Extra imagination on shortwave this Sunday

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (October 1, 2024)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares his illustrated radio listening report of a recent CGTN broadcast.

Carlos notes:

Part of news bulletin of CGTN Radio (China Radio International) about hurricane “Helene” destruction in Southeast US. Listened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Click here to view on YouTube.

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KMRT back on those airwaves of ours

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Hello all shortwave listeners and SWLing community. FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows this week. This Sunday October 6th 2024 there’s a return to the supermarket shelves with KMRT via the services of Shortwave Gold at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz (night shelf stackers workload permitting).

Plus on Wednesday October 9th 2024 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz we’ve another episode of KMRT via WRMI for your listening pleasure.

Both these programmes are part of the Supermarkets on Shortwave 2024 broadcasts. Expect nearing their sell by date and marked down classics, a heart warming song from The KMRT Trainee Managers Choir called “The customer is always right”, some shopping trolley sing-a-longs, a look at supermarket radio from around the world and a roving reporter hidden in a stack of Teddy Bears ready to jump out at a unsuspecting member of the public (*subject to availability and while stocks last of course). Here’s our trailer, happy shopping!

We are looking for some financial help to cover our production and transmission costs for our shows on shortwave so here’s our fundraising video below. We’d love to keep our show on the air well into the new year and we are looking for donations (no matter how small as everything helps) to keep our eclectic shows bouncing off that ionosphere. Remember, radio connects us all!

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

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of NHK (September 28, 2024)

Hurricane Helene: An update from SWLing Post HQ

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Good Morning, Friends,

As many of you know, the area where I live in western North Carolina was hit hard by catastrophic flooding and high winds, causing significant damage.

I’m happy to report that my family is safe, and we are incredibly grateful for that. However, like many others, we’ve sustained substantial damage to our property and are currently cut off from town due to numerous downed trees. My efforts over the next week will be focused on clearing the way, so updates here on the SWLing Post will be less frequent. Thank you for your understanding.

If you’d like a more detailed update, I’ve posted one on QRPer.com–click here to read it.

Thank you for all of your kind thoughts and supportive messages!

Best,

Thomas

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Putting instrumentals on the map

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FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows this week. This Sunday 29th September 2024 there’s an instrumental episode of Skybird Radio International via the services of Shortwave Gold at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz.

As with the last shows, they’re of an worldwide flavour but the musical selection will have a lot less vocals in this episode. Tune in and you’re welcome to add the singing bits yourself.

The on Wednesday October 2nd 2024 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz we have the return of WDWD – Off the Map Radio via WRMI. It’s as they say “an audio journey in the wrong direction to the wrong destination” but wherever we end up, they’ll be tunes mentioning place names, locations, compass points and maps.