{"id":62125,"date":"2025-02-18T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62125"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:06:36","slug":"march-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/march-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Isle of Music, March 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n

March’s program will be a Cuban dance party featuring some of our favorite charanga orchestras:<\/p>\n

Friday, March 7:
\n3955 kHz at 2200 UTC<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 8:
\n3955 kHz at 1800 UTC simulcasted with 9670 kHz using beam E-F (repeat of March 7 episode).<\/p>\n

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

March’s program will feature mainly music from Corsica and will air as follows:<\/p>\n

Friday, March 14:
\n3955 kHz at 2200 UTC<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 15:
\n3955 at 1800 UTC simulcasted with 9670 using beam E-F (repeat of March 14 episode).<\/p>\n

**In addition to direct radio reception, we do honor reception reports using remote SDRs as long as the whole program is described and which SDR is specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music, March 2025 March’s program will be a Cuban dance party featuring some of our favorite charanga orchestras: Friday, March 7: 3955 kHz at 2200 UTC Saturday, March 8: 3955 kHz at 1800 UTC simulcasted with 9670 kHz using beam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[442,3,651,43],"tags":[4685,4686,5983],"class_list":["post-62125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bill-tilford","tag-from-the-isle-of-music","tag-uncle-bills-melting-pot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ga1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/march-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":62125,"position":0},"title":"March 2026 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"February 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music March 2026 This month will feature some exciting new and recent releases by Cuban bands. 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