{"id":62331,"date":"2025-03-11T09:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62331"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:09:37","slug":"swl-contest-2025-wrap-up-new-ssb-swl-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/swl-contest-2025-wrap-up-new-ssb-swl-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"SWL Contest 2025 Wrap-Up &#038; New SSB SWL Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26896\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Frank, who shares the results of the SWL Contest 2025, which challenged shortwave and medium-wave listeners from around the world to log as many stations and transmitters as possible. A total of 34 participants from 17 countries participated, demonstrating the incredible reach and diversity of the SWL community.<\/p>\n<p>Frank is now organizing an new challenge\u2014the SSB SWL Contest 2025, running from March 1st to October 31st, 2025. This contest focuses on listening to amateur radio stations in SSB mode across the 10m to 40m bands, with the goal of logging the most DXCC entities over eight months. Both SWLs and licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to participate!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chinaradiosswl.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/swl-contest-2025-results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Check out the full results of the SWL Contest 2025 here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the new SSB SWL Contest 2025 Rules, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaradiosswl.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/ssb-swl-contest-2025-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chinaradiosswl.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/ssb-swl-contest-2025-rules.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Frank, who shares the results of the SWL Contest 2025, which challenged shortwave and medium-wave listeners from around the world to log as many stations and transmitters as possible. A total of 34 participants from 17 countries participated, demonstrating the incredible reach and diversity of the SWL community. Frank [&hellip;]<\/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":[713,3],"tags":[3009,10609],"class_list":["post-62331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-news","tag-frank","tag-swl-contest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gdl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61996,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/radio-waves-new-ssb-swl-contest-drm-functionality-recommendations-and-word-dab-summit-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":62331,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: New SSB SWL Contest, DRM Functionality Recommendations, and Word DAB Summit 2024","author":"Thomas","date":"February 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0Enjoy! 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Check them out here: https:\/\/icomjapan.blogspot.com\/ Frank also shared the following\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Contests&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Contests","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/contests\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SWL-Contest-2025-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SWL-Contest-2025-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SWL-Contest-2025-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":58680,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/results-of-the-2023-swl-contest\/","url_meta":{"origin":62331,"position":4},"title":"Results of the 2023 SWL Contest","author":"Thomas","date":"January 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frank, who shares the following information about the SWL Contest he ihe held at the end of 2023. Hi, I am Frank SWL F14368 organiser of the SWL Contest 2023. I have posted the results of the contest here: https:\/\/icomjapan.blogspot.com\/2024\/01\/winners-of-swl-contest-2023.html I will organise a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JRC-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JRC-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JRC-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JRC-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60562,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/time-to-submit-logs-for-the-swl-contest-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":62331,"position":5},"title":"Time to submit logs for the SWL Contest 2024","author":"Thomas","date":"September 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thank to SWLing Post contributor, Frank, who writes: Its me Frank SWL F14368 The SWL contest 2024 is now finished Can you please remind our listeners to send the logs before September 10, 2024 to this email address: swlcontest@gmx.fr All participants will receive an E-award ! 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