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!
Hi all the SWLing post community from Fastradioburst23. Just to let you know the next programmme in the Imaginary Stations series is Radio Clarion. Expect some horn related tunes on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc on Sunday 16th October 2022 via WRMI. 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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Hi SWLing post people worldwide, this weekend WRLD takes to the air in the imaginary station series. The transmission will be on air on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc on Sunday 2nd October 2022 via the services of WRMI. Expect some wonderful tunes from all around this magical globe of ours. Fastradioburst23.
Hi SWLing post community, do you enjoy shopping? Do you like getting bargains? Well if so please join us for a grand opening of another KMRT, your one stop shortwave shopping experience!
Experience the thrill of a bustling supermarket live on shortwave this Sunday 18th September 2022 via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 2200 hrs UTC. There will be lots of blue light specials, bargains galore and an appearance of a store cleaner to aisle 3. Fastradioburst23.
Hi SWLing post community, just to let you know this week’s Imaginary Stations on WRMI visits the Shortwave Music Library with DJ Frederick. Delve into classic pop & library music on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc on Sunday 11th September 2022. Expect some good tunes. Fastradioburst23.