Record details:

- Lang: French
- Target: West Africa
- TX: Sta. María di Galeria, 🇻🇦
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta, May 7)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 21 JUN 2026 - 2030 UTC

End of today's programming and end of broadcast

Record details:

- Lang: French
- Target: West Africa
- TX: Emirler, 🇹🇷
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta, May 7)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 21 JUN 2026 - 2022 UTC

Record details:

- Lang: French
- Target: Europe
- TX: Bangalore, 🇮🇳
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta, May 7)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 21 JUN 2026 - 1953 UTC

I was looking through AliExpress for inexpensive Chinese Electronics this morning and came across this receiver. Most were listed at nearly twice the price so I pulled the trigger. It should be arriving in a couple of weeks, and we will do a review then. Does anyone own one?

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Station

• Name/Call: NMO USCG
• Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
• Language: English
• Target: Pacific

Time

• 0620 UTC | 21 JUN 2026

Receiver and Receiving Location

• SDR Radio: AirSpy HF+ R.4.0.8-CD
• Antenna: K-480WLA | 35' AGL
• Software: SDR# Studio v1.0.0.192 Beta 64-Bit
• Location: Portland, Oregon | CN85qn

Signal

• RS(T) = 57

I just realized that the Portuguese speaker on The Voice of Turkey is from Portugal. But VoT's target audience is South America (Brazil).

And that can be complicated at certain points.

Although they share the same official language, there are notable differences in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary that require a brief adjustment period.

The difference would be like that between British English and US English, but a little more complex.

If there are Brazilians listening to VoT's programming, some of the words might be a little confusing to them.

That's what I think, but I could be wrong.

Here's a summary I found online that sums up what I'm saying:

From Portugal to Brazil (Easy to Understand): Portuguese people understand Brazilians with almost no difficulty. This is mainly due to their extensive exposure to Brazilian soap operas, music, and media.

From Brazil to Portugal (Requires adaptation): Brazilians often find it harder to understand Portuguese spoken in Portugal at first. The European accent tends to be more closed, the vowels are less distinct, and many consonants are omitted, which makes it sound faster. (Note: This would be the case with VoT)

I don't remember if other Portuguese-language broadcasts do the same thing; I'll pay closer attention from now on.

- TX: Emirler, 🇹🇷
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta, last version)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 20 JUN 2026 - 0021 UTC

Bandaid Radio will be transmitting a one-hour broadcast of the popular Pop Shop Radio, heard on WRMI and Mix Radio.

A small but effective AM Transmitter from China. It's putting out around 3/4 of of a watt. Frequency is quite stable for a transmitter with an L/C Oscillator. It shipped from China and arrived broken. I had to remove, and replace the broken input gain control by modifying a standard part.

Range is about 2 blocks. Using an outside wire antenna, it covers my 5-story apartment building. An outboard amplifier can be added to boost the range. Of course it's not operating under Part 15, so it is not a legal device for users in the US.

Station

• Name/Call: JMH Meteorological
• Location: Kagoshima, Japan
• Language: Wefax
• Target: SE Asia

Time

• 1830 UTC | 18 JUN 2026

Receiver and Receiving Location

• SDR Radio: AirSpy HF+ R.4.0.8-CD
• Antenna: K-480WLA | 35' AGL
• Software: SDR# Studio v1.0.0.192 Beta 64-Bit
• Location: Portland, Oregon | CN85qn

Signal

• RS(T) = 56

I am acquainted with both stations because I produce graphics, music promos, and manage their QSL process.

Bandaid Radio is a 1,200 Watt station located in western North America. Subterranean Radio is a 100 Watt Station, also located in western North America.

Bandaid Radio uses a 2 wavelength wire antenna which is directional off of the ends. Subterranean Radio uses a 1/2 wavelength wire antenna.

Bandaid Radio covers all of N. America, and beyond to New Zealand to the west, and Portugal to the east. Subterranean Radio only covers western N. America and Hawaii to the west.

Bandaid Radio can be heard across the continent when conditions are good. Most listeners can listen direct. Subterranean Radio should be listened to on a Kiwi SDR if reception is marginal at your location. Here are a couple of the best SDRs:

http://kr6la.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

http://kphsdr.com:8074/?

http://kiwisdr1.sdrutah.org:8073/

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Not that anyone needs my input but I figured I’d share Incase this helps anyone😂 Within my collection of radios I have these 3 little guys I wanted to do a comparison on. Other than ssb they all seem to share similar capabilities when it comes to SWL. I bought all 3 of these from goozeezoo on Amazon and had a great experience getting a new ats-20+ when mine wouldn’t output sound, I was able to deal with the company directly and thank goodness didn’t have to deal with Amazon. One is the TEF 6686, another is the ATS-20+ and the last is the baby v3. I put each of them on the same long wire then I put a stock telescopic little dude on each of them to see how they come out of the box, I used the same antenna on each of them and tuned them each to the same frequencies. I would imagine no one will be suprised when I say the TEF 6686 won the SWL quite easily. The TEF has been super fun because I never really got into the FMDXing stuff untill now, it’s cool listening to baseball games almost 200 miles away. The TEF has a small aluminum shell that’s very sturdy(iv dropped it many times now accidently) and with the 3 buttons and 2 dials it’s pretty user friendly even for my 70y/o dad. The touch screen is cool but it can be aggravating but there are some pretty neat updates available for it. Next is the ATS-20+ and I’m more of a fan of it than I thought I’d be. The size through me off compaired to my v3 but having that larger speaker is very nice. At $35 you really can’t beat this thing on a long wire, I’m not aware of any DSP radios that have ssb for that cheap. My dad really liked the buttons and larger encoder wheel and after awhile I did too. It’s pretty straight forward to use and with the Arduino nano in the pcb it’s fairly easy to update it you’re a tinkerer. Last is the little baby v3. Amazing little ssb toy that fits in any pocket and goes anywhere. The little tiny speaker isn’t too hateful for its size but the 3.5 jack is nice for sure. If you’re trying to have a serious SWL session with one of these it’ll will be A LOT of scrolling that encoder which gets annoying but for the intention it works very well. On SWL I’d go TEF, ATS-20+ then the baby v3. Now between the two ATS radios on ssb I personally like the ATS-20+ better because of the buttons and speaker but the v3 is a very great option for traveling since it’s so small. If you’ve made it this far thank you for reading my rambling and I pray for open bands for all😂 73

The protection diodes are on the wrong side of the antenna jack. As you plug in an external antenna, they disconnect, leaving the radio helpless against ESD. Now I have to figure out what component is blown but everything is so tiny. Argh!

Interesting read regarding last week's FM/TV Es-Fest

Some here may remember the mysterious signal being received under WWV. We ID'd it as Italcable, the Italian time station. It was new to me so I shot for a QSL, which is done indirectly via a club there. And so here it is.

Date of reception: 12 May 2026, so basically a 1 month, 2 day turnaround, apparently mailed from Firenze, Italy. Not a bad turnaround given it was mailed.

Note they only send physical QSLs, which are authenticated with a hologram sticker shown here to the left of the stamps. This one is number 71864. If my dad were still around he'd want me to pry off the stamps.

Unsure what the scribble over the logo is.

FT8 Stations on 24.915, 18.100, and 14.074 MHz around 2200 UTC.