SOUNDS OFF THE WIRELESS
I have been thinking for quite some time about the possibility of making available soundclips from radio stations from all over the world, as a help to those who want to compare what they have heard with the identifications and/or interval signals that I have at some time recorded, or just as some kind of archive for whatever purpose.
Since I have recently added some more space to my WWW-site, thanks to the generosity of various servers, it is now for the first time possible to realize this dream.
After some reflection I have decided to use the RealAudio format for the clippings to be included here. The quality may be slightly inferior to the WAV-format, but a very important factor has been the fact that the same soundbit in RealAudio only occupies 10% of the space a WAV-file requires. The implications are logical: apart from the fact that RealAudio-recordings can be downloaded (and uploaded) much faster, there is also space for many, many more recordings with RealAudio.
After all, the quality often is not too good anyway, since I have only used recordings I have made at home direct from the air.
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 (v. 5.0 is what I use). You may find these sometimes on cover-CDs of some computing or Internet-magazines, but you can also download it free of charge from Progressive Networks:
In the beginning there will not be too many soundbits, but their number is increasing little by little on an almost daily basis. I have put them in alphabetical order per country, and the countries have been sorted per continent. Below you will find the links to the relative pages. This may not be satisfactory to everybody, but at least I hope it is workable. If not just let me know. Also if you like these pages the way they are you are welcome to let me know, preferably by email.
Some time in the future I may decide to add an alphabetical index per country, which would make it easier to find any country you might be interested in. First I will however concentrate on adding more soundbits.
To make everything more complete, I have also added the date, time of recording and the frequency of reception. Unfortunately, in the past I was not always as careful in noting down the details of my recordings, so you may find some clippings with just a date, or maybe even just a year. Sorry for that. On the other hand, I have added short descriptions for the less wellknown (or less obvious) stations.
Some
of the recordings are of radio stations that no longer exist, or that have changed their format considerably. In those cases it has been indicated that these are "historical " recordings: 
By the way, I have also added sections with so-called number stations and free radio stations. A new modification (as from today - April 14, 1998) has been the introduction of a separate section for utility stations. These have begun to disappear so fast recently (or may disappear any moment) that I think they also should be conserved for posterity. Of course, considering their non-public nature, I have only recorded parts of transmissions that do not infringe on anyone's privacy.
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