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Radio Active set to return to radio

RadioActive International will start broadcasts in the coming weeks, it will also relay its shows via the internet in stream and on demand formats backed up by social media. European services will be heard on the 49 meterband shortwave and FM relays of the internet stream will be encouraged and sponsored in cities around the world.

RadioActive is looking for Presenters/DJs who can make shows in their own space and time and deliver it by electronic or postal service, where it will be placed in the schedule. There will be no formats or adverts and the open access policy has little rules, no fascists and no religions. And a common understanding that we are not going to break the law to do this only to play similar music to the legal stations.

Share this on, lets make radio better! reply by message if you want a show.

more details soon
facebook http://url.ie/fn7v
web http://RadioActive101.com

UPDATE September 2012 

Radioactive is back http://radioactiveinternational.org/

twitter @radioactiveint 

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Vatican Radio to suspend 50% of SW & MW transmissions from July 1st

While most of Rome’s focus this week is on IEC 2012 in Dublin Ireland, some bad news not buried from the Holy See is that they are dropping Europe & American broadcasts of Vatican Radio on shortwave & mediumwave from July 1st 2012.

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Full details
http://www.news.va/en/news/vatican-radio-new-communications-strategies

On July 1st, Short and Medium Wave broadcasts from Vatican Radio???s Santa Maria di Galeria Transmission Centre, to most of Europe and the Americas, will be suspended. These areas of the world are already well served by Vatican Radio???s local rebroadcasting partners and by widespread internet access to its services and language programming.

The reduction of Short and Medium Wave broadcasts to these areas accounts for about 50% of the Centre???s transmission time and will allow Vatican Radio to restructure the Centre according to more innovative technological criteria. Short Wave broadcasts will be further reduced over the next few years ??? but not at the expense of those poor, needy and suffering parts of the world (like Africa, the Middle East and Asia) which have no alternative means of receiving news of the Church and the voice of the Pope.

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very strange radio occurrence hit Irish air space on Saturday – have a listen

On Saturday June 10th 2012 you might have noticed your FM radio turned into what normally happens on Shortwave Radio.

Science bit: The E layer of the atmosphere became ionized and reflected back FM signals that normally travel out to the moon and into outer space. This is known as Sporadic E. coz its rare and Layer E. 🙂 here is my recording.

If you can speak Italian, please help me identify this station so I can write to them and share this recording.

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Radio for the masses

 

I volunteered to find some suitable radios for the local roman catholic church that are keying up for jesus and broadcasting services on 27mhz (11 meters) in the Citizen Band. While I don’t receive the holy spirit myself i do get radio signals and their outreach potential. The churches receiver sets that they have been using have heard better days. The radio sets are given to parishioners that are unable to attend church on a regular basis. 

So far I could source the following for sub €50 from China (if customs doesn’t slap a big chunk of duty on it) 

I like the sound of the ATS feature the radio has. Think of it as a blind scan of the whole SW band. In about 2.5 minutes! it scans 2-30Mhz and stores the signals in a memory bank other than the 500 presets the radio boasts. It stores 1200 scanned stations in 12 pages of 100.

The name Tecsun (like Texan) PL 210 (like polonium 210) is from a family of radio sets that have been getting good reviews for the sensitivity of the FM & SW tuners and its 10Kc down to 1Kc tuning bandwidths. Power is via a mini USB accepting 5v and will charge provided 3xAA rechargeables.  

I might just have to test drive one before I bulk order. Anyone importing these into Ireland? get in touch. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aapus0q9Ks