The sun has been blank for 8 days–more than a week without sunspots. This interruption in solar activity is typical of young solar cycles like current Solar Cycle 25. They begin, sputtering, in fits and starts. Don’t be surprised if the action resumes soon.
https://spaceweather.com/
Mike Terry to WOR groups.io (2021-01-11)
Month: January 2021
The World
What is that coming over the horizon? It’s the annual UNESCO World Radio Day on Saturday February 13th. This year’s theme is New World, New Radio: Evolution, Innovation and Connection, with UNESCO calling on radio stations to celebrate both this event’s 10th anniversary and over 110 years of radio.
Radio has been part of our media landscape for over a century and continues to evolve, according to events, socio-economic, political, and legislative contexts.
There are many different ways to listen to the radio, anytime and in any place, making radio the number one media for mobility, thanks to its adaptation to new technologies.
Broadcasters and other organisations that putting on events or programmes for World Radio Day (#WRD21) are encouraged to sign up at the UNESCO World Radio website.
EDXC News (2021-01-11)
United Kingdom
Radio Caroline North January.
Tune in for more nostalgia courtesy of another Radio Caroline North broadcast this weekend 16th-17th January – our first ‘North’ of 2021!
Sadly this broadcast will again be land-based because of the current lockdown situation, but we do hope to be back on our radio ship Ross Revenge at some point this year.
Nevertheless you’ll still hear all the best music from the 60s – early 90s, plus the chance to win some wonderful prizes courtesy of listener Paul King from Blackburn, Lancashire.
Listen in on 648 AM in the South and South-East, on 1368 AM in the North and North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, the Radio Caroline app and around the world online here (via the Manx AM Radio Player).
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcaster.
(See also http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/manx_info.html)
Mike Terry to WOR groups.io (2021-01-11)
United States
WNJC 1360 AM DX Tests
Don’t forget we are running at DX Test tonight till 6am EST (11 UTC [Sunday]) .
Duke Hamann in WNJC 1360 AM DX Tests fb group (2021-01-09)
Germany
There’s been a few DX tests this season, and rather by coincidence I stumbled upon another one the other day. The IRCA and MW Circle reflectors reported that Mittelwellen-Sender Joe, transmitting from Erlangen in Germany on 1485 kHz, was sending periodic 1000-Hz tones – one second on, one second off.
Now, that sounded like a nice challenge. The first evening I tested I heard the transmission right away at the KONG HQ, and a very good signal at Smøla. DX-ers in Scotland and Ireland also reported the signal. The initial enthusiasm faded a bit when I later learned that the effect was in fact 100 watts, not 6.
More on Arctic DX
Bjarne Mjelde to DXing.info fb group (2021-01-08)
United States
1710 kHz Hudson County NJ Covid Information over TIS.
Heard tonight 0022 UTC for about 6 minutes in Tversted, northern Jutland, Denmark during DDXLK’s DX-camp.
Stig Hartvig Nielsen (2021-01-06)
United States
1710 kHz Hudson County NJ Covid Information over TIS,
The FCC approved the County’s temporary request to broadcast on the AM station at 100 watts for the duration of the pandemic declared emergency. You can listen to the Hudson County Emergency Radio Station that will continue to broadcast COVID-19 related updates on 1710-AM or by streaming it here.
(via Paul Logan, Lisnaskea, N. Ireland, MWCircle iog)
WOR groups.io (2021-01-05)
Netherlands
Backyard AM from Zaandam has already handed in the LPAM frequency 1395 kHz and will return to 1116 kHz this weekend.
https://www.radio-tv-nederland.nl/ (2021-01-04)
Space
NOAA forecasters say there is a chance of minor (G1-class) geomagnetic storms on Jan. 6th when a double CME likely strikes Earth’s magnetic field. The impact could spark the first significant Arctic auroras of the New Year.
https://spaceweather.com/
Mike Terry to WOR groups.io (2021-01-04)
India
Changes in news timings of All India Radio.
Several changes to timings of News Bulletins on All India Radio Home Service is noted from 1 Jan 2021.
The monitored details are given in:
https://qsl.net/vu2jos/airnews2021.pdf
It is observed that AIR stations (mainly from South India) which used to sign off
immediately after English News earlier at 11.11 pm has extended their broadcast
schedule by 10 minutes to accommodate the new timing and now signs off at around
11.21 pm.
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, dxindia via WOR groups.io (2021-01-03)