{"id":61798,"date":"2025-01-20T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61798"},"modified":"2025-01-20T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T10:51:09","slug":"carlos-explores-japans-radio-nikkei-a-unique-shortwave-listening-experience-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/carlos-explores-japans-radio-nikkei-a-unique-shortwave-listening-experience-from-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Explores Japan\u2019s Radio Nikkei: A Unique Shortwave Listening Experience from Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Carlos Latuff<\/a>, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Exploring Radio Radio Nikkei<\/h1>\n

by Carlos Latuff<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I listened to Nikkei Radio, a Japanese commercial broadcaster that operates on shortwave for a domestic audience. If I remember well, the signal was very weak and, since I don’t speak Japanese, I didn’t know what the content of its broadcasts was about. But today, with the possibility of recording the audio, transcribing it and translating it, it has become more interesting to follow its programs on shortwave here in Brazil, more specifically in Porto Alegre (distance between Nikkei’s transmitter in Chiba, Japan, and Porto Alegre, Brazil: 18779 km).<\/p>\n

Nikkei Radio 1 was founded in 1954 and Nikkei 2 in 1963, and at the time it was called Nihon Shortwave Broadcasting Co., better known by the acronym “NSB”. Some Japanese electronics manufacturers have in the past released receivers dedicated to receiving the signal from these stations (see below).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today, the Japanese company Audiocomm has radio models whose packaging states that this receiver is compatible with Nikkei Radio; note the image alluding to horse racing (see below).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I haven’t been able to acquire any of these devices (yet), since they were basically produced for the Japanese public. But any receiver with shortwave bands can tune into Radio Nikkei. I use my good old XHDATA D-808 with a long wire antenna. In Porto Alegre, the best propagation is between 08:45 AM and 06:15 AM (UTC). In the late afternoon, the signal also arrives, but with a fair amount of static.<\/p>\n

Both Radio Nikkei 1 and Radio Nikkei 2 operate on the following frequencies:<\/p>\n

Radio Nikkei 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n