AFGHANISTAN    I would like to remember one more broadcaster heard on the air - Radio Afghanistan. Broadcasting in Russian by the international service Radio Afghanistan began in January 1961. The station had low-quality transmitting equipment and was unlucky with the choice of frequencies. Therefore, there were often problems with receiving the station. I remember the only period when audibility was unusually good for three years from 1974 to the end of 1976. The broadcast was carried out during the day at a frequency of 15195 kHz from 13.30 to 15.00 Moscow time for ..read more

  On Sunday, May 5, Channel 292, Rohrbach, Germany, will air TRSW’s monthly program at 1000 UTC on 9670 kHz and 2100 UTC on 3955 kHz. These changes are based on three test transmissions in mid-April. TRSW welcomes detailed reception reports emailed to texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com.  This includes reports from listeners using remote SDRs ..read more

  Dear Listener, Regular Broadcast times of Encore By WRMI and Channel 292 are: 02:00 - 03:00 UTC Friday 5850 kHz WRMI to US 20:00 - 21:00 UTC Friday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe 10:00 - 11:00 UTC Saturday 9670 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 01:00 - 02:00 UTC Sunday 5850 kHz WRMI to US and Canada 19:00 - 20:00 UTC Sunday 3955 kHz Channel 292 to Europe 02:00 - 03:00 UTC Monday 5950 kHz WRMI to the US and Canada 13:00 - 14:00 UTC Tuesday 15770 kHz WRMI to Europe, east coast of US and Iceland. (Sometimes RTTY on the lower sideband. Suggest notch out or use USB.) Some Things to see on The Encore ..read more

  Hello friends, In last week's email, I wrote "It will be hot enough, soon enough." Well, as I type this, it is 90°F/32°C in Arlington, Virginia. And we obstinately have not turned on our house's air conditioning. The AC is for when it really gets hot. Which will be soon enough. Our front yard is green, thanks to a variety of weeds, enough to support a botany thesis. Mixed in among these are occasional blades of grass. And not, I suspect, the most desirable species of grass. Ah, summer. Dramatic events in space weather continue, but generally, we were lucky last week with propagati ..read more

  Our next Radio Caroline North broadcast is between 4th and 5th May, live from our radio ship  Ross Revenge. You'll hear some great music from the 60s to early 90s – plus a chance to win some goodies from our Web Shop, courtesy of Clive Ironmonger from Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app. We'd love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories ..read more

  The May 2024 edition of  Stig Hartvig Nielsen's monthly edition of  European, Private Shortwave Stations is available at:  https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsioattachments/9411/105845499/157103/0?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1714587705&Signature=0WuZM5edV4H9yrOgxedUwdPEas8%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3D%22European%2520private%2520SW%2520stations%2520-%25201%2520May%25202024.pdf%22 Tiny URL:  https://tinyurl.com/y4pjkvnk ..read more

  On Wednesday, May 1, 2024, SM Radio Dessau will broadcast three one-hour broadcasts, to observe the May Day Parade 2024. The broadcast will air from the following relays:  All times UTC 0800  6070 kHz (10 kW) via Channel 292, Rohrbach-Waal, Germany 1200  6095 kHz (100 kW) via Media Broadcast, Nauen, Germany (repeat) 1900  3955 kHz (125 kW) via Encompass, Woofferton, UK (repeat) Additional station information: http:///www.smradio-dessau.de  ..read more

  Special thanks to Ray Robinson and Jeff White, for sharing Part 2, from a recent edition of AWR Wavescan. To view Part 1 on 18 April, 2024 go to https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2024/04/libya-part-1-bfbs-afrts.html Jeff: Two weeks ago, Ray Robinson began the story of radio broadcasting in the Tangier International Zone – an area of 155 square miles around the city of Tangier in northwest Africa, that was administered jointly by France, Spain and the United Kingdom from 1925-1940, and then again after the war by those three countries plus the United States from 1945-1956.  We ..read more

  roduct: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2024 Apr 29 0236 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services # #                Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 22 - 28 April 2024 Solar activity reached high levels on 22 Apr and 24 Apr. Moderate levels were observed on 23 Apr, 25 Apr, and 27 Apr. Finally, low levels were observed on 26 Apr and 28 Apr. In total, there were ..read more

  Ouagadougou (AFP) – Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they aired a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians in its battle against jihadists. The British and US broadcasters are the latest international media organisations to be targeted since Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in the West African country in a September 2022 coup. "The programmes of these two international radio networks broadcasting from Ouagadougou have been suspended for a period of two weeks," Burkina's communications authority, the CS ..read more