Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news from KBS:
Due to a technical issue, KBS WORLD Radio’s English Service will make an inevitable adjustment in the shortwave frequency and time as follows as of January 1, 2024. We ask for your kind understanding. Please send your listener feedback to English Service via email, snail mail, website and social media as always. Thank you.
Hi all SWLing Post Community, FastRadioBurst 23 and all The Imaginary Stations crew, wish you a great festive season and send our best wishes to all for 2024! This week we’ve an Imaginary Stations Winter Special going out to Europe via Shortwave Gold on Sunday 24th December 2023 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then on 3975 kHz at 2100 UTC. Pour yourself an egg nog if that’s your tipple of choice, tune in and enjoy the festive tunes.
Then on early Monday 25th December we have a show from deep within the Radio Thrift Shop archives, a Winter Holiday Special. Tune in at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI for the more eclectic side of yuletide/winter solstice programming featuring some wonderful tunes including a super one from with “World of Love” and a mini-documentary called “In Search of the Shaggs” the rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1965. More on the Radio Thift Store show below:
Enjoy the festive season and have a wonderful 2024! For more information on the shows please email [email protected] and check out our old shows here.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares the following update:
Hi Thomas
Attached is an updated (version 3.1) list of Holiday Programming on Shortwave covering the period up to Monday 1 January 2024.
Note that this will most likely be the last version update that I will announce, however the list will continue to be updated on Box.com when and if further details are received.
Many thanks & 73
Alan Roe
Click here to download Holiday Programming on Shortwave 2023 V3.1 (PDF).
Thank you for sharing this update, Alan!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares the following update:
Hi Thomas
Attached is an updated (version 2) list of Holiday Programming on Shortwave covering the period Saturday 16 December 2023 to Monday 1 January 2024.
Many thanks & 73
Alan Roe
Click here to download Holiday Programming on Shortwave 2023 V2 (PDF).
Thank you for sharing this update, Alan!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who writes:
Hi Thomas
I have been sent a listing with full descriptions of topics to be heard on the English service of Radio Romania International for most programmes for each day from 18 December to 2 January. This list was very kindly compiled and supplied by Vlad Paclu from RRI. [P]lease let Vlad and the team at RRI know that their efforts to provide such information over the holiday period was useful – their email address is [email protected]
Many thanks
Alan Roe
Click here to download the RRI Program Schedule (PDF).
Thank you for sharing this with us, Alan, and we’ll let Vlad and the team know how much we appreciate it! Sending my email now!
Hi all SWLing Post Community, FastRadioBurst 23 here. This week, the Imaginary Stations crew bring you another Skybird Radio International episode featuring a celebration of International music. This show will be beamed to Europe by Shortwave Gold on Sunday 17th December 2023 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then on 3975 kHz at 2100 UTC.
Then on early Monday 18th December we have a WRMI edition of the show at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz. Prepare to be transported to the far flung corners of the world on both shows.
For more information on the shows please email [email protected] and check out our old shows here.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Meara who shares the following article from the SolderSmoke Podcast:
Yesterday’s Washington Post had a good story about large solar storms. We are all aware of the Carrington Event (September 1859) but there were others. The Japanese painting above depicts an event of February 4, 1872.
From the Washington Post article:
Around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, 1872, the sky above Jacobabad suddenly brightened, as if a portal to heaven had opened. A passerby watched in amazement and terror, while a pet dog became motionless, then trembled. The godly glow morphed, from red to bright blue to deep violet, until morning.
Electric communication cables mysteriously glitched in the Mediterranean, around Lisbon and Gibraltar, London and India. Confused telegraph operators in Cairo reported issues in sending messages to Khartoum. One incoming message asked what was the big red glow on the horizon — a fire or a faraway explosion?
This of course reminded me of the event that I witnessed as a teenager in New York in 1972:
https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2009/09/carrington-flares-aurora-where-were-you.html
That post has resulted in a steady stream of comments, mostly from non-hams. Apparently people remember seeing the event, then search the web for clues as to what it was. Google brings them to that post on the SolderSmoke Daily News. The comments are usually along the lines of, “Wow! I saw it too!” Very cool.
Check out this article, the full SolderSmoke podcast, and much more on the SolderSmoke website!