Radio Sweden, 6065 kHz

Radio Sweden a

Radio Sweden b



IBRA Radio




Polskie Radio, 6135 kHz

When I grew up during the Cold War there were at least a dozen different international shortwave stations that had transmissions in Swedish. Me and and a couple of my friends used old domestic radios with glowing tubes to pick up and listen to these transmissions after the school-day. It was very difficult to explain all this to our teachers. Polskie Radio, or “Polens Radio Warszawa”, as they were called in Swedish was one of those broadcasters, and one of the nicest. They read our letters on air, which was an incredible experience for a schoolboy, and we learned that Chopin was from Poland and we heard about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943…

It was a cold war, but Polskie Radio was one of the “softest” broadcasters from the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Now Radio Polonia has only shortwave transmissions in Polish, Belarussian and Russian, from transmitters in Bulgaria…

Polskie Radio a

Polskie Radio b

Radio Nederland, 9895 kHz

Radio Nederland, was not just another international shortwave broadcaster, it was an Institution, a Benchmark. Now the shortwave bands are empty without Radio Nederland. The programs were outstanding, the Happy Station Show, and the DX-program were unsurpassed in my opinion. Radio Nederland had a lot of publications in the field of shortwave listening, free on request! Radio Nederland, you have a special place in my heart…

Radio Nederland a

Radio Nederland b


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