Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of NHK shortwave radio news bulletin about typhoon n° 7 “Ampil” approaching Japan. Listened yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Richard Cuff and Markku Koskinen who share the following (sad) news: 900 CHML closes, ending nearly a century of local radio in Hamilton (Toronto Star) Station pointed to financial losses as major reason behind closure A mainstay of Hamilton’s airwaves for almost a century has gone off the air. […]

Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave for the following update: We added an additional broadcast of our monthly program over Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany. We’re working to cover Western NAm with a broadcast on 9670 kHz at 0300 UTC. Listeners in the South Pacific have also reported a listenable signal. We want folks worldwide […]

Radio Waves:  Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the SWLing 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, Dennis Dura, Richard Cuff, and Bake Timmons for the following tips: Voice of America station in CNMI announces […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Colegrove, who shares the following guest post: A Band Aid for the XHDATA D-220 By Bob Colegrove In the olden days of analog radios, we would have generated a graph plotting frequency against a 0 to 100 linear bandspread scale. That permitted determination of a station’s frequency with varying degrees […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent AWR broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Adventist World Radio evangelist preaching in Yoruba language to Nigeria and region, broadcasted from Nauen, Germany. Listened in Florianopolis, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave who shares the following announcement: Because propagation was terrible on August 5th, we’re again testing on 9670 kHz next Sunday, August 11, at 0300 UTC. The test will come from Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany. We’ll issue Texas Coloring Book QSL #7 for correct, detailed reception reports to texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com. […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Aaron Kuhn, who shares the following guest post: Live Baseball on the Radio: Radio Selection Considerations In recent years, I’ve enjoyed attending minor league baseball games in my region. One of my favorite aspects of live baseball is bringing a radio to listen to play-by-play commentary. Experiencing the game in person while […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK World broadcast. Carlos notes: Part of Thursday’s NHK radio news bulletin about 7.1 earthquake that hit Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. Listened in Florianopolis, Brazil. Click here to view on YouTube.

Radio Waves:  Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the SWLing 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 Alan for the following tips: Radio Apocalypse: HFGCS, The Backup Plan For Doomsday (Hackaday) To the […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of these Furusato No Kaze and Nippon No Kaze il bon ue broadcasts: Carlos notes: Opening of Japanese government shortwave radio programs aimed at Japanese citizens abducted by DPRK between 1977 and 1983: “Furusato No Kaze” (in Japanese) and “Nippon No […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post and Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas From the early 1970’s, where sadly, some of my original logbooks went missing many years ago. ANTEL, the Administracion Nacional de Telecommunicaciones in Montevideo, Uruguay used to use its telephone time announcement instead of a voice mirror – so […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of recent broadcasts from the Voice of Korea, NHK, and KBS. Voice of Korea Carlos notes: Part of Voice of Korea news bulletin about floods in the DPRK: “…Shortly ago, floods and heavy rains seriously and consecutively damaged some areas of […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Julian Stargardt, who writes: SWLing fans might like to know that at the moment on eBay there are about a dozen Sony ICF 6700 receivers for sale [eBay partnership link]. The ICF 6700 is the more reliable version of the better known ICF 6800 – the ICF 6800 is […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news release via the DRM Consortium:  DRM RNZ Shortwave Transmitter For Pacific Inaugurated On August 1st the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister came to RNZ House in Wellington to mark the start of the use of the new analogue and […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following schedule: Our transmissions at 2300 UTC have been changed from 3955 to 9670 using Channel 292’s booster beam aimed at the Caribbean, which should also allow for good listening in some other parts of the Americas. The 1700 UTC transmissions may occasionally bounce into parts […]

Radio Waves:  Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the SWLing 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, David Iurescia, and David Snyde for the following tips: Sonic Bonds: A Journey into Wondrous Radio This […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares this update to his original Tecsun S-2200x review: TECSUN S-2200x: Some Updates by Dan Robinson Since my original Tecsun S-2200x review, I have run additional tests on the S-2200x and have the following observations, and responses to some comments. I continue to test this receiver, […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dale Parfitt, who writes: I wanted to mention a receive only antenna that I am using at my home QTH. I do a lot of NDB logging during the winter below 500kHz, some AM band DXing and 160M. In the past I have had Beverages, homebrew Flag antennas, Shared […]