Sunny Jim’s Trance Journey: Schedule for January 2026

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor James Salmon, who shares the following announcement:

SUNNY JIM’S TRANCE JOURNEY

Another month, another programme… The January edition of SJTJ is now available! Tune in on all the normal channels – WRMI / Channel 292 / RealMix Radio / Scandinavian Weekend Radio – or, listen in high quality mp3 (?) by clicking on our Mixcloud player! Another selection of melodic, well crafted songs that you very likely have never heard before!

Find us here – www.sjtjradio.com

As always, eQSLs will be issued for all listening reports.

Oh yes – don’t be put off by the ‘Trance’ in the title – that’s just the name of the show… an explanation at the beginning of the programme…

All the best – Jim

Imagination and strange cloud formations

Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations bring you WLIS (We love Imaginary Stations). It’s a homage to imaginary, fictitious or fabricated radio stations that have appeared in films, books and music. Remember Jimi Hendrix’s EXP, Wolfman Jack on XERB, Harry Chapin’s WOLD, the many shows on GTA and others?

The first show is via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 10th January 2026 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 11th January 2026 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and (the new time of) 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz.

Use your shortwave radio or an online SDR to tune into those radio stations that may or may not exist. If you love (fictional or non-fictional) radio, you’ll love our show!

And on Wednesday 14th January 2026 at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI we bring you The Weather Channel, a programme which features the joys of meteorology. So have your weather vane wired up as your antenna and keep a look out for strange cloud formations while tuning into The Weather Channel.

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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UVB-76 Plays “Swan Lake” and Transmits Cryptic Codes, Fueling Speculation

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fred Waterer, for sharing this article highlighting unusual activity from Russia’s shortwave station UVB-76, sometimes known among shortwave listeners as “The Buzzer.” Known for its continuous buzzing and occasional coded voice messages, the station recently broke pattern by playing music–including Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake–and transmitting atypical sounds alongside cryptic codes, sparking speculation about the source and meaning of the broadcast.

Read the full article by clicking here.

Carlos’ Radiofax Scrapbook: December 31, 2025 & January 1- 2, 2026

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the latest entry in his Radiofax scrapbook.


Carlos notes:

Kyodo News Morning Edition
Dec 31, 2025

Kyodo News Morning Edition
Jan 1, 2026

Kyodo News Morning Edition
Jan 2, 2026

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (January 3, 2025)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent CGTN broadcast.


Carlos notes:

U.S. carried out large-scale strikes against Venezuela, CGTN Radio, 13630 kHz (Full report)

Click here to view on YouTube.

TEMPLATE: Alan Roe’s B-25 Season Guide to Music on Shortwave (version 4.0)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his B-25 (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 B-25 v4.0 (PDF)

Alan has also created at-a-glance, single-page PDF programme grids for BBC World Service, CGTN Radio, Radio Romania International, Voice of Turkey, and Radio Taiwan International — all updated for the B-25 broadcast season and published last week. If you’d like to download these, visit Alan’s Box account here: http://tinyurl.com/shortwaveprograms

As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan!

This dedicated page will always have the latest version of Alan’s guide available for download.

Taiwan on Shortwave – Then and Now

by Dan Greenall

For nearly a half-century, The Voice of Free China broadcast programs via shortwave to a worldwide audience from Taipei, Taiwan. As a relatively new SWL in the early 1970’s, I was always excited to hear English language programs from that part of the world, far away from southern Ontario, Canada, where I lived. There was no relay from WYFR or Radio Miami International at that time, so the signal from Taiwan needed to travel over 12,000 km (7500 miles) to reach my receiver.

I made this recording of their interval signal and sign-on in early 1971.

In 1998, the name of the station changed to Radio Taipei International, then again in 2003 to Radio Taiwan International.

Today, Radio Taiwan International continues to offer programs on shortwave in a number of languages from a transmitter in Taiwan, though there appears to be only one English-language broadcast per day, that being from 1600 to 1700 hours UTC on 9405 kHz. Here is a recording of the station signing on at 1600 UTC on January 1, 2026 using a remote SDR located in Japan:

And here they are signing off for the day on December 27, 2025 at 1700 UTC on 9405 kHz, again using a Kiwi SDR in Japan.

 

The station is received well in southern Ontario during their daily 2200 UTC broadcast in Spanish on 15770 kHz. This transmission is aired using the facilities of Radio Miami International in Okeechobee, Florida. The Kiwi SDR used for this recording is located in my hometown of London, Ontario.