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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent China National Radio broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Trump approves reinstatement of death penalty in Washington D.C., China National Radio (CNR), 17590 kHz
“US President Trump issued a proclamation on the 25th approving the reinstatement of the death penalty in Washington, D.C.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi has stated that she will seek to reinstate the death penalty nationwide.”
Discours de Trump à l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies, All India Radio, 9620 kHz
“…The annual United Nations General Assembly has begun in New York. Discussions regarding the Israeli war on Gaza and the Russian war on Ukraine are central concerns. During his address, US President Donald Trump criticized the ineffectiveness of the United Nations, contrasting it with his own active efforts to stop offering it to Gaza…”
Two typhoons are active in the Pacific right now: Neoguri and Ragasa, the latter heading towards South China and Vietnam in the next few days according to this noisy radiofax from the Japanese Meteorological Agency, which I received yesterday in Rio de Janeiro (13988 kHz USB).
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following post:
Much to the delight of DXers, Trans World Radio began broadcasting from the African country of Swaziland over 50 years ago. According to the 1975 World Radio TV Handbook, they had four 30 kW transmitters to conduct initial testing in the 90, 60, 49, and 41 metre bands. Their interval signal, played on hand bells, reportedly comes from the song “We’ve a Story to Tell the Nations” and has a music box feel to it. It would pause frequently for an ID in English. This recording was made on November 2, 1996, on 4750 kHz just prior to 0400 UTC sign-on: https://archive.org/details/trans-world-radio-swaziland-1996
Today, the station is still on the air and follows the same format as in years past, except for the name of their country, which changed to Eswatini in 2018.
I chose a Kiwi SDR in neighboring South Africa to make this recent recording, on August 21, 2025 around 1359 UTC on 9585 kHz, leading up to the start of a program in the Portuguese language.
