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ValveRadio Short Wave scan

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fieldofsky

October 12th, 2019

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Speech > Processed / Synthetic

This is my noughties recording (18/4/2005 21:57) of a discovered valve radio. I wiped off the dust and dared to plug it in; after 10 minutes it warmed and a sound emerged from it like a barrel bobbing to the surface of the sea from an old sunken ship. I scanned slowly the entire dial and this is the result.

I hope you find this recording fascinating and entertaining. It is rare now in ordinary digital media to experience the analogue back-ground and rarer still to have it brought by warm valve technology.
UK

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background-noise
channels
god
interference
ionosphere
morse
noise
preacher
scan
scanning
sci-fi
short-wave
SW
valve
Valve-radio
vintage
world

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

6:13.932

File size

31.5 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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Markjamespar...

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Nice!

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filipcar

4 years, 1 month ago

wonderful!!

SanchezBoon

4 years, 9 months ago

fantastic!

P
publisher220

5 years, 7 months ago

Brings back memories of my SWL/DXing times.

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