LPAM on medium wave.
Russia has just granted a collective radio licence to broadcast on 1485 kHz from the Vologda region, 500km north of Moscow. The radio is to be called ‘радиостанция Зеленый глаз’ (Green Eye Radio Station). The transmitting power is said to be just 100 watts and the omnidirectional antenna is 28 metres high.
A little ‘medium wave liberation’, just like the countries around us. Would we have a worse system in France and Belgium?
This station is unlikely to be received outside Russia, although Dutch stations of the same power have already been received in Russia 3000 km away.
The name Oeil Vert comes from the magic radio tubes that equipped the old receivers as tuning indicators.
Another experiment granted in March this year: the RU3C collective radio station at Moscow’s Technical University of Communications and Informatics, to broadcast on 25 900 KHz with 1 kW.
Since 2014, Russia had deserted medium wave and short wave, there were very few exceptions:
684 kHz: Radio Radonej Orthodox Church in Olgino (St Petersburg) 10 kW
765 kHz: Radio East Russia, a synchronised network on the territory of Khabarov) from 5 to 20 kW
1053 kHz: Radio Maria Catholic Church in Olgino (St Petersburg) (stopped for financial reasons) 10kW
1584 kHz: Radio Vague Pure in Belorechensk (Krasnodar region) which broadcasts with 300 W
In addition, there are the old Voice of Russia transmitters, which the government is bringing back into service and which are currently being tested in Bolshokovo (Kaliningrad) and Krasnodar.
As a reminder, a licence was granted in Moscow in 2009 for a radio station of the same name, but the two initiatives are not linked. The previous Moscow station had obtained licences to broadcast experimental programmes on 1602 kHz, 102.7 MHz and three short-wave frequencies 5955, 5995 and 6135 kHz. This was original because, given the congestion on short-wave frequencies, the radio was obliged to stop broadcasting at the start of each hour for five minutes and switch to ‘reception’ to analyse the interference situation and select the best operating frequency from the three provided.
Michel FREMY Radio Magazine Facebook page (2024-09-09)