I finally got a shortwave radio

[gar hi]

I was thinking of something nostalgic regarding shortwave that I heard as a kid. I remember my brother listening to his tabletop SW radio and one station in particular that I remember was one from Cuba he called "The Bagpipes".

I don't recall the real name of the station but it was nothing but a repetitive series of tones that sounded musical and sounded just like bagpipes. I imagine it was some kind of coding used for something or another.

Any of you long time shortwave listeners know what I'm talking about?

I can still hear the exact sound in my mind and I wish there was a recording of it somewhere. It was nowhere to be found anymore when I was listening to shortwave in the 70s.

 

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I was thinking of something nostalgic regarding shortwave that I heard as a kid. I remember my brother listening to his tabletop SW radio and one station in particular that I remember was one from Cuba he called "The Bagpipes".

I don't recall the real name of the station but it was nothing but a repetitive series of tones that sounded musical and sounded just like bagpipes. I imagine it was some kind of coding used for something or another.

Any of you long time shortwave listeners know what I'm talking about?

I can still hear the exact sound in my mind and I wish there was a recording of it somewhere. It was nowhere to be found anymore when I was listening to shortwave in the 70s.

Gar, I don't recall the Cuban 'bagpipes', as I got my start into SW in the late '70's. However, in the 'Radio Jamming' article on Wikipedia, there's even a mention of your 'bagpipes', although not specifically tied to Cuba.

During the 'Cold War' period, a whole slew of frequency jammers, codes and what not were present across the bands, until shortly after the fall of 'the wall'. They, like many national broadcasters, have fallen off the dial since.

~BG