Radio Caroline North upcoming broadcast

 

Our next Radio Caroline North broadcast is between November 16 and 17, 2024, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.

You'll hear some great music from the 60s to early 90s – plus a chance to win some goodies from our Web Shop, courtesy of Addo Addison from Royston, Herts. Each winner will also receive a copy of a fiction novel written by last month's guest presenter and author, Mark Wesley (see panel below).

Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app.

We'd love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@... and remember, it's the only email address that gets you straight through to our 'North' broadcasters.

https://radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

China National Radio on DRM

 

China National Radio DRM test frequency (updated on November 8, 2024, default time is UTC+8)

Currently, six frequencies are used to test DRM signals, and the publicly available parameters are as follows:

Frequency

(kHz) Time

(UTC+8) Transmitter Power

(kW) Beam ID Notes

9655 0600-0900 URU 30 98 3FC

9655 1600-2000 URU 30 98 3FC

13825 0900-1700 BEI 30 175 0

15180 0900-1200 KUN 30 32 3EB

15180 1600-1900 KUN 30 32 3EB

17770 0900-1700 DOF 30 16 27FA

17800 1200-1600 KUN 30 32

17830 0900-1600 URU 30 98 3FC

There are no frequencies mentioned in the official frequency table, but they have been coordinated with HFCC and are not actually transmitted.

Frequency

(kHz) Time

(UTC+8) Transmitter Power

(kW) Beam Notes

6030 0425-0205 BEI 30 0 Tu.1400-1700 off

11695 0900-1700 DOF 30 41

11990 1200-1700 QI 30 225

13710 1700-2000 QI 30 203

13850 0800-1200 QI 30 225

The official frequency list no longer contains information on the DRM broadcast frequencies emitted by Qiqihar, and it seems that the transmitter has been turned to testing or interference purposes.

According to feedback, the 21530kHz dynamic test frequency is still being transmitted in the B24 season.

Frequency

(kHz) Time

(UTC+8) Transmitter Power

(kW) Beam ID Notes

6180 1800-0000 BEI 30 0 3EA

15760 0500-0100 QI 30 225 1

21530 0600-0100 DOF 30 341 3E8

Transmitting frequency of each transmitter:

BEI (Beijing)

0900-1700 13825kHz

DOF (Hainan Dongfang)

0900-1700 17770kHz

KUN (Kunming)

0900-1200 15180kHz

1200-1600 17800kHz

1600-1900 15180kHz

QIQ (Qiqihar)

None

URU (Urumqi)

0600-0900 9655kHz

0900-1600 17830kHz

1600-2000 9655kHz

(https://cahcn.github.io/drm/)

Radio Republica schedule update

 

FRANCE/USA {Cuba target radio} The Cuban opposition program

'Radio Republica' could continue to be heard from October 27, 2024 at 0100-0200 UT on

9490 kHz (TDF Issoudun 150 kW, 285 deg). After Cuba's return to standard time on November 3, 2024, the program was observed one hour later at 0200-0300 UT in order to remain synchronized with Cuban local time.

(Alan Roe-UK wor; via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Kurier Weltschau Nov 10)

{Cuba target radio} The HFCC.org lists the following B-24 broadcast schedule

from USAGM Greenville-NC-USA relay site for the US Cuba)

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

CGTN Radio, winter schedule

 

China

CGTN Radio  https://radio.cgtn.com  hat folgenden Sendeplan in

Englisch auf Kurzwelle:

he number of frequencies is impressive, but due to different transmission directions or even self-interference (7255 kHz is dominated by CGTN radio in English), only 6130 and 7385 kHz are suitable for reception attempts in Central Europe. In the depths of winter, the 4.9 MHz frequencies could also work better again.

(Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Kurier Weltschau / Bieners DX Digest Nov 10)

0000-0200 UT  6180 kHz 13800 Kashi 100 kW 173/174 deg

0000-0200 UT  7350 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

0000-0200 UT 15125 kHz Beijing 500 kW 215 deg

0000-0200 UT 17730 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

0000-0100 UT  7425 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0000-0100 UT  9560 13730 kHz Beijing 150 kW 95 deg

0000-0100 UT 11790 kHz Xian 500 kW 190 deg

0100-0200 UT  7370 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0100-0200 UT  9675 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

0200-0400 UT 11770 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0200-0300 UT 15350 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0300-0500 UT 13570 kHz Xian 500 kW 354 deg

0300-0500 UT 13590 kHz Beijing 150 kW 95 deg

0300-0500 UT 15120 kHz Beijing 500 kW 322 deg

0300-0400 UT 13800 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0400-0600 UT 17730 kHz Xian 500 kW 292 deg

0400-0600 UT 17855 kHz Beijing 500 kW 288 deg

0500-1100 UT 15350 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

0500-0900 UT 11895 15465 kHz Kashi 100 kW 209 deg

0500-0900 UT 17540 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173 deg

0500-0700 UT 17510 kHz Kashi 500 kW 269 deg

0600-0800 UT 17710 kHz Beijing 500 kW 193 deg

0600-0800 UT 17730 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

0600-0700 UT 11870 15145 kHz Kashi 100 kW 239 deg

0600-0700 UT 11925 kHz Nanning 100 kW 142 deg

0600-0700 UT 13645 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

0700-1300 UT 17490 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

0700-0900 UT 17670 kHz Kashi 500 kW 269 deg

0700-0800 UT 13660 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

0800-1000 UT  9415 kHz Xian 500 kW 73 deg

0900-1100 UT 15210 kHz Kunming 500 kW 135 deg

0900-1100 UT 17690 kHz Jinhua 500 kW 150 deg

0900-1100 UT 17750 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173 deg

0900-1000 UT 17570 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 308 deg

0900-1000 UT 17650 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

1000-1200 UT 13720 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

1000-1100 UT  5955 kHz Xian 500 kW 73 deg

1000-1100 UT  7215 kHz Xian 500 kW 354 deg

1000-1100 UT 11635 kHz Beijing 500 kW 318 deg

1000-1100 UT 13590 kHz Beijing 500 kW 193 deg

1100-1600 UT  5955 kHz Beijing 150 kW 95 deg

1100-1300 UT  7250 kHz Kashi 100 kW 209 deg

1100-1300 UT 11650 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 212 deg

1100-1300 UT 12015 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173 deg

1100-1200 UT  9730 kHz Beijing 500 kW 193 deg

1100-1200 UT 11795 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

1200-1400 UT  9730 kHz Kunming 100 kW 225 deg

1200-1400 UT 11760 kHz Kunming 500 kW 135 deg

1200-1400 UT 11980 kHz Kunming 150 kW 177 deg

1200-1300 UT  9460 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

1200-1300 UT  9600 kHz Kunming 150 kW 163 deg

1200-1300 UT  9645 kHz Beijing 500 kW 215 deg

1200-1300 UT  9760 kHz Kunming 500 kW 135 deg

1200-1300 UT 11690 kHz Xian 500 kW 292 deg

1200-1300 UT 13790 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 308 deg

1300-1500 UT  9765 kHz Baoji 150 kW 288 deg

1300-1400 UT  7300 kHz Kashi 100 kW 209 deg

1300-1400 UT  9655 kHz Kashi 100 kW 174 deg

1300-1400 UT  9870 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

1300-1400 UT 11640 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

1300-1400 UT 11900 kHz Kunming 500 kW 135 deg

1300-1400 UT 11910 kHz Beijing 500 kW 165 deg

1300-1400 UT 13790 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 308 deg

1400-1600 UT  6135 kHz Xian 500 kW 200 deg

1400-1500 UT  6100 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 270 deg

1400-1500 UT  9795 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 308 deg

1400-1500 UT 11880 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

1400-1500 UT  7300 9460 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 212 deg

1500-1800 UT  9880 kHz Nanning 100 kW 200 deg

1500-1700 UT  9675 kHz Kashi 500 kW 298 deg

1500-1600 UT  6095 kHz Kashi 500 kW 269 deg

1500-1600 UT  7325 kHz Beijing 500 kW 193 deg

1500-1600 UT  7410 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 212 deg

1500-1600 UT  9525 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

1500-1600 UT  9720 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 270 deg

1500-1600 UT  9785 kHz Jinhua 500 kW 280 deg

1600-1800 UT  6175 kHz Nanning 100 kW 200 deg

1600-1800 UT  7235 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173 deg

1600-1800 UT  7255 kHz Kashi 500 kW 294 deg

1600-1800 UT  7435 kHz Jinhua 500 kW 255 deg

1600-1800 UT  9570 kHz Beijing 500 kW 257 deg

1600-1700 UT  6060 kHz Kunming 150 kW 163 deg

1600-1700 UT  7420 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 270 deg

1600-1700 UT  9875 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

1700-1900 UT  6100 kHz Beijing 500 kW 318 deg

1700-1800 UT  6090 kHz Kunming 150 kW 163 deg

1700-1800 UT  6140 7410 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173/174 deg

1700-1800 UT  6165 kHz Beijing 500 kW 288 deg

1700-1800 UT  7420 kHz Kunming 150 kW 191 deg

1800-1900 UT  7210 kHz Beijing 500 kW 318 deg

1900-2100 UT  7295 kHz Urumqi 500 kW 270 deg

1900-2000 UT  9440 kHz Kunming 500 kW 283 deg

2000-2200 UT  7285 kHz Xian 500 kW 317 deg

2000-2200 UT  7415 9600 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

2000-2100 UT  5985 kHz Beijing 500 kW 257 deg

2000-2100 UT  9440 kHz Kunming 500 kW 300 deg

2100-2200 UT  7205 kHz Xian 500 kW 252 deg

2100-2200 UT  7325 kHz Beijing 500 kW 257 deg

2200-2300 UT  5915 kHz Beijing 150 kW 95 deg

2300-2400 UT  6145 kHz Beijing 150 kW 95 deg

2300-2400 UT  7350 kHz Kashi 500 kW 308 deg

2300-2400 UT  9535 kHz Kunming 100 kW 122 deg

2300-2400 UT 11790 kHz Xian 500 kW 190 deg

2300-2400 UT  7410 13800 kHz Kashi 100 kW 173/174 deg

https://new.hfcc.org

(Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Kurier Weltschau / Bieners DX Digest Nov 10)

(WWDXC-Top nx 1597/12 Nov 2024)

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, revised November programming

 

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot broadcast on the third Saturday of each month

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot:  the third Saturday of each month

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, November 16, 2024

This month, we will feature music from São Tomé and Príncipe with a side helping of something involving turkeys.

Times & Frequencies are:

0400-0500 UTC 9670 kHz with beam R towards eastern North America but usable in parts of Europe and Eurasia

1700-1800 UTC 9670 kHz with beam E-F towards South Asia but usable in Europe and parts of Eurasia

REVISED 11/5: 2200-2300 UTC 3955 & 6070 kHz (omnidirectional for Europe and beyond)

William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer

Tilford Productions, LLC

Upcoming programming from Radio Sound of Africa

 

With its unique format of different styles of music from all over Africa, Radio Sound of Africa will be on the air 16 and 17 November weekend, from 1900-2000 UTC and 2000-200 UTC on 7395 kHz.

 Reception reports are welcome at this e-mail address: radiosoundofafrica@gmail.com

Regards

Radio Sound of Africa (Hard Core DX)

Belgian broadcasting nostalgia

 

BELGIUM: October 24, 2009, Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (Radio Flanders internationaal) ended its short broadcasts.

The beginning of Belgian short-air programs date back to 1923: The "Bel Radio" station of the Régie des Telegraphhes et des Telephones in Ruysselede, broadcast news bulletins, in Morse and Phony, to the Belgian Congo. Broadcasting became regular in 1934: a news bulletin in French and one in Dutch was broadcast daily until the German invasion of 1940.

During the war, the Belgian government in exile wants to develop a broadcasting station in Leopoldville. The Americans offered 1 50 kW short wave transmitter. This is the beginning of the O.R.N.B.: the Belgian National Broadcasting Office, dependent on the Belgian government in exile in London.

After the war, two 50KW transmitters in Leopoldville were used by the INR's global service under the names "Belgium Calling The World" and "La Voix de la Concorde".

In 1952, "La vix de la Concorde" was repatriated to Brussels and broadcasts from the Wavre transmitter center. The new center has 2 100 kW Brown-Boveri transmitters and a 20 kW Telefunken transmitter. The network of antenna allows broadcasting to Congo, Southern Europe and Northern Europe, the Far East, North and South America. Broadcasting to South America and North America continues, however, to be broadcasted by the former 50 kW transmitters of Leopoldville.

In 1953, after being called "The Voice of Concorde" the global broadcasts would be named "The Voice of Friendship - De Vriendschapbode - The International Goodwill Station".

1960: INR/NIR gives way to RTB/BRT. The RTB/BRT is divided into 2 Institutes: one French-speaking, the other Dutch-speaking. Technical services and global broadcasting are connected and form a third institute: the Institute of Common Services.

In 1969: World emissions recovered, from RTT, an additional transmitter: a 50 kW Thomson-CSF at Vapotron and in 1972, two 250 kW transmitters were installed to replace the 20 and 50 kW ones.

1977, following the federalization of Belgium,

the cededed RTB is placed at the RTBF and the BRT at the VRT.

On the side of global broadcasting, "La Voix de l'Amitié" changes its name to "Radio 4 International" and "De Vriendschapbode" becomes "Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal".

1992: RTBF stops broadcasting and Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal uses the 4 Wavre transmitters (2 x 100 KW and 2 x 250 KW) and broadcasted in Dutch, French, Spanish, English and German.

In 2001 Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal stopped using Wavre's short-wave transmitters. It was more interesting to rent airtime in other transmitter centers: Among its subcontractors: Krasnodar 250 kW, Samara 200 kW and Petropavlovsk 250 kW in Russia - Rampisham 500 kW and Skelton 250 kW in Great Britain - Meyerton 250 kW in South Africa - Dhabayya 250 kW in UAE - Bonaire 250 kW in Netherlands Antilles - Tashkent 100 kW in Uzbekistan and

July 100 kW in Germany.

In 2009, the short-wave broadcasts are stopped and Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal also stops its medium-wave transmitter, which was broadcasting at 1512 kHz (600 kW) since Wolvertem. RVI programs are then broadcasted by the transmitter of Wavre on 927khz.

2011: Radio Flanders International with the key sous le paillasson. All service is canceled.

(Radio Magazine/24Oct 2024)

The Radio History of Goa, India

 

Special thanks to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing the interesting story on broadcasting from Goa.

Jeff: When our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Adrian Peterson, was based at AWR Asia in Pune, India, he became quite familiar with the former Portuguese enclave of Goa on the west coast of India, about 200 miles to the south. He says it’s a fascinating place to visit, with miles of wide ocean beaches, varied coastal and inland scenery, and tropical and sub-tropical fruits.  To this day, Goa still exudes a subtle evidence of its earlier European culture, with Latin style church architecture, European style of dress, Portuguese Konkani music, and the occasional usage of the Portuguese language. Adrian visited Goa on many occasions and has jogged its entire 65 mile coastline. Here’s Ray Robinson in Los Angeles with the interesting story of how radio broadcasting developed in that unusual territory.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff. Goa is now the smallest Indian state, located about halfway down the west coast of the sub-continent. It has a total land area of just 1500 square miles – about one and half times the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Portugal first colonized the area in 1498, when Vasco da Gama reached nearby Calicut on the Malabar coast, and over the ensuing years, more than 20 small Portuguese colonies were established, of which Goa was the largest and most important. 

During the 2 nd World War, Portugal remained neutral, and thus Goa also was a neutral territory, surrounded by British India. (What could possibly go wrong, right?) Well, during the war, three German trading vessels took shelter in the harbor at Mormugao. Then in 1943, one of them was sunk by British forces because it was determined that a radio transmitter on board the vessel was alerting German submarines lurking nearby to the movement of British shipping.

India gained independence from the United Kingdom after the war in 1947, and after the new constitution was adopted in January 1950 establishing the Republic of India, representations were made to the Portuguese government about releasing their colonies on the subcontinent also, in order for them to be incorporated into the Indian Union. Several requests were made throughout the 1950’s, but all were rebuffed by Lisbon.

It was during the post-war period that the first radio broadcasting stations were set up in Goa. Cable communication had been established between Goa and Portugal as early as 1938, via Cable & Wireless in Bombay. Eight years later in 1946, the resident engineer for the cable company in Goa, Victor Carvalho, gave technical assistance to a newly formed Radio Clube, and a new private radio broadcasting service was instituted with the use of a small amateur transmitter donated by Jose Ferreira. Across the water in Lourenço Marques in Portuguese Mozambique, another Radio Clube had been established in 1935 – Radio Clube de Mozambique, with the primary purpose of broadcasting in English to South Africa. But this Radio Clube, in Goa, mostly broadcast in Portuguese and the local

Konkani language.

The date of the first radio transmission from this new station was May 28, 1946, and the territorial Governor-General issued a postage stamp on the same day to commemorate the event. It’s said that the first improvised microphone was encased in a coconut shell. (I wonder if that improved the acoustics?) Two years later, in 1948, a more substantial radio broadcasting station was erected with the studios and transmitter co-sited on the rise of a hill at Altinho overlooking the capital city, which under the Portuguese administration was called Panjim. The name for this new service was Emissora de Goa. The transmitter was a 500 watt shortwave unit manufactured by the American Federal Telephone & Radio Corporation of Clifton, New Jersey in the United States, and it was fed into a locally-

made power amplifier which raised the output power to the aerial to 1 kW.

The original channel was 7230 kHz in the 41 meter band, though soon afterwards, the operating frequency was moved to the more familiar 9610 kHz in the 31 meter band. This station was widely reported in several countries of Europe, as well as in the United States and the South Pacific, and numerous QSL letters and cards were issued in confirmation of listener reception reports. In 1950, a medium wave transmitter was installed at the studio location and this operated with 2.5 kW on 557 kHz. At that stage also, regular callsigns were introduced and assigned to this radio broadcasting service by the authorities in Lisbon. The call for the medium wave outlet was listed as CR8AA, and the  shortwave outlet was identified as CR8AB. You may recall that Radio Clube de Moçambique had previously been assigned CR7AA, so these new call signs were presumably the next in the series.

In 1952, four years after the station was launched at Altinho, a second transmitter site was constructed three miles south at a more rural location known as Bambolim. The first transmitter installed there was a shortwave unit rated at 7.5 kW. Seven years later, a 10 kW shortwave transmitter was also installed at this location, as well as two medium wave transmitters rated at 5 and 10 kW. While programming on Emissora de Goa was mainly in Portuguese, there was at least one English program, because the Seventh Day Adventist church began a regular series of broadcasts on this station – their first in Asia. The program was the "Voice of Prophecy", recorded by the illustrious Dr. H. M. S. Richards in California. 

Programs were supplied on large 18 inch discs, and they were on the air each

Sunday for half an hour. "Voice of Prophecy" was the first syndicated Christian religious broadcast from Emissora de Goa, and it was carried by CR8AA with 2.5 kW on 557 kHz, and CR8AB with 1 kW on 9610 kHz. The first broadcast of this program took place on Sunday, April 30, 1950, and it was on the air for coverage into India on and off throughout the period from 1950-1954. After that, the broadcasts were switched to the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon in Colombo.

But, trouble was brewing for Portuguese Goa, and on Monday December 18, 1961, Emissora de Goa left the air abruptly at 8:00 am. Tired of being rebuffed by Portugal, the Indian government launched an air force bombing raid against Goa. The station at Bambolim was attacked, and an aerial photograph shows the whole facility burning furiously. Goa was taken over the next day, Tuesday December 19, 1961, and the process began to annex the territory and absorb it into the independent nation of India. At the time of the takeover, Emissora de Goa had been on the air with a total of six transmitters – 1 MW and 2 FM at the original Altinho site, and another MW plus 2 SW at Bambolim. 

The small capital city of Panjim was then renamed Panaji in the local Konkani language. Work commenced immediately on the restoration of the radio broadcasting stations. No damage had been done to the studio facility at Altinho, though at least one of the transmitter buildings at Bambolim had suffered a massive fire.

Amazingly, just three weeks later, at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, January 10, 1962, Emissora de Goa was reactivated under All India Radio using a temporary low-power transmitter on 880 kHz. A speech was broadcast from the new military governor, Major General K. P. Candeth. Curiously, the station slogan, remained in use as the local identification announcement for more than another four years. Then, on October 12, 1966, the Portuguese "Emissora" identification was finally dropped, and the station announcement was changed to All India Radio, Panaji.

Eventually, the 50 kW shortwave transmitter at Bambolim was reactivated for the broadcast of the General Overseas Service of All India Radio in the Konkani language, beamed towards Africa. This service was on the air at 1815 UTC on 11780 kHz and the programming included news, folk dramas, request songs, and other feature programs. External Service programming in the Konkani language had been on the air previously from this transmitter under Emissora de Goa, and it would appear that the revived Konkani programming was indeed coming from Goa itself. On May 22, 1969, a new 10 kW medium wave transmitter tuned to 880 kHz was inaugurated at Bambolim; and since then, additional medium wave, FM and TV transmitters were installed in Goa, but not for any revived local shortwave service.

The studio building was renovated and enlarged, and then more recently, new studio buildings were erected. In 1992, All India Radio built a large high-powered shortwave station for General Overseas Service programming at Bambolim, adjacent to the old transmitter facilityof Emissora de Goa. Two 250 kW transmitters and a new antenna farm were installed, to facilitate broadcasts to foreign countries to the northwest, northeast and southeast. 

The first test transmissions were heard in November 1994 on 4775 kHz, and by February 1995 the transmitters were on a regular schedule, which included the relay of programming from the local medium wave station in Panaji which by then was on 1287 kHz.

On Adrian Peterson’s last visit to Goa some years ago, he found that the studios and offices on the hill overlooking Panaji had been rebuilt twice and were in use by All India Radio, now Akashvani.  The newer shortwave base at Bambolim with two 250 kW transmitters was at that time still being used for the AIR General Overseas Service.  But all that was left of the old Emissora de Goa transmitter buildings was some wreckage, completely overgrown by grass and other vegetation.

The 2024 World Radio TV Handbook does still show two medium wave transmitters on the air in Goa, the Akashvani Vividh Bharati channel with 20 kW on 828 kHz, and Akashvani’s ‘Panaji A’ service with 100 kW on 1287 kHz, in both analog and DRM modes. The latter is also carried in parallel with 10 kW on 101.1 FM, along with a ‘Panaji B’ service with 6 kW on 105.4 FM. Private FM stations listed in Goa currently include:

Radio Indigo on 91.9, and

Big FM on 92.7.

There are no longer any shortwave transmitters in Goa, nor any External Service broadcasts in the Konkani language.

Back to you, Jeff.

(Wavescan 11/10/2024)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

 

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 - 10 November 2024

Solar activity ranged from low to high levels this period. R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 04-10 Nov, R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts were observed on 04, 06 and 10 Nov and R3 (Strong) radio blackouts were observed on 06 Nov. Regions 3883 (S06, L=076,

class/area Fkc/420 on 08 Nov) and 3889 (S10, L=005, class/area Fko/480 on 10 Nov) produced a majority of the activity this period. 

Region 3883 produced an M5.5 flare at 04/1508 UTC. Region 3887 (N16, L=151, class/area Dsi/140 on 06 Nov) produced an M5.8/Sf flare at 06/0850 UTC. Region 3889 produced an M5.3/1f flare at 06/1438 UTC and an M9.4/2b flare at 10/1206 UTC. The M9.4 flare had an

associated Type II Sweep with an estimated 928 km/s velocity and a 400 pfu Tenflare. The largest flare of the period was an X2.3/Sf at 06/1340 UTC with an associated Type II Sweep with an estimated 205 km/s velocity. During the period, a total of 52 C-class, 39 M-class

and 1 X-class flares were observed. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was was at normal to moderate levels on 04-06 Nov and 08-10 Nov and reached high levels on 07 Nov. 

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm (R1-Minor) levels. Brief periods of active levels were observed early on 04 Nov, followed by quiet to unsettled levels through late on 08 Nov. Active to minor storm levels were observed late on 08 Nov

through 10 Nov, possibly due to weak CME effects, transitioning into positive polarity CH HSS effects. During the period, wind parameters were at mostly nominal levels through midday on 07 Nov. On midday 07 Nov, a weak shock was observed were total field increased to 16 nT and bt dropped to -12 nT. During the summary period, wind speeds varied from a low of about 350 km/s to a high of about 465 km/s. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 November - 07 December 2024

Solar activity is expected to be at moderate levels (R1/R2 - Minor/Moderate), with a chance for high levels (R3-Strong) from 11 Nov - 07 Dec. The disk is expected to feature numerous complex regions throughout the outlook period. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. However, there is a chance for proton activity following significant solar flare activity during the outlook period. 

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

Geomagnetic field activity is likely to be at unsettled to active periods on 11-16 Nov, 18 Nov, 20 Nov, 26-27 Nov, 30 Nov-03 Dec and 06-07 Dec, all due to influence from recurrent CH HSS effects. Mostly quiet periods are likely on 17 Nov, 19 Nov, 21-24 Nov, 28-29

Nov and 04-05 Dec. 

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#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2024 Nov 11     210          15          5

2024 Nov 12     215          10          3

2024 Nov 13     215          15          4

2024 Nov 14     210          12          4

2024 Nov 15     205          10          3

2024 Nov 16     215           8          3

2024 Nov 17     220           5          2

2024 Nov 18     230           8          3

2024 Nov 19     235           5          2

2024 Nov 20     235          12          4

2024 Nov 21     240           5          2

2024 Nov 22     240           5          2

2024 Nov 23     240           5          2

2024 Nov 24     245           5          2

2024 Nov 25     245          10          3

2024 Nov 26     240          10          3

2024 Nov 27     245           8          3

2024 Nov 28     255           5          2

2024 Nov 29     250           5          2

2024 Nov 30     250          10          3

2024 Dec 01     240          12          4

2024 Dec 02     230           9          3

2024 Dec 03     220           8          3

2024 Dec 04     210           7          2

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2024 Dec 06     205          12          4

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(NOAA)

Unique Radio honor Veterans on November 10

 

For all Vets in the Services all flavors and brands of musical themes, for you.

Jen's For The Vets, Sun Nov 10th 18- 21plus UT On Unique R, Australia

Unique R, Live Stream.

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

For chatting please use the following :

https://web.libera.chat/

Click on Connect & webchat, put in the following:

For nick: name or like me radionutresss

Then next line channel, that's the following:

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and you are in the room.

Happy V-Day & Remember.

Democracy is never free

you have to earn it.

Jen In The Rad

JenUR@proton.mem

Propagation news from the U.K.

 

RSGB

GB2RS News Team | November 8, 2024

We had another week of high solar flux and good conditions on HF.

Solar activity remained at high levels thanks to an impulsive X2.3 solar flare around active region 3883 at 13:40 UTC on the 6 November, but the event was not responsible for a coronal mass ejection (CME).

The Kp index remained below 4.5 all week, with a solar flux index in the range 240-260. That was more than enough to keep the ionosphere very active.

A recent report on spaceweather.com  suggested that the solar cycle may have peaked in the Sun’s southern hemisphere but may still have a way to go in its northern hemisphere.

It’s usual for there to be two peaks in a solar cycle as the two hemispheres are seldom synchronised. We will have to wait and see, but it could mean another three to six months of high SFI numbers as the northern hemisphere catches up.

A solar filament located in the southwest quadrant erupted on the 7 November. A coronal mass ejection, or CME as it is also known, occurred but appeared to be off the Sun-Earth line, so no major impacts are expected.

A sunspot group turning into view from off the southeastern limb has been assigned active region 3889 and is producing M-class solar flares. 

The probability of further M-class flares stands at 80%. Meanwhile, the risk of an X-class flare currently stands at 35%.

A coronal hole is currently Earth-facing and could cause some disruption sometime around Saturday 9 November.

The solar proton flux has decreased to normal levels, so polar paths should now be unaffected.

Next week, NOAA predicts that the SFI could decline into the range 165-185. Geomagnetic disturbances are forecast for the 11th and 12th, and again on the 15th, with the Kp index predicted to reach four.

Meanwhile, we do urge you to get on 10 metres, which is currently experiencing some fine DX openings. This month and next will probably give the best chance of good 10-metre propagation for a while.

  VHF and up :

Another week has just passed with daily F2-layer propagation on 50MHz providing morning openings to Southeast Asia, and the Americas in the afternoon. Expect more in the coming week.

The current spell of high pressure has had a good run with some excellent Tropo conditions, with the best DX along the side of the high pressure.

This weekend will see the high finally giving way as weak Atlantic fronts move in from the west. This will soon be replaced by a new high building in the colder air behind the weekend fronts. It may look like Tropo should come back, but this high may be less productive.

The major change of weather pattern comes before mid-week, when it may turn more unsettled as low pressure moves closer to eastern areas from the North Sea. This general move towards more unsettled conditions will continue through the end of the week.

In terms of propagation, good Tropo will be replaced by some patchy rain scatter opportunities for the GHz bands from about the middle of next week.

Staying with scatter modes, meteor scatter looks promising with the Taurids peaking on Tuesday 12 November and the Leonids due to peak on the following weekend on Sunday 17 November.

The solar conditions continue to offer chance occurrences of aurora due to solar flares or CMEs so, as usual, keep a watch on the Kp index going above Kp=4.

An occasional reminder of the possibility of out-of-season Es for the digital modes is timely. Recently the critical frequency of the Es layer has reached 7MHz on the Dourbes ionosonde plotted on www.propquest.co.uk and in theory this would be good enough for a 6m band path.

For EME operators, Moon declination is negative but rising, going positive again on Tuesday 12 November. Path losses are falling as we approach perigee next Thursday 14 November. 144MHz sky noise is moderate to low this coming week.

https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2024/11/08/propagation-news-10-november-2024/

(Mike Terry/BDXC)

Update on Radio Rebelde and power issues in Cuba

 

Havana, Cuba

Radio Rebelde was still off air on 5025 kHz when I checked this morning (8 Nov) at 0430 UTC. But (listening on the Kiwi SDR in Bermuda) I could hear Rebelde on MW 1180 and 1620 kHz (with continuous Rod Stewart songs, a programme I've heard before on Rebelde). Stronger on 1620 kHz was Radio Bayamo, which is in the south east of the island, away from the provinces further west damaged by Hurricane Rafael.

UNE (Unión Eléctrica de Cuba) reported some power stations on the island back on line or starting-up last night. But the power infrastucture close to the path of the hurricane has suffered much damage (their Twitter/X page has photos of collapsed twisted pylons).

But power black outs were increasing in frequency and duration before this hurricane hit the island because of fuel shortages for the power stations - the total closure of the main power station on October 17th was because a ship with fuel oil was delayed because of previous hurricane Oscar. The ultimate cause of the fuel (and other) shortages on the island is of course the 60+ year economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the USA against Cuba. Once again at the end of October, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the end of the USA's embargo on Cuba by 187 votes to 2 (with 1 abstention).

73 Alan

On 07/11/2024 17:23, Jorge EA1FOV via groups.io wrote:

Due to the effects of the hurricanes, Cuba is suffering a lack of electricity and got a blackout last night. Most of the Medium Wave stations are silent, including the usual SW 5025 kHz Radio Rebelde which was off last night and this morning.

It is probable that because lack of energy we just hear sporadic broadcasting services from now onwards.

73 de Jorge

(Alan Pennington/BDXC)

(photo/West Hawaii Today)

Shortwave Radiogram, Program 377

 

Hello friends,

All the changes to the Shortwave Radiogram schedule due to the fall time shift are now complete. WINB's 9265 kHz stays with Eastern Time, so Shortwave Radiogram  on 9265 kHz is now one hour later by UTC -- same local time in most of North America and Europe. The new schedule is listed below.

A video of last week's Shortwave Radiogram (program 376) is provided by Scott in Ontario (Wednesday 1330 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is provided by Roger in Germany.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 377, 8-13 November 2024, in MFSK modes as noted:

 1:43  MFSK32: Program preview (now)

 2:52  MFSK32: Slim Dubai skyscraper just one apartment wide*

 7:55  MFSK64: Laser communications for historic moon flyby

13:10  MFSK64: This week's images*

28:39  MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image

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

Other Shortwave broadcast programs that include digital text and images include The Mighty KBC, Pop Shop Radio and Radio North Europe International (RNEI). Links to these fine broadcasts, with schedules, are posted here.

 

Thanks for your reception reports!

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB

Producer and Presenter

Shortwave Radiogram

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

(Photo: Zach in Alabama received these images 31 October 2024, 2330-2400 UTC, 9265 kHz from WINB Pennsylvania)

Akashvani Winter Schedules

 

The B24 schedule of Akashvani  (formerly as All India Radio) is now in their official web site as follows:

 https://prasarbharati.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/External-Services-27.10.2024.pdf

 Reception Reports to    spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in 

 QSL cards will be sent by post for correct reception reports.

(Jose Jacobs/BDXC)

From the Isle of Music on November 9

 

From the Isle of Music broadcast on the second Saturday of every month.

Due to a surprise appearance by CRI at 1800 UTC, the originally scheduled transmissions of FTIOM and UBMP at that hour are being pushed back to 2200 UTC.  The revised schedule is as follows: 

From the Isle of Music, the second Saturday of every month. 

From the Isle of Music, November 9, 2024

We will take a break from Cubadisco 2024 nominees to recognize the centenary of the founding of the iconic Cuban dance band Sonora Matancera, through which many Cuban greats such as Celia Cruz passed during their careers. This will feature both vintage recordings and a recent tribute album by current Cuban musical stars.

Times & Frequencies are:

0400-0500 UTC 9670 kHz with beam R towards eastern North America but usable in parts of Europe and Eurasia

1700-1800 UTC 9670 kHz with beam E-F towards South Asia but usable in Europe and parts of Eurasia

REVISED 11/5: 2200-2300 UTC 3955 & 6070 kHz (omnidirectional for Europe and beyond)

(Bill Tilford/Tilford Productions)

Pop Shop Radio schedules

 

All times UTC, kHz frequencies 

Pop Shop Radio will broadcast on the following schedule, which may be subject to adjustments.

WRMI

0200  Monday (9 PM ET Sunday) 5950  

Channel292 (Germany)

1700 Wednesday 3955 and 9670 

2300 Saturday 3955 and 9670 

Occasional extra 9670 broadcasts at 0400 and beamed to North America - irregular

Shortwave Gold (Germany)

1400 Saturday 6160 

2000 Sunday 3975 

Shortwave Gold  - Beginning this weekend

1400 UT Saturday 6160 khz

Encompass (UK)

To be determined, but it will be at New Years and 250 kW

Tony Pavick

Pop Shop Radio

Hope BC Canada

Texas Radio Shortwave, November programming

 Texas Radio Shortwave has some great programming in the month of November on the following schedule: Don't Miss It !!! 

All times UTC, target areas as indicated

Broadcast for Music of Khruangbin

Nov 2 2200 on 3955 to Europe

        3 0200 on 9670 to North America (East)

        4 0400 on 9670 to North America (West)

                1300 on 9670 to Europe

Nov 10     0300 on Mixcloud Worldwide 15 Texas Musicians to Listen To (Reprise)

       28      0200 on 9670 to North America (East) TRSW Fifth Anniversary

        0400 on 9670 (North America (West) TRSW Fifth Anniversary

             1400 on 9670 to Europe TRSW Fifth Anniversary

        1800 on 3955 to Europe TRSW Fifth Anniversary

(TRSW)

This schedule is subject to change without notice.

Programs on Mixcloud are streamed at www.mixcloud.com/live/texasradiosw/ beginning at

0258 UTC with TRSW's interval signal (The Yellow Rose of Texas).

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)

Trans World Radio Africa, 50th Anniversary

Trans World Radio Africa celebrates its 50th anniversary in Eswatini (Swaziland). It was indeed on the 1st of November 1974 that TWR started broadcasting from this former British protectorate it became independent under the name of Swaziland, the country was renamed Kingdom of Eswatini. This is the smallest state in Africa after Gambia.

 Already in the 60s, TWR wanted to get closer to its listeners instead of focusing all its means of broadcasting on its partnership with Radio-Monte-Carlo, of which it is a tenant in Monaco on the Fontbonne plateau.

 Different transmitter centers had been installed in the 4 corners of the world: Apart from Monaco for Europe, they were present on the island of Bonaire in the Antilles for America and on the island of Guam for Asia and Oceania.

 Missing Africa, Trans World Radio wanted to set up in South Africa. Efforts to get a license were in vain.

In 1973 TWR obtained its license to broadcast on short and medium waves from Swaziland.

On the 1st November 1974, the evangelical radio mission began broadcasting with 2 25 kW shortwave transmitters from Mpangala Ranch, 40 kilometres from Manzini. The following year a third OC transmitter was installed, as well as a 317-C mediumwave transmitter from Continental Electronics that ran at 1170 KHz.

 The exact origin of this transmitter is unknown but rumors have rang that it was a former transmitter of a pirate radio. Must be transmitter No. 12 of the former BBC relay in Botswana: it was originally commissioned by O'Rahilly the operator of "Radio Caroline" and handed over to the BBC during the Rhodesia crisis.

 In addition to local productions in 8 languages, programs in German from the Gospel Radio (ERF) studios in Wetzlar were also broadcast. Subsequently, the programmes were taken from the studios of TWR Africa Regional Office in Johannesburg.

 Shortwave transmitters were replaced in the late 90s by three 100 kilowatt transmitters and one 50 kilowatt connected to five antenna networks. Continental Electronics' 50KW Type 317-C Medium Wave Transradio Transradio 100KW TRAM 100 Transradio Transradio Transmitter in 2016. This transmitter would have been bought second hand at the tenth of its price at Media Broadcast, it had previously broadcasted Deutschlandfunk programs. TWR has also developed an FM network that covers the country.

 After relocating studios to Johannesburg, TWR did not wish to expand its Swaziland broadcasting centre, preferring to rent hourly beaches in Meyerton, South Africa.

Since Meyerton's arrest, all the programs for Africa start from Swaziland.

(FB/Radio Magazine)

100 Years of Christian Religious Broadcasting

 Thank you Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing this week's Wavescan program script.

Jeff: Recently, a program on BBC television celebrated the 100th anniversary of Christian religious broadcasting in the UK. Of course back then, they were talking about radio broadcasting, so today Ray Robinson in Los Angeles takes a look back at those early days of putting Christianity, and God, on the air.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff. Just off Trafalgar Square in Central London is an iconic landmark – the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 100 years ago, that was the scene of a ground-breaking event in the British Isles, because it was from that church that the BBC broadcast their very first service of live worship. But back in 1924, some people were outraged by the idea of broadcasting worship on the radio. There was a vicar in North London who said people might listen in pubs, or even listen while wearing hats – can you imagine!?! They thought that somehow broadcasting services would be sullying the ‘beauty of holiness’ with the ordinaryness of people’s lives.

Because of this suspicion of the new technology, both St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey turned down the BBC’s invitation to host the first broadcast service. But, St. Martin-in-the-Fields grasped the opportunity, and so the very first service of worship was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company, as it was back in 1924, from that church led by the then vicar, the Rev. Dick Shepherd. And thanks to religious broadcasting, he went on to become one of the most popular voices on the airwaves in the UK in the years leading up to and during the Second World War. Here’s the voice of Rev. Shepherd during that first broadcast:

Bringing the Word of God into people’s homes was, for Dick Shepherd, deeply connected with the message of Christianity – that we don’t need to go on a long journey to find God, but that through Jesus, God reached out to us. As well as the outrage that the first broadcast service provoked, the service touched the hearts of many ordinary Christians who wrote into the BBC – “it was spellbinding”, “it was remarkable”, “it was moving”, “they had never experienced anything like it”, etc., which of course they hadn’t, at least not on the BBC. And so

Dick Shepherd had inspired people around the country from that very first broadcast. However, while that may have been the first service of live worship broadcast on BBC radio, it certainly wasn’t the first Christian religious broadcast in the UK. At 9PM on Christmas Eve 1922, two years earlier, the Rev. John Mayo of Whitechapel, East London had broadcast a message over the BBC’s ‘2LO’ station from their studio in London. This was the first religious programme on the BBC. In 1932 to celebrate the 10 th anniversary of that broadcast, 

He said, “Surely no man has ever proclaimed the Gospel from such an extraordinary pulpit as I am now occupying.” Well at least one man had, five months even earlier, during the pre-BBC era of broadcasting in Britain. Dr. James Ebenezer Boon, a 55- year-old medical doctor, preacher and radio ham, was the pastor of what is now known as Christ Church Evangelical Fellowship, in McDermott Road, Pekham, South London. He had been inspired by Marconi’s big radio demonstration, called ‘The Miracle of Broadcasting’, at Peckham Town Hall in June 1922. The demonstration was run by Arthur Burrows, The Marconi Company’s Publicity Director, who a few months later on November 14 th was to become the first voice heard on the BBC with a 6pm radio newscast. Dr. Boon reasoned, if Marconi could send music from central London to the Town Hall in Peckham, why couldn’t he do the same from his church?

He applied for a broadcast licence, but was turned down on the grounds that the airwaves were getting full and every church would want one! Dr. Boon conceded this was a valid standpoint, but not to be put off, he contacted Burndept Wireless Ltd., a wireless manufacturer which had an ‘Aerial Works’ site five miles away in Blackheath, and which did have an experimental broadcast licence. Together, a plan was hatched. He’d originally wanted to broadcast from his church, but since permission for that been denied, he decided he’d broadcast an entire Sunday service remotely: congregation present, but minister absent. Now, you may remember during the COVID lockdown months that often a minister would be the only one in church, livestreaming via Youtube into people’s homes. Well, this was the exact

opposite.

On a table in front of the pulpit rails in Christ Church Evangelical, he placed a three- valve receiving and amplifying set with a gramophone horn as a speaker. To this he ran a feed line from an aerial on the roof which was supported by two clothes props.

On Sunday 30th July 1922, the congregation arrived – but he didn’t. The service consisted of the disembodied voice of Dr. Boon coming from five miles away in Blackheath, where he preached a 20-minute sermon based on the Bible verse John 3:16. He also played hymns from gramophone records including ‘O God Our Help in Ages Past’ and ‘The Church’s One Foundation’. Most people present had never heard radio before, or had even heard of radio. The next day, the London Times reported that the 400 seat church was filled to overflowing, and that the words of Dr. Boon’s sermon were heard with remarkable clarity throughout the building.

Unfortunately none of the documentation I have seen records the wavelength or anything about the transmitter that was used, but it was likely between 325 and 500 metres medium wave, and it clearly was very effective. Boon had addressed ‘listeners in the north, south, east and west of England’, because listeners weren’t confined to the church building. Letters of appreciation came from all points of the compass, mostly around London, but it became apparent that the broadcast had been received over a radius of some 100 miles. Congratulatory postcards came in from radio amateurs in Watford, Hertfordshire (north of London – “Last night I happened, quite by chance, to be tuning in on my one-valve wireless set, when I was amazed to hear the strains of ‘O God Our Help in Ages Past’, and later I received your address with remarkable clarity.) from Coventry, even further north (“Your sermon reached hear quite clearly”), Eltham in south east London (“It enabled me to concentrate much better than in a building”), from Godalming, south west of London

(“I shall be glad to know if there will be another broadcast sermon next Sunday?”), and Frinton, some 60 miles to the east, way out on the Essex coast. The listeners in Frinton even sent a telegram to Dr. Boon which he received just before the end of the service, saying: “Message received perfectly by great crowd on the sea front. Will take up a collection if it is desired!” For the first time Boon had put the ‘mission’ into ‘transmission’, wirelessly sending his Gospel message into people’s homes.

But, Boon never did broadcast again. Rev. John Mayo’s broadcast at Christmas a few months later was the next religious broadcast heard on British airwaves, and indeed, there has been some sort of religious programme on BBC radio every Sunday since 24 December 1922.

But of course, there were even earlier religious broadcasts outside the UK. The WORLD's first religious broadcast took place in January 1921 in Pittsburgh, where Calvary Episcopal Church was wired up and broadcast on KDKA, the world's first proper radio station. They even went so far as to dress the broadcast engineers as choristers, so as not to distract the congregation!

Way before that, Christmas Eve 1906 saw a religious broadcast too, when Reginald Fessenden read from Luke's gospel and played O Holy Night on the violin - just for ships off the Massachusetts coast. And back in the 1890’s, twelve London churches sent their Sunday services via phone-lines to the homes of people who had subscribed to the Electrophone service – which was also a form of broadcasting... although not by wireless/radio.

(Ray Robinson/Jeff White/Wavescan-03 Nov 2024)

Music Programs on Shortwave, winter edition

 

The first version of Alan Roe's Music Programmes on Shortwave PDF file for the new B-24 winter broadcast season is now available to download from the permanent link at https://app.box.com/s/kbdxb4c5lwpju0kpoi27aiwc35br2g2a 

or for short: https://bit.ly/3LgKNJ2

You will also find here my "at-a-glance" single-page PDF programme grids of all BBC WS, VOA and CGTN Radio English programmes on shortwave, published last week.

I hope that you find these of interest. As always, I appreciate any updates or corrections.

(BDXC/Alan Roe, Teddington, UK)