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Theme
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“Birthday Serenade” -
Willi Glahe
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Opening Announcement - 00:16
Welcome to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
Program outline
1.
North of the Stone Wall: The Radio Scene in Scotland - 2
2.
HFCC Sofia Bulgaria 2014 Report
3.
Japan DX Report
4. Special QSLs: Indiana
listener received nostalgic QSL from the Voice of Mongolia
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North of the Stone Wall: The Radio Scene in Scotland - 2 - 01:03
In part 2 of the radio scene in Scotland, North of the Stone
Wall, we go back to the early 1920s, at the time when the first radio
broadcasting stations were installed in Scotland. All four of these early BBC stations were
Marconi units rated at 1½ kW; three
operated in the mediumwave band, and one in the longwave band.
Radio
program broadcasting came to Scotland on March 6, 1923 with the inauguration of
station 5SC in Glasgow with 1½ kW on 717 kHz. The original studios were located in a
confined area, in an attic in Rex House at 202 Bath Street, and the transmitter
was installed in the Pinkston Power Station at Port Dundas, a mile north of
Glasgow city. The number at the
beginning of the callsign 5SC has no apparent real significance within the
territories of the United Kingdom, though the letters SC would seem to indicate
the first two letters in the territorial name, Scotland.
Subsequent
stations that came on the air quite soon afterwards were Aberdeen 2BD 605
kHz, Edinburgh 2EH 328 kHz, and Dundee
2DE 906 kHz. The callsign for each of
these three subsequent stations began with the number 2, and the letters in
each callsign can be seen in the name of the city of license.
Thus
the second radio broadcasting station in Scotland was 2BD (605 kHz) in
Aberdeen, a relay station with studios at 17 Belmont Street and the transmitter
almost adjoining at the Aberdeen Steam Laundry in Claremont Street. This station was officially inaugurated on
October 10 of the same year 1923.
The third station was the lone
longwave relay station 2EH (328 kHz) with studios in the back premises of a
music shop at 79 George Street Edinburgh
and the transmitter in a wooden hut
in the quadrangle at the nearby university buildings at Teviot Place on the
other side of the main railway station.
In addition to the relay of programs
from the network key station 5SC in Glasgow, the Edinburgh 2EH was noted back
in that era for the production of its own afternoon programming, and a Children’s
Hour on Friday evenings. This station
was officially inaugurated on May 1 of the following year 1924.
The
fourth early broadcasting station in Scotland was 2DE (906 kHz) in Dundee with
studios at 1 Lochee Street and the transmitter at the Caldrum Jute Works on
nearby St. Salvador Street. This station
was inaugurated on November 12 of the same year 1924.
All
four of the original mediumwave stations in Scotland were subsequently replaced
by the BBC at updated locations with new equipment before the commencement of
World War 2 in 1939.
North
of the Stone Wall, in Scotland itself, the BBC is on the air these days with a
multitude of radio and TV stations throughout the entire country. The BBC Scotland runs separate radio & TV
channels in English and in the Gaelic language.
A
map indicating all of the AFRS American Forces Radio Stations in the British
Isles during World War 2 shows two stations in Scotland. These stations were located at American bases
apparently near the two major cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Almost nothing is known about these two
stations, except that they operated at very low power, usually 50 watts. It is known that one station was installed in
the American Military Hospital at Cowglen, near Glasgow.
No
regular shortwave broadcasting station has ever been erected in Scotland,
though hobby pirates have been noted at various times. For example, QSL cards show:-
Radio
Freedom Midlothian 1974 35 watts 6220 kHz
Radio
Stella Central Scotland 1983 20 7319
Voice
of Scotland Cambridge England? 1993 300 6205
However,
there have been some program relays on shortwave from Scotland with the usage
of relay stations in the northern hemisphere.
A licensed internet radio station, Radio Six international in Glasgow,
took out several short term relays via shortwave stations in Europe and the
United States. The shortwave stations in
Europe were located in Italy and Latvia, and the shortwave stations in the
United States were WBCQ in Monticello Maine and WWCR in Nashville
Tennessee. These shortwave relays from
Radio Six International were on the air for a period of a little over five
years, running from December 2003 to December 2008.
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Program Announcement - 06:25
Allen
Graham
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HFCC Sofia Bulgaria 2014 Report - 07:16
HFCC
Council
Spaceline information
Churches & monasteries
Next HFCC Meetings
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Japan DX Report - 16:13
Yukiko
Tsuji
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Special QSL: Letter from “Home”, Voice of Mongolia, Honhor, Mongolia -
21:56
For our unique QSL this week, we
feature a very special QSL that was received by Mrs. Dr. Carolyn Lysandrou,
amateur callsign KC9URR, who now lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Some years ago, Dr. Lysandrou was living in
Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia where she spent some time.
Here in the United States two years
ago, she endeavored on several occasions to tune in to the shortwave service of
the Voice of Mongolia, and then on September 14 (2012) she was finally
successful in tuning their signal on 12085 kHz.
This 250 kW shortwave transmitter is located at Honhor, a few miles
south east from the national capital Ulaan Baatar.
Her reception report was verified by
a friendly letter in English from Uyanga Ganchangaa together with a QSL card;
that is, a tourist picture postcard with the QSL text handwritten on the
reverse side.
Mrs. Carolyn states that she ”spent
many days trying to hear the station”, and that “it
was so nice to receive such a wonderful personal letter” referring
to the area where she used to live in Ulaan Baatar. With a nostalgic comment, Carolyn Lysandrou
concludes by saying: “I miss Mongolia”.
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Music of the World - 22:15
Mongolia:
My Beloved Country, Mongolian National Song & Dance Ensemble
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Closing Announcement - 24:03
Thanks for listening to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis
Next week:-
1.
100th Anniversary Panama Canal: The Radio
Story - 2
2.
WRMI Insert
3.
A multitude of QSLs from Calcutta in India
4. Philippine DX
Report
5. QSL of the Week:
Firedrake Jammer in China
Several QSL cards available. Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports
for Wavescan to the AWR address in Indianapolis; and
also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or WWCR
or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan. Remember too, you can send a reception report to each of
the DX reporters when their segment is on the
air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia &
India. They will verify with a colorful QSL card. Return postage and an address label are
always appreciated.
Wavescan address:-
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
Wavescan @ AWR.org
Jeff White, shortwave WRMI
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Music Outrun - 26:01
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Program Ends - 28:53
