My Shortwave Logs and Trip Reports: 80's Memories / Flashbacks

Tonight I've decided to start of with what music / songs I first remember actually paying any attention to when I was alot younger to current:

1987 - (Selected from here)
1. Crowded House - Don't dream It's over
2. Steve Winwood - "The Finer Things"
3. Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
4. Suzanne Vega - "Luka"
5. Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
6. Alone - Heart
7. Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"
8. Starship - Nothing´s Gonna Stop Us Now
9. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
10. Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
11. Los Lobos - La Bamba
12. U2 - With Or Without You
13. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
14. Billy Idol - Mony Mony
15. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
16. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
17. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
18. Club Nouveau - Lean On Me,
19. Madonna - Open your heart
20. Kim Wilde ~ You Keep Me Hangin' On
21. Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
22. Genesis - In too deep
23. Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square
24. Michael Jackson - Bad
25. Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
26. The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
27. Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party
28. Pseudo Echo - Funky Town

1988 - (Selected from here)
1. Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road"
2. Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child O' Mine"
3. Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
4. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
5. INXS - Need You Tonight
6. George Harrison - I've Got My Mind Set On You
7. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
8. Gloria Estefan feat - Anything For You
9. Cheap Trick - The Flame
10. Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
11. The Escape Club - Wild wild west
12. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
13. Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
14. Phil Collins - Groovy Kind of Love
15. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
16. UB40 - Red Red Wine
17. Bon Jovi-Bad Medicine
18. Beach Boys - Kokomo
19. INXS - Devil inside
20. Kylie Minogue - Locomotion
21. U2 - Desire
22. Terence trent d'arby - Sign your name
23. INXS - New Sensation
24. Elton John - Candle in the Wind
25. Foreigner - Say You Will
26. Icehouse - Electric Blue
27. Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
28. Cher - I Found Someone
29. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS
30 . Steve Winwood - Valerie

1989 - (Selected from here)

1. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
2. Paula Abdul - Straight Up
3. Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
4. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
5. Roxette - The Look
6. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
7. Phil Collins - Two Hearts
8. Roxette - Listen to your heart
9. Simply Red - If you dont know me by now
10. Madonna - Like A Prayer
11. Martika - Toy Solider
12. Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
13. The Bangles - Eternal Flame
14. Tone Loc - Wild Thing
15. Bad English - When I See You Smile
16. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
17. Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
18. Michael Damian - Rock On
19. B-52's - Love Shack
20. Richard Marx - Satisfied
21. Madonna - Cherish
22. Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy
23. R.E.M. - Stand
24. Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
25. Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands On Me
26. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
27. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
28. Alice Cooper - Poison
29. Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real
30. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Songs that popped in my head during this flash back:

Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love

Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On

Phil Oakley - Together In Electric Dreams

Swinging on a star - Bruce Willis & Danny Aiello

The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk

Ghostbusters - Music Video

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Description of my Radio Gear / Collection

ICOM R75 with DSP

This is a great radio, build in speaker lets it down, but piped through to my sound centre or headphones and sounds great for working those faint signals. Read some Reviews

Kenwood R1000

Another great radio, the sound from this radio is beautiful and warm, and can listen to weaker stations / ones suffering from fade very easy with out getting a headache. Read some Reviews

Yaesu FRG-7

A great little worker, but only for those stations that are in the clear from interfering side channels. Read some Reviews

Sangean ATS 505

It works, and is perfect for those camping trips were I am unable to hump my other radios. Read some Reviews

Degen DE1103

Wow, Wow, Wow !!! This little radio blows the Sangean ATS-505 out of the water, and I have even now not listened with the ICOM R75 or Kenwood R1000 since receiving and comparing the DE1103 against them. Yes the ICOM R75 is slightly more sensitive, however with the long wire antenna that came with the radio and the extremely low noise of the radios circuitry I was able to hear every single station that the ICOM received but just a maybe a S-Level lower. However the DE1103 handled fade and had a by far a better tone to listen to faint / fading stations.

I would highly recommend this radio to anyone, especially with the Sony AN-LP1 Active Loop Antenna, the radio is bless pulling in many stations at bed time with minimal fade which doesn't annoy the wife anymore :)

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Sony XR-5100 In Car Cassette / AM/FM/SW Radio

This radio is installed in my Pajero 4x4, and wherever I go I always have a shortwave. The only downside is that it is currently connected to the Pajeros electric antenna, its short and does ok for the strong SW stations while the car is not running. However to getting more out of this very capable radio, I attach some light weight stranded cable and run it out in any direction I can or want. I have a 5 meter version for quick hook-up while having a coffee or toilet break and a 40 meter version for longer stop overs / DXing on cold Canberra nights. With the extra length of cables attached to the car antenna (longer one needs to support on the 4x4 snorkel (raised air intake) to prevent the weight of the cable snapping the antenna of :(.

Sony CDX-GT260 / GT360 In Car CD / AM/FM/SW Radio

I originally had the Sony XR-5100 SW/AM/FM Car Radio. It worked great as long as I had the car engine stopped. A length of wire added to the car antenna was used to allow the radio to reach it full potential. A couple of CONS was that it was Tape Deck cd a CD Player and there was no AUX input.

Well the wifes radio finally died in her Suzuki ~2 months back, so we went to the local auto shop (Supercheap) and too my surprise there was the Sony CDX-GT260 SW/AM/FM radio. I thought Bugger me, looked at the price and had to look twice as it was priced AUD$136. It was a CD Player and it also had AUX input jack on the front. Turned to the wife and said, "DARLS" here a nice little radio for yer :) Well the price was perfect and I still did not beleive it till I got to the till and it rang up as AUD$136. JACKPOT!!

Installed it in her car and done a few tests with and without the ext. antenna wire and it WORKED fine. Ran in side and said the wife "I WANT ONE" she busted out laughing and we headed of to get one.

But to our shock it was the last one hence the sell out price. We finally tracked down once at another store but it was the GT360 can't remember now, and was $199, but the bloke at the store knew the other bloke and bingo said if I wanted it now he could give it to be for AUD $149. SOLD!!! Raced over and picked it up and installed it in to the Pajero. The only difference between the two models appears to be EQUALIZER modes I thinks apart from that they are identical :)

So from me and my Wifey, we can both say they and the (XR-5100) are great SW/AM and FM car radios. But remember to always keep a bit of hookup wire to get its full potential when stopped at the side of the road / camping.

SW1: 2940 - 7735 kHz

SW2: 9500 - 18135 kHz

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - 2006

I love tuning in to the the yacht race each year starting on Boxing Day to catch the action. 2006 was a bit quiet nothing too dramatic as it all happened on the first night two maxi's retired with mast damage and the one bit of radio traffic that I wish I had captured onto tape / mp3 was the "Ray White Koomooloo" sinking incident. Now I'm slightly paraphrasing here but here goes.

JBW is the relay yacht and it as busy dealing with co-ordinating with the Police Launcher to get a injure crewman of one of the maxi's (MAXIMUS I think).

Then the yacht Koomooloo comes on frequency and asks how long would the Police Launcher take to get to them (most have missed the initial radio traffic from Koomooloo reporting initial troubles). Anyways JBW asks Koomooloo to standby for a sec and come back with info that the the Police Launcher would take about 2 hours or so.

This is what I remember and was freaky / funny. After the radio operator of Koomooloo received the info he must have went and discussed with the captain and comes back on frequency and calm as anything says "JBW, JBW, Koomooloo, hmmmm 2 hours is insufficient......... We are taking on water and will probably only last at most 1 more hour. We would like to declare MAYDAY, MAYDAY any vessel in vicinity of LAT / LONG".

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/a,DfIBuVj0mDNRDReOA9xJ9acOzxqpS6
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/p1dMBbRZSli,2q2Iw59sqzwHeWGPXWED
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/SNTggbhSS.9oFo.ozsX2RbmVyZs1EGo5
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6OMu8RkRAdYmvZuR2DTLlxRjxOX7Kml1
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/hvQ3.TF0Ojhuuy.6dRHp55.VBYK3cgTY
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/99m6prQ0q6ciT80OBfKsyAUyBKjIDFx4

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