The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

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

Broadcaster: Radio Sofia, Bulgaria

Date of ...

Droitwich Transmitting Station (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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

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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...

CHU Transmitting Site in Ottawa, Canada (Source: NRC)

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...

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...