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September 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, September 2025
September’s program will be the fourth 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 the Música Bailable (Dance Music) category this month.
Friday, September 12:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, September 14:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam H to Africa (repeat of September 12 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, September 2025
In September we will present jazz from Russia and Ukraine featuring musicians who are still in each country.
Friday, September 19:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, September 21:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam H to Africa (repeat of September 19 episode).

*As an experiment, we are turning the booster beam for 9670 kHz towards Africa. We have never done that before and can’t predict the results.
**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.

August 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, August 2025

July’s program will be the third 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.
Friday, August 8:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, August 10:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of August 8 episode).

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, August 2025

In August we will present music from Syria and the Syrian diaspora.
Friday, August 15:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, August 17:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of August 15 episode).

**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.

Alan Roe’s A-25 Season Guide to Music on Shortwave (version 3.0)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-25 (version 3.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:

Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-25 v3.0 (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.

RTI Live Test Broadcasts in German on Saturday, June 28, 2025

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, who shares the following note:

After this news:
https://swling.com/blog/2025/06/rti-live-test-broadcasts-in-french-on-sunday-june-29-2025/ 

[We have this] similar news for the Deutsch service transmissions from Tamsui, Taïwan!  See below:

Dear listeners,

Radio Taiwan International is once again planning broadcasts of its German-language program from the Tamsui transmission site this year.

For this purpose, RTI will air 10-minute test transmissions on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at the following times and frequencies:

Test Transmissions: Saturday, June 28, 2025
(Times listed in UTC / CEST = UTC+2)

    • 15145 kHz (17:00–17:10 UTC)
    • 11995 kHz (17:15–17:25 UTC)
    • 11995 kHz (17:30–17:40 UTC)
    • 9550 kHz (17:45–17:55 UTC)

We kindly ask you to monitor these test transmissions and send your reception reports to RTI:
Email: [email protected]

From the above frequencies, two will be selected for the live broadcasts.

Official Broadcast Dates:
(Each broadcast will consist of half an hour on one frequency from 17:00–17:30 UTC, and half an hour on a second frequency from 17:30–18:00 UTC.)

    • July 4 (Friday), July 5 (Saturday), July 6 (Sunday)
    • July 11 (Friday), July 12 (Saturday), July 13 (Sunday)
    • July 18 (Friday), July 19 (Saturday), July 20 (Sunday)
    • July 25 (Friday), July 26 (Saturday), July 27 (Sunday)

More information and announcements:
https://www.rti.org.tw/de/informationlist?uid=15

Our new website:
https://www.rti.org.tw/de

With best regards,
Your RTI Editorial Team
? [email protected]

Original German version:

Liebe Hörerinnen und Hörer,

Radio Taiwan International plant auch in diesem Jahr wieder Ausstrahlungen des deutschsprachigen Programms von der Sendeanlage in Tamsui.

RTI strahlt dafür am Samstag, 28. Juni, jeweils 10-minütige Testsendungen zu folgenden Zeiten auf folgenden Frequenzen aus:

Testsendungen: am 28. Juni 2025 (Samstag)
Zeitangaben in UTC (MESZ=UTC+2)

    • 15145 kHz (17:00-17:10 UTC)
    • 11995 kHz (17:15-17:25 UTC)
    • 11995 kHz (17:30-17:40 UTC)
    • 9550 kHz (17:45-17:55 UTC)

Wir bitten Sie, die Testsendungen zu beobachten und RTI Ihre Empfangsbeobachtungen mitzuteilen: E-Mail: [email protected]

Aus den oben genannten Frequenzen werden 2 Frequenzen für die Direktausstrahlungen ausgewählt.

Offizielle Sendetermine:

(Eine halbe Stunde auf einer Frequenz von 17:00-17:30 Uhr UTC, eine halbe Stunde auf der zweiten Frequenz von 17:30-18:00 Uhr UTC):

    • 04.07. (Freitag), 05.07. (Samstag), 06.07. (Sonntag)
    • 11.07. (Freitag), 12.07. (Samstag), 13.07. (Sonntag)
    • 18.07. (Freitag), 19.07. (Samstag), 20.07. (Sonntag)
    • 25.07. (Freitag), 26.07. (Samstag), 27.07. (Sonntag)

Weitere Informationen und Ankündigen:
https://www.rti.org.tw/de/informationlist?uid=15

Unsere neue Internetadresse ist:
https://www.rti.org.tw/de

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ihre RTI-Redaktion
[email protected]