SWLing Post reader, David Iurescia, reminds us that February 25th, 2015 was Radio Canada International‘s 70th anniversary.
While we can no longer hear RCI on shortwave, David points out that we can listen to some of the anniversary specials (interviews and programs) online all week:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/02/26/rci-celebrates-its-70th-anniversary/
Many thanks for the tip, David!
Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, David Iurescia, who relays this translated message from Radio Taiwan International:
Frequency test for South America between 5 – 7 March, 2015
Looking for alternatives to transmit our programming to South America, Radio Taiwan International will carry out test transmissions frequency to the region from Thursday March 5 until Saturday March 7, 2015 through 11920 kHz frequency in the 0200-0300 UTC .
We request the cooperation of our listeners friends who are in the South American countries , to verify that signal and send us reports of listening to the new test frequency to our e- mail soon: [email protected]
Many thanks for your help!
Many thanks, David! Perhaps some of listeners can help RTI by sending a listener report and also record a broadcast for the SW Radio Audio Archive.
SWLing Post contributor, Moshe, writes:
In the attached photos my Sangean receives Elliniki Radiophonia at 9420kHz at my working post. Note the amount of computers, screens and the fact that the radio sits on top of an HP printer.
Still audio is clear and clear reception with only telescopic antenna.
The other radio is my beloved Ben-Gal 1958 tube radio (Israeli made). It looks very much like German radios of the time.
[The Ben-Gal] is in daily use. Anyone seeing this radio loves it, especially when I turn it on!”
Many thanks for sharing these photos, Moshe! Your reception of Elliniki Radiophonia must be exceptional in Israel to overcome all of that office RFI.
The Ben-Gal must produce some rich audio; I bet it’s a champ on medium wave with that large internal ferrite bar! Beautiful set! Thanks again for sharing!
David Goren hosts the annual Shortwave Shindig
I’m happy to relay that David Goren’s Shortwave Shindig will once again broadcast live from the Winter SWL Fest in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
Tune in on Friday, February 27, 2015 from 22:00-23:00 EST (that’s 03:00-04:00 UTC, February 28) on 7,570 kHz.
Since I will be at the Winter SWL Fest and even a part of the Shortwave Shindig live broadcast, I’m hoping a few SWLing Post readers will record the show and share with us.
Also, if you’re in the Plymouth Meeting area, please consider joining us at the Winter SWL Fest.
If you would like to hear recordings of the Shortwave Shindig from 2014, click here.
Click here to check out David Goren’s website, Shortwaveology.net.
For your listening pleasure: Radio Poland.
This recording was made on February 2, 2015 on 9395 kHz starting at 1800 UTC. Although Radio Poland formally left the shortwaves in 2013, their service is now relayed by Global 24 Radio.
Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below.
Last week, I discovered this amazing set of photos, via Flashbak.com, of the BBC Broadcasting House from 1932: click here to view the full set of photos.
Channel 292 propagation map (Source: Southgate ARC)
Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Harald Kuhl (DL1ABJ) for sharing this article from the Southgate ARC:
“When the ‘Deutsche Welle’ decided to close down one of their 500 KW short wave broadcast transmitters near Munich at the end of 2012, a group containing some German radio amateurs applied for and were allocated the then available short wave frequency of 6070 KHz in 2013.
This group now have an operational 10KW station on the frequency, using the driver stages from the old Deutsche Welle transmitter. The rest of the transmitter was built by and is run by Rainer DB8QC . The [license] allow transmission 24/7 but at present most transmissions are on a weekend during daylight hours.
Content is mainly provided by existing Internet Radio stations wanting to get their material “on-the-air” this includes several soceities that remember the days of the Pirate Radio pop music stations in the North sea between England and Holland and a lot of their music content is from the 60’s and 70’s.
Additional content is being sought and at only 15 Euros an hour, this is not a corporate big business rather a facility where smaller groups can afford to buy time to transmit their content. One such group is the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club, the National Amateur Radio Society in Germany, who hope to have a weekly 2 hour slot on the station from mid-March to send a DX orientated program, probably from 6pm local time on Sundays.
The DARC DX magazine will be in the German language and targeted towards German speaking listeners. Amateur radio is an international medium however so there are thoughts of also producing an international / English hour in addition, to reach out across Europe not only to radio amateurs but also to short wave listeners and the general public.”
Thanks again, Harald! Even though Channel 292 isn’t a blow-torch station, at 15 Euros per hour, nearly any group could afford to broadcast on shortwave. Now to put Channel 292 in the logs!
For more information, click here to view the Channel 242 website.
