Month: August 2025

Hungary?

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I noticed kossuth radio broadcasting on 675 khz on web sdr szekesfehervar. Location of the transmitter and its power if you have any info?
This is short audio clip records radio program on 675 kHz

Sanel Tufekcic (2025-08-18)


Strange.
According to WRTH Kossuth Radio only uses one frequency on mediumwave and that is 540 kHz.
The language spoken in the audio could be Hungarian; however, I am not entirely certain.

Ydun Ritz

Canada

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CKLQ 880 Brandon Manitoba will be closing if it has not already. The current license expires Aug. 31. Pattison media cites high costs to bring the AM site up to current Canadian safety code standards as the
reason. ‘Q Country’ will continue in Brandon on 91.5 FM.

Andy Reid (2025-08-15)

India

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Special  broadcast/programs for India’s 79th Independence Day on 15th Aug, 2025.
India is celebrating its 79th Independence Day on 15th August 2025, details of special programs by Akashvani for the occasion is as follows:

14th August 2025 (Thursday) 1330 UTC (7.00 pm IST) onwards “Address to the Nation” on the eve of Independence Day in Hindi and English by Smt.Draupadi Murmu, Hon’ble President of India.
All stations of Akashvani will relay this on MW, SW & FM.
MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm
FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm
Also on DTH Channels/ airlivenews 24×7

15th August 2025 (Friday) 0130-0240 UTC (0700-0810 hrs IST)
Akashvani will broadcast live broadcast the running commentary in English and Hindi on the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minister’s address to the nation to be held at Red Fort, New Delhi between 0130-0240 UTC (0700-0810 hrs IST) on 15th August, 2025 on the following SW frequencies.
English:
15260 kHz Bengaluru 500 kW
Hindi:
11805 kHz New Delhi 100 kW
15410 kHz Bangalore 500 kW
The External Services on the above frequencies in Indonesian, Nepali, Burmese & Baluchi scheduled  at this same time will be not there on that day.
The Regional SW Station (Leh) will start using their day time frequencies about 1 hour or more earlier than usual on 15th August as follows to relay the commentary. This may provide enhanced reception of stations than on normal days.
4760 kHz  2.5 kW Leh          

All stations of Akashvani (AIR) on MW, FM & ‘Akashvani AIR’ YouTube Channel will relay the running commentary.
MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm
FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm

Live streaming of the above programs is available in:
https://www.youtube.com/@akashvaniair
http://allindiaradio.gov.in/
https://mib.gov.in/media/all-india-radio

Reception Reports to :
Please submit your reception reports on line at: https://prasarbharati.gov.in/reception-report/
or by email to:  spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in
or by postal mail to :
Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy)
Akashvani (All India Radio),
Room No. 204, Akashvani Bhawan,
Parliament Street
New Delhi110001, India

Independence Day events are also available live on Doordarshan TV on all their channels .Try the following links :
https://prasarbharati.gov.in/live-tv/
DD National:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RhpgO2ItQ
DD News: http://webcast.gov.in/

Jose Jacob & Alokesh Gupta to dxindia iog (2025-08-13)

United Kingdom

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198LW Txes Run Down…
Closure date for BBC Radio 4 longwave on 198 kHz will be 26 September 2026 Arqiva staff have been informed. It’s not yet known if the transmitters will remain on air for the Radio Teleswitch Service after
this date, or if that will end at the same time. (re British DX Club “Communication” magazine August).
So in 13 months time. But could stay on air without R4 programming after this (as Allouis 162 kHz has)?

Alan Pennington to tx-list (2025-08-13)

Australia

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ABC Melbourne 621 & 774 scheduled outage.
ABC 774 Planned Outage 14 August 01:06am – 0259am 
ABC 621 Planned Outage 14 August 01:06am -02:59am

Chris Rogers to ICDX-AM iog (2025-08-13)

Argentina

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Translated from Spanish:
A new AM radio station has been reported since Saturday, 9 August, on the 680 KHz frequency, identifying itself as Radio Chaco Argentina ‘La Radio de los Provincianos’ (The Radio of the Provincials). It broadcasts musical programming, currently featuring only chamamé music, typical of that province in the northeast of our country, with several identifications by an announcer such as: ‘The new radio station, Radio Chaco, your radio station.’ It also announces the contact telephone number (11) 4263-2645, which is why it would be broadcasting from the town of Monte Grande, Esteban Echeverría District, Province of Buenos Aires. We will provide more information about this station shortly. We appreciate the collaboration of our friend ‘Gonza’ who told us that he heard this new station for the first time.

Argentina en AM y FM Facebook group (2025-08-09)

Finland

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Arctic Radio – Transmitter test day does it work? 252 kHz LW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMa_tqhIBg
https://arcticradio.net/
https://arcticradio.net/news

“The Nautel ND2000 transmitter is now ready, the correct crystal oscillators have been found and configuration for 252 kHz has been done. Audio bandwidth has been increased. The NX2000TUB antenna tuner will be used with the modified beacon antenna. 
The setting up of the antenna has been delayed but hopefully work will be carried out very soon. 
Lately the amount of emails to the station asking for start dates has been too many to reply to but advance notice will be given for every transmission even testing. 
252 kHz is not ideal given that Algeria is so strong but at present this is all the station has on LW. Permission for another frequency has to be applied for by the radio authority in Finland to the ITU so it’s not a simple process to do this. 
In all work has been slow as there is no help on the ground to do things.” 

Mauno Ritola, MWlist iog (2025-08-10)