RNZI to broadcast cyclone warning

Radio New Zealand will be broadcasting the latest cyclone warnings just before the top of  the hour throughout the weekend. Find out how to listen to shortwave service around the Pacific, including in Fiji, here : 

http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen

RNZI - Extra transmision during current Cyclone affecting Fiji

1651 - 1750 UTC on 7285 kHz  

1751 - 1950 UTC on 9700 kHz

1951 - 2050 UTC on 11725 kHz

AOKI A18

AOKI A18 Frequency schedule is available at :

http://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/ut/nxa18.zip

In radio we trust: It’s the sensible voice in our ear

The original broadcast medium inspires more confidence than ever in these interesting times

More at :

http://themediaonline.co.za/2018/04/in-radio-we-trust-its-the-sensible-voice-in-our-ear/

EXHIBITION: 80 Years of ABC Radio Hobart

EXHIBITION: 80 Years of ABC Radio Hobart

Date: April 15–29 2018, 10am-2pm daily
Cost: FREE
Location: Newly-renovated 'Pod' at the Community Food Garden, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Accessibility: Has wheelchair access

More info at :

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/hobart/80-years-of-abc-radio-hobart/9623458

Long wave radio technology to be used to disseminate Indian Standard Time

Coming, huge towers to publicise right time

To employ long wave radio technology

Jacob Koshy

The National Physical Laboratory, an organisation charged with ensuring that Indian time stays accurate, has signed an agreement with IFR Information Dissemination Services (IFR) Ltd., which will set up the towers and employ long wave radio (LWR) technology to purvey this time to a range of users.

Full story at :

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/coming-huge-towers-to-publicise-right-time/article23377284.ece

Kudumbashree to start community radio service

Malappuram: Stepping into the broadcasting sector, Kudumbashree Mission will start community radio channel in Malappuram soon. The radio channel would be first of its kind under Kudumbashree in the state.

Officials from the ministry of information and broadcasting have conducted inspection at the proposed site for the radio station at Panakkad near Malappuram town. The team has submitted a proposal regarding the construction of studio to the state Kudumbashree Mission.

Source and full story at :

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/kudumbashree-to-start-community-radio-service/articleshow/63616706.cms

Connect FM leaves DAB due to price increase

Connect FM has disappeared from its local DAB multiplex because of a "very substantial price increase" from Arqiva, the station has told RadioToday.

The station, owned by Adventure Radio, has been on DAB for five years, having been a launch partner when the Northampton multiplex launched in 2013. Connect FM also joined DAB in Peterborough, and Herts, Beds and Bucks. More recently its sister station Radio Essex joined the Southend/Chelmsford mux.

Read the RadioToday story at :

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/01/connect-fm-leaves-dab-due-to-price-increase/

Shortwave Special Broadcasts to mark 70th anniversary of the NZ Radio DX League

To mark the 70th anniversary Convention of the NZ Radio DX League being held this coming weekend, the following special transmissions have been scheduled:

WRMI Radio Miami International from Okeechobee Florida USA will broadcast League member David Miller's 'Southern Rock Connection' at 0700-0800 UTC on Sunday 8 April. Frequencies will be 7730 and 5850kHz. f the NZ Radio DX. Numbered QSLs will be issued for reception reports on the broadcast sent to Southern Rock Connection, PO Box 1212, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.  For QSL response please include US$2 to help pay for return postage.

Marconi Radio International from Europe have scheduled two 3-hour long transmissions to celebrate the League's 70th Anniversary:

Saturday 7 April from 1630 to 1930 UTC on 7720 kHz USB mode with 100 watts

Monday 9 April from 1630 to 1930 UTC on 6970 kHz USB mode with 1000 watts

Address for DX reports is marconiradiointernational (a)gmail (dot) com

Several North American Hobby Broadcasters have advised they will transmit broadcasts to coincide with the DX Convention, and at a time that would provide possible reception in New Zealand. Already indicating their intentions to operate are Channel Z (which has been heard regularly in NZ in past years) and Radio Illuminati. Look for them in USB mode on frequencies between 6900 and 7000 kHz between 0500 and 0700 UTC on Saturday 7 April or Sunday 8 April.

Norwegian station Radio Northern Star will activate a 1kw Rockwell Collins 1kW transmitter on 5895 kHz operating USB mode on Saturday 7 April at 1800-1900 UTC specially for the Convention.

Reception reports should go go to 1000 (a) northernstar (dot) no

(Bryan Clark via WOR List)

New firmware update for the Airspy HF+ Rev 1.6.6

After long sessions of debugging and a lot of help from Leif Asbrink SM5BSZ, here's a new firmware update that improves the dynamic range by another 8 dB.

This may not be visible in all situations, but extreme signal cases would benefit from this upgrade. In order to simplify the maintenance, I moved all the firmware updates to the HF+ page:

https://airspy.com/airspy-hf-plus/#firmware-updates

It is recommended to update SDR# as well, or libairspyhf if using a different SDR application:

https://airspy.com/download/

https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf/

Other improvements are in the works. Stay tuned!

(Prog via airspy list)

Anker Petersen's Domestic Broadcasting Survey # 20 available

Anker Petersen has published three excellent Domestic shortwave broadcasting guides on www.dswci.org : 

1. Tropical Bands Monitor covering March 2018.

    Can be found under Tropical Bands Monitor - Latest Issue.

2. Domestic Broadcasting Survey 20, which I have been worked on the past year.

    Can be found under Domestic Broadcasting Survey - Latest Issue.

3. My annual article "Trends in tropical bands broadcasting 2018" with some statistics.

    Can be found under "Other Publications - Special Article Archive", click Miscellaneous Articles.

External Services Division of All India Radio now available on Radio Garden

External Services Division of All India Radio is now available on Radio Garden, explore live radio by rotating the globe at http://radio.garden

Radio Garden allows listeners to explore rado stations available online across the globe, one can tune in to live radio as it is happening into any place on the globe.

Five live stream of All India Radio External services is available on Radio Garden :

Air World Service 1

Air World Service 2

Air World Service 3

Air World Service 4

Air World Service 5

Geetham Tamil Radio

(Alokesh Gupta)

Marconi Radio Intl. celebrates 70th anniversary of New Zealand DX League

To commemorate 70th Anniversary of New Zealand DX League, Marconi Radio International has planned two special broadcasts, from 1630 to 1930 UTC, as per below :

On 7 April 2018 (Sat) on 7720 kHz (100 Watts, USB Mode)

On 9 April 2018 (Sun) on 6970 kHz (1000 watts, USB mode)

Reception reports to: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com

Radio Sawa to Scale Back Regional Broadcasts

In cost-saving move, BBG network plans to focus its OTA transmissions just on Iraq

JAMES CARELESSMAR 28, 2018

To save $9.5 million in 2019, the U.S. government's Arabic language broadcaster Radio Sawa plans to restrict its FM and AM transmissions to Iraq. This will mean the end of Radio Sawa's radio service, AM and FM, to the rest of the Middle East.

Read the Radioworld story here :

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/radio-sawa-to-scale-back-regional-broadcasts

Shortwave Broadcasters and Listeners to Meet in Indiana

Shortwave Broadcasters and Listeners to Meet in Indiana

By Jeff White, Secretary-Treasurer, NASB

The National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB) is an organization consisting of privately-owned shortwave stations in the United States, as well as associate members from overseas, shortwave equipment manufacturers and other organizations with an interest in shortwave radio. The 2018 Annual Meeting of the NASB will take place on Thursday and Friday, May 17 and 18, at SonSet Solutions (formerly the HCJB Global Technology Center) in Elkhart, Indiana, USA. That's in northern Indiana a couple of hours east of Chicago, about three hours southwest of Detroit, and about three hours north of Indianapolis.

Everyone with an interest in shortwave radio is welcome to attend -- listeners, broadcasters, consultants, equipment manufacturers, academics, etc. There's no charge to attend the meeting. All you need to pay for is your transportation to Elkhart and your hotel accommodation. All of the details can be found on the NASB webpage, www.shortwave.org

Then click on Annual Meeting Info.

The NASB held its annual meeting at the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart in 2007. HCJB has built many shortwave transmitters at the plant, including units up to 500 kilowatts of power, for HCJB itself and other religious broadcasters. Recently, its name has changed to SonSet Solutions, but it continues to focus on missionary radio technology as well as technology for better health around the world. Charlie Jacobson and his team will be showing everyone around the facility and they'll be explaining about their activities, including shortwave transmitter and receiver manufacturing.

Legendary shortwave broadcaster Adrian Peterson will be the keynote speaker at the NASB meeting on May 17. Adrian, who originally hails from Australia, was the head of Adventist World Radio-Asia for many years, and he produced and hosted the AWR DX program Radio Monitors International, which eventually changed its name to Wavescan. So SWL's who have been listening to Wavescan for years and want to meet the originator and editor-in-chief of the program will have a chance to meet Adrian Peterson in person. Adrian will be giving a presentation about his best "Radio Memories." Adrian has vast experience as a shortwave listener, a shortwave broadcaster and a frequent visitor to shortwave broadcast facilities virtually all over the world for many decades. Incidentally, Dr. Dowell Chow, who recently retired as President of Adventist World Radio, will also be in Elkhart to report on some recent AWR developments around the world.

Other presentations are being planned for the meeting from George Ross of Trans World Radio, John Tayloe and Ray Robinson of the Voice of Hope (which operates KVOH in California, Voice of Hope-Africa in Zambia and Voice of Hope-Israel), Dr. Jerry Plummer of WWCR in Tennessee, and yours truly and my wife Thais White from WRMI in Florida. Also in attendance will be Terry Borders and Glen Tapley from WEWN in Birmingham, Alabama and two representatives from World Christian Broadcasting, which operates KNLS in Alaska and Madagascar World Voice. Charles Caudill, President of World Christian Broadcasting and the current president of the NASB, has recently announced his retirement. He will be in Elkhart to introduce his successor, Andy Baker.

Jerome Hirigoyen of Telediffusion de France and other overseas broadcasters will also be in attendance. And Dr. Kim Elliott, a native of Elkhart and recently retired from the audience research department at the Voice of America and host of the popular Shortwave Radiogram program, will talk about his experiences broadcasting digital programs over analog shortwave transmissions. There will even be a special shortwave broadcast of Radiogram that can be heard on a SonSet Solutions receiver.

The main social activity at the meeting will be a group dinner at Das Dutchman Essenhaus, an Amish restaurant in nearby Middlebury, Indiana, to enjoy typical down-home Amish cooking. The Amish are a group of traditional Christian church fellowships who inhabit that area of northern Indiana.

If you would like to join the attendees at the NASB annual meeting, just go to www.shortwave.org  , and on the Annual Meeting Info page you can register online. Attendance is free, but you need to register to let the organizers know you are planning to attend. You will also find information about the hotel where most of the attendees will be staying near SonSet Solutions and how to make reservations there. And if you're not able to attend the meeting, you'll be able to hear about some of what happens there on the Adventist World Radio DX program Wavescan after the event. Besides AWR, Wavescan can also be heard on WRMI, WWCR, KVOH and Voice of Hope-Africa.

Source : NASB FB Page

Further details, Hotel info, Meeting Agenda and Registration at :

http://www.shortwave.org/index.php/annual-meeting-info/

CRI A18

China Radio International A18 Schedule

http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/cria18.htm