Thursday, August 14, 2025

Miami Pirate Faces Felony After Arrest During Live Broadcast

 

A habitual Miami pirate broadcaster who repeatedly defied FCC enforcement efforts is facing justice after being arrested and charged with a felony for continuing to operate his unlicensed radio station out of his home in Biscayne Gardens.

As first reported WPLG-TV, Abdias Datis, known as “DJ AJ 305,” was taken into custody by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies on August 12 during a live broadcast, when agents executed a search warrant and seized broadcasting equipment. He is charged with unauthorized transmissions – a third-degree felony.

According to the FCC Enforcement Bureau, Datis had been running “Unique FM” on 91.7 FM back to at least 2018.

Additional story at: 

New mediumwave station from Argentina

Translated from Spanish:

A new AM radio station has been reported since Saturday, 9 August, on the 680 KHz frequency, identifying itself as Radio Chaco Argentina ‘La Radio de los Provincianos’ (The Radio of the Provincials). It broadcasts musical programming, currently featuring only chamamé music, typical of that province in the northeast of our country, with several identifications by an announcer such as: ‘

"The new radio station, Radio Chaco, your radio station.’ It also announces the contact telephone number (11) 4263-2645, which is why it would be broadcasting from the town of Monte Grande, Esteban Echeverría District, Province of Buenos Aires. 

We will provide more information about this station shortly. We appreciate the collaboration of our friend ‘Gonza’ who told us that he heard this new station for the first time.

Argentina en AM y FM Facebook group (2025-08-09)
(Ydun's MW)

August programming from Uncle's Bill's Meltng Pot

 



Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 2025 

In August, we will present music from Syria and the Syrian diaspora. 

(UTC/kHz)

Friday, August 15
6070 at 1700 
3955 at 2100 

Sunday, August 17
9670 at 1700  using beam E (repeat of August 15 episode). 
  
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. 

Special broadcast for India's Independence Day on August 15

 
Special  broadcast/programs for India's 79th Independence Day on 15th Aug, 2025

India is celebrating its 79th Independence Day on 15th August 2025, details of special programs by Akashvani for the occasion is as follows:

14th August 2025 (Thursday) 1330 UTC onwards “Address to the Nation” on the eve of Independence Day in Hindi and English by Smt.Draupadi Murmu, Hon'ble President of India.

All stations of Akashvani will relay this on MW, SW & FM.



August 15, 2025  (Friday) 0130-0240 UTC 

Akashvani will broadcast live the running commentary in English and Hindi on the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minister's address to the nation to be held at Red Fort, New Delhi, between 0130-0240 UTC on 15th August, 2025 on the following shortwave frequencies.

English:
15260 kHz Bengaluru 500 kW

Hindi:
11805 kHz New Delhi 100 kW
15410 kHz Bangalore 500 kW



The External Services on the above frequencies in Indonesian, Nepali, Burmese & Baluchi scheduled  at the same time will not be there on that day.

The Regional SW Station (Leh) will start using their daytime frequencies about 1 hour or more earlier than usual on 15th August, as follows, to relay the commentary. This may provide enhanced reception of stations compared to normal days.

kHz     kW       Station
-----------------------------
4760    2.5       Leh          

All stations of Akashvani (AIR) on MW, FM & ‘Akashvani AIR’ YouTube Channel will relay the running commentary.

Reception Reports to :
Please submit your reception reports online at: https://prasarbharati.gov.in/reception-report/
or by postal mail to:

Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy)
Akashvani (All India Radio),
Room No. 204, Akashvani Bhawan,
Parliament Street
New Delhi110001, India
(NASWA/Jose Jacob /Alokesh Gupta/DX India)

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Best Tabletop Radios

 

By Kathryn Rath

Kathryn Rath is a writer covering audio, video, and smart-home gear.

FYI
After completing new testing, we have multiple new picks, including the Sangean HDR-19, the C. Crane EP Pro, and the Studebaker SB2002.

August 2025
My own musical education began with radio, listening from the back of a green Ford Explorer while my dad drove me to kindergarten. The now-defunct “96.5 WHTQ, Orlando’s Classic Rock Station!” provided the soundtrack to my childhood. When I took over Wirecutter’s testing of tabletop radios, it was like being transported back in time, in the most delightfully nostalgic way.

Additional story at: 

Monday, August 11, 2025

100 Years of Radio Broadcasting in Indonesia, Part 1

 A special thank you to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing this week's edition of Wavescan.

A classic QSL from Indonesia

Jeff: Today, we begin a two-part look at the story of radio broadcasting in the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia.  Over the last few years, a number of countries have celebrated the centenary of radio broadcasting within their borders.  Today, it’s the turn of Indonesia, where there have now been 100 years of broadcast radio, both domestically and for international audiences.  And actually, the beginning of wireless communication in Indonesia goes way back even further than that, to about 110 years.  Ray Robinson in Los Angeles has the story.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff.  Indonesia is an archipelago of over 17,000 islands, spread over an area almost as large as the United States.  The five main islands are Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra, most of Borneo, and the western half of the island of New Guinea.  It’s a predominantly Muslim country, although some islands, such as Bali, are majority Hindu.  The total population is now over 282 million, which makes it the fourth most populous in the world after only India, China and the United States of America.  Approximately half of the population lives on the island of Java, which is the most densely populated island in the world.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the area had been administered by the Dutch East India Company, but when that was dissolved due to bankruptcy in 1799, the Dutch East Indies was established as a nationalized colony of the Netherlands.

A classic QSL from RRI Palemberg

In the era just before the beginning of World War I, two spark wireless stations were established in the Dutch East Indies for navy communication.  This was in the days before internationally recognized callsigns were in general use, and one of these stations, located at Sabang, was on the air in Morse Code under the irregular callsign SAB.

Immediately after the end of the war, there were four such stations in the Dutch East Indies, and these were all designated with callsigns in the new PK series as:
        PKA     Sabang
        PKB     Weltevreden
        PKC     Sitoebondo
        PKD     Koepang
        
Soon afterwards, the Dutch government in the capital, Batavia, now known as Jakarta, announced that a monster-sized wireless station, using Telefunken arc equipment, was under installation at Malabar, near Bandoeng.  The date for the official opening of this station was set for May 5, 1923.  However, a tropical lightning strike destroyed some of the wireless equipment and the auspicious day was postponed until repairs were completed.

This massive 3.5 megawatt wireless station was established for reliable communication with the Dutch Foreign Ministry in Holland.  However, in the mid-1920’s, spark wireless transmitters were rapidly becoming obsolete, and so it was only a few years before this transmitter was replaced with one of a newer valve, or tube, design.

The first radio broadcasting station in Indonesia was installed in the capital, Batavia, exactly 100 years ago in mid-1925 under the callsign BRX.   Other broadcasting stations began to sprout throughout the Dutch East Indies and many of these were amalgamated into the newly-formed government NIROM network in 1934.

Shortwave broadcasting in the Dutch East Indies began in 1928 as a dual effort on the part of smaller local radio stations and the large communication stations.  In Batavia, the first on shortwave was station JFC.  The main communication station at Bandoeng, about 100 miles southeast of Batavia/Jakarta in the center of West Java, began to relay broadcast programming on shortwave for the benefit of listeners throughout Indonesia, as well as in Australia, other countries in Asia, and also back in Holland itself.

Over the years, a large number of stations appeared on the shortwave dial, mostly in the tropical shortwave bands.  These stations were on the air with callsigns in the P series and also the more recent YD series.

Three transmitters of Radio Batavia were installed at Bandoeng, rated at 2, 40 and 80 kW, with antennas beamed to Europe, North America and other parts of Asia and the Pacific.  Weekly music broadcasts were conducted on 15.93 metres (18820 kHz).  The three transmitters, using the callsigns PLE, PLW and PMB, took part in a round-the-world relay in June 1930, and again two years later.  These transmitters were frequently also used as intermediate stations for the relay of broadcasts from London and Holland to Australia and New Zealand.

In the pre-war era, the big shortwave stations in the Dutch East Indies, and several of the smaller stations also, were recognized as good verifiers.  The QSL cards from the communication stations were usually in the form of typed postcards in English, though the most famous card of that era was the NIROM certificate which listed complete details, including callsign.

Then, on Saturday March 7, 1942, at the end of its broadcast day on 15150 kHz, the announcer on Radio Batavia, Bandoeng was heard in Australia to sign-off with this announcement:  "This is Radio Bandoeng closing down.  God save the Queen.  Goodbye everyone until better times come."  And with that, the station left the air.

RRI Surabaya

Eleven days later, on March 18, 1942, the Dutch officially surrendered to the Japanese, and the Japanese began to take over the radio networks throughout the former Dutch East Indies.  The large colonial radio station in Bandoeng was by far the largest radio station operated by the Japanese authorities during the Pacific-Asia War, even larger than their home base at Nazaki in Japan with its three 50 kW transmitters.

A month after the Japanese had occupied the city, the shortwave service was revived, with communications beamed to Japan and Germany and with programming beamed towards Australia, New Zealand and India.  Using very high power, as it was in those days, of 40 and 80 kW, programming beamed towards Australia and New Zealand was heard under new callsigns, such as JBC and ABC.  The signals were always reported as "strong" in Australia and New Zealand.

The callsign JBC indicated Japanese Broadcasting Company, and ABC was a callsign for clandestine programming that mimicked Radio Australia.  Japanese station personnel in Bandoeng recorded off air the tuning signal, station announcements and other significant items from Radio Australia and then wove those segments into their own programming, with the intent of capturing unsuspecting listeners in Australia.

At around this time, an Australian government listening post near Melbourne took directional bearings from these transmissions and verified they were indeed coming from the 80 kW shortwave transmitter located at Bandoeng.

Several different callsigns were in use during this era. There was ABC and JBC as we have just mentioned, and then some broadcasts were identified simply as Radio Batavia, and at one stage they apparently used an earlier callsign, PMC.  The broadcasts on the air as "Radio Batavia" always signed off with the "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa, better known these days as the Monty Python theme tune.

In early 1943, the name of the city of Batavia was changed to Jakarta, with several variations in spelling.  Radio magazines ceased listing broadcasts from these stations soon afterwards, not because they had left the air, but because of wartime reporting restrictions in Australia and New Zealand.  It is known that the final Japanese broadcast from the radio station at Bandoeng was on July 26, 1945.

Indonesia 1942 via Wikipedia

During the occupation, the Japanese had encouraged Indonesia’s independence movement, and only two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a Proclamation of Independence was issued by Sukarno, who was to become the country’s first president.  But there were still strong Dutch interests in the country including ownership of many plantations as well as it being rich in oil and other natural resources.  Immediately after the war the country was administered by Australia (since it had been the Australian Army which had liberated it from the Japanese), but in 1946 they transferred the administration back to The Netherlands, which wanted to re-establish colonial rule.  This led to a three-year guerilla conflict which only ended in 1949 when the Dutch, under international pressure, finally recognized Indonesian independence.
 
The first edition of the World Radio Handbook in 1947 lists all of the shortwave stations on the air in what has since become Indonesia under two series of callsigns, some in the new Y series and some in the old P series.  Not listed anywhere are the high-powered shortwave transmitters that were on the air during the occupation years.  It would appear that these units did not survive the war.

And we’ll continue the post-War story next week.  Back to you, Jeff.
Ray Robinson-Wavescan/10 Aug 2025)

Audio for Jen's Noise Fest for August 10 is now available

 


Here's this week's cast, 


I hope you enjoy my Noise Fest Cast,

until we meet again, happy Pogo-ing 

For correspondence, please use the following:


Next week just my regular Eclectic Views/Real Deal.Sunday, August 17th 18-21 UT

 
Jen In The Rad.

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

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:Issued: 2025 Aug 11 0200 UTC
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Solar activity was at moderate levels throughout the week. Region 4168 (N05, L=103, class/area=Eki/350 on 08 Aug) produced a total of fourteen M-class flares (R1-Minor events) this period, the largest being an M4.4/1b at 05/1553 UTC. The M4.4 flare was accompanied by Type-II (865 km/s) and IV radio sweeps, a 200 sfu Tenflare, and a CME first visible in LASCO coronagraph imagery at around 05/1700 UTC. This CME likely arrived at Earth on 08 Aug embedded with positive polarity CH HSS influence. No other Earth-directed CMEs resulted from the activity observed over 04-10 Aug. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels over 04-09 Aug, and increased to high levels on 10 Aug. 

Geomagnetic field activity was quiet to unsettled on 04-05 Aug in response to waning negative polarity CH HSS influence. Quiet conditions and a nominal solar wind environment prevailed over 06-07 Aug. Periods of G1 (Minor) storming were observed on 08 Aug due to the onset of CIR and positive polarity CH HSS influence, and likely the embedded 05 Aug CME. Periods of G1-G2 (Minor-Moderate) storming were observed on 09 Aug due to continued positive polarity CH HSS influence. Unsettled to active levels were observed over 10 Aug as CH HSS influence weakened slightly. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 August - 06 September 2025

Solar activity is expected to be at predominantly low levels with M-class flare (R1-R2/Minor-Moderate events) activity likely over 11 Aug-06 Sep. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit, barring significant flare activity. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 11-17, 21-22. 27-28 Aug, and on 06 Sep. Normal to moderate levels are expected to prevail throughout the remainder of the period. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach active levels on 11 Aug due to waning positive polarity CH HSS influence. Periods of G1 (Minor) storming are likely on 18-20 Aug, with periods of active conditions likely on 22 Aug, due to negative polarity CH HSS influence. Active conditions are likely again on 28 Aug in response to the anticipated negative polarity CH HSS influence. Periods of G2 (Moderate) storming are likely on 05 Sep, with active levels likely on 04 and 06 Sep, due to positive polarity CH HSS influence. 


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2025 Aug 11     155          18          4
2025 Aug 12     150          15          3
2025 Aug 13     145          12          3
2025 Aug 14     140          10          3
2025 Aug 15     140          10          3
2025 Aug 16     145           5          2
2025 Aug 17     150           5          2
2025 Aug 18     145          15          5
2025 Aug 19     145          25          5
2025 Aug 20     145          15          5
2025 Aug 21     140           8          3
2025 Aug 22     145          12          4
2025 Aug 23     150           5          2
2025 Aug 24     160           5          2
2025 Aug 25     160           8          3
2025 Aug 26     160           8          3
2025 Aug 27     160          10          3
2025 Aug 28     155          12          4
2025 Aug 29     145           8          3
2025 Aug 30     150          10          3
2025 Aug 31     150          10          3
2025 Sep 01     150           8          3
2025 Sep 02     150           5          2
2025 Sep 03     160           5          2
2025 Sep 04     155          18          4
2025 Sep 05     150          35          6
2025 Sep 06     150          20          4
(NOAA)

Friday, August 08, 2025

Jen's Noise Fest slated for August 10

 

Don't miss it! On Sunday, August 10, from 1800 to 2200 UTC

Music for the Punk/Alternative Culture, My All Music in the Raw special because of goings on in Blackpool UK, called Rebellion Festivals on many indoor stages, Electric & Acoustic.Thursday through Sunday - all day and night.

Playing the music of bands that played and are playing there, plus the bands she thinks should be there in the future.


Join us in our live chat room, open for you in


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Pogo on the keys at your own risk.

August broadcast schedule from SM Radio Dessau

 

SM Radio Dessau will broadcast the following programs in  August 2025:

GERMANY/U.K.  SM Radio Dessau  

Sun, August 10, 2025, 1100 UTC - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 6070 kHz (ROB 10 kW),
6095 kHz (NAU 100 kW) 
Interview with Leonard Lansink (actor from "Wilsberg").

Sun, August 10, 2025, 1600 UTC - 4:00-5:00 PM, 6070 kHz (ROB 10 kW) Repeat
Transmitters will be used in Germany (MBR Nauen, Rohrbach).
New since June 2025 is the late afternoon repeat. According to the website, this will be available until August.

Broadcasts on the Austrian Museum Radio Bad Ischl 1476 kHz will be available again in the fall/winter, according to the website.

Transmitters will be used in Germany (MBR Nauen, Rohrbach) and the UK (ENC Woofferton). Detailed reception reports are welcome at maxberger@smradio-dessau.de
Postal address:
Max Berger
Saalestrasse 44, 06846 Dessau, Germany


Printed QSL cards are only available if sufficient return postage is included:
Germany 0.95 euros, abroad 1.25 euros.
(Thomas Becker-D / Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D
(WWDXC Top Nx 1617/10 May 2025

Vintage QSLs Collection, August, 2025

 


                     Celebrating the Art, History, and Stories Behind Classic Radio Confirmations

Thank you  for the kind comments and suggestions for this month's Vintage QSLs Collection. This month, we're focusing on QSLs from Canadian contributor Kanwar Sandhu. Thank you, Kamwar.

The Vintage QSLs Collection is truly a step back in time, allowing you to remember classic QSL cards that tell stories of distant signals, fading stations, and the golden age of international radio. Whether it’s a card, a letter, or even a colorful pennant, each one has a story to tell.

Do you have a QSL with a special memory behind it?
Maybe it arrived during a holiday or a marathon all-night DX session. Perhaps it was captured from a remote listening post or marked the first—or final—broadcast of a favorite station.

Shortwave Central welcomes you to share your QSLs and stories with fellow listeners around the world.
Please send a scanned image and a brief description of the station or the logging occasion to: w4gvhla@gmail.com


                Israel once broadcast on shortwave from Jerusalem - will they ever return?







Radio Monte Carlo was active in 1989 on 1233 kHz, in German and French.












A verification from South Africa's Southern Sound - nice catch !










                                       Listeners were able to log and verify KYOI in Saipan. 


           Red Cross Broadcasting Service - International Committee of the Red Cross - 1986



 Radio Tirana from Albania used to broadcast daily on shortwave radio, featuring features about Albania and folk music.







A classic card from China's Radio Peking - now known as China Radio International








                        An Asian clandestine station from 1993 - with an interesting history.


  Radio Laos, now broadcasting on mediumwave only, was once heard on shortwave, broadcasting from Vientiane, Laos.

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, the east coast of the US and Iceland. (Sometimes RTTY on the lower sideband. Suggest to notch out or use USB.)

Some Things to see on The Encore Website:
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 programs.
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 100 Dollars/Euros a month to broadcast.
If you can - please send a small contribution to help Encore keep going.

THE DONATION BUTTON is on the homepage of the website - www.tumbril.co.uk - which folks can use if they would like to support Encore.

(Please don't be put off by the POWR security wall when using the PAYPAL button - it is a harmless requirement of WIX the website hosting service.)

THIS FORTNIGHT'S PROGRAM - Channel 292 on SATURDAY 9th August at 10:00 UTC on 9670 kHz:

Begins with some early French Renaissance music
Tthree 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.
(Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril - www.tumbril.co.uk
GMØTLY)

Upcoming Saturday broadcast from Atlantic 2000 International

 
Atlantic 2000 International will be on the air this Saturday, August 9, 2025 from 0800 to 0900 UTC (1000 to 1100 CEST) on 6070 and 9670 kHz via Channel 292, Germany.

Streams will be available at the same time on our website. 

Before that, you can listen to our 24/7 webstream or our podcasts on our website.




Visit our website and listen to Atlantic 2000, 24 hours a day: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr   
And follow us on Mixcloud and YouTube 
(R Bender/BDXC)  

Radio Love Warbler RSL set for August 9 broadcast

Woofferton UK transmitter via Wikipedia


 United Kingdom

The Radio Love Warbler RSL will broadcast on shortwave! Radio Love Warbler is broadcasting internationally on shortwave from Woofferton, UK via Encompass Digital Media as; 

9 August at 1900 UTC 9500 kHz - to Southern Europe, Southeastern Europe and Middle East

Address is Creative Folkestone, Quarterhouse, Mill Bay, Folkestone CT20 1BN

Thursday, August 07, 2025

Archived audio files available from Calling All Radio Nutzz

 



From Jen & GB ... The new season begins in October, which means there's still plenty to listen to.

CARN  (Calling All Radio Nutzz) program from the 2024-2025 Season is up and ready for downloading or listening

You will find all the CARN files from last season, to do as you please, whether listening or downloading.  

This is a gift from Jen & GB. The New CARN Season starts on Saturday October 4, 2025, at 1800 - 2100 UTC. As the date nears, we'll pass additional information. 

CARN Show 24-25 Season.


For Correspondence to Jen & GB 


August programming of From the Isle of Music

 


From Tilford Productions, announcing the August programs, which 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:

(UTC/kHz)

6070 at 1700

3955  at 2100 

Sunday, August 10:

9670 at 1700  using booster beam E to eastern Europe and Eurasia (repeat of August 8 episode). 

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. 

email: bill@tilfordproductions.com

website: www.tilfordproductions.com


Tuesday, August 05, 2025

DSWCI website information

 
      Danish Shortwave Clubs International ("DSWCI") archive.

From Radio Kurier magazine (published by ADDX and AGDX in Germany) we learn about the permanent arrangements made for the Danish Shortwave Clubs International ("DSWCI") website. Founded in 1956, for many decades, DSWCI was arguably the most international listening community in the world, with
members and readers from dozens of countries on all continents.

Unfortunately, the association was dissolved at the end of 2016,but the website  <http://www.dswci.org> remained accessible until the beginning of 2025, when it was shut down. The ADDX webmaster, Andreas Volk, together with the then DSWCI webmaster, Rolf Wernli, uploaded the entire former DSWCI website to the ADDX server, thus preserving it for posterity.

It can be accessed either via the menu on the left side of the ADDX website 
https://www.addx.de   under "Archive" and then "DSWCI Homepage,"
or by directly entering  https://www.dswci.de
(WWDXC/Top Nx 1625)

Monday, August 04, 2025

New Look, Same Global Voice: China Radio International Videos Revamped!

 


Listeners, we’ve been busy behind the scenes! All 29 videos of China Radio International broadcasts now feature a brand-new, unified thumbnail design at the Shortwave Central YouTube channel — making it easier than ever to browse CRI content by language.

From Albania to Hindu...Portuguese to Italian, and so much more! These shortwave captures reflect the wide linguistic reach of CRI, a major voice in international broadcasting. Whether you're exploring CRI for the first time or revisiting your favorite language service, you’ll now find each video neatly labeled and visually refreshed.

What's new?
Each CRI video now sports a modern, consistent thumbnail with a crisp design, color-coded subheadings, and clearly labeled languages, allowing for quick identification and streamlined navigation.

Why this update?
As part of our ongoing mission to preserve and share the global shortwave radio experience, we want your viewing and listening journey to be as smooth (and enjoyable) as possible.

 Start exploring!
Explore CRI’s Global Reach
Want to listen in? Just go to YouTube and type:
"China Radio International site:youtube.com/@ShortwaveCentral at:



You’ll find all 29 updated videos — each representing one of CRI’s many language services- freshly organized and easier to browse.

We’re always working to preserve and share the rich world of international radio to you.

Head over to the Shortwave Central YouTube channel, subscribe and discover the many voices of CRI — archived from shortwave broadcasts and ready for your headphones.

We’re always expanding our video archive of international broadcasters — stay tuned for more updates and thanks for your continued support of radio history in the digital age!

To our friends across the globe .. Teak Publishing brings the world to YOU!


Wavescan-A Special Look at Seychelles

 
A lagoon in Seychelles

                     Special thanks to Ray Robinson and Jeff white for this week's special on Seychelles

Jeff: For our feature item this week, we visit yet another tropical island paradise, this time the Seychelles on the western side of the Indian Ocean.  There has been much activity on the radio scene there over the years, so here’s Ray Robinson in Los Angeles with the story.

Ray:  Thanks, Jeff.  The Seychelles Islands are classed as an African country, lying approximately 800 miles both east of Kenya and north of Madagascar.  There are 155 islands in the Seychelles group, although only 40 are permanently inhabited.  The total area of all of the islands combined is just 176 square miles, but they’re scattered around an area of over 400,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean.

Some of the islands geologically are made of granite, although many are coral islands and atolls.  The largest island is Mahe, with Victoria as the capital city.  Two other major islands a few miles to the northeast, are Praslin and La Digue.

The Seychelles were uninhabited before being encountered by Europeans in the 16th century, and thus the current population of a little over 120,000 can all trace their ancestry back to France, England, Africa, China or India.  The national languages are English, French, and the local Creole which is derived from French and similar to the Creole spoken in Mauritius and Reunion.  Tourism is one of the main sources of income.

From 1756-1814 the Seychelles were a French possession, and it was during this period that the first permanent residents arrived, from Mauritius.  The islands then became a British colony through the Treaty of Paris in 1814, and remained so until they were granted independence on June 29, 1976.

The first wireless facility in the Seychelles was established by the British Navy soon after the end of World War I.  This station was on the air with navy communications under the callsign BZH.

Over the years, there have been two other communication stations active in the Seychelles Islands.  One was a Cable & Wireless station with the callsign ZCQ, and the other was a NASA tracking station with the callsign AFE.

The first local radio station in the Seychelles Islands was a shortwave operation using a low-powered transmitter under the callsign ZCQ3.  The first known reference to this station is found in two radio magazines which suggest the station was launched around the middle of 1951.

Programming on the station was provided by the local government Education Department, and it was broadcast using a transmitter provided by Cable & Wireless. The original channel was 5770 kHz, the power output was between 100 and 150 watts, and the station was on the air twice a week in English and French for an hour on Wednesdays and Sundays.

By 1956 the transmitter power was listed as only 40 watts, and the operating channel was changed to 4990 kHz in the 60 metre tropical band.  Shortwave station ZCQ3 was known to have been heard in Cyprus, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand even at this low power rating.

The important move to medium wave came on July 20, 1965, just 15 years after the original launching of the shortwave service in 1951.  The first medium wave transmitter was a 500 watt unit on 1336 kHz, though this was upgraded to 1 kW a couple of years later, and then again to 10 kW in 1974.

These days, the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation is still on the air from Victoria on Mahe with 10 kW on 1368 kHz, as well as on a small network of 1 kW FM transmitters.  A QSL card with a silhouette scene in black and white was issued in 1974 at the time when they increased power from 1 to 10 kW.  And, it is believed this QSL card may still be available, should you ever happen to hear this exotic local station on a distant island.

But one of the reasons the Seychelles has been so memorable on the radio scene was because of an evangelical Christian shortwave station operated by FEBA – Far East Broadcasting Association – which had been founded in London in 1959.  Construction work on the new broadcast facility in the Seychelles began in 1967, and on October 8, 1969, they made their first test broadcast using a temporary 3 kW transmitter and a rotatable log periodic antenna erected at the studio location, perched 600 feet above the picturesque coastline two miles south of Victoria.  These tests were in the 13 metre band, and were beamed back towards London, where they were indeed heard quite well.

In 1970 they obtained a second temporary transmitter – a 30 kW Press Wireless communications unit – which they modified for broadcast use.  But then in 1973, their first 100 kW transmitter, a Harris-Gates unit, was installed, although the antenna limited its operation to only half power.

 
In 1976, with land at a premium, approval was granted for a unique ‘reef’ antenna system, which was constructed over a lagoon about 1,000 yards offshore.  Imagine the maintenance necessary to prevent saltwater corrosion on that!  The temporary log periodic antenna was then disassembled, and transmitter power was increased to the full 100 kW.

                                                            The Reef Antenna System





In 1982, a second 100 kW unit made by Continental was installed.  This was made possible by funding from the Lutheran Church whose own shortwave station, ETLF in Ethiopia, had been nationalized.  And finally, a third 100 kW transmitter, made by Harris, was activated in 1989.

During the 1980’s, in-house program production was ramped up to as much as 50% of the content in each language service, with the balance being provided by third party ministries.

Many shortwave listeners will remember their broadcasts, which primarily targeted listeners in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.  Their tuning signal was "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," and here’s a clip from 1975 of them opening up transmissions to India on 11865 and 15325 kHz:(featured in this edition of Wavescan)  For an example of the classic religious hymn, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRmGEbH0qs

But, in 2003, FEBA announced that they planned to close the shortwave station in the Seychelles due to rising costs and aging equipment.  The final broadcast was made on March 31, 2003.

Wavescan’s editor-in-chief, Dr. Adrian Peterson, was one of FEBA’s very first monitors in mainland Asia, and he tuned in to their programming on a regular basis for thousands of hours extending over a period of nearly five years while he served with the Adventist church in Pakistan.  And, he proudly says he has 130 QSL’s from FEBA to prove it! 

Since 2003, FEBA has continued to function, but by placing programming on local stations in their target areas, and by buying time on other shortwave stations in the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere.



And while we’re in the Seychelles, we should also mention the BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station.  In 1981, the BBC began negotiations with the Seychelles government, and on August 8, 1983, they announced in their DX program, Waveguide, that the projected new shortwave station would be ready for service five years later.  The BBC and the Seychelles government signed an agreement in 1985, and work on the new station began during the following year.

The new BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station was constructed at Anse Mahe on the west coast of the island of Mahe and a tidal mangrove swamp was filled in for this purpose.  Two 250 kW Marconi shortwave transmitters were installed, model B6131’s, together with six four-band curtain antennas suspended from four self-supporting towers.


A ground-breaking ceremony took place on June 9, 1986 to mark the beginning of construction; two years later initial test transmissions were radiated; and the station was taken into regular service on September 25, 1988.  Programming beamed into East Africa was then progressively transferred from BBC Cyprus to this new station in the Seychelles.

In order to ascertain the effective coverage area for the new BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station, the BBC offered full data QSL cards, though only for listeners in the target areas in Africa.  However, generally speaking, the staff at the Seychelles station did issue QSL cards for all reception reports sent direct to the station itself.

Programming for this relay station came direct from London, comprising the BBC World Service in English, the BBC African Service, and programming in the Somali language.  This scheduling was on the air via two frequencies operating in parallel for around 12 hours daily.

The first BBC FM station in the Seychelles was inaugurated in Victoria on 106.2 MHz in 1995; and this was followed in mid-2004 with the installation of two additional FM stations, at Anse Soleil on 105.2 and Pointe aux Sel on 105.6.

The BBC celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Indian Ocean Relay Station on October 2, 2008.  At the time, they stated that 9 million people were listening to the relay programming from this shortwave station.

BBC via Seychelles

Then five years later, they announced that the station would be closed.  The date eventually chosen was Saturday, March 29, 2014, although their three FM stations for the local population remain on the air to this day with the BBC African service, downlinked from satellite.

Besides the BBC, Radio France Internationale also operates three FM stations for its Afrique service, and there are two national private stations, each with a handful of 1 and 2 kW FM transmitters.

Back to you, Jeff.
(Ray Robinson/Wavescan)

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Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins, August 4, 2025

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 28 July - 03 August 2025



Solar activity was at low levels on 28 Jul - 02 Aug and moderate (R1-Minor) levels on 03 Aug. The largest flare of the period was an M2.9/2b event observed from Region 4168 (N05, L-103, class/area Dai/060 on 03 Aug) at 03/1357 UTC. The region also produced numerous C-class events. Numerous C-class activity was observed from Regions 4153 (S30, L=217, class/area Dai/210 on 25 Jul), 4155 (S10, L=192, class/area Dai/070 on 26 Jul) and 4167 (N10, L=170, class/area Dki/430 on 03 Aug). No Earth-directed CME activity was observed. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels on 28 Jul, 31 Jul and 01 Aug with a maximum flux of 1,870 pfu observed at 28/1520 UTC. Normal to moderate levels were observed on 29-30 Jul and 02-03 Aug. 

Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to unsettled levels the entire highlight period. A single active period was observed late on 03 Aug. A majority of the unsettled periods was due to weak negative polarity CH HSS influence. Solar wind speeds were at mostly 400 km/s from 28 Jul through midday on 30 Jul and 475-500 km/s from midday 30 Jul through 03 Aug with a peak velocity observed at 600 km/s late on 03 Aug. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 August - 30 August 2025

Solar activity is expected to be at mostly low levels with a chance for M-class (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) flares for the outlook period. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 12-18 Aug and 21-28 Aug all due to recurrent CH HSS influences. Normal to moderate levels are expected on 04-11 Aug, 18-19 Aug and 39-30 Aug. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at active to G1 (Minor) storm levels on11-15 Aug, 18-22 Aug and 25-30 Aug due to recurrent CH HSS effects. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on the remaining days of the outlook period. 

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#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index
2025 Aug 04     145          12          4
2025 Aug 05     140          10          3
2025 Aug 06     140           8          3
2025 Aug 07     135           8          3
2025 Aug 08     135           5          2
2025 Aug 09     135           5          2
2025 Aug 10     135           5          2
2025 Aug 11     130          25          5
2025 Aug 12     130          18          5
2025 Aug 13     130          20          5
2025 Aug 14     135          12          4
2025 Aug 15     135           8          3
2025 Aug 16     145           5          2
2025 Aug 17     155           5          2
2025 Aug 18     155          15          5
2025 Aug 19     155          25          5
2025 Aug 20     150          15          5
2025 Aug 21     150           8          3
2025 Aug 22     150          12          4
2025 Aug 23     145           5          2
2025 Aug 24     145           5          2
2025 Aug 25     140           8          3
2025 Aug 26     140           8          3
2025 Aug 27     135          10          3
2025 Aug 28     135          12          4
2025 Aug 29     130           8          3
2025 Aug 30     125          10          3
(NOAA)

Sunday, August 03, 2025

Jen's Eclectic Views & Real Deal August 3 audio available

 



Jen's Eclectic Views & Real Deal for 8-03 is up & ready for downloading or listening

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Live Stream Next Week, Sunday, August 10th 1800- to past 22 00 UTC. More info as we get closer. 



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Friday, August 01, 2025

Scandinavian Weekend Radio schedule update

 

According to its website, SWR will have a reduced schedule tomorrow, Saturday, August 2, 0700 to 1500 UTC.


Schedule #285 2nd Aug 2025 
Local SW MW Program details UTC
10-11 6170/11690 1602 Huomenta-Good Morning Virrat - Dj Häkä  07-08
11-12 6170/11690 1602 Huomenta-Good Morning Virrat - Dj Häkä 08-09
12-13 6170/11690 1602 Progressive rock and other strange things – Dj Esa 09-10
13-14 6170/11690 1602 SWR crew  10-11
14-15 6170/11690 1602 Asiaa ja asian vierestä – Dj Peeveli  11-12
15-16 6170/11690 1602 Soul, funk, R'n'B - Heppu Hyypiö 12-13
16-17 6170/11690 1602 Kantoaaltoa suomirokilla höystettynä – Dj Esa 13-14
17-18 6170/11690 1602 Afternoon Mix with GZT 14-15
Live stream 8h via Radioverkko.fi