Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Vatican Radio broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Pope Leo XIV appeals for Gaza, Vatican News, 11870 kHz:
Part of Vatican Radio news bulletin (in English): Pope Leo XIV appeals for Gaza. Listened in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on a Xhdata d-808 receiver.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Radio La Voz De Melo broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Pope Leo XIV will host negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, Radio La Voz de Melo, Uruguay:
Part of the news bulletin of Radio La Voz de Melo (Uruguay), in Spanish, about Pope Leo XIV’s willingness to host the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the Vatican. Listening in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on the Xhdata D-808 receiver.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, for sharing the following eQSL card along with two recordings he made and submitted of the Vesti FM test broadcasts on May 19, 2025:
Vesti FM on 13,730 kHz at 19:40 UTC on May 19, 2025:
Vesti FM on 13,730 kHz at 19:43 UTC on May 19, 2025:
Greetings to all SWLing Post community from the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we bring you another episode of the Fab Four beat classic, From Beatles to Beatniks Too.
Don’t be a square, drop out and spin that crazy shortwave dial on Saturday 24th May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again for Sunday 25th May 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 your beret and sunglasses on and tune into more good stuff from other cats who understand us beats, man. Fall into a shortwave world of hipsville for an hour!
On Wednesday 28th May 2025 via WRMI at 0200 UTC we’re bringing you a (train) station called CTRN for all lovers of railroads and trains. Tune in for a mixture of steam and electric train classics for everyone, from the person behind the ticket kiosk, station staff and the humble passenger. Stand clear of the moving doors please!
More on CTRN here:
For more information on all our shows, please write to [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Micoud page here.
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:
From the Isle of Music, June 2025
June’s program will be the first of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba’s most important discographic awards.
Friday, June 13:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
Sunday, June 15:
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of June 13 episode).
Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, June 2025
June’s theme will be Bollywood vs. Lollywood, some of my favorite songs from India’s and Pakistan’s film industries (make music, not war, say I, and there will not be any losers in this episode) and will air as follows:
Friday, June 20:
6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
3955 at 2100 UTC
Sunday, June 22
9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of June 20 episode).
For those of you who were avoiding 3955 due to mixing product issues at the station, we have been informed that this has supposedly been fixed.
**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.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who shares this brief note:
Russian state-owned Vesti FM is on 13730 kHz as of May 19th, 2025 at 1910 UTC.
While I try to stay current on news and schedules, especially regarding new stations and shows, I don’t recall seeing any news about this transmission anywhere.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Nick Hall-Patch, who writes:
The International Radio Club’s Reprints list continues to expand, now approaching 1200 separate articles. The club has recently published an update to the Reprint index, at https://dxer.ca/images/stories/2025-DA/irca-reprint-index.pdf and at https://www.ircaonline.org/editor_upload/File/reprints/irca-reprint-index.pdf, so that everyone can get access to the latest addition to this resource.
The Reprints are from the back issues of IRCA’s DX Monitor, as well as from other valuable sources in the Medium Wave DXing hobby, and describe antennas, radio propagation, receivers, accessories, plus other technical topics, as well as many items of general interest to the DXer.
(if you’ve used the index before, you may need to refresh your browser page to see the latest update, dated June 2024)