November 21, 2018

Podcast #168 – A Time Machine for All the Radio plus Shortwave

1 hour 24 minutes

Perhaps you are like me and you have wished that you could go back in time and spin a radio dial and just listen to and browse the full radio spectrum from another time and place. Our guest on the show, Radio Anthropologist Thomas Witherspoon, is building a website for just such a thing. It’s called the Radio Spectrum Archive and it is not magic, it uses a piece of technology called a software defined radio that makes recording a full spectrum of Shortwave, AM and even FM radio (if you have the computing power to handle the load) a very real possibility. Thomas Witherspoon is also the primary contributor to The Shortwave Listening Post (www.swling.com) so we are going to learn a few things about the wonder that is shortwave radio on planet earth.

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Show Notes:

The SWLing Post is a community of shortwave radio and amateur radio enthusiasts

The Radio Spectrum Archive

The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

More on the Cuban Number Stations

An Archive of Radio Strange; a shortwave pirate

An Archive of Radio Casablanca; a shortwave pirate that plays a nostalgic mix of music from the 1930’s and 1940’s

Building a Time Machine For Radio (Spectrum IEEE)

1986 Radio Spectrum recording