Month: February 2023

Space Weather

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Active sunspot AR3213 exploded during the early hours of Feb 10th (0303 UT), producing an M3.7-class solar flare and a shock wave in the sun’s atmosphere. This extreme ultraviolet movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows what happened:

The shock wave is the shadowy disturbance expanding radially from the blast site. Based on the drift rate of a Type II solar radio burst reported by the US Air Force, the shock speed was 820 km/s (1.8 million mph).

Update: Shock waves like these usually lift a CME out of the sun’s atmosphere. In this case, however, no CME was detected by SOHO coronagraphs. Without a CME to rattle Earth’s magnetic field, the event will not cause a geomagnetic storm.
https://spaceweather.com/

Ydun Ritz (2023-02-11)

Netherlands

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As a thank you for all the messages from Finland over the past months, Radio Twente Gold [1467 kHz] will broadcast half an hour in Finnish on February 12 at 12:00! Listen to great Finnish music from the 1950s and hear me speak Finnish.
Or at least I try to try. Scoop!
Listen here: https://www.twentegold.nl/

Kari Kallio to (2023-02-09)

United States / Ukraine

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Portable Radios Make Overseas Trip to Ukraine, Local Fundraising Continues.

Since starting his GoFundMe campaign in December, New York broadcast engineer Paul Thurst has raised more than $1,300 to send portable radios to war-torn Ukraine.

“In this high tech world with all of the many media choices available, when all else fails, radio is still there,” wrote Thurst in a December Radio World story. “That is true here and it is true in Ukraine as well. With that in mind, we reached out to someone who is working for an aide organization and asked if small battery-powered radios would be helpful. The answer was an enthusiastic YES!”

Now, the money raised has allowed Thurst to send 80 radios to Ukraine, with another 40 units on the way. Each radio will be distributed with two changes of batteries, which is expected to provide roughly 2,400 hours of listening time.

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/portable-radios-successfully-delivered-to-ukraine-local-fundraising-continues?utm_term=CA316074-A1D7-49B8-AF83-B04729A190FA

Elle Kehres, Radio World SmartBrief (2023-02-09)

World Radio Day 2023

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We are proceeding the annual UN World Radio Day on February 13th, which will be celebrated around the world. Here a few links where you can find more information:

https://alexander.n.se/en/9967/
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio/resources-radio-peace
https://www.abu.org.my/2023/01/26/radio-and-peace-to-be-theme-of-world-radio-day-2023/?doing_wp_cron=1674846209.5822451114654541015625
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio?hub=66636
https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/27/world-radio-day/

Ydun Ritz (2023-02-09)

United States

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JVC Media has brought the national ESPN Radio lineup back to the Orlando market on “ESPN 660” WDYZ Altamonte Springs.

The ESPN brand was last heard in the market on Cox Media Group’s 580 WDBO from 2012 until its flip back to News/Talk in June 2020. WDYZ will carry the national lineup around the clock.

WDYZ had been the originating station for JVC’s Talk “Florida Man Radio“. That brand remains in the market on 105.5 W288CJ Oviedo fed via 103.1 WFYY-HD3.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/248452/espn-radio-returns-to-orlando/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2023-02-08)

Canada

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/catherine-tait-traditional-tv-radio-poilievre-1.6740396?cmp=rss

CBC won’t abandon TV, radio audiences as it charts digital path over next decades, says president.
The CBC will continue to provide Canadians with traditional radio and television broadcasts and will delay its move to digital-only service until adequate high-speed Internet is available to all Canadians, said the head of CBC.

Stephen Kellat to WOR iog (2023-02-08)

United States

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1190 WAMT active.
This station that operates in the Orlando FL area as Family Radio has been reactivated. I have heard it during a recent Florida opening on my Italian remote Perseus, and checked with a local KiwiSDR. It think it has been off for a while damaged by a tornado.

Rocco Cotroneo to mwcircle iog (2023-02-08)

Turkey

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TRT Radyo 1 is on air now (1220 UTC) on 630 kHz, very close to terrible earthquake catastrophe. The normal schedule of this station is  0705-1015 UTC. 
According to locals, most of the FM transmitters are off air in this region.

Checked via this SDR: http://sdr.cyhams.org:8073 (Cyprus)

László Tringer (2023-02-08)