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Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: Here's a little follow up on what I did earlier with the little Hurricane transmitter. Click here to view on YouTube. Before I had an indirect' connection between antenna-OUT of the transmitter and the radio as I had two insulated wires , one from the transmitter, one [...]

Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who've noted that SDRplay's new multi-platform SDR application, SDRconnect, is now available to download as a preview! Click here for more information and to download and to download directly from SDRplay.

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who shareshis radio log art from two recent reports and a radiofax. Good morning, Thomas. My radio activity on August 10, 2023. Attached are two illustrated listening reports about Typhoon Khanun: one from Okinawa Fishery radio station and the other from KBS World Radio. Okinawa Fishery [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-23 (version 5.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download: Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-23 v5 (PDF) As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan! This dedicated page will always have [...]

Hi to all our radio friends in SWLing Post land, Fastradioburst23 here hoping to not ruffle any feathers with news about Imaginary Stations on the radio this Sunday 13th August 2023. The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz and will [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: I got an e-QSL card (see above) from Kagoshima fishery radio station, related to the Radiofax (below) I received on August 2, 2023, at 22h UTC, on 8658 kHz USB, here in Porto Alegre: That's just brilliant, Carlos! I didn't even realize that JFX still [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares this news from Radio World: FCC Declines Request to Extend Comment Period on Shortwave Modernization Petition A request by the Shortwave Modernization Coalition (SMC) for the FCC to amend its rules to allow fixed, long-distance, non-voice communications above 2 MHz and below 25 MHz has [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Paul, John Drake, William Lee, and Dennis Dura for the following tips: Ham Radio Enthusiasts vs. High-Frequency Traders: A [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following photos he snapped at the Berryville Hamfest this past weekend:

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares this video by OM0ET:

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill (WD9EQD), who writes: Ghosts in the Air Glow" by Canadian artist Amanda Dawn Christie is a transmission art project through HAARP that mixes audio and images from the transition between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. Shortwave radio listeners from around the world are invited to tune in and [...]

Once, Twice, Three Times a QSO: How to Earn the W9IMS 2023 Checkered Flag Award By Brian D. Smith Two out of three ain't bad, proclaims the late '70s classic rock song. But three out of three gets you the Checkered Flag Award from W9IMS. That's another way of reminding you that the third Indianapolis [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who shareshis radio log art of a recent Okinawa Fishery Radio Station Typhoon Alert. Carlos notes: Okinawa fishing radio station issued an alert today for typhoon Khanun, and the transmission was listened in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Thanks Shigeru Tagawa for the translation. Click here to view [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: From The Isle of Music, the best cuban music program produced outside of Cuba, returns as a monthly Sunday, August 6 on WBCQ The Planet, 7490 kHz from 6pm-7pm EDT (2200-2300 UTC). It will air the first Sunday of each month, sharing [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Dennis Dura and Mangosman for the following tips: Swiss Private Radio Station Broadcasts DRM To Brazil (DRM Consortium) The [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who shareshis radio log art of a recent Voice of Turkey transmission. Carlos notes: Part of news bulletin from Voice of Turkey radio, listened in Porto Alegre, Brazil (9870 kHz). Scores killed in police operations in Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rose, who shares the following announcement: The beloved ThisIsAMusicShow has ceased broadcasting for the foreseeable future, but you can rest assured, as the broadcast slot that was used by TIAMS (Thursdays between 0200-0300 UTC on WRMI 5850 kHz) is now in good hands. In the first 30 minutes, starting [...]

Hi SWLing post community, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about this weekend's Imaginary Stations shows on shortwaves this Sunday 6th August 2023. The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz and will be the debut of KSEA. It's an ocean themed [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Phil (W9IXX), who shares the following note posted on the Fair Radio Sales website: After being in the surplus electronic military business over 50 years, I have decided it's time to retire and close the business. Fair Radio Sales has over 30,000 sq ft of electronic parts and equipment [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who recently shared a number of Radiofax images of Typhoon Khanun he's decoded over the past few days-apologies as I've been traveling and could not post when received. Carlos writes: Attached is a satellite image broadcasted today by Japanese meteorological agency via radiofax (7795 kHz USB), and [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rose with RNEI, who writes: Hei Thomas, This week we're showcasing a new show as we like to do from time to time and this time it's DK Radio. It'll be on the WRMI broadcasts of RNEI for this week only (that's 01UTC Thursday on 5850, 13UTC Thursday on [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD) who writes: Hi Thomas, Last night, I was watching the movie Hollow Man." Being a ham, I'm always watching for ham gear being used in movies. Quite often they use various Kenwood or Icom handheld radios. At about 1 and half hours in the movie, I [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron, who writes: If you like monitoring the VHF airband then this antenna might interest you.It is a half-wave dipole cut for the middle of the band. (Recall that half wave vertical dipoles do not need ground radials.) It is very well built and pretty rugged but is not [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following news from RRI: Two transmitters discontinued Two out of the five transmitters broadcasting RRI's programmes are temporarily suspended as of 1 August Dear friends, the Radio Romania Board of Administrators decided to temporarily suspend the use of 2 out of the 5 Radiocom [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-23 (version 4.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download: Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-23 v4 (PDF) As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan! This dedicated page will always have [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor,TomL, who shares the following guest post. Click here to check out all of the posts in this Audio Plugin series: Audio Plugins For Radios, Part 2 - SDR Recording by TomL I started investigating using the old Kenwood transceiver to send audio to my laptop and process the receive audio using [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Ulis Fleming, Mark Hirst, Mangosman, and Adrian Korol for the following tips: The story of BBC Monitoring (BBC World [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: This review of the ATS-120 is quite good and should be of interest to SWLing readers. This is a feature packed portable, with some quirks such as lack of FM mode on shortwave. It has a LNA amp feature that appears to duplicate the Hi-Z [...]

Hi all, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about a the Imaginary Stations schedule on the shortwaves this Sunday 30th July 2023. The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz and will be the debut of Skybird Radio International. Expect tunes in [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to John Smith and Chris Greenway for the following tips. FCC Issues Nine Warnings To Miami Area Landowners And Property Managers For Illegal [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following off-air shortwave radio recording and writes: In all of the recordings of Radio Botswana's famous barnyard interval signal I can find, the barnyard sounds are accompanied by the sound of cowbells. There is usually a rooster crowing and cows mooing too. [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Two of the best foreign shows on Netflix are Wrong Side of the Tracks, produced in Spain, and The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, from Israel. Classic antique radios feature in both. In Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a wonderful old tube set appears in a scene [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Dennis Dura, Mark Erdle, and Jock Elliott for the following tips: It's what listeners like': AM radio purveyors on [...]

Hi all, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about a couple of instances of the Imaginary Station COOL on the shortwaves this Sunday 23rd July 2023. The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz. Then later at 2200 hrs UTC on 9395 [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor,TomL, who shares the following guest post: Using Computer Audio PlugIns with Older Radios by TomL Older radios have a way to get audio out to speakers or another audio input device, usually just a headphone jack. Software for processing audio are plentiful and very useful tools, called VST's. Furthermore, most Plugins [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,Don Moore-notedauthor, traveler, and DXer-for the latest installment of hisPhoto Album guest post series: Don Moore's Photo Album: The Museums of Galicia by Don Moore Some of my favorite sites to visit while traveling are historical, marine, and military museums. I've always been interested in those subjects and sometimes those [...]

Hi all, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about a couple of transmissions on the shortwaves this Sunday 16th July 2023. The first show will be KNTS (Kearsarge North Transmission Service) from the Imaginary stations crew beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz. Expect lots of [...]

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to theSWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Ron Chester, Benn Kobb, Chuck Rippel, Pietschman, Dennis Dura, and Dave Zantow for the following tips: Market Makers" Want [...]

(Almost) All-in-One in a Box By Robert Gulley K4PKM The RADDY RF320 is a rather attractive, if not slightly curious-looking radio, which breaks from the more recent offerings from Raddy and other small portable radios. Compact, but not pocket-sized, the radio comes in at roughly 3-3/4" x 4-1/2" almost square (not counting the tuning dial [...]

Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who have reached out about a report on AWR Wavescan regarding the closure of the BBC Kranji relay station in Singapore. I contacted AWR Wavescan host, Jeff White at WRMI, and asked for any details he might have since I could not locate any press release [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: From the Isle of Music, Uncle Bill's Melting Pot and Ginga Brasil! Return To Shortwave On August 6, From the Isle of Music, Uncle Bill's Melting Pot and Ginga Brasil! return to shortwave on WBCQ The Planet, 7490 kHz. These programs will [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Post contributor and host of Underground Sounds, Kelsie, who writes: Why Shortwave? by Kelsie A question I'm regularly asked when talking about our radio show, and radio in general, is why choose independent radio rather than publishing a podcast or streaming playlist? The answer is not a simple one, but I feel [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor, Eric (WD8RIF), who notes that the29th episode of TX Factorwas recently released. Here's the show summary: Welcome to our new episode! TX Factor Calling - TX date 8th July 2023 We're beaming (almost) live across the airwaves with microwatts of broadband energy to bring you the long-awaited show 29 of TX [...]

Hi all SWLing post readers. This weekend on Imaginary Stations via WRMI will be a KDUB v Radio Clarion special. We'll be playing some dub, some trumpets and maybe some dub with trumpets. The transmission will be on air on 9395 kHz from 2200 UTC on Sunday 9th July 2023. First-time listeners are also more [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mangosman, who writes: Thomas, I saw the Radio World review of the Sangean MMR-99 (page 16). As I usually do I go to the source which in this case is the Sangean website to find Sangean MMR-99 FCC AM/FM and in the USA version Weather radio band. Sangean MMR-99 [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Troy Riedel and Jock Elliott, who share the following news items from Spaceweather.com: RADIO AMATEURS HACK A NASA SPACECRAFT:Ham radio operators are picking up a strong signal from space. It's NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft returning home after 17 years. I'm having fun with STEREO-A," reports Scott Tilley (VE7TIL) of Roberts [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Harald (DL1AX), who shares the following announcement (translated) from Radio Taiwan International: Dear listeners of RTI, Once again this year, RTI will broadcast German-language programming directly from the Tamsui, Taiwan transmitter on several days. Broadcast dates and frequencies July 2023: 1700-1800 UTC 11995 kHz 1800-1900 UTC 9545 kHz 1) [...]

Hi all, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about a transmission on the shortwaves from the Imaginary Stations Crew via Shortwave Gold from Germany this Sunday 9th July 2023 at 2000 utc on 6160 khz. X-Raydio will explore audio from unusual musical formats and will feature a piece on Bone Music by Stephen Coates from The [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Benn Kobb, who shares the following announcement: The FCC has opened for public comment the Petition for Rulemaking of the Shortwave Modernization Coalition. The proposal would bring new private, non-broadcast digital stations to the high-frequency spectrum. As covered in Experimental Radio News, the Coalition members have performed HF experiments [...]

By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM This particular adventure began about three weeks ago with an email from CCrane. Timeless, Easy to Use with Long Range Radio Reception" the headline read. Further, the accompanying text promised: Comes withneedle and dial tuning, one button for power, one button for a bright display light, andhas no clock or alarm. [...]