Month: October 2023

Denmark

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A correction:
The last weather forecast will be sent tomorrow November 1st, 2023 10:43 UTC and not today – as mentioned below.
(Today at 1040 UTC the last ever weather report will be sent via Kalundborg 243 kHz.)
Other programming will continue until transmitter close-down on December 31st.

Ydun Ritz (2023-10-31)

Iran / Jamming

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Today powerful jamming started from Iran on 1548 kHz against Radio Farda.
It having strong signal from it in Hungary, The attached file contains the recording from it at my QTH. (Székesfehérvár, Hungary)

Tringer László (2023-10-30)

South Korea

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KBS WORLD RADIO B23 effective from 29th Oct 2023 to 31st March, 2024

Lang     Time (UTC) Freq(kHz)
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Europe
Korean 1   1600 1700 7275
Korean 1   1700 1800 9515
Korean 1   0700 0800 9870
Russian    1300 1400 9645
Russian    1800 1900 6040

Russian    1800 1900 WRN
English 2  1500 1700 9515
English 3  2200 2300 11810
English 4  2200 2230 WRN
English 4  1330 1400 WRN
French     2100 2200 3955
German     2000 2100 3955
Spanish    1700 1800 9740

North America
Korean 1   1400 1500 15575
English 3  1300 1400 15575
Spanish    0200 0300 15575

South America
Korean 2   0300 0400 11810
English 3  0200 0300 9580
Spanish    0100 0200 11880
Spanish    1100 1200 11795

Southeast Asia
Korean 1   0800 0900 9570
Korean 1   0900 1000 9570
Chinese    1130 1230 9770
English 1  0800 1030 9770
English 3  1300 1400 9570
English 3  1600 1700 9640
Indonesian 1200 1300 9570
Indonesian 1400 1500 9570
Vietnamese 1030 1100 9770
Vietnamese 1530 1600 9640

Middle East/Africa
Korean 1   1600 1700 9740
Korean 1   0900 1000 15160
Arabic     2000 2100 6090
Arabic     1700 1800 WRN
French     2000 2100 5950(Issoudun)

China
Chinese    1130 1230 6095
Chinese    2300 2400 7215
Chinese    1100 1200 1557 (AM)

India
English 2  1400 1600 9630

Japan
Japanese   0100 0200 9580
Japanese   0200 0300 11810

Jakarta (Indonesia)
Indonesian 1200 1300 102.6 (FM)

Non Direction
Korean 1   0900 1000 7275
Korean 1   1000 1100 1170 (AM)
Korean 1   1100 1200 7275
Japanese   0800 0900 7275
Japanese   0800 0900 6155
Japanese   1100 1200 1170 (AM)
Russian    1200 1300 1170 (AM)
Chinese    1300 1400 1170 (AM)

Submit reception reports at : https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/about_report.htm?lang=e

Alokesh Gupta to WOR iog (2023-10-30)

Italy

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Some more news about MW stations from North Italy, this time with at least one identification…

In the last months tests on 1449 kHz could be heard here at my location north of Milan, close to the swiss border. The station transmitted during daytime italian music, but in some days they sent the interval signal reported here: https://mediumwave.info/2023/10/03/italy-93/ (it is an old RAI interval signal). Direction finding suggested that the station was located close to Biella/Ivrea area. The tests ceased for a while, but today they are back identifying as Radio Briscola. It is a known private station irregularly transmitting from Lenta, near Biella. It can be easily identified thanks to the chime they transmit on the hour/half hour, listen to the enclosed sound file. It was heard also on 1485 and 1602 kHz, some time ago.

Another station was observed testing during september/october on 1602 kHz, again during daylight time. I could get only an azimuth, suggesting that the station is located either towards Como/Varese or Vercelli/Novara. It was neither the transmitter of radio Briscola nor the station of Centrale Milano 1575 kHz, since both were heard at the very same time on their frequencies, and have different azimuths from my location.

1575 kHz Centrale Milano: DF reports show tha the station is located south-west of Milan, as shown in the map.

The mistery station I reported on 1359 kHz in April https://mediumwave.info/2023/04/24/italy-85/ disappeared in the darkness just a few days after my report.

1350 kHz: today, instead of the usual Z100 radio, one could listen to the programs of Gold Radio from London (ex 1548 kHz). An azimuth check confirms that this signal is local to Milano area, definitely not from UK.

Best wishes Vittorio De Tomasi (2023-10-29)

Cyprus

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Re. https://mediumwave.info/2023/10/28/cyprus-14/

639 kHz on Cyprus is already active again since July [https://mediumwave.info/2023/07/06/cyprus-13/]. It carries (unless there has been a so far unnoticed change) between 1900 and 2100 UTC Al Arabiya FM, the new radio channel of the Saudi TV operation in Dubai (supposed to move in to Riyadh, but apparently that did not happen yet).

The enclosed recording from July 6 is the start of transmission. What can first be heard is the loop of “mourning music” (a piece from some crappy royalty-free production music library) that the privatized BBC World Service transmission operations, through all the changes of ownership, put straight up to programme start on audio circuits for transmissions of other customers than the BBC. It means that this 639 kHz transmission comes without any doubt from the BBC facility in Cyprus (there had been some confusing Tweeting when it started).

Al Arabiya uses it, or at least did initially so, for Sudan, as pointed out in the special promo material they broadcast during the first days. The regular service started with the programme feed that is also streamed at https://alarabiya.fm

Now the BBC: Things are muddy here in as far as they started in May new transmissions for Sudan on shortwave, confirmed as being still on air as recently as three days ago. But these slots no longer show up in frequency data for the winter season that starts tomorrow. A swift cancellation of these transmissions at this point, with the situation in Sudan not improving but to the contrary, would be surprising.

So it remains to be seen what the BBC is planning. The choice of frequency is no clue, 639 kHz is meant for North Africa but Gaza is so much south from Cyprus that this beam should cover it better than the
actual Middle East beam on 720 kHz that aims almost straight eastwards.
(See https://maps.app.goo.gl/47o8d9YHY5EVTn428 : 639 kHz antenna south of the building, 720 kHz antenna north of it.)

Kai Ludwig (2023-10-28)