{"id":65520,"date":"2026-03-09T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65520"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:57:45","slug":"dan-notes-voice-of-americas-return-to-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/dan-notes-voice-of-americas-return-to-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Notes Voice of America\u2019s Return to Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Greenall, who shared the following message on March 1, 2026 [note the delay in posting Dan’s message due to recent site maintenance<\/a>]<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas<\/p>\n

This evening, I came across a sound on shortwave that I had not heard in a long time. It was the familiar tune of Yankee Doodle being played by the Voice of America on 7500 kHz just prior to 2200 hours UTC. According to both shortwave.live and the Short-wave Fan Facebook page, this was a half-hour program in Mandarin being broadcast through the VOA facility in Tinang, Philippines. They apparently are using a transmitter in Kuwait as well for a few other programs. Though none of the actual programs are in English, the ID at the beginning and end of the transmission are. Follow this link for their schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are two brief recordings, one of their sign on at 2200, and the other at sign off at 2230 hours UTC. They were made using Kiwi SDR’s located in Europe.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VOA-sign-on-kiwisdr.kixs_.org_2026-03-01T21_58_36Z_7500.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VOA-sign-off-dl8las.dyndns.org_2026-03-01T22_28_02Z_7500.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

(Update March 3, 2026)<\/strong> — In addition to the original log, I just heard the VOA signing on at 1530 UTC on 9310 kHz in Korean using a Kiwi SDR in Thailand. Same intro with the retro Yankee Doodle music and English ID.<\/p>\n

Has anyone else been tuning into these?<\/p>\n

Dan Greenall, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shared the following message on March 1, 2026 [note the delay in posting Dan’s message due to recent site maintenance]: Hi Thomas This evening, I came across a sound on shortwave that I had not heard in a long time. It was the familiar tune of […]<\/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":[960,3,43],"tags":[10271,1162,4082,182],"class_list":["post-65520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-iran","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h2M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64341,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/algeria-on-shortwave-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":65520,"position":0},"title":"Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"October 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post: Algeria on Shortwave - Then and Now by Dan Greenall In the early 1970s, Radiodiffusion-Television Algerienne ran a modest shortwave service (no English) mainly for North Africa, the Middle East,\u00a0and Europe. 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