Sri Lanka to sell airtime on ex-DW relay station to Encompass Digital Media

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has agreed to sell airtime on a former Deutsche Welle relay station in Trincomallee in the North East of the island to UK based Encompass Digital Media Services, London.

Germany's DW built the relay station in Sri Lanka in 1980 for mainly for international shortwave (HF) broadcasting. It also has a medium wave transmitter for South Asia.

Full story at :

https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-to-sell-airtime-on-ex-dw-relay-station-to-encompass-digital-media-77342/

AIR Medium wave transmissions remain popular despite FM Channels

RnM Team 20 Dec 12 11:32 IST

NEW DELHI: Despite the growing reach and popularity of FM Radio channels, the medium wave band transmissions of All India Radio are being received by 98.41 per cent of the population and 90.63 per cent of the area.

The MW transmissions are being provided through 146 MW transmitters of various capacities, according to AIR sources.

Read the RnM story at : http://tinyurl.com/bs5w7fy

IRRS MW 1368 kHz and 1566 kHz improvements

Hello There from IRRS-Shortwave & Mediumwave in Milano, Italy, Just a short note to inform our European listeners that our technicians just made a couple of improvements to the stations in Padova on 1368 kHz and in Rome on 1566 kHz. Transmitter power in Padova was slightly raised to 10 kW while we wait for the power company to deliver a new electricity line to be able to connect a 50 kW transmitter that is in standby. In Rome, we installed a new antenna and transmitter yesterday that double the signal strength as received into the city area and immediate vicinity. After the new installation, a DX report of our broadcasts on 1566 kHz has been received yesterday from Austria (580+ km or 360+ miles), despite of the low power (1 kW) of this station.

We welcome your reception reports on all of our frequencies. We are on the air daily on 1368 and 1566 kHz from 20:00-20:30 CET in Italian and from 20:30-02:00 CET in English.

I also remind you our high power broadcast daily on 15610 kHz from 13:00-14:00 UTC to Middle East, Asia and Australia and Japan. Daily we are also on the air on 7290 to Europe and Africa from 18:00-20:00 UTC.

Your reception reports and comments on our programming are very much appreciated, and also help us to stay on the air. Please email any correspondence to: reports (at) nexus (dot) org.

Thank you & stay tuned!

73s,

Ron

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4th Mediumwave-Summer-Contest

4th Mediumwave-Summer-Contest

Wellenforum is holding it's 4th Mediumwave-Summer-Contest.

1. Contest Period:

The contest runs from Wednesday, 15.07.2009 (00.00 UTC) to Friday, 31.07.2009 (23.59 UTC).

2. BC Stations

During the contest period participants can score by listening to MW BC stations.Listening time has to be at least 10 minutes for each station.Valid contest frequencies are between 525 kHz and 1700 kHz.Verification should be done by adequate program details like a news headline or a music title.Please do not use phrases like music or news !

3. Conditions of Participation

The contest is open to all DXers, regardless of their membership in any DX club and/or wellenforum.

Logs can be made through the wellenforum-Online-Log facility, which will be available at
www.contest.wellenforum.de in due course.

Please note, that a registration is necessary to be granted access to the wellenforum-Online-Log-facility. You can also send in your logs via eMail to fwi@wellenforum.de.

Please note, that, if you send your logs via email after the contest, the following format should be used: Frequency day time(UTC) ITU station language SIO details

4. Awards

Every participant will receive a participation certificate promptly after the contest has finished.This time we will not evaluate any individual score and ranking.

5. Diploma

On the occasion of the ITALY MEDITERRANEAN GAMES, every registered wellenforum-member has the chance to be awarded with a special Mediterranean Diploma .

To receive this diploma, participants have to log at least one station from every country adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea.

The following countries are participating in the ITALY MEDITERRANEAN GAMES:

Europe:Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Monaco, San Marino*, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Spain, Turkey*no MW BC station.

Afrika:Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia:Lebanon, Syria

In addition, the following islands are also eligible:Mallorca, Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Rhodes

Israel does not participate in the games. Serbia and San Marino do not have a direct access to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Diploma will be given out in three levels.

Bronze - up to 10 countries / islands

Silver - up to 18 countries / islands

Gold - more than 18 countries / islands

We wish you good listening!

73, Friedhelm Wittlieb
Contestmanager

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"Verifications Editor" - Medium Wave News

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