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The FCC recently reminded holders of experimental high-frequency (HF) licenses that they must comply with the agency’s station identification rules, ending a period in which some experimental HF operations had been transmitting without identification under waivers. The ruling clarifies that experimental HF stations in the 2–25 MHz band must transmit their assigned callsign at least once every 30 minutes in plain voice or Morse code–with digital modulation disabled during the ID–to help manage interference with incumbent spectrum users, including amateur bands.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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The FCC recently reminded holders of experimental high-frequency (HF) licenses that they must comply with the agency’s station identification rules, ending a period in which some experimental HF operations had been transmitting without identification under waivers. The ruling clarifies that experimental HF stations in the 2–25 MHz band must transmit their assigned callsign at least once every 30 minutes in plain voice or Morse code–with digital modulation disabled during the ID–to help manage interference with incumbent spectrum users, including amateur bands.
