U.K. Propagation Update

 

RSGB

RadCom Assistant Editor | August 7, 2026

Compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on 6 August 2026.

The Sun was mostly settled last week with very little to report.

The solar flux index declined to 108 by Thursday, 6 August, with most of the sunspot activity being on one half of the solar surface.

Geomagnetic conditions have also been settled with a Kp index mostly below 3 for the past few days.

A coronal mass ejection impacted the Earth and pushed the Kp index to 5.67 on Sunday, 2 August, but conditions recovered within 24 hours.

We’ve even been almost solar flare free with, at the time of writing, only seven minor C-class events over the past three days.

So this all bodes well for HF propagation.

24 and 28MHz are mostly only open to Sporadic-E. Some multi-hop paths are still opening up to the Far East especially, so don’t write off 10m, even if you have to listen to noise for much of the day.

F2-layer propagation still favours North-South paths on the 10m band.

Next week, DX to be worked includes :

• E51KEE from the Cook Islands;

• YS/WE9G in El Salvador;

• UK/SP9DLM from Uzbekistan;

• OX3LX operating from Greenland.

Later in the week look for A50QO in Bhutan; J68TT from St Lucia and OJ0JR and OJ0YL working from Market Reef.

NOAA predicts that next week the Sun will remain pretty calm and be in the 105 to 110 range. The Kp index is forecast to be mostly around 2 to 3 so conditions should remain fair but not disrupted.

And don’t forget the solar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 August. The RSGB has many activities planned, including two HF contests, WSPR activity and medium- and long-wave monitoring.

See the August issue of RadCom for details.

VHF and up propagation: 

Compiled by G3YLA and G4BAO.

The main theme of the weather during the coming week is one of some settled high pressure with tropo options, especially early in the week. This is likely to be interrupted by occasional periods of low pressure with rain for northwestern areas.

The summer weather patterns typically produce a more showery type of rain, even from fronts, giving a reasonable chance of rain scatter. However, activity may be low in the south and east.

Of the two modes mentioned , next week will probably be more biased towards tropo than rain scatter.

The Kp index made a brief excursion to 5 last week but seems a bit quieter now. However, it’s useful to check now and again in case we find some radio aurora.

The meteor scatter options feature strongly this week as the Perseids meteor shower peaks around Wednesday, 12 and Thursday, 13 August. It’s quite interesting to simply leave a receiver on a meteor scatter calling channel to hear the transient signals.

The Sporadic-E season continues and, since meteor debris plays a role in providing the ionisation required, the Perseids week is always worth checking for a surprise opening.

In terms of jet stream weather patterns, the stronger hints come from looking east towards the Baltic. However, other directions are not to be ignored since even quite small features, such as a slow-moving severe thunderstorm, can have an influence.

For EME operators, Moon declination reaches maximum today, 9 August, when Moon window length and Moon elevation will be at their peak.

Path losses are at their lowest at perigee tomorrow, 10 August. 144MHz sky noise is low to moderate until Wednesday, 12 August, when the Sun is close to the Moon in the sky due to the partial eclipse that day.

https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2026/08/07/propagation-news-9-august-2026/

(Mike Terry, UK?BDXC)

Jen's Special: The Music of Alt-Punk Music Fest on August 9

 

Get ready and tune in to Jen's August 9 program at 1700-2100 UTC+

Jen's Special: The Music of Alt-Punk Music Fest in Blackpool, GB.

http://uk4-vn.mixstream.net:8104/index.html 

For your contact pleasure

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Throwback Thursday - American Navy Station NAA

 

Welcome to Throwback Thursday. This week's edition originally broadcast on February 4, 2001  

The huge wireless station NAA in Arlington, Virginia, was one of the most celebrated wireless stations in the world, according to the American radio magazine Popular Communications back a few years ago.  It was also a very old station; it was established before World War I under the original callsign NAV.

Station NAV-NAA was located at Fort Myers on the edge of Virginia, and the super-tall towers were visible for many years, overshadowing Arlington 

National Cemetery where Presidents William H. Taft and John F. Kennedy lie buried.  Many different postcards from the era before and after World War I picture the huge antenna system at NAA from different angles.

NAA was in use as a massive spark gap transmitter communicating by Morse code with naval vessels at sea, with other American wireless stations at widely separated locations, and with similar stations in Europe.  One of the major stations in Europe that was in frequent communication with NAA was station FL on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 

It was through the use of radio signals between FL in Paris and NAA near Washington, DC that the exact distance between Europe and the United States was measured with an accuracy of just a few yards.  Station NAA was also famous for the accuracy of its time signals, which were broadcast at hourly intervals, and these time signals were used to establish the exact boundary between two states down under, South Australia and Western Australia.

During the early part of World War II, station NAA was also in voice communication with FL in Paris as one of the earliest regular forms of voice communication by wireless.

One of the massive towers at NAA Arlington stood 600 feet tall, and the two others were 450 feet high.  The transmitter building was located in the middle of the triangle of towers, and several feed lines went up to the antennas suspended between the towers.

During World War II, the usage of station NAA as a naval communication station was phased out and taken over by NSS at Annapolis in Maryland.  The antennas were dismantled, the callsign was taken over by a station in Maine that is used for communication with submarines, and the property is now in use by the Defense Communications Agency.

Thus all that is left of the huge NAA facility is a few postcards that depict the station from various angles.  You can often see some of these cards at postcard exhibits, and you might want to buy one or two as a perpetual reminder of this famous and historic old wireless station.

(Adrian Peterson, AWR Wavescan 04 Feb 2001) 

NAA photo via Wikipedia

A closer look at Collins Radio

     

Thank you to the staff from Wavescan for this week's feature on Collins Radio Company.

Jeff:  For four decades, Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa set the absolute standard for American communications engineering.  No other manufacturer in the country came close to what Collins built, or how reliably they built it.  One of their communications receivers, the R390-A, was well-known to DXers of a certain age, but the Collins brand disappeared and hasn’t been heard of for decades.  So, what happened?  Here's Ray Robinson in Los Angeles to tell us the story.

Ray:  Thanks, Jeff.  When I first became a shortwave listener around 1970 or so, I avidly devoured information from club magazines and DX shows that then were carried by various international broadcasters.  I was awed by the range of communication receivers some listeners detailed along with their DX catches, which were way beyond my meagre budget at the time.  Two receivers that stand out in my mind from back then were the American-made Collins R-390A, and the British-made Eddystone EC-10, banks of which could be seen in photos of the BBC Monitoring Service at Caversham Park near Reading, England.  (What an amazing job that must have been – they actually paid people to sit at state-of-the-art communications receivers and seek out distant shortwave signals!)  Anyway, my mind got to thinking recently about the R-390A, and why we don’t hear of Collins Radio anymore these days.  So, I did some research, and here’s what I found.

At one time, Collins Radio was regarded as being the best communications equipment company in the world.  The United States Military trusted it for their bombers.  NASA trusted it for the moon.  And for four decades, it earned every bit of that trust.

So, why did it collapse?  It wasn’t because of competition or bad engineering.  It turns out the founder of the company, Arthur A. Collins, ended up destroying the company by being right about the future, but at exactly the wrong time.

In the basement of his family home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 22-year-old Arthur Collins began building radio transmitters by hand in 1931.  He founded the company two years later on First Avenue in Cedar Rapids with a single obsession – to build the most reliable, most precise communications equipment that American engineering could produce, with no shortcuts, no mass-market compromises – just performance, tested to its limits.

In that same year, 1933, Admiral Richard E. Byrd selected Collins Radio to supply communications gear for his second Antarctic Expedition.  The challenge was brutal.  The equipment had to survive sub-zero temperatures on the Ross Ice Shelf, mechanical punishment during transport across Antarctic terrain, and the unpredictable atmospheric interference of the auroral zone at the bottom of the world.

Collins supplied a complete shortwave broadcasting station built around a massive 20-B transmitter.  On February 3, 1934, from a base camp called Little America, the team successfully transmitted the first live voice radio broadcast from Antarctica to the United States.  Battling gale-force winds and temperatures below -20F, Collins Radio equipment kept the signal clear, carrying Byrd’s voice across thousands of miles to New York, from where CBS carried it to a national audience.

The equipment had been built in a Cedar Rapids factory that had existed for less than a year, but word spread fast.  Military and commercial broadcasting contracts followed, and by the start of World War II, Collins was a respected regional manufacturer.  By the end of the war, it was an industrial power house.

The war transformed Collins because of one specific problem it solved:  frequency changing under fire.  Aerial warfare required radio operators aboard bombers to switch communication frequencies rapidly.  In a B-29 

Super Fortress at 25,000 feet over the Pacific with enemy fighters on the wing, the traditional process of manually tuning variable capacitors across multiple amplifier stages took minutes – minutes that crews did not have.  Collins solved this with the ‘Autotune System’.  It was an electro-mechanical assembly of motors, cams, slip clutches and limit switches that physically rotated every tuning element in the transmitter to a preset position with absolute mechanical repeatability.  A radio operator selected one of ten preset channels on the ART-13 airborne transmitter, and the machine retuned itself across its oscillator, multiplier and power amplifier stages in under 25 seconds.  The system even automatically reduced output power by 50% above 25,000 feet to prevent the risk of high-voltage arcing in thin air.

By the end of the war, 90,000 ART-13 units had been manufactured

But with the close of the war, Collins pivoted hard into the commercial and amateur markets.  The equipment they produced in the late 1940’s and 1950’s became known collectively as ‘the black boxes’, named for their stark utilitarian cabinets with black crinkle-finish paint.  They were not glamorous products, but they were precise ones, and precision, as it turned out, was exactly what Cold War intelligence required.

In 1954, Collins introduced the R-390A receiver, designed for military and government intelligence use.  It became one of the finest tube-based radio receivers ever built, even if it was the very definition of a ‘boat anchor’ radio.  The secret was the mechanical filter technology embedded in its intermediate frequency chain.  Instead of relying on electrical components to achieve selectivity, Collins engineers discovered that they could convert radio signals into physical vibrations, pass those vibrations through precision-machined metal discs made from a nickel alloy called Ni-Span-C and convert them back into electrical signals, because mechanical resonance achieves quality factors far higher than electrical circuits.  The result was what engineers called ‘brick wall selectivity’.

With this technology, the R-390A could isolate one shortwave signal from an adjacent jamming transmission with a sharpness that competing designs simply couldn’t match.  That was the kind of capability that made signals intelligence analysts very happy.  As a result, the U.S. Military contracted not just Collins, but also Motorola, Electronic Assistance Corporation, Stewart Warner, and several others, all to build R-390A receivers to Collins exact specifications.  Over 55,000 units were manufactured across a production run that lasted 30 years.

By 1958, Collins was ready to bring the same engineering philosophy to the civilian amateur market.  The result was the S-Line – a series of transmitters and receivers finished in light grey enamel.  And in the fall of 1959, Collins released the KWM-2 transceiver – a single chassis integrating the full capability of the S-Line transmitter and receiver, with a central tuning knob and signal meter.  It weighed just over 18 lbs, and covered from 3.4 to 30 MHz in 14 segments of 200 kHz each.

In the 1960’s, the U.S. Military used these models under very challenging conditions in Vietnam, where the operators reported that they simply ‘worked’.  When NASA was preparing to go to the moon, Collins became an indispensable partner in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.  Every astronaut’s voice from space in those programs passed through Collins equipment.  For the lunar missions specifically, they developed a ‘Unified S-Band System’ - a single unified radio link that could carry voice, television, telemetry, command signals and precision ranging data across 240,000 miles of space on one carrier frequency in the microwave S-band, around 2.2 GHz.  That, along with the ground-based tracking stations they built for the system in California, Spain and Australia, was no doubt the pinnacle of Collins’ achievement.  But unfortunately, it was then in the late 60’s and early 70’s that the company began to fall apart.  In the space of just two years, Collins Radio Company became functionally bankrupt.

The reason was a project called the C-System.  Starting in the mid-1960’s, Arthur Collins had become consumed by a vision for a fully integrated communication, computation and control network, one that would connect distributed computers – much as local area networking and the Internet does today.  He was right about where the world was going, but wrong about when it would get there!  The computer hardware of the 1960’s was too expensive, too physically large, and too slow to make the C-System viable.  But Collins poured thousands of engineering hours and increasingly desperate capital into its development.

At the same time, government contracts that had been plentiful during the Vietnam War and Apollo moonshot programs began to dry up, and competitors were releasing solid state equipment.  Collins couldn’t keep pace.  In the fiscal year ending August 3, 1971, Collins made a net loss of US $46.6 million.  Between 1969 and 1971, Collins had cut 40% of its workforce, but it wasn’t enough.  A few weeks later on September 2, 1971, North American Rockwell bought the company, and Arthur Collins was forced to leave the board.  By November 1973, Collins Radio had been fully absorbed into Rockwell International.

Arthur Collins died in 1987.  Today, more than 60 years after they were built, surviving examples of the R-390A receiver and KWM-2 transceiver still perform to their original specifications and they command serious money on the collector market.  And my budget still doesn’t extend to one, even now!

Back to you, Jeff.

Audio for Jen's Instrumental Madness Surf Show now available

 

Surf's up !!!!!   Audio now available for the August 2 broadcast. 

Jen's Instrumental Madness Surf Show is all about the Twang, Fuzz, & Reverb, 

a little non- instrumental goodies to shimmy & shake -it from around the world, Like Girl Group.

 

Jen's Instrumental Madness Surf Show For 08-02 heard on Unique, is up & ready for listening and downloading.

Jen's Instrumental Madness Surf Show Link.

Long.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/irst02un9gztds70mhscc/Jen-s-Instrumental-Madness-Surf-Show-For-Sun.-Aug.-2nd-17-21-heard-on-Unique.mp3?rlkey=9jbb7hk4udus4uj6j24hj4p2o&dl=0

Jen's Instrumental Madness Surf Show Link.

Short.

https://tinyurl.com/2ws2fp3v

For your contact pleasure

Jenur@proton.me

Jen In The Rad

Listener Survey from KBS World Radio

Classic KBS QSL card

 South Korea

KBS World Radio is encouraging listeners to take part in its 2026 Listener Survey.

The survey invites listeners to share their listening habits, interests, and overall experiences with KBS World Radio. Participants can also provide feedback on current programming and suggest what they would like to hear in future broadcasts.

As an added bonus, those who complete the survey will be entered for a chance to win a prize.

Survey available at: https://world.kbs.co.kr/special/survey/2026/question/que_fr.php

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

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:Issued: 2026 Aug 03 0413 UTC

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity

27 July - 02 August 2026

Solar activity reached Moderate levels during the period, with a

total of 35 C-class flares and 2 R1 (Minor) radio blackout events.

Region 4494 (S05, L=88) produced an M1.0/Sf peaking at 27/0243 UTC

and Region 4492 (N=15, L=107, class/area Cko/310 on 26 July)

produced the largest flare of the week, a long-duration M1.9/Sf that

peaked at 30/1700 UTC. This event was accompanied by a partial-halo

CME and a simultaneous eight-degree-long filament eruption, centered

near N20W67. Associated with these 30 Jul events, two Type II radio

sweeps were observed at 30/1627 UTC and 30/1645 UTC, with estimated

shock speeds of 843 km/s and 1,681 km/s, respectively. Other radio

events included a Type IV sweep at 30/1631 UTC and a 17-minute-long

Tenflare (190 sfu) that peaked at 30/1643 UTC. 

Analysis of the CME propagation indicated an Earth-directed

component with estimated velocity of 878 km/s that was anticipated

to disturb the Geospace on Aug 02, which was later confirmed by a

Sudden Impulse observed on 02/1229 UTC (with deviation of 27 nT) and

further geomagnetic activity enhancement. 

The greater than 10 MeV proton flux crossed the S1 (Minor) solar

radiation event threshold twice during the period: first at 30/1845

UTC (reaching a peak of 18 pfu at 30/2055 UTC); and, after returning

to levels below S1 around 30/0715 UTC, the flux got elevated again

and crossed the threshold of 10pfu at 31/1335 UTC. Additionally, the

greater than 100 MeV proton flux briefly exceeded 1pfu at 30/1835.

All proton flux enhancements were likely associated with the M1.9/Sf

flare mentioned above. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached

high levels on 27 Jul and 01 Aug, with the maximum value of the

period (1,379 pfu) observed at 27/1630 UTC. 

Geomagnetic activity was at Quiet to G2 (Moderate) levels during the

week. Unsettled levels were observed on 27-28 Jul, followed by quiet

levels on 29 Jul to 01 Aug. On 02 Aug, active levels were observed,

with an isolated synoptic period of G2 (Moderate) storming level due

to the impact of the abovementioned CME that left the Sun on 30 Jul. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity

03 August - 29 August 2026

Solar activity is expected to be predominantly at low levels, with a

chance for R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) levels throughout the outlook

period. 

No proton events (greater than 10 MeV) are expected at

geosynchronous orbit. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is

expected to reach high levels on 12-16 Aug and 22-23 Aug due to

recurrent high speed streams. Normal to moderate electron flux

levels are expected for the remaining days of the outlook period. 

Geomagnetic activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) storming levels

on 03 Aug (as the ongoing CME disturbances persist and wane) and on

19 Aug (due to the anticipated effects of a High Speed Stream

originated in a negative polarity Coronal Hole). Active levels are

expected on 17-18 Aug, due to the -CH HSS previously mentioned.

Unsettled levels are expected on 04, 11-12 and 20 Aug, and Quiet

levels on the remaining days of the outlook period. 

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2026 Aug 03     125          22          5

2026 Aug 04     120          10          3

2026 Aug 05     115           5          2

2026 Aug 06     110           5          2

2026 Aug 07     110           5          2

2026 Aug 08     105           5          2

2026 Aug 09     105           5          2

2026 Aug 10     105           5          2

2026 Aug 11     105           8          3

2026 Aug 12     105           8          3

2026 Aug 13     110           5          2

2026 Aug 14     115           5          2

2026 Aug 15     115           5          2

2026 Aug 16     115           5          2

2026 Aug 17     120          15          4

2026 Aug 18     120          12          4

2026 Aug 19     125          20          5

2026 Aug 20     125           8          3

2026 Aug 21     130           5          2

2026 Aug 22     135           5          2

2026 Aug 23     135           5          2

2026 Aug 24     130           5          2

2026 Aug 25     130           5          2

2026 Aug 26     125           5          2

2026 Aug 27     120           5          2

2026 Aug 28     115           5          2

2026 Aug 29     110           5          2

(NOAA)

August programming from Texas Radio Shortwave

Graphic by Gayle Van Horn

All times UTC

Frequency/Station/Target Area/Program

Aug 1, 2026

1400  6160  Shortwave Radio Gold  Eur  Michael Strah and The Music of Trini Lopez

1800  3975 + 6160    Shortwave Radio Gold  Eur Michael Strah and The Music of Trini Lopez

August 2, 2026

1200  9670  Channel 292  Eur Michael Strah and The Music of Trini Lopez

2300  9670  Channel 292  NAm   Michael Strah and The Music of Trini Lopez

August 16, 2026

1000  6070  Channel 292  Eur  The Music of Joe Ely                                                                                                   

August 20, 2026

1900  3975 + 6160  Shortwave Radio Gold  Eur  The Music of Boz Scaggs    

Unless otherwise shown, programs are one hour long.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on 3975 and 6160 kHz over Shortwave Radio Gold in Winsen, Germany, are transmitted with 1 kW into crossed dipole antennas.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on 6070 and 9670 kHz over Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany, are transmitted with 10 kW into an inverted V antenna.

Programs for North America (NAm) and beyond on 9670 kHz over Channel 292 are transmitted with 10 kW into a 10.5 dB gain beam antenna.

Texas Radio Shortwave uses a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas as its Interval Signal/Signature Song.

Texas Radio Shortwave verifies correct, detailed reception reports by electronic QSL. This includes reports from listeners using remote receivers (SDRs). Texas Radio

Shortwave's email is texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com.

Many TRSW programs are archived at www.mixcloud.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Listeners' Group Facebook page is www.facebook.com/groups/580199276066655/.

texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com

(TRSW)

Throwback Thursday - Early Shortwave Broadcasting in Africa

 

Welcome to Throwback Thursday, following a month's pause. This week's edition originally broadcast on February 18, 2001. 

During this year, the new millennium year 2001, Adventist World Radio is celebrating its 30th anniversary.  It was back on October 1, 1971, almost 30 years ago, that the first broadcast from the fledgling Adventist World Radio went on the air from a 250 kw shortwave transmitter operated by Radio Trans Europe at Sines in Portugal.  Throughout this coming year, AWR is planning many anniversary events, and many of these will be of real interest to the international radio world.

As part of the anniversary sequence, we are planning here in Wavescan to present many features on the historical development of Adventist World Radio, and today's program is another in this series.  In this edition, we investigate the early era of shortwave broadcasts on the part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the vast continent of Africa.

       

Records from the era indicate that the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been on the air on shortwave from a total of 14 different countries in Africa.  Most of these earlier broadcasts were contracted on a mediumwave station, and they were therefore also heard on the shortwave relay as well.

The first Adventist radio broadcast on shortwave in Africa went on the air in March 1950 over station ETHA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  This programming is listed in the World Radio Handbook for 1951 and 1952 as the Adventist Hour.  These broadcasts of the American Voice of Prophecy radio program were heard on Sundays at 2:45 pm on two channels, 9620 kHz with 1 kw and 15062 kHz with 7.5 kw.  Radio station ETHA was the government radio station, and at certain times of the day it carried a commercial service.

QSL from Deutsche Welle Rwanda

Historical records suggest that test broadcasts were placed on the air with the Deutsche Welle relay station in Kigali, Rwanda for a short period of time in mid-1975.  In the spring of the following year, Adventist broadcasts were placed on two shortwave stations, SLBS at Freetown in Sierra Leone, and Swazi Commercial Radio at Sandlane in Swaziland. 

For a period of nearly three years, Adventist programming in English was incorporated into the programming of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in Colombo, Sri Lanka and beamed to Africa on three shortwave channels.  These 15-minute programs were recorded as special "Test Broadcasts" in the Poona studios of Adventist World Radio and included a shortened version of the old DX program, "Radio Monitors International."

This cluster of shortwave programming all took place before the organization in 1983 of the AWR unit known as AWR-Africa.

Four years later, under the administration of Frenchman Daniel Grizier, a whole slew of new shortwave outlets were added to the schedule of Adventist broadcasting in Africa, some 15 shortwave locations in 10 different countries.  

Some of these very exotic shortwave stations were located in the Cape Verde Islands, Madagascar, Cameroon, and on the island of Mauritius.

These days, Adventist World Radio is on the air to Africa from shortwave transmitters located in Slovakia, Germany, Italy, and South Africa.  In addition, the commercial service from Radio Africa Number One in Gabon has been carrying the English language Voice of Prophecy for more than 20 years.

Angola QSL

Adventist Broadcasts on Shortwave - Africa

1987, RDTVB, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

1987, RN, Yaounde, Cameroon

1987, RN, Bertoua, Cameroon

1987, RN, Douala, Cameroon

1987, RN, Baffousam, Cameroon

1987, RN, Praia, Cape Verde Is.

1987, RDTVCAR, Bangui, Central African Rep.

1950, Mar, ETHA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (American Voice of Prophecy, 3 mos.)

1987, Eq Guinea

1983, Oct 31, Africa No. 1, Moyabi, Gabon (AWR-Africa)

1987, RTVG, Libreville, Gabon

1987, MBC, Curepipe, Mauritius

1987, RM, Antananarivo, Madagascar

1975, July 1, DW, Kigali, Rwanda (Amharic/Swahili tests)

1987, RDR, Kigali, Rwanda

Radio Senegal QSL

1987, ORTS, Dakar, Senegal (French Voice of Hope)

1987, ORTS, Ziguinchor, Senegal (French Voice of Hope)

1976, Spring, SLBS, Freetown, Sierra Leone

1978, Dec 7, SLBC, Ekala, Sri Lanka (nearly three years)

1976, Spring, SCR, Sandlane, Swaziland   

1867, RDTVT, Lome, Togo

(Adrian Peterson/AWR Wavescan 2-18-2001) 

Mini Atlantique' yacht race on shortwave

 

FRANCE  

The 'Mini Atlantique' yacht race weather radio service via TDF Issoudun, France on 7340 and 17545 kHz.

Tuned into male with French weather forecasts at 15.11UT on 7340 kHz today, Friday 24 July. At 15.20 UT, a lady in English reading weather reports took over. Voices were familiar as heard on 'Mini Atlantique' broadcasts in previous years.

After checking HFCC.org database in A-26, could also hear weaker \\ on 17545 kHz (TDF via Issoudun bcast center at 15.00-16.00 UT).

There's an event, 'Les Sables' to the Azores and back, 'Mini Atlantique ', so presume the broadcasts are for participants in that:

https:\\lessables-lesacores650.fr/   Broadcast ended around 15.55 UT.

(Alan Pennington, Cornwall-England-UK, BrDXC-UK iogr bcnews July 24)

(WWDXC top News 1660/27 July 2026)

TWR ends relays from Armenia

 

ARMENIA   1377 kHz  Since July, TWR (Trans World Radio) has ceased broadcasting in Ukrainian via its transmitter in Gavar on 1377 kHz. The radio station told me they have no plans to return to the air.

(Viktor Tsekhanovich, Kerch-RUS, via RUSdx #1404 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 26)

The rental and payment of TWR via CJSC Yerevan Gavar 1377 kHz TWR relays always ran through the Moscow address and the Russian FMO organization of 'RAM'. April 2022.

The 6-Element Double Cone Skirt Antenna System designed by Kintronic Laboratories Inc., USA, financed by the TWR USA organization in February 2006 is aimed for 1000 kW of power. That special directional and steep-angle antenna was in use 16 years on TWR mediumwave outlets on MW 1377 and 1395

kHz. (ed.)

(TWR /WWDXC Top News 1660/27 July 2026)