Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his B-22 (version 2) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:
Click here to download Music on Shortwave B-22 v2 (PDF)
Thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan!
This dedicated page will always have the latest version of Alan’s guide available for download.
Firstly a large seasonal greetings to all the SWLing post community from Fastradioburst23 and from all of the crew at the Imaginary Stations. Thanks to all who have tuned in to our programmes this year.
As a festive treat on Sunday 25th December 2022 via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 2300 hrs UTC we have a very mellow festive Seeberg special called CBRG. Tune in and enjoy! More on the programme below.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and KSKO Program Director, Paul Walker, who shares the following announcement:
Tune in for two hours of nothing but Christmas tunes December 23rd and it’s extra special because it’ll be a live worldwide broadcast of KSKO on Shortwave!!
From 2300-0100UTC (2pm Alaska, 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern) we’ll be live across Europe on the 250,000 watts of Spaceline Bulgaria’s 5900 kHz transmitter along with the 100KW WRMI 7570 kHz covering North America and the 100KW WRMI 5085 UPDATE: 4980 kHz covering Latin America.
I’m footing the costs out of this out of my own pocket just for the heck of it!
I’m so glad you’re doing this again, Paul! We look forward to tuning in!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK World broadcast.
Carlos’ goal is to vividly illustrate the broadcaster’s message in his own unique artistic style and is not a reflection of his own beliefs or those of the SWLing Post. His objective is for his artwork to add historical context and put a visual with the news, reporting, and/or–as is often the case–propaganda:
Carlos notes:
Part of news bulletins from NHK World Japan and Voice of Korea (DPRK) about North Korea spy satellite test.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Georges Ringotte (F6DFZ), who writes:
When I did tests on my Belka-DX, I noticed that the signal level scale was extremely accurate, each mark is 10 dB
I regretted that the manufacturer didn’t use the IARU S meter scale. So I decided to make my own. With RF Gain to the maximum sensitivity, -73 dBm, or S9, is at the 45 mark. I used Front Designer software to make a scale, with 10 dB graduations above S9, and 6db graduations below S9.
Then this scale was printed on water based transfer, 40 mm by 26 mm, when applied on the existing display.
The result is great, and now I have precise readings of signals reports.
That’s brilliant, Georges! Golly..it looks stock when applied to the screen! Thank you for sharing this!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Georges Ringotte (F6DFZ), who writes:
Recently my “radio brother” Bruno F6CRN gave me a vintage Hallicrafters SX-130 from the mid seventies. The receiver was extremely nice for a 55 years old rig, had never seen a soldering iron for repair and had original Hallicrafters tubes but was not performing very well.
After some research , I found a solder joint between 2 pins of a tube support, and this solder joint was done during manufacture!
After alignment, the receiver performed relatively well for that kind of somewhat low cost receiver.
These low to mid cost receivers, made by Hallicrafters, Hammarlund and National are single conversion design, with a low frequency IF near 455 kHz or 1.6 MHz. Their frequency calibration is rather poor, they drift, and have poor image rejection, but can perform reasonably well on AM, and also on SSB and CW on the lower bands. Generally, these American receivers are powered on 117 VAC, have no built in speaker, and the crystal calibrator was optional or an outboard accessory.
To use it, I decided to built a small console with an isolation transformer to reduce the European mains from 230 to 117 VAC, a good quality 4 ohms speaker, and a 1 MHz calibrator Manhattan style.
With this console, the receiver looks great, give a taste of the few remaining broadcast stations and warm the shack.
Oh wow! What a beautiful SX-130, Georges! What a great friend you have in Bruno.
Thank you for sharing!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares Version 2 of his annual Holiday Programmes on Shortwave schedule. This guide is chock-full of numerous shortwave holiday programs Alan has curated for us all to enjoy on the air!
Click here to download Holiday Programmes on Shortwave V2 (PDF).
Thank you so much for sharing, Alan!