SOUNDS OFF THE WIRELESS
This section of my site is dedicated to many interesting
aspects of Radio, and I am not referring to radio as a means to provide your
living room with an acoustic wallpaper, but as a means to learn more about other
cultures, as a way of expanding your knowledge of the propagation of
radiosignals of all kinds, which can be quite an adventure. In these pages I
have limited myself to transmissions on the lower frequency bands (below 30
MHz).
Part of this section is dedicated to Non
Directional Beacons, among fans known as NDB's.
Another part contains hundreds of recordings of
airchecks, identifications etc from all kinds of radio-stations, in RealAudio
format. The audio quality often is not very good, but taken into account the
distances involved that cannot be avoided. To be able to listen to the sound clippings on this page, you need a
RealAudio player (v. 3.0 or higher), or better still the RealPlayer. You may find these sometimes on cover-CDs of some computing or Internet-magazines,
but you can also download one free of charge from Progressive Networks: 
Next to broadcasting stations sections have been added for so-called number stations,
free radio stations and utility stations. I have only recorded parts of
transmissions that do not infringe on anyone's privacy, since utility stations
do not transmit for the general public (and in some countries it is even illegal
to listen to them - not so in the Netherlands, fortunately). If I can find the
time I may also be adding recordings of NDB-stations, but at this moment I am
having some sort of problem finding space to add more recordings - this is the
main reason that no new recordings have been uploaded for the past months..
Some time ago I was been offered humongeous lots of recordings (some of them historical
and quite rare) from various people. Ignacio Sotomayor sent me some 100
identifications of Spanish Medium Wave stations. I put these together in «Ignacio's
Bonus Page», which can be accessed through my "Europe"-page.
I have also received hours and hours of recordings from Aart Rouw in Germany (most
of which I still have been unable to analise). Since these are from
all over the world, I have put them on the various pages, and to make sure he gets the
recognition he deserves for his wonderful job, I have put a special animated GIF (with his
initials) next to his loggings: 
In an effort to make my site more complete and more
interesting I have also added a new section, called «Radio Souvenirs». This section is
to include pictures, QSL-cards, pennants and other material received from radio stations.
The same problem (the limited availability of time, one of the scarcest
commodities in my life) unfortunately also applies here.
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