RTE started at 252 kHz
After a long period of silence is LB-transmitter in Ireland again in operation. Now, the state public service channel RTE taken over the station in full, and relésender their program 1 Official opening was first scheduled for 1 October, but the newer messages indicate that the start is delayed until the end of the year, with some possibility that it does not happen then! (updated 18.9.03)
Radio Delle 26-29. september
Radio Dell is back on the air the weekend 26 to 29 September on the occasion that Delsbo Radio Club marks its 30th anniversary. The station was last on the air in summer, but autumn darkness makes its likely that the opportunities are greater now to hear the station in a larger area. It is entirely their own broadcasts, that is not broadcast by Radio Ljusdal this time. The station is located in Hälsingland in Sweden. Frequency is the last 1602 kHz. (13.9.03)
RNZI with sending problem
Radio New Zealand International received last week a major error on his KB-send. Until the error is corrected has hired sends in Australia for endelte send times. (13.9.03)
End of årskiftet
NRK seems determined to leave short wave fully by year-end. The same will probably happen with Danmarks Radio which has used half the broadcasting time. In autumn, Norway was the host for coordination conference for HFCC and communications were not even represented! (13.9.03)
Museum Exhibition
The exhibition on the occasion of 60th anniversary AFNs moved from the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt in late August / early September. The exhibition is now on to see the Hessische Landesvertretung in Berlin, where it will be up to the end of the year. (updated 13.9.03)
P4 won P5-licensing
From the beginning of the year will P4 Radio Hele Norway continue to send, but re-transmission. Norkring is already well underway to build the network, so that the P4 will be almost as good coverage on its new transmission. Since P5-license now stayed at Lillehammer have Channel 4 which got P4-license earlier this year decided to put its headquarters to Fredrikstad, something that has been the administration’s acceptance of the media. Channel 4 will start broadcasting at the end of the year on the network P4 Radio Hele Norway uses today. NOK once lost Channel 5 (Former Radio 2 Digital), with Norwegian Aller and U.S. Clear Channel as the two largest shareholders. In several occasions they have applied for regular licenses, but has never been more than a DAB license as very few are listening to. More. (1.7.03)
Danish licenses to the Netherlands
The long announced “national” radio licenses in Denmark is now awarded after the auction was held. FM5-net was won by Sky Radio, which has some local stations in Denmark before, but which has its headquarters in The Netherlands. Sky Radio will begin broadcasting on a national basis in November. These broadcasts will be automated, and the licensing requirement to news broadcasts covered up with agency material. FM6-net also went to a Dutch company, Talpa Radio. It’s Talpa Radio which owns the Dutch station Noordzee FM and Radio 10FM. FM6-net is far from nationwide, only two frequencies are assigned to the station, one of Copenhagen and one of Randers. The two companies will pay an annual konsesjonsavgift the next eight years, respectively 54 and 22.5 million Danish kroner. More about betting on radionyt.com (20.6.03)
Askøy receive regular radio museum
Council in Askøy adopted in late May to buy the broadcaster, Bergen, Hordaland (pictured) for 580.000 kroner from NRK. It remains only that NRK’s board approves the sale. It’s probably in the autumn. Askøy Municipality will smarbeide closely with the Norwegian Telecom Museum of gearing up to send the station into an attractive museum. The area to be cleared, and one of the dismantled the transmitter masts shall be brought in a somewhat more modest height. (20.6.03)
More Ethiopian from Kvitsøy
According to recent observations, it appears that broadcasts from Radio Anternacional in farsi is moved from Kvitsøy to Kishinev, Moldova. Frequency and time is as before, 13,800 kHz 1630-1700. But a new shipment has come to, namely the Voice of Ethiopia WAS in English Sundays 2000-2100 on 7520 kHz. (R BUL Observer, Ivo Ivanov and Angel Datzinov, via BC-DX 17.6.03)
The sale of airtime has come under scrutiny after NRK Dagsnytt brought news that one of the stations that rents airtime to have connections with an organization on the U.S. and EU lists of terrorist suspects. More. (20.6.03)
The big move weekend
Last week was the list of the new commercial radio licenses published, and already this weekend, is moving well ahead. Discontent is high among many of the established stations that have lost their frequencies. Radio 10FM lose 675 kHz in September, and Arrow Classic Rock loses 828 kHz. The latter has now moved to just 675, but it is NOK only temporary, since a new operator to be in here. Public Service stations have also left the 891 and 1008 which are commercial now. More. (1.6.03)
LASER wake of dormancy
It is long since radio ship Communicator was used for radio broadcasts in the Netherlands, and now has revealed the original radio owner, Laser 558 bought the boat back. On their website you can read about the plans to get it back to Britain for the new use! (1.6.03)
FEBC sends in St.Petersburg
Far East Broadcasting Company Russian department has purchased Teos (1089 kHz, 20 kW) in St.Petersburg. From 1 May the organization has sent their applications in time, 0700-2400 local time. (Hansjoerg Biene in EMWG 17.5.03)
Museum marks 60 years AFN
Historische Museum in Frankfurt, has just completed an exhibition on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the American Forces Network. The exhibition should be shown in Berlin, where unknown. In connection with the celebration is produced a double CD with excerpts of broadcasts from the various eras and local AFN-afiliates. (1.6.03)
WTIR has also been Spanish
The DX is in Florida reports that Orlando’s WTIR 1680 now sends Spanish gospel music, as so many other X-band stations. WTIR has until now been easily recognizable by their “travel information” format. Now the owner, Rama Communication obviously put his gospel format also WTIR, at least part of the day. Rama also has two andre gospel stations in Florida, WOKB 1600 (also in Orlando) and WXXU 1300 (Cocoa). (11.5.03)
Two, become a
1. May they beat two German broadcasters Sender freies Berlin (SFB) and Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) together to a large new organization, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). To a large extent does the merger that some double-run avoided, while much will be as before. Radio shows consisting many of the famous canals, which 88acht, Info Radio, Antenne Brandenburg, Fritz and Multikulti. A total of nine different radio stations, all on the FM transmitter is the offer from the RBB. (7.5.03)
Less NRK / DR to Europe
Norkring has hired away a transmitter on Kvitsøy in the period 0400-0800 UTC to the Voice of Mezopotamya that sends the Kurdish dialects directed against Iraq. This means that broadcasts from NRK and DR toward Europe and the Canary Islands is weakened in this period. 7490 kHz 0400, 13800 kHz 0500, 9590 kHz 0600 and 7180 kHz at 0700 UTC is now gone. Complete submit form can be found here. (2.5.03)
When VOM broadcast ends 0800 UTC on Kvitsøy continues through to 1600 Kishinev, Moldova on 11530 kHz. (Updated 20.6.03)
HCJB ends in english
HCJB also reduces activity, and drop with the first their KB broadcasts in English from Quito. Instead, the editorial staff to produce applications for use elsewhere in the world among cooperating stations. (22.4.03)
BBC Radio Shropshire disappears from MB
At the end of the BBC Radio Shropshire stop sending on 1584 kHz (Wooferton / Ludlow). The frequency is taken over when the neighboring office, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester who has struggled with poor coverage of parts of his district. Radio Shropshire had in his time both 1584 kHz and a transmitter in Shrewsbury at 756 kHz, but with better FM coverage leaves the now between the wave for good. Still a few days to hunt for them, so it is over! BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester have already sent in a 738 kHz (with a modest 37 Watts), the NOK is not the easiest to hear, but heard the first, they are at least the only Briton on the frequency. (24.3.03)
End of 1375
In an e-mail to Mediumwace Circles Paul Crankshaw wrote a technique by RFO St Pierre et Miquelon (on the special frequency 1375 kHz) that the medium wave transmitter should be shut down within a short time. dxing.info writes that the transmitter was shut down 31 March. (24.3.03 updated 8.5.03)
Sweden will shut down analog network
Last 1 October 2007, Sweden shut down its analogue TV network, and thus forcing people to rent or buy the decoders for a digital network they obviously do not want. Interest in decoders so far has certainly been modest.
(23.3.03)
Planner DRM broadcasts
Roy Sandgren plans DRM tests from Hörby in Sweden on 981 kHz in the period 1 April to 30 September. He wants to send with 1 kW. Sandgren is also in the market to rent laveffektsendere at 10 Watts for the MB to the Swedish local radio stations. Many remember Sandgren for involvement in Radio Scandinavia who rented airtime on the KB from Andorra for over 20 years ago. Now he hunts for sponsors to use a newly acquired ships, St.Paul (pictured) to the radio broadcasts in Sweden. The license application is already submitted. More info. (Updated 20.6.03)
Over and out for the Mega?
Several sources report that the company behind the German radio chain Mega Radio is bankrupt. This may mean that a lot of parallel frequencies suddenly disappears, eventuellt that the new stations coming on the pitch. Currently viewing least www.megaradio.de out to tie and go to the best of health, but reports say it’s over at the end. Mega Radio has ceased to rent Luxembourg transmitter on 1440 kHz already. (23.3.03)
French awards ready
The list of the private companies that will send on medium wave in France is now ready. (14.3.03)
New Irish station on MB
It is not often that it starts new private stations on the MB no longer in Ireland, but now it happens. BCI has recently decided to grant a license to a 2 kW transmitter for Limerick to the company North Munster Radio. NMR planning a country and Irish station on the frequency 1386 kHz. (28.2.03)
Full stop for Radio Austria Int?
ORF has announced a complete closure of the short-wave broadcasts from 31 March this year, with the possible exception of a very limited broadcasting in German. ORF is no longer required to keep up with their own KB broadcasts to foreign countries, and management will therefore give priority to their domestic listeners and viewers instead. An appeal has now been sent to ORF’s Annual General Meeting (Stiftungsrat) in hopes of saving the broadcasts. KB-send clean in Moosbrunn (pictured – photo ORF) is apparently sought to hire market, and it intends to rent out most of the capacity. there are already some leased airtime. (28.2.03)
P5-planning on track
Post and Telecommunications Authority is well commence with the planning of the network to P5. The proposed 70 transmitters with effects between 100 and 1000 Watts, ie at the level of local radio. Only five places høyeffektsendere which will cover a large area. The frequency list is processed now in terms of approval from neighbors, and Norkring can also come to want changes to the proposed. What is currently known of the rates suggests a number of collisions with existing local radio stations where changes need to either local radios or the planned P5-frequencies. See also here. (28.2.03)
HCJB Australia in good time
HCJB getting started as planned 5 January, and has already begun to send out QSL, initially electronically. Presumably the cards will eventually post the road. In good HCJB-tradition is the beautiful cards with all the desirable data. The card on the right is the Bjorn Tandberg has received. It shows the Diversion Dam in Kunanurra. Sending facility to HCJB is located in the area to the right of the pond. Program overview can be found here. The station has the address HCJB Australia, GPO Box 691E, Melbourne, Australia 3001. (23.2.03)
Media Network has more on the drive.
Update to WRTH
World Radio TV Handbook has now ready a patch that covers a number of international stations. The file can be downloaded from here. (14.1.03)
Power saving on Kvitsøy and Sveio
Norkring are asked to save power, and up to 15 March, all KB-send clean go at reduced power, around 200 kW. From before by some broadcasts still gone, lower power, and much of it rented out sending capacity is of 200 kW, as most listeners will hardly notice a difference. (14.1.03)
NRK MPETRE expand
During the year, according to NRK radionytt.no plans to supplement the network of transmitters for MPETRE NRK to include the cities of Narvik, Molde, Voss, Notodden, Forde, Steinkjer, Arendal, Mo i Rana, Harstad, Kristiansund and Ålesund. (14.1.03)
Now you can listen to DRM
DRM consortium has now released software that you can buy and install on your computer to take the digital broadcasts on short and medium wave. The price is modest 60 Euro. In addition, you must buy an interface card to put in the radio receiver to around 40 Euro. Check DRMRX page and Sat-Service Schneider. (8.1.03)
Voice of Reform from Kvitsøy
According to the Bulgarian “Observer-bulletin”, has Norkring now rented out to send surface 1830-2130 on 9925 kHz from Kvitsøy to an Arabic-language “Voice of Reform”. (8.1.03)
A year has passed
- Page Bernander and NRK’s rule laid Overseas Sending. We have created a special page reminisce. Come to the contribution in the form of memories or facts! (Updated 5.1.03)
HCJB World Radio will start from Australia
According dxing.info start HCJB broadcasts from Kununurra in Western Australia 5 January 2003. But a message on the Hardcore DX from Alokesh Gupta with frequency planning Ian Williams of HCJB Australia as the source, says that the start has been postponed to 12 January. Send Form to be 0700-1200 on 11755 kHz, 1230-1730 on 15480 kHz in addition to Mondays and Saturdays 1800-1830 on 15430 kHz. (Updated 5.1.03)
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