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Scandinavian Weekend Radio

Hawdy,
Scandinavias first and now only excisting private SW and MW station will celebrate it’s 10 years this weekend.

Scandinavian Weekend Radio will be on air 24 hours from 21 hours UTC Friday 2nd of July- so whole Saturday day Fiesta and fest going on. Please take part of it!

Visit our web-pages where you can find all kind of info of SWR. Please join to our discussion forum as well, look out our program Schedule, SWR-TV and SWR-shop of cource! (New T-Shirts has just arrived)

http://swradio.net/
Contacts are:

SWR reports
P.O.BHox 99
FI-34801 Virrat
FINLAND

2 Euro/2 IRC/2 US-dollars for return fee (for QSL’s)

info(at)swradio.net

+358 (0)400 995 559

All unanswered correct reports have been now worked out and QSL’s sent by post. (latests today) So all new reports are now very welcome!

Best Greetings,

Alpo Heinonen
Scandinavian Weekend Radio

Info via HCDX

Radio Hami, Räyskälä, Finnland

http://www.mediumwave.info/news.html

FINLAND

Radio Hami, Räyskälä, Finland will be broadcasting on 15th – 18th July 2010 on 104.9 FM,1584 AM and 6120 SW.
More information can be found at: http://radiohami.fi/in-english.shtml

Radio Hami is temporary radio station, that operates yearly from The Finnish Amateur Radio League summer camp. Usually transmissions can be heard locally on FM and more internationally on 49 and 187 meter bands. The station has the address: Radio Hami / SRAL, PL 44, 00441 Helsinki, Finland.

73s Hannu Romppainen, Finland via mwcircle yg (29/6-2010) via A-DX

Memorial Day – Radio’s Role in War

Radio has long been used as another weapon in war, mainly as a propaganda tool. From broadcasts aimed at Iraq by U.S. forces against Saddam Hussein, to North Vietnam’s “Hanoi Hannah” during the Vietnam War, Germany’s “Axis Sally”, and Japan’s “Tokyo Rose” in World War II, Radio has been used by the good guys and the bad guys.

Read more…http://radio.about.com/od/tragicevents/a/Radio-Propaganda-Another-Weapon-In-War-Tokyo-Rose-Axis-Sally-Hanoi-Hannah.htm

Info via dxld

SLBC Colombo

SRI LANKA 15120 SLBC’s Korean Service at 1030-1130 UT via DW Trincomalee will cease temporarily from the 4th of June. SLBC instead starts another hour of Hindi to India on 11905 kHz via Trincomalee 355deg beam with 200 kW at 1530-1630 UTC.

Reception reports will be welcome to

Engineer AM Services
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
P.O.Box 574
Colombo, Sri Lanka.

SLBC in association with the Union of Asian DXers will QSL all reports on all its SW broadcasts during June. If the project is successful we will extend it.

0055-0330(Sun -0430) 6005 9780 15745 English to Asia
0020-0500, 0830-1230 11905 7185
1530-1630 11905
1615-1830 11750

SLBC is also progressing with the installation of a 50 kW MW transmitter in Puttalam on 1125 kHz to beam to South India where there are large numbers of Sri Lankans who fled the war over the last 30 years, and also to strengthen the coverage to the North of Sri Lanka.
(Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK UADX, via DXplorer June 4) via DXLD

Star Radio 4025 Khz

STAR radio is broadcasting on 104 FM & 4.025 MHz (mega-hertz) Short Wave in the 75-meter Band. For now test transmission on the Short Wave runs from 5 to 9 in the morning and 6-9 in the evening.
Call us on 077577142, 077018797 or 06857000.
FM frequency 104 in Monrovia and affiliated community radio stations throughout Liberia.

(Source : http://www.starradio.org.lr/)

0500-0900 UTC on 4025 kHz
1800-2100 UTC on 4025 kHz

Info via dxld

NASB Shortwave Listener Survey

New NASB Shortwave Listener Survey, is now online. The purpose of the survey is to gather demographic and other information about shortwave listeners in North America and around the world. Questions deal with listener preferences regarding shortwave stations, programming, receivers, DRM and much more. The NASB is requesting and encouraging all shortwave publications and websites to place a link to the survey, which will be online until May of 2011. The survey results will be announced to the public at the 2011 NASB annual meeting.

The URL for links to the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6LRVLJ7

Info via CumbreDX

Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program (VOACAP)

Kim Andrew Elliott weist darauf hin, dass das Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program (VOACAP), eine Software für die Betreiber von Kurzwellensendern zur Analyse und Vorhersage von Ausbreitungsbedingungen, jetzt mit einer Weboberfläche online verfügbar ist.

http://www.voacap.com/prediction.html

Im übrigen lautet die URL des Projekts:

http://www.voacap.com

Meldung von Kim Andrew Elliott:

http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8924

Info via A-DX