[Swprograms] CALENDAR of mostly SW SPECIALS July 12 update

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

CALENDAR OF mostly SW SPECIALS, FAREWELLS compiled by Glenn Hauser

Dates, days and times are strictly UT

Note: expired info has been moved to the bottom of this page on our website for anyone who may need to refer to it. I have not attempted to follow-up everything mentioned, but this has been done in DXLD, the DXLDyg and/or my log reports.

UPDATE SUMMARY since last edition:

More on Night of Nights July 13 from KPH et al. in California on CW. More on Radio Hami special from Finland. Another WGBW 1590 DX test July 15. European Music Radio on July 15. Dates for Ramadan from July 19. Final day for Vatican via Sackville July 31.

SUNDAY JULY 1+

The AWR via SL relays have continued past June 30, unknown how much longer.

Just a timely reminder that the original schedule for the AWR relay from Trincomalee in Sri Lanka showed that these broadcasts would end on June 30. A special QSL card is available, and also a rare (these days) QSL stamp. Available only from the AWR address in Indianapolis.

Scheduling from the Trincomalee Relay Station, 125 kW

0000 - 0100 11955, 1100 - 1200 15540, 1200 - 1300 15490, 1300 - 1400 17635, 1400 - 1500 12105, 1500 - 1530 15715, 1530 - 1600 7410, 1600 - 1630 11835, 1630 - 1700 11740 ENGLISH, 2100 - 2200 11750, 2200 - 2230 9455 9545, 2230 - 2400 9730 ENGLISH (Dr. Adrian M. Peterson, Co-ordinator - International Relations & DX Editor, Adventist World Radio)

He didn`t include the languages, but only two are in English which I have added, per WRTH Update (gh)

THURSDAY JULY 12-SUNDAY JULY 15

R. Hami, Finland, low-power special on 6170, 1584, 94.7. Details:
http://radiohami.fi/

UPDATE: Special Event Station - Radio Hami, 12-15th July 2012 on 6170 kHz

Radio Hami (The Finnish Amateur Radio League annual summer camp event radio station) will be active from July 12th to July 15th. You can hear us on FM 94.7 MHz (Sappee), AM 6170 kHz & 1584 kHz. We will have around the clock transmission, though programming takes place mainly between 8 am and midnight EEST (0500-2100 UT). Program (in Finnish) is available here:

http://radiohami.fi/operaatiot/kesaeleiri-2012-sappee/ohjelma2012.shtml

Radio Hami is temporary radio station, that operates yearly from The Finnish Amateur Radio League summer camp. Usually transmissions can be heard locally on FM and more internationally on 49 and 187 meter bands. You can contact us using via email: mailto:hallitus@xxxxxxxxxxxx

QSL info: Radio Hami / SRAL, PL 44, 00441 Helsinki
http://radiohami.fi/in-english.shtml
(Thanks to Mikhail Timofeyev via Open DX, via Alokesh Gupta)

FRIDAY JULY 13

NIGHT OF NIGHTS XIII
>From 0001 UT, The Maritime Radio Historical Society with revival of CW Coastal stations KPH, KSM, KFS, also ham activity as K6KPH. Also open house at Bolinas, California from 2000 UT July 12. See http://www.radiomarine.org

UPDATE: Good chance to catch rare (and not so rare) utes

From: Radiomarine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Richard Dillman Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:08 PM To: Radiomarine; Boatanchors; Ham Radio History

NIGHT OF NIGHTS XIII - SAVE THE DATE

12 July 1999 was a sad day for many of us. We knew it was coming but when the end finally arrived is was a shock. I was there. It was the supposed last day of Morse code. The final sign off took place at a remote station on the Pacific coast. Women attending the event were dressed as if at a funeral. Grizzled, hard bitten old men, the kind you wouldn't mess with in a bar room, had tears in their eyes as the last messages was keyed out to the world at 0000 gmt. And then there was silence. It was just beeps in the air. But that's how much Morse code means to the men and women who made the profession of radiotelegrapher one of honor and skill.

But the prediction of the death of Morse code was not to be fulfilled. On that day the Maritime Radio Historical Society was born. On that day we began plans to restore a Morse code radio station - the famous KPH. One year later we held the first "Night of Nights" when not only KPH but other coast stations appeared once again on the air. Every year since we have commemorated that date by returning these stations to the air and thereby, we hope, honoring the men and women who came before us.

Join us this year for Night of Nights XIII. See and hear a real Morse code coast station in full song. Mingle with the pioneers who werethe men and women of the airwaves.

Or, if you can't join us in person, join us on the air. KSM and, we hope, KPH and KFS will be in action (to be confirmed - watch our Web site for updates).

K6KPH will be open to calls from amateur stations.

When: 12 July 2012 - Doors open at 3:00 pm [PDT], first transmission at 5:01pm (0001 gmt July 13)

Where: KPH receive station, 14700 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, past the oyster company and G Ranch Information: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 663-8982

Light snacks will be served. VY 73, RD

Richard Dillman, WPE2VT, Chief Operator, Coast Station KSM, Maritime Radio Historical Society http://www.radiomarine.org (via Harold Frodge, July 9, DXLD)

BBC Radio 3 Prom Concert season starts, webcasts until September 8
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

SUNDAY JULY 15

0500-0700: Mark Heller at WGBW-1590 advises he'll be conducting another DX TEST this will be Sunday Morning July 15 (after Saturday night) from Midnight to 2 AM Central Daylight Time. This may be the last test for a while from WGBW-1590, as they have received their Construction Permit for 500 watt night operation. 73 (Wayne Heinen, July 7, NRC-AM via DXLD) Two Rivers/Denmark, Wisconsin, circa Green Bay.

0800-0900 & 1600-1700: Dear Listeners, EMR will be on 6005 kHz [Kall, GERMANY] this Sunday at 0800 & 1600 UT for 1 hour. I am in London all this week in to next week, as my mother is very ill and will not live for much longer. I have no way to inform most of the EMR Listenrrs about our transmissions. Can you please help me to let all the listeners know that EMR is on this Sunday. If you can email all the listeners and DX clubs you know please. I thank you for all your help. 73s (Tom Taylor, July 11, via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD)

0930 UT Sundays starting this week: USTRALIA. AMATEUR NET --- We got more amateurs in this club; well, why not an amateur net? Say (now this is me, 7140 0930 on Sundays starting 15th July 0930 UT on 7140 kHz. Howzat?!!!! Say hello and also give your ARDXC membership number)! I want to hear this as a shortwave listener! (Johno Wright, July Australian DX News via DXLD)

THURSDAY JULY 19-SATURDAY AUGUST 18

RAMADAN begins in the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2012, and ends in the evening of Saturday, August 18, 2012 [variable depending on local new-moon sightings]. This leads to extended all-night, or at least modified scheduling on many stations, some of them SW, in Islamic-dominated countries.

TUESDAY JULY 31

Stop-date for Vatican Radio relays via Sackville; will they be replaced by Bonaire for a few more months, or what? English to the Americas has been at 0250-0320 on 7305, 9610; 1200-1214 except Sundays on 13730.

This calendar will be updated and reissued as needed
Latest edition: http://www.w4uvh.net/calendar.html
WORLD OF RADIO: http://www.worldofradio.com
DX LISTENING DIGEST: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html

(Glenn Hauser, 2245 UT July 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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