Radio Stories
Shortwave, mediumwave, pirates, ships, studios — and the people behind them. Four quick story previews below. Click through to read the full posts and keep the memories alive.
Signals carry history
A frequency can be a time machine. A station name can hold decades of friendships, engineering, and late-night listening. These stories are our archive — built from real broadcasts, real stations, and the people who made radio feel alive.
Story Spotlights
Four quick previews — just enough to spark the memory. Click a card to read the full post.
Radio Perlee — 7325 kHz (SW)
In the summer of 1983, a homemade studio felt like a world of its own — warm valves in the evening, tapes on the table, and friends dropping by as if it was the most normal thing in the world. This story goes back to a time when shortwave meant adventure, courage, and the quiet belief that your signal could travel far beyond the room you built it in.
Radio Blauwe Piraat — 765 kHz (MW)
A return to mediumwave days in Nieuwleusen — where 765 kHz carried Dutch folk music across quiet streets and open fields. More than a frequency, it was a feeling: the freedom of pirate radio, the charm of voices outside the mainstream, and the kind of evenings people still talk about decades later.
Radio Herculas & Zanussi — 819 kHz (MW)
Two brothers, a lifetime of radio, and a signal that never really stopped. From pirate roots to legal broadcasting, this story is about loyalty to mediumwave — late nights, familiar voices, and the idea that radio isn’t something you “used to do”… it’s something that keeps living on.
Radio Ship Magdalena — Offshore Radio Archive
When Mi Amigo fell silent, the North Sea didn’t. Through rare photographs and forgotten moments, this story brings back the offshore spirit — ships on restless waters, brave broadcasts, and a chapter of radio history that still feels close if you grew up with the dial.
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