Category Archives: Music

October 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, October 2025
October’s program will be the final 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 (and recordings from Cubans elsewhere) and will feature a sampling from several categories this month.
Friday, October 10:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Saturday, October 11:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam H to Africa (repeat of October 10 episode).
*Note that our Sunday broadcasts have been moved to Saturdays.

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, October 2025
In October we will a potpourri of recent releases from around the world.
All broadcasts are on Radio Channel 292 from Germany as follows:
Friday, October 17:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Saturday, October 18:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam H (repeat of October 17 episode).
*Note that our Sunday broadcasts have moved to Saturdays.
**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.

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot Encore Broadcast on September 28, 2025

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

Special Extra Broadcast of September’s Program

Channel 292 will air an encore broadcast of September’s UBMP featuring jazz from Russia and Ukraine on September 28, 2025 at 0300 UTC (11pm Eastern US) on 3955 kHz.

This is an experiment – although most Europeans are fast asleep, this is supposedly the hour of maximum reach for the frequency, and it may or may not touch parts of the world that don’t receive the transmission directly at the usual times. We are about to find out.

Shortwave in a Joe Meek Track? Help Identify These 1966 Sounds

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and buddy, One Deck Pete, who writes with a question.

I am not sure if I have sent you this before but this alternative version of a Joe Meek produced single has what I think are shortwave samples bookending it and also a couple of times during the tune.

[Note that Pete originally posted this video on his own blog.]

Have you any guesses what they could be? It was produced in 1966, Joe Meek was a bit of an electronics wizard and I was told subscribed to Practical Wireless and loved a sound effect. It sounds like some fast Morse, telemetry or RTTY but I could be wrong.

Perhaps it isn’t shortwave-based but it sounds like it to me!

How about it SWLing Post readers? What are those digital sounds at the beginning and end of this recording? (Bonus points if you can decode!)

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

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

September 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, September 2025
September’s program will be the fourth 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 (and recordings from Cubans elsewhere) and will feature the Música Bailable (Dance Music) category this month.
Friday, September 12:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, September 14:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam H to Africa (repeat of September 12 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, September 2025
In September we will present jazz from Russia and Ukraine featuring musicians who are still in each country.
Friday, September 19:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, September 21:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam H to Africa (repeat of September 19 episode).

*As an experiment, we are turning the booster beam for 9670 kHz towards Africa. We have never done that before and can’t predict the results.
**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.