The world will be listening on Friday, the 24th of October, for a message of peace to be transmitted from a radio station that secured its place in history more than a century ago. The Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden, a World Heritage Site, will deliver a message to the world on the occasion of United Nations Day, a day set aside for promoting global unity - one of the goals for which the UN was founded eight decades ago.

The message will go out on the VLF frequency 17.2 kHz from the Alexanderson alternator that dates to 1924. As always, the mode will be CW. Where possible, listeners will tune their receivers, their SDRs or navigate to YouTube.

Ham radio operators, of course, will be able to mark the occasion by doing some transmitting of their own on the HF frequencies. Amateur Radio Station SK6SAQ will be on the air on 80, 40 and 20 metres, both CW and SSB for those who wish to make contact.

For a schedule of the transmissions and information about the ham radio station, visit the link that appears in the text version of this week’s Newsline script at arnewsline.org