Month: October 2021

Australia

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SEN moves to the top end with a new station in the NT.
Sports Entertainment Network launched another new station today, this time in the Northern Territory, 1611 SEN Top End, which will be available on 1611 AM and on the SEN app.
1611 SEN Top End will have a dedicated app channel, and a local content strategy led by coverage of the 2021-22 Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) season.
Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/sen-moves-to-the-top-with-a-new-station-in-the-nt/ 

RadioToday World (2021-10-17)

Iran

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Not the 1 megawatt Saudi but.. I heard the 50KW Iran signal on 1512 in alaska at 1610UTC!   Was running a jovial sounding talk show, matched to stream while Saudi was doing the Quran!

Paul B. Walker, Jr. to ICXD-AM@groups.io (2021-10-16)

Brazil

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Radios cut power by 30% due to crisis.
The economic crisis triggered by the pandemic (over 600,000 people have died in the South American country) has brought many broadcasters to their knees, and they have asked to reduce their transmission power in order to cut operating costs. So the Ministry of Communications has allowed radio and TV broadcasters to reduce their authorised watts by up to 30% for six months, at times when the audience is less busy. The president of the Brazilian Association of Broadcasters (Abert), Flávio Lara Resende, was satisfied and said ‘by accepting the sector’s request, the Mcom is showing itself sensitive to the moment of a financial crisis that the private sector is going through, driven by the coronavirus pandemic‘.
https://blog.radioreporter.org/brazil-radios-cut-power-by-30-due-to-crisis

Mike Terry to WOR iog (2021-10-16)

Iceland

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Is Iceland 207 kHz longwave undergoing revision these days? Vy. week signal detected on western coast SDRs and also nothing in nth/west Germany for 2 weeks now. Whilst 531 KVF is good. I miss the usual musical px.

Karlheinz Endlinger (2021-10-14)

France

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Today at 05.35 UTC in Vallefoglia/Pesaro area (central Italy), I was able to listen to Bretagne 5 on 1593 kHz. Strong fading with romanian radios (news and pop music in hungarian language).

Alberto V., Pesaro (2021-10-13)