KOREA NORTH
[non]. RFA start MW service for N. Korea --- Mr. Ohtake of JSWC obtained the following information from RFA directly. RFA is to begin its Korean service on MW for the first time from Mar. 2.
1500-1900 1350 kHz
2100-2200 1350 kHz
de Shinya Hasegawa --- This transmitter site where I think is Mongolia.
S. Hasegawa, NDXC-HQ, Feb 29, dxldyg via DXLD
RFA Korean on MW --- Mr. Toshimichi Ohtake of JSWC was informed the following by A. J. Janitschek at his direct visit to Radio Free Asia in Washington. RFA will commence their first MW transmission on mediumwave directed to Korea on March 2. 1500-1900, 2100-2200 on 1350 kHz. The exact location of the transmitter is not announced. They are asking for reception reports for this transmission from the neighboring countries. Send the reports via http://www.techweb.rfa.org or qsl @ rfa.org
Comment: This decision may somewhat be related to Mr. Kim Andrew Elliott's article in DXLD 8-027.
Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, March 1, DXLD
WRTH 2008 MW frequency list shows no Mongolian transmitter on 1350, so that would be new. There is a S Korean on 1350 with 10 kW, bad luck for it; plus China and Russia, but nothing very powerful. How about PAL? Nothing there either; lists only three other MW frequencies in the entire country! WRTH has only two. Could 1350 be the same 500 kW
transmitter as on 990, which is supposedly in use for only a few hours a day?
Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD
Mongolia QTH? Somehow, I doubt. I believe it's a bit too far from a target country for a reliable MW reception, considering that N. Korea isn't shy about jamming foreign broadcasts. Besides, China might get into a jamming game with two millions Koreans on their own turf. Of course, for RFA this initiative might be more about spending the
allocated funds with a bit of good publicity than reaching the closed society. In such a case Mongolia is as good a bet as any far-away country.
Sergei Sosedkin, IL, dxldyg via DXLD
Distance Ulanbataar MNG to KRE is about 1100 km ! I guess Vladivostok Tavrichanka-RUS - nominal on 1377 kHz - but to be retuned 27 kHz down to 1350 kHz during local night time - a decade ago 75/150 kW, is in use during that slot. 1350 which is a nearly empty channel in northern Korea. Is 140 km distance from KRE border and 650 km to Pyongyang capital. [or Razdolnoye-RUS site 155 km from border]
Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX via DXLD
1100 km is not too far for 500 kW skywave! Oops: per my NGS Globe, it is about 1120 MILES from UB to Pyongyang, i.e. 1800 km.
Glenn Hauser, DXLD
Yes. I'm anxious about reception condition. Free North Korea Radio test broadcasted on 1350 kHz via Ulaanbaatar last year. But, the reception condition was bad in S. Korea. The RFA relay from Russia is declined before. China is not thought about. I think with the Mongolia or S. Korea which the President changed. Russia consented to the relay of VOA, but I heard the information that they refused relay of RFA.
S. Hasegawa, NDXC, March 1-2, dxldyg via DXLD
I see that 1350 kHz appears in the Asian frequency list on page 536 of WRTH 2007, as 150 kW from UB, MR-1 program. But not on the Mongolia pages. In the WRTH 2008, it has been removed from the frequency list on page 516.
Glenn Hauser, March 1, DXLD
Dear DXers, These were the VOA Korean frequencies at the beginning of B07 season:
1200-1300 UT 5890 7235 9555
1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1400-1500 UT 5890 7235 9555
1900-2100 UT 6060 7110 7135
Now when you go to VOA's website:
http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_k.cfm you'll see the following freqs for Korean:
1200-1300 UT 1350 5890 7235 9555
1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1400-1500 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1900-2100 UT 648 6060 7110 7135
Conclusion: VOA Korean expanded using MW frequencies: 648 kHz from Russia and NEW 1350 kHz from unID transmitter.
Best regards! Dragan Lekic from Serbia, March 1, dxldyg via DXLD 8-028 (1/3-2008)
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KUWAIT
Re 8-030, new antenna: Meant for 1593 kHz installation? At present used by old-Holzkirchen Continental 150 kW unit, IBB Arabic to Iraq 350 degrees.
See on page 2, far NW corner of the IBB KWT installation, 2 tower array?
http://fs2.fbo.gov/EPSData/BBG/Synopses/5565/BBGCON3607S6415-KSH/Attachme.pdf
Or is meant on new MW 1386 kHz installation, the former Harris 600 kW unit from Kavalla Greece site? See page 5, under C.1.3.3 Antenna System, approx. 55 degrees towards Mashad, Samarkand, Tashkent, on the NE corner:
http://fs2.fbo.gov/EPSData/BBG/Synopses/5565/BBGCON3607S6415-KSH/Part_I_-.pdf
Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DXLD
The frequency of the transmission is a critical factor in the design and dimensions of any MW antenna, and should be known and specified from the outset.
Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD
see also http://mediumwave.info/newsarchive_k.html
1386 kHz MW installation at approx. 55 degrees according my circle graphometer. Most likely meant for FARDA program to eastern part of Iran.
Arabic to IRQ 1593 150 kW Continental unit from former Holzkirchen-GER site. 2 tower 350 degr.
Arabic SAWA 1548 600 kW Harris former Rhodes-GRC site unit. 7 tower array in 323 degr.
Persian? FARDA in future 1386 600 kW Harris former Kavalla-GRC site unit. 3 tower array approx. 55 degr.
Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Mar 6, BCDX March 8 via DXLD 8-031 (9/3-2008)
KUWAIT
IBB MEDIUMWAVE STATION IN KUWAIT TO GET NEW ANTENNA ARRAY .
The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), intends to negotiate a competitive contract for the construction of three equipment shelters, installation of Radio Frequency (RF) transmission line, and related tasks for a new
mediumwave three-tower antenna array at the IBB transmitting station in Kuwait. The transmitter site is located 40 km NW of Kuwait City. Full details at
http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2008/03-March/06-Mar-2008/FBO-01522950.htm
Andy, Media Network blog March 5th via DXLD 8-030 (5/3-2008)
KUWAIT
Per ITU - Geneva Plan New GP update at
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/publications/brific-ter/files/ge75/2007/GE75_116.pdf
1386 kHz, IBB wants to use this frequency with 10 kW at 47E41 29N31. This frequency will rather be used with much higher power -ed/
ARC Information Desk 10 Sept 2007 edited by Olle Alm, Sweden, via DXLD 7-113 (18/9-2007)
KUWAIT
The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), intends to install antenna towers for a new mediumwave three-tower antenna array at the IBB transmitting station in Kuwait, and is now soliciting bids.
More details:
http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2007/07-July/04-Jul-2007/FBO-01332596.htm
Andy, Media Network Weblog (9/7-2007)
KUWAIT
BBG's budget request for fiscal year 2008 officially confirms that 1386 will be used for Radio Farda:
"An existing 600 kW transmitter and antenna towers have been deployed from Greece for use in constructing a new medium wave facility in Kuwait. Radio Farda broadcasts from this facility are expected to begin in FY 2008."
Official info via Kai Ludwig, dxld yg (20/5-2007)
KUWAIT
IBB MOVES MEDIUMWAVE TRANSMITTER FROM RHODES TO KUWAIT.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors/International Broadcasting Bureau's Office of Contracts intends to negotiate and award a non- competitive contract to Harris Corporation, Broadcast Communications Division, to re-commission and change the frequency of the Harris DX600 transmitter that IBB has relocated from Rhodes, Greece to
Kuwait. Harris Corporation originally delivered and installed the same transmitter at Rhodes in 1995, and also provided three essentially identical (two were larger) transmitters at other IBB sites. The transmitter at Rhodes used to operate on 1260 kHz, but was taken out of service last year. In Kuwait, it will operate on 1386 kHz.
Source: BBG/IBB via FBO April 6th, 2007 by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD 7-043 (6/4-2007)
KUWAIT
As far as I am aware, 1593 via KWT only has Persian at 1600-1900, and this is VOA and not Farda. At other times it is in Arabic, English and Kurdish.
Noel Green-UK, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD
IBB Kuwait 1593 kHz 150 kW 350 degrees (ex-Holzkirchen Germany Continental unit).
0000-0100 VOA En, 0100-0600 RFE Arabic IRQ special.
1300-1400 VOA Kurdish, 1400-1600 RFE Arabic IRQ special.
1600-1900 VOA Persian, 1900-2000 VOA Kurdish,
2000-2200 RFE Arabic IRQ special, 2200-2300 VOA En.
2300-2330 VOA En, 2330-2400 VOA English.
Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX June 25 via DX Listening Digest 5-107 (30/6-2005)
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