Category Archives: Schedules and Frequencies

New 300 kW Weekly Broadcast of VORW Radio International to East Asia!

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Hello listeners! I have some news about a new weekly broadcast of VORW Radio International for listeners in East Asia and beyond!

Beginning Thursday the 30th of October and continuing every Thursday – my radio program will now be heard across East Asia thanks to a 300 kW Transmitter in Paochung, Taiwan.

The broadcast is beamed to Japan and the Korean Peninsula but it should be audible across all of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and perhaps into the Americas as well!

The program is 1 hour in length and the aim of this radio show is to provide good music and news commentary to listeners worldwide. Oftentimes, listener music requests are taken and played – and all are invited to participate.

Here is the broadcast schedule for this new airing:

Thursdays 0900 UTC  – 9705 kHz – Paochung 300 kW – East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Pacific

Reception reports (which will be verified with an E-QSL) and additional feedback are most welcome at [email protected]

I hope you can listen in!

John

November 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

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

The semiannual time and season changes always bring challenges to FTIOM and UBMP on 6070 and 9670, and we will be pausing our shows on those two frequencies for a month or two until things sort themselves out.  We will have two transmissions of each show on 3955 on Radio Channel 292 from Germany during the interim as follows:

From the Isle of Music

November’s show will feature some Cuban music recordings that entered the Latin and regular GRAMMY competitions this year (it will be too soon to tell if any of them won either.)
Friday, November 14:
3955 kHz at 1700 UTC, repeats 2200 UTC

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

November’s show will be a polka party featuring Polish-American bands from the northeast US and Chicago. If you think you don’t like polkas, you just haven’t listened to the right bands.
Friday, November 21:
3955 kHz at 1700 UTC, repeats 2200 UTC

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. All QSLs are e-QSLs only.

Thanks for all you do for radio. Contrary to what some its critics are fond of chanting, shortwave can still be a voice of and for peace, and in these times, that is more important than ever.

October 16–19, 2025: Travel the World by Radio with The Eifeler Radiotage

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Gérard Koopal for tipping us to this event:

If you’re a radio lover, music fan, or just curious about broadcasting in an analog spirit, you’ll want to check out Eifeler Radiotage. The event is billed as “In 2½ Tagen um die Welt” (“Around the World in 2½ Days”) — a broadcast journey featuring vintage gear, vinyl, tape machines, and live music, without heavy reliance on digital tech. 

Details:

If you like slow radio, eclectic music, vintage broadcast flavors, or simply want a relaxing escape in sound, set aside time during the Eifeler Radiotage dates (see the October 2025 program) and tune in via shortwave, FM, or the livestream.

October 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

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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

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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.