June Radio Websites

June Radio Websites...
Extracts from my latest column in Radio User
I have mentioned the Radio Heritage Net website when it first
launched a few short years ago. It specialises in radio news from the
Far East and Australasian Pacific region but is looking to expand its
coverage worldwide in the next year or so. That expansion is
already starting to happen with their amusing Retro Radio Dial
feature with looks back at the radio scene in US states such as Texas
and Idaho 50 years ago. www.radioheritage.net and on Facebook
too.
Radio User reader Graham Smith would like to share two radio
related websites. The first is the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
(www.solen.info/solar ), which is compiled by Jan Alvestad in
Norway. At the top of the page is a daily graph showing the sunspot
number, A index and so on. If short wave reception is bad there is
usually a spike in the A index. Further down the page are photos of
sunspots, and at the bottom is a chart of the sunspot numbers
(apparently we are past the peak of the current cycle).
The second site is Ydun’s Medium Wave Info (http://
mediumwave.info/index.html ), compiled by Ms Ydun M. Ritz in
Denmark. According to the News page for 12 April China Radio
International has launched a frequency in the South China Sea. The
Voice of the South China Sea broadcasts in six languages, including
Mandarin, English, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino as well as
Indonesian. You can hear the English programmes of the voice of
the South China Sea at AM 1008, 1400-1500 (local time).