Month: April 2021

Space

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New research doubles the odds of extreme geomagnetic storms.
A new study just published in the research journal Space Weather finds that extreme geomagnetic storms happen twice as often as previously thought.
Storms once thought to be 100-year events may recur in less than 45 years. These conclusions result from a combination of cutting-edge statistics and years of historical detective work.
Get the full story @ Spaceweather.com.
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/april/new-research-doubles-the-odds-of-extreme-geomagnetic-storms.htm#.YHGpmuj7TIV
Mike Terry in WOR groups.io (2021-04-10)

Greece

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1431 [Uni Radio from Thessaloniki] strikes back.
Further to my previous report the station has been tested by field monitoring last Monday to transmit from their usual QTH at the Uni . Peak level signal is 83/25 (-10dbm??) at a distance less than  30 m.
At a distance of 600m  my parents house the signal is 64/25.
NO signal on 8 or 9 April on local evenings . Back on 10 at 07 with -40dbm in the Salonica SDR but at 0750 with only a poor carrier …
https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/sdr
Zacharias Liangas via groups.io (2021-04-10)

Russia/ Unidentified

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WRN from Noginsk isn’t on air yet, but they still plan to.
https://vcfm.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1510&start=150#p148572
On 1575 kHz I noticed a Russian station, but I don’t get the ID (reception/language skills too bad). I recorded it, maybe someone gets the ID. The say первый канал … россии.
On the other recording they say говорит … радио ссф (this is what I understood and the normally begin the station IDs with говорит)

Listen to it via these SDRs:
http://ua3ahm.ddns.net:8073/
http://db0ovp.de:8073/
http://rhakiwi.ddns.net:8073/

I checked, it is not Italy.
https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=1&kHz=1575
There is listed a pirate station from Smolensk, some websites say 1 kW.
https://fmscan.org/net.php?r=m&m=s&itu=RUS&pxf=101+Professional+Internet+Radio
I did’t hear something that sounds like this ID yet.
Marco (2021-04-09)

United States

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Radio Marti 1180 kHz.
Marti runs a pattern that looks like a ‘peanut’ oriented east-west that heads south to cover as much of Cuba as jammers allow.
It very heavily protects WHAM. USGov and WHAM were ‘in court’ and before the FCC for years back in the 60’s when it first came on the air at 50kW.
The power was raised to 100kW only because this is a USGov operation and can essentially ignore FCC rules. Permission was garnered from the IRAC – Inter-Agency Radio Advisory Committee in the 90’s as far as I recall.
It should not be heard very far North and so far as I know isn’t.
Bill Whitacre in nrc-am via WOR groups.io (2021-04-08)

India

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The updated Home and External Services details of All India Radio is now available in the official  Prasar Bharathi website like in the past  as follows:
External Services: https://prasarbharati.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/External-Services-0504-converted.pdf
Home Services: https://prasarbharati.gov.in/radio-network/#1529430888808-cdb5b52b-a5f93a27-c80c
It may be noted that the Printed Schedules sent by post by AIR in the past has been discontinued.
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS to dxindia groups.io (2021-04-08)

United Kingdom

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1413 kHz: Ofcom has granted a five year extension to a number of Community Radio stations. The list includes the AM station Bradford Asian Radio. The licence of the Bradford Asian Radio Limited Company (Syed Hassan, Suite 23, 8th Floor, West Riding House, 41 Cheapside, Bradford) now runs until 30 November 2026. The programme is broadcast on AM 1413 kHz and online at http://www.bradfordasianradio.co.uk/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence/radio-broadcast-licensing/monthly-updates/radio-broadcast-update-march-2021 (6 April 2021)
via Dr Hansjoerg Biener (2021-04-07)

New Zealand

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RNZ National Gebbies Pass 675 kHz is currently off air. There are no scheduled outages. The AM Network 963 kHz is on air so it must be a transmitter fault.
Paul R. to ICDX-AM groups.io (2021-04-06)

South Africa

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The popular Western CapeTalk radio station [on 567 kHz] has been left unable to broadcast on its biggest platform – after its transmitter site was burgled overnight.
One of the biggest radio stations in the Western Cape has been left unable to broadcast to its audience via the radio on Sunday, thanks to an act of criminality. As it stands, CapeTalk cannot operate on a radio frequency – leaving thousands of listeners unable to tune in for their favourite programmes.
It has since been revealed that there was a burglary at the transmitter site – an integral part of CapeTalk’s set-up. The theft was reported earlier this morning, and police have now opened an investigation into the matter. The station issued this statement today, confirming that there are other ways to tune into the channel while the radio service is down.
The South African (2021-04-04)

Netherlands

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In the Italy item, April 2nd was mentioned, that Radio Studio X is known for being the only European medium wave transmitter to broadcast in AM stereo.
This is not correct.
Theo Postma, CEO of Radio TPOT has informed, that Radio TPOT [918 kHz] has been transmitting in C-QUAM for 6 years now.
Check http://94.214.128.124:8073/ and click on the name radio TPOT to enjoy the stereo.
Ydun Ritz (2021-04-04)