Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Eaton, who shares the following vintage industry short film:
Click here to view on YouTube.
Like Pete, I’m impressed with the size of those soldering irons!
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alex, who notes updates to his excellent frequency charts. Alex writes:
My charts are updated again. This time I have changed format and made the charts less time consuming to compile and – I think – more user friendly too.
The result is they are updated for the summer schedule much earlier – there are still 6 months of summer to go for them to be useful!
For each hour, the listener is given a running order of about 30 stations that are most worthwhile to try. Doing it this way means you can easily compare the reception quality of the different frequencies for the same station and also get an idea of each broadcaster’s strategy for reaching listeners.
For the summer, I have put the top station as number 51, down to about 80. Many radios have enough storage to allow you to set a page for each hour and then up to 100 presets for each page. This means you can check your favourite stations in a couple of minutes. There is less detail, but today time is so precious, the ease of use seemed to me to be the priority for the charts. (I have numbered 1 to 30 for the winter charts)
Thank you for once again updating and sharing your handy broadcast charts, Alex!
Click here to download Alex’s broadcast charts via his website, ShortwaveTimes.com.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that the Global Radio Guide: Summer 2019 is now available at Amazon.com as an ebook.
The price is $8.49, but if you belong to the Kindle Unlimited program, it’s free to read.
(Source: Spaceweather via Troy Riedel)
This weekend, old sunspot AR2738 is returning from a two-week trip around the farside of the sun. After re-appearing late yesterday, the sunspot quickly produced two CMEs (coronal mass ejections), signalling that it may be even more active than before. Last month when it crossed the face of the sun, AR2738 crackled with low-level flares and strafed Earth with loud shortwave radio bursts.[…]
Encore – Classical Music on shortwave – broadcast Sunday afternoon in Europe & USA
Encore – Classical Music this weekend is being broadcast as usual by Channel 292 (Europe) on 6070 kHz at 15:00 UTC Sunday 5th May.
And by WBCQ on 7490 kHz at 00:00 – 01:00 UTC Monday 6th May.
There is a repeat on 6070 kHz on Friday 10th May at 19:00 UTC.
The Programme this week will start with Itzak Perlman playing some Sarasate on his Strad. Then, as if that won’t be gorgeous enough, we will have Dido’s Lament (Henry Purcell) – and a movement from Beethoven’s 6th – the Pastoral. Next we calm down with a Cello Suite from Bach before something a bit startling by Messiaen followed by the ‘Motorbike’ trombone concerto by Sandstrom. The hour will end with Dvorák and Copland.
As usual – reception reports and requests for music to play in future programmes will be very welcome.
Regular Broadcast times are:
15:00 – 16:00 UTC Sunday, and repeated 19:00 – 20:00 UTC Friday on 6070 kHz (Channel 292 Germany).
00:00 – 01:00 UTC Monday on 7490 kHz (WBCQ – Maine).
Brice Avery – Encore – Radio Tumbril – www.tumbril.co.uk
After posting recent shortwave broadcast schedules and updates for the A19 season, SWLing Post reader Tom Cook asked, “What is A19?”
Excellent question, Tom! And, frankly, one I’ve never answered here on the SWLing Post even though it’s so fundamental to understand HF broadcast scheduling.
Shortwave broadcast schedules are coordinated for two seasons:
The summer season is often referred to as the “A” season, and winter the “B” season. This is often abbreviated, so “A19” equates to the 2019 “A” or summer season.
For newcomers to shortwave listening, the confusing bit is that three month period between January and March in any given year–the end of the “B” season which started the previous year. For example, in February 2019 you would still be in the B18 broadcast season even though you’re already in the year 2019.
At time of posting (May 4, 2019), we are in the A19 HF broadcasting season.
Thanks for asking your question, Tom! I hope this explanation helps.
Many thanks to SWLing Post friend and contributor, Pete Madtone, who has just released his latest EP called, “This Frequency.”
This EP features vocalist Jazz’min and off-air audio samples of contest station P49Y from Aruba.
The EP, released this week, can be found on Madtone’s Bandcamp page:
Jazz’min put up “This Frequency” the title track, up on her Soundcloud page: