GERMANY
Hallo Freunde, unter dem nachfolgenden Link:
http://mittelwellenfreunde.npage.de/
ist mein "kleines MW-Projekt" zu erreichen. Das Projekt umfasst Infos und ein kleines, einfaches Forum rund um das Thema Mittelwelle. Es ist von meiner Seite sicher noch viel zu tun, um es mit Leben zu füllen.
Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Ihr mal vorbei schaut.
73 aus Lünen Friedhelm Wittlieb (25/3-2010)
GERMANY
Radio Bremen 936 is off air since Wednesday, and it seems to be forever as mentioned in a newspaper article. They just test it and if complains are being received they will reconsider. However they have large financial problems and already started to join administration forces with NDR.
I suppose very few listen to 936, and I am glad to have one pest less.
Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany via mwdx yg (13/3-2010)
GERMANY
Antenne Saar is a special German-French information program launched in December 2005 by Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR). The programming consists largely of retransmissions of other SR programs. But every hour during the day there’s French language news from Radio France Internationale (RFI), as well as other broadcasts of RFI and Radio France. The transmissions take place in DAB and on Medium Wave on 1179 kHz via 10 kw transmitter in Hausweiler. Up till 2nd of November 2009 the schedule was 7:00-17:00 UTC but it’s now expanded to 24 hours.
RundfunkstationeninDeutschland via UKWTV.de via DXing the Finnish Way (10/3-2010)
GERMANY
SWR Ulm Jungingen in AM mode on 711 kHz til March 8th, silent on March 9th, move to new 1413 kHz from Wednesday March 10th, 2010.
SWR Heilbronn Obereisesheim remains on 711 kHz, and will get a new DRM mode
capable unit in near future. At present the AM unit is faulty and a lower power reserve unit is in use.
I guess Obereisesheim will be used only at night time from 2300 to 0400 UT in DRM mode then ... but furthermore still on AM Mode at 0400-2300 UT.
Wolfgang Bueschel via mwdx yg (9/8-2010)
GERMANY
SWR Cont.Ra on new MW frequency 1413 kHz in the Ulm area [instead of 711 kHz] from March 10th.
SWR Cont.Ra auf Mittelwelle.
http://www.swr.de/contra/-/id=7612/nid=7612/did=5568236/1am91ht/index.html
"Raum Ulm: aus 711 kHz wird 1413 kHz. Unsere Hoerer in Ulm koennen sich freuen:
Ab Mittwoch 10. Maerz 2010 haben sie einen deutlich besseren Empfang auf einer neuen Frequenz. SWR Cont.Ra hoeren sie dann im Raum Ulm auf Mittelwelle 1413 kHz (bis Montag 8. Maerz noch auf 711 kHz)."
Die Trennung der SWR Gleichwellensender 711 kHz (frueher auch ueber den stillgelegten SDR Heidelberg Dossenheim Sender) Heilbronn Obereisesheim und Ulm Jungingen hat wohl auch den zukuenftigen DRM Modus im Blickfeld - wenn dann Weihnachten die neuen DRM Empfaenger aus Indien und China anrollen.
711 kHz mag ja tagsueber lokal gehen, 702 kHz aus Monaco und 720 kHz aus Langenberg sind hier nicht allzu stark. Aber ob in Ulm Jungingen 1413 kHz Signale von DLF Saarland 1422 kHz bei einer DRM Bandbreite sauber zu trennen sind ... ?
Die Mittelwelle 1413 kHz wurde frueher von den SDR Sendern Bad Mergentheim (Am Kettenwald), Buchen-Wallduern (Hainstadt), Wertheim (Oberer Haag), sowie Heidenheim (Schloss Hellenstein) genutzt, oder zumindest koordiniert. Damit konnte man die Versorgung im Norden Baden-Wuerttembergs sicherstellen, da der Grundsender SDR Muehlacker auf 575/576 kHz in Richtung Baltikum und DDR seine Leistung drastisch einschraenken musste.
http://home.arcor.de/berlin-rundflug/download/MW-Datenbank.pdf
Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany (8/3-2010)
GERMANY
/ ESTONIA
ERF via Tartu Pereraadio to increase effect from 100 to 200 kW [on 1035 kHz - see News Archive].
Thema:
Verdoppelte Sendeleistung: Radioprogramme in Russisch fuer 159 Mio. Menschen.
ERF Medien unterstuetzt Sendungen von TWR aus Estland.
Tartu/Wetzlar (ERF). Der Mittelwellensender Tartu Pereraadio in Estland wird in diesem Jahr seine Leistung von 100 auf 200 Kilowatt verdoppeln. Damit ist der christliche Sender in der Lage die potentielle Hoererschaft von 107 auf 159 Millionen zu erhoehen. Das gab TWR-Praesident Lauren Libby (Cary/USA) bekannt. Die Kosten dafuer bezifferte Libby auf fast 300.000 Euro, die durch Spenden aufgebracht werden sollen. TWR ist der internationale Partner von ERF Medien.
TWR und ERF Medien (Wetzlar) senden taeglich vier Stunden Programm in russischer Sprache ueber den Sender in Tartu. Der ERF beteiligt sich nach Angaben des Leiters Internationale Projekte, Dr. Thorsten Grahn, sowohl personell als auch finanziell am Produzieren und Ausstrahlen der Sendungen.
Fuer TWR und ERF Medien ersetzen die Ausstrahlungen aus Estland seit Mitte 2008 den Verlust der Sendemoeglichkeiten fuer das Zielgebiet Russland, die Ende 2007 ueber die russischen Sender Radio Mayak und Junost weggefallen waren. Die bis dahin taeglichen christlichen Sendungen ueber die staatlichen Sender waren von den Betreibern nach 16 Jahren aus dem Programm genommen worden. Die beiden Radiomissionen betreiben ein Studio in St. Petersburg und Krasnojarsk (Sibirien). Sendungen in russischer Sprache werden auch ueber einen Sender in Moldawien verbreitet, der die Ukraine, Weissrussland und Teile Russlands erreicht. Ferner produzieren die Mitarbeiter in Krasnojarsk Beitraege, die bei lokalen UKW-Sendern in Sibirien ausgestrahlt werden. Ausserdem sendet TWR ein Programm in Russisch rund um die Uhr ueber das Internet.
Source: ERF Wetzlar via Harald Kuhl, Germany (1/3-2010)
GERMANY
Recent observations from Scandinavia about the DRM hiss being gone from 729 kHz can be fully confirmed: Gerhard Roleder reported in the Radio-Kurier magazine that Deutschlandradio cancelled it on 31 Dec 2009.
It now also shows up in a presentation of "available mediumwave transmitters that can be put on air immediately":
http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Freie-MW-Vers-jan10.pdf
What catches one's eye most here is of course the inclusion of 1539 kHz. Apparently Evangeliums-Rundfunk plans to stop its mediumwave transmissions altogether. At present http://www.erf.de/1212-Empfang.html mentions as remaining airtime 0500-0900 and 1830-2200 UT, but I think it now needs to be confirmed if 1539 is still on air at all.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (6/2-2010)
I heard TWR in the morning (close to 0900) on 1539 about a week ago. I'll try to monitor it again.
Sergei via dxld yg (6/2-2010)
ERF has stopped transmitting at daytime so you can rent it at that times. But there are no plans to stop completely and - what's interesting - M&B is restricted of whom they an lease the available airtime to.
73, Stephan Schaa via dxld yg (7/2-2010)
I'm hearing ERF (presumed) this Sun. morning at around 6.30 UT on 1539.
73, Sergei via dxld yg (7/2-2010)
GERMANY
Hessischer Rundfunk 593 / 594 kHz. After the news and followed by announcement of night concert relay at 00.05:33 CET on Jan 1st, 2010 Hessische Rundfunk Frankfurt's
mediumwave stations at Weiskirchen and Hoher Meissner switched off for ever.
So a mixture of Bulgarian, Moroccoan and Portuguese programes remain on our ears here in southern Germany.
Personally heard this program often in past 58 years.
History.
Radio Frankfurt started after WW II on Aug 23, 1947 at Heiligenstock site[by Reichspost in 1935y] via movable mediumwave "Martha" transmitter, which carried on 14 trucks and was one of numerous movable transmitter units by former "Reichspost" and used by special technical forces from places all over Europe, like Soldatensender Belgrade, in Sowjetunion, Netherlands, Norway and Karelia Finland. Four towers at 121 m height. Was screeend
towards 16 and 121 degrees at Sundvall-SWE and Pleven-BUL.
Replaced on Oct 16, 1967 to new Weiskirchen site. Maximal 950 kW ERP, screened towards Sundvall-SWE and Sofia-BUL at 50°03'21.82"N 08°51'45.42"E
To cover Northern Hessen due to the screening towards Sweden, Hessischer Rundfunk erected a smaller relay station at Hoher Meissner (Hausen Lichtenau) on June 1, 1952. Started with 20 kW, was increased later to 100 and then maximal 250 kW of power during cold war time. Two towers of 110 and 160 m height. Signals were also screened at 17 and 127 degrs.
This caused a heavy buzz on daytime, because exact sychronization between the two MW locations was not very sufficient these days in 1952, 1953 ...
The station was also well heard up to 300 kilometers into communist GDR (Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany) area.
Wolfgang Bueschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews (1/1-2010)
GERMANY
Oldiestar from Zehlendorf, Germany now on 603 kHz. 18:15 UTC 14-12-2009
Fair reception here in Ardenne, Belgium. Best receiving station on this frequency.
Greetings from Ge Huijbens, Beffe, Belgium via emwg yg (16/12-2009)
GERMANY
There will be a special broadcast from DDH47 on 147.3 kHz in December:
On 10th of December 1909 Prof. F. Braun and G. Marconi received the Nobel Prize for Physics at Stockholm. Both gentlemen were honoured for their developments in the field of wireless communication.
On its 100th anniversary, Prof. Braun Day (DL0PFB) will make a special transmission with the longwave transmitter DDH47 (147,3 kHz) of National Weather Service Deutscher Wetterdienst.
From 9th December 2009 23:00 until 10th December 2009 01:00 UTC the transmitter is available for 2 hours in telegraphy.
All people are invited to listen to the telegraphic transmissions of DDH47 and radio amateurs may contact DL0PFB on shortwave in cw only. DL0PFB answers to calls on the declared frequencies and keys DDH47 sometimes in parallel.
During silence periods (h+15-18 and h+45-48) of former maritime radio service, there is ultra slow keying ( 1 dot in 3 seconds ) for long distance tests. The names of famous wireless pioneers will be keyed in that time for proof of reception!
Prof. Braun Day issues a special QSL card, contacts are exchanged via DARC Bureau or direct, when circumstances allow:
(Deutschland SASE, Europe postage 2 US Dollars, overseas postage 4 US Dollars, No IRC)
Contact: Prof. Braun Day, c/o J. Gerpott, Rebhuhnweg 21, 22880 Wedel, Germany.
When: 9. Dezember 2009, 2300 UTC until 10. Dezember 2009, 0100 UTC.
Transmit : DDH47 147,3 kHz und DL0PFB : (3565, 7025, 14052 kHz +/- qrm),
Receive : DL0PFB only shortwave, see above
QRS3 : hourly +15 to +18, and +45 to +48, ulta slow keying 1 Dot in 3 Seconds.
Reception reports are welcome, especially from overseas!
Internet: http://www.mmqtc-award.org
Alan Gale via Steve Whitt, mwcircle yg (7/11-2009)
GERMANY
As of today SR Heusweiler 1179 kHz will be on air around the clock:
http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?8773,747081
"1422Member" is an employee of Saarländischer Rundfunk, directly involved in the operation of the Heusweiler site, so this is first-hand info.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (2/11-2009)
1179 kHz is a Transradio TRAM 10 transmitter with 10 kW. It had been put on air in 2005 for Antenne Saar, a new talk program. Antenne Saar also relays RFI in French and DW in English, in order to ensure that nobody tunes in as polemics say. Only after lobbying from listeners they added RFI's German service to the program line-up, too.
Cf. http://www.sr-online.de/antennesaar/2113/
This transmitter uses the back-up antenna for 1422 kHz. Thus the frequency can not be too far away from 1422, because the back-up function (with a Telefunken, now Transradio, S 4002 transmitter) must still be ensured. If necessary 1179 will be taken off air in favour of 1422 of course. No idea why 1179, which is already at the fringe of the possible range. Probably the authority would have to be asked if no other frequency somewhere above 1179 kHz could be found.
Heusweiler is about 100 km away from the 1440 kHz transmitter in Luxembourg. The reference is quite appropriate, since the high power service on 1422 was a retaliation for Radio Luxemburg on 1440. In last year the 2 x 600 kW Thomson transmitters from the early seventies had been replaced by a new 400 kW installation, dramatically improving the audio quality. The old facility has been polemically described as sounding like a pressure chamber loudspeaker that has been put into a tin. An allegedly authentic photo shows an audio filter with the high-pass set to 320 Hz.
http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/heusweiler_launch.html
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (3/11-2009)
GERMANY
AFN Bavaria put a new 1485 kHz transmitter on air at Garmisch-Partenkirchen:
http://bavaria.afneurope.net/ArticleDisplayDD/tabid/707/aid/10052/Default.aspx
They say that it took them quite some time to find an environmental-wise suitable location. So this is apparently indeed a new location, not the old one that had been closed down at some point in the past, probably towards the end of the nineties.
http://www.northernstar.no/afrs.htm says that this old transmitter was infamous for poor groundwave coverage, hardly exceeding three kilometres.
For the new transmitter the engineer says that he hopes it will reach "to the autobahn", which would be about ten kilometres. The video footage reveals a quite simple antenna, just a long whip with some wires as top load. Noteworth in the audio rack is an old analogue Optimod, almost dwarfing all the other equipment.
Concerning the soldier (actually I was surprised about an AFN presenter only ranking as Private) announcing new FM coverage for Grafenwöhr, Vilseck and Bamberg, complementing but presumably not replacing 1107/1143 kHz: A few days ago a new transmitter in Grafenwöhr already went on air, on 98.5 MHz.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (17/10-2009)
GERMANY
1000UTC WDR 720 khz is silent. Maintenance will take place during 3 weeks on the antennas of 720 khz and 1593 khz DRM daily from 0800-1900 hours CET.
Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands via mwc yg (13/10-2009)
GERMANY
The planned move of BFBS Germany from Herford to Bergen- Hohne, as mentioned in http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9013.txt
has meanwhile been carried out:
http://www.bfbs-tv.com/pages/extranet/bfbs-germany-moves---dur-53-i-2042.php
Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxld yg (30/8-2009)
GERMANY
Hessicher Rundfunk, Germany, will close down its two 594 Khz txs by the end of 2009, due to high financial costs.
Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany via mwdx (21/8-2009)
GERMANY
At present maintenance at DLF Heusweiler 1422 kHz 600 kW site during daytime
0610-1800 UT? Last til end of August.
Low power 1179 kHz from same location?
Wolfgang Bueschel via mwdx (17/8-2009)
Not UTC. It is 1743 UTC and the transmitter is on. A local here.
73s, André Coville via mwdx (17/8-2009)
Maintenance end time of M&B-ex DTK engineers varies from day to day, depending of the duties. Maximum applied break time is 0610 UT after the news til approx. 1800 UT.
Heusweiler 1422 was on air again at 1710 UT today. Also a thunderstorm hit Black Forest and Stuttgart area in 16-17 UT range.
Low power Heusweiler 1179 kHz was on air as usual during daytime, the antenna mast is 334 meters away of the two 1422 kHz masts, across the super highway near Heusweiler.
73 Wolfgang Bueschel via mwdx (17/8-2009)
GERMANY
Re: Drastic airtime reduction for TWR Mainflingen 1539 kHz [see .../newsarchive_g.html]
The cuts turned out to be a bit less drastic. New airtimes are now
06:00-10:00 and 19:30-23:00 CET = at present 0400-0800 and 1730-2100 UT, as specified at http://www.erf.de/1212-Empfang.html
The original press release has been furtively edited, too. Now the question is if perhaps the foreign language programs between 0300 and 0345 UT have been kept on mediumwave as well?
Kai Ludwig, Germany, (2/7) dxldyg via DXLD 9-051 (8/7-2009)
It so happened that I was awake at 0300: Indeed the foreign language broadcasts are still on mediumwave as well, i.e. the Mainflingen transmitter still signs on at 0300. It is more or less a crash start, at 0258 or thereabouts the carrier was still off and when I tuned back at 0300 the transmission already in progress with the announcement that "in the next 45 minutes Evangeliums-Rundfunk will broadcast in foreign languages to familiarize co-citizens*) of foreign tongues with the gospel, we will continue our German programmes
afterwards".
It seems that ERF wants to communicate these broadcasts only separately, thus specifies 0400 to German audiences. But here they overlook that the foreign language stuff has been curtailed from 60 to 45 minutes when the transmissions via Roumoules-1467 ceased. A programme until then carried in the morning on 1467 now goes out on satellite plus 1539 between 0345 and 0400 instead.
*) "Mitbürger". This is politically correct German, like the specification that somebody has a "migration background" ("Migrationshintergrund"; in plain language: he or his parents are
immigrants).
Kai Ludwig, Germany, (3/7) dxldyg via DXLD 9-051 (8/7-2009)
GERMANY
Because of high energy cost, from July 1, 2009, ERF Radio cuts back airtime on mediumwave 1539 kHz: they will be on the air daily 5 till 8 UTC and 1730 till 2100 UTC.
----Urspruengliche Mitteilung-----
Von: regina.ratanski@erf.de
Verschickt: Mi., 3. Jun. 2009, 16:43
Thema: ERF Radio reduziert Sendezeit ueber Mittelwelle 1539.
ERF Radio reduziert Sendezeit ueber Mittelwelle 1539.
Alternative Angebote ueber Satellit, Kabel und Internet.
Wetzlar/Mainflingen (ERF). ERF Medien reduziert seine Sendezeit über die Mittelwelle 1539 kHz in Mainflingen bei Hanau. Nach Angaben von ERF Vorstand Hartmut Diehl geschieht dies auch aus Kostengruenden. Die Ausgaben fuer Strom bei dem Sender bezifferte Diehl mit jaehrlich rund 280.000 Euro.
Die Hauptsendezeiten am Morgen und am Abend sollen aber beibehalten werden. Tagsueber, wenn die Mittelwelle nur in Regionen um den Sender zu empfangen ist, werde die Leistung eingespart. Gleichzeitig sei aber ERF Radio ueber Satellit, im Kabel (beides analog und digital) und ueber Internet (www.erf.de) zu empfangen. Bislang sendete ERF Radio taeglich 19 Stunden aus Mainflingen von 6 bis 24 Uhr.
Ab 1. Juli wird ERF Radio von 7 bis 10 Uhr und von 19.30 Uhr bis 23 Uhr ueber die Mittelwelle 1539 kHz bundesweit zu empfangen sein.
ERF Radio ist seit April 1996 ueber den ehemaligen Deutschlandfunk-Sender zu hoeren. Die Telekom hat 2005 den alten 1962 errichteten Sender durch einen auch fuer die digitale Mittelwelle tauglichen Sender ersetzt.
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Harald Kuhl (3/6-2009)
GERMANY
As of July 1 ERF will cut back its airtime on 1539 from 06:00-24:00 CET to merely 07:00-09:00 and 19:30-22:30 CET (= 0500-0700 and 1730-2030 UT during summer), still using 700 kW. This is primarily a cost saving measure. The plain power bill for the transmitter (rather than the full transmitter lease) is specified as 280,000 Euro per year.
http://www.erf.de/index.php?node=4355&content_item=819
No word in this press release about the foreign language programmes that still go out on 1539 between 0300 and 0400 UT, including Radio Évangile broadcasts, put on 1539 as replacement for the now gone slot on Roumoules-216.
During recent years substantial investments had been made into the 1539 transmission facility, including a new NVIS antenna for skywave service in the morning and evening:
http://www.waniewski.de/id330.htm
The old tube transmitters have been replaced as well, if I recall correct by a set-up of 2 x Thomson S7HP. The new scheme may reflect a minimum usage that must be kept after these big investments. Personally I wonder if ERF meanwhile regrets its deep involvement into this mediumwave operation.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (21/5-2009)
GERMANY
Burg 1575 goes dark: And so it happened, the Burg transmitter is off, maybe for good. Dominating station on 1575 here in eastern Germany is now Genova, with Spain underneath. Last night Burg was still on with DRM, so the transmissions must have been stopped manually during the working hours.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (4/5-2009)
Burg 1575 goes dark: At 0100 the scene had changed completely: Now Radio Farda was booming in, loud and clear. In detail the only interference where some raging wobble jammers (the ones already heard here when hurricane Kyrill had knocked off the main power supply at Burg), and level-whise the signal had the appearance of a transmitter inside Europe, with the rather pronounced fading being the only indication that this was not the case. Good enough reception to say that the audio processing is quite aggressive.
And this time I indeed waited until a drop gave a clear ID, no matter how unambiguous the Persian pop music may be. Just amazing, I can't remember a signal even remotely as strong from a mediumwave transmitter more than 4000 kilometres away.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (5/5-2009)
GERMANY
The DRM test via Burg 1575 kHz ceases "this weekend". Original press release see at
http://www.digitalerrundfunk.de
A slightly different version of this release appears at
http://www.satnews.de/mlesen.php?id=797a4b78cdae75d99456134c6983a643
It includes a further statement that certainly qualifies as key fact: "Due to the low number of receivers in the market a regular digital mediumwave service is not convenient at present."
No word about what will happen with 1575 kHz, but presumably it will continue with Voice of Russia in AM throughout the day.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (30/4-2009)
GERMANY
Frankfurt-based Hessischer Rundfunk 594 kHz will no longer broadcast on mediumwave as of 2010. All programming produced for mediumwave distribution will be discontinued, including the broadcasts for immigrants in Spanish and Greek. This measure is part of a today released program to save 64 million Euros until 2012. Director Helmut Reitze says that the primary goal of this program is to ensure the existance of Hessischer Rundfunk as an independent body.
http://www.hr-online.de/website/derhr/home/presse_meldung_einzel.jsp?
rubrik=4820&key=presse_lang_36885900
Exact deadline not specified, but could be 31 Dec 2009. The remarks by Helmut Reitze are not exaggerated, gossip had it recently that a worst case scenario for Hessischer Rundfunk would be to become the Frankfurt outpost of Südwestrundfunk. The program line-up on 594 contains also live coverage of sports and events that matter, as well as broadcasts in
other foreign languages, originating from Cologne and Berlin (i.e. just relayed, thus not mentioned in the press release).
This doomed mediumwave program is also carried on Astra 1H, as "hr-info +", besides the regular hr-info (as on FM). But this is not a real name, just a satellite channel designator.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (29/4-2009)
GERMANY
Dear Mr. Ritz(!),
for World Poetry Day on March 21st, the Italian sound artist Alessandro Bosetti is launching his radio speech machine "arcoparlante" on the German Deutschlandradio's medium and long wave frequencies and on the internet. Please join us in this pleasant game and please forward Alessandro's call for participants.
Thank you very much in advance!
With kind regards, Marianne Allweiss
In search of participants for ARCOPARLANTE, a live radio experiment !
On March 21st, together with the radio-art group of Deutschlandradio, I will organize a big STILLE POST ("telephone", telefono senza fili etc...) game. We will be using the middle/long waves and internet streams of the radio station. For four hours, between 8pm and midnight, european time (2pm and 6pm USA east coast time ), a speaker will broadcast several transcriptions from my personal collection of "incomprehensible radio broadcastings". These are recordings of broadcasted speech where neither the language spoken nor the meaning are decipherable. The only certain thing is that they will contain HUMAN SPEECH.
The listeners ( that's YOU !!) will be asked to transcribe what they hear and ( believe to ) understand. Then send it back to us, via email or telephone. In the best case scenario, this will happen in real time. We will be including all the new transcriptions we receive from you into the broadcasting. We will give them to the speaker right away and then feed the "arcoparlante" circle one more time. You are also welcome to send us your transcriptions LATER, by post, passenger pigeon, by hand, etc....
We encourage all listeners (yes, YOU, again !) to record the moments while you listen and try to figure out what the texts are. Feel free to use any recording device (from very good to very bad quality). We'll take anything from cassettes, mini cassettes, cd's, minidisks, audiofiles etc....
So, invite some friends for dinner (if you are in Europe or Africa), for a late lunch or coffee ( if in the Americas) or for breakfast (if you are in Asia ), turn on your radio and play with us !!
Eventually, I will re-compose all the scattered recorded bits and pieces. All these materials will become the building blocks of a final composition.
This is how you can tune in and receive the "arcoparlante" broadcasting on your radio or computer :
Medium Wave : 855 and 990 KHz
Long Wave : 153 and 177 KHz
Satellite : ASTRA 1, Transponder 77, ZDF.vision
Internet stream : http://www.dradio.de/streaming/dplus.m3u
This is how you can reach us :
Snail mail :
Deutschlandradio Kultur
Hoerspiel / Klangkunst
Hans-Rosenthal-Platz
D-10825 Berlin
e-mail : klangkunst@dradio.de
Phone : 00 800 800 22 11 (only during the broadcast)
Fax : +49 (0)30 8503 940 5585
We hope to hear from you and to play with you !! And don't forget to spread the word about ARCOPARLANTE !
Cheers from Berlin, Alessandro Bosetti (9/3-2009)
GERMANY
I think some changes at AFN Germany noted this morning 1015 UT. On 1143 I hear at least three transmitters and two different programmes. One programme appears in delayed version too. So it is a bit tricky to decipher. However one AFN station was IDing as The Eagle with local Saturday morning programming playing music from the 80s, 90s and today. The other AFN station on 1143 was carrying the CBS Weekend Round-up. Various listings, including
http://www.afneurope.net/DynamicMenu/Radio/RadioFrequencies/tabid/89/
Default.aspx
all put the Eagle on FM not MW. So I wonder if this is temporary/permanent change
73 Steve Whitt, UK, Feb 7, MWC via DXLD 9-013 (9/2-2009)
GERMANY
DRM Long Wave Transmitter in Aholming
Media Broadcast GmbH has successfully completed the implementation of TRANSRADIO's long wave transmitting system TRAM/P 500L in Aholming. The new system went officially on air on the 10th of October 2008.
The German national public broadcaster, DeutschlandRadio, transmits its program "Deutschlandfunk" via the station in Aholming.
The transmitter, TRAM/P 500L, generates a carrier power of 500 KW on 207 kHz. The TRAM/P 500L in Aholming is the worlds fourth DRM transmitter on long wave that completely meets the requirements of the out-of-band emissions of ETSI EN 302 245-1 and ITU SM.1541. A comfortable 5,8 dB minimal distance was achieved from the ETSI- spectrum mask (mask reserve).
Mr. Wittling, the responsible commissioning engineer said: "A special challenge was the switch over from the old Telefunken PANTEL S4008 transmitter to the new transmitter TRAM/P 500L from TRANSRADIO without interruption of transmission. This was achieved ahead of schedule."
http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/donebach.html
http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/heusweiler_launch.html
http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/aholming.html
TRANSRADIO SenderSysteme Berlin AG (22nd Oct) via Wolfgang Bueschel, MWDXyg (24/10-2008)
GERMANY
207 DLF Aholming is OFF from Tuesday Oct 7th til Saturday Oct 18th, daily approx. 0705 to 1600 UT, due of antenna repairing.
Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx via MWDX (6/10-2008)
GERMANY
The German A-DX mailing list announces that the longwave transmitter at Donebach on 153 kHz will be shut down as of today until and including Thursday between 0810 and 2000 (local time?) for maintenance.
73 Herman Boel, MWC (9/9-2008)
GERMANY
On Aug 28 the former 1107 / 10 kW transmitter of AFN Bavaria has been replaced by a new one with a 65 metres tall mast at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, where they also have their studios since 1994. The old transmitter was located in the housing area of the US Army base at Grafenwöhr, only some dozens metres away from the next buildings (unthinkable if it were civilian buildings), seriously disturbing DSL lines and other electronical equipment there. Finally the grounding grid had been damaged, so the transmitter did no longer radiate properly. The construction of the new facility plus the demolition of the old
Grafenwöhr site costs about 1.4 Mio. USD. The Grafenwöhr transmitter will be moved to Vilseck and installed as aux there.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57208
A newspaper clipping with a photo of an AFN announcer in front of the new antenna, exercising with an EV RE20 (one weights about 700 grams), is in the Yahoo Group (Photos / Miscellaneous).
Google's map service censors the complete Grafenwöhr area (like they do with the Brunssum/Geilenkirchen region), but Bavaria's land survey office has this to offer:
http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/BayernViewer/index.cgi?rw=4493680&hw=
5508480&layer=DOP&step=0.5
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (6/9-2008)
GERMANY
Don´t know if this is news for you, but here´s a reminder:
On September 6 from 0600 till 2200 UTC and on September 7 from 0600 til 1600 UTC there will be a special broadcast coming from an experimental transmitter here in Germany on 810 kHz. Power will be 10 W. Location: Funkerberg in Koenigs Wusterhausen.
They will QSL.
Das Versuchsradio zum Brandenburgtag
06. September 2008 | 08:00 bis 24:00 Uhr
07. September 2008 | 08:00 bis 18:00 Uhr
810 kHz | Mittelwelle | AM | DRM
http://www.funkerberg.de/welle370/index.htm
welle370@funkerberg.de
73 Harald Kuhl via MWC (5/9-2008)
GERMANY
Königs Wusterhausen again on mediumwave
... but only temporarily and running flea power.
A special event station called Welle 370 will broadcast on Sep 6 and 7, with first transmitter tests presumably taking place one week in advance. The station will be on 810 kHz with 10 watts only because any higher powers would require an expensive clearance procedure in regard to electromagnetic radiation and fencing off the antenna, both considered as indeed not desirable. The leased transmitter is courtesy of Transradio and will be operated via the antenna of an old portable mediumwave transmission system (such a portable 20 kW transmitter was until 1998 also in use at Burg, but connected to a permanent antenna).
Media Broadcast will assist in the transmitter operation.
http://www.funkerberg.de/welle370/technik.htm
At present the museum also has a special exhibition about the history of Deutscher Fernsehfunk (i.e. GDR TV).
http://www.funkerberg.de/web-archiv/2008/20080302/impressionen.htm
Presented in the first of these photos are accessoires from DFF's first colour programme in 1969. To my knowledge of this programme only a B&W film recording survived because VTR tapes were for DFF way too expensive for being kept in those days. The only pre-1970 exception I'm aware of is the 1965 concert of Louis Armstrong in Berlin, available also on CD, I was told as an excellent stereo recording that puts the ORTF recording from the Paris concert of this tour almost to shame.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (23/8-2008)
GERMANY
The commercial German station Truckradio ceased to transmit on mediumwave this week. Jülich 702, Nordkirchen 855 and presumably also Hirschlanden 738 were switched off on Monday or Tuesday, and today Burg 531 has been turned off as well. At present the web stream and the fully subsidized DAB relays at Halle/Saale and Magdeburg (local 1.5 GHz
ensembles only) are still on but with music only, and today nobody could be reached at Truckradio anymore, so it's not even sure if this continued playout is intended at all.
Those who can point a satellite dish at 23.5 deg. East could check if the Astra 3A transmission on 11.515 GHz h is still on. This is or was a 64 kbps mono signal, merely meant as feed to the mediumwave transmitters.
A peculiarity of Truckradio was or perhaps still is that they had live relays of Deutsche Welle German for TOH news. Gossip has it that Truckradio could do these rebroadcasts free of charge, but details of this arrangement are unknown. The problem is here that companies like dpa-RUFA (audio service of Deutsche Presseagentur) and BLR/Radiodienst offer news for commercial stations (including RTL Radio in German; this "national station for Germany" has not even an own news department), so one could argue that this arrangement deprived either company from attracting Truckradio as a customer.
Kai Ludwig, dxld yg (16/5-2008)
GERMANY
Truckradio has stopped his transmissions over all Mediumwave transmitters in Germany !!!
http://truckradio.de
Peter Kruse, MWDX (16/5-2008)
GERMANY
As from May 5th Bavarian Open Radio (729/801 khz) will be named as on3radio
on3radio@br-online.de
Peter Kruse via mwdx yg (2/5-2008)
GERMANY
AFN: Auf UKW 98,7 "The Eagle" läuft trotzdem weiterhin eine Ansage, wonach die Mittelwelle "a facelift" erhalte und bis dahin nur mit einem Drittel der Leistung sende.
http://hessen.afneurope.net/
meldet, die Arbeiten an der Mittelwelle 873 kHz dauerten bis September an.
AFN "Eagle" Alert:
"AFN Hessen's AM 873 Power Network transmitter is experiencing a degraded signal due to on-going repairs and upgrades. The transmitter will broadcast at one-third of its normal power until the work is completed in September. Brief and unscheduled outages can also be expected. Please stay tuned to AFN-The Eagle FM 98.7 for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience".
Jürgen Fenn via Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany via mwdx (16/4-2008)
GERMANY
DLF 153 kHz OFF air 16 to 19 April, 0610 to 1800 UT.
Auf http://www.dradio.de/dlf/vorschau/ 08:10 Uhr Senderabschaltung. Der Sender Donebach auf LW 153 kHz wird bis zum 19.04. von 8:10 Uhr bis 20:00 Uhr abgeschaltet.
Seit November 2007 ist die T-systems Media/Broadcast GmbH dort am DRM werkeln.
Gelegenheit die Langwelle Kronstadt Bod aus Rumänien zu hören.
Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany via mwdx (16/4-2008) GERMANY
An American Forces Network transmitter that had been off the air since Tuesday resumed broadcasting Friday.
The transmitter, which broadcasts the network's 873 AM signal, was brought back online at 2:30 p.m. It was knocked off the air by a fire that started during routine maintenance.
Full power has not been restored. A fire in a commercial power panel caused the outage.
Three people were injured in the accident. All were briefly hospitalized for observation and released, according to an AFN statement. (The transmitter is in Hessen)
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53849
Stars and Stripes European edition, April 5, 2008 via Mike Terry, mwdx yg (6/4-2008)
GERMANY
Blast knocks AFN Germany off the air on 873 kHz.
Stars and Stripes http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53798
Wolfgang Büschel, Germany (4/4-2008)
GERMANY
According to information from the DX 183, where the station has been monitored, Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) has activated the 10 kW xmitter in Heusweiler on 1179 kHz. This frequency has SR 3 programme, and is on air from 8-18 local time (7-17 UTC). News from Paris every half hour.
Ydun Ritz (29/11-2005)
GERMANY
(Northrhine-Westphalia): On the occasion of the RC World Youth Convention, the regional public broadcaster WDR Cologne will broadcast a special "Weltjugendtags-Radio". The programme will be heard from 15 August 9.00 h CEST (7.00 UTC) until 21 August 20.00 h CEST (18.00 UTC) on the following frequencies: locally Cologne FM 87,6 MHz, all over Northrhine-Westphalia with an additional coverage of neighbouring states and countries on the mediumwave frequencies Langenberg 720 kHz and Bonn 774 kHz. The special programme is carried 9.00-23.00 Uhr CEST (7.00-21.00 h) while the rest is a relay from WDR 5 and WDR Funkhaus Europa. International QSL-hunters might appreciate the fact, that the special programme will include service announcements in many different languages, including English at the half hour (:30).
Dr. Hansjoerg Biener (4/8-2005)
GERMANY
Dear Ydun, as reported in the forum of www.ukwtv.de , the SWR-tx at Rohrdorf on 666 kHz, currently carrying the programme of "SWR cont.ra", will be signing of for some hours during nightime from June 1st. Exact off-times are unknown yet.
Regards, Sascha Zimmer, Viersen, Germany (20/5-2005)
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