DJ Eric van Willegen, “Uncle Eric” hosts The Giant Jukebox.
I’ve just heard from The Mighty KBC that they will not move to their summer frequency of 9,925 kHz until May 2014.
Until then, you will still hear the KBC’s Giant Jukebox show on Sundays (Saturday evening in the Americas) at 00:00 UTC on 7,375 kHz. Note that this only applies to KBC broadcasts to North and South America.
If you’ve never heard The Mighty KBC’s Giant Jukebox, listen to what you’re missing!
The HFCC has posted the preliminary A14 schedule on their website. Click here to download.
This schedule is subject to change since the season does not start until April 1, 2014 and at least one broadcaster (VOR) will be pulling out.
Are there any SWLing Post readers out there who could make an off air recording of the Shortwave Shindig broadcast tonight (22:00 EST, 02:00 UTC)? If so, please comment! I would like to share your recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.
Please note the type of radio used and what part of the world you live in. The more recordings, the merrier! Thank you!
The Shortwave Shindig goes live on shortwave Friday 3/14/14 from the 27th Annual Winter SWL Festival in Plymouth Meeting, PA. The Shindig signs on for one hour at 10 ET/0200 UTC on 7,570 khz via WRMI’s new Okeechobee facility. Please join us for a celebration of the art and culture of long distance listening.
If you can’t make it to the Winter SWL Fest this year, you can still listen to one hour of David Goren’s Shortwave Shindig via a live broadcast through WRMI. Here are the details:
The Shortwave Shindig goes live on shortwave Friday 3/14/14 from the 27th Annual Winter SWL Festival in Plymouth Meeting, PA. The Shindig signs on for one hour at 10 ET/0200 UTC on 7,570 khz via WRMI’s new Okeechobee facility. Please join us for a celebration of the art and culture of long distance listening.
Be sure to check out David Goren’s website: Shortwaveology.net
(Source: PCJ Press Release)
On March 12th, 2014 PCJ Radio International will celebrate it’s 5th Anniversary. For this special event we will broadcast a special program.
Date: March 12, 2014 (UTC)
A special QSL will be issued for this broadcast.
PCJ Radio International would like to thank sponcers The Spectrum Monitor and C. Crane Radio. Anyone that orders a product from C. Crane Radio and mentions PCJ Radio International will receive a free gift.
Thanks to Mike Barraclough for this info:
“Horizon FM Tenerife has started broadcasting on shortwave on 5,780 [kHz], 75 watts at the moment, short English announcement on their website.”
More information can be found here along with an announcement that Horizon plans to increase output power to 1kW within the next three weeks.
Mike originally posted this info on the Cumbre DX FB page.
One of the most popular posts on the SWLing Post is one published nearly two years ago: “Is there anything to listen to on shortwave?“
In that article, I posted recordings made on the 31 meter band of eight different broadcasters, all of which I found within a 250 kHz chunk of bandwidth on a Friday afternoon.
On February 8th (this past Saturday), I recorded a 160 kHz chunk of spectrum on the 31 meter band with my WinRadio Excalibur, starting around 1:00 UTC and lasting for about 9 hours. I made this spectrum recording in attempt to capture the Voice of Korea on one of their three scheduled frequencies.
While VOK wasn’t audible enough to make a good recording, I did log the following stations all within this thin slice of radio spectrum (click on links for recordings):
I’m guessing that I only logged 50% of what I heard as this list was put together from a quick scan through the recording. In fact, I’m systematically making recordings of each of these broadcasts, from the spectrum file, and adding them to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. I may actually discover more stations in the process.
My point is, if you think there’s nothing to listen to on shortwave, you’re simply not listening!
Now back to my radio…