DX Recordings from New Zealand & Elsewhere
Here are some recordings of stations I have heard from my DX shack. Some are from listening at my former home in Wellington, but most are from my holiday cottage (my present home) at Mārahau.
My latest experiments: DRM reception in New Zealand.
| Pirate KIPM, 6925U, heard in Wellington, 2003/08/03 | 1h 11m | |
| Radio Nacional del Paraguay, 9737v kHz, heard in Wellington, 2002/09/18 | 15m 4s | |
| 6956.7v kHz La Voz de Campesino, Peru, heard in Wellington, 2002/09/01 | 34m 45s | |
| Galei Zahal, Israel Defence Forces Radio, heard in Wellington on 15785 kHz, 2002/06/08 | 1h 11m | |
| China Huayi Broadcasting Corporation, Fuzhou, heard in Wellington 2001/11/28 | 1h 1m | |
| Borderhunter – SW Europirate heard in Wellington | 19m 40s | |
| WMAQ, Chicago, IL, 670 kHz | 1m 13s | |
| KTNN, 660 kHz, Window Rock AZ | 4m 57s | |
| Radio Cultural, Guatemala | 2m 10s | |
| Radio Chortis, Guatemala | 2m 29s | |
| KXBT 16-40 Solid Gold Soul | 5m 43s | |
| KGXL 1650 (inspite of what the id says, this was the expanded band station) | 38s | Radio Caroline on shortwave 13720 kHz via Merlin Network One, 28 March 1998. This recording doesn’t do justice to the audio quality of the signal here in NZ. Feeding the audio from my AOR AR-7030 into my stereo gave audio quality almost as good as local medium wave & FM stations – and with better programming. | 46m 34s |
| – A higher quality recording of part of the above, including the “Caroline” theme song | 5m 50s | |
| – Click here to visit today’s Radio Caroline web site | ||
| Radio San Marino International | 3m 22s | |
| Sunrise Radio on 5840 kHz | 48m 32s | |
| Voz Christiana test transmission from Santiago, Chile on 21550 kHz | 47m 15s | |
| – id announcement | 1m 40s | |
Cadena Cien FM, Buenos Aires, Argentina, being relayed on 15820 kHz LSB mode, December 1998  |
31m 20s | |
| SWRS 1998 Christmas broadcast on 11470 kHz SSB | 32m 11s | |
| Radio Napa, Cyprus, special Christmas broadcast via Merlin Network One | 34m 39s | |
| Radio Blue Star, a Dutch free radio station on 6910 kHz | 21m 8s | |
| Radio Free London (RFL) heard on 5805 kHz during Easter 1999 from Marahau, New Zealand, using a Drake SPR-4 receiver | 19m 46s | |
| Radio Free London (RFL) again, heard on 15060 kHz during January 2000, in Wellington using an AOR AR-7030 receiver | 4m 50s | |
| Radio Nor Andina, Peru, 4460.87 kHz | 14m 9s | |
| Radio Transcontinental de America, XERTA, 4800 kHz, Mexico City | 22m | |
| ZH-FM, Hamilton, NZ, tropo-skip FM reception as heard at Marahau, Nelson, NZ (~250 miles) | 18m 17s | |
| Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 6135 kHz | 4m 54s | |
| Radiostantsiya Mayak, Russia, 15410 kHz via Novosibirsk | 11m 29s | |
| Stichting Radio-Omroep Suriname (SRS), Paramaribo,on 4850 kHz in 1978 | 15m 40s | |
| World Music Radio via Meyerton, South Africa | 17m | |
| Radio ABC, Denmark, 7570 kHz (seperate page) | 3m 33s | |
| KTRK/K-Truck/ARMY 1670 kHz. Test transmissions from the US Army Broadcasting Service transportable AM station prior to its shipment to Bosnia, as heard at Marahau, New Zealand. One of my luckiest DX catches in years – just happened to be in the right place at the right time with good reception. (seperate page) | 3m 23s | |
| Some US stations from the ’70s: | ||
| – KFAB 1110 kHz, Omaha | 2m 30s | |
| – KSTP 1500 kHz, St Paul | 1m 54s | |
| – WHAM 1180 kHz, Rochester, NY | 14m 14s | |
Some other audio recordings that may stir a memory or two for some people:
 Susy Radio: "Susy Calling DXers"
from Susy Radio’s RSL
broadcast in the UK, August 27, 2001 |
2h 6m | |||||||||
 Laser558 recorded from
London in 1985 (seperate page) |
1h 23m | |||||||||
| Radio Caroline recorded from London in 1985 | 32m 55s | |||||||||
 Atlantic 252
recorded from Warrington in 1990 |
43m 24s | |||||||||
| Old interval signals Two sides of a C60 cassette tape | 31m 53s 32m 8s |
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| BBC Radio 1 FM | 43m 47s | |||||||||
| NDXE “Global Radio” promo tape | 13m 6s | |||||||||
| Assorted stations recorded during an Air New Zealand flight from London Gatwick to Auckland, New Zealand. This starts with recordngs from the terminal at Gatwick Airport, then includes what I could record by holding my Sony up to the plane window. The flight path went from London over Iceland, then over the north polar regions and then headed south over Alberta and Washington, ending as the plane headed into Los Angeles. | 1h 22m | |||||||||
 Radio Jackie The Sound of SW London – The LP (seperate page) |
51m 35s | |||||||||
| Hong Kong stations recorded in 1984 | 29m 52s | |||||||||
| GWR FM recorded in Bath, UK, 1990 (I think) | 6m | |||||||||
| Radio Bristol, UK | 9m 27s | |||||||||
| Echo FM | 39s | |||||||||
| Pirate FM Wellington, 98.9 MHz (seperate page) | 47m 32s | |||||||||
| VOA coverage of the Apollo launch from the joint Apollo/Soyuz space mission, July 15th, 1975 | 47m | |||||||||
| Radio Australia relaying ABC Radio Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy | 23m 49s | |||||||||
| Rock 99 & KWTO Country 56 studio tapes received by Wellington DXer Paul Edwards | 31m | |||||||||
| Stations in Perth, Australia, & London, England, 1988 | 45m | |||||||||
| Phoenix, Arizona Four collections of stations recorded in 1981 |
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| Radio Ohakea airshow radio on 1377 kHz | 5m 7s | |||||||||
Other stuff from my holiday in 1998 (receiver Sony ICF-SW1000T with either built-in whip, or Sony "reel" antenna):
| Mt Vernon Bandscan AM band scan from my motel room in Mt Vernon, Washington, USA, 1998 | 14m 30s | |||||
| Radio New Zealand International, as heard by a Kiwi tourist (me) in Kelowna, BC, Canada, September 1998. Heard on my Sony SW1000T sitting on the balcony outside my motel room. | 9m 47s | |||||
| Other Kelowna stations | 32m | |||||
| A3Z Tonga heard as my Air New Zealand 767 flew right over this small island in the middle of the Pacific | 3m 24s | |||||
| Laser Hot Hits 6220 kHz recorded in Newtonmore, Scotland | 14m 40s | |||||
| Reflections Europe 6295 kHz as heard in Peebles, Scotland | 5m 32s | |||||
| Other undocumented recordings taped in Scotland |
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In October & November 2007 I visited Argentina. This was primarily to use my train-spotting anorak and ride the Old Patagaonian Express, but I also took along a little Degen DE1121 receiver/MP3 recorder.
In July 2010 I visited the Cook Islands to view the total solar eclipse from the island of Mangaia. Here are some recordings made from my hotel on the island of Rarotonga.
In May & June 2012 I visited the US & UK. Here are a few recordings made during that trip.
Contributions from other DXers:
| Id from WXLE 1385 kHz Canton Island contributed by Chris Martin in Australia. Read more about this station in the article WXLE Memories by David Riquish. | 8s | Radio Cook Islands – Local recordings of Radio Cook Islands, 630 kHz, by visiting DXer Guy Atkins in April 1993 can be heard on this seperate page. Thanks to Guy for allowing me to host a copy of his recordings. |
Radio New Zealand "Spectrum" Documentaries
These programmes were recorded off my local Radio NZ National Radio station:
| Short Waves & Long Memories – reunion of some of the original Radio New Zealand shortwave staff after 50 years. | 25m 58s | |
| Germany Calling – the story of New Zealand DXers wartime monitoring. | 25m 18s |
More Recordings:
- 20140615 107.1 MHz Radio Port Douglas, Port Douglas QLD, Australia 6:50