New MW station on the air from Italy on 1098 kHz

A new low power Italian local station from Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna province). Active on 1098 kHz; 711 kHz authorized but not on the air for the time being. (Fabrizio Magrone in the Medium Wave Circle Facebook-group)

Another new Dutch MW station: Radio 0511

Radio 0511 is now testing on MW 1494 kHz and will be on the air with regular transmissions from September. Fixed schedule each Sunday:
11:00 - 13:00: Mark de Haan
13:00 - 14:00: Peter Nijdam 1
14:00 - 16:00: Mark Nicolai
16:00 - 17:00 Erik Bolhuis
17:00 - 19:00: Marco Cate
Times are probably CET.

New Dutch MW station; Q AM 1395

New low power mediumwave station is now on air in the Netherlands. Q AM (is NOT the same as Q Music) with oldies on 1395 kHz from Waardenburg, between Den Bosch and Utrecht. It's the second low power station on this frequency, Atlantis from the province of Friesland started about a month ago on 1395 kHz. (René van Hoof in the Medium Wave Circle Facebook group)

Pispalan Radio, Finland 729 kHz

Jorma Mäntylä reports that Pispalan Radio in Tampere is now being heard with a great signal on 729 kHz some 40 km from the transmitter site. The station was earlier using a temporary license, broadcasting under the name Radio Gramox. This time the station has a permanent license. (Jorma Mäntylä via Tore Larsson, ARC)

Russian MW update

RUS-DX”  #  869

Broadcasting of Russia,

countries of CIS and Baltiya (ex. USSR).

Sunday / 24 April , 2016    

Moscow

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Radio station closed Teos broadcasting on a frequency of 1134 kHz and receive transmissions only on the Internet, on their page - http://s.teos.fm/

Now in Moscow there are only two working broadcast on medium wave frequencies:

612 kHz – Narodnoe radio and Radio Radonezh

738 kHz - World Radio Network.

(Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia)

St. Petersburg

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RTRS Branch "St. Petersburg Regional Center" turned off the medium wave transmitter radio center №11 (Krasny Bor). The transmitter "SRV-50" broadcast station "Radio Teos" at a frequency of 1089 kHz. Power equipment is 30 kW.

One of the unique antenna towers located in the Red Bor - a highly directional antenna system "Dawn" medium wave range. The antenna system consists of 26 metal towers height of 41 meters each. The length of the chain towers - 2.1 km. Antenna complex supplement the four-mast antenna height of 271, 257, 106, 93 and 80 meters of antenna systems of short-range. The total output power of transmitters DV-, SV- and HF bands reached 10.6 mV.

A quarter-century radio center worked with almost 100% load. 23 hours a day, eighteen short-wave transmitters "Snow" broadcast "International Radio Moscow", "the first program of the All-Union Radio", "Radio Mayak", "Leningrad Radio", "Radio Station Atlantic", "radio station Motherland" and other programs of the Soviet domestic and foreign broadcasting .

Loading powerful transmitters broadcasting radio center in the Red Bor began to decline in the late 90s. For 15 years, we were off "Buran" transmitters and transmission hardware broadcasted SV- and HF bands. The transmitter "Radio Teos" was the last powerful transmitter radio center. Transmitting equipment mothballed.

(Russian radio and television via Anatoly Klepov, Moscow)

Active MW stations in 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

Czech MW stations closing down on January 4, 2016

"This news coming from Cesky Rozhlas is a complete surprise. Dr Hansjörg Biener quotes the official website in his article written today on Ydun's MediumWave Info.
On 04 January 2016 the following stations will close:

270kHz Uherské Hrad (iště - Topolná
639kHz Praha - Liblice
954kHz Brno - Dobrochov
954kHz České Budějovice - Hosova Kolonie
954kHz Karlovy Vary - Stará Role
1332kHz Moravské Budějovice - Domamil

The only surviving station will be Ostrava Svinov on 639kHz which will only broadcast from 05 January 2016 between 1500-2300UTC." (MediumWave Info via Bengt Ericson, ARC)

Update from Ydun M. Ritz:

 I think there is a misunderstanding here! As far as I can see, it is just CroPlus, who leaves MW except for 639 kHz. CRo2 will still use the above MW frequencies.
http://www.mediumwave.info/news.html#CRoPLUS

Hörby Mellanvåg 1179 on the air 24/7

Hörby Mellanvåg 1179 kHz is now on the air 24 h/day. Low power transmitter. The transmitter has been moved to Karlsfält, where the first Radio Sweden MW-transmitter centre at Hörby was located. It is 5 km south of Hörby. Listener´s report of reception is appreciated. For more information: www.veteranljuddagen.se where there is also a form for submitting reception reports. (Bengt Ericson, ARC).

Some MW news from Russia and Ukraine

Some items received from RUS-DX #837 Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia

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Programs VGTRK: "Mayak", "Radio Russii", "Vesti FM»,
Broadcast via medium-wave transmitters in Russia and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria).
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Frequency / kHz / Power, kW / location transmitter / broadcast programs
918 / 50 / Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan / "Mayak" + GTRK "Dagestan"
936 / 5 / n. Matveyevka, Orenburg region / "Radio Russii" + GTRK "Orenburg"
1350 / 5 / Ust-Kan and Ulagan, Altai Republic / "Radio Russii" + GTRK "Gorny Altai"
1395 /1 / Buguruslan, Orenburg region / "Radio Russii" + GTRK "Orenburg"
1413 / 500 / pos. Mayak, Pridnestrovie / "Vesti FM"
1440/5 / sec. Turochak with. Ust-Koksa, Altai Republic / "Radio Russii" + GTRK"Gorny Altai"
(«DX Kurjer." Author and editor Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia)

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National Ukrainian radio limits distribution of its programs: no money
On September 9, 2015
The National Radio Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian Radio) forced significantly limit the distribution of its programs on the territoryUkraine. It is reported by the press service of NRKU.
"This decision was taken due to the lower costs of the general fund State budget and a decrease of 3130.4 thousand. UAH budget funding of broadcasting programs of the Ukrainian radio "- It said in a statement.
Notes in particular that the UR-1 (Channel) - in the MW range on the frequency of 549 kHz to work with a break from 14:00 to 18:00 in the VHF -the lower and upper (FM) band will only work in regional
centers; UR-2 (Promyn) and UR-3 (Culture) in the UHF band will work Only in the capital. In this specifies that a broadcast network and a wired Internet remain in full.
(Edition "Russian Spring" September 10, 2015, http://rusnext.ru/news/1441833995)
(Andrew Chub, Faschevka, Luhansk People's Republic)
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Ukrainian radio limits the propagation of their programs.
Starting today, September 9, 2015, the National Radio Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian Radio) is forced to significantly limit the distribution of its programs on the territory of Ukraine. This decision was taken due to the lower costs of the general fund of the State Budget of Ukraine and a decrease of 3130.4 thousand. Hryvnia budget financing programs of the Ukrainian radio broadcast.
Therefore:
- UR-1 (Channel) - MW in the range at a frequency of 549 kHz to work with a break from 14.00 to 18.00, in the VHF - the lower and upper (FM) band will only work in the regional centers;
- UR-2 (Promyn) and UR-3 (Culture) in the UHF band to work only in the capital.
Broadcast on a wired network and the Internet are full.
Press Service of NRCU - 09/09/2015, at 16:00
(Alexander Egorov, Ukraine /http://dxing.ru/)

Russian update: medium wave stations in the Orensburgskaya and St. Petersburg oblasts

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Orenburgskaya oblast.
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20/07/2015. Recently, a lot of different "observations" (yes, in quotes) on the hearing program "Radio Rossii" at different frequencies. When I asked about a broadcast programs in the Orenburg region in the medium range of said Turkin SV Deputy. chief engineer of the Orenburg ORTPTS - (the quote): "In reply to your appeal we inform that at the moment in the Orenburg region in the medium-wave broadcasting is carried out in two localities: 1. Buguruslan - at a frequency of 1395 kHz, the transmitter power of 5 kW but it operates at 1 kW (RICH authorized power of 1 kW), the program "Radio Rossii"; 2. n. Matveevka - at a frequency of 936 kHz, the transmitter power of 5 kW to 5 kW is working. The program "Radio Rossii" . At a frequency of 1053 kHz with the program "Radio Rossii" and at a frequency of 540 kHz with the program "Radio Mayak" broadcast was conducted in Orenburg until 2011 and 2013 respectively. "
(http://www.dxcourier.ru/
Editor: Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia)

St. Petersburg
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MW:
684 - Radio Radonezh (20.00 - 24.00) [RP Radonezh Orthodox Brotherhood ROC] (Sosnovka 10 kW, 50 m)
828 - Radio Slovo (9-17, 21-5) / Orthodox Radio St. Petersburg (5-9, 17-21) [Word Ltd.] (Sosnovka 10 kW, 75 m)
1053 - Radio Maria (06.00-01.00) [NF Radio Maryja] (Ol'gino, 10 kW, 75 m)
1089 - Radio Teos (07.00 - 16.00) [BF Radio Teos] (Krasny Bor, 50 kW)
(http://worlddx.hol.es/fmspb.htm
Editor: Ivan Lebedevskiy, St. Petersburg, Russia)


Via
"RUS-DX"  #  831, 2 August, 2015  
Editor : Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia
Web site : http://rusdx.narod.ru  (Russian / English)
Mailing List : http://groups.google.com/group/rusdx.

Radio Mi Amigo starting relays over Radio Merkurs 1485, Riga

Radio Mi Amigo will be starting regular relays on Sunday 20.00 – 24.00 CET via Radio Merkurs 1485 kHz to Scandinavia. There will be four hours shows of DJs and music from the 1960s/70s. (Bengt Ericson, ARC)

Bayerischer Rundfunk closing down medium wave frequencies

Bayerischer Rundfunk will close down these frequencies from September 30th, 2015. These frequencies  are used for Schlagerwelle Bayern Plus.

München-Ismaning 801 kHz 100 kW
Dillberg 801 kHz 17 kW
Würzburg 729 kHz 1 kW
Hof 729 kHz 0,2 kW
(BR media 29.4.2015 via Bengt Ericson, ARC)  

Test transmissions from Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications on 1593 kHz

Hi, all! We are glad to inform you that for tomorrow we have planned a test AM transmission. Of course ZS-1 will be used. Frequency 1593 kHz, power 10W PEP. Just music for the beginning... We are going to start at 12:00 UTC and finish at 13:00-13:30 UTC. The frequency belongs to the Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (Russian Federation). Coordinates of the station: 59.902799,30.489243 In future a power amplifier will be added and broadcasting will be more regular. (Gromov Alexandr via Tracey Gardner, mwcircle 8.10.2013 via Tore Larsson, ARC)

Further tests from Bergen Kringkaster

LKB/LLE (Norwegian test and development analog/digital license from NPT for Foreningen Bergen Kringkaster) plans to be on the air on 1314 and 5895 kHz from @0500 to 0730 UTC on Wednesday 9th of October . Next broadcast is planned for Thursday 10th of October in the afternoon from 1430-1630 UTC. Report to: report@bergenkringkaster.no If you want a QSL-card, please send written report enclosing Norwegian stamps for foreign postage or 3$ bills, to: LKB/LLE Bergen Kringkaster PO BOX 100, N5331 RONG, NORWAY. If possible also enclose printed address label to ease our work, as many reports already have arrived! (Svenn Martinsen, ARC via Tore Larsson, ARC)

Radio Nord Revival from Latvia on 1485 kHz

Starting on Wednesday, October 2 at 1900 UTC, Radio Nord Revival will be conducting a series of test transmissions over Radio Merkurs on 1485 kHz, each transmission being one hour. Maximum power is 2,7 kW and the aerial is directed towards Stockholm. Reception reports are welcome to info@rock.x.se and we are especially interested in how the reception is on ordinary household receivers, transistor radios and car radios. If you want a QSL card, reception reports with return postage can be sent to Ronny Forslund Radio Nord Revival Test transmissions Vita Huset SE-17995 Svartsjö Sweden Broadcast times may be changed depending on reception conditions. Programmes will contain recordings and spots from 1960s offshore station Radio Nord plus lots of music from the early 60s. For updates please check out our blog www.radionordrevival.blogspot.com (Ronny Forslund, ARC)

Vatican Radio leaving MW and SW

VATICAN CITY Vatican Radio will end its short and mediumwave broadcasts on1 July, strengthening its web service.
Spokesman of the Holy See and Director of Vatican Radio, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, announced: "From 1 July Vatican Radio will end all its medium wave broadcasts and its shortwave ones to most of Europe and the Americas, which are regions of the world where the rebroadcasting of programmes by the local Catholic radio and internet access are more developed."
http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201206121327-cro-ren1038-vatican_radio_reduces_broadcasts_and_strengthens_web

(AGI 12.6.2012 via Mike Terry, MWDX)

ARC Newsflash: Turkish MW transmitter Antalaya 891 reactivated

TRT seems to reactivated at least 1 mediumwave transmitter at night. 891 kHz Antalya was very strong at 2100 UTC on August 8th. Dominated the frequency completely. ID” TRT - Ankara Radio” was announced several times. Signal a bit overmodulated.
I also heard a weaker and more disturbed signal on 1062 kHz at the same time, but different program. Turkish music and songs. No ID. (Bengt Ericson, ARC, Växjö)

ARC Newsflash Polish local stations on the air

POLAND Correction to info in the latest MV-EKO! Torun 1413 kHz, Bielsko-Biala 1485, Burko-Zdrόj 1584, Konskie 1584 and Legnica 1584 are not on the air. 963 and 1062 kHz are on the air.
Sorry for the misinformation, but a translation via Google Polish to Swedish mislead me. (Bengt Ericson, ARC).