Radio Free Sarawak is back on the air!
Thanks to Rob Wagner’s blog, The Mount Evelyn DX Report, I just learned that the clandestine station, Radio Free Sarawak, is back on the air after declaring a break on May 8, 2013 (see our previous...
View ArticleRadio Erena would like to reach a broader audience with shortwave
This is a fascinating video about how one Paris based clandestine radio station gets an independent voice into the only country in the world that rivals North Korea for a lack of press freedom:...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma (DVB) to end shortwave broadcasts
Hat tip to SWLing Post reader, Jonathan Marks, for sharing this news item: (Source: Burma News International) At the end of October, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) will stop producing its ethnic...
View ArticleRadio South Atlantic: recording of a short-lived clandestine radio station
In reply to our recent post about Radio Atlantico del Sur, SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, adds: Radio South Atlantic was a short-lived clandestine radio station started by the UK Ministry of...
View Article“The dream of Biafra lives on in underground Nigerian radio broadcasts”
(Source: Wikimedia Commons) Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who shares the following story about Radio Biafra from the LA Times: Every evening as 5 o’clock approaches, the clogged,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Following the Ethiopian war over shortwave radio
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following guest post: ETHIOPIA: A WAR THROUGH RADIO by Carlos Latuff, special for The SWLing Post We just...
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