Radiorobbes audio treasures

While you can hear many cranes in the early fall months here, the cries of wild geese fill the late autumn sky and usually mark the beginning of the cold season. It took a while to get a decent recording of their calls, but finally the winged gang did me the favour and flew over…

Here is a more interesting warning day recording. This has been taken from a live stream in the southwest of germany, and consists of four parts. First you will hear the usual swelling tone, but this time from a digital siren. The second part is a spoken message at 15 minutes past the hour in…

to test the emergency facilities in germany, a national test alarm was sent out on december 8th, 2022 arround 11 o’clock am. The alarm consisted of siren warnings, radio and television messages, as well as app and cell broadcast alarms, causing supported phones to make a horribly loud noise. I’m posting two recordings from this…

Listen to a skein of cranes above my house, a typical autumnal sound at this place. In fact I can hear cranes all winter long, because some of them don’t fly further into the south. The fields and meadows in my county are a popular resting place for cranes, in early autumn you can hear…

Someone requested an archive recording. This one is from july 2020. A hit-and-run-driver in his small truck scratched the lamppost infront of my house while passing by. Nobody was injured, Except for the lamppost. Rest in enlightened peace.

Here is a very neat recording for all siren fans which I managed to catch one summer night last year. It is the DS977 model, which served as a standard siren since the 60s in the former GDR to alert the population and fire brigades. It also has been exported to other countries in eastern…

Someone asked for loud engine noises, so here they are. First one is a motorcycle recorded today around 3:40 PM.