Radio Taiwan International Calendar, July 2025
Welcome to my corner of the world! Glad you dropped by. Browse around and discover a collection of QSL cards from international broadcasters, old and new. Read an article or two about radios and the hobby of radio listening. Happy DXing!!!
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Monday, May 26, 2025
Liberia ELWA 20th Anniversary
LIBERIA on 16 January 1974 issued a First Day Cover (FDC) stamp combo to commemorate the 20th anniversary of ELWA Radio. It was a missionary radio station in Liberia. It's call letters ELWA stood for Eternal Love Winning Africa. This particular FDC features four stamps, two 15-cent and two 17-cent stamps, depicting the map of Africa and a person listening to a portable radio. The postmark cancellation originated from Monrovia, Liberia.
This radio station, which operated on shortwave, could be received worldwide in the 1970s. When civil war broke out in Liberia in 1990, the station was burned and looted. For the next 13 years, ELWA Radio struggled to stay on the air through waves of civil strife, broadcasting from an old garage building. ELWA was threatened again when a fire gutted that building in 2011.
With faith and determination, the ELWA Radio staff set up two studios in the transmitter building and continued work, carrying their listeners through the difficult times of the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.
The station currently operates primarily on FM with a 2kW transmitter; SW transmission at one point resumed with a 1kW, much less than its former power.
Additionally, the ELWA QSL Card is one I received in the mid-1970s verifying reception from Denver, Colorado -- my residency back then.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Voice of Turki
Voice of Turkiye, transmitting from Emirler, was logged on 11 April 2025. English programmes "Pulse of Turkish Foreign Policy", "Did You Know That" and Turkish contemporary music was monitored from 16.55 till 17.25 UTC. Reception on 9.660 kHz rated a SINPO of 55344 -- strong and clear audio, despite moderate.
Reception report was emailed on the following day. QSL card arrived in the mail on 8 May 2025.
RX: Tecsun S-2000 EXT ANT: 3-meter random wire QTH: Malaysia
Friday, May 9, 2025
Voice of Turkiye
Voice of Turkiye, transmitting from Emirler, was logged on 21 February 2025. English programmes "Pulse of Turkish Foreign Policy", "Did You Know That" and Turkish contemporary music was monitored from 17.50 till 18.25 UTC. Reception on 9.660 kHz rated a SINPO of 55344 -- strong and clear audio, despite moderate.
Reception report was emailed on the following day. QSL card arrived in the mail on 8 May 2025.
RX: Tecsun S-2000 EXT ANT: 3-meter random wire QTH: Malaysia
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Radio Taiwan International
Reception report was emailed on the following day. This QSL card arrived in the mail on 8 May 2025.
RX: Alinco DX-R8T EXT ANT: 1/4 wave QTH: Malaysia
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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