Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio Mitre broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Hurricane Melissa, Radio Mitre 790 kHz AM (AR), Rádio da UFRGS 1080 kHz AM (BR)
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent NOAA broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Hurricane Melissa, NOAA HF Voice Broadcast via USCG Chesapeake VA, 13089 kHz USB
Click here to view on YouTube.
The radiofax of destruction: Hurricane Melissa approaching Jamaica.
NOAA Surface Analysis, NW Atlantic. USCG Boston, Mass.
9110 kHz, Oct 27, 22h15 UTC
Received in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Xhdata D808 receiver, telescopic antenna.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post:
by Dan Greenall
In the early 1970s, Radiodiffusion-Television Algerienne ran a modest shortwave service (no English) mainly for North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. A copy of their schedule from the 1972 World Radio TV Handbook is shown.
As a fledgling DXer in 1971, I was fortunate to hear their signal on 9510 kHz from my listening post in southern Ontario, Canada. Even better, they responded to my request for a QSL with this attractive card.
Fast forward a quarter century to 1996. The international service of Radio Algiers could be heard at times here in eastern North America on 15160 kHz with broadcasts that included English. Here is a brief recording from November 3 of that year that I am lucky to have saved.
In July 2022, two new 300 kW transmitters located at Ouargla and Bechar were put on the air after several years of planning. These were to be used for the Radio Coran service in Arabic, but in May 2023, Ifrikya FM (the African Voice) was born with the objective of providing a pan-African voice by broadcasting educational, informative, and cultural programming from an African perspective.
Although there is no English, they can be spotted on shortwave on 13640 and 13855 kHz after their 1900 UTC sign on. If you can hear the same programming on these two frequencies, you will know you have them.
Here are two recordings made on October 19, 2025 using a KiwiSDR near Sao Paulo, Brazil. They were made one hour apart, the first at 2000 UTC and the second at 2100 hours.
13855 was noticeably stronger than 13640 on this receiver.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio ELWA broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Radio ELWA, Monrovia, Liberia, 6050 kHz
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio ELWA broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Program “Thru the Bible”, with J. Vernon McGee, Radio ELWA, Monrovia, Liberia, 6050 kHz
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report and QSL of a recent Radio ELWA broadcast.
Update/Correction: It was discovered after posting this recording and message that it’s actually Radio ELWA’s 72nd anniversary year, despite a recent post on their website claiming it was their 70th anniversary.
Carlos notes:
While conducting these recent radio listening sessions, I discovered that ELWA Radio celebrated its 70th anniversary in May of this year. To mark this occasion, I decided to create a commemorative illustration of this station, which is a true symbol of the resilience of the Liberian people.
I was informed by the station’s manager, Rev. Perry Saydee, that the program I tuned into yesterday, October 14th, is called “Thru the Bible,” and searching on YouTube, I found the audio related to my radio listening session.
The program is hosted by Steve Shwetz and shows sermons by Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Presbyterian minister from the United States who died in 1988
I was kindly awarded with this e-QSL card due my listening report of October 13th.
Today, October 15th, I also managed to capture ELWA Radio’s interval signal.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio ELWA broadcast.
Carlos notes:
It’s never been easy for me to pick up the ELWA (Eternal Love Winning Africa) radio signal on 6050 kHz in Brazil. The signal was always weak, propagation was poor, and conditions were never particularly favorable for listening to the historic evangelical radio station from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Until then, I had only listened ELWA, with great difficulty, in Porto Alegre and Guaíba, both cities in Rio Grande do Sul, and in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Recently, while scanning shortwave frequencies during the early morning hours in Rio de Janeiro, I received the ELWA radio signal and decided to try recording the broadcast. I noticed a sort of propagation window between 6:30 and 6:50 (UTC). Even though, it took at least six days of failed attempts, the same weak signal and poor propagation, until finally today, October 13th, I got clear audio.