Radios Reach is Still Massive

 

With the renewed love for audio in recent years, spurred by podcasting, and the onslaught of new technologies for consumers to listen, radio’s reach among the U.S. population is still massive. That’s according to the latest Audio Today report from Nieslen.

Nielsen reports that radio still reaches 93% of the American population. That includes 93% of the 18+ population and 98% of the 50 and over crowd. The 18-34 demo is the lowest, but still stands at 87% according to Nielsen. The ratings firm concludes that “only AM/FM radio can deliver the scale advertisers need.”

Additional story at Radio Ink: https://radioink.com/2022/06/30/radios-reach-is-still-massive/?vgo_ee=UmO54cHRt9XCH94l59v0r3wFoqDlMHNmyq65fGLdufk%3D  

Radio Stations for the Navajo Nation in the United States

 

Historians suggest that the ancestors of the Navajo Nation arrived in what is now the continental United States around 1500 years ago, and they settled in areas that are within the American states of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.  The Navajo people are the largest native tribe in the United States with a membership of around 400,000 on a reservation measuring around 25,000 square miles.

Along with other waves of migration, the original Navajos came from Siberia, across the Bering Straits into Alaska, and subsequently south into the wide-open spaces of North America.  When European migrants began to arrive in North America 500 years ago, it is estimated that the native population may have been as high as 4 million people.

North American linguists inform us that the Navajo language is very complicated and very irregular, and it is very difficult for people to learn who have not grown up in the tribal environment.  The language uses several consonant sounds that have no equivalent in English and there was no written form of the language until the late 1930s.  That is why Navajo Code Talkers served in the Pacific during World War 2.  

With the use of code words in the Navajo language, they were able to communicate very quickly and very accurately by radio without anyone else understanding the content of the message.  War historians state that around 400 Code Talkers served in the American forces during the four years of the Pacific war, usually in pairs.   

The use of radio had an appeal to the Navajo in the pre-war years, and there were occasions when a tribal scene was enacted depicting the use of a receiver.  For example in October 1924, a photo was published in Radio News showing a Navajo mother with her baby at the rim of the Grand Canyon, listening to a broadcast on a radio receiver.  Two years later, another photo was shown in which the Navajo Princess Little Bluebird was listening to the family radio outside their simple family dwelling.   

In June 1937, the Indian Service of the Department of the Interior installed four radio transmitters in the Navajo Reservation.  Station KTGM with ½ kW on 2994 kHz was installed at Window Rock in Arizona.  

Three additional transmitters at 100 watts each were installed at Tuba City and Kayenta in Arizona, and at Shiprock in New Mexico, all apparently on the same channel 2994 kHz.  These transmitters, with accompanying receivers, were all in use for official communications. 

However, three years later, the local government authorities implemented a series of program broadcasts containing local information and news that were presented over the main station in this small shortwave network.  Station KTGM, on the subsequent channel 2852 kHz with ¼ kW, began the broadcast of this new programming in September 1940, in the Navajo language at 1 pm on Saturdays and in English on Tuesdays at 8 pm.  Receivers were set up at various locations throughout the Reservation for the benefit of nearby listeners.   

Soon afterward, some of the nearby mediumwave stations began to include suitable programming into their regular scheduling for the benefit of the Navajo people, in the twin languages, English and Navajo.  Foremost among those mediumwave stations are three: Two in New Mexico and one in Arizona.  

Our brief Station Profile on each of these three stations, in chronological order, begins with KGAK in Gallup, New Mexico.  That station was inaugurated with 250 watts on 1230 kHz on February 9, 1945.  Subsequently, their operating channel was modified to 1330 kHz, with an increase of daytime power to 5 kW.  Their main studios have been located at 401 East Coal Avenue in Gallup, New Mexico.

Station KNDN is located in Farmington, New Mexico, though it was inaugurated on August 1, 1957, initially under a different callsign, as KWYK with 1 kW on 960 kHz.  Over the years, their studios have been installed at three consecutive locations in Farmington; at 418 West Broadway, at 203 South Commercial, and then at 1515 West Main.  

For nearly half a century, the power level at KNDN has been 5 kW, still on the same 960 kHz.  The station slogan is: All Navajo all the Time; and they are generally formatted with American country music with commercials in both Navajo and English.

The third Navajo mediumwave station is KTNN which was inaugurated at Window Rock Arizona on 660 kHz with a maximum power of 50 kW on February 26, 1986.  This station is owned and operated by Navajo personnel, and the call letters TNN in KTNN indicate The Navajo Nation.

(Adrian Peterson/AWR-Wavescan 683)

The Radio Scene on the World's Largest Private Property

 

Victoria River Downs

The world's largest property in private ownership was Victoria River Downs with its almost 16,000 square miles of cattle country, some 500 miles south of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.  In the year 1879, the South Australian government awarded the concession to two men, Englishman Charles Fisher and Australian born Maurice Lyons, who developed the land together as a cattle ranch, with 30,000 cattle and 500 horses.

Originally the Victoria River Downs station covered a vast area of pastoral land about the same size as Switzerland, and twice the size of Wales in the British isles.  If Victoria River Downs had been a separate country, it would be listed as number 63.  That is, there are as many as 62 politically separate countries around the world these days that are smaller than the original Victoria River Downs.

In the middle of last century, Victoria River Downs was almost a small town in its own right.  Near the station homestead, there was a small two-storey hospital, Wimmera Home, that was operated by two nurses.  There was also a small general store, an airstrip, and several dwellings for support staff.  

In 1932, a newly developed pedal radio was installed in Wimmera Home by its inventor, Alf Traeger.  (His first pedal wireless had been installed in Augustus Downs, near Cloncurry in Queensland just three years earlier.) 

Initially, these radio transceivers operated only in Morse Code and this procedure required the operator had to pedal the generator that provided electricity for the radio equipment, and also to operate the Morse Code key as well.  However, in 1931, Alf Traeger had also developed an ingenious typewrite keyboard that sent each letter out in Morse Code. 

Soon after it was taken into regular usage, nursing Sister Mackenzie described the pedal wireless at Victoria River Downs as “a marvel of simplicity and (it) has proved its tremendous value”.  Seven years later, another nursing Sister, World War 1 veteran Grace Francis, was managing the communication wireless station at Victoria River Downs. 

In addition to communication radio these days at Victoria River Downs, there is an airport radio beacon with 2 kW on 377 kHz under the Morse Code callsign VRD, and there is also an ABC Radio National FM  radio broadcasting station with 100 watts on 105.7 MHz.

The 1927 edition of the AWA Radio Guide in Australia lists three more of these radio communication stations that operated in the Australian outback in the early days of wireless history.  Those now silent historic and forgotten wireless stations were:-

VJD at Wave Hill in the Northern Territory

VJJ at Camooweal in Queensland

VZGO at Brunette Downs in the Northern Territory  

The wireless equipment for all three stations was manufactured by AWA at their factory in suburban Sydney.  For the first two stations, the radio equipment was taken by ship to Darwin, and then carried by early model motor vehicle to Wave Hill and Camooweal.  

Those two stations, Wave Hill VJD and Camooweal VJJ, were set up by AWA on behalf of the PMG Department in the federal government in an endeavor to encourage the widespread development of radio communications throughout the Great Outback.  It was intended that small communication transmitters, each at 50 watts, would be privately operated on a multitude of pastoral properties throughout the desert and semi-desert areas, for intercommunication and also for communication with the two official government stations, VJD and VJJ.

The Wave Hill pastoral property was located nearly 400 miles south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.  Wireless station VJD with its 2 kW was installed in a new and separate building near the pastoral homestead at Wave Hill.

It was a completely self-contained station with all of the needed equipment and it was described by the Melbourne based radio magazine Listener In as one of the most modern wireless stations in Australia.  Station VJD was officially opened on October 12, 1925, and it was taken into regular service two days later.  

As an official PMG station, VJD received incoming messages from many different localities in surrounding outback areas, and they then passed official communications on to Darwin Radio VID.  In addition, the Wave Hill station relayed the broadcast of daily bulletins of news for the listening public, in the same way as was heard from the AWA network of coastal maritime stations. 

The settlement of Camooweal in western Queensland was just 12 miles from the border with the Northern Territory.  Station VJJ served a similar purpose as was available with VJD at Wave Hill.  However, in addition to its wireless communications, that station had the supplemental advantage that the isolated settlement at Camooweal was the western terminal of the wired telegraph network in the state of Queensland.   

Due to economic measures soon that were introduced soon after the beginning of World War 2, the Wave Hill VJD station was closed in January 1941, after a lifetime of 16 useful years.  The equipment was offered for sale by tender.  These days the only radio transmitter at Wave Hill is a low-power radio territory beacon, as a safety geographic guide for aircraft flying over the vast lonely areas of the Great Outback. 

It is not stated when the Camooweal station VJJ was closed, though it would be presumed that it must have been around the same time as the closure of VJD.  The callsign VJJ was subsequently recycled just two years later, and it was applied to the new Flying Doctor Base at Charleville in western Queensland in 1943.  At Camooweal these days, there are two ABC FM relay stations operating on 106.1 MHz and 107.7 MHz with 160 watts each, and also there is a privately operated FM relay station on 88.0 MHz.

As we mentioned earlier, one of the major purposes for establishing the two Government-PMG stations, VJD at Wave Hill in the Northern Territory and VJJ at Camooweal in Queensland, was to encourage other large pastoral settlements in the outback to acquire a double set of radio equipment, transmitter and receiver.   However, two years later as the AWA 1927 report indicates, only one other station had been installed, and that was at Brunette Downs, in the Northern Territory.  Strangely, even though the Brunette Downs radio station equipment was purchased (from AWA) and operated privately, it was granted a very official four-letter callsign, VZGO.

(Adrian Peterson/AWR-Wavescan 682)

BBC begins new e-QSLing

 

Today's news from the British DX Club indicates that BBC is now offering an e-QSLing service. 

Here is the link, and please tell us your  e-QSLing results.

https://eqsl.tools.bbc.co.uk/ 

The Early Marconi Years at Chelmsford

 

Marconi Company, Chelmsford, England

Back in the early days of wireless and radio, station callsigns were applied in several different ways; there was no clear, no regular pattern.  Official internationally recognized callsigns were in use to identify a specific transmitter, a specific transmitter frequency, a particular programming service, a particular transmitter usage, such as amateur, experimental, communication, or broadcasting.  

On one rather unusual occasion back then, a callsign that was licensed for a shortwave transmitter at one specific location was borrowed temporarily to identify another transmitter at another location one hundred miles distant.  That event undoubtedly caused considerable confusion.  (In 1931 for example, the English callsign G5SW was licensed to a Marconi 10 kW shortwave transmitter at Chelmsford, and it was borrowed by the BBC to identify the test transmissions over their two new 10 kW STC shortwave transmitters at Daventry.)  

In more recent times, callsigns have been used simply to identify radio stations that may have one or more transmitters at one or more locations, for example, the fourteen transmitters at WRMI in Okeechobee Florida, or the five transmitters at KSDA on the island of Guam.  But originally and historically, each callsign was intended to identify just one specific transmitter at a specific location.  

For example, in the middle of the last century, the American callsign KWID identified a 100 kW shortwave General Electric transmitter that was installed in suburban San Francisco in California for the Voice of America.  The Australian callsign VLC identified an American-made 50 kW RCA shortwave transmitter that was installed at Shepparton in Victoria for Radio Australia.

The most appropriate usage of a radio callsign, we would suggest, is to identify a specific transmitter at a specific location.  For example, in the middle of the last century, the American callsign KWID identified a 100 kW shortwave General Electric transmitter that was installed in suburban San Francisco in California for the Voice of America; and the Australian callsign VLC identified an American-made 50 kW RCA shortwave transmitter that was installed at Shepparton in Victoria for Radio Australia. 

More than 100 years ago, the Marconi company at Chelmsford in England obtained a plethora of callsigns for their various longwave and shortwave transmitters and services.  We go back to the beginning, and we start with the story of their very early radio factories in England.

It was in the year 1897, that the 23-year-old Italian-born Guglielmo Marconi established his first radio factory, a very small and primitive facility, at 28 Mark Lane in London, for the construction and experiment with very early wireless equipment.  However, that facility in crowded London produced too much electrical interference, and it was far too small anyway, so he searched for a suitable country location, and he finally chose Chelmsford in the county of Essex, about 30 miles northeast of London.  Interestingly, that site was already the site for other companies that were manufacturing other electrical apparatuses and goods.  

Now back in 1861, John Hall had constructed a two-storied building on Hall Street in Chelmsford for use as a silk weaving mill, and when he went out of business, the building was taken over by the Wenly company for the storage of their finished furniture products.  However that building became available, and so Marconi took it over for use as a wireless equipment factory in December 1898 under a 20-year lease agreement.  

That building was the first radio factory in the world, and its first employees were 26 men and two boys.  In less than a year and with the use of his brand new wireless equipment, Marconi installed a wireless transmitting station across the roadway nearby.    

In 1912, there were three major events that impacted the Marconi company in Chelmsford and the wireless equipment they manufactured.  

In that tragic event of the sinking of the Titanic, on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the luxury liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and in less than three hours it broke into two pieces and sank.  The two Marconi wireless operators, 25-year-old John Phillips and 22-year-old Harold Bride, had sent out numerous Morse Code messages on their Marconi wireless equipment with the Marconi callsign MGY.  

In response, the RMS Carpathia (callsign MPA) at full speed arrived at the scene two hours after the Titanic sank, and they were successful in rescuing 705 survivors from the icy cold Atlantic.  Wide was the subsequent praise for the use of wireless equipment aboard the Titanic which ensured the rescue of so many survivors who would otherwise have been lost.   

In Chelmsford, suitable land on the local cricket grounds at New Street near the railway station was chosen for the new wireless/radio factory.  Construction work for that large new two-storey factory building began on February 26 (1912) and in order to hasten the work 500 brick layers were employed. 

The official opening of the new Marconi factory at Chelmsford on June 22 (1912) attracted delegates from the 35 countries who were attending the Third International Radio Telegraphic Conference in London.  At the height of its success, this new wireless/radio factory employed a total of 6,000 people.

During the subsequent almost one hundred years, Marconi Chelmsford manufactured untallied quantities of radio products, including high-powered top-quality international shortwave transmitters.  Their now historic radio factory was ultimately closed in 2008, and it is these days in use as a luxury apartment complex.

More about Marconi radio stations in the Chelmsford area next time, including the now historic radio broadcast more than one hundred years ago, when the world-famous Dame Nellie Melba presented a half-hour in song.

(Adrian Peterson/AWR-Wavescan 684)

The Story of the Two Shortwave Stations Known as Radio Sada-e-Kashmir

 

In mid-January 2003, a new shortwave station called Radio Sada-e-Kashmir (Voice of Kashmir) hit the airwaves in Southern Asia.  It was first noted broadcasting in the Kashmiri language at 0230 - 0310 UTC, followed by programming in the Dogri language at 0310 - 0330 UTC on 9890 kHz.

In the initial era, the carrier and test tone were heard for about 20 minutes before the actual broadcast began.  The program itself started with a long regional anthem, and the sign on announcement included station identification and the date of broadcast.  This service was beamed to the Kashmir areas of Pakistan and India, and each program consisted of songs and political talks. 

Interestingly, back more than half a century ago during the 1965 India-Pakistan conflict, an underground radio station with the same name, Radio Sada-e-Kashmir, began broadcasting on shortwave with also propaganda type programming.  Although it claimed to be carrying out its broadcasts from the Kashmir valley itself, yet it was later established that those broadcasts were actually aired from elsewhere in Pakistan proper.

Now regarding the subsequent version of Radio Sada-e-Kashmir, in their second month on the air in February 2003 their frequency was moved down to the 49 metre band on 6130 kHz, and a second daily broadcast was noted at 1500 - 1600 UTC, also on that same new frequency.  Then during the following month March 2003, a third daily broadcast was noted at 0730 - 0830 UTC on the original 31 metre band channel 9890 kHz. 

From then onwards, there were three daily broadcasts; one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. The same program was broadcast three times each day, starting at 0230 UTC and repeated at 0730 UTC and again at 1430 UTC.  Note that Kashmir observes Indian Standard Time which is UTC+ 5½ hours, making the local time for the broadcasts 6 am, 1 pm and 8 pm.

At least until the year 2008, the shortwave frequency 6100 kHz was used for the morning and evening broadcasts, though seven years later (2015), that was changed to 4870 kHz in the tropical 60 m band.  Then around the year 2017 there was another change in scheduling with 6030 kHz in use for the morning and evening broadcasts, and 6100 kHz was now used again for the afternoon transmission.

Back at the beginning in March 2003, there were clear indications that the second version of  Radio Sada-e-Kashmir was on the air via a shortwave transmitter operated by AIR All India Radio.  On occasions AIR programming was inadvertently broadcast on the same frequency both before and after the Kashmiri broadcasts, and even at times during the Kashmiri broadcast.

It was also an open secret for international radio monitors living in Southern Asia that the broadcasts from the second version of Radio Sada-e-Kashmir were on the air from New Delhi as these frequencies were registered by All India Radio in the HFCC website.  At first, a 100 kW transmitter was used, and subsequently from around 2016, a 250 kW one.

On occasions, this Radio Sada-e-Kashmir was noted off the air for short periods of time, due apparently to transmitter problems.  However, this station left the air permanently on December 31, last year (2021) just as silently as it had begun some 18 years earlier.  Their final program ended at 1530 UTC on 6030 kHz.  Perhaps it was no coincidence that on that same day the AIR shortwave stations AIR stations in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu & Kashmir, also ended their shortwave transmissions.  

It may also be noted that the 6 MHz frequencies in use by the second Radio Sada-e-Kashmir were close to the day time-frequency of AIR Srinagar, which is 6110 kHz. No contact address was ever given by this station and there are no known QSLs issued by this station.

That is the story of the two shortwave stations that operated under the same title, Radio Sada-e-Kashmir; one in 1965 on one side of the border (Pakistan), and the other from 2003 - 2021 on the other side of the border (India). 

(Adrian Peterson, AWR-Wavescan 686)

Encore-Radio Tumbril classical music program schedule

 

Dear Listener,

Regular Broadcast times of Encore are: 

10:00 - 11:00 UTC Saturday 6070 kHz Channel 292 to Europe - Simulcast on 9670 kHz

Repeated:

01:00 - 02:00 UTC Sunday 7730 & 5850 kHz WRMI to Europe US and Canada (Note change from 7780 to 7730)

16:00 – 17:00 UTC Sunday 9670 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 

21:00 - 22:00 UTC Sunday 3955 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 

02:00 - 03:00 UTC Monday 5950 kHz WRMI to the US and Canada 

13:00 - 14:00 UTC Tuesday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe, the east coast of the US and Iceland. RTTY continues to be heard on 15770 in some areas. Suggest listening using USB or notch filter in LSB if available.

19:00 – 20:00 UTC Friday 6070 kHz Channel 292 to Europe (Note time change.)

Some additions to the website:

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

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.

A big thanks to the folks who have donated already.

This week's Programme - First broadcast this coming Saturday on Channel 292 - starts with the Prayer of St. Gregory by Hovnaness, The Academic Overture by Brahms, Friedrich Hermann's Suite for Three Violins, and The Round Dance by Alban Berg. Following on - an etude from Debussy, A sonata by Henry Purcell, and a partita from contemporary composer Caroline Shaw. The programme ends with some brass work from Gabrieli and part of Bizet's first symphony.

Channel 292 can be pulled live off the internet if the reception is poor in your location. Easy to find their site with a google search. 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.

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

GMØTLY

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

 

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 20 - 26 June 2022

Solar activity was at low levels through the period with C-class flare activity observed from 6 separate regions. The majority of the flare activity was observed from Region 3038 (N16, L=053, class/area Ehi/580 on 24 Jun) with 22 C-class flares observed during the period, the largest a C5.7 event at 20/0618 UTC. Region 3840 (S13, L=325, class/area Cso/160 on 24 Jun) contributed 8 C-class flares, the largest a C2.9/Sf at 22/0506 UTC. During the period, a pair of DSFs were observed that both had possible Earth-directed components. The first was an 18 degree filament, centered near N25W28, that lifted off at about 24/0756 UTC, viewed in GOES-16 SUVI 304 imagery. The second was a 35 degree filament, centered near S53E09, that lifted off at about 26/0128 UTC, viewed in GOES-16 SUVI 304 imagery. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 24 Jun and high levels on 20-23 Jun and 25-26 Jun with a peak flux of 2,040 pfu observed at 25/1520 UTC. 

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm levels. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed on 20-24 Jun due to positive polarity CH HSS influence (20-21 Jun) and negative polarity CH HSS influence (22-24 Jun). Active to G1 (Minor) storm levels were observed on 25-26 Jun due to negative polarity CH HSS influence. During the period, solar wind speeds ranged from a low of near 400 km/s on 23 Jun to a high of about 700 km/s on 26 Jun. Total field remained below 15 nT while the Bz component varied between +/- 12 nT. Phi angle was in a positive orientation on 20-21 Jun and rotated to a negative orientation on 22-26 Jun. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 27 June - 23 July 2022

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels through 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 at high levels on 27 Jun - 04 Jul and 15-23 Jul due to CH HSS influence. Low to moderate levels are expected on 05-14 Jul. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled levels on 27-29 Jun, 08-11, 14-16 and 22-23 Jul with active intervals likely on 27 and 29 Jun and 23 Jul due to recurrent CH HSS activity coupled with CME activity on 27 and 29 Jun from the 24 Jun and 26 Jun CMEs, respectively. 

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2022 Jun 27     100          15          4

2022 Jun 28      95          12          4

2022 Jun 29      95           8          3

2022 Jun 30     100           5          2

2022 Jul 01     100           5          2

2022 Jul 02     100           5          2

2022 Jul 03     105           5          2

2022 Jul 04     110           5          2

2022 Jul 05     115           5          2

2022 Jul 06     120           5          2

2022 Jul 07     125           5          2

2022 Jul 08     130           8          3

2022 Jul 09     130           8          3

2022 Jul 10     135          12          4

2022 Jul 11     140           8          3

2022 Jul 12     140           5          2

2022 Jul 13     140           5          2

2022 Jul 14     140          12          4

2022 Jul 15     140          12          4

2022 Jul 16     140          12          4

2022 Jul 17     135          10          3

2022 Jul 18     130           8          3

2022 Jul 19     125           8          3

2022 Jul 20     120           8          3

2022 Jul 21     115           8          3

2022 Jul 22     110          12          4

2022 Jul 23     105          15          4

(NOAA)

KTWR adds DRM broadcast to summer schedule

 

KTWR transmitter site, Agat, Guam

Effective: 03 July 2022

All times UTC

GUAM   Additional broadcasts of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia from July 3

1500-1545 on 15205 TWR 090 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English Sunday DRM mode

1600-1630 on 15390 TWR 090 kW / 285 deg to SoAs Various Sunday DRM mode

(DXB 22 May)

Shortwave Radiogram, June 24-28

 

Hello friends

Greetings and good luck to radio amateurs in North America who will be participating in the ARRL Field Day event, June 25 and 26. Let's hope both space weather and terrestrial weather cooperate for everyone taking part in Field Day. 

Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 259)  are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 1300 UTC) and MCruz Dxer in Mexico (Saturday 0230 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 260, 23-28 June 2022, in MFSK modes as noted:

 

 1:35  MFSK32: Program preview

 2:40  MFSK32: Great Lakes levels will continue to rise

 8:16  MFSK64: Melting Arctic ice and international shipping

12:57  MFSK64: This week's images

28:18  MFSK32: Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram (visit during the weekend to see listeners' results)

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/567099476753304

Shortwave Radiogram Gateway Wiki https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Shortwave_Radiogram_Gateway 

Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule

UTC Day UTC Time Frequency Transmitter

Friday 1300-1330 15770 kHz WRMI Florida

Friday 1500-1530 15750 kHz DRM WINB Pennsylvania

Saturday 0230-0300 9265 kHz WINB Pennsylvania

Sunday 2330-2400 7730 kHz WRMI Florida

Monday 0800-0830 5850 kHz  7780 kHz WRMI Florida

Tuesday 1430-1500 9955 kHz WRMI Florida

The Mighty KBC transmits to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK is at about 0130 UTC.  Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/. 

“This is a Music Show” Most of the show is a music show, but the host transmits some MFSK-64 text and image near the end of the broadcast.  It’s transmitted on WRMI, Thursdays at 0200-0300 UTC on 5850 kHz (Wednesday evening in the Americas). Also look for a waterfall ID at the beginning of the show. thisisamusicshow@gmail.com  www.twitter.com/ThisIsAMusicSho/    @ThisIsAMusicSho  https://thisisamusicshow.com

Pop Shop Radio from British Columbia, Canada, includes "a whole variety of pop music, such as records from the 1960s and 1970s that were played on Top-40 radio stations not only in North America but also on offshore radio and stations like Radio Luxembourg." The programs now include some MFSK text and an image. Website: popshopradio.ca. Twitter: @popshopradio1  Email: radiopopshop@gmail.com.

Thanks for your reception reports!

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB

Producer and Presenter

Shortwave Radiogram

Reporting on international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom 

BBC Antarctic Midwinter broadcast slated for 21 June

 

The following broadcast schedule for 21 June has been released, with the previous tested UAE site being deleted. The annual broadcast to Antarctica is likely to be aired on some BBCWS streams including via DAB in the UK.

June 21, 2022 - 2130-2200 UTC

7305 Ascension Island 

9505 // 12065 Woofferton, UK 

(WWDXC Top Nx 1508)

WMLK returns to shortwave

 

First day of station reactivation of WMLK on 9275 kHz at 1700 UTC. The signal observed from 1658 with sign-on at 1700 UTC. Station identification, broadcast schedule and contact information. Notes the station is authorized to broadcast on 9475 kHz, although this broadcast was on 9275 kHz. 

Global Radio Guide in my Bits & Bytes Summer 2019 column first covered their plans to return to the air following a devastating transformer fire in March 2017. Since then, the station has struggled to resume broadcasting from Bethel, Pennsylvania. 

Receiver: Kiwi SDR - Tipton, TN 

Recorder: BandiCam 

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Radio Pravda dlja Rossii schedule update

 

Radio Pravda dlja Rossii

Due (to) listeners' feedback and summer propagations on HF we increase our schedule to 13600 kHz (high power) and cancel 6070 kHz for the moment. Please take note off the attached broadcast schedule."

 9670 kHz Wednesday and Friday at 0500 UTC (low power) via Ch 292 Germany]

13600 kHz Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 1500 UTC (high power) [via ORS Moosbrunn, Austria, 100 kW at 55 degrees azimuth to zones 29 and 30, via ITU antenna #218 dipole curtain array, wb.]

Email contact: radioprawda@outlook.com 

(A. Pennington-UK/BDXC) 

12 June Twitter post as:

Full schedule per -at-Radio22_HF on Twitter today:

0500 UTC  9670 kHz (Mon Wed Fri)    (low power,   10 kW)

1500 UTC 13600 kHz (Tues Thurs Sat) (high power, 100 kW)

1900 UTC  6070 and 9670 kHz (Tues Thurs Sat Sun) (low power 10 kW)

(only 40 minute programs re DARC post below?)

(A. Pennington-UK/BDXC) June 12)

Uncensored radio for Russia

New short wave program for Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Under the name "Radio Prawda dlja Rossii" started on the 09th April 2022 a new radio program specially for Russia. The targets of the broadcast are serious and uncensored reporting as well as unfiltered news for the Russian population.

Due to the increasing state censorship and administrative restrictions on the Internet as well as the satellite broadcasts in reporting about Russia, this program will be broadcasted again on short-term. It is available nationwide throughout Eastern Europe and Siberia.

This program was founded by engineers and journalists in collaboration with radio stations, which in part come from Russia and Ukraine. The journalists already have years of experience in renowned public broadcasting agencies.

That's about. The 40-minute program in the journal format is produced voluntarily in the spare time and is funded entirely from private donations. Although the first test broadcasts were only aired with low broadcast performance and were little known so far, the editorial office

received a large number of feedback from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

The desire was expressed to continue the broadcasts and please repeat it several times. The radio station considers this as a clear signal for the need for such uncensored news."

A. Pennington-U/BDXC) 18 June 2022-Top News 1508)

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 13 - 19 June 2022

Solar activity ranged from low to moderate levels. Low levels were observed on 14-19 Jun with the majority of the C-class flares from Regions 3030 (N18, L=117, class/area Dai/230 on 19 Jun), 3031 (S26, L=130, class/area Eai/240 on 15 Jun), 3037 (S21, L=140, class/area Csi/060 on 17 Jun) and 3038 (N15, L=053, class/area Dai/140 on 19 Jun). Moderate (R1-Minor) flare activity was observed on 13 and 16 Jun. Region 3032 (N21, L=106, class/area Dai/180 on 13 Jun) produced an LDE, M3.4/1n event at 13/0407 UTC. Associated with this event were Type II (325 km/s) and Type IV Sweep signatures, a 670 sfu Tenflare and a CME signature analyzed with a potential arrival time of early on 15 Jun. Region 3031 produced an M1.6 at 16/0353 UTC. Other than the 13 Jun CME, no additional Earth-directed CMEs were observed. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels on 13-17 Jun. High levels were reached on 18-19 Jun with a maximum flux reading of 2,950 pfu observed at 19/1735 UTC. 

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm levels. Unsettled to G1 (Minor) and the geomagnetic storms were observed on 13 Jun due to positive polarity CH HSS influence. Mostly quiet levels were observed on 14 Jun. Unsettled to G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms were observed on 15 Jun due to effects from the 13 Jun CME. 16 Jun saw unsettled to active levels as CME effects continued. 

The unsettled to active levels were observed on 17-19 Jun due to the positive polarity CH HSS influence. During the period, solar wind speeds ranged from a low of near 440 km/s on 14 Jun to a high of near 650 km/s late on 17 Jun. The total field was at mostly 5-10 nT through the period with the Bz component at mostly +/- 7 nT. The phi angle remained in a predominately positive orientation. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 20 June - 16 July 2022

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels, with a chance for further M-class flares on 20-24 Jun due to potential flare activity from Regions 3031 and 3032. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 20-22 Jun, 27 Jun - 02 Jul and 15-16 Jul due to CH HSS influence. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach unsettled levels on 20 Jun, 23-26 Jun, 08-11 Jul, and 14-16 Jul with active levels on 24 Jun due to recurrent CH HSS activity. 

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2022 Jun 20     138          10          3

2022 Jun 21     134           5          2

2022 Jun 22     125           5          2

2022 Jun 23     121          12          4

2022 Jun 24     118          18          5

2022 Jun 25     114          12          4

2022 Jun 26     105          10          3

2022 Jun 27     100           5          2

2022 Jun 28     100           5          2

2022 Jun 29     100           5          2

2022 Jun 30     100           5          2

2022 Jul 01     100           5          2

2022 Jul 02     100           5          2

2022 Jul 03     105           5          2

2022 Jul 04     110           5          2

2022 Jul 05     115           5          2

2022 Jul 06     120           5          2

2022 Jul 07     125           5          2

2022 Jul 08     130           8          3

2022 Jul 09     130           8          3

2022 Jul 10     135          12          4

2022 Jul 11     140           8          3

2022 Jul 12     140           5          2

2022 Jul 13     140           5          2

2022 Jul 14     140          12          4

2022 Jul 15     140          12          4

2022 Jul 16     140          12          4

(NOAA)

Transmission Test for annual BBC Antarctica Midwinter Broadcast

 

Pending the final broadcast schedule for 21 June, the following testing schedule will commence on 14 June 2022, 2130-2145 UTC. 

Ascension Island      7305 kHz

United Arab Emirates 6035 kHz

Woofferton UK 9505 kHz  / 12065 kHz

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 06 - 12 June 2022

Solar activity ranged from very low to moderate levels. Very low levels were observed on 06-08 Jun. Low levels were observed on 09 and 11-12 Jun with the majority of the C-class flares from Regions 3029 (S17, L=204, class/area Dao/070 on 09 Jun) and 3030 (N20,L=113,  class/area Eao/180 on 11 Jun). Region 3030 was also responsible for the moderate activity on 10 Jun due to an isolated M1/Sf flare at 10/1054 UTC. By 12 Jun, Region 3030 had rotated into view enough to determine it was two separate regions. The trailing spots were reclassified as Region 3032 (N21, L=106 class/area Dai/090 on 12 Jun). Just after the end of the period, an M3.4 flare was observed at 13/0407 UTC along with Type II and IV radio sweeps. The bulk of the flare activity was from Region 3032 with sympathetic

flaring noted around the same time from Region 3030. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed, however, we are waiting on further coronagraph imagery associated with the recent M3.4 flare to determine if there is an Earth-directed component. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

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

Geomagnetic field activity was at or near background levels on 06-11 Jun with solar wind below 400 km/s and total field ranging from 3-12 nT. By 12 Jun, total field increased to 12-15 nT while the solar wind speed increased to 440-485 km/s as a weak positive polarity CHHSS became geoeffective. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 06-07 Jun and 11-12 Jun while quiet conditions were observed on 08-10 Jun. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 13 June - 09 July 2022

Solar activity is expected to be very low to low with a chance for further M-class flares on 13-24 Jun due to potential flare activity from Regions 3030 and 3032. 

There is a chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event in the next 24 hours associated with the recent M3 flare. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 17-22 Jun and again on 26 Jun - 02 Jul due CH HSS influence. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach unsettled levels on 13 Jun, 15-18 Jun, 23-26 Jun, 08-09 Jul with active levels on 13,16 and 24 Jun due to recurrent CH HSS activity. 

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2022 Jun 13     120          12          4

2022 Jun 14     120           5          2

2022 Jun 15     125           8          3

2022 Jun 16     125          12          4

2022 Jun 17     125          10          3

2022 Jun 18     125           8          3

2022 Jun 19     125           5          2

2022 Jun 20     120           5          2

2022 Jun 21     120           5          2

2022 Jun 22     110           5          2

2022 Jun 23     100          12          3

2022 Jun 24     100          18          4

2022 Jun 25     100          10          3

2022 Jun 26     100           8          3

2022 Jun 27     100           5          2

2022 Jun 28     100           5          2

2022 Jun 29     100           5          2

2022 Jun 30     100           5          2

2022 Jul 01     100           5          2

2022 Jul 02     100           5          2

2022 Jul 03     100           5          2

2022 Jul 04     100           5          2

2022 Jul 05     100           5          2

2022 Jul 06     105           5          2

2022 Jul 07     110           5          2

2022 Jul 08     115           8          3

2022 Jul 09     120           8          3

(NOAA)

18th Edition of the Global Radio Guide (Summer 2022) Now Available

 

For Immediate Release                                                                                 Thursday, May 5, 2022

 

18^th Edition of the Global Radio Guide (Summer 2022) Now Available

 

Familiar players and familiar places. 

 Familiar fears pushed by familiar voices.

 The world has held its breath during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as images of the human suffering of war have brought back old memories and old fears from years gone by.

 Just like these events have brought up once buried feelings, it has also brought what many thought to be “old” technology back to the forefront.  While internet access is one of the first targets of invading regimes intent on controlling the narrative, the vast reach of shortwave radio transcends borders and other forms of connectivity.

 It is déjà vu with a front-row view.

 For those who want to be on the front lines of the action, Gayle Van Horn’s (W4GVH) 18^th Edition of her Amazon bestselling Global Radio Guide (Summer 2022) has all of the details you need to catch up with the latest from the front lines.

 As one of the only remaining publications available with international broadcast frequencies and schedules, the Global Radio Guide (GRG) puts everything a radio enthusiast needs to navigate the action right in their hands.

 In this completely updated edition, regular GRG contributors Ken Reitz, KS4ZR, and Fred Waterer (both also of The Spectrum Monitor) post features on monitoring the international broadcasters at the very forefront of the events.  Larry Van Horn, N5FPW, adds his detailed information on monitoring of utilities on the shortwave bands, including military communications. 

 With the help of the GRG, you can tune in to shortwave broadcast stations from additional hotspots such as China, Cuba, India, Iran, North/South Korea, Taiwan, and many other counties. If you have a shortwave radio receiver, SDR or Internet connection, pair it with this unique radio resource to know when and where to listen to the world.

 This newest edition of the GRG carries on the tradition of those before it with an in-depth, 24-hour station/frequency guide with schedules for selected AM band, longwave, and shortwave radio stations. This unique resource is the only radio publication that lists by-hour schedules that include all language services, frequencies, and world target areas for over 500 stations worldwide.

 The GRG includes listings of DX radio programs and Internet website addresses for many of the stations in the book. There are also entries for time and frequency stations as well as some of the more “intriguing” transmissions one can find on the shortwave radio bands.

 In addition to the global hotspots, the GRG brings the world to you from other places on the radio dial.

 Gayle Van Horn brings us into the tropics with her regular stroll through the tropical bands – one of the most challenging and rewarding pursuits for the shortwave listener.

 Not only are the bands heating up with world events, but the HF bands themselves are becoming more alive as our sun wakes up from its slumber.  What impact will this renewed solar activity have on listening?  Tad Cook, K7RA, shares his atmospheric expertise with a primer on radio propagation while maintaining an eye on the ever-evolving Solar Cycle 25. 

 A bit lower on your radio dial, DX Central’s Loyd Van Horn, W4LVH, breaks down the basics of getting started with mediumwave DX and even gives us a fun summer project by diving into the powerful KAZ antenna that listeners can use to pull in elusive mediumwave signals from far beyond their home.

 Whether you monitor shortwave radio broadcasts, mediumwave, amateur radio operators, or aeronautical, maritime, government, or military communications in the HF radio spectrum, this book has the information you need to help you to hear it all. Teak Publishing’s Global Radio Guide "brings the world to you."

 You can find this edition of the Global Radio Guide, along with all of our titles currently available for purchase, on the Teak Publishing Web site at www.teakpublishing.com.  Details will be available at www.teakpublishing.com.

 The 18^th 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/B09ZK1HWFY/

 

The price for this latest edition is US$8.99. 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.

 

All India Radio, summer frequency updates

 

DX India Exclusive:

The following are changes for All India Radio External Services from 9 June 2022

All times UTC

0100-0230  Tibetan 9910 (D)   Ex 9875

0130-0200  Sindhi 7380(B)

0245-0315 Neplai 11560(B)  (Ex D)

0315-0415 Burmese 11560(B)  (Ex D)

0400-0530 Farsi  17675 (B)   (Ex 0800-0830 UTC 15030)

0430-0600  Pashtu  Add 15185(B)

0530-0630  Arabic 15030(B) (Ex 0500-0600 UTC)

0900-1030  Nepali Add 9910(D), 15030(B)

1030-1200  Chinese  17560(B)  (EX 13795)

1045-1215  Tibetan Add 9910(D)

1230-1400 Pashtu 11560(B)    (Ex D)

1330-1500 Dari 9950(B)   (Ex 15030)

1600-1730 Farsi 9620(B)  (Ex 1615-1730)

2345-0115 Chinese 15050 (B)   (Ex 13795)               

 

All Timings in UTC and Frequencies in  kHz

B = Bengaluru 500 kW ,  D = Delhi 100 kW

 

The updated schedule is will be available at: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Yours sincerely,

Jose Jacob, VU2JOS/BDXC

 

Hello friends

One or more of the WINB transmissions might begin with the text "Welcome to program 186 of Shortwave Radiogram." The show actually is program 258.  This error will not appear in the WRMI transmissions.

The repeat broadcast last weekend is because my wife and I traveled by Amtrak to San Francisco. This involved two trains: Washington DC to Chicago (Capitol Limited), then Chicago to Emeryville, California (across the bay from San Francisco). We saw lots of great scenery along the way, including canyons visible only from trains or riv craft. After two days in San Francisco, we flew back to DC. A photo from the trip will be transmitted this weekend on Shortwave Radiogram.

Thanks to Mitch @Plano26 and Al @WD4AH_Al for monitoring the @SWRadiogram Twitter May 26-31.

A video of the previous Shortwave Radiogram (program 257)  is provided by Scott in Ontario (May 27, 1300, UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. The analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 258, 9-14 June 2022, in MFSK modes as noted:

 

 1:37  MFSK32: Program preview

 2:44  MFSK32: Fabric converts CO2 to bicarbonate*

 7:44  MFSK64: Agrivoltaic projects and climate change

12:50  MFSK64: This week's images*

28:38  MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)

Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram (visit during the weekend to see listeners' results)

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/567099476753304

Shortwave Radiogram Gateway Wiki https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Shortwave_Radiogram_Gateway

Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule

UTC Day UTC Time Frequency Transmitter

Saturday  0230-0300 9265 kHz WINB Pennsylvania

Sunday 2330-2400 7730 kHz WRMI Florida

Monday 0800-0830 5850 kHz  7780 kHz  WRMI Florida

Tuesday 1430-1500 9955 kHz  WRMI Florida

The Mighty KBC transmits to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK is at about 0130 UTC.  Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/. 

“This is a Music Show” Most of the show is a music show, but the host transmits some MFSK-64 text and images near the end of the broadcast.  It’s transmitted on WRMI, Thursdays at 0200-0300 UTC on 5850 kHz (Wednesday evening in the Americas). Also, look for a waterfall ID at the beginning of the show. thisisamusicshow@gmail.com  www.twitter.com/ThisIsAMusicSho/    @ThisIsAMusicSho  https://thisisamusicshow.com

Pop Shop Radio from British Columbia, Canada, includes "a whole variety of pop music, such as records from the 1960s and 1970s that were played on Top-40 radio stations not only in North America but also on offshore radio and stations like Radio Luxembourg." The programs now include some MFSK text and an image. Website: popshopradio.ca. Twitter: @popshopradio1  Email: radiopopshop@gmail.com.

Thanks for your reception reports!

 Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB

Producer and Presenter

Shortwave Radiogram

Reporting on international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom 

Radio Tumbril-Encore classical music programs

 

Regular Broadcast times of Encore are: 

10:00 - 11:00 UTC Saturday 6070 kHz Channel 292 to Europe - Simulcast on 9670 kHz

Repeated:

01:00 - 02:00 UTC Sunday 7730 & 5850 kHz WRMI to Europe US and Canada (Note change from 7780 to 7730)

16:00 – 17:00 UTC Sunday 9670 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 

21:00 - 22:00 UTC Sunday 3955 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 

02:00 - 03:00 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. RTTY continues to be heard on 15770 in some areas. Suggest listening using USB or notch filter in LSB if available.

19:00 – 20:00 UTC Friday 6070 kHz Channel 292 to Europe (Note time change.)

Some additions to the website:

Up-to-date transmission times and frequencies. The playlists for the most recent programmes, and email link. Informal reception reports as well as those requesting eQSL cards are welcome.

This week's Programme - First broadcast this coming Saturday on Channel 292 - starts with See, Amid the Winter's Snow sung by Kate Rusby, a sonata for two violins from Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and part of Symphony No. 4 by Tchaikovsky.After that some motets by Poulenc, a piano quintet from Robert Schumann and Fingal's Cave by Mendelssohn. The program finishes with the Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp by Debussy.

Channel 292 can be pulled live off the internet if the reception is poor in your location. Easy to find their site with a google search. 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.

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

GMØTLY

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 30 May - 05 June 2022

Solar activity ranged from very low to low levels throughout the highlight period. On 30 May, Region 3019 (N11, L=042, class/area Cro/030 on 21 May) produced a C1.5 flare at 30/0027 UTC. Weak C-class activity was also observed from Region 3029 (S18, L=199, class/area Axx/010 on 04 Jun) on 02 Jun and 04 Jun. A 6 degree long filament erupted at 31/2351 UTC, centered near S11W08. A CME was detected in STEREO imagery, first visible at 01/0224 UTC, with a possible Earth-directed component. Another filament eruption was observed at 02/0500 UTC. This 20-degree long filament was centered near S35W35 with a subsequent CME detected in LASCO imagery at 02/0612 UTC and with a possible Earth-directed component. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels through the period. A maximum of 9,720 pfu was observed at 03/1515 UTC. 

Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to unsettled levels. Isolated unsettled levels were observed on 30-31 May due to recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS influence. Quiet levels were observed on 01-05 Jun. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 06 June - 02 July 2022

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels through the outlook period. A chance for moderate levels exists on 08-24 Jun due to the return of old Regions 3014 (N22, L=104) and 3017 (N12, L=089), both M-class flare producers on their last transit. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 26-30 Jun and 01-02 Jul due to CH HSS effects. Normal to moderate levels are anticipated on 06-25 Jun. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 13-17 Jun and 23-26 Jun due to recurrent CH HSS influences. Mostly quiet conditions are expected to prevail throughout the remainder of the outlook period. 

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2022 Jun 06     100           5          2

2022 Jun 07     105           5          2

2022 Jun 08     105           5          2

2022 Jun 09     105           5          2

2022 Jun 10     110           5          2

2022 Jun 11     110           5          2

2022 Jun 12     110           5          2

2022 Jun 13     110          12          3

2022 Jun 14     110           8          3

2022 Jun 15     115          12          3

2022 Jun 16     115          10          3

2022 Jun 17     115           8          3

2022 Jun 18     120           5          2

2022 Jun 19     125           5          2

2022 Jun 20     125           5          2

2022 Jun 21     120           5          2

2022 Jun 22     110           5          2

2022 Jun 23     100          12          3

2022 Jun 24     100          18          4

2022 Jun 25     100          10          3

2022 Jun 26     100           8          3

2022 Jun 27     100           5          2

2022 Jun 28     100           5          2

2022 Jun 29     100           5          2

2022 Jun 30     100           5          2

2022 Jul 01     100           5          2

2022 Jul 02     100           5          2

(NOAA)