Greetings from IDXCI.
Indian DX Club International, as in the past years, will celebrate World Radio Day 2021 with a virtual meeting in view of the raging pandemic. It will be Webinar, using a popular client platform.
Radio aficionados from anywhere in the world can join in.
Webinar : New World New Radio – Evolution – Innovation – Connection
Timing 09:30 – 10:30 UTC (3pm – 4pm IST) on 13th February.
Request you to please fill up the attached form to confirm your participation.
https://forms.gle/dadkbqwMGHrHhQCx7
Meeting links will be mailed before the program.
IDXCI will issue a Certificate of Participation to all attending the Webinar.
Radio Clubs interested in showcasing their activities with small presentations or sharing a video message to be played during webinar, please write to idxc.international@gmail.com for more details. There are limited time slots available for the same.
Sandipan Basu Mallick
on behalf of
Indian DX Club International
GPO Box 646, Kolkata 700001
West Bengal, India
Alokesh Gupta to dxindia groups.io (2021-02-08)
Miscellaneous
Ukraine
Ukraine is on air, 549 kHz. Received in Botswana on an outdoor telescopic whip.
https://youtu.be/8ZhwbYr_OM4
Peter Wilson near Lobatse, Botswana to WOR groups.io (2021-02-05)
Finland
Quick reminder – tomorrow, Saturday Feb 6, is Scandinavian Weekend Radio day!
Full day of transmissions on 1602 MW, SW & FM, & also streaming online!
Mike Terry to WRTH fb group (2021-02-05)
Denmark
From February Newsletter:
Radio208 continues 24 hours a day seven days a week on 1440 kHz from Ishøj, Copenhagen. Power is 500 Watts. Works very well.
Stig Hartvig Nielsen (2021-02-04)
South Korea
756 kHz S Korean propaganda station that does not exist.
Detailed info from Chris Kadlec
https://groups.io/g/IRCA/topic/80273496
Glenn Hauser to WOR groups.io (2021-02-03)
Myanmar
My todays (3 Feb 2021) monitoring shows that Myanmar stations are back on MW & SW with normal schedule after 2 days.
2 Feb 2021 2300 UTC Sign on 576 & 594 kHz
3 Feb 2021 0100 UTC 5915 5985 6165 heard (recording attached)
3 Feb 2021 0123 UTC 9730 heard
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS to WOR groups.io (2021-02-03)
Myanmar
Today 2 Feb 2021 Thazin Radio was noted on 6165, 9460 & 9590 at various times.
Yesterday (ie Coup day) they were not heard. However Myanma Radio is absent on MW & 9730 khz etc. since the coup yesterday.
Monitoring observations by yours truely, Pradip Kundu & Babul Gupta.
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS to WOR groups.io (2021-02-02)
Germany
Next MW antenna removed (in operation until 2014 on 1143 kHz and 104.6 MHz for American Forces Network AFN Wieblingen near Heidelberg):
https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-heidelberg-der-sendemast-war-nicht-immer-in-wieblingen-_arid,615967.html
Marco (2021-01-31)
Mauritius
1575 Mauritius still on air. I’ve had it a couple of times in the last few days. This is from 7th November
2020 with clearer ID “BBC World Service” https://youtu.be/luYY2ll5V2s Full-time BBCWS relay.
Peter, Botswana, RealDX via Thomas Nilsson, mv-eko via WOR groups.io (2021-01-26)
India
Schools to air English lessons on radio for rural pupils during the pandemic using the AIR Pune frequency 792 kHz.
The article can be read here.
Pune Mirror India Times (2021-01-18)