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This is an archive of news about Radio Six International. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

New Internet cable under the Pacific
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 26 2008, 10.42am
Six international telecoms companies are planning to lay an undersea internet cable between Japan and the United States. The cable will connect the Japanese town of Chikura with Los Angeles, over a distance of 10,000 kilometres. The project will cost $300 million and be completed in 2010. Once the cable is in place, older networks in [...] (more)

Radio Six International to broadcast live from ship on Saturday
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 18 2007, 2.33pm
On Saturday, 22 September Scotland’s only international radio service, Radio Six International, will attempt its most complicated – and riskiest outside broadcast. The LV18 is a former lightship which – under the care of the Pharos Trust – was first used for radio, with an added radio mast to support the mediumwave transmitting aerial, in 1999 [...] (more)

radio six international returns to shortwave and mediumwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 27 2007, 2.32pm
Effective 11 August, Scotland’s only independent international broadcaster, radio six international, returns to shortwave with a resumption of its Saturday morning broadcast on 9290 kHz beamed to Europe, the Far east and Pacific regions. The programme – transmitted every Saturday between 0700 and 0800 UTC – will be relayed from the 100 kW facility at Ulbroka, Latvia as [...] (more)

Radio Six International to broadcast live charity Ceilidh this evening
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 30 2006, 1.33pm
A reminder that today is St Andrews Day, the national day of Scotland. Radio Six International, the not-for-profit independent station broadcasting from Glasgow, is hosting a live charity Ceilidh from the tiny Island of Lismore, tucked away between Oban and Mull in the Inner Hebrides. Most of the population of 120 will be in the Community Hall [...] (more)

Radio Six International to broadcast live charity Ceilidh on St Andrews Night
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 17 2006, 9.12am
Radio Six International, the not-for-profit independent station broadcasting from Glasgow,  is hosting a live charity Ceilidh from the tiny Island of Lismore, tucked away between Oban and Mull in the Inner Hebrides. Most of the population of 120 will be in the Community Hall to take part in the proceedings on Thursday 30 November from 2100 [...] (more)

DXtra - a new DX programme from Scotland
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 27 2006, 9.59am
Radio Six International is launching a new DX programme on 13 May. The station is now receiving many letters and reception reports every week from listeners to its shortwave and mediumwave transmissions, and this week its Internet service notched up its 122nd country with new listeners in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently, letters from shortwave fans are read out in the weekly music programme (more)