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Many thanks toSWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who shares anillustrated radio listening report of a recent NHK broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of NHK news bulletin (in Japanese) about arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas commander. Listened in Florianopolis, Brazil. Click here to view [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who writes: Hi Thomas, The purpose of this message is to inform you that the Grimeton station (Sweden) will be on air on December 1st to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its commercial commissioning: https://grimeton.org/en/2024/11/12/saq-to-air-on-dec-1st-100-years-of-communication/ Find out more about the Grimeton station: https://alexander.n.se/en/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1134/ Have a nice [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional Rio broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of the news bulletin from Radio Nacional Rio AM 1130 kHz, dealing with the evaluation of the G20 summit, Xi Jinping's official visit to Brazil and the federal police operation that [...]

Hi to all SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what Imaginary Stations are bringing to the airwaves this coming week. We've a show on Saturday November 16th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTCon6160 kHz and repeated on Sunday November 17th 2024 at 1000/1200 hrs UTCon6160 kHz and also at 2100 UTC on 3975 [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Michael (BD4AAQ), who shares the following guest post: Tidbits of SEANET (South East Asia Amateur Radio Network) by Michael (BD4AAQ) On 3rd October 2024, the 48th SEANET Convention was finally convened in Negombo, Sri Lanka. The SEANET convention, a gathering of a group of amateur radio operators, was last [...]

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 David Iurescia for the following tips: WNYC(AM) 820 Set to Test All-Digital AM in December (Radio [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following Radiofax images and notes: Typhoon Usagi wreaks more damage and misery in Philippines as yet another storm looms" https://apnews.com/article/philippines-typhoon-usagi-united-nations-4690fe8d399105fe63f3071c4912d1c2 Via Kyodo News/Associated Press Radiofax received in Rio de Janeiro, Nov 16, 2024, 07h10 UTC, 16970 kHz. Super typhoon Man-yi" (Pepito"), about to make [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following article: Historic radio station in West Chester remembers final broadcast anniversary (Fox 19) Everything got shut off. This place had never been shut off in 50 years." WEST CHESTER, Ohio (WXIX) - The Bethany Relay Station at the Voice of America Park [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and good friend, BJ Leiderman, who shares the following video on YouTube-a special Shipping Forecast tribute: On 18 December 1993, as part of the Arena Radio Night, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 2 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so the shipping forecast - read that night by Laurie Macmillan [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radyo Pilipinas' news bulletin (in English) about storm-plagued Philippines. Noisy audio, barely intelligible. Listened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube. Bonus Radiofax Images Typhoon Usagi" (Ofel"), [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who shares the following announcement: This message to announce a contest launched by radio listener F-14368 (Frank Parisot) <f14368@wanadoo.fr> Information in French: http://radioclub.perche.free.fr/ Contest rules in English: https://webkiwisdrswl.blogspot.com/2024/09/swl-contest-2025-rules.html Thanks for sharing this announcement, Paul!

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radyo Pilipinas' news bulletin (in filipino), statement of the Philippines' President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. about the sequence of typhoons hitting the country. Listened in Rio de Janeiro. Click here to [...]

Hi to all SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of what's on shortwave via Imaginary Stations this week. From the transmitters of Shortwave Gold on Saturday November 16th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTCon6160 kHz and on Sunday November 17th 2024 at 1000/1200 hrs UTCon6160 kHzand then at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz we [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following Radiofax decodes and notes: THREE storms in a single Radiofax Typhoon Yinxing (Marce) which just hit the Philippines, now heading towards Hainan & Vietnam Tropical storm Toraji (Nika) which is about to landfall on the Philippines Tropical storm Man-yi whose route points towards [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor,Bob Colegrove, who shares the following guest post: Channel 6 Radio Stations By Bob Colegrove Even after all these years, I still find occasional surprises while playing with radios. How did I miss this one? I recently did what I thought was a definitive audit of the available FM stations in my [...]

Hello shortwave listeners! I have some exciting news about an upcoming weekly broadcast for listeners in Asia and beyond! Beginning Monday the 11th of November, 2024 and continuing every Monday - my radio program will now be heard across the Asian Continent and beyond thanks to 250 kW of power from the transmitting facility in [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following announcement from Radio Romania international: Personality of the Year 2024 on RRI Dear Friends, Radio Romania International is again conducting its annual survey among listeners and users of Internet and social media, presenting you with a new challenge in 2024, a complicated and [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radyo Pilipinas' news bulletin (in English) about people affected by Typhoon Marce" in the Philippines. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to SWLing Post and Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post: Preserving Radio History - Old Audio Cassettes by Dan Greenall A few years ago, during the Covid lockdowns, I rediscovered a box full of my old audio cassette tapes on the bottom shelf of a cupboard [...]

Hi to all SWLing Post community. FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know about what Imaginary Stations have coming to the shortwaves this coming week. The first show is brought to you via the services of Shortwave Gold on Saturday November 9th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTCon6160 kHz and on Sunday November 10th 2024 at 1000/1200 [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radyo Pilipinas news coverage of typhoon Marce" (in filipino). Listened at UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube. Bonus: Radiofax received yesterday (20h UTC) at UFJF, in [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional Brasilia broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radio Nacional de Brasilia news (in Portuguese) about Trump's election win. Listened at UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

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 David Iurescia and Mike Robinson for the following tips: Rti secures top ranking in global popularity among Japanese-language shortwave [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: Due to a surprise appearance by CRI at 1800 UTC, the originally-scheduled transmissions of FTIOM and UBMP at that hour are being pushed back to 2200 UTC. The revised schedule is as follows: From the Isle of Music, second Saturday of every [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radyo Pilipinas broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radyo Pilipinas' news bulletin (in English) about preparations ahead of tropical storm Marce" landfall. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube. Shanghai Meteorological Bureau Radiofax: Yinxing [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his B-24 (version 1.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download: Click here to download Music on Shortwave B-24 v1.0 (PDF) As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan! This dedicated page will always have [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Exterior de Espana broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radio Nacional de Espana news coverage (in Spanish) of catastrophic rains in Valencia, Spain. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following recordings of two Canadian Volmet stations. Carlos received these transmissions in Juiz de Fora, Brazil: Click here to view on YouTube. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Taiwan International broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radio Taiwan International news bulletin (in Spanish) about super typhoon Kong-rey". Enhanced audio. Listened at UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice of Korea broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Voice of Korea's news bulletin (in English) about yesterday's DPRK long-range missile test. Listened in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional de Espana. Carlos also inclused some bonus Radiofax images of Super Typhoon Kong-rey. Carlos notes: Part of Radio Nacional de Espana news coverage (in Spanish) of catastrophic rains in Valencia, Spain. Listened in Juiz de Fora, [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Reach Beyond Australia. Carlos notes: Part of evangelistic preaching (in Japanese) from Reach Beyond (Australia). Listened in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Good morning/afternoon/evening to all SWLing Post community. FastRadioBurst 23 here in a dressing gown drinking a coffee as I've just woken up, but I am awake enough to let you know about what Imaginary Stations have coming to the shortwaves this coming week. There'll be a couple of episodes of a show called WREM which [...]

Note: I originally published this post on QRPer.com, but I thought I'd cross-post it here since so many of you have been checking in on me post-Hurricane Helene. As an update, we're all doing fine here at SWLing Post HQ, and things are starting to normalize. It will be many months, or even years, before [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: This is a follow up to the SWLing Post article from last May informing about a frequency change at the Voice of Indonesia from 4750 to 4755 kHz. My long time friend Ken (VE3HLS) has been retired and living in northern Thailand for several years [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,Pavel Kraus, who shares the following guest post: Mediumwave Ferrite Antenna by Pavel Kraus This antenna for MW was made according to the instructions from Everyday Practical Electronics magazine, September 2000. The author of the Active Ferrite Loop Aerial construction project is Raymond Haigh. The antenna was only adjusted mechanically [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor, Bill Meara who sharesthe following article from the excellent SolderSmoke Podcast blog: Monitoring Maritime Radio Messages with YADD This is really cool and very easy. Easy nerd thrills. On Friday, Steve VE7SL,put up a blog poston how we can relive the glories of our youth by monitoring HF long-distance maritime traffic. [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional FM broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Radio Nacional (Brazil) news bulletin (in Portuguese) about police and drug dealers shooting, storms that left people dead in Rio de Janeiro. Listened in Rio de Janeiro in a walkman [...]

Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave who shares the following master program schedule as a .txt file and .PDF file for their November and December 2024 broadcasts!

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frank SWL F14368, who notes that he has updated the rules for the SWL Contest 2025 and has posted information on his website: https://webkiwisdrswl.blogspot.com/2024/09/swl-contest-2025-rules.html Thank you for the update, Frank!

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional de Brasilia broadcast. Carlos notes: Excerpt from Radio Nacional (Brazil, AM 1130 kHz) news bulletin, in Portuguese, about President Lula's videoconference participation in the BRICS Summit, criticizing the war in Ukraine and Gaza strip. Listened on [...]

By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM It was Bob Colegrove's post - this one- that inspired me and set me on this path. Medium wave broadcast band DXing (MWBCB) has a certain fascination for me, but I am poor at it. Oh sure, I have read the advice: map the band at noon, then again at midnight, [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent VOK broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Voice of Korea's news bulletin (in Spanish): press statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK. Listened at Urca Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click here to view on [...]

Hi SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows bouncing off the ionosphere this week. This weekend we have another of those name that theme" shows of WMMR. Like the last WMMR show, it has a mystery theme running throughout and we ask our listeners to guess what that [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following announcement: B24 schedule as follows: From the Isle of Music, second Saturday of every month. From the Isle of Music, November 9, 2024 We will take a break from Cubadisco 2024 nominees to recognize the centenary of the founding of the iconic Cuban [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor,Bob Colegrove, who shares the following guest post: What's Your Favorite Corner of the Dial? As asked by Bob Colegrove Let's suppose you've been listening to radio for a while. Consciously or not, you've probably favored a range of AM, SW, or FM frequencies. These are areas where you go to DX [...]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tom Ally, who writes: Hey Thomas , I am not sure if you got the pre-order email on October 16th , so I sent the link in this email: Click here to check it out. When I went to buy it the first time it said I could not [...]

No matter where you live in the world, everyone should have a battery-powered or self-powered (hand-crank) portable radio in their home. Recently, the pace of articles here on the SWLing Post has slowed down. That's because I live in Swannanoa, North Carolina-a town that was particularly hard-hit by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Helene, which brought unprecedented rainfall [...]

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent VOK broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Voice of Korea's news bulletin (in Spanish) about block of roads and railways to ROK. Listened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks toSWLing Postcontributor and noted political cartoonist,Carlos Latuff, who sharesillustrated radio listening report of a recent Kyodo News Radiofax transmission. Carlos notes: Part of today's Kyodo News Kaiun Suisan" radiofax: US, Philippines joint exercises."