{"id":65734,"date":"2026-04-06T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65734"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:12:55","slug":"radio-waves-dlarc-solar-cycle-25-explained-and-voa-delano-property-to-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/radio-waves-dlarc-solar-cycle-25-explained-and-voa-delano-property-to-be-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Waves: DLARC, Solar Cycle 25 Explained, and VOA Delano property to be sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio<\/h2>\n

Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s<\/em> Radio Waves<\/em>, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0<\/strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dennis Dura for the following tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DLARC: The Radio Geek\u2019s Doomscrolling Antidote (Radio World)<\/a><\/h1>\n

The internet has aged to the point where it is easy to fall into a rabbit hole, reminiscing about websites from decades past.<\/p>\n

The site that fuels those scrolling endeavors is the Internet Archive \u2014 a nonprofit that hosts a digital library of internet sites and other artifacts in digital form. The project began in 1996 to archive the web.<\/p>\n

Today, it contains one trillion web pages through its \u201cWayback Machine,\u201d as well as 56 million books and texts. It also works with approximately 1,400 libraries through its Archive-It program to identify and preserve important digital history.<\/p>\n

Kay Savetz (K6KJN) freely admits to having been an Internet Archive power user. Savetz used not just the archive.org website, but also its command line interface to upload many documents. [Continue reading\u2026][Continue reading\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n

Solar Cycle 25 Gives Amateurs and Shortwave a Boost (Radio World)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Beyond their love of radio, amateur radio operators and shortwave radio broadcasters have one thing in common: They rely on the ionosphere to refract or bend their signals back to Earth, so that they can travel beyond line-of-sight distances.<\/p>\n

In turn, the ionosphere\u2019s ability to refract radio signals depends on its level of ionization or charge. The more ionized the ionosphere is, the more likely it is to bend signals back to the ground rather than let them pass through.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where the sun comes in. The number of sunspots on the solar surface rises and falls over an 11-year period, during what is known as a solar cycle. The more sunspots, the more solar radiation comes to Earth. [Continue reading\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n

City of Delano plans to sell Voice of America property, keep portion for \u2018future park purposes\u2019 (KGET)<\/a><\/h2>\n

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The city of Delano is looking to keep a portion of the former Voice of America property for \u201cfuture park purposes\u201d and sell the rest, according to the Delano City Council agenda for Monday.<\/p>\n

The property is on about 800 acres bordered by West Garces Highway, Woollomes Avenue, Melcher Road and Casey Avenue.<\/p>\n

It was home to the Delano Transmitting Station, built in 1944 to broadcast Voice of America programming worldwide. It stopped operating in 2007 and was demolished shortly after.<\/p>\n

The City Council is set to consider whether it should retain about 20 acres of that property for park-related reasons and designate the remainder as \u201csurplus land\u201d and approve selling it. [Continue reading…]<\/a><\/p>\n

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