Month: September 2024

Spain

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Translated from Spanish:
Autumn on Medium Wave.
Medium Wave is starting to open up little by little. Every afternoon is different and some stations appear and others go away. It is precisely when some leave and close the transmitter that others appear, if we are attentive.
Qatar is now doing very well on 675 kHz, with wide and generous identifications. Also Madeira on 1530, and Radio Nacional de Canarias on 720 kHz, fighting tooth and nail with Portugal.
And so on in many frequencies…
Good DX!

Jorge Garzon (EA1FOV EA1036SWL) QTH: IN73xk (Cudón-Cantabria, SPAIN) to iberiaDX iog (2024-09-25)

Iceland

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Autumn bandscan 2024
Good weather tonight. Finally. Went outside ca. 21Z with the Panny tranny.
LW: Allouis (162 kHz), BBC R.4 (198 kHz) and Poland R1 (225 kHz). Gufuskálar (189 kHz) was either still down or inaudible on the Panny.
MW: Close to dead. BBC 5Live (909 kHz) and TalkSport (1053 kHz, 1089 kHz).There was faint auroral glow visible in the sky when I finally looked that high up. So much for hoping there would be more than FM and webwave to listen to. (Note: Webwave is just my term for Internet radio.)

Reynir Heidberg Stefansson (2024-09-25)

North Korea

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Now (1132 UTC) both MW stations from Pyongyang working in DRM mode, plus the transmitter in Hyesan also transmits in DRM mode. Received on a KiwiSDR in Oita, Japan. DRM mode deactivated on the server, I see only the carriers.

Tringer László (2024-09-25)

Denmark

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World Music Radio (WMR) is back on the air on 927 kHz since Friday Sep 20 – broadcasting from Hvidovre, Copenhagen. Power is now 300 Watts (AM carrier). Also // on Shortwave 5930, 15700, and 25800 kHz. All running 24/7.

World Music Radio FB group (2024-09-25)

Russia

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Petropavlovsk-kamtschatkiy Jelizovo
LW antenna now also gone, some SW towers too.
53°11’5.00″N 158°24’2.00″E
53°10’52.86″N 158°24’15.44″E
Some sw antennas were removed in the past, the small mw antenna too.
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Surgut
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/114095079580715291381/photos/@61.3934274,72.8904539,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipNMy3mrxz67y8Ud_PpadRzyKiHQGLS0K50qj7Gy!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNMy3mrxz67y8Ud_PpadRzyKiHQGLS0K50qj7Gy%3Dw365-h791-k-no!7i1844!8i4000!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Zarya was demolished in the past.
ARRT 259m is now gone.
61.39359158174437, 72.87237811914844
APS-124 still exists, looks like cellular or other antennas are attached.
61.38857150233706, 72.8936258675553
Transmitter building is also gone.
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Sytkyvkar
Since 1967, ARRT 257m, SRT-20 60m.
61°49’10″N 50°41’29″E
ARRT antenna is gone too.
It was used on 171 and 549, the 621/1278 came from the smaller antenna that was already demolished.——-
https://vcfm.ru/vc/Cities/magadan.htm
Magadan
АМНП 152 m
SRV20 TX
59°35’03″N 150°48’50″E
MW mast and KW antennas are gone.
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Radushny
ARRT antenna gone
59°42’40″N 150°11’05″E
SW antennas at 59°42’36.20″ 150°10’7.58″E still exist.
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Rasdolnoe
43°32’19″N 131°55’46″E
All antennas except one are gone. 2 small Zarya, one big. one with a ring in the outside (dunno the type)
43.53471498894936, 131.9348722135147
The other one still standing: 43.540563721132095, 131.94202834713084
ARRT still there 43.53992209939099, 131.94851392855477
SW gone: 43.52683152490605, 131.91594654675797

Marco (2024-09-24)

Canada

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Canadian AM stations gone forever.
NRC AM Log Updates
Some Canadian stations still listed in the new Log that are now confirmed as permanently silent
and can be deleted: CBT-540 (NL), CKNB-950 (NB), CBJ-2-1140 (QC), CHNL-1-1400 (BC), and CBMD-
1400 (QC).

NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 23 via WOR iog (2024-09-23)

Japan

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Japan Coast Guard announced the closing of the Vessel Traffic Information broadcasting of all 7 stations in Japan on July 1, 2025. Before the closing some information (4 items out of 8) will not be announced after October 1, 2024. 

Original information (in Japanese) is at
https://www6.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/tokyowan/oshirase/0001_20240918100954222_JA_401_OTH.html
https://www6.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/osakawan/oshirase/0004_20240910131128052_JA_401_OTH.html

All the transmissions are using JRC TWM-5A transmitters, power 10W, type H3E (LSB with full carrier). Transmissions on 1665/1651kHz are in Japanese, on 2019kHz are in English, operating 24H.
MARTIS: Maritime Information Service, HR: Harbour Radar.
 
 Tokyo MARTIS Yokohama *1 1665kHz 00/30min  2019kHz 15/45min
 Nagoya HR Nagoya *2 1665kHz 00/30min  2019kHz 15/45min
 Ise Bay MARTIS Tahara City, Aichi pref. *3 1665kHz 15/45min 2019kHz 00/30min
 Osaka MARTIS Kobe *4  1651kHz 15/45min 2019kHz 00/30min
 Kurushima MARTIS Imabari City, Ehime pref. *5 1651kHz 15/45min 2019kHz 00/30min
 Bisan MARTIS Utatsu Town, Kagawa pref. *6 1651kHz 00/30min　2019kHz 15/45min
 Kanmon MARTIS Kitakyushu *7 1651kHz 00/30min　2019kHz 15/45min

Exact addresses
*1 Kita-Nakadoori 5-57, Yokohama, Kanagawa pref. 231-8818
*2 Kinjo Futou 3-1, Minatoku, Nagoya, Aichi pref. 455-0848
*3 Koyama 2814-38, Irago-cho, Tahara City, Aichi pref. 441-3624
*4 Minatojima-minami-cho 7-2-22, Kobe, Hyogo pref. 650-0047
*5 Minato-cho 2-5-100, Imabari City, Ehime pref. 794-0003
*6 Aonoyama 3810-2, Utatsu Town, Kagawa pref. 769-0200
*7 Matsubara 2-10-11,Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka pref. 800-0064

Takahito Akabayashi Tokyo, Japan to WOR iog (2024-09-21)

Romania

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Antena Satelor has low modulation for months on 153 kHz with a little distortion. And spurs appear from time to time around 207 kHz. Defected transmitter? I hope they will not give up Longwave, and the TX wil fixed soon.

Tringer László (2024-09-22)