Hello friends If you are in the USA. I hope you were not inconvenienced (or worse) by the bands of severe weather the moved across the country during the past few days. Here in the Washington DC area, we have… Leer más ›

Hello friends, In last week’s email, I wrote «It will be hot enough, soon enough.» Well, as I type this, it is 90°F/32°C in Arlington, Virginia. And we obstinately have not turned on our house’s air conditioning. The AC is… Leer más ›

Hello friends, An active sun has resulted in some recent disruptions to shortwave propagation. Generally Shortwave Radiogram has been lucky in sidestepping these events, so let’s hope this pattern holds up. And while solar activity can cause brief dropouts on… Leer más ›

Hello friends, If you were close enough to its path, I hope you had a view of the April 8th eclipse. Even if clouds obscured the sun, the brief presence of darkness during the day is quite a phenomenon. I… Leer más ›

Hello friends There are no transmissions of Shortwave Radiogram during the time of the solar eclipse on April 8. But that might be an interesting time to listen shortwave or even medium wave radio. The theory is that frequencies usually… Leer más ›

If you were tuned in last week to the Wednesday “red eye” show at 0800 UTC, you would have noticed the signal on 5850 kHz was absent. At first I suspected the solar activity that has affected shortwave reception lately…. Leer más ›

Thank you for enduring the latest of our “double play” programs. There will be more this year, as there are family activities on the agenda. Most of North America shifted to “Daylight Savings Time” on  March 10. This affects the… Leer más ›

Hello friends Program 344 will be another déjà vu edition of Shortwave Radiogram. Due to family activities in our house the program transmitted 1-6 March 2024 will be repeated 9-14 March. And to add to the confusion, because of North America’s… Leer más ›