Saved by 2 Metres

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Saved by 2 Metres

Think twice before leaving that HT home! So many of us have mobile phones in our cars or even have an overhead button (in newer cars) that will summon help in case of an accident or if the vehicle gets disabled. But what happens if you are in a rural zone without internet service or any service at all - even the outback of Australia in your utility vehicle? Well, one ham driving in a very rural part of New Jersey found out how his dual band mobile radio could help after he discovered a single-car accident on a rainy road, the airbag deployed on the driver’s side……and no way to get the call for aid through except by local repeater.

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Broadcast Celebrates 80 Years for UK Shortwave Site

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One hundred people turned out on Tuesday, the 17th October 2023, for an 80th anniversary celebration at the UK's last remaining shortwave radio transmitting site. Countless others attended the party from a distance -- as shortwave listeners who later sent in reception reports.

The Woofferton Transmitting Station, which was built by the BBC during the Second World War, is owned by Encompass Digital Media. Its celebration broadcast was transmitted to listeners in Europe as an analogue broadcast on 17.785 MHz and as a DRM broadcast on 11.725 MHz.

In a rare turn at programming, the station also used its oldest transmitter - a Marconi BD272 built in Britain in 1963, to send programming to North America on 15.245 MHz.

To hear the anniversary broadcast, click on the link that you can find in the text version of this week's Amateur Radio Newsline Newscast -https://www.mixcloud.com/EDMRadioOnline/woofferton80/

D.A.R.C. Celebrates 100 years of Broadcast Radio in Germany with a Transmission on Medium Wave and other Activities.

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If you were in the centre of Berlin this past 29th October 2023 listening to an AM radio transmission on 400 metres at precisely 8 p.m. local time, you may have had an experience similar to one listeners enjoyed precisely one hundred years earlier - at that exact hour - when the nation's first AM radio broadcast station went on the air.

This year, the historic occasion of that broadcast was marked by radio amateurs paying tribute. Having received permission from the German regulator, BNetzA, the D.A.R.C. - the national radio society - transmitted a programme on the original medium wave frequency of 747 kHz as part of the day's celebrations. D.A.R.C. members were also present at the nearby technical museum to speak about radio and conduct demonstrations. The day's ceremonies included the unveiling of a plaque at the site where the original "vox hause" studio and transmitter were located.

The D.A.R.C. of course is no stranger to AM broadcasting. Each week its regularly scheduled news report is sent to listeners on the 49- 31- and 75-metre broadcast bands. It is, however, worth noting that this special tribute broadcast on 400 metres likely had more listeners than 100 years ago, when few households had radio sets.