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When an emergency occurs, such as an earthquake or tsunami, NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster, switches its programming to exclusively news coverage of the event. Even the broadcaster’s homepage switches to a light version to reduce cell phone battery consumption.
When I received news of the tsunami, it was already after 10 p.m. in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the propagation to Japan at that time is terrible; you couldn’t hear anything!
However, in the morning, after 4 a.m., propagation reopens, and then it was possible to monitor part of NHK’s radio coverage of the tsunami.
Greetings to all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations have a couple of great programmes coming your way this weekend via the shortwave spectrum.
There’s even more surfboard madness with SURF 4 on Saturday 2nd August 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 3rd August 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold). Get onboard that shortwave radio and enjoy more riding of those (air)waves!
We’ve got a show called TheAncient Analogue Archive on Wednesday 6th August 2025 at 0200 hrs UTC via WRMI and we have a musical selection from all genres from all old-time analogue musical formats. Enjoy the sounds of the cassette, eight-track, reel to reel and tunes off those things that used to be known as “records”. Tune in and enjoy!
Here’s more about SURF.
For more information on all our shows, please write to [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.
Radio Australia from the collection of Tom Gavaras
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tom Gavaras, who recently reached out with an update:
“I want to make you aware that I have posted almost all of my shortwave QSL cards online, representing more than 210 broadcast countries. They can be viewed at: https://radiotapes.com/qsl/”
What an incredible achievement! Tom’s QSL collection spans decades of shortwave radio history and includes verification cards from a vast range of international broadcasters.