Babitsky released (MSNBC): "Acting President Vladimir Putin, under fire for Russia's human rights record in Chechnya, ordered the release of a Russian journalist held by Kremlin security services in the breakaway republic. Andrei Babitsky, a reporter for the U.S.-funded Radio Liberty, returned home to Moscow on Tuesday and told of repeated beatings at the hands of Russian forces."

RFE/RL says that he "has returned home to his apartment in Moscow." Babitsky told RFE/RL that "he had been flown to Moscow from Daghestan aboard a Russian military aircraft."

Posted 15:56 UTC

iCraveTV.com, which lifted terrestial broadcast signals from their owners and made them available over the Internet, has agreed not to do that any more in an out-of-court settlement. Reuters reports that the company folded under pressure from the MPAA and Canadian Association of Broadcasters, but plans to apply their technology that allegedly enabled them to restrict their transmissions geographically to other business ventures. Personally, I found it incredibly easy to bypass their technology by entering a Canadian area code into their form.

Posted 08:06 UTC

Unfortunately, these people don't list prices on their web site....

Posted 05:47 UTC

Sell lightning detectors so that these people can get on the air: "We will do this so the people in Central and South America will have good Christian music and the word of God 24 hours a day via shortwave. No other station that we know of has done this, or is doing this. There is a vacuum that must be filled now!" I guess they've never heard of HCJB; after all, they've only been on the air since 1931....

The consequences if you don't: "Thibber has turned barfy green at the thought of all them people going into eternity lost! He needs you to register as a Lightning Alert® Dealer! Start selling our lightning detectors on your web site and make money!" (Oh yes, they're also planning on saving those heathen Canadians....)

Posted 05:37 UTC

I've seen photographs of antenna arrays, but I don't think I've ever seen a painting of one....

Posted 05:20 UTC

NordicDX.com has news about a new station in Somalia and a reactivated Radio Globo in Brazil.

Posted 04:50 UTC

WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News 454 for February 28, 2000, compiled by Wolfgang Büschel, has been posted.

Posted 04:36 UTC

Tom Sundstrom reviews the Icom IC-R75 for Media Network. He likes it.

Posted 04:33 UTC

The IRCA is holding their annual convention in Billings, Montana, this year on August 25-27. John and Nancy Jennings are hosting.

Posted 01:54 UTC

Start planning now for the 2002 Convention of the North Otago Branch of the New Zealand Radio DX League.

Posted 03:04 UTC

If you see Kim Elliott at the 'Fest, be sure to address him as "Revered Mogul and Flamboyant Celebrity Obeisance Chirry Whizkid Kim Elliott, host of Communications World segment".

Posted 03:00 UTC

Speaking of famous club members (see Al Quaglieri below), publisher Bill Oliver and his wife Evelyn recently featured in an article in the New York Times about retirees in Pennsylvania (I think a free registration is required to see the article). Have a look; in the picture of the two of them, you can see the palatial NASWA headquarters at 45 Wildflower that many of you have been sending your club dues to for years.

Posted 01:20 UTC

Radio Netherlands interviews the Chechen Foreign Minister on the subject of Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky: "[E]very time the Russians speak about the Babitsky case, they cite different names of Chechen field commanders who were allegedly involved in the exchange. I tried to track down all the individuals mentioned. There are a lot of fictitious names among them." (via Andy Sennitt on the swprograms mailing list.)

Posted 14:03 UTC

RNW Media Network Webzine: "Media repression in Belarus under the regime of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led two new radio stations [Radio Racja and Radio Baltic Waves] to start broadcasting from neighbouring countries. A report by Bernd Trutenau." (And it has a lovely picture of President Lukashenka, who looks completely mad....)

Posted 14:01 UTC

Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky spoke to his wife today, according to a report posted at 2052 UTC on the RFE/RL web site. According to his wife, he's being held in the Russian republic of Daghestan, presumably by the Russians, who have been claiming implausibly for weeks that he had been handed over to Chechen rebels. "RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine said that he was elated by this news but awaited further information about Babitsky's circumstances--both physical and legal. Dine added that RFE/RL would do everything possible to ensure that Babitsky is released from detention and returned to his family immediately."

Posted 21:38 UTC

Chris Smolinski has upgraded his Macintosh utility decoder software, Multimode, to version 3.0.2.

Posted 01:24 UTC

Universal Radio has pictures and some details of a new receiver from Ten-Tec, the Ten-Tec RX-340, that looks like maybe, just maybe, it might be the successor to the late, lamented Watkins-Johnson HF-1000. No information on the Ten-Tec site yet.

Posted 22:26 UTC

Stormy weather forecast for sun could disrupt technology on Earth (Los Angeles Times): "The sun may seem a placid presence - purveyor of glowing sunsets and gentle rays. But next week our local star will enter the peak of its mysterious 11-year cycle, a period of furious activity and violent space storms." (found via Macintouch)

Posted 15:16 UTC

A Coronal Hole Targets Earth: "The end of February could mark another good weekend for aurora watchers [and an interesting one for DXers], thanks to a large coronal hole currently straddling the visible disk of the sun. High speed solar wind particles streaming out of the hole reached the Earth today and began to buffet our planet's magnetosphere. Space weather forecasters expect moderate to high levels of aurora borealis with minor impacts on satellite operations and high latitude power grids for the next few days." (found via Macintouch)

Posted 15:14 UTC

Vitaly Brousnikin's Red Star Radio site covers old Soviet radios. He's got some gorgeous radios there....

Posted 23:40 UTC

The A S Popov Central Museum of Posts and Telecommunications in St. Petersburg, Russia, has been closed to the public since 1974 because of the poor condition of the museum building. It's a pity they didn't learn anything from that, because otherwise their virtual museum could have been pretty interesting.... At least the ads still work. There are some working pages buried in the structure, but they're not accessible in the normal way; you have to look at the source code and muck about. :-P It looks like the Russian-language pages are better maintained, though.

Posted 23:11 UTC

The Irkutsk DX Circle has a page of interval signals in Real Audio format. It's not as extensive as Al Quaglieri's or Dave Kernick's, but they've got some stations I haven't seen anywhere else, including a number of Russian regional stations.

Posted 22:49 UTC

Andy Sennitt: "A new millennium has begun, but it's the same old story in international broadcasting. Hot on the heels of major budget cuts at Germany's external service, Deutsche Welle, it's now the turn of the Voice of America to suffer major cuts in services to Eastern Europe."

Posted 22:30 UTC

Putting up an antenna but don't have a ladder tall enough to get the ends where you want? Sooper Shooter may be an answer. (I haven't tried this myself, so I'm not responsible if you hurt yourself with this thing.)

Posted 12:26 UTC

New Zealand DXer Robert Krijger does a bit of high-country DXing with a radial wire: "As a keen tramper, I thought I would pack up the radio gear and go bush. My younger brother Bryan, also a keen tramper, came along too (to carry the tent!). Our destination was to be a peak on the Pouakai Range, in the Egmont National Park, called 'Hump', at an altitude of around 1300m." (From a post by Paul Ormandy to HCDX.)

If, like me, you're wondering what a radial wire antenna is, SPDXR also has an article about that on its web site. It's basically kind of a cheap temporary mini-Beverage.

Posted 12:20 UTC

It's not exactly radio-related, but there's a nice profile of NASWA Listeners' Notebook columnist (and Grammy-nominee) Al Quaglieri in Sunday's Albany Times-Union. "'We're going to the nominees' party the night before as well as (to) the awards show. I've already rented my tux,' he says with a chuckle, 'much to my own chagrin.'"

Posted 03:09 UTC

Tube-radio kits 1: "Step-by-step instructions guide the intermediate through advanced kit builder to successful completion of a Atomic-era radio!" (Thanks Tom Sundstrom.)

Tube-radio kits 2: "About 75% of the comms receiver is designed and built. Only the front end remains to be done. The receiver is a double conversion superhet with a tunable first IF. The second IF has got a ceramic filter to help shape the response curve. This means that the front end oscillator will be crystal controlled. The VFO tunes over a one MHz band." (I think I first saw this via DXing.com's news room.)

Posted 01:46 UTC

Andy Yoder's excellent venture aimed at spreading the good word about pirate radio, Hobby Broadcasting magazine (available at your local Barnes & Noble and Borders book stores, among other places, although knowing Andy, he would probably prefer you buy at an independent outlet if you can), has its own domain name now, and you can order a subscription online using plastic. (Thanks Mark Veldhuis for reminding me of this site.)

Posted 00:57 UTC

"Five years ago, Radio Prague became the first news service in the Czech Republic on the Internet.... Five years later, Radio Prague is the first Czech news service to broadcast live in the MP3 format...." (Broadcasts go out live, or on demand in MP3 format.)

Posted 23:21 UTC

RNW on Radio Montserrat: "Unfortunately Radio Montserrat's AM transmitters were situated in Amersham, deep in the exclusion zone, and were destroyed by the volcanic activity which reached a peak in 1997. The station currently operates from studios in a converted private dwelling in Sweeneys...."

Posted 23:14 UTC

WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News 453 for February 22, 2000, compiled by Wolfgang Büschel, has been posted.

Posted 23:09 UTC

A pro-Russian Chechen militia leader says he will soon free Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky from the rebels who he says are holding Babitsky. It seems a little suspicious to me that he "knows" for sure that Babitsky is there and that he knows he'll be beating the rebels any moment now. Given that it's always been more than a little implausible that the Russians had handed Babitsky over to Chechen rebels in the first place, one wonders what the Russians are really up to here. This story just gets weirder by the day.

Posted 16:02 UTC

Got an old radio that hums? Phil of Phil's Old Radios tells you how to replace your capacitors and get rid of the hum.

Posted 02:42 UTC

Betcha didn't know that old radios can kill!

Posted 02:38 UTC

This name wasn't being used any more....

Posted 02:27 UTC

Some of the employees of the Voice of America aren't very happy about the recently announced changes.... (via Communications World, Jan. 19)

Posted 01:42 UTC

DXMidAMerica.com reports on HCDX that 1400 WDWS, Champaign, Illinois, will be testing a new transmitter on Monday night/Tuesday morning at 1:10 AM EST (0610 UTC).

Posted 19:50 UTC

Media Network reviews the Hitachi KH-WS1, one of the first WorldSpace receivers: "WorldSpace channels are labelled by name that pops up on the 8 character liquid crystal display as you tune in. We found a total of 26 stations in our tests. There are some more channels running, but because they are only operating on the east or southern beam we can't hear them. This was as a result of just zapping through the channels manually."

Posted 19:42 UTC

Media Network Interactive: "Following a report in Media Network of on-air tests from the Darwin transmitter site in Australia, a report was widely circulated which attempted to discredit this information. It stated that 'An item in RN's Media Network from an Australian contributor advised that Radio Australia was testing on 21720 9850 and 9580 "during daylight hours" from Darwin. RA is not conducting any form of on-air tests at all from Darwin!!!'. We were accused of broadcasting 'stupid and misleading conjectural statements'. Mike Bird in Melbourne decided to check with Radio Australia's Transmission Manager, Nigel Holmes...."

Posted 00:07 UTC

Radio Netherlands and Tom Sundstrom have revamped their subsite about Antique Radio. Tons and tons of links to clubs, collections of old radios, dealers, etc.

BTW, is it just me, or is RNW doing far-and-away the best job among international broadcasters of adapting to the net? They really treat it as another medium, rather than just a place to grab the latest schedule. The only other station I can think of doing such things is BBC, and even then, the World Service site (as opposed to BBC as a whole) isn't all that great and doesn't provide much original content.

Posted 00:05 UTC

BBC World Service reported on their 2100 UTC newscast that Freeplay (formerly known as BayGen) are moving all their radio production from South Africa to China. The report mentions that 200 people in South Africa are likely to lose their jobs; it doesn't mention that one of BayGen's more enlightened policies was to hire the disabled whenever possible.

Posted 21:14 UTC

If you're interested in the Sony ICF-2010/ICF-2001D, George Maroti recommends the Sony 2010 mailing list, started by Sriram Narayan, who also has his own page devoted to the 2010.

Posted 14:52 UTC

Universal reports that the ever-receding Grundig Satellit 800 is now expected by March 31st. Congratulations to Lextronics for importing the ever-popular concept of "vaporware" from the computer world; this is a major advance for shortwave.

Posted 06:56 UTC

iMac-style design invades the radio world.

Posted 06:52 UTC

Universal Radio has taken a page from the Big Boys and added UPS package tracking to its web site.

Posted 06:51 UTC

Andy Sennitt is mad at his computer: "I don't know what it is about computer programmers, but they seem to delight in finding the most user-unfriendly ways of telling us that our computer can't do what we asked it to. When Windows tells me that a program has 'performed an illegal operation and will be shut down', this conveys to me the image of a disreputable physician, whose back-street clinic is forcibly closed after reports that he was performing surgery without a license."

Posted 06:47 UTC

No new DXing with Cumbre radio show this week; Marie's father is in the hospital. We hope he gets better soon, Marie.

Posted 06:42 UTC

On the swprograms mailing list, Jonathan Marks of Radio Netherlands discusses upcoming changes in the BBC World Service, and why they would not be appropriate for a station like Radio Netherlands (or indeed, for the BBC).

BBCWS Loses Mind: John Figliozzi follows up with an excerpt from his upcoming column in Monitoring Times calling for the BBC to forget such foolishness as changing their schedule at the drop of the hat and getting back to basics.

Posted 06:40 UTC

The Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts have a nice page about my favorite portable radio, the Sony ICF-2010.

Posted 06:35 UTC

Knut Otterbeck really loves the Grundig Satellit line of radios.

Posted 02:15 UTC

WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News 452 for February 17, 2000, compiled by Wolfgang Büschel, has been posted.

Posted 21:14 UTC

Enzio Gehrig recommends the National Geographic MapMaker if you're looking for a world map online, and I have to admit, it's pretty cool. (via Hard Core DX)

Posted 12:31 UTC

Stormy Weather (Time Magazine, Feb 14): "Raining particles and radiation on an increasingly tech-dependent Earth, the sun's upcoming 'max' may zap everything from cell phones to power grids." (Thanks Tom Sundstrom for pointing this out from the paper edition; he says the web site is missing "the marvelous photographs" and an illustration.)

Posted 22:30 UTC

Three Men and a Radio Station: "Three men from the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant are planning their own international service for the summer of 2000. A station called InfoRadio hopes to broadcast programmes on shortwave specially for citizens of the province on vacation in Europe."

Posted 22:24 UTC

This is Botswana part 3 (Radio Netherlands): "Towards the end of our first 30-month tour of duty and after Botswana celebrated its 10th Anniversary, I was promoted to Chief Engineer when the man who had recruited me left 'in a bit of a hurry'.... Radio Botswana badly needed to be brought into the 1970's with modern studios and new equipment. I took the opportunity to visit lots of manufacturers in Europe during my leave in 1977. At that time, there was not a lot of money available for development but if you could justify the expenditure, you usually got it."

Posted 22:21 UTC

John Doty has some excellent articles on the Boston Area DXers site, including this review of the ICE Matching Transformer.

I really like my ICE mediumwave notch filter. It's ugly, but it works. Every so often over the past few years, I've pored over my 1994 ICE catalog and lamented that they weren't on the web so I could be more up-to-date with their offerings. Lament no more.

Posted 22:15 UTC

Radio Netherlands Antenna Advice 3.0: "At Radio Netherlands, we get several thousand questions a year about antennas. This feature is designed to explode some of the myths about antennas and offer some practical advice." (Thanks Mark Veldhuis for the pointer.)

Posted 22:02 UTC

The February 2000 edition of Sheldon Harvey's Radio HF Internet Newsletter is up. Lots of links to interesting sites, most of which have no overlap with NASWebLog.

Posted 03:24 UTC

ADDX, "Ihr Partner für internationalen Rundfunkempfang", has a page of links to station web pages and, more importantly, FAX numbers for a bunch of stations.

Posted 02:53 UTC

More coverage of VOA's impending hacking off of various limbs comes via John Figliozzi on the swprograms mailing list, shamelessly cribbed from the script for this week's Communications World hosted by Kim Andrew Elliott on said station. Some portions of the report aren't reflected in the script, as taped reports from the field tend not to be, so you may want to listen to the show if you missed it on the air this week. (Listen direct via VOA's servers for this week only, or from the WRN archive for the next couple of months.)

I know all the Bulgarian and Romanian VOA fans and Internet users will be eagerly awaiting those language services' impending move to Internet delivery....

Posted 02:32 UTC

Nordix DX has posted news of ELWA's return to its home page, quoting first-day reports by Enzio Gehrig and "American DXer Ralph Brandi" (that has a nice ring to it...). Contact information for the station is via Cote d'Ivoire, which, despite suffering a coup recently, is still more stable than Liberia.

Other news on the page covers the reactivation of Malawi on 3380 kHz and upcoming cuts at the Voice of America announced this week by new Head Lackey Sanford Ungar.

Posted 02:21 UTC

WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News 451 for February 10, 2000, compiled by Wolfgang Büschel, has been posted.

Posted 02:14 UTC

Tom Sundstrom says: "Some persons insist real radios must glow in the dark and weigh more than 20 Kg. Such were the classic British Eddystone receivers that gave users hernias. (We did our share of straining with the numerous Hammarlunds in the 1950s and 1960.) Now there is a web site titled The Story of Eddystone Radios from 1898 to 1973. Read the background and history and review the models." (This item from Tom's Net Notes column in the February NASWA Journal.)

Posted 05:28 UTC

This 'Fest may turn out to be the most international yet; thanks to the Voice of America, who is bringing him here for a monitors' conference in Washington, the luncheon speaker on Saturday is world-renowned Sri Lankan DXer Victor Goonetilleke. Tom Sundstrom has updated the ever-expanding list of forums to include a demonstration by VOA's Bill Whitacre of their incredible Remote Monitoring System that allows them to hear almost immediately what reception is like around the world.

Posted 05:22 UTC

Someone in Massachusetts has put a collection of more than 90 vintage radios up for auction on eBay. The bidding is way too rich for me, but it's worth looking at the pictures. You've got until Wednesday to bid. :-)

Posted 16:01 UTC

Pirates for God? HCJB has a list of locations where it has "planted" radio stations, providing FM transmitters and antennas. Interestingly, six of the transmitters are listed as having been send to locations "undisclosed for security reasons".

Posted 23:42 UTC

Another reason to preregister for the 'Fest, from festmeister Richard Cuff:

The hotel needs us to give them the final head count for Saturday meals by the Friday morning [11 am] of the 'Fest.

People who arrive on Saturday without pre-registering will not be able to get meals.

Posted 14:22 UTC

Since posting the item about Enzio hearing ELWA, I've heard them myself, signing off at 2200. It sounded like they gave a URL in their closing ID, but I couldn't quite understand it.

Posted 22:41 UTC

Enzio Gehrig reports on A-DX (a German-language Austrian mailing list) that he's heard ELWA on 4760 in English with the ID "This program is coming to you from Monrovia, Liberia." (Thanks Mark Veldhuis on IRC chat channel #swl.)

Posted 20:54 UTC

On the new SWL Fest mailing list, Rich Cuff posted the following from his fellow unindicted co-conspirator in Fest-dom, John Figliozzi:

Mail registrations are not a very accurate predictor of what the final count will be, as an increasing number annually wait until the last minute or just show up and register. This causes all sorts of problems for us (the planners) and the hotel (with meals) and the registrants (availability of rooms). This year we are simply appealing to people to register as early as possible to avoid these problems. Beginning next year, it is likely that if you register after a certain date, your registration fee (and perhaps room fee) will be higher. We need to find a way to facilitate better planning for all and this would appear to be one way to accomplish that.

If you're going to the Fest this year, please pre-register. It makes life a lot easier for the people running the Fest, and for you.

Posted 19:15 UTC

Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky, reporting for RFE/RL from Chechnya, has gone missing. He was reported arrested by Russian authorities who didn't much like his reporting. In the latest bizarre twist, the Russians claim they exchanged him for three Russian prisoners with the Chechens. The Chechens deny any involvement, say that the people the Russians claim were involved are either dead or nonexistent, and suggest that the Russians staged the "exchange" so they could kill Babitsky and blame it on the Chechens. The Russians have also made some scurrilous attacks on Babitsky. RFE/RL has a site detailing the entire incredibly strange story. (Story brought to my attention by the Communications World website script for February 5.)

Posted 02:56 UTC

Unlike Humpty Dumpty, Communications World has been put back together again. You can find a schedule for the newly restored all-in-one-piece program on the CW web site.

Posted 02:26 UTC

ZDNet: iCraveTV's Craig craves combat. "He's fighting a temporary restraining order that could go permanent today -- not to mention a messy divorce settlement. Who is William Craig?"

Posted 00:20 UTC

Radio Netherlands' webzine reminds us that EarthTuner, a database of online audio broadcasts that serves as a front-end to RealPlayer for 32-bit Windows, is now free. (Don't be misled by RN's page, though; the Mac counterpart, MacTuner, still costs $22.95. Feh!)

Posted 23:55 UTC

Andy Sennitt: " A friend recently drew my attention to an interesting press release from an amateur radio dealer in London. It seems that the amateur radio market is depressed at the moment, to the extent that some dealers have got out of the business, while others are having to diversify to keep their heads above water. This particular dealer is now running a very successful motorcycle business which subsidises his amateur radio operation."

Posted 23:45 UTC

New festmeister Richard Cuff has set up a mailing list "specifically (and exclusively!) related to the Winter SWL Festival coming up in March in Kulpsville, PA. This will be a place to post any questions on the 'Fest or, possibly, to exchange ride-sharing or other similar types of information."

Subscribe by sending e-mail to 'swlfest-subscribe@topica.com' or by visiting the Topica website for the list.

Posted 23:39 UTC

The Free Radio site at About.com lists the sponsors (under the heading Congressional Hall of Shame) of the NAB suck-up "Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 1999" that would undo the FCC's decision allowing low power FM radio. I was disappointed to find that my former Representative was one of the sponsors (and that his vote sells so cheaply--maybe I could outbid the NAB).

Posted 08:57 UTC

If you're looking for a gazetteer, you could do a lot worse than this site. It ain't pretty, but it works.

Posted 08:46 UTC

Visiting Vietnam via the Ether: Hans Johnson spreads the good word. "Although their numbers are steadily going down, a number of regional shortwave stations continue to operate. These are much tougher to hear than the other services, but can provide quite good reception, particularly in Southeast Asia."

Posted 08:43 UTC

There's a new radio from the second-best receiver manufacturer in Ohio. Reports I heard last summer indicated that if someone else opened up in that state, Palstar would become the third-best receiver manufacturer in Ohio, but that was based on early prototypes.

Posted 08:38 UTC

If Al Quaglieri and Dave Kernick don't have what you're looking for in the way of interval signals, try Nobuyuki Kawamura's Interval Signals from Japan. He's got some things the other two don't have. For example, his recording of Vanuatu with their national anthem at signon helped me ID them on 4960 at 1002* signoff today. (updated at 1009 UTC.)

Posted 09:09 UTC

Nils Jakobsen is awfully enamored of cheesy web ads, but buried in the murk on his Eldorado for LA DXers is a wealth of information on verification signers, e-mail addresses, station anniversaries, and national days throughout South and Central America. The site has moved to a new server. (via a post by Nils on Hard Core DX.)

Posted 06:46 UTC

ListenToTheNews.com, which did things the right way, by linking to providers' own streams, is still being pursued by the jackals at National Public Radio. Initial reports that the site's second shutdown was the result of pressure from Time/Warner were incorrect.

See if my local public radio station gets a contribution this year.... <sigh>

Posted 13:34 UTC

ICraveTV.com, staggering under the weight of its accumulated lawsuits for copyright infringement, appears to caving in.

Posted 13:29 UTC

Habla Ud. Español? Radio América en Honduras tiene una historia de radio en Honduras: "El primer equipo transmisor instalado en el país correspondió a 'La Voz del Trópico', que tuvo un asiento en la capital de la República. A manera de experimento la emisora inicio sus transmisiones en 1928, luego que el gobierno que dirigía el presidente Vicente Mejía Colindres otorgara una concesión para explotar la industria radiofónica a la tropical radio 'Telegraph' que duraría 99 años...." Tambien tiene una history de Radio América.

And last, but not least, even if you don't speak Spanish, you should be able to pick your way through their list of stations in Honduras. (Thanks Pentti Lintujarvi on Hard Core DX for the initial pointer.)

Posted 12:40 UTC

Issue 8 of Radio Intrigue with Don Schimmel has been posted to DXing.com.

Posted 06:09 UTC

Mark Veldhuis in the Netherlands reports that Radio K'ekchi has returned: "GUATEMALA 4845, Radio K'eckchi; Fray Bartolome de las Casas, Feb 4., 0152-0159, Male talk and several ID's in Q'eqchi. Back on the air; reported inactive in Cumbre DX #278. Very strong; 44444 (Veldhuis)" (Direct from Mark Veldhuis.)

Posted 19:51 UTC

Oooooh! Cool! Andy Sennitt, formerly editor of the WRTH and currently editor of the Radio Netherlands Media Network (Real Radio) web site and just generally a good egg, is going to be the speaker at the Winter SWL Fest banquet. (Andy is a really nice guy....)

Oh, and the rest of the forum schedule for the Fest has been posted to Tom Sundstrom's site. I think I'm supposed to be on the International Broadcasters, SW Listening and the Clubs panel...if I remembered to answer my e-mail....

Posted 00:47 UTC

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? "Weltempfang" ist Die Mailing-Liste für deutschsprachige DXer. "Für alle am Empfang weit entfernter Rundfunksender auf allen Hörfunk- und TV-Bändern, speziell aber dem Frequenzbereich 0-30 MHz interessierten, deutschsprachigen Hörer." (Danke Mathias Eisenkolb, via Hard Core DX; and no, your webmaster doesn't Sprechen any Deutsch beyond "ein Hefeweizen, bitte"....)

Posted 00:06 UTC

As I was doing a daytime mediumwave bandscan, just for the hell of it, I found myself trying to remember where I had seen web interfaces to the FCC database of western hemisphere stations. RadioStation.com was one of the ones I was trying to think of.

Posted 22:42 UTC

Looking for a list of south-east Asian medium wave stations? Look no further (well, maybe you should; this one isn't complete yet, but it's getting there....) (Thanks Julius Hermans on the Hard Core DX mailing list.)

Posted 04:20 UTC

Universal Radio has jumped into the fray with information about the upcoming Icom IC-R3 shortwave/VHF/television/snack bar, saying "You gotta see this!"

Posted 02:32 UTC

WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News 450 for February 1, 2000, compiled by Wolfgang Büschel, has been posted.

Posted 02:28 UTC

This is Radio Botswana: Part two of Mike Harris' memoir of his time working in southern Africa.

Posted 02:20 UTC