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*Sign-on Sign-Off*/ frequencies in kHz
Monitoring July 1-30, 2025
UTC, frequencies kHz
Mediumwave
Argentina
1510, Radio Belgrano, Suarsi. Spanish coverage of an indoor soccer match (Futsal), Deportivo and Union, with fans demonstrating at the sports gym. SINPO 25542. (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo, Brazil).
Bolivia
1500, Radio Tawantinsuyo, la Paz. Spanish at 0039. SINPO 24442. Interference from Radio Jacuipe, Riachao do Jacuipe, Bahia.(Grimm).
1560, Radio Luz del Mundo La Paz at 0123. Religious program to health items on maintaining good health. “Radio Luz del Mundo” ID, bestter in LSB (Grimm).
Brazil
620, Rádio Jandaia do Sul PR, 0502-0513. Brazilian songs to local ads and time check. Station ID “Jandaia” to vocal tune by Tim Maia. SINPO 25432 (Grimm).
730, Rádio Marumby, Curitiba, PR 0541-0553.Chrisitan vocal music to hymn “Chuvas de bencãos (Showers of Blessings). Station ID “a palavra do Senhor através da música Marumby.” SINPO 24532 (Grimm).
830, Rádio Tropical, Nova Iguaçu RJ 0025-0029. Romantic musical ballad from Lionel Ritchie. Station ID “Tropical AM.” SINPO 35433 (Grimm).
930, Rádio Cultura, Curitba PR, 0018-0024. Advertisement for ‘COPEL” to local time check. Station jingle to “Cultura.” SINPO 34543 (Grimm).
1490, Rádio Difusora, Olimpia, SP at 2152. Station relaying Rádio Bandeirantes with sports news. SINPO 34543 (Grimm).
1500 Rádio Aparecida do Sul. Heard at 2138 with Brazilian style ‘sertanejo’ music. SINPO 35443 (Grimm).
Uruguay
930, Radio Monte Carlo, Montevideo. Spanish programming 0030-0040. Station ID “Transmite Monte Carlo, 930AM…Informativo.” Local time check. SINPO 35333 (Grimm).
1520, Radio Celeste, Tomás Gomensoro. Spanish 2340-2346. Uruguayan-style sequential songs. Verification from the Internet station stream. SINPO 23522 (Grimm).
Shortwave
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Alaska
11875, KNLS Anchor Point 0805-0822. Chinese program comments. SINPO 25422 (Manuel Méndez/BDXC).KNLS log on 9580 at 1451. English program, Creation Moment. Excellent signal. 9580 at 1000 with English service IDs and an interval signal. (Harold Sellers, BC, Canada).
Ascension Island
17640, BBC World Service relay 1705-1711 via Georgetown, targeting West Africa. English service 1705-1711. Soccer commentary, match analyst, including crowd background noise. SINPO 35553 (Grimm).
9410, BBWS relay at 0459. Interval signal to ID, upcoming program preview and station ID. Top-of-the-hour time pips to Newshour including news headlines. Fair signal. Logged on 9410 at 0500 with English service. News items about French recognition of Palestine. Fair-good signal; BBCWS Hausa service on 6135 at 0527. Interval signal into ID and presumed newscast. Fair-poor signal (Tony Pavik, BC, Canada). BBC https://www.bbc.com/
Canada
6070 CFRX. 0115. Canadian news topics to conversations for a fair signal. (G Van Horn) YT video from CFRX at SW Central YouTube, 27 May 2025: https://youtu.be/IXPxZ6bRUDE
English programming and news with interference from Germany’s Channel 292 on the same frequency. SINPO 13421 (Méndez).
6070, CFRX at 0759. Ads to ID at 0800. Station ID “Newstalk 1010 CFRB” Canadian and US news headlines. Fair signal (Pavik).
6070, CFRX at 0908 with panel discussion during poor signal (Sellers). https://www.newstalk1010.com/
Clandestine
1758-1815.Radio Mellat Iran (Radio Iran Nation) Station sign-on with music and numerous IDs. Persian text, music, and discussions. Video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/T8FBTEVF3hM (Van Horn).
9540, Radio Ndarason via Woofferton, UK relay at 0500. Kanuri service with the newscast and interview. Fair-poor quality (Pavik).
7340, National Unity Broadcasting Station via Taiwan at 1259.Korean program with lite style music to 1300. Friendly and humorous interview segment. Fair-good signal (Pavik).
Cuba
5025, Radio Rebelde at 0659. Lite music to ID at 0700. Spanish announcements to upbeat music. Fair-poor with muddy-sounding audio. Magazine-style programming heard on 5025 at 1114. Fair-good signal. (Pavik). https://www.radiorebelde.cu/
11760, Radio Habana Cuba at 1436. Spanish conversations and mentions of Venezuela and Cuba. Fair signal deteriorating quickly to poor quality. No distortion, good audio (Sellers).
6000, Radio Habana Cuba at 0358. Reasonable audio, but a bit low. Program previews over music. Good signal but hampered by audio issues.
Additional Radio Habana monitoring observed as:
6000, 0252 in English; 6000 at 1059 sign on with Cuban national anthem; 6000 at 0458 English service with distorted audio; 9710 English at 0258 with poor audio;9710 English at 0157 with improved audio;9710 at 0259 in English with newscast, heard on // 11760; 11760 at 0229 English talk about Cuba’s socialist economy to 0240; 15140 Spanish at 1400. Station sign-on to the lady’s talk about revolution and Havana. Fair signal, but noisy.(Pavik).
Ecuador
6050 HCJB, 0055. Male/female conversing in the listed Waorani language. Religious music to a very weak station ID at 0100. (Frank Hilton, SC). 0449-0500* with Spanish religious programming to national anthem and closedown (Méndez) 6050 HCJB at 0924. Station sign-on, national anthem and text (Sellers). https://hcjb.org/
Eswatini
13800 Trans World Radio at 1300. Arabic service with opening interval signal to English station ID, followed by Arabic at 1302. Fair signal quality (Pavik) http://www.twr.org
Finland
6120, Radio Blacksmith Knoll, Pori, Finland; 1728-1947. English pop tunes, including ‘oldies.’ English comments to “Radio Blacksmith Knoll” ID. SINPO 15422 (Méndez).
Japan
Liberia
6050, ELWA, Monrovia 1931-1957. English religious programming, including text and hymns. SINPO 15422. Also logged this station 0603-0621 with similar programming. SINPO 25422 (Méndez). https://www.elwaministries.org/radio/
Mali
5995, Radio Mali/ORTM via Bamako 1841-1913. African tunes to French announcements. Station ID “La Radio Nationale du Mali.” French soccer comments, noting no English Magazine program today. SINPO 35433 (Méndez).
15125, China Radio International relay via Bamako at 1718-1725. Swahili service to East Africa and announcer comments. (SINPO 25432; 17880 in Arabic at 1641-1649 with talk of China. SINPO 45554 (Grimm). https://chinaplus.cri.cn/
New Zealand
7425, RNZ Pacific 1135. Pacific news topics to Pacific style music. Noted on 7440 at 1455. Additional Pacific pop vocals from lady announcers. (Sam Wright, MS). 7425 at 0914 with pop music. Excellent signal // 9700 (Sellers). https://www.rnz.co.nz/
North Korea
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9435, Voice of Korea at 1351. English service including choir music. Male announcer at 1355 announcing the closing of programming. Good signal and signal on // 11710 (Sellers).
6099.96 KCBS Pyongyang at 0959. Korean service. Male announcer’s opening announcement prior to 1000 time pips. Typical music heard, fair-poor signal (Pavik).KCBS 2 heard on 6140 at 1300 with a strong DRM signal that decoded the station ID as Korean Central Radio 2 (in Korean). No audio, but sources have indicated that this is not untypical. Off at 1358 as opposed to 1800 as shown on EiBi (Pavik)
Additional North Korean monitoring: Voice of Korea 7220 at 1100 in Mandarin with standard VoK sign-on.
11735 Voice of Korea at 0600. French service with standard sign-on to the national anthem. Fair signal quality.
15245, Voice of Korea at 1900 Spanish service sign-on with anthems. Signal fair-poor.(Pavik)
11710 Voice of Korea at 1013. English service discussing the “martyrs” who have died in Russia’s war against Ukraine. (Fair signal quality (Sellers).
11910 Voice of Korea, 1938-1942. English service to southern Africa in Korean. (Grimm).
Turkey
7225 Voice of Turkey 0259. Interval signal to English service ID and intros. Signal fair poor. VOT heard on 7275 at 0259 with English service; 9870 at 0158 Turkish service sign-on with interval signal and ID. (Pavik) https://www.trtworld.com/
Venezuela
4940, Estacion 4940, 0935. Spanish announcer with Andean music and additional talk-overs the choir music at 0937. Abruptly off at 0942, returned at 0944. Mellow instrumentals and perhaps a mention of “Estacion 4940” into “La Biblia” to 1005. Fair signal with considerable interference. (Mark Taylor, WI/NASWA). Still debating if this station is in Venezuela or Colombia - ed
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