LATEST NEWS & INFORMATION

Compiled by Tony Rogers.

Updated: 8 September 2026

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SHORTWAVE NEWS


HFCC B26  Transmission schedules for season B26 will be published after 11 October 2026 at https://new.hfcc.org/data/b26/

CRI Esperanto  Please see page 27 of Asia on Shortwave for an interesting observation and comments from Atsuhiko Takezawa about CRI's Esperanto service.

IRAN (target broadcast)  The target broadcast in Persian at 2030-2100 UTC on 9930 kHz has been confirmed as having content provided by IranWire. Atsuhiko Takezawa translated the opening announcement from Persian to English using ChatGPT and it says "This program is dedicated to information and education and is produced and broadcast for … You are receiving a selection of our programs and segments. Our partner, the media outlet IranWire, has produced the program you are listening to today. Our goal is to provide independent and comprehensive information for everyone. The right to access information is one of our main objectives. We are with you in achieving this goal. Stay with us". Thanks to Atsuhiko. Presumably this broadcast is produced in cooperation with RSF and RFPI. Please see "Middle East on Shortwave" for further details.

MYANMAR (target broadcast)  New station: Voice of Independent Myanmar: 0030-0130 UTC on Sundays on 17665 kHz in Burmese. Thanks to Atsuhiko Takezawa for details of this station that started on 9 August 2026. Further information can be found under Myanmar in "Asia on Shortwave".

NEW ZEALAND  This is the current schedule for RNZ Pacific in normal AM mode with programmes in English and Pacific Island languages directed to the Pacific region (please note that most of the times below have been rounded up to the hour, although the RNZ Pacific schedule indicates that frequencies change a minute or two before (rounding it up seems to make it clearer!). Further details can be found in "Pacific on Shortwave":
0500-0700 on 13690 kHz
0700-1100 on  9700 kHz
1100-1400 on  7245 kHz
1400-1650 on  7440 kHz
1650-1800 on  6135 kHz
1800-1900 on  9700 kHz
1900-2000 on 11725 kHz
2000-2100 on 15720 kHz
2100-0500 on 17675 kHz

TWR Asia via Vatican  Jose Jacob says that due to problems at the Talata Volonondry relay station in Madagascar between 28 July-2 August 2026, TWR Asia broadcasts to South Asia at 1400-1500 UTC on 17700 khz were temporarily switched to Santa Maria di Galeria, the Vatican Radio transmitter site.

VIETNAM  Since checking in May and June 2026, it appears that the Voice of Vietnam domestic service on shortwave has additional transmitters back on air. Vietnam has not registered any frequencies with the HFCC since the A25 season, which at that time included those used for the domestic service. Here are my latest observations made in late July 2026:
7435 kHz   Noted with VOV-1 in Vietnamese. HFCC A-25 indicated on air between 2145-1700, but may sign-off before 1700. Sontay? This
           frequency had not been heard during May/June 2026.
9635 kHz   Believed to be on-air between 2200-1530 UTC with programmes mostly in ethnic languages (presumably one of the VOV-4
           regional services). HFCC A-25 listed a transmitter at Sontay.
11720 kHz  During May/June 2026 this frequency had been heard coming on air around 1050 and going off between 1330 to 1400 UTC.
           However, it is now on for a longer duration, possibly 2145-1700 UTC? HFCC A-25 indicated the transmitter at Sontay at
           2145-1030 and 1330-1700 and Xuan Mai at 1030-1330, so perhaps both transmitters are back on air now, although the on/off
           times may vary slightly for each site.  (observations by Tony Rogers using online SDR's in Thailand and Vietnam)

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MEDIUMWAVE NEWS

ARMENIA  Viktor Tsekhanovich mentions that as of July 2026, TWR has ceased broadcasting in Ukrainian via Gavar (Armenia) on 1377 kHz. Thanks Viktor. Most recently this had been daily at 1931-2031 UTC. Looking at the TWR online schedule, it no longer lists any programmes in Ukrainian. 

And TWR's programmes in Persian on 1377 kHz have been re-timed to 1800-2015 UTC. The revised schedule for 1377 kHz appears to be:
1715-1730  Daily    TWR in Turkmen
1730-1745  Daily    TWR in Kazakh
1745-1800  Daily    TWR in Karakalpak
1800-2015  Daily    TWR in Persian (ex-1800-1930)
(TWR online schedule and monitoring by Tony Rogers using KiwiSDR in Tambov, Russia)

LITHUANIA  Thanks to Alex Miatlikov and Alexander Beryozkin for updates to the RWBI schedule on 1386 kHz. With recent changes it should now look something like this:
1400-1500  Daily    Radio Poland in English
1500-1515  Mon-Fri  NHK World Japan in Russian
1500-1520  Sat/Sun  NHK World Japan in Russian
1515-1530  Mon-Fri  NHK Interval Signal
1520-1530  Sat/Sun  NHK Interval Signal
1530-1600  Daily    Radio Poland in Polish
1600-1630  Daily    Radio Poland in Russian
1630-1700  Daily    Radio Poland in German
1700-1720  Daily    NHK World Japan in Russian
1720-1725  Daily    1 kHz tone signal
1725-1730  Daily    NHK interval signal
1730-1750  Daily    NHK World Japan in Russian
1750-1752  Daily    1 kHz tone signal
1752-1820  Daily    Radio Strana Regionov in Russian
1820-1830  Daily    RBW interval signal and ID
1830-2130  Daily    RFE/RL-Radio Svoboda in Russian
2130-0400  Daily    Radio Ukraine International in Ukrainian except for:
                    2200-2208 Mon-Fri in Slovak
                    2300-2308 Mon-Thu in Bulgarian
                    0100-0108 Tue/Wed/Fri/Sat in Belarusian
                    0200-0230 Daily in Romanian
0400-0500  Daily    Radio Poland in Belarusian
0500-0530  Daily    Radio Poland in Ukrainian
0530-1400  Daily    nothing on air at this time

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