tisdag 16 februari 2016

Bergen Kringkaster back after power outage

Our radio stations LLE-4 and LLE-3 have been off the air on 1611 and 5895 kHz due to a power outage. Everything has been restored and the next transmissions will be on February 17 0500 UTC on 1611 and 0700 on 5895 kHz. 2100- on 1611 and 1600- on 5895. Reports to reports@bergenkringkaster.no or 1000@northernstar.no (Svenn Martinsen, ARC)

tisdag 9 februari 2016

New digital station on 810 kHz from Abu Dhabi

The world’s first Malayalam-language digital radio station is now broadcasting from Abu Dhabi.

Pravasi Bharathi 810 AM was launched with a live broadcast from popular playback singer, G Venugopal.

The official switch-on was performed by Abdul Rahman Awadh Al Harthi, executive director of radio for Abu Dhabi Media, and Noushad Abdul Rahuman, chairman of Pravasi Bharathi Broadcasting Corporation. Also present at the inauguration ceremony were K C Joseph, Kerala’s minister for rural development, planning, culture and Norka.

Pravasi Bharathi 810 AM is also the first digital-radio station in the Middle East and North Africa region. The channel is broadcast under the licence of Abu Dhabi Media and Media Zone Authority, Abu Dhabi.

The station hosts analogue transmission from 5am to 12.10am each day, with digital transmission between 12.10am and 5am every day, broadcast from its headquarters in Al Maqta.

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/from-holly-to-bolly/new-malayalam-radio-channel-launched-in-uae

(The National via the WRTH Facebook group)

måndag 1 februari 2016

Active MW stations in Ukraine

UKRAINE

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Ukraine on medium wave.

UTC.

549 kHz / UR 1 / Luch (Mykolaiv region.) / 0400 – 2100 / 720 kW

765 kHz / R. "Mayak" (disabled / test) / Petrovka (Odessa region.) / 40 kW

837 kHz / UR 1 / Taranovka (Kharkiv region.) / 0400 – 2200 / 150 kW

837 kHz / R. "Bukovina" / Chernivtsi / 0600 – 1100 / 30 kW

990 kHz / Oblastnoe Radio 2 Dnepropetrovsk / Dnipropetrovsk / 1000 - 1200 / 2.5 kW

1044 kHz / Oblastnoe Radio Ivano-Frankivsk / UR 1 / Verkhovyna (Ivano-Frankivsk region.) / 0400 – 2100 / 1 kW

1278 kHz / UR 1 / tests VSRU / Petrovka (Odessa region.) / 1700 – 2200 / 100 kW

1377 kHz / R. "Khvylya" / Vinnytsia / 1100 – 1515 / 7 kW

1377 kHz / channel "Nikolaev" / Mykolayiv / 0800 - 0900 / 3.5 kW

1404 kHz / UR 1 / Ishmael (Odessa region.) / 0400 – 2100 / 10 kW

1431 kHz / VSRU / Luch (Mykolaiv region.) / 1700 – 2100 / 800 kW

(www.dxing.ru, forum)

("RUS-DX"  #  857)

 Anatoly Klepov,

Moscow, Russia