Month: October 2024

Réunion

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Bandscan via Reunion Island KiwiSDR 20/10/24 http://fr4rx.ddns.net:8073/

ANGOLA.
945 RNA Canal International. Weak. Portugués at 21.44.

MALAWI.
657 MBC R.1 (Ekwendeni). Good to fair. 21.10 utc.
This was the only frequency I could hear MALAWI BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
Nothing from 540, 558, 594, 1404 or 1422 Khz.

MOZAMBIQUE.
738   R.Mozambique Antena Nacional (Maputo). Good Sg.
765   Emissor Provincia lde Nampula (Nampula). Good. Local language.
810   Emissor Provincial de Gaza (Xai Xai). Weak. Portugués.
873   Emissor Provincial de Sofala (Beira). Good. Local mixed por.
963   Emissor Provincial de Tete (Tete). No signal.
1008  Emissor Provincial de Maputo (Maputo). Weak.
1026  Emissor Provincial de Manica (Chimolo). Very good.
1179  Emissor Provincial de Zambezia (Quelimane). Very good.
1206  Emissor Provincial de Inhambane (Inhambane). Good.
1224  Emissor Provincial de Cabo Delgado (Pemba). Good to weak.
1260  Emissor Provincial de Niassa (Liching), Good. WRTH says this st. end at 20.00 utc. I could hear at 20.55 utc.  Local language mixed with portuguese.

Francisco Sanchez (2024-10-21)

United States

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A helicopter crashed into the tower of Univision’s Regional Mexican “Que Buena 102.9” KLTN Houston and Spanish CHR “Latino Mix 104.9” KAMA-FM Deer Park TX as well as Pueblo de Galilea’s Black Talk 1230 KCOH Houston on Sunday night causing the 1000 foot tower to collapse.

The Houston Fire Department says the helicopter hit the tower at 7:54pm CT with both the helicopter and tower igniting on fire which spread to the ground. Both stations are off the air. The tower on 315 Ennis Street, was constructed for 102.9 in 1965, also serves as the auxiliary site for Univision’s Spanish AC “Amor 106.5” KOVE-FM Galveston.

The Houston Police Department says that there were four fatalities from the helicopter including one child, which was a private R44 helicopter.

This story will be updated as more details become available.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/284730/helicopter-hits-houston-tower-in-fiery-crash/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2024-10-21)

United States

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Re.: https://mediumwave.info/2024/10/19/united-states-735/
1560 NYC back on?
Checked several times during the day and evening and  finally at 0025 on 10/29 there was no sign of WFME.

Linda Brodsky, Malverne, NY ( 40.674652, -73.673324) to irca iog (2024-10-20)


Confirming WFME is on air  with Family Radio identification. Being heard now about 60km southwest of the transmitter.
http://73.112.42.196:8073/?f=1560.00amnz9

Steve Whitt to mwcircle iog (2024-10-20 14.45UTC)

Space Weather

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SOLAR MAX HAS ARRIVED: It’s official. NASA and NOAA announced this week that Solar Maximum has arrived. This kicks off a period of high solar activity which could persist for another 1 to 2 years. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Ydun Ritz (2024-10-18)

Iceland

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Notification of long wave shutdown.

RÚV‘s long-wave broadcasting at Gufuskálar in Snæfellsnes has been discontinued. This is the end of long wave radio broadcasting in Iceland. Longwave broadcasts from Eid were suspended on February 27, 2023.

Margrét Magnúsdóttir – October 17, 2024 at 15:37 GMT,updated  at 3:44 p.m    
* All RÚV radio broadcasts on long wave have been stopped.
* RÚV’s safety broadcasts on the radio will go on the FM distribution system.
* The FM distribution system has been greatly tightened in recent years.
* The long wave tower at Gufuskálar, which is the tallest structure in Iceland, has been decommissioned.

RÚV’s distribution system is an important link in the country’s civil defense. The role of radio safety broadcasts is to ensure communication throughout the country and in the near future. Rásar 2’s radio broadcast on FM has taken over RÚV’s safety radio broadcast.

In recent years, the FM distribution system has been built up and a number of transmitters have been added in order to consolidate the system. Backup power stations have been installed at all large FM transmitters, and backup power needs are solved for short periods of time with batteries or portable power stations on the smaller ones. Transmitters have been placed on the highlands as well as large transmitters at key locations for seafarers. In places where the FM distribution system does not reach, other means of communication must be used, for example via satellite systems such as Starlink.

Radio safety broadcasts have been on the airwaves for decades. During that time, a lot has changed in the technological environment. The biggest change is that very few people in the country now have a radio that receives longwave transmissions. There is generally no long-wave reception in vehicles and has not been for a long time. The long-wave broadcasting system, not least the mast at Gufuskálar, is old and the reconstruction and other technical upgrades of this system are expensive.

The long wave tower at Gufuskálar is the tallest structure in Iceland, 412 meters. It was built in 1963 for the British and American LORAN-C positioning system and was taken over by RÚV’s long-wave transmitter in 1997.

https://www.ruv.is/um-ruv/i-umraedunni/2024-10-17-tilkynning-um-lokun-langbylgju-424925 via Mauno Ritola on MW-List io group 18 October (translated from Icelandic by Google)

Alan Pennington, bdxc-news via WOR iog