Radio Africa Network transmits on the 21525 kHz frequency via the WRMI transmitter center in Okeechobee, USA. From 1355 to 1400 on 21525 kHz with 100 kW, the interval signal and WRMI identification can be heard, while from 1400 to 2100 and always on 21525 kHz, Radio Africa Network's programming can be reported continuously, always with 100 kW in English, with its antennas directed to North and Central Africa. Broadcasts are daily.

For several years there has been an American religious station broadcasting on a strange frequency on the 60 meter band. It is WTWW-2, whose full name is We Transmit World Wide and broadcasts its programs on 5085 kHz, 60 meter band from Lebanon, in the United States, with 100 kws and with English language programs destined for South America.

Radio New Zealand Pacific continues to broadcast throughout the Pacific region in English on 7245 kHz with 50 kws. The broadcast runs daily from 0559-0958 UTC in English.

The Bible Voice Broadcasting-Dardasha 7 religious station for Africa operating on 9400 kHz via SPL Secretbrod, from 1945-2000 with 50 kW in Arabic for the north of the African continent.

Dimtse Wegahta Tigra, also known as /Voice of the Dawn Tigray airs, apparently daily, on the 15340 khz frequency via Issoudun, France, from 1700 to 1800 Coordinated Universal Time, on the 15340 khz, with 250 kW of power, in Tigrinya language, to East Africa.

The new station Radio Oni or Radio Yoni broadcasts Monday through Friday on 15415 kHz via Issoudun. It broadcasts from 1600 to 1630 on 15415 khz, with 250 kW for East Africa in Afan and Oromo languages.

For Spanish speakers, we would like to recommend an interesting material that is available to listeners from all over the world on the website of the Spanish Association of Radio Listeners (Asociación Española de Radioescuchas).

It is the Eibi list that can be checked on https://eibi.aer.org.es.

The Eibi List is intended to be a local replica of the famous EiBi database, which Eike Bierwirth (Wiesbaden, Germany) offers for free on the Internet: http://www.eibispace.de/. It is clearly not an easy database to understand and handle, given the massive use of acronyms and data that are useful for certain applications. However, there are 11 selected fields, the basic ones, which will give us enough info to not confuse and help in the search for the broadcasts that may interest us.

ARGENTINA

Argentina’s scientists eye the production of the second generation of telecommunication satellites. The chairman of ARSAT, a State-run tech company that manufactures satellites, Pablo Tognetti, explained that the company, created in 2006, has also been in charge of deploying optical fiber, providing government and private data services, and open digital television, among other purposes.

Tognetti announced a new satellite will be launched in 2023. It is the ARSAT-SG1, which will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology and will be able to connect some 200,000 rural households.

The system is ideal to solve the lack of connectivity existing in different neighborhoods of Bariloche and especially in areas south of the Province of Río Negro.

The executive confirmed that "the propulsion of the new prototype will represent the most important novelty. Those used chemical propulsion to go from the intermediate orbit, where they are normally placed by the launcher, to 36,000 kilometers from their final position, where they can rotate synchronized with the Earth". Tognetti explained that "in this case, this trip will be covered with electric propulsion".

Years ago, each satellite weighed about 3,000 kilos, and half of that weight was fuel. This new ARSAT-SG1 will use solar panels and an ion propellant. Although it will move slower to reach geostationary orbit, a journey that takes months, this fuel space saved means being able to carry a heavier payload.

"The SG1, with only 1,800 kilos, will have more than twice the transmission capacity," said the ARSAT president.

Tognetti said the new satellite is part of the Conectar 2020-23 plan aims at expanding the fiber optic network and to manufacture -together with INVAP- the ARSAT SG1 satellite to provide broadband to rural areas.

"It is strategic to cover the needs of the population, because those who do not have Internet access today are marginalized", he concluded.

CHILE

Radio Colo Colo, which used to broadcast from Santiago, first on 1380 khz and more recently on 880 khz, will leave FM and will be installed on frequency 104.9, the same frequency that until a few months ago belonged to Radio Disney and Radio Paula.

TURKEY

Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) general manager Ibrahim Eren said public broadcasting has three main responsibilities: to inform, educate and entertain.

Eren participated in the opening panel of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) - Italy's National Channel (RAI) Days, which was organized for the third time and brought together the world's leading broadcasters.

The event’s topic was "A new world without Covid: Can public broadcasters serve to create more open, inclusive and tolerant societies?", was held simultaneously online and on-site from the RAI studio in Milan with the participation of experts from the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.

The panel, which included Delphine Ernotte Cunci, head of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and of France Télévisions, focused on the role of public broadcasters in shaping more open, inclusive and tolerant societies in the post-pandemic period.

JAPAN

Forty-four of the 47 commercial AM radio stations in Japan plan to switch to FM broadcasting by the fall of 2028 to improve business performance by reducing operating cost, it was announced June 15.

All AM radio stations except those in Hokkaido and Akita prefecture in northern Japan will make the switch to FM broadcasting. AM broadcasting services will be reduced in phases from 2023 onward.

Although AM broadcasting has a longer range, it has faced challenges, such as requiring large-scale facilities that include an antenna at least 100 meters high and high maintenance costs as they age.

In addition, AM and FM radio channels broadcast the same programs over the complementary FM broadcast, known as Wide FM, as part of disaster prevention measures, leading to overlapping costs.

As advertising revenues have been falling among commercial AM broadcasters, they have obtained authorization from Japanese authorities to switch to lower-cost FM broadcasting.
For instance, Tokyo-based TBS Radio Inc, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting Inc, and Nippon Broadcasting System Inc have announced that they will stop AM broadcasting in the fall of 2028 at the earliest. In total, 21 of the 47 AM stations will participate in the ministry's experiment.

However, even after the transition to FM by fall 2028, some stations will continue AM programming as a complementary measure.