1970 SHORTWAVE RADIO: SCANNING ACROSS THE DIAL
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- DIGITALLY MASTERED AUDIO FROM MY PERSONAL MAGNETIC TAPE ARCHIVE. THE VINTAGE SOUNDS OF SHORTWAVE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS DURING THE COLD WAR. THAT IS 15-YEAR-OLD ME CALLING OUT THE DATE AT 4:27. THIS SOUNDS A BIT SPOOKY HERE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. ENJOY!
I am very sad tht today's shortwave radio doesn't have that same authentic cozy, fuzzy feeling.
Me too!
Yes, it was bloody marvellous! I use early Tangerine Dream to replicate the effect these days.
I had that same Panasonic cassette deck. I got my first short wave radio for Christmas, 1969. I still have it to this very day
We must be about the same age.
Not much on shortwave these days. Thanks for the memories. (Wish I knew where my tape of the Berlin wall coming down was).
Love this! Just came across this while doing a youtube search for shortwave recordings. Takes me back to my glory days of SWL during the mid 90s. Except I didn't have access to a tape recorder that I felt would do the recordings justice. Having said that, was this recording made just by placing the mic next to the radio? As for the content, so much information here, so much activity on the band compared to today (2023). I'm getting back into my radio hobby, but there just isn't as much to hear anymore. Sure, we can get lots of information online now days, but there's no charm to it. No wondering if the signal would come in today, and/or be understanbable.
Thank you. This was a direct analog recording of the radio receiver final output without using a microphone.
excellent! thank you, this is a real time machine👍👍👍
I’m glad that you enjoyed it.
@@JimMcDade_Exploration Thanks for the reply
Brings back memories
i have enjoyed this I REMEMBER GOOD TIMES FROM 70'S-80'S, WHEN LISTENING THIS, here in Colombia there was short wave's radio stations at these times.
In the 1990s I performed a live mix (no beats) of shortwave noises and people danced!
Very cool!
Very nice. I have some shortwave recordings from the 1980s in my own archive. I should upload some.
Please let me know if you do upload those.
You really should. I'd love to listen to them
Thank you so much for this treasure! I spent many hours as a kid in the 70s listening to my parents' Fonovox hi-fi, scanning the SW band. I still have that old Hi-fi (am/fm/sw/phono, in a big piece of furniture), and it still works, too! So freaky, I had that Panasonic cassette deck too when i was young, and i just found another one in a junk shop last year for $5. Still works, too!
I’m glad that you enjoyed my recording. Radio was better in many ways on all bands back then, right?
I was almost the same age when I did my shortwave listening, and have similar recordings of WWV doing it's noisy timekeeping broadcast, before they changed over to Coordinated Universal Time. There was SO MUCH being broadcast back then! Not only could you get the anti-American news from Radio Moscow, but also the comments about "American imperialist aggressors" from Radio Havana Cuba with similar propaganda, while the Vietnam war dragged on.
Upload yours too.... mine are long lost....
Imagine having an SDR radio in the 1970s
If you had an SDR radio in the 1970s you probably had “secret” technology.
They had computers in the 70s so I guess it would be possible at a government level or large corp
@@RJDA.Dakota Oh there were plenty of CIA, NSA, and "Other" listening stations around the world that were recording just about everything. The difference then was it was mostly done with huge banks of receiver front ends where the IF was recorded to reel to reel tape. The IF's used were very wide.....megacycles.....so lots of signals were captured from each receiver. Multiply that by hundreds at each facility and then hundreds around the world and you start to get an idea of the scope of the project. Imagine having access to the recordings from just one facility, it would be the closest thing to a time machine that we'll ever see !!!
@@ronanzann4851 Fascinating. How could one theoretically make use of those recordings? Could they be "played back" in modern SDR software?
I was doing a lot of shortwave listening around that time. I even remember essay contests that the Soviet bloc stations were having. In addition, Radio Nederland, BBC (I used to listen to a show called "Records Round The World". Radio Havana Cuba would have their announcers read the text from The Voice of Vietnam broadcasts while the war was going on (sometimes early mornings I could catch them directly in various languages...despite the US networks referring to "Radio Hanoi" there was no such thing. I got to enjoying the DXing aspects and tropical band listening.
The sound quality was better than I remembered, though there of course was a lot of fading and interference on the SW.
I created my own recording setup back then and I have heard from others about the excellent quality of my old recordings of radio and television broadcasts. I later worked in radio, television, and film and I was very disappointed by both the recording technology and methods used in television and many in the Hollywood film industry. When I watch some of the classic films from the late 1960s and early 1970s today, my feelings about the quality their work back then is affirmed.
Slaying (Doing good) right now!
Absolutely incredible thanks for posting
Wow... not very often I go searching on UA-cam and find exactly what I'm looking for first hit.... well, not quite, 'cus i want MY tape not yours... but it's close enough. ;)
Really reminds me of the 1970s-1990s when I used among many Panasonic recorders including this very one. Also had an RF 2200 and a Realistic Astronaut 4 shortwave radio to go with that and I have many hours of shortwave radio stations on cassette. Some have been redone on to CDs but that project stopped when the CD recorder quit. But I still have quite a bit on cassette tape that is still actually listenable.
Hmmm shortwave radio still sounds pretty much the same in 2022 as in the 70's, same weird noises news programs, time stations, propaganda and politics. What kind of radio were you using back then? I listen to SW on a Sangean ATS-909X-2 hooked up to a 25 ft long wire antenna. Shortwave is not dead there's a lot to hear on the bands right now.
Great to here well done
Thanks!
that ticking sound was probably the clock station, telling the time and date
Yes, That was the old National Bureau of Standards (Now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology.) clock that was used to set clocks all over the USA and on ships at sea. The call letters were, and still are WWV.
www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-distribution/radio-station-wwv
@@JimMcDade_Exploration ah yes
I wonder who won the free trip to the Soviet Union, mentioned at the 6:47 mark.
This is amazing thank you!
Boylston Chisolm was the official time announcer for WWV.
Absolutely!🤣
Morse code on WWV? I’ve never heard that before.
Yes. That was long ago.
Sounds like machine code
Any full tapes of these? I'd love to buy
them from you,or buy cds of them from you
This is amazing great quality.Do you have any more
I still have many hours of old tapes to review. I will post any more that I find. Thanks.
Thanks. I wish that I had some more.