The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive is a podcast that contains off-air recordings from the shortwaves. These recordings represent the wide variety of stations found on the shortwave, long wave and medium wave radio spectrums (30-30,000 kHz)
Episodes
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Wang, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: BBC4
Date of recording: June 26, 2026
Starting time: 19:58UTC
Frequency: 0.198MHz
Your location: Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands
Your receiver and antenna: "Mini-Whip" antenna in AM m...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Andrew, who shares the following recording from Radio 4.
“I chose to record the programme on one of my old radios received on the soon-to-be-discontinued Droitwich 198kHz transmitter.
The radio is a Pye Mistral (picture attached) which was (almost) the first radio that I even had around 1972. It might even be tuned to the right place on the dial ("Radio 2", 150...
Many thanks to several SRAA contributors who have shared recordings of CHU Canada during its final days as a shortwave time signal station.
This first recording was sent to us via Ronald McKinnon and is the National Research Council’s own recording of the final minutes of CHU on the air. Here are the notes that accompanied this recording:
Broadcaster: National Research Council CHU
This is the BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica recorded on June 21, 2026 at 09:30 UTC in Foulden, Scotland, UK. The radio was an Elecraft KX2 connected to a 31-foot 9:1 random wire antenna in the back garden. The broadcast starts on 9460 kHz, but I then move to 12070 kHz because it had slightly less local noise.
...Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Xing Xing Guangbo Diantai (Star Star Broadcasting Station)
Date of recording: March 16, 2026
Starting time: 2358
Frequency: 19.052
Your location: Thailand
Your receiver and antenna: Kiwi SDR with Wellbrook loop
Mode: Single Side Band
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Harner, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Sandino, Managua, Nicaragua
Date of recording: March 25, 1984
Starting time: 0730z/1:30 AM local time
Frequency: 6200 kHz
RX location: St. Louis, MO
Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2001, longwire
...Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Israel Broadcasting Authority, Jerusalem 1971
Date of recording: Circa 1971
Starting time: 2130 UTC
Frequency: 9.625 MHz
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Mode: A...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Liam Spencer, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Nacional da Amazonia
Date of recording: July 16, 2025
Starting time: 00:05 UTC
Frequency: 11.780 MHz
Reception location: Berthoud, Colorado, USA
Receiver and antenna: Sihuadon D-808 with telescopic antenna
Mode: AM
Notes: H...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
On March 16, I listened to V32 using the SV1BTL SDR in Athens, Greece. The voice came on at exactly 1800 UTC, but right up to 1759, the bubble jammer was being heard on that frequency. There did not appear to be any jamming during the actual "broadcast". The signal was very strong, averaging 20 dB over 9. At 1823 UTC, ...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
I made the following recording (March 15, 2026 at 1822 UTC on 7842 kHz USB)) of V32 using a Kiwi SDR in Alvito, Italy. The "tavajjoh" (3X) announcement comes around the 6:09 mark, after which the numbers seem to run together more, rather than distinct groups of 5.
...Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Ghana circa 1971
Frequency: 11.850
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Notes: Back in 1971, Radio Ghana from Accra had an external service, this one beamed to North America and the C...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Jim Jordan, who shares the following recording of Radio Farda being actively jammed. Jim also shares these notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Farda
Date of recording: January 28, 2026
Starting time: 1700 UTC
Frequency: 7.5 MHz
Your location: NW UK
Your receiver and antenna: Lowe HF 150 plus 50m random
Notes: A bit reminis...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Xing Xing Guangbo Diantai (Star Star Broadcasting Station)
Date of recording: March 16, 2026
Starting time: 2358 UTC
Frequency: 19.052 MHz
Receiver location: Thailand
Receiver and antenna: Kiwi SDR with Wellbrook loop
Mode: Single Side Band
...Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: V32 Persian/Farsi numbers station
Date of recording: March 13, 2026
Starting time: 0226 UTC
Frequency: 7.842 MHz
Receiver location: Israel
Receiver and antenna: Kiwi SDR with MLA-30+ Active antenna
Mode: Single Side Ban...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Liam Spencer, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Polish Radio External Service (Via WRN and WRMI)
Date of recording: September 26, 2025
Starting time: 02:59 UTC
Frequency: 9.455 MHz
Reception location: Berthoud, Colorado, USA
Receiver and antenna: Sihuadon D-808 with telescopic antenna
Not...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Harner, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Netherlands 'Media Network' Program
Date of recording: April 29, 1982
Starting time: Unknown
Frequency: unknown
Reception location: St.Louis, MO
Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2001
Notes: This is a partial recording of "Media Network," ...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Harner, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Union, Lima Peru July 1994
Date of recording: July 01, 1994
Starting time: 0730-0815 UTC
Frequency: 6115 kHz
Your location: St.Louis, MO
Your receiver and antenna: Icom IC R-71-A
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes: Radio Union in L...
Many thanks to SRAA contributor Paul Harner, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Netherlands 'Media Network' Program
Date of recording: April 23, 1987
Starting time: Unknown
Frequency: Either 6165 or 9590 kHz
Reception location: St.Louis, MO
Receiver and antenna: Icom IC R-71-A
Notes: I recorded "Media Network" usin...
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