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Canada

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(CRTC) Reduction in night power approved for CJGX 940 Yorkton.
Harvard Media got the go ahead today to decrease the night power at CJGX 940 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan from 10,000 to 690 watts. Day power will remain 50,000 watts. The applicant states that the towers that were being used for nighttime operation had reached their useful lifespan and have been removed due to safety concerns. It is not desirable to rebuild the nighttime towers due to the considerable cost. The daytime tower remains intact and will continue to operate at 50 kW daytime and proposed to operate at 0.69 kW nighttime with a non-directional antenna system.
CRTC DECISION: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2023/2023-209.htm

Canadian Radio News FB group (2023-07-17)

Mongolia

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At 1505 UTC today I observed that the 209 kHz frequency went from a steady carrier to nothing at all. I stand to be corrected on this, but to me it would suggest that only one transmitter on this frequency is currently active, likely Dalanzadgad in the south. Multiple transmitters going off the air at precisely the same moment seems unlikely in my opinion.

The remaining transmitters all appear to have serious technical issues. It would seem to me that any one or more of the following explanations would apply here:

  1. There is a difficulty in obtaining spare parts for the transmitters, most of which are now more than forty years old.
  1. There is a lack of in-house or local expertise available to carry out necessary repair work.
  1. Maintenance of the LW transmitters is not considered a matter of priority.

That’s my two cents on the matter. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who might have additional insight. Any and all attempts to obtain official information from the broadcaster have been unsuccessful so far. Until then, all we can do is speculate and make educated guesses,

Regards, Conor Burns (2023-07-06)

United Kingdom

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Thursday 1st June: 648AM – We’ve been having ongoing problems for a few days with our internet connection on our AM transmitter site causing breaks in our audio.  At times our system will revert to our 4G mobile broadband connection. We have raised the issue with our internet provider who are investigating.

Radio Caroline website (2023-06-01)

Denmark

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World Music Radio.
Power on 927 kHz increased from 150 to 225 Watts today.
5930 is currently 150 Watts, 15700 kHz is 300 Watts (Sa-Su only), and 25800 kHz is 60 Watts.

World Music Radio FB group (2023-05-16)

Canada

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(CRTC) Reduction in night power proposed for CJGX 940 Yorkton.

Harvard Media has applied to decrease the night power at CJGX 940 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan from 10,000 to 690 watts. Day power will remain 50,000 watts. The applicant states that the towers that were being used for nighttime operation had reached their useful lifespan and have been removed due to safety concerns. It is not desirable to rebuild the nighttime towers due to the considerable cost. The daytime tower remains intact and will continue to operate at 50 kW daytime and proposed to operate at 0.69 kW nighttime with a non-directional antenna system.

Canadian Radio News FB group (2023-05-12)

Denmark

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After a couple of weeks with approx. 20 Watt and almost horizontal polarization Radio208 is now with 500 Watt (AM carrier) on 1440 kHz.
Balun didn’t work, but has now been fixed.
Radio208 also on 5970 kHz with 200 Watt.

Best 73s Stig Hartvig Nielsen to nordx iog (2023-05-03)

Japan

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AFN’s talk radio station on Okinawa will be offline until June for tower repairs.

Fans on Okinawa of the American Forces Network will be without AM talk radio for several more weeks as the military broadcaster continues with station repairs.
SURF 648 AM, sister station to AFN’s WAVE 89.1 FM, went off the air March 21 so crews could repair a support wire for the station’s radio tower, AFN spokesman John Clearwater told Stars and Stripes in a recent email.
Maintenance crews are working to repair the wire so programming can resume by June 1.

“The radio tower is having contracted repairs done to fix a broken guy wire,” Clearwater said. “It’s a critical piece of repair, and the reason we had to temporarily shut down transmission.”

The island’s AFN station sits atop a hill in the Plaza Housing area of Camp Foster in Chatan. It began broadcasting to U.S. troops as Far East Network Okinawa on May 17, 1945, Clearwater said.

The AM channel offers an alternative to the music-based WAVE 89.1 FM and features popular programs from U.S. broadcasters like National Public Radio, Sports Overnight America and various political commentators.

Maintenance on the radio tower was first announced in a March 20 post on the AFN Okinawa Facebook page. A guy wire is a tensioned cable that adds stability to a free-standing structure, like a radio tower.

“AFN radio broadcasting on Surf 648 and 89.1 FM serves to entertain and inform audiences with the same top-rated programming available to stateside listeners,” Clearwater said.

The station also provides critical news and information during natural disasters like typhoons.

Talk programming is still accessible through the AFN Go application, available in the Apple App Store and from Google Play, and also from the AFN Okinawa website, Clearwater said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-04-26/afn-talk-radio-station-okinawa-9922328.html?fbclid=IwAR1W_Vajzc2Vh9pV9ou0euxe7buDqDW_SJR_0lVTW78tNDIJS475k_7gT0s

Mike Terry to mwcircle iog (2023-04-26)