1278/1386
Seems, that 1278 kHz is silent since yesterday.

Mauno Ritola to MWlist iog (2023-11-27)

It could be related to snow storms. That region was hit especially hard. 

Alex Miatlikov to MWlist iog (2023-11-27)

DR Kalundborg 243 kHz Information and Program Schedule.
The carrier is switched on some minutes before the start of the interval signal (IS) and stays on for some time after the end of each broadcast.
For a fine reception, you should use the very sensitive Danish SDR (Softwave Defined Radio) located near Skanderborg in Eastern Jutland: www.85.191.35.22:8073
Also, there is generally very good reception using the University Enschede Twente SDR receiver, and north German SDRs.

About the programs:
The interval signal (IS) at the start of the broadcasts is a recording of the mechanically played IS and is an old Danish song, “I dreamt a dream tonight about silk and rich clothes…“. It was used for the first time on August 28, 1931.
The other interval signal heard is composed for the long wave broadcasts.
Weather forecasts: They were broadcast directly from the Danish Meteorological Office. The forecasts terminated at 11.45 CET on november 1st, 2023 and were replaced by a short info program and
interval signal.
The News relays are taken from DR’s P4.
The Church Service is broadcast live from the Cathedral of Copenhagen, but remotely controlled. Also broadcast on DR P2 and DR TV channel 2.
The Excercises, “ Body and Movement“, are a number of old recordings, each lasting 10 minutes.
Marine Intelligence, broadcast from the Defence Operations Center, including gunnery practices at the end. The information is repeated.
The very last broadcast is on December 31, at 17.40-approx. 18.30 CET. Information in Danish about the closure of 243 kHz: www.dr.dk/am (use Google translate).

Erik Køie (2023-11-27)

“Voice of the Great Bay Area” (CNR-7), to Hong Kong/Macau and surrounding areas, is the famous service of China National Radio(CNR). There is another CNR’s service exclusively to Hong Kong – CNR-14 “Voice of Hong Kong”, which is not mentioned in WRTH2023.

Their recent schedule and frequencies； 24H except Monday 1605-2005UT
FM 87.8MHz Mt.Wutong transmitter site, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
AM 675kHz RTHK Peng Chau transmitter site, Peng Chau Island, Hong Kong 10kW

The service was started in 2011, when RTHK(Radio TV Hong Kong) set up digital radio channels. CNR joined  as “CNR-14 Voice of Hong Kong”, and had been broadcast on Channel 32 of RTHK digital radio between 2012-2017. On September 4, 2017, when RTHK terminated the digital radio service, “Voice of Hong Kong” moved to 675kHz (RTHK AM radio channel 6), replacing BBC World Service 24H relay. On November 1, 2017, FM transmission from Shenzhen was added for better coverage. After “Voice of the Great Bay Area” was set up in September 2019, the role of ”Voice of Hong Kong” seemed to be absorbed by this new service. At present there are only 4 own programs, other programs are all from “Voice of the Greater Bay Area” (simultaneous or re-broadcast).

URL  http://rtgb.cnr.cn/  (shared with “Voice of the Greater Bay Area”, but outdated)
Streaming on RTHK site  https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radiocnrhk　
Checking on 675kHz by Kiwi SDR, located at Waterfall Bay in Hong Kong Island, only 10km far from the transmitter in Peng Chau Island, the signal strength was not strong with some noises. The reception was worse than on RTHK 567 and 621kHz from Golden Hill transmitter site. It is said that Peng Chau transmitter site is being rebuilt and is using temporal transmitting antenna at least until the end of 2023.

Takahito Akabayashi to WOR iog

Arabic Service website & on-air observations.

There’s a website dedicated to VIRI/IRIB Arabic Service at https://arabicradio.net (registered in Canada) featuring a SW/MW/FM and satellite frequency schedule which appears to be accurate as far as I can tell, albeit greatly at variance with other published sources. It shows the service on 576 & 1224kHz round the clock and on four SW frequencies in various time blocks in the 0600-1730UT period, usually one tx at a time (just two txs overlapping at 0930-1030UT). All but one of the five SW transmission blocks are aimed at Yemen. My monitoring observations via webSDRs in the Gulf confirm all four SW frequencies are
indeed on air within the time periods stated, though often with extremely low modulation on a strong carrier.

David Kernick, Interval Signals Online to WOR iog (2023-11-25)

In case anyone else wants also to take a look at the frequencies:
https://arabicradio.net/frequencies

576 kHz around the clock would mean that the Mahshahr transmitter now always uses the daytime frequency and has abandoned its former nighttime frequency 1080 kHz. Would be no surprise at all, one of the two mediumwave antenna systems of the station is gone, like the shortwave antennas (with the exception of a single tower). Can’t confirm neither frequency with the TWR Cyprus SDR right now, only 1224 kHz. On 576 kHz nothing else than Bulgaria and on 1080 kHz some other signal as well.

For the shortwave side the question remains if the night / early morning frequencies 7220 and 9725 kHz are not in use. Otherwise this schedule confirms the observations that there is neither a separate Voice of Palestine shortwave transmission nor are the Zahedan transmitters in use anymore.

That very low audio – a couple of years ago the editorial offices complained and some repairs had been made. But those who complained have since been stripped of their shortwave airtime and no one seems to care anymore. I would not be surprised if the remaining three transmitter operation at Sirjan (or perhaps now even further down to two ones? – hard to tell because a number of the HFCC registrations have China co-channel) will cease rather sooner than later.

Kai Ludwig to WOR iog (2023-11-25)

On Christmas Eve morning, Sunday December 24th 2023, SAQ Grimeton is scheduled* to be on the air, to send out the traditional Christmas message to the whole world, using the 200kW Alexanderson alternator from 1924, on 17.2 kHz CW. 
https://alexander.n.se/en/

Program and transmission schedule:
08:00 CET (07:00 UTC): The transmitter hall at World Heritage Grimeton is opened for visitors.

Transmission & YouTube Live stream:
08:25 CET (07:25 UTC): Live stream on YouTube begins.
08:30 CET (07:30 UTC): Startup and tuning of the Alexanderson Alternator SAQ.
09:00 CET (08:00 UTC): Transmission of a message from SAQ.

Test transmissions
We are planning to carry our some test transmissions on Friday, December 22nd, approximately between 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) and 16:00 CET (15:00 UTC). SAQ will be on the air shorter periods of time during this interval, when we will be carrying out some tests and measurements. Your comments are welcome to info@alexander.n.se.

SAQ Grimeton Radio Station (2023-11-24)

Today (november 23 2023) it’s exactly 45 years ago that the Genève Plan was implemented. In this plan the frequencies in the medium wave were again appointed to all countries. The plan is still valid, 45 years later.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Frequency_Plan_of_1975 / Ed]

Piet van der Vooren (2023-11-23)