Radio Stories
Music, memories, listener reports and shortwave radio history — the story layer of Radio Delta AM: Shortwave Signals Across Europe.
Radio history behind the signal
A frequency can be a time machine. A station name can hold decades of friendships, engineering, music and late-night listening. Radio Stories brings together pirate radio, offshore memories, studio archives, listener reports and the people who made radio feel alive.
Radio Story Spotlights
Four quick previews from the archive — shortwave, mediumwave, offshore radio, studio memories and the people behind the signal.
Radio Perlee — 7325 kHz
“A homemade studio, warm valves, tapes on the table and the belief that a signal could travel far beyond the room it came from.”
— Radio Delta archive
A story from the days when shortwave meant adventure, courage and friendship across the airwaves.
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Radio Blauwe Piraat — 765 kHz
“More than a frequency, it was a feeling: freedom, familiar voices and the charm of radio outside the mainstream.”
— Radio Delta archive
A return to the evenings when 765 kHz carried music, voices and memories across quiet streets and open fields.
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Radio Herculas & Zanussi — 819 kHz
“Two brothers, a lifetime of radio and a signal that never really stopped.”
— Radio Delta archive
From pirate roots to legal broadcasting: a story about loyalty to mediumwave and the voices that keep living on.
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Radio Ship Magdalena
“When Mi Amigo fell silent, the North Sea didn’t. The offshore spirit still feels close if you grew up with the dial.”
— Radio Delta archive
Rare photographs and forgotten moments bring back ships, brave broadcasts and a chapter of radio history.
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Radio Stories can come from archive photos, old recordings, station memories, listener reports or personal radio moments. These stories can become short on-air items, web stories or inspiration for Record and its Story.
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