Happy New Year 2025

 

Happy New Year from Shortwave Central and DX Central. Thank you for following our radio posts, live YouTube presentations, and reading our columns in The Spectrum Monitor e-zine in 2024. We appreciate your feedback and support throughout the year.  

May the new year bring you the best in radio, filled with new projects and a bevy of stations in your listening post or portable monitoring. We invite you to stay connected throughout the year as we bring you the very latest in radio news and events. 

Gayle and Loyd Van Horn

Teak Publishing

Mandeville, Louisiana Studios

Wavescan's focus on New Year Radio Events Around the World

 

Special thanks to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing the New Years Around the World program 

Jeff: In our program here in Wavescan last week, we presented the story of Christmas Radio; that is, the story of interesting and important radio events that took place throughout the years on Christmas Day, December 25. Today here in Wavescan, we follow a similar theme; and on this occasion, we present interesting and important radio events that took place on New Year's Day, January 1, throughout the years. Here’s Ray Robinson in Los Angeles.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff. Let's start by taking a look at the story of New Year's Day itself, going back to ancient Roman history and the year 46 BC. According to the encyclopedias, it was Julius Caesar who that year made some important changes to the previous lunar calendar, in order to synchronize it better with the solar year. Some months were changed and renamed, though the regular rotation of the seven day weekly cycle was not interrupted. His new annual calendar is identified these days as the Julian Calendar.

It was Julius Caesar who introduced January 1 as the first day of each New Year, with which we are quite familiar today. However, during the Middle Ages, several countries in Europe were observing different dates as New Year's Day, including March 25, as the beginning of Spring. By this time, the annual calendar was well out of step with the annual rotation of the year, and so Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar, now known as the Gregorian Calendar, in the year 1582. Some of the months were changed and renamed, though again, the weekly cycle of seven days remained unchanged. Once more, January 1 was recommended to be the beginning of the New Year. Nearly 200 years later, in 1752, January 1 was formally adopted in England and in the American colonies as New Year's Day.

On New Year's Day 1902, and was a very important day. This was the first occasion upon which both speech and music were intentionally transmitted in a large public demonstration. On this occasion, the controversial Nathan B. Stubblefield demonstrated the transmission of music and voice from one central location near the courthouse in Murray, Kentucky to five nearby receivers. It is thought that this demonstration may have utilized ground conduction, though indeed it was a wireless transmission. In 1948, a commercial radio station was inaugurated in Murray, and it was named in honor of Stubblefield with his initials; station WNBS, with 1 kW on 1340 kHz.

Exactly 20 years later to the very day, that is, on January 1, 1922, the Department of Commerce issued a list of current medium wave stations on the air in the United States, all 28 of them. On January 1, 1926, the first radio broadcasting station in Ireland was inaugurated, with 1.5 kW on 790 kHz. This station was launched under the callsign 2RN, very close to the Irish pronunciation of Eireann, the Gaelic name for Ireland. 

The studios for this new station were located in Little Denmark Street, Dublin, and the transmitter was at the McKee Army barracks, out near Phoenix Park. Two years later, on January 1, 1928, radio broadcasting in Holland was inaugurated under the AVRO concept, a program-producing organization that was aired over the existing radio broadcasting system. This is the same system used to this day, with about a dozen program-producing organizations on the air over the Dutch national public service network of stations on medium wave and FM.

During 1938, the BBC in London introduced two new foreign language services into its international radio programming. The first of these was Arabic which went on the air on January 3, and the second was German which was inaugurated on March 29. Some nine years later, on January 1, 1947, all of the foreign language services in the international medium wave and shortwave programming from the BBC were amalgamated into the General Overseas Service. During the past 100 or so years, three different radio stations located in Winnipeg, Manitoba have been on the air under the same Canadian callsign, CKY. The second of these stations, a commercial enterprise, was inaugurated on New Year's Day 1950, with 5 kW on 580 kHz.

Then there was Europe No. 1 which was launched on New Year's Day, 1955. This station was located in the Saar, a German state bordering France and it was established to provide commercial radio coverage over France. This station broadcast on longwave with 400 kW on 182 kHz, and I can attest that even in the west of France along the Bay of Biscay, reception was very strong during the daytime. Like the commercial longwave service of Radio Luxembourg at the time, Europe No. 1 broadcast only in French.

We could think also of the radio scene in what was in earlier times in British Malaya. On New Year's  Day 1959, the country split into two different entities, Malaysia and Singapore. The radio station in Singapore became Radio Singapore, and the radio station in Kuala Lumpur, on that same date, became Radio Malaysia.

In the post-war years, the radio scene in Nigeria consisted mainly of independent radio stations in the major cities during an era of turmoil and war; but on January 1, 1952, the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria assumed control of all radio stations throughout the country. On New Year's Day in 1971, cigarette advertising was banned on radio and television in the United States. 

It had been banned on UK television since August 1, 1965, but tobacco companies quickly found a profitable way around that by advertising on offshore radio stations instead. But, I was surprised on a trip to Gibraltar in 1981 to find very old American TV cigarette adverts still being carried by GBC TV, so I guess it took awhile for such prohibitions to be enacted around the world.

In the late 60’s and in the 1970’s, I was an avid listener to the international service of Radio Sweden, in particular Sweden Calling DXers on Tuesdays, and at the weekends, The Radio Sweden Saturday Show and The Pops. The Saturday Show, featuring Roger Wallis and Kim Loughran, was always rather zany, and at the end of 1977, this was part of their discussion about New Year’s resolutions for 1978.

On the island of Taiwan, a new international service was introduced in 1979 with transmissions on 621 kHz medium wave at 500 kW, and on 5980 kHz shortwave. Over on the mainland, on New Year's Day, 1993, Radio Beijing became China Radio International. 

And finally, a European country was divided into two entities, also on New Year's Day, 1993. Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus, Radio Slovakia became a new and separate entity on that date. At the beginning of the next year, 1994, Adventist World Radio began using a relay from the large shortwave station located at Rimavska Sobota in Slovakia, ultimately expanding usage to all four transmitters there. The 250 kW transmitter designated RS09 at Rimavska Sobota gave remarkably wide coverage to AWR programming.

There are probably more radio events that took place on various New Year’s Days, and if you know of another one – why not let us know? Just email wavescan@yahoo.com. But there you have it, the story of quite a few interesting and important radio events that took place around our world on New Year's Day.

(Wavescan)

New Years Eve programming from Jen & GB

Jen and GB’s New Year's Eve Shows Dec. 31 22-08 or 09 UTC on Unique Radio - Live stream

From 2200 UTC until Wednesday 0800 or 0900, Jen's NYE music related to the time zones when the ball drops at midnight in the countries on the date line, with GB's Supersonic NYE Party Show 3 hours from 0000 UTC.

Jen's NYE Dance music: So for example, if it's 2200 UTC, the countries are Greece, North.African and South.African, 2300 Congo, Brazzaville, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, and so on, a wide assortment to choose from. 

All forms of dance, slow and fast, R&R and modern in the countries on the date line.

Our Live Stream:

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

Our live chat room is open for you in https://libera.chat/. Click on Connect, then Web chat

Please put in the following: For nick: name or like me radionutresss

Then next line channel, that's the following: #eyeradiojd and you are in the room.

email for correspondence

jenur@proton.me

Jen & GB

Voice of Turkey's reorganization as TRT Global

 

Voice of Turkey QSL via Teak Publishing Archives

"Not looking good for the English broadcasts, I'll quote what they send my way."

 

"We are currently undergoing a reorganization process, and we were told that TRT’s all foreign broadcasts (VOT radio, multiple-language websites, and podcasts) will be consolidated under one roof, called TRT Global, which will be launched soon.

 

In this new structure, VOT English shortwave broadcasts will be handled by the TRT World channel in ?stanbul. We, as the Voice of Türkiye English Desk, will not be going on the air. We will be in charge of translating and presenting several podcast series, which will be available through our newly planned online platforms.

 

About the VOT English shortwave transmissions, we really have no idea what type of programming will be carried by TRT World, or whether there will be music. TRT VOT Arabic will face the same fate.

 

But, all other languages remain on the shortwave, and there might be new ones in the new term. I am personally sad about all this, but I still hope that it will be turned around at some point. You never know."

 

We'll see what happens going forward. 

(John, Orlando, Florida/VORW International)

Additional response:

Thank you for your e-mail, and we appreciate your concern regarding some changes at the Voice of Türkiye Radio going forward.

We are currently undergoing a reorganization process, and we were told that TRT’s all foreign broadcasts (VOT radio, multiple-language websites, and podcasts) will be consolidated under one roof, called TRT Global, which will be launched soon.

In this new structure, VOT English shortwave broadcasts will be handled by the TRT World channel in ?stanbul. We, as the Voice of Türkiye English Desk, will not be going on the air. We will be in charge of translating and presenting several podcast series, which will be available through our newly planned online platforms.

About the VOT English shortwave transmissions (to be carried by TRT World) in the new term (no date has been set), we really have no idea what type of programming there will be. TRT VOT Arabic will face the same fate.

But, all other languages remain on the shortwave, and there might be new ones in the new term. I am personally sad about all this, but I still hope that it will be turned around at some point. You never know??

We remain contactable at englishdesk@trt.net.tr

All the best,

EnglishDesk

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

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:Issued: 2024 Dec 30 0237 UTC

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 23 - 29 December 2024

Solar activity reached R1 (Minor) levels on 23-29 Dec, R2 (Moderate) levels on 23, 26 and 29 Dec and R3 (Strong) levels on 29 Dec. During this highlight period, a total of 33 C-class, 41 M-class and 1 X-class flares were observed. Region 3932 (S17, L=155, class/area Fkc/480 on 23 Dec) contributed to 5 C-class and 10 M-class flares early in the highlight period on 23-24 Dec. The largest flare observed from Region 3932 was an M8.9 (R2-Moderate) event at 23/1112 UTC with a 732 km/s Type II and a 320 sfu Tenflare. Weak M-class activity was observed on 25 Dec from Region 3938 (N21, L=103, class/area Eac/210 on 26 Dec). At 26/0315 UTC, Region 3938 observed an M7.3/2b (R2-Moderate) flare. Weak M-class activity was observed on 27-28 Dec from Regions 3928 (S14, L=177, class/area Dkc/280 on 25 Dec), 3932, 3933 (S08, L=175, class/area Ekc/350 on 24 Dec) and 3938. 

Activity picked up tremendously on 29 Dec with a total of 21 M-class flares and 1 X-class flare. Region 3936 (N14, L=144, class/area Ekc/400 on 26 Dec) produced 12 M-class flares on the 29th, including an M7.1 at 29/1509 and the largest event of the highlight period, an X1.1 flare at 29/0718 UTC. Region 3939 (S17, L=083, class/area Dso/120 on 29 Dec) produced an M2.0/Sf flare at 29/0430 UTC that resulted in an asymmetric, partial-halo CME with an Earth-directed component. Later on the 29th, this region produced an M3.3/1b flare at 29/1708 that resulted in another partial-halo CME. Analysis of a potential Earth-directed component was in progress at the time of this writing. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels on 23 Dec with a peak flux of 1,540 pfu observed at 23/1725 UTC. Normal to moderate levels were observed on 24-29 Dec. 

Geomagnetic field activity reached unsettled to active levels on 23-24 Dec due to negative polarity CH HSS influence and weak CME effects. Quiet levels predominated on 25-29 Dec. Solar wind began the period on 23 Dec enhanced with wind speeds in the 600-675 km/s

range, Bt at 10 nT and Bz at about -4 nT. Enhanced field conditions persisted on 24 Dec. From 25-29 Dec, field conditions approached nominal levels where wind speeds decayed to 300-400 km/s and Bt and Bz levels were at nominal levels. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 30 December - 25 January 2025

Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) levels, with a chance for isolated R3 (Strong) levels due to potential flare activity from numerous active regions. 

There is a chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event reaching the S1 (Minor) level during the outlook period. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with a chance for high levels on 01-04 Jan due to CME influence. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G3 (Strong) levels on 31 Dec and G1 (Minor) levels on 01 Jan due to CME influence. Unsettled to isolated active level are likely on 05-06 Jan, 10-12 Jan and 16-20 Jan due to CH HSS effects. Mostly quiet levels are

likely on 30 Dec, 02-04 Jan, 07-09 Jan, 13-15 Jan and 21-25 Jan. 

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2024 Dec 30     255           8          3

2024 Dec 31     240          50          7

2025 Jan 01     210          20          5

2025 Jan 02     200           8          3

2025 Jan 03     195           5          2

2025 Jan 04     190           5          2

2025 Jan 05     190           8          3

2025 Jan 06     170           8          3

2025 Jan 07     160           5          2

2025 Jan 08     160           5          2

2025 Jan 09     165           5          2

2025 Jan 10     170          12          4

2025 Jan 11     165          10          3

2025 Jan 12     170           8          3

2025 Jan 13     170           5          2

2025 Jan 14     175           5          2

2025 Jan 15     175           5          2

2025 Jan 16     180          12          4

2025 Jan 17     190          10          3

2025 Jan 18     200          10          3

2025 Jan 19     210          10          3

2025 Jan 20     220          10          3

2025 Jan 21     230           5          2

2025 Jan 22     230           5          2

2025 Jan 23     230           5          2

2025 Jan 24     230           5          2

2025 Jan 25     230           5          2

(NOAA)

Classical Encore music from Radio Tumbril

 

Dear Listener,

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

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 AND HELP 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 is 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 27th December by WRMI at 0200 UTC on 5850, and 2000 UTC on 15770 and then Channel 292 on SATURDAY 28th December at 11:00 UTC on 9670 kHz:

Starts with the setting by Holst of In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rosetti. Next a contemporary composer - Rebecca Dale with 'Winter' - sung by the same vocal ensemble as the first piece - Voces8. An unusual septet follows and then part of the Christmas Oratorio by J S Bach. The piece Sleigh Ride from Delius follows on, then something exciting from Finnish folk lore performed by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. The Programme ends with a setting of a twelfth century lovers' lament by contemporary American composer Caroline Shaw.

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

(This bulletin is sent by Bcc to the many hundreds of listeners who have been in contact with Encore over the last nearly six years of broadcasting Encore.)

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

New Year broadcast from Radio Victoria

 

Germany -  Radio Victoria Shortwave-Revival 2024.

https://shortwaveradio.de/en/Radio_Victoria_Revival_2024

In the 1980's for numerous shortwave listeners in German-speaking Europe, this station was a part of their youth. For some, it was even a small footprint on the path to private broadcasting in Germany.

Radio Victoria, the "independent shortwave music station", comes sponsored by a former member of the "Victoria Listener Club" back on shortwave with a revival broadcast of the four-hour annual hit parade from 1984 and station operator Roger Kirk, who died in 2012 year.

Once broadcasted on Radio Milano International in the 41 meter band over the turn of the year 1984/1985, after forty years now again 2024/2025 relayed via Shortwave Gold from Winsen-Aller in Northern Germany on 6160 kHz and this exactly on the analog broadcast days and times - with the quasiirst broadcast on Boxing Day and the two repetitions on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day:

December 31, 2024 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC

January   1, 2025 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC

QSL: Radio Victoria, P.O. Box 1214, 61282 Bad Homburg, Germany 

(WWDXC Top Nx 1601/23 Dec 2024)

Pop Shop Radio New Year's Disco Party!

 

Get ready for the Pop Shop Radio 250 kilowatt New Year's Disco Party! Bring in the New Year 2025 with the world's biggest party on shortwave, so dust off your dancing shoes and make a note to tune to 6060 kHz at 0300 UT on 1 January 2025. It will be beamed from Woofferton in the UK to North America

Tony Pavick

Pop Shop Radio  

Hope BC Canada

SWL 2025 Contest

 

SWL contest 2025 rules

The contest will begin 01 January 2025 - 28 February 2025

They are three categories

1) Medium wave 522 to 1710 kHz for Europe and 520 to 1710 kHz from outside Europe.

2) Shortwave from 2300 - 26100 kHz

3) lmediumwave and shortwave 

Réglement en Français

https://chinaradiosswl.blogspot.com/2024/11/concours-swl-2025-en-francais.html

No pirate radios, DRM, or clandestine radio stations are allowed. Restricted to mediumwave and shortwave. .

For additional information go to:

https://webkiwisdrswl.blogspot.com/2024/09/swl-contest-2025-rules.html

List of private MW stations in Italy

 

Welcome to this 5.6 edition of “List of Private MW stations in Italy”. Unlike other lists that you can find over the Internet, this publication only lists stations currently on the air, expected to start operation very soon or temporarily off-air. Also included is information on how to contact the stations (E-mail and Web sites), QSL policies and, when known, transmitter powers and future plans. I have compiled this list by assembling information received directly from the stations and my own research. I have done my best to keep mistakes to a minimum.

Almost all of Italian MW stations are licensed. Despite this, solid data on hours of transmission, programs, frequencies, and contacts are difficult to obtain because station practices themselves change often. Another point to be mentioned is the fact that frequencies sometimes change, and new ones or old ones appear or reappear. Some stations, especially those unlicensed, are not on the air daily and/or the frequencies rarely tend to be used all the day.

Most stations operate from the North of Italy (especially from the regions of Lombardia, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia), a few from the central part of the country (Toscana, Emilia Romagna, Umbria, Marche, Lazio and Abruzzo) and, after the disappearance a number of years ago of Gold 1593 located in Sicily, virtually none from the South.

This list will be regularly updated and more details will be added in future. If you have any corrections, additions, comments or suggestions please don’t hesitate to write to: dxf@dxfanzine.com – Last but not least: if you find any error (and you are invited to let me know) be advised that it was absolutely unintentional!

Licensed and unofficial independent broadcasting stations on mediumwave (L means Licensed)

Freq. Station Notes Transmitter Site and Power

01) 603 Nuova Radio AM* L. U. Spoltore, PE. (Abruzzo)

02) 711 Media Radio Castellana* L. Castel San Pietro Terme BO. (Emilia-Romagna)

15) 819 Radio Calcio FVG* L. Trieste (Friuli Venezia Giulia).

04) 846 Radio Luce L. I. Grottaferrata RM. (Lazio).

05) 918 AM Italia L. Villa Estense PD. (Veneto)

06) 927 Power 9-2-7 L. Abbiategrasso MI. (Lombardia)

07) 1017 Amica Radio Veneta* L. Vigonza, PD. (Veneto)

11) 1071 Media Veneta Radio/Voglia di Radio. L. Piove di Sacco PD. (Veneto) .

02) 1098 Media Radio Castellana* L. Castel San Pietro Terme BO. (Emilia-Romagna)

08) 1188 Radio Studio X* L. Momigno, PT. (Toscana). 5000 W

10) 1233 Milano XR* Magenta, MI. (Lombardia).

21) 1233 This is Radio!* L. U. Piove di Sacco PD. (Veneto)

05) 1323 AM Italia L. Villa Estense PD. (Veneto).

12) 1350 Radio Z 100 Milano AM* L. Linate, MI. (Lombardia).500 W.

13) 1359 Regional Radio* L. Viterbo (Lazio). Power 250 W.

13) 1395 Regional Radio* L. Settebagni, RM (Lazio). 250 W

25) 1395 Viva La Radio L. Padova (Veneto)

14) 1404 Radio Banana L.U Casalgrande RE. (Emilia-Romagna). 300 W

13) 1440 Regional Radio* L. Narni TN. (Umbria). 2000 W.

24) 1449 Radio Briscola L. Lenta, VC. 500 W. On air on week-ends.

04) 1485 Radio Luce L. I. Ascoli Piceno. (Marche).

04) 1485 Radio Luce L. Perugia.(Umbria). 1000 W.

08) 1485 Radio Studio X* L. Livorno. (Toscana) 1000 W. Stereo C-Quam.

13) 1485 Regional Radio* L. Terni. (Umbria). 250 W.

13) 1494 Regional Radio* L. U. Perugia.(Umbria). 250 W.

09) 1503 Radio Metropolis* L. Trieste. (Friuli Venezia Giulia).

16) 1512 Radio Lago Trasimeno* L. U. Perugia. (Umbria).

15) 1539 Radio Calcio FVG* L. Murris Ragogna, UD.(Friuli Venezia Giulia). 250 W.

17) 1566 Radio Kolbe* L. Colli Berici, VI (Veneto).

22) 1575 Radio Centrale Milano* L. Valenza, AL. (Piemonte). 400 W PEP.

18) 1584 Radio Piterpan* L. Vicenza. (Veneto).

08) 1584 Radio Studio X* L. Arezzo. (Toscana). 1000 W. Stereo C-Quam.

13) 1584 Regional Radio* L. U. Rieti. (Lazio). 100 W.

23) 1584 Radio Luce ? Rimini, RN. (Emilia Romagna).

03) 1602 Dot Radio* L. U. Spello, PG. (Perugia).

19) 1602 Radio a Colori L. Bologna (Emilia Romagna).

20) 1602 RTV Radio Treviso L. I. Treviso (Veneto).

(L) Licensed. (I) Inactive at time of editing. (U) Not confirmed recently. (*) Also Webstreams. (#) Active,

according to info posted recently on Facebook. However, this could not be independently verified. (IR)

Irregular.

(Antonello Napolitano in DX Fanzine 135 (December 2024)

(photo/Wikipedia)

BBC World Service schedules via Cyprus

 

CYPRUS   Re: BBC World Service Limassol, Cyprus transmitters on 639 and

720 kHz every day *.

* MW Limassol Cyprus transmission schedule and FM 93 MHz too, also dis-

played on BBC TV Arabic London sce bottom text line continously via satel-

lite Hotbird 13.0_East 11727 vertical 29900, during newscast on full hour

at 09, 11, and 20 UT/GMT, wb.

Yes, it is now listed with Arabic only in WRTH Web App, but will be cor-

rected next week with also English segments as follows:

 639 0600-0630 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 0600-0630 Arabic  zak 250 ME   daily

 639 0630-0700 English zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 0630-0700 English zak 250 ME   daily

 639 0700-0730 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 0700-0730 Arabic  zak 250 ME   daily

 639 1300-1430 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf mtwtf..

 720 1300-1430 Arabic  zak 250 ME   mtwtf..

 639 1300-1400 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf .....ss

 720 1300-1400 Arabic  zak 250 ME   .....ss

 639 1400-1500 English zak 250 NEAf .....ss

 720 1400-1500 English zak 250 ME   .....ss

 639 1430-1500 English zak 250 NEAf mtwtf..

 720 1430-1500 English zak 250 ME   mtwtf..

 639 1500-1530 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 1500-1530 Arabic  zak 250 ME   daily

 639 1530-1700 English zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 1530-1700 English zak 250 ME   daily

 639 1700-1730 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 1700-1730 Arabic  zak 250 ME   daily

 639 1730-1800 English zak 250 NEAf daily

 720 1730-1800 English zak 250 ME   daily

 639 1800-1930 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf mtwtf..

 720 1800-1930 Arabic  zak 250 ME   mtwtf..

 639 1800-1900 Arabic  zak 250 NEAf .....ss

 720 1800-1900 Arabic  zak 250 ME   .....ss

 639 1900-1930 English zak 250 NEAf .....ss

 720 1900-1930 English zak 250 ME   .....ss

"Audiences in Syria, Gaza and the West Bank can now tune in to BBC News on MW 639 and 720 kHz frequencies every day ! Catch us from 06:00-07:30 GMT and 13:00-19:30 GMT for the latest updates and more."

(BBC World Service -at- bcworldservice on X - was Twitter - 13 Dec)

639 and 720 kHz are from Limassol, Cyprus transmitters. Was carrying BBCWS in English at tune-in just after 17.30 today, with news in Arabic at 1800 UTC (checked on KiwiSDR in Cyprus).

(Alan Pennington-UK via BrDXC-UK groups.io / Mauno Ritola-FIN, Dec 13)

(WWDXC Top Nx 1601/23 Dec 2024)

Radio DARC announces December 29 broadcast

 

Moosbrunn Austria

AUSTRIA On Sunday, December 29, 2024, RADIO DARC will have the honor of finally burying the station with a 2-hour farewell broadcast. It could be the last Radio DARC broadcast from the facility.

The plan is to blow it up as soon as it is shut down, as the ORF management has made clear.

Radio DARC is asking whether you are interested in contributing content to the farewell broadcast. A comment, a statement or an audio contribution...

The Moosbrunn farewell from SMR Dessau is planned for New Year's Eve from 12-13 UTC on 6070 KHz. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to find out whether there will be another broadcast from there after that.

(RTI Hoererklubecke November 2024 by Bernd Seiser-D, TopNews Nov 3/WWDXC Top Nx0Bc-DX 1597/12 Nov 2024)

(photo wikimedia)

Radio Seagull Christmas special

Norman Barrington was a disc jockey on Radio Caroline, Radio Seagull, and Radio Mi Amigo in the 1970s.

He writes on the Facebook group "Radio Broadcasting - A History of The Airwaves":

The year 2024 has been a multi-anniversary. Its been 60 years since the start of British offshore radio, and 50 years since the loss of the Benelux offshore stations. 

It also happens to be 50 years since the Caroline Stonehenge festival, and the year I finally said farewell to the dear old Mi Amigo for the last time, after an eventful two years. Thus it is a significant anniversary for me too.

I am producing a special three-hour program to mark the occasion, and likely the last program I shall ever make. It traces the early years, the influence of American radio on European radio especially through the 'pirates', with a particular focus on 1964-1974, and of course my time which I know about the best.

I have called it Radio Radio - A Personal Retrospective and it features the sounds and music of a golden age. Including the voices of Tony Allen, Chris Cary, Andy Archer, Robin Adcroft, Mike Hagler and Brian Anderson. Jingles galore of course.

It will be broadcast by Radio Seagull on Boxing Day 26th December 0900-1200 repeated 2100-2400 GMT/UTC.

Midway through the show at 1030 UTC, I have a tough music challenge that will test your gray cells and musical knowledge. I shall provide the answers here, and on Seagull's website on December 31st.

Radio Seagull broadcasts online, with at https://radioseagull.com/

(BDXC/Mike Terry)

Shortwave Marathon broadcast on December 26

 

A marathon broadcast on December 26, 2024, seven German "radio stations" have joined forces to produce a marathon broadcast running from 0900 until 1500 UTC on 6070 kHz. 

This will be one of the last transmissions from Moosbrunn in Austria. This station will be closed for good at the end of the year.

This 100 kW Shortwave Marathon will start with Radio DARC at 0900 UTC and end with Radio Power Rumpel at 1400 UTC. It is likely to be the very last arrangement of this kind. Reports are welcomed and can be emailed to 100kwqsl@jake-fm.de.

(BDXC/Christer Brunström/Shortwave Bulletin)

Radio Events Around the World on Christmas Day

 

Thank you to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing this week's program on Christmas Around the World events.

Christmas Radio:

Jeff: In many countries around the world, Wednesday this week, December 25, will be celebrated as Christmas Day. According to age old traditions, it is a day of family reunions and the giving of gifts, with a delightful family banquet and all of its special foods. It is a day when many Christian churches hold special services, often including special music with vocal solos and large choirs. It was on December 25, that the world-famous singer, the crooner of yesteryear Bing Crosby, first presented a song that hit the high spots in the music world. He sang for the first public occasion the hit song, White Christmas.

This event took place on NBC radio in the United States in a popular program series under the title "Kraft Music Hall." The year was 1941. And so, on this occasion, Ray Robinson in Los Angeles is taking a look at what else happened in the radio scene on December 25, throughout the years. Ray?

Ray: Thanks, Jeff. Merry Christmas, everybody! Of course, the first-ever radio broadcast was made by the Canadian wireless inventor Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906. But as far as Christmas Day is concerned, we can start way back in 1922 when radio broadcasting was still very new, and on Christmas Day in that year, medium wave station KGW in Portland, Oregon presented a special Christmas program featuring a local Boys Choir. However, on December 25 of the following year, 1923, the management of station KGW gave all employees the day off so that they could enjoy their own family events. At the time, station KGW was a low power operation at just 500 watts on the frequency 610 kHz. In 1937, this same station presented a very different Christmas program, in which they broadcast a series of more than 200 personal messages to isolated lighthouses and light ships scattered along the Oregon coastline. In 1941, on that very same day, KGW inaugurated a new 5 kW transmitter, and a new transmission tower, standing 625 feet tall.

In 1928, the BBC in London made its first round-the-world British Empire Christmas Broadcast. It was a program of Christmas Carols from Kings College at Cambridge University, and it was broadcast on shortwave for rebroadcast throughout the world, as well as by the famous medium wave station 2LO in London. The first royal broadcast was in 1932 when King George V read his Christmas Message from a temporary studio in one of the royal residences - Sandringham House in Norfolk. George agreed to deliver a Royal Christmas speech on the radio, an event that became an annual tradition thereafter, which has continued to this day. The king was not in favour of the innovation originally but was persuaded by the argument that it was what his people wanted. The broadcast from Sandringham was heard nationally in the UK, and also on the Empire Service of the BBC via shortwave transmitters at Daventry, and also via the Rugby station GBP.

It was unfortunate that the chair on which the king was seated collapsed during the broadcast, but somehow that endeared him all the more to his people.

By the Silver Jubilee of his reign in 1935, he had become a well-loved king, saying in response, "I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow. He suffered from chronic bronchitis, however, and was also a heavy smoker, and eventually, he succumbed to ill health in January 1936 at the age of 70. His son, King George VI, made his first Christmas Broadcast in 1937; and his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II made hers in 1952. The first televised Christmas message was in 1957, and of course today it is carried on the Internet as well. The message has traditionally been written by the monarch personally, usually without input from staff, and if you want to catch King Charles III’s message this year, it is always broadcast at 1500 UTC.

Now, back in the year 1928, medium wave station 5CL in Adelaide, South Australia conducted a listener contest in December, and the winner was awarded an all-expenses paid summertime Christmas vacation on the island of Tasmania.

On Christmas Day 1931, two radio stations were officially inaugurated; one medium wave and one shortwave. The medium wave station was located in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, and it was launched with just 25 watts under the callsign 10AT. When the station changed to a commercial format soon afterwards, the callsign was changed to the more familiar CJAT. The shortwave station that was inaugurated on the same day in 1931 was the well-known Gospel station HCJB, ‘The Voice of the Andes’, on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, South America. The station had been founded by a musician graduate of the Moody Bible Institute, Clarence Wesley Jones, and the inaugural program was broadcast in English and Spanish from a studio in the Jones’ living room powered by a 200 watt tabletop transmitter operating on 50.26 meters, 5986 kHz. And from that small acorn, a mighty giant grew.

By the 1970’s, HCJB was one of the most powerful and most readily received shortwave stations in the world. The station ended its extensive worldwide shortwave transmissions on September 30, 2009, when its transmitter site at Pifo had to be dismantled to make way for Quito’s new airport. HCJB’s focus now is on ‘radio planting’, with over 350 local FM stations having been set up around the world. They do still broadcast on 6050 kHz but only with 1 kW through an antenna designed for coverage of Ecuador alone. In January 2003, HCJB Global began broadcasting on shortwave for Asia from Kununurra, on the north coast of Western Australia, and in 2014, the broadcast ministry changed its name to Reach Beyond.

Also on Christmas Day, 1931, the RCA shortwave communication station at Bolinas, California broadcast a special Christmas Program for relay across the Pacific. Four transmitters were in use for the occasion, and they were on the air under the callsigns KEL, KEV, KEZ and KWE. 

During World War II in 1944, the new Radio Canada International made a special Christmas broadcast for Canadian troops serving in continental Europe. At the time, the new shortwave transmitter base at Sackville, New Brunswick was nearing completion, and one of the three RCA 50 kW transmitters was hurriedly pressed into temporary service for the occasion. Regular broadcasting from Sackville began a couple of months later, on February 25 in the following year 1945.

Also on Christmas Day, 1944, the inauguration took place of two radio stations in the Pacific. These were the shortwave station KRHO on land north of Honolulu in Hawaii, and the medium wave KRHO on board the ship Triton Maris in Honolulu harbor. The ship-board station was subsequently transferred to a landbased facility on the island of Saipan and given a new callsign, KSAI. On Christmas Day, 1958, Radio Lumiere in Haiti was inaugurated under the callsign 4VI. Today, Radio Lumiere still provides nationwide coverage throughout Haiti with three stations on medium wave at 660, 720 and 760 kHz, and on a network of local FM stations. Over in Australia, the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory was lashed by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day, 1974. Much of the city was destroyed, and the radio stations in the area were disabled. In fact when Darwin was subsequently  rebuilt, it was given a new layout, and it became necessary for every building to contain a strong disaster shelter complete with all of life's necessities. 

After the horror of the cyclone disaster subsided, local radio for Darwin was broadcast through a unique relay system on shortwave. The Radio Australia shortwave facility on the other side of the bay did not escape the disaster. The station was badly damaged, and recovery took many years. Then, due to financial and political pressures, Radio Australia’s transmissions from Darwin's Cox Peninsula were shut down in the late 1990’s.

We could talk about the two islands that are called Christmas Island, one in the Pacific and the other in the Indian Ocean, both of which were discovered and named on Christmas Day, though in different years. The so-named island in the Pacific was at one time on the air with a low-powered AFRS station under the callsign WVUU; and a station on the island in the Indian Ocean is on the air to this day under the callsign VLU2 on 1422 kHz medium wave carrying ABC Radio National 24x7.

That is all we have for the moment regarding Radio Events on Christmas Day, but I’ll be back in a few with the story of KWHR in Hawaii, which was also inaugurated on a Christmas Day. Back to you, Jeff.

Jeff: Thanks, Ray. Next week, Ray will have a similar feature looking at radio events that took place worldwide on New Year’s Day.

One of the longest running comedy series on domestic BBC Radio, broadcast from 1951 until 1960, was The Goon Show, with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. The show was also released internationally through the BBC Transcription Service, and was heard widely in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and Canada, and in the United States it was carried on the NBC radio network from the mid-1950’s. The voice of Welshman Harry Secombe who played the character Neddie Seagoon is instantly recognizeable, and as well as an actor, he was a powerful singer. This is his rendition of the well-known Christmas hymn, Oh Holy Night.

Holiday Programming - Version 4 update

 

The fourth fully updated edition of my compilation of programming scheduled to be broadcast (mostly) on shortwave over the forthcoming holiday period up to Wednesday 1 January 2025 is now available from the permanent link at:

https://app.box.com/s/kbdxb4c5lwpju0kpoi27aiwc35br2g2a 

Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/shortwaveprograms

Note that the list includes both "seasonal" and "non-seasonal" programming. Regular weekly music programming where no special advance programme information has been provided are not usually included in this list (although there may be some exceptions!), however please refer to my Music on Shortwave list.

This is (probably) the final version of this compilation for the 2024 holiday season. However, in the event that further information becomes available, I will issue updates and post to the above permanent links as incremental versions. I will not announce these in social media posts, so you may find it worthwhile to check the above permanent links from time to time for the latest information.

I hope that you find this resource useful.

Additions and corrections are most welcome to alan-roe-swl@randa33.co.uk

Best wishes for Christmas and a Happy New Year

Alan Roe, Teddington, UK

(BDXC)

KWHR Hawaii on O Holy Night

 

KWHR, Hawaii

Jeff: Harry Secombe, with the Christmas hymn ‘O Holy Night’. Now, here’s Ray again with the story of shortwave station KWHR, which was located at a lonely, isolated spot almost at the very southern tip of the Hawaiian Islands.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff. This story begins back in October 1989, which was when LeSea Broadcasting in South Bend, Indiana applied to the FCC for a license to establish a new shortwave station in Hawaii. This new Hawaiian station would become their second shortwave station, following in the footsteps of their already established station WHRI, which at that time was located a little north of Indianapolis.

The location for this new shortwave station was right at the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii. The new KWHR was installed just 8 miles due north of South Point and half a mile from the transmitter site of KIPA AM/FM in Naalehu, Hawaii. The area was grass and tree covered, on top of the lava flow that had erupted from nearby Mt Kilauea in 1868.

Construction work for the new shortwave station began two years later in 1991, at a total cost of around $2 million. Four antenna towers were erected, two at 253 feet high for the slewable TCI curtain at 270 o , and two at 180 feet high for a fixed net style log periodic. All the towers, and the transmitter building, were constructed to withstand wind speeds up to 150 mph.

A high voltage power distribution line from a nearby wind farm did run quite close to station KWHR, but it is understood that the station generated its own power. Electricity was first applied to the 100 kW Harris 100B shortwave transmitter on December 16, 1993; and three days later, test transmissions began at 0500 UTC on 9930 kHz. Then, according to the noted shortwave historian Jerome Berg in

suburban Boston, this new LeSea shortwave station KWHR on the recovered lava fields on the big island of Hawaii was formally inaugurated six days later on Christmas Day, 1993. Here’s station owner, LeSea Broadcasting’s Lester Sumrall, interviewing chief engineer Doug Garlinger about the curtain antenna in 1993:

Around the turn of the century, shortwave KWHR was off the air for many months, and only WHRI near Indianapolis was on the air, with programming beamed to Latin America. Sometime after KWHR returned to the air, it started carrying program relays on behalf of the American operated AFRTS, Armed Forces Radio TV Service, AFN and Radio Free Asia and also three different organizations in the Vietnamese language. These syndicated relays were on the air for around three years, with listings in the WRTH for the years 2003 through 2005.

An additional 100 kW transmitter, a Continental Model 419F, was installed nearly four years after the station was officially opened and this additional unit was inaugurated on October 10, 1997. Transmitter KWHR1, identified as Angel 3 in LeSea terminology, was permanently connected to the log period antenna for coverage into Asia, and KWHR2 or Angel 4, was permanently connected to the curtain antenna for coverage into the Pacific Rim countries.

Programming for the two shortwave transmitters was assembled in the LeSea radio and TV facilities in South Bend, Indiana, with satellite delivery to Hawaii. Initially, KWHR2 carried a program relay from Pulse FM, a local contemporary Christian program service in South Bend.

However, changes were on the horizon, and in October 2008, the station was closed and dismantled, and the two transmitters were shipped to another LeSea shortwave station, T8WH on the island of Palau. During a visit I made to the LeSea station on Palau in May 2017, I saw an old sign in a storage shed there, which had obviously been salvaged from the previous site on Hawaii. It said: “Future Home of KWHR shortwave radio”.

Over the years, LeSea verified listener reception reports with at least three different colorful QSL cards, including an introductory limited edition First Day QSL. KWHR QSL cards have depicted a Hawaiian map, and a collage of Asian peoples. All that remains these days of the twenty year tenure of shortwave station KWHR on the big island of Hawaii is the sturdy concrete transmitter building, still apparently

in very good condition, and readily visible in satellite imagery on both Google Earth and Google Maps.

Back to you, Jeff.

(Ray Robinson/Jeff White/Wavescan)

Christmas Day programing from RNEI and Pop Shop Radio

 

RNEI has a tentative schedule, of their Christmas Day programming. The following schedule, is subject to change. 

UTC/ 125 kW via Woofferton, U.K. relay, targeted to Europe 

1400 - 1600 on 9600 

1600 - 1700 on 5880 

1700 - 1800 on 3955 

Pop Shop Radio will broadcast two programs during the broadcast, the time of which will be released. Programs include a seven-minute  portion featuring Canadian artist Susan Aglukark, and a 30-minute segment. as A Very Canadian Christmas

Additional information will be updated as it is released.

(Tony Pavik/Pop Shop Radio)

Christmas broadcast from Texas Radio Shortwave

 

December 25, 2024 UTC 0300 11900 to North America 2024 Texas Christmas 1100 6070 to Europe 1400 9670 to Europe 2024 Texas Christmas 1800 3955 to Europe 2024 Texas Christmas

               

This schedule is subject to change without notice.

The 0300 broadcast will be aired from the Woofferton, UK, with 250 kW

Programs for Europe and beyond are transmitted on Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany, 10

kiloWatts with an omnidirectional antenna.

Programs to North America and beyond are transmitted on Channel 292, 10 kilowatts with

a 10.5 dB gain beam antenna.

Texas Radio Shortwave is an independent producer of musical and topical shows, usually

about Texas. From time to time, we play old-time radio shows having nothing to do with Texas.

Texas Radio Shortwave uses a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas as its Interval Signal and

Signature Song.

Texas Radio Shortwave verifies correct, detailed reception reports by electronic QSL.

This includes reports from listeners using a remote receiver (SDRs).

The program email is texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com

Follow us on Facebook at the Texas Radio Shortwave Listener's Group at: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/580199276066655

(TRSW)

Radio Victoria slated for Shortwave-Revival 2024

 

In the 1980's, numerous shortwave listeners in German-speaking Europe, For some it was even a small footprint on the path to private broadcasting in Germany.

Radio Victoria, the independent shortwave music station, comes sponsored through a former member of the Victoria Listener Club back on shortwave with a revival broadcast of the four-hour annual hit parade from 1984 and station operator Roger Kirk, who died in 2012.

Formerly broadcasting via Radio Milano International over the turn of the year 1984/1985, after forty years and now again in 2024-2025 broadcast, and relayed via Shortwave Gold from Northern Germany on 6160kHz and with the quasi-first broadcast on Boxing Day and the two repetitions on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day:

December 26, 2024 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC

December 31, 2024 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC

January 1, 2025 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC

Telestar Radio on Christmas Eve

 

9DX Fanzine/FB)

 

On Christmas Eve morning, Tuesday December 24th 2024, SAQ Grimeton is scheduled* to be on the air, to send out the traditional Christmas message to the whole World, using the 200kW Alexanderson alternator from 1924, on 17.2 kHz CW. 

Visitors are very welcome to the transmitter hall at Grimeton radio station to experience the SAQ transmission. Free tickets here: 

https://grimeton.entryevent.se/ticketshop/events/julaftonsandning

Program and transmission schedule:

08:00 CET (07:00 UTC): The transmitter hall at World Heritage Grimeton is opened for visitors.

Transmission & YouTube Live stream:

08:25 CET (07:25 UTC): Live stream on YouTube begins.

08:30 CET (07:30 UTC): Startup and tuning of the Alexanderson Alternator SAQ.

09:00 CET (08:00 UTC): Transmission of a Christmas message from SAQ.

Live Video from World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station

The transmission event can be seen live on our YouTube Channel.

Additional YouTube archived videos available at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvsHUBM18Y&list=PLmPBmQ0WnqHFTKlywUTi5aHHsCFeuAIGE

Test Transmissions

We are planning to carry our some test transmissions on Friday, December 20th, 13:00 – 16:00 CET (12:00 -15:00 UTC). SAQ will be on the air shorter periods of time during this interval, when we will be carrying out tuning, tests and measurements. Your comments are welcome to info@alexander.n.se.

QSL Reports to SAQ

Your QSL reports to SAQ are most welcome and much appreciated!

For guaranteed E-QSL from us,

please report using our 

ONLINE QSL FORM.

We can not guarantee that reports by eecember 24th, 2024 until January 10th, 2025.

Amateur Radio Station SK6SAQ

The Amateur Radio Station with the call “SK6SAQ” will be QRV during the day on the following frequencies:

– 3 517.2 kHz CW

– 7 017.2 kHz CW

– 14 017.2 KHz CW

– 3 755 kHz SSB

– 7 140 kHz SSB

QSL-reports to SK6SAQ (NOT SAQ) are kindly received via:

- Email to info@alexander.n.se

- or via: SM bureau

- or direct by postal mail (link to address here)

Two stations will be on the air most of the time.

Not a member yet ? Then it’s time to join the Alexander team!

We welcome you as a member of the Alexander SAQ Grimeton Friendship Association, to support our non-profit activities in preserving, documenting and bringing to life the unique Alexanderson alternator from 1924. 

As a member You get a 10% discount on World Heritage Grimeton’s shop and café (not ice cream), and free admission to Alexander's evening displays and to the Alexanderson Day, upon presentation of your membership card. Four times per year, you will receive our online magazine “Alternatorn”, exclusively available only to our members.

Members also get access to our on-line library with lots of unique historical documents about SAQ and the Alexanderson alternator.

Membership costs SEK 125 / year.

Apply For Membership Now!

Help us to keep SAQ Grimeton operational.

Just a small donation will be of great help to us, in our work to keep SAQ in operational condition. Your donation will go to the work of maintaining, displaying and running the historical Alexanderson alternator, as well as passing on knowledge to current and future generations.

Donate

*The world heritage site Grimeton is a living cultural heritage. All transmissions with the long-wave transmitter SAQ are therefore preliminary and may be cancelled at short notice.

(R Bender/BDXC)

Holiday programming from Radio Delta

 

Radio Delta International

Elburg, Netherlands

All times UTC

December 24

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 5 Decades of Music  

17:00   Closing Down  

December 25

Frequency: 6.170 kHz  

07:00 Radio Delta Goes DX Xmas Special (Reports from last year)  

13:00  Closing Down  

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 Radio Delta Goes DX Xmas Special (Reports from last year)  

17:00 Closing Down  

December 26

Frequency: 6.170 kHz  

 07:00 Good morning Europe  

 09:00 Crazy Pirate Radio Show  

 11:00 5 Decades of Music  

 13:00 Closing Down  

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 5 Decades of Music  

17:00 Closing Down  

December 27

Frequency: 6.170 kHz  

07:00 Good morning Europe  

09:00 Crazy Pirate Radio Show  

11:00 5 Decades of Music  

13:00 Closing Down  

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 5 Decades of Music  

17:00 Closing Down  

December 28

Frequency: 6.170 kHz  

07:00 Good morning Europe  

09:00 Crazy Pirate Radio Show  

11:00 5 Decades of Music  

13:00 Closing Down  

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 5 Decades of Music  

17:00 Closing Down  

December 29

Frequency: 6.170 kHz  

07:00 Good morning Europe  

08:00 Radio Delta Goes DX  

09:00 Crazy Pirate Radio Show  

11:00 5 Decades of Music  

13:00 Closing Down  

Frequency: 12.085 kHz  

12:00 5 Decades of Music  

16:00 Finnish Request  

17:00 Closing Down 

https://radiodelta.am/2024/12/06/radio-delta-christmas-transmission-schedule/

 

Annual longwave holiday programs slated

 

WI2XLQ: Brian Justin’s annual longwave broadcast starting Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve:

What has now become an annual LF listening event, WI2XLQ (an FCC Experimental Callsign) will once again be QRV for a recreation of the alleged first voice transmission made by Reginald Fessenden in 1909. 

Transmission on 486kHz in full carrier AM will start at 22:00 UTZ on Dec 24th and run for 24 hours. In keeping with tradition, a repeat transmission will take place on Dec 31st at 22:00 UTC and run for 24 hours. 

Further details about the Fessenden transmissions can be found in prior years of ARRL News.

https://swling.com/blog/2024/12/wi2xlq-brian-justins-annual-longwave-broadcast-starting-christmas-eve-and-new-years-eve/

SWLing.com (2024-12-20

(Ydun's MW)

Annual NDR Gruß an Bord program on Christmas Eve

 

The MBR B-24 schedule lists the annual NDR Gruß an Bord (Greetings on Board for seafarers) show, on 24 December from 1800-2100 UTC on the following frequencies

6030 (via Issoudun),  

6080 (via Tashkent), 

9635 (via Moosbrunn),  

11650 (via Issoudun), 

13830 (via Nauen) and 

15770 (via Okeechobee).

(BDXC?Alan Roe, Teddington, UK)

(photo/SW Radio Audio Archives and NRD)

The 'Gruss an Bord' NDR Hamburg has been around since 1953. After the end of the German-language shortwave programs of Deutsche Welle, it is carried by the NDR alone. Last year, the chairwoman of the Association of German Shipowners, Gaby Bornheim, honored the seventy-year tradition as follows: "'Greetings on board' has a tradition, yes, it is a tradition and certainly not an anachronism. Even if today, thanks to increasing digitalization, it is possible for sailors on board to speak to their relatives at home almost at any time, 'Greetings on board' is still something very special. It is about the connection between our sailors and their loved ones at home, who feel the separation so painfully, especially at the festival of love. The emotional, melancholic, but also happy messages from the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children of our sailors reflect the life that goes on, at home and on board. And this connection between the two, this bridge between land and sea, is needed today just as much as it was 70 years ago!" (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Kurier Weltschau / Bieners DX Digest Nov 10)

(WWDXC Top Nx-BC-DX 1597/12 Nov 2024)

This year, for the 71st time, NDR will be broadcasting Christmas messages to all seafarers who are unable to be at home for the festive season. But the ship crews' greetings to their loved ones at home will also be broadcast. Anyone who would like to send greetings to the world on Christmas Eve can register for the recording on the second Advent.

For many - whether on land or at sea - it is already part of the Christmas routine: the "Greetings on board" programme will once again sweeten the festive season for some this year. The traditional programme was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1953 via Norddeich Radio, a maritime radio station in East Frisia. Today, there are many (including modern) ways to follow the programme. Unlike in previous years, the recording only takes place on one day and only in Hamburg.

The recording of "Greetings on board" on 8 December

The Christmas greetings will be recorded at the Hamburg Seamen's Mission Duckdalben on the second Advent. Presenters Birgit Langhammer and Ocke Bandixen will be on site from 4pm to record the messages. The whole event will be accompanied by music from the Swedish-South African folk-pop band Fjarill. Peter Tschentscher, Hamburg's First Mayor, and Bishop Kirsten Fehrs will also be part of the recording.

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Anyone who would like to be present at the recording on 8 December or send their greetings to friends at sea can register by 3 December by sending an e-mail to gruss-an-bord@ndr.de log in.

How to follow the "Greetings on board" program 2024

The Christmas greetings are rolling in Christmas Eve from 7 to 10 pm on both NDR Info and NDR Info Spezial. Both can be listened to via the NDR Radio app. You can also receive NDR Info via FM, DAB+ and DVB-S radio. NDR Info Spezial cannot be received via FM. NDR has rented shortwave frequencies especially for the Christmas messages. This means that seafarers can follow the programme all over the world. The following frequencies are used for this purpose:

Europe: 6080 kHz

Atlantic - Northwest: 15770 kHz

Atlantic - South: 13830 kHz

Atlantic-Northeast: 6030 kHz

Indian Ocean: 9635 kHz

Atlantic/Indian Ocean/(South Africa): 11650 kHz

Before the actual "Greetings on Board" programme, there will be a one-hour special programme with a maritime focus.

Nordic holiday broadcast schedule

 

Asfalttelegrafen Media Service has been granted a temporary licence by the media authority and PTS 22 December 2024 to 4 January 2025 on 1494 kHz.

The plan is to be on the air after Radio Moldova closes down on the same frequency.

Sveriges DX-förbund = SDXF will be allowed to broadcast special programs over my transmitter 22 Dec-31 Dec 2024 from 21:00 to 22:00 UTC.

Arctic Radio Club will be allowed to broadcast Special Programs over my transmitter 22 Dec-31 Dec 2024 from 22:00 to 23:00 UTC.

Granted transmitter power from PTS (Post & Telestyrelsen) 0,2 kW ERP.

1494khz@gmail.com

(Ydun Ritz mediumwave.info 15 Dec)

(Dave Kerry/BDXC)

WZON 620 DX TEST on December 22

 WZON in Bangor, Maine, has graciously agreed to perform a DX Test before they leave the air for good at the end of the year. 

The Test will be on Sunday Dec 22 at 1am EST (0600 UTC). Still waiting on final determination of the duration.  Please spread the word wherever you think it would be appropriate.  Hopefully, a bunch of you will be able to log Maine!

From the mwdx Slack group. Arranged by David Pete, Old Town Maine)

(LVH/DX Central)

Stephen and Tabitha King closing 3 radio stations. WZON [620 kHz],WZIT and WZLO will be shut down at the end of December…announced today, December 2, 2024. 

(earlier post)

Stephen and Tabitha King closing 3 radio stations. WZON [620 kHz],WZIT and WZLO will be shut down at the end of December…announced today, December 2, 2024. 

Earlier post of station at: 

Acclaimed author Stephen King has announced his decision to sell his three Maine radio stations. King, who first entered the industry in 1983, is stepping away from the business after four decades as part of an effort to “get his business affairs in better order” at age 77.

King and his wife, Tabitha, have owned and operated three Bangor-area stations under The ZONE Corporation name: WZON-AM, WKIT, and WZLO. The flagship station, WZON, first began broadcasting in 1926 as WLBZ. The Kings purchased the station in 1983, changed its call letters to WZON as a nod to King’s bestseller The Dead Zone, and introduced a Rock format.

The station never turned a profit and briefly became a donor-supported station before returning to a commercial model after the Kings reacquired it in 1993. King says the trio have consistently struggled financially and he has personally covered these losses throughout the years to keep the stations on the air.

Broadcasting operations for WZON, WKIT, and WZLO are set to cease on December 31.

King commented, “While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years. I’ve loved the people who’ve gone to these stations every day and entertained folks, kept the equipment running, and given local advertisers a way to connect with their customers. Tabby and I are proud to have been a part of that for more than four decades.”

WZON General Manager Ken Wood said, “Independent, locally owned radio stations used to be the norm. There’re only a few left in Maine, and we’re lucky we had these three as long as we did.”

(Radio Ink)