Radio Pakistan started a four-hour Radio school test run transmission to promote distant learning in the country.
To this effect, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Radio Pakistan and the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training to promote distant learning in the country. The MoU was signed by Director General Radio Pakistan Ms. Ambreen Jan and Additional Secretary Ministry of Education and Professional Training Mr. Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani in Islamabad last Friday.
Under the MoU, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training will provide the content of the transmission to impart Primary level education to children.
These educational programmes will be broadcast from various medium wave and FM networks of Radio Pakistan from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and then as repeat broadcast from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm seven days a week.
1. Islamabad 500 kW 585 kHz
2. D.I.Khan 100 kW 711 kHz
3. Quetta 100 kW 1134 kHz
4. Turbat 100 kW 981 kHz
5. Khuzdar 300 kW 567 kHz
6. Loralai 10 kW 1251 kHz
7. Larkana 100 kW 1053 kHz
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/radio-pakistan-starts-test-run-transmission-o-1095024.html
UrduPoint Pakistan Point News (2020-11-24))
Month: November 2020
United States
Say goodbye to “L.A. Oldies” on December 1st:
KSUR will drop its oldies format, and KMZT “K-Mozart” Classical will take its place at 1260 AM on 12/1/2020. KSUR is presently stunting with Christmas music until the flip takes place.
David Wilson to “I Love AM Radio” fb group
via DX LISTENERS’ CLUB fb group (2020-11-24)
Poland?
Radio Summer is coming soon.
Radio Summer will be a new short wave and medium wave radio project for 2021. We only play summer hot music for you all year round.
Radio Summer Team (2020-11-23)
(No frequencies, no QTH, no other technicals were mentioned. Ed)
Australia
Toowoomba 1620kHz Testing – The Breeze.
1620kHz Toowoomba, Qld is currently on air testing (music).
The station is still running a test loop in mono.
They’ve now received their C-QUAM stereo transmitter back from the factory & will be trailing the new C-QUAM transmitter in Q1 2021
Ian to mwmasts groups.io (2020-11-23)
Russia
I maybe got some news about MW in Russia (Moscow region).
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/brific/BRIFIC/SpecialSection
/GE75/GE75_189.pdf
There are 4 entries, 2 for Moscow and 2 for Noginsk (ногинск).
PLN 105100213 HJ 738 MOSKVA RUS 037E23 55N52 9 16 5 9.9 A 55 3
PLN 105100213 HN 738 MOSKVA RUS 037E23 55N52 9 16 5 9.9 A 55 3
MOD 119124195 HJ 738 NOGINSK MSK RUS 038E20 55N50 9 16 50 19.8 A 217 3 A/181
MOD 119124195 HN 738 NOGINSK MSK RUS 038E20 55N50 9 16 50 19.8 A 217 3 A/181
I don’t know what they exactly mean.
Noginsk is north of Elektrostal where another very old transmitter
was and it fits to the coordinates written in the document.
55°50’11.23″N 38°20’33.42″E
The transmitter in Noginsk is sometimes also referred as radio center
no. 9 (радиоцентр № 9) (that was Elektrostal), but is located different.
The antenna in Noginsk is almost new (as I know from 2006):
https://wikimapia.org/6451642/ru/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80-%E2%84%96-9
My language skills are too worse to understand what they’re talking, I
may find that out in some years.
As I know Noginsk got a new semiconductor based transmitter and has
been switched off in 2014.
The other location, Kurkino , fits to the other coordinates given.
55°52’51.61″N 37°23’28.76″E
It was already on air in 738 kHz, but for me it seems that this will be
switched to Noginsk.
I don’t know which location will be used.
Marco (2020-11-22)
Maybe our Russian users know about this topic? (Ed)
Space
A minor G1-class geomagnetc storm is underway on Nov. 22nd as Earth passes through a fast-moving stream of solar wind. The gaseous material is flowing from a northern hole in the sun’s atmosphere. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for auroras especially during the hours around local midnight.
https://spaceweather.com/
Mike Terry to WOR groups.io (2020-11-22)
Australia
1170kHz 2CH (callsign) broadcasting as 1170 SEN Sydney (NOT as SENTrack as listed incorrectly in Dan’s active sheet) commenced using 7.5kW of power during the day only in July. The station is now trailing 10kW during the day (5kW night).
Also please note Crocmedia name was recently changed to Sports Entertainment Network.
See: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/09/29/crocmedia-re-brands-to-sports-entertainment-network/
The old ‘2CH’ music programming now only exists on DAB+ and as a Internet streaming radio station, owned by SEN.
Ian to mwmasts groups.io (2020-11-22)
United States
WNJC 1360 NJ DX tests tonight.
From another list:
Tonight into Sunday I am going to get a FT8 test going again along with a DX audio test.
From 08:00 – 11:00pm EST pm tonight we will be doing the DX Audio test at our normal nighttime pattern. At 11:00pm EST we will start the FT8 test which will continue to 1:00am EST. At midnight EST we will switch to our daytime pattern at 5kw. At 1:00am till 6:00am EST we will run our audio DX test.
11/22 01:00 – 04:00 UTC Audio DX Test (.8kw SE)
11/22 04:00 – 05:00 UTC FT8 Test (.8kw SE)
11/22 04:00 – 05:00 UTC FT8 Test (5kw SSE)
11/22 06:00 – 11:00 UTC Audio DX Test (5kw SSE)
Reports can be sent to kc2dux@duxpond.com or for a QSL card sent at least a 4×6 SASE envelope too.
Duke Hamann, WNJC DX Test
PO Box 84
Dennisville, NJ 08214 USA”
Wayne Heinen, NRC to WOR groups.io (2020-11-22)
United States
WNJC 1360 AM DX Test.
Greetings everyone! I wanted to try to get this out NOT last minute this week. So this Friday into Saturday I am going to get a FT8 test going again along with the DX audio test.
From 08:00 – 11:00pm EST pm on Nov 20 we will be doing the FT8 test at our normal nighttime pattern. At 11:00pm EST we will start the FT8 test which will continue to 1:00am EST. At midnight EST we will switch to our daytime pattern at 5kw. At 1:00am till 6:00am EST we will run our audio DX test.
11/21 01:00 – 04:00 UTC Audio DX Test (.8kw SE)
11/21 04:00 – 05:00 UTC FT8 Test (.8kw SE)
11/21 04:00 – 05:00 UTC FT8 Test (5kw SSE)
11/21 06:00 – 11:00 UTC Audio DX Test (5kw SSE)
Reports can be sent to kc2dux@duxpond.com or for a QSL card sent at least a 4×6 SASE envelope too
Duke Hamann, WNJC DX Test
PO Box 84
Dennisville, NJ 08214 USA
Duke Hamann in WNJC 1360 AM DX Tests fb group (2020-11-20)
Ethiopia
Since the civil war began at the Tigray region of Ethiopia Voice of Tigray Revolution is off air on 5950 khz, but the transmitter on 1359 khz in Mekelle is on-air. I heard african music during local sunset under the mess of CNR and English stations, at the same time radio Dimtsi Hafash was audible on 840 kHz from Eritrea.
László Tringer (2020-11-19)