Hour Number 4 of our live broadcast on June14, 2008. Our last hour consisted of some great big band, swing, and old time radio related material.

Hour Number 3 of our live broadcast on June14, 2008. This hour is titled “That 70’s Netcast” and is all about 1970’s music.

Hour Number 2 of our live broadcast on June14, 2008. This hour Dave N1DK takes you to the movies. We revisit some of the greatest scenes and takes from the silver screen.

Hour Number 1 of our live broadcast on June14, 2008. This hour was all about ham radio. I share a few of my experiences of being a ham for the past 20 years.

Part Three of our live broadcast on The Iwebradio Network May 17, 2008

Part Two of our live broadcast on Iwebradio May 17, 2008

Part One of our live broadcast on The Iwebradio Network on May 17th, 2008

A recording of our 8th anniversary show on Live365. Broadcast August 25, 2007

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of June 10th - 16th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age of radio compliment this 30-minute program.

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of June 1st - 9th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age of radio compliment this 30-minute program.

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of May 21st - 26th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age or radio compliment this 23-minute program.

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of May 14th - 20th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age or radio compliment this 30-minute program.

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of May 7th - 13th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age of radio compliment this 30-minute program.
Note: Special Mother's Day Playlist.

A rundown of our old time radio playlist on our Live365 server for the week of May 1st - 6th, plus this week in history and some memorable music from the golden age or radio compliment this 30-minute program.

Golden Age OTR Program Guide – Playlist 253 (April 23rd – 30th)

I recently began doing a 30-minute program at the start of each playlist on our Golden Age OTR Live365 server. It is a combination of the playlist program rundown, this week in history, and great musical selections from the golden age or radio. Plus whatever other comments come to mind during the recording.

Easter Sunday program.

After a 2-week respit, we return with an Easter Sunday show.

Perhaps it was the 2-week rest, or maybe the caffeine, but I sure sound hyped up!

We start the show with Al Jolson’s “Easter Parade”, after which we welcome many familiar listeners in the chat room. Some great shortwave loggings follow.

I made some comments about Napster, which was the current hot technology at the time.

Elián González was the hot news story, so we mad some comments and played an appropriate world type song.

More shortwave loggings from loyal listener Jenifer in Colorado.

I next aired a unique audio clip from Radio New Zealand (15115 kHz) that I recorded on April 11th, 2000. There was a fire alarm and the staff was evacuated from the building. This is what makes live radio so interesting (the fire was a false alarm).

As Pope John Paul II celebrated Easter Sunday Mass, Cybershortwave presented Tom Lerher who celebrated Easter by performing “The Vatican Rag”.

Before our current old time radio format, you could hear some great 60’s, 70’s & 80’s rock & roll music on our Live365 station (Beatles; Beach Boys; Shocking Blue; Doors; Mellencamp; etc.)

Bloopers are always a possibility when doing live radio. I announced: “Here’s The Chairman of the Board” (but I was looking at the wrong cut) oops, wrong artist!
We corrected that faux pas next!

An appropriate show ending by Gene Autry: Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

The Sunspot cycle continues to boom! Radio signals abound.

So I continued my shortwave bandscan from the previous week. (At beginning we were able to hear LIVE time pips from VNG, an Australian time station on 16mhz)

Some reported stream problems, so we tweaked our netcast.

Al Jolson’s April Showers helped us welcome in April.

A lot of band scanning with some awesome shortwave clips.

Some real great world type music compliment this netcast.

I didn’t waste any time, this week I started the show with an Al Jolson selection!

Followed by SWL loggings from shortwave listeners.

Follow-up on my conversation the previous week with Sam Ward from Ontario, Canada.

I played audio clips of a shortwave band scan that I did during the preceding week. Near the peak of the sunspot cycle, the upper shortwave frequencies were booming with some rare SWL DX. 17, 21 and 25 mhz were booming.

Even on the Internet back in 2000, radio station audio content could be intermittent, especially since most of us were using dial-up 56k modems. I did an Internet international radio scan also, and played a few clips from that.

I played an audio clip of a TV station in Cleveland going dark (out of business) permanently in 1974 or 1975 (WKBF-TV Channel 61 Kaiser Broadcasting)

Another Al Jolson tune! And The Voice of Pancho Villa rides again.

Cybershortwave Live! March 19, 2000 (Special 2hr 46min)

We took a week off so that we could attend the 13th Annual Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville, Pa.

When I returned to the broadcast on March 19th, I gave a report on fest activities, including interviews and new promos that I asked folks to do for Cybershortwave.

I took live telephone calls during the broadcast. Bill KA2EMZ, Mike Roberts, and Sam Ward in Ontario Canada provided interesting conversation. I also got a call from a research company taking a survey of my TV viewing habits. They had no idea I was doing a radio program, and the caller probably thought I was crazy when I told her that she was on the Internet. I turned the tables on her and asked her if she ever heard of The BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Vlaanderen, etc. Hilarious, and it wasn’t planned. It just happened.

The tape I was using to archive the show with ran out at the end, so there is no goodbye theme.

Cybershortwave Live! March 5, 2000 (Special 3hr 21min)

In preparation for the 13th Annual Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville, Pa. the following weekend (Which my family and I attended), we focused on “Music To Fest By”. The theme becomes very evident after a few musical selections.

I played an audio clip of my first time checking into the ANARC SWL Net in June 1988.

In addition, I spoke of the possibility of resurrecting the ANARC SWL NET with the restructuring of Ham Radio licenses in the states.

Hoping to get listeners interested in Ham Radio, I played an audio clip from 1992 of myself working a “JA” contest with Japanese stations. I was lucky to have a pipeline into Japan from my home in Ohio that evening.

I did an imaginary skit of me in Sun Studio back in the 1950’s issuing orders to Sam Phillips, as Johnny Cash was recording (this is one of those hokey skits that I never bothered to repeat in later broadcasts). The whole purpose was to provide an intro for the several re-takes that Johnny Cash did.

This was also a pre St. Patrick’s Day show with several Irish tunes.

Nobody said the “P” word, but we played 3 polkas in a row anyway.

And of course our ever present salute to Al Jolson, The World’s Greatest Entertainer.

Here's a short video from our live broadcast on December 23rd. Grandson, David makes his world radio premier!

Al Jolson is, and always will be “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”. There is not much video available of the real Al Jolson, save for a handful of movies he did in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Here is Jolson doing a video made specifically for Larry Parks to study and attempt to re-create Jolson in the movie biography of Jolson’s life story.