BANGLADESH
Prime Minister inaugurates 1000 kW MW transmitter of Bangladesh Betar at Dhamrai.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally launched 1000-Kilowatt MW transmitter of the Bangladesh Betar by pressing a button at the Super power Transmission Centre, Dhamrai near Dhaka on December 09, 2009. She was talking to local people in a video conference after inaugurating the newly installed 1000-kilowatt medium-wave transmitter. The prime minister understand the need for building a science and technology based modern Bangladesh free from hunger and poverty by implementing the "Vision 2021".
The Prime Minister said her government, after assuming office through a free, fair and credible election on December 29, is working relentlessly to build a self-reliant Bangladesh through implementing it election pledge. She said apart from bringing down the prices of essential commodities, her government has undertaken various programmes for self-employment of the country's young generation.
Information Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury briefed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about the transmitter, its utility and on the whole of the installation project. Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad, members of parliament, high officials of Bangladesh Betar including Md. Mahbubul Alam, DG, Bangladesh Betar and a large number of local people were present on the occasion.
Project in a brief:
- The project ended in June 2009.
- To strengthen the MW radio broadcasting of Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka by replacing the 36 year-worn out valve type 1000KW Medium Wave(MW) transmitter by a new solid-state 1000KW MW transmitter.
- Efficiency of the new transmitter will be much better than the existing one. 95% area of the country will be covered by this high quality transmitter.
- The new transmitter has the energy saving provisions which will be helpful to avoid huge electricity consumption.
- The new modern solid -state transmitter is compatible to future DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) broadcast.
- A generator of 1500KVA is included to meet power failures. - Cost (revised) about 350 million (BDT).
Details about this transmitter: http://www.grassvalley.com/products/s7hp
Freq is 693 kHz
Source : Bangladesh Betar website via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, India via dxld 9/086 (22/12-2009)
BANGLADESH
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has formally inaugurated the newly commissioned 1000 kW mediumwave transmitter of Bangladesh Betar at Dhamrai [on 693 kHz at 2300-0510 and 0730-1630 UTC]. This new solid-state transmitter replaces a 36-year-old valve [tube] type transmitter. The new transmitter is compatible for DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) broadcasts and covers 95% area of the country. It broadcasts centrally produced radio programmes and plays an important role during natural disasters.
Bangladesh Betar Dhaka Station broadcast the inaugural function live while the Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur and Sylhet regional stations of Bangladesh Betar relayed the proceedings simultaneously. The superpower transmitter was originally commissioned on 63 acres of land at Dhamrai with the assistance of the then Soviet Union government in 1972. Broadcasting formally began on 16 May 1976.
Source: Alokesh Gupta, Radioactivity via DRM Consortium via Media Network via mwdx yg (14/12-2009)
BANGLADESH
Thomson Supplies Super Power MW Transmitter for National Service Enhancement
in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Radio (BETAR) has ordered 1000 kW radio transmitters from Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) to upgrade its existing broadcast network for nationwide coverage.
As a large percentage of the Bangladesh population is located in rural areas, AM radio is very often the only way to reach and inform them. Thomson's low-power medium-wave transmitters have already been installed by BETAR radio stations across Bangladesh and the new super power transmitter from Thomson will be used to transmit and relay national radio programs throughout the country.
"Radio is the cheapest and most versatile medium for reaching out to the grass root level and is still the most widespread communication media in Bangladesh," said BETAR (Radio) Chief Engineer Shekh Ruhul Amin. "The efficiency of the new high power transmitter from Thomson will greatly increase our network efficiency meaning we will be able to use it to
broadcast to 95% of the country. In addition, thanks to its energy saving capacities, the new transmitter from Thomson will help BETAR to reduce electricity consumption".
BETAR, the Bangladesh government owned national radio network has played a pivotal role towards developing the country's information networks since its creation in 1938. This year BETAR will go on air with a powerful new 1000kW S7HP transmitter from Thomson based in its Super Power Transmitting Station at Dhamrai. The decision to chose Thomson's solutions for this strategic medium wave project was based on the transmitter's high performance,
technical compliance and compatibility with DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) solutions.
"Thomson's 1000 kW S7HP transmitter is the only transmitter in Bangladesh through which national programs will be transmitted and relayed by other stations," said Patrick Montliaud, Senior Vice President of Thomson's Integration and Networks Solutions business unit, within the Systems division. "This transmitter will be the heart of Bangladesh BETAR (Radio) and we are proud to be the solution provider for such an important national
project."
About S7HP:
The S7HP transmitter line is Thomson's answer to the needs of high quality analog and DRM LW/MW performance from 300 kW to 1200 kW and more. Built exclusively on digital processing techniques, S7HP is equipped with the advanced modulation technology and intrinsic flexibility needed for the complex modulation schemes of digital modulation techniques. The S7HP holds the world's record for output power in DRM mode vs.
analog/PEP capability. The transmitters feature reduced floor space design combined with full access. Customers esteem the easy, low-cost installtion, operation and maintenance of this transmitter line.
Las Vegas - National Association of Broadcasters Convention - Booths SL106/SL2120) April 12, 2008 - via Steve Whitt, MWC (15/4-2008)
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BELARUS
Most Belarus transmitters on MW have been closed, only the following remain:
1008 kHz: Hrodna
1026 kHz Brest/Miadzel/Salihorsk
1125 kHz Minsk
WRTH Update via DXing the Finnish Way (8/3-2010)
BELARUS
I've been hearing presumed Belarus on 279 with a good signal past 2300, 0000 and 0100 for a few days now. There has also been another weaker signal under Belarus but too weak to hear even if the speech is by a man or a woman! This morning, January 6, at 0010 I heard a clear Belaruskaye Radio ID. http://www.emwg.info shows 0400- 2200 so is this a permanent change or just an extension for Christmas / New Year?
Regards Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, Jan 6, dxldyg
Harry, according to recent reports in the Russian DX-circles, BR returned to its 24x7 operation on 279 kHz (perhaps from Jan.1). To me this news came as a surprise since I didn't realize that 279 wasn't on around the clock (since when I wonder?).
Sergei S
Sergei, http://www.beaconworld.org.uk/files/LWBC.pdf has Belarus as 0400-2300 in July 2005. I'm pretty certain they reduced 2300 back to 2200 either last year or the year before as well. I think that 279 is not as consistently as strong a signal as it was 3 or 4 years ago.
Regards Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, dxld 10-01 (6/1-2010)
BELARUS
Belarus heard in English on longwave, seems to have made plenty of changes to its schedules (both domestic and external) over the past fortnight, so apologies if this is not news - though it was to me.
Last night at around 2145 GMT I heard their external service in English on 279. I don't think I've ever heard their English service on longwave before. According to their A-09 schedule, English at 2000-2200 is meant to be on 1170, 7210, 7255 and 7390.
Chris Greenway via dxld yg (10/4-2009)
BELARUS
Radio Station "Belarus"
1100-2300 UT 7390, 7210 kHz
1705-2300 UT 7255 kHz
1900-2300 UT 1170 kHz
Send your Reception reports to:
Technical Department, 9, Makayonka St., Minsk,
220807, Belarus http://www.tvr.by/eng/
Send you Programme Comments to
Radio Station "Belarus", 4, Krasnaya St., Minsk, 220807, Belarus,
http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by Email: radiostation-belarus @ tvr.by
Larisa Suárez, Minsk, via Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Chennai, India, DXLD 9-024 (19/3-2009)
BELARUS
Summer schedule from March 29 to October 25, 2009:
Radiostation Belarus [external service]
1900-2300 : 1170 kHz (800 kW), Azimut 244
Belorusskoe Radio [domestic service]
0400-0700 : 1170 kHz (800 kW), Azimut 64, Sosnovy
1500-1700 : 1170 kHz (800 kW), Azimut 64, Sosnovy
Alexander Mazgo, Vitebsk, Belarus, RusDX March 15 via DXLD 9-024 (19/3-2009)
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BELGIUM
No signal here in Belgium from Pure FM on 1233 & 1305 kHz. Well mention on the web side of RTBF/Pure FM.
Greetings Ge Huijbens, Belgium, mwcircle yg (14/11-2009)
BELGIUM
Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal announces on its website that it is to resume mediumwave broadcasts from 30 March. The station will have new names for its two networks, RVi 1 becomes Radio Vlaanderen Info and RVi 2 becomes Radio Vlaanderen. The mediumwave broadcasts will be on 927 kHz, a frequency previously used for the domestic service. The mediumwave transmitter will carry the Radio Vlaanderen Info service.
Andy Sennitt, Media Network weblog (27/3-2009)
BELGIUM
As I had conflicting information on the power output of RTBF's AM transmitters, I contacted someone inside the company with firsthand information. The information I received was very interesting:
a. The 1125 kHz transmitter in La Louvière is a 10 kW transmitter but only outputs about 9.5 kW (Vivacité programme).
b. The 1233 kHz for Pure FM is a 5 kW transmitter currently outputting only 4.1 kW.
c. The 1305 kHz (also Pure FM) is a 10 kW transmitter which outputs 9.2 kW. In winter the transmitter output is reduced to 7 kW as it otherwise produces a kind of fading on the 1233 kHz transmitter.
In the past few months people from Telefunken DRM have been equipping the AM transmitters with a DRM modulator. No news yet as to RTBF's plans with this.
Naturally, the EMWG pages have already been updated with this information ;-)
73 Herman Boel www.emwg.info via MWC (8/10-2008)
BELGIUM
The 10 kW transmitter of RTBF's Vivacité on 1125 kHz in Houdeng will shortly need some maintenance. RTBF was looking for a spare transmitter to use during the maintenance. It was first thought to use the 5 kW transmitter in Kuurne (1188 kHz - handy as the frequencies are very close), but as this is hardly in the neighbourhood of Vivacité's
listeners, the plan was swiftly abolished.
That is why the VRT Radio 2 transmitter in Waver was now chosen. Waver is relatively close to the Houdeng listening area. The transmitter is now being prepared to transmit on 1125 kHz via a temporary antenna.
Source: Radiovisie
I have no idea when exactly the switch will happen, nor what the power output will be.
73 Herman Boel www.emwg.info via MWC (15/9-2008)
BELGIUM
1188 VRT Radio Twee Kuurne now GONE!! Observed at 0900.
73,s Dan Goldfarb, Brentwood, England via dxld yg (31/3-2008)
Yes, it was officially switched off at 0930. In fact, there is an amusing story - the transmitter went off the air at 0923 because a senior official of VRT who was present for the switchoff accidentally pressed a button too early. The engineer switched it back on for another 7 minutes :-)
If you're wondering how I know this, Herbert Visser of 100%NL is a friend of the VRT engineer, and spoke to him on the phone a short while after it happened. Then Herbie came and told me :-)
Andy Sennitt via dxld yg (31/3-2008)
BELGIUM
This morning I found 1188 VRT2 still on the air. 540 and 1512 are gone.
Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands via MWC (30/3-2008)
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BRAZIL
MW brasilian radio stations update - Version 20090628.02
ON-LINE DATABASE : http://www.dxclube.com.br
New denomination:
670kHz - CBN Macapa, Macapa-AP (Ex Globo Macapa)
780kHz - Educadora Jovem Pan, Uberlandia-MG
1140kHz - Nova Regional AM, Registro-SP
1230kHz - Daqui, Goiania-GO ( Ex CBN Goiania) (Colaboracao: Jairo Gomes Barbosa, Anapolis-GO)
1440kHz - Bare, Manaus-AM ( Ex Globo Manaus)
1590kHz - Super Cultura AM, Andira-PR
New station:
1230kHz - Nova Mensagem, - ZYJ350 - Telemaco Borba-PR
Name Correction:
1250kHz - Metropolitana (Nossa Radio), Vespasiano-MG
Updated radio networks:
BAND - Rede Band Sat
GUA - Redde Guaiba Sat
IPDA - Igreja Pentecostal Deus e Amor
IURD - Igreja Universal do reino de Deus JP - Rede Jovem Pan Sat
APA - Rede Aparecida de Evangelizacao
CBN - Central Brasileira de Noticias
Web link changed:
1020kHz - Cenecista, Picui-PB
1110kHz - Cruzeiro do Sul, Itaqui-RS
1420kHz - Cultura, Umuarama-PR
News web links:
1100kHz - Difusora AM, Acarau-CE
1140kHz - Nova Regional AM, Registro-SP
1440kHz - Bare, Manaus-AM
1520kHz - Cachoeira AM, Solonopole-CE
1590kHz - Super Cultura, Andira-PR
Help us sending your informations to: marcelo@bedene.com.br
73 Marcelo Vilela Bedene, Equipe do DX Clube do Parana, Curitiba PR, Brasil (28/6-2009)
BRAZIL
I found out from my recording that Radio Itapirema (Brazil, 1390kHz) changed its name to Radio Planalto.
It was confirmed by Rocco Cotroneo who called the station. Thanks also to Carlos Goncalves who found time to listen to my recording.
Heard on June 13, 2009 at 0300UTC. The exact frequency was 1390.22kHz on my AR7030 what raised my suspicion. This corresponds with 1390.215 for (ex) Itapirema in the list of offset frequencies.
Karel Honzik, CZE via mwdx yg (23/6-2009)
BRAZIL
Re 1180 no longer a clear-channel: It appears that the only MF "singleton" in Brasil is R. Nove de Julho in São Paulo, on 1600 kHz. I don't know why, but until the Archdiocese was licensed on 1600 (I was told as a replacement for a frequency that was "unlicensed" by the government in former, less pleasant, times) there were no Brazilian stations on this frequency.
R. 9 de J. operates with 100 kW day, 20 kW night with a soft DA whose maximum is more or less northerly in orientation. Although the antenna site is quite urbanized, not the best situation for good low-angle skywave propagation, it is an efficient antenna design with tall
towers. I know that the large number of signals on the higher frequencies in the MF band make DXing difficult, but I would expect to see the occasional European report about R. Nove. (We didn't design the antenna, but since it has quite high voltages on the driven tower, we did design and commission the feed system.)
[Later:] I forgot about the Brasília 980 kHz - it's a singleton too.
Ben Dawson, WA, Hatfield- Dawson, Feb 8, DXLD 9-013 (9/2-2009)
BRAZIL
Rádio Mundial AM 1180 - RJ encerra atividades.
Uma das emissoras mais modernas do país em termos de investimentos técnicos encerrou seus trabalhos de forma triste nessa madrugada.
A Rádio Mundial (AM 1180 kHz) dispensou cerca de "40 funcionários" entre redatores, jornalistas, radialistas, programadores, operadores de áudio e técnica, e todo setor administrativo.
A emissora localizada na Rua da Assembléia nº10 no 18º andar no centro do Rio está operando somente com um programa de músicas via computador.
A Rádio Mundial (razão social Globo-Eldorado), foi arrendada ao Sistema Globo de Rádio em maio de 2008 por um grupo de investidores. O canal AM 1180 kHz é uma freqüência internacional e na verdade pertence a um "grupo chileno" que trabalha em parceria ao Sistema Globo de Rádio. O arrendamento da empresa e a utilização do nome "Mundial "
eram por 10 anos. A emissora sobreviveu apenas 9 meses.
Fonte: Brasil Rádio News Sábado, Janeiro 31, 2009 via Marcelo Bedene, Feb 3, dxclubepr yg via DXLD 9-012 (7/2-2009)
ZYJ463 Rio was once the dominant/only Brazilian on 1180, and DXed in North America, Europe, but now there are 17 others. It is still the highest powered, both day and night, per WRTH 2009, 50/10 kW. I gather that the transmitter remains on the air with computer-generated music programming, but no local origination.
Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD 9-012 (7/2-2009)
BRAZIL
A new version of medium wave radio stations list in Brazil (edited by the Dx Clube do Brasil), is online, both html and pdf. Dozens of updates, with many splitted frequencies.
Browse or download: http://www.ondascurtas.com/om/index.htm
Rocco Cotroneo via MWC (7/1-2009)
BRAZIL
Major update to the Brazilian Medium Wave list edited by the Dx Clube do Brasil. The list is now both html and .pdf. http://www.ondascurtas.com/om/
Rocco Cotroneo Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via MWDX (4/10-2008)
BRAZIL
Rádio 9 de Julho in São Paulo, Brazil, is expanding to shortwave. The station has a powerful mediumwave transmitter on 1600 kHz, but has begun transmissions also on 9820 kHz in the 31 meter band shortwave, a return to a frequency used by the station already long ago. Brazilian DXer Edison Bocorny Jr. was the first to report the station heard on Radioescutas mailing list on September 13.
DXing.info (21/9-2008)
BRAZIL
Rede Clube Brasil de Rádio is a new network of radios that belongs to the group Diários Associados. It was founded on July 16, 2008 and started by renaming Rádio Planalto 890 AM (founded in 1963) that came to be called Radio Clube.
Network of Rede Clube Brasil de Rádio:
Distrito Federal, Brasília - Clube AM 890 KHz (headquarters)
Pernambuco, Recife - Clube AM 720 KHzCeara, Fortaleza - Clube AM 1200 KHz
Rio Grande do Norte, Natal - Clube AM 1270 KHz
Paraiba, Campina Grande - Clube AM 1350 KHz
The programming of affiliates will be totally independent, sharing only the name and logos, in addition to promotions and music playlist, which may vary according to the local audience of each area. The sports team of Rede Clube Brasil is called EQUIPE SHOW DE BOLA. The slogan is Quem têm clube,têm tudo! (those who have club, have everything!). Official website is at www.redeclubebrasil.com.br.
Various Brazilian sources via DXing the Finnish Way (20/9-2008)
BRAZIL
One of the more traditional broadcast radios in Brazil comes to an end. Radio Clube Paranaense AM, Curitiba, the third oldest in the country, announced the resignation of his entire department of journalism. With that it’s closed the whole production of the station and it becomes just a repeater of Radio Eldorado AM, Sao Paulo.
Radio Clube better known as B2 was until October 2007 the third placed between AMs in Curitiba. At that time the entire team of sports broadcasters was fired and Clube has become part of Eldorado Sao Paulo. His schedule was then occupied mostly by re-broadcasts of Eldorado, leaving only part of the morning and briefly in the afternoon with local programming.
Tudo Rádio via DXing the Finnish Way (20/9-2008)
BRAZIL
R. Itatiaia, 610 kHz, Belo Horizonte, MG Brasil. with a new antenna at the new site is now in operation 24/7 except for short periods of return to the old site to allow additional construction. The associated HF, on 5970 or so, will be moved over to this new site within the next couple of months as well.
It might be possible for DX'ers in W. Europe to hear this one, as 610 is 2 kHz off the Region I & III frequency spacing, and it is 100 kW with a cardioid pattern whose maximum lobe is true north from S 19 59 W 43 53, and the radiated field over the arc from north east to NE (45 deg. T.) is over 4400 mV/m @ 1 km.
Ben Dawson (2/3-2007)
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BULGARIA
RADIO BULGARIA, Summer schedule from March 29 to October 25, 2009
BULGARIAN
0430-0500 Mon-Fri Balkans 1224, 6000
0400-0500 Sat/Sun Balkans 1224, 6000
1200-1400 -daily- Balkans 1224
1500-1600 -daily- Balkans 1224
1800-1900 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
RUSSIAN
0300-0400 -daily- East Europe 1224, 6100, 7400
1400-1500 -daily- East Europe 1224, 5900, 7400
ALBANIAN
0530-0600 Mon-Fri Balkans 1224, 6000
0600-0700 Sat/Sun Balkans 1224, 6000
1600-1630 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
1900-2000 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
GREEK
0500-0530 Mon-Fri Balkans 1224, 6000
0500-0600 Sat/Sun Balkans 1224, 6000
1630-1700 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
2000-2100 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
SERBIAN
0600-0630 Mon-Fri Balkans 1224, 6000
0700-0800 Sat/Sun Balkans 1224, 6000
1700-1730 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
2100-2200 -daily- Balkans 747, 1224
TURKISH
1730-1800 -daily- Middle East 747, 1224, 6100
Jaisakthivel, Ardic DX Club, Chennai-600106, India, dxldyg via DXLD 9-023 (12/3-2009)
BULGARIA
1125 kHz planned 1000kW VoRussia relay site at Cape Kaliakra, towards Egypt, Sudan,
Israel, Jordania, Cyprus, 170 degrees, +/-20degr.
G.C. 43°23'10.04"N 28°25'30.30"E
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=43%C2%B023'10.04%22N
++28%C2%B025'30.30%22E&ie=UTF8&ll=43.392076,28.427639&spn=0.044782,0.
079222&t=h&z=14
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4735870
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/931511
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1896170
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3085124
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5332965
http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/569329.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7146582
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1202325
See attachted target pattern of never finnished yet 1000 kW site Cape Kaliakra site ruin near Varna Kavarna Bulgaria. Daytime towards East on Black Sea only, but nighttime space wave pattern and fading zone also.
Nighttime coverage main lobe is at approx. 170 degr towards Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordania, Cyprus. Max. target at up to 2200 kilometers/1350 miles level towards maximum Assuan-Nile.
Wolfgang Bueschel (22/6-2008)
BULGARIA
The German section of Radio Bulgaria reports in the DX program that the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) will start DRM broadcasting tomorrow (May 26). In a first step, the home service "Radio Horizont" will be on air in DRM and in a second step, the foreign services in English, French, German and Spanish will be transmitted in DRM. There are no information given on frequencies or sites.
Full post: http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1961
Mike Barraclough, UK via dxld yg (25/5-2008)
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