Month: October 2023

New Zealand

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Remembering radio pioneers 100 years on.
One hundred years ago Gisborne became the home of one New Zealand’s first radio broadcasting stations. Station 2YM was started by three Gisborne amateur radio operators — Percy Stevens, Ivan O’Meara and Bob Patty. They obtained one of the first broadcasting licences on October 27, 1923. The station originally operated a 25 watt home-constructed transmitter from Stevens’ lounge on Wainui Road. Due to port traffic noise the station soon moved to Stevens’ business, Gisborne Radio Co. at 258 Gladstone Road.
More here: https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/letter/remembering-radio-pioneers-100-years-on

Mike Terry to WOR iog (2023-10-20)

Netherlands

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(Translated from Dutch)
Extra AM, the medium wave channel that broadcasts in the Amsterdam region on 1332 kHz, will stop broadcasting via medium wave as of January 1.

The reason is the significantly higher copyright compensation that the radio station must pay from 2024 to the copyright organization BumaStemra. According to the radio station, the compensation that must be paid to BumaStemra will increase by almost 500 percent.

For a small radio station like Extra AM, the costs are no longer affordable. “We would like to contribute to composers and lyricists, but for a hobby project like ours this is an exorbitant price increase. And we don’t want you to cough up this through a crowdfunding fund! Partly in view of the loss of sponsors, high energy prices and persistent inflation, we have now reached the point where we have had enough. We assume that December 31 will be the last broadcast day on 1332 kHz,” said Harm ten Brink of Extra AM on the radio station’s website https://www.extram.nl/#over.

Marco (2023-10-20)

Lithuania

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The next few weeks will bring back German language programs to Medium Wave!

C. M. Obrecht shortwave radio – Kurzwellenradio
28.10.2023 UTC 17.00 (CEST 19.00) – 30 min.  
1386 kHz    AM    Europe      75 kW,
Radio Baltic Waves International, Lithuania (last day before switching over to CET time)
“C. M. Obrecht shortwave radio” is an official registered swiss private radio station

SM Radio Dessau : 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th of December (each Friday in this month)  –
1386 kHz   – 15:30-16 h UTC (30 mins.)
01.12.2023     15.30 UTC       1386 kHz       75 kW         Testsendung 1
08.12.2023    15.30 UTC       1386 kHz       75 kW          Testsendung 2  
15.12.2023     15.30 UTC       1386 kHz       75 kW          Testsendung 3
22.12.2023    15.30 UTC       1386 kHz        75 KW         Testsendung 4
29.12.2023     15.30 UTC      1386 kHz       75 kW          Testsendung 5

Robert (2023-10-19)

South Korea

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Wondering the best way to listen to AFN? Take a look and see the best way to tune in and get the most up to date information, no matter where you might be stationed in Korea.

Also, you can now listen to your favorite AFN DJs anywhere you go! Download AFN Go from https://pacific.afn.mil/ [seems that this link doesn’t work, but the QR codes in the image does / Ed] so you can listen to your favorite local AFN station and obtain push notifications about important issues impacting your health, safety, wellbeing, and situational awareness.

From AFN Humphreys FB group via Svenn Martinsen to DXing.info FB group (2023-10-17)

QSL

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Adventist World Radio has a special QSL offer.

As a gesture of courtesy to the international radio world, Adventist World Radio is offering a limited-time special where shortwave listeners around the world can receive postcard-sized QSL cards. Real reception reports of AWR radio broadcasts on short wave, medium wave or FM are very welcome. These programs can correspond to the current AWR program or come from earlier times.
These postal reception reports should be addressed only to the Indiana AWR office and, if possible, return postage should be enclosed in an international currency. IRC coupons are not valid in the United States.
Electronic transmission of reception reports is discouraged. Each reception report will be verified with cards from the remaining stock of AWR QSL cards in a total of more than 200 different designs and forwarded to the listener by post.

Any reception report should be sent to the following address and posted no later than December 31, 2023:
Adventist World Radio
International Relations
Dr. Adrian M. Peterson
2768 Morgan Trail
Martinsville
IN 46151 USA

(Adrian M. Peterson via BDXC) and Christopher Ratzer, A-DX iog (2023-10-18)

United States

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Michigan trio gratefully returns from the dead.

Mitten News has resumed operations on their previously silent trio of 1210 WJNL Kingsley/101.1 W266CS Traverse City and 106.3 WWMN Thompsonville MI.
The signals are currently airing non-stop music from the Grateful Dead. The stations had gone silent in April following the end of their LMA to Blarney Stone Broadcasting. WJNL/W266CS had previously simulcasted Sports “Up North Sports Radio” 101.1 WGRY-FM Roscommon and WWMN simulcasted Rock “Q100” 100.3 WQON Grayling.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/260092/michigan-trio-gratefully-returns-from-the-dead/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2023-10-18)