FREE! - 1960s IS & ID RECORDING - DIGITISED

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FREE!
1960s INTERVAL SIGNAL & ID COLLECTION
RECORDING - NOW DIGITISED



My thanks to Dmitry Mezin from the WRTH Facebook group for alerting me to the fascinating collection of interval signals and station identifications used during the early to mid-1960s by shortwave broadcasters of the era. I was not aware that this resource was available again, assuming that it had been lost forever. 

Originally released by the publishers of the World Radio TV Handbook, the collection has been digitised and is available to download and enjoy by all radio enthusiasts. The On the Shortwaves.Com website received permission from WRTH to post this interesting historical resource. From their website........

"In addition to the annual World Radio TV Handbook and Summer Supplements, World Publications (Hellerup, Denmark) produced other books and materials of interest to the radio listener. In the 1965-66 How to Listen to the World (p. 159), 1966 WRTH (p. 66) and 1966 WRTH Summer Supplement (p. 43), advertisements announced the release of "BIT-Broadcasting Identification Tape," a one hour reel-to-reel recording featuring the interval signals and identifications of over 60 shortwave stations. The stations were grouped on the tape alphabetically, by continent, with a brief introduction before each clip. Here are two separate mp3 files (Side 1 and Side 2 of the tape). Thanks to the World Radio TV Handbook for permission to post this."

The long list of broadcasters, many of whom are no longer on shortwave, includes:

Side 1 of the original tape (now on mp3)
1. Albania - Radio Tirana (00:00)
2. Austria - Osterreichischer Rundfunk (00:50)
3. Belgium - Radiodiffusion-Television Belge (01:32)
4. Bulgaria - Radio Sofia (02:20)
5. Czechoslovakia - Radio Prague (03:21)
6. Denmark - Radio Denmark (03:59)
7. Finland - Finnish Broadcasting Co. (04:57)
8. France - ORTF, Office de Radio-Television Francaise (05:57)
9. Germany - Deutsche Welle (07:02)
10. Great Britain - BBC (07:50)
11. Greece - National Hellenic Broadcasting Institute (08:36)
12. Holland - Radio Nederland (09:17)
13. Hungary - Radio Budapest (10:16)
14. Iceland - Iceland State Broadcast Service (10:55)
15. Italy - RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana (11:39)
16. Monaco - Radio Monte Carlo (12:20)
17. Monaco - Trans World Radio (12:36)
18. Norway - Radio Norway (13:10)
19. Poland - Polskie Radio (14:13)
20. Portugal - Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusao ("The Voice of the West") (14:40)
21. Rumania - Radio Bucharest (15:35)
22. Spain - Radio Nacional de Espana (16:13)
23. Sweden - Radio Sweden (17:20)
24. Switzerland - Swiss Broadcasting Corp. (18:14)
25. USSR - Radio Moscow (18:52)
26. Vatican - Vatican Radio (19:28)
27. Yugoslavia - Radio Belgrade (20:17)
28. Cameroon - Radiodiffusion du Cameroon (20:57)
29. Ethiopia - ETLF, Radio Voice of the Gospel (21:29)
30. Gabon - Radiodiffusion Television Gabonaise (22:13)
31. Guinea (Spanish) - Radio Santa Isabel (22:54)
32. Liberia - ELWA (23:40)
33. Malagasy - Radiodiffusion Nationale Malgache (24:31)
34. Mozambique - Radio Clube de Mozambique (25:24)
35. Nigeria - Voice of Nigeria (26:36)

Side 2 of the original tape (now on mp3)
36. Nigeria (East) - Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Serv. (00:00)
37. South Africa - South African Broadcasting Corp. (00:51)
38. Tanganyika - Radio Tanganyika (02:00)
39. Uganda - Radio Uganda (03:09)
40. Afghanistan - Radio Afghanistan (04:23)
41. Ceylon - Radio Ceylon (05:28)
42. China (People's Republic of) - Radio Peking (06:42)
43. India - All India Radio (07:48)
44. Indonesia - Voice of Indonesia (08:56)
45. Iran - Radio Iran (09:54)
46. Israel - Kol Israel (11:15)
47. Japan - Radio Japan (12:23)
48. Korea (Republic of) - Voice of Free Korea (13:15)
49. Lebanon - Lebanese Broadcasting Station (14:04)
50. Malaysia - Radio Malaysia (14:58)
51. Pakistan - Radio Pakistan (15:51)
52. Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian Broadcasting (16:38)
53. Australia - Radio Australia (17:14)
54. New Zealand - Radio New Zealand (18:08)
55. Tahiti - Radio Tahiti (18:54)
56. Canada - Radio Canada (19:24)
57. U.S. - Voice of America (20:12)
58. U.S. - KGEI (21:06)
59. U.S. - WRUL, Radio New York Worldwide (21:53)
60. United Nations - United Nations Radio (22:47)
61. Haiti - 4VEH (23:20)
62. Martinique - Radiodiffusion Fran衣aise Antilles-Guyane (23:58)
63. Windward Islands - Windward Islands Broadcasting Service (24:41)
64. Ecuador - HCJB (25:19)
65. Guiana (British) - Radio Demerara (26:01)
66. Radio Liberty (27:04)
67. Taiwan - Voice of Free China (27:36)

TO DOWNLOAD AND ENJOY:

Go to On The Shortwaves website. It may not be immediately clear where to click for the download. Hover your cursor over the words Side 1 and Side 2  (next to the little tape reel symbols) and right-click to download or left-click to listen within your web browser. I am sure this recording will bring back fond memories for many MEDXR readers!

73 and good DX to you all,

Rob Wagner VK3BVW

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