Welcome

When I first started listening to shortwave at the end of the 1970s, it was a very different place. Many countries maintained an international service broadcasting to all corners of the world.

You could tune the dial and travel the world. But over the years these stations have disappeared with only a handful still running international services.

I recorded many of these now long disappeared sounds onto cassette tapes.

I have now downloaded these recordings and can share some of them with you. All these recordings were made in the early years of the 1980s.

So sit back and enjoy the sounds of shortwave from the past.

Shortwave stations from 1980s: The Americas

Argentina: RAE (0)
Bonaire: Trans World Radio (3.31)
Brazil: Radio Nacional do Brasil (4.32)
Canada: Radio Canada Int (6.58)
Chile: Voice of Chile (8.48)
Colombia: Radio Nacional (11.06)
Radio Sutatenza (12.00)
Cuba: Radio Havana (12.48)
Dominican Republic: La Voz del CID (14.20)
Radio Clarin (15.01)
Ecuador: HCJB (15.43)
Grenada: Radio Free Grenada (17.36)
Nicaragua: Voice of Nicaragua (18.42)
USA: Voice of America (19.54)
Radio Earth (20.33)
KCBI (21.39)
WHRI (22.13)
WRNO (22.38)
WYFR (22.49)

UN Radio (23.22)
Venezuela: Radio Turismo 24.48)
Radio Tachira (25.31)
YVTO (26.06)

Total running time: 26.33

Shortwave stations from 1980s: Asia and the Pacific

Afghanistan: Radio Afghanistan (0)
Australia: Radio Australia (1.55)
Bangladesh: Radio Bangladesh (3.18)
China: Radio Peking (4.23)
India: All India Radio (6.16)
Japan: Radio Japan (7.29)
Korea (North): Radio Pyongyang (9.02)
Korea (South): Radio Korea (12.26)
Malaysia: Voice of Malaysia (14.22)
New Zealand: Radio New Zealand (15.49)
Pakistan: Radio Pakistan (16.13)
Saipan: KFBS & KYOI (16.44)
Taiwan: Voice of the Free China (18.14)
Tajikistan: Radio Dushanbe (19.01)
Uzbekistan: Radio Tashkent (19.22)
Vietnam: Voice of Vietnam (20.16)

Total running time 20.47 minutes

https://archive.org/details/swstations-asia-pacific