Egypt

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The Main program of Egyptian radio on 819 kHz is off air for about a week. Probably it happens for maintenance due to very bad modulation, for a long period of time.

Alexei Lubich ISR (2026-08-02)

United States

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Audacy is combining the programming on its two Conservative Talk stations in Las Vegas as it prepares to shut down 840 KXNT North Las Vegas on Tuesday, September 1.
KXNT’s programing will be combined with sister “101.5 K-Dawn” K268CS Las Vegas/94.1 KMXB-HD3 due to what the station says is “driven strictly by the fact KXNT’s transmitter site is no longer available”. The station will be the third AM shut down by Audacy Las Vegas in recent years. In 2023, Audacy swapped 107.5 KXTE to Beasley Media Group for 720 KDWN and K268CS and then shut down it and co-located 1140 KXST in order to sell the land to a warehouse developer for $40 million.
Upon the consolidation of programming on September 1, KXNT hour long morning show hosted by Alan Stock will move over to KDWN as will the syndicated Erick Erickson Show. “K-Dawn” will continue to carry syndicated shows hosted by Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, and Jimmy Failla.
KXNT rose from a 1.6 to 2.3 share in the June 2026 Nielsen Audio ratings, while KMXB-HD3 dropped from a 1.0 to 0.8 share. Neither station was listed as being included in the group of Audacy News/Talk stations set to be added to SiriusXM’s lineup on September 1.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/368321/audacy-to-consolidate-las-vegas-talkers-shut-down-840-kxnt/

Radio Insight (2026-08-01)

Sweden

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The Swedish Asfalttelegrafen has a new frequency. The signal was first heard in Salzburg after 2230 UTC on 1224 kHz. The frequency is well chosen since the Spanish stations are no longer active there. Before the broadcast begins at 2115 UT, the signal from Guangxi GD Jingli Guangbo in Nanning can be heard on 1224 kHz, but it can be easily filtered out. The signals from Radio Elvira and R 1224 from the Netherlands are correctly visible in the spectrum on their frequencies 1223.992 and 1224.022, respectively, but too weak for audio in the height of summer. Thus, Asfalttelegrafen, with its familiar Waltzing Matilda interval signal, can now finally be heard on a free frequency late in the evening – with a slightly variable start time – which didn’t always work well on the previously allocated frequencies of 1440 and 1494 kHz. (Translated from German)

Christoph Ratzer (2026-07-31)

United Kingdom

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As of 30 July 2026, the Folkestone 693 kHz and Redruth 909 kHz transmitters, previously broadcasting BBC Radio 5 Live, have gone into a retune loop informing listeners on how to retune.

Folkestone retune loop: 

Redruth retune loop (bad reception!): 

All recorded on 30/07/2026. As of 31/07 both Folkestone and Redruth are off the air.

Connor (2026-07-31)

Italy

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On 819 kHz, the audio of Radio Calcio Friuli Venezia Giulia has been replaced by a continuous non-stop music format, with no station identification announcements. According to the operator of the transmitting facility, located in Trieste, the name of the new station using the frequency will be announced in the near future.

Antonello Napolitano, DX-Fanzine to MWlist iog (2026-07-31)

Maldives

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1449 KHz Maldives (25 kW) is 9125 km / 5670 miles bearing 280 degrees from Sydney. Last night around 11:30 pm, distinctive music was heard. This station is a total receiving system sensitivity test for DXers. Apart from Western Australia, where 1449 KHz Racing Radio Mandurah mostly blocks the channel, DXers in all other Australia states should likely hear Maldives, especially now that the formerly interfering NZ station is off air. MW DXing can often be concentrated on one channel for targeting especially distant station(s). Presently, 1449 KHz Maldives is the most distant signal received nightly in Sydney.

Current Maldives sunset local time is 6:21 pm (UTC+5). This corresponds to 11:21 pm (UTC+10) local Sydney time. Monitoring 1449 KHz within plus or minus circa 30 minutes of Maldives local sunset time will enable temporal sunset signal enhancement. This has been demonstrated during multiple late evenings at Sydney. The winter season is another enhancement factor.

We would be interested to hear if any Australia / NZ DXers can currently hear 1449 KHz Maldives.

(Male, Maldives 1449 KHz TX site featuring low angle horizon take-off)

Todd Emslie to ICDX-AM iog (2026-07-31)

Bonaire

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Re.; https://mediumwave.info/2026/07/30/bonaire-4/

Some extra info on the local station on 1530 Bonaire.
Channel 1400 is assigned to the island, but the initiators wanted another frequency that fits into both 10 kHz en 9 kHz roster. 1530 does.
On the island there are cars imported from Europe that have 9 kHz roster on AM, now they also can pick up the station.

Regards, Ruud Poeze (2026-07-30)

Bonaire

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My friend Scott, W4PA, recently moved to Bonaire. He told me that a new low-power AM station on the island just started up as of July 26.
Radio Bonaire transmits 24/7 with 400w on 1530 kHz. Primarily designed as an emergency information station during hurricanes, they also broadcast music. It’s run by a team of volunteers, spearheaded by Paul, PJ4SON.
Antenna:  21m high wire vertical top hat capacity loaded with 4 radials.  Listener reports to info@bonaire1530.nl
More info is at https://bonaire1530.nl/en/ 

Sean Kutzko to WOR iog (2026-07-30)

Space Weather

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The sun has produced a number of minor CMEs this week. Emphasis on minor. Nevertheless, almost all of them have an Earth-directed component. A series of glancing blows on July 31st and Aug. 1st could produce a G1-class geomagnetic storm with high-latitude auroras.
https://spaceweather.

Mike Terry to WOR iog (2026-07-29)