Blasts from the Past

During the 1970's I actively pursued mediumwave and shortwave DXing from Lansing, Michigan. To the right is a picture of my 'shack' in the basement of my parents' home circa 1980. Below is a list of brief recordings of some of the radio stations heard from that era.

Various receivers were used for shortwave over the decade by manufacturers such as Collins, Drake, Hallicrafters, Hammurlund and Racal but nearly all of the MW cuts were made on a Hallicrafters SX-96 with either an outside Murch 86-D dipole or Worcester ferrite bar loop antenna.

The recordings were transferred from 35 year old reel-to-reel tapes recorded at 1 7/8ths ips. I've done my best to clean them up but they are not 'studio quality' -- DX rarely is. The sounds are encoded in mp3 format.

The default sort for the table below is by date, ascending but you can sort by callsign, frequency, state, country or date just by clicking on the column heading. Click again to sort in reverse order. Dates are in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format and anything that has a 'dd' or 'mm' of '01' is probably not correct. I used '01' as a default day and/or month for those cases where I had incomplete date info in my log. A date of '1000-01-01' means I don't have a clue when it was recorded. A frequency of '0' means I don't recall what frequency the station was on.