Khairpur All Set for Installation of 100-kW Digital Medium Wave Transmitter.
Director General, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Saeed Ahmed Shaikh, visited Khairpur today to inspect the ongoing civil works at the High Power Transmitter (HPT) site and Broadcasting House, where a 100-kilowatt Digital Medium Wave (DRM) transmitter, along with its allied equipment, will be installed within the next two months.

During the visit, the Director General reviewed the progress of the project and expressed satisfaction over the pace of work. He said the transmitter shall soon start its test transmission as the required infrastructure has already been completed. The new digital transmitter is expected to provide radio coverage over a radius of approximately 300 kilometres.

Talking to local journalists, Saeed Ahmed Shaikh said the project marks Radio Pakistan’s entry into the digital broadcasting era. He said the Corporation is gradually replacing its ageing analogue Medium Wave transmitters with modern DRM technology to enhance transmission quality and extend reliable broadcasting services across the country.

He said the 100-kW digital transmitter for Quetta is also under manufacture and is expected to reach Pakistan by the end of the current year. He added that new digital transmitters will subsequently be installed at Khuzdar, Gilgit and Skardu under the next phase of Radio Pakistan’s modernization programme.
More here https://www.radio.gov.pk/08-07-2026/khairpur-all-set-for-installation-of-100-kw-digital-medium-wave-transmitter

Radio Pakistan website (2026-07-08)

Limited Time DX Opportunity: KBOZ-1090 Bozeman MT has long been licensed for 5 kW at night with a slightly misshapen skinny WSW-NE Figure 8 directional pattern that takes five towers to create and sends almost no power in other directions. But they are currently operating 1250 watts non-directional at night and get out quite well. They are almost always there here in Edmonton despite KPTR-1090 Seattle WA pushing the non-directional equivalent of 100 kW in my direction. KBOZ’s STA was just renewed so they will be running 1250 watts for a while longer. Their CP is for only 32 watts non-directional at night, so this 1250 watts STA won’t last forever. KBOZ’s original night pattern had to protect CHEC-1090 Lethbridge AB, which has since changed call letters and moved to FM.

Jon Pearkins jon@pearkins.com, IRCA DX Monitor March 14, published March 9 via WOR iog (2026-03-10)

Radio Caroline
Service Message: Monday 21st July.  Our 648 AM is currently on reduced power on our standby transmitter following thunderstorms and lightning strikes in the Orfordness area on Monday afternoon. Our main transmitter has shutdown with an HV overload and will not restart. We will arrange an engineering team to site shortly.

Freeview: Radio Caroline has ceased broadcasting on Freeview Channel 277.
https://radiocaroline.co.uk/home.html

Mike Terry to MWCircle iog (2025-07-25)

With the installation of this beautiful new 50,000 watt, American made transmitter, combined with an entirely new ground system, 940 KYNO will soon be the most technologically advanced AM radio station in California!

John Ostlund via Timothy Goodrich in The Boss Radio Group FB group (2025-07-25)

Radio 4 Droitwich – technical problems this afternoon.
Yes there is a problem. It is most likely the Droitwich transmitter, sounding distorted and breaking up.
Here it is http://195.171.67.227:8075/?f=198.000amnz8
The Scottish transmitter is sounding OK:
http://195.171.67.227:8073/?f=198.00amwz7

Steve Whitt to MWCircle iog (2025-05-12)

One of the two 350 kW TRAM transmitters, which used to broadcast Europe 1 on longwave from the Saarland in Germany, is back in service. It has been reinstalled at the Noratus station on Lake Sevan in Armenia. The transmitter has been modified by Broadcasting Center Europe to broadcast on medium wave.
This TRAM transmitter offers an efficiency close to 100%. Thanks to the modular system, broadcasting continues even when one or more modules fail: power is only reduced by 1 kW per defective module.
Modules with a power of 1 kW are grouped together in different cabinets per 50 kW. Modules can be replaced on the fly, without shutting down the transmitter.
The transmitter now broadcasts on 1377 kHz and replaces an old Soviet Borey RV 601 radio transmitter.
It is coupled to a KinStar low-profile directional antenna system, built by Kintronic Labs. It allows waves to be sent to azimuths -67, 127 and 247 degrees. (info Andrei Molokov, the page V contact “Радиорубка. Страницы истории Мощного Радио”).
In the evening, the transmitter broadcasts Trans World Radio programs to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
(Translated from French with DeepL.com)

Radio Magazine FB group (2025-01-28)

Radio Seabreeze
I just received the message that due to regular maintenance work the Radio Seabreeze medium wave transmitter in Laren (1098 kHz / 272 meters) will be temporarily out of service tomorrow morning (03.01.2025).
The transmitter in Grou (1395 kHz / 215 meters) is not affected.

Reiner Schneider to A-DX iog (2025-01-02)

Essential engineering affecting Redmoss Transmitter on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE on 693 medium wave from Monday 4th November to Friday 15th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/engineering-works/waw-redmoss
www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.1136168,-2.0956264,19z

Tariq Hanif (2024-11-04)

A word of apology to all Radio North listeners, unfortunately due to technical difficulties we are experiencing reduced power to our signal on 846mw and also problems with our online streaming services.
We are currently trying to have these problems rectified and hope to restore our programming to full power soon.
We thank you all for your patience during these works.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Radio-North/61550758123717

Steve Whitt to mwcircle iog (2024-10-27)

About superlong Zarya MW transmitting antennas, Armenia and Tajikistan.
In our work at both Gavar and Orzu we inquired and the local folks had essentially no technical information on the Zarya antennas.  They were set up and tuned by folks (from Moscow?) for specific frequencies and that’s that.  I can say that from my notes it is clear that retuning them would require moving a lot of shorted transmission line sections used for phase and amplitude control.  And we have notes from a talk given to IBB personnel by a Russian engineer which state that the gain (presumably of the long version) is “40” which (if that is voltage) would be ~32 dB. I also have horizontal and vertical gain patterns for the 8 lambda and 10 lambda versions taken by a colleague from photographing a document he was shown at Orzu, but that is the extent of my actual technical data.  The drawings are so small that measuring them with a polar planimeter to obtain the gain would be subject to ambiguity.

Ben Dawson, OR, Hatfield-Dawson Consulting Engineers to WOR iog (2024-10-10)