I received the morse signal on 208.0 CW at 3:45 PM UTC here in South Texas. Using SDRuno and a homemade antenna.

Falko Buchanan, Texas (2025-06-21)

Does anyone have an idea who is operating in Morse code on LW?

Ydun Ritz (2025-06-21)

News on BBC radio 4 LW network starting shutdown. 

Thought this might be of interest.

Longwave radio signal phase-out begins for RTS electricity meters

James Vincent, Wales (2025-06-20)

Egypt’s state broadcaster National Media Authority (NMA) Education Radio was observed signing-on 558kHz at 0600UT, rather than 1000UT as most published sources have it.  The broadcast commenced with their Big Ben-like “Cairo carillon” preceding introductory announcement in Arabic followed by a heavily-abridged version of ‘William Tell Overture’ then Islamic devotions.
Reception was ‘fair’ – undermodulated and somewhat noisy – via the TWR webSDR in Cyprus.

David Kernick, Interval Signals Online to MWlist iog (2025-06-19)

BBC via LTU 1386, replacing RFE-RL 1830-2100.
At 1830 announcing in Russian, that the transmissions will soon be in Russian, but English now for the time being.

Mauno Ritola to MWlist iog (2025-06-18)

Released at 11:00 am on 16 June 2025:

RNZ is retiring its AM transmission mast in Tihiotonga, Rotorua. The mast has reached the end of its service life and overlapping signals from other AM/FM sites will cover most of the transmission region. 
The closure will mean AM listeners in rural Rotorua District who currently listen to RNZ National on 1188 AM will need to retune to either 101.5 FM or 819 AM by 1 July 2025 to avoid any disruption. 

RNZ Chief Technology Officer Mark Bullen said retiring the mast is the right move given the investment required to maintain it. 
“FM performs better than AM, especially in more built-up areas. Maintaining the 60+ year old Tihiotonga mast would require significant investment, and because populations in the impacted area can access RNZ National via FM signal and other overlapping AM frequencies, it makes sense to retire the mast at Tihiotonga.”  
Tihiotonga is the fourth and final AM mast that RNZ will retire around the country in 2025, with masts in Waingawa (Wairarapa), Stoke (Nelson-Tasman) and Kairanga (Manawatū-Whanganui) already retired this year. All of these sites are covered by alternative FM and AM coverage from RNZ’s other transmission locations, and all have reached a point where they can no longer continue to operate without significant investment. 
While use of AM radio has declined since the introduction of FM, it still has an important role to play, achieving further reach and providing wider coverage than FM, this is especially important for those living away from the main city centres or in remote areas of rugged terrain. 
Under RNZ’s AM Management Plan, 15 resilient AM sites will remain operational, providing nationwide coverage to 97%* of New Zealand’s population till at least 2032. Masts which achieve the best population coverage have been prioritised and will be either replaced or repaired. 
The RNZ AM Management Plan also specifically recognises RNZ’s role as a lifeline utility and the need to support New Zealanders during and after significant civil defence events and therefore RNZ is maintaining sites with a smaller population coverage that are unable to receive other ways of accessing RNZ because of their remoteness. 
* Rural Grade AM signal, a minimum field strength of 54 dBuV/m 

Note to editors: More information about the closure can be found at www.rnz.co.nz/Tihiotonga 
https://www.rnz.co.nz/media/259

Hansjörg Biener (2025-06-18)

Decided to check Arctic Radio‘s website to see if any updates.

June 2025
After the long Winter season the attention is once again drawn to antenna building. The antenna was always very difficult on a smaller scale but much discussion and modelling resulted in a few designs that are now workable. A mast is most needed, used masts vary from 30m to 70m varying in cost from 2000e to 4000e so this is achievable on a small project like this. 
We would still really need a higher power transmitter so any leads are very welcome no matter how old the transmitter is. MW, LW or SW! If anyone has equipment that can be donated please get in touch, many thanks to the people who originally donated this has helped buy broadcast equipment, cabling, all sorts of things needed of which will be listed at a later date with thanks to those kind donators. 

There’s now a Laser 558 webpage on there:
Laser558
Arctic 252 has partnered with Laser558 to help in its return to the airwaves. With the success of Laser returning online it was felt that the station needed to be heard once again on AM. We’ve been offered a MW transmitter and we are planning the return to AM radio after many decades.
What is still needed?
We are currently looking for a transmitter site in South West Finland, somewhere to run the transmitter from and put up a mast. Ideally a rural area as close to the coastal area as possible.  Help from an RF engineer with installation and testing. Of course if you would like to donate to this nostalgic project then get in touch! We would very much like to hear from potential advertisers as you could reach Northern Europe and be a part of radio history.
We’ve lost so much in radio over the years so let’s get something back, if you can help the project with any equipment this would be very welcome. 
https://arcticradio.net

Further update on YouTube yesterday:
A new transmitter gifted to the station has arrived. It was formerly used as a non directional beacon. Video of it and commentary on their plans. 2 minutes 03.
“”The first transmitter that will start the station on 252 kHz a Nautel ND2000 500W. The earlier test transmitter broke and was too unreliable so this will become the backup transmitter that will be in use if the main 1kW transmitter fails.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-XQAfrPqY

Mike Barraclough to MWlist iog (2025-06-18)