Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fastradioburst23, who shares the broadcast flyer above. Looking forward to some more KMRT Blue Light Specials!
The Return of KMRT: March 14, 2021 on 9395 kHz at 2300 UTC
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Category Archives: What’s On Shortwave
KSKO’s “Virtual Dance Party Request Party Thingy” via WRMI
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following announcement:
Tune into WRMI for “The LIVE Friday Night Virtual Dance Party Request Party Thingy” from community station 89.5 KSKO McGrath, Alaska.
The broadcast will take place on Saturday, March 20th 2021 from 0300 to 0500 UTC on 7570 kHz for the west coast and 7780 kHz for the east coast. KSKO Program Director Paul Walker is going to be hosting the show and WILL take requests by phone at (907) 524-3001 DURING the show!
It’ll be all kinds of music from the 60s to today from all genres, so there’s probably going to be something for everyone. Paul says, “I’m funding the WRMI airtime costs from my own personal pocket, not the stations bank account. I’m doing it just because, for fun.. because I can.. because why not?”
Thanks, Paul! I’ll certainly tune in and perhaps even call in!
Recordings of WTAB
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fastradioburst23, who shares the following recording:
This is the studio version of the WTAB transmission that went out on 9395 kHz at 00:00 UTC Monday 15th February 2021 (repeated on the same frequency and time on Monday 22nd February).
Below is a great clip of the transmission caught on a Yaesu FTdx3000 with a 80 meter horizontal loop at 60 feet at Parksville, Vancouver Island, BC
Many thanks for sharing these recordings!
Free Radio Skybird: Sunday November 22nd and December 6th, 2020
(Source: Pete Madtone)
The final Free Radio Skybird programme of this year (bar the repeat two weeks later) is on Sunday November 22nd at 1200 UTC on 6070 kHz via Channel 292.
It features DJ Frederick, Justin Patrick Moore with The Radiophonic Laboratory and Weed’s own One Deck Pete with “Tunes to cheer you up.” Tune in! #shortwavesnotdead #freeradioskybird
RAE Special German Language Program on Sunday, October 18, 2020 via Shortwave Service
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adrian Korol, who shares the following announcement from RAE’s German language service:
I’m sending you the info about the special German program that airs this Sunday. Includes 3 micros related to the 100 years of radio in Argentina (yours on “The radios that live in danger”, Arnaldo’s “Radio and the Malvinas War” and mine, on the 100 years of the radio) and music (tango)
[…]The program will air this Sunday, 10/18/2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. UTC on 7500 kHz
Many thanks for the tip, Adrian!
Radio Northern Europe International Show 9
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Roseanna, with Radio Northern Europe International who shares the following announcement:
Radio Northern Europe International Show 9 announcement
Hei all,
It’s our pleasure to announce RNEI #9 to you!
RNEI 9’s music features:
- An artist introduction to a brand new group from the Faeroe Islands with their first song announced by Heidrik from the band
- A candidate for Denmark’s Eurovision from 2020
- A catchy Swedish song I really like at the moment
- The return of Evelina and Zupermaria
- Some traditional Icelandic and Samí music I think a lot of you will like
- A Norwegian song from the 1970s that I recently discovered with a beep but no boops
- Our first Estonian song to start of the dance segment
- Fading into a Danish dance song to end off the show
RNEI 9’s digital experiments on Shortwave:
- Easypal QAM16 7zip file transfer (of a website!) embedded into our interval signal
- A few hidden experiments (Running JS8Call nearer the end isn’t a bad idea ? )
- DominoEX22 embedded in the final song
Please note: On WRMI the broadcasts are 30 seconds shorter necessitating a shorter interval signal and therefore a shorter Easypal segment than the Channel 292 and Onda broadcasts. Expect potential changes e.g. QAM64 or lesser error correction modes. The version sent to World FM, Unique Radio and later On-Demand will be the “HQ” version, meaning it doesn’t have the Easypal (because it sounds nasty) nor does it use the Comb Stereo system.
TIAEMS for this month is really good complete with MFSK data and lots of great music!
As promised the Saturday 6070 kHz broadcast will be the first one on shortwave carrying the new show!
Our schedule is available here: https://rnei.org/listen/
QSLs are running massively behind schedule, we are very sorry, show first, website second and QSLs third at the moment making very little time to reply to them. We have got some ideas to speed up the process soon though!
Sending you all good wishes and hoping you can listen and enjoy the show,
Roseanna
This weekend: Brane Five broadcast on Channel 292 and WRMI
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Linus Ruckstuhl (HB3XSQ), who writes:
I am a longtime reader of your blog. My brothers band (branefive.com just released their first rock song “Free the Animal in You” today on September 25th 2020. I got the idea to launch the song on shortwave in addition to the streaming services to celebrate it, especially because there are no physical discs and records anymore. The first broadcast at 0900 UTC on Channel 292 on 6070kHz already got us many Reception Reports. The song with the corresponding announcement will be rebroadcast by Channel292 this weekend from 25.-27.09.2020. The schedule is in the attachment.
73 from Lucerne, Switzerland
Channel 292:
WRMI Schedule:
Saturday 09/26/2020
7:00 pm ET (2300 UTC) on 7570 kHz to North America
7:30 pm ET (2330 UTC) on 9395 kHz to North America
9:30 pm ET (0130 UTC Sunday) on 9395 kHz to North America
0300 UTC Sunday (11:00 pm ET Saturday) on 5800 kHz to Caribbean, Latin AmericaSunday 09/27/2020
5:00 pm ET (2100 UTC) on 9455 kHz to North America
7:00 pm ET (2300 UTC) on 7570 kHz to North America
7:30 pm ET (2330 UTC) on 9395 kHz to North America
7:45 pm ET (2345 UTC) on 9955 kHz to Caribbean, Latin America (and on Internet www.wrmi.net)
0300 UTC Monday (11:00 pm ET Sunday) on 5800 kHz to Caribbean, Latin America
0430 UTC Monday (10:30 pm Sunday in Costa Rica) on 5985 kHz to Central AmericaWRMI will repeat the same schedule next weekend. Due to the broadcast through Channel292 on 6070, 3955 and 9760 kHz we already received many reception reports from DXers and SWLs all over Europe as well as Malaysia and Australia. Now we hope to receive some more from the Americas and the Caribbean thanks to the broadcasts of WRMI.
Thank you for sharing this broadcast, Linus, and my apologies for missing your first email before the weekend.
Post readers: Check out the schedule and send in your reception reports! As Linus said, they’re especially looking forward to more reports from the Americas and Caribbean!