Radio Caroline ship Ross Revenge damaged by speeding boats.
From the Radio Caroline mailinglist and
https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/23632414.radio-caroline-ship-ross-revenge-damaged-speeding-boats/
Nico from Gouda HOL (2023-07-17)
Month: July 2023
United Kingdom
“July’s Radio Caroline North broadcast from our radio ship Ross Revenge has now concluded, and we hope the power problems with our 648 transmitter didn’t spoil your enjoyment too much.
Many thanks to our listeners, sponsors, presenters and Manx Radio for use of their AM transmitter.
We hope to see you for the next Caroline North broadcast and Annual Fundraiser from Ross Revenge over the weekend of 11th-13th August.”
Nico from Gouda (2023-07-17)
Space Weather
CME IMPACT AND GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Arriving a full day earlier than expected, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on July 16th: data. The impact at 1920 UT caused a 20 nT jolt in the USGS’s magnetometer at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and a G1-class geomagnetic storm. More CME impacts are possible on July 17th and 18th due to multiple recent eruptions from big sunspot AR3363.
https://spaceweather.com/
Ydun Ritz (2023-07-17)
Space Weather
IS A ‘CANNIBAL CME’ COMING? One CME left the sun on July 14th, followed by a second faster CME on July 15th. According to a NOAA model, the second CME will sweep up the first, forming a ‘cannibal CME‘ that hits Earth on July 18th. The impact could spark G1 to G2-class geomagnetic storms.
https://spaceweather.com/
Ydun Ritz (2023-07-16)
Algeria
252 kHz back on now!
I’m listening to the station right now in Limerick, Ireland. Continual playlist of Italian 80’s dance-pop tunes. Signal is stronger than I have ever observed since RTE stopped broadcasting on the same frequency. Hopefully the most recent outage was for genuine maintenance reasons and that the transmitter will stay the course.
Conor Burns (2023-07-14 – 23.47 UTC)
Syria
Some good news from Middle East.
Syrian Radio has resumed it’s transmissions on both of it’s two frequencies:
567 kHz “Radio Damascus” and 666 kHz “Sawt AL-Shabab”.
It seems that the cause of temporary outage was a technical reason for maintenance. Now, the modulation is better than it was in a past and a sound quality is good also.
Here is a video file with recording from car radio. Received in north-eastern part in Israel.
Alexei Lubich (2023-07-14)
France
Correction.
Re. https://mediumwave.info/2023/07/11/france-14/
In the blog post about Europe 1 (https://blog.radioreporter.org/books-rise-and-fall-of-europe-1-from-innovation-to-paralysis) it is mentioned that the newly published book “EUROPE 1. De la singularité au déclin” was written by Philippe Gildas.
This seems not to be correct, as Mr GIldas passed away in 2018.
The autor is Denis Maréchal.
Ydun Ritz (2023-07-14)
United States
The “Recent MW Station Contacts for Reception Report Verifications” page was updated on July 13, 2023.
https://misc.kg4lac.com/irca
73, Kraig Krist to irca iog (2023-07-13)
Egypt / Saudi Arabia
Monitoring via TWR Cyprus SDR:
(Re. https://mediumwave.info/2023/06/06/egypt-7/)
Around 1030 UTC there was on 621 kHz a signal with music, apparently a concert recording. Typical ERTU “quality”. The once known streaming adresses from them no longer work, thus no confirmation of the programming was possible (there are ERTU offers listed that could fit). Apparently no high power, the signal was at least 10 dB weaker than 558 kHz and the difference to 819 kHz was even higher. And at 1050 it was gone again. By the way, 774 kHz was found similarly weak.
And one other note: At a glance it seems that in Saudi Arabia all mediumwave outlets for international coverage have been turned off. Which is remarkable in light of the current efforts to put Sudan programming on MW. Al Arabiya is a separate entity, but their new radio operation has already been put not only on FM but also on shortwave, so that does not appear to be a hindrance. Thus I wonder if the Cyprus 639 kHz tests are just a marketing effort from the side of Encompass.
Kai Ludwig to WOR iog (2023-07-12)
Space Weather
A VERY ACTIVE SUNSPOT: A new hyperactive sunspot is producing M-class solar flares every few hours. This is causing shortwave radio blackouts around all longitudes of our planet. If current trends continue, an X-flare could be in the offing. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
Ydun Ritz (2023-07-12)