Nauen Transmitter Station (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The Mighty KBC is moving their regular Sunday (00:00 to 02:00 UTC) Giant Jukebox broadcast from 9,450 to 7,375 kHz on Sunday, March 3rd, 2013.
The new broadcast will come from Nauen, Germany, packing 125 kW. The KBC noted that they may move back to the 31 meter band for the summer period.
We will post updates when available.
(Source: WRTH Editorial Team)
A few hours later than planned, the B12 broadcast schedules update file is now available from the WRTH Website: http://www.wrth.com (and follow the links) the file is in PDF format and requires Acrobat 6 or greater to open it. The file contains updates to the International and Clandestine/Target broadcast schedules published in WRTH2013. We hope you find this a useful accompaniment to the printed book.
Best wishes / 73 from WRTH Editorial team.
While so many broadcasters are cutting or eliminating shortwave broadcasting, there is one who has built a new transmission site in Taiwan and has ambitious goals for the future: PCJ Media! Mark your calendars–though no frequencies yet, PCJ has announced a date and time for their first test:
(Source: PCJ Media)
PRESS RELEASE
The first phase of PCJ’s own relay is completed. There are four phases to be completed until the station will be up and running to full capacity.
Technical Data:
- 1 /20kw
- 1/5kw
- 2/1kw
- 2/curtain type antennas
- 2/horizontal dipole type antennas
- 4/Orban Optimods
On February 16, 2013 we will conduct our first test. It will begin at 1600UTC until 1800UTC. The test will be done using the 2/1kw transmitters. Both will be directed to South East China. One frequency to be directed to Fujian Province and the second frequency directed to Guangxi Province.
Frequencies for this test will be published closer to the date of transmission. We have been given permission to use out of band frequencies. At the moment we are looking at around 12100 to 12500khz and 11400 to 11500khz. This was decided since these will be running 1kw and to reduce any type of interference it would be better to transmit in this range.
For more information please contact [email protected]
For those of you looking for an informative show on international broadcasting, shortwave radio and DXing, checkout Wavescan by AWR.
This year, I understand a lot of focus will be placed on radio and broadcasting to/in Africa. Wavescan’s full schedule follows Jeff White’s announcement below:
(Source: Jeff White, WRMI)
WAVESCAN this weekend:
The January 13 edition of Wavescan, which begins to air this weekend and throughout next week on WRMI, contains part 2 of the “100 Years of Wireless and Radio in Bulgaria” series, the Philippines DX Report with Henry Umadhay, and “Focus on Africa: Liberia.” Included is an interview with Allen Graham of HCJB in Ecuador, who is currently working in Liberia doing radio training and helping with a local university FM radio station. Allen talks about the importance of shortwave radio in West Africa.
Radio Miami International
0500 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1200 UTC via AWR 17535 kHz – Media Broadcast Wertachtal Germany
1500 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 UTC via AWR 15255 kHz – Sri Lanka Broad Corp Trincomalee Sri Lanka
1600 UTC via KSDA 11825 kHz – Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
1600 UTC via KSDA 15360 kHz – Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
1630 UTC via KSDA 11740 kHZ – Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2230 UTC via KSDA 15320 kHZ – Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
Monday
1200 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Tuesday
0430 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Wednesday
0100 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1200 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
2000 UTC via WINB 13570 kHz – World International Red Lion Pennsylvania USA
Thursday
400 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz – Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1430 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz -Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Friday
0415 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz -Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Saturday
0800 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz -Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1200 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz -Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1730 UTC via WWCR2 12160 kHz -Worldwide Christian Nashville Tennessee USA
2100 UTC via WRMI 9955 kHz -Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
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SWLing Post reader, Alex, has just informed me that he’s updated his shortwave frequency charts again.
You can download the free charts on his website:
Shortwavetimes.com
Again, thanks Alex for the time and dedication you put into these fine charts!
The Mighty KBC will be doing special broadcasts to test modulation on 6,150 kHz. They will broadcast old shows of The Giant Jukebox. Here is the schedule with dates/times in UTC:
Mail your reception reports to [email protected]
(Source: Stephen Kellat)
As long as our “i”‘s are dotted and our “t”‘s are crossed, there will be a New Year’s Eve special on WBCQ on 5.110 MHz from the production team at Erie Looking Productions in concert with the team behind the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
The Joint New Year’s Eve Special will be airing at 7 PM Eastern on New Years Eve, 12 AM UTC New Year’s Day. The show is a variety hour with a retrospective on the world of Linux and Ubuntu more specifically, poetry and music by Ashtabula-area musician Mike Kellat, and a policy essay on global communications in the aftermath of the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 in Dubai. Other PSAs such as “Profile America” from the US Census Bureau and some silliness is included as well as a music break. Cleveland-area life studies artist Big Ed Kellatis assists Mike Kellat with the poetry reading.
The show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 United State License which is further explained athttp://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ with the show to be attributed with “Joint New Year’s Eve Special” as title and “Gloria D. Kellat” as the responsible producer. Sharing and posting of airchecks is encouraged especially by sites like SWLing Post. [Gotcha!] Erie Looking Productions produces “LISTen: An LISNews.org Program” at http://lisnews.org/podcast to cover the realm of library & information science as well as “Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle” at http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/
burningcircle to cover the activities of the Ohio Local Community team of the Ubuntu Linux project. The Ubuntu UK Podcast production team releases programs athttp://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ covering the world of Ubuntu more specifically and Linux more generally. Gloria D. Kellat, producer at Erie Looking Productions, served as overall producer for the joint effort this year. Much like last year’s shortwave special produced by Erie Looking Productions alone, this is done to highlight the impact of dangerous trends towards a fractured and broken Internet that have grown ever larger since the start of the Arab Spring. It is far too easy in today’s world for the Internet to simply go away whether by human intention or the intervention of natural circumstance as seen in the multiple failures of Netflix during 2012. This remains yet another drill to show that message content rather than transport medium is key to communications viability.
Shortwave is most certainly not dead yet…