We apologise for the absence of our medium wave transmission on 1467kHz tonight. The engineers were unable to get the transmitter to operate on the UK beamed antenna. Hopefully we’ll be on 1467 next Saturday at 2300GMT!
Radio Six International Facebook group (2026-03-21)
Spring Bandscan
I got outside with the Panny tranny about 23Z. The weather was clear, windy and c-c-c-cold… I barely made it through one pass on the MW band.
The three remaining ‘usual suspects’ were audible on the LW band, as was Algiers. I think the MW band must have dropped in strength in the minute or two it took me to walk down the stairs and out onto the parking lot. Apart from the suddenly-weak Brits, I caught a Spanish station (I can’t remember the frequency) and what was most likely the Moldovan on 1413 kHz.
Reynir Stefansson (2026-03-21)
Re.: https://mediumwave.info/2026/03/20/russia-176/
I know that in the past there were test transmissions on SW from Russia for foreign regions, but IIRC they have been stopped, so no SW from Russia anymore.
As the Khabarowsk SDR is offline, it is not possible to check the MW transmitter there.
Regarding the Komsomolsk on Amur site, the MW/LW antennas seem to be gone, the remaining antennas look like SW, although maybe invisible wire antennas might be used as well. Does anyone know that?
Marco (2026-03-20)
The ID of the station on 585 kHz is “Radio Hamasah” or similar, the content doesn’t match with Radio Farhang’s stream.
Tringer László HNG (2026-03-20)
MW still in service.
The RTRS Far East Regional Centre still operates a network of synchronised transmitters broadcasting on 756 kHz to cover the territories of Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Chukotka with the station Vostok Rossii (Russian Far East).
This synchronised network comprises medium-wave transmitters at Berezovy 5 kW, Bikin 5 kW, Bogorodskoye 5 kW, Chegdomyn 5 kW, De Kastri 5 kW, Khabarovsk 20 kW, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 20 kW, Krasnoye 20 kW, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur 5 kW, Troitskoye 5 kW, Tsimmermanovka 5 kW, Vyazemsky 5 kW.
This is a unique example in Russia, given that all broadcasts in this band have been discontinued for budgetary reasons.
There are several reasons for this exception: the region’s specific characteristics, its greater autonomy from Moscow, and the desire of the Ministry of Information of the Khabarovsk Territory to reduce the influence of foreign radio stations broadcasting in Russian.
A major modernisation programme, planned for nearly ten years, has been delayed. Officials planned to convert the entire medium-wave broadcasting network to digital format. According to them, “this change should increase population coverage by 10 to 15 per cent and significantly improve broadcast quality. They hoped that with ‘digitisation’, the percentage of broadcasting coverage would rise to 98 per cent”.
The regional government wanted to go even further and use shortwave to cover remote areas. The system was to comprise two 50 kW transmitters capable of operating from 4.21 to 10.48 MHz. The horizontally polarised antennas would be directed towards north-eastern Russia, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Strait and the Far North.
In March of this year, the project was revived: specialists from the RTRS Far East Regional Centre launched a major upgrade of the broadcasting network of the Vostok Rossii radio station in Khabarovsk Krai.
The installation of new equipment has begun at broadcasting centres in Bikin, Vyazemskoye, Kotikovo and other towns in the region.
The modernisation of the network is being carried out on the initiative of the Khabarovsk Krai government and the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications.
The details of this modernisation are not known, but according to the authorities, it will significantly expand the station’s coverage area and improve signal quality for residents of the region.
It is planned to commission 55 FM broadcasting stations between November 2026 and December 2027.
Will they finally digitise the medium wave band, keep it as it is, or replace it with FM? What about the shortwave project?
Radio Magazine on Facebook (2026-03-17)
COPE closures.
I cannot receive the retune-infoloops on 1296 / 711 / 1143 from Cadena COPE this evening. They were still there 2 days ago.
I remember I heard the Zaragoza site in the back of Radio Maria Russia when it was signing off at 21 UTC on March 17th.
Seems those spanish tx which carried the “find us on FM and upon the COPE app” nonstop-promo are finally off?!
Regular COPE px is still there on 837/999/1143…
Paradise FM (2026-03-19)
The second evening continuous, I am observing a music station playing non-stop arabic modern style pop on 945 kHz. the signal is not = 1287 but it is coming from the same direction. is the Israel based tx now possiblty airing the arabic network KAN MaKan (“il sawt al Israel”) here ?
This frequency was on air with Galatz until some days ago, and with KAN Kol Israel – Reshet Bet before.
The only arabic station listed is Saudi Arabia with only 5 kW, and this one is much stronger.
No identification heard so far, Kurdistan is in the back. so the signal is really strong.
(See https://mediumwave.info/2026/03/18/palestine/ Voice of Palestine / Ed)
Paradise FM (2026-03-19)
540 Onda Cero Barcelona is off air, and 828 Hit FM Terrassa is back on air after being off air for three days. [translated from Spanish / Ed]
Jordi Brunet to iberiaDX iog (2026-03-19)
After a pause of some three months, Centrale Milano seems to be back on 1575 Khz. Audible in northern Italy daytime, in Europe nighttime.
Jessica Carter-Wilson (2026-03-19)
KNTS-1680 in Seattle has been off the air since mid-February. I have no idea why, and no STA is mentioned in fccdata.org. KGED in Fresno has been dominating here with KNTS off.
Bruce Portzer, Seattle to IRCA iog (2026-03-19)