Tag Archives: Shortwave Radio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (October 8, 2024)

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

Carlos notes:

Part of CGTN Radio news bulletin about cat 5 hurricane “Milton” approaching Florida. Listened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Click here to view on YouTube.

Plus hurricane “Milton” featured on NOAA’s satellite image and weather charts. Radiofax from Boston USCG radio station, received at Urca Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (October 8, 2024)

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Radio New Zealand (October 6, 2024)

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

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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.

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

Carlos’ Shortwave Art and recording of NHK (September 22, 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.

Carlos notes:

Part of NHK news bulletin about heavy rains in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Listened via shortwave in Brazil.

Click here to view on YouTube.

Famous Collins Transceiver in Apocalypse Now

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by Dan Robinson

We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising that this one may have slipped by our Radios in Movies radar.

In Apocalypse Now, the classic 1979 epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is briefed in a hotel room in Saigon about Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), the renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The scene includes Harrison Ford (by the time the movie came he had become a big star with Star Wars) who tells Sheen that Kurtz is to be “terminated”.

But as we’re reminded in a post on the Collins Collectors Facebook page, a famous radio is sitting on a file cabinet in this scene — identified in the collector group as a KWM-2A.

It’s another reminder of how many great examples of amateur radio and other equipment have played roles in great movies!