United Kingdom

SAY 431kHz faulty
This Stornoway beacon is normally  one of the stronger daytime signals audible in North West Scotland but today all that can be heard is a weak continuous carrier with no modulation.
The carrier is unlikely to be anything else than Stornoway so it seems  there is a technical outage.
Just for comparison SAY is usually much stronger than 316 BRR (-76dbm); 401 BBA (-63dBm) and 337 MY (-80dBm) but today its weak carrier is down at ~-92dBm.

Reactivated at 1047utc with a -51dBm signal

Steve Whitt to MWCircle iog (2025-08-31)

Ukraine

Mikolaiv radiocenter.
Pictures from 2024 show that most of the SW antennas are gone. The former 4 mast cage ARRT antenna (one mast collapsed years ago) is also gone.
46°47’23.86″N 32°12’55.95″E
https://vk.com/public158109176?w=wall-158109176_3984

The buildings next to the most SW antennas are also gone (IIRC they included stuff to tune the antenna and motors to move parts of it).

The feeder line to 46°47’58.53″N 32°12’15.99″E (another 4 mast antenna, no cage construction) is partially gone.

The transformer station of this building is gone and the building itself has also serious damage. Dunno if that is caused by war or decay.

46°47’49.00″N 32°13’23.46″E the feeder line to another single mast MW antenna is gone here.

The roofs of the other buildings are also heavily damaged.

46°47’41.43″N 32°13’21.03″E
I do not know if they pulled out some wires or pipes, or if that are trenches.

Marco (2025-08-30)

China

On August 18, 2025, approved by NRTA, “General Radio” (AM 666kHz FM 92.7MHz) of Jinzhou Radio and Television Station (at Jinzhou, Liaoning province) was renamed to “News Radio”. 

It is commendable that the official press release lists MW frequency 666kHz before FM 92.7MHz. Many Chinese stations are now neglecting their MW frequencies, some stations show FM frequency only although they are using MW frequencies in parallel.
Original information is at https://cahcn.github.io/posts/2025-08-21-jinzhou-fm92.7.html
Jinzhou is the coastal prefecture-level city with the area of 10111 square km (compared to Los Angles1302 square km) which is too wide to cover by the single FM frequency. 
MW 666kHz is over #318 transmitter site at Jinzhou with the power of 2kW, scheduled at 2125-1500UT (in “General Radio” era) according to https://www.asiawaves.net.

On September 1, 2025, Qinghai Economic Radio (FM 107.5MHz, AM 1143kHz, both frequencies for the Xining, Qinghai province) and Qinghai Life Radio (FM 90.3MHz) will be merged to new “Qinghai Economic and Life Radio”. The frequencies will be FM 90.3MHz and MW 1143kHz.
Original information is at “Xiaolin Broadcasting Station” site 
https://kbysradio.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/
Xining is the capital city of Qinghai province with the area of 7596 square km which is also too wide to cover by the single FM frequency.
MW 1143kHz is over #560 transmitter site at Xining with the power of 10kW, scheduled at 2255-1600UT (Economic Radio) according to https://www.asiawaves.net.

Takahito Akabayashi Tokyo, Japan to WOR iog (2025-08-27)

Norway / Ireland

On this WebSDR near Bergen http://jobba.asuscomm.com:8073/ you can hear all 3 QRG’s from Erdal: Bergen Kringkaster on 1314 kHz, Northern Star on 1575 kHz and 5895 kHz. The shortwave tx suffers from
very low modulation and 50 Hz hum. 1314 kHz comes with stronger signal than 1575 anfd 5895 kHz.

The 5895 kHz comes stronger on your mentioned WebSDR http://irelandnorthwest.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/ – there you can hear the weak modulation signal. Proably a technical problem?

Nils Düwel (2025-08-25)

Finland

Arctic Radio
Yesterday marked the first broadcast of audio material on 252 kHz LW.

Transmitter is currently running at 600w carrier,  750-800W peak modulation. It will get better over time. Range is only 150km until we get the proper antenna up in September. 

So that’s it, LW is back in Finland after 32 years. Those who said it cannot be done are proven wrong!

Matt (2025-08-25)

Colombia

Radio Cadena Nacional changes
RCN underwent significant restructuring on August 4, driven by the need to overcome historical financial losses of the Ardila Lülle Group. The Basic RCN Radio Network closed, leaving La FM and Alerta Bogotá as the main stations. [Rodrigo Torres Villamil]

“RCN is a large corporation that operates several radio station (program) chains/networks. In the same way that the BBC operates several competing programming chains. The flagship RCN Básica network has been shut down. These are the stations that IDed as RCN + name of city (e.g. RCN Cartagena on 1000 kHz). Those are now relaying programming from the (RCN owned) “La FM” network stations in their particular cities. While the main ID would be “La FM” I would guess that they might also mention RCN sometimes as that is the corporate owner. The primarily sports-oriented Antena Dos network is continuing as is. Its IDs have often mentioned RCN and probably will continue to do so as that is the corporate owner. The other large network operated by the RCN company was La Cariñosa. That has been ended but its frequencies are still on the air under the newly-created “Alerta” network name. My guess is that Alerta stations will sometimes mention RCN in their IDs (as did La Cariñosa stations). The RCN company has a couple more small networks on both MW and FM but those are not likely to be heard in North America.”

[Don Moore, via Mark Connelly, CapeDX] via NRC IDXD into WOR iog (2025-08-24)

Austria

There is a second application for an MW license in Austria with the RTR. The assigned frequency will be 1143 kHz. The station will broadcast from the Upper Austria area. The test broadcast has been approved by the RTR (Austrian licensing authority) and is scheduled for August 27th at midnight to August 29th
at midnight. The operator is expected to be on the frequency from approximately 8 a.m. on August 27th and will be on air until midnight. The exact broadcast time on the following two days has not yet been
determined.
The test will consist of a text loop and an identification signal. At my suggestion, there may also be a special QSL for the test. Since the contact does not want to be made public yet, I am offering to arrange this.
Anyone who listens to the station can send me the report, and I will then reliably forward it.
Harald Süss, Email: h.suess@aon.at
If a license is actually granted, the contact will open and provide his contact information. I was also informed that there will also be special night broadcasts with programming for DXers.
The selected frequency is practically empty except for two Spanish 5kW stations.
If the license application is successful, Austria will then have two licensed MW stations. Museumsradio from Bad Ischl is the allready second one on 1476 kHz.

Harald Süss (2025-08-23)