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QSL All Tribes Radio via Channel 292

March 1, 2026 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

A nice eQSL from All Tribes Radio broadcasting via Channel 292, Rohrdorf, Germany on 9670 kHz:

And a brief audioclip of their station ID:

All Tribes Radio is a station with roots in Costa Rica. On their website, which I also used to submit my reception report, you can find a nice narrative their history, which I repeat below:

Broadcasting across the globe on shortwave radio, All Tribes Radio champions world peace through an eclectic blend of culturally diverse music, spoken word, and vintage treasures from the golden age of radio.

We offer a welcoming platform for independent artists who license their work through Creative Commons, while also sharing open-source, public-domain, Copyleft, and other copyright-free content.

Founded in 2008, All Tribes Radio (ATR) streamed Creative Commons music 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to an average of 6,000 listeners per month in more than 120 countries across every continent. With studios in Nosara, Costa Rica, ATR’s signal reached the world via an internet server in Tampa, Florida.

In 2011, streaming gave way to podcasting, resulting in the production of 68 one-hour episodes for iTunes, completed in 2012.

ATR entered a new chapter in 2020 with its first shortwave broadcasts: a weekly one-hour program showcasing Creative Commons music in English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. These were transmitted from WRMI in Okeechobee, Florida, and Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany. Unfortunately, the disruptions of Covid-19 brought those broadcasts to an end the following year.

Happily, as of November 30, 2025, ATR has returned to the shortwave airwaves—now transmitting exclusively from Channel 292 with 10 kW of power and a 315º beam aimed toward northern and western Europe. One-hour broadcasts can be heard each Sunday from 1400–1500 UTC on 9670 kHz. Reception reports are warmly welcomed, and e-QSL verification is available.

QSL NDB NOR-372 Nordholz

February 27, 2026 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

To my big surprise I received 4 QSL cards, the real stuff, by mail, from the Deutsch Flugsicherung. I sent my reception reports in 2023… 2 years ago. But they were worth waiting for:

The first one was for NDB NOR on 372 kHz. This beacon belongs to the Nordholz Naval Airbase. Or in proper German: “Fliegerhorst Nordholz”. I like this “Horst” as it translates as “Nest of a predatory bird”, although I recognize that since WW2 it suffers a bit from a certain connotation.

NDB Nordholz and Nordholz Airport (courtesy: Skyvector)

Fliegerhorst Nordholz stands as one of Germany’s oldest aviation facilities, with its origins tracing back to December 17, 1912, when the Imperial German Navy established it as a key site for naval aviation. The base was initially serving as a major airship port for Zeppelins during World War I. It housed units for both the Navy and Army, supporting reconnaissance and bombing missions with rigid airships like the famous Zeppelin L 3 making early landings there.

After the war, in compliance with the Treaty of Versailles, several Zeppelins were destroyed on-site by their crews in 1919. The interwar period saw shifts in control, and during the 1930s, the Luftwaffe repurposed and expanded the site under code names like “Neckar,” using it for fighter and other operations throughout World War II. Post-1945, the base fell under American occupation briefly, hosting U.S. fighter units like P-47 Thunderbolts before being handed to the RAF, which dismantled much of the infrastructure.

Today, in 2026, Nordholz remains the central hub of the German Navy’s Marinefliegerkommando (Naval Air Command), hosting Marinefliegergeschwader 3 “Graf Zeppelin” and Marinefliegergeschwader 5. Marinefliegergeschwader 3 operates Lockheed P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft (with the transition to the advanced P-8A Poseidon underway, as the first examples arrived in late 2025) alongside Dornier 228NG for pollution control and surveillance. Marinefliegergeschwader 5 handles helicopter operations, including the NH90 Sea Lion for transport and the new NH90 Sea Tiger for anti-submarine and anti-surface roles, with deliveries progressing to replace the aging Sea Lynx fleet.

QSL Sunny Jim’s Trance Journey via Channel 292 9670 kHz

November 23, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

As I wrote to Jim: “If you would have asked me if there would be Trance on Shortwave… I would have said no.” But with good quality reception via Channel 292 it is possible, although it my wife who goes to trance festivals with me preferring to stay behind the radio.

Within a day I got this nice fully detailed QSL from Jim for my reception report of SJTJ on Channel 292, Germany. Sunny Jim (Jim Salmon) has a very nice website about his radio adventures.

Mainflingen antennas demolished… and what about my old QSL?

November 22, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

Maybe it is “old man” emotional, but then again. In Germany they are destroying communication infrastructure like they are destroying energy infrastructure, while at the same time they tell us “we are at war with Russia”.

So in Mainflingen (well known to us DX-ers) 3 antennas went down. Their demise can be seen in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pA9vgduChA

Mainflingen is the home of DCF77, the time signal station that transmits on 77.5 kHz. And no worries… DCF77 is still alive and kicking. But Mainflingen was also the backup station for the Deutschlandfunk, broadcasting from Donebach on 153 kHz. And of course I QSL-ed this station in the 80-ies… but rather than 153 it had 155 kHz on the QSL. Was it the backup from Mainflingen I received 46 years ago?

Another thing I didn’t know but found out: the antennas in Mainflingen are part of the logo of the community of Mainhausen which Mainflingen is a part of.

QSL KSET 6160 kHz

November 21, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

A QSL from KSET on 6160 kHz. No not, a US call sign, but a program from Imaginary Stations via Shortwave Gold, Winsen on 6160 kHz.

eQSL KSET (Imaginery Stations) via SW Gold, Winsen, 6160 kHz

Imaginary Stations makes an effort to build each program around a specific theme.

This time music released on audio tape ony was played: “Imaginary Stations celebrates the analog renaissance with KSET, K-S-E-T, dedicated to the fascinating world of audiotapes… Tune in and unwind with us .. on some of the coolest cassettes to be found anywhere. Hey can you hand me that pencil?”.
Those who are as old as I am will remember that you indeed used a pencil to rewind the tapes by sticking a pencil in one of the spools.

The call sign KSET is another gimmick of Imaginary Stations. They often use a name that not only refers to the program content, but also suggests a US or Canadian call sign. Their next show on November 22nd/23rd is called CMDY.

QSL Crusader Radio via Channel 292

October 30, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

In June 2024 I listened to a program of Crusader Radio via Channel 292 on 9670 kHz. A few weeks ago (65 weeks later) I received a nice reply and confirmation for my report. Now I have to wait and see whether a “snail mail” QSL will reach my letter box.

Hi Peter,

thank you for your email and I can of course confirm that you received
the program and it is a pleasure to do via email.
Thank you very much for taking the time for the reception report. I have
to apologise for the late reply. I am just wading through just short of
2000 emails of whom 95% are spam or scam.

The more refreshing it is to find a geniune email. You have added your
address. We will soon be sending out real snail mail QSL cards I will
make sure that yours will be in the batch to be sent out.

thank you very much again for your email.

Crusader Radio is broadcasting religious programs focusing on how to reach Salvation “through faith alone in our Lord Jesus Christ”.

QSL KTL Radio via Channel 292

October 13, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

KTL is an internet radio station broadcasting a live stream from various studios across Germany and one in The Netherlands.

Occasionally KTL also uses Channel 292. I listened to a German program “Beatschuppen” full of oldies. I am not sure if this was a relay of their regular on-line radio program though. It offered the opportunity for listeners to send a request “Musikwunsch” which suggests that this broadcast was live.

My request didn’t make it to the show, but I got their e-QSL. I sent my report to andre(at)ktl-radio.de .

e-QSL from KTL Radio via Channel 292 on 6070 kHz

QSL Radio Bandit via Channel 292

October 6, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 2 Comments

I am a regular Channel 292 listener, but this weekend was the first time I noticed Radio Bandit on their 9670 kHz schedule. My report to Uwe Reiter was answered within a day.

Uwe wrote a nice email on his station:

“Radio Bandit is a one man show, unfortunately I don’t have a helpful team to help me. It can also be good: if mistakes are made, you know exactly who you can hold responsible. Yesterday’s broadcast was a test for me to find out what profit the Beam of Channel 292 brings, 10 dB were always possible. Otherwise I would have only ever used the omnidirectional antenna.

I am 67 years old. When I was about eight years old, my father gave me an old tube receiver, a Super AT with medium and short wave 50 to 30 m. On medium wave I listened to the numerous local stations at the time, on short wave nothing could be heard until I simply connected a few meters of wire to the existing antenna input. At that time, there were many more stations on shortwave than today. Everyone listened to Radio Luxembourg, including Radio Nordsee International from MEBO 2. In short, the virus radio had done its job.

I spent my childhood and youth in the shadow of the former Königs Wusterhausen transmitter south of Berlin. With its 20 kW medium waves for Radio DDR, several 250 kilowatt transmitters for Radio Berlin International, the foreign service of the former GDR and a 500 ! Kilowatt longwave transmitter for the Soviet occupying troops at the time, there was always enough HF in the air. That’s probably why I’m so radio-crazy and irradiated.

The Königs Wusterhausen antennas (picture supplied by Radio Bandit)

By the way, I only transmit on shortwave two or three times a year, simply when shortwave calls me. In 1974, RNI and Radio Veronica had to stop broadcasting. RNI then reappeared on the Internet in 2008, where I broadcast as Doc. Wolfgang Haus in the German service, which was always broadcast on Thursdays. At the legendary Radiodays in Erkrath I also had the opportunity to meet my former stars like Andy Archer. Dick de Graaf and Graham Gill in person.“

Uwe as Dr. Wolgang Haus on RNI German Service

Uwe might be a one man radio show, but it was obvious from the show that he had a solid radio background. And still a very pleasant voice to listen to. It was nice to learn that Uwe pretty much got addicted to radio the same way as I did. Growing up with offshore free radio and discovering the world on the family tube receiver in an era where there was no internet. By the way, you can learn more about Köning Wusterhausen in Germany in my post about the Funkerberg.

The Ghoul via Channel 292 6070 kHz

October 3, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

I listened to “The Ghoul” via Channel 292 on 6070 kHz. That’s a radio program I haven’t seen often in the Channel 292 schedule. And I’m still not entirely sure what it actually was that I was listening to. A nice non-standard music selection interspersed with some either provocative or humorous opinions like “minimizing the production of misfits, the choice is yours”.

That said, my report was awarded with this very nice QSL. It perfectly represents how I feel as a DXer sometimes.

I sent my report to differentradio@yahoo.co.uk, and received an answer within a day.

QSL SURF Imaginary Stations 6160 kHz

September 2, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 2 Comments

I like chasing DX stations. But I also like listening to producers that offer something special on shortwave. For that reason I regularly check the Channel 292 calendar. But Shortwaveradio.de also offers nice programs.

This weekend I listened to SURF, a program from Imaginary Stations via Shortwave Gold. My report was confirmed by DJ Frederic Moe with a nice eQSL:

Imaginary Stations is a shortwave radio program producing creative broadcasts with themed music and content. One of these is around surf classics (SURF series). Another theme is analog music archives (The Ancient Analogue Archive). They are on air via Shortwave Gold (Shortwaveradio.de) and WRMI. In the program I listened to they invited people to become member of their Pen Pal club, and the Japanese “Surf” music played was by recommendation of a member from Tokyo.

You can find more info about Imaginary Stations on this Factsheet:

By the way, the Facebook page of Imaginary Stations and Radio Skybird features Shivering Sands Army Forts in the Thames, from which Radio City was broadcasting. A place full of radio history as I explained in an earlier post.