Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee, who shares the following video from the BBC:
The volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami in Tonga cut communication between the island kingdom and the rest of the world.
A community broadcaster in suburban Brisbane is bringing information and support to Tongans around the world as they wait for news of their families and homeland
Filmed, edited and produced by Simon Atkinson.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who notes that Eton has now placed a splash page image of the new Elite Satellit (above) on their home page.
There is no further information yet and the splash page simply links to their current production shortwave models. It does, however, show that Eton is committed to produce the Elite Satellit this year.
Of course, we’ll post any Elite Satellit updates as they become available! Stay tuned!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fastradioburst23, who shares the Radio Clarion flyer above announcing a broadcast on Sunday, January 23rd and 30th, 2022 at 1200 UTC on 9670 kHz via Channel 292. Make sure to mark your listening calendar!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fred Waterer, who shares a link to the following video from the new series The Book of Boba Fett.
Note that the quality of this video is rather poor, no doubt to keep it from being pulled off of YouTube for copyright violation:
https://youtu.be/nNdmhpHSxvs
Click here to view on YouTube.
You might recall that we first heard CHU in the “Battle of Hoth” scenes from The Empire Strikes Back!
In fact, Star Wars Sound Designer, Ben Burtt, gave us some proper insight in a post a few years ago. It was truly an honor corresponding with him directly and learning about his grandfather, Harold Burtt (W8CD).
Click here to read about Benn Burtt’s fascination with radio.
I’m looking forward to watching The Book of Boba Fett and hearing CHU for myself! Thanks for the tip, Fred!
Radio Taboo in Cameroon
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Grayhat, who writes:
With the sponsorship of UNESCO, two “on air” events will take place February and April, 2022. The events will be the UNESCO World Radio Day and the International Marconi Day 2022
12 to 13 February 2022
from 00:00 UTC of 12 Feb to 23:59 UTC of Feb
(48 hours)
23 to 25 April 2022
From 00:00 UTC of 23 Apr to 23:59 UTC of 25 Apr
(72 hours)
For further information, click on the event names above.
Thank you for the tip! I do note that UNESCO has yet to post details about WRD this year, but I believe they typically publish information only a couple of weeks before the event.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares two shortwave reception illustrations and recordings of The Voice of Korea:
Carlos notes:
Voice of Korea, 11910 kHz, broadcasting in English from Kujang, North Korea.
Final part of the news bulletin, January 14, 2022 saw the launch of another North Korean ballistic missile, this time transported by rail.
Click here to listen on YouTube.
Carlos notes:
Voice of Korea, 9650 kHz, broadcasting in Japanese from Kujang, North Korea.
Final excerpt of the newsletter, January 17 saw another North Korean ballistic missile launch.
Signal captured in Rio de Janeiro, 01/18/2022, 05:08, local time.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Loyd Van Horn at DX Central who shares the following announcement:
Another great week of loggings in our MW Frequency Challenge is in the rear view mirror, with week 8/1460 kHz closing out last night during our DX Central Live! livestream.
We now turn our attention to a new frequency for week 9: 550 kHz.
This will be a challenging frequency, as there are not as many stations here. There are opportunities though for both domestic and international DX, and US stations have a decent amount of space between them and a good smattering of 5kw stations to make this week one that should be a lot of fun!
We are already getting in some good logs from those that were on the livestream last night, be sure to get your logs in as well using the Google Form linked in the blog post, below.
https://www.dxcentralonline.com/post/mw-frequency-challenge-week-8-results-and-week-9-announcement
Good luck to all!
Loyd Van Horn