Ukraine

Interesting situation with Ukrainian Radio’s relay via Lithuania on 1386 kHz. It seems that Radio Baltic Waves International relays the stream of Radio Ukraine International, not that of the UR’s First Channel. In March-May, both streams were identical, but some differences have appeared over the past month. At 21:05-21:30 UTC (approx.), there is a Russian language show called ‘War and the Russian world’ (probably an allusion for Tolstoy’s ‘War and peace’).

RUI’s schedule (for example http://ukr.radio/schedule/by-date.html?channelID=4&date=2022-06-24) features short news bulletins called ‘Ukraine: Security Issue’ in Belarusian, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak and English (the latter one is also heard on UR’s frequencies in Ukraine) at 21, 21:20, 22, 00, 02, 04 UTC. The schedule is very volatile. I can confirm the Polish language block at 22 UTC. The MW frequency has been mentioned even by the host. News in the aforementioned languages must be relayed on 1386 kHz as well (between 21 and 03:30 UTC).

Important notice: RUI schedule on UR’s web site shows correct programming only for previous days, not for the current or next ones.

Alexander Miatlikov, Ukraine to MWlist iog (2022-06-24)

United States

CHRISTMAS comes to High Point.
Following the closing of their purchase of 1230 WMFR and 104.5 W283CV High Point NC, Triad Media Partners has begun stunting with Country based Christmas Music as “The Christmas Channel“.
Triad Media Partners agreed to acquire WMFR/W283CV along with 920 WPCM Burlington-Graham/104.5 W283BT Burlington in January from Curtis Media for $925,000. WPCM/W283BT flipped to Christian AC “Hope 104.5” in April. WMFR/W283CV had been simulcasting Sports 600 WSJS Winston-Salem.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/229712/christmas-comes-to-high-point/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2022-06-22)

Czech Republic

DRM noise could be heard this morning on 954kHz.
Transmitter: Ceske Budejovice / Husova Kolonie, Czechia.
Power: 3kW
Jun22, 2022 – 0810 UTC
Testing, off at 0825 ………
Planned since February 2022

Karel Honzik, CZE to mwcircle iog (2022-06-22)

Iceland

Summer solstice bandscan.
I got out just after midnight. By then it had stopped raining and the sky cleared. Barely a breeze, and bright enough to read quite fine print. I was lucky. The clouds began drawing up again soon after I
returned inside.
The LW band… same old, same old. Allouis was quiet enough for me to hear Daventry’s cross modulation.
The MW band was a bit livelier than I had expected. I did have to turn up the volume control on the Panasonic radio, but I did hear the usual Brits, except for Wales on 882 kHz. I also managed to hear Smooth R. on 1152 and 1161 kHz, Gold on 1548 and 1458 kHz, and the Absolute R. relays on 1197 and 1242 kHz; the latter very weakly. I also heard Spanish radio on 855 kHz and a few others whose frequencies I soon forgot.

Reynir Heidberg Stefansson (2022-06-22)

Spain

As the news of SER Spain ending the MW Services, here are some news of RNE on MW.
RNE 1 Spain reduces MW powers from 300 to 75 kW.
According to the union section of the UGT on RTVE, RNE has reduced the power of the following stations of Radio Nacional de España-Radio 1: 585 Madrid (Majadahonda) from 300kW to 150/100kW
621 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Las Mesas) from 300kW to 100/75kW
639 A Coruña (Meson do Vento) from 300kW to 100/75kW
684 Seville (Los Palacios) from 300kW to 150 /100kW
738 Barcelona (Palau de Plegamáns) from 300kW to 150/100kW
855 Murcia (Torre Cotillas) from 300kW to 100/75kW
The current figures indicate the day/night power.

Adam Joy Birchenall to Medium Wave Circle FB group (2022-06-21)

United Kingdom

Radio Caroline North June.
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You’ll hear all the best music from the 60s – early 90s, plus the chance to win superb retro-style radios (pictured below) in our on-air competition, kindly sponsored by Peter Roberts from Frimley, Surrey.
Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and on the Radio Caroline app.
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http://radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

Nico uit Gouda (2022-06-20)

Spain

RNE 1 Spain reduces MW powers from 300 to 75 kW.

Según informa la sección sindical de UGT en RTVE, RNE ha dismunuido la potencia de las siguientes emisoras de Radio Nacional de España-Radio 1:

    585 Madrid (Majadahonda) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    621 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Las Mesas) de 300kW a 75/100kW
    639 A Coruña (Meson do Vento) de 300kW a 75/100kW
    684 Sevilla (Los Palacios) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    738 Barcelona (Palau de Plegamáns) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    855 Murcia (Torre Cotillas) de 300kW a 75/100kW

Las cifras actuales indican la potencia nocturna/diurna del emisor.

Pedro Sedano, EA4-0003, AER El Dial June 16 via Glenn Hauser, WOR iog (2022-06-20)

Spain

Cadena SER have announced they are closing on medium wave across Spain.

Mike Terry to WRTH FB group (2022-06-19)


(Translated from Spanish) As they have said in some groups it’s not a closure as such, just that the technicians will stop repairing the transmitters that are going to malfunction with which the MW network of the SER Chain will slowly die… Sad ending.

Raul Calvo Pozuelo to WRTH FB group (2022-06-19)