[HCDX] BBC World Service Turns 90 and evolves with the times

2022-04-08 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Radio World By James Careless April 6, 2022 It began in 1932 as the “BBC Empire Service” — making radio broadcasts via globe-girdling shortwave to the far-flung territories ruled under the British Crown. Subsequently, what is now the BBC World Service served as a wartime inspiration and a

[HCDX] Test

2021-06-10 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
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[HCDX] Solar Flare Frenzy (updated)

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
On May 22nd, sunspot AR2824 unleashed a sequence of solar flares unlike anything we've seen in years. In only 24 hours, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded 10 C-flares and 2 M-flares: movie. The rapidfire explosions hurled multiple overlapping CMEs into space. According to NOAA

[HCDX] Radio Frequency Interference Seminar Set for May 19 via Zoom

2021-05-15 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
ARRL 05/14/2021 ARRL Laboratory Manager Ed Hare, W1RFI, hold a Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) seminar via Zoom on Wednesday, May 19, at 2000 UTC. His 30-minute slide presentation offers an overview of politics, personalities, and technical issues involved in electromagnetic interference

[HCDX] RCI English section: goodbye

2021-05-15 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Radio Canada International By Marc Montgomery engl...@rcinet.ca May 14, 2021 Canada’s international broadcast service from the English language team of Radio Canada International has come to an end.RCI, (originally the International Service, CBC-IS) was initially created towards the end of

[HCDX] Pop Shop Radio - extra broadcast this Sunday 16 May 2021

2021-05-15 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Tony Pavick To: c...@groups.io; 14/05/21 17:22 Due to technical issues at Channel 292 Pop Shop Radio was not transmitted on 9670 khz with the North America beam this past Wednesday. As a result, an extra broadcast will take place at 1500 UTC on 9670 this Sunday 16 May 2021 on

[HCDX] Slovenia - local radio

2021-05-15 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Ljubljana, 14 May - Local radio stations will be able to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting under amendments to the media act that the National Assembly passed in a unanimous vote on Friday. (The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.)

[HCDX] Radio Six Pops Up Again on Shortwave

2020-07-22 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Radio World By Paul McLane July 21, 2020 Radio Six International has not been a full-time shortwave broadcaster for some time. But after two recent live broadcasts on 6070 kHz prompted by the pandemic, it says it will continue monthly broadcasts at least for now. Radio World visited

[HCDX] 75 years of Radio Canada International

2020-02-26 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
It was February 25, 1945 that the CBC International Service began shortwave broadcasting to Europe. It was designed at the time to provide accurate news to occupied areas in English French and German, and to provide news from home for the huge contingent of Canadian military personnel serving

[HCDX] WRTH 2020 B19 updates

2020-02-07 Thread Mike Terry via Hard-Core-DX
Mauno Ritola posted in the WRTH Facebook group: Dear WRTH reader, A pdf of updates to the B19 schedules in the International section of WRTH 2020 is now available. Visit Updates and click the "International Updates" link to download the file from the WRTH store. If you haven't yet got your