Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tony Currie with Radio Six International who shares the following update:
Effective from Saturday 12th April 2025, and until further notice, Radio Six International will now broadcast as follows:
Every Saturday, 9,670kHz (10kW Rohrbach) 21:00 – 22:00 GMT in English.
Thanks for noting this change.
TONY CURRIE
Director of Programmes,
radio six international
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Jim Salmon, who shares the following information sheet via www.volaonair.com and www.retworldservice.com:
Havana, Cuba (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Walker, who writes:
This is the A25 Schedule for Radio Havana Cuba. Only English, Spanish, and Portuguese remain on shortwave (SW) broadcasts. You’ll notice that only two frequencies, 6000 kHz and 15230 kHz, are still in use. Unfortunately, the antenna systems and transmitters are probably beyond repair, and it seems China won’t be providing any more funding. Regardless, the broadcasts still sound awful—fuzzy, distorted, and incredibly under-modulated.
French, Arabic, Esperanto, and Creole will only be available via streaming. Honestly, if it were up to me, I would consider reversing course a bit by dropping service to North America and focusing on Latin America and Africa. This could involve prioritizing Spanish, Portuguese, and French, while offering English and Creole only online.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-25 (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-25 v1.0 (PDF)
Alan notes that copies of his “at-a-glance” single-page PDF programme grids of all BBC WS, CGTN Radio, R Romania Int, VO Turkiye and R Taiwan Int English programmes on shortwave all updated for A-25 and are available in his DropBox account: http://tinyurl.com/shortwaveprograms
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 Terry (N5RTC), who shares the following schedules for Texas Radio Shortwave (click here for a printable PDF):
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Terry (N5RTC), who shares the following April 2025 schedule for Texas Radio Shortwave (click here for PDF version):
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:
There are some schedule changes for April 2025 in From the Isle of Music and Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot:
From the Isle of Music, April 2025 (NOTE NEW SCHEDULE)
April’s program will feature a tribute to one of the giants of Cuban timba, Paolo FG, who recently passed away in a tragic accident. We hope to have some special guests.
Friday, April 11:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, April 13:
9670 kHz at 1800 UTC using beam E (repeat of April 11 episode).
Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, April 2025 (NOTE NEW SCHEDULE)
April’s program will feature mainly music from Lesotho with some helpful recommendations from its embassy in the US and will air as follows:
Friday, April 18:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, April 20:
9670 kHz at 1800 UTC using beam E (repeat of April 18 episode).
**In addition to direct radio reception, both programs honor reception reports using remote SDRs as long as the whole program is described and which SDR is specified.