Smooth Radio Wales switchoff today.
It appears that, as planned, Smooth Wales on 1260 kHz from Farndon (the former Marcher Gold / Classic Gold Marcher / Gold North Wales and Cheshire) has closed today as of 13:00 UTC.  I’ve just tried tuning in and there is no signal or anything receivable at all. It worked perfectly well this morning when I used it as my alarm at 09:00.  There may have been the last locally-produced mid-afternoon show between 12:00 and 13:00 and then silence.

Reece Floyd (2025-02-28)

From March 1, 2025 Russia’s broadcasts via Moldova to be cut further
999 kHz Radio Rossii 1000 kW non-dir 19-01 UTC
1413 kHz Vesti FM 500 kW 80 deg 18-07 UTC
Source: Radiorubka https://t.me/s/powerfulradio/269

Alexander Miatlikov to MWlist iog (2025-02-28)

Strong winds felled the mast of Akashvani Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh) on February 21, 2025. This means that the medium wave broadcasts of the 100 kW transmitter on 756 kHz (AM) and 747 kHz (DRM) are cancelled until further notice.
According to press reports, the 168 m mast was 48 years old. This would mean that it was the original mast from which All India Radio Jagdalpur began in 1977. The original 20 kW transmitter (2×10 kW) was replaced in 1997 by an Indian made 100 kW transmitter (BEL HMB-104) and this in 2017 by a DRM-compatible 100 kW transmitter from Nautel (NX100). Currently, there are only FM broadcasts with a very limited range on 100.1 MHz (100 watts).

Jose Jacob, DX-India / Dr Hansjörg Biener (2025-02-27)

Radio Igloo will be on air on Saturday March 1st.
“This coming weekend, February 28-March 3, the West Coast DX-Club in Gothenburg will have a listening weekend in a cabin in the woods 25 km north of Gothenburg.
We usually produce a new Igloo programme every time we have a listening camp, but this time it will be a favourite in rerun.
On Saturday 1st March at 22.0 CET (21.00 UTC) we will broadcast a rerun of the very first Radio Igloo programme, first aired in September 2018.
The programme will be broadcast on 1629 kHz, or on a free frequency nearby.”

Radio Igloo Team via Kari Kallio to nordx iog (2025-02-26)

Watch out for extended schedule (past 2310 IST/1740 UTC) by AIR stations from South India carrying live broadcast/devotional programs songs/drama/talk etc in regional languages on the occasion of religious festival “Shivaratri” on 26th Feb, 2025 (Wednesday).

Andhra Pradesh in Telugu:
837 kHz Vijayawada
900 kHz Kadapah
927 kHz Visahakapatnam

Puducherry in Tamil
1215 kHz Puducherry

Karnataka in Kannada:
612 kHz Bengaluru
675 kHz Bhadrawathi
765 kHz Dharwad
1107 kHz Gulbarga
1089 kHz Udipi

Tamil Nadu State in Tamil:
720 kHz Chennai
936 kHz Tiruchirapalli
999 kHz Coimbatore
1197 kHz Tirunelveli
1269 kHz Madurai

Telangana State in Telugu:
738 kHz Hyderabad

Tamil FM stations from SriLanka also carry live relay of special program for Maha Shivaratri.
Last year AIR stations from Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Puducherry were not heard.

Jose Jacob/Alokesh Gupta to dxindia iog (2025-02-26)

The unforgettable music on 873 is from North Korea (Moranbong Band) cochannel to NHK2, and seemingly near or right on nominal frequency.  No sign of any jamming.  Heard this morning at 14:35 and through past 15:00 UTC.  They went off the air last year on January 12th, 2024 at 12:00 according to a Wikipedia search.  Another great find this morning from Asia!   

Walt Salmaniw to irca iog (2025-02-25)

610 ON St Catharines CKTB Noted off the air on February 18th and not reported back on the air yet. On December 19th, the CRTC approved the sale of CKTB by Bell Media to Golden Horseshoe Broadcasting Limited.

860 BC Prince Rupert CFPR Heard in Fort Smith AR on February 9th at 0224, and reception was verified by the CBC. The station runs single tower, non-directional, with 10 KW day and 2.5 KW night.
(IRCA DX Monitor March 1, published February 24)

CANADIAN RADIO NEWS – Jon Pearkins jon@pearkins.com via WOR iog (2025-02-25)