RUSSIA
Yekaterinburg launches the multi-ethnic MW channel Dairah on 909 kHz, now primarily for Tatar population in the region (Bashkir language will be added soon). It's a joint venture of Studiya Gorod (Yekaterinburg) and Yana Gasyr / Novyi Vek (Kazan). Broadcast time is 1900-2200 local time (1300-1600 in summer).
News source in Russian:
http://www.gorodfm.ru/news/news.119193/#current
Radio Rodnoye 1107 kHz in Samara will very possibly leave its licence due to both insolvency and licence disrepancy. For some time, station performed minority language broadcasting in the region (Rusian, Tatar, Chuvash, Mordovian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, German, Hebrew).
News source in Russian:
http://www.time-samara.ru/index.php?a=5&art=5333
Victor Rutkovsky, Yekaterinburg, Russia via Signal # 171B (1/6-2007)
RUSSIA
The Russian Private Commercial station Studiya O'key on 1476 kHz-Vladivostok has changed to Humor(Yumor) Radio-Humor FM on Mar 1. And 1134 kHz-Khabarovsk, 1233 kHz-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka now carry Humor FM.
S. Hasegawa, NDXC, March 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST 7-036 (18/3-2007)
RUSSIA
The Kremlin has apparently pulled the plug on the BBC following the London killing of defector Alexander Litvinenko "The London Paper" on November 28 reported that "The BBC's Russian Service has been off the air in Moscow and St Petersburg since last Wednesday due to what Russian authorities have described as 'technical problems'. One insider put it differently, however: 'They turned the transmitter off'." Livinenko issued a statement from his death-bed
claiming that he was poisoned on the orders of President Putin.
Roger Tidy, UK, Nov 28, DXLD 6-175 (28/11-2006)
RUSSIA
A Russian mystery: This time I am up with a real Russian mystery - no old KGB agents, no politics at all, but the following:
Here is an extract from an E-mail I sent to the World Radio Network:
"I tuned in on 738 kHz and indeed WRN from Kurkino near Moscow was audible. The signal was moderately strong, not much interference but with some fading. This was today November 19, 2006 at 1525 UT. What I heard was a transmission in Russian and the identification 'Kitayskoye
Mezhdunarodnoye Radio" made it clear to me that this was a CRI relay.
Then, at 1535 UT I heard the announcement "Radio Swoboda". This was followed by a programme of American pop music. Puzzling, really. I checked your website, heard the live transmission. There CRI was on, just starting a programme of light Chinese music announced in Russian.
This was not what I heard on my radio.
Another station? It could not be, nothing on the 738 kHz channel fits in. Later RFI in Paris started dominating the frequency with its Vietnamese service around 1550, but everything seemed to indicate the Swoboda transmission came from you."
Here is the reply from WRN:
Dear Ullmar, Thank you for your message. You were hearing CRI from WRN on the 738 kHz frequency, however Radio Swoboda is not broadcast by us, we do not have any dealings with this station. As our 738 kHz transmission is only meant to cover Moscow we are surprised that you have picked it up.... in Sweden....?
Kind regards, Paula Dine, Senior Administrator, WRN
Well, I feel sure I heard the Radio Swoboda announcement, which seemed to come from WRN, with a program of American pop music which I heard for about 15 minutes, after which RFI in Vietnamese began to dominate, and I then checked the WRN webcast which carried CRI which started a program of Chinese pop music announced in Russian when I listened in, I have only two possible explanations:
1. There was a server mistake, the satellite broadcast from Radio Liberty was relayed after 1535 UT instead of the CRI program in Russian. This could happen only if different servers supply signals to the WRN transmitter on 738 kHz and to the webcast, since the webcast
had the scheduled CRI transmission.
2. Radio Swoboda (Radio Liberty) which is listed for Moscow on 1044 kHz has put a new transmitter in operation somewhere in Russia. Have not seen any info in that direction. And I heard WRN relaying CRI again about two hours later on 738 kHz.
Perhaps a Russian DXer, preferably in Moscow could help us? Are the Radio Swoboda and WRN transmitters in Moscow situated on the same premises? If they are, the first alternative is plausible. Or is Radio Swoboda also operating on 738 kHz - in that case far away from Moscow
for obvious reasons.... Hope someone can solve the mystery.
Greetings, Ullmar Qvick, Norrköping, Sweden, Nov 23, DXLD 6-173 (24/11-2006)
RUSSIA
A new Russian radio network, Radio Zvezda (”Radio Star”) is building up a nationwide network on FM and MW. It has a website at http://tvzvezda.ru/radio/. They are already on the air in Moscow on 990 kHz.
Furthermore, Victor Rutkovsky has forwarded the news about two new licenses for this station, for 1440 kHz in St Petersburg at 10 kW, and 729 kHz in Samara at 50 kW. Their address (from mediaatlas.ru) is Kolymazhny pereulok 14, Moscow 119019.
Eike Bierwirth, Germany,
via DXing the Finnish Way (14/9-2006)
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/ GERMANY
Now finally I have the ominous VOR German signal on 1359, cycling about every two seconds as described by Karel Honzik. Signal strength is here (50 km north of Dresden) on a par with 603, the 20 kW from Zehlendorf. The strange cycling suggests that is this some kind of spurious radiation rather than a fundamental, and probably indeed Wilsdruff is the culprit, considering that the signal has been reported as being rather strong in the Czech Republic. But how does it arise? No idea how a mix of 1044 and 1431 can land on 1359. (1044 is a 20 kW Thomcast, 1431 a 250 kW Telefunken, both diplexed into the same antenna, a 153 metres tall pipe mast.)
Right now Burg is testing on 1575 with open carrier, probably the 500 kW transmitter since the 10 kW daytime transmitter used during the Megaradio days was basically inaudible here. A related posting at http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?8773,425997 says that around 1030 UT they shortly put unid. modulation on air.
1575 is licenced to Oldiestar, a small FM station from Berlin, otherwise on air via a Zehlendorf (the LW/MW site east of Oranienburg, not the district of Berlin) transmitter on FM 104.9, cf. http://www.oldiestar.de
Earlier Oldiestar announced that they will launch a DRM signal on 1575 with 100 kW in January 2006, afterwards talking to book author Gerd Klawitter about a "small delay". Wonder if they will really start to burn their money now? (Or probably fire up 1575 in AM instead, with at least a theoretical possibility to reach real-world listeners?)
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (6/7-2006)
RUSSIA
/ GERMANY
for some time I have been observing a strange signal of Voice of Russia on 1359 kHz // 1431 kHz (Dresden-Wilsdruff, Germany). The signal is not strong, it suffers from fast, deep and chaotic fading. This is really typical for the signal. The frequency is exactly 1359.00 kHz.
It can be heard not only by me here in the west part of the Czech Republic but also by Matthias Zwoch living near Dresden, Germany and also by Tom OK1TP living in the north-west part of the Czech Republic to name at least two DXers I am in contact with.
Matthias is not sure whether the signal originates from one of Dresden-Wilsdruff transmitters (1044 + 1431 kHz), he says the 1044 kHz transmitter produces a hum what could indicate a transmitter problem...
Karel Honzik the Czech Republic (Czechia) via mwdx yg (5/7-2006)
RUSSIA
/ GERMANY
Today postings about Voice of Russia being heard with strong signals on 1359 appeared in the German-language A-DX mailing list. Nothing heard by yours truly tonight. 1359 is an east German frequency, so T-Systems would be the usual suspect here. Sorry, no time for any further research tonight, but perhaps it is worth to keep an ear on this frequency.
By the way, Wilsdruff-1431 runs without audio processing and hereby reveals rather severe audio problems at Voice of Russia. The feed of the Russian worldservice is of good quality but the audio level too low. German appears to be at proper level, but the studio microphone quality is still as terrible as it was when they inaugurated this new studio. And Russkoye Meshdunarodnoye Radio must put out substantially more than -9 dBfs, judging from the resulting limiting distortion (probably I
already mentioned this).
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (5/7-2006)
RUSSIA
WRN in Moscow: Our Moscow station commenced operation in Moscow (Kurkino) on 738 kHz on 17th June 2006 at 0600 with daily operation in Russian 0600-2400. See wrn.org/ru and wrn.ru for details.
Tim Ayris, Marketing Manager WRN (20/6-2006)
RUSSIA
Just received through open_dx mailinglist:
10 March 2006: Relay of Narodnoye Radio launched in a test mode on 1107 kHz, with 50 kW power. Broadcasting is intended to the city of Samara and Samara oblast. Broadcast times: 0900-1300, 1500-2000.
http://www.ortpc-samara.ru/index.html?id=about&item=news
Time specified above is obviously local winter time, that is UTC+4h. Therefore it should be converted to: 0500-0900, 1100-1600 in winter 0400-0800, 1000-1500 in summer.
Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 169 (31/5-2006)
RUSSIA
Notes from Victor Rutkovsky in Yekaterinburg (amendments to WRTH 2006)
180 Chita: is Mayak
216 Birobidzhan: don't know if on the air, but at least no local programmes of any kind
225 Surgut: no local programmes for a long time
243 Razdolnoye: not on the air at least since 2004
261 Chita: R Rossii
270 Orenburg: closed for good
270 Novosibirsk: only local programmes
693 Anadyr: has been closed already for very many years
828 Nizhniy-Novgorod: has been closed for many years
999 Birobidzhan: Yunost & local programmes
1008 Tuapse: R Rossii?
1053 Orenburg: R Rossii & local
1152 Khanty-Mansiysk: where is this from - there has never been anything
1197 Balakov/Balashov/Ershov: who has heard? No one at least 10 years
1197 Berezovo, probably not on the air
1386 Obninsk: empty
1395 Lyubim/Volga/Dubki: empty
1449 Livny: empty
1458 Valuyki: empty
1512 Chaykovskiy: closed
1593 Irkutsk: hasn't been on for a very long time
State broadcasters:
873 Khabarovsk -- off
1485 Oktyabrskiy -- off
1602 Gayny -- off for a long time
Private:
675 Oyash -- off
738 Vladivostok -- Evropa+
765 Khabarovsk -- tested in 2005y
936 Dalnegorsk -- off
1107 Samara -- off
1296 Irkutsk -- off, it must be for ever
1575 Usol'e-Sibirskoe – off
Feb ARC Info Desk via editor Olle Alm, DXLD 6-037 (27/2-2006)
RUSSIA
Since the beginning of 2006 Mayak is relayed in full volume in Astrakhan. That is, 0250-2200 on 576 kHz.
open_dx - Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 161 (17/2-2006)
RUSSIA
According to a news item on Deutsche Welle in German at 1900 on 29 Dec the relays of DW in German and Russian in Moscow have now been restored after a week's silence.
Olle Alm, Sweden, DXLD
Moscow 693 (DW) again on air --- Since today Deutsche Welle is again on air in Moscow, i.e. on 693 (Oktyabrskoye polye transmitter), after Russian communications secretary Leonid Reiman ordered that the transmissions may continue for the time being until the legal matters will be sorted out. No word about BBC on 1260 and RFI on 1440 in this press release.
Kai Ludwig, Germany, Dec 29, DX Listening Digest 5-225 (30/12-2005)
RUSSIA
According to a news item on Deutsche Welle in German at 1900 on 29 Dec the relays of DW in German and Russian in Moscow have now been restored after a week's silence.
Olle Alm, Sweden, DXLD
Moscow 693 (DW) again on air --- Since today Deutsche Welle is again on air in Moscow, i.e. on 693 (Oktyabrskoye polye transmitter), after Russian communications secretary Leonid Reiman ordered that the transmissions may continue for the time being until the legal matters will be sorted out. No word about BBC on 1260 and RFI on 1440 in this press release.
Kai Ludwig, Germany, Dec 29, DX Listening Digest 5-225 (30/12-2005)Radio Rossii Yekaterinburg transmitter on 909 kHz is completely switched off since 1st October.
Victor Rutkovsky, Yekaterinburg, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 156 (2/11-2005)
RUSSIA
A week ago we stayed in Alexey's summer cottage for some hours, listening to DX stations in SW and MW. In contrast to similar events of 2003 and 2004, I've made some recordings now, using my NEXX NF-350 flash player.
You may read the complete log and listen to audio samples at: http://dxsignal.info/read/kad_2005e.htm
Dmitry Mezin, Signal Bulletin # 155 (24/10-2005)
RUSSIA
Gazprom-Media Setting Up Ekho Moskvy Competitor.
The Moscow Times State-controlled Gazprom-Media will launch a news radio station next year that will be a direct competitor to Ekho Moskvy, the independent radio station that it also owns.
"The radio station will start regular broadcasts on Jan. 13, and the technical broadcasting will start two months before that," Alexander Gerasimov, the editor of the new radio station, said Tuesday, Interfax reported.
Asked to compare the new radio station with Ekho Moskvy, Gerasimov said it "would have more news."
"The format will be different, but this is our information and I don't want to reveal it at the moment," said Gerasimov, a former NTV deputy general director who once hosted a political program on the channel.
Ekho Moskvy, the last national independent broadcaster, has been majority-owned by Gazprom-Media since 2001, but its journalists have retained editorial independence through their blocking 34 percent stake in the company.
Ekho Moskvy officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Gerasimov said the new radio station would target young people "who have found their place in life" and want to know more about current affairs.
The new station has yet to be named, but Gerasimov said he has already hired 50 percent of its journalists, all of them young.
Oleg Panfilov, director of the Center for Extreme Journalism, said the planned station was a clear attempt to create an outlet for pro-Kremlin news ahead of the 2007 State Duma elections.
Ekho Moskvy is the top news radio station but had faced competition this year after Russkoye Radio 2, which is privately owned by the Russian Media Group, boosted its news coverage to 12 hours per day. The coverage tends to be pro-Kremlin.
The Moscow Times.com (5/10-2005)
RUSSIA
St. Petersburg 801 to be back on the air.*
On 31 August, the independent broadcaster "Narodnoye Radio" http://www.narodinfo.ru received a license to transmit from St. Petersburg on 801 kHz with 500 kW. The transmitter is leased from Russia's national transmitter operator RTRN, and was earlier rented by the regional state broadcaster TRK Peterburg until it was closed down some years ago.
Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, MWDX yg via DX Listening Digest 5-165 (19/9-2005)
RUSSIA
...It looks like Mayak transmitters in Sovetskiy (900 kHz) and Cheboksary (531 kHz) operate on the air at 0200-1100, i.e. only nine hours per day.
Signal No.149 - Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia
Yes, I feel that's normal for most Mayak transmitters. During the last year tx in Astrakhan (576 kHz) is only active at 0200-0900 (by the way, I don't see it in the latest EMWG). As to tx in Makhachkala (it's not far from me), signing-off time varies greatly, and my general feeling is that only airing of programs in local languages prevent the radio authorities from switching it off earlier. Additionally, tx in Volgograd (810 kHz) does not operate till the local midnight, as stated in EMWG.
open_dx - Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 150 (27/8-2005)
Our local unit Kazan (1521 kHz) did not suffer from those reorganizations; it's still active in the evening till 2000 UTC. But it's not a powerful one - only 20 kW.
open_dx - Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 150 (27/8-2005)
RUSSIA
Taldom transmitter is a large broadcasting facility for shortwave and longwave near Taldom, Russia. Its longwave transmitter working on 261 kHz is with a power of 2500 Kilowatt world's most powerful broadcasting station and receivable in whole Europe at nighttimes (if Russian authorities did not forget to pay the electricity bill).
There are two aerial systems for longwave at Taldom. One consists of mutiple guyed masts with a height of 257 metres, the other consists of at least 4 guyed masts with a height of 275 metres arranged in a circle and a mast in the centre of the circle.
Further informations of Taldom transmitter are on
http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0014896
http://www.drmradio.co.uk/html/taldom.html
http://www.glavpryg.ru/photo/taldom1/taldom1.html
http://www.glavpryg.ru/photo/taldom2/taldom2.html
http://www.mordkovitch.de/savel/taldom/img8.htm
Very curious is, that the masts of one antenna system are - as can be seen on http://www.drmradio.co.uk/assets/images/VoR1.jpg - connected at two levels by each other. What might be the purpose of this? At Alexanderson antennas connection wires are only spun between the tops of the masts! Or do these ropes have no electrical functions?
Harald, LWCA (longwaveradiolistening yahoogroups.com) via Mike Terry, DXLD yahoogroup (30/6-2005)
RUSSIA
Starting from 2 June, Dagestanskoye Radio (Makhachkala, Dagestan) increased duration of local language broadcasts. Principal languages are on the air 50 minutes a day, while broadcasts in minor languages last 25 minutes. Current schedule follows below (time converted to UTC by your editor; must be 1 hour later in winter season - Editor of Signal Bulletin)
621 kHz
Avar 0210-0300
Kumyk 0310-0400
Tsakhur 0610-0635
Rutul 0635-0700
Russian 0900-0910 and 1410-1500
Nogai 0910-0935
Chechen 0935-1000
Lak 1210-1300
Radio Rossii is on the air in other times.
918 kHz
Lezgi 0210-0300
Dargwa 0410-0500
Aghul 0610-0635
Tat 0635-0700
Russian 0810-0830
Azerbaijani 0830-0900
Tabassaran 1010-1100
Radio Mayak is on the air in other times.
(time converted to UTC by your editor; must be 1 hour later in winter season - Editor of Signal Bulletin)
Radio Teos changes its frequency in Moscow. 963 kHz will be replaced by 1134 kHz since 1 June. Official station site: http://www.radioteos.ru News and discuttions: http://livejournal.com/users/radioteos/
MIDXB No. 426 - info from JesusChrist.ru via Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia.
In fact, Radio Teos moved to 1134 kHz on May 27. It's curious that both old and new frequencies were active with different non-parallel programs during the previous day, 26 May. Station does not send any IDs; old name "Radio Tserkov" is announced in some programs. Another curious thing: listeners were congratulated with coming Christmas and New Year (!) in one of the recorded aired on 26 May.
MIDXB No. 426 - Konstantin Gusev, Moscow, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 148 (7/6-2005)
RUSSIA
Radio Teos changes its frequency in Moscow. 963 kHz will be replaced by 1134 kHz since 1 June. Official station site: http://www.radioteos.ru News and discuttions: http://livejournal.com/users/radioteos/
MIDXB No. 426 - info from JesusChrist.ru via Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia
In fact, Radio Teos moved to 1134 kHz on May 27. It's curious that both old and new frequencies were active with different non-parallel programs during the previous day, 26 May. Station does not send any IDs; old name "Radio Tserkov" is announced in some programs. Another curious thing: listeners were congratulated with coming Christmas and New Year (!) in one of the recorded aired on 26 May.
MIDXB No. 426 - Konstantin Gusev, Moscow, Russia via Signal Bulletin # 148 (7/6-2005)
RUSSIA
/ARMENIA
Acc. to Voice of Russia (VOR) information distributed in VOR's "Klub DX" programme, the VOR's Russian service Sodruzhestvo" is carried for listeners in the Caucasus region 1600-1900 via a 600kW transmitter in Armenia on 1377 kHz since the middle of May. This would be from the high power site in Gavar. The frequency 1377 was formerly used for Armenian Radio by a 25kW transmitter in Sisian.
mwdx - Bernd Trutenau, Vilnius, Lithuania via Signal Bulletin # 148 (7/6-2005)
RUSSIA
/GERMANY
Below follows current schedule of Voice of Russia via Braunschweig transmitter in Germany - 630 kHz, 100 kW.
0400-0900 - Voice of Russia in English
0900-1200 - Voice of Russia in German
1200-1500 - Russian International Radio in Russian
1500-1600 - Voice of Russia in German (special broadcast for Berlin area)
1600-1700 - Voice of Russia in German
1700-1800 - Voice of Russia, World Service in Russian
1800-1900 - Voice of Russia in German (special broadcast for Berlin area)
1900-2100 - Russian International Radio in Russian
2100-2200 - Voice of Russia, Radiokanal Sodruzhestvo in Russian
open_dx - Pavel Mikhaylov, Moscow, Russia - info from Voice of Russia Technical Management via Signal Bulletin # 148 (7/6-2005)
RUSSIA
Voice of Russia launches Russian language programme in London. The Voice of Russia has started Russian-language broadcasts in the UK on mediumwave 558 kHz via London commercial station Spectrum Radio. The programme is on the air daily at 1300-1400 UTC, and can also be heard on the Web at www.spectrumradio.net and www.vor.ru The broadcast is in cooperation with WRN.
# posted by Andy on the Media Network weblog (3/6-2005)
RUSSIA
New Radio Station Puts Rights First.
Free Voice, a new St. Petersburg radio station focusing on human rights issues, was officially launched Monday. The station broadcasts for one hour a day in the dead of the night from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. on medium wave 684 KHz. More on http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1074/news/n_15835.htm
The St. Petersburg Times (31/5-2005)
RUSSIA
Radio station Tikhy Okean is alive again. Regular broadcasts go on the air since 17 April, 0835-0900 on 810 kHz local and 12065 kHz to the maritime area.
open_dx - Igor Ashikhmin and Roman Nazarov, both from Primorskiy Kray, Russia.
You may listen to the audioclip of Tikhy Okean, recorded by Igor Ashikhmin, on my True Sounds page: http://dxsignal.info/listen_eng.htm
Direct address: http://dxsignal.info/audio/Tikhiy_Okean_200405.mp3 Size is 448 kB.
Dmitri Mezin, Signal Bulletin # 146 (2/5-2005)
RUSSIA
/MOLDOVA On 6 Mar at 1800 noted Voice of Russia in Bulgarian on 1503. Some time ago they were on 1566. The listed frequency is 1467. I presume this is hte Maiac, MDA transmitter looking for a nice, clear frequency.
Jari Savolainen Kuusankoski Finland via DXLD yahoogroup (7/3-2005)
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