Radio Sweden the latest to give up shortwave broadcasting

The become the latest to give up the ghost. In North America, they broadcast out of Canada on 6010khz 30 minutes a day, twice a day in English.

Source - sr.se

Radio Sweden will terminate its medium and short wave broadcasts this October 31st in favour of web services – with Swedish Radio management stating that is the best use of resources and in line with international trends.

The English-language service is to continue on the web and on national broadcasts.

The Russian output will be available on the web as is the German now.

Elle-Kari Höjeberg, in charge of short and medium wave broadcasts at Swedish Radio explains why the decision was made to wind up the broadcasts.

”We Are at a Crossroad and Had to Make a Decision” 3:40

Among the immigrant languages, Albanian, Assyrian-Syriac and Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian are to be terminated on the same date. Meanwhile, Arabic and Somali – the largest immigrant language groups here at present – are to be boosted. The same applies to Romani – one of Sweden’s five official minority languages.

The Persian service is to include even Dari spoken by the rapidly increasing number of Afghan refugees coming to Sweden. Kurdish broadcasts remain unchanged.

Swedish Radio’s output in immigrant languages will be available on the web and broadcast nationally.

To listen to Radio Sweden streaming in English click here

DX log - Mar 21, 2010 0600-0630 utc

0600-0630utc 3/21/2010
Radio Grundig G6 with 50 foot random wire antenna

3185 - WWRB with Brother Stair
3215 - WWCR #1 with preacher
3330 - CHU time signal (fading)
4840 - WWCR #3 with another preacher
5000 - WWVH weak signal
5000 - WWV
5025 - Radio Rebelde in Cuba (spanish)
5080 - WTWW Pete Peters preaching
5446 - AFRTS - Armed forces radio on USB with sports update
5745 - WYFR with Harold Camping preaching the world ends in 2011
5810 - NUMBERS STATION in morse code
5875 - BBC talking about Israeli settlements in Jerusalem
5890 - WWCR poor signal with Pete Peters
5915 - GERMANY Duetsche Welle in Russian
5950 - TAIWAN in spanish via Canada
5965 - UNIDENTIFIED, fading signal
6000 - WYFR more Harold Camping
6010 - CUBA in English with stamp collecting program
6030 - RADIO MARTI being jammed
6045 - SOUTH KOREA in spanish via Canada
6060 - CUBA in English
6070 - CBCNQ in English but very poor signal
6075 - GERMANY in German
6090 - ANGUILLA WLD Network with Melissa Scott
6115 - CHINA via Canada, Heartbeat program about Chinese culture
6140 - CUBA in English
6150 - CUBA in Spanish
6165 - NETHERLANDS in Dutch via Bonaire
6185 - MEXICO XEPPM playing music, fading signal
6185 - VATICAN in Swedish, fading signal
6220 - CUBA in Spanish, poor signal
6604 - New York international weather in USB
7250 - VATICAN in English, out of schedule, talking about church scandal
7325 - BBC in Arabic

Shortwave loggings - 0200 0300 utc 2/15/2009

0200utc 1/15/2009
Grundig G5 using whip antenna
Leesville, SC
English broadcast received

2500 - WWV Time Signal
3145 - USA WWRB Overcomer with Ralph Stair
3185 - USA WWRB
3215 - USA WWCR #1
3330 - CHU Time Signal
5000 - WWV Time Signal
5050 - USA WWRB
5070 - USA WWCR #3
5935 - USA WWCR #2 - Melissa Scott
5950 - TAIWAN Radio Taiwan via WYFR in Florida
5985 - USA WYFR - Family Radio
6000 - CUBA Radio Habana
6010 - SWEDEN Radio Sweden (on at 0230 UTC)
6070 - CANADA CFRX commercial radio station
6090 - ANGUILLA - WLD University Network, Scott preaching
6140 - CUBA Radio Habana
6175 - VIETNAM - Voice of Vietnam via Canada (on at 230 UTC)
6240 - RUSSIA voice of Russia via Moldova
7160 - IRAN - ended at 0230UTC
7250 - RUSSIA Voice of Russia via Armenia
7345 - CZECH REPUBLIC - Radio Prague (ended at 0230 UTC)
7415 - USA WBCQ
7455 - USA WYFR Family Radio
7505 - USA WRNO
7535 - EGYPT Radio Cairo
7811 - USA AFRTS - upper sideband
7850 - CHU Time Signal

6925 - WMR We Monkey Radio in AM we keep song short so monkey's don't lose interest (ID at 0255 utc)
5550 - Airline traffic on USB
5520 - Airline traffic on USB
3455 - Airline traffic on USB
6628 - Airline traffic on USB

Latest AM stations dxed and 2 more longwave beacons

Grundig G5 from Leesville, SC using it's own ferrite antenna

1150 WAVO - Rock Hill, SC playing oldies, daytime (77 miles)
600 WSJS - Winston Salem, NC talk radio (165 miles)
1310 WDKD - Kingstree, SC playing music (99 miles)
1350 WJBY - Gadsden, AL sports radio (259 miles)
1270 WNLS - Tallahassee, FL sports radio (292 miles)
1250 WTMA - Charleston, SC talk radio (O'Reilly & Jim Bohanon)
(117 miles)

2 more longwave beacons

216 CLB Wilmington, NC
414 FDW Winnsboro, SC

Updated list of AM stations I still haven't been able to dx

900, 1250, 1270, 1340, 1350, 1450, 1480, 1490, 1570, 1580, 1610, 1670, 1680

13 of em

Latest 5 AM stations dxing

Using the Grundig G5 internal antenna

1550 - WIGN Bristol, TN
1290 - WHKY Hickory, NC
540 - WFLF Orlando, FL - simulcast of WFLA out of Tampa
1590 - WCSL Cherryville, NC -
1520 - WARR Warrenton, NC - near Henderson, NC

Grand total of 163 stations listened to since Dec 2008

Three longwave beacons picked up on the Grundig G5

Longwave appears to work well with the G5, I think my G6 was defective or suffers from horrible sensitivity on longwave bands. None of these beacons are far away. All are morse code beacons constantly repeating.

329 - CH - Charleston, SC
347 - AIK - Aiken, SC
362 - CA - Columbia, SC