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Shortwave Radio South Africa Interval Signal 1977
Youtube Video ^ | 1/1/2016 | Radio South Africa

Posted on 05/11/2024 8:59:21 PM PDT by Pol-92064

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I used to listen to this on my Shortwave radio when I was 13. They only broadcast from South Africa due to apartheid policies so you could listen to them on the 17, 21 and 25 MHz frequencies.
1 posted on 05/11/2024 8:59:21 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

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.


2 posted on 05/11/2024 9:03:32 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Pol-92064

That was one of my favorites.


3 posted on 05/11/2024 9:04:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pol-92064

A bunch of interval signals here.

My favorite is Radio Nederland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UzdvTyKQ


4 posted on 05/11/2024 9:12:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nextrush

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.


5 posted on 05/11/2024 9:15:41 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: dfwgator

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.


6 posted on 05/11/2024 9:19:10 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: dfwgator

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.


7 posted on 05/11/2024 10:23:28 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: John S Mosby

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


8 posted on 05/11/2024 10:30:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I used to listen to bbc just for the time signal, Lilibulero played by the band of the Grenadier Guard.


9 posted on 05/11/2024 11:51:13 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: Pol-92064

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.


10 posted on 05/12/2024 12:32:27 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: dfwgator

I used to listen to Radio Nederland via shortwave in 1971.


11 posted on 05/12/2024 6:59:23 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Pol-92064

Y’all forgot this one:

https://youtu.be/cznCttle760


12 posted on 05/12/2024 8:05:54 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: dfwgator

I think I still have a QSL card from the 60s.


13 posted on 05/12/2024 10:21:05 AM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: dljordan

They read my letter on the air once.


14 posted on 05/12/2024 10:22:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bobcat62

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


15 posted on 05/12/2024 10:24:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bobcat62

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.


16 posted on 05/12/2024 11:09:06 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

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.


17 posted on 05/12/2024 1:00:31 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: RitchieAprile

That’s a good one. A lot of stations had great openings.


18 posted on 05/12/2024 2:03:42 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: RitchieAprile

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)


19 posted on 05/12/2024 2:05:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RitchieAprile

Ooops forgot the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ5_j4U6HQ


20 posted on 05/12/2024 2:06:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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