Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

If you were like me, you will recall the old shortwave interval signals of old. I remember the sound of Radio Moscow and VOA on the shortwav...

Today Southgate News reports on more shortwave broadcasters closing, this time in South Africa. I guess more broadcasters are turning to the...

Like many in my generation, I came to amateur radio via shortwave broadcasters. As a young teenager I enjoyed getting QSL cards from broa...

As a child, we had low noise levels (apart from LORAN on the top part of topband) and lots of shortwave broadcasters, many in English. These...

I know this has been posted before, but it is quite good to hear some of these again. If you are like me, your first introduction to amateur...

Well I am pretty sure I've posted this link before, not that it matters. When I started in the 1960s my first experiences were with sh...

Nostalgia time! See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15047843/SWintervalsigs.mp3 . I first shared this some years ago, but I guarant...

Thanks to Phil G4HFU (see earlier post) I have been reacquainted with the old PW adverts that got me dreaming over 50 years ago. I wonder if...

Deutsche Welle (DW) is closing its last relay station, which is in Kigali, Rwanda. In recent years DW like many shortwave broadcasters, has ...

As I clear out my stuff ready for our move, I've discovered my Crystal Set DX Log from 1991 , which was 2 sunspot cycle peaks ago. Looki...

Just spotted on the Southgate site that K4SWL is creating a website to archive shortwave broadcast  recordings before these disappear. Alre...

One of my favorite shortwave broadcast stations back in the 1960s was Radio Netherlands . I still have my QSL card from them somewhere. W...

Talking about QSL cards makes me think of my very first QSL cards received back in the 1960s. In those days I used the ISWL QSL bureau whi...

If, like me, your first experience of short-wave radio was listening to DX broadcast stations back in the 1950s or 1960s on a simple home bu...