Dear Global 24 Listeners,
Thank you for a remarkable 12 hours.
Over 2,500 of you (confirmed unique) visited our website in just a few short hours last night and thousands more have visited the website since then.
A big thank you to the over 500 reception reports we have received so far. More are coming in every minute and we are very grateful for all of them. Please keep them coming. We are very interested in reports from the US West Coast as we plan any possible configuration changes. However, we still need reports from everywhere - so please send them to qsls@global24radio.com or fill out the web form here.
We are also experiencing some technical difficulties with the internet. We are currently having issues moving the massive amount of programs from our producers to our transmitter via FTP connections. These slow internet connections are preventing us right now from getting new programs loaded for on-the-air broadcasts. Bear with us as we get this working correctly this weekend. In the near term, you may hear a few more program repeats that we had planned.
It should also be noted that these same bandwith challenges are preventing us from posting content on the website. We will have this sorted shortly as fast as possible.
Again, thank you very much from all of us for your feedback, questions and comments. We value your support tremendously.
Sincerely,
The Global 24 Team
Loved last nights program. I listened for about two hours to start. Right now at 15:27 UTC I am listening. The station is not coming in very clear right now. I am listening on a CR-1A and a Pars SW end fed antenna set up as a vertical 40 ft. I know reception will be better tonight. Thanks
I reported a few reception reports via twitter.
Hope that you also read these.
Yes, we saw them. Thanks much.
Yes indeed. The inaugural broadcast was exciting, and it was up to what we should were told to expect….. Lots of variety. Good job everyone. I appreciated the hour by hour rundown. Nice touch. Keep at it. Two thumbs up.
Mike,
Thanks for the kind words. We are happy you are listening.
Your support is very much appreciated.
I live in Florida and I own 4 shortwave receivers. I have only been able to listen to 6 broadcasters in English this year. Shortwave is dead in the United States.
great job guys, really liked the Radio france International relay, the signal was not to clear wen i was listening last night. but it was clear to hear before the relay started, you were playing an NPR program about Nelson Mandella. I am located in New Florence Pa and listen on a tecsun PL660 with a wire antenna strung across the bedroom.
great job guys.
Thanks for the comments. The Radio France relay will be present tonight as well.
Very much enjoying all the content so far! Sent a reception report but forgot to include how I was listening (a Tecsun PL-660 radio without an external) hope that’s okay.
I spent the day testing to see if I could hear Global24 during the day. I used different radios and 3 different antennas. The antennas: 20 ground mounted vertical, Magnetic Loop, and a G5RV. I am just now able to hear the broadcast 23:40 UTC with a great deal of fading and a S7. The signal was never above the noise level in the daylight hours. My location is Northern Oklahoma.
Wow what A station! I really enjoyed last night, I will only add this:
Reception in Israel is possible only at night, severe fadings, and interference from: Radio Farda, 9390kHz, and Radio kurdistan, 9400kHz.
Radios in use: Sangean ATS909 and Tecsun S2000, both with their oun antennas, and with long wire (15 meter) antenna.
I wish you all the best, and keep on with this new fresh air on the shortwaves!
Moshe.
The station was still coming in pretty good a few hours ago. It seems to still be on during the morning hours and a little bit during the afternoon but then it just fades away (again, I used the Dutch SDR). Mostly to other strong stations but probably also propagation. At first it weakens, then a stronger station appears causing interference and then I have to switch to a sideband, and a little later only the carrier is there and then just, nothing,
Was listening around 18:30 ish UTC from norther nj with my Kenwood R-5000 with a 80 foot end fed antenna. Reception was rather weak but with an amplified antenna tuner was able to pull enough of the signal to hear it enough to understand. Can’t wait until tonight to listen when the signal should be much clearer. Glad to see another station being added to the mix, instead of reading about another one dying. Shortwave is not dead indeed!
Really enjoying it so far, and looking forward to the day when I can hear it during the daylight hours too. And no, I don’t mind hearing commercials one little bit, if that helps to bring life back to our beloved Shortwave then it’s fine by me!
Great job! I started looking on Fri. at 2305GMT
Listen for about 30 mins.
Will send more on my report!
Love your news programs every day night listen for about 30 mins to 1 hour around 3:45 am to 4:30 am UTC. I get a very decent reception here in central connecticut with Kaito KA321