Throwback Thursday - Australian Army Radio

 Australian Army Radio

In recent times, many DXers and international radio monitors worldwide have reported hearing the unique shortwave service for Australian troops serving in the peacekeeping forces in Timor and elsewhere. Over a period of time, these broadcasts have been radiated over transmitters located at three different radio bases in Australia, and they form an interesting update to the entire story of radio broadcasting by the Australian Army Amenities Service (AAAS). This is the story, that begins way back during World War II.

The first radio broadcasting unit for Australian Forces was a mobile studio, which was commissioned in Australia in June 1942 and shipped to the Middle East. Originally, it was intended that this mobile radio studio would broadcast back to Australia with war news and information from North Africa and the Middle East. However, because the shortwave transmitter had an output of only 1 kw, these intended broadcasts became impractical. Consequently, the mobile studio was used mainly for producing programs in the battle areas and for broadcasting them over local radio transmitters.

During the Pacific theater of World War II, a series of 21 mobile radio stations were constructed in Australia, tested late at night from locations in Melbourne and Sydney, and then shipped to forward areas. These stations were rated with a power output ranging from 10 to 200 watts.

On one occasion, and quite by chance, I heard one of these stations at a distance of some 500 miles. It was 9AF, with 200 watts on 1440 kHz, broadcasting a test program from Melbourne late at night.

These AAAS stations were based in the main areas of Australian troop deployment in the Pacific islands, and were supplementary to the larger number of American Armed Forces Radio Stations in the same areas. The whole series of callsigns for the AAAS stations at the time ranged from 9AA to 9AP.

Many of these stations were transported from place to place according to the movement of the armed forces in the various stages of the Pacific war. One of the stations, 9AG with 200 watts on 1340 kHz, was established at Balikpapan in Borneo. When the Australian troops moved forward, this station was handed over to the Dutch authorities, and it became the local station in the NIROM network.

In addition, several other stations were constructed locally in forward battle areas or were taken over from a retreating enemy. Such stations as "Radio RAAF Milne Bay" and "RAAF Radio Madang" were well known in the area at the time.

At Port Moresby, New Guinea, a 500-watt station on 1250 kHz was officially opened by General Douglas MacArthur on February 26, 1944. The first allotted callsign was 9PA, but this was soon changed to 9AA, signifying its status as the parent station for all of the forward stations with callsigns in the 9A series. The QSL letter that I received from this station lists the call as 9PA, when, in reality, as an army station at the time, it was really 9AA.

In addition to the testing of the mobile MW stations in the two cities, Melbourne and Sydney, additional army stations have been established in other areas of mainland Australia. These have operated generally on the medium wave band, though one in particular was a shortwave broadcaster.

At Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, an MW station was established in 1944. This was 5DR, standing for Darwin Radio. It was in use as an army station for two years, and then it was taken over by the government broadcasting service, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as the Northern Territory relay station for the ABC home service network. This station was later designated as 8DR, and its callsign has since been changed to 8RN.

Soon after the war was over, an experimental broadcasting service was launched from an air force base at Higgensfield in North Queensland. This station announced as "Radio RAAF No. 2," identifying the air force unit that was operating it. The 100 watt transmitter on 1470 kHz was on the air in August 1945 with the intent of launching an entertainment/information radio service, but the project was abandoned.

Then, in 1955, the first army shortwave station came onto the air unannounced, from Puckapunyal in Victoria. This station radiated 25 watts on 7850 kHz, and it was on the air just two hours per week in November 1955.

Towards the end of the Pacific war, a 50 year old wooden ship, the "Apache," was fitted out in Sydney Harbour as a radio station and sent up to the Philippines. This station, announcing as WVLC, took over some of the Australian shortwave broadcasts from VLC, Shepparton, and it also relayed American AFRTS and VOA programs over a channel in the 7 MHz band.

HMS Grenville

In addition, several warships in the Pacific, British, Australian, and American, began to relay programs from Australian MW stations to surrounding areas on shortwave. One of these, for example, was the HMS Grenville, which was heard relaying the commercial programs from 2KY Sydney in January 1946.

More recently, some of the larger Australian navy vessels have incorporated a radio station as part of their onboard entertainment facilities. In some cases these stations have radiated programs over a MW transmitter, and in other cases programs are available on board the ship via closed circuit cable. One of the ships, HMAS Canberra, for example, was stationed off the coast of Vietnam during the South East Asian conflict.

During the era of occupation in Japan, at least four of the mobile 9A stations were taken to Japan. These were incorporated into existing Japanese stations and were allocated callsigns in the American W series. For example, the 10 watt station 9AQ was located near Kure in Japan. It was first identified as WVTX, and later as WLKU. All of these stations were broadcasting on MW, but one of them, 9ALWVTV/WLKSwas also broadcasting for a while on shortwave.

When the Korean offensive began, Australian troops also moved into the peninsula, and so too did some of their radio stations, as many as four of them.

Along with the American "Good Morning Vietnam" series of AFRTS stations, there were a couple of Australian stations located in Vietnam as well. One of these was a 500-watt station broadcasting from Vung Tau on 1040 kHz. Another station was located for a while at Hue, near the larger VOA and AFRTS stations.

Back in 1960, on July 1 to be exact, a rather substantive radio station was established by the Royal Australian Air Force at Butterworth on the Malay Peninsula, just across from the island of Penang. This AAAS station broadcast from two 500-watt transmitters, using each on alternate days, both at 50 percent power. They also had a choice of two simple antennas, an inverted L and a folded dipole. This station was occasionally heard further afield, and on several occasions, I heard it in India and Sri Lanka. Radio RAAF Butterworth served some 5,000 Australian personnel at the air base, and it left the air when Butterworth was closed in the late 1980's.

The latest endeavor in AAAS broadcasting made its appearance unheralded, unannounced and unexpected. A few years back, a new shortwave service for Australian forces serving in Somalia came onto the air. At first, the half hour programs were broadcast from one of the 250 kw shortwave transmitters of Radio Australia located on Cox Peninsula near Darwin in the Northern Territory. A while afterwards, DXers in Europe and elsewhere reported hearing similar programming on other channels not listed for Radio Australia.

Subsequent information revealed that these transmissions were coming from two different locations. One is VHP, the large Navy radio station located at Belconnen near Canberra, Australia's capital city. The other is NMCVLF, the American radio facility located near Exmouth at North West Cape in a Western Australian coastal area. These transmissions were on the air several times a day from both locations. Studio facilities are housed in one of the government offices in Canberra, and the first broadcast each day was presented live.

The broadcasts from Exmouth were directed towards Somalia, and the broadcasts from Belconnen were directed towards Kampuchea. Programming consisted of contemporary music interspersed with calls from relatives in Australia to servicemen on ships and in Somalia and Kampuchea.

(Wavescan/May 7, 2000)

(photos/Wikipedia)

WKRP Is Back in Cincinnati

(graphics by Gayle Van Horn)

Series star Gary Sandy kicks off new era for 97.7 FM

By Nick Langan 

Published: May 4, 2026

Nearly 50 years after the iconic “WKRP in Cincinnati” premiered, the call letters have finally found their way back to the Queen City.

The voice of Gary Sandy — who played program director Andy Travis on the CBS sitcom — welcomed listeners to the new WKRP(FM) 97.7 on the Cincinnati radio dial at 6 a.m. on Monday, according to a report filed by John Kiesewetter of Cincinnati’s WVXU(FM).

The pair of Randy Michaels — whose many decades in the radio industry include time as the former CEO of Jacor and Clear Channel — and Jeff Ziesmann operate the three-station oldies-formatted network known as “The Oasis.”

Michaels’ Radioactive LLC bought the rights to use the call sign in April. Lance Venta of RadioInsight was first to report the move of the calls.

Additional story at: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/wkrp-is-back-in-cincinnati?utm_term=962BD5E3-5BE0-4117-A896-7DB39DB882F0&utm_medium=email&utm_content=276A6FB4-C484-4AD9-A9E0-80156128A241&utm_source=SmartBrief

Tiny URL:  https://tinyurl.com/4shhdt7s

RNZ New Zealand summer Schedule

 

requested by contributor, Rod Pearson - the summer schedule for RZ Pacific - New Zealand

classic QSL

New Zealand, RNZ Pacific - A26 Summer schedule

29 Mar 2026 - 24 Oct 2026

All times UTC/kHz/Target Area to Pacific regions

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00:00-04:58 17675 Pacific Daily

04:59-06:58 13690 Pacific Daily

06:59-10:58 11725 Pacific Daily

10:59-12:58  9700 Solomon Islands, PNG Mon - Fri

10:59-12:58  9700 Pacific Sat-Sun

12:59-16:50  7440 Pacific Daily

16:51-18:58  9700 Pacific Sat

18:59-19:58 13690 Pacific Sat

19:59-20:58 15720 Pacific Sat

20:59-23:59 17675 Pacific Daily

DRM

16:51-18:58  9700 AM 9780 DRM Pacific/Cook Is, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri

18:59-19:58 13690 AM 11690 DRM Pacific/Cook Is, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri

19:59-20:58 15720 13840 DRM Pacific/Cook Is, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri

QSL- Reception Reports

RNZ welcomes QSL reports from listeners using this form  :

https://www.rnz.co.nz/qsl

(RNZ Pacific)

 https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/listen

The Freedom Stations of World War II

 

Thanks to the staff of Wavescan. Nostalic radio stories from World War II continue to be popular.

Jeff: To begin today’s show, Ray Robinson in Los Angeles has a very interesting story regarding an aspect of shortwave broadcasting during World War II that is very little understood – that of the so-called ‘Freedom Stations’.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff.  I’ve recently been reading a fascinating book written during World War II by Harold Ettlinger, called ‘The Axis on the Air’.  Harold was a columnist for the Chicago Star newspaper and a keen monitor of the shortwave bands.  In late 1943, he published the book, which details his observations of the propaganda broadcasts being made from Germany, Italy, and Japan targeting the home audiences of the Allies and their fighting men on the battlefield.

One very interesting chapter deals with what were referred to as the ‘Freedom Stations’.  These appeared to be clandestine in nature and most operated on shortwave (in Europe at least, mainly in what was often termed the ‘49 meter European Band’), but the interesting thing was that they were made to appear as if they were being operated by underground resistance fighters, while in reality it was the Axis powers who were behind them.  It was all very devious and cunning, so I’d like to read part of that chapter for you today.  Remember Harold wrote this in late 1943 when the outcome of the war was still far from certain.  He said:

“The Germans do not confine themselves to a single freedom station for each of their enemies.  England receives broadcasts from at least four, each of them broadcasting frequently, and there are others for the dominions.  Those beamed at England are the New British Broadcasting Station, the Workers’ Challenge, Radio Caledonia and the Christian Peace Movement.  Among those aimed at the Empire are Free India, Free Egypt and Anzac Tattoo.  One of the stations aimed at England is keyed to a middle-class audience and another to factory workers.  Each plays up what the Germans imagine to be the prejudices of the class they are addressing.  As they appeal to different audiences, they have to differ not only in their method of going after their objectives but even in the objectives themselves.  For example, on the second-front issue in 1942 and early 1943 (the ‘second front’ was the anticipated Allied invasion of the European continent from the west), on the second-front issue in 1942 and early 1943 the middle-class freedom station for Britain exploited what the Nazis believed to be British middle-class fear of Communism.  The station followed the line that it was the Communists who wanted the second front in order to (take the pressure off the eastern front and) save Communism, no matter how many lives it cost.  The station aimed at British workers actually appeared to favor a second front, but it used the issue to try to hinder British production.  “Russia wants the second front in western Europe,” it said, “but she won't get it from the capitalists.  Workers of Britain, strike for a second front!”

“A station called ‘Debunk’ is a typical fake clandestine station.  When it first began broadcasting, Debunk went to elaborate lengths to make us believe it originated in the American Midwest.  Its speakers made their accents as twangy as they could, announced the time as Central Standard, opened with a few bars of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and generally sought to create a cracker-barrel atmosphere.  Joe Scanlon, the principal Debunk speaker, is probably Otto Koischwitz, who has persuaded Goebbels that he is the very man to put a fake Midwestern radio station across with us yokels out here.

“Among the more recent efforts of the Nazis to exploit the freedom-station technique was the creation shortly after the Anglo-American landing in North Africa of three ostensibly clandestine transmitters which had the special job of trying to cause dissension and interfere with Allied plans.  These stations were Brazzaville Two, which was supposed to be a Fighting French outlet in North Africa, the Voice of Truth and Radio Patrie, all of them broadcasting from France or Italy.  Brazzaville Two was designed to be confused with the authentic Fighting French station broadcasting from Brazzaville in Equatorial Africa and used the latter's wavelength.  It issued contradictory orders to try to cause confusion, and appealed to French soldiers in the name of the Fighting French.

“In one broadcast, Brazzaville Two sought to create panic by announcing the spread of a plague of typhus in the zones occupied by American troops.  The speaker, purporting to be a De Gaullist, said: “We are dumfounded at the administration’s inability to check this scourge.”  The so-called Voice of Truth went on the air to Africa with a strong anti-Semitic line, announcing in one of its first broadcasts that “all Jewish officers who were in the French army and had been dismissed by the Vichy administration have been called up [in North Africa] and made high officers and advisers, but were never sent to the front.”

“For purposes of creating animosity between Arabs and Jews and creating enmity against the occupation forces among the native population, Vichy Arab-language transmitters, parading as authentic Arab mouthpieces, went on the air with broadcasts like this: “The Allied nations and the French traitors are delivering you to the Jews.  Your fathers were masters of the Jews.  The Allied nations are now making the Jews your masters.  Will you stand for this?”

“Fake freedom stations have been used with increasing frequency throughout Asia in recent months.  Afghanistan has been a favorite nesting spot for them, as Axis secret agents and even diplomatic missions have been able to work there with comparative freedom, broadcasting irresponsible, false news items and diatribes against Britain and the United States in the form of news commentaries.  These transmitters are usually not very powerful and are not designed to carry very far. Their principal job is to influence the more uncivilized natives of northwest India, Persia, Iraq and Arabia rather than the city populations of Asia.  For the latter the Axis has powerful transmitters located in its own capitals which parade as freedom stations.  Radio Himalaya, which is supposed to operate from New Delhi, actually originates in Rome; India Independence broadcasts from Tokyo; and Free India originates in Berlin.

“From time to time a freedom station does appear which has an unmistakably authentic ring, but it is rarely heard from more than a few times.  Such a station appeared in Belgium in June 1942 and called itself the Flemish Freedom Station.  The best recommendation for its authenticity was the fact that the Germans tried so hard to jam its broadcasts, and usually succeeded after the first minute or two.  It was rarely able to get more than a few sentences across before the jammer cut it out.  “This is the free transmitter of oppressed Belgium!” it would say.  “Hang all the traitors! Tear down all the swastikas!”  And that is about as far as it could get before the interference became too great for it to be heard.

A story of real heroism is connected with an unquestionably authentic station, operated in Holland.  Early in 1942, a Dutch Nazi was killed in Utrecht.  That night, an underground broadcasting station in the Netherlands gave a description of the murder, complete in every detail, even to the license number of the murdered Nazi’s car.  After that broadcast, the station was silent for a time, while the Gestapo scoured Holland in search of it.  Then, obligingly, it came on the air again.  This time it taunted the Nazis by giving a circumstantial report of a visit to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam.  The speaker described the interior of the building fully, mentioning the pictures on the wall, the dirt spots on the tile floors, and other striking details.  Weeks went by, but the Germans were unable to find the station.  The programs never came from the same source twice.  Jamming the transmitter proved impossible because its wavelength was always being changed.  That, of course, made it difficult for listeners to pick it up, but the men who ran the station realized that it was better to have a small, haphazard audience than to be shot.

“Probably the best known of all the fake freedom stations operating today is the one called Gustav Siegfried Eins, which broadcasts in German, ostensibly from Berlin. While it is clear that the Gustav Siegfried Eins station is not what it pretends to be, I cannot say what it actually is.  It purports to be operated by high officers of the German army who are opposed to the Nazis but want to win the war.  It is patriotically German, never says anything favorable to our side but consistently picks at Nazi party officials for their inefficiency, corruption and general mishandling of the war.  In December 1942, the station urged Germany not to waste men and material helping “the weak-sister Italians” on the African front and warned that the only vital front was Russia.  In this connection, the station made frequent attacks on Rommel for his unsuccessful African campaign.”

“The fact that the station has remained in existence for many months and has made frequent broadcasts shows that either the Nazi government does not want to suppress it, or cannot get at it.  And so it is likely the station originates somewhere in Europe outside of Germany, probably England.”

And that was an extract from the book ‘The Axis on the Air” by Harold Ettlinger, published in 1943.  In his assumption about the Gustav Siegfried Eins station (or GS1 for short), he was right on the money.  It was indeed a black psy-op station that broadcast from powerful shortwave transmitters at Signal Hill, Buckinghamshire and Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, England, a little northwest of London, beginning in May 1941.  It was the brainchild of journalist Sefton Delmer, who, having been born and  Sefton Delmer

raised in Berlin was a native German speaker, and together with a team of intelligence officers and German émigrés, dissidents, and POW’s, they created the station, which successfully masqueraded as an underground German station, to break the Nazi spirit and morale.

The main speaker in the broadcasts was called ‘The Chief’ (‘Der Chef’ in German), who in reality was a German Jewish refugee.  In late 1943, after Harold’s book was published, Sefton Delmer decided The Chief should be martyred.  A GS1 broadcast was abruptly interrupted by the sound of shouting, scuffling and gunshots, and then a different panicked voice came on saying “They’ve got him.  The Gestapo has silenced The Chief!”  The station then went dead, and the illusion was complete.  The Gestapo was credited with a murder they did not commit, but The Chief was transformed from a voice into a legend.  I wish I could bring you an audio recording of it, but sadly, none are known to exist.

But, from the ashes of GS1 rose several successors, including Soldatenzender Kalundborg, purporting to be a Wehrmacht station broadcasting from occupied Denmark, and playing the latest American jazz and swing music.  This had been banned by the Nazis, but was adored by the German troops.  Another successor was Soldatensender Calais which broadcast on 390 meters (833 kHz), 420 meters (714 kHz) and 490 meters (612 kHz) with an associated shortwave station Kurzwellensender Atlantik (Shortwave Station Atlantic) created to broadcast to U-boat crews.  It used a 500 kW medium wave transmitter originally constructed for the Newark, New Jersey station WJZ, although it had never been delivered due to the FCC imposing a maximum 50 kW power limit on U.S. stations.  So, RCA was glad to be able to sell it to the British Secret Service who codenamed it ‘Aspidistra’ and installed it near Crowborough, Sussex.  Soldatensender Calais operated from 6pm to dawn, and unlike its predecessor Gustav Siegfried Eins, all programs were broadcast live until it ceased operation on April 30, 1945.  And so the psychological warfare continued on the airwaves not just in Europe, but around the world, until the end of the war.  In the 1950’s, a different kind of psychological broadcasting took shape during the Cold War, but that’s a whole different story!

Back to you, Jeff.

(Wavescan-Ray Robinson)

India's Akashvani Summer Schedule 2026

 

INDIA/BHARAT   Akashvani External Summer Service A26 schedule

UTC        Language    kHz   Tx site      Target Area   Old kHz

0030-0830  Bangla        594(C)           Bangladesh

0100-0130  Sindhi       1071(R)  9870(B)  Pakistan       9860

0100-0230  Tibetan     11710(D)           Tibet

0130-0230  Indonesian  15260(B)           Indonesia

0145-0230  Nepali      15410(B)

                       103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

0230-0245  Hindi         "                 "

0245-0300  English       "                 "

0300-0315  Nepali        "                 "

0300-0430  Baluchi      9740(D)           Pakistan      11805

0315-0415  Burmese     15410(B)           Myanmar

0400-0530  Farsi       15130(B)           Iran          15280

0400-0745  Urdu         1071(R)

                       100.8(F) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

0430-0600  Dari         9740 (D)          Afghanistan   11805

0430-0600  Pashtu      15185(B)           Afghanistan

0530-0630  Arabic      15130(B)           Middle East   15280

0830-0845  English       594(C)           Bangladesh

0845-0900  Hindi          "                "

0900-1030  Nepali      11865(D) 15410(B)

                       103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

0930-1130  Urdu         1071(R)

                       100.8(F) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

1000-1515  Bangla        594(C)           Bangladesh

1030-1200  Chinese     15410(B)           China

1045-1215  Tibetan     11865(D)           Tibet

1130-1200  Saraiki      1071(R) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

1200-1330  Punjabi      1071(R) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

1215-1315  Swahili     15410(B)           East Africa

1230-1330  Baluchi      9870(D)           Pakistan

1230-1400  Pashtu      11750(B)           Afghanistan   11810

1330-1500  Dari         9870(D)           Afghanistan

1515-1530  Hindi         594(C)           Bangladesh

1530-1545  English       594(C)            "

1545-1830  Bangla        594(C)            "

1545-1930  Urdu         1071(R)

                       100.8(F) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

1600-1730  Farsi        9620(B)           Iran          11900

1730-1930  Arabic       9620(B)           Middle East   11900

1930-2030  French       9620(B)           We. Europe    11900

2330-0100  Punjabi      1071(R) 103.6(A)  Pakistan

2345-0115  Chinese     15410(B)           China         15280

(D) Delhi      100 kW

(B) Bengaluru  250 kW

(R) Rajkot    1000 kW

(C) Chinsurah 1000 kW

Note:

a) Home Service and other languages may be heard briefly for a few minutes prior to the start/end of some of the scheduled External Services languages.

b) A 15-minute program in English, "Spotlight," is broadcast on various services.

c) Reception Reports to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in

QSL cards are issued by postal mail

( Jose Jacob (VU2JOS)

(photo-Vceety)

Recent Brazilian monitoring on mediumwave

BRAZIL 

 With a considerable exodus of Brazilian stations from medium wave, following the nationally encouraged migration program to FM, which is still in effect,an excellent space opens up for tuning in to a good number of South American stations (on practically all frequencies).

Sometimes, two or three stations from more than one country are heard on the same frequency, making it a good exercise in using a good loop antenna. The vast majority of stations that arrive are from Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, but on nights 'blessed' by the opening of propagation, we

have received stations from Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, and the United States. Before the migration process to FM, it was impractical to have this contact with an extensive number of South American stations and beyond.

Some carriers (some weaker, some stronger) have been present in recent days: 639, 657, 828, 891, 1134, 1179, and 1498 kHz. The 828 kHz frequency, in particular, has shown the best results in recent

days (with only a few bursts of music and male voice communication), which, in a first preliminary analysis, we can think of as'Radio Magic 828 AM', South Africa. This station has been arriving occasionally. In 2021 after listening to it in better conditions,I sent them a reception report,

and was rewarded with a reply via email in just one day.

It is suspected that we can even create imaginations about the other carriers, but in radio listening, responsible patience makes us try to listen to them in better conditions to have new information that leads us to success. Eyes and ears are wide open !

(Rudolf Grimm, Ibiuna-SP-BRA #479, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 24)

BRAZIL   670 kHz  'Radio Montanhesa', Ponte Nova MG, April 23 at 00.05 UT. Advertisements, ID. 'ZYL347 670 kHz Radio Montanhesa ...'. S5.

1240 kHz  'Radio Iracema', Cunha Pora SC, April 22 at 23.18 UT. Commentaries talking about 'Cunha Pora', Brazilian songs. S2. A strong QRM from 1240 kHz 'Rede Aleluia', Santos, SP.

1260 kHz  'Radio Cultura', Sao Borja RS, April 22 at 23.02UT. Commentaries about Sao Borja, announcements. S4.

1500 kHz  'Radio Aparecida do Sul MG', Ilicinea MG, April 20 at 20.06 UT. Brazilian songs, ID. 'em todo o lugar, Radio Aparecida do Sul'. S6.

1550 kHz  'Radio Cacique', Capivari SP, April 20 at 19.36 UT. A pop song, jingle 'Radio Cacique', advs Camara Municipal de Capivari. S4.(Rudolf Grimm, Ibiuna-SP-BRA #479, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 24)

(WWDXC Top Nx 1652/06 May 2026)

May programming from Tilford Productions

 

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..  

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, Friday, May 15, 2016,: 3955 kHz at 1600 UTC, repeats 2200 UTC 

This month, we present some Persian classical music.  

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. All QSLs are e-QSLs only.

 

(Bill  Tilford, Owner/Producer 

Tilford Productions, LLC )

email: bill@tilfordproductions.com 

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins-May 4, 2026

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:Issued: 2026 May 04 0142 UTC

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 27 April - 03 May 2026

Solar activity reached moderate levels on 27 and 18 Apr due to M-class (R1-Minor) activity from Region 4425 (N05, L=162, class/area=Ekc/320 on 28 Apr) and 4420 (S18, L=246, class/area=Eki/300 on 21 Sep). Region 4420 produced the strongest flare of the period, an M1.5/Sn (R1) flare at 28/1353 UTC. The region also produced two Type II radio sweeps alongside C-class activity. The ejecta associated with the activity originated from near the NW limb and was not suspected to contain an Earth-directed component. 

The other 13 numbered active regions on the visible disk were either mostly quiet or only produced C-class X-ray activity. No other Earth-directed CMEs were identified in available coronagraph imagery. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal to moderate levels over the past seven days. 

Geomagnetic field activity reached G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 30 Apr and active levels on 01 May due to the influence of a negative polarity CH HSS. Total magnetic field strength reached a brief peak of 14 nT on 30 Apr, with Bz reaching as far south as -12 nT. Solar wind speeds peak at just over 500 km/s early on 01 May and gradually waned over the next two days. The remainder of the period was at quiet to unsettled levels. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 May - 30 May 2026

Solar activity is likely to be at low levels with a chance for M-Class (R1/R2-Minor/Moderate) throughout the outlook period due to the flare potential of multiple regions on the visible disk as well as multiple complex regions due to return from the farside.  

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is likely to reach high levels on 15-20 May due to influence from a recurrent, negative polarity coronal hole. The remainder of the outlook period is expected to at normal to moderate levels. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 15-17 May; active levels are likely on 08 May, 18 May, 23 May, and 27 May; unsettled levels are likely on 04 May, 09 May, 21-22 May, and 27 May. All enhancements in geomagnetic activity are forecast in anticipation of influence fron multiple, recurrent, coronal hole HSSs. The remainder of the outlook period is expected to be at mostly quiet levels. 

:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt

:Issued: 2026 May 04 0142 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

# Product description and SWPC web www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services

#

#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table

#                Issued 2026-05-04

#

#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2026 May 04     140           8          3

2026 May 05     140           6          2

2026 May 06     135           6          2

2026 May 07     130           6          2

2026 May 08     135          12          4

2026 May 09     130          10          3

2026 May 10     130           6          2

2026 May 11     125           5          2

2026 May 12     125           5          2

2026 May 13     120           5          2

2026 May 14     115           5          2

2026 May 15     120          25          5

2026 May 16     120          20          5

2026 May 17     125          20          5

2026 May 18     130          15          4

2026 May 19     130           5          2

2026 May 20     130           5          2

2026 May 21     130           8          3

2026 May 22     120          10          3

2026 May 23     125          12          4

2026 May 24     125           5          2

2026 May 25     125           5          2

2026 May 26     130           5          2

2026 May 27     135          12          4

2026 May 28     135          10          3

2026 May 29     130           8          3

2026 May 30     125           8          3

(NOAA)

A nostalgic journey from SM Dessau

 

The May 1, 2026, special broadcast from SM Dessau began with a nostalgic journey from former days on shortwave. 

The 1600 UTC broadcast, relayed from Gavar, Armenia, on 12060 kHz, began with a classic sign-on from Germany's Radio Berlin International. 

Shortwave Central YouTube channel has the video at: https://youtu.be/0KrsMXx07dQ

WRMI Schedule Update, April 23, 2026

 

WRMI A-26 Summer Schedule Update

The current color grid program schedule, dated April 23, 2026, is available at: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcIEX8kisrOPqlXHDAq6gympKUgDj0SIb96qce2kGGQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Previous schedule post on  April 13, 2026

https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2026/04/wrmi-summer-schedule-update.html

QSL - 2016

All times UTC

Programming in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish

0000-0100   5010ca  5050la  5850na  5950na  7730na  7780na  9455na  15770eu  17790va     

0100-0200   5050la  5800sa  5950na  7730na  7780ca  15770eu  17790va

0200-0300   5010ca  5050la  5950na  7780ca  9955la  15770eu

0300-0400   5050la  9955la  15770eu

0400-0500   7730na  7570na  7780ca  15770eu

0500-0600   7570na  7730na  7760ca  9395na  15770eu

0600-0700   5850na  7570na  7730na  7780ca  9395na  15770eu

0700-0800   5850na  7570na  7730na  7780ca  9395na  15770eu

0800-0900   7730na  7780ca  9395na  15770eu

0900-1000   5850na  7730na  9395na  15770eu

1000-1100   7570na  7730na  7780ca  9395na  15770eu

1100-1200   5850na  7730na  9395na

1200-1300   7730na  9395na

1300-1400   7730na  9395na

1400-1500   7730na  9395na  15770eu

1500-1600   7730na  9395na  17790va

1600-1700   7730na  9395na  17790va

1700-1800   7730na  9395na  15770eu  17790va 

1800-1900   7730na  9395na  15770eu  17790va

1900-2000   7730na  9395na  17790va

2000-2100   9395na  17790va

2100-2200   7730na  17790va

2200-2300   5850na  7730na  15770eu  17790va

2300-0000   5010ca  5850na  7730na  9455na17790va

Target Areas:

ca  Central America

eu  Europe

la  Latin America

na North America

sa  South America

va  Africa/South America

WRMI website:  http://wrmi.net/

Reception Reports: info@wrmi.net 

https://www.wrmi.net/index.php/reception-report-qsl/ 

Rapid E-QSL: Send a reception report and receive an immediate e-QSL to: wrmiqsl@gmail.com

(GVH/Teak Publishing)

Texas Radio Shortwave- May 2-3, 2026 programs

 

May 2, 2026

1400-1500, 6160 Shortwave Radio Gold to Europe - Michael Strah on Texas Radio Shortwave: The Music of Tommy Taylor

1800-1900, 3975, 6160 Shortwave Radio Gold to Europe - Michael Strah on Texas Radio Shortwave: The Music of Tommy Taylor

May 3, 2026

1200-1300, 9670,  Channel 292 to Europe - Michael Strah on Texas Radio Shortwave: The Music of Tommy Taylor

2300-0000, 9670, Channel 292 to North America - Michael Strah on Texas Radio Shortwave: The Music of Tommy Taylor

This schedule is subject to change based on listener requests for specific Texas artists or music genres, propagation conditions, and other things beyond our control.

Texas Radio Shortwave is an independent producer of musical and topical shows, usually about Texas.

Unless otherwise shown, programs are one hour long.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on 3975 and 6160 kHz over Shortwave Radio Gold in Winsen, Germany, are transmitted with 1 kW into crossed dipole antennas.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on 6070 and 9670 kHz over Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany, are transmitted with 10 kiloWatts into an inverted V antenna.

Programs for North America (NAm) and beyond on 9670 kHz over Channel 292 are transmitted with 10 kW into a 10.5 dB gain beam antenna.

Texas Radio Shortwave uses a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas as its Interval Signal/Signature Song.

Texas Radio Shortwave verifies correct, detailed reception reports by electronic QSL. This includes reports from listeners using remote receivers (SDRs). Texas Radio

Shortwave's email is texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com.

Many TRSW programs are archived at www.mixcloud.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Listeners' Group Facebook page is www.facebook.com/groups/580199276066655/.

(TRSW) 

(photo/Wikipedia)

DX Central - SEDAP: The World’s Most Advanced Sporadic Es Data Analysis Dashboard for the FM DX Community

 

SEDAP: The World’s Most Advanced Sporadic Es Data Analysis Dashboard for the FM DX Community

OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DX Central Unveils SEDAP: The World’s Most Advanced Sporadic Es Data Analysis Dashboard for the FM DX Community

MANDEVILLE, La. — April 29, 2026 — DX Central is proud to announce the official launch of version 2.0 of our popular Sporadic Es Data Analysis Project (SEDAP), a revolutionary, interactive intelligence dashboard designed to decode the mysteries of VHF propagation. Officially unlocking on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 7:45 PM CDT (0045 UTC May 2) at fmdxdata.com, SEDAP transforms nearly a decade of siloed radio loggings into a massive, cinematic data science suite, completely free of charge for the hobbyist and academic community.

Historically, analyzing Sporadic E (Es) propagation on the FM band has been an isolated effort, with individual DXers tracking their own localized season-over-season metrics and comparing notes with other DXers. SEDAP shatters that limitation by aggregating more than 95,000 North American FM broadcast logs and presenting them with brand new interactive visualizations to give DXers a whole new understanding of this elusive and magical propagation method.

"For years, our understanding of Sporadic E has been largely limited to individual observations," said Loyd Van Horn, founder of DX Central and creator of SEDAP. "By bringing all of this data together, we aren't just looking at spreadsheets anymore. SEDAP allows us to physically watch ionospheric clouds spawn, compress, and track across the continent in real-time. We can finally see what a typical season looks like on a macroscopic level."

Built on a Google Cloud BigQuery architecture, SEDAP boasts a sleek user interface featuring dynamic visualizations, including:

• The Es-Cloud Tracker: The newest and perhaps most exciting addition to the SEDAP dashboard.   The Es-Cloud Tracker is a cinematic, multi-day playback engine that maps the approximate geographic formation location of FM DX Sporadic Es ionization clouds over North America.  Openings can be “played” on a timelapse, allowing DXers to watch a simulation of the Es clouds as they develop, morph and transit throughout the day or a range of days.  

• Path Line Analysis:  In-depth analysis on the most common and productive paths to and from a DXer or station location.  Visually “see” the paths that evolved over the span of a day or date range.

• Frequency & MUF Forensics: An interactive "SDR Tuner" interface to interrogate large scale band yields, signal paths, and daily Maximum Usable Frequency (MUF) ceilings.

• Station & RDS Intelligence: Deep-dive forensics into the WTFDA station database, featuring PI-Code adoption maps, format/slogan correlation matrices, and gamified "Unheard Target" lists for US States and Counties.

• DXer Network Intelligence: Long-term seasonal performance audits and multiple normalized metrics to filter out observer bias as much as possible

“We have certainly seen a huge growth in the number of DXers both reporting receptions and the amount of receptions they are reporting thanks to improved technology and resources from SDRs to propagation monitoring through Rabbitears and the FM DX Webservers,” says Van Horn.  “So while we are not here to say one season was better than another, we can give DXers insights into Sporadic Es season that can help them strategize antenna placement and bearing, timing of monitoring, potential paths based on different periods within the season and a whole lot more. This is about improving our understanding of what happens when the ionosphere sends those FM signals back down to Earth.”

SEDAP makes no claim of ownership over the raw data presented, acting strictly as an analytical engine. The platform owes its immense capabilities to the unprecedented collaboration and public data provided by FMList.org, and the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association (WTFDA).

To protect the integrity of the database and respect the bandwidth of its data partners, SEDAP is strictly governed by a non-commercial usage policy. Automated scraping and commercial monetization are prohibited, but users are highly encouraged to explore, share, and cite the dashboard's findings.

The Sporadic Es Data Analysis Project will be accessible to the public beginning May 1, 2026. To access the dashboard, view the real-time launch countdown, or read the full data usage policy, visit fmdxdata.com.

About DX Central: Based in Mandeville, Louisiana, DX Central is a premier hub for the radio monitoring community, dedicated to advancing the hobby of DXing through live streams, online receivers, regular DX challenges and contests, educational content, and data-driven propagation analysis.

Media Contact: 

Loyd Van Horn | Founder, DX Central

Email:  inquiries@fmdxdata.com 

Web:  dxcentralonline.com 

Youtube:  youtube.com/@DXCentral 

Twitter/X:  twitter.com/DXCentral

Loyd Van Horn

W4LVH - Mandeville, LA

Member:  IRCA/NRC Courtesy Program Committee (CPC)

Founder: DX Central - Because we're all about radio

Web:  dxcentralonline.com

Twitter:  @DXCentral

YouTube:  youtube.com/c/DXCentral

Updated version of Music Programs on Shortwave

 

An updated version of my Music Programmes on Shortwave PDF file for the current A-26 broadcast season is now available to download from the permanent link at https://app.box.com/s/kbdxb4c5lwpju0kpoi27aiwc35br2g2a (or for short: 

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/shortwaveprograms

You will also find here my "at-a-glance" single-page PDF A-26 program grids for the English language programmes on shortwave of CGTN Radio, Voice of Turkiye, Radio Romania International and Radio Taiwan International, along with an updated BBC World Service grid.

I hope that you find these of interest.

As always, I appreciate any updates or corrections.

(Alan Roe, Teddington, UK/BDXC)

Encore classical music from Radio Tumbril

Dear Listener

Regular Broadcast times of Encore By WRMI and Channel 292 are:

02:00 - 03:00 UTC Friday 5850 kHz WRMI to US

20:00 - 21:00 UTC Friday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe

10:00 - 11:00 UTC Saturday 9670 kHz Channel 292 to Europe

01:00 - 02:00 UTC Sunday 5850 kHz WRMI to US and Canada

19:00 - 20:00 UTC Sunday 3955 kHz Channel 292 to Europe

02:00 - 03:00 UTC Monday 5950 kHz WRMI to the US and Canada

13:00 - 14:00 UTC Tuesday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe, east coast of US and Iceland. (Sometimes RTTY on the lower sideband. Suggest notch out or use USB.)

Some Things to see on The Encore Website:www.tumbril.co.uk

The Encore website is www.tumbril.co.uk, where you will find:

Important information about the funding of Encore - Radio Tumbril.

Up-to-date transmission times and frequencies.

The playlists for the most recent programmes.

An email link.

Informal reception reports, as well as those requesting eQSL cards, are welcome.

WRMI and Channel 292 are very generous with their airtime, but Encore still costs around 130 Dollars/Euros a month to broadcast.

THIS FORTNIGHT'S PROGRAM - First broadcast on FRIDAY 1st May by WRMI at 0200 UTC on 5850, and 2000 UTC on 15770 and then Channel 292 on SATURDAY 2nd May at 10:00 UTC on 9670 kHz:

Begins with some early French Renaissance music - three love songs set without words -  from Guillaume DuFay, part of a string quartet by Luigi Cherubini, and a motet by high Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez. 

After that, a duet for violin and cello by Paganini, and all three movements of Poulenc's Sonata for flute and piano.

The programme ends with the first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No.3.

(This bulletin is sent by Bcc to the many hundreds of listeners who have been in contact with Encore over the last six years of broadcasting.)

Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril - www.tumbril.co.uk

SM Radio Dessau programming on May 1st

 

e-QSL from SM Radio Dessau

A program produced by the private German shortwave station SM Radio Dessau will be broadcast on 1 May 2026 via transmitters in three countries. Programs in German and English are planned.

The following broadcasts are scheduled:

08:00 UTC on 9670 kHz AM 125 kW via the Woofferton transmitter in the UK

13:00 UTC on 6095 kHz AM 100 kW via the Nauen transmitter near Berlin

16:00 UTC on 12060 kHz AM 100 kW via the Gavar transmitter in Armenia

21:00 UTC on 3955 kHz AM 10 kW via the Rohrbach transmitter of Channel 292

Reception reports can be sent to SM Radio Dessau by email to maxberger@smradio-dessau.de and will be confirmed by an electronic QSL card.

To receive a QSL card via regular mail, please send a reception report with return postage to: Max Berger, Saalestraße 44, 06846 Dessau.

(Harald DL1AX/BDXC)

Throwback Thursday - Radio Cook Islands: A Rare Voice from the South Pacific

 

Radio Cook Islands

For many shortwave listeners, Radio Cook Islands was once considered a prized catch from the South Pacific. Broadcasting from the island of Rarotonga, its distinctive mix of island music and local programming carried the sound of a truly remote corner of the world across thousands of miles to patient DXers. Today, the station’s shortwave signal is no longer heard, but recordings and QSL confirmations remain as reminders of a time when even the smallest Pacific voices could suddenly appear in our headphones.

The reception of Radio Cook Islands was never easy, which made confirmations especially meaningful. This QSL from my collection is a reminder of just how special it was to log one of the Pacific’s classic DX signals.

A rare QSL from 1983

A radio station operated by the local newspaper, one of the world's most exotic radio stations, and one that so many DXers wanted to QSL. Radio Cook Islands has its seashell trumpet call as a tuning signal. Just 500 watts on the tropical band channel 5045 kHz.

Many DX programs and DX magazines around the world reported some years ago the demise of the shortwave service from Rarotonga (RARE-a-TONG-ga) in the Cook Islands. A fire in May 1993 destroyed the transmitter building owned by Cable & Wireless. This building housed, among many other major items of electronic equipment, the old and small transmitter used by Radio Cook Islands for their shortwave service. Thus, Radio Cook Islands has been off the air on shortwave since then, and reports indicate that there is no move to reinstate this exotic little station.

The Cook Islands lie in the South Pacific about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii. They are made up of some eight main islands which cover a total of less than 100 square miles. The capital city is Avarua (AH-va-ROO-a), which is located on the main island of Rarotonga, and the total population of some 30,000 people are mostly Polynesian.

Captain Cook, in the year 1773, is credited as being the first European explorer to visit the Cook Islands, after whom they were named. This island paradise is made up of volcanic mountains rising from the ocean floor, together with white coral reefs encircling most of each island. Whether seen from the air or from tourist beaches, they present exquisite scenes of visual, tropical beauty. For the DXer, a radio is of course a necessity, but in the Cook Islands, so is a camera.

Way back in the wireless era, at the end of World War 1 the callsign for the maritime communication station at Rarotonga in the Cook Islands was VMR. A few years later, additional stations were erected at Aitutaki (EYE-too-TAH-kee) and Mangala (mun-GAH-la), with the callsigns VLF and VLG.

Many years later, in the 1950s, the callsign VLF was used for a short while for one of the refurbished 100 kW transmitters at the Radio Australia facility located at Shepparton in Victoria. The callsign VLF was also the Australian callsign for the American communication station at North West Cape in Western Australia, though the American callsign is NMC. In addition, VLF is also the Line Callsign for a current 100 kw transmitter operated by Radio Australia at Shepparton.

The callsign VLG was taken over in 1941 as the callsign for the 10 kw home service shortwave transmitter at Lyndhurst in Victoria. Today this is the Line Callsign of a 10 kW transmitter located at Brandon in North Queensland, which carries the Pacific service of Radio Australia.

The first broadcast station in the Cook Islands was an unofficial wartime project as a service for Allied troops. A New Zealand radio engineer modified a longwave aircraft beacon on the island of Rarotonga back in 1944, and operated it as a temporary radio broadcasting service.

In April 1954, a radio broadcasting service was inaugurated using spare time on a local communication transmitter. This station went on the air as Radio Raratonga with school broadcasts lasting an hour each, twice weekly. This service on the tropical band channel, 3390 kHz, was so popular that entertainment programs were soon added using the channel 6180 kHz. The transmitter power was usually 100 watts, though on occasions the 500 watt transmitter was used. The original callsign was ZK1ZA, which in reality was an amateur callsign. Subsequent shortwave callsigns were in the series ZK2-ZK6.

The original transmitter location was at Black Rock, but in 1961, a new facility was constructed, closer to Avarua, the capital city, and just 3-1/2 miles from the original location.

Programming on shortwave was usually in parallel to the main mediumwave channel. This was made up of local productions, as well as many relays from the BBC London, Radio Australia, and Radio New Zealand. On one occasion, in 1976, Radio Cook Islands broadcast a special DX program for the benefit of the annual DX convention in New Zealand.

When the shortwave transmitter was destroyed in the fire, that left only one mediumwave and two FM channels on the air in the Cook Islands.

The islanders living in the capital city area can hear the two stations quite clearly, and those living on the outlying islands can readily hear their official AM station, 5 kw on 630 kHz; but the international listener can no longer tune in to the Cook Islands on shortwave. It is gone forever.

Back in 1989, the Ontario DX Association printed 500 QSL cards for Radio Cook Islands, using the same original design. The AWR historic collection in Indianapolis contains three QSL cards from the (Wavescan/March 12, 2000)

QSL Report 2.0 - May 2026

 

                            Bringing you the latest in QSLing from across the globe

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of QSL Report 2.0!  Thank you for your comments and contributions.

QSL Report 2.0 is a revival of my former QSL Report column in Monitoring Times magazine. Each issue brings you updates on QSLing trends—what worked (and what didn’t) along with special event QSLs and stations verified across amateur radio, mediumwave, pirate, shortwave, and utility bands. If you’ve received a QSL from any of these stations, share your results with the world!

Send your contributions and correspondence to w4gvhla@gmail.com

Euro Free Radio

Key Channel Radio, 6320 kHz. Full data e-QSL in seven days for an e-report to keyradioam@gmail.com (Artur Llorella, Spain).

Radio Carpathia, 3955 kHz via Woofferton, UK. Full data e-QSL received in 58 days, for e-report to radiocarpathia@gmail.com (Ian Wilkerson, UK/BDXC).

Radio Mordor, 6275 kHz. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to radiomordor@hotmail.com (Hallvard Gjerde, Norway/FB QSL).

Radio Sombrero, 6306 kHz. Full data e-QSL in two hours, for e-report to radio.sombrero@proton.me (Hashimoto Kenji, Japan/FB QSL).

Radio Sound of Africa 7395 kHz. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to radiosoundofafrica@gmail.com (Llorella).

Taxus Radio, 6290 kHz. Full data e-QSL in seven days, for postal report to: Pascal Smeman P/a Broekweg 23 A 7891 RP Klazienaveen, Netherlands (Jouke van der Galien, NLD/BDXC).

Radio Technicalmen, 3900 kHz. Full data e-QSL received in one day, for e-report to technicalman@hotmail.com (van der Galien).

Radio Tracid, 6955 kHz. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to airflow2014@hotmail.com (van der Galien).

Mediumwave

Algeria

Radio Ghardaia, 873 kHz. No-data e-letter in two days, from Ali Djerdi, Directeur, for e-report to radio.ghardaia@gmail.com (Llorella) 

Antigua

Caribbean Radio Lighthouse, Saint Mary 1160 kHz. Full data email response in one month from  Nathan Owens, Station Manager/Engineer, for e-report and MP3 file to  lighthousebimi@gmail.com (Alan Pennington, UK/BDXC).

Argentina

L2P VTS Mar del Plata-Marítimo, 518 kHz. Full data response in two days, for e-report to tompla@prefecturanaval.gov.ar Station received from Bahía Blanca, Argentina (Néstor Damián Fischetto, Argentina/DX Fanzine).

Radio General Conesa, 1420 kHz. Full data e-QSL in four days from Marquitos Pérez, for e-report to am1420radioconesa@hotmail.com (Fischetto).

Bahamas

ZNS1 National Voice, 1540 kHz. Full data e-QSL, received in one month, for e-report to D.Morris@znsbahamas.com and a copy to digitalmedia@znsbahamas.com (Mauro Giroletti, Italy/DX Fanzine).

Brazil

ZYK228 Rado Cruz Alta, 1140 kHz. Full data e-letter verification from Alvaro Felipe Pilau, Director, for e-report to gpilau62@gmail.com (Ariel Torres, ARG/FB/DX Fanzine).

Bulgaria

BNR Horizonte, 576 kHz. Full data e-QSL in 21 days, for an e-report to reception.report@bnr.bg (Jurgen Waga, Germany/BDXC).

Hungary

Danko Radio, 1251 kHz. Full data e-QSL Certificate for two transmitter sites from Ivan Kovacs. Received in 19 days for e-report to kovacs.ivan@mtva.hu (Dave Kenny, UK/BDXC)

Italy

Amica Radio Veneta, 1017 kHz. Full data e-QSL in two days for e-report to amicaradioveneta@hotmail.com (Llorella).

Radio Briscola, 1449 kHz. No-data letter and QSL. Received in 24 days from Gianfranco Giudice, for e-report to radiobricola@gmail.com (Llorella).

Lithuania

Radio Lenta 1557 kHz. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to pagalba@telecentras.it (Llorella).

Mauritius 

Mauritius Radio, 1257 kHz. Full data e-Verification letter from Ashlam Nunhuck in 12 days, for e-report to 3bm.mrs@telecom.mu (Llorella).

Shortwave

Australia

Reach Beyond Australia 15460 kHz. Full data e-QSL in 24 hours, for e-report to radio@reachbeyond.org.au (Rod Pearson, FL) 11925, in five days.(Llorella).

Trans World Radio-Asia, via Kununurra relay 11960 kHz. Full data TWR e-QSL in 35 days for e-report to asiafeedback@twr.org (B Clement, OR).

Brazil

Rádio Inconfidência, 15190 kHz. Full data e-QSL in five days for e-report to gleisonferreira@inconfidencia.com.br (Pearson).

China

PBS Sichuan 2, 7225 kHz. Full data e-QSL in six days, for e-report to crieng@cri.com.cn (Fischetto).

Egypt

NMA Al-Quran al-Karim, 864 kHz. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to freqmeg@yahoo.com. First African station to confirm on mediumwave (Fischetto).

Clandestine

New Korea Hope Broadcasting (NKHB) 5920 kHz via Tamsui, Taiwan. Full data e-QSL in three days, for e-report to nkhb316@gmail.com (Llorella).

Radio Zaman Bidari, 15215 kHz. Full data color verification letter in 24 hours, for e-report and video link from YouTube to radiozamanbidari@proton.me  Noted within the letter that the station is for listeners inside Iran. (Gayle Van Horn, LA) 

Finland

Real Mix Radio, 5950 kHz. Full data e-QSL in 25 days, from Joakim Weckström, for e-report to realmix.sw@gmail.com (Hilton).

France

Radio Taiwan International 9680 via Issoudun relay. Full data e-QSL in 32 days for e-report to fren@rti.org (Robert Aucoin, LA).

Germany

All Tribes Radio, 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in one week, for e-report to alltribesradio@icloud.com (Llorella).

Atlantic 2000 International, 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in one week, for e-report to atlantic2000international@gmail.com (Llorella).

Farside Radio, 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in one day for e-report to pfraser01@hotmail.com.uk (Llorella).

From the Isle of Music, 3955 kHz. Full data e-QSL in two days, for e-report to tilfordproductions@gmail.com  (Hilton).

Kölsch in die Welt, 6070 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in three days, for e-report to hobby-radio-bonn@web.de (Llorella).

Radio Time, 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to differentradio@yahoo.co.uk (Llorella).

Soundbox Radio, 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in three days for e-report to soundboxradio@hotmail.com (Llorella).

Texas Radio Shortwave 3975 kHz via Shortwave Radio. Full data e-QSL in three days, for e-report to: texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com (Ian Wilkenson, UK/BDXC)

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, 3955 kHz via Channel 292. Full data e-QSL in one day, for e-report to tilfordproductions@gmail.com (Pearson).

Indonesia

Voice of Indonesia, 3325 kHz. Full data e-QSL in 4.5 years, for e-report to voilisteners@gmail.com (Llorella). That is excellent!

Taiwan

Fu Hsing BS, Kuanyin. Partial data QSL card in 55 days, for e-report to fhbstp@fhbs.com.tw (Pearson).

Turkey

Voice of Turkey, 9495 kHz. Full data TRT e-QSL. Received in 45 days for e-report to tsr@trt.net.tr (Hilton).

United Arab Emirates

Gaweylon Tibetan Radio via Dhabbaya relay, 15215 kHz, Full data e-QSL in three days for an e-report to gaweylon@gmail.com (Pearson).

United States

The Mighty KBC via WRMI, 15770 kHz. Full data e-QSL in two days, for e-report to themightykbc@gmail.com (Llorella).

Uzbekistan

Bible Voice Broadcasting (BVB) via Tashkent relay, 7540 kHz. Full data QSL card in 32 days by postal mail, for e-report to mail@bvbroadcasting.org (Pearson).