{"id":66446,"date":"2026-06-24T02:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66446"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:08:56","slug":"july-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/july-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2026 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, July 2026<\/strong>
\nThis month, some new releases of Cuban jazz
\nFriday, July 10, 2026, 9670 kHz, 1800 CEST (1600 UTC), repeat on 3955kHz at 2400 CEST (2200 UTC)<\/p>\n

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, July 2026<\/strong>
\nFriday, July 17, 2016: 9670 kHz at 1600 UTC, repeats on 3955 kHz at 2200 UTC
\nTo recognize the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, we will feature “Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Part 1”, a comedic version of US history.<\/p>\n

All transmissions on international shortwave from Channel 292 in Germany. https:\/\/www.channel292.de\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to direct terrestrial reception, we do honor reception reports using remote SDRs, provided that both the physical location of the listener and the location of the remote SDR are given. EQSLs only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music, July 2026 This month, some new releases of Cuban jazz Friday, July 10, 2026, 9670 kHz, 1800 CEST (1600 UTC), repeat on 3955kHz at 2400 CEST (2200 UTC) Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, July 2026 Friday, July 17, 2016: 9670 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[442,3,651,43],"tags":[4686,4100,611,5983],"class_list":["post-66446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-from-the-isle-of-music","tag-music","tag-shortwave-music","tag-uncle-bills-melting-pot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hhI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66206,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/june-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":66446,"position":0},"title":"June 2026 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music, June 2026 This month, we feature three new releases - special guest Hugo Cruz will be with us to help present his second release, \"Figure It Out\".\u00a0 The album also has a fascinating back\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65917,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/may-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":66446,"position":1},"title":"May 2026 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"April 30, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music, Friday, May 8, 2026, 3955 kHz, 1600 UTC, repeats 2200 UTC This month, we present some Cuban rock and pop from the 60s, 70s and 80s.. 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