Many due to SWLing Submit contributor Carlos Latuff, who shares the next visitor publish:
by Carlos Latuff
It’s been some time since I listened to Nikkei Radio, a Japanese industrial broadcaster that operates on shortwave for a home viewers. If I keep in mind properly, the sign was very weak and, since I don’t converse Japanese, I didn’t know what the content material of its broadcasts was about. However in the present day, with the potential of recording the audio, transcribing it and translating it, it has change into extra attention-grabbing to comply with its applications on shortwave right here in Brazil, extra particularly in Porto Alegre (distance between Nikkei’s transmitter in Chiba, Japan, and Porto Alegre, Brazil: 18779 km).
Nikkei Radio 1 was based in 1954 and Nikkei 2 in 1963, and on the time it was referred to as Nihon Shortwave Broadcasting Co., higher recognized by the acronym “NSB”. Some Japanese electronics producers have previously launched receivers devoted to receiving the sign from these stations (see beneath).
As we speak, the Japanese firm Audiocomm has radio fashions whose packaging states that this receiver is appropriate with Nikkei Radio; be aware the picture alluding to horse racing (see beneath).
I haven’t been in a position to purchase any of those units (but), since they had been mainly produced for the Japanese public. However any receiver with shortwave bands can tune into Radio Nikkei. I exploit my good outdated XHDATA D-808 with a protracted wire antenna. In Porto Alegre, the most effective propagation is between 08:45 AM and 06:15 AM (UTC). Within the late afternoon, the sign additionally arrives, however with a good quantity of static.
Each Radio Nikkei 1 and Radio Nikkei 2 function on the next frequencies:
Radio Nikkei 1:
- 3.925 MHz (in case of emergency)
- 6.055 MHz
- 9.595 MHz (in case of emergency)
Radio Nikkei 2:
- 3.945 MHz (in case of emergency)
- 6.115 MHz
- 9.76 MHz: (in case of emergency)
On the station’s web site https://www.radionikkei.jp/ you’ll find particulars of its programming, in addition to broadcast instances, together with a desk (in Japanese) with this info, which might be translated with the assistance of Google Lens.
Radio Nikkei additionally broadcasts its programming by way of streaming, nevertheless the platform used (radiko) is inaccessible to me right here in Brazil (see message beneath).
Nikkei Radio is majority-owned by the enterprise newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Tokyo Inventory Alternate, which suggests the station focuses primarily on the monetary market. Nevertheless, a lot of its programming, particularly on weekends, is devoted to horse racing, a well-liked sport in Japan. Along with information, discuss exhibits and music, the radio station additionally broadcasts evangelical preaching (!). One in all these non secular applications is known as “True Salvation” and is sponsored by The Japan Gospel Mission, a Christian Protestant group.
This heterogeneous mixture of enterprise, horses and Jesus Christ makes Nikkei Radio an attention-grabbing station to tune into, to say the least.
The radio listening periods printed right here had been made within the central Porto Alegre, Brazil, between January fifteenth and nineteenth, 2025.
(Domo arigato gozai masu Mr. Tagawa Shigeru for serving to me with translation).
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A part of Radio Nikkei 1 program “Well being Community”, in Japanese. Matter: Winter weight loss plan and well being. Listened in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
