Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Colin, who writes:
This chart may be familiar to some, for others like me who has just found it, this will be a very useful one-stop information page for UK spectrum allocations for scanning the bands.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/map.html
Thanks, Colin! Ofcom has done a fantastic job making this data accessible. Individual maps for each chunk of spectrum can be downloaded as well.
SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who hosts a radio show on WBCQ and Channel 292, writes:
My WBCQ broadcast has changed, slightly. It will be on 9330, still, but 5110 has moved to 5130 khz.
[Also] to avoid a collision with Vaitcan Radio on 6070 khz, which is on 2140-2200, my Channel 292 broadcast moves from its originally scheduled airtime of 2100-2300 UTC to 2205-0005 UTC.
Thanks for the update, Paul!
Many thanks to Mike Terry for the following news from Radio Six International:
Coming this month…..Ewan Spence takes us to Austin, Texas for a series of daily shows from the gigantic annual music festival South by South West beginning on Monday, March 14th at 20:00 GMT
We’ll be back on shortwave later this month, with a special five hour broadcast in the 49 metre band on Saturday 19th March from 12:00 to 17:00 GMT. As well as the usual programmes there will be a special two-hour live edition of Saturday Sounds hosted by Tony Currie and including live emails and messages. Listen online as usual or tune in to 6070kHz (49.39m) from a transmitter near Munich in Germany.
Great new music from a huge variety of worldwide artists every night in Random Play at 20:00 GMT.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his updated Music on Shortwave list for the B15 period.
If you love listening to music on the shortwaves, you’ll love Alan’s free guide.
Many thanks to Bill Tilford,who updates us on some of his upcoming Isle of Music broadcasts:
Greetings. Update for From the Isle of Music on WBCQ, 7490 KHz, 0100-0200 Tuesdays (Monday nights 8-9pm [EST] in the Americas)
The next few weeks of From the Isle of Music will feature, in addition to an eclectic selection of music from Cuba:
Feb 29: Special Guest is Juan Carlos Marín, on of Cuba’s best Jazz saxophonists
March 7: Special Guest is Ethiel Failde, director of Orquesta Miguel Failde, which preserves the Danzon, one of Cuba’s most important popular musical genres (it helped give birth to the Mambo and influenced North American Jazz)
March 14: Special Guest is Leo Garcia, leader of the group Timbalive, which plays Timba, one of Cuba’s best genres of modern dance music. Timbalive is based in Miami but regularly works with musicians on the island in its recordings.
A graphic for our Feb 29 show is attached…..
Thanks for all you do for radio……
And many thanks to you, Bill, for broadcasting the excellent tunes!
SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who hosts a radio show on WBCQ, received the following message from the station yesterday:
The FCC has just informed Allan Weiner that the military needs our 5110 frequency.
So your show on Friday 3/11 (10pm Eastern – midnight) will be broadcast on 9330 and 5130.
WBCQ has been announcing this change on the air. Many thanks to Mike, who shared this video of Allan Weiner making the announcement last night:
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Stephen Cooper, who shares the following news about the new DigiDX broadcast:
DigiDX is a 30 minute MFSK32 broadcast covering shortwave and DX news, radio related reviews, schedule information and listeners letters and after a success test broadcast to Europe, a broadcast for North America is planned for 0200 UTC Sunday.
Broadcasting from Channel 292 in Germany on 6070 kHz the time has been chosen to maximise chance of reception on the East Coast of North America and beyond.
The programme features the majority of the broadcast in MFSK32 but around 10 minutes of the broadcast is in the slower Olivia 64-2000 mode to test for resilience against bad propagation to North America and interference on 6070.
The tests to Europe on Channel 292 earlier this week showed good reception and near perfect decodes despite Radio China International and Vatican Radio being on the same frequency during some of the test.
To decode use FlDigi, MultiPSK or the Tivar Android app, just putting your radio next to the PC microphone or phone/tablet is enough to decode the broadcast. If you have decoded the VOA Radiogram before, DigiDX uses the same digital modes.
Please send reception reports and decodes of the text/images in the broadcast to [email protected], an e-QSL will be sent by email and on the next broadcast an e-QSL card will be broadcast over the air in MFSK32 mode as well.
For European listeners the second edition of DigiDX with an include e-QSL card from the last episode will be broadcast on 6070Khz at 1100 UTC. For information on further broadcast times like DigiDX on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/digidx/) or follow on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Digi_Dx)
This is brilliant, Stephen! I’ll attempt to log DigiDX this weekend if conditions are fair!