United States

Starting Sat. July 16th @ 8 p.m. ET WBCB (1490, 107.3) in Levittown, PA will be off the air for power maintenance from 8 p.m. ET overnight for the next few days. Music, likely automanted will continue overnight on their stream. with live over the air programing during the day. They probably chose this time period as they carry the MLB Phillies evenings although not on the stream. After Sunday’s daytime Phil’s game in Miami the team will be off for the All-Star break and back Friday July 22nd. Just giving a heads up in case you want to go DXing in the 1490 graveyard and you’re in Bucks County, PA or Mercer or Burlington County, NJ. Good luck. www.wbcb1490.com

Jim Parisho to I Love AM Radio FB group (2022-07-17)

Ireland

RTE transmitter network provider 2rn say 252 kHz will be off air next Wednesday 0830-1430 UTC:
2rn: – Summerhill, Co. Meath. Complete outage due to essential engineering work on Radio One Long Wave service between 09:30 and 15:30 on Wednesday 13th July 2022.

(2rn on Twitter 10 July)

Alan Pennington, British DX Club via Longwaveradiolistening iog (2022-07-10)

Spain

RNE 1 Spain reduces MW powers from 300 to 75 kW.

Según informa la sección sindical de UGT en RTVE, RNE ha dismunuido la potencia de las siguientes emisoras de Radio Nacional de España-Radio 1:

    585 Madrid (Majadahonda) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    621 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Las Mesas) de 300kW a 75/100kW
    639 A Coruña (Meson do Vento) de 300kW a 75/100kW
    684 Sevilla (Los Palacios) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    738 Barcelona (Palau de Plegamáns) de 300kW a 100/150kW
    855 Murcia (Torre Cotillas) de 300kW a 75/100kW

Las cifras actuales indican la potencia nocturna/diurna del emisor.

Pedro Sedano, EA4-0003, AER El Dial June 16 via Glenn Hauser, WOR iog (2022-06-20)

Kyrgyzstan

I inform you that soon TWR will be installing a new second MW transmitter to update the existing one and thus be able to expand its greater broadcasting capacity and with a strong signal directed to the Persian-speaking region or countries which will include parts of the Middle East. and from Central Asia with a total of six (6) daily broadcasts in Farsi languages and others from the Persian world.
At the moment it is known that said transmitter was donated by someone, but its operating power or frequency has not yet been revealed if it will be 612 Khz or 1467 Khz. You would probably think of 612 Khz (Silk Road) as having only 200 kW.

Ruben Medina (2022-06-06)

United Kingdom

I think Absolute on 1215 AM from Washford is on reduced power  today. It is sounding weaker with lots of mush fading due to co channel interference from Droitwich. Using the directional properties of a portable radio here near Bristol the ground wave signal from Droitwich is actually stronger than that of Washford. The two other  Washford outlets on 882 and 1089 are ok.

Simon Hockenhull to TX-list (2022-05-14)


You are right about periods of reduced power from Washford.
They are carrying out stay replacement and structural repairs to the masts.

Mike to TX-list (2022-05-15)

United States

KBOB 1170 Davenport Iowa.
Temporarily using the night pattern during the day.

Michael Scheel to MWDX – The National Radio Club FB group (2022-05-11)

United Kingdom

Radio Caroline 648 kHz.
“Our 648 AM was restored to full power (4kw) around 11.00 on Friday 1st April. Thank you for all your reports and comments.
For those of a technical nature who have enquired, it was a leaky zener diode forming part of a comparator circuit around the PA module interlocks causing errant PA shutdown/protection conditions. CR23 on the Mod Encoder board to be precise, if you happen to have a diagram of a DX25U to hand.”
https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

Ydun Ritz (2022-04-02)

United Kingdom

Radio Seerah in Leicester on 1575 seems to have technical problems and audio modulation is getting punctuated by random silent gaps up to a couple of seconds long. Sounds almost like an aggressive squelch.

Steve Whitt to Medium Wave Circle FB group (2022-03-27)