Category: English

New books

I thought you might like to know that two books about shortwave broadcasting and DXing history that I have been working on for the last three years have now been published. They are /Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today,/ and /Broadcasting on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today./ These books pick up where my first book, /On the Short Waves, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio,/ left off. More information about the books can be found at the publisher’s website www.mcfarlandpub.com (search for “Berg”) and at my website www.ontheshortwaves.com (“New Books”).
Jerry Berg

Info via Willi Passmann on A-DX

Radio St Helena test transmission

Radio St Helena is going to be running a TEST TRANSMISSION on our SW Equipment on Thursday 17th May 2007 at 15:00 GMT. We hope you will be able to tune into 11092.5 Kilohertz USB. If you receive us, we would greatly appreciate an e-mail to confirm your reception to this address asap. This test transmission cannot be QSL’d.
Thank you and best regards
Laura

Laura Lawrence (Miss)
Radio Station Manager
Radio St Helena
Pounceys
Tel/Fax: +290 4542
station.manager(@)helanta.sh

Info via Peter Vaegler on A-DX

Special EDXC-transmission

Special SPBRC and Radio Gardarika short wave transmission for EDXC 2006

On October 22, 2006 (Sunday) SPBRC (Saint-Petersburg Regional Centre) and Radio Gardarika will carry out a special short wave transmission devoted to EDXC 2006 conference in St.Petersburg.

The time is 10.00-11.00 UTC and the frequencies are 12010 kHz in the 25 m.b. for North-West and West Europe and 15640 kHz in the 19 m.b. for South-East and Central Europe and also for North Africa.

Two 200 kW transmitters of our St.Petersburg-Popovka transmitting centre will be used for this program. We hope that our signals will be able to reach some other parts of the world such as South-East Asia, Japan or Australia.

Unfortunately, we do not verify reports for this transmission – but we shall be very grateful for any comments about the reception quality to 12010and15640(@)mail.ru

Thank you in advance.

Mikhail Timofeyev
St.Petersburg
Russia

Source: hard-core-dx List

RMRC QSL-calendar

Rhein-Main-Radio-Club, Frankfurt, Germany proudly present the 2nd edition of the unique QSL-Calendar 2007.
The new calendar will be available to the public from November 2006.

The full colour art print calendar offers real treasures from our historical QSL archives, covering QSL cards from the 1930’s to present. The calender is in English and costs 15 Euro including shipment world wide.
We will give *DXers, DX Clubs, DX-Broadcasters and DX Organisations 20 percent*, ordering 20 copies or more.

The calendar is a beautifull marketing instrument, it is rare, unique and a special gift to business partners dealing with radio business.

All details at our website www.rmrc.de

Harald Gabler
RMRC CEO
www.rmrc.de

Source: A-DX List

RTE Ireland on shortwave

RTE Ireland is again on shortwave on 17th of September, 2006:

Eastern, Central and Southern Africa 1300 – 1700 21720 kHz 250 kW
West and Central Africa 1300 – 1700 17745 kHz 250 kW
East and Central Africa 1300 – 1700 15115 kHz 250 KW

Source: Douglas Kähler in Wellenforum

All Ireland Football Final on shortwave to Africa.

Irish public broadcaster RTE will broadcast the All Ireland Football Final to Africa via shortwave on Sunday 25 September as follows:

To Eastern, Central and Southern Africa: 1300-1700 UTC via Wofferton 21730 kHz
To West Africa: 1300-1700 UTC via Ascension 17680 kHz
East Africa: 1300-1430 UTC via Meyerton 15255 kHz
Central Africa: 1430-1700 via Ascension 15255 kHz

Source: Media Network Weblog.