Month: September 2021

TWO HOURS OF TEXAS RADIO SHORTWAVE TONIGHT ON WRMI BEGINNING AT MIDNIGHT UTC (8 P.M. ET) ON 5950 KHZ

TWO HOURS OF TEXAS RADIO SHORTWAVE TONIGHT ON WRMI BEGINNING AT MIDNIGHT UTC (8 P.M. ET) ON 5950 KHZ
Texas Radio Shortwave kicks off September with two programs tonight: European pirate station Radio Clash at 8 p.m. and TRSW Prime: Austin City Limits Live at 9 p.m. (Those times are 0000 UTC and 0100 UTC, respectively.)
Series 2 of TRSW’s Europirate relays begins with Radio Clash, broadcasting from somewhere in Europe. eQSLs for the program will come directly from Radio Clash at radioclashqsl@gmail.com
Austin City Limits Live features artists like Los Lonely Boys, Jackie Venson, and Alabama Shakes that have appeared on the long-running PBS program. eQSLs are available for correct, detailed reception reports covering at last 20 minutes of the program to texasradiosw@gmail.com.

Radio Nord Revival geht am 4. und 5. September wieder auf Sendung:

Radio Nord Revival geht am 4. und 5. September wieder auf Sendung:
Ja, Radio Nord Revival wird am 4. und 5. September von 0700-1900 UTC von der Festung Vaxholm aus wieder auf Sendung sein. Dieses Mal senden wir auf SW von einem neuen Standort aus: Julita, am See Hjälmaren. Unsere Hauptfrequenz ist 6035 kHz mit 6060 und 6130 kHz als Reservefrequenzen. Die Leistung beträgt 1 kW und wir senden in voller AM. Wir sind auch auf FM 91,9 MHz zu hören und decken den Großraum Stockholm ab. Der FM-Sender befindet sich auf der Festung.
Am Sonntag, den 5. September, veranstalten die Täby Sändaramatörer eine Radio Nord-Aktivität auf der Festung, zu der mehrere Radio Nord-Veteranen eingeladen sind.
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com

DUTCH PIRATE RADIO MONIQUE INTERNATIONAL WANTS NAm LISTENERS TO BE PART OF ITS PROGRAM TO BE RELAYED ON WRMI

DUTCH PIRATE RADIO MONIQUE INTERNATIONAL WANTS NAm LISTENERS TO BE PART OF ITS PROGRAM TO BE RELAYED ON WRMI
The first program will be broadcast live on Saturday, September 4, at 1500 UTC and recorded for a later rebroadcast via WRMI. Radio Monique will use a frequency somewhere between 6240 and 6340 kHz, usually around 6285 kHz.
Check the Texas Radio Shortwave Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/texasradiosw) on September 4 for Radio Monique International’s frequency.
Listeners are asked to email or message Radio Monique with questions, comments, and music requests. As many emails and messages as possible will be read over the air, along with music dedications.
The recorded program will then air on WRMI, 5950 kHz, at 0000 UTC on October 3.
North American listeners can tune in using these European remote Software Defined Receivers:
Weston, UK – http://websdr.uk:8060/
NW Ireland – http://irelandnorthwest.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/ or http://irelandnorthwest2.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
University of Twente, NL – http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/.
The UK and Ireland sites have a limited number of listening slots but may provide a better signal. The University of Twente receiver’s signal sometimes isn’t as good as the others but can handle hundreds of listeners simultaneously.
For the more adventurous, here’s a site providing access to remote SDRs worldwide: http://rx.linkfanel.net/. Select the one with the best reception.
There are several ways to communicate with Radio Monique during and after the broadcast:
1. Join the European pirate chat: http://freeradiochat.blogspot.com/…/chat-for-free-radio… (IMPORTANT: Guests MUST change their ID/Name by left-clicking on it in the righthand column, normally it’s the ID on top of the list; otherwise, you could be banned.)
2. Send an email to radiomoniqueradio@hotmail.nl
3. Reply to the top post on Radio Monique’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/radiomonique.international/ (IMPORTANT: Make certain to choose All Comments and refresh the page regularly to see posts as they are added.)
Tune in and have some fun with Radio Monique.

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Sad news of the death today of a true radio legend, Robbie Robinson

Sad news of the death today of a true radio legend, Robbie Robinson.
First known for his days on Radio Caroline (as Robbie Dale) in the 1960’s. He was the senior presenter on Caroline South when it went into a new era in 15th August 1967. Along with Johnnie Walker he co-presented the first hours of Caroline continuing into a new era after the British Government’s Marine Offences Act came into force.
Following this he presented a unique English/Dutch show on Radio Veronica at the end of the 1960’s. This led to a number of years of presenting a nation-wide show on TROS Radio in The Netherlands and becoming a well-known radio personality in Holland in the early 1970’s.
After several years away from radio in the mid-70’s he re-appeared in 1979 as a key figure in Irish Radio with his Sunshine Radio AM station in Dublin paving the way for a massive explosion of free radio stations operating on the edges of Irish law. Within years, many of these stations had blossomed into thriving large commercial radio set-ups.
In later years he retired to the sunshine of Lanzarote to set up a succesful Holiday Complex along with his wife Stella who had shared much of radio life and adventures over the decades with him.
I was lucky enough to meet up with Robbie in 1978 just before he headed away from London and off to Dublin for his new adventure. Robbie was a good friend on the Managing Director of the company I was working for in London and his offices were just a few doors down from ours! So he visited regularly.
In more recent years I was very happy to be in communcation with Robbie as a Facebook friend.
Robbie was a true Radio Pioneer with his part in taking Caroline on past the implimentation of the Marine Offences Act in 1967 and his maverick thinking in taking the chance in 1979 to push the Irish Broadcasting laws to the limit.
He was a great broadcaster and most of all one of radio’s true “Gentlemen”.
The picture shows Robbie and Stella in later years during their time in Lanzarote.

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