ak @ak@radiosocial.org
Radio amateur M1LOL, into VHF DX, SDR and using free software in radio.
Also into non-profit community radio!
Admin of radiosocial.org. 🇬🇧
- QRA locator
- IO93
“In Brooklyn, when the sun goes down, pirate radio stations fire up their transmitters and take to the air, beaming transgressive, culture-bearing signals into Caribbean, Jewish and Latino neighborhoods. The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map is an archival home for the sounds of renegade community radio at a crucial turning point in its history.”
'The internet has helped to bring people together from all over the world, but it has not helped neighborhoods or communities nearly as well. The #GrassrootWavelengths project is piloting solutions for community information platforms and media pluralism...'
''...brings together engineers, social scientists, artists, designers, and communities to redesign community #radio technology from scratch.''
#grassrootwavelengths is build on the #RootIO #radio platform, a free/open hardware and software stack that allows the creation of a station based on an inexpensive smart phone. Community members listen on #FM radio, and interact with the station through the Web and their phones''
Mastodon 2.4.2 is out but I will refrain from updating until I'm back home. Sorry for the delay!
This is super interesting - "$100 broadcasters, how they do it" by James Cridland. All about various small-scale internet and digital radio projects run on tiny budgets with very simple hardware and usually open-source software.
https://www.radiomagonline.com/industry/100-broadcasters-how-they-do-it
Sorry for the slowness of the instance server lately. We've grown a bit faster than I thought we would. I will take a look at options when I get back from holiday. :)
Also Radio Sawa (101.5) from Casablanca in Morocco.
Opening has moved from Italy to Spain and managed to ID two stations in between packing for going away - M80 Radio (94.8) and Los 40 (97.1) both from Seville.
UK people - Sporadic E is back again, opening to Italy.
The European Medium Wave Guide (https://mwradio.eu) has been moved to share the server with radiosocial.org to save on server costs / resources.
Server fixed.
There may be a brief downtime while I do some updates to the server. :)
Feedback wanted about the @southgate bot which toots amateur radio news.
Their site only updates the RSS feed once a day, meaning my rudimentary bot (actually a simple Python script on a Raspberry Pi in my house!) splurts out all the news stories at about 8am each day.
Would people prefer the stories staggered through the day, say one per hour, or prefer the daily splat?
I know what Dearne FM reminds me of - the fictional "Forever FM" off Peter Kay's Car Share. 🎉
I've been listening to something called Dearne FM (102.0) in the office over the past couple of days - it's not an especially strong signal but I haven't heard the same song twice yet.
It's like a random shuffle of music all day long - good job, whoever is programming the thing!
http://www.dearnefm.co.uk/music/search-for-a-song/?date=2018-05-31&hour=09
Who decided this was a good idea? Now we all have to put up with Nick "I go drinking with celebs" Grimshaw in the afternoons.
Licences awarded for Bradford and Hampshire: http://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/05/licences-awarded-for-bradford-and-hampshire/
Fixed the bot @southgate which toots amateur radio news from the Southgate ARC's excellent news site - http://www.southgatearc.org/
Feel free to follow for daily #amateurradio news updates!
#SporadicE DX tip from me: during Es season, if you're listening to the radio all day while working like me and the station you're listening to has multiple transmitters, listen to a weaker one.
I've been listening to a BBC Radio 2 signal from ~20 miles away instead of my local one, because under flat conditions the audio is fine but when Es start to come in the signal fades. If I was listening to my local, I could listen straight through and be oblivious.
