During the early 1980's I used to borrow my mum's Philips radio. It was the only radio in our house to have the Shortwave band on it, and I enjoyed very slowly scanning the airwaves from left to right of the dial.
EVERY time no matter what time of day or which day, along towards the extreme right of the dial I would pick up the voice of a fast talking woman. She always sounded agitated/angry/ as if she was arguing with someone and determined to put her point accross. You could never hear the response from the other person (mind you, they'd barely manage to get a word in edgeways , so it may well have been a radio ham?
She'd speak endlessly and went on and on and on and on and on. As I say, always gauranteed to be heard at any time, and from memory, I listened to her over a period of I'd say, 3-4 years. Luckily I have found a recording I made of this, though it is only a short segment (I'm sure I have more, as I used to make tapes off the radio and have literally hundreds from the early 80's, I've been going through these recently) Hopefully one day I will find a longer recording.
Anyway, part of the reason for posting this, is that I seem to recall reading a letter in FT from a reader maybe 5 years ago concerning this voice. Can anyone else recall this, or know where I can read the article?
I intend to upload the forementioned segment to Youtube soon.
I haven't listened to shortwave for many years, so perhaps this woman's voice can still be heard now?!
EVERY time no matter what time of day or which day, along towards the extreme right of the dial I would pick up the voice of a fast talking woman. She always sounded agitated/angry/ as if she was arguing with someone and determined to put her point accross. You could never hear the response from the other person (mind you, they'd barely manage to get a word in edgeways , so it may well have been a radio ham?
She'd speak endlessly and went on and on and on and on and on. As I say, always gauranteed to be heard at any time, and from memory, I listened to her over a period of I'd say, 3-4 years. Luckily I have found a recording I made of this, though it is only a short segment (I'm sure I have more, as I used to make tapes off the radio and have literally hundreds from the early 80's, I've been going through these recently) Hopefully one day I will find a longer recording.
Anyway, part of the reason for posting this, is that I seem to recall reading a letter in FT from a reader maybe 5 years ago concerning this voice. Can anyone else recall this, or know where I can read the article?
I intend to upload the forementioned segment to Youtube soon.
I haven't listened to shortwave for many years, so perhaps this woman's voice can still be heard now?!