) I participated in a DX radio competition. I borrowed my grandmother's radio with radio valves. My parents' radio didn't have SW. I only managed to catch Radio Praha though :) I was very proud when I received their QSL card and I still have it somewhere :) Most of this fun has been destroyed by the Internet I assume. Thanks for bringing back old nice memories. /Anders
Hi Anders, there is still a lot of shortwave out there, trouble is it is hard to hear it over the noise of power line adaptors and other such illegal (in law) items. Thanks for the lovely memories and I am glad this took you back. I start work on part 2 soon. This is 1986 and has to of the biggest news stories included
Most people now listen online than on shortwave radios. Indeed the element of mystery and excitement has been taken away by the speed and convenience of the internet.
This is off topic though, but I think it's very presumptuous, to say the very least, that the Chinese, of all nations, use the language of fraternity and justice among all people to spread their twisted, double-standard ideology. Apparently they haven't understood the concept of the interna ideo, or at least they have a very, very different interpretation of it. Anyway, since they're a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual country themselves, they might like to start practicing what they preach. Just my two cents.
Great memories , recollecting those days of 80s ,iam from South India, used to listen SWR stations from my Philips radio receiver ,my favourite radio stations are BBC,VOA, Radio Australia, Radio Sri Lanka
I also owned both Vega's illustrated in this video bought mail order. I spent many late hours listening into many obscure radio stations and caught the listening bug. I became a radio operator for the army and owe my thanks to tuning into shortwave.
That first segment! I used to often hear (as best as I can recall), "This is a transmission for circuit adjustment purposes from a station of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. This station is located near White Plains, New York." Anyone remember that one?
I was live with my mom and dad then when mom and dad were live Iisn to my shortwave receiver then now I have a new shortwave receiver in the 80s lots to lisn to in the 80s then now 20 22
I love the radio Caroline recordings! Not to mention all the historical shortwave broadcasts. I remember all of them from when I got my first HF receiver when I was 7! I was shocked and couldn't turn the radio off! I could hear the world!
@@stuartbritton7408 Is there any way you could possibly send me those recordings of Roy Masters ,I would definitely love to hear them and possibly any other historical finds you may have. Thank you for your response, Steve
What I meant about sending the recording of Roy Masters was maybe a audio file or could you add them to your channel please? Thank you again and sorry, I was half asleep from not feeling so well.
The HCJB Mexico City link with ham operators segment is very interesting and must have been a lifesaver for many people affected by the devastating earthquake.
Brought back so many memories of my DXing days. I used to know the Voice of Turkey announcers like the one announcing here. My claim to fame is that I have QSL cards in my archive from countries that are now extinct like Radio Rhodesia, Radio Zaire, Radio Dahomey.
I listened to shortwave back then, its about gone now online international radio taking over. Takes the fun away no antennas, tuning radio waiting for best conditions logging on to a hard to get station all things change
Wonderful stuff! i remember so much of this. I was a regular listener to RCI and participated on the great Media network on may occasions! Thanks for posting this GOLD!
Thank you for putting this together and posting it for everyone to hear. I was listening around this time as well. I had a wire antenna out my window connected to an old tube based SW. it wasn't until 1988 that I bought a Digital DX-400. I almost never used for SWL until about 2 moths ago (2019). Now I have a 60ft wire antenna. But so disappointed by the amount of broadcasts these days. I loved listening to the propaganda that was broadcast from behind the Iron Curtain in the 70's and 80's. I miss the BBC, CBC, and everything from Europe. Recordings like this are right up there with those who made home recordings of Old Time Radio of the 30's, 40's and 50's. priceless memories. This recording really is SW Radio Gold!
Hi Wilbur, what a lovely comment and story. Very glad you enjoyed, this is a two part video so hope you enjoy part 2 as well. Yes there have been very many changes, not all good sadly. I still tune about, quite a few pirate stations down in the 5 and 6 mhz range. If you use Facebook you can find them there to instant QSL.
Mike , cheers for putting this up,a little trip down memory lane for me and hopefully archived for future generations. All the very best my friend. Ian
Oh they bring back fond memories I have been a short wave listening not since I was eight years old on a farm in south western Indiana. I tuned in my grandmother and grandfather’s old tombstone to type. I didn’t even know there were people that didn’t speak English. Thanks for the video makes me teary-eyed
Selena was the first radio I remember from my family home! I don't know exactly when it was bought, but it must have been around mid 1970s. I have very keen memories listening to it.
Takes me back to when I first got into SWL/DX back in the late 70s. Using a Lucky Goldstar RQ740 I was able to pick up Radio New Zealand International and Radio Grenada from where I lived at the time in South West Ireland amongst the usual ones like Der Stimme der DDR, Radio Moscow, Radio Tirana etc etc. Happy days and next to no QRM.
MikesMovies I'm trying to get back into it, this time using a CommRadio CR1A, an AOR LA400 and a BHI DSP Compact In-line. Trouble is I now live in a city and as you will know there is a lot of QRM. At least the setup is portable as I swap the AOR for a Wonder Wand. I have part 2 in my watch later list.
Oh Man!..What Memories..RCI's Bob Cadman..Radio Australia's John Sloan..Got my first shortwave radio in 1974..Just had my Kenwood R1000 refurbished..not as many high powered Shortwave stations today..hoping to receive more Domestic stations, Pirates and Utilities..
wow this brings back a lot of memories of my childhood i had this very same shortwave radio in this video .used to spend my Saturdays and Sundays just listening to all the stations all day and into the night .in the 70's and 80's i was more fascinated listening to short wave than a.m and f.m radio
I remember having this compilation sequence on a cassette from a DX club or maybe Radio Netherlands. My absolute passion in the 80's I had a huge collection of QSL cards and station pennents. I think the postman must have thought I was a spy delivering letters to my house from Soviet block countries and Vietnam China etc
i remember these channels when i first listened in 1991, with plenty of various strong signals from Radio Moscow WS over the band. By the end of the 1990's it was the beginning of the end, nowadays hardly anything on SW. Those were happy days
Amazing stuff! I had a radio EXACTLY like the one in your illustration, on which I was listening to Radio Moscow when President Gorbachov was kidnapped and detained. It made the hairs on my arms stand up, to think I was listening to history! It's a pity there's less transmitted now on the shortwaves, although I still listen, now using a Sagean digital radio, together with a long wire aerial the length of my garden.
I remember Interval signal 12 as coming from South Africa along wit the bird sounds used on their other interval signals. Would love to hear that again.
Beign a kid in the 80s, the tail end years of the Cold War, Reagan, everything was just a time i could never describe to my ex step kids. Great times in my life.
During mid 1970s I used to listen Spanish services of many SWs stations like V of A, Radio Canada, BBC, Radio Nederland, Radio Exterior de España, etc. I also remember commercial radio stations from Venezuela.
Anyone here remember listening to BBC Jolly Good Show? I wrote them a letter requesting them to play my favorite Paul McCartney song and they did! Later I also received a t-shirt in the mail! Good times!
Hello. Your recording is superb. I am a sw listener from 1965& also recorded signature tunes of many international broadcasting stations. I have many QSLs. I am in amateur radio with a VU2DSI call-sign. Datta Deogaonkar. VU2DSI. India.
Thank you , Dank je wel, vielen Dank , tack så mycket. .Radio Nederland was a great SW station . the Happy Station Programme, and media network etc were great listening enjoyments from those great days, we still miss very much. even the BBC world service had some great programmes back then, with great presenters with voices we loved and understood , but nowadays it seems the bbcws just focuses on Africa and has presenters we find hard to understand at times.
Shortwave is so nice, different nations can all talk to one another, and share their music and news. Voice of America VOA has a great website now with live listening streaming and news.
I miss these stations and the wide variety of SW broadcasts that enriched my life. Shortwave gave me the opportunity to understand and respect a wide range of political opinions...and of course to DX the tropical bands. It cost Canadians 38 cents a year for Radio Canada international...but they shut it down regardless. As a Canadian it broke my heart.
Man I know I heard much of this stuff on my Dad's old Hallicrafter back in the 1980s. Wish I'd spent more time logging and paying more attention though :(
We lived almost 50 years in southafrica ,I have been a radioham since 1962 ,I had in the eighties some good usa sw receivers 51j4 ,etc .So beside hamradio I did listen a lot to sw broadcaststations including the ones of the liberation movement anti rsa operating from africa ,ethiopia,zambia etc .
Installed a 120 foot wire antenna in the attic. Great reception yes, but strong stations like VOA and Radio Canada, overwhelmed whatever mb they were broadcasting on. And if i used poorly shielded guitar cords in would hear both stations thru a bass guitar amp.
Thee oddest thing l ever heard on SW was when l was setting my clox to a universal time station & it paused to give a weather report...for outer space. Solar flare activity - meteor showers etc.
Judged by the comments, I seem to be one of the oldest here? I remember listening to european and global stations, SW-MW-LW, during day and night time, in the 60s - this was when the Beatles appeared. Agreed, it was a great time, something the present generations will find hard to appreciate...
Interval signal 11: WWV. Interval signal Interval signal 13: Radio Berlin International. 12 sounds very familiar but can't place it. Belgium, maybe? 14 really isn't an interval signal at all, just time pips at the top of the hour, could be from anywhere.
#14 was a clever one. It was HCJB's own top of the hour time pips. HCJB used them at the top of every hour. The program from which this interval signal contest was featured was, of course, "DX Party Line" on HCJB, Quito, Ecuador. Clayton Howard was the original host.
Fantastic video. Out of interest, are any of the stations recorded still broadcasting on Shortwave? I know BBC WS stopped SW transmissions in Europe a while ago. Any others?
Only people born pre 80's understand nostalgic precious moments like these uneraseable in our minds.
Very nostalgic, I remember listening to SW on our Philips broadcast radio when I lived in the Fiji Islands. I used a long wire antenna just to pick up the signals from around the world in 70's
Thanks, wow what a place to have lived :)
@@MikesMovies Yeah, it was great in Fiji, I also used to operate a ham radio station in Fiji, made worldwide contacts easily from the islands
Wow. I remember these days vividly, and I truly miss them. There is almost no mystery left in modern life. Loved listening to Media Network from RNW. I was traveling in Africa in 1986 and we heard the news about Chernobyl on the SW radio.
Hey Scott, thanks for sharing those memories!
I was also in Africa but in 1991 and heard of the dissolution of the USSR on my Sony shortwave radio which was my only source of information -- no TV or newspaper.
Other news I distinctly remember hearing on my SW radio: the 1977 KLM-PanAm plane accident in the Canary Islands, and the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.
If there is a mystery, and we find out about it, it's quickly covered up. Such as the Graphene oxide in the Covid19 vaccines, for example.
For me it was the only way to travel the world
I was 9 years old when Chernobyl happened. I'm from Ireland. A year or two before Chernobyl happened I used to listen to Radio Manx and Radio Merseyside on the AM banD and I used to think that the Isle of Man and Liverpool were these far off places. When I discovered the shortwave band on my dad's radio and started listening to the shortwave stations from Tirana, Moscow, Prague, London, Budapest, Stockholm it was like a whole new world had opened. Occasionally the really weird and wonderful would come through. Radio Turkey, Cairo. Algeria, Greece. I also listed to News reports about chernobyl from stations in central europe. Really Good memories.
Brings back such powerful, pleasant, comforting memories of a bygone era. Thanks for posting. Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it, I understand what you say about memories.
I remember being a young kid in the early 80s. Hanging off the bed, tuning my shortwave. Listening to all this stuff nightly.
Happy days eh
I remember back in the mid 1960's my dad had an old tube type floor model radio with multi short wave bands. It also had the green tuning eye. I would set in front of that old radio for hours listening to all the strange sounds and stations, wondering where they were coming from.
In the early 1970s my dad bought a new radio to listen to baseball games. That radio happened to have shortwave bands. I was very quickly hooked.
@@smcdonald9991 That's how I would scan these channels in the middle of the night
I drove my parents crazy in the early 80s as living in a remote town I tuned into Radio Moscow and Berlin DDR Radio all the time with all the hours of Communist propaganda ! Lol
You most likely got a better window on the world than most kids down your way!😛
My brother and I used to listen to Joe Adamov and Vladimir Pozner all the time. My father would yell "TURN THOSE IDIOTS OFF!" So of course we listened more often, especially when he was within earshot of our DX160. But my late father was wrong...we did not grow up to be communists!
Thank you so much for sharing these recordings. I was listening to most of the stations you mentioned in the recording during my school days on my GEC 4 Bands valve type receiver. I request you to share more such items in future too.
Many thanks, I only wish I had more
Always remember my first homebrew regen at 14 years old short wave just seemed so crammed with strange sounds now almost silent hope the buzzer never disappears .
Life today sucks compared to decades ago. In so many ways.
Four years later, your words rings true even more.
@@LongLost42 and it’s only getting worse, i wish i could’ve experienced time back then, being a kid growing up now i feel like this world isn’t meant for me
@@bradentheman1373 ah man, I get it. I wish I would have been born in the 60s and experienced those years, the 70s, and so on. I experienced at least five years of the 80s ( meaning memory and abilities to recall those times) and the were great. The 90s were awesome in almost every way. I had lots of hope for the world on 12/31/1999, but then 9/11 happened and the world slide down the spiral.
This isn't the world I grew up in, and I know every generation says something like that, but it's not. There's some good in it, some good people, but God, it's a mess that seems to get worse.
I raised my ex step kids to learn all they can, how to fight, how to feel people out, how to survive. But I also taught them how to live, care, and love others. It's too to them to do what they will (they stopped taking to me when their mom moved with them to her new husband) and I hope others start teaching too.
I feel you though, man. I feel my time here stopped and I'm just here for whatever reason. But I got my mom to take care of, my cats, end of the day, guess that's all I need. You'll find a purpose and a way through this mess called earth. Don't give up, man.
@@LongLost42and in another 4 it will be even truer.
I loved shortwave radio, I was amazed by listening to radio stations and signals from around the world during my teenage in the 90's. I was living in Jordan, and I remember listening and writing to international stations like: Swiss International Radio, Radio Austria ORF, BBC English and Arabic service, Radio Romania, Radio Deutsche Welle, Radio Canada International, Voice of America, China Radio, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Monte Carlo Radio... etc.
Loved listening to SW radio in the 70-90's
Very rare recording of the Moscow telephone station I remember listening to this on my Philips compass shortwave receiver with long wire in the garden and my radiator as a ground glory days not much on now most of shortwave is boring nowadays all the Dx clubs have gone from most of the international broadcasters such a shame the Internet has killed everything
Hi Christopher, many thanks. Yes one of my first recordings that :) I agree with you, things have changed far too much, life was more simple, and more amazing back then, however the internet has allowed us to meet so not all bad :)
@@MikesMovies many thanks for getting. Back to me here is my email address. Just incase. You have any recordings to send I would love to buy any that you may have christopherfrancismarkcullin@hotmail.co.uk
@@christophercullin9309 Hi, all I have are on the videos
The announcer on the Moscow Radio Telephone Station clip is Doris Maxina. A British aristocrat who was a convinced communist and who married the chauffeur of the Soviet Ambassador to London. If there is anyone out there who knows anything more about Doris please add a comment.
Wow, facinating to know
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Ah! I thought I recognised the voice from Radio Moscow!
Nostalgia! I used to listen to a lot of international radio stations. Esperanto broadcasts from Poland and Radio Beijing, radio theater on BBC radio and many more. It was very exciting to catch the radio signals of distant countries. I dreamt about building a Heathkit shortwave radio, but they were too expensive for me (Or rather my parents). When I was around 11-12 (I'm a 1951) I participated in a DX radio competition. I borrowed my grandmother's radio with radio valves. My parents' radio didn't have SW. I only managed to catch Radio Praha though :) I was very proud when I received their QSL card and I still have it somewhere :)
Most of this fun has been destroyed by the Internet I assume.
Thanks for bringing back old nice memories.
/Anders
Hi Anders, there is still a lot of shortwave out there, trouble is it is hard to hear it over the noise of power line adaptors and other such illegal (in law) items. Thanks for the lovely memories and I am glad this took you back. I start work on part 2 soon. This is 1986 and has to of the biggest news stories included
The internet certainly has.
Most people now listen online than on shortwave radios. Indeed the element of mystery and excitement has been taken away by the speed and convenience of the internet.
This is off topic though, but I think it's very presumptuous, to say the very least, that the Chinese, of all nations, use the language of fraternity and justice among all people to spread their twisted, double-standard ideology. Apparently they haven't understood the concept of the interna ideo, or at least they have a very, very different interpretation of it. Anyway, since they're a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual country themselves, they might like to start practicing what they preach. Just my two cents.
Good memories.A different pre internet world.
Agree fully
Great memories , recollecting those days of 80s ,iam from South India, used to listen SWR stations from my Philips radio receiver ,my favourite radio stations are BBC,VOA, Radio Australia, Radio Sri Lanka
Thanks for sharing
I loved listening to the radio tuning finding stations and all the sounds between them honesty I liked and still so a station not fully clear
I also owned both Vega's illustrated in this video bought mail order. I spent many late hours listening into many obscure radio stations and caught the listening bug. I became a radio operator for the army and owe my thanks to tuning into shortwave.
Thanks very much and sorry for the delay in replying I have been on holiday and only just back.
I started listening in the early 80's on the Sharp FV-1710 that dad brought back from Vietnam.
Thanks, amazing
That first segment! I used to often hear (as best as I can recall), "This is a transmission for circuit adjustment purposes from a station of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. This station is located near White Plains, New York." Anyone remember that one?
This brings back so many memories from the 80s and 90s.
Indeed so! thanks for tuning in :)
I was live with my mom and dad then when mom and dad were live Iisn to my shortwave receiver then now I have a new shortwave receiver in the 80s lots to lisn to in the 80s then now 20 22
Thanks Greg
I love the radio Caroline recordings! Not to mention all the historical shortwave broadcasts. I remember all of them from when I got my first HF receiver when I was 7! I was shocked and couldn't turn the radio off! I could hear the world!
Hi Steven, yes it was a wonderful time, so glad I took some recordings to look back on.
I found Roy Masters on Radio Caroline. That was a real discovery! The voice of freedom and open-mindedness.
@@stuartbritton7408 Is there any way you could possibly send me those recordings of Roy Masters ,I would definitely love to hear them and possibly any other historical finds you may have. Thank you for your response, Steve
What I meant about sending the recording of Roy Masters was maybe a audio file or could you add them to your channel please? Thank you again and sorry, I was half asleep from not feeling so well.
My favourite programme on radio Moscow was Folkbox. We had the radio in the picture that illustrates this video.
The HCJB Mexico City link with ham operators segment is very interesting and must have been a lifesaver for many people affected by the devastating earthquake.
Agree, radio was so interesting back then
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Brought back so many memories of my DXing days. I used to know the Voice of Turkey announcers like the one announcing here. My claim to fame is that I have QSL cards in my archive from countries that are now extinct like Radio Rhodesia, Radio Zaire, Radio Dahomey.
Glad you enjoyed
Great memories. I was a SWL and DXer from about 1970 to 1990, and wrote for many QSL cards. I was an active AM band DXer too.
Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant - I still have my old Vega VE206 which is still working magnificently.
Good to hear! have you done anything to it?
That first interval signal sounds like a "time signal" station, like WWV out of Ft. Collins, CO.
That is 100% 80s WWV
I love the WWV sound
I listened to shortwave back then, its about gone now online international radio taking over. Takes the fun away no antennas, tuning radio waiting for best conditions logging on to a hard to get station all things change
I agree fully
Thanks!! You brought back some pleasant memories. Have a great weekend!!
Thanks very much, you to. Part 2 will be out soon
Wonderful stuff! i remember so much of this. I was a regular listener to RCI and participated on the great Media network on may occasions! Thanks for posting this GOLD!
Cheers Tony, yes all iconic stuff greatly missed
I want more! brings back great memories
Good news there is a part 2!
Thank you for putting this together and posting it for everyone to hear. I was listening around this time as well. I had a wire antenna out my window connected to an old tube based SW.
it wasn't until 1988 that I bought a Digital DX-400. I almost never used for SWL until about 2 moths ago (2019). Now I have a 60ft wire antenna. But so disappointed by the amount of broadcasts these days. I loved listening to the propaganda that was broadcast from behind the Iron Curtain in the 70's and 80's. I miss the BBC, CBC, and everything from Europe.
Recordings like this are right up there with those who made home recordings of Old Time Radio of the 30's, 40's and 50's. priceless memories.
This recording really is SW Radio Gold!
Hi Wilbur, what a lovely comment and story. Very glad you enjoyed, this is a two part video so hope you enjoy part 2 as well. Yes there have been very many changes, not all good sadly. I still tune about, quite a few pirate stations down in the 5 and 6 mhz range. If you use Facebook you can find them there to instant QSL.
Love your post ! I started listening on the 1960’s right up until about 2010.
Times have changed,but these are great memories
All the best!
Mike , cheers for putting this up,a little trip down memory lane for me and hopefully archived for future generations.
All the very best my friend.
Ian
Many thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed
Oh they bring back fond memories I have been a short wave listening not since I was eight years old on a farm in south western Indiana.
I tuned in my grandmother and grandfather’s old tombstone to type. I didn’t even know there were people that didn’t speak English.
Thanks for the video makes me teary-eyed
Aww bless you mate, it's amazing how these old sounds can stir emotions. Wonderful way to discover the world
In Soviet Russia.....radio station listen to You!
Selena was the first radio I remember from my family home! I don't know exactly when it was bought, but it must have been around mid 1970s. I have very keen memories listening to it.
Wonderful to hear
Takes me back to when I first got into SWL/DX back in the late 70s. Using a Lucky Goldstar RQ740 I was able to pick up Radio New Zealand International and Radio Grenada from where I lived at the time in South West Ireland amongst the usual ones like Der Stimme der DDR, Radio Moscow, Radio Tirana etc etc. Happy days and next to no QRM.
Ah yes indeed lovely days :) glad you enjoyed. There is also a part 2 if you have time :)
MikesMovies I'm trying to get back into it, this time using a CommRadio CR1A, an AOR LA400 and a BHI DSP Compact In-line. Trouble is I now live in a city and as you will know there is a lot of QRM. At least the setup is portable as I swap the AOR for a Wonder Wand. I have part 2 in my watch later list.
Love the cw qrm,. sends a shiver down my spine.
It really does :)
Oh Man!..What Memories..RCI's Bob Cadman..Radio Australia's John Sloan..Got my first shortwave radio in 1974..Just had my Kenwood R1000 refurbished..not as many high powered
Shortwave stations today..hoping to receive more Domestic stations, Pirates and Utilities..
Yes great to recall, and as you say not as much on there now. Thanks for watching
Salutions from Brazil. I started listen to sw in 1988. many of these stations I listened and I have good memories of them thanks for these recordings.
Thanks for listening
wow this brings back a lot of memories of my childhood i had this very same shortwave radio in this video .used to spend my Saturdays and Sundays just listening to all the stations all day and into the night .in the 70's and 80's i was more fascinated listening to short wave than a.m and f.m radio
Many thanks Steven, yes indeed happy times indeed
I remember having this compilation sequence on a cassette from a DX club or maybe Radio Netherlands. My absolute passion in the 80's I had a huge collection of QSL cards and station pennents. I think the postman must have thought I was a spy delivering letters to my house from Soviet block countries and Vietnam China etc
Great compilation reminding me of the times when I started shortwave listening. Thanks for sharing! 73!
Me two :) happy times, I have part 2 up now.
i remember these channels when i first listened in 1991, with plenty of various strong signals from Radio Moscow WS over the band. By the end of the 1990's it was the beginning of the end, nowadays hardly anything on SW. Those were happy days
Certainly were, thanks for watching
Shortwave is different now, but there are still many stations on. You just have to look.
Amazing stuff! I had a radio EXACTLY like the one in your illustration, on which I was listening to Radio Moscow when President Gorbachov was kidnapped and detained. It made the hairs on my arms stand up, to think I was listening to history! It's a pity there's less transmitted now on the shortwaves, although I still listen, now using a Sagean digital radio, together with a long wire aerial the length of my garden.
Youre great work on this video makes me sad. Those were the days. Still have two of my radios the Grundig 800 and Panasonic 2800. Great job.
Thanks for watching!
This brings me memories with my short wave radio back in 1986 when i was 12 yrs old
Hi, yes takes me back when I listen again, so sad how its all gone now
Thank you for this! Brings back many memories! At this time I was enjoying my new SONY ICF-2010 and I have it yet! vry 73 Rod W8GRI
Thanks Rod, glad you enjoyed, check out part 2 when you have time
I still have my Sony ICF-2010 that I purchased back in 1992 brand new from Grove Enterprises. Listening to it right now.
I remember Interval signal 12 as coming from South Africa along wit the bird sounds used on their other interval signals. Would love to hear that again.
Yes I have to say that is what I remember as well :)
on radio Moscow i had sent a hockey question and they answered on air i have a recording of my name and answer. them were the days
Brillaint, well done
Beign a kid in the 80s, the tail end years of the Cold War, Reagan, everything was just a time i could never describe to my ex step kids. Great times in my life.
Yep, was a time for sure
Great fun listening to this piece of radio history. Thank you for sharing with the world.
Thanks for listening
During mid 1970s I used to listen Spanish services of many SWs stations like V of A, Radio Canada, BBC, Radio Nederland, Radio Exterior de España, etc. I also remember commercial radio stations from Venezuela.
Was a wonderful time for radio
Anyone here remember listening to BBC Jolly Good Show? I wrote them a letter requesting them to play my favorite Paul McCartney song and they did! Later I also received a t-shirt in the mail! Good times!
@@bluestar2253 good times indeed
15 more broadcasters stopping transmissions. 2019.
cool music, now i wanna go to at eighty
Brings back a lot of memories Mike , I like your Vaga .
Hello. Your recording is superb. I am a sw listener from 1965& also recorded signature tunes of many international broadcasting stations. I have many QSLs. I am in amateur radio with a VU2DSI call-sign. Datta Deogaonkar. VU2DSI. India.
Hi there, Great to meet you and thanks for the kind words
@@MikesMovies . It was a pleasure to receive your response. Thank you. DATTA Deogaonkar.
Thank you , Dank je wel, vielen Dank , tack så mycket. .Radio Nederland was a great SW station . the Happy Station Programme, and media network etc were great listening enjoyments from those great days, we still miss very much. even the BBC world service had some great programmes back then, with great presenters with voices we loved and understood , but nowadays it seems the bbcws just focuses on Africa and has presenters we find hard to understand at times.
Those are some of the best interval signals I’ve ever heard
Thanks, glad you enjoyed
Just WONDERFUL!! Thanks for the great memories.
Thanks very much Martin, wish something like it was still out there
so so so so sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo coooooooooooooooooool...........thankx 4r uploading..... love 4rm pakistan
Thanks
I am a bit too young to have been able to know about shortwave. I learned about the joys of shortwave in 1999-2000. It is a shame.
Hi Joey, I get what you say but don't forget what you find on SW now will be amazing to someone in the future :)
Shortwave is so nice, different nations can all talk to one another, and share their music and news.
Voice of America VOA has a great website now with live listening streaming and news.
Young blud
I miss these stations and the wide variety of SW broadcasts that enriched my life. Shortwave gave me the opportunity to understand and respect a wide range of political opinions...and of course to DX the tropical bands. It cost Canadians 38 cents a year for Radio Canada international...but they shut it down regardless. As a Canadian it broke my heart.
I very much know how you feel :(
Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for listening (again :)
Thank you for this video. My first receiver was a VEF 206.
Glad you enjoyed, great radios the Vega range
Tangerine Dream at 7:15 - the Cold War, Shortwave, West Germany, U.S.S.R. - so many nights I spent glued to the mystery of radio.
Many thanks, was wonderful times
I used to stay awake at night slooooowly scanning the AM channels for this stuff. Never came in this clear, but I heard all sorts of wild stuff
Indeed, did you ever catch any numbers stations?
Mikes movies I listen to shortwave in the 1980s I still listen to shortwave and ssb
Thank you! Brilliant and such good quality recordings.
Glad you like them!
@@MikesMovies recorded on reel to reel tape or cassette tape please?
Man I know I heard much of this stuff on my Dad's old Hallicrafter back in the 1980s. Wish I'd spent more time logging and paying more attention though :(
At least you did it
Great days of shortwave listening. Alas we have lost it after internet days
We lived almost 50 years in southafrica ,I have been a radioham since 1962 ,I had in the eighties some good usa sw receivers 51j4 ,etc .So beside hamradio I did listen a lot to sw broadcaststations including the ones of the liberation movement anti rsa operating from africa ,ethiopia,zambia etc .
Installed a 120 foot wire antenna in the attic. Great reception yes, but strong stations like VOA and Radio Canada, overwhelmed whatever mb they were broadcasting on. And if i used poorly shielded guitar cords in would hear both stations thru a bass guitar amp.
LOL yeah I recall hearing stations at night coming in on cassette recorder amps
Thee oddest thing l ever heard on SW was when l was setting my clox to a universal time station & it paused to give a weather report...for outer space. Solar flare activity - meteor showers etc.
Really, never heard that! great stuff
Any way to get a tape copy of some if the broadcasts you compiled into shortwave gold part1? Bill
I thought I was the only one to do this. Great
LOL I think there were a lot of us exploring the world before the internet
@@MikesMovies I also recorded CB radio traffic
Judged by the comments, I seem to be one of the oldest here? I remember listening to european and global stations, SW-MW-LW, during day and night time, in the 60s - this was when the Beatles appeared. Agreed, it was a great time, something the present generations will find hard to appreciate...
Ah you were really in the golden age then
08:10 Interval signal #12: Spanish Foreign Radio (Radio Exterior de España)
You are right
I miss those days
Escuchaba onda corta shoreway a través de un radio fabuloso Shark muy bonita captación
Buone radio allora?
the Dutch station of Hilversum has a really majestic signal at 4:36
I agree tottaly
Interval signal 13 is Radio Berlin International
73's and 88's to all YL's and OM's.
Interval signal 11: WWV. Interval signal Interval signal 13: Radio Berlin International. 12 sounds very familiar but can't place it. Belgium, maybe? 14 really isn't an interval signal at all, just time pips at the top of the hour, could be from anywhere.
Thanks for watching
#14 was a clever one. It was HCJB's own top of the hour time pips. HCJB used them at the top of every hour. The program from which this interval signal contest was featured was, of course, "DX Party Line" on HCJB, Quito, Ecuador. Clayton Howard was the original host.
I remember that interval signal contest!!! I dont think I did well at the time.
lol it was always fun to try :)
16:17 Pity I don't know Swedish... I must've heard this song used as "bumper music" from somewhere! Does anyone know what this was?
Fantastic.
@@admiralradish thanks very much
Thanks for posting this
Cheers Joe
Fantastic video. Out of interest, are any of the stations recorded still broadcasting on Shortwave? I know BBC WS stopped SW transmissions in Europe a while ago. Any others?
Many thanks Alex, sadly most of them seem to have stopped, we had the best of it my friend.
Voice of Turkey, Voice of Vietnam, All India are stil on air. I think Radio Australia is too but I'm not sure.
great vidéo,
Thanks
Interval Signal #14: Voice of Turkey (old IS)
I wish they'd bring back shortwave.
Me too!
Love your recordings do you have any I can buy off you on MP3 file or cassettes please let me know thanks again
Thanks very much, I'd recommended one of the youtube downloaders and save the file as an mp3?
Where's G03- gong station chimes?
My mom and grandparents have a audio cassette tape with a recording of gong station chimes
wow that would be good to hear