Month: September 2023

Pacific Asian Log

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Hello everyone:
The September, 2023 edition of the Pacific Asian Log (PAL) is now available. It can be downloaded from the Radioheritage website https://www.radioheritage.com/ (click on either of the links near the top of the home page). Members of the IRCA groups.io list can also download the PAL from the files page at
https://groups.io/g/IRCA/files/Station%20Lists%20and%20References/PAL-9-15-2023.pdf

As usual, many changes and updates have been incorporated into this latest edition.  They include new web links and parallel listings, updated station listings, and some minor organization and presentation
tweaks.

Comments and updates from users are welcome and encouraged.  They can be sent to 
portzerbt@gmail.com.

First issued in 2001, The PAL lists medium wave and domestic shortwave broadcasting stations in southern and eastern Asia and the Pacific.   It lists about 4500 stations in over 50 countries, with frequencies, call signs, locations, power, networks, websites, streaming audio, schedules, languages, formats, networks and other information.

Bruce Portzer to ICDX-AM iog (2023-09-18)

Denmark

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On Ydun’s Medium Wave Info I read about the unidentified signals on 243 kHz reported on August 23 at 1500 UTC ( https://mediumwave.info/2023/08/30/denmark-61/ ).

I happen to have a recording of that frequency range around that time made in the Netherlands at the University of Twente WebSDR (of which I’m the developer and maintainer).
However, on that recording I don’t see any suspicious transmissions around that time. At 15:30:44 DR’s carrier came up, and at 15:40:14 the interval music started.

So… it seems the unidentified signal must have been quite weak, and/or quite local to the location where it was heard.
Have their been any reports from other listeners and/or other times?

Regards,   Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, PA3FWM (2023-09-17)

Indonesia

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Indonesia chooses DRM as digital radio broadcasting standard.

The Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) Consortium welcomes the announcement by Indonesian authorities to adopt the global, open and ITU endorsed DRM Digital Radio Standard for national adoption in a country of over a quarter of a billion people.
This news was announced during the DRM IBC Showcase event in Amsterdam. DRM is the only digital radio standard to serve all coverage needs for the national and local public radio stations as well as for commercial and community broadcasters. Going forward, DRM-based digital radio services can be introduced in the medium wave (MW) and FM bands, as well as in VHF band-III, for all of Indonesia’s 18 000 islands.
Read more at: https://radioinfo.asia/news/indonesia-chooses-drm-as-digital-radio-broadcasting-standard/ © RadioInfo Asia (sept. 16th, 2023)

Ydun Ritz (2023-09-17)

United Kingdom

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Smooth Radio AM closures…

I’ve listened to a lot of overnight recordings on 945 (and the other Smooth channels) but I’ve heard no mention of an AM shutdown. I presume that such information would be given during advertisement breaks and/or before / after the news (they seem to have ads just before the TOH). I should point out that I can only hear 945 during the hours of darkness, and that I’ve not listened extensively. The web page, as you point out, lists the other currently active Smooth stations but excludes those in Sussex. Perhaps they are unable to air these advisories overnight, or perhaps I have not listened at the right time. I’m not for one moment suggesting that the reports are untrue, just that I’ve listened where I might reasonably expect to hear suchlike but have yet to do so.

Andrew Brade to mwcircle iog (2023-09-16)

Smooth. Bexhill and Southwick to close by end of September. Probably Friday 29tj same as Gold 1548. 
I’ve noticed little or no on air announcements.

Dave Thorpe to mwcircle iog (2023-09-17)  

Unid

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Re. Unid 520 kHz: https://mediumwave.info/2023/09/15/unid-39/
“By the way, 520 kHz used to be a German frequency because the Copenhague Plan (1948) did not allocate many/enough frequencies to Germany. The Germans, who were only represented by the Allied powers, called it „Wellendemontage“.

I was also listening to 520 kHz when I was on holliday in Passau long time ago.
As a former member of german radio monitoring I can tell you that the reason for giving up this frequency was the allocation of the international NAVTEX system on 518 kHz. Mode is Sitor B (broadcast), a forward error correction system.

Walter Barteczek (2023-09-15)