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The flood of 1953 enriched our culture with the word Delta Plan. Originally a national efford to secure the west of the country, it became custumary to say things like We need a Delta Plan for the preservation of Old Radios to express your concern about our technical inheritage.PLAY
Many people would get really hot from radios like thes, but I would not call them sex bombs.PLAY
Radio Friends Service in Switzerland sends you the mercy of Jesus Christ.PLAY
ABBA sings Chiquitita.PLAY
Mr Blue Sky, recorded November 18, 2006, from MW.PLAY
The sound quality is quite good (also the bass response, which cannot be heard well on this recording), though the AF amp produces some noticeable noise.PLAY
The fifties were the haydays of the private detective stories, like those of Perry Mason. My favorite detective is Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, who had an NBC radio show in the early fifties. The Nero Wolfe books still missing from my collection are Not quite dead enough, Three at Wolfe's door, The doorbell rang, Corsage, and Death times three (Sept. 2006). (Sound recorded from audio jack.)PLAY
Around 300 or 400 kHz one can hear air beacons announcing their identity in Morse.PLAY
In 1936 not only this radio, but also the Oosterkerk in Zeist was built. After 60 years, the radio was just a worn out piece of furniture, but the church was still a weekly meeting place for hundreds of enthousiastic Christions. Church musician Willem Harold Boog plays Marche Triomphale on the church' Flentrop Organ. The organ piece was recorded from the pick-up entry; radio reception is a bit treble-depleted due to the rather narrow MF circuits.PLAY
One day, or rather one night, when I was a kid, my father tore me out of my warm bed and put me in front of the television screen. Some hardly visible guy was doing something vague in a place I didn't know and uttered words I didn't understand. Those words were heard at that very same time by hundreds of millions of people, capitalists and communists alike. From all the sounds you can hear in Radio Corner, these come from farthest away.PLAY
What about information privacy in The Netherlands? The security services RID and AIVD have investigated the private life of Dutch politicians to be. So far no problem, but they should not leave the diskettes in a car they sell. The diskettes with State Secrets ended with Crime Journalist Peter R. de Vries. De Vries has political aspirations as well, and, as the national newspaper Nederlands Dagblad wrote, he started his political campain, but in the wrong arena. My advice for Peter: we already have bad or average politicians enough, but only few good crime journalists. Please keep doing what you are good at! Peter R. de Vries was killed in July, 2021.PLAY
This is the message that the radio was built to play. Prime Minister Gerbrandy announces the capitulation of the Germans and the liberation of The Netherlands.PLAY
The built in song Ik lag gebroken in mijn bed is just long enough to search for minimum sound.PLAY
Nederpop song Je loog tegen mij by Drukwerk made it to number 1 in the hitparade early 1982. Recorded from Radio 10 Gold on January 10, 2012.PLAY
Jesus is Lord of the way I feel, recording from Groot Nieuws Radio, 16 december 2013.PLAY
The Dutch singer Drs. P is extremely well-known for some songs from the seventies, like Dodenrit (Trojka hier, Trojka daar) and Veerpont, but his career goes back to the fifties, when he performed Gezusters Karamazov (1957).PLAY
Lola by the Kinks was one of my favorite pop songs in the eighties (when it was already an oldie, being issued in 1970). Like the books by Willy van der Heide, the first version of the song had Coca Cola in the text, but BBC didn't want to go commercial and requested the change to cherry C-O-L-A.PLAY
The Senfor is an extremely sensitive receiver. Truckers on the nearby highway discuss their holiday and what happens with their trucks while they are away.PLAY
This short music sample should give you an idea of the quality of the pocket tube set. It plays on a D-cell for the filament, and 6 P-cells (54V) as the plate battery.PLAY
Music from Belgian station, without a clear start or end.PLAY
On Long Wave, a few French stations are still found. The sound of the radio is clear and stable, and understandibility is good.PLAY
History lessons from Radio Moscow. Today: Perestroika with Comrade Gorbachev.PLAY
Radio 5 is leaving it up to us, by mouth of Bill and Grace.PLAY
I love the sound of heated glass! Nothing new, just heated glass! Recording from Radio Paradijs, March 2019.PLAY
Given the tiny design, the sound quality of this radio is fairly good.PLAY
When starting on a defective radio, it is useful to first find out if its local oscillator works. To this end, I put the Zenith on top of it and tune it to a weak station near 1200 or 1300 kHz, then tune the sick radio around 700 to 1000 kHz. If the oscillator is fine (as in this case) it will cause interference in the reception by the Zenith.PLAY
In a radio poll in June 2006, Huub Oosterhuis' song De steppe zal bloeien (1990) was chosen as the most beautiful Christian song ever written.PLAY
Following a request of AudioEase we have made recordings of test sounds played in some of our tube radios. The goal is to produce software that will mimic the typical sound of a tube radio. You hear the test recording of the Tokyo; read more about this project in my FotoAlbum.PLAY
Recorded from French MW station on November 18, 2006. France is about 500km away.PLAY
The radio show Arbeidsvitaminen (labor vitamins) first aired in 1946 and has been on the Dutch radio continually since then. It was officially declared to be the longest running radio show in the world on May 1, 2006. This event was celebrated on the radio as De dag van de Arbeidsvitaminen (Labor Vitamin Day).PLAY
Sound of pumping the light out of it.PLAY
Floyd Landis indeed won the Tour de France 2006, but a few days later he was accused of having used illegal drugs. A blood test and the second test showed increased testosteron levels, so he was taken his champion title and fired. This was the first time such a thing happened in the Tour.PLAY
Julien Clerc sings Ce n'est rien in 1973.PLAY
If you are as old as this radio, you will certainly remember this charming blond singer. It is Olivia Newton John, recorded from this radio on October 29, 2005. She brought about a lot of dreams, but these didn't all come alive!PLAY
Fall 1987. Supermarket chain owner Gerrit Jan Heijn is kidnapped. After handing over the randsom, his wife makes a dramatic appeal on the radio and asks the kidnappers to release her husband. Several months later Ferdy E. is arrested (traced by spending the randsom money in one of his victim's super markets) and confesses that he had killed Heijn already on the first day of the kidnap.PLAY
Instrumental piece.PLAY
The EU has decided that all member states must switch to digital TV by 2012. The Netherlands is the first country to fully implement the change: analogue transmissions were discontinued in the night from December 10 to 11, 2006. The soundbite ends with what I received on the Frontech's television bands on December 11.PLAY
May 31, 2006. The Netherlands has its first runner elections when the VVD, Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy, internally elects Mark Rutte to lead the party in the upcoming 2007 elections.PLAY
To some people, the post-war years appear a bit colorless when viewed fifty years later. Gerard Reve was a very controversial writer and he certainly brought some color to those that wanted to see it. His debute was De Avonden in 1947, considered to be the starting point of Dutch literature after the Second World War. From the day of its publication, Dutch literature was no longer about heroes and events taking place in the world around us. No, the world around us would only be the stage on which the anti-heroes dive into their own minds. Not everybody wanted to know the insides of Gerard Reve's mind and I cannot blame them. Gerard Reve died on April 13, 2006, at the age of 82.PLAY
Mid August, 2005, Israel evacuates its settlements in the Gaza strip. The radio news reports that the atmosphere is tense, but so far there have been no serious incidentsPLAY
Barring the non-surprising problems with band speed, it still works. For this recording I connected the speakers of the Mini Stereo.PLAY
The king of Belgium visits his Africal colony Congo, 12 June 1955. (Recorded from PU entry.)PLAY
In a poll in 2006, Boudewijn de Groot's Welterusten, meneer de President was chosen as the best Dutch protest song ever. It is a very old song (1966), for people protesting the President of the United States about going to war in a far away country for a far away reason. As I said, a very old song, typically something for the sixties...PLAY
It was intended for MW, but because the capacitor has no padding cap, its capacity can go quite low so the upper frequency limit is around 2000kHz. Connected to my Philips D2999 (with a toilet roll on the capacitor to reduce hand effect during tuning), I received amateur stations on the 160m band. If I understand Rudy well, he operates a square antenna with quarter wavelength sides near Hamburg, at a height of 16m above the ground. Call DK3XY reports Karwitz so in der nähe means 80km away, recorded at about 403km from Karwitz.PLAY
The factory in which this radio was produced, was managed by Frits Philips, grandson of the founder of the Philips company. Frits Philips, or Mister Frits as he was called, died on December 5, 2005, at the age of 100.PLAY
The singer and the radio are equally old, both from 1947. When she peaked, in the seventies, the radio was in decline. Emmylou Harris interpreted C'est la vie, you never can tell in 1977. She looked nice all the time, but I think her current hair style is superb. In 2006, the singer is ready for retirement, but the radio was restored to working order and may continue to work for decades. C'est la vie ...PLAY
Song in Slavic language.PLAY
In 2006, the BBC, or Beep, still exists, and is willing to send you their schedule.PLAY
With this set in your house, every week is a week of the sixties.PLAY
Prime minister Balkenende announces in the Parliament on March 23, 2005, that Minister Thom de Graaf has stepped down. De Graaf was in charge of Bestuurlijke Vernieuwing (nicknamed Bestuurlijke Vernieling) and had designed plans for a directly elected major. On March 22, a necessary modification of the Constitution was voted in the Senate, and torpedoed by the Socialist party PvdA. PLAY
In 1961 the construction of a concrete wall through the big city of Berlin started. Berlin of the sixties, with its Checkpoint Charlie, the exchange of caught spies, and the mine fields, is now considered the hot spot in the cold war.PLAY
Song recorded from Flamish radio, November 18, 2006.PLAY
On August 21, 2005, Robert Moog died. He invented the synthesizer in 1963 and a Radio1 reporter visits synthesizer lover and collector Robert Jan Stips.PLAY
In preparation of the Radio Corner 10 Year Jubilee party, Gerard runs all the experiments that the visitors can do that day. In the oscillator experiment I try to log some amateur stations by receiving SSB stations using two ordinary broadcast receivers (together 100 years old!). In my first attempt I log a station from Spain and one from Djakarta, so the test clearly shows that the experiment is possible.PLAY
1959: Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. (Recorded from PU entry.)PLAY
Golden Oldie, recorded from Ruud's Radio Paradijs.PLAY
Rock around the Clock Radio by Bill Haley, 1954.PLAY
Every Sunday morning, the VARA radio show Vroege Vogels (early birds) features a poem. The one on March 19, 2006, is about the Spring.PLAY
August 16, 1977, was the day on which this King of Rock died, and the Dutch station Radio 2 replayed a lot of his songs on that date in 2005. A nice occasion for this 50 year old radio to demonstrate that it can still reproduce the sounds from the days of its making quite well.PLAY
Fifteen million Dutch people, all individuals, but with a common youth memory: a wood plano playing in Grandma's living room.PLAY
With Shortwave radios one can overhear distant stations, playing exotic styles of music. Due to waving movements in the higher earth atmosphere, the sound can fade in and out as happens near the end of this recording.PLAY
Hear the friendly tone among CB ham amateurs. By 2011, there is not much activity left on CB, but every evening one overhears people talking about nothing and threatening and calling names. Another category is truck drivers, you can hear them speaking about their destinations, and cargo mostly.PLAY
Hello, this is Gerard speaking …PLAY
Petula Clark sings softly to forget her pains. Can you hear when the Reverbeo is switched off?PLAY
Radio Sweden thanks you for listening and will soon switch over to their English language program.PLAY
When I was in Czechia, I often listened to the Dutch station on 1008kHz at night. In the evening, this old Czech machine will bring the sounds from its country to my own home in The Netherlands, a distance of about 1000km. You hear the opening of Ma vlast by Smetanach.PLAY
Despite the band switch bridge, reception still is better on SW than on MW. But well… that's life. For this radio, it is already December.PLAY
Long Wave stations usually have a bit dull sound, with a noticeable lack of high tones. The reason is that, because of the low frequency, the radio frequent tuning circuit significantly reduces the bandwidth of the receiver.You hear France qualify for the eighth final of the 2006 soccer world championship, on June 23 of that year.
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French song: in your nose there is a little hole.PLAY
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds was re-recorded in Dutch by the Veronica Broadcasting Company, and it was played on the radio for the first time on November 18, 2005.PLAY
Pophit from local music station.PLAY
This is WP, WP, WP, the navigation beacon at Schiphol airport, transmitting at 376kHz. If you would have the optional DirectionFinder, a directional antenna, you could position yourself on a map of the sea by making a measurement on two of these beacons.PLAY
A fragment of the EO radio show De muzikale fruitmand should of course not miss from this web site. Mrs Stien Hossink-Brink from Heemsen and her family will have no problem to date the fragment!PLAY
On June 17, 2006, there was a street festival in Zeist and I bought this little, but nice set there. Back home I was just in time to hear it reproduce the reports about the same festival from Radio Zeist (Slotstad Radio). A representative from the Zeist Petanque Society explains the difference between Jeux des Boules and Petanque.PLAY
Most of the first experiments involve sound generators somehow. The nicer ones combine various oscillators, where slow ones influence the output of audio generators. This is a bird generator.PLAY
I dug out some of my old tapes to try this set, and as you can hear it plays them fine. If you are about as old as I am, it is not necessary for you to name the piece.PLAY
Pushing the CALL button on one of the machines should cause the other machines to make sounds, but instead, the machine itself starts to protest.PLAY
Balkan-style song, recorded November 18, 2006.PLAY
Spanish songs were quite in fashion in the long hot summer of 2006.PLAY
January 6, 2011: a large fire in chemical industry Chemie Pack in Moerdijk.PLAY
Singing in Taizé style.PLAY
I have sufficient parts usually, for this radio as well as for others. Shapewise, my elco's could be called male… But does that make me a man? (Song from Belgian Radio 2, recorded 21/01/2007.)PLAY
Bruce Springsteen goes Down to the River.PLAY
When this radio was built, no human foot had touched Chomolungma, or Mount Everest, and no human food was found on its pristine slopes.PLAY
A song about the sound of this radio? You are only coming through in (Long, Medium, and Short) Waves, not in (Frequency) Modulation. Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying. In 1979, when Pink Floyd played Comfortably Numb on their album The Wall, most pop music was listened on AM radios. FM channels were used for more serious culture: classical music.PLAY
During its operational life, this radio has reproduced all the news messages related to the build-up of the Cold War: establishment of NATO and Warsaw Pact, the Russian invasion of Hungary, McCarthy's communist hunt, the death of Stalin. By the time of the erection of the Berlin Wall it was 13 years old and during the Prague Spring almost twenty years, so perhaps it was already retired then. (Dutch listeners of this 1956 fragment may wonder how it is possible that news messages that are not yet known, can make a heavy impression??)PLAY
Medium Wave stations can be received over a long distance at night, but are hard to find on an analogue dial. With digital precision, I was able to record Groot Nieuws Radio in Chop, Ukraine, 1264km from the transmitter in Zeewolde, on November 10, 2007.PLAY
Station Radio Maria plays, how could it have been otherwise, some Italian music.PLAY
Paradise by the dial light…. Unfortunately this classical piece is too long for GRC, but this tiny fragment has the voices of both our corpulent hero of rock Meat Loaf, and of his briljant, well-voiced and well-shaped companion Ellen Foley. Meat Loaf became no less than legendary with this single song in 1977. In 2007, Meat played in Amsterdam.PLAY
Joan Osbourne sings What if God was one of us. The nice message of Christmas is: He is!PLAY
When I listened the water level announcements as a kid in the seventies, I didn't know what it was and though they were arithmetic exercises.PLAY
Europe has the most strict laws regarding food safety, but still there are large scale food problems from time to time.PLAY
With analogue tuning it is hard to find them, but it is possible to hear plane approaching Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam. The Dutch accents of the pilots are clearly distinguishable.PLAY
We have no transmitters in the 66 to 73 MHz range, but the band is not completely silent because of mirror frequencies. I think Sokol used a 10.7 MHz intermediate frequency, because I hear Radio 2 (92.6 MHz) with the dial at 71MHz. Today's speaker takes us back to the sixties.PLAY
Some classical music from our new station Radio Maria at 675kHz.PLAY
Johan Timmer (born in the same year as the radio) presents his show Een hartig Woord on Groot Nieuws Radio (April 2008) and reads from the book of Daniel.PLAY
What language is this?PLAY
Most radios play better from the Ottozender than from a real station. You hear a small Muse fragment, played from the Tesla 420U.PLAY
The radio has a treble control combined with bass switch. The bass reproduction is quite strong. Half way this fragment you hear the beass switch being operated, and basses come to full life.PLAY
LW stations not only have long waves, but also a long lifespan. In a listening test in January 2014, I found that five of the stations of 65 years ago still exist: Allouis, BBC4, Warszawa, Kalundborg (broadcasting in DRM since 2006), and Moscow. I also noticed that the dial is accurate to well within one channel separation. To find an LW station, you can put the dial on the wavelength, and then just tune for best sound. You hear Cesky Rozhlas, recorded 11/01/2014, a station that ceases operation on February 28, 2014.PLAY
The radio is from Slovakia and I completed its revision just before Chrismas 2008, so you hear Vianocna Hviezda.PLAY
The popular song 15 miljoen mensen was originally written as a Postbank commercial.PLAY
Groot Nieuws Radio has suffered financial stress most of the time since it started operation. In January 2011, there are no regular programs, but just shows with Gospel music and taped announcements.PLAY
For playing music, these small portables with their mini speakers are not very suitable.PLAY
The King makes the cones swing on Jailhouse Rock.PLAY
Song, simply.PLAY
Radio set from the Golden Days of radio.PLAY
Crack it up, and have fun!PLAY
Half a century ago, the world was not only enriched with plastic transistor radios, but also with new toys for girls.PLAY
In 1975, Teach In won the Eurovision Song Contest with Ding-a-Dong.PLAY
January 2011: serious floods in Australia.PLAY
In memory of the Cuba crisis of the early sixties, please enjoy some Havana music.PLAY
NS had bought Fyra trains in Italy, but the trains did not run as long as a Spidola.PLAY
The advantage of "Science without formulas" is, that it has no formulas. The disadvantage of "Science without formulas" is, that is has no formulas.PLAY
The financial crisis of 2011 in Europe forced Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi to step down.PLAY
The radio is equipped with a cassette unit. This recording (of a Why live concert) was played back in June 2011, perhaps one of the last playbacks on this analogue medium.PLAY
I bought this radio as a souvenir of my Summer Holiday in Belarus.PLAY
Too much of mortgage led to a finacial crisis in 2008, and government loans to a crisis in 2011. In the US, if you can't pay your loan anymore, you just hand in your home keys to the bank and the bank has the risk. In The Netherlands, you will have a rest debt after the obligatory sale of the house, because your loan is personal.PLAY
There are other things you can do to a globe than building a radio in it. A few days after I got my Globe, Laura Dekker completed her solo sail around the world.PLAY
In the Old Days, when the Night had just Begun, one could hear a lot of music playing. During the first decade of the 21st century, receiving MW stations has become increasingly difficult because of stations being replaced by static.PLAY
What is more surprising: that the VVD is called a middle party, or that they are said to cheat?PLAY
Short lecture on Freedom of Press.PLAY
This is what you hear when spinning the tredmill manually.PLAY
Kenny Rogers with Lucille (1977).PLAY
In 1973, Mocedades participated in the Eurovision Song Contest with Eres Tu, and ended second.PLAY
In February 2013, the decision of the Pope to step back dominates the discussions on Radio Maria.PLAY
Yes Tommy, with the bigger speakers we can hear you very well.PLAY
There is no reason why scan radios must perform bad; actually, it receives a lot of stations, without external antenna and without noise. But dogs are for barking, not for singing.PLAY
The stability of the SSB unit is quite good, and with some efford, stations can be heard. With 500W this guy comes in very readable, but his partner in Hilversum (20km from here) is unreadable.PLAY
Que sera sera..: Wat de toekomst brengen moge.PLAY
Connect a small speaker, tune the frequency dial from 600 to 1200Hz and flip the wave form switch from sine to block; this is what you'll hear.PLAY
Boney M sounds English, but it is a German band, formed in 1975.PLAY
Grundigs are optimised for this language, here spoken from Radio Romania. It turns out that sometimes you can hear too much, at least in the eye of the people you hear.PLAY
Are you afraid that everything will change? Are you afraid that everything will stay the same?PLAY
Using my special Open Coil antenna I can receive MW Pirates from the north of the country. Radio Hooiberg making DX contacts on 1653kHz (Dec. 8, 2013).PLAY
I am more used to radio with hearts of glass (tubes), so this was a real pain in the ass. But I managed to repair the radio, and learned a lot in the process.PLAY
Discussion about production of chocolate and related products.PLAY
The sound quality is very good, and using the switches (Galm, Fidelita, Parola) and controls (Bassen, Hogen), can be adapted to various receiving conditions and content types. I'm sure the proud owner in 1962 enjoyed The Girl from Ipanema as much as we do now.PLAY
Song Jerushalayim recorded from Radio Maria (Jan. 2014).PLAY
Let us see, when can I charge my radio. Interestingly, the same company also has goodies powered by water, and perhaps I should have chosen one of those… PLAY
Leen Jongewaard and Hetty Blok sing this song, that comes out of the Singer very nicely, but in 1967.PLAY
The program of DCF77 may appear a little bit monotonic, but this program is immensely popular. DCF77 synchronizes clocks all over the continent. Once you get the beat, then suddenly it appears to skip one, and then... the minute hand of your watch moves.PLAY
It is quite easy to pick up radio amateurs operating on SSB, even on just the whip antenna. What puzzles me here is how somebody can be located between Italy and the Swiss border.PLAY
Transistor radios in bad visual state most often still work, and this Telefunken is no exception.PLAY
I was never in Lodz in Poland so far, and would like to visit it some time. But I think the correct pronounciation sounds more like Woodz.PLAY
Radio assembled by my wife so what could be more appropriate than this song. Sound quality and volume are limited by the use of a very small speaker and just 1.5V of supply.PLAY
This sound clip demonstrates the directional effect of the Rex antenna, connected to a Philips BX594A. You hear a voice (Mike Oldfield singing Moonlight Shadow) from moderately far away (Waver in Belgium, RTBF1), carried away by thunderlight shadows. After about 20sec, I rotate the antenna and you hear the station disappear and parasitics coming in. With a non-directional antenna, you would hear both all the time and not be able to separate the two.PLAY
This AudioSonic receives Long Waves, and this allows us to listen to the birds in the forest with Radio France International (on 162kHz).PLAY
Once you succeed to tune an FM station, you'll enjoy a good sound (and Raymond van 't Groenewoud's opinion on Girls).PLAY
Mozart's Magical Flute sounds nice for this magical amp.PLAY
While I was thinking how to mount my kitchen radio, Russian or pro-Russian rebels took down flight MH17, killing some 298 people.PLAY
Radio Paradijs is always fond of Golden Oldies, so they'll appreciate being heard on this cathedral.PLAY
On January 7, 2015, twelve persons were killed at the Paris based magazine Charlie Hebdo, and this attack was followed by a chase and a hostage in a Jewish supermarked. The sound is a little distorted for strong stations, but Groot Nieuws Radio sounds quite OK through the ear phone. Recording directly from an ear piece is the main sound killer here.
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If you tune the MW dial to station, the preset switch allows you to hear five stations in a row without touching the dial. You hear (1) Deutschlandfunk commenting on the loss of the Germanwing plane on March 24, 2015, (2) Radio Maria sing O God, You are my God, I seek you, (3) Groot Nieuws radio announce the 20 hours news, (4) Radio Paradise play a popsong, (5) NPO5 explain that Minister Kamp thinks it is cheaper to use three wind parks. Germany and Paradise come in quite weak and the reception of those stations isn't very clear.PLAY
In the second half of August 2015, Radio Nostalgia has its "conversion week". All listeners are advised to throw out their old, obsolete AM sets. They play quizzes every hour where listeners can win DAB+ radio's.PLAY
The B406 output tube was introduced in 1925. If you built this radio in 1925, you could listen to Church Radio Bloemendaal (wavelength 200m) and NSF (1050m), and enjoy many Dutch public broadcasts for 90 years, until the close of public AM transmitters on September 1, 2015.PLAY
Song recorded during first test in June 2015.PLAY
In the century of Internet and digital techniques, AM radio will be soon discontinued, and I fixed my radio just in time to record some NPO5 sounds. The 2008 financial crisis has brought Greece the the edge of financial disaster, and in 2015 there are still fierce debates about the loans and the measures forced upon Greece.PLAY
After the closing of Deutschlandfunk (three stations) in January 2015, all you hear on LW during the day is France International (162kHz), Europe 1 (183kHz), BBC (198kHz), and RTL (234kHz). So it may soon be au revoir to LW listening.PLAY
Mommy, I want a satellite!PLAY
Despite the small size, the sound is reasonnable.PLAY
The clock operates completely silently, but the radiation of the processor can be picked up by an AM receiver. You hear two sounds, namely bleeping at 00:00 and at 00:01. With some exercise, it might even be possible to hear what time it is!PLAY
Citizens of the USSR where not supposed to go anywhere, certainly not outside the country, but with this portable radio, they could listen to the news from all over the world. It has always surprised me a little bit that these radios were sold in the USSR. Wikipedia reports that Spidola's can be abused as an instrument of crime.PLAY
Schwarzes Gold, a song in honour of miners.PLAY
You hear Prokofiev's Pushkin Waltz from 1949, like you never heard it before from an AM only radio. The original, extremely small speaker is almost better than the recased one with 15cm broadband speaker. The 1948 Tesla speaker gives less trebles and some more basses.PLAY
It includes a function generator, too. Connect a speaker (lead 1 and 2) and play frequencies from 2500 down to 1 Hz.PLAY
A B0X19U radio playing from 39V DC is very noisy. Most likely, this is due to the switched power supply, a battery or linear power supply could be more quiet.PLAY
Most of my radios sound better from an Ottozender that from a "real" transmitter (if you can find one). I'm satisfied with the quality of modulation, but there is a lot of side noise like hum and static. Nana Mouskouri was reproduced from MP3, transmitted with the GolfRekker and received on a Grundig 2100.PLAY
On pirate station Europe24, on 6150kHz, I alternatingly hear German and Dutch (Studio Twente).PLAY
Zero beat to a station to read out the frequency.PLAY
Enjoy Georg Philipp Telemann and, at the end of this fragment, decide for yourself if you find this hum acceptable for an fl.198 radio.PLAY
The quality of the receiver is very suitable for 19th century sounds.PLAY
On December 25, 2017, I received a 60m band station for the first time, on 4810kHz. By Short-Wave.info, you either hear the Voice or Armenia speaking in Yezidi from Yerevan, 3300km away, or Air Mumbay in Hindi from Bhopal, 6800km away. PLAY
Using the five preset buttons, the senior citizen can get quick satisfaction from switching between Slotstad Radio, NPO1, NPO2, Radio M Utrecht, NPO Klassiek, and back to Slotstad.PLAY
Change between two LPAM stations at 675kHz by rotating the set.PLAY
Shortly after the repair of this radio, Groot Nieuws Radio, the last big AM station in The Netherlands, ceased operation.PLAY
I receive Radio Rumania quite understandable (for those who understand Rumanian). Unfortunately, a rattling noise is heard over large parts of the shortwave spectrum here.PLAY
After fixing my antenna cable, I tuned in the 49m band using my 80m Loop and heard Radio Emmeloord on 6095kHz. Emmeloord existed 2 years on October 6, 2018, and celebrated this with a transmission with 150kW from Nauen, on top of the usual 1224kHz. We could hear the English singer David Bowie, singing in Spanish on a Dutch station broadcast from Germany.PLAY
With the Broadcast Band (Medium Wave) going as high as 1700kHz, the Erres is able to receive MW pirates. The stations, often from the east of my country, come in quite vaguely.PLAY
On January 1, 2019, GNR (1008kHz) and RBTF (621kHz) ceased AM operation and the only two remaining stations during day time are Radio Paradise and Fidelio.PLAY
The music played in my living is overheard in the attic at the sixth harmonic of the pulse frequency, around 1340kHz, on an Erres KY504.PLAY
Around 2019, my beloved station Radio Paradijs at 1584AM got replaced by Fidelio, with similar (Golden Oldies) programming. If you like hearing high notes in your music, an Erres tropical set is probably not your thing.PLAY
China and the Truth. Like half a century ago, Russian language programs can be heard in the 31m band, but in 2024 they come from China.PLAY
Violin music, from the speaker connected to the Philips Hurricane.PLAY
The sound can be very bassy when the tone switch is set to full bass.PLAY
With the unit tuned to 1 MHz as precisely as possible, the harmonics provide me with clear signals at each MegaHertz multiple. You hear the 2nd harmonic at 2MHz from the Erres KY6531.PLAY
In Europe, receiving stations in the 90 and 120 meter bands is close to impossible. I first heard voices on 90m in Barrie, Ontario; it's the CHU time beacon. In the same location, I heard the WWV time station on 2500kHz.PLAY
Local radio station JINX.PLAY
Beatle song played on Radio M Utrecht.PLAY
Of course, when winter is cold, I don't sit in my garden too much, but in Summer I do. Due to heavy noise in my neighborhood, Radio Paradijs is the only station I can receive well, so using my Garden set in the future depends on the continuation of this station.PLAY
By 2024, the Good Ol' Medium Wave is practically dead, but the 49m band has several Golden Oldies stations, like this Radio Europe on 6130kHz.PLAY
With a loud portable, you can dance in the streets, and this Henriette even has an entry for connecting a record player.PLAY
A Tropical Band receiver allows the reception of 75m stations. HCJB Deutsch (at 3995kHz) teaches us about the Holy Spirit.PLAY
Radio Akenzo from Balkbrug announcement at 6275kHz. The band 6200 - 6300 kHz is used as the 48m Pirate Band.