Month: July 2022

Ukraine

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UR-1 from Chasiv Yar on 873 kHz looks like inactive at 2150 UTC (12.07.2022).
I hear only the mixture of Saudi Quran and Radio Tabriz. UR-1 was dominant on 873 during the deep night.
UR-1 was on air during / after shelling the residential area in the town.

Tringer László (2022-07-12)

Palau

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Comment from the commissioning engineer:
“Palau [1584 kHz] is has been on air now for a few weeks completely trouble free…”
and “There seem to be quite a lot of digital radios here that jump 10KHz at a time so 1580 to 1590 and miss out the required frequency…”

A common problem, reminiscent  of the days when the Japanese FM band stopped at 104 MHz and receivers purchased there taken elsewhere were unable to receive stations above that frequency.

Ben Dawson (2022-07-12)

United Kingdom

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Presenters who played a key role in the survival of Radio Caroline in the 70s were reunited on board the ship for the first time in more than 40 years at the weekend.
Eleven of the DJs who kept Caroline on the air from the Mi Amigo during that period, enduring many deprivations and emergencies, reunited on board Caroline’s successorship, the 1,000-ton Icelandic fishing trawler ‘Ross Revenge’, now safely and legally moored on the River Blackwater in Essex.
For one last time, Tom Anderson, Mark Lawrence, James Ross, Roger Matthews, Martin Fisher, Stuart Russell, Brian Martin, Mike Stevens, Richard Thompson, Cliff Osbourne and Marc Jacobs broadcast offshore on Radio Caroline, reliving ‘The Spirit of the Seventies’.
Radio Caroline station manager Peter Moore said: “For many of our dedicated listeners, the period between 1976 and 1980 is the most cherished, and to have our team from that eventful era back together is very special indeed.”
Today Radio Caroline is on the air 24/7 across England and parts of Europe via its 648 AM frequency, along with the usual online places. One weekend each month DJs return to Ross Revenge for a live broadcast.
Battered by storms and besieged by government legislation, Radio Caroline had limped on into the 1970s, exiled in the North Sea on the Mi Amigo, a ship that was old, leaking and in desperate need of maintenance or replacement.
The Mi Amigo sank in March 1980 and those on board were rescued by the Sheerness Lifeboat, a perilous operation for which coxswain Charlie Bowry was awarded an RNLI silver medal.
By Stevie Lane https://radiotoday.co.uk/2022/07/pirate-radio-presenters-from-carolines-mi-amigo-era-reunite/

Mike Terry (2022-07-11)

United Kingdom

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Radio Caroline North July.
Join us over the weekend of 16th-17th July for the next Radio Caroline North broadcast, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.
You’ll hear some fine music from the 60s – early 90s, plus you can enter our on-air competition to win gifts from the Radio Caroline Web Shop, kindly sponsored by Addo Addison from Royston, Herts.
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 the Radio Caroline app.
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcasters.
http://radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

Nico from Gouda (2022-07-11)

United States

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Silent Notifications :

Plant Broadcasting ceased operations of its three stations in Tifton GA following the sale of its former parent company:
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago’s 950 WCDC Charleston SC (total power failure that will take substantial repairs to regain operation)
Loud Media’s 1340 WVNR Poultney VT (tower site sold)
[….]
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/232296/fcc-report-7-10/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2022-07-10)

New Zealand

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At the end of July, Radio New Zealand are closing the Waipapakauri Northland 837 AM transmitter that carries RNZ National to the Far North. However the Lower Northland Otaika (Whangare) transmitter synchronised on 837 AM will remain in operation.

The Waipapakauri site has been plagued with theft, anything that could be pinched has been, also the tower and guys need replacing so I guess the cost to benefit ratio has regarding listeners and maintenance come into play. According to the letterbox flyer: “costs of replacement are very high and RNZ has alternative FM radio coverage which overlaps with some of the coverage from this site”. (Nick Wallace)

“A few years ago during a bad weather event, power was lost to all FM transmission sites in the Far North. Civil Defence info was only available on AM transmitters powered by backup diesel generators. Have things improved, or could this situation arise again? Presumably CD were consulted about this?” (Barry Hartley)

Newstalk ZB on 1026 kHz will probably go off air as well, as it is dual coupled to the same mast at Waipapakauri. (Barry Hartley)
This will leave the synchro’d Otaika Whangarei outlet on the frequency.

Advance preview of my next column in the ‘NZ DX Times’:
Bryan Clark to mwmasts iog (2022-07-10)

DRM test

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DRM Test 954 kHz.
ELSYSCOM is the transmitter manufacturer, so obviously they use the factory settings of the transmitter. The DRM test is coming from Ceske Budejovice, the transmitted programme is Cesky Rozhlas Radiozurnal.

Patrick Robic (2022-07-10)