Podcast #168 – A Time Machine for All the Radio plus Shortwave

Perhaps you are like me and you have wished that you could go back in time and spin a radio dial and just listen to and browse the full radio spectrum from another time and place. Our guest on the show, Radio Anthropologist Thomas Witherspoon, is building a website for just such a thing. It’s called the Radio Spectrum Archive and it is not magic, it uses a piece of technology called a software defined radio that makes recording a full spectrum of Shortwave, AM and even FM radio (if you have the computing power to handle the load) a very real possibility. Thomas Witherspoon is also the primary contributor to The Shortwave Listening Post (www.swling.com) so we are going to learn a few things about the wonder that is shortwave radio on planet earth.

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Show Notes:

• The SWLing Post is a community of shortwave radio and amateur radio enthusiasts
• The Radio Spectrum Archive
• The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
• More on the Cuban Number Stations
• An Archive of Radio Strange; a shortwave pirate
• An Archive of Radio Casablanca; a shortwave pirate that plays a nostalgic mix of music from the 1930’s and 1940’s
• Building a Time Machine For Radio (Spectrum IEEE)
• 1986 Radio Spectrum recording
• Radio Preservation Task Force
• David Goren
• Podcast #133: Preserving Brooklyn Pirate Radio
• Wave Farm
• Podcast #151: The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts
• Radio Station Visit #145: Wave Farm in Acra, New York
• Radio Garden
• SDR.hu
• Portland HD Radio Band Scan
• Podcast #146: Volunteer Radio from Antarctica
• Alice’s Restaurant on the Radio Thanksgiving 2018

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