Welcome to episode 13 of my series, The SWL DXing news report. This episode was released on 19 October 2024.
In this podcast I talk about radio-related news, frequency changes, new stations, closures and anything else that might interest DXers. This programme is presented as a video podcast, so you can just sit back and listen, or enjoy the visuals in the video.
I have a packed episode today. There have been some major events in the SW, MW and LW world over the past weeks, with some big cuts from major broadcasters, but there are also new stations appearing. In today’s episode I talk about budget cuts at the BBC, huge transmission cuts at AWR, cuts by Russia on MW and by Iceland on LW. It is not all bad news though, there are more transmissions from Voice of Hope Africa, possibly new SW transmissions from Russia, Jordan, Greece and Poland, a new frequency for WRMI, and tests for a new SW station called Sound of Africa.
Another big event this past week was the announcement that solar maximum has arrived, so I also talk about the solar cycle in this episode, and I discuss the B24 HFCC schedules that have just been released. I end with the usual HF propagation forecast.
CORRECTION: In the podcast I mention the broadcasting time for Radio Joystick as midnight to 13:00 Central European Time, every first Sunday of the month. The correct time is noon (12:00) to 13:00 CET.
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Propagation conditions: https://hamradiofornontechies.com/current-ham-radio-conditions/
Podcast RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/f9ac4be0/podcast/rss
What are SINPO codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINPO_code
Pictures of Moosbrunn demolition: https://www.noen.at/bruck/internationale-programme-moosbrunner-kurzwellensender-eine-aera-wurde-in-die-luft-gesprengt-440377371
AWR current schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MmbFlsJ522eSE5w-eCI3gmUb-QvyoTM_/view?usp=sharing
Picture credits
Solar maximum: Images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the Sun at solar minimum (left, Dec. 2019) versus solar maximum (right, May 2024). Credit: NASA/SDO
Sunspots: Visible light images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the Sun at solar minimum (left, Dec. 2019) versus solar maximum (right, August 2024). During solar minimum, the Sun is often spotless. Sunspots are associated with solar activity, and are used to track solar cycle progress. Credit: NASA/SDO
Transnistria: By Донор, own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27580045
Guam: Scott Cameron, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
BBC Broadcasting House: Alexander Svensson, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Trincomalee: By Isuru Senevi, originally posted to Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9906256
Alphen aan den Rijn: By Goodness Shamrock, own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14666319
Iceland: By Pierre-Selim Huard, self-photographed, CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56735848
Opening and closing music: Radio Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://audionautix.com/
00:00 Shockwave hits the radio world
01:23 BBC cuts
03:08 AWR cuts
05:26 Moosbrunn transmitter's future
08:37 Problems at Trincomalee
09:08 End of LW in Iceland 189 kHz
10:40 Russia cuts MW (Radio Rossi, Vesti FM)
11:22 TWR ends MW to Europe
11:43 Voice of Hope Africa back to normal
13:35 Unknown signal on 17665 kHz
14:00 Radio Sound of Africa tests
14:40 3394 listings in B24 HFCC schedules
15:24 Russia's return to SW?
16:34 Poland, Greece, Jordan, Netherlands, USA
19:34 Reception report from William in Illinois
20:51 Solar maximum has arrived
22:25 HF propagation forecast