Fastradioburst23 here to let you know about a brand new book from Imaginary Stations contributor Justin Patrick Moore. The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis, and the Birth of Electronic Music is a radiocentric look at the origins of electronica. Radioheads will find much to enjoy in the pages of this tome including: Elisha Gray’s […]

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 Richard Cuff, Dennis Dura, David Korchin, Roger Fitzharris, David Iurescia, and NT for the following tips: In 1924, a […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes: Photos of former VOA Delano. All the towers are gone now… How sad. Note that the smoke is from all of those California fires.

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 and Dennis Dura for the following tips: Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang (The […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes: Last night on my bedside radio I heard on BBC World’s ‘The Forum’ a wonderful 49-minute piece about portable audio. Much of it covers the earliest portable electron tube radios and transistor radios, and their influences on society in different countries. Mediumwave, Shortwave and FM radios […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: Hi Thomas, a post on Reddit with a picture of radio stuff lead me to Google for its source. It led me to this page https://yle.fi/a/3-11502533 My Finnish is not as good as Google’s, but even with its poor “auto” translation, the story can be fairly […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary (W4EEY), who shares a link the following archived documentary on the BBC World Service from 1982: Click here to view on YouTube.

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who writes: With the imminent approach, Thursday, June 6, 2024, of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, followed by operation Overlord. Being both a radio amateur and in the broadcast industry , I have done a little research and find the two items, below, relating to D-Day and […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Michael (BD4AAQ) who shares the following guest post: Shanghai Coast Radio Station (XSG): Those Giant Antennas! The 17th of May is the World Telecommunication Day. It is also the open day of Shanghai Coast Radio Station. On this day, a group of amateur radio operators were invited to visit […]

FastRadioBurst 23 letting you know of a forthcoming project from DJ Frederick called The Radio Enthusiast e-APA. It looks very interesting and will cover subjects we all love radio-wise! As the flyer above states the main purpose of the project is “for fun, to connect with other radio enthusiasts, to share information & creativity.” It’ll […]

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas In addition to digitizing many of my old SW and BCB audio files, I have begun setting up some of my QSL galleries on the internet archive in order to help preserve radio history. I am sending along a few links that perhaps […]

Many thanks to the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting for posting the following video on their YouTube channel: Click here to view on YouTube.