QSL from Radio Free Asia

 Thanks for the new QSL-card for reception of Radio Free Asia commemorating 25th Anniversary of RFA!

Zenith Classic Rock on new frequency

 Relays of the Irish radio station Zenith Classic Rock are observed on the new frequency of 15050 kHz. The station was first received on this QRG on 14th of February at 15.59 UTC, then - on 16th of February, also some music was heard yesterday at ~17.00 UTC. Weak and unstable signal in Kyiv at evening hours, during my walks in park with Degen DE-1103. I suppose, the main target area for the transmissions is North America. Let's hope, these relays will continue, solar activity will grow up, and we get better signal in spring-summer season 2022.

Station's website: https://www.zenithclassicrock.com/

Reception of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation

Another interesting catch of the past year's sporadic E season: Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. The signal of the Voice of Palestine was received together with other stations from Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Broadcasting on the medium wave frequency of 675 kHz had been stopped at the beginning of 2000's, so this station is available on FM, satellites and online only at present.

Here is recording of the Voice of Palestine made on 90.7 MHz (transmitter in Ramallah, West Bank) in June 2021. Output power of the TX is unknown. Clear identification "Sawt Filastin" presents on the clip:

Station's website: http://vop.ps/

New transmitting-time for Radio Igloo

 Dear friends of Radio Igloo

The Radio Igloo program was not broadcast as scheduled via WRMI on February 7th.

We do not know why, but on 5010 kHz a religious program was broadcast in English and Spanish.

Now a new time has been added to broadcast our program with music and DX information. According to the schedule we have now received, the program will be broadcast on February 20th at 00.00-01.00 UTC on 5950 kHz.

Let's hope for a good reception.

Greetings from the Radio Igloo

Radio Igloo Team

Source: station's mailing list

eQSL from the Voice of America

 Many thanks for the nice eQSL for reception of the Voice of America via TX in Botswana!

eQSL from Misti Radio

 Got this nice eQSL for reception of the 6 W test transmission of Misti Radio on the frequency of 15075 kHz on 13th of February 2022 at 12.43 UTC. Thanks!

Pirate Radio Logs 22.01.2022 - 13.02.2022

22.01.2022

00.33 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45444 - Retro music, 00.36 - Jan Garber And His Orchestra - Marnie, 00.49 - Birt Firman & His Carlton Hotel Dance Orchestra - Charleston Charley

00.56 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 34433 - Jimmy Young - Too Young, 01.04 - Neil Sedaka - Alice In Wonderland, ALE QRM at times

15.15 - 6275.0 - Johnny Tobacco (tent.) - 35433-45444 - Polka music, 15.17 - Slim Whitman - North Wind, 15.33 - Siw Malmkvist - Tunna Skivor, 15.35 - Eini - Kesä ja yö, 15.59 - CD

15.38 - 6290.0 - UNID - 45433 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Hello Mary Lou, 15.38 - CD

15.39 - 6285.0 - Radio Black Power (tent.) - 35422-45433 - Leroy Van Dyke - Honeycomb, some speech 

15.55 - 6975.0 - Radio Flux AM (tent.) - 25422 - Some traces of music on peaks

23.01.2022

15.07 - 6285.0 - Radio Scotland Int'l - 45433 - Koto - Dragon's Legend, 15.14 - PPK - Resurrection, 15.17 - CD

15.09 - 6300.0 - Radio Monique - 34433-44433 - Meat Loaf - Heaven Can Wait, 15.21 - Jimmy Smith - The Cat, 15.36 - Meat Loaf - Modern Girl, later - QSY to 6285 kHz

15.26 - 6295.0 - Reflections Europe - 35443 - Sermon in English

15.39 - 6380.0 - Radio Joey - 45433 - Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World, 15.40 - K-Klass - Talk 2 Me

16.34 - 6285.0 - Radio Monique - 35433 - The Fortunes - Caroline (fragment), some speech, 16.36 - CD

16.44 - 4870.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 43443 - Zeraphine - Siamesische Einsamkeit, 16.46 - ID, 16.47 - 2Raumwohnung - Bei Dir bin ich schön, 16.49 - Electric Light Orchestra - Here Is The News

21.53 - 5015.0 - Offshore Music Radio - 45444 - Rod Stewart - Maggie May, 21.57 - Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites, 22.00 - Lou Rawls - A Natural Man

22.15 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45433-45444 - Identification by male voice, 22.18 - Billy Cotton and His Band - The Galloping Major, 22.43 - Albert Harris - Ach, Calowac

22.35 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35433 - Gordon MacRae & Jo Stafford - Somebody Bigger Than You And I, 22.38 - John Hanson - Stout-Hearted Men, 22.40 - Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson - Peg O' My Heart

28.01.2022

14.59 - 9325U  - Harmony Radio - 45433-45444 - Carpenters - For All We Know

17.15 - 6280.0 - Triple L Radio - 45444 - The Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line, 17.17 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

29.01.2022

17.15 - 6950.0 - Zenith Classic Rock - 35433 - Caravan - The Love In Your Eye

30.01.2022

13.49 - 4875.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 34443-45444 - Sylvia Novak - Nieobojętny, 17.03 - Secret Attraction - A Love That Never Fades, 17.04 - Deine Lakaien - Because The Night

15.00 - 6310.0 - Radio Black Power (tent.) - 45433-45444 - Shocking Blue - Never Marry A Railroad Man, 15.03 - The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress, 15.07 - Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner, 15.32 - CD

15.11 - 6930.0 - Enterprise Radio - 44433-44444 - The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man, 15.13 - Scorpions - Still Loving You, 15.18 - The Beach Boys - God Only Knows, 15.21 - ID

15.38 - 6275.0 - UNID - 45444 - Heroes Del Silencio - Entre Dos Tierras, 15.43 - Heroes Del Silencio - La Carta, 15.47 - Trio Los Paraguayos - La Malaguena, 16.10 - CD

15.54 - 6320.0 - Radio Joey - 35433-45444 - Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricades, 16.00 - The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes, 17.17 - The Jumping Jewels - Drumski, then - CD

16.46 - 6305.0 - Radio Baken 16 (tent.) - 25432-35433 - Some music on peaks, 16.48 - probably QSY

17.01 - 6295.0 - Reflections Europe - 45433 - Sermon in English

17.35 - 6950.0 - Zenith Classic Rock - 35422-35433 - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Running From Paradise, 17.37 - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

17.44 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45433 - Retro music

31.01.2022

18.41 - 5800.0 - Mike Radio (tent.) - 35433 - Supertramp - School

02.02.2022

16.50 - 5512U  - Radio Jerusalem (relay) - 54444 - Adverts, some conversation in Hebrew

19.35 - 6265.0 - Cupid Radio (tent.) - 45444 - Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air

22.53 - 6950.0 - Zenith Classic Rock - 35422-35433 - Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset, 22.56 - Steve Miller Band - Macho City

23.04 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45333 - Ted Lewis & His Band - Egyptian Ella, 23.27 - Sophie Tucker - Makin' Wicky Wacky Down In Waikiki, 23.30 - Sophie Tucker - Middle Age Mambo

23.18 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35433-45433 - Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues, 23.20 - Reggie Goff - In My Dreams, 23.23 - The Mills Brothers - Daddy's Little Girl

23.44 - 5014.9 - Radio Deltracks (tent.) - 35333 - Simple Minds - Ghostdancing, 23.48 - A-Ha - Take On Me

05.02.2022

14.49 - 6275.0 - Johnny Tobacco - 45444 - The Dynatones - Kielbasa Polka, 14.53 - Frank Yankovic & Walter Ostanek - My Maria Polka, 14.55 - Frank Yankovic & Walter Ostanek - Tick Tock Polka, 15.51 - Caterina Valente - Eine Nacht Am Rio Grande

15.00 - 6205.0 - Radio Extra Gold - 34422 - Some music on peaks, 15.08 - QSY to 6210 kHz

15.24 - 6210.0 - Radio Extra Gold - 35433 - Hepie en Hepie - Jongen Ik Maak Me Zorgen, 15.27 - Blondie - Rapture

18.31 - 6205.0 - Scandinavian Weekend Radio (relay) - 35433 - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Nutbush City Limits, 18.41 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - I Shot The Sheriff

06.02.2022

15.08 - 15075.0 - Cupid Radio - 45433-45444 - Purple Disco Machine - Dopamine, 15.17 - ID, greetings to listeners, 15.15 - RONDÉ – Hard To Say Goodbye, 15.25 - The Magician - Sunlight, 15.39 - SSTV transmission

17.21 - 6295.0 - Reflections Europe - 35443 - Sermon in English

17.33 - 6320.0 - Radio Joey (tent.) - 34433 - Zara Larsson - Lush Life, 17.43 - CD

23.57 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35422 - Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Petite Fleur

23.58 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 25432-35433 - Some retro music, 00.03 - Nitta-Jo - J'ai Soif

07.02.2022

21.26 - 4870.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 45444-55444 - Kraftwerk - The Model, 21.29 - Enigma - The Roundabout, 21.33 - Rusia - Bud Shcho Bude

22.56 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 25432-35433 - Danny Elfman - Spidey Suite, 22.59 - Ella Fitzgerald - I Could Write A Book

09.02.2022

21.56 - 4870.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 45433 - SSTV pictures, 22.14 - Deine Lakaien - Where You Are, 22.20 - GusGus - Stay The Ride, 22.25 - The Dust Of Basement - Dlaonvie

10.02.2022

17.26 - 4860.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 44444 - Nouvelle Phénomène - All Away, 17.28 - Mr. Kitty - Glow, 17.40 - Figure Study - Rain

19.52 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 25432-35433 - Charlie Barnet - Skyliner, 20.22 - Starsound Orchestra - Hang 'Em High

11.02.2022

22.35 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45444 - Jessie Matthews - When You Gotta Sing, You Gotta Sing, 22.41 - Ted Lewis - The Gold Diggers' Song, 22.45 - ID jingle, 22.46 - Andy Sannella & His All Star Orchestra - Bubbling Over With Love, quite stable signal this night!

22.49 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35433-45444 - Frank Sinatra - I Fall In Love Too Easily, 22.52 - The Andrews Sisters - The Old Piano Roll Blues, 22.53 - The Shells - Baby Oh Baby

12.02.2022

15.01 - 15075.0 - Laser Hot Hits - 45444 - Thompson Twins - Sister Of Mercy, 15.05 - Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong, 15.17 - Tina Turner - Typical Male, 15.21 - ID

15.35 - 15075U - Laser Hot Hits - 55444 - Nick Kershaw - The Riddle, 15.36 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming, 15.40 - Genesis - No Son Of Mine

15.48 - 9240.0 - Radio Parade Int'l (tent.) - 24432-34433-45433 - Some music now and then, 16.09 - Orlando & His Orchestra - Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You, 16.12 - Billy Merrin - On The Beach At Bali Bali

15.54 - 6320.0 - Radio Joey (tent.) - 35433 - Prince - When Doves Cry, 15.56 - CD

16.19 - 6260.0 - Radio Scotland Int'l - 45444 - Alphaville - Sounds Like A Melody, ID, 16.22 - Closing down announcement by female voice and CD

16.24 - 6205.0 - Laser Hot Hits - 45444 - The Humman League - Filling Up With Heaven, 16.27 - Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart, 16.37 - Ace Of Base - Don't Turn Around, 16.41 - ID

16.32 - 6210.0 - King Shortwave (tent.) - 24422-34433 - EELS - Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve, 17.35 - Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

17.53 - 6950.0 - Zenith Classic Rock - 25432-35433 - David Bowie - Fame, 17.56 - Chicago - Make Me Smile

18.33 - 6273.0 - Johnny Tobacco - 35433-45444 - Deep Purple - Child In Time, 18.36 - Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

19.25 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 35433-45433 - Jane Green - I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now

22.05 - 6285.0 - UNID - 25422-35422 - Some music on peaks

23.07 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35433 - Louis Prima & Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic, 23.11 - Ella Fitzgerald - Who's Sorry Now, 23.15 - Matt Monro - I Have Dreamed

13.02.2022

12.43 - 15075.0 - Misti Radio - 23422-33422 - The Moody Blues - Question, 12.59 - CD, only 5 W, according to the station's operator

13.03 - 15075.0 - Mike Radio - 34433 - Les Reed Orchestra - Man Of Action, 13.05 - Percy Faith - Crunchy Granola Suite, 13.13 - ID, 13.16 - The Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer

13.45 - 6320.0 - Radio Joey (tent.) - 35433 - Dance music

13.52 - 5800.0 - Mike Radio - 34443 - Operator's speech, 13.55 - Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy, 14.00 - Kim Wilde - Cambodia, some QRM from co-channel CIS-12 UTE

14.09 - 6950.0 - Enterprise Radio - 34433 - SSTV transmission, 14.17 - Roxy Music - More Than This, 14.53 - Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight, 14.58 - SSTV, 15.08 - Lucio Dalla - Canzone

15.17 - 15074.8 - Radio Blackstone (tent.) - 134x1-24422 - Traces of music now and then

16.03 - 15080.0 - Cupid Radio - 45444 - Bastille - Shut Off The Lights, then - QSY to 15074 and 15075 kHz

16.08 - 15075.0 - Cupid Radio - 45433-45444 - Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell, 16.09 - greetings to listerners

16.30 - 9240.0 - Radio Parade Int'l (tent.) - 35433 - Some music at times

16.46 - 6290.0 - Radio Pioneer - 43433 - The Walkers - Indian Dance, 16.51 - The Walkers - Jack Of Diamond, 17.13 - Many ID announcements, periodical UTE QRM and splatter from 6295 kHz

16.56 - 6295.0 - Reflections Europe - 43443 - Speech in English (female voice), some QRM from adjacent Stanag-4285 signal

17.22 - 6273.9 - Radio Groenteboertje (tent.) - 35433-45444 - Fragments of music at times, good signal but low or broken modulation?

17.36 - 5780.0 - Harmony Radio - 35433 - Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown, 17.37 - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Tenderly

18.22 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 45433 - Nitta Jô - Être Aimée De Toi, 18.25 - George Olsen - Too Bad

23.03 - 5200.0 - Radio Sovereign (tent.) - 23432 - Blondie - The Tide Is High, co-channel QRM from some QSO on USB

23.29 - 4860.0 - Mystery Radio 21 - 43444-53444 - SSTV, ID jingles, 23.32 - Marvel83' - Synthetic Nights, 23.37 - Marvel83' - Lost Highway, 23.41 - Marvel83' - Roller Coaster, periodical PSK UTE QRM

World Radio Day 2022

Happy World Radio Day!

Вітаю усіх із Всесвітнім днем радіо!

WWRB has ceased broadcasting on SW

 American religious radio station WWRB has ceased broadcasting on short waves and is now an Internet only station, as stated in the WRTH B21 Broadcast Schedules Update (February 2022). It is reported on some DX resources that station's owner David Frantz passed away around the beginning of the year 2022.

Before cessation of the shortwave transmissions, WWRB was active via 100 kW TX in Morrison (Tennessee). Here is my recording of WWRB made on 9385 kHz in year 2011:

Station's website: http://www.wwrb.org/

eQSL from Radio Digital

 Just received this nice and detailed eQSL for reception of Radio Digital on SW in January 2013. Many thanks to operator of the station!

Reception of the former pirate FM station from France

 Radio Dio, FM station from Saint-Étienne, France has very interesting format and history. Here what Wikipedia page (created by Chris Henniker as a translation of the French language version of Wikipedia entry and henceforth edited by other users) tells about this broadcaster:

"Radio Dio is an independent radio station, broadcasting to the French city of Saint-Étienne and its outskirts. Its slogan is "Free, Wild, and Impertinent". Its mission is to speak to 'have-nots' and to promote the local, national and international independent scene. In spite of its emphasis on rock'n'roll, Radio Dio broadcasts a great diversity of current musical styles, including reggae, electro, and some blues and metal. Its logo is a cat because in Radio Dio, the cat ate the rat.

Dio broadcasts on the Internet and on FM frequency 89.5 MHz, in Saint-Etienne and its near surroundings. Having previously been a pirate station, Radio Dio was officially created in 1981, as part of the liberalization of the FM band. The station has three paid employees. It takes part in the diffusion and the discovery of talents, and particularly buildings.

It remains one of the few French radios not to broadcast adverts. Radio Dio is a founding member of the Ferarock national collective (of which it has always formed a part); a member of the Office and the commission d'Ecoute. It is also member of the collective d'associations ligériennes, the Slug, which manages the SMAC, Salle of the Current music of St Etienne, the Wire, which was inaugurated at the end of January 2008."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Dio

Radio Dio has been received in Kyiv on 23rd of May 2021 from 09.07 till 09.12 UTC on the frequency of 89.5 MHz. RDS PI decoded: F857:

RX: Airspy Mini SDR

ANT: 80 mb dipole

Station's website: http://radiodio.org/

Radio Igloo will be on air again

 On Monday morning February 7th at 01.00-02.00 UTC on 5950 5010 kHz.

Radio Igloo will be on air again from WRMI´s 100 kW-transmitter in Florida.

Thanks to the Texas Radio Shortwave Team, we have the opportunity to reach the whole world with our program.

The program is a mix of music by Swedish artists and DX-information.

Also this time it is a co-production with the Westcoast DX-Club in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Maybe not the best time of day for listeners in Europe, so set your alarm-clocks.

Source: station's mailing list

Evening reception of Radio 208 on MW in Kyiv

 The powerful transmitter of Radio Riyadh in Ras al-Khair is off now, and it is possible to receive Radio 208 on 1440 kHz without significant co-channel QRM here. The signal is usually quite weak at local evenings, with rare fade-ins, when I can copy audio. I guess, the reception could even be much better at local mornings, however, unfortunately, I have no opportunity to check the frequency at morning time in some QRM-free place now.

Here is example of reception of the station on 1440 kHz on 24th of January 2022 at about 16.23 UTC during walk in park with my Degen DE-1103. One can hear Parisienne Walkways by Phil Lynott and Gary Moore:

Output power of the transmitter on 1440 kHz is 300 W, as stated on the eQSL received shortly. Many thanks to Stig Hartvig Nielsen!

RX: Degen DE-1103

ANT: Built-in ferrite rod

Station's website: http://www.radio208.dk/

Africa on long and medium waves

Many countries of the African continent have left medium wave band last years. It is obvious from comparison of the various editions of WRTH. Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Sudan are still keeping well-developed MW networks, however number of MW transmitters in Nigeria has dropped drastically. In general, number of the African countries which are using these bands has decreased by almost half since 1990's:

Here is a list of the African countries/territories with remaining LW/MW broadcasting, comprised of the data from WRTH-2022 and MWList:

•  Algeria: 153, 252**, 531, 549, 558, 576, 666, 693, 702, 738, 783, 837, 873, 891**, 909, 927, 981**, 1026, 1071, 1089, 1161, 1422*, 1550 kHz
•  Angola: 945, 1134*, 1290? kHz
•  Benin: 1476, 1566 kHz
•  Botswana: 531, 558, 621, 648, 693, 909, 972, 1215, 1350 kHz 
•  Canary Islands: 576, 621, 720, 747, 837, 882, 1008**, 1179 kHz
•  Ceuta: 1584 kHz
•  Djibouti: 1431 kHz
•  Egypt: 558, 603, 702, 711, 756, 774, 819, 864, 882, 918, 936, 981, 1008, 1071, 1080, 1161, 1179, 1278, 1305, 1314, 1341, 1350, 1368, 1386, 1422, 1476, 1503, 1575, 1584, 1593, 1602 kHz
•  Eritrea: 837/840, 945/950 kHz
•  Eswatini: 1170 kHz
•  Ethiopia: 684, 801, 828, 837, 855, 873, 891, 954, 972, 1035, 1044, 1053, 1080, 1215, 1359, 1485 kHz
•  Kenya: 567, 639, 675, 1233**, 1386 kHz
•  Lesotho: 639, 891, 1197 kHz
•  Madagascar: 630 kHz
•  Madeira: 1530 kHz
•  Malawi: 540, 558, 594, 675, 756, 1404, 1422 kHz
•  Mauritius: 684, 819, 1575 kHz
•  Melilla: 972, 1485 kHz
•  Morocco: 171, 540, 596, 612, 936 kHz
•  Mozambique: 738, 765, 810, 873*, 963, 1008, 1026, 1179, 1206, 1224, 1260 kHz
•  Nigeria: 540, 549, 576, 594, 603, 612, 639, 657, 684, 729, 747, 756, 828**, 917**, 918, 945, 972, 990, 1008, 1026, 1107, 1134, 1224, 1269, 1404, 1440 kHz
•  Rodrigues: 1206 kHz
•  São Tomé e Príncipe: 945, 1530 kHz
•  Seychelles: 1368 kHz
•  South Africa: 567, 576, 657, 702, 729, 828, 846*, 1269**, 1368**, 1422, 1485, 1548*, 1584 kHz
•  South Sudan (planned): 693** kHz
•  Sudan: 540, 621, 639, 666, 747, 765, 783, 801, 819, 846, 873, 891, 945, 963, 1026, 1485, 1584, 1602 kHz
•  Tanzania: 585, 621*, 711, 1323, 1377* kHz
•  Tunisia: 585, 630, 684, 963 kHz
•  Western Sahara: 711 kHz

XXXX - Listed in MWList but absent in WRTH-2022, XXXX - Listed in WRTH-2022 but absent in MWList

* - irregular, ** - inactive