BBC Seeks Shortwave Recordings and Listener Stories—Can You Help?

SWLing Post readers,

I’m currently helping a BBC reporter who is producing an upcoming program about shortwave radio—and she’s hoping to tap into the incredible collective knowledge and experience of the SWLing Post community.

There are a few specific things she’s still trying to track down:

Recordings of what was heard when stations like Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, or Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty signed off. In other words, do you have final recordings for any of these broadcasters?
Audio recordings of a coronal mass ejection (CME) as heard on shortwave. I’ve heard this before–those broadband waves of fading–but I have no recordings.
Personal experiences of listening to shortwave while living in a closed or restricted country.

If you have recordings, firsthand experiences, or even strong leads, your contribution could help shape this program.

If you’d like to help, please leave a comment on this post–I’ll share your contact details with the producer.

As always, I’m continually amazed by the depth of knowledge and experience within this community—thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

Sunny Jim’s Trance Journey: April 2026 Program Schedule

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My April programme is now available for your listening pleasure! 60 minutes of melodic & uplifting electronic based music tracks, which hopefully may persuade you that there’s more to music than the songs we already know! (assuming I haven’t already persuaded you…).

You can tune in via our normal relay partners – WRMI, Channel 292, RealMix Radio, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, & Chelmsford Community Radio. Schedule below. A good opportunity to test your receivers & chase the DX! All reception reports sent to [email protected] will receive eQSLs throughout April. Of course you can always cut out the static & fading by listening online at www.sjtjradio.com (but it’s not so much fun…).

This is my last programme for a while. As always the summer months bring me new projects to try, new places for us to visit, & old projects to continue (will I ever finish the decorating…), but I aim to be back on SW later this year.

Until then – Au Revoir…

Jim

NHK Closes Radio 2 After 95 Years on the Air

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who shares the following article from RadioInfo Asia that notes NHK has officially closed its long-running Radio 2 service as part of a broader plan to consolidate its radio operations and adapt to shifting audio consumption trends. While the AM-based service ends, much of its educational content will continue on NHK FM and digital platforms.

Read the full article here:
https://radioinfo.asia/news/nhk-shuts-radio-2-after-95-years-on-air/

Scott recommends the new Echo Global SDR iOS App

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Scott Gamble, who writes:

For the past several weeks I have been beta testing a new iOS app – Echo: Global SDR Receiver. Echo is the first SDR client custom-built natively for iOS, and launched today (March 31) in the App Store. I have found it to be a very capable listening companion and is very stable for long listening sessions spanning multiple SDR receivers.

Echo provides connectivity to over 2,000 remote SDR receivers (KiwiSDR, OpenWebRX, WebSDR, and FM DX), accessible by multiple search capabilities including a world map display, offline frequency library, station logging, and, owing to its native iOS development, features full background audio for uninterrupted listening. The iOS version supports both iPhone and iPad. More information is available at https://echosdr.com.

The App Store link is: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echo-global-sdr-receiver/id6759174390

The developer, Mark Garrison, is very engaged with users, and there is an active Discord community of current Echo users.

Enjoy!

Scott
W5BSG

Thank you so much for the tip, Scott!

We’ll have some fun when the clock strikes one

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Greetings all SWLing Post community. This weekend, Imaginary Stations brings you another episode of CLOK, a shortwave tribute to time (not to be confused with Thyme). The first transmission is on Saturday 4th April at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 5th April at 0900/1300 UTC on 6160 kHz and 2000 hrs on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold). Tune into 60 minutes of songs that mention hours, minutes and seconds, ballads about watches, heartwarming tunes about clocking in machines and a lot more. Enjoying spending an hour with us on shortwave this coming 48 hours period we call a “weekend”.

If you tune into WRMI on Wednesday 8th April 2026 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz it’ll be the debut of Skybird Folk & Country Radio. If you like both those genres you are going to love this show. They’ll be a mixture of electric and acoustic tunes for your listening delight.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report Special Edition: Africa (PDF)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report, Special Edition: Africa.

Carlos notes:

Dear Thomas and SWLing Post colleagues,

I’m sharing with you now a special edition of my already traditional Illustrated Radio Listening Report about radio stations broadcasting from and to Africa. I’ve compiled the illustrations into a PDF, which I’m making available to all radio lovers worldwide.

[Click here to download.]

I hope you enjoy it.

73’s

Click here to view on YouTube.

Mark shares some sights and sounds from South Korea

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who recently returned from a trip to South Korea and, at my request, is sharing some sights and sounds with us. Mark writes:

Thomas,

I’ve been catching up on cataloguing pictures and videos from my Korea trip.

I’ve enclosed a picture taken through the Seoul North Tower observation window of an adjacent radio mast.

You can also see a view of Seoul along with its dubious air quality !

I’ve posted these radio-related YouTube videos:

AFN Korea – War in Iran:

MBC FM4U – Reporting on a fire at a ‘capsule’ hotel in Myeong-dong
I embedded English translations generated by the Korean language app, NAVER Papago:

Mark

Thank you, Mark! Wow–I can’t imagine being a guest in a capsule hotel during a fire–that sounds terrifying. And thank you for that photo of the Seoul North Tower–great shot!