English video about COHIRADIA available on Youtube

Dear collectors and radio enthusiasts,

As promised in a German version of this posting I would like to announce that now the English version of a Youtube video about COHIRADIA is onine for the international community. The video vividly presents the basic technology, available tools and the people behind the scenes of the project. On behalf of the COHIRADIA team (W. Barteczek, C-P. Gallenmiller, G. Müller, S. Roberts, H. Scharfetter), I would like to invite you to take a look, it could be interesting for many radio enthusiasts. I would also like to ask you for a favour: Please push the 'like'-Button of the video so as to improve its statistics on Youtube and help to raise awareness for the project.

Many of you may already know this section of rmorg which had been launched in December 2021. For those who are not yet familiar with the project:
COHIRADIA enables collectors to connect original LW, MW and sometimes also VLF radio signals from the past to the antenna input of old radios and to tune in and listen to all stations that were receivable at the recording location at the time of recording. The platform is completely free to access and contains not only software and instructions for hardware installation, but now also a very extensive archive with >70 recordings from 2006 onwards.
The total playing time is approx. 50 hours, which with up to 50 stations per band is well over 1000 hours of audio playing time. There are even some VLF recordings, including broadcasts from SAQ Grimeton on 17.2 MHz.

Have fun watching and please 'like' the video

Hermann Scharfetter

 

Selected highlights from the archive:

• 2006-30/31-12: oldest COHIRADIA recording with several German and French transmitters still active, QTH Graz
• 2015-07-20 MW summer solstice 2015: 4 min around midnight, QTH Lucerne
• 2019-12-31 New Year's Eve 2019 on LW, QTH Hildisrieden near Lucerne
• New Year's Eve/New Year 2022/23: four simultaneous recordings of the MW and LW bands at three different locations in Europe and one location in the USA. The three European recordings include the switch-off of the two Slovakian stations on 702 and 1098 kHz and the switch-off of RTL on LW (234 kHz) the following day.
• 2023-01-19: Switch-off of Absolute Radio in England (1197, 1215, 1233, 1242, 1260 kHz) recorded at several locations.
• 2022-09-10: The last broadcast hour of all RAI MW stations
• 2023-09-24: LW and MW recordings in Perfugas (Sardinia)
• 2023-08-06: New Zealand MW spectrum
• 2023-10-29: SW 49m, wave 370, 100 years of broadcasting in Germany, rec. Neunkirchen
• 2023-31-12: Three-hour special broadcast on 243 kHz before the closure of the Kalundborg station, at the end of which Queen Margrethe announces her resignation.
• 2024-02-19: LW band with rarely received station Helissandur (Iceland) in listening quality
• 2024-03-30: MW band with the programme of Radio Caroline during the celebration of its 60th anniversary (648kHz and 1368kHz)

In addition as a special section:

COHI jukebox: Synthesised medium wave band with music from the 1920s - 1940s and original voice recordings from historical radio broadcasts

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