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Another casualty of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic is the 2021 Tokyo Ham Fair, scheduled for 2 and 3 October 2021. Due to the latest wave of infection this summer, the Japanese national society, JARL, has reluctantly decided to cancel the Ham Fair. They hope that the Tokyo Ham Fair will be back in 2022, under […]

Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Society has a net on Sundays from 7.30pm on GB3DG, which then usually moves to Zoom at around 8pm. Thursday sees a net on GB3DG from 7pm. There is also an open RAYNET net daily on GB3DG from noon. See gm4riv.org. Stirling and District Amateur Radio Society is open today for outdoor […]

Burnham Beeches Radio Club has a club net from 10.30am on Sundays, usually around 145.275MHz. Monday sees a surplus equipment sale from 8pm. Email ebytronics@gmail.com. Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society has a CW net on Sundays from 8pm on 144.060MHz. On Monday, there is a Morse class from 7.30pm around 3542kHz, followed at 8.15pm by GB2CW […]

Thornbury and South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Club meetings at the Chantry have resumed on Wednesdays from 7.30pm. On Friday, there is a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk. On Monday, Weston-super-Mare Radio Society Club is meeting at the Social Club. There is a net on […]

Carmarthen ARS has an 80m SSB net from 2.30pm every Sunday. Tuesday sees a meeting at The Cwmduad Community Centre from 7.30pm. Wednesdays see a net from 7.30pm via GB3CM which moves to GB3FG on Thursdays. Contact Andy, GW0JLX, on 0776 828 2880. North Wales Amateur Radio Group has a net on Sundays from 8pm […]

We have launched a new award to encourage people to use their new handheld and the substantial bandwidth we have at VHF and UHF, as well as— Do more radio-to-radio activity without the assistance of repeaters and internet gateways Be a bridge to other award programmes run by the RSGB (such as the 4-2-70 and […]

The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter August 2021 is now available.Click on the link to read it! …

Live, off-air, recording of the broadcast of two special sequential half-hour programs of Radio Prague International celebrating its 85th anniversary. The programs were broadcast via WRMI, Radio Miami International, using a transmitter at Okeechobee, Florida, on 31 August 2021 from 21:00 to 22:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 15770 kHz. The listed transmitter power is 100 kW with an antenna beam azimuth of 44°. The recording includes WRMI station identifications.

Czech Radio officially began its international service on 31 August 1936. Eventually, the service became known as Radio Prague, then for a brief time in the 1990s as Radio Czechoslovakia International and most recently as Radio Prague International. Radio Prague International is mostly an on-line service now with its own transmitters having been shut down on 31 January 2011. It continued to broadcast over the single WRMI transmitter in Miami and currently relays its daily programs in English, French, and Spanish using the WRMI transmitter complex in Okeechobee.

The special anniversary programs include archival recordings, interviews, and comments from listeners. The first half-hour program is in English followed by a second half-hour program in French.

The broadcast via WRMI was received outdoors on a Tecsun PL-880 receiver in AM mode with 2.3 kHz filtering and a Tecsun AN-03L 7-metre wire antenna strung to a nearby tree in Hanwell (just outside Fredericton), New Brunswick, Canada. Reception was mostly quite good.