Shortwave Listening (SWL)

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The World Is at Your Mouse Click - Radio World

James Careless details how to access remotely tunable shortwave radio receivers located around the globe.

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B25 Data

 

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Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post: Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now by Dan Greenall In the early 1970s, Radiodiffusion-Television Al…

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New 300 kW Weekly Broadcast of VORW Radio International to East Asia!

Hello listeners! I have some news about a new weekly broadcast of VORW Radio International for listeners in East Asia and beyond! Beginning Thursday the 30th of October and continuing every Thursda…

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of NOAA via USCG, October 27, 2025)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent NOAA broadcast. Carlos notes: Hurricane…

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The Hurricane Watch Net

The Hurricane Watch Net, Amateur Radio Serving the National Hurricane Center and Mankind Since 1965. The HWN provides up to date tropical weather information for the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. Subscribe for tropical weather email.

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Hallicrafters SX-71: The First Ham Radio Operators Conversations I

 

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The Perfect Shortwave Radio for Prepping? Let's take a look.​

Nov 1, 2025
One of my favorite radios! This is a great radio for just about any use.


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SWL Digest 2025 Episode 1 – CoffeeCrew.com

RNZ Pacific Cyclone Watch Service activated

The South Pacific cyclone season officially starts today, 1 November and will run through to April 2026.

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Bob’s Radio Corner: It’s DX Season

Noted by Bob Colegrove In the Northern Hemisphere the nights continue to get longer as we approach the winter solstice; we gain an hour of early evening darkness on Sunday, November 2nd; the summer…

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45th anniversary - Free Radio Service Holland (FRS Holland) on 5870 kHz Shortwave, 02 Nov 2025​

Nov 2, 2025
Received with Icom IC-R75 and a Wellbrook antenna: Free Radio Service Holland (FRS Holland) on 5870 kHz Shortwave, 02 November 2025, 0941 UTC, Loc: JO40BT. They celebrate 45 years of SW broadcasts. HAPPY BIRTHDAY and THANK YOU for 45 years of great broadcasts. Sun November 9th repeat on 9800 kHz! Thanks for watching!


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What's left on medium wave? Radio Baltic Waves International 1386 k

 

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Hearing Alaska and Hawaii on shortwave

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post: Hearing Alaska and Hawaii on shortwave by Dan Greenall Alaska Since 1983, the New Life Station, KNLS, has b…

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Voice of Vietnam (November 4 & 5, 2025)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice of Vietnam broadcast. Carlos note…

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This is the first time I have ever heard a Maritime-Mobile station on HF....​

Nov 12, 2025
Hi there, I had to record this because it's never happened before - a Maritime-Mobile station called in to the Harwell Amateur Radio Society Wednesday net this week...just as rocking horse do do lol. Thanks for watching and 73.


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Radio Europe Shares Station Details and Photos with Paul Jamet

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet, who shares a follow-up to his recent reception reports of Radio Europe on 6130 kHz. Paul not only received a QSL card (see above) from the station…

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Map of SDR Receivers​

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Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…

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Cold War story time.

The Secret Russian Spy Radio Buried In A Farmer's Field In Wales!​

Nov 13, 2025
Summer 1980. The village of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in Clwyd, North Wales, and a spy radio guessing game that had North Wales Police baffled.
Sleepy northern Welsh villages and Russian spies aren’t something you’d usually tie together but I thought I’d tell you a remarkable story that’s been largely lost to time.
In early June 1980, speculation was rife about a transmitter similar to that used in post-war espionage which was dug out of fern-covered virgin land during ploughing on a farm at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.
The object struck by the ploughshare sparked off a chain of events that brought spy catchers rushing to the lonely Welsh countryside.
The radio was discovered on a remote North Wales mountainside by 26-year-old Goronwy Morris while ploughing land at his father's farm at Pant-y-Maen.
It was about the size of a portable typewriter and was found buried two feet deep, was well-wrapped in a waterproof bag inside a metal box and was in overall good condition.


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‘Factory Fresh’ Soviet Spy Radio Discovered Buried in a German Forest​

Read the story here:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/factory-fresh-soviet-spy-radio-discovered-buried-in-a-german-forest.html

 

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Good Listening from Brazil on Shortwave in 2025

by Dan Greenall Fifty years ago, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of Brazilian shortwave signals to hear on shortwave. As with the rest of the world, this is no longer the case. However, especia…

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The Secret British Houses Where Spies Radioed Moscow​

Nov 21, 2025
I made a video recently in which I told you the story of a Soviet Russian transmitter that was dug up on a farm in north Wales during ploughing.
The evidence pointed towards a Russian spy ring targeting Liverpool who visited a nearby hotel, snook out in the middle of the night to bury the transmitter in a watertight box and then fled the country.
The idea being that the transmitter was available for someone to find and use as part of their subversive activities.
I posed a question in that video. How many more transmitters were buried across the UK, lying dormant ready for a soviet agent to dig up and use when the time was right.
How many others were found? How many are still out there to this day?
This got me thinking of the people who were caught engaging in spying activities involving the reception or transmission of shortwave signals; coded messages if you like… numbers stations.
I’ve covered this at length.
During the height of the Cold War, numbers stations were widely used, and still are to this day, for sending coded messages that could not be decoded. Encrypted is probably a more accurate term.
A one-time pad, concealed in soap, a walnut shell, chewing gum, microdot film, or a simple paper pad was used at both ends to send and receive messages concealed within an unbreakable cipher.
These messages could detail dead letter drops, a location where documents, photographs, or anything else could be left by a handler for an agent to pick up. They could include hotel details, or instructions relating to far more sinister and deadly actions.
With everything I’ve just described, it’s hard not to let the mind wander to a London of days gone by, infiltrated by soviet spies, brimming with them, weaving their intelligence gathering webs throughout the city. I don’t doubt that London is very much the same today.
Envision that web overhead, albeit invisible, however. A web of shortwave communications, penetrating every square inch of the city. A web of secrecy being passed from London to others lurking in the shadows in far flung lands.
This is the story of the secret British houses where spies radioed Moscow.


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I'm collecting BBC Radio 4 198 kHz Shipping Forecast recordings on all my radios: 1956 Ferranti 255T​

Nov 20, 2025
Hi there, what beautiful audio on this 1956 valve receiver - it's just how AM radio should be listened t. It will be so sad when the BBC close down on longwave....but maybe it will never happen! Wishful thinking, I know.
Recorded in Oxford on 07/09/25 at 00:48 hrs BST. Thanks for watching and 73.


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Configuring the “News Cruiser” for your emergency radio

By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Rob, W4ZNG, endured three weeks without electricity on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina. When he and I spoke about his experience (and what any on…

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Carlos Tunes Into an Earthquake Alert on NHK

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Carlos Latuff, who writes: I was listening to the news on the radio when I was caught by surprise with this earthquake alert! NHK earthquake alert, listened i…

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The SWL News Report: A Big Name Returns to SW | MW in Spain | BBC Cancels Popular Music Programmes​

Nov 27, 2025 The SWL DXing news report
Welcome to another month of shortwave and radio news, DX updates, news about new stations, and listener loggings from around the world. This is episode 31 of the SWL News Report.
This month’s episode has some big developments — including one of the biggest pieces of shortwave news in a while: the return of Radyo Pilipinas to shortwave broadcasting, effective 1 December 2025.
Read more, including links, below the vid on youtube.


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DXing the Middle East – Then and Now

by Dan Greenall This region consists of the western part of Asia from Turkey to Iran including the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt. Decades ago, most of the countries had a shortwave broadcasting servi…

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Links. Whether your a ham or a SWL (like me) you may find these interesting.

Alaska Morning Net – Alaska Morning Net Website – Highly entertaining, moderately educational.

https://www.eastcoastreflector.com/

 

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Pirate ships return to the shortwaves

Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what the Imaginary Stations crew are putting out into the Ionosphere next week. We love the Pirate Radio ships here at Imaginary Stations, so we ha…

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Think Analog Scanners are useless? Watch this!​

Dec 4, 2025
A short video of my old Radio Shack Scanner doing what it does. Lot's of activity still out there on analog!


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A Conversation About Amateur Radio and Hurricane Helene with Mark Hurst on Techtonic

I wrote the following for QRPer.com, and thought readers here on the SWLing Post might appreciate it too: I was recently invited onto Techtonic, the weekly technology program on WFMU, hosted by Mar…

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Christmas broadcasts live from the Radio Caroline ship the Ross revenge.​

Dec 11, 2025
Radio Caroline broadcasting this Christmas on 1368 am and 648 am on medium wave. Also online The Ross revenge is the last working radio ship from the offshore pirate radio era. Did you know bbc radio one was only started to get rid of the pirate ships at sea?


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NDR’s “Gruß an Bord” Christmas Broadcast Returns for 2025

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor David Iurescia for sharing the following news and holiday tradition from NDR Hörfunk. Each Christmas Eve, NDR airs its beloved “Gruß an Bord” (Greetings on Bo…

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This is snowplough radio, this is snowplough radio

Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what the Imaginary Stations crew have for you next week. We’ve two shows celebrating the forth coming holiday period with a series of shows c…

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Don't miss the biggest shortwave radio event of the year ! A truly global broadcast coming soon​

Dec 9, 2025 #ShortwaveRadio #GrussAnBord #NDR
There is one shortwave radio broadcast that is truly global — NDR’s Gruß an Bord, the legendary Christmas-Eve programme that connects sailors at sea with loved ones back home, across all the world's oceans (except for the Pacific). It is, in my opinion, the biggest SW event of the year.
Every year, Norddeutscher Rundfunk leases transmitters on two continents to ensure the special Christmas broadcast reaches ships on (almost) every ocean. Gruß an Bord stands out as a truly global event — one of a kind, once a year, and not to be missed.
“Gruß an Bord” — which translates to “Greetings on Board” — is a long-standing Christmas-Eve tradition of NDR. Since 1953, families and friends in Germany record Christmas greetings, wishes, messages for loved ones who spend the holiday season at sea: on cargo ships, cruise liners, research vessels, fishing boats — or naval ships.
In this video, I explore why this broadcast is so unique, how it spans (almost) the entire planet at the exact same time, and how you can probably receive it from wherever you are.


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00:00 The only truly global SW transmission
04:45 Gruß an Bord times and frequencies
06:19 What it sounded like last year

Shortwave Transmission Details — 24 December 2025

Shortwave Broadcast Time: 18:00–21:00 UTC

Frequencies & Target Areas:
6080 kHz — Europe
6030 kHz — North-East Atlantic
15770 kHz — North-West Atlantic
13830 kHz — South Atlantic
11650 kHz — Atlantic / Indian Ocean / South Africa
9635 kHz — Indian Ocean

NDR Radio Broadcast inside Germany (via streaming, FM and DAB+): 20:00–22:00 CET (19:00–21:00 UTC)

 

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The End of Deutsche Welle on Shortwave! One of the LAST transmissions ever heard on 11830 kHz​

Dec 11, 2025 #DeutscheWelle #ShortwaveRadio #SWLing
This video captures one of the final Deutsche Welle (DW) shortwave (SW) broadcasts, including the station’s start and end with jingles and IDs — one of the last recordings of a service that has been fading from the HF bands for years.


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00:00 The End of Deutsche Welle on Shortwave
01:46 Start of transmission - station ID and jingles
04:37 Closing announcements

DW Shortwave Today:For the B25 shortwave season (October 26 2025 – March 28 2026), Deutsche Welle’s only scheduled shortwave broadcasts are weekly Arabic service transmissions aimed at listeners in Sudan. These are listed on official SW frequency schedules as:
• Arabic – 12:15 – 13:00 UTC on 15390 & 17570 kHz (Issoudun), and
• Arabic – 18:30 – 19:15 UTC on 11830 & 15275 kHz (Nauen)
Wednesdays only, and only until 31 December 2025.

End of Shortwave Service Confirmed:
• The official DW shortwave schedule only lists these broadcasts until 31 December 2025, meaning the calendar year 2025 is the last season Deutsche Welle is currently scheduled on shortwave.
• In addition, broadcasters’ community reports confirm that DW has cancelled its daily shortwave Amharic service for the current season, leaving only the weekly Arabic broadcasts.

A Historic Shifteutsche Welle began as a shortwave radio broadcaster in the early 1950s, expanding over decades into one of the world’s major international broadcasters. However, like many global services, DW has progressively reduced shortwave output in favor of Internet, satellite and FM relay partners, with most SW languages and services already ended.

Why This Matters:
• DXers and shortwave listeners now have very few chances left to catch DW on HF, for the last time, at 18:30 UTC and at 12:15 UTC, only on Wednesdays.

 

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Cold War VLF and a Bob’s Homemade “LWL” QSL Card

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bob (K7ZB), who writes: Hi Tom, Bob, K7ZB here, and I was just looking at a post on your SWL site for NSS, the US Navy station which was activated back in 191…

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The World Beneath My Pillow

“From secret midnight listening to international broadcasts… to founding All Tribes Radio, this is the true story of a life lived in signal and silence.”

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Check Your Time with the LM Chime

by Dan Greenall Shades of the 1970’s. Commercial AM radio (in English) the way it used to be. Heavy on nostalgic music from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, plenty of good old style jingles, and of cours…

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I'm collecting BBC Radio 4 198 kHz Shipping Forecast recordings on all my radios: Icom IC-705​

Dec 14, 2025
Hi there, not an obvious rig to record BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz longwave, but the signal was exceptional with my end-fed wire on pass-through via one of my MFJ antenna matching units.
Recorded in Oxford UK on 10/10/25 at 23:48 hrs UTC.
Thanks for watching and 73.


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Caught At Airport Security With A Shortwave Spy Radio And Codes​

Dec 14, 2025
A spies do it yourself kit was found on two men caught entering Britain at Gatwick airport in December 1981.
The two men were working for Cuba and their equipment was described by a judge as serious cloak and dagger stuff.
This is the story of Luis Garcia and Antonio Sanchez and involves clear evidence of the use of short-wave radio and one-time pads designed to be used on UK soil in an attempt at espionage.
When the two Cubans and their luggage was searched, a comprehensive spying kit was found. It consisted of a powerful shortwave radio which was capable of receiving morse code over long distances as well as transmitting.
They also had instructions for its use when set on certain frequencies at certain times of day. Implying that they used various frequencies depending on both propagation as well as the broadcast schedule of a Cuban numbers station.


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