How Are You Celebrating World Radio Day 2025?

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How Are You Celebrating World Radio Day 2025?

With World Radio Day 2025 rapidly approaching next month, organizers have shared a list of 13 ways radio stations can mark the occasion. The theme for World Radio Day this year is “Radio and Climate Change,” which focuses on “empowering radio stations to enhance their journalistic coverage of one of the most critical issues of our time,” according to UNESCO.

Proclaimed in 2011 by the member states of UNESCO, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, the international day is recognized each year on 13th February 2025.

Thirteen ideas to boost audience engagement and spur climate action are shared in part below. Quoted text is pulled from UNESCO’s website.

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Austria’s Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Site Dismantled

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Austria’s Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Site Dismantled

The 320-ton rotating curtain antenna in Moosbrunn, Austria, was dismantled this week as part of the decommissioning of the historic shortwave radio site, according to reporting from the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.

he antenna, located south of Vienna, had been in service since 1983, and the Moosbrunn site overall had been used since 1959, according to reporting from the German media outlet Heise Online.

The process began last fall and the unique antenna was “successfully dismantled using a precise, targeted explosion,” according to a press release from the ORS, a subsidiary of the Austrian public broadcaster ORF.

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Lonar Meteor Lake Special Event AU6LON

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Lonar Meteor Lake is a crater lake formed by the impact of a meteor 5,00,000 years in the past. It is an astronomical wonder in itself. VU2DSI, Datta from India is operating/activating from this unique place in the world of astronomy from 20 February to 24 February 2025.

Lonar Meteor Lake in Buldhana district, Maharashtra state in India.

Special event callsign AU6LON.

February 20th through February 25th 2025.

  • 10 meters - 28 545, 28520, 28450 & 29650 (FM) kHz.

  • 15 meters- 28350, 21310, 21235 kHz.

  • 20 meters- 14210, 14250, 14330 kHz.

  • 40 meters - 7030, 7140, 1418 kHz.