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// denotes the station heard on a parallel frequency
*Sign-on Sign-Off*/ frequencies in kHz
Monitoring July 1-30, 2025
UTC, frequencies kHz
Mediumwave
Armenia
1377, Trans World Radio relay 2005-2045.* Russian religious text and talk interspersed with Russian vocal praise music and instrumentals. Station information includes phone numbers. Additional musical instrumentals to 2044. Station theme music to lady announcer’s closing comments to distinctive TWR interval signal; 2045.* (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Russian SDR) Website: www.twr.org YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cSI3lca2kF4
Argentina
1550, Radio Chivilcoy. Spanish at 0118 with announcer talk into romantic ballads. SINPO 14421. (Rudolf Grimm, Brazil).
840, Radio Salta in Spanish at 0516. Advertisements and “Salta” ID. SINPO 25442 (Grimm).
Bahamas
1540, ZN51 National Voice, Nassau (50 kW), 0215-0245. Announcer’s pleas of improving the quality of life in the Bahamas, shifting later into a fervent religious sermon and scripture quotes. The station is not a faith-based one, although it does have portions of programming devoted to sermons. (G Van Horn, SW Central Kiwi, Mandeville, LA). Station website: www.znsbahamas.com
Bahrain
612, Radio Bahrain. Quran recitations are in progress at tune-in at 0245. Fanfare music at 0300 to announcer’s Arabic station ID and series of announcements. Monitored to 0320. The station operates 24 hours.. Radio Jordan is also on this frequency. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi TWR Cyprus). YouTube video at: https://youtu.be/55LrpSGRscc
Brazil
590, Rádio Cruzeiro, Salvador BA, 0401 with ID “ZYH Rádio Cruzeiro” to announcer’s talk segment. SINPO 15332 (Grimm).
670, Rádio Montanhesa, Ponte Nova MG at 0406. Brazilian songs to Rádio Montanhesa.” SINPO 35543 (Grimm).
1410, Rádio Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa RS, 0220. Brazilian song to local time and weather update. Station ID and program Seleção Sertaneja. SINPO 25442. (Grimm).
1420, Rádio Guarujá, Florianópolis SC, 0225. Station relaying Rádio Bandeirantes, S?o Paulo. Sports news Copa Libertadores de America. SINPO 35443 (Grimm).
Canada
540, CBC/CBK Watrous, Saskatchewan, 2055-2105. Afternoon talk show to CBC ID’s, including CBK. Canadian news headlines, promo, followed by CBC News promo and national topics. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Alberta SDR) YouTube video https://youtu.be/HXjMCCI-Rx8
Ecuador
1510 Radio Monumental, Quito. Spanish at 0250 with songs in typical Ecuadorian style. Local times checks and comments (Grimm).
Lithuania
1386, NHK Tokyo /BBC WS relay via Viešintos, 1825-1835NHK Tokyo Japan/BBC World Service relay, NHK Tokyo sign-on at 1828 with ID and NHK melody to BBC identification. English world news, sports update to ID "this is BBC News.” YouTube video: https://youtu.be/i_miX5Hqjbg (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Poland SDR)
Uruguay
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| Classic QSL from SODRE |
850, Radio Carve, Montevideo in Spanish at 0522. Spanish music to “Radio Carve” ID. SINPO 25432 (Grimm).
1390, Radio Difusora Treinta y Tres. Spanish with ad “Banco Republica Congregación Universal del Pensamiento Freerteria..” Station ID “transmite Radio Difusora Treinta y Tresn más que noche decadas.” Local time check. SINPO 25432 (Grimm).
Shortwave
Algeria
13640, Radio Ifrikiya FM 1915-2005. Tune in to French conversations. Arabic programming by 1954. Station ID and African news topics. Station ID to Arabic vocals. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Italy) YouTube video https://youtu.be/uJNh6TPuELg
Bolivia
3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cotapachi, 0021-0035. Quechua service with announcer’s comments. Station also heard 2347-2356. SINPO 25422 (Manuel Méndez, Spain/BDXC)
Brazil (Portuguese)
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| Classic QSL from Radio Nacional |
6150, Rádio Saturno, Belo Horizonte, 0535-0557. Brazilian music to program Faixa Brasil. SINPO 15422 (Méndez).
6180, Rádio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia 2033-2048. Music program, noted on // 11780. SINPO 25422 (Méndez). Website: https://radios.ebc.com.br/nacionalamazonia
15189.8 Rádio Inconfidencia 1955-2049. Announc comments to Brazilian music. SINPO 15422. Also heard 2005-2033 with the same format plus station ID. SINPO 15422 (Méndez).
Canada
6070, CFRX, 0200-0205. National news, weather, traffic, local news. “Newstalk 1010” promo into Night Shift evening program. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Crivitz SDR. YouTube video at: https://youtu.be/IXPxZ6bRUDE
China
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| Classic QSL from China |
5955, CGTN Radio at 1208. Good signal for English programming, with talks of Iran and the West. Station logged on 15245 at 1532 in English (Harold Sellers, CAN).
7445, China Radio International 2143-2025. Via Urumqi in Hungarian. Music to Chinese Class
Program and the theme as “Ni Hao program to station interval signal music. SINPO 45554 (Jota Xavier, Brazil/HCDX). Website: https://english.cri.cn/
Clandestine
6195, Radio Ndarrson International via Georgetown. Kanuri service at 0503. African music and announcer’s talk, targeted to Chad. SINPO Chad (Grimm).
Congo
6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville 1735-1757. Very weak, but audible in French with African highlife music vocals, and male/female items in French. Intermittently heard via Kiwi Greece SDR. (G Van Horn, LA)
Denmark
15700, World Music Radio at 1901. Afro-Caribbean music. SINPO 35444. Signal fair-good and only occasional fades (Paul Walker, AK).Website: https://www.wmr.dk/
Ecuador
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| Classic QSL from HCJB |
6050, HCJB Pichincha 0443-0500.* Religious programming and music to the Ecuadorian national anthem at close down. SINPO 25422 (Méndez). Website: https://hcjb.org/
Germany
15440 AWR. Amharic service at 1844 with religious programming. SINPO 55555 (Walker)
Liberia
.JPG)
6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, 0602-0611. English religious programming and music. SINPO 15421. Audible also 1937-1959 in English (Méndez). Website: https://www.elwamausa.org/
Luxembourg
6140, Radio Augusta International via Radio Onda, Junglinster, 1834-1858. Pop songs to English comments. Oldies music to “Radio Augusta” identification.. Radio Gloria, Switzerland, noted using this facility on 6140, 0604-0622 in German. (Méndez).
Mali
5995, Radio Mali, Bamako 1840-1905. African songs to 1850 segment English Magazine covering news and comments about Mali. African vocals at 1903. SINPO 15422. Signal on 9635 with 0800 sign-on. as “Radio Mali” in the vernacular language to comments. (Méndez).
Peru
4775, Radio Tarma, Tarma 0022-0039. Very nice Peruvian songs and Andean flute music. Program Música Tropical Andina to station ID as “Radio Tarma.” SINPO 25422 (Méndez).
Philippines
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| Classic QSL from FEBC |
12095, FEBC Radio at 1245. Closing items of Achang to Tai Dam language. Station ID and Christian music vocals, for good signal.Noted on 12120 at 1246 in Chin-Daai language for fair signal quality (Sellers). Website: https://febc.ph/
South Korea
9570, KBS World at 1301. Poor signal quality for English world news headlines. Station ID // 15575. KBS on 9785 at 1401 with similar format and co-channel interference (Sellers).
Tibet
6150, Xizang RTV Lhasa, 1735-1759. Listed as English service. Tune in with on-going instrumental Asian music throughout, monitoring from instrumentals to Asian pop vocals. Lady announcer’s very brief announcement, though not English at 1759, then off. Fair signal and certainly not adequate for taping. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Kuwait SDR).
Turkey
11785, 2220-2230. Voice of Turkey. Turkish music program to the station ID, into the Sunday broadcast of Letterbox. (Sam Wright, MS/AirSpy) Website: https://trt.global/world
United Arab Emirates
9540, FEBC via Al-Dhabbiya relay. Interval signal to sign-on ID in the listed Urdu service. Brief announcement in a religious reading format. Praise music brief text as the signal fades. Announcer’s closing interval signal to 0229 sign-off. (G Van Horn, LA/Kiwi Cyprus TWR SDR)
United Kingdom
17650, IBRA Media, via Woofferton, UK relay 1750-1850. Unknown language with bible reading format to African highlife music. Arabic announcements at 1800, followed by Arabic programming of the same format. (Rod Pearson/FL).
17670 IBRA Media in Arabic with Christian praise music. SINPO just under all 5’s, but just an ever-so-slight quick millisecond type fade. (Walker),
Vatican State
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| Classic QSL from Vatican Radio |
7305, Radio Vaticana, 7305 in Portuguese. Male/female present Vatican News to station ID. SINPO 45544. Noted on 7410, 2212-2225 in Chinese // 9695 via Singapore relay and 11895. SINPO 35422 (Xavier). Website: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/epg.html
Vietnam
9840, Voice of Vietnam at 1149. Poor signal quality for English news analysis and music // 12020. Rebeck English service on this frequency at 1330. (Sellers).
Zambia
4965, Voice of Hope Africa, Lusaka 1926-2000.* English religious comments and music. SINPO 15421 (Méndez). https://www.voiceofhope.com/station_africa.html
