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Sunday, August 18, 2019
Global Radio Guide - Summer 2019, available at Amazon
There's still plenty of time for quality DXing, before the next edition. Find some quality time for radio, and the summer edition of Global Radio Guide 2019. Thanks to all that have purchased this edition. Stay tuned...the winter edition will be top-notch!!!
Press Release:
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For Immediate Release 1 May 2019
Global Radio Guide (Summer 2019) Now Available at Amazon
Older ham radio operators and radio listeners might remember a time when shortwave radio stations broadcast a nearly constant drumbeat of political propaganda during the Cold War years. Shortwave radio stations such as Radio Moscow, the Voice of America, and the BBC, to name a few, played an important ideological role during that confrontation between the East and West.
Once again, Global Radio broadcasters have moved to the front lines as the world’s major superpowers have entered a new Cold War. As tensions heat up in the world’s hotspots such as eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, you can follow international events on the radio, but you need an accurate and comprehensive radio guide to hear the action.
Teak Publishing is pleased to release that important radio guide – the Global Radio Guide (GRG), the 12th edition (Summer 2019) electronic book, by Amazon bestselling author Gayle Van Horn W4GVH. The book was formerly known as the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide.
This Amazon 'electronic' book is your ticket to travel the Global Radio bands. The heart of this publication is a 24-hour station/frequency guide with Summer 2019 schedules for selected medium wave and all known longwave/shortwave radio stations. This unique resource is the only radio publication that list by-hour schedules that includes all language services, frequencies and world target areas for over 500 stations. There are listings of DX radio programs and Internet websites addresses for many of the stations in the book. There are also entries for standard time and frequency stations, and even a few other intriguing shortwave radio stations.
New in this 12th edition of the GRG is a Summer 2019 Propagation Forecast, by international radio propagation expert, Tomas Hood NW7US. Tomas looks at summer radio conditions and the new solar cycle.
Gayle and Larry Van Horn have joined forces again penning a very timely article on monitoring the Venezuelan political crisis including broadcast and military frequencies.
Other authors in this edition include The Spectrum Monitor’s Fred Waterer, with a feature on summer radio programming and Richard Fisher with an easy homebrew antenna support construction article.
Spectrum Monitor e-zine columnist/feature writer Larry Van Horn has a special feature on Who’s Who in the Shortwave Radio Spectrum that will assist the reader in monitoring Global Radio activity outside the broadcast radio spectrum. This article also includes an updated Teak Publishing HF 1000+ non-broadcast frequency list.
The 12th edition of the Global Radio Guide e-Book (electronic book only, no print edition available) is available worldwide from Amazon and their various international websites at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R81NJHD/.
The price for this latest edition is US$8.49. Since this book is being released internationally, Amazon customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Australia can order this e-Book from Amazon websites directly servicing these countries. Customers in all other countries can use the regular Amazon.com website to purchase this e-Book.
You can read any Kindle e-Book with Amazon’s ‘free’ reading apps on literally any electronic media platform. You do not have to own a Kindle reader from Amazon to read this e-book. There are Kindle apps available for iOS, Android, Mac and PC platforms. You can find additional details on these apps by checking out this link to the Amazon website at www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771.
Additional information on this and other Teak Publishing radio hobby books can be found on the company sponsored Internet blogs – The Shortwave Central (http://mtshortwave.blogspot.com/),
The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), and The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/). You can learn more about the author by going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/GayleVan-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.
Global Radio listeners are routinely entertained with unique perspectives to events, music, culture, history, and news from other countries that you won’t see or hear on your local or national broadcast channels. Global Radio broadcasts are not restricted by country borders or oceans and can travel thousands of miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, now in over 300 different languages and dialects.
isteners can hear shortwave broadcast stations from China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, North/South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, and many other counties. If you have a shortwave radio receiver or Internet connection, and this unique radio resource, you will know when and where to listen to your favorite radio broadcast station.
The Global Radio Guide will have wide appeal to amateur radio operators, shortwave radio hobbyists, news agencies, news buffs, educators, foreign language students, expatriates, or anyone else interested in listening to a global view of world news and major events as they happen.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill's Melting Pot schedule, August 18-24
From the Isle of Music, August
18-24:
This week features selections from several decades of beautiful Cuban vocal music.
The broadcasts take place:
This week features selections from several decades of beautiful Cuban vocal music.
The broadcasts take place:
For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the
Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw,
Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900
MSK)
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am
For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on
WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US).
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday
1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 18
and 20:
Episode 126, From Mahavishnu to Hahavishnu, features two very different artists, John McLaughlin and The Hahavishnu Orchestra.
The transmissions take place:
Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
Episode 126, From Mahavishnu to Hahavishnu, features two very different artists, John McLaughlin and The Hahavishnu Orchestra.
The transmissions take place:
Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for
Europe.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
Tilford Productions, LLC
Friday, August 16, 2019
SM Radio Dessau set for August 18 broadcast
Germany
SM Radio Dessau will commemorate 100 years of Bauhaus, and 90 years of the DB vehicle maintenance (FZI) plant Dessau/Raw Dessau.
The special broadcast will air on 18 August, 2019 via Channel 292 on the following schedule:
1000-1100 UTC on 6070 kHz (via Moosbrunn, Austria) 100 kW
1600-1700 UTC on 6070 kHz (via Rohrdorf, Germany) 10 kW
Send your program details to:
Max Berger
Naumburger Strasse 49
04229 Leipzig-Plagwitz
Germany
or email: maxberger@smradio-dessau.de
Additional information about SM Radio Dessau on shortwave at: http://www.smradio-dessau.de Scheduling changes will be posted at their website and at Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de
SM Radio Dessau will commemorate 100 years of Bauhaus, and 90 years of the DB vehicle maintenance (FZI) plant Dessau/Raw Dessau.
The special broadcast will air on 18 August, 2019 via Channel 292 on the following schedule:
1000-1100 UTC on 6070 kHz (via Moosbrunn, Austria) 100 kW
1600-1700 UTC on 6070 kHz (via Rohrdorf, Germany) 10 kW
Send your program details to:
Max Berger
Naumburger Strasse 49
04229 Leipzig-Plagwitz
Germany
or email: maxberger@smradio-dessau.de
Additional information about SM Radio Dessau on shortwave at: http://www.smradio-dessau.de Scheduling changes will be posted at their website and at Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de
Thursday, August 15, 2019
BBC World Service extends programming to Kashmir
BBC Media Centre
(BDXC)
15 August 2019
The BBC World Service
has extended output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to
provide reliable news and information.
The
Director of the BBC World Service, Jamie Angus, says: “The provision of
independent and trusted news in places of conflict and tension is one of the
core purposes of the World Service.
"Given
the shutdown of digital services and phone lines in the region, it’s right for
us to try and increase the provision of news on our short wave radio services.
Audiences in both India and Pakistan trust the BBC to speak with an independent
voice, and we know that our reporting through several moments of crisis this
year has been popular and valued by audiences who turn to us when tensions are
highest.”
BBC
News Hindi radio output (9515 and 11995kHz) will be extended by 30 minutes from
Friday 16 August. The full one-hour news programme will be on air from 7.30pm
to 8.30pm local time.
On
Monday 19 August, BBC News Urdu will launch a 15-minute daily programme,
Neemroz. Broadcast at 12.30pm local time on 15310kHz and 13650kHz, the
programme will focus on news coming from Kashmir and the developments around
the issue, and include global news roundup tailored for audiences in Kashmir.
BBC
World Service English broadcasts (11795kHz, 9670kHz, 9580kHz, 7345kHz, 6040kHz)
will be expanded, with the morning programming extended by an hour, ending at
8.30am local time; and the afternoon and evening programming starting an hour
earlier, at 4.30pm local time.
The
shutdown has left people with very few options for accessing news at this time.
However, news services from the BBC continue to be available in the region -
through shortwave radio transmissions in English, Urdu, Hindi, Dari and Pashto.
As well as providing an important source of news to the region, the South Asian
language services have brought added depth to the BBC’s coverage of the Kashmir
story.
The recent
introduction of four new languages services for India - Gujarati, Marathi,
Punjabi and Telugu, following additional investment from the UK Government -
has enabled the BBC to offer a wider portfolio of languages and distribution
methods to a region that is geographically diverse as well as politically
tense. This year’s Global Audience Measure for the BBC showed that India is now
the World Service’s largest market, with a weekly audience of 50m.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Blog Logs
All times UTC // parallel frequency
Stations monitored 13 August 2019
Logs and information welcome at: w4gvh@frontier.com
China
China Radio International 7440. Chinese service 1335 tune-in for program segment on China (mentioning cities) interspersed with Chinese flute music. Barely audible on // 9540. SIO 222. English service from 1340 on 9730 (SIO 444). Program on Chairman Mao. Very poor quality on // 9870, 11660, 13670, 15590 kHz. Esperanto service 1345-1400 on 9440, and 11650 to Europe. Hindi service 1347-1400, 11675 to Asia. Mongolian service 7285, 1350-1357. (Nanning, China SDR)
Clandestine
Dengê Welat/Voice of the Homeland, 11530 via Moldova relay to the Middle East. Tune-in 1030 with Kurdish conversations to 1040. Fanfare intro to Turkish vocal folk music tunes to 1059. News script and reports 1100-1145 tune-out. Fanfare music to report items. Moldova relay schedule 0600-1500. Fair signal SIO 333. Website with two second, streaming audio delay http://www.denge-welat.org/ Issoudun, France relay schedule 1500-0600. (France SDR) Recheck 11530 kHz for via Issodun relay at 1755. Kurdish news format from 1800. Schedule to 2100. (NLD SDR).
Echo of Hope/VOH, 9950, 1158 two male's Korean conversation to 1200. Fair signal in the clear with parallel 3985 (fair,under jammer) 4885 (good) 5995 (fair, under jammer) 6250 (jammed) 6350 (fair, under jammer). Lady announcer 1205 including clear mention of "VOH" and Asian instrumentals. WRTH notes station is operated by the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS)targeting North Korea.(NangJing, China SDR)
Dandal Kura Radio International 11830 (Issoudun, France relay). Kanuri news script in progress from 1802-1806. Horn of Africa music briefs to clear station ID at 1809 into vocal tunes. Programming is targeted to Nigeria to 1900. Website: http://www.dandalkura.com/
Radio Ergo, 17845. Very poor signal, monitored 1210-1235 via UAE relay in presumed Somali text. Signal's intermittent peaks assist monitoring. Programming targeted to Somalia. Website audio on-demand http://www.radioergo.org/ (Qatar SDR)
Radio Sana'a 11860, 1220-1240. Good signal for continuous Arabic vocal repititive recitations (not Qur'an). Programming presumed to be via Saudi Arabian transmitter, targeting Yemen. (SIO 443). (Qatar SDR)
Voice of the People 3480, 1245-1255. Two male's Korean text to Asian tune 1247, // 3910, 3990 poor under jammer) // 4450, 6520, 6600 barely audible under jammers. Schedule 0500-2300, operated by South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS), targeting North Korea. (NangJing, China SDR).
India
AIR New Delhi/Vividh Bharati 9380. Hindi service with vocals 1322-1324 followed by sitar music to 1428. Intros to Indian music and radio drama reading format at 1430. Fair signal 333 (Delhi India SDR).
AIR Thiruvanthapuram 5010 at 1433 male's acapella singing (Carnatic vocals ?) to 1441. Hindi text resumed to 1455. Musical bridge to top-of-the-hour segments between Indian musical interludes. At 1459 in English, "good evening this is All India Radio at 9:00.". National news and sports headlines, followed by news items. ID break at 1536 "this is All India Radio with the news." News continues amid signal fading with news on Indian Foreign Ministers, correspondent reports, and water shortages at critical levels. Observed fading to 1544. English headlines repeated, into Hindi at 1545. (SDR).
AIR Gangtok (Sikkim) 4835 from 1512 with Hindi text and vocals. DRM interference is mixing on this frequency. Signal very weak as programming continues past, and battling with DRM interference. More Hindi items 1525.(New Delhi, India SDR) Rechecked 1546, sounds like // Hindi programming that was on AIR Thiruvanthapura on 5010. Schedule to 1700 UTC.(SDR)
Malaysia
RTM Sarawak-WAI FM (Kajang) 11665, 1245 tune-in to male/female friendly banter in Malay. Listener phone-in segments from 1248. Info on "programming, Kajang studio and Kuala Lumpur" at 1259. Clear ID "WAI FM" at 1300, followed by fanfare music and "Nasional RTM" into newscript to 1306. Presumed world news from 1313 mentioning Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Philippines. Continued format to 1310 fanfare "RTM" 13:10, numerous mentions of "RTM, Kuala Lampur, WAI FM" and " WAI FM" jingle into Malay pop vocals. Repeat of "WAI FM" jingles, RTM website quote. Announcer's talk-segment into Malay pop vocals 1318-1322. Mentions of Kuala Lumpur, program announcements from "WAI FM" at 1323. Additional Malay pop vocal from 1324. Monitored station to 1325.Former 9835 kHz remain inactive. SIO 444 Streaming audio http://nasionalfm.rtm.gov.my/ (Philippines SDR)
Oman
Sultanate of Oman Radio 9620. Middle Eastern music vocals 1815-1820. Arabic text to 1831. Arabic schedule to 2200. Website: http://part.gov.om (NLD SDR)
(Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Global Radio Guide)
(Teak Publishing)
Stations monitored 13 August 2019
Logs and information welcome at: w4gvh@frontier.com
CRI QSL - Tai Ho Hall (Gayle Van Horn Collection) |
China Radio International 7440. Chinese service 1335 tune-in for program segment on China (mentioning cities) interspersed with Chinese flute music. Barely audible on // 9540. SIO 222. English service from 1340 on 9730 (SIO 444). Program on Chairman Mao. Very poor quality on // 9870, 11660, 13670, 15590 kHz. Esperanto service 1345-1400 on 9440, and 11650 to Europe. Hindi service 1347-1400, 11675 to Asia. Mongolian service 7285, 1350-1357. (Nanning, China SDR)
Clandestine
Dengê Welat/Voice of the Homeland, 11530 via Moldova relay to the Middle East. Tune-in 1030 with Kurdish conversations to 1040. Fanfare intro to Turkish vocal folk music tunes to 1059. News script and reports 1100-1145 tune-out. Fanfare music to report items. Moldova relay schedule 0600-1500. Fair signal SIO 333. Website with two second, streaming audio delay http://www.denge-welat.org/ Issoudun, France relay schedule 1500-0600. (France SDR) Recheck 11530 kHz for via Issodun relay at 1755. Kurdish news format from 1800. Schedule to 2100. (NLD SDR).
Echo of Hope/VOH, 9950, 1158 two male's Korean conversation to 1200. Fair signal in the clear with parallel 3985 (fair,under jammer) 4885 (good) 5995 (fair, under jammer) 6250 (jammed) 6350 (fair, under jammer). Lady announcer 1205 including clear mention of "VOH" and Asian instrumentals. WRTH notes station is operated by the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS)targeting North Korea.(NangJing, China SDR)
Dandal Kura Radio International 11830 (Issoudun, France relay). Kanuri news script in progress from 1802-1806. Horn of Africa music briefs to clear station ID at 1809 into vocal tunes. Programming is targeted to Nigeria to 1900. Website: http://www.dandalkura.com/
Radio Ergo, 17845. Very poor signal, monitored 1210-1235 via UAE relay in presumed Somali text. Signal's intermittent peaks assist monitoring. Programming targeted to Somalia. Website audio on-demand http://www.radioergo.org/ (Qatar SDR)
Radio Sana'a 11860, 1220-1240. Good signal for continuous Arabic vocal repititive recitations (not Qur'an). Programming presumed to be via Saudi Arabian transmitter, targeting Yemen. (SIO 443). (Qatar SDR)
Voice of the People 3480, 1245-1255. Two male's Korean text to Asian tune 1247, // 3910, 3990 poor under jammer) // 4450, 6520, 6600 barely audible under jammers. Schedule 0500-2300, operated by South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS), targeting North Korea. (NangJing, China SDR).
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AIR New Delhi/Vividh Bharati 9380. Hindi service with vocals 1322-1324 followed by sitar music to 1428. Intros to Indian music and radio drama reading format at 1430. Fair signal 333 (Delhi India SDR).
AIR Thiruvanthapuram 5010 at 1433 male's acapella singing (Carnatic vocals ?) to 1441. Hindi text resumed to 1455. Musical bridge to top-of-the-hour segments between Indian musical interludes. At 1459 in English, "good evening this is All India Radio at 9:00.". National news and sports headlines, followed by news items. ID break at 1536 "this is All India Radio with the news." News continues amid signal fading with news on Indian Foreign Ministers, correspondent reports, and water shortages at critical levels. Observed fading to 1544. English headlines repeated, into Hindi at 1545. (SDR).
AIR Gangtok (Sikkim) 4835 from 1512 with Hindi text and vocals. DRM interference is mixing on this frequency. Signal very weak as programming continues past, and battling with DRM interference. More Hindi items 1525.(New Delhi, India SDR) Rechecked 1546, sounds like // Hindi programming that was on AIR Thiruvanthapura on 5010. Schedule to 1700 UTC.(SDR)
RTM Sarawak-WAI FM (Kajang) |
RTM Sarawak-WAI FM (Kajang) 11665, 1245 tune-in to male/female friendly banter in Malay. Listener phone-in segments from 1248. Info on "programming, Kajang studio and Kuala Lumpur" at 1259. Clear ID "WAI FM" at 1300, followed by fanfare music and "Nasional RTM" into newscript to 1306. Presumed world news from 1313 mentioning Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Philippines. Continued format to 1310 fanfare "RTM" 13:10, numerous mentions of "RTM, Kuala Lampur, WAI FM" and " WAI FM" jingle into Malay pop vocals. Repeat of "WAI FM" jingles, RTM website quote. Announcer's talk-segment into Malay pop vocals 1318-1322. Mentions of Kuala Lumpur, program announcements from "WAI FM" at 1323. Additional Malay pop vocal from 1324. Monitored station to 1325.Former 9835 kHz remain inactive. SIO 444 Streaming audio http://nasionalfm.rtm.gov.my/ (Philippines SDR)
Oman
Sultanate of Oman Radio 9620. Middle Eastern music vocals 1815-1820. Arabic text to 1831. Arabic schedule to 2200. Website: http://part.gov.om (NLD SDR)
(Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Global Radio Guide)
(Teak Publishing)
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
India is celebrating its 73rd Independence Day on 15 Aug 2019.
Details of special programs by All India Radio for the occasion is as follows:
14th August 2019 (Wednesday) 1330 UTC onwards "Address to the Nation" on the eve of Independence Day in Hindi and English by Shri.Ram Nath Kovind, Honble President of India.
All stations of All India Radio will relay this on MW, SW & FM.
Look out on the following Home Service SW frequencies :
4760 Leh
4760 Port Blair
4800 Hyderabad
4810 Bhopal
4835 Gangtok
4910 Jaipur
4920 Chennai
4950 Srinagar
4970 Shillong (Off air)
5010 Thiruvananthapuram
5040 Jeypore
9380 Aligarh
9865 Bangalore
15 August 2018 (Thursday) 0135-0240 All India Radio will broadcast the running commentary in English and Hindi on the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minster's speech to be held at Red Fort,
New Delhi between 0135-0240 on 15th August, 2019 on the following SW frequencies.
English:
11740 Panaji 250 kW
15030 Bengaluru 500 kW
Hindi:
9380 Aligarh 250 kW
9950 New Delhi 250 kW
11620 Bengaluru 500 kW
(Note: External Services in Urdu on 6140 7340 are replaced by running commentary at this time)
The following External Services stands canceled for that day:
9950: Nepali 0130-0230, News Hindi / English 0230-0300
11560, 11740: Pushtu 0215-0300, Dari 0300-0345
13695, 15030: Kannada 0215-0300
The Regional SW Stations will start using their day time frequencies about 1 hour or more earlier than usual on 15th August as follows to relay the Commentary. This may provide enhanced reception of stations than on normal days.
The sign on schedule for that day is as follows with normal sign on timings in brackets.
1. Bhopal - 0130 (Ex 0225) 7430
2. Chennai - 0130 (Ex 0300) 7380
3. Hyderabad - 0130 (Ex 0225) 7420
4. Port Blair - 0130 (Ex 0315) 7390
5. Srinagar - 0130 (ex 0225) 6110
6. Thiruvanathapuram - 0130 (Ex 0230) 7290
Other frequencies operating as usual at that time but carrying the commentary is as follows:
4760 Leh
4835 Gangtok
4910 Jaipur
4970 Shillong (Off air)
5040 Jeypore
7270 Chennai
Check also 13695 via Bangalore. All stations of AIR will relay the running commentary.
LIVE STREAMING ON AIR:
Reception Reports to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in
or
Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy)
All India Radio,
Room No. 204, Akashvani Bhawan,
Parliament Street
New Delhi 110001, India
Happy Independence Day to all DX_India members! (Alokesh Gupta-IND & Jose Jacob-IND, DXsasia / DXindia Aug 9/TopNews)
(NASWA)
Mexico AM Radio Update via IRCA

Courtesy of the IRCA (http://IRCAonline.org) DX Monitor V56-#35, DX Worldwide column by Bruce Portzer.
MEXICO: The following additional stations have told me that their AMs have been turned off: 550-XEQW-YUC, 580-XEHP-TAMA, 670-XELH-NAY, 680-XEFJPUEB, 710-XEBL-SIN, 780-XETS-CHIA, 840-XEFG-GJTO, 970-XEZAZ-ZAC, 1380-XEVD-COAH.
The following stations have told me that their AMs are still on the air: 580-XEFI-CHIH, 820-XEBM-SLP, 1380-XETP-VER. XETP-1380 was a surprise.
I've monitored their web stream and thankfully they play a different national anthem than the other surviving station on 1380 (XECO) so I will be trying for them at the Border Inn this year.
The Radio SLP Facebook page has confirmed that there are currently only 5 AMs remaining on the air in the state of San Luis Potosí: XEWA-540, XEANT-770, XEBM-820, XEIE-1030, and XEXQ-1190. The 2 new CPs, XEPBSD-620 and XESLEP-710 (replaces the old XESMR which has moved to FM) are not on the air yet. (Tim Hall)
BBC to pull all radio services from TuneIn UK platform
Radio Today
12 August 2019
BBC radio stations will no longer be available from TuneIn in the UK via services such as Amazon Echo, Google Home speakers and smartphone apps from the end of August.
The BBC and TuneIn have suddenly failed to reach a data-sharing agreement after 15 years of working together in the UK.
Listeners are now required to sign in to hear BBC Radio stations online, so the BBC is unhappy that TuneIn grants access without registration, and withholds data on who is listening.
Kieran Clifton, Director, BBC Distribution & Business Development explains more to RadioToday: “Our live radio streams are only coming off TuneIn on platforms where an alternative way of listening is easily available.
“We want our programs, products and services to be the best they can be. And a major way we ensure that is by using meaningful data. Data is more and more important – as it helps us to make more types of programs we know people like, and equally importantly, identify gaps in our commissioning to ensure we’re making something for all audiences.
“We also use the data collected about what you watch, listen to or read online to offer personalised programme recommendations – and make our services even more tailored to you.
“When we make our programs available via third parties, we ask that those platforms either allow you to sign into your BBC account – or provide us with meaningful data directly. Unfortunately, TuneIn doesn’t do either of these, so we couldn’t reach a data sharing agreement with them.”
BBC Radio services via TuneIn on some devices, where it’s neither technically or economically practicable to demand a sign-in window, will continue for now. These include TuneIn on SONOS speakers and some older connected radios.
Users in the UK listening to BBC Radio via smart devices are urged to download the specific BBC app for each device.
Podcasts will remain on TuneIn, as will all live radio services outside the UK.
https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-services-from-tunein-uk-platform/
(BDXC)
12 August 2019
BBC radio stations will no longer be available from TuneIn in the UK via services such as Amazon Echo, Google Home speakers and smartphone apps from the end of August.
The BBC and TuneIn have suddenly failed to reach a data-sharing agreement after 15 years of working together in the UK.
Listeners are now required to sign in to hear BBC Radio stations online, so the BBC is unhappy that TuneIn grants access without registration, and withholds data on who is listening.
Kieran Clifton, Director, BBC Distribution & Business Development explains more to RadioToday: “Our live radio streams are only coming off TuneIn on platforms where an alternative way of listening is easily available.
“We want our programs, products and services to be the best they can be. And a major way we ensure that is by using meaningful data. Data is more and more important – as it helps us to make more types of programs we know people like, and equally importantly, identify gaps in our commissioning to ensure we’re making something for all audiences.
“We also use the data collected about what you watch, listen to or read online to offer personalised programme recommendations – and make our services even more tailored to you.
“When we make our programs available via third parties, we ask that those platforms either allow you to sign into your BBC account – or provide us with meaningful data directly. Unfortunately, TuneIn doesn’t do either of these, so we couldn’t reach a data sharing agreement with them.”
BBC Radio services via TuneIn on some devices, where it’s neither technically or economically practicable to demand a sign-in window, will continue for now. These include TuneIn on SONOS speakers and some older connected radios.
Users in the UK listening to BBC Radio via smart devices are urged to download the specific BBC app for each device.
Podcasts will remain on TuneIn, as will all live radio services outside the UK.
https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-services-from-tunein-uk-platform/
(BDXC)
Monday, August 12, 2019
Andorra-Small Country, Two Large Radio Stations
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site of Radio Andorra |
The European DX Council plans to hold their annual meeting for this year (2019) in the small country of Andorra from Friday September 6 - Sunday September 8. All who are interested to do so, are most welcome to attend, and you can find the full details on several appropriate web sites. EDXC events & scheduling wwww.edxc.org, presented by Jeff White
In recognition of this coming EDXC event in Andorra, we present here in Wavescan today, the second episode in a four part mini-series on the radio scene in Andorra.
The small independent European country of Andorra, with its total area of less than 200 square miles, is the 6th smallest country in continental Europe. This small largely independent mini-country, with its own independent language, has a total population of less than 80,000 people, though it welcomes more then ten million visiting tourists each year.
Geographically, Andorra is a small country of rugged mountains and narrow valleys in the high Pyrenees mountains and it is sandwiched in between France and Spain. This country is just 15 miles wide and 15 miles long, and it experiences many very low level earthquakes, though it has never been struck by a massive disastrous earthquake.
The residents of Andorra pay no income tax; the country’s main income is derived from tourism; they have no standing army and no navy; and they did not fight in World War 1 nor in World War II. Most foodstuffs are imported, and their currency is the European Euro, even though Andorra is not a member of the European Union. Their national language is Catalan, though fluency also in French, Spanish or Portuguese is quite common. English is understood, particularly in the main tourist areas.
The history of ancient Andorra can be traced way back to the earliest settlements in France and the Iberian Peninsula. Due to its mountainous location, together with the French influence to the north and the Spanish influence to the south, Andorra has maintained some form of independence during the past two thousand years and more. These days the leadership of Andorra is shared by the President of France, and the Catholic Bishop of Catalonia in Spain.
Andorra lies hidden, high up in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain; there have been two postal systems, French and Spanish; there are two school systems, French and Spanish; and for many years, there were two major radio stations, French and Spanish.
These days however, there are three dozen FM stations on the air in Andorra, thus providing complete radio coverage of their entire country, though there are now no medium wave nor shortwave stations. However, back in their earlier years, there were two important radio stations on the air in Andorra, on both medium wave and shortwave. These stations were best known under their titles, as Radio Andorra and Sud Radio. Here now is the story of the first of these stations, Radio Andorra.
It was way back in the year 1935, that a small consortium of business interests obtained a concession from the ruling authorities to establish a powerful commercial radio station in Andorra. This concession for thirty years was granted on August 19, 1935. One of the businessmen in this new venture was Jacques Tremoulet, who afterwards was very influential in establishing several other large medium wave and shortwave stations, including Radio Africa in Tangier, Radio Antilles in Montserrat in the Caribbean, and Radio Trans Europe (Deutsche Welle) at Sines in Portugal.
Construction work for this new large and powerful radio station in Andorra began in mid 1937. A strong four storey building made of granite was constructed in the main valley in Andorra, between Encamp and Las Elcaldes. This complete new building was constructed on the edge of Pena de les Anelletes overlooking the main highway running between France and Spain, and it contained the commercial offices, the on air and production studios for Radio Andorra, and some have suggested, the two original transmitters also.
A lengthy Station Profile as published in the American radio journal Radio News in March 1949, states quite clearly that the two transmitters, medium wave and shortwave, were both installed on the first floor above ground level in this four storey studio building. However, all of the available evidence suggests that the two original transmitters were installed actually in a separate building, the ornate castle like building, right from the beginning. We would suggest then, that the original plans called for the two transmitters to be installed in the studio building, but when construction was underway, then the ornate castle like building was chosen.
Both transmitters, medium wave and shortwave, were constructed by the French-Swiss transmitter company SFR, which is better known these days by some of its subsequent names, including Thomcast. The 60 kW medium wave transmitter was designed to radiate on two channels 425 metres 704 kHz (during the day) and 274 metres 1095 kHz (at night). The 25 kW shortwave transmitter was designed for operation in any of the standard shortwave bands between 5 MHz and 15 MHz. Two medium wave towers 400 feet tall were erected on the edge of the mountain top Lake Engolasters, high above Radio Andorra’s hillside building, and a feeder line more than half a mile long ran from the medium wave transmitter in the building up to the twin towers on the edge of the lake.
The entire project for Radio Andorra was completed in July 1939, and the first test broadcast went on the air on Sunday August 7. At that stage, several different channels around 11.8 MHz were noted on the air in Europe and in the United States. One unusual channel for a broadcast station was 8570 kHz, which was reported in England.
However, due to what was described as a “wartime accident”, the station was off the air for several weeks; and in the meantime, the horrors of World War II began in continental Europe over the first weekend in September. The so called technical problem was corrected, and Radio Andorra returned to the air with test programming in Spanish and French in February of the following year 1940. A regular program schedule was introduced a few weeks later on April 27.
However, as the events of World War II heated up, then the programming events at Radio Andorra began to make change. In June (1940), Radio Andorra dropped programming in the French language; shortly afterwards, the Germans attempted, unsuccessfully, to take over Radio Andorra; and the British made a subsequent and equally unsuccessful attempt to take the station over also. During the subsequent events of the war, Radio Andorra was noted at times with programming beamed to soldiers on service in North Africa, mainly morale boosting music, with very little comment or information.
In May 1945, Radio Andorra made what we would call a peace time move towards postwar programming, with some of its scheduling drawn from the revived Radio Luxembourg. Then three years later, the French tried to jam the medium wave signal from Radio Andorra; some said the jamming transmitter was in Bordeaux France, and others said it was actually Radio Monte Carlo (perhaps with Bordeaux programming).
Somewhere around 1950, Radio Andorra first introduced the usage of its famous little 3½ kW shortwave transmitter which was noted over a period of time on several channels at the top end of the 49 metre band. Then in 1980, two used shortwave transmitters at 10 kW each were installed in the castle like transmitter building.
However at that stage, the license for Radio Andorra was up for renewal, and amidst a lot of political wrangling, the station was closed down soon after 1900 UTC on Thursday April 2, 1981. Give six more days, and Radio Andorra was back on the air again. However on the next day, that is, on Thursday April 9, again at the same time 1900 UTC, the police arrived and ordered the station closed. That was the end.
Six months later, the station engineer stated that he was still testing both transmitters, mediumwave and shortwave, twice each week; and that really was the end for Radio Andorra.
More about the radio scene in Andorra next time.
(Jeff White/AWR-Wavwscan/NWS 548)
Radio Andorra - 1961 (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDF53xmeQxE&t=7s
Radio Andorra Jingles (French)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAn0NNdQ8kE
Radio Andorra (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmtgJB9TPTY
Aspidistra: The wartime breakthrough you’ve never heard of
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Crowborough, the site of Aspidistra, as it is today |
How Britain built the most powerful radio transmitter in the world, and gave Goebbels ‘something to worry about'.
The powerful weapon
On 16 May 1941, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, heard about a new, powerful weapon. Immediately seeing its potential, he encouraged its development. He knew this weapon could cause huge damage and yet it did not use bullets or explosions; it used words.
The weapon was “Black Propaganda” – creating enemy propaganda that Germans would think was German. This type of propaganda is very believable and therefore is more likely to convince the enemy. The easiest way of delivering these messages was radio, but there was a problem.
Additional story at: https://history.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/08/aspidistra-the-wartime-breakthrough-youve-never-heard-of/
(photo source: Nick Catford, Subterranea Britannica)
Allied ' Radio Aspidistra' Of WW 2. A Drama Documentary Radio Broadcast
https://archive.org/details/AlliedRadioAspidistraOfWW2.ADramaDocumentaryRadioBroadcast
Aspidistra - Black Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQf4-0yx8yw
Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins
Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2019 Aug 12 0624 UTC
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# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 05 - 11 August 2019
Solar activity was very low. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed during the period.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 05 Aug and at high levels from 06-11 Aug. The largest flux of the period was 26,161 pfu observed at 07/1930 UTC.
Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to G1 (Minor) storm levels over the period. The period began as a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) was becoming geoeffective. Total field increased to 23 nT by 05/0855 UTC as the Bz component became variable between +11 nT/-19 nT. Solar wind speed reached a maximum of 745 km/s at 06/0750 UTC.
The geomagnetic field responded with four consecutive periods of G1 (Minor) storm levels on 05 Aug followed by quiet to unsettled levels on 06 Aug. Two further enhancements in solar wind speed were observed on 08 Aug and on 09-10 Aug. The first peaked around 575 km/s while the second peaked at approximately 650 km/s. However, no significant increases in total field were observed. Quiet conditions were observed on 07 Aug with quiet to unsettled levels on 08-11 Aug.
Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 12 August - 07 September 2019
Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels for the forecast period (12 Aug-07 Sep).
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on12-16 Aug and again on 02-07 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS influence.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be reach unsettled levels on 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 26-28 Aug, and 06-07 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Unsettled to active levels are expected on 01-02 Sep with G1 (Minor) storming likely on 01 Sep also due to recurrent CH HSS activity.
Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2019 Aug 12 0625 UTC
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# Issued 2019-08-12
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2019 Aug 12 67 8 3
2019 Aug 13 67 5 2
2019 Aug 14 67 5 2
2019 Aug 15 67 5 2
2019 Aug 16 67 8 3
2019 Aug 17 67 5 2
2019 Aug 18 67 5 2
2019 Aug 19 67 5 2
2019 Aug 20 67 5 2
2019 Aug 21 67 5 2
2019 Aug 22 67 5 2
2019 Aug 23 67 5 2
2019 Aug 24 67 5 2
2019 Aug 25 67 5 2
2019 Aug 26 67 8 3
2019 Aug 27 67 8 3
2019 Aug 28 67 8 3
2019 Aug 29 67 5 2
2019 Aug 30 67 5 2
2019 Aug 31 67 5 2
2019 Sep 01 67 38 5
2019 Sep 02 67 14 3
2019 Sep 03 67 5 2
2019 Sep 04 67 5 2
2019 Sep 05 67 5 2
2019 Sep 06 67 8 3
2019 Sep 07 67 8 3
(NOAA)
Saturday, August 10, 2019
From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill's Melting Pot schedules, August 11-17
From the Isle of Music, August 11-17:
This week, our special guest is Denis Martínez, leader of the Timba band Denis y su Swing. Bring your dancing shoes.
The broadcasts take place:
For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100kW, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 kHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am
For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 kHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US).
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
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Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 11 and 13, 2019:
Episode 125, Music for a Flat Earth, features music by groups with flat earth in their name.
The transmissions take place:
Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 kHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer
Tilford Productions, LLC
Friday, August 09, 2019
Blog Logs
All times UTC // parallel frequency
Stations monitored 30 July-August 08, 2019
Logs and information welcome at: w4gvh@frontier.com
Clandestine
Dengê Welat/Voice of the Homeland, 11530 via Issoudun, France relay, 1715 for announcer's Kurdish text and conversations. Schedule to 2100. Station target's programming to Turkey, formerly broadcast as Denge Kurdistan. (NLD SDR)
Eswatini
TWR Africa 9475, 1745 sign-on with interval signal and English ID. Opening choir music into Swahili religious service. Schedule to 1800, Monday-Friday. Good signal SIO 434 via Qatar SDR.
Ethiopia
Radio Amhara (100 kW) 6090, 1700-1750. Amharic text and talk to Horn of Africa vocals. Lady's text 1738, followed by interviews with good signal SIO 343 via Qatar SDR. Subsequent logging 1830-1845. Schedule runs to 2100.
FBC Radio Fana/Fana National program (schedule 0255-2100) (100 kW) in presumed Oromo or Somali from 1750-1837 on 6110 kHz. Signal poor at SIO 222. http://www.fanabc.com. Radio Oromiya (100 kW) heard on 6030 kHz in presumed Amharic text from 1750 tune-in. Fanfare from 1759, time tips 1800. News reporting including correspondent's phone-in. SIO 434.(Qatar SDR) Voice of Tigray Revolution on 5950 kHz (100 kW) from 1800. Male announcer's text to HOA vocal music at 1804-1809. Echo-style announcement and continued music. Listed service as Afar/Tigrinya. SIO 444 with no fading (GRC SDR)
France
Radio Monte Carlo via Roumoules, France 216 LW, from 1820. French conversations and promos for soccer game vs Bangladesh. Good signal to 1935 tune-out. France's Europe 1 on 183 LW, 1935 tune-in to French news headline trade-offs (NLD SDR) Radio France French service noted from 1935 on 11995 // 15300 to Africa. (NLD SDR)
Germany
Radio HCJB Deutschland, 3995 // 5920 to Europe. Good signal at 1940 tune-in. German conversations including remote segments, interspersed with religious music. This segment runs 1600-2000. Germany's Shortwaveradio in English from 1945 playing classic Animals tune House of the Rising Sun to Euro pops. Fairly good signal on 3975 // 6160 kHz. (NLD SDR)
Greece
Voice of Greece 9420, 1520. Promo to Greek pop vocals to 1527. Greek commercial ads format to 1530. Station ID amid musical fanfare. News headlines format to 1535 to additional items on Athens. SIO 444. (GRC SDR)
Grenada
Harbor Light of the Windwards, 1400 kHz AM, 1950 (3:50 pm local time). Excerpts read from Chapter 11 of River of Fire (// audio on website http://harbourlightradio.org/) Instrumental piano music to 2000. Station ID at local "4'o'clock." Choir hymn to Modern Times program with Pastor Dennis Armsby 2001-2015 closing with prayer. Announcer ID at "4:15" local time check to vocal hymn to program, Let the Bible Speak (online Contact link at: http://harbourlightradio.org/page5.html (TWR Bonaire SDR)
India
All India Radio External Service (Aligarh), Urdu service on 6140 kHz. In-progress sitar program at 1825 tune-in to 1829. Announcer's brief text to vocals/tabla accompaniment. Fair SIO 333 signal for schedule to 1930. English AIR 9445 kHz at 1835 tune-in. No sign of 9910, 11620 or 11935 kHz. Station ID at 1850 into Indian musical vocals. Additional monitoring as; 1745-1800; 1800-1945 on, 9445, 9910, 11620, 11935, 13695 world news at 1800 with station ID. (Pakistan/India SDR's)
Iran
VOIRI Pars Today, 6155 to Africa in Arabic at 1830 tune-in. Lady's text on Islam. Intro music to additional programming. Good signal SIO 434. This frequency runs to 2100. French service 7330 from 1820-1920. (Qatar SDR)
North Macedonia
Radio Makedonija 810 kHz AM. Station's tone tune-up signal at 1725. Sign-on 1730 with time tips and station identification and comments, followed by scheduled Macedonian folk music program. This is part of the Monday-Friday Music broadcast 1730-1800. (Hungary/Romania SDR) Read more about North Macedonia, from my June 6, 2019 post North Macedonia, new country listing on medium wave at Shortwave Central https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/
Saudi Arabia
SBA Radio Saudi Gen Prgm 1, 15225 to Asia // 15435 fair to Africa, 1700-1800. Station // on 1440, 1467 kHz AM with Arabic text at 1658 tune-in. Music fanfare to intro announcement. Announcer's text on Islam. Radio Riyadh 585 kHz heard from 1600-1710 monitoring, fair-good signal. SBA Radio Saudi Qur'an, 13710 // 15205 // 17560 n Arabic from 1718 tune-in. SBA Saudi Radio International in Persian service on 7240 kHz with announcer's text. Tajik service 1700-1750 for International on 9885; Persian 7240 kHz 1700-1757.
Turkey
Voice of Turkey, 9540 (to Middle East) // 17770 (to Asia) kHz. Arabic service 1400-1445 with morning features including headline news and Turkish music programs. Website: http://www.trt.net.tr. Persian service on 9765 to Asia, 1500-15555 with similar program format and feature on Ankara and Turkish pop vocals. Poor signal quality for Turkish service from 1520-1555. Additional monitoring at 1710 on 15520 for English service. Weekly Analysis program, musical promos to Turkish folk music. Closing comments about the English service programs noteing the times/frequencies, meter bands, satellite services and website information. Turkish service checked at 1722 on 5960 // 9460 (SIO 433). French service 7360, 1732-1740. German service 9840, 1740-1750. (Hungary SDR)
Oman
Radio Sultanate of Oman, 9620 kHz. Low-level Arabic with SIO 323. Arabic pop-style music 1531-1535, followed by traditional Arabic instrumentals to Arabic service 9620 to 22000 UTC. Website: http://part.gov.om Subsequent checks of 9620, 1835-1845 with fair 322 SIO in Arabic. (Qatar SDR)
(Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Global Radio Guide/Teak Publishing)
Stations monitored 30 July-August 08, 2019
Logs and information welcome at: w4gvh@frontier.com
Clandestine
Eswatini
TWR Africa 9475, 1745 sign-on with interval signal and English ID. Opening choir music into Swahili religious service. Schedule to 1800, Monday-Friday. Good signal SIO 434 via Qatar SDR.
Radio Amhara SDR signal |
Radio Amhara (100 kW) 6090, 1700-1750. Amharic text and talk to Horn of Africa vocals. Lady's text 1738, followed by interviews with good signal SIO 343 via Qatar SDR. Subsequent logging 1830-1845. Schedule runs to 2100.
Radio Fana SDR signal |
France
Radio Monte Carlo via Roumoules, France 216 LW, from 1820. French conversations and promos for soccer game vs Bangladesh. Good signal to 1935 tune-out. France's Europe 1 on 183 LW, 1935 tune-in to French news headline trade-offs (NLD SDR) Radio France French service noted from 1935 on 11995 // 15300 to Africa. (NLD SDR)
Germany
Radio HCJB Deutschland, 3995 // 5920 to Europe. Good signal at 1940 tune-in. German conversations including remote segments, interspersed with religious music. This segment runs 1600-2000. Germany's Shortwaveradio in English from 1945 playing classic Animals tune House of the Rising Sun to Euro pops. Fairly good signal on 3975 // 6160 kHz. (NLD SDR)
Greece
Voice of Greece 9420, 1520. Promo to Greek pop vocals to 1527. Greek commercial ads format to 1530. Station ID amid musical fanfare. News headlines format to 1535 to additional items on Athens. SIO 444. (GRC SDR)
Grenada
Harbor Light of the Windwards, 1400 kHz AM, 1950 (3:50 pm local time). Excerpts read from Chapter 11 of River of Fire (// audio on website http://harbourlightradio.org/) Instrumental piano music to 2000. Station ID at local "4'o'clock." Choir hymn to Modern Times program with Pastor Dennis Armsby 2001-2015 closing with prayer. Announcer ID at "4:15" local time check to vocal hymn to program, Let the Bible Speak (online Contact link at: http://harbourlightradio.org/page5.html (TWR Bonaire SDR)
India
All India Radio External Service (Aligarh), Urdu service on 6140 kHz. In-progress sitar program at 1825 tune-in to 1829. Announcer's brief text to vocals/tabla accompaniment. Fair SIO 333 signal for schedule to 1930. English AIR 9445 kHz at 1835 tune-in. No sign of 9910, 11620 or 11935 kHz. Station ID at 1850 into Indian musical vocals. Additional monitoring as; 1745-1800; 1800-1945 on, 9445, 9910, 11620, 11935, 13695 world news at 1800 with station ID. (Pakistan/India SDR's)
Iran
VOIRI Pars Today, 6155 to Africa in Arabic at 1830 tune-in. Lady's text on Islam. Intro music to additional programming. Good signal SIO 434. This frequency runs to 2100. French service 7330 from 1820-1920. (Qatar SDR)
North Macedonia
Radio Makedonija 810 kHz AM. Station's tone tune-up signal at 1725. Sign-on 1730 with time tips and station identification and comments, followed by scheduled Macedonian folk music program. This is part of the Monday-Friday Music broadcast 1730-1800. (Hungary/Romania SDR) Read more about North Macedonia, from my June 6, 2019 post North Macedonia, new country listing on medium wave at Shortwave Central https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/
Saudi Arabia
SBA Radio Saudi Gen Prgm 1, 15225 to Asia // 15435 fair to Africa, 1700-1800. Station // on 1440, 1467 kHz AM with Arabic text at 1658 tune-in. Music fanfare to intro announcement. Announcer's text on Islam. Radio Riyadh 585 kHz heard from 1600-1710 monitoring, fair-good signal. SBA Radio Saudi Qur'an, 13710 // 15205 // 17560 n Arabic from 1718 tune-in. SBA Saudi Radio International in Persian service on 7240 kHz with announcer's text. Tajik service 1700-1750 for International on 9885; Persian 7240 kHz 1700-1757.
Turkey
Voice of Turkey, 9540 (to Middle East) // 17770 (to Asia) kHz. Arabic service 1400-1445 with morning features including headline news and Turkish music programs. Website: http://www.trt.net.tr. Persian service on 9765 to Asia, 1500-15555 with similar program format and feature on Ankara and Turkish pop vocals. Poor signal quality for Turkish service from 1520-1555. Additional monitoring at 1710 on 15520 for English service. Weekly Analysis program, musical promos to Turkish folk music. Closing comments about the English service programs noteing the times/frequencies, meter bands, satellite services and website information. Turkish service checked at 1722 on 5960 // 9460 (SIO 433). French service 7360, 1732-1740. German service 9840, 1740-1750. (Hungary SDR)
Oman
Radio Sultanate of Oman, 9620 kHz. Low-level Arabic with SIO 323. Arabic pop-style music 1531-1535, followed by traditional Arabic instrumentals to Arabic service 9620 to 22000 UTC. Website: http://part.gov.om Subsequent checks of 9620, 1835-1845 with fair 322 SIO in Arabic. (Qatar SDR)
(Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Global Radio Guide/Teak Publishing)
Thursday, August 08, 2019
Atlantic 2000 International slated for special Radio Andorra program
Atlantic 2000 International will be on air on 6070 kHz via Rohrbach, Germany, Saturday 10 August 0800-0900 and and Sunday, 11 August 1900-2000 UTC.
We will be on the air on August 10-11, 2019
Radio Andorra was a legendary radio station, transmitting on mediumwave and shortwave from 1939 to 1981, from the Principality of Andorra, a small country between France and Spain. The station was officially launched on 07 August 1939.
To celebrate the 80 years of this launch, Atlantic 2000 will transmit a special tribute programme on Saturday, August 10, from 08:00 to 09:00 UTC on 6070 kHz and online.From 09:00 to 11:00 UTC, online only, we will repeat the tribute to Radio Andorra that we transmitted in 2009, for the 70th anniversary of Radio Andorra.
Atlantic 2000 will be on the air again on Sunday 11 August from 19:00 to 20:00 UTC with music and dedications, on 6070 kHz and online.
Streams will be available on our website
http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr
or here:
- 64 kbps
http://87.117.228.65:15124/listen.pls
http://atlantic2000int.listen2myshow.com/
- 24 kbps
http://95.154.254.129:17473/listen.pls
http://atlantic2000.radiostream321.com/
Good listening
Visit our website: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr Listen to our Podcasts and follow us: https://www.mixcloud.com/atlantic2000
(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain/HCDX)
Monday, August 05, 2019
Echo of Hope-VOH, summer schedule update
Clandestine, Echo of Hope/VOH
Revised complete summer schedule
Broadcast daily, target areas to North Korea. Operated by the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS). Station routinely jammed.
Station has been using VOH (Voice of Hope) as part of their on-air identification since 2008. Frequencies subject to change.
All times UTC
Korean
0000-0100 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
0100-0200 4885, 6250, 9100
0200-0300 4885, 6250, 9100
0300-0400 4885, 6250, 9100
0400-0500 4885, 6250, 9100
0500-0600 3985, 5995, 6350
0600-0700 3985, 5995, 6350
0700-0800 3985, 5995, 6350
0800-0900 3985, 5995, 6350
0900-1000 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1000-1100 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1100-1200 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1200-1300 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1300-1400 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1400-1500 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1500-1600 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1600-1700 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1700-1800 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1800-1900 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
1900-2000 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
2000-2100 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
2100-2200 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
2200-2300 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
2300-0000 3985, 4885, 5995, 6250, 6350, 9100
(WRTH update 27 Jul 2019)
(Teak Publishing)
http://www.nis.go.kr
Voice of Hope - Africa, summer schedule update
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Voice of Hope QSL |
Zambia, Voice of Hope-Africa
Broadcast days as indicated
All target areas to Africa. Transmitters via Lusaka, Makeni Ranch, Zambia
Times UTC
English
1200-1300 Sat/Sun 9680, 13680
1300-1400 daily 9680, 13680
1400-1500 daily 9680, 13680
1500-1600 daily 9680, 13680
1600-1700 daily 4965, 6065
1700-1800 daily 4965, 6065
1800-1900 Mon/Tues/Wed/Th 4965, 6065
English/Fulfulde/Hausa
1800-1900 Fri/Sat/Sun 4965, 6065
(WRTH update/27 Jul, 2019)
(Teak Publishing)
Radio for Peace International summer schedule
This new station, is not connected to the former RFPI, based in Costa Rica. Programs are rebroadcast of their weekly podcast. Schedules may be subject to change and close times are variable
Radio for Peace International
Broadcast days, target areas and relays as indicated
Times UTC
French
0000-0100 Sat 9395na (WRMI)
0200-0230 Fri 5130na (WBCQ) one Friday per month, according to available airtime
1400-1500 Thurs 21525af (WRMI) third Thursday per month
2000-2100 Fri 6070eu (Ch.292, Rohrbach, Germany)
2000-2100 Fri 15770af (WRMI)
af Africa
eu Europe
na North America
(WRTH 27 Jul, 2019 update)
FEBA India revised summer schedule updates
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FEBA India (VidTeq) |
Broadcast days as indicated
All target areas to South Asia. Transmitter via Merizo, Guam
Times UTC
English
1300-1315 Mon 11580 (ex 1330-1345)
Kannada
1245-1300 Sun 11580 (ex 1315-1330)
1300-1315 Tues/Fri/Sat 11580 (ex 1330-1345)
Malayalam
1245-1300 Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat 11580 (ex 1315-1330)
Tamil
1300-1315 Tues 11580as
Telugu
1245-1300 Mon/Tues 11580 (ex 1315-1350)
(WRTH 01 Aug 2019 update)
Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins
Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2019 Aug 05 0339 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services
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# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 29 July - 04 August 2019
Solar activity was very low under a spotless solar disk. Other activity included a filament eruption observed in SDO/AIA 304 imagery beginning at 04/1640 UTC in the NW quadrant. Analysis is on-going for any potential coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as coronagraph imagery becomes available.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal levels during the period.
Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled levels. Solar wind parameters indicated the arrival of a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) preceding a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) beginning midday on 30 Jul. Total field increased to 11 nT by 30/2024 UTC while solar wind speed increased to a maximum of 596 km/s at 01/0503 UTC. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled periods on 30 Jul-01 Aug.
Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 05 August - 31 August 2019
Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels for the forecast period (05-31 Aug).
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach moderate levels on 05 Aug and 18 Aug. High levels are expected on 06-17 Aug due to CH HSS influence.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be reach unsettled to active levels on 05-08, 10-11, 17-18, 26-28, and 31 Aug with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on 05-06 Aug due to recurrent CH HSS effects.
Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2019 Aug 05 0339 UTC
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# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services
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# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2019-08-05
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2019 Aug 05 67 25 5
2019 Aug 06 67 25 5
2019 Aug 07 67 15 4
2019 Aug 08 67 8 3
2019 Aug 09 67 5 2
2019 Aug 10 67 8 3
2019 Aug 11 67 8 3
2019 Aug 12 67 5 2
2019 Aug 13 67 5 2
2019 Aug 14 67 5 2
2019 Aug 15 67 5 2
2019 Aug 16 67 5 2
2019 Aug 17 67 8 3
2019 Aug 18 67 8 3
2019 Aug 19 67 5 2
2019 Aug 20 67 5 2
2019 Aug 21 67 5 2
2019 Aug 22 67 5 2
2019 Aug 23 67 5 2
2019 Aug 24 67 5 2
2019 Aug 25 67 5 2
2019 Aug 26 67 8 3
2019 Aug 27 67 8 3
2019 Aug 28 67 8 3
2019 Aug 29 67 5 2
2019 Aug 30 67 5 2
2019 Aug 31 67 12 4
(NOAA)
Saturday, August 03, 2019
From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill's Melting Pot schedules August 4-10
From the Isle of Music, August 4-10:
This week, we look at the career of the late Mongo Santamaria, who left us a vast and diverse body of work recorded in Cuba and the United States.
The broadcasts take place:
For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100kW, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 kHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am
For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 kHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US).
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 4 and 6, 2019:
Episode 124 brings you music from Japan that spans over 80 years.
The transmissions take place:
Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 kHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe
If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe.
If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
(Tillford Productions)
Friday, August 02, 2019
UK Medium Wave News
An excerpt from the August edition of U.K. & Ireland News
Gold is returning to AM in Peterborough and Northampton using the frequencies currently used by Smooth Radio. Ofcom has approved two format change requests. The move means 1332 kHz in Peterborough and 1557 kHz in Northampton will carry the Gold network rather than Smooth. The two frequencies previously carried Gold before switching to Smooth in 2014.
Global has requested the change ahead of Smooth Radio East Midlands taking over Connect FM’s three frequencies at a yet-to-be-announced future date. Connect FM covers Kettering (previously 107.4 KCBC), Peterborough (previously 106.8 Lite FM) and Corby (launched as 97.2 Connect FM in 1998).
Gold is currently available on medium wave in London on 1548 kHz, Derby on 945, Manchester on 1458, Nottingham on 999 and nationally in DAB+. (Radio Today 26 July/TR)
Panjab and Love Sport Radio to swap frequencies from 1 August The UK’s longest running Punjabi-language radio station, Panjab Radio, has confirmed to BizAsiaLive.com that it will be launching a London-wide service on 558 kHz from 1 August, extending its reach to the entire Greater London region on the analogue platform.
Panjab Radio currently broadcasts to North London on 1584 kHz. The new frequency will put it directly head-to-head with London Asian commercial rivals, Sunrise Radio, Lyca Radio and Lyca
Dilse. Surjit Singh Ghuman MBE, Managing Director of Panjab Radio said, “It gives me great pleasure to confirm that we will begin broadcasting throughout Greater London on our new frequency on 1st August 2019 at midday. This is a new chapter in the success of Panjab Radio, which is down to our listeners and well-wishers, who have supported Panjab Radio every step of the way.”
As revealed earlier, Panjab Radio will swap with Love Sport, which currently broadcasts on 558. The latter will move to 1584 kHz on the same day. (Biz Asia 26 July)
Spirit Radio 549 kHz (Carrickroe, Co Donegal, Ireland) was noted with stronger signals recently, possibly testing their new 50 kW transmitter? Seems to have since reverted to lower power. (David Duckworth-25 Jul 2019)
(Dave Kenny/BDXC-August 2019)
Wavescan to feature Radio Andorra
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Andorra, Radio postcard (akpool.co.uk) |
Please note that we are interrupting the regular flow of topics in Wavescan to present a special program honoring the fascinating historic story of the exotic Radio Andorra high in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain. On August 7, Radio Andorra would have celebrated its 80th anniversary, if it were still on the air. This special edition of Wavescan was professionally produced by Christian Milling in Germany, it was edited for broadcast in Wavescan by Dr. Adrian Peterson in Indianapolis, and it was prepared for broadcast by Jeff White at Radio Miami International WRMI in Miami Florida. Edition NWS 545 contains the Radio Andorra story, and it is scheduled for broadcast in the normal scheduling of Wavescan, beginning over this coming weekend. You may check the availability of this special program in your part of the world by accessing the websites of the following international shortwave stations:-
Adventist World Radio KSDA Guam
Adventist World Radio shortwave relay stations in Europe, Africa and Asia that carry Wavescan
Radio Miami International WRMI in Miami, Florida
Voice of Hope KVOH in Simi Valley, California
Voice of Hope relay station in Zambia, Africa
World Wide Christian Radio WWCR in Nashville, Tennessee
Also available on line from several sources, and as a podcast download, and via special telephone numbers
(AWR/A Peterson)
Thursday, August 01, 2019
The Internet’s Impact on International Radio
Many broadcasters saved money by moving from high-power shortwave transmissions to the web. But at what cost?
James Careless
OTTAWA — During the height of the Cold War (1947–1991), the shortwave radio bands were alive with international state-run broadcasters; transmitting their respective views in multiple languages to listeners around the globe.
The western bloc’s advocates were led by the BBC World Service, and included Voice of America, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, Radio Canada International and a host of influential European broadcasters. The eastern bloc’s de facto team captain was the USSR’s Radio Moscow (with its unique hollow, echoing sound), supplemented by broadcasters in Soviet satellite countries (like East Germany’s Radio Berlin International) and allies like Fidel Castro’s Radio Havana Cuba
Additional text at Radio World:
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/the-internets-impact-on-international-radio?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6230&utm_content=RWI_Newsbytes_August%2C+1%2C+2019+&utm_term=&m_i=PnkrB6x_gjmyP866n6OfPASLAA_VCFq8vwLGsawVw_4lhMcdrevZ2W5E5gnYr7F%2BHFLH6qQlP7kXPNfjtWUo_LUA9nBviG%2BPPt&M_BT=1063852520706
James Careless
OTTAWA — During the height of the Cold War (1947–1991), the shortwave radio bands were alive with international state-run broadcasters; transmitting their respective views in multiple languages to listeners around the globe.
The western bloc’s advocates were led by the BBC World Service, and included Voice of America, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, Radio Canada International and a host of influential European broadcasters. The eastern bloc’s de facto team captain was the USSR’s Radio Moscow (with its unique hollow, echoing sound), supplemented by broadcasters in Soviet satellite countries (like East Germany’s Radio Berlin International) and allies like Fidel Castro’s Radio Havana Cuba
Additional text at Radio World:
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/the-internets-impact-on-international-radio?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6230&utm_content=RWI_Newsbytes_August%2C+1%2C+2019+&utm_term=&m_i=PnkrB6x_gjmyP866n6OfPASLAA_VCFq8vwLGsawVw_4lhMcdrevZ2W5E5gnYr7F%2BHFLH6qQlP7kXPNfjtWUo_LUA9nBviG%2BPPt&M_BT=1063852520706
Radio Joystick and Scandinavian Weekend Radio, weekend schedules
Austria
Radio Joystick, The Charlie-Prince Show, Moosbrunn, will be on the air Sunday August 4 at 1000 UTC, like all first Sunday of the month on 7330 kHz:
https://radiojoystick.de/
"Since 2013 we broadcast via Media Broadcast. The transmitters are located, "in the small town of Moosbrunn near Vienna, broadcasting our shows on every first Sunday of each month at 12:00 hours German time with 100 kW at 7330 kHz on shortwave to Western Europe."
Finland
Scandinavian Weekend Radio, from Virrat, Finland, will air this weekend from Friday August 2 at 2100 UTC to Saturday August 3 2100 UTC, on 11720, 11690, 6170 and 5980 kHz
Detailed schedule:
http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm
3rd Aug 2019
Local
Time Frequency
Program details
UTC
Time
SW
MW
FM
00-01 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 21-22
01-02 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 22-23
02-03 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 23-24
03-04 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 00-01
04-05 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 01-02
05-06 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 02-03
06-07 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 03-04
07-08 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 04-05
08-09 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Country Company Oldies Show 12 pt.1 05-06
09-10 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Soul, funk & r'n'b - Heppu Hyypiö 06-07
10-11 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Huomenta Virrat - Dj Häkä 07-08
11-12 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Finnish national parks & music - Heppu Hyypiö 08-09
12-13 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Studiossa Dj Onni 09-10
13-14 6170/11690 1602 94,90 10-11
14-15 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Virrat Tänään - Dj Häkä 11-12
15-16 6170/11720 1602 94,90 12-13
16-17 6170/11720 1602 94,90 13-14
17-18 5980/11720 1602 94,90 14-15
18-19 5980/11720 1602 94,90 TrickyTrev Show 15-16
19-20 5980/11720 1602 94,90 TrickyTrev Show 16-17
20-21 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 17-18
21-22 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 18-19
22-23 5980/11720 1602 94,90 19-20
23-24 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Closing ceremony SWR crew 20-21
Live stream 10-24 SKA / 07-21 UTC via Radioverkko.fi
http://www.radioverkko.fi
Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain/HCDX)
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