The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Ian Pillar, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Radio 4DX

Date of recording: November 06, 2026

Starting time: 0935 UTC

Frequency: 5055 kHz

Reception location: NSW, Australia

Receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR Loop Antenna

Notes: Radio Dx Broadcasting from South Johnstone, a small community about 100 km SSW of Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia

4DX is owned and operated by Al Kirton VK4ALT

The present "test" programme is music with frequent voice IDs and station jingles.

Present transmission is 100 watts.

https://radio4dx.com.au/

78-RPM “acetate” record of this program playing on turntable:

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Timothy Stamps, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: WLW

Date of recording: July 28, 1947

Starting time: 1215

Frequency: 0.7 MHz (700 kHz)

Reception location: original recording by the BBC on transcription disc

Record label on transcription disc, recorded July 18, 1947

Notes: This is a recording gathered from "acetate" lacquer-coated aluminum discs (phonograph records) that are 12" transcription discs that were found in a library sale in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2025. The recording was made on July 18, 1947, by the BBC and transported to Cincinnati where it was aired on WLW 700 kHz AM (Medium Wave) ten days later on July 28, 1947.

Here are additional images and newspaper articles about the event recorded on the transcription discs:

Newspaper article, July 27, 1947:

May 25, 1947 newspaper article about the Kentucky Girl Scouts going to England for this Folk Music Festival:

Part 1:

Part 2:

DUGA-2: Photo by Stephen Cooper

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Andronicus, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Russian Woodpecker (Duga-1 radar), heard behind WWVH

Notes: Historical recording (not my own reception), 21 seconds. The "Russian Woodpecker," the Duga-1 over-the-horizon radar at Chornobyl-2, as it interfered with WWVH on 2 November 1984. Public domain; sourced from Wikimedia Commons (File:Woodpecker.ogg) and mirrored on archive.org (item russian-woodpeckers, file Woodpecker.ogg.mp3).

Two silences, not one: the Chernobyl-2 site stopped on 26 April 1986, the morning of the accident; the signal the world heard ended in 1989 with no announcement, ever. A fuller trace, sources included: https://ilands.ai/content/357340047449526272

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Radio Havana Cuba

Date of recording: May 21, 1985

Starting time: 0630

Frequency: 9.525

Reception location: Minnetonka, MN

Receiver and antenna: ICOM R-70 with a longwire

Notes: Broadcast the day after the launch of Radio Martí, with related commentary. Also featured are a look back at the historic Freedom Rides in the United States, From the Land of Music, and Panorama on the Second International Electroacoustic Music Festival in Cuba.

Icom R70 via Universal Radio

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Tom Gavaras, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Radio Earth on WRNO

Date of recording: March 10, 1984

Starting time: 0300

Frequency: 6.185 MHz

Reception location: Minnetonka, MN

Receiver and antenna: ICOM R70 with a longwire

Notes: Radio Earth via WRNO on March 10, 1984, at 0300 UTC on 6185 kHz, with Jeff White. Includes Dialogue Communications Magazine, featuring an interview with Larry Miller of Miller Publishing about the shortwave books and publications he published; Dan Rosen’s logs; a profile of the Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts; news from ANARC (Association of North American Radio Clubs); and This Is the Caribbean, with Rudy Espinal in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Voice of Tigray Revolution, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1999

Date of recording: February 21, 1999

Frequency: 5.550 MHz

Reception location: Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada

Receiver and antenna: Drake SW-8 with longwire antenna

Notes: Interval signal and sign on as heard on a DXpedition to Coe Hill, near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: All India Radio

Starting time: 0100

Frequency: 10330

Reception location: South Bend, Indiana

Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-2001

Notes: One of the most enjoyable aspects of shortwave listening for me is the amazing variety of music that can be heard from all over the globe. I'm particularly interested in music from the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent. I recorded a large amount of music from All India Radio back in the early 2000s and compiled them into several recordings. AIR used to have a killer signal in our evenings on 10330 kHz and I recorded many hours of their programming. I've compiled nine (so far) music tapes from these recordings. I don't know the exact dates for these recordings.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Tom Laskowski, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: BBC

Date of recording: April 30, 1982

Starting time: 0000

Frequency: 15400

Reception location: South Bend, Indiana

Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-302

Notes: Here is a recording from 1982 of BBC's Calling the Falklands from April 30, 1982 made during the Falklands War. I believe this was recorded around 0000 UT on 15400 kHz and I believe this was from the transmitter location was Ascension Island. The audio isn't great and was likely recorded on my DX-302 which didn't have great audio.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Jim Jordan, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Radio Algiers International

Date of recording: August 30, 2026

Starting time: 1914 UTC

Frequency: 531 kHz

Reception location: UK

Receiver and antenna: Lowe HF 150 plus 50m random

Notes: Not shortwave but medium wave. If you are in search of international broadcasters, using English, sometimes you have to ski off piste.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: Radio Payam

Date of recording: July 10, 2026

Starting time: 2049 UTC

Frequency: 15.615 MHz

Receiver location: Qatar

Receiver and antenna: KiwiSDR with MLA-30+ loop antenna

Notes: A station called Radio Payam (Radio Message) has been heard recently on 15615 kHz transmitting from Woofferton, UK, with content critical of the Iranian government. The broadcasts are in Persian, and their schedule seems to run from 1700 to 2100 hours UTC.

This unofficial station provides a contrast to the Iranian state-run Radio Payam, signaling a new source of anti-Tehran content.

This recording was made starting at 2049 UTC on July 10, 2026. using a KiwiSDR located in Qatar, where, oddly enough, QRM from a bubble jammer was considerably less than when listening on similar receivers throughout Europe.

“Radio Payam” is mentioned about the 4:36 mark of the recording, and the broadcast concludes at 9:46 when only the bubble jammer can be heard A couple of minutes later, the bubble jammer’s signal goes off the air.