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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 - 10 March 2024

Solar activity was at low to moderate levels. Region 3599 (S13, L=067, class/area Dai/220 on 09 Mar) produced two M-class flares. The first was an impulsive M1.3/Sf at 08/2126 UTC. The second was an M7.4 flare at 10/1213 UTC with an associated 340 sfu Tenflare, a Type II radio sweep (714 km/s), a weak Castelli U radio signature, and a CME directed off the NW limb at 10/1248 UTC. Initial modelling of the CME indicated no Earth-directed component, however further analysis is on-going. A faint partial halo was observed beginning at 10/1812 UTC in coronagraph imagery, likely related to a C6.9/1f flare at 10/1538 UTC from Region 3599. Initial analysis showed a glancing blow around midday on 13 Mar. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. A slight enhancement to near 0.4 pfu was observed following the M7.4 flare at 10/1213 UTC. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels with a peak flux of 739 pfu observed at 10/1935 UTC. 

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. The period began under the influence of CME activity that left the Sun on 28 Feb. Total field reached 13 nT early on 04 Mar and diminished to 5-7 nT by 05 Mar. Solar wind speed gradually increased from approximately 350 km/s to near 460 km/s during this time. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 04 Mar and quiet to unsettled levels on 05 Mar. Solar wind speed continued in the 350-460 km/s range through early on 08 Mar. Quiet to

unsettled levels were observed on 06-07 Mar. By 08 Mar, solar wind speed increased to around 515 km/s due to negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) activity. Solar wind speed slowly decreased thereafter to near 410 km/s by the end of the period. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 08-09 Mar and quiet to unsettled levels on 10 Mar. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 March - 06 April 2024

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels with a chance for M-class (R1-R2/Minor-Moderate) flares on 11-14 Mar due primarily to the flare potential of Region 3599. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on 15-26 Mar. On 27 Mar-06 Apr, a chance for M-class flares is once again likely as Region 3599 returns to the visible disk. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to continue at normal to moderate levels. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach unsettled on 11-12 Mar due to CH HSS activity and unsettled to active levels on 13 Mar due to possible influence from the 10 Mar CME. Unsettled levels are likely again on 28-29 Mar and 03-05 Apr due to recurrent CH HSS activity. 

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2024 Mar 11     125           8          3

2024 Mar 12     125          12          3

2024 Mar 13     122          12          4

2024 Mar 14     118           5          2

2024 Mar 15     122           5          2

2024 Mar 16     125           5          2

2024 Mar 17     122           5          2

2024 Mar 18     127           5          2

2024 Mar 19     130           5          2

2024 Mar 20     135           5          2

2024 Mar 21     135           5          2

2024 Mar 22     135           5          2

2024 Mar 23     135           5          2

2024 Mar 24     132           5          2

2024 Mar 25     130           5          2

2024 Mar 26     132           5          2

2024 Mar 27     138           5          2

2024 Mar 28     140          10          3

2024 Mar 29     140           8          3

2024 Mar 30     142           5          2

2024 Mar 31     140           5          2

2024 Apr 01     135           5          2

2024 Apr 02     130           5          2

2024 Apr 03     128          12          3

2024 Apr 04     125          12          3

2024 Apr 05     125          12          3

2024 Apr 06     125           5          2

(NOAA)

DX Central - LIVE TONIGHT from Northshore Studios !!

DON'T MISS IT - JOIN IN !!

Tune in tonight, Friday, March 8, at 7:45 EST/6:45 CST (0045 UTC) for a new edition of Loyd Van Horn's program LIVE AM/MW DX Central, broadcasting from Northshore Studios. (Season 4) at https://www.youtube.com/@DXCentral 

To learn more visit DX Central,  for DX tips, airchecks, and educational resources for the AM and FM Dxer at: www.dxcentralonline.com 

"DX Central - because we're all about radio!"

Twitter:  @DXCentral

Facebook:  @DXCentralonline

                                                       DON'T MISS IT !!!!!

Milcom Files still available at Amazon

 

The Spectrum Monitor - February issue 2024, has featured two of Larry's books from Amazon. Both remain timely and are now an heirloom. Do you have your copies yet? There are many at Amazon, including these three at: 

The Milcom Files  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSB39NFV/

The Milcom Files 

https://www.amazon.com/Milcom-Files-Spectrum-Monitor-ebook/dp/B08VF5PMTD/ 

The Milcom Files https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RN1ZGLJ/

Encore Classical music from Radio Tumbril

 

Regular Broadcast times of Encore By WRMI and Channel 292 are:

02:00 - 03:00 UTC Friday 5850 kHz WRMI to US

20:00 - 21:00 UTC Friday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe

11:00 - 12:00 UTC Saturday 9670 kHz Channel 292 to Europe

01:00 - 02:00 UTC Sunday 5850 kHz WRMI to US and Canada

18:00 - 19:00 UTC Sunday 3955 kHz Channel 292 to Europe (Back on 3955 now Antenna repaired)

03:00 - 04:00 UTC Monday 5950 kHz WRMI to the US and Canada

13:00 - 14:00 UTC Tuesday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe, east coast of US and Iceland. (Sometimes RTTY on the lower sideband. Suggest notch out or use USB.)

 

Some Things to see on The Encore Website:

The Encore website is www.tumbril.co.uk where you will find:

Important information about funding of Encore - Radio Tumbril.

Up to date transmission times and frequencies.

The playlists for the most recent programmes.

An email link.

Informal reception reports as well as those requesting eQSL cards are welcome.

 

ENCORE IS A ONE-MAN OPERATION -  PLEASE MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION OR 'BUY ME A COFFEE' AND HELP PAY THE  BROADCASTERS AND KEEP ENCORE ON THE AIR - Go to - www.tumbril.co.uk

 

WRMI and Channel 292 are very generous with their air-time but Encore still costs around 100 Dollars/Euros a month to broadcast.

If you can - please send a small contribution to help Encore keep going.

 

THE DONATION BUTTON AND 'BUY ME A COFFEE' BUTTON are on the homepage of the website - www.tumbril.co.uk - which folks can use if they would like to support Encore.

 

(Please don't be put off by the POWR security wall when using the PAYPAL button - it is a harmless requirement of WIX the website hosting service.)

 

THIS FORTNIGHT'S PROGRAMME - (First broadcast this FRIDAY 8th March) by WRMI at 0200 UTC on 5850, (and 2000 UTC on 15770) and then Channel 292 on SATURDAY (9th March) at 11:00 UTC on 9670 kHz):

Starts with Alfred Brendel playing part of the Italian Concerto by Bach.

Then we have some Stravinsky arranged for piano and violin followed by part of Visions of Arctic by Eriks Esenvalds. Something new from the ever original Caroline Shaw next, a lullaby from contemporary Latvian Composer Karlis Lacis, and The Witch of Endor; written and performed by Moondog.

The Programme ends with two subtle piano pieces by Lili Boulanger and a Baroque piece featuring the bassoon from Jan Dismas Zelenka.

A very good site for online SDR receivers all over the world is: http://kiwisdr.com/public/  Click the 'Map' button in the top left of the screen.

 

Thank you for spreading the word about Encore - Classical Music on Shortwave on Radio Tumbril - and thank you for your support.

 

Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril - www.tumbril.co.uk 

GMØTLY

Pirate Letters Go to South Carolina, New Jersey

 

These cases date to March 2022 and August 2023

BY Radio World Staff 

Published March 4, 2024 

Two more property owners have received the FCC’s “pirate radio” letter.

The commission has informed Charles Wyatt that agents from its Atlanta office, acting on a complaint, traced a signal on 87.9 MHz to his property in Greenville, S.C. 

That happened in March of 2022. The letter didn’t explain why it took two years for the notice to be issued.

Separately the commission has notified Somerset Maplewood LLC that a signal on 91.7 was traced to its property in Maplewood, N.J. That was in August of 2023.

Both letters inform the owners that third parties who help or enable pirate broadcasts are liable to federal penalties of up to $2.4 million under the PIRATE Act.

The commission recently told Congress that to help fight pirate radio, it had hired four full-time people in fiscal 2023 and was in the process of hiring more.

Link to Pirate Radio Not Just a Big City Problem

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/pirate-radio-is-not-just-a-big-city-problem

Radio Poland marks 88 years on the air

 

On March 1, 2024, Radio Poland marked 88 years on the air. 

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/Artykul/3343155,radio-poland-marks-88-years-on-air

Radio Poland is celebrating its 88th anniversary on the air. The station,launched on March 1, 1936, is part of Poland's public radio network.

It broadcasts programmes on developments at home and abroad,Polish foreign policy, the economy, business and foreign investment.

Radio Poland, also known as Polish Radio's External Service (Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy), aims to provide objective and impartial information about Poland and the country's stance on international affairs.

It reports on developments in Polish society, its daily life as well as scientific and cultural achievements.

The thenews.pl website, part of Radio Poland, is a leading English language resource for Polish news.

Updated regularly all day, every day, the website covers domestic and foreign affairs, economy and business, culture, sports and human interest stories.

Polish Radio launched shortwave broadcasts in English and Polish in 1936.They were discontinued with the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

After the end of the war in 1945, the shortwave channel Warszawa III resumed external broadcasts.

In 1990 Polish Radio started broadcasting in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak.

Then in 1994 the External Service began daily broadcasts in several languages via the World Radio Network.

In 2007, Polish Radio's External Service launched its news website now available at  www.polskieradio.pl

Today, Radio Poland broadcasts in Polish and five foreign languages:

English, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian.

(polskieradio.pl  via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 2)

Akashvani (All India Radio) schedules

 

Akashvani schedule

Look for additional updates for the upcoming summer schedule period which begins 31 March 2024

INDIA   Akashvani -  External Services

(Earlier known as All India Radio, New Delhi-IND)

B23  VU2JOS  5 Febr 2024

Note: A 15 minute program in English called <Spotlight> is newly broad-

cast in the various services.

Live streaming: https://prasarbharati.gov.in/get-apps/

Time sorted

https://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Language      UTC     kHz  (Tx site)    Target Area

Bangla     0030-0900    594(C)                         Bangladesh

Sindhi     0100-0130   1071(R)  7215.003_BGL           Pakistan

Tibetan    0100-0230  11734.774_DEL       Tibet, jammed by CHN mainland

Indonesian 0130-0230  15280.004_BGL                    Indonesia

Nepali     0145-0230  15410.010_BGL 103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

Hindi      0230-0245  15410.010_BGL 103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

English    0245-0300  15410.010_BGL 103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

Nepali     0300-0315  15410.010_BGL 103.2(N) 103.7(G)  Nepal

Baluchi    0300-0430  11804.773_DEL                    Pakistan

Burmese    0315-0415  15410.010_BGL                    Myanmar

Farsi      0400-0530  15280.004_BGL                    Iran

Urdu       0400-0745   1071(R) 100.8(F), 103.6 MHz(A)  Pakistan

Dari       0430-0600   9734.804_DEL  11875.004_BGL     Afghanistan

Pashtu     0430-0600  11804.773_DEL  15185.008-BGL     Afghanistan

Arabic     0530-0630  15280.004_BGL                    Middle East

Nepali     0900-1030   9734.807_DEL  11804.785_DEL  15400.004_BGL

                       103.2(N) 103.7(G)               Nepal

Urdu       0930-1130   1071(R) 100.8(F), 103.6 MHz(A)  Pakistan

Bangla     1000-1515    594(C)                         Bangladesh

Chinese    1030-1200  15400.004_BGL          China, jammed by CHN mainland

Tibetan    1045-1215   9734.806_DEL  11804.786_DEL

                                 Tibet, jammed by CHN mainland on even fqy

Saraiki    1130-1200   1071(R) 103.6 MHz(A)            Pakistan

Punjabi    1200-1330   1071(R) 103.6 MHz(A)            Pakistan

Swahili    1215-1315  15400.012_BGL                    East Africa

Baluchi    1230-1330   9734.805_DEL                    Pakistan

Pashtu     1230-1400  11805.004_BGL                    fr 12.15 UT onwards

                                                       Afghanistan

Dari       1330-1500   9735.003_BGL  S=9+40dB powerful Afghanistan

Hindi      1515-1530    594(C)                         Bangladesh

English    1530-1545    594(C)                         Bangladesh

Bangla     1545-1830    594(C)                         Bangladesh

Urdu       1545-1930   1071(R) 100.8(F), 103.6 MHz(A)  Pakistan

Farsi      1600-1730   9620.003_BGL                    Iran

Arabic     1730-1930   9620.003_BGL                    Middle East

French     1930-2030   9620.003_BGL            DRM digital mode WestEurope

                                                 but also heard in AM mode

Punjabi    2330-0100   1071(R) 103.6 MHz(A)            Pakistan

Chinese    2345-0115  15280.004_BGL          China, jammed by CHN mainland

Note: Home Service and other languages may be heard briefly for a few

minutes prior to the start / end of some of the scheduled External

Services languages.

Time Wise schedules is in: <https://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm>

Reception Reports to:      <spectrum-manager -at- prasarbharati.gov.in>

Transmitter Sites used for External Services:

Code Location kW    kHz/MHz

A  Amritsar   1x20   103.6

B  Bengaluru  3x500  7215 9620 9735 11735 11805 11875 15185 15280 15400

                    15410

C  Chinsurah  (Kolkata) 594

D  New Delhi  2x100  9735 11735 11805

F  Fazilka    20    100.8

G  Gadania    1x10  103.7

N  Nanpara    1x10  103.2

R  Rajkot     1071

Live streaming:  <https://prasarbharati.gov.in/get-apps/>

Prepared by Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, India.  Email: <vu2jos -at- niar.org>

(IDXC 'Focus On India'  <idxc.international -at- gmail.com>

Jose Jacob VU2JOS; DX India, Febr 5, 2024; monitored by wb  df5sx  wwdxc)

(WWDXC 1528/08 Mar 2024)

World Music Radio testing new transmitter

 

World Music Radio (WMR) is testing a new 300 Watts transmitter (AM carrier) on 25800 kHz since February 19 - instead of the old one which was 60 Watts (AM carrier) only. Unfortunately we are causing some interference to a local Ethernet set up. So at times modulation has been lowered, and power is slightly under 300 Watts.

Signals can be heard worldwide. With a bit of luck and patience as well as a good receiver and a good aerial. The best chances are in Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Russia, and Eastern North America. But signals have also been picked up in Western North America, Japan, South America, Australia/NZ, the Middle East, South Africa, and Japan.

All World Music Radio frequencies: 927, 5930, 15700, and 25800 kHz are on the air 24/7 hrs/d . QSL's available from

World Music Radio

P.O.Box 112

DK-8960 Randers SØ

Denmark - Europe

Please enclose return postage (2 IRCs or 5 EURo) if possible. The printed 2024 QSL card will be available soon (before Summer hopefully).

Best 73s - ( Stig Hartvig Nielsen-DEN, hcdx via

ARDXC ADXN magazine March, direct ARDXC to wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 8)

(WWDXC Top Nx 1573/08 Mar 2024)

SM Radio Dessau program schedules

 

SM Radio Dessau 

Germany/Austria: SM Radio Dessau

https://www.smradio-dessau.de

The following broadcast will be on the following schedules: 

(UTC, +1=CET, +2=CEST):

Sun , March 10, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: 6070 KHz (Moosbrunn 100 kW) Buchenwald process

Sun, April 14, 2024, 11:00 a.m.-12 p.m .: 6070 KHz (Moosbrunn 100 kW) Contemporary witnesses of the magnetic tape factory Dessau

Sun, April 21, 2024, 10.00 -11 a.m.: 6095 kHz (Nauen 100 kW) contemporary witnesses of the Dessau magnetic tape factory

Meaningful reception reports are welcome at Max Berger, Saalestrasse 44, 06846 Dessau, maxberger@smradio-dessau.de. 

(Bernd Seiser/Thomas Becker)

News on LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel

Antarctica

LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, status info:

Alejandro Petrecca (Chief of the LRA1 TX Plant) and Claudio Garcia (technical operator of Radio Nacional El Bolson and amateur radio operator with previous experience at LRA 36) finally arrived at Joint Antarctic Base Esperanza. Their mission is to perform maintenance and optimization work on the audio chain, install a new console, and place the FM antenna and the tower that will be used for the new LRA 36 shortwave transmitter.

Upon arrival, they discovered that the output stage of the Collins HF 80 transmitter, which is used to transmit LRA 36 programs on 15476 kHz, was burned out. They also found that the tower sections for the shortwave antenna and the audio console had not yet arrived at the base. LRA 36 broadcast regularly until January 13.

Then, Juan Benavente, the architect of many LRA 36's achievements in recent years, was recalled. With Benavente's departure, the radio was left in the hands of unqualified people, which is evident by the fact that the transmitter burned out the day after he left.

The cause of the fire is being investigated. Juan and Nicole Valdebenito (operator) know the sequences necessary to start up the transmitter by heart, but this was not the case with those who came after them.

Currently, Petrecca and Garcia are installing the FM antenna for local coverage. It is estimated that the new Studio Console and audio distributor donated by Trialcom will arrive at Joint Antarctic Base Esperanza by the end of next week. The output board of the transmitter is also being sent to replace the burned one and keep it in operation during February.

If Juan Benavente had been coordinating, none of these situations would have occurred. Unfortunately, political favors promoted by the previous administration left LRA 36 abandoned in its most important mission, which is shortwave transmission. I estimate that if they agree and the planets align, we could resume LRA36 shortwave broadcasts before the end of February. 

(Adrian Korol Director of RAE via Horacio Nigro-Uruguay CX3BZ / DXplorer)

Juan Benevente confirms that a new 10 kW transmitter is due to be delivered this year.

LRA36 often takes breaks around this time of year - midsummer.

(Manual Mendez-Spain / British DX Club)

There were special tests conducted on February 2nd (Fri) and 3rd (Sat) that were widely reported. (R_A_D)

('Listener's Notebook' by Richard A. D'Angelo-PA-USA via

NASWA Journal #3 - page #26 / 27 ; of March 8, 2024)

How a pirate radio station shook Los Angeles: the story of KBLT

 

MARK FRAUENFELDER  1:55 PM TUE MAR 5, 2024

KBLT was an unlicensed pirate radio station in Los Angeles that operated out of a hilltop apartment in Silver Lake from 1995 to 1998, until it was shut down by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 

Founder Paige Jarrett (real name: Susan Carpenter) ran the station on less than $100 a month. At the time, as a freelance journalist, Jarrett also operated the pirate radio station KPBJ (named after the peanut butter and jelly sandwich) in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles.

Get the story at: 

https://boingboing.net/2024/03/05/how-a-pirate-radio-station-shook-los-angeles-the-story-of-kblt.html

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

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:Issued: 2024 Mar 04 0255 UTC

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 26 February - 03 March 2024

Solar activity reached moderate levels on 28 Feb as Region 3590 (N18, L=223, class/area=Fkc/1450 on 25 Feb) produced a long-duration M1.5 (R1-Minor) flare at 28/1854 UTC. A subsequent CME associated with the flare was analyzed and the model results suggested the ejecta was off the Sun-Earth line. A filament eruption, centered near S11E30, was observed starting around 28/0900 UTC. It produced Type II radio sweep along with a C5.1/Sf flare at 28/0909 UTC. A subsequent CME signature in SOHO/LASCO C2. Analysis and modeling of the event suggested arrival late on 03 Mar. The remaining 11 active regions on the visible disk were either quiet or produced only C-class X-ray activity. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. 

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm levels. A period of sustained southward Bz, which reached -7 nT, was observed for a few hours on late on 26 Feb and into 27 Feb. The geomagnetic field responded with an isolated period of G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm levels. As the solar wind returned to nominal conditions, quiet to unsettled levels followed through 02 Mar. The arrival of a coronal mass ejection that left the Sun on 28 Feb was observed just before midday on 03 Mar. Total magnetic field strength increased to a peak of 19 nT and the Bz component was oriented far southward (down to -18 nT). Solar wind speeds remained relatively low with speeds averaging near 350 km/s. The geomagnetic field response reached G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm levels during the 03/1800-2100 UTC synoptic period. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 March - 30 March 2024

Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts throughout the outlook period. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be normal to moderate levels throughout the outlook period. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to active levels. Active levels are expected on 04 Mar in response to waning influence from a CME that left the Sun on 28 Feb. Unsettled conditions are likely on 10-11 Mar and 28 Mar due to multiple,

recurrent CH HSSs. The remainder of the outlook period is likely to be mostly quiet. 

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt

:Issued: 2024 Mar 04 0255 UTC

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#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table

#                Issued 2024-03-04

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2024 Mar 04     145          14          4

2024 Mar 05     140           5          2

2024 Mar 06     140           5          2

2024 Mar 07     135           5          2

2024 Mar 08     135           5          2

2024 Mar 09     135           5          2

2024 Mar 10     135           8          3

2024 Mar 11     135           8          3

2024 Mar 12     135           5          2

2024 Mar 13     140           5          2

2024 Mar 14     160           5          2

2024 Mar 15     170           5          2

2024 Mar 16     170           5          2

2024 Mar 17     165           5          2

2024 Mar 18     160           5          2

2024 Mar 19     170           5          2

2024 Mar 20     175           5          2

2024 Mar 21     180           5          2

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(NOAA)

Scandinavian Weekend Radio monthly broadcast this weekend

 

Here's your opportunity to log the only station in Finland, broadcasting on shortwave and mediumwave!

March 2, 2024

Local SW MW FM Program details UTC

00-01 6170/11690 1602 94,90 22-23

01-02 6170/11690 1602 94,90 23-24

02-03 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicMix 00-01

03-04 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicMix 01-02

04-05 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicMix 02-03

05-06 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicMix 03-04

06-07 6170/11690 1602 94,90 04-05

07-08 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Soul, funk & R’n’B: Kaksoisolentoja – Heppu Hyypiö 05-06

08-09 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Kuunnelma: Local radio ja paparazzit – Heppu Hyypiö 06-07

09-10 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Huomenta-Good Morning Virrat – Dj Häkä 07-08

10-11 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Huomenta-Good Morning Virrat – Dj Häkä 08-09

11-12 6170/11690 1602 94,90 09-10

12-13 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Kantoaaltoa Suomirokilla höystettynä - Dj Esa 10-11

13-14 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Mustaa kultaa - RJ 11-12

14-15 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Asiaa ja asian vierestä – Dj Peeveli 12-13

15-16 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Tarinoita karkauspäivästä ja kotimaista iskelmää - Dj Dandy 13-14

16-17 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Progressive rock and other strange things - Dj Esa 14-15

17-18 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Afternoon Mix with Dj GZT 15-16

18-19 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Afternoon Mix with Dj GZT 16-17

19-20 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Tanssimusiikkia unohtamatta - Dj Onni 17-18

20-21 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Tanssimusiikkia unohtamatta - Dj Onni 18-19

21-22 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Levyraato – Dj Peeveli 19-20

22-23 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Janne ja SWR Crazy Crew 20-21

23-24 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Janne ja SWR Crazy Crew 21-22

Live stream 24h via Radioverkko.fi

Station website for additional information http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm

Final show for From the Island of Music

 

The last broadcast of From the Isle of Music from WBCQ The Planet will be March 3 from 2200-2300 UTC on 7490 kHz. 

Thank you for your steadfast support over the years, unfortunately, North American listeners have not been nearly as enthusiastic as those in Europe, and I lack the financial resources to do justice to both. I certainly can't blame the lack of publicity, which has been ample.

I will let you know April's time and frequency in Europe once finalized, but North Americans will probably need to use a web SDR to catch the show.

The last episode will be a killer Cuban dance party - I am going out with a bang, not a whimper.

William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer

Tilford Productions, LLC

809 S. 20th ST

Lafayette, IN 47905-1551

email: bill@...

phone: 312.351.2330

website: www.tilfordproductions.com

Radio Igloo to air on March 2

 

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, a new program from Radio Igloo will be on the air.

The West Coast DX-Club will have a listening camp in a cabin in the woods north of Gothenburg next weekend.

To draw attention to this, Radio Igloo will be on air with a new program with a mix of information and music with Swedish artists.

For the first time, the program will be broadcast simultaneously from at least four different transmitters, on different frequencies, and from different locations in Central Europe.

This has been possible thanks to our radio friends in Central Europe.

The program will be broadcast on Saturday, March 2 at 17.00 Central European Time (16.00 UTC) on   5010 or 5040, 5840 ,6260 , and 6300  kHz. (or on free frequencies nearby).

  Presumably the program will be rebroadcast the following day at 15.00 CET but then only on 6300 kHz.

Have you logged Radio Andorra's broadcast?

 

The next broadcast of Radio Andorra will be on Sunday, March 3, 2024.  As always, the broadcast will be at 1700-1900 UTC on 6005 and 2000-2200 UTC on 3985 kHz.

Programming is in French, and this edition will cover Radio Andorra in early 1980's.

(Christian G., France/BCDX) 

Radio Caroline-Voice on the Air released

 

New Radio Caroline Book Documents Six Decades of DJs

It features roughly 600 voices that have been heard since the ship's oceanic inception in 1964

BY JAMES CARELESS

There have been many books about Radio Caroline, the ship-based “pirate” radio station that brought 1960s pop music to Britons at a time when they couldn’t hear it anywhere else. But the new book, “Radio Caroline: Voices on the Air” does something rather different from previous volumes: 

It documents the roughly 600 DJ voices that have been heard on Caroline since its oceanic inception in 1964, right up to now when it can be heard on DAB+ and AM in parts of the UK, online and via smart speakers and smartphone apps. For the record, there were five ships that played home to Radio Caroline’s studio, AM transmitter and mast over the years. The largest was the Ross Revenge.

Additional story at: 

Tiny URL : https://tinyurl.com/y7cmake4

C.M.Obrecht' announces upcoming radio music program

 

From C.M.Obrecht's X account:

My next radio broadcast for the first time from @MEDIABROADCAST Nauen, Germany will be on March 2, 2024 at 1300 UTC, on 21600 kHz AM to southeastern Asia (86°, 125 kW),

The program will be a mixed-music program featuring music from Juno Reactor, Tchaikovsky, Sa Dingding, D-Block & S-te-fan & C. M. Obrecht"

(Alan Roe, Teddington, UK/BDXC)

(text edited for clarity)

To view his webpage, go to: https://cmobrecht.jimdofree.com/

Charleston Radio raided and shut down

 

Harry Richman writes this sad news to Charleston Radio International's Facebook this afternoon (28 Feb):

"CHARLESTON RADIO INTERNATIONAL is shut down by authorities today afternoon. So it's history and I thank you for listening and posting over the years. The project was made for 100 years of AM Radio. I hope you remember me fondly BYE BYE"

In reply to a comment, he replied:

"they just took the transmitter with them. It goes to a Laboratory to check the power. And I will hear of them later. There was 3 mens here for the shut down, i was nice with them and they was also nice with me. 

They made photos of the transmitter place and the antenna. So now i wait for the Penalty bill."

Charleston Radio Int's daily broadcasts of old 1920s, 1930s music (from site in Germany or Switzerland?) were on 5140 kHz (occasionally 5135 to 5150 to avoid QRM) and usually gave good reception here after dark.

(Alan,Caversham, UK/BDXC)

Wavescan continues radio from Sweden, Part 2

Special thanks to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing the Wavescan script of Part 2, discussing radio in Sweden.

Radio from Sweden -  Part 2 

Jeff: Last week, Ray Robinson began a two-part look at the history of radio broadcasting in the northern European country of Sweden.  So here to continue once again is Ray from Los Angeles.

Ray:  Thanks, Jeff.  You may remember that back in November in our short series on the history of radio jingles, I mentioned the Swedish offshore station Radio Nord, which was the first to use PAMS-style jingles in Europe.  Following the success of offshore radio in Denmark and The Netherlands, Radio Nord was setup by Jack Kotschak in 1960, with a 10 kW medium wave transmitter on board a ship called the MV Bon Jour.  The station broadcast very successfully outside the Stockholm archipelago in the Baltic Sea for 17 months from 21st February 1961 until 30th June 1962 on a frequency of 602 kHz, announced as 495 metres.

Radio Nord

In its short life, Radio Nord experienced both disaster and success.  It survived ice, storms, threats of seizure, and technical difficulties that face a shipborne station.

It was eventually closed down by government legislation, after having built up a huge following within Sweden, with an audience of 24% of the adult population!  Not only was Radio Nord a pioneer of radio in Sweden, it was also one of the pioneers of offshore radio in Europe and, to a large extent, provided the inspiration for the radio ships which later anchored off the British and Dutch coasts.  Indeed, the ship itself, the MV Bon Jour, was renamed the MV Mi Amigo and was famously used by Radios Atlanta and Caroline from 1964 to 1980.

In July 1962, largely as a result of the success of Radio Nord, a new pop music channel called P3 (or Program 3) was officially inaugurated, although at that time it only covered part of the country.

Radio Syd 

But Radio Nord wasn’t the only offshore station in Sweden.  While Radio Nord was still on air in March 1962, a second station, Radio Syd (owned by Mrs. Britt Wadner) was launched using the ship MV Cheeta which she had acquired from the Danish station Radio Mercur.  Radio Syd broadcast on various FM frequencies from the Öresund Sound between Malmö, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, and continued after the new Nordic anti-pirate law came into effect on 1st August 1962.  By March 1964, a poll showed that Radio Syd then had more listeners in the Malmö area than all three Swedish Radio networks combined.  Mrs. Wadner was prosecuted and fined several times, as were a number of the companies that advertised on Radio Syd.  She even spent one month in prison, although under Swedish law, she was permitted to continue operating her business from her jail cell – the operation of Radio Syd! 

In October 1964, the MV Cheeta sank after a particularly rough storm, but undeterred, Mrs. Wadner acquired a new ship which she called the MV Cheeta II, and was quickly back on the air again.  In fact, in 1965 she even made some test television transmissions on UHF.  In January 1966, the station was forced to leave its anchorage by bad weather, and the ship was leased to Radio Caroline for three months as a replacement for the MV Mi Amigo which had run aground and had to be taken to Amsterdam for a refit.  But in April 1966, a more severe anti-radio piracy law went into effect in Sweden, and Radio Syd never returned to the Öresund.  In fact in late 1967, the MV Cheeta II headed south, first to the Canary Islands, and then onwards to the port of Bathurst in the West African country of The Gambia, where she was used as a restaurant and nightclub.  And interestingly, Radio Syd did go on the air again as a licensed station in Bathurst (now known as Banjul), from 7th May 1970, on 908 kHz, 329 metres.  Here’s a clip of Radio Syd in Bathurst in 1971:

Mrs. Britt Wadner died at her home in Sweden in March 1987, and the operation in The Gambia was then managed by her daughter and son-in-law.  The station moved on land, and the ship itself sank in Banjul harbor in the early 1990’s.  The station did eventually move to an FM frequency, but the last entry for the station in the WRTH is in 2006.

In 1977 the Swedish P3 network introduced regional programming from 24 FM stations around the country, and stereo broadcasts became the standard in Sweden for the first time.  15 more stations were added in 1979.  Independent commercial radio finally became legal in Sweden in March 1993, more than 30 years after the government monopoly had first been broken by Radio Nord.

The best-known high-powered medium wave station in Sweden was located at Solvesborg, which used a power of 600 kW on 1179 kHz, 254 metres.  From the 60's to the 80's during the evenings, it relayed the Foreign Service of Radio Sweden for Europe, including one of the best-known entertainment shows on international radio - the Radio Sweden Saturday Show - presented by Dr. Roger Wallis, Sydney Coulson and Australian Kim Loughran, known as 'Kangaroo Kim'.  Here's a clip of Roger with guest former Radio Caroline DJ Dave Lee Travis on Saturday 16th September 1967:

The English language programs came at the end of each evening’s transmissions, at 11pm UK time, 6pm Eastern.  The first half hour of the Saturday Show was carried globally on both shortwave and medium wave, but then it continued for a further 60 minutes on medium wave only for Europe.  It was quite zany at times and liked to poke fun at itself in a way that was later imitated by Media Network on Radio Netherlands.

On Sundays, the same team also presented a show called ‘The Pops’ which showcased the best in home-grown Scandinavian pop music at the time.

And, we should remember too the long-running DX program from Radio Sweden, "Sweden Calling DXers", which was broadcast on Tuesday evenings.  Do you remember the way that show opened?

Sweden Calling DXers began with Arne Skoog in February 1948 as a guide for DXers and SWL’s, and it depended entirely on the logging contributions of its listeners.  As an incentive, if you contributed an item, the station would send you the printed script for six weeks.  I had a whole stack of them!  Versions of the show were broadcast in several European languages such as German, not just English.  The show was taken over by the American George Wood in 1978, the name was changed to MediaScan a few years later, and the program ended in 2001.

Domestically, on longwave, as in many other countries of Europe, there were three high-powered stations to blanket the country and reach Swedish-speaking communities in Finland and elsewhere.  These were located at Motala, Lulea and Gothenberg.  In 1962, the longwave service at Motala was transferred to a new location at nearby Orlunda.  However, Sweden abandoned use of longwave broadcasting in 1991, and the Motala building was then turned into a radio museum, where the original longwave transmitter can be seen on display.

Eventually, over the years, more than 100 medium wave stations had been established throughout Sweden, mostly with quite low power, though about half a dozen were described as high power stations.  Most of these were closed in favor of FM and DAB broadcasting in the 1990’s and early 2000’s.

Sweden then finally closed its two shortwave stations, Horby and Karlsborg, and the one remaining medium wave station at Solvesborg on 1179 kHz, on Saturday 30th October 2010.  Nationwide coverage on radio in Sweden is now obtained solely with several networks of FM stations and DAB multiplexes totaling anywhere up to 2,000 mostly lower power transmitters.

There were two other radio stations of note in Sweden.  A large communication station known as Goteborg Radio traces its earliest origins back to the year 1905.  This station was progressively located at four different sites over the years, and it has been well known under the callsigns SAG and SAB.

The other interesting station is the old spark wireless station at Grimeton which was inaugurated in the 1920's by King Gustav V.  The old long-wave Alexanderson alternator is still functional, and it is placed on the air once each year under the callsign SAQ.

Radio Sweden was a prolific verifier of reception reports and we are aware of at least 50 different designs for their QSL cards.  Likewise, many QSL cards have been issued for the old longwave transmitter SAQ, and for Goteborg Radio SAG and SAB.

Back to you, Jeff.

Jeff:  Thanks, Ray.  Next week, Ray will tackle a topic which I don't think has ever been covered in Wavescan before - the history of broadcasting in the tiny British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.