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!!!
Reception report was emailed on the following day. This QSL card arrived in the mail on 14 August 2025.
RX: Alinco DX-R8T EXT ANT: 1/4 wave QTH: Malaysia
Reception report was emailed to Spectrum Management, the verifier for AIR, on the following day. QSL Card was received on 7 August 2025.
RX: Sangean ATS-909 EXT ANT: random 3 meter wire QTH: Central West Malaysia
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.
The card has a highlighted notation stating NHK World - Japan will cease issuing verification cards on 31 March 2025. This seems par for the course given the cost of postage worldwide and the dwindling (aging) listener audience.
It is disheartening for old listeners like me who first received a verification card from Radio Japan in 1968-1969. When I resumed this hobby in 2007, NHK World Radio Japan and many domestic Japanese MW stations were verified from Malaysia.
While this is their swan song for me, on a more conciliatory note their SW and MW broadcasts can still be heard. Hopefully this will not cease like so many great stations that have gradually disappeared in recent years.
Vatican Radio QSL Retrospective of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 1936 – 2025) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2013 until his death in 2025.
The stamps featured:
41c - Inaugural announcer John Royle
65c - Radio Australia coverage
$1.10 - Jacko the laughing kookaburra
Radio Australia opened its broadcasts with the melody "Waltzing Matilda" and the song of the Kookaburra bird, hence the cachet and stamp design. Its programmes targeted the Pacific and Oceania, but we're just as popular throughout the English-speaking world.
Reception report was submitted on the following day. A QSL was received on 7 March 2025.
RX: Degen DE-1102 EXT ANT: 3 meter random wire QTH: Malaysia
Please be advised that we have decided to stop issuing the Verification Cards. The cards will be sent for confirmations on broadcasts up to March 20, 2025.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
You can continue to submit your comments and requests to English language services through Contact Us on our website.
Your feedback will be used to improve our broadcasts and services.
It's regrettable, but not surprising.
I can still remember my first verification from Radio Japan, way back in 1968. It was one the first along with Deutsche Welle, Radio Nederland, BBC, Radio RSA and so many more.
NHK World Radio Japan was always a prompt and excellent verifier. I wish they would continue, but it is understandable. Hopefully they will continue their shortwave service, as I will listen to their programmes.
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Radio Taiwan International Calendar, February 2025
