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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who notes:
Dear Thomas and friends of SWLing Post community,
As you all know, listening to Radio ELWA from Monrovia on shortwave has never been easy for me here in southern and southeastern Brazil, due to the transmitter power and propagation. The only way to listen to this station was via shortwave… until now!
The station director has just informed me that Radio ELWA can now be heard via streaming!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice Of Islamic Republic of Iran broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, broadcasting during the US/Israel war on Iran, 15320 kHz
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shared the following message on March 1, 2026 [note the delay in posting Dan’s message due to recent site maintenance]:
Hi Thomas
This evening, I came across a sound on shortwave that I had not heard in a long time. It was the familiar tune of Yankee Doodle being played by the Voice of America on 7500 kHz just prior to 2200 hours UTC. According to both shortwave.live and the Short-wave Fan Facebook page, this was a half-hour program in Mandarin being broadcast through the VOA facility in Tinang, Philippines. They apparently are using a transmitter in Kuwait as well for a few other programs. Though none of the actual programs are in English, the ID at the beginning and end of the transmission are. Follow this link for their schedule.
Here are two brief recordings, one of their sign on at 2200, and the other at sign off at 2230 hours UTC. They were made using Kiwi SDR’s located in Europe.
(Update March 3, 2026) — In addition to the original log, I just heard the VOA signing on at 1530 UTC on 9310 kHz in Korean using a Kiwi SDR in Thailand. Same intro with the retro Yankee Doodle music and English ID.
Same old formula – a mix of (mostly) current melodic electronic based music, with at least one song you’ll likely recognise from 30 years ago & one new song from an extremely well known artist we’ve all known for over 50 years!
As always – on shortwave thanks to our wonderful SW relay partners!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jeff White (owner of WRMI), who shares the following announcement:
Here are the listings for WRMI’s Radio Mystery Theatre, produced by Martin Dawson in Prince Edward Island, Canada for April through June 2026. This program is heard each Saturday at 1300 UTC on 15770 kHz, and repeated at 11:00 pm Eastern Time Saturday on 9395 kHz and at
7:00 pm Eastern Time Thursday on 5950 kHz.
April 4 The Clock, “The Actor” 1946
April 11 Lights Out, “Special To Hollywood” 1941April 18 The Clock, “Angel With Two Faces” 1947
April 25 Hermit’s Cave, “Author Of Murder” 1940
May 2 Mysterious Traveler, “Beware Of Tomorrow” 1944
May 9 Witch’s Tale, “The Haunted Crossroads” 1937
May 16 Lights Out, “Murder Castle” 1943
May 23 Hall Of Fantasy, The Crawling “Thing” 1953
May 30 Suspense, “The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson” 1946
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Richard Cuff, who shares an article from Seth Hettena’s Substack about the appearance of a new shortwave numbers station believed to be broadcasting in Farsi. Numbers stations–mysterious broadcasts that read sequences of numbers–have long been associated with intelligence agencies communicating with field operatives using unbreakable one-time pad encryption. According to the report, this new signal first appeared around the time of recent military strikes involving Iran and has been heard on 7910 kHz. One of our readers reported hearing it around 2:15 UTC recently.
If you capture a recording of this numbers station, please reach out as I would like to add it to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Thank you!