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)

Hörby MW 1179 kHz on the air again

Hörby Mellanvåg on 1179 kHz will be on the air from August 28 to September 10 2016. Den 3 september går Veteranljuddagen av stapeln i Hörby. Mera info på http://veteranljuddagen.se/veteranljuddagen%202016.html

Heritage Radio 1602 testing

Heritage Radio 1602 kHz. Test broadcasts have commenced from Heritage Radio, Manchester on 1602kHz. Heard this afternoon (29 May at 1515UTC) on a portable with ferrite aerial alone in Buxton.  Presume new CR for Manchester. Asian music and OM announcing test transmissions. (Nick Rank) Launches 7 June, based at the British Muslim Heritage Centre, College Rd, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8BP. More at http://www.bmhc.org.uk/heritage-radio-coming-soon/
(Dave Kenny BDXC-UK via John Williams via Tore Larsson, ARC)

DX-test from Mongolia 1431 kHz

*** DX TEST ALERT ***
I want to spread the info about a MW DX test this week that I am helping with (especially those with Asian contacts, please re-post). The engineers need any help they can get, primarily recordings to see how the station is getting out. The guidelines for the test are below:
* Date/Time: May 25-28 1300-1700 UTC
* Frequency: 1431 (power will likely be between 100-500kw)
* Location: Mongolia with a target audience of South Korea
* Send recordings to C0000112@aol.com or upload to https://www.dropbox.com/request/gXQDEsPBCtGiuXn4UcIb
* Recording preferences: MP3 format, mono, no less than 32kbps, and no longer than 30 minutes
* File name should be the sender's initials (example: mine would be "CK") - day - time.mp3 (for May 24 at 1am: "ck-24-0100.mp3). If uploading to the Dropbox, please send an e-mail to the above address stating your listening location as well.
* If possible, do not set the receiver bandwidth to be narrow, but wide AM (at least 6kHz for example).
I hope we can get some help for these engineers who made the journey halfway around the world to set up this test.
(Chris Kadlec in the WRTH Facebook Group)

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)

Radio Caroline North on the air April 23-24

Radio Caroline North returns from 23rd - 24th April, broadcasting live from the Ross Revenge online and on 1368 AM courtesy of Manx Radio.
This time the Caroline story moves forward to the station's return in 1983 and we'll hear from many of those involved, including Peter Chicago and Tom Anderson.
So join us from 6am on Saturday!
Please send suitable music choices and memories to memories@radiocaroline.co.uk
http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk (Mike Terry in the Medium Wave Circle Facebook group)

Venezuela turning the clock forward

On May 1 Venezuela will turn the clock 30 minutes forward to get more daylight in the evenings. (Tore Larsson, ARC)