Category Archives: Shortwave Radio

Alan Roe’s A-24 season guide to music on shortwave (version 4.0) & program grids for BBC WS, VOA and CGTN English services

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-24 (version 4.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:

Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-24 v4.0 (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.

Programme Grids

Alan notes:

I also attach copies of my shortwave programme grids for the English services of BBC WS, VOA and CGTN in case these are of interest. Click links to download:

Carlos’ Shortwave Art and recording of NHK (August 29, 2024)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK broadcast and JMA Radiofax.

Carlos notes:

NHK news bulletin about typhoon N° 10 bringing heavy rain to Japan. Listened in the grounds of the Faculty of Humanities of the Juiz de Fora University, Minas Gerais, #Brazil.

Click here to view on YouTube.

Radiofax

Plus: Radiofax from Japan Meteorological Agency

And a Radiofax from Kyodo News reporting 6 people dead and more than 100 injured due to the typhoon.

It’s a drive-in shortwave show

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Hi it’s FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to you via the shortwaves this week. On Sunday 1st September 2024 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz we will be presenting Skybird Drive-in Radio via Shortwave Gold. We’ve got the matinee and evening spots booked for you so there’s no need to arrive early. Make yourself a tasty snack (hot dogs, tacos, ice cream, a burger or perhaps some popcorn?) and turn on the shortwave radio. Then imagine you’re in a cadillac, tilt your seat back and enjoy all sorts of cinema related tunes as you would in an outdoor experience (until you’re listening to the radio outdoors). Enjoy the evening’s programme!

Then on Wednesday 4th September 2024 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz we’ll be bringing you the Skybird Drive-in Radio experience to all our listeners at WRMI. Do please remember to replace speakers when you leave. Here’s our trailer!

We now have a Patreon page for our regular listeners here. Monthly memberships are available for exclusive audio and zines.

For more information on all our shows, please send to [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

Carlos’ Shortwave Art, recording of NHK, and Radiofax Images (August 27, 2024)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK broadcast warning about the dangers of Typhoon #10.

Carlos notes:

#Japan braces for typhoon n° 10. News from NHK shortwave radio, listened on the grounds of Faculty of Humanities of the Juiz de Fora University, Minas Gerais, #Brazil.

Click here to view on YouTube.

Bonus: 2 radiofax from Japan Meteorological Agency+Photo of the QTH.

Tecsun S2200X now available via Anon-Co

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Julian Stargardt, who writes:

Hi Thomas,

I thought SWLingers would like to know that the Tecsun S-2200X will be on sale from 27 August at Anon Co for US$372.00

See: https://www.anon-co.com/product/tecsun-s2200x-radio

That’s a lot of radio for a reasonable price.

The Anon site has a good description of the S2200X as well as its specifications and also has some cool photos showing the dual battery options of 4 x D cells and 2 x 18650 LiPo batteries.

All the best.

73
Julian

Thank you for the tip, Julian!

U Twente WebSDR: New Tablet/Phone Interface Option

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Colegrove, who shares the following guest post:

U. of Twenty Site for Phones and Tablets

by Bob Colegrove

I’m not sure if this is new. It may have been around for a while. Very recently, while accessing the WebSDR site at the University of Twente, it detected that I was on a tablet and offered redirection to an experimental version of their site: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/m.html.

Besides being an interesting site to surf radio stations, I use it regularly as a ‘spotter’ tool to see what’s on shortwave. Admittedly, it is more than 3,900 miles from my receiver, but I like to see how well my antennas are doing.

The experimental version was accessed using the Silk browser on a 7-inch Kindle Fire. It is slimmed down from the main version, and much easier to use with a phone or tablet, particularly the zoom in and out feature.

Carlos’ Shortwave Art, recording of NHK, and Radiofax Meteorological Charts (August 24, 2024)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his radio log art of a recent NHK broadcast and Japan Meteorological Agency Radiofax transmissions.