Shortwave with a bit of Soul

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Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here’s news of what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this weekend.

Thanks to the services of Shortwave Gold we have a few programmes this week coming. The first show is WWLS – “We Love Shortwave”. It’s a show all about what we all love, shortwave radio! Standby for sounds of the shortwave, music containing shortwave samples and a live debut of Twelve Mega Hurts, the ham radio choir from Cleveland (*subject to availability and atmospheric conditions).

The schedule for the show is on Saturday 25th April at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 26th April at 0900/1300 UTC on 6160 kHz and 2000 hrs on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz. Get your (shortwave) set set, and tune in!

Then on Monday 27th April (and repeated on May 4th) at 20:00 UTC on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz, we have a new Monday evening slot with a special called “Skybird Soul on Shortwave”. Expect all sorts of great soul tunes from old to new, soul classics and lots of “one’s that got away”.

There’s an extra hour of WWLS – “We Love Shortwave” on WRMI on Wednesday 29th April 2026 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz. Same subject as the shows on Shortwave Gold but different content.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Vatican Radio (April 20, 2026)

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

Carlos notes:

Vatican Radio: Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly in Angola

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of the BBC (April 18, 2026)

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

Carlos notes:

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Vatican Radio (April 16, 2026)

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

Carlos notes:

Vatican Radio: Pope Leo XIV criticizes foreign exploitation of Africa during Mass in Cameroon.

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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Vatican Radio & BBC (April 15, 2026)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Vatican Radio & BBC broadcast.

Carlos notes:

Vatican Radio & BBC: Pope Leo XIV lands in Cameroon for second leg of his Apostolic Journey

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Radio Televisyen Malaysia Active on Shortwave: New Logs from Kajang Transmitting Station

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following update:

A follow-up to my post last month: https://swling.com/blog/2026/03/is-nasional-fm-on-shortwave-full-time/

I am now hearing RTM regularly on shortwave on both 11885 kHz and 15295 kHz through Kiwi SDR’s located in Southeast Asia and Australia. As Timm Breyel pointed out, programming seems to be in Chinese on 11885 with IDs noted as “Sabah V FM” at the 52-second and one-minute mark of the attached recording. Voice announcements on 15295 continue to be in presumed Malaysian, but identification can be heard as Nasional FM at the 6:05, 6:14, and 6:20 marks of the second recording. These are both coming from the Kajang Transmitting Station near Kuala Lumpur. It will be interesting to see how far afield their signal can be heard.

Sabah V FM April 2, 2026 on 11885 kHz at 0128 UTC:

Nasional FM April 2, 2026 on 15295 kHz at 0255 UTC:

Dan Greenall, Ontario, Canada

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Vatican Radio & BBC (April 13, 2026)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of recent Vatican Radio & BBC broadcasts.

Carlos notes: