The 2021 Radiodays Europe conference took place over three days in October at the Lisbon Congress Centre in Belem, overlooking the 25 de Abril Bridge. Full reports of what was discussed can be found at www.radiodayseurope.com (CB) {CB initials not in contributors list}
DX Diary
Tuesday November 9th 0800 to 1400 UTC.
The WorldDAB Summit 2021 will be held online. It
brings together digital radio experts from across the radio industry. Connect with expert speakers through live questions and answers; Get inspired by keynote sessions from industry leaders Join from anywhere around the world; Free to attend and open to non-members. www.worlddab.org
Saturday November 13th 1500 to 1700 UTC. EDXC Zoom call
This will consist of
presentations and general DX chat. Mika Makelainen and Sheldon Harvey have both agreed to give talks. Mika will be talking from the DX cabin at Aihkiniemi in Finnish Lapland (unless he has to cover a breaking news story) and Sheldon will talk about CIDX (Canadian International DX Club). Contact chrissylb@hotmail.co.uk if you wish to take part and she will send you the Zoom link. https://edxcnews.wordpress.com
The EDXC Conference, which was postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19, has been rearranged for Friday May 20th to Sunday May 22nd 2022, in Bucharest, at the Mercure Hotel Unirii in Mircea Voda Blvd.
Contact chrissylb@hotmail.co.uk if you wish to take part. https://edxcnews.wordpress.com
The Wireless in Wales museum in Denbigh arranges a number of monthly online talks. On Friday October 15th, David Lloyd spoke about the History of Radio (in the UK).
The Museum’s next talk is on Friday November 19th at 7pm and also has a radio theme:
Pirate.ie – archiving the Irish pirate radio boom from 1978-1988 – a talk by Dr John Walsh. To join the (free) talk you’ll need to register at: https://cwmulus.org/english/ to get the Zoom link. (John is a BDXC member and presents the monthly Wireless on Flirt FM programmes in Galway) “Despite the existence of a large pirate radio scene in Ireland before the 1990s, the phenomenon remains understudied in comparison with other countries with a tradition of unlicensed broadcasting, for instance the UK and the Netherlands. Such research requires further work on reconstructing the historical record of a sector that by its nature did not systematically archive its programming. Pirate.ie https://pirate.ie/archive/ is an open online archive of historical recordings from the decade 1978-1988, when pirate radio reached its peak due to legal loopholes and the inability of the political class to regulate the sector. Many large stations aimed at British listeners or placed transmitters along the border with Northern Ireland, giving Irish pirate radio a transnational dimension. In this presentation, co-founder of Pirate.ie, John Walsh explains the development of the archive of Irish pirate radio recordings and contends that the sector had far-reaching implications for culture, society, economics and politics.” Museum website: https://www.wirelessinwales.org.uk/en/ Register for talk at: https://cwmulus.org/english/
B21 schedule for Voice of America on SW in English to Africa:
0300-0400 4930-bot 6080-sao 9775-bot
0400-0500 4930-bot(SaSu) 4960-sao 6080-sao 9775-bot
0500-0600 4930-bot 6080-sao 15580-bot
0600-0700 6080-sao 9550-aso 15580-bot
1400-1500 4930-bot 15580-bot 17885-bot
1500-1600 4930-bot 7455-bot 15580-bot 17895-sao
1600-1630 4930-bot 6080-sao 15580-bot 17895-bot
1700-1730 6080-sao 11850-kwt 15580-bot(SaSu) 17895-bot
1730-1800 6080-sao 11850-sao 15580-bot 17895-bot
1800-1900 4930-bot(SaSu) 11610-udo 15580-bot 17530-grv#
1900-2000 4930-bot 13590-sao 15580-bot
2000-2100 4930-bot 6195-bot 15580-bot
2100-2200 6195-sao 11720-grv (HFCC)
B21 schedule for VOA South Sudan in Focus
1630-1700 Mon-Fri 11850-dha 13865-wof 15180-sao (HFCC)
B21 schedule for VOA Learning English to South Asia
1130-1200 Sat-Sun 12030-pht 12125-udo 15715-udo (HFCC)
Autumn here in the northern hemisphere means Xinjiang PBS switches to its winter frequencies – already noted on 26th October here on 3950, 3990 and 5060 kHz. Frequencies they use in the tropical bands are: Chinese 3950 5060; Uighur 3990, 4980; Mongolian 4500; Kazakh 4850 kHz.
Radio Free Waves Bay on 3940 kHz
A Russian-language pirate station called Radio Free Waves Bay has been heard regularly across Europe in the evenings on 3940 kHz [see logs above-ed]. It had been suggested by some sources that the station was located in Smolensk in western Russian, between Moscow and the border with Belarus. But a posting on the Ukrainian DX Blog says TDoA results point to a site in northern Belarus for both 3940 and a medium wave outlet on 1575 kHz https://udxb.blogspot.com/ (TDoA = “Time Distance of Arrival”, a technique used to try and pinpoint a station’s location using receivers in different sites)
It has also been reported that station rebroadcasts Russian-language material such as podcasts and other material from the internet, some of it is radio-related while other material has been political. Also Western and Russian music has been heard on the station. It is thought the power could be up to 2kW.
A DXer in St Petersburg has received an eQSL from the Free Waves Bay. The station has a web address of https://id043199.myrh.ru and email address given as 6783432@gmail.com http://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2021/10/radio-free-waves-bay.html
For many years Russian "hooligan" stations have been heard around 3100 kHz with QSOs, music and other chat. But Free Waves Bay has moved into a more higher profile location on the edge on the 75 metre broadcast band where more people are likely to hear it.
Another Russian station called Radio Gromel was also reported on 3920 USB last month playing a mix of Russian and Western music, reported by DXers on the HF Underground forum. https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,87695.0.html (Paul Watson)
Allen Dean adds: The Russian pirate station Radio Free Waves Bay continues to be heard quite regularly during the evenings on 3940 kHz. Reports can be sent to 6783432@gmail.com. E-qsl received within an hour. (AD)
AD Allen Dean Padiham, Lancashire Eton Satelit 750, Tecsun PL600, Eton Traveller 111
(via BDXC-UK Communication via WOR io group)
