Month: August 2024

United Kingdom

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SMOOTH Radio Wrexham And Cheshire
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The breakfast show between 06:00am to 10:00am is a lady presenter sorry I don’t know her name plus local news and travel. DAB is very poor out of Wrexham and this radio station is not available on FM. It looks like to be on air until 2025 on 1260 medium wave.

SMOOTH Radio North West on 100.4 FM is different because the breakfast show between 06:00am to 10:00am is a man presenter sorry I don’t know he’s name plus local news and travel  but you pick this station from Wrexham but the wrong region for Wrexham.

I think more people listen Smooth Radio on 1260 medium wave than DAB.  Lot work needs to be done to improve DAB in this region before switching off medium wave.

Tariq Hanif (2024-08-11)

United States

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IRCA Slogans as of August 10, 2024 are now available.
https://misc.kg4lac.com/irca
4,747 stations with slogans.
If a station doesn’t appear this indicates I don’t have the station slogan.
Since silent stations come and go, seemingly, quicker than I can update the list, silent stations remain in the list until they are actually deleted from the FCC list.
Acknowledgements are given on the final page of the Slogans List.
The “Recent MW Station Contacts for Reception Report Verifications” link to the list is also available on the same webpage.
As always, please let me know of additions, corrections, problems, etc.

73, Kraig Krist to irca iog (2024-08-10)

Mexico

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Translated from Spanish:
The evolution of XHEOJ-FM 98.7 before XEOJ-AM in Lázaro Cardenas, Michoacán
Like XEOJ-AM
Horizon radio 1400 AM
As signal simultaneously with XHEOJ 98.7
Radio Horizon 98.7 and 1400 am
Like XHEOJ-FM 98.7
Radio Horizonte 98.7 until 2017
La Ke Buena 98.7 (2017-2018)
Horizonte FM 98.7 (2018-2019)
Radio Centro 98.7 (2019- current)

Property of Francisco Bautista Valencia via Jorge Antonio Cerda Rodriguez to La Radio de Ayer y Hoy en México FB group (2024-08-10)

Space Weather

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MULTIPLE CMEs ARE HEADING FOR EARTH: The past 48 hours of high solar activity has propelled three CMEs toward Earth, including one launched by a strong X-class solar flare. Predicted impacts on Aug. 9/10th, 11th and 12th could spark days of minor (G1) to strong (G3) geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers may be able to see and photograph mid-latitude auroras this weekend. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Ydun Ritz (2024-08-09)

Brazil

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840 kHz: Radio Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP.
End of Radio Bandeirantes’ medium wave broadcasts, after 87 years of full operation. It went to FM 86.3 MHz. On 05/08 0259, the signal was abruptly cut off without any goodbyes. It is regrettable that it happened this ways. Zero!, definitively.

Rudolf Grimm (2024-08-07)

Djibouti

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The VOA Djibouti relay on 1431 kHz was carrying Radio Sawa in Arabic when checked from 1700-1800 on Sunday 21 July using a Kiwi SDR in Cyprus. The transmitter is on the air daily from approx. 1600-0300. Until recently 1431 kHz carried mainly VOA English and French programming.
However in mid July it was carrying East African languages such as Amharic and Somali instead of English, but when checked again on 26 July had reverted to carrying VOA English.

(Observations by Dave Kenny 20-26 July using Kiwi SDR in Cyprus) Glenn Hauser, WOR iog (2024-08-06)