söndag 29 januari 2012

WCMC Wildwood NJ 1230 heard in Norrköping, Sweden

1230 19.1 2229 WCMC Wildwood NJ, ett tydligt ID från parallellstationen “13-40 WMID”. A/V (Sigvard Andersson, Norrköping, Sweden)

DX-News: JIL FM, Algeria and NRK Longyearbyen, Svalbard

ALGERIA
JIL FM is the new youth program broadcast via 531 kHz F’kirina and 549 kHz at Sidi Hamadouche. Very modern channel w/ Arabic, French and Italian IDs and jingles.
531 kHz is the best channel heard late evenings in Växjö, Sweden. The mix of music is very enjoyable.

NORWAY
1485 kHz NRK Longyearbyen, Svalbard was heard during 5 minutes at local sunset at 15.25 UTC. At 15.30 they just announced that “Dagsnytt” (Newscast) will start then NRK drowned in QRM, mostly from the 2 AFN stations. Loopangle 0˚ to avoid QRM from Radio Merkurs. (Bengt Ericson, ARC, Växjö )

måndag 9 januari 2012

Berlin DRM 1485 off!

GERMANY
The DRM-transmitter on 1485 kHz located in the Berlin area is off tonite (Jan 9th)at 2200 UTC. The transmitter is very disturbing in southern Sweden, but in Östersund in the mid of Sweden the DRM-station is not audiable. (Bengt Ericsn, ARC, Växjö)

söndag 1 januari 2012

Radio Bretagne Cinq 1593 kHz heard in Sweden

FRANCE         1593 Radio Bretagne Cinq heard for the first time this morning at 0730 UTC with French and international music mostly played nonstop. Once a DJ announced the ID. Very good signal, but faded away 30 minutes later. (Bengt Ericson, ARC)