Ghost Frequencies
The carrier is gone. Someone kept listening.
Follow a station’s documented past. This map collects sourced histories of defunct services. A last known frequency is a dated historical observation, not a frequency currently available to tune.
How to use this
- Choose a record
Select a marker or entry and read the service name, place and dates.
- Follow the source
Check whether the source supports the final frequency, closure date or only a particular period of operation.
- Separate the archive from reception
Any surviving-audio reference is a link to an external archive. A silent modern stream does not establish historical closure.
Try this: Open one record and identify which source supports its frequency and which supports its ending. They may be different sources.
You should get: A traceable station history with explicit gaps where the archive does not answer a question.
Know the limit: The map is a curated collection, not an exhaustive world inventory. Links can disappear; no recordings are copied by this guide.
Browse the current radio atlas6 documented closures
CHU · Canada
Ottawa area, Canada
2026-06-22 · Shortwave time-signal service
The surviving recording follows the final moments on 3,330 kHz. Other CHU frequencies existed; this is the frequency documented by this clip.
NRC recording shared by Ronald McKinnon
▶ Hear the surviving recording ↗Recording provenance & closure account ↗External archive audio; availability and rights remain with the source. No automatic playback.What counts as a ghost?
A documented station or service closure, supported by a dated recording and its provenance. Failed streams in the live radio directory are not evidence of closure. Frequencies shown belong to the linked surviving clips and are not a complete historical allocation list.
Markers use GeoNames city or regional reference points, not surveyed transmitter coordinates. Six sourced entries are published; wider coverage is still being researched. Sources checked 15 September 2026. Recordings stay at their original archives.
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