Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Pietschman, who shares the following schedule from Jeff White at WRMI:
WRMI Legends (Ted Randall & Co.) is on:
I know a lot of readers will be happy to hear Ted Randall’s tunes on shortwave after the demise of WTWW’s shortwave service. Thanks for the tip!
Hi all SWLing post community, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know of our next episode of renaissance music radio across the shortwaves this weekend thanks to WRMI.
This Sunday 6th November 2022 from 2300 utc on 9395 kHz there will be another transmission of WREN and in keeping with last week’s show they’ll be much more modal music and to quote Wikipedia, more “Harmony that places a greater concern on the smooth flow of the music and its progression of chords.” Tune in and enjoy another journey way back into time.
Most of the Imaginary Stations shows that have been broadcast are now archived here.
STOP PRESS • Last night’s show now archived online here.
Good day to all SWLing post readers, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know of our next episode of Imaginary Stations via WRMI on shortwave this weekend.
This Sunday 30th October 2022 on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc there will be another transmission of WREN, this time it’s music of a Renaissance style, so turn back the hands of time and tune in.
Hi all the SWLing post community from Fastradioburst23. Also a big hi goes out to all birdwatchers out there as the next programmme in the Imaginary Stations series is WREN featuring a transmission of a winged bias.
Expect music featuring our feathered friends and live streaming of birdsong on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc on Sunday 23rd October 2022 via WRMI. So get the bins on (birdwatcher parlance for binoculars), settle down in your favourite patch and tune in!
Our friend Jeff White, General Manager of WRMI is trying to repair extensive damage to the WRMI antenna farm post hurricane Ian. A GoFundMe has been created to help WRMI with repair costs. Even small donations add up!
Jeff White provides the following details:
Hello,
WRMI has a rich history of supplying news, information and entertainment to the world from our Okeechobee, Florida Transmitters.
Hurricane Ian damage to our antenna farm is so extensive, it has knocked us off the air to Europe and Africa.
We need your help to get us back on the air again to transmit to Europe and Africa news, information, religious programming and entertainment.
We have no insurance for the antenna farm due to the huge cost of insurance premiums.
We are desperately asking for help around the world to get us back on the air again to Europe and Africa. Your help is paramount to WRMI returning to the air in the many countries in Europe and Africa.
Your help will allow WRMI to rebuild the transmission towers destroyed by Hurricane Ian that are pointed towards Europe and Africa.
We thank you for your support of WRMI. Hurricane Ian knocked us down pretty hard. But we know with your help, we can rise back up and provide programming in many languages again to Europe and Africa.
Sincerely,
Jeff White
General Manager WRMI
Okeechobee, Florida
Welcome to the SWLing Post’s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio. Enjoy!
The vast Okeechobee, Fla., antenna farm of privately-owned WRMI, which transmits programming to the world via shortwave radio, was hit hard by Hurricane Ian.
WRMI has 14 transmitters and 23 antenna systems. “We had winds up around 100 miles per hour, and that did a real number on our antenna field,” said Jeff White, general manager of WRMI.
“So far we have three antennas that are probably destroyed beyond repair: one to Europe, one to Africa and one to Central America and the South Pacific.”
As pressing as rebuilding these three antennas is for WRMI, “The biggest job we have at the moment is putting back up dozens of telephone poles that carry the transmission lines from the transmitter building to the antennas,” said White. [Continue read at Radio World…]
>>–Click here to donate to WRMI’s Hurricane Relief Fund.–<<
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alex, who notes that some of VOK’s language services are now available in podcast form. If you wish to hear some old school propaganda in high fidelity, this is a good way to do so: check it out on Castbox.
After years of experimentation, the famously secretive nation has switched on another DRM shortwave transmitter. The big question: Why?
Click here to read the full story in Red Tech’s latest issue (see page 12) or click here for page 12 only.
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