Month: September 2024

Unid QTH

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Coast FM (1494 kHz).
I stumbled across it in the North East of England this evening (Monday 9th September 2024). And I got a decent on the hour station I.D. for it.
But – does anyone have any contact details (or know where it is actually broadcasting from)?
Thanks

Paul Flanagan to mwcircle iog (2024-09-09)

Grenada / Carriacou

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From Randi Cornelius, director of the Harbour Light of the Windwards:
“We were able to resume broadcasting on FM 92.3 at 8:30PM, Thursday the 25th of July.  The generator had a lot of water in it, but after careful drying/cleaning it fired up and has been running ever since! Pray for it as it runs 24/7 keeping the FM on the air. 
On August 13th, we resumed broadcasting on AM1400 with about 400 watts. It seems to be getting out quite well during the daytime, but at night, there is a lot of static. Pray that God will allow atmospheric conditions to be conducive to radio transmissions and that we will be able to increase power to at least 1000watts.”

Just a brief note to let you know that the Harbour Light is back on the internet.  You have to use the Zeno Player link because Shoutcast is not working.  
Harbour Light of the Windwards

Linus Francis Didier (2024-09-10)

Canada & United States

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Steve Whitt to MWC ircle iog (2024-09-08)

United States

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1260 AM Beverly Hills to Flip to Classic Country Format and Become KKGO-AM

1260 AM Beverly Hills is currently stunting with an all-Taylor Swift format.
On October 1, the station will begin a Classic Country format “playing country hits of the 1980s, ‘90s, and early 2000s,” and the call letters will change from KMZT (K-Mozart) to KKGO (AM).
At that time, Go Country 105 will change calls from KKGO to KKGO-FM. (The AM and FM will have different Country formats.)
The K-Mozart Classical format will continue on KKGO-FM HD2, as well in the San Fernando Valley on low-power translator K252FO 98.3 FM.
HD1 channels are always a simulcast of the analog signal. It’s unclear what format the KKGO-FM HD3 channel will carry, but reportedly it will not be KKGO-AM 1260.
However, the AM 1260 signal will be streamed, and it broadcasts in HD stereo. Saul Levine’s engineers have made 1260 AM sound amazing in HD.
(I once did a blind test with one of my friends and asked him which sounds better — Station A or Station B — and he replied, “Oh, Station A, definitely!” Station AM was 1260 AM in HD and Station B was the simulcast on HD2.)
KKGO-FM HD4 will continue to be K-Surf Oldies.

Thank you to Richard Wagoner’s newspaper column, and to Barrett Media, for this information.

Steve Mittman via Svenn Martinsen in DXing.info FB group (2024-09-08)

Vietnam

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Re Radio the Voice of Vietnam (https://mediumwave.info/2024/08/26/vietnam-9/)

I have been told by a reliable source that the transmitters from Dong Hoi were relocated to the new replacement transmitter site.  They are Harris/GatesAir DX-200s.  One was installed at the time of the original Dong Hoi diplexing, and one later.  That later one replaced the original single frequency Dong Hoi transmitter, which was Chinese made, and we were told had been itself relocated from some underground site after the war.  It was very similar to Russian transmitters of that era, using high level plate modulation and output tubes (valves) which were vapor phase cooled.  The VoV had replaced the original Russian or Chinese output and modulator tubes with American made Eimac ones, purchasing them in Europe when the US government prohibited supply to Vietnam.   That transmitter had originally been used (evidently somewhere in China) with a classic 4 element box side-fire parallelogram array with 2 driven towers and 2 parasitics as could be seen from some of the control system nomenclature. 

Ben Dawson (2024-09-08)