Month: May 2022

Moldova

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Grigoriopol: Today at 19.50 UTC all 3 on 999, 1413 & 1548 are with powerhouse signal. Of course all 3 are with 1 MW. Acc to my source in T-nistria they in really are using 3×1000 KW.
On 873 & 1494 the usual Mon-Fri program “Panarama dnya” (Panorama of the Day) at 18-18.15 was replaced with nx in Romanian at 18.00-18.05.

Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria to MWlist iog (2022-05-12))

United States

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De La Hunt Media has performed a double flip at its stations in Walker MN.
Classic Hits 1570 KAKK/93.7 K229DJ Walker has flipped to Sports utilizing Fox Sports Radio. KAKK is running the national lineup around the clock as well as carrying Minnesota Wild hockey.
Concurrently, Soft AC “KQ 102” 101.9 KQKK Walker has picked up the Classic Hits mantle as it is now branding as “101.9 The Arrow” positioned as “Leech Lakes’ Classic Hits”.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/225524/double-flip-in-walker-mn/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2022-05-11)

Algeria

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Since this evening, Channel Chaine 3 from Algeria has been back on air with the usual field strength and good audio quality on 252 kHz after a long time.
As a result, interference with RTE radio from Ireland on the same frequency is more or less ubiquitous again.
(Above Google translated from German)

Steffen Mehnert, Germany (2022-05-11)

Moldova

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Grigoriopol-Mayak: I have followed them fairly regularly and I have noticed only those two longer outages for 1413 and 999 kHz. The first time the break was in the morning and then also 621 kHz went off. The second time it started after 1700 and then also 1548 kHz was off.
They can be heard with good signal here in Finland during darkness hours and even at daytime on carrier level. If there is any specific day in the past that interests you, I can check TOH recordings.
At the moment both 999 and 1413 kHz are on the air, 999 kHz stronger.

Mauno Ritola, MWlist iog (2022-05-11)

India

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Non stop emergency broadcast tonight also by AIR.
As the effect of Cyclone Asani is not yet over, look out tonight also for any nonstop broadcasts by AIR stations in Eastern coast of India:
Vijayawada 100 kW AM 837 kHz , DRM 828 kHz
Visakhapatnam 100 kW AM 927 kHz, DRM 918 kHz
Look out for any additional stations on MW from Odisha/West Bengal also

Latest weather info in:
https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/cyclone-asani-live-news-odisha-andhra-pradesh-bay-of-bengal-puri-west-bengal-weather-forecast-live-updates/2518467/

Jose Jacob, VU2JOS to dxindia iog (2022-05-11)

Moldova

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Transnistria: On 26 April and 3 May the medium wave station Grigoriopol-Mayak made headlines as being attacked. The first attack even made it into the main news (“Tagesschau”) in Germany because of following threats from Russian officials. 
Unfortunately, I do not speak / read Russian and cannot really check the current situation myself lacking knowledge of which radio sites to check. I wonder whether the frequencies 621, 999, 1413 and 1548 kHz are still on the air. Any information from actual listening or references to news sites will be appreciated.

Dr Hansjoerg Biener to MWlist iog (2022-05-11)


Some days ago all freqs were on air. Use the Dorohoi SDR to check.
http://kiwisdr-dorohoi.ddns.net:8073/
1548 and 621 are not on air all the time, check mwlist.org for the transmission times.
A shortwave curtain antenna with 3 masts was destroyed. The rotatable SW antenna shows burns, but still stands.
There are some other static SW dipole arrays there, some of them collapsed years ago and the rest is still there and some people showed pictures of them.
Tell me if you like more information.

Marco to MWlist iog (2022-05-11)

United States

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KBOB 1170 Davenport Iowa.
Temporarily using the night pattern during the day.

Michael Scheel to MWDX – The National Radio Club FB group (2022-05-11)