BBC “Feedback” programme – could BBC Radio 4 Longwave be saved?.
Following on from a week ago a bit more on Radio 4 LW.
This week’s edition of the “Feedback” programme has some listener feedback at 12 minutes in. All wanting it to be kept.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pmt2?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Mike Terry to Longwaveradiolistening iog (2023-08-20)
Radio Elvira: Sunday 20 and Monday 21 august 1485 kHz with only ONE watt from Netherlands. Times are Central europe time)
Sunday 05:49 -2300
Monday from 08:00 – also via the 900 kHz in Terneuzen.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1464785371011485&set=gm.2582094095281671&idorvanity=757800981044334
Franck Fzeroduw to mwcircle FB group (2023-08-19)
1510 KGA cutting sports programming today and covering the wildfire situation in Washington.
Richard Trueman to I Love AM Radio FB group (2023-08-20)
Yekaterinburg
One of the cooling ponds was removed:
56.88547639802497, 60.691549592599074
Also, it looks like the feeder to the northern mast got removed, but that is just a guess, the pictures aren’t good enough to verify it.
Marco (2023-08-18)
Mega-Philadelphia’s Spanish Tropical “Mega 105.7” 1310 WEMG/105.7 W289AZ Camden NJ/Philadelphia has found a new home for its simulcast in Atlantic City.
After previously being heard in the Atlantic City area only on weekdays via 1020 WWAC Ocean City-Somers Point/101.3 W267BP Pleasantville/101.9 W270DV Palermo since January 2017, the Mega simulcast has moved to Mercer County Community College’s 93.9 W230AA Atlantic City fed via Townsquare Media’s 97.3 WENJ-HD2 Millville. The station is also heard on 103.3 W277BA Millville/Vineland.
W220AA had been silent since ending its previous LMA with Spanish CHR “Play 93.9” last November.
WWAC and its translators are now running its “Wibbage Gold” Oldies programming on weekdays in addition to weekends.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/257583/mega-moves-in-atlantic-city/
Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2023-08-17)
Update today on the Gold website.
1548 will now close down at the end of September.
https://www.goldradiouk.com/radio/gold-am-listen-how/
Mike Barraclough to MWlist iog (2023-08-15)
WFDF-AM, better known in Detroit as 910 AM Superstation, has abruptly switched its format from local talk radio to sports and shown the door to its former hosts.
The station’s owner, Kevin Adell, let the hosts of its usual programming know that their services no longer would be needed via email on Friday.
More to the story here https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2023/08/14/910-am-superstation-detroit-michigan/70588454007/
Steve Whitt to mwcircle iog (2023-08-15)
More medium wave closure news I’m afraid.
It was announced yesterday evening that Safron Green 1548 kHz, which carries Gold in London), previously Capital Gold and Capital Radio, will close on 31 August.
Capital started on 557 kHz from a different site, but apparently moved to Safron Green site on 1548 kHz in 1975.
https://radiotoday.co.uk/2023/08/gold-to-lose-its-london-1548-frequency-ahead-of-50th-anniversary/
This will be the end if an era.
James Robinson (2023-08-15)
14 October 2023 annular eclipse MW DX project
How DXers can contribute to ionospheric research during the 14 October 2023 solar eclipse.
Medium wave DXers know that during a solar eclipse, the blocking out of radiation from the sun can introduce temporary nighttime listening conditions over an area far beyond the path of totality.
When will be the next solar eclipse? There will be an annular solar eclipse on 14 October, 2023 when, at totality, the size of the Moon’s disk will appear slightly smaller than the size of the Sun’s disk, so, not quite as exciting to visual observers.
However, that eclipse is expected to have a similar effect on daytime medium wave listening conditions as would a total solar eclipse, and should not be missed by DXers.
This eclipse will start by affecting North America in the morning, then Central America, and finally part of South America, illustrated in the map to the left. During the eclipse, a number of DXers will be live listening, as well as recording the entire medium wave band using our SDRs. There could be more to our DXing results than new and unexpected receptions of distant radio stations. The rapidly changing listening conditions will be indicating a similarly turbulent ionosphere. DXers’ documenting those listening conditions through SDR recordings could provide information that will be useful to scientists who want to gain a better understanding of the Earth’s ionospheric dynamics.
How can DXers contribute to ionospheric research?
HamSCI is an organization of volunteer citizen-scientists and professional researchers who study upper atmospheric and space physics. They will be interested in examining MW DXers’ wideband SDR recordings made during both eclipses, and indeed, in having DXers assist with HamSCI’s research.
It will be important to have many participants in this project. To sign up, please go https://hamsci.org/mw-recordings/ and discover how to make sure that those DX files will also qualify as scientific data that can become part of the public record.
Those interested in finding out about all the research that HamSCI will be doing during the upcoming eclipse, check out https://hamsci.org/eclipse . Especially if you are also an amateur radio operator, there are several other ways that you might contribute to the project.
(Medium Wave DXers have previously contributed to a HamSCI study of unusual reception during the 2017 solar eclipse https://hamsci.org/sites/default/files/publications/2019_am-eclipse2017_hall-patch.pdf)
Nick Hall-Patch (2023-08-14)
“Stingray will flip Oldies “W1440” CKJR Wetaskiwin/Edmonton AB to “Sports 1440” on Tuesday, September 5.
Launching in partnership with Just A Game Productions and The Nation Network, the flip will bring Sports Talk back to Edmonton following Bell Media’s shutdown of “TSN 1260 CFRN in early June.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/257397/sports-talk-to-return-to-edmonton/
Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2023-08-14)