DPRK propaganda station drops AM broadcasts

Echo of Unification (통일의메아리방송), a North Korean radio station that broadcasts propaganda towards South Korea, dropped all mediumwave (AM band) broadcasting on December 21.

The move seemingly confirms the futility of the broadcasts, which consumed large amounts of electricity but were blocked by powerful South Korean government jamming transmitters, but the station isn't giving up. In their place, it has brought on air additional shortwave and FM transmitters.

Echo of Unification launched in December 2012 with three blocks of programming each day: from 7am to 9am; from 1pm to 3pm; and from 9pm to 11pm (Pyongyang time).

The programs were broadcast on shortwave 3,970kHz and 6,250kHz, mediumwave 684kHz and 1,080kHz and FM 97.8MHz.

Source/Full story at :

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2016/12/24/dprk-propaganda-station-drops-broadcasts/

New MW txer commissioned by Radio Nigeria at Enugu Ngwo

According to a report published in allafrica.com a new medium wave transmitter was commissioned by Radio Nigeria in Enugu Ngwo, Enugu State on 6th Sept, 2012.

 

The new Medium Wave transmitter is Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) project executed in collaboration with Japanese Government Agency for International Cooperation (JICA).

 

More at ......

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209090257.html

 

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Vatican Radio's SW & MW transmission hours to be halved

As per a report published in asca.it , Vatican Radio's shortwave & medim wave transmissions from Santa Maria di Galeria will be reduced by half . The director of the Pontifical, p. Federico Lombardi, made the announcement this morning, who explained that the decision lies in a renewed strategy that favors the use of the Web for the dissemination of the contents of Vatican Radio in Europe and North America.

With effect from July 1, 2012 most of the SW & MW broadcasts towards Europe & Americas will be terminated but the services to Africa, Middle East & Asia will continue at present.

Read the translated version of news report here :

http://tinyurl.com/7e2tsuw

Full report on Vatican Radio's website :
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=595927

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Denmark reactives long wave and leaves medium wave

Today the Danish national public service radio station DR has reactived long wave 243 kHz using a brand new Nautel 50 kW sender from the current transmitter site in Kalundborg on the western part of Sealand (Sjælland), Denmark.
Broadcasting on medium wave 1062 kHz (250 kW) will cease on Monday June 27 2011. From today and until Monday the programmes will be simulcast on the two frequencies. Broadcasting hours remain the same. Cf. WRTH or Euro-African MW Guide for details.
The use of 243 kHz with 300 kW was ended in February 2007, but after Turkey left the channel in October 2008, DR is the only radio station on this channel. Thus it is estimated that the coverage will be pretty good on 243 although the power utilized is only 50 kW.

Full story (in Danish) here:
http://www.radionyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=18515

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Stig Hartvig Nielsen

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