Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Nacional broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Radio Nacional: 3 billion people without access to cooling by the middle of the 21st century!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, who shares a follow-up to his recent reception reports of Radio Europe on 6130 kHz.
Paul not only received a QSL card (see above) from the station but also exchanged several friendly messages with the team behind Radio Europe—three brothers from the Netherlands who have been active in radio since the 1970s. They also included the following photos and postcards:
In their replies, the Radio Europe team wrote (English translation):
Hi Paul,
Great photos and thanks again for the recording and comment.
I’ll add a little more about who we are. We are three brothers who have been involved in this wonderful hobby since the 1970s. We started out on 27 MHz, and after obtaining some licenses, we started building radio tubes, transmitters, receivers, and antennas, including loop antennas for broadcasting on legal frequencies.
For years, John, the owner of RadioEuropa, used homemade tube transmitters. For several years now, we have been using factory transmitters, which consume less energy. We also use sound processors to make the audio sound as good as possible. We also work with a V-type antenna inverter that is located a few meters above the ground. The photo shows the old situation high up, but since the move, everything is now on the ground floor.
Based on the responses, we believe that the antenna and transmitter are working well. Given that it can sometimes be windy, John plans to keep the antenna low for the time being, because on shortwave, the sound can always vary or be heard differently. This also makes it very interesting for us.
Thanks again.
You have a beautiful radio and antenna.
Best regards from the Netherlands.
Radioeuropa
Paul also shared his most recent recording of Radio Europe made from his balcony in France, using a TECSUN PL-330 receiver and a Deshibo GA-450 loop antenna (20 cm diameter–see photos above and below). Even from a city location surrounded by small buildings, reception was quite good.
“This little loop antenna from Deshibo sometimes gives interesting results,” Paul notes. “The TECSUN PL-330 is a safe bet.”
Many thanks again to Paul for sharing his listening reports, correspondence, and these great insights into one of Europe’s independent shortwave broadcasters!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening reports of recent CGTN broadcasts.
Carlos notes:
Super typhoon Fung Wong in the Philippines, tsunami advisory in Japan, wild fires in New Zealand, deadly tornado in Brazil
Click here to view on YouTube.
Click here to view on YouTube.
Typhoon Fung Wong via Japan Meteorological Agency radiofax
November 6, 2025:
November 8, 2025:
November 9, 2025:
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post:
by Dan Greenall
Since 1983, the New Life Station, KNLS, has been broadcasting from Anchor Point, Alaska. Beamed primarily to Asia, their signals were not received as well in parts of North America as they might have been otherwise. From my location in southern Ontario, Canada, I was able to make this recording of their interval signal (“Chariots of Fire”) on 7355 kHz in 1987 around 1300 UTC with announcements in a Chinese dialect.
The station is still on the air in 2025. I made this recording on October 23 around 1200 hours UTC, in which you can hear their current interval signal prior to sign on in English. Reception was made on 7355 kHz using a remote KiwiSDR in northern Japan.
You can check out other opportunities to log KNLS on websites such as Shortwave.Live
Back in the 1950s, the Voice of America had a transmitter in Honolulu, but that was long before my introduction to shortwave. In 1993, World Harvest Radio station KWHR began broadcasting from Naalehu, near the southern tip of the big island of Hawaii. This one was widely heard by DXer’s and I still have a recording made of their announcement from November 10, 1996 on 9930 kHz.
Unfortunately, the station went officially off the air in 2009, so now the only way to hear Hawaii on shortwave is the NIST station WWVH at Kekaha on the island of Kauai. You can hear them on 2.5, 5, 10, or 15 MHz whenever propagation conditions are favorable to your listening post, assuming other stations like WWV and BPM are not overpowering them.
Here is a link to a few WWVH recordings. The first, from 1971, was made in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, when they were still called the National Bureau of Standards and were using the term “Greenwich Mean Time.”
The second one was made on December 1, 2024 using a remote SDR near Honolulu.
Finally, if you can copy CW (morse code) and listen carefully, there is a brief 8 second clip of WWVH sending their call letters twice. It is from pre-1971 when the station was located on the island of Maui. Aloha!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice of Vietnam broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Typhon Kalmaegi, Voix du Vietnam, 11885 kHz
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Typhoon Kalmaegi via Japan Meteorological Agency radiofax, Nov 3, 2025
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, who writes:
I read the article about Radio Europe transmitting to Western Europe on 6130 kHz.
Here are two recordings:
One made from my balcony with the XHDATA D-808 and a 3m wire antenna. Recording with my smartphone near the speaker. There’s fading after 1 minute.
Note that I live 410 km from Amsterdam as the crow flies:
The other with Twente’s web SDR; very good SINPO! 55555
The Kall Krekel transmitter, which broadcasts RSI programs from Slovakia with 1 kW, does not give such good results.
Best and 73
Paul JAMET
Thank you for sharing this, Paul! Both you and Bob have given me good reason to (at least attempt to) catch Radio Europe on the air!
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:
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba, CGTN Radio, 11640 kHz