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Tuesday, 5 June 2018

1980s shortwave sounds - part 6

Welcome to some more shortwave radio recordings from the 80s. Among the clips featured include HCJB and the theme music for their popular DX Party Line show, Radio Afghanistan - putting in a good signal thanks to relays from the USSR (which had invaded the country in 1979) - and Radio Moscow asking for listeners to get involved in their programmes.

Tracklisting
Radio Algiers: Sign off
Radio Sweden: Sign on and off
Radio Habana Cuba: Address
HCJB, Ecuador: Address, ID, DX Party Line theme
Radio Moscow North American service: Sign on (using 14 frequencies!)
Voice of Turkey: Sign on and off
Radio Afghanistan: Sign on to Europe
Voice of Free China, Taiwan: ID, address
Radio Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Sign on
Radio France Int English service: Address, sign off
Voice of Vietnam - sign on, address, sign off
Radio Moscow World Service: Listener participation request
Radio Nacional Brasil: Sign on

(22:43 mins)

Here is the link:
https://www.mixcloud.com/shortwave_listener/shortwave-radio-in-the-1980s-6/

Monday, 7 May 2018

1980s shortwave sounds - part one

There's some interesting recordings in this first batch of clips from around 1980.

Chile was under the control of the Pinochet military dictatorship, and ran an international service called the Voice of Chile. This clip features the station's interval signal, sign on and close down of its English service.

Radio RSA was the voice of South Africa - still under apartheid rule at this stage.

Radio Norway had an English programme, although it was limited to 30 minutes a week!

Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, and its foreign service was called Radio Kiev.

Iraq, under the rule of Saddam Hussein, maintained an English service. The clip features Radio Baghdad signing on.

The full tracklisting is:

Voice of Chile: Sign on & off
Radio RSA, South Africa: Sign on & off
Radio Algiers, Algeria: Sign on
Transworld Radio, Bonaire: Sign on, ID
Radio Norway: Sign on & off
Radio Kiev, Ukraine: Address, sign off
Radio Pakistan: Sign on
Radio Baghdad, Iraq: Sign on
Radio Korea, South Korea

(22:01 minutes)

Here's the link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/shortwave_listener/shortwave-radio-1980s/