Paul Walker at KIYU Alaska.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and broadcaster, Paul Walker, who writes:
The next broadcast of “The Classics Experience” with Paul Walker is rapidly approaching. It’s a 2 hour broadcast of rock and roll music with some country classics scattered in and occasionally a few audio surprises.
The next broadcast schedule looks like this:
WINB 9265khz Saturday June 4th 0230UTC to 0430UTC
WRMI 7570 Saturday June 4th 0400 to 0600UTC
WINB’s principal radiation direction is 242 degrees true or almost due southwest. Looks to cover parts of the Midwest/Southern US pretty well: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and into Mexico. WINB claims “At the long range, the main beam hits Eastern Australia and New Zealand. The rear lobe hits the Mediterranean area of Eastern Europe.”
WRMI’s 7570khz signal beams at a 315 degree azimuth to Vancouver, Canada. It is very listenable, near local like on good nights here in rural Central Alaska.
No appeals for donations, no begging for sponsors, no political or religious rantings and ravings nor any silly personal opinions. I promise. Just good music for the fun of it!
Seriously, I fund the broadcast out of my own pocket about once every 2-3 months just for the heck of it!
Reception reports are only accepted by regular postal mail. $2 appreciated to cover the costs of the QSL cards I had printed up and the postage. Reports can be sent to:
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
PO Box 353
Galena, Alaska 99741 USA
FYI: There are two surprises: I will have text in the MFSK32 format in the second half of the first hour and then a picture in the MFSK32 format in the second half of the second hour.
Thanks, Paul, for putting you good music show on the air! We’ll be listening for “The Classics Experience” this weekend. Note: since the broadcast times are in UTC above, listeners in North America should tune in during the evening on Friday, June 3rd. Compare your local time to UTC.
I reviewed Paul’s excellent program this morning and worked on decoding the image broadcast during his 2nd hour. Unfortunately the slant was all wrong! But gradually, working the slant on the Fldigi resulted in a nice image of his dog, using about -6250 (Configure > Soundcard > Settings >RX Corrections. Thanks for a great program, Paul! Unfortunately, I couldn’t paste the image here.
Hi, Walt,
Send me the image and I’ll put it in a post for you! (thomas at swling.com)
Thomas
Listening right now WINB 9265 3:22 utc. Dianna Ross. Sounds good in california. The magic of shortwave. Thank you!
Although WINB list broadcast times each day and I’m only 40 miles away I don’t think I’ve heard them more than once or twice. Today 6/2 0028z not on the air.
They aren’t normally on the air as late as my broadcast is going to be airing, so you won’t likely hear them this late most of the time
Paul, thanks for the reply. Looking forward to the show.
What?!? No ranting and raving?!? What the heck kinda shortwave is this???
It’s not a certain persons “World Of Radio” program nor Brother Scare, I mean, Stair!
Maranatha!
Lol. I don’t end my show that way 😉
Well, I’ll make a point to listen anyway, hah.