Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), for sharing Radio Romania International’s 2017 summer shortwave radio schedule:
For full details about the various ways you can listen to RRI, check out their website.
Image: Jan-Mikael Nurmela, Risto Vähäkainu, LEM DX-Pedition Blogs
(Source: Finnish DX Association)
The Finnish DX Association wishes you all good DX for 2017.
We also have the pleasure of inviting all DXers and shortwave listeners to join the jubileum European DX Conference to be held in Tampere, Finland on 18-20 August 2017. It is time to celebrate, as this year is Finland?s centennial and The European DX Council will have its 50th anniversary. The meeting will be organized by The Finnish DX Association (soon to be 60 years) and Tampereen DX-Kuuntelijat (local DX club celebrating its 50th anniversary).
We will follow our tradition of successful EDXC conferences held in Finland in 1971, 1987, 1992, 2002 and 2008. So it will be three days of lots of program, lots of events and lots of fun.
We plan to open the website of this conference during January. The website will be set to be a part of the FDXA website www.sdxl.fi and when the conference site is open, a link ?EDXC Conference 2017? will be found on the main page.
The conference will start on Friday afternoon 18th of August and end on Sunday afternoon 20th of August. This time of summer is not anymore high-season in Finland, so if you like, you should be able to book extra nights pretty easily and with reasonable prices.
Also a post-conference tour is planned. This would last a few days and the target would be Finnish Lapland including visits to the well-known LEM and AIH DX sites and also possibly including a visit to Nordkapp (the northernmost point of the European continent). If you are interested in joining this tour, please don?t make any flight bookings yet.
The conference organizing committee has been set. The committee chairman is Risto Vähäkainu. You are welcome to address your special questions to rv at sdxl dot org.
Hoping to see many many of you in Tampere next summer!
Risto Vähäkainu
FDXALinks
- SDXL/FDXA, Suomen DX-liitto – The Finnish DX Association
- City of Tampere, read more in English, German, Russian and Finnish
- Conference hotel: Varala Sports Institute / Varalan Urheiluopisto (address: Varalankatu 36, Tampere) Google Maps, read more in Finnish.
Click here to read this post on the Finish DX Association website.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rafman, who shares the following photos that were originally posted by Alberto (I2PHD) on the Elad email reflector. Alberto noted:
“Here it is…. shown for the first time today at the Montichiari Ham Fest. Price TBD….”
Many thanks, Rafman, for the tip!
We’ll continue to post FDM-S3 updates as they become available. I will also plan to review the FDM-S3 when it hits the market.
(Source: Yahoo News via London Shortwave)
Vatican City (AFP) – African bishops have asked Radio Vatican, the official radio of the pope, to restore shortwave transmissions to the continent, the Catholic agency Fides reported on Friday.
[…]The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), meeting in the Ghanaian capital Accra, has written a letter expressing “concern about the recent shutdown of the shortwave services of the radio, which afforded millions of Africans the opportunity to hear (the) Holy Father and share in the Church’s concerns and mission,” Fides said.
[…]This year, services to Africa, Asia and the Middle East will be slashed, Fides said.”While recognising that Vatican Radio services can still be received through the Internet,” the SECAM said “many Africans simply do not have the means or the technology to enjoy such services”.
[…]Radio Vatican was created in 1931 and has services in 45 languages.
With the latest move “a heritage is in the process of being destroyed,” a Fides journalist told AFP.
Jess Puglisi of WGXC (Wave Farm) and David Goren at the 2017 Shortwave Shindig live broadcast.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cuff, for sharing the following details:
Repeat shortwave airing of the Shortwave Shindig on WRMI — Saturday 3/11 0300 UTC, same time as last week; same frequencies (9395 aimed north, 6855 aimed west).
Thanks to David Goren and Jeff White for arranging this!! Will update as on-demand / streaming availability is determined.
David Goren (left) and Richard Cuff (right) during the Shindig live broadcast.
Note that for those of us in North America, the Shindig rebroadcast will take place at 22:00 EST tonight (0300 UTC Saturday) on 9,395 kHz aimed north and 6,855 kHz aimed west from WRMI.
I plan to record the broadcast tonight as propagation was so poor last week, very few listeners could enjoy it.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who notes:
I just received a status update on the pantronX Titus II portable SDR from Mike, their chief engineer.
Mike said the self-contained SDR portable will include “SoapySDR as the interface to make it much easier to roll your own SDR app.” Here’s some info about SoapySDR:
https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki
Mike also said, “To be 100% truthful, our biggest push right now is for the international MW & SW broadcasters. They want to go DRM digital is the worst way!”
You might want to share this news with SWLing Post readers.
Thank you for the update, Ed! Click here to view the pantronX website.
Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post readers who shared a link to this article via Radio Slovakia International:
Why is shortwave radio still alive?
If you use the internet to listen to streaming audio and podcasts, you could be forgiven for assuming there’s no need for shortwave radio any more. It seems many broadcasters appear to agree, with stations dropping their shortwave services year after year.
But not so fast. Shortwave’s not dead, say its proponents. Rather, it’s in a state of transformation. Not only does it still provide a vital service for the many millions of individuals worldwide who don’t have access to the internet, but this medium also has a certain ‘magic’ which, we discovered, is very hard for its fans to explain.
In this entertaining, full-length feature, Gavin Shoebridge asked shortwave listeners from across the globe to explain why they still use the service, why they don’t ‘go digital’, and where they think shortwave will be in the coming years.
Click here to download the MP3 audio.
Click here to read and listen via Radio Slovakia International.