https://chinaradiosswl.blogspot.com/ Hello, I am SWL 14368 Frank near Paris FRANCE. This blog is for listeners and BCL of amateur radio bands in SSB an AM radio stations on MW and SW. This is my blog number 3 and I have 5 blogs. I also like listening to AM radio stations on Shortwave and MW. Thank you. 73 and good DX. Frank SWL F14368
The ARRL (National Amateur Radio Association) has awarded a $5,000 grant (Colvin Award) to the Delta-Xray group, organizers of the 3YØK DX expedition to Bouvet Island, scheduled for February and March 2026. Bouvet is an isolated island in the Southern Ocean, inhabited only by seals and penguins, and known for its harsh weather and sea conditions. A Norwegian territory, it is almost entirely covered in glaciers. The last amateur radio operation conducted from Bouvet was the 3YØJ DX expedition in 2023, which caused the island to jump from 2nd to 10th place in Club Log's ranking of most sought-after destinations.
Two camps are planned, according to the team leaders, covering all HF bands. One of the tents will be dedicated to high-frequency propagation to North America when conditions permit. Each camp will consist of three tents serving as operational spaces, sleeping quarters, and communal living areas. These tents have already been used on Bouvet Island and, according to the team leaders, have proven their resilience to the expected extreme conditions.
The team is scheduled to depart for Bouvet from Cape Town, South Africa, on February 1st. Weather permitting, 3YØK plans to use helicopters to transport personnel and equipment between the ship and the island. The group plans to spend three weeks on and around the island and will attempt to contact as many amateur radio operators as possible worldwide, using up to eight stations operating in CW, SSB, FT8, RTTY, and via the QO-100 geostationary satellite.
The 3YØK DX expedition is arguably the most expensive ever undertaken by amateur radio operators, with a budget of $1.7 million, the majority of which ($1.2 million) is dedicated to what the team describes as a "reliable commercial vessel for Arctic and Antarctic liaison." The team emphasizes that "the safety and reliability of maritime transport remain a challenge for expeditions to such remote islands, and costs continue to rise." Expedition leaders state that "the top priority of expedition 3YØK is the safety of the operational team, support staff, and the ship and helicopter crews."
The team consists of 24 operators from 14 countries. Among its members are two young amateur radio operators: Max Freedman, 21, N4ML, an ARRL staff member; and Alex Schengber, 26, DL2ALY, an aeronautical engineer currently working at a German research station in Antarctica.
Over 23,100 vintage QSL cards await your visit.
The "DX News" website
(https://LesNouvellesDX.fr)
contains, among other things, a gallery of over 23,100 QSL cards
organized into 18 different main albums, including:
-The 10 most sought-after DXCC entities with over 700 QSL cards.
-Over 2,200 QSL cards representing the 62 defunct DXCC entities.
-Over 6,600 QSL cards illustrating almost all prefixes,
that were in common use but are now defunct.
- An album of Maghreb stations from 1945 to 1962 (over 500 QSL cards)
- Stations D2/DL2, D4/DL4, D5/DL5, and DA1/DA2 after 1945 (over 800 QSL cards)
- An overview of Antarctic bases with over 1100 QSL cards.
- A very wide range of QSL cards/operations from the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (with over 300 QSL cards)
- Globe-trotters who activated at least 50 DXCCs (over 1500 QSL cards)
- Over 600 QSL cards from Pacific "F" stations (FK, FK/C, FO/A, FO/M, FO/C, FW)
- Stations FR,/B,/E,/G,/J, and/T with over 100 QSL cards. - Stations FG, FM, FP, FS, FY from 1945 to 1969 with over 100 QSL cards
- An album dedicated to ITU & IARU commemorative stations and the United Nations 4U stations (with over 1000 QSL cards)
- An album dedicated to our predecessors (with over 180 countries before
1945 and over 5000 QSL cards).
- An album for French departments before 1945 (over 1500 QSL cards)
- An album dedicated to the 48 US states before 1945 (over 1000 QSL cards)
We are missing some QSL cards and your participation is welcome.
Visit the website and feel free to leave a message in the guestbook to share your thoughts.
Here are the latest QSL cards submitted in November and December on the LNDX website, sorted by album.
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73s from Jean Michel F6AJA
exHW6AJA, TK6AJA, TO6AJA, FE6AJA
YO/F6AJA, F6AJA/VE2, 5R8FI, F6AJA/BY4RJZ
Operator at 5Z4JD, 5R8EN/P
Clipperton DX Club Merit Award (1996)
REF National Merit Award (1998)
Editor of the French DX bulletin LNDX
Webmaster for http://LesNouvellesDX.fr
Webmaster for http://f6aja.free.fr
IOTA controller for France
e-mail: LesNouvellesDX@free.fr
Plus de 23.100 QSLs anciennes attendent votre visite.
contient, entre autres choses, une galerie de plus de 23.100 QSLs réparties en 18 grands albums différents, dont:
-Les 10 entités DXCC les plus recherchées avec plus de 700 QSL. -Plus de 2200 QSL représentant les 62 entités DXCC supprimées. -Plus de 6600 QSL illustrent la quasi totalité des préfixes, ayant eu un usage courant, disparus à ce jour. -Un album des stations du Magrebh de 1945 à 1962 (+ de 500 QSL) -Les stations D2/DL2,D4/DL4,D5/DL5,DA1/DA2 après 1945 (+ de 800 QSL) -Un panorama des bases de l'Antarctique avec + de 1100 QSL. -Un éventail très large des QSL/Op des T.A.A.F. (avec + 300 QSL) -Les Globe-trotteurs ayant activé au moins 50 DXCC (+ de 1500 QSLs) -Plus de 600 QSL des "F" du Pacifique (FK,FK/C,FO/A,FO/M,FO/C,FW) -Les stations FR,/B,/E,/G,/J,/T avec plus de 100 QSL. -Les stations FG, FM, FP, FS, FY de 1945 à 1969 avec + 100 QSL -Un album dédié aux stations commémoratives ITU & IARU et les stations 4U des Nations Unies (avec plus de 1000 QSL) -Un album consacré à nos anciens (avec plus de 180 pays avant 1945 et avec plus de 5000 QSL). -Un album pour les départements français avant 1945 (+ de 1500 QSL) -Un album consacré aux 48 états US avant 1945 (+ de 1000 QSL)
Certaines QSL nous manquent et votre participation est la bienvenue, allez voir le site et n'hésitez pas à laisser un message sur le livre d'or pour avoir votre avis.
Voici les dernières QSL déposées en novembre et décembre sur le site de LNDX, classées par album.
In the vast world of broadcasting, so-called "underground" stations occupy a unique position. They share with pirate stations the characteristic of being unofficial most of the time, and for those broadcasting from the territory where their potential audience lives, of being illegal.
To give a general idea of the situation, let's say that a pirate radio station is unauthorized and broadcasts sporadically and casually to a non-targeted audience, playing music or satire, while an underground radio station is authorized (or not) but broadcasts a regular program of a political nature (propaganda) to a specific audience.
The vast majority of underground radio stations broadcast from a third country, either through the facilities of official transmitters or by renting airtime from privately owned stations (a common practice in the United States). Therefore, few truly deserve their
"clandestine" title by disseminating, at their own risk and peril,
Political opposition programs broadcast from conflict zones within the country they target.
One of the most famous clandestine radio stations is Radio Venceremos, which broadcast from El Salvador during the civil war and was legalized with the peace accords. Since then, it appears to broadcast only locally, using FM, in San Salvador. (A book has recently been published in England recounting the history of this station.)
It is common practice to analyze the history of clandestine radio stations by dividing them into three categories according to their political strategy:
• "White" radio stations, which are openly and clearly propagandistic;
• "Grey" radio stations, which are more subtle in their messaging;
• "Black" radio stations, which preach the opposite of the beliefs of the group that operates them in order to attribute false narratives to their enemies.
This short article does not aim to be a historical analysis,
particularly of such a fascinating period for the world of
clandestine radio as the years of the Second World War,
for example, I will not use this classification.
For a contemporary listener navigating the shortwave
waves in search of a clandestine station, or who stumbles upon one
one evening by pure chance, the most important thing is first
to be certain of the station's identity, and then
to know, if possible, the organization using broadcasting
to make itself heard in order to situate the station within the
current geopolitical context.
Identification is often a real problem because the broadcast language is rarely French or English. A friend who managed to extract
some recent data from the internet sent me
a short while ago a list of broadcast times, frequencies, and languages
used. The languages used are mostly those not widely spoken by the average European listener: Tajik, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Somali, Dahri, and many other vernacular languages.
The second difficulty to consider is the possibility of receiving a usable signal. Either the signal originates from a small transmitter belonging to a small guerrilla group in a South American country, in which case it will be difficult to receive the signal in Europe except in favorable propagation corridors, or the signal arrives strongly but is often jammed by dedicated transmitters that cover it, in whole or in part, with various electronic noise. This is particularly true for stations transmitting to Iran; they are very numerous, have comfortable transmission power, are geographically close to Europe, but are severely hampered by multiple jammers deployed by the authorities in Tehran. To find usable information for your HF receiver, you generally have a few lines in the internal newsletters of the numerous listening clubs that sparingly discuss existing clandestine stations, mostly reprinting information provided by the BBC's Listening Service. Thus, American magazines contain the same information as French fanzines or German journals. However, there are a few clubs that give the subject more importance, and we have a listener in France who has written extensively, in French, about the world of clandestine stations; it is a shame that his writings are not more widely distributed in France and that many of his articles have only been published in Canada. There are also a few books, mostly written in English. My favorite is a book published in the United States entitled "Clandestine Radio Broadcasting - A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication." The authors
are Lawrence C. Soley and John S. Nichols. The publisher is Praeger
of New York. Published in 1987, I managed to obtain this book in
Great Britain for 40 pounds sterling in 1989 (it was at the time
available in France but at a significantly higher price).
and the American publisher had refused to sell it directly (I). If you are interested in 20th-century radio history, I highly recommend acquiring this 385-page book, written in accessible English.
For those seeking to confirm the stations they receive, it is worth noting that it is sometimes possible to obtain excellent QSL cards from certain clandestine stations, provided one is patient, persistent, and has the right addresses.
For all the information useful in your QSL hunt, I invite you to consult the documents published by the American listener Gerry L. Dexter (who writes a column in the renowned Popular Communications, published by CQ). He should be reachable through the editorial staff of "PopCom" at: Popular Communications, 76 North Broadway, Hicksville, NY 11801, USA. Gerry, like his French counterpart Bernard Chenal, has the merit of possessing a multidisciplinary vision of the radio world (technical, political, historical). If you are only looking for a simple list of stations and the social aspect leaves you unmoved, I recommend the "Clandestine List" published by the Danish club DSWCI, Tavleager 31, 2670 Greve, Denmark. Finally, for those who wish to try listening to a station that was once a clandestine Angolan station benefiting from South African aid, and whose current status is not yet very well defined, tune in to 7090 kHz in the early evening where you might hear Radio Vorgan's Portuguese and English programming (the main one).
(UNITA forces station of Jonas Savimbi). It is possible that
this radio station will soon disappear from the HF spectrum and
only broadcast legally at the regional level, as was the case
for Radio Venceremos in El Salvador. So hurry up and
form your own opinion on the matter!
73, Fabien article in 1996 " CQ Radioamateur " SWL : LES RADIOS CLANDESTINES
Par Franck F-14368
The Air National Guard provides support for Psychological Operations using a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft named EC-130 COMMANDO SOLO, operated by the 193d Special Operations Wing. The purpose of COMMANDO SOLO is to provide an aerial platform for broadcast media on both television and radio. The media broadcast is created by various agencies and organizations. As part of the broader function of information operations, COMMANDO SOLO can also jam the enemy's broadcasts to his own people, or his psychological warfare broadcasting.
The Commando Solo aircraft currently is the only stand-off, high-altitude means available to PSYOP forces to disseminate information to large denied areas. Two orbits were established during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, one in the northern area and one in the southern part of the country, both far enough from harm’s way to keep the aircraft out of reach of potential enemy attack. At their operational altitude of 18,000 feet (5,500 m) and assuming clear channels, these aircraft can transmit radio and TV signals approximately 170 miles (270 km), which does not reach the objective areas near Baghdad. Straightforward physics dictate the range, given the power installed and the antenna configuration and assuming clear channels.
The enhanced altitude capability of the Commando Solo EC–130J (now funded) is increasing transmitter range. While this is an improvement over 130E capability, it is a small step, since the increase in altitude is only 7,000 feet (less than 50 percent) and the range increase is governed by a square root function (that is, a 14 percent increase in range).[16]
A challenge to COMMANDO SOLO is the increasing use of cable television, which will not receive signals from airborne, ground, or any other transmitters that the cable operator does not want to connect to the system. At best, in the presence of cable TV, COMMANDO SOLO may be able to jam enemy broadcasts that are not, themselves, transmitted by cable.
On 14 March, Trump signed an executive order to eliminate USAGM, among other agencies, "to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law."[146] An anonymous source told Politico that DOGE imposed a 30-day total freeze on funding to RFE/RL and other USAGM outlets, with the intention of making that permanent.[147][148] On 15 March 2025, the United States Agency for Global Media terminated grants to RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia following a directive from the Trump administration.[13] Reporters and other employees at broadcasters including RFE/RL received an email over the weekend stating that they would no longer be allowed access to their offices and would have to surrender press credentials, work phones, and other equipment.[149] In response, Steve Capus, president of RFE/RL, said that "The cancellation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's grant agreement would be a massive gift to America's enemies."[150][151] On 18 March, RFE/RL sued USAGM and two USAGM officials to block the grant termination.[14][15]
On 22 March 2025, the Czech government pledged to support RFE/RL following funding cuts by the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump.[152] Meanwhile, rock band R.E.M., who had an early hit with the song "Radio Free Europe", released a remixed version with proceeds going to the organization.[153] In May 2025, Kaja Kallas stated that the EU would provide US$6.2 million to RFE/RL and Sweden pledged US$2 million.[154]
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