0:00 Radio Tirana 0:43 Radio Prague 1:02 Radio France Internationale 1:17 Radio Berlin International 1:26 Voice of German Democratic Republic 1:40 Deutschlandfunk 1:50 Deutsche Welle 1:57 Radio Budapest 2:08 RAI International 2:51 Radio Netherlands 3:20 Radio Norway 4:00 Radio Polonia 4:15 Radio Moscow World Service 5:05 BBC WS 5:26 Radio Sweden 5:55 Radio Sweden 6:13 Swiss Radio Int. 6:23 BBC World Service 6:45 Radio France International 7:03 Vatican Radio 7:22 BBC European Service
When I was 9 years old, during the Christmas school holidays of 1986, I turned the switch on our family radio/cassette player to "SW" and I discovered an addiction that would change my life forever! I would listen to Shortwave in the evening after homework during the tumultuous years for the late 1980s and early 1990s. Thank you for uploading these recordings which bring back so many memories, of radio, and of my early life.
I did the same thing with a hallicrafters sw 500 reciever in 1985, It was my dads old radio. Now I am a ham operator, Wondering where all the good stations are.
Similar story here except my time was the seventies and the eighties in India. Discovered the world of shortwave by chance and spent a lifetime there. Still today people ask how I know so much about the world. Quickly I moved into the world of building antennas, single side band and utilities like the police airports and installations like dams. Crowning moments were the PanAm hijacking in Karachi in 1979 where I could listen to the Karachi airport and the Indian attempts to establish contact, the Falklands war and Indira Gandhi assassination. All of this was on Short wave if you knew where to listen. Computer killed the radio star!
It was a really strong emotion for me to hear, after so many many years, these musics. I knew almost all of them. This collectiom gives me a strong feeling. A past time when I listened to short waves as my father did. As someone wrote, also for me there was a mixture of interest and fear for those voices coming, during the night, from distant countries. Thank you very much for posting... Ciao
It was kinda creepy listening to all those bleeps whistles,and static crashes. But it was like taking a trip around the world,Without leaving your home,back then.
Oh man, i was a shortwave junkie in the late seventies. I used to dream of visiting all these places. Still want to see Germany. These tunes bring back a feeling of those times. Great stuff.
This is all totally sublime, shortwave paradise from yesteryear with all these haunting and poignant jingles from another time another dimension. Wonderful wonderful. Dec 2021🎵💎❤🎵🇬🇧🇬🇧
In the 1970s I was fascinated by shortwave broadcasting. Some of these made me feel very nostalgic, especially Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, and Swiss Radio Int. I used to imagine European countries far away from Japan. Some of these are what I wanted to listen to, but could not. Thank you for uploading!
Oh my word, back in the 70's I used to hear the Radio Prague and Tirana music idents when listening as an 11 year old with my sw radio. The tunes have stuck in my head for an extra 40 years. I've searched as to what they were for years but never found out. I couldn't google tunes in my head. But then....I found this video. Haha, talk about nostalgia trip! Many thanks for posting this.
Brings back many memories. I grew up on SW Radio broadcasts since I was 12 years old. I started with an old tube radio first and had many radios over the years. Really miss it all. Thanks.
@@Kaizerzydeco1 .....and I recall when Radio Tirana announced that the electricity grid had been completed in Albania. The announcement was "The whole of Albania has been ELECTROCUTED!!" Something lost in translation there!!!
That damn Radio Tirana interval signal used to interfere with BBC transmissions at night, notably BBC Radio 1 on MW in the 1970s. It just used to repeat when there were no programs. Some even wondered if it was done deliberately as a jamming signal.
harre67 you are amazing, what a collection of the best signals ever. The quality is fantastic. I agree with the other posters, you have created a time machine, thank you so much, what great memories.
Thank you for this posting. Lovely memories as a kid mad about shortwave radio. Later on lived in Iran and Nigeria listening to some of these stations. I lived in extreme north of Nigeria. In the evenings I would sit on my house verandah and look out onto inky black, shortwave radio at my side hoping to hear the BBC World Service & Saturday night play, reception permitting. Sheer magic.
David, what year were you in Nigeria? I was a little boy in Lagos around 1966-1975, and in Kano around 1975-1976. I remember waking up to my dad's shortwave radio every morning in time for the BBC World News and VOA so hearing their station id music takes me right back to that era.
Hi Joel. I lived in Sokoto, north west Nigeria from 1979 to 1984. Shortwave radio & the BBC World Service was my main source of news, entertainment. Loved Sokoto. Used to travel to Kano to connect with London flights. After Nigeria I moved to Lima, Peru where I am still
That’s the BBC World Service theme at 06:45. I remember Radio Tirana’s interval theme well, and how it interfered with medium wave listening in the early 1970’s. I had Radio Luxembourg in mind.
I came here today because a jingle from the early 1950s popped into my head, unbidden! Heard on the big, family valve radio - I used to listen after midnight when they'd gone to bed. Stuff like Radio Moscow trying to counter American propaganda was interesting but the GREATEST discovery for me was to hear 'This is the Voice of America, relayed from Tangier' (I'm in Liverpool, UK). there was the Philips 'Dance Hour (Johnny Ray and Martha Tilton advertising 'Alka Seltzer'). It was years before I realised that Martha Tilton was the singer with The Benny Goodman Orchestra. But the most exciting sound of all was when the Jazz hour was introduced by Duke Ellington's 'Take the A Train. That changed my musical life!
Impossible not to feel nostalgic listening to those magic radio signals. I wish I could set some of them as my mobile's ringtones. Thanks so much for posting.
Brilliant. Brings back so many memories of listening to these things on my Gran's old Roberts radio in the 70's, then during the 80's with my own radio. Got some nice QSL's from ECJB Quito Ecuador, Radio Moscow, Vatican Radio.
Wow, I loved to hear all these radio signals. I passed a good time of my life hearing these international radios through short waves! Thanks for the good time remembering all them!
Such great memories....... Standing look out on the bow of some old Victory ship these short wave stations were our only link to the outside world. Many Thanks
I loved listening to these shortwave broadcast station interval signals on my Cossor valved broadcast radio in the 70's. Radio Tirana was one of my favourites, followed by Radio Prague, Radio France Internationale, Rai International and the ever so lovely tune of Radio Nederland. A happy trip for sure down memory lane.
It's fun to try to identify all of these from memory. I believe the interval signals were chosen by each broadcaster to create that sensation: indelibly etched on the brain forever! The quality is amazing, much better than I remember listening to some of these on my old Hallcrafters receiver in the 60's and 70's. Favorite were: Deutsche Welle, RBI, Radio Prague, Radio Budapest. (Would have liked to see Radio Bucharest and Radio Sofia included in this collection). Always loved the eerie quality of Radio Norway's signal -- invokes the stillness of the fjords!
Saudações DXistas. Saudades de uma época de ouro da Ondas Curtas (SW), lá se vão 50 anos de muitas amizades e QSL's. Abraço a todos DXistas do mundo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Like sonic jewels these days! I only discovered SW listening mid last year but, while there is still a fair bit on there, very late at night, it's still nothing like the days when these were broadcast. Would be great to see a resurgence in interest but I can't see it ever happening. Great to hear though!
omg... i remember most of these tunes from the 80s behind the iron curtain in the ussr. listening to these stations, i thought i was traveling in those countries. i would often fall asleep with my sw-receiver turned on. back in the days the world was much different, and sw triggered our interest in other worlds exactly because the latter were barely accessible. pity the sw hardly exist nowadays. unforgettable times! :-)
Another 40-something who listened to short wave in the 70s and 80s. Deutsche Welle, the Radio Moscow arrangement of Midnight in Moscow (heard on longwave at night) and Radio Sweden when it was on medium wave. We found an ancient Racal valve communications receiver at boarding school, and spent many a cold winter evening turning around seeing what we could pull in. I find these interval signals very haunting and make me slightly sad to think that short wave is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
It's a shame DRM digital radio never took off, it would have given these broadcasters a high quality delivery platform with a better quality of reception and with robust modes to protect the signals from digital dropouts and dead air and make the audio more resilient to the atmospheric fading / active propagation conditions on AM bands, especially in winter when earlier darkness makes things more active in the ionosphere above the earth.
thanks! i allways wondered whatt and where that was (0.00 to 0.44 Radio tirana) it used to start up in background of radio london, in london on 206 mts medium wave at 11'o'clock every night and go on for about 10 mins.in the 70's thanks for posting this i now know after all this time
0:00 - Radio Tirana, 0:44 - Radio Prague, 1:02 - Radio France International, 1:49 - Radio Deutsche Welle, 2:08 - Radio Italia, 2:51 - Radio Nederlands, 4:00 - Radio Polonia - Poland, 5:26 - Radio Svenska, 6:14 - Radio Switzerland, 6:24 - BBC World Service (Big Ben then Lillibolero), 7:03 - Vatican Radio, 7:22 - BBC European Service pre 1975
incredibile!!! finalmente li ho trovati.... li ascoltavo ogni sera da ragazzina... i segnali di intervallo delle stazioni dell'est europeo nell'era della guerra fredda.... che emozione dava la radio allora... finally !!! I've found them! I have listened to it since I was a child... what a passion I had for them! the interval signals of Eastern Europa broadcasts in the time of cold War... what emotions gave the radio then.... thanks for posting it!
Yes, I remember Radio Tirana's broadcasts well. The fellow next door played it loudly and he had a copy of Mao's 'Red Book'. I also recall how the signal interfered with transmissions from BBC Radio 1.
It was still the magic of me being in a bed and hearing what someone else was saying or doing across one or two oceans about something happening in the world.
I used to wait ages for the vatican radio jingle to play that quaint jingle , if anything listening to them all is a blast from the past. Love them love them. Dec 2019👍👋❤🙏
0:00 Radio Tirana 0:40 Radio Prague 1:02 Radio France Internationale 1:17 Radio Berlin International 1:26 Voice of German Democratic Republic 1:40 Deutschlandfunk 1:50 Deutsche Welle 1:57 Radio Budapest 2:08 RAI International 2:51 Radio Netherlands 3:20 Radio Norway 4:00 Radio Polonia 4:15 Radio Moscow World Service 5:05 BBC World Service 5:26 Radio Sweden 5:55 Radio Sweden 6:13 Swiss Radio International 6:23 BBC World Service 6:45 Radio France International 7:03 Vatican Radio 7:22 BBC European Service (this is a redo of an older comment now with working timestamps)
The internet will never replace what SW radio meant to us. The under 40 crowd barely has a concept of SW radio. The under 30 crowd can't even fathom the concept of passive entertainment or not having to pay a recurring fee for program delivery. (with the exception of wi-fi thieves and Starbucks campers)
Ted Turner Ah yes, I remember quite well listening to SW radio for the first time when I was kid back in the 80s (I'm 38 now). One of the first stations I picked up was WWV on 2.5 MHz on my grandfolks' portable multi-band radio (I had no idea what it was at first, but it fascinated me!) I then later got a Heathkit SW radio from a neighbor, and my interest in shortwave (and later ham radio, my call is N0SXY) took off from there! Yes, it is sad that the newer generation will never get to experience in full force the mystery and variety shortwave radio once had. So disappointing most countries have discontinued SW broadcasting nowadays....
'The internet will never replace what SW radio meant to us'... Now the internet presents us with HD shortwave radio online! websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
Exactly. When Radio Australia shut down their transmitters, a comment was made that if you want to hear RA in the sticks, you'll now need to carry around a satellite dish. Shortwave is universal in its reach, and doesn't need the latest greatest gear to hear it. IMNSHO, I believe that instead of satellite and internet replacing shortwave, these services should exist alongside it.
@bluecatky Wow, we were just chatting about that this evening. I recall the just unending propaganda from Tirana in 1972 and on. I think the only other station today that comes close in in N. Korea, and of course, Radio Havana Cuba. You cannot imagine the memories hearing that provokes in my mind. Talk about a time machine!
Favourites are Radio Nederland, Radio Moscow, Radio Polonia, Deutsche Welle. There were loads more though, like Radio RSA Radio Ukraine, Beyond Australia, Radio New Zealand, Radio Canada. Not to forget the off-shore pirate pop stations and the BIG L!. The number stations the Buzzer and UVB76! Also rember as a little boy, my dad tuning in to Sputnik's beeps in the 16 meter band...That is when the radio bug bit me!
Despite all of the wondrous and amazing communication technology of today, shortwave has an allure. The shortwave of a few decades ago sounds amazing. It's so simple. Sitting with the radio, searching for stations, keeping a log. Not knowing what you'll find. No need for the computer and an Internet connection. In case the power goes out, switch to batteries and continue cruising the dial.
I like most the melody betwen 5` 26 and 5` 56. This was a signal most original that other. Beyond it interval signal of Cypriot National Broadcasting i believe to
Thanks for the collection! One correction (has anyone else mentioned it?) "Radio Polonia" ends quickly at 4:09, followed by Radio Moscow, built around "Midnight in Moscow" ("Podmoskovnye vechera"), then a peal of Kremlin bells (a flourish probably imitated from BBC)
I remember I did write to Radio deutsche Welle (DW) back to early 80s ,,and I asked about Antinna to improve the receiving of the signals ..and they did respond ..but sad I could not do it as the cost was a bit that time high for me as student....but I am familiar with most of them ...truly that time we were paying extra time to enjoy such media ...today media is sucks ...
thanks! i allways wondered whatt and where that was (0.00 to 0.44 Radio tirana) it used to start up in background of radio london, in london on 206 mts medium wave at 11'o'clock every night and go on for about 10 mins.in the 70's thanks for posting this i now know after all this time. i love the old bbc world service jingle by the way
SW listening was a regular hobby for me as a teenager in the 70s. I recognised most of these interval signals. Have to say I miss the stern authoritarian pronouncements that used to come from the various eastern european broadcasters all regaling us with the wickedness of the imperialist west and the wonderful achievements of their own socialist utopia. Entertaining in its own way
@willcobbett Yeah! My mum and dad got me a Sharp mono cassette radio for xmas 1978 (or '79!) - with a shortwave band. Fantastic - hiding under the bed covers and tuning up and down the band.
0:00 Radio Tirana 0:43 Radio Prague 1:02 Radio France Internationale 1:17 Radio Berlin International 1:26 Voice of German Democratic Republic 1:40 Deutschlandfunk 1:50 Deutsche Welle 1:57 Radio Budapest 2:08 RAI International 2:51 Radio Netherlands 3:20 Radio Norway 4:00 Radio Polonia 4:15 Radio Moscow World Service 5:05 BBC WS 5:26 Radio Sweden 5:55 Radio Sweden 6:13 Swiss Radio Int. 6:23 BBC World Service 6:45 Radio France International 7:03 Vatican Radio 7:22 BBC European Service
4:00 Poland!
for those who want the timestamps:
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Fix the timestamps please.
@@mynewyork165look at the replies
I think 5:05 was still Radio Moscow. Those were the Kremlin bells….
When I was 9 years old, during the Christmas school holidays of 1986, I turned the switch on our family radio/cassette player to "SW" and I discovered an addiction that would change my life forever! I would listen to Shortwave in the evening after homework during the tumultuous years for the late 1980s and early 1990s. Thank you for uploading these recordings which bring back so many memories, of radio, and of my early life.
What an envy I have to you.
I know exactly what you mean! A winter evening and BBC on a long wire!
I did the same thing with a hallicrafters sw 500 reciever in 1985, It was my dads old radio.
Now I am a ham operator, Wondering where all the good stations are.
Similar story here except my time was the seventies and the eighties in India. Discovered the world of shortwave by chance and spent a lifetime there. Still today people ask how I know so much about the world. Quickly I moved into the world of building antennas, single side band and utilities like the police airports and installations like dams. Crowning moments were the PanAm hijacking in Karachi in 1979 where I could listen to the Karachi airport and the Indian attempts to establish contact, the Falklands war and Indira Gandhi assassination. All of this was on Short wave if you knew where to listen. Computer killed the radio star!
It was a really strong emotion for me to hear, after so many many years, these musics. I knew almost all of them. This collectiom gives me a strong feeling. A past time when I listened to short waves as my father did. As someone wrote, also for me there was a mixture of interest and fear for those voices coming, during the night, from distant countries. Thank you very much for posting... Ciao
Intense emotion.
Thank you for posting this… for myself as well!
It was kinda creepy listening to all those bleeps whistles,and static crashes.
But it was like taking a trip around the world,Without leaving your home,back then.
@@yinglyca1Yes, you are right! Trips around the world not leaving our homes! 👍
My favorite are the repeating chimes of Radio Nederland.
Oh man, i was a shortwave junkie in the late seventies. I used to dream of visiting all these places. Still want to see Germany. These tunes bring back a feeling of those times. Great stuff.
Germany is not so far...
My favorite was Radio Switzerland's chimes - "Lueget vo Berg und Tal" ... those notes have stuck in my head for over 50 years.
Some of them I was forgotten. But, now, everything came to my mind again.
great to hear these interval signals, brings back great memories of my younger days, listening to Short Wave!
Radio Norway gives me the chills whenever I hear the interval signal. Indelibly etched into my brain after so many year!😉
Yes, Me too, and a nice station to listen to, I recall.
Me too too!!!
This is all totally sublime, shortwave paradise from yesteryear with all these haunting and poignant jingles from another time another dimension. Wonderful wonderful. Dec 2021🎵💎❤🎵🇬🇧🇬🇧
Whenever I hear Radio Prague I think of Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark!
In the 1970s I was fascinated by shortwave broadcasting. Some of these made me feel very nostalgic, especially Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, and Swiss Radio Int. I used to imagine European countries far away from Japan. Some of these are what I wanted to listen to, but could not. Thank you for uploading!
Buy a short wave or SW (short wave) radio.
There's something indefinably magical about these...
Oh my word, back in the 70's I used to hear the Radio Prague and Tirana music idents when listening as an 11 year old with my sw radio. The tunes have stuck in my head for an extra 40 years. I've searched as to what they were for years but never found out. I couldn't google tunes in my head. But then....I found this video. Haha, talk about nostalgia trip! Many thanks for posting this.
Yes remember them all nostalically!!!
What was the first one ?
@@ithomp2418 Tirana. Albania.
Just in case you still can’t find them, the Radio Prague one is from a piece called “Kupredu Ieva”
Brings back many memories. I grew up on SW Radio broadcasts since I was 12 years old. I started with an old tube radio first and had many radios over the years. Really miss it all. Thanks.
Opened with Radio Tirana. Loved their broadcasts. They were (unintentionally) hysterical.
Remember hearing Radio Tirana talk about their new lightbulb factory . In the 1960s!
Certainly put things in perspective.
cdl1952 I was listening the day they announced Enver Hoxha had died.
@@Kaizerzydeco1 .....and I recall when Radio Tirana announced that the electricity grid had been completed in Albania. The announcement was "The whole of Albania has been ELECTROCUTED!!" Something lost in translation there!!!
That damn Radio Tirana interval signal used to interfere with BBC transmissions at night, notably BBC Radio 1 on MW in the 1970s. It just used to repeat when there were no programs. Some even wondered if it was done deliberately as a jamming signal.
Thank you for all these wonderful SW memories!!!
harre67 you are amazing, what a collection of the best signals ever. The quality is fantastic. I agree with the other posters, you have created a time machine, thank you so much, what great memories.
Thank you for this posting. Lovely memories as a kid mad about shortwave radio. Later on lived in Iran and Nigeria listening to some of these stations. I lived in extreme north of Nigeria. In the evenings I would sit on my house verandah and look out onto inky black, shortwave radio at my side hoping to hear the BBC World Service & Saturday night play, reception permitting. Sheer magic.
David, what year were you in Nigeria? I was a little boy in Lagos around 1966-1975, and in Kano around 1975-1976. I remember waking up to my dad's shortwave radio every morning in time for the BBC World News and VOA so hearing their station id music takes me right back to that era.
Hi Joel. I lived in Sokoto, north west Nigeria from 1979 to 1984. Shortwave radio & the BBC World Service was my main source of news, entertainment. Loved Sokoto. Used to travel to Kano to connect with London flights. After Nigeria I moved to Lima, Peru where I am still
That’s the BBC World Service theme at 06:45. I remember Radio Tirana’s interval theme well, and how it interfered with medium wave listening in the early 1970’s. I had Radio Luxembourg in mind.
I ,too was an avid shortwave radio listener. Since age 13.Am now 49. Great hearing all the familiar and wonderful intervals. Wonderful hobby!
I remember hearing many of these jingles from when I began Shortwave DXing in 1985. Very nostalgia inducing.
Thank you very much for posting this!
I came here today because a jingle from the early 1950s popped into my head, unbidden! Heard on the big, family valve radio - I used to listen after midnight when they'd gone to bed. Stuff like Radio Moscow trying to counter American propaganda was interesting but the GREATEST discovery for me was to hear 'This is the Voice of America, relayed from Tangier' (I'm in Liverpool, UK). there was the Philips 'Dance Hour (Johnny Ray and Martha Tilton advertising 'Alka Seltzer'). It was years before I realised that Martha Tilton was the singer with The Benny Goodman Orchestra. But the most exciting sound of all was when the Jazz hour was introduced by Duke Ellington's 'Take the A Train. That changed my musical life!
I listened to that show too,80s and early 90s(VOA Jazz hour).Remember Willis Conovers deadpan delivery.
Didn't think I would ever hear these again! Wonderful memories. Thank you so much for posting.
Impossible not to feel nostalgic listening to those magic radio signals. I wish I could set some of them as my mobile's ringtones. Thanks so much for posting.
Brilliant. Brings back so many memories of listening to these things on my Gran's old Roberts radio in the 70's, then during the 80's with my own radio. Got some nice QSL's from ECJB Quito Ecuador, Radio Moscow, Vatican Radio.
Wow, I loved to hear all these radio signals. I passed a good time of my life hearing these international radios through short waves! Thanks for the good time remembering all them!
Suggestive discovery. It brings me remote memories. The extraordinary, evocative power of simple melodies.
My dad wouldn't sleep without listening to different radio stations. All these signals reminded me of him...I miss you daddy.🥺😭😭😭
I'm so sorry for your loss..
Modern radios can never sound so well! Oh, old tube radios... Clear signal, nice warm, full sounds. Yes, this is sound quality.
Such great memories....... Standing look out on the bow of some old Victory ship these short wave stations were our only link to the outside world. Many Thanks
I loved listening to these shortwave broadcast station interval signals on my Cossor valved broadcast radio in the 70's. Radio Tirana was one of my favourites, followed by Radio Prague, Radio France Internationale, Rai International and the ever so lovely tune of Radio Nederland.
A happy trip for sure down memory lane.
I lived in Brazil then and I remember so well that interval sign. Thanks for indicating the website, I'll fall headlong into it.
It's fun to try to identify all of these from memory. I believe the interval signals were chosen by each broadcaster to create that sensation: indelibly etched on the brain forever! The quality is amazing, much better than I remember listening to some of these on my old Hallcrafters receiver in the 60's and 70's.
Favorite were: Deutsche Welle, RBI, Radio Prague, Radio Budapest. (Would have liked to see Radio Bucharest and Radio Sofia included in this collection).
Always loved the eerie quality of Radio Norway's signal -- invokes the stillness of the fjords!
Radio Bucharest here: th-cam.com/video/0uKMMxBg-iw/w-d-xo.html
and Radio Sofia here: th-cam.com/video/YPcFWohG1nw/w-d-xo.html
Saudações DXistas. Saudades de uma época de ouro da Ondas Curtas (SW), lá se vão 50 anos de muitas amizades e QSL's. Abraço a todos DXistas do mundo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Thank you for post. Good memories from my DX listener age, more than 45 years ago, in the past millennium. I miss it so much.
Like sonic jewels these days! I only discovered SW listening mid last year but, while there is still a fair bit on there, very late at night, it's still nothing like the days when these were broadcast.
Would be great to see a resurgence in interest but I can't see it ever happening. Great to hear though!
Ah this made me feel so nostalgic....shortwave in the 70's and 80's...classic...
omg... i remember most of these tunes from the 80s behind the iron curtain in the ussr. listening to these stations, i thought i was traveling in those countries. i would often fall asleep with my sw-receiver turned on. back in the days the world was much different, and sw triggered our interest in other worlds exactly because the latter were barely accessible. pity the sw hardly exist nowadays. unforgettable times! :-)
Absolutely amazing collection of signals. My sincere thanks for posting.
Another 40-something who listened to short wave in the 70s and 80s. Deutsche Welle, the Radio Moscow arrangement of Midnight in Moscow (heard on longwave at night) and Radio Sweden when it was on medium wave. We found an ancient Racal valve communications receiver at boarding school, and spent many a cold winter evening turning around seeing what we could pull in. I find these interval signals very haunting and make me slightly sad to think that short wave is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
It'll come back again. Don't lose hope. The internet and www will come to an abrupt halt one day.
Longwave? Really?
The Deutsche Welle interval at 1:49-1:56 is a passage from Fidelio by Beethoven.
It's a shame DRM digital radio never took off, it would have given these broadcasters a high quality delivery platform with a better quality of reception and with robust modes to protect the signals from digital dropouts and dead air and make the audio more resilient to the atmospheric fading / active propagation conditions on AM bands, especially in winter when earlier darkness makes things more active in the ionosphere above the earth.
I recognized a few intervals from my childhood years in the 70s when I dicovered shortwave radio. Cool looking radio in the picture too
Good old memories 😜😜 I still follow the hobby.
thanks so much for sharing these relics!
thanks! i allways wondered whatt and where that was (0.00 to 0.44 Radio tirana) it used to start up in background of radio london, in london on 206 mts medium wave at 11'o'clock every night and go on for about 10 mins.in the 70's thanks for posting this i now know after all this time
Man I miss those days listening during a snow storm in cold Pennsylvania in the 70's
Old good times!
0:00 - Radio Tirana, 0:44 - Radio Prague, 1:02 - Radio France International, 1:49 - Radio Deutsche Welle, 2:08 - Radio Italia, 2:51 - Radio Nederlands, 4:00 - Radio Polonia - Poland, 5:26 - Radio Svenska,
6:14 - Radio Switzerland, 6:24 - BBC World Service (Big Ben then Lillibolero), 7:03 - Vatican Radio, 7:22 - BBC European Service pre 1975
Thank you harre67; That's a great selection. Just one thing; the past-tense of broadcast is broadcast!
@smartcooky99
1:26 Voice of the GDR (East German domestic programme)
1:40 Deutschlandfunk (West Germany)
4:11 Radio Moscow World Service
Very high quality recordings. Thanks for recreating my young days!
Nostalgic to here all the interval signals.I am also having recordings of intervalsignals& QSL s of many stations. Datta Deogaonkar. VU2DSI India
Excellent: How i miss to listen to these radio stations again via shortwave, unfortunately shortwave bands are alone, very few stations.
Very nice! 5 stars from me! This reminds me of my beginnings as a DXer 25 years ago.
incredibile!!! finalmente li ho trovati.... li ascoltavo ogni sera da ragazzina... i segnali di intervallo delle stazioni dell'est europeo nell'era della guerra fredda.... che emozione dava la radio allora...
finally !!! I've found them! I have listened to it since I was a child... what a passion I had for them! the interval signals of Eastern Europa broadcasts in the time of cold War... what emotions gave the radio then.... thanks for posting it!
Yes, I remember Radio Tirana's broadcasts well. The fellow next door played it loudly and he had a copy of Mao's 'Red Book'. I also recall how the signal interfered with transmissions from BBC Radio 1.
Ha! Imagine getting two shortwave listeners right next door to each other today?
Thanks for the memories. 💜
thanks for bringing back so many memories from the good days of shortwave
Grateful for showing golden old, I still listen my old transistor set but English transmission is almost nil
Starting with Radio Tirana! Fab! Thank you!
It was still the magic of me being in a bed and hearing what someone else was saying or doing across one or two oceans about something happening in the world.
Oh for the heady days when short wave was brimming with such interval signals
I remember listening to radio Sweden back in the 1980s it was on medium wave in UK
Wow....Such amazing memories of my days as a short wave listener.Thank you....Ian Harling G7HFS
In Northern California, Radio Nederland came in quite strong....usually on the 49 meter band.
Great.... it makes me fell as 15 y/o again, always listening to short wave brodcasting, many things to tell abt that magic time !
Lembra como era o sinal da Voz do Brasil internacional ?
che bei ricordi... ricordo questi segnali di intervallo delle radio del vecchio est europeo.... che emozione!!!
Brings back memories.
I like the Radio Norway International interval signal.
I thought for sure that "Radio Canada International" might have been represented in this wonderful compilation. Great memories!!
I used to wait ages for the vatican radio jingle to play that quaint jingle , if anything listening to them all is a blast from the past. Love them love them. Dec 2019👍👋❤🙏
0:00 Radio Tirana
0:40 Radio Prague
1:02 Radio France Internationale
1:17 Radio Berlin International
1:26 Voice of German Democratic Republic
1:40 Deutschlandfunk
1:50 Deutsche Welle
1:57 Radio Budapest
2:08 RAI International
2:51 Radio Netherlands
3:20 Radio Norway
4:00 Radio Polonia
4:15 Radio Moscow World Service
5:05 BBC World Service
5:26 Radio Sweden
5:55 Radio Sweden
6:13 Swiss Radio International
6:23 BBC World Service
6:45 Radio France International
7:03 Vatican Radio
7:22 BBC European Service
(this is a redo of an older comment now with working timestamps)
Fantastic! History.
I remember radio Sweden back in the 198s it was on medium wave in UK
The internet will never replace what SW radio meant to us. The under 40 crowd barely has a concept of SW radio. The under 30 crowd can't even fathom the concept of passive entertainment or not having to pay a recurring fee for program delivery. (with the exception of wi-fi thieves and Starbucks campers)
Ted Turner Great point. Exactly. They will never understand what SW was... We grew up with SW. Greeting from Caucasus!
Ted Turner Ah yes, I remember quite well listening to SW radio for the first time when I was kid back in the 80s (I'm 38 now). One of the first stations I picked up was WWV on 2.5 MHz on my grandfolks' portable multi-band radio (I had no idea what it was at first, but it fascinated me!) I then later got a Heathkit SW radio from a neighbor, and my interest in shortwave (and later ham radio, my call is N0SXY) took off from there!
Yes, it is sad that the newer generation will never get to experience in full force the mystery and variety shortwave radio once had. So disappointing most countries have discontinued SW broadcasting nowadays....
'The internet will never replace what SW radio meant to us'...
Now the internet presents us with HD shortwave radio online!
websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
Exactly. When Radio Australia shut down their transmitters, a comment was made that if you want to hear RA in the sticks, you'll now need to carry around a satellite dish.
Shortwave is universal in its reach, and doesn't need the latest greatest gear to hear it. IMNSHO, I believe that instead of satellite and internet replacing shortwave, these services should exist alongside it.
@A.J. Machete. That's the old Radio South Africa (Johannesburg) interval signal. The bird is a "Bokmakeerie," if I've spelled that correctly
RAI was my favourite tune followed by Voice of Greece, Athens and Radio Nederland.
greetings from México.
@bluecatky Wow, we were just chatting about that this evening. I recall the just unending propaganda from Tirana in 1972 and on. I think the only other station today that comes close in in N. Korea, and of course, Radio Havana Cuba.
You cannot imagine the memories hearing that provokes in my mind. Talk about a time machine!
Favourites are Radio Nederland, Radio Moscow, Radio Polonia, Deutsche Welle. There were loads more though, like Radio RSA Radio Ukraine, Beyond Australia, Radio New Zealand, Radio Canada. Not to forget the off-shore pirate pop stations and the BIG L!. The number stations the Buzzer and UVB76! Also rember as a little boy, my dad tuning in to Sputnik's beeps in the 16 meter band...That is when the radio bug bit me!
Despite all of the wondrous and amazing communication technology of today, shortwave has an allure. The shortwave of a few decades ago sounds amazing. It's so simple. Sitting with the radio, searching for stations, keeping a log. Not knowing what you'll find. No need for the computer and an Internet connection. In case the power goes out, switch to batteries and continue cruising the dial.
Whoa,used to listen shortwave long time ago,hard to find this day,
Sw listener in the 80s & 90s.recognise a lot there.
I like most the melody betwen 5` 26 and 5` 56. This was a signal most original that other. Beyond it interval signal of Cypriot National Broadcasting i believe to
Thanks for the collection!
One correction (has anyone else mentioned it?)
"Radio Polonia" ends quickly at 4:09, followed by Radio Moscow,
built around "Midnight in Moscow" ("Podmoskovnye vechera"),
then a peal of Kremlin bells (a flourish probably imitated from BBC)
5:05 Radio Moscow (St. Basil's Cathedral bells)
5:05
Wonderful sounds. Thanks
great compliation, great memories of the 80s (in what year did you collect the signals)?
Incredible.
I remember I did write to Radio deutsche Welle (DW) back to early 80s ,,and I asked about Antinna to improve the receiving of the signals ..and they did respond ..but sad I could not do it as the cost was a bit that time high for me as student....but I am familiar with most of them ...truly that time we were paying extra time to enjoy such media ...today media is sucks ...
thanks! i allways wondered whatt and where that was (0.00 to 0.44 Radio tirana) it used to start up in background of radio london, in london on 206 mts medium wave at 11'o'clock every night and go on for about 10 mins.in the 70's thanks for posting this i now know after all this time. i love the old bbc world service jingle by the way
Hi, Radio Tirana could also be heard on 1214khz or 247m medium wave under BBC Radio 1.
SW listening was a regular hobby for me as a teenager in the 70s. I recognised most of these interval signals. Have to say I miss the stern authoritarian pronouncements that used to come from the various eastern european broadcasters all regaling us with the wickedness of the imperialist west and the wonderful achievements of their own socialist utopia. Entertaining in its own way
@willcobbett Yeah! My mum and dad got me a Sharp mono cassette radio for xmas 1978 (or '79!) - with a shortwave band. Fantastic - hiding under the bed covers and tuning up and down the band.
The birds chirping were from Radio RSA (South Africa), RCI (Canada) also had their chimes in there. RBI (GDR) might also have been represented.
takes me back to the 1950's when I first began swling.
Saludos desde México.
The one at 6:50 was prefaced by "This...is London!" Faraway places made close.
muchas gracias por recordarme mi epoca de adolescente radioescucha !!!!!!!!!
03:21, Norway (international broadcast). A folk song/shepherd's call in an instrumental version