Posted on 05/11/2024 8:59:21 PM PDT by Pol-92064
The Interval Signal of Radio South Africa 1977
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In the 1970’s I got all of South Africa’s radio offerings on shortwave including the local broadcasts SABC English and Springbok Radio.
My high school library here in the USA also had “South African Panorama’ magazine on the shelf an official government publication.
That was one of my favorites.
A bunch of interval signals here.
My favorite is Radio Nederland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UzdvTyKQ
Yes, It had a lot of unique culture. In the 1990’s I used to donate to a religious organization that would recruit thousands of SA “ministers” to go to other white countries to escape the coming apocalypse.
I used to have the Radio Nederland IS as the ringtone on my phone. Thanks for posting this. It will be fun to revisit them.
Seems like a few shortwave listeners on this FReeper thread.
Listening on the tube Hallicrafters World Band radio— with a DIAL, not digital. Could pull in stations from across the ocean and then some if the atmospherics allowed. Radio Tirana/Radio Albania had some shows the mouthpiece of Red China in Mao days— could almost hear the spit hitting the microphone.
Radio Cuba— once on and dialed in had a segment near the top of every hour with a loud ticking electronic clock, then the time given. Propaganda all the time for Fidel.
During the Nuclear scare (which dems love to replicate, and do it out of their own incompetence in foreign policy) shortwave was thought (and may still be) to be all that would be left to communicate with what was left of the world— apocalyptic fears. Sort of like the defeatism and national suicide portrayed in Australia with “On the Beach”. Take your L-pill because the radiation cloud is coming. Somehow this did not occur when the very real Chernobyl cloud destroyed Laplanders and their reindeer with radiation. Soviets leave a wasteland wherever they go.
shortwave was thought (and may still be) to be all that would be left to communicate with what was left of the world— apocalyptic fears
Hello one and all / Was it you I used to know? / Can’t you hear me call / On this old ham radio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kA5qDOUHE
I used to listen to bbc just for the time signal, Lilibulero played by the band of the Grenadier Guard.
I’m another one. I had a shortwave setup in Japan in the late 60s, listened to Moscow and Peking along with Japan, BBC and VOA. Back in the states, I added RSA, Radio Nederland from Bonaire, HCJB from Quito, and Radio Havana, getting Japan only when conditions allowed. It taught me how to hear the truth behind the propaganda.
Today anyone can get communication from anywhere, but the romance of distance and space has been lost. Listening once again to the RSA bird brought all that back to me. Thank you.
I used to listen to Radio Nederland via shortwave in 1971.
I think I still have a QSL card from the 60s.
They read my letter on the air once.
This is the origin of the Radio Moscow’s interval signal.
“Wide Is My Motherland”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4-mH1r7VY
I enjoyed their swinging version of “Moscow Nights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6CfBtO_uw
Yes, I actually wrote Radio Moscow to ask for a copy of the USSR constitution. The only problem with it, I didn’t understand at the age of 13, is under the Soviet it had no force of law. IOW, it was pure propaganda.
I can remember Joe Adamov’s Moscow Mailbag.
In High School, I was working in someone’s garage on a regular basis, with Radio Moscow as the only station on the radio in the garage.
That’s a good one. A lot of stations had great openings.
I used to listen to bbc just for the time signal, played by the band of the Grenadier Guard.
How I miss hearing it.
BBC World Service idents over the years (Lilliburlero)
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