Category Archives: Music

Alan Roe’s A-25 Season Guide to Music on Shortwave (version 3.0)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-25 (version 3.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:

Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-25 v3.0 (PDF)

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.

July 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:

From the Isle of Music, July 2025
July’s program will be the second of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba’s most important discographic awards. This is the best of the best of Cuba’s new releases.
Friday, July 11:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, July 13:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of July 11 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, July 2025
In July we will recognize the national days of Canada and the United States with music and comedy from both places, but it will not be standard patriotic fare in either case.
Friday, July 18:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, July 20
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of July 18 episode).

*For those who were avoiding 3955 due to mixing product issues at the station, we have been informed that this has been fixed.
**In addition to direct radio reception, we do honor reception reports using remote SDRs as long as the whole program is described and which SDR is specified.

June 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:

From the Isle of Music, June 2025

June’s program will be the first of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba’s most important discographic awards.

Friday, June 13:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC

Sunday, June 15:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of June 13 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, June 2025

June’s theme will be Bollywood vs. Lollywood, some of my favorite songs from India’s and Pakistan’s film industries (make music, not war, say I, and there will not be any losers in this episode) and will air as follows:

Friday, June 20:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC

Sunday, June 22
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of June 20 episode).

For those of you who were avoiding 3955 due to mixing product issues at the station, we have been informed that this has supposedly been fixed.

**In addition to direct radio reception, we do honor reception reports using remote SDRs as long as the whole program is described and which SDR is specified.

May 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:

From the Isle of Music, May 2025

May’s program will feature music from two Cuban artists in Scandinavia, Yeisy Rojas in Norway and Eliel Lazo in Denmark.

Friday, May 9:

6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, May 11:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of May 9 episode.)

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, May 2025

May’s program will feature music from the Kingdom of Bhutan and will air as follows:

Friday, May 16:

6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, May 18
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of May 16 episode).

**In addition to direct radio reception, we do honor reception reports using remote SDRs as long as the whole program is described and which SDR is specified.

Alan Roe’s A-25 Season Guide to Music on Shortwave (version 1.0)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-25 (version 1.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:

Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-25 v1.0 (PDF)

Alan notes that copies of his “at-a-glance” single-page PDF programme grids of all BBC WS, CGTN Radio, R Romania Int, VO Turkiye and R Taiwan Int English programmes on shortwave all updated for A-25 and are available in his DropBox account: 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.