Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-24 (version 2.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:
Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-24 v2.0 (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.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following announcement from the Voice of Indonesia:
Voice of Indonesia, the Overseas Service of Radio Republik Indonesia (VOI RRI) will carry out an adjustment on our shortwave frequency starting Monday, 13 May 2024 at 00:00 UTC.
We are moving from 4750 KHz into 4755 KHz. Meanwhile our 3325 KHz will continue as usual.
We are asking for your understanding. Please send your feedback to our email address [email protected], websites voinews.id & rri.co.id, and our social media accounts.
Thank you for the tip, David!
(Source: Texas Radio Shortwave)
TRSW returns to Channel 292, Rohrbach, Germany, on each month’s first consecutive Saturday and Sunday. (In September, that’s the 7th and 8th.)
Programs air the first Saturday on 3955 kHz at 1900 UTC and the first Sunday on 9670 kHz at 1200 UTC.
Tentative programs for the next few months:
June – Lead Belly & Lemon Jefferson (Black blues musicians)
July – Texas Music A to Z #1 (Cities)
August – Texas Music A to Z #2 (Artists).
TRSW continues to verify correct, detailed reception reports with a newly designed electronic QSL every month. Reports from listeners — especially from outside Europe — using remote SDRs are welcome. Reports should be sent to [email protected].
73.
trsw
Texas Radio Shortwave
Returning to our roots on Channel 292
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Michael, who shares the following announcement:
The 2024 editions of my NDB handbooks and CDs are available now.
As always I’ve incorporated the latest changes and monitoring results.
The new GNDBH contains the details of more than 17400 NDBs worldwide.
It is the perfect listening companion for radio listeners who use the
extensive and ever-growing network of WebSDRs.
The updated ENDBH features the data of more than 8400 NDBs, and the new
NANDBH more than 5900 NDBs.
Please find all relevant details at the following URL: https://ndblist.info/index_htm_files/NDBpublications2024.pdf
Once again, I’d like to thank all fellow DXers for your continued
support! Please keep up the good work, I do appreciate your direct
input to keep the handbooks up to date!
—
vy 73 + gd DX,
Michael
ENDBH, GNDBH & NANDBH editor
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following broadcast schedules:
The main feature will be special guest Kiki Valera with some of his new son cubano album “Vacilón Santiaguero”.
Broadcast times: May 11: 0900-1000 UTC 9670 kHz &
1900-2000 UTC 3955 and 6070 kHz
The main feature will be special guest Eugene Pao, Hong Kong’s foremost jazz guitarist, with some of his new album “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, recorded live during a tour of the US.
Broadcast times: May 18 0900-1000 UTC 9670 kHz &
1900-2000 UTC 3955 and 6070 kHz
Both programs will feature additional music to round out the hour.
It’s great to be back on Channel 292!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post:
by Dan Greenall
When I first discovered the world of shortwave listening, many years before the internet, access to hobby related information was mostly available through over-the-air DX programs, monthly DX club bulletins, as well as a number of books and electronics magazines. I joined a few clubs including the Midwest DX Club, SPEEDX, and the Ontario DX Association, and eagerly awaited each issue of Electronics Illustrated and Popular Electronics (early 1970’s) on the news stand. Later, in the 1980’s, Popular Communications and Monitoring Times came along, though these were not always easy to find here in Canada.
Ironically, nearly all issues of these magazines can be read today, over 30, 40 and even 50 years later, thanks to David Gleason’s not-for-profit, free online library
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm
You can also find the semi-annual (and eventually annual) Communications World (1971-81) which contained the popular White’s Radio Log.
As well, five issues of the Communications Handbook can be found; 1963, 1966, 1967, 1974 and 1977. It only came out once a year but was still a favourite of mine, so much so, that I still have my copies from 1971 and 1972.
I have scanned parts of these and put them on the Internet Archive. You can find them here:
Communications Handbook 1971: https://archive.org/details/page-09
Communications Handbook 1972: https://archive.org/details/page-20
Here are links that will lead to some of the other magazines:
As a bonus, all of the issues of the monthly SPEEDX bulletin (1971-95) have been made available here
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Speedx.htm
And finally, a good read is Shortwave Voices of the World by the late Dr. Richard E. Wood written in 1969. I still have my copy of it, but you can find it online here
https://archive.org/details/shortwave-voices-of-the-world-richard-wood-ed-1-pr-1-1969
My link to the 1971 Communications Handbook contains pages regarding the old WDX SWL registration program. I have found my old certificate from December 1971:
Wonder how many others still have theirs, or even the WPE ones from the 1960’s?
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-24 (version 1.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:
Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-24 v1.0 (PDF)
As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan!