In Stock: The Ham Radio Workbench Podcast DC Distribution Panel Kit

Many thanks to Mike Serio who notes:

Hi Thomas,
Just a note to let you know that digikey has a supply of Ham Radio Workbench DC Power Strips in stock, 43 at the time I reviewed. Product number is HRWB101. Thought you might want to let your audience know. These are neat little kits, I really like mine!
72,
Mike Serio
KG4MTN

Thanks for the tip, Mike! These will likely sell out quickly. Note that this is the second version of the DC Distribution Panel Kit and is even more robust than the first one which is now discontinued.

Click here to purchase one via DigiKey!

Alan Roe’s BBC World Service Programmes for the A24 Season

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who writes:

The BBC World Service “six-month” schedules now seem to have been deleted permanently from the BBCWS website. I have therefore produced my own “at-a-glance” schedule listing the BBC WS English programmes on shortwave, which I have now updated to version 1.3.

Click here to download BBC World Service Programmes: A24 Season (PDF).

Best wishes
Alan Roe, Teddington, UK

This is a wonderful quick reference sheet, Alan. Thank you so much for stepping up and making it available to the community!

Carlos’ Shortwave Art and recording of NHK World (August 14, 2024)

CHML: The latest mainstay AM radio station to close

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Richard Cuff and Markku Koskinen who share the following (sad) news:

900 CHML closes, ending nearly a century of local radio in Hamilton (Toronto Star)

Station pointed to financial losses as major reason behind closure

A mainstay of Hamilton’s airwaves for almost a century has gone off the air.

900 CHML announced on social media on Wednesday that the radio station would be closing after many years of providing the city and surrounding area with local talk-radio programming.

“This decision, though incredibly difficult, has been made after careful consideration and is necessary following years of financial loss,” read the post.

“The shift of advertising revenues to unregulated foreign platforms, combined with the difficult regulatory and competitive landscape, has forced us to make the difficult decision to close,” added the post. [Continue read at the Star…]

Discount Update XHDATA D-220

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Hi Folks,

Just an update on the 40% discount event for the XHDATA D-220. That promotion is over (many thanks to XHDATA for offering us this exclusive discount!), however, Amazon has a 15% discount for the radio, and the Black version is a couple dollars less than the Orange, which brings it back down close to the 40% discount we had.

Personally, even at full price, I think the radio is a steal, but that’s just me.

Looking forward to the contest this weekend (thanks Jock!) – should be a lot of fun!

Cheers! Robert K4PKM

Texas Radio Shortwave adds additional broadcast

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Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave for the following update:

We added an additional broadcast of our monthly program over Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany. We’re working to cover Western NAm with a broadcast on 9670 kHz at 0300 UTC. Listeners in the South Pacific have also reported a listenable signal.