{"id":63441,"date":"2025-07-22T05:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63441"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:37:44","slug":"august-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/august-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

From the Isle of Music, August 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

July’s program will be the third of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba’s most important discographic awards. This is the best of the best of Cuba’s new releases.
\nFriday, August 8:
\n6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
\n3955 kHz at 2100 UTC
\nSunday, August 10:
\n9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of August 8 episode).<\/p>\n

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

In August we will present music from Syria and the Syrian diaspora.
\nFriday, August 15:
\n6070 kHz at 1700 UTC
\n3955 at 2100 UTC
\nSunday, August 17:
\n9670 kHz at 1700 UTC using beam E (repeat of August 15 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, August 2025 July’s program will be the third of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba’s most important discographic awards. This is the best of the best of Cuba’s new releases. Friday, August 8: 6070 kHz at […]<\/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-63441","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-gvf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63278,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/july-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":63441,"position":0},"title":"July 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"June 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music, July 2025 July's program will be the second of several episodes featuring the best of Cubadisco 2025, Cuba's most important discographic awards. 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