Radio users?

[reubensm]

Dear Reubensm, is the 'internal mesh aerial' available anywhere? Thank you.

An internal vintage mesh aerial in mint condition was offered to me sometime ago, but had it redirected to our radio guru, Mr. Pandu Rajan, as I thought he could put it to good use

 

[Subbu68]

Today's catch was 1116kHz, AIR Srinagar with Sangean ATS909 below. It was very clear and loud!!

 

[sunder]

Today's catch was 1116kHz, AIR Srinagar with Sangean ATS909 below. It was very clear and loud!!


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Oh! Interesting!

 

[reubensm]

In the latter half of the 1980s, some may remember that there was this shortwave radio station called "Network" which would appear every night on the 19m and 31m bands, broadcasting from Seychelles. They came on the air every evening at 8.30p IST and used to play mainstream western (English) pop music on request, have news, sports and current affairs segments as well, all packaged into an hour. I think they were part of the Christian FEBA network but used a very youth-oriented approach with no mention of anything religious. I recollect tuning into the station on the 31m band. They had a Bangalore PO Box to which we could write letters or send postcards. I recollect winning a lemon-yellow t-shirt after participating in some contest that they ran (can't remember the details). I wonder if anyone on this forum used to listen to them back then.

I managed to find this rare recording of their last ever broadcast on 11 Feb 1990, with RJ Vinoo Peppin. The music tracks are edited out to avoid copyright strikes, but the rest is all there (including the call-sign). Interesting to note that they had a dedicated person assigned to playing the records on Technics SL1200 Mk2 turntables. Good old times.

 

[General_sound]

Thanks Ruebensm for reviving old shortwave memories. Some of them which made my college days and early working days happier in the ‘70s and early ,’80s were: Radio Kuwait 19 m & 25 m English program from 1030 pm to 130 am; Radio Australia on 13 m band (Philips Skipper 4 band had 13 m band) at 230 pm; VOA on various bands and of course Radio Ceylon on 25 and 31 m bands , with Eric Fernando at his best belting out Tom Jones , Englebert, Beatles and others. AIR had a number of programmes on MW, at 830pm and 930pm. Yes as sung by the famous lady “ Those were the days my friend I thought they would never end”. But they did.