Category Archives: Music

August 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, August 2025

July’s program will be the third 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, August 8:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, August 10:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of August 8 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, August 2025

In August we will present music from Syria and the Syrian diaspora.
Friday, August 15:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, August 17:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of August 15 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.

A Love for Radio: WTND 106.3 FM and the Legacy of Tom and Darryl

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes: 

Longtime WBCQ listeners may remember The Tom and Darryl Show which was on WBCQ for several years.

I don’t know too many people with more knowledge of music or a larger music collection. Great guys too.

Here is an article about Tom, Darryl, and their radio station from their local community newspaper.

https://www.communitynewsmarket.com/article/1074,love-for-radio-brings-wtnd-106-3-fm-to-the-area

Fred Waterer

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.