|
WMR LATEST NEWS ARCHIVE - 2024 New
address for WMR..... ========================================= WMR LATEST NEWS PAGES ARCHIVED 2024 WMR LATEST NEWS PAGES ARCHIVED 2023 WMR LATEST NEWS PAGES ARCHIVED OLD PRE 2016 =========================================
Friday 27th December 2024 The show for the weekend between Christmas and New Year is linked below. May I sincerely wish each and every one of our listeners a very Happy New Year when it comes. And of course the same wishes go out to all the folks that make these radio shows a reality every weekend. My best heart felt wishes to you all... Thank you to ourprimary service for the signals on 25th and 26th. Much appreciated. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded 27th December 2024
Tuesday 24th December 2024 The show for Christmas Day and Boxing Day is linked below. Featured in this show is a clip of Tony Allan's show on Radio Nova Dublin Christmas 1984, when they were running 50kW. There is also a rather poor clip of DRM recorded from an ELAD receiver, on a booming signal on 6195. (incorrectly listed as 6295 for months.) May I sincerely wish each and every one of our listeners a very merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year when it comes. And of course the same wishes go out to all the folks that make these radio shows a reality every weekend. My best heart felt wishes to you all... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded 24th December 2024
Friday 20th December 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Featured this weekend is a recording I found of Radio Nova Dublin announcing the Ross is leaving port in early August 1983. My opinion is and probably was at the time that the news item should have been held back till the ship had actually left Spanish waters. But the outcome was good and we all know what happened to her in the days that followed. Also on the same old tape was a recording of Radio Jackie, London from 1323 as heard in Scotland. Also on the show is a recording of Uranium International 6306, 26th April 2003, talking about Paul Johnson's death. Paul was behind UK Radio. He also did shows on Laser, and of course a whole lot more over the years. There was a few other recordings that we ran out of time for, including a Tony Allan Radio Nova broadcast on Xmas day 1984. Also there are a few Xmas records this week....... Late News today is that we may well have an extra Christmas show for Christmas Day / Boxing day....... Watch this space, as they say. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 20th December 2024
Friday 13th December 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Featured this weekend is the 40th anniversary of Radio Moneik coming on air from the Ross Revenge in December 1984, as well as some recordings of Radio Caroline during the Christmas period 1979. This includes an obvious taped contribution to the christmas day show, aired at night time from Tom Anderson and Stevie Gordon. They announced as having rowed out to be on the ship for an hour or so, and announced as everyone up on deck waving goodbye when they went off back to shore. No prizes for guessing what I believed to be true at that time. Well I was only about 16....LOL.. There is also a recording of Radio Mistletoe from 2009. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 13th December 2024
Friday 6th December 2024 The show for this week is linked below. A bit of a rush tonight uploading. But just to say that we had a great weekend of broadcasting last weekend on 6325kHz. It looks like a great frequency choice, away from the utility QRM hitting 48m. Well done to our engineering staff. Maybe more comments over the weekend, but for now lets get the file uploaded. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 6th December 2024
Friday 29th November 2024 The show for this week is linked below. In fact it will be upoladed late Thursday this week due to commitments on the normal recording day, Friday. Last weekend we had a jolly good weekend of broadcasting on 6325, away from the qrm. Signals were superb. We were as usual via SW Gold in Germany at various times on 3975. eg Friday and Sat 2100UTC. See below for full sched..... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 29th November 2024
Friday 22nd November 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Apologies for the date being wrong in last weeks entry. This is what becomes of copy and pasting as a shortcut!!! This weekends show contains a tribute to the Bee Gees drummers two of whom died withing four days of each other. A recording of a final broadcast from Radio Zenith from August 1980, Tribute to Howard Hughs, newsreader from Radio Nova in 1984 as well as some airchecks from Tony Allan who was doing the show. There is also a short clip of Radio Lothian from Scotland in 1975, recorded in Sevenoaks, Kent from SW. I thought something was up when I was ready to upload the show for this week, and there was no WMR web site, but it must have been a temp server outage. All fine shortly afterwards. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 22nd November 2024
Friday 15th November 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week we have a few shorter features / IDs from the likes of Radio Japan via Sines, Russian over the horison radar / woodpecker, Radio Freedom from Scotland, and a longer clip, (but not too long!!) of Steve Midnight on Subteranean Sounds from 1995. There are also a few Southside Radio jingles by Tony Allan from Dunlaoire/ Dublin from around 1980. We had a good weekend of broadcasting last weekend, with KISS AM airing WMR on Saturday, while our "primary service" was on 6280 to avoid QRM. The bandwidth was dropped down a bit as well....!!!! This weekend we are informed there will be no 6285/ 6280 signals...... So hopefully KISS AM will take the show again, as well as via SW Gold in Germany.... I have to apologise to a couple of French guys who sent reports to WMR a few weeks ago. James in Calais, and Damier further down country. Their QSL was returned. It was re sent after the "sent" box was emptied a bit due to so many 5 meg attachments, incase I had somehow reached a space limit. They were returned a second time. I emailed them without attachments to explain. And these emails were returned!!!! So I await your emails guys maybe from a diffferent address. Both were free.fr addresses. On the subject of emails, a very impatient Norwegian sent a follow up after a few days, looking for a QSL. Geez, Radio Norway never replied as fast as that either...Have patience OM, we only do the QSLs every couple of weeks, depending on our other sched / commitments..... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 15th November 2024
Friday 8th November 2024 The show for this week is linked below. The main feature in this weeks show is a recording from this weekend back in 1980, when Radio Woodstock here in Scotland was raided while broadcasting live on 7315kHz. There is also a live call with James Harding who was going to come up to visit, and do a show on Woodstock, but after the bust, never did. There is also an engineering test from Picadilly 1151kHz from 1974. The programme is a little earlier going on line this week due to other commitments on Friday early evening.... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 8th November 2024
Friday 1st November 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week features an old recording from Radio Atlantis South, and Venus North, both from 1972..!! Very early recording of SW pirates. There are two recent recordings. Radio Taxus 6290 from Tuesday night, and Radio Texas (via Mix Radio) from 6870 on Halloween night / 1st November around 0038. Booming signal for that one as well here in NW Europe. We also include a few minutes of IDs from the European MW band from last week. Various stations including World Music Radio 927, and IRRS 1323.. We wish you good reception on the SW. Update Saturday: I have to shame facedly apologise for the slip of the tongue in announcing Kossuth Radio 540 as the most powerful transmitter in Europe at 2000 Watts..!!! It is obviously 2000 KW..!!!! A momentary lapse of concentration. Also promised during the show was the winter sched of the WMR shows on SW Gold. Again, forgotten during the recording, so here goes with the times..... Fridays: 21:00 UTC/GMT 3975 Saturday: 16:00 UTC/GMT and 21:00 UTC/GMT 3975 Sunday: 11.00 UTC/GMT on 6160, 16:00 UTC/GMT and 23:00 UTC/GMT on 3975 Monday: 23:00 UTC/GMT on 3975
WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 1st November 2024
Friday 25th October 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week features an old recording from summer 1978 from EMR, announcing their 1st test on 41m. Good signal for off air.... Also the recording we couldn't find last week of the night time coded messages broadcast on MW 962kHz from Caroline on the Mi Amigo on 20th October 1978. There was also a short clip of Radio Moscow from 1991 just after a coup, but reception was not as good as I imagined it would have been on the old tape. Apologies for the typo on last weeks entry. Wrong date. Never noticed till tonight..... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 25th October 2024
Friday 18th October 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week features a couple of old WMR clips from 1980, German DJ Stevie Owen, and Dave Anderson. Still not had the courage to use an early Jack show...LOL....Maybe soon. (Please don't write to old addresses by the way, there is no one there. These recordings are for historical enjoyment and entertainment) Well last weeks talk of solar flares etc came to nothing. The signals were superb all weekend...!!!!! What a difference a day makes. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 18th October 2024
Friday 11th October 2024 The show for this week is linked below. I am not sure who will be on air this weekend, or if it is a weekend for doing other stuff. Friday/ Thursday night the whole SW and even MW was absolutely flat caused by the strong aurora, so it will be understandable if we hear nothing at all,,!! When the other parts of the UK were seeing visible aurora on Thursday night, we had blanket cloud cover, so no photos this time. It looked a lovely display and the all too rare colourful sky was seen at quite low lattitudes by all accounts. Who knows maybe the band will recover quite quickly??? Or maybe not. A little better at 1700 Friday. It was an active weekend for WMR last week. On Saturday we were on air via KISS AM 6300 in Ireland. And on Sunday our primary service was on air on 6285. But unusually, the signal that has appeared on 6940 area of the band over the last year and a bit, was on air from approx 0400/ 0600 in the early hours of Saturday night / Sunday morning. 6th October. The conditions at that time were absolutely stunning, as we have reports in not only from East Coast North America, but from West Coast British Columbia, Canada, Alaska, New Zealand, Guatemala. The recordings from Canada and New Zealand feature in this weeks show. That is on top of the airings via SW Gold in Germany. So thank you to each and every one of you for your efforts last weekend..All very much appreciated here. WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 11th October 2024
Friday 4th October 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Today we have features from European Music Radio when they used the address of 7 Godric Road, previous to Kent PLace. There is also a longer recording of Radio Viking with Phil Hazelton, sounding great as always. An advert for the Nova 5k giveaway that we couldn't find for last weeks show, and lastly, a 1983 give away on Radio Nova, this time a 6k giveaway. Amazing stuff. And only just dug out of the archives by Gary.... Apologies that we seem to have to use Pixeldrain to link our shows now......Such a pain.... Thank you to everyone concerned for a great weekend of broadcasting again last week. Some good signals as well....... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 4th October 2024
Friday 27th September 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week's show is going to have to be uploaded to Pixeldrain again. The reason is it seems that although we took out unlimited web space and traffic, It seems that their opinion of unlimited web space is a mere 10 gig. These days, this is actually a joke. I could see the force of it if we had used 1 TB...LOL.... So we need to come up with yet another plan B, seeing as this is another company not fit for purpose. Anyway this weeks show features the Radio Nova Dublin 5 grand giveaway in September 1984...An amazing 40 years ago. Last week we were on the air via Shortwave Radio in Germany, but on Sunday afternoon, our primary service came back on the air on 6285. But shortly afterwards, the show was aired via KISS AM on 6300 as well.... There was also some kind of a relay on 6945 ish or was it 6940. It seemed unclear if this was the QRO signal that comes on from time to time, or a relay in North America, where the signal was reported. OK, link below.... https://pixeldrain.com/u/GEBtCsVT
Friday 20th September 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week the show features former German station, PFBS from Christmas 1979. Found on the same tape was a historic triumphant Radio Bucharest Romania recording from 23rd December after the overthrow of the former regime. A very moving and emotional broadcast. And lastly a very short but interesting aircheck of Radio Viking, which came to a very abrupt end. Prob from 1978. Yet I thought they used the Kent Place address in 1978. Again, many thanks to our friendly relay guys for the airtime last weekend. Much appreciated. AHHH...!!! What's going on now...... I can't get the show uploaded to the site. Limit reached or something, despite the large volume of web space that was booked. I must look into this over the weekend, but till then, here is a PIXELDRAIN link....... WMR SHOW - PIXELDRAIN LINK Recorded Friday 20th September 2024
Friday 13th September 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week the show features a German SW station from the 1970's called Radio Valentine. We did at one stage have airchecks from another studio recording which we played on SW years ago, but as to be expected, the tape is not to be found at this time. And there is also yet another tribute on WMR to fallen comrades, and this week it is to Carl Kingston, Caroline Jock in 1983, and also from the Ross Revenge weekend only last week!! Last week we had contact from our so called primary service, that it would be off air for a couple of weeks. Of course this email address wasnt checked in time before the show was recorded, so the freq was announced anyway. Also thanks to the 5825 guy last Friday night.... WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 13th September 2024
Friday 6th September 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Today we feature some airchecks of Radio Free London in 1996 from SW. This was during a visit from the WMR Team. Progrmmes are a bit riotous...LOL... Great memories, great times. The late Mike James and myself. A bit more broadcastable compared to the tape of a live show from about 1992 around 2 in the morning!! That was a riot..LOL... Maybe we can upload them to the WMR archives on line here..... Thank you to all our friendly relay guys last week.... Such another great weekend of broadcasting of the MOA in Holland airchecks. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 6th September 2024
Friday 30th August 2024 The show for this week is linked below. The WMR show for today features extended recordings this week, due to the commemoration of the Dutch MOA on 31st August 1974, some 50 years ago this very weekend. I was in two minds whether to upload a longer show, as well as a two hour show to fit into the times for SW Gold. But for now we have the usual two hours linked below. There is also a little tribute to Caroline's Dave Foster who died last Sunday. I had to take the unusual step of editing/ shortening three of the motown tracks played in this weeks show. I feel the anniversary is too important to have less airchecks. I also wanted to include Michael Robinson. For the MOA recordings, I have airchecked the last Don Allen show on Northsea, from 30th August 1974, complete with his annoyingly awful insets he used at one time. This was instead of doing the last hour. To make a change. Then there are a few clips from LP Documentaries re the Mi Amigo as she weighed anquor on 29th August, and set sail for the English coast. A nice clip of Caroline closing early on that date but not saying why, with Tony Allan claiming a labour dispute..!! Please enjoy this special MOA show. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 30th August 2024
Friday 23rd August 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week we feature some Caroline daytime from August 14th 1967, as posted by Freddie Archer, Caroline from early October 1978 with Stevie Gordon sitting in for Roger Mathews who was steamin....LOL.. Also there is Samantha, talking about water splooshing around her ankles and the sound of the pumps going... THere is also an aircheck of VOA Europe and Spectrum testing on 558kHz. I wish I could find the recording of spectrum I have with caroline and spectrum fighting it out... .. And I also have a recording somewhere of ILR tests from Northdown Radio (became Invicta) on 954, after Caroline started... So you can imagine the splatter....... I have it somewhere but not come across it as yet. This weeks show is linked below..... Last weeks broadcasts were on 6285, as well as 6160 and 3975... The QRO transmitter on 6940 came on again 2230 Saturday night. Signals in Eastern USA KIWI receivers were quite amazing. It was also heard Brazilia, Sao Paulo, as well as Lanzarote. And to cap it all, there was a further relay at 1800 on Sunday on 3920!!! A busy WMR weekend. Many thanks to all the operators who made all this possible. So very much appreciated. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 23rd August 2024
Friday 16th August 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This week on WMR we feature recordings from European Music Radio / Radio Sunshine network show, WCBS New York 880, CHML Hamilton, Ontaria 900, and an old recording of WMR from 10th August 1980 with Dave Anderson. Thanks to all the relay facilities last weekend for another great weekend of broadcasting. The QRO signal on 6940 was on air again Saturday night, 2230/0030, and brought in a report from Bogota, Columbia..!!! EQSLs already sent out for this... WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday16th August 2024
Friday 9th August 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Todays show features recordings from SW station Radio Rabbithole, from 1983, an echo charlie oddity from 1983, Musicwave Radio from 3940 on 8th August, and Coast Grand Canaries 1494 from last Sunday at 2100. Thank you to everyone who got in touch this week, and of course thanks to our friendly relay guys who as always did us proud last weekend. We even had an additional relay on 6275 on Saturday 17/1900. Thanks to all concerned....!!!... WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday9th August 2024
Friday 2nd August 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This weeks show features airchecks from English SW station from the past, Radio Maniac, Time Radio, and Radio Valleri. All from 1977. Remember this weekend is a busy radio weekend, as the guys who worked on the Mi Amigo in the late 1970's are on board the Ross making special SOUNDS OF THE 70'S shows. Wallowing in nostalgia or what. Also FRS Holland are on the air again Sunday with their 3rd of 3 weekends in a row broadcasts. Last weekend was a very successful and full weekend of broadcasting here at WMR. As well as our usual transmissions from our primary service as well as SW Gold, the unid relay came on Saturday night on 6940kHz, 2230/0030 and signals towards sign off at 0030 UTC were quite amazing over in the states. It was really an excellent time to reach across the Atlantic. Thanks again for your efforts, whoever you are..and in fact thanks to all the services that carry the WMR programmes. We are so humbled. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 2nd August 2024
Friday 26th July 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Sorry to be brief, but quite busy here tonight. A feature of ARD, as well as a recording of a station mentioned last week, Flying Dutchman Radio included in this weeks show. Good dx and 73s from Scotland... WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 26th July 2024
Friday 19th July 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This weeks show continues with our features on SW pirates of the past.ABC Benelux, IDs from the following Dutch 227m MW pirates... Radio Apollo (Finsterwolde), and Radio Tonga Tonga (Rouveen). We eventually found the clip of Houston Radio as well, also with an address in Finsterwolde. 1978 / 79 era. There is a clip / tripute to Paul Dean of Laser 558 / 576. And finally a clip of a station mentioned in last weeks show, Sonic Independent Radio from Shankhill, Co Dublin. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 19th July 2024
Wednesday 17th July 2024 The WMR QSL for SUMMER 2024 has been finished and sent out to the dxers who wrote to the new email address. I have to go through the old email address and have a look for late emails that were sent before the address vanished from the ether. A blank / sample QSL pdf is downloadable here
Friday 12th July 2024 The show for this week is linked below. This weeks show continues with our features on SW pirates of the past. Radio Berona, Empire Radio, Radio Capri, Radio Kathy / Radio Freedom, all from 1978 / 79 era. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 12th July 2024
Friday 5th July 2024 The show for this week is linked below. We have quite a lot of radio clips on this weeks show, including Radio Paradise from the MV Magda Maria in 1981, and Southside Radio FRC Ireland show telling us how it was coming back in October 81, (It never..lol) Radio Sweden telling us Caroline was coming back on September 1st 1981, (It never..lol) Radio RSA using 25790 in 1979. There is a couple of poor quality clips of Britain Radio, the Kent Place station from the late 70s with Steve Jones, not Roger Davis' station. We also found some audio from the various QSOs from Sounds 79. This station was a common signal back in the day, later becoming UV1, Ron. Sounds 79 is also heard jamming Radio Enoch. And finally I think, a clip of Radio Nova from the Italian Rivierra, an april fools broadcast also from 1979. 5840 LAST WEEKEND WMR was again heard via the 5840 transmitter last Sunday 1800/2000 GMT/ UTC. Again, many thanks for this extra transmission on a Sunday evening. Much appreciated, whoever you are. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 5th July 2024
Friday 28th June 2024 The show for this week is linked below. We are presenting a programme this week with quite a lot of old radio clips, mainly due to the passing of both Arthur Burton / Andy Allman, as well as long time listener David Williams of Southampton. We also feature recordings of Andy Allman on London Music Radio, on RFM (1988) as Arthur Burton, and as Andy Allman on SW on Radio 49 in the summer of 1978. We found a recording of a live call on Radio Woodstock from 1980 with David Williams. There is a Radio Sweden calling dxers clip from April 1979, with pirate radio news, as well as a clip of a SW test from Radio Jackie on 6250. There is also a clip of Radio Delta Elburg from 1980 on 227m. This is the father of Radio Delta that is on the air today. There may be others that I have forgotten!!!! 5840 LAST WEEKEND Thanks to the unid operator for carrying WMR last Sunday 18/2000 GMT on 5840. This freq is prob a better bet. Thanks for the airtime and being aware of the frequencies that are clear.... WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 28th June 2024
Friday 21st June 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Today we feature a few tunes, as well as some SW pirates from the past. These are ABC England final broadcast from May 1978, and Radio Sunshine International from July 1978. There is also an audio clip of how Radio Blackbeard sounded last weekend on 1476. IMPORTANT INFO FOR OUR FRIENDLY RELAY OPERATOR FROM LAST WEEKEND ON 6195. An email came in to the mailing address last weekend after the QRO transmission on 6195, last Sunday from 1800 - 2000 UTC. We thought this was a great freq to use and close down just in time for the VOA to sign on with their African service at 2000. Signals were even romping in over in Tambov, Russia, on the KIWI, which makes us think it was the same txer that used the 6950 are of the band?? However neither us here at WMR, or it seems the unknown operator was aware of a 15 watt station that has begun using the channel, from Finland, called Realmix Radio. Apologies for any clash of transmitters old chap. He suggested 6185 should also be clear at this same time. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 21st June 2024
Friday 14th June 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Today we feature Radio Zodiac from 1978, and Radio Free City from 1980. Apologies if the show is a little rushed this weekend. We were kinda busy at the studio over the last few days. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 14th June 2024
Friday 7th June 2024 The show for this week is linked below. Lets hope everyone concerned finds the show in good time this weekend. Finished a little bit earlier than normal. Today the show features a test transmission from Radio Delmare from 1978, inc English IDs etc.. It is 44 years since the official start of WMR, on 8th June 1980...!! We played quite a lot of airchecks of WMR last year at this time... Best wishes to all our regular listeners and supporters, and relay facilities. Much appreciated chaps.. NB:Message to web site and Blog owners. If you have linked to WMR, can we ask you to change the links to the current web address and email address please. We intend to make this permanent, seeing as the old outfit was not really fit for purpose. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 7th June 2024
Friday 31st May 2024 The show for this weekend is linked below. Recorded Friday 31st May, and featuring a couple of old SW pirates. Radio Corsair (1978), and FRBC (1977), The Free Radio Broadcasting Co. We have done FRBC in the past, but these recordings were taken off aircheck Gary's master reel from the time, and not a second or third generation copy. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 31st May 2024
Thursday 30th May 2024 (Welcome back to our loyal listeners) The show for the weekend of 24th May is linked below.... This programme features station EXIDY 738 with Tony Allan, as well as Sunshine Radio on the jamming to their 531kHz MW service in 1984, some 40 years ago. There is also a tribute to the late Frank Ifield. ONE.COM... The show also features a lot of moaning about web space and URL company one.com and their sudden closure of the WMR web site, wmrscotland.com. This has been registered through this mickey mouse outfit for many years, and is fully paid up until years end. So are we due compensation for each day it is off line??? Yea sure, and the band played believe it if you like. They have decided after all these years, to ask for photo ID etc which I am not prepared to give, for simple privacy and security reasons. They have also bombarded me with their own spam emails recently, as well as having a serious lack of spam filtering for other general junk, some of it quite dubious and malicious.... So now there is a new address for WMR..... wmrscotland@mail.com There is now a replacement web site up and running. The new address is wmrscotland.de. I am quite happy keeping this as a permanent web address, Although it doesn't have the .com ring to it, for now it seems reliable, and much cheaper than the old outfit anyway. We may change over to the .com address again after it becomes available again. The biggest problem with one.com was the fact that there is no one at the phones, and no one at the on line help chat. I have no patience to hang on a phone help line waiting for 3 hours of stupid lift music, waiting incase some twit answers the phone. So they have become like insurance companies, and the likes. The untouchables. Uncontactable. Incidentally, a simple teething problem with the new .de web space was easily sorted after an instantly available on line help chat. Apologies for the break in service for just over a week, due to circumstances beyond our control. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 24th May 2024
Sunday 19th May 2024 Today I have finally uploaded the amazing photos of the aurora as seen in Scotland on Friday night 10th May. This was a first in a lifetime for both yours truly Jack and YL, a first in 61 years!! Of course, as stated below, the SW as well as the MW band was just a total wipeout. But we were pretty privileged to see this at that time. We may have been asleep or the YL might not have been working with her phone and saw images from others locally. So we took a spin out of town to a dark area, one of the old WMR broadcast sites actually, and were rewarded with an absolutely stunning sight. Her phone may have enhanced the view just a little bit, but this was more or less as it was seen. My own phone on the other hand produced only a black screen!!! And into the bargain, there are a few decent cameras kicking around but this was too rushed to look anything out and charge up etc. So to get photos from a phone camera like this was simply amazing. But no long shutter speeds used to enhance etc, this was how it was seen with the naked eye.
===========================================================================
Friday 17th May 2024 Today things are a little different on the programme side of WMR. We are commemorating the anniversary of the brutal raids over in Dublin some 41 years ago, 18th and 19th May 1983 of Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio. So due to the material available, there is a staggering amount of the show today with long recordings. These are so historical and nostalgic, it was felt that we shouldnt be cutting anything down to 10m, the length of our usual airchecks and features. Lets hope that there are no major shortwave fadeouts this week like we had last weekend. That visible aurora, although making personal history of a first time viewing in 61 years, certainly killed the SW, and even the MW. I have never seen anything like it. I have to thank our friendly transmitter operators for their persiverence in keeping the flag flying last week, when the band was just dead at these more northern lattitudes. Tonight the object of the day is to upload the show, but I shall try and get a couple of photos uploaded here by tomorrow. WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 17th May 2024
Saturday 11th May 2024 Well, What can I say about the last few hours. We have experienced one of the most severe solar flares, aurora, shortwave fadeouts, mw fade outs I have ever seen. And also managed to see visible aurora with the naked eye. Not camera time exposures, but real reds and greens in the sky. Absolutely amazing at these lattitudes. There are photos all over the web of aurora at these lower latitudes. I can only imagine the spectacular displays further north. The odd thing was the display was seen not in the northern sky, but above and even high looking south, but as it faded out, we turned around to see a spectacular (for a first time view) green northern sky. The effect this has on SW is extreme. The first play at 2000 UTC Friday of this weeks show was almost heard, but so weak on 6160 as to make listening impossible. 3875 was simply not there. I am unsure what (if any) plans our regular relay chap has. It may be a complete waste of time this week. The show is linked below anyway. .
Friday 10th May 2024 Well, here is this weeks show linked below. Today we feature a one off SW broadcast called Workers Radio 78 which was on 41m via Radio Corsair. In fact it was Radio Corsair. Also the Raid at the end of March 1980 of ABC International . Hillrise Road station. This was airing the 6235 network at the time. There is also some memories of Dave Anderson on Radio Telstar from Edinburgh in May 1980, taken from MW, and recorded about 40 or 50 miles maybe from the station. . WMR SHOW - Recorded Friday 10th May 2024
Friday 3rd May 2024 Well, here is this weeks show linked below. Featured this week is SW station Radio Seaweed, as well as a clip of the live broadcast of Radio Utopia. This ended up a bit rough as the tape had serious drop outs on it. Good news on the QSL front. We were sending out QSLs on Thursday night (When the YL was working late so no QRM from that area....LOL), There are a few left to catch up on over the weekend, but minimal, and stuff from the last couple of weeks. We also have some our weekly correspondents to catch up on as well..Maybe once these are replied to there will be time to add another page on WMR news for the summer of 2024. We wish you good reception over this weekend, and thank you to all of you for showing the support to the SW stations. WMR SHOW - Recorded 3rd May 2024
Friday 26th April 2024 Well, here is this weeks show, Today we are featuring exclusively, recordings of old vintage WMR shows from April 1980, due to the fact we are commemorating our 44th anniversary. We are featuring recordings from this very weekend back in 1980 when three very young guys aired the first successful test transmission from WMR. Poor old Mike is no longer with us, but Jack and Dave A are still to the fore, and although now live many miles distant, are in very regular contact, especially in the last year when WMR has returned to SW.. We were sent an updated aircheck of Radio Seaweed, from Gary the Aircheck man, but we sort of ran out of time with the extensive WMR memories this weekend. Maybe next week. Also apologies for the error in saying there were no ships in European waters from 1980 to 1983. Woops. Forgot about Radio Paradise. Naughty Naughty. One surprise email this week came from the guy on the airchecks last week, Tom Baker from Bell Radio / LA1. Great to hear from you OM, and what a surprise. We are also commemorating 1 year on the airwaves, since our return to SW after a few long years of silence. So a huge thanks to our friendly relay chaps. A year back on sw this weekend. Amazing.. Simply superb. WMR SHOW - Recorded 26th April 2024
Friday 19th April 2024 Well, here is this weeks show, Possibly a little late, but still on time. Features this week include Radio Seaweed from 1981, a SW station, as well as some echo charlie QSOs from 1980, and station LA1, Tom of Bell Radio. A familiar voice on SW back then. ,. There may be more chatter on this page later, but for now here is this weeks show. By the way, we have a few weeks worth of QSL requests to proccess. Don't worry, the e QSLs will be sent out shortly. Busy life outside of WMR!!! WMR SHOW - Recorded 19th April 2024
Friday 12th April 2024 Well, here is this weeks show, linked below, still in white. Thing is, links on the page were white, and there was a bit of work to make the other links a different colour. In this case blue. Would rather get time, which I have not had to see what code disappeared. I will get around to it. Last Sunday night there was a surprise with the QRO station relaying WMR on 6945. This was heard all over the States according to reports. I missed that, by 2100 I was sat on the couch watching TV..!!! That will learn me not to check the bands. WMR SHOW - Recorded 12th April 2024
Saturday 6th April 2024 Woops. I have just run an automated "clean up html" command. It has taken the colour out the links. This table is shaded slightly as a quick fix, before I find out properly what I have done. It was so long ago that this page was designed, I have forgotten. Bear with me... There have been changes to the airings WMR has via Shortwave Gold in Germany. Due to the summertime, etc, the following times are now in place. The times are listed here, as it is quite a complex sched to remember. Friday: 20:00 - 2200 UTC on 3975 and 6160 kHz Saturday: 15:00 - 1700 UTC
on 6160 kHz Sunday: 10:00 - 1200 UTC
on 6160 kHz Monday: 22:00 - 0000 UTC on 3975 kHz
========================================================= Friday 5th April 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Today after hearing the Robb Eden interview last weekend on the Johnnie Lewis show on Caroline, I thought we should play some airchecks from 1973 of Robb on Radio Northsea International, This was the station that introduced me to pirate radio as a young 10 year old in 1973. Robb was one of the first set of presenters I knew by name back then, along with Mike Ross, Brian McKenzie, Don Allen etc.I was fascinated by this station coming from a ship off the Dutch coast, and even more fascinated by the fact I could get better reception on Short Wave on my beloved old wireless. Also featured this week are a few recordings from a station mentioned a couple of weeks back, called the Voice of Love, and airchecks of Atlantic 252. Initially trying to find a recording of the late Andrew Turner. (But failing) May I take this opportunity to thank our friendly outputs once again, and may I wish everyone good reception and good dx. Jack WMR SHOW - Recorded 5th April 2024
Friday 29th March 2024 This weeks show is linked below. This show can hardly be anything else but a commemoration of Radio Caroline's 60th birthday. Absolutely amazing that they managed to continue, and come back on air time and time again over the years. Listen this week for some airchecks of Easter 1979, rather than 1964 that everyone else will be doing this weekend. I tried to find some recordings of Easter 1985 as well which was a bit of an epic broadcast by Johnnie Lewis, but time was ticking on, and the first airing is normally on a Friday night at 2100 UTC. So the 1985 files will have to wait for another week... Wishing all our regular listeners and engineering staff a very Happy Easter.... WMR SHOW - Recorded 29th March 2024
Friday 22nd March 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Features this week amongst the usual radio chatter include tributes to Steve Harley, Remembering the Mi Amigo sinking in March 1980, and a recording of the BBC national service when industrial action put all services off air, back in 1978. There was also a recording of Radio Impact from MW in 1972 with Don Les, fore runner to the Radio Impact that shared the 7340 network with WMR. WMR SHOW - Recorded 22nd March 2024
Saturday 16th March 2024 There is a new show recorded for St Patrick's day weekend for Radio Daniella 1206kHz. Link below. Radio Daniella St Patrick's Day weekend 2024
Friday 15th March 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Thank you to our friendly relays last weekend for taking the show as ever, last weekend. But one curiosity came to light. The large signal that appears on 6920 sometimes was on the air from 0400 / 0611, with a very watery and fadey signal here at this QTH. However, after sign off at 0611, a massive signal came on the air at 0614, and stayed on air till 0700 sign off. This was such a collosal signal. So was this using the same transmitter??? Different antenna??? Or even different site?? Who knows. It certainly makes this QRG so very curious. WMR SHOW - Recorded 15th March 2024
Friday 8th March 2024 This weeks show is linked below. A bit of a late upload and time was not on side when recording so no recordings of other stations this week. Plenty radio chatter between tracks though as always... WMR SHOW - Recorded 8th March 2024
Friday 1st March 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Featured in this weeks show is a recording from 1978 from the Radio Budapest Hungary dx show. We did have an idea to include an old Radio Impact recording from 1972, but time ran out. Also the waterfall art went astray, although since found, wasn't featured in the show this week, though we did have a CW id for a change.. Oh and by the way, we have caught up with our QSLs over last weekend. There are still a few of our very regular guys that send reports almost weekly to acknowledge. Gregg, Otto, Andy, etc all the support is so very much appreciated. And thanks Wally for the e mail which I never saw until this weeks show was "in the can" so to speak. WMR SHOW - Recorded 1st March 2024
Friday 23rd February 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Today's show features Radio Condor Int from Dublin, and Radio North Staffs, two old SW pirates. There are also some airchecks of CSJ on The Voice of Peace, though there are not many IDs. The show is a bit kinda "That was, this is" . Todays show may have been a little disjointed in the making, but may be OK when played back. Thanks to our friendly relay stations for last weeks fantastic weekend of broadcasting. 6290 was on air all day Saturday and Sunday. Our German sched wa also in operation, and the mysterious powerful relay on 6920 was back on air, this time from 0400/0600UTC, a very favourable time for signals across the water in North America. WMR SHOW - Recorded 23rd February 2024
Friday 16th February 2024 This weeks show is linked below. Today's show features recordings of Radio Sweden dx show from 1978, Radio Denmark in English poss from 1995, Radio Camelion 1512 from Holland on 1512 last week, Radio Daniella last Sunday on 1206kHz, and a recording of Radio North having a prayer said for them. Thank you to all the relays last weekend, making a superb weekend of broadcasting yet again. So so much appreciated guys. Our 6920 guy was on again on Sunday night around 2300, and a hutch load of great reports came in from across the water. Also our 6290 service produced a report from New Zealand last Saturday. Amazing... There may be more input here over the weekend, but for tonight, here is the show. WMR SHOW - Recorded 16th February 2024
Friday 9th February 2024 This weeks show is linked below. What a great weekend of broadcasting last weekend, from our 6290 primary service, to Shortwave Gold, to the MW relay on Saturday early evening, 1619 approx to 1819. The show was followed by a relay of Radio Argus, via Blackbeard, on 1494kHz. Thanks for this everyone. So so much appreciated. There was no sign of our 6920 guy last weekend. There may be more chatter over the weekend, but for now, here is the link to the show. WMR SHOW - Recorded 9th February 2024
Friday 2nd February 2024 Update today with this weeks show linked below.... Last weekend was quite a weekend of broadcasting. As well as our German first play on Friday night 2100, there was another unknown transmission by an unid operator on 1494, reported in the English Midlands as a good signal. Sadly I missed this one myself....., On Saturday, we were on the usual times from SW Gold in Germany, (1600 and 2100 on 3975), and 0900/1900 via the facilities of KISS AM in Ireland on 6300. On Sunday our initial relay guy, who managed to encourage Jack out of retirement in May last year, was back on 6290 again roughly 0900/1900... The usual sched from SW Gold on a Sunday is 1100 on 6160 and 1600 on 3975.. But later on in the evening on Sunday reports began to roll in and logs on the forums, that WMR was on again on 6920 2230/0030. We have to assume this was the 6950 guy from last summer that had such a superb signal.. Good to have you back, and one report received from Ma in the USA was 44444....!!!! THat was upgraded to 54444 on the second email. Never heard that myself due to having retired for the night to the couch!!! More good news is that we are completely up to date with our QSLs. Something we don't do is study all the forum entries and blogs and logs, and send out QSLs to the email addresses listed. Anyone who requires a QSL, simply send the details of your reception to the email address and we can sort it out from there. WMR SHOW - Recorded 2nd February 2024 , Saturday 27th January 2024 Update this morning, WMR on air via KISS AM on 6300 since 0900.... and a typo corrected...
Friday 26th January 2024 A new show for this weekend is linked below. Let's hope everyone survived the storms this past week. It has been a wet and wild place over the last little while. This week the show features a recording of Radio Woodstock from 1980, another Scottish pirate radio station. Thanks again to KISS AM in Ireland for the airtime last weekend, much appreciated. Not sure yet what is happening on 48m this weekend. But anyway, show linked below. WMR SHOW - Recorded 26th January 2024
Friday 19th January 2024 A new show linked below for this weekend, with a few recorded features. K-Oss FM from Paisley, Workers radio 78 (Radio Corsair), Radio Prague, and a recording of Doctor Don on Radio Dublin with a lot of mentions of SW. Lets hope for good reception all round. Many thanks in advance for the airtime everyone. WMR SHOW - Recorded 19th January 2024
Friday 12th January 2024 A new show linked below for the weekend of 12/13/14th January 2024... Maybe not many clips this week, but a few airchecks are included this week of station KUSW Salt Lake City from SW in 1990. Also a very short clip of a station that appeared on satellite in the 1990's of KLON Jazz Radio LA. Lets hope for some good dx and good reception this weekend.... Most of the QSLs have been replied to as well this past week...... WMR SHOW - Recorded 12th January 2024
Friday 5th January 2024 A very happy New Year to all our listeners, and best wishes for 2024. This week's show is linked below. Perhaps more chatter over the weekend, but for now the link.. WMR SHOW - Recorded 5th January 2024
|
