Interval Signals of Cold War Europe

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  • Опубліковано 24 січ 2025

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  • @dernochjungenoergler
    @dernochjungenoergler 5 місяців тому +38

    the 20th century is actually sooo melancholic, thank you for this important and interesting historical material

  • @REDARROW_A_Personal
    @REDARROW_A_Personal 3 місяці тому +8

    It's funny in the background of the British Jingle you can hear Radio Moscow trying to hijack the Airwaves. My dad used to do stuff with radio in the Nederlands and he remembers when Radio Moscow would try and hijack the Airwaves and so they would have the theme of Radio Moscow blasting through on the feedback.

    • @misterhardee
      @misterhardee 12 днів тому

      @@REDARROW_A_Personal It’s Co Channel Interference, not “hijacking”. This is common, especially at night on MW and SW. For example, on 729 kHz, you can hear Radio Nacional de España and ERT Proto Programma at the same time. This is caused by a layer of the atmosphere disappearing. Another example is that on 1010 kHZ CFRB Toronto and WINS NYC could be heard at the same time during the night

  • @parkerengineering
    @parkerengineering 5 місяців тому +16

    This is a brilliant compendium! I heard these as a kid in the 1970s as my father waited for the approaching time and propagation. My favorite was West Germany, and so glad to now know the tweets of the bird were Italy. Thanks much from an radio engineer in Virginia USA.

    • @imirkotv
      @imirkotv 4 місяці тому +1

      Those RAI "birds" were quite peculiar. Especially because I read somewhere these are actually sounds made by a machine and not a recording of real birds.

  • @tonycampbell2910
    @tonycampbell2910 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks for bringing back memories of the way shortwave radio used to be

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 5 місяців тому +15

    Am a Cold War nerd, so, thanks for the upload.

  • @Rinahoidhche
    @Rinahoidhche 5 місяців тому +10

    I never heard the Vatican radio ident before. It's absolutely lovely. Laudate Iesus Christus!

    • @cyril1522
      @cyril1522 3 місяці тому +1

      still in air

  • @DarwinHansen
    @DarwinHansen 2 місяці тому +3

    Listening to those interval signals brought back so many wonderful memories.

  • @sofiaflorina
    @sofiaflorina 5 місяців тому +18

    My favorite is Soviet Union, Sweden and East Germany. Ah, I miss the good old days of shortwave radio.

  • @thefrench8847
    @thefrench8847 5 місяців тому +14

    0:21 UK
    0:57 Ireland
    1:10 Iceland
    1:22 Norway
    1:57 Sweden
    2:34 Finland
    2:55 Denmark
    3:16 West Germany
    3:29 East Germany
    3:47 Austria
    4:13 Switzerland
    4:28 the Netherlands
    4:47 Luxembourg
    4:56 Belgium
    5:18 France
    5:30 Monaco
    6:11 Andorra
    6:44 Spain
    7:14 Portugal
    7:55 Italia
    8:15 Holy See
    8:39 Malta
    9:20 Greece
    9:47 Türkiye
    10:23 Republic of Cyprus
    10:42 Bulgaria
    11:10 Jugoslavia
    11:19 Albania
    12:01 Rumani
    12:22 Hungary
    12:58 Czechoslovakia
    13:10 Poland
    13:21 URSS

  • @eesti_lv
    @eesti_lv 5 місяців тому +5

    _THANK YOU SO MUCH!_ I really wanted a compilation of interval signals, I love them so much, thank you :).

  • @ElTovarish
    @ElTovarish 5 місяців тому +12

    I love how the USSRs tune is heard on the background of the uks

  • @misterhardee
    @misterhardee 21 день тому +1

    6:56 I think that’s España Cani. Played that last year at my school. Didn’t know we played something from the Franco era

    • @Leslieee91
      @Leslieee91 20 днів тому

      Yes. España Cañi is a traditional song of Spain, a pasodoble and was composed in 1923 before Spanish Civil War and Franco (1939-1975).

  • @paulcrisp9861
    @paulcrisp9861 2 місяці тому +4

    This is totaly sublime, shortwave paradise from yesteryear with all those haunting and poignant jingles from another time ,another dimension. Wonderful Wonderful 🙏❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 oct twenty four ✨️

  • @docsdoc
    @docsdoc Місяць тому +1

    What beautiful memories it brings back. Thank you

  • @numberstation
    @numberstation 3 місяці тому +4

    Wonderful stuff. With state censorship so prevalent again these days, perhaps governments should consider returning to shortwave broadcasting once more..?

  • @mikelenahan9253
    @mikelenahan9253 4 місяці тому +5

    So many good memories of these stations. On school nights I would put my ear phones on so my folks would not know I was staying up late to cruise the world. My trusty Eico 718 did a decent job. Now I am old and a Ham with over 200 countries confirmed . However still doesn't match the thrill of those days.. I wish there were more stations on the air now. I also would stay up and listen to AFRTS and it's daily Vietnam reports. I lay there wondering when I would end up there. Crazy times.

    • @marnanel
      @marnanel Місяць тому

      Where were you, back then?

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o 5 місяців тому +61

    Here in Estonia, people used to tune in to YLE to break the USSR censorship. Cool stuff!

    • @TheScottishBOLSHEVIK
      @TheScottishBOLSHEVIK 4 місяці тому

      Unbased as they were following the likes of radio free Europe which then adovoacged for fkn shock therapy and that's how u got modern e europe. Drunks drug addicts barbarism and dis unity to the the ruling class. The ussr and East collapsed with Krustachev to Goebachev and its captlsim and the help of the cia.

    • @genodile7004
      @genodile7004 Місяць тому +1

      Estonia was part of USSR. That sentence would've made sense if you were from Poland, which wasn't a part of the USSR, and wrote "Here in Poland, people used to such and such to break the USSR censorship. Cool stuff!"

  • @misterhardee
    @misterhardee 12 днів тому +1

    Norway’s interval sounds like it would be in Minecraft

  • @GabeLily
    @GabeLily 5 місяців тому +7

    interesting how Italy is just birds, then "RAI - RadioTelevisione Italiana."

    • @LetsFixTechnology
      @LetsFixTechnology 5 місяців тому +3

      They still do the bird sound before regional news on *Radio3

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@LetsFixTechnologyAt least they kept that tradition.

  • @misterhardee
    @misterhardee 21 день тому +1

    Questions about the 1st one:
    Where was the Soviet station’s transmitter in the background located in?
    Was the Soviet station targeting international listeners or a domestic station targeting Soviets?

  • @OfficialMasquesDouloureux
    @OfficialMasquesDouloureux 5 місяців тому +10

    Loved the USSR one, rhis one is also great!

  • @malikjaved8012
    @malikjaved8012 4 місяці тому +3

    Nice old memories

  • @misterhardee
    @misterhardee 12 днів тому

    7:18 If you listen very closely, you can hear another station in the background but it’s very faint. What station is it?

  • @RaysGamingChannel2003
    @RaysGamingChannel2003 Місяць тому +1

    Wait did you do a video of interval signals of Cold War era Asia?

  • @palps7210
    @palps7210 2 місяці тому +3

    Anyone know the song in the Sweden interval?

    • @jsnowdendavies
      @jsnowdendavies Місяць тому +1

      "Ut i vida världen" by Ralph Lundsten

  • @MrKrano
    @MrKrano 2 дні тому

    Very nice

  • @Shmendan2
    @Shmendan2 19 днів тому

    This is where many of those fake EAS video sound effects come from. Similar vibe too

  • @danikt2610
    @danikt2610 Місяць тому +1

    May I ask why the woman is praying and later speaking in Russian in Monaco's radio signal?

    • @marnanel
      @marnanel Місяць тому

      Radio Monte Carlo carried programming in English, French, and Russian from Trans World Radio, which is a Christian missionary organisation.

  • @小野芋子
    @小野芋子 4 місяці тому +3

    おぉー!廃墟からの復活、東ドイツの国歌!
    国破れたりとも国歌は偉大なり。

  • @commissarmax4832
    @commissarmax4832 Місяць тому

    Yugoslavia has "The Internationale" as jingle

  • @Fire_Axus
    @Fire_Axus 5 місяців тому

    4:27 this sounds like something that Imaginary Soundscapes would generate

  • @DonTornado
    @DonTornado Місяць тому

    Does anyone know the names of the songs for Norway, Malta, and Turkey?

  • @ksfAandkhiproductions151
    @ksfAandkhiproductions151 5 днів тому

    do asia pls

  • @christopherneufelt8971
    @christopherneufelt8971 5 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for the lovely memories. Gods, I miss the cold war.

  • @OGUREC2007
    @OGUREC2007 5 місяців тому +3

    Can you do Cold war asian radio interval signals next?

  • @igorbondarenko5077
    @igorbondarenko5077 4 місяці тому +1

    полная хорошая подборка позывных

  • @CommanderVimes-l5x
    @CommanderVimes-l5x 5 місяців тому +15

    United Kingdom: 🧐🔔
    Ireland: ☺😄
    Iceland: 😊😁
    Norway: 😌😌
    Sweden: 🤫😄
    Finland: 🤭🤭
    Denmark: 🙂😄
    West Germany: 😉😉
    East Germany: 😪😴
    Austria: 😐😮
    Switzerland: 🌃😴
    Netherlands: 😕😕
    Luxembourg: 😐😐
    Belgium: 😐🤔
    France: 😐😐
    Monaco: 😶😶
    Andorra: 😁😄
    Spain: 🙂😮
    Portugal: 😊😊
    Italy: 🐦🐦
    Vatican City: 😇😇
    Malta: 🏖🏝
    Greece: 😶🤔
    Turkey: 🙂😳
    Cyprus: 😊🤭
    Bulgaria: 😄😄
    Yugoslavia: 😶😐
    Albania: 😮😮
    Romania: 😐😯
    Hungary: 📯🎻
    Czechoslovakia: 🤔😑
    Poland: 😯😥
    Soviet Union: 😳🥲

  • @richardpodnar5039
    @richardpodnar5039 Місяць тому

    12:23 Radio Budapest, Hungary --- arise Hungarians, the Motherland calks!😊❤

  • @chrono817
    @chrono817 5 місяців тому

    The Vatican's sounds like Bach

  • @Keya_RM
    @Keya_RM 5 місяців тому +3

    🗣️🔥 BBC 😳👃🏿 LONDON 🇬🇧

  • @denisecavalcantiramosramos7387
    @denisecavalcantiramosramos7387 4 місяці тому +1

    I have a suggestion why you can't do the opening of the interval signal of the radios of all the countries of the world during the cold war most can be from the 50's to the 80's It's a good idea for your next video at least you can release it next week

  • @medium_effort_studio
    @medium_effort_studio 2 місяці тому +2

    Poland best 🚩

  • @Milk-xo5ne
    @Milk-xo5ne 3 місяці тому +1

    Radio Vatican 🎉

  • @super---.
    @super---. 5 місяців тому

    What were these used for

    • @shortwave330
      @shortwave330  5 місяців тому +1

      For Identifications mostly
      But also to inform other stations that this frequency is in use

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 5 місяців тому +2

      Unlike the US, European radio required stations to have a formal identity code played on air on a certain schedule to make finding stations easier on an analog radio. Such things weren't common on US radio, where instead broadcasters would make up individual and stylized "jingles."

    • @super---.
      @super---. 5 місяців тому +1

      @@johnroscoe2406 weird since I've been living in Europe my whole life and it's my first time hearing of this

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 5 місяців тому +1

      @@super---. Yeah that is weird. Good thing I'm not wrong nor making this up then.

    • @visaman
      @visaman 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@super---.Yes, these are from the 70s and 80s. London Calling is used in a Clash song.

  • @sciafanhareza
    @sciafanhareza 5 місяців тому +1

    Soviet

  • @MemellandGeneral1252
    @MemellandGeneral1252 5 місяців тому +1

    Reminds me of stereotypical music across Europe

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 5 місяців тому +3

      That's precisely why those stations used those pieces.

  • @KYOVG
    @KYOVG 5 місяців тому

    Another one of these?
    Anyways love the USSR!

  • @Majk369
    @Majk369 5 місяців тому

    Finland sounds like c418

  • @gurjeetsingh-gd1wr
    @gurjeetsingh-gd1wr 2 місяці тому

    Russovisky teuniski bestisky