Was WW2 on Shortwave
 

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

73

SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

73


You may find an archival SW broadcast from that time, but the only
"common man" recorders of that era were wire recorders, and you might
look a l-o-o-o-n-g time to find an accesible library of wire recordings.

But the "war broadcasts" made on SW were repeated in transcribed form
(usually shellac disc) on the AM broadcast networks later in the
evening, and there are lots of recordings of those. Countless people
clustered around their radio console (they all had SW in those days) to
hear Edward R. Murrow during the war.
They could hear him over the networks at typical "late evening news"
times every night, but they could hear the same broadcast hours earlier
in the day via the BBC on shortwave. But it was the same broadcast.

Tony

SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

73


You may find an archival SW broadcast from that time, but the only
"common man" recorders of that era were wire recorders, and you might
look a l-o-o-o-n-g time to find an accesible library of wire recordings.

But the "war broadcasts" made on SW were repeated in transcribed form
(usually shellac disc) on the AM broadcast networks later in the
evening, and there are lots of recordings of those. Countless people
clustered around their radio console (they all had SW in those days) to
hear Edward R. Murrow during the war.
They could hear him over the networks at typical "late evening news"
times every night, but they could hear the same broadcast hours earlier
in the day via the BBC on shortwave. But it was the same broadcast.

Tony

You may even find a recording of "The Voice of Doom" from WW2 :o)

A Bonanza of Information - Oh those Canadians - Alpo any one ? ~ RHF
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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.



Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.


Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

They shut down amateur radio transmitting at the time, however I do not think
that receiving was curtailed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.


Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

They shut down amateur radio transmitting at the time, however I do not think
that receiving was curtailed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


This would make sense to me, too. There were few if any radios made for
the consumer during the war - all industry was given over to "war work"
for the "duration". But hundreds of thousands of people already had
consoles and even some portables in their homes with SW capabilities,
and I know of no restriction - and it would have been unenforcable
anyway - that that government made on listening to foreign broadcasts
during that time.

Tony

SR wrote in message ...
I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

73

You might try searching out some OTR (Old Time Radio) sites and
checking out the 'news' files. Many have news mp3 files of WWII.
Though there are no files directly linked to shortwave, the nightly
radio news back then would feature live reports from the different
theaters of combat via 'shortwave' -- if the 'atmospherics' were
cooperating. Sort of like live via satellite (when live satellite
feeds were a big deal for the nightly news). It's kind of fun
listening to these live reports and hearing the static and other QRM
and QRN one gets used to when listening to shortwave. And sometimes
the atmospherics didn't cooperate and all you heard was static and
then the anchor, like Robert Trout, would apologize for the static. I
believe the news files you need to check out are like...CBS WORLD NEWS
TONIGHT. This particular news division featured a lot of live reports
via shortwave during their nightly broadcasts. Used effectively by
Edward Murrow. It was the way William Shirer would report nightly from
Berlin. And as he later said, he wouldn't know whether he was giving a
great report, or if all his efforts were simply dissipating into the
static. He would get reports back from New York the next day through
phone calls whether his live reports had made it through.

"SR" wrote in message
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I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

73

The US government was very interested in US citizens, such as Tokyo Rose and
Ezra Pound, broadcasting from enemy countries . They recorded those
broadcasts, and the recordings were used in the trials. The recordings are
probably stored in the National Archives or someplace like that.

Practically nobody had recording equipment back then. Consumer wire
recorders weren't available until after the war. EH Scott was recording
broadcasts from Australia onto disks back in the thirties, and he might have
done some of that during the war. I'll bet there weren't any blank disks
available to civilians during the war.

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser" ) writes:

Practically nobody had recording equipment back then. Consumer wire
recorders weren't available until after the war. EH Scott was recording
broadcasts from Australia onto disks back in the thirties, and he might have
done some of that during the war. I'll bet there weren't any blank disks
available to civilians during the war.

Indeed I seem to recall something about how various recordings were lost
during the war because they were recycled due to shortages. Unfortunately,
I can't remember where I might have read that, or even if I'm just imagining
it.

Michael