AIR and BBC design programming for post-earthquake Nepal

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(Source: RMbiz)

MUMBAI: In the wake of recent earthquake that affected Nepal and India, All India Radio (AIR) and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have designed special programming for affected areas of Indo-Nepal border and Nepal respectively. AIR is also transmitting services through their External Services Division (ESD).

AIR stations in Patna, Darbhanga, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Gangtok, Siliguri, Guwahati, Delhi and others put out suitable programmes to generate awareness among the masses, particularly informing them how to tackle such situations.[…]

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Listening to the Nepal Emergency Amateur Radio Nets

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My pal, @K7al_L3afta, recently posted the following recording of the Nepal emergency amateur radio net via Twitter:

He also recorded this short segment relaying that A65DR is alive and well:

@K7al_L3afta is using a PL-660 in an RFI-heavy, urban environment in Morocco. Even knowing some of these operators are using high power, I’m impressed the PL-660 is getting such good reception.

If you have SSB mode on your receiver, you can try monitoring some of the Nepal emergency nets on 14,205 and 14,215 kHz USB.

Disaster DX audio podcast

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Many thanks to Mehmet Burk of ReliefAnalysis.com for sharing the following about his new podcast:

Disaster DX is a new audio series from ReliefAnalysis.com that looks at emerging disasters through the lens of humanitarian broadcasting.

Episode 1 focuses on the impacts of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, and how shortwave radio is a vital medium that will be here to stay.

Disaster DX pays special attention to situations where humanitarian crises create their own “digital divides” that radio helps to bridge. The podcast will be available on iTUNES shortly, but in the meantime listeners can sign up via e-mail on the site.

Link: http://www.reliefanalysis.com/2015/04/humanitarian-broadcasting-revives-in.html

This is great news, Mehmet. I’ll be listening!

Radio Casablanca QSL card

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Radio Casablanca QSL Card

I’m very pleased to have just received a QSL card for the Radio Casablanca broadcast I heard last week.

If you missed the show, click here to listen to my off air recording. This recording was also uploaded to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive; if you subscribe to the archive as a podcast, you can automatically download all of the archive recordings as they are published. The archive is also available via TuneIn radio.

Many thanks, Rick Blaine, for the excellent QSL card!

Shipping Forecast tribute

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Many thanks to @realmarkfahey who shares this tribute to the Shipping Forecast via Twitter:

If the embedded tweet above does not appear, click this link to listen via the web.

Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Romania International

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Screen capture of the Elad FDM-S2 recording RRI's interval signal

Screen capture of the Elad FDM-S2 recording RRI’s interval signal

For your listening pleasure: one full hour of Radio Romania International‘s English language service.

This recording was made on April 23 at 00:00 UTC on 9730 kHz. I used my Elad FDM-S2 software defined receiver to make this recording.

As you can see from the screenshot of the Elad spectrum display above, Radio Romania International’s signal was quite strong. Earlier in the day, the FDM-S2 could also easily hear the RRI English service on 11,700 kHz, which was much weaker at my location here in the eastern US.

Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below: