--------------------------------- "RUS-DX" # 1009 Broadcasting of Russia, countries of CIS, Ukraine and Baltic countries (ex. USSR) Sunday / 30 December, 2018 --------------------------------- Time : UTC --------------------------------- Editor : Anatoly Klepov --------------------------------- QTH : Moscow, Russia --------------------------------- E-mail : rusdx@yandex.ru Web site : http://rusdx.narod.ru (Russian / English) Mailing List : http://groups.google.com/group/rusdx. QSL, a photo : http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/ --------------------------------------------------------- The first issue was published in January 1991. ------------------------------------------------------------- Broadcasting and radio communication Russia, CIS and Baltic countries (ex. USSR) Worldwide broadcasting in Russian. Editor's desk. Country information. Radio broadcasting in Russian. WEB radio & TV in Russian. QSL world. DX program. Calendar radiodat. Philately. Mass Media. 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RUSSIA ======== FM frequency contest --------------------------- On holding tenders for the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using specific radio frequencies of February 27, 2019 Contest conditions: broadcasting time - "every day, around the clock"; The concept of broadcasting is "free." - Subject of the competition 1: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Chuvash Republic - Chuvashia, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk (95.4 MHz, 0.25 kW, transmitter installation point - Cheboksary); - Subject of the competition 2: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Chuvash Republic - Chuvashia, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk (96.9 MHz, 0.25 kW, transmitter installation point - Cheboksary); - Subject of the competition 3: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Kalugskaya oblast, Kaluga (96.7 MHz, 0.25 kW); - Subject of the competition 4: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Kalugskaya oblast, Kaluga (104.7 MHz, 0.25 kW); - Subject of the competition 5: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial terrestrial analog broadcasting, North Ossetia - Republic of Alania, Vladikavkaz (100.8 MHz, 0.5 kW); (The service area includes the city of Nazran and the city of Magas of the Republic of Ingushetia. The applicant takes into account the need to exclude broadcasting to the territory of the city of Nazran and the city of Magas of the Republic of Ingushetia.) - Subject of the competition 6: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, North Ossetia - the Republic of Alania, Vladikavkaz (107.5 MHz, 0.5 kW); (The service area includes the city of Nazran and the city of Magas of the Republic of Ingushetia. The applicant takes into account the need to exclude broadcasting to the territory of the city of Nazran and the city of Magas of the Republic of Ingushetia.) - Subject of the competition 7: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Altai Krai, Biysk (105.3 MHz, 0.5 kW); - Subject of the competition 8: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Altai Krai, Biysk (105.7 MHz, 0.5 kW); - Subject of the competition 9: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Republic of Kalmykia, Elista (107.1 MHz, 1 kW); - The subject of the competition 10: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Republic of Kalmykia, Elista (107.5 MHz, 1 kW); (https://rkn.gov.ru/docs/Soobshhenie_o_provedenii_02.19.docx) Network radio. Radio Monte Carlo. -------------------------------------------------- Radio "Monte Carlo" from December 24, 2018 began broadcasting in the city of Tver at a frequency of 95.5 MHz! The potential technical coverage of new listeners is more than 500 thousand people. Also scheduled for December is the start of broadcasting in the cities of Vladivostok and Saratov, and in the first months of 2019 in Orel and Samara. Thus, in the first quarter of 2019, the total technical coverage of Radio Monte Carlo will exceed 25 million people! (http://russianmediagroup.ru/live/thenews.asp?id=64158) - The broadcast network of Radio Monte Carlo has been replenished with a new city. On December 25, 2018, the broadcast started in Vladivostok at a frequency of 105.7 MHz. The potential technical coverage of new listeners is more than 950 thousand people. It should be noted that the start of broadcasting in the city of Saratov is scheduled for December 27, 2018, and for the first months of 2019 in Orel and Samara. Thus, in the first quarter of 2019, the total technical coverage of Radio Monte Carlo will exceed 25 million people! (http://russianmediagroup.ru/live/thenews.asp?id=64160) - Today, December 27, starts the broadcasting of Radio Monte-Carlo in Saratov at a frequency of 87.5 MHz! (https://vk.com/wall-128439867_6956) Krasnodarskyi kray. Anapa ------------------------------------ In the city of Anapa, Krasnodar Territory began broadcasting radio "Vostok FM". This is the musical world of Oriental hospitality, where the atmosphere of carefree summer heat reigns all year round and only juicy hits filled with sunny rhythms sound. The frequency of broadcasting is 89.0 FM, the coverage of the population is more than 80 thousand people. Regional partner "Vostok FM" - LLC StroyTransServis, director - Zamkovoj A.V. Vostok FM is one of the radio stations of the Krutoy Media media holding. Broadcasts in nine cities of Russia, including in Moscow at a frequency of 94.0 FM. Weekly, 513 thousand Muscovites are tuned to the Vostok FM frequency in Moscow, daily - 156 thousand people (data from Mediascope, Radio Index - Moscow, September - November 2018). Official site "Vostok FM": vostok.fm. (http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/5862.htm) Republic Dagestan. Derbent. ------------------------------------------ In Derbent of the Republic of Dagestan, the broadcast of the radio "Vostok FM" began. The frequency of broadcasting is 100.9 FM, the coverage of the population is more than 150 thousand people. Regional partner- LLC "Rubas", general director - Galimov B.O. "Vostok FM" is a musical world of oriental hospitality, where the atmosphere of carefree summer warmth reigns all year round and only rich hits filled with sunny rhythms sound. The radio station broadcasts in nine cities of Russia, including in Moscow at a frequency of 94.0 FM. Included in the holding Krutoy Media. Weekly, 513 thousand Muscovites are tuned to the Vostok FM frequency in Moscow, daily - 156 thousand people (data from Mediascope, Radio Index - Moscow, September - November 2018). Official site "Vostok FM": vostok.fm. (http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/5864.htm) Republic Tatarstan. Bugulma ------------------------------------------------- Broadcasting "Radio Dacha" began in the city of Bugulma of the Republic of Tatarstan. Now 24 hours a day, the most favorite songs of the 80s and 90s and the most successful hits of our days performed by popular local artists are available to the residents of the city. The broadcasting frequency of Radio Dacha in Bugulma is 94.8 FM, the population coverage is 94.2 thousand people. The regional partner of Radio Dacha is MEDIA-SERVICE LLC, the director is Zaripov R.R. Radio Dacha is one of the radio stations of the Krutoy Media holding. Radio Dacha is the leader in terms of listening duration among competitors, ranks second in terms of share and is in the TOP-10 of the country's top-rated music radio stations. According to Mediascope (Radio Index - Russia, April - September 2018), 7.8 million people listen to Radio Dacha daily, 18.7 million people listen weekly. Today, Radio Dacha has a regional broadcasting network of 256 transmitters located in cities of Russia and neighboring countries. The official site of "Radio Dacha": radiodacha.ru. (http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/5858.html) Rostovskaya oblast. Taganrog. -------------------------------------------- The TV and radio company Don-TR continues to expand the FM broadcasting zone. Radio Russia is now available in Taganrog at 104, 8 FM. The signal will also partially cover the Neklinovsky district and cover an area with a population of more than 300 hundred thousand people. The transmitter starts working in the coastal city from December 27th. (https://vk.com/vcfm2014) Sverdlovskaya oblast. Yekaterinburg. --------------------------------------------- On the eve of the new year, the Ekaterinburg branch of Select Radio LLC was replenished with one more, the ninth in a row, radio station - Radio Record. Broadcasting First Dance began on December 21 at 21:00. Esters in the Ural capital are broadcast on a frequency of 91.9 FM. The basis of the "Radio Record" music format is Western dance hits, remixes and remakes, as well as the most worthy works of Russian musicians. In addition to direct broadcasting, the radio station organizes more than 100 major music festivals a year in various regions of the country: "Superdiskotek 90s", "Pirate Station", "Transmission", etc. "The appearance of Radio Record is an event for Ekaterinburg, first of all for listeners who love and appreciate high-quality dance music! The format is unique in its own way and is the main dance radio * in Russia. The radio station is focused on a young and successful audience, active consumers of goods and services. Therefore, we hope that it will take a decent position in the ratings and will be of interest to advertisers in our city! "Says Nadezhda Maksimova, director of the branch of the Select Radio Group of Companies in Yekaterinburg. * Dance radio ** Branch "Choose Radio" in Yekaterinburg. Radio stations of the branch: "Europe Plus", "Retro FM", "Radio Dacha", "Business FM", "Russian Radio", "HIT FM", "Radio Chanson", "Radio Record", "Radiola 106.2 FM". (https://www.gkvr.ru/news/in_yekaterinburg_began_broadcasting_radio_record/) Tambovskaya oblast. ----------------------------- In the Tambov ORTPT, they talked about increasing the transmitter power for broadcasting Radio Russii and Mayak. And the increase is palpable - twice, from one kilowatt to two. It took almost a year to do this, but the efforts spent, according to ORTPT management, are definitely worth it. Increasing the power will increase the radius of the radio stations. In addition, the suspension height of the device has changed, which will also have a positive effect on the transmission distance. (https://vk.com/vcfm2014) Yaroslavskaya oblast. Yaroslavl. Rybinsk. -------------------------------------------------------- Broadcasting geography Radio ISKATEL has replenished with another city on the Volga. Now Radio ISKATEL can be heard in Yaroslavl on the 95.8 FM wave and Rybinsk on the 87.8 FM wave. Yaroslavl is one of the oldest cities in Russia. He is mentioned in the "Tale of Bygone Years" under the year 1071. Today, thousands of tourists come here to see the unique architecture and feel the spirit of the city. Industrial development has little affected the historical part of the city, so there is a unique flavor here. Rybinsk is the birthplace of the legendary Rybinsk reservoir. In colloquial speech, it is called the Rybinsk Sea. About 17,000 years ago there was a glacial lake on the site of the reservoir. Today it is an artificially created array of water. It was built in the 30-40s and conceived as the largest artificial lake in the world. As a result, the total area of the Rybinsk reservoir is 4580 km². Details on the website: www.radioiskatel.ru (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__71848/) News kaleidoscope -------------------------------- The program "Radiopanorama" ------------- Russia. Moscow. World Radio Network. The program "Radio Panorama" for lovers of long-range radio reception. The author and presenter - Vadim Alekseev. 12/29/2018 - Selected fragments of live recordings of the year (https://vk.com/dxing) Publication - publication of program details and sound file at https://vk.com/dxing - Publication and preparation of the sound file - Vladimir Emelyanov, Samara, Russia. BELARUS ========= The city of Slonim (Republic of Belarus) joined the regional network "Humor FM". Broadcasting is carried out on the FM frequency of 91.2 MHz. Earlier, the Humor FM network covered ten cities of the Republic of Belarus, now one more has been added to it. From now on, the radio station can be heard in Minsk, Brest, Grodno, Gomel, Vitebsk, Bobruisk, Baranovichi, Mogilev, Orsha, Soligorsk and Slonim. Audience "Humor FM" in Belarus is about 5 million people. "Humor FM" is a radio station that daily raises the spirits of millions of Russians. Here is a high-quality selection of popular music, there are almost all comedy genres. Only on "Humor FM" you can hear the killer aphorisms performed by the famous artist and showman Nikolai Fomenko, original special projects with his participation are being broadcast. "Humor FM" is listened to by married couples, and influential businessmen, and the generation of millennials. It is for generation Y that Humor FM develops unique content, runs bold, dynamic shows and special projects, bright hits of the decade and only tempo songs are played. More information about the radio station can be found on the official Humor FM website - www.veseloeradio.ru. (http://www.gpmradio.ru/news-page/uid/14911) MOLDOVA ========= "... Recently I had a chance to visit the Chisinau radio center. The once guarded territory is now unattended. The gate to the antennas (sprengeli), by means of which the tesla had previously broadcast (now conserved, according to mastheads) on 1449 and 1593, is open. Mast grades - here they are, do what you want with them. Nobody cares. At 873, the broadcast is on its way. Although the antenna was surrounded on all sides by residential buildings. By the way, the 150-meter antenna at 873 was previously used for broadcasting at 998 kHz (prior to the commissioning of the Grigoriopol radio center Mayak), the same one that was erected in the late 40s of the last century. And a trophy transmitter worked on this antenna, received by indemnity from under ... Berlin itself! In the 90s, it was rebuilt again to 999, in order to jam Transnistrian radio, but that's another story .... " (Leo Barmaleo, Moldova / "open_dx") "RUS-DX PLUS" PARTNER CHANNELS AND INTERNET ============== Hard-Core-DX Digest ----------------------------- * Vol 192, Issue 23 Message: 5 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 From: Jorge Freitas Subject: [HCDX] Log Videos can be viewed on the blog https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ 7495 22Dec 2054 UZBEKISTAN (Relay) North Korea Reform Radio in Korean. A cheerful program with laughters of OM and YL. 45433 (Jorge Freitas-B) Tecsun PL-310ET Antena Delta Loop Feira de Santana, BA Brasil * Vol 192, Issue 27 Message: 7 Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 From: Manuel Mendez Subject: [HCDX] Stations heard in Friol Manuel Mendez Lugo, Spain Log in Friol and Lugo Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters ARMENIA, 6030, NDR Gru? an Bord via Gavar/Yerevan, *1900-1920, 24-12, German, female, male, comments, songs in German. 34433. // 6080, 9740, 0570, 9800, 11650. (Mendez) TAJIKISTAN, 4765, Tajik Radio, Dushanbe, 1550-1610, 24-12, Tajik songs. 25322. (Mende) * Vol 192, Issue 30 Message: 4 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:36:15 +0000 From: Rudolf Grimm Subject: [HCDX] Reception in S?o Bernardo SP - BRAZIL / December 27, 2018 RECEPTION IN S?O BERNARDO SP, BRAZIL ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ December 27, 2018 (Time in UTC) Rx: KiwiSDR (S?o Bernardo) + Mini Whip Antenna (PA0RDT Standard) 4765 kHz TAJIKISTAN: Tajik Radio, Dushanbe, Tajik, 27/12 0355. OM/YL: talk, OM: song. 25542 (RG). Regional tx. * Vol 192, Issue 31 ------------------------- Message: 8 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dx_india] AIR Mumbai noted today on 6949.50 etc. ... 7485even MDA Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac, very early on air around 03.17 UT, to warm-up their bcast center and staff during wintertime, hi. Scheduled from 03.30-04.30 UT, BBC Persian, instead heard an 1025 Hertz tone in 03.19-03.29 UT slot, then BBC Persian started ... [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 29) SWLDXBulgaria News, Editor: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria --------------------------- * SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.22-23 ARMENIA(non) Reception of Trans World Radio India via CJSC Yerevan, Dec.22 1530-1600 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Sat/Sun, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_32.html MOLDOVA(non) Trans World Radio India via Grigoriopol on Dec.22: 1600-1630 on 7535 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to SoAs Urdu, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_8.html UZBEKISTAN(non) Trans World Radio India via Tashkent, Dec.22 1545-1600 on 6240 TAC 100 kW / 066 deg to CeAs Kazakh, good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_23.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.23 UZBEKISTAN(non) Radio Free North Korea via Tashkent, Dec.23 1200-1300 on 7610 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-radio-free-north-korea-via.html UZBEKISTAN(non) Voice of Wilderness via Tashkent on Dec.23 1330-1530 on 7625 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-voice-of-wilderness-via.html UZBEKISTAN(non) North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent, Dec.23 1430-1530 on 7580 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-north-korea-reform-radio_23.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.24 GERMANY(non) Reception of NDR Christmas Gruss an Bord via MBR, Dec.24 1900-2100 on 6030 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to We/Central Europe, weak/fair 1900-2100 on 6080 NAU 125 kW / 250 deg to Northern Atlantic, fair/good 1900-2100 on 9570 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg to Indian Ocean East, very good 1900-2100 on 9740 NAU 125 kW / 130 deg to Indian Ocean West, very good 1900-2100 on 9800*ISS 250 kW / 148 deg to Indian Ocean/SoAf, fair/good 1900-2100 on 11650 ISS 250 kW / 195 deg to Southern Atlantic, weak/fair * co-ch same 9800 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean Voice of America 2100-2300 on 6145 NAU 125 kW / 250 deg to Northern Atlantic, weak/fair 2100-2300 on 6155#ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to We/Central Europe, fair/good 2100-2300 on 9590 ISS 250 kW / 148 deg to Indian Ocean/SoAf, very good 2100-2300 on 9650*MOS 100 kW / 115 deg to Indian Ocean East, very good 2100-2300 on 9720!NAU 125 kW / 130 deg to Indian Ocean West, very good 2100-2300 on 9830^ISS 250 kW / 195 deg to Southern Atlantic, fair/good # co-ch same 6155 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese China Nat.Rad.2 * co-ch same 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir to WeAf French R.Guinée Conakry ! co-ch same 9720 BAU 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf English R.Habana Cuba ^ co-ch same 9830 BEI 100 kW / 175 deg to EaAs Chinese China Nat.Rad.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7NYOa3xMy0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ChZNvYAb4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7v9IZ9S_Nw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRqjGT_BvUA&feature=youtu.be https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-ndr-christmas-gruss-bord.html U.K.(non) Good signal of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk via Yerevan, Dec.24 1600-1630 on 9540 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Guragena Mon-Wed 1630-1700 on 9540 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Amharic Daily https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/good-signal-of-feba-radio-via-babcock.html UZBEKISTAN(non) North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent on Dec.24 2030-2130 on 7495 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-north-korea-reform-radio_25.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.28 NUMBERS STATION Good signal of S06s Russian Lady in 49mb on Dec.28 0900-0906 on 5765 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB/AM mode: 0910-0916 on 6315 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB/AM mode: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/good-signal-of-s06s-russian-lady-in_28.html NUMBERS STATION Good signal of S06s Russian Lady in 25mb, Dec.28 0930-0936 on 11780 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian AM mode: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/good-signal-of-s06s-russian-lady-in_22.html DX LISTENING DIGEST 18-51, December 17, 2018 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA ---------------------------------------- TAJIKISTAN, Winter B-18 schedule of National Unity Radio via Dushanbe: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/winter-b-18-schedule-of-national-unity.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1100-1300 on 6045*DB 100 kW / 071 deg Korean, ex 1200-1400 on 9885 1800-1900 on 6045*DB 100 kW / 071 deg Korean, ex 1400-1500 on 9885 * co-ch same 6045 HWA 010 kW / 010 deg Korean Voice of Freedom ??????????? ?? Observer ? 9:55 AM (via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. In the Arctic, plan to open a new radio station. The presentation of the new Arctic radio station, which will be broadcast on long and short waves, was held in the framework of the international circumpolar media congress "Arctic Media World". The project aims to revive Russian widescreen broadcasting for residents and workers of the Far North. Ol`ga Stefanova, director of the radio station "Russian Arctic", noted that there are several northern radio stations in Russia today, but they all work in the FM band, which means it's impossible to catch these waves 40-50 km from the broadcasting point. She also noted that today in the Arctic, one can catch signals from Germany, Japan, the Vatican, the USA, Turkey, Italy, the Philippines, India and even from Madagascar, but not from Russia. Speaking about the importance of the project, Stefanova noted that radio can become not only an important source of information for employees of polar stations, military bases and the entire Northern Sea Route, but also a warning system in case of accidents, emergencies and war. She also mentioned that the creation of such a project can solve the task set by the state to establish a strategic emergency channel with the population, eliminate information inequality and provide the population with high-quality cultural and social content. According to Stefanova, it is planned to create seven reference areas of broadcasting on long and short DRM (digital broadcasting) waves, so that, for example, it will be possible to broadcast from Novosibirsk to Yamal and Taimyr. The content of the radio station by 40% will consist of conversational programs and by 60% - from musical compositions. The themes include stories about exploration and combat operations in the Arctic, ecology, culinary traditions of the North, news from the Great Earth and much more. The main goal is to revive the prestige of life and work in the Arctic among the population and create a sense of participation in the life of the country of residents of the most remote corners of Russia. http://radioarctica.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/RadioRusskaya-Arktika.pdf https://vk.com/vcfm2014 (via Rus-DX 16 Dec via WORLD OF RADIO 1961, DXLD) In the Arctic zone of Russia may appear its own radio station. The target audience of the new media is residents of the Arctic regions, polar explorers, oil workers and sailors. This became known at the circumpolar media congress "Arctic media world", which takes place on Monday in Salekhard. "The idea of ??creating such a radio came a long time ago," said Ol`ga Stefanova, director of the autonomous non-profit organization Radio Russian Arctic, Russia. - I participated in a number of expeditions, and during the wintering at the polar station, we had only the First Channel from all the media, where there were many specific entertainment programs. Because of this, the sensation of information hunger was created. Thus, the idea of ??creating a radio, which would broadcast throughout the Russian Arctic and create a single information and cultural space, appeared, said Olga Stefanova. - Such a radio could listen to polar explorers, meteorologists, sailors, oil workers and residents of the Arctic. In general, those people who, by virtue of their activities, are deprived of access to the media, said Olga Stefanova. She also reported that the radio station is now engaged in a zero production cycle, preparing various programs, some of which are already on the Internet. This will continue until the appearance of the first transmitter, which will broadcast in the Arctic zone. The project has already received a Presidential grant and was supported by the Association of polar explorers. "We hope that in the near future we will be able to make a report at the scientific expert council of the State Commission for the Development of the Arctic and attract the state to create this media, because without its support the development of such a large-scale project is not possible," concluded Olga Stefanova. Andrey Toropov, nao24.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__71621/ (via Rus-DX 16 Dec via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Monument to the inventor of radio -------------------------------------- Far Eastern Radio Center N ° 5 them. A. S. Popova. (Ruslan Slavutsky, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia) You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/n5.html (via Rus=DX 16 Dec via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Interference in the air --------- Information from the mailing group "deneb-radio-dx" Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia reports: 20 / November --- The second week I observe just such rubbish on the 49 meter range. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnKPxAJcRn8 Solid interference from 5800 to 6400 kHz. Radar or something local? Not like impulse noise. Help understand what it is, who is watching something like that? (via Rus-DX 16 Dec via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 11 / Dec - En Frecuencia Al Día, tributo de recordación a: Pancho Rodríguez de La Voz de Rusia: Se cumplen hoy 10 años de la desaparición física de ese gran locutor y buen amigo. Nació en Chile. Falleció un 11 de diciembre de 2008 en Moscú. Al momento de su muerte, Pancho realizaba varios espacios radiales y noticiosos. Muchos recuerdan su famoso "Frecuencia RM" de La Voz de Rusia. Descansa en paz amigo! (Dino Bloise ? Arnaldo Slaen ? Luis Valderas / https://www.facebook.com/groups/140003342701545/ via Rus-DX 16 Dec via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Agents of doubt: How a powerful Russian propaganda machine chips away at Western notions of truth By Joby Warrick and Anton Troianovski, [This story has been optimized for offline reading on our apps. For a richer experience, you can find the full version of this story here. An Internet connection is required.] https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/agents-of-doubt-how-a-powerful-russian-propaganda-machine-chips- away-at-western- notions-of-truth/2018/12/10/b9193942-e2cb-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_print.html?noredirect=on Chris J Ratcliffe AFP/Getty Images CAPTION: Police community support officers outside the Salisbury, England, residence of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, two days after he and his daughter fell ill from the effects of a nerve agent in March. SALISBURY, England -- The initial plan was a Cold War classic -- brutal yet simple. Two Russian agents would slip onto the property of a turncoat spy in Britain and daub his front door with a rare military-grade poison designed to produce an agonizing and untraceable death. But when the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal was botched, the mission quickly shifted. Within hours, according to British and U.S. officials who closely followed the events, a very different kind of intelligence operation was underway, this one involving scores of operatives and accomplices and a scheme straight out of the Kremlin's 21st-century communications playbook -- the construction of an elaborate fog machine to make the initial crime disappear. Dozens of false narratives and conspiracy theories began popping up almost immediately, the first of 46 bogus story lines put out by Russian-controlled media and Twitter accounts and even by senior Russian officials, according to a tabulation by The Washington Post -- all of them sowing doubt about Russia's involvement in the March 4 assassination attempt. Ranging from the plausible to the fantastical, the stories blamed a toxic spill, Ukrainian activists, the CIA, British Prime Minister Theresa May and even Skripal himself. The brazenness of the attempt to kill a Russian defector turned British citizen at his home in southwest England outraged Western governments and led to the expulsion of some 150 Russian diplomats by more than two dozen countries, including the United States. Yet, more than eight months later, analysts see a potential for greater harm in the kind of heavily coordinated propaganda barrage Russia launched after the assassination attempt failed. CAPTION: A Washington Post video. Intelligence agencies have tracked at least a half-dozen such distortion campaigns since 2014, each aimed, officials say, at undermining Western and international investigative bodies and making it harder for ordinary citizens to separate fact from falsehood. They say such disinformation operations are now an integral part of Russia's arsenal -- both foreign policy tool and asymmetrical weapon, one that Western institutions and technology companies are struggling to counter. "Dismissing it as fake news misses the point," said a Western security official who requested anonymity in discussing ongoing investigations into the Russian campaign. "It's about undermining key pillars of democracy and the rule of law." Variations on the technique existed during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union used propaganda to create alternative realities. In the early years of President Vladimir Putin's rule, Russian officials and state-owned broadcasters promoted false narratives to explain the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian security official who died in 2006 after being exposed to a radioactive toxin in London. But the disinformation campaigns now emanating from Russia are of a different breed, said intelligence officials and analysts. Engineered for the social media age, they fling up swarms of falsehoods, concocted theories and red herrings, intended not so much to persuade people but to bewilder them. "The mission seems to be to confuse, to muddy the waters," said Peter Pomerantsev, a former Russian-television producer and author of "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible," a memoir that describes the Kremlin's efforts to manipulate the news. The ultimate aim, he said, is to foster an environment in which "people begin giving up on the facts." Moscow has repeatedly rejected such accusations, while suggesting that Britain is responsible for any confusion over what happened in the Skripal case. "Nine months has passed and so far we have not been presented with any official results of the investigation," Russia's London Embassy said in a statement to The Post. "The Embassy still has no access to our Russian citizens," a reference to Skripal and his Russian daughter, Yulia Skripal, who was also sickened in the attack. Yet the same tactics that were observed in the wake of the Skripal poisoning have been employed multiple times since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, in each case following roughly the same script. When pro-Russian separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew members, Russian officials and media outlets sought to pin the blame on the Ukrainian government, suggesting at one point that corpses had been trucked to the crash site to make the death toll appear higher. State-controlled Russian media unleashed a fusillade of falsehoods after the assassination of reformist politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow in 2015 and after at least three deadly chemical weapons attacks against civilians by Syria's pro-Russian government. And apart from these concerted campaigns, there is a daily churn of false or distorted reports that seem designed to exploit the divisions in Western society and politics, especially on issues such as race, violence and sexual rights, and that are pushed by droves of operatives posing as ordinary citizens on social media accounts. While many of the individual stories are easily debunked, the campaigns have had a discernible impact, as measured by opinion polls and, occasionally, public statements by Western politicians casting doubt on the findings of the intelligence agencies of their own governments. In October 2015, months after U.S. and European investigators concluded that Flight 17 had been brought down by a Russian missile fired by separatists, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN that the culprit was "probably Russia" but suggested that the truth was unknowable. "To be honest with you, you'll probably never know for sure," he said. Results such as these have encouraged what private groups say is a massive and ever-increasing investment by Moscow, which has placed numerous news outlets fully or partly on its payroll and operates at least one troll factory in which scores of employees disseminate pro-Kremlin messages using thousands of fake social media accounts. The cost of this matrix is about $1.3 billion a year, according to Russian budget documents -- a modest sum, considering the benefits, said Jakub Kalensky, until recently an official with the East StratCom Task Force, a rapid-response team created by the European Union to counter Russian disinformation. Unlike the covert operations used by Russia to influence foreign elections, Russia's distortion campaigns rarely invite retaliation, he said. "For Russia, they are a cost-effective method for disrupting and undermining us," Kalensky said. "You can have quite a good result for the money spent." Matt Cardy Getty Images CAPTION: A Salisbury housing complex is cordoned off after the death of 44-year-old woman who was exposed to Novichok, the nerve agent that sickened Sergei Skripal and his daughter. A botched `hit' By any objective measure, the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal was an unalloyed disaster, the kind of intelligence-agency face plant that might have toppled a government if the operation had been carried out by a Western democracy. For the Kremlin, however, the bungled killing was quickly seized on as a public-relations opportunity. A Russian military intelligence officer who was released to Britain as part of a spy swap in 2010, Skripal was the object of special scorn for Putin, who would publicly deride him as a traitor and a "scumbag." Skripal had been convicted in Russia in 2006 of treason for spying for Britain and was serving a 13-year sentence at the time of the swap. British investigators say two operatives from the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, were dispatched to Skripal's adopted hometown with a perfume bottle filled with Novichok -- a deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists in the 1980s -- with the aim of quietly poisoning the 67-year-old pensioner. Almost nothing went according to plan. The operatives came up short in their quest to kill Skripal. He fell gravely ill along with his daughter, but both recovered after being aggressively treated by doctors for exposure to a suspected nerve agent. Moreover, investigators say, the Russian agents compounded their failure with the inadvertent death of a British woman who became ill after her boyfriend stumbled upon a discarded vial of Novichok and gave it to her, thinking it was perfume. Metropolitan Police AP CAPTION: A security-camera image shows the suspect named as Alexander Petrov at London's Gatwick Airport on March 2. Metropolitan Police AP CAPTION: The suspect named as Ruslan Boshirov, at Gatwick on March 2. British investigators quickly identified the toxin as a Russian nerve agent and then publicly identified the suspected hit men, who were repeatedly caught on camera as they wandered around in Salisbury on March 4. Their cover story -- the two claimed to be tourists visiting the city's 13th-century cathedral -- was riddled with holes. Surveillance camera footage showed the men walking not toward the cathedral but in the opposite direction, toward the residential neighborhood where Skripal lived. The exiled Russian was poisoned the same day. "They failed to kill their target, and they failed to be covert," said retired Rear Adm. John Gower, who oversaw nuclear, chemical and biological defense policy for Britain's Defense Ministry. "Because of those failures, Russia had to pivot really quickly." And so, when the real facts became problematic, Gower said, Russia quickly manufactured new ones. Dozens of them. A parade of false stories The Kremlin's propaganda machine swung into action in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt. Following a playbook already honed in response to events in Syria and Ukraine, Kremlin-controlled outlets produced a plethora of possible explanations. On March 6, two days after the poisoning, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti was already quoting an anesthesiologist saying that the manner of Skripal's poisoning suggested he was a drug addict and had overdosed. On March 8 alone, pro-Kremlin news outlets published five phony narratives about the events in Salisbury, offering explanations for Skripal's illness that included an attempted suicide by Skripal and his daughter and a chemical-weapons leak at the nearby military laboratory at Porton Down. Dmitry Kiselyov -- the host of the program "Vesti Nedeli" ("News of the Week") on the Rossiya network and a leading figure in the country's propaganda hierarchy -- picked up the baton on March 11. He said that because Skripal was already "completely wrung out and of little interest" as a source, his poisoning was only advantageous to the British to "nourish their Russophobia" and organize a boycott of the summer's World Cup soccer tournament in Russia. Then it was the Skripals' pets turn in the spotlight -- two guinea pigs and a fluffy Persian cat named Nesh Van Drake. The lack of information about their condition, Russian officials said in remarks that were broadcast on state TV, showed the British were surely covering something up. "Where are these pets now?" Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, asked at a Security Council meeting on April 5. "What has happened to them? Why has nobody said anything about them? Their condition is very important evidence." The theories kept coming: Was it someone from the Baltics? Was Skripal poisoned on MI5-sponsored trips to chemical labs in the Czech Republic and Spain? Could it be a British government plot to distract attention from Brexit -- or even from a pedophilia scandal in the western English town of Telford? The Skripal affair, RIA Novosti columnist Ivan Danilov wrote, "will continue as long as the government of Theresa May needs it to resolve its own internal problems." Clive Marshall Press Association/AP CAPTION: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, at a roundtable for international news agencies on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in May, rejected Britain's assertion that a military-grade nerve agent sickened the Skripals. Propaganda machine British officials and experts who studied the events say the false narratives emerged from a Russian information ecosystem in which news outlets and social media networks are increasingly intertwined with the country's intelligence apparatus and official communications organs. While independent media voices flourished briefly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Putin years have been marked by assassinations of prominent journalists and the silencing or muting of dissent. In recent years, the control over many of the largest news outlets has become nearly absolute, officials and analysts say. Putin brought Russia's privately owned, freewheeling TV networks to heel in one of his first major moves as president. The Kremlin now controls all of Russia's main national television channels -- and half of all Russians say television is their most trusted source of news. The channels deliver a strident, conspiratorial, pro-Kremlin message in hours of lavishly produced talk shows and newsmagazine programs every night. That domestic propaganda machine is backed up by state-owned news agencies, RIA Novosti and Tass, and a stable of pro-Kremlin newspapers and websites. The government expects to spend $303 million on state broadcaster VGTRK and $293 million on RT, the international broadcaster, this year, according to the latest official figures. Although the Internet in Russia is mostly uncensored and reporting critical of Putin is widely available in print, online and on the radio, the government's voice is by far the loudest in Russia's media landscape. Providing further amplification are social media "troll" factories -- including one in St. Petersburg known as the Internet Research Agency, described in a Justice Department indictment earlier this year -- where hundreds of workers are paid to disseminate false stories on the Internet, under official direction, U.S. officials said. After a crisis, Russia's information network lurches into action, promoting stories and theories favored by the Kremlin, often with remarkable creativity, say officials and analysts. "Different parts of the system echo each other, so the stories build momentum," said Ben Nimmo, a British-based researcher with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which analyzes government disinformation campaigns. Russian politicians and diplomats then chime in, often ridiculing any official investigation and denouncing claims of Russian involvement, Nimmo said. Russian diplomats -- and on multiple occasions, Putin himself -- publicly scoffed at Britain's claims that Russian operatives were behind the Skripal poisoning. The Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in London echoed several of the false stories from social media, suggesting that Skripal was a British spy and theorizing that British military scientists had synthesized their own batch of Novichok, with help from a Soviet chemist who defected to the West. "In absence of evidence, we definitely need Poirot in Salisbury," the embassy tweeted, in an allusion to Hercule Poirot, the fictional detective created by novelist Agatha Christie. Some British officials regard such denials as beyond cynical, as the use of Novichok in the poisoning was widely seen as deliberate -- a subtle, unspoken claim of responsibility intended to warn other dissidents not to cross Moscow. Some of the attempts to reshape the Skripal narrative backfired. After British officials on Sept. 5 released surveillance photographs of a pair of Russians suspected of carrying out the plot, RT aired an interview in which the two men claimed that they had been mere tourists in Britain. Their story began to unravel days later when a report by the investigative news site Bellingcat assembled compelling evidence that both men were GRU officers. Metropolitan Police Getty Images CAPTION: The suspects in the Skripal attack, named as Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov -- identities that British officials said were aliases -- were captured by a surveillance camera at the Salisbury train station on March 3. The men made no effort in the RT interview to explain the traces of Novichok police discovered in their hotel room and instead made an awkward attempt to explain why they made two quick trips to Salisbury over a wintry March weekend. One of them described a desire to see the Salisbury cathedral's "123-meter spire" and ancient clock, two features that appear on the cathedral's Wikipedia entry. Pro-Kremlin media also started pushing the story line that the two men might be gay -- and, by implication, could not possibly be part of Russia's military intelligence service. The "Vesti" news show ran a segment depicting Salisbury as imbued with a spirit of "modern European tolerance" and full of gay bars. In fact, a local newspaper said the town's sole gay bar had closed three months before the Skripal poisoning. Yet, even as the alibi attempt turned into farce, Russia's Foreign Ministry continued to claim that Britain had concocted evidence to frame the men for a crime they could not possibly have committed. "There is no proof," spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a Facebook posting on Sept. 26, asserting that Britain was seeking to divert the public's attention from the real story of "what happened in Salisbury." As the false stories began to be picked apart, Russia responded with "a mixture of defiance and desperation," Nimmo said. "You can see the Russian propaganda machine struggling over what to do." And yet by then, it no longer mattered. By multiple measures, Moscow had mostly succeeded in achieving the outcome it wanted most -- doubt. A bewildered public Last month, an independent pollster set out to measure how ordinary Russians viewed the events in Salisbury. The result: Despite lab reports, surveillance photographs and a detailed criminal complaint by British investigators, Russians overwhelmingly rejected the notion that their government was involved in the attack. Nearly 3 in 10 of the Russians surveyed said they believed Britain was behind the poisoning, while 56 percent agreed with the comment "It could have been anyone," according to the Levada Center poll, conducted during the third week of October. Only 3 percent were willing to attribute the assassination attempt to Russia's intelligence agencies. Indeed, the Kremlin managed to turn the botched assassination and the ensuing Western uproar to Putin's political advantage. The Russian presidential election was on March 18, and Putin was looking for high voter turnout to legitimize another six-year term. The Skripal affair allowed the Kremlin to turn the public's attention away from domestic problems and back to the confrontation between Russia and the West -- a winning issue for Putin. By quickly accusing Russia of being behind the poisoning, Britain's May gave Putin a "pre-election present," Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin adviser turned prominent Putin critic, said at the time. "She angered the voters a little bit and gave him another three to five percentage points of turnout." Levada sociologist Denis Volkov said the result showed the compelling nature of the us-vs.-them narrative constructed by the Kremlin and state media over the past two decades. In that reality, the West is bent on stopping Russia from returning to great-power status after it brought the country to its knees in the 1990s. The story line builds on many Russians' memories of chaos, violence and poverty in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In focus groups, Volkov said, people sometimes acknowledged the likelihood of Russian involvement in the Skripal poisoning after initially rejecting it. After all, the respondents said, Russia was in a new Cold War with the West, and since the United States and its allies were lying, cheating and killing, Russia had to as well. "They'll say, `Sure, yeah, we might've done it,' " Volkov said. " `But what's the problem? Everyone's doing it. There's a war going on, even if it's a cold war, between Russia and the West. So it's okay to do it. The main thing is to deny everything.' " Russia's propaganda organs targeting foreign audiences -- the television network RT and the web of radio stations and websites called Sputnik -- also promote an anti-American narrative. While Russia's domestic messaging builds on Russians' bitterness stemming from the instability after the Soviet collapse, Moscow's foreign propaganda message capitalizes on an aversion to what is seen as U.S. hegemony and hypocrisy in many parts of the world. Spencer Platt Getty Images CAPTION: Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, at a September meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York during which Britain announced its latest findings in the Skripal investigation, pointing to two Russian suspects. It's less clear how effective RT and Sputnik are in pushing Russia's message abroad. In Britain, the Kremlin's version of the events in Salisbury has been widely debunked by independent news media. But in central and eastern Europe, where Russian channels in multiple languages are part of the standard cable-TV lineup, the contradictory claims have left viewers confused and bewildered -- precisely what the designers of the propaganda campaign intended, said Kalensky, the former E.U. investigator. "The strategy is to spread as many versions of events as possible and don't worry that they sometimes contradict themselves," Kalensky said. "It's not the purpose to persuade someone with one version of events. The goal for Russia is achieve a state in which the average media consumer says, `There are too many versions of events, and I'll never know the truth.' " Even in the West, government agencies fear that Russia's efforts are contributing to a growing distrust in traditional sources of information and blurring the line between fact and fiction. While RT's viewership is relatively small in the West, its stories are frequently recycled on right-wing websites and media outlets. Just as often, the stream flows in the opposite direction. False stories that first appear on obscure conservative news sites become fodder for Russian TV talk shows. Since the start of the Trump era, Russian channels regularly echo the U.S. president's allegations about an American "deep state" and his depictions of the mainstream media as "fake news." The resulting muddle was highlighted by Putin himself, who, while standing next to President Trump during their July summit in Helsinki, seemed to distill the Kremlin's approach to the news while responding to a question about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "As for who to believe, who you can't believe, can you believe at all?" Putin mused, before answering his own questions: "You can't believe anyone." Troianovski reported from Moscow. Natalia Abbakumova and Amie Ferris-Rotman in Moscow contributed to this report. (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1961, DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Cancelled transmissions of Voice of Tibet via Dushanbe: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/cancelled-transmissions-of-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec.12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1200-1230 11674 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, no signal Dec.11 1300-1305 11651 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, no signal Dec.11 1305-1330 11646 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, no signal Dec.11 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 9:54 AM (via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. Shortwave Loggings for December 12, 2018 --- It was a special morning for me being able to hear Tibetan on the air from Radio Free Asia (via both Tajikistan and West Germany) and All India Radio (from Goa) instead of the usual CNR jammers. I guess it was a case of me being in the right place, at the right time, and being on the right frequency. I'll take band scanning over targeted listening any old day because, like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. All loggings in English unless otherwise specified. All times and dates in UTC. Wherever possible countries cited are taken from the NASWA country list. Cities cited after the station are for countries with multiple transmitter locations. 9315, TAJIKISTAN, RFA at 1218 in Tibetan with a man with brief talk and then a woman with a report from 1219 with recorded sound bytes of a man to a man with brief talk over music at 1227 then South Asian instrumentals and a definite "This is Radio Free Asia. This program is in Tibetan" at 1230 and a woman with news - Good Dec 12 - Nice to hear this one with a definite ID and in the clear instead of the dreaded CNR jammers. 11555, WEST GERMANY, RFA (Biblis) at 1237 // 9315 (Good via Tajikistan) with a telephone interview between a woman and a man - Poor to Fair Dec 12 Coady-ON - Another one with no CNR jammers! (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Alternative frequencies of BBC, registered in HFCC Database: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/alternative-frequencies-of-bbc-in-hfcc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Dec 14-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0000-0100 alt 5835 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs En World Service 5970 1700-1900 alt 5875 ERV 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari and Pashto 5910 2200-2400 alt 3960 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs En World Service 3915 2200-2400 alt 5845 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg to EaAs En World Service 5890 1500-1600 on 9445 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Urdu till Dec.14 & deleted ??????????? ?? Observer ? 1:58 PM (via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 1971 - 1981 -- Uzbekistan Radio Tashkent. QSL card. You can see here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/uzbekistan_11.html https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/uzbekistan_99.html https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/uzbekistan_53.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, QSL World, Rus=DX 16 Dec via DXLD) BC-DX 1366, 24 December 2018 Editor : Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany ----------------- ARMENIA 1377 kHz QSL Trans World Radio test broadcasts via CJSC Yerevan Gavar. Mikhail Nevolin from St. Petersburg sent confirmation of the reception of a test broadcast of Transmirovoy radio through Armenia at a frequency of 1377 kHz on Nov 27, 2018. QSL can be viewed here (DE Dmitry Elagin, Saratov-RUS, via RUSdx #1008 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) ARMENIA Reception of Trans World Radio India via CJSC Yerevan Gavar, on Dec 22 1530-1600 7550 ERV 300 kW 100 deg to SoAS English Sat/Sun, very good (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22) CLANDESTINE Updated winter B-18 schedule of clandestine broadcasts, of Nov 30, 2018: Denge Welat 0600-1500 11530 KCH 300 kW 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish Voice of Tibet 1200-1230 11674 DB 100 kW 095 deg to EAs Chinese Radio Free North Korea 1200-1300 7610 TAC 100 kW 076 deg to NEAs Korean Voice of Tibet 1230-1235 11601 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan 1235-1300 11605 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan Voice of Tibet 1300-1305 9896 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan 1305-1330 9899 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan 1300-1305 11651 DB 100 kW 095 deg to EAs Chinese 1305-1330 11646 DB 100 kW 095 deg to EAs Chinese Voice of Tibet 1330-1400 9884 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan 1330-1400 9899 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan Voice of Wilderness 1330-1530 7625 TAC 100 kW 070 deg to NEAs Korean North Korea Reform Radio 1430-1530 7580 TAC 100 kW 076 deg to NEAs Korean Voice of Martyrs 1530-1600 7520 TAC 100 kW 076 deg to NEAs Korean Radio Ranginkaman / Radio Rainbow 1730-1800 7560 KCH 300 kW 116 deg to WAs Farsi Daily Denge Welat 2000-2200 9525 KCH 300 kW 116 deg to WAs Kurdish North Korea Reform Radio 2030-2130 7495 TAC 100 kW 076 deg to NEAs Korean Voice of Tibet 2300-2330 7496 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan 2330-2400 7484 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CAs Tibetan (DX MIX NEWS #1100, via RUSdx #1007 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16) GERMANY/BELARUS 6005 kHz QSL Radio Belarus, German edition + station booklet. 11 Nov 2018, 0900-1000 UT, 6005 kHz, SINPO 25442 web: E-mail: Address: Radio Belarus, Red, 4, 220897 Minsk, Republic of Belarus. You can see the confirmation here (AK Anatoly Klepov, Moscow-RUS, via RUSdx #1008 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) MOLDOVA Trans World Radio India via Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac Dec 22 1600-1630 7535 KCH 300 kW 116 deg to SoAS Urdu, fair signal. (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) RUSSIA RWM - Russian Time and Frequency Service Taldom. Received the second QSL card for me from the RWM time station - Russian Time and Frequency Service. QSL can be viewed here (DE Dmitry Elagin, Saratov-RUS, via RUSdx #1008 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) USSR / SOVIET UNION History On December 18, 1947, a new Leningrad radio center in the village of Olgino on the shores of the Gulf of Finland began its work from the former "White Castle" of Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Stenbock-Fermor - the legendary blockade radio stations RV-53 and RV were relocated here in the first post-war years -70 ... Today, through the technical transmitting facilities of the radio center, there is an on-air broadcast of four radio stations of the VHF band and eight FM broadcasters, as well as the substitution of five FM-radio broadcasting stations at the time of their shutdown for planned maintenance work. In addition, Olgino's RTx remains among the few (which can be counted on the fingers of one hand) of our country's radio centers, which broadcast non-state radio stations in the medium-wave range at frequencies of 684, 828 and 1053 kHz. We congratulate the small team of the RTPS Olgino on the 71st anniversary of the establishment of the radio center and wish all its technical specialists health, personal happiness and well-being, as well as further production success in the coming 2019! The attached short video was prepared by the staff of the radio center ten years ago, in 2008 (via RUSdx #1008 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) UZBEKISTAN Trans World Radio India via RRTM RED Telecom Tashkent Uzbekistan bcast center, Dec 22 1545-1600 6240 TAC 100 kW 66 deg to CeAS Kazakh, good. (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23) Playdxblog.blogspot.ru. Dario Monferini & Pubblicato da Giampiero Bernardini Milano, Italy. -------------------- mercoledì 26 dicembre 2018 Dear DX-friends, here are my Christmas loggings from Skovlunde heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire. 73, Anker Petersen ... 4010.23 0325-0329 25.12 KGZ Birinchi R, Krasnaya Rechka Kyrgyz talk by man and woman with orchestra music in the background 35323 AP-DNK ... 4765.07 0332-0340 25.12 TJK Tajik R 1, Yangiyul Tajik ann, local songs 45434 AP-DNK ... DX RE MIX NEWS # 1104 December 29, 2018 Editor: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria --------------------------- MOLDOVA(non) Trans World Radio India via Grigoriopol on Dec.28: 1535-1540 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English, very good 1600-1630 on 7535 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to SoAs Urdu, good signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_29.html U.K.(non) Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, Dec.28 1730-1800 on 7560 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/radio-ranginkamanrainbow-via-babcock_29.html U.K.(non) Trans World Radio Africa via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, Dec.28: 1815-1845 on 7245 KCH 300 kW / 158 deg to EaAf Tigrinya, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-africa_30.html UZBEKISTAN(non) Reception of Trans World Radio India via Tashkent, Dec.28 1545-1600 on 6240 TAC 100 kW / 066 deg to CeAs Kazakh, fair/good + jamming https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/12/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_74.html RUSSIAN LANGUAGE RADIO ======================== WEB RADIO AND TV IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ================================= Radio. Russia. Magnitogorsk. Chelyabinskaya oblast. -------------------------------------------------- ------------ Radio station "Meridian". WEB: http://radiomeridian.ru/ Direct stream links: http://85.143.216.212:8003/radio256 - 256 kbps http://85.143.216.212:8003/radio48 - 48 kbps Radio Meridian is a non-commercial project with a unique format. The radio station is a musical palette of songs of Russian young and beginning musical groups and the authors of performers working in different styles and directions. The listener on the same level with the Russian news offers the opportunity to listen to the hits of Italian pop music, both modern and past. And with such a rich variety in music, the listener will get acquainted with the modern fables of Vladimir Pasynkov, with poems by Polina Volynkina and aphorisms of wise men. At night, from 0 o'clock on the South Ural time, the broadcast begins Night radio - "Music of the Universe" where electronic music is presented. Radio "Meridian" broadcasts stream in good quality - bitrate 256 kbit / s and 48 kbit / s (for those who have weak internet) in mp3 format, without registration. Radio Meridian - Tones while working and helps to relax after a hard day. (https://vk.com/bashfmtv) Radio. Russia. Tolyatti. Samara Region. ---------------------- "Kalina Krasnaya". WEB: kalina.fm Radio "Kalina Krasnaya" launched an online broadcast. Music of the Russian soul now sounds not only in the FM band in the regions of Russia, but also anywhere in the world thanks to the mobile application and the Internet. Anyone can listen to "Kalina Krasnaya" on the official website of kalina.fm, as well as subscribe to the pages of the radio station on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. There, the fans of the author's song have the opportunity to participate in contests, leave feedback on programs, communicate with like-minded people and listen to special podcasts of the radio station. Convenient, free and functional application for smartphones, where, in addition to the radio stream, the song name and artist name are displayed, you can download it in the AppStore and Google Play. "Kalina Krasnaya" is a new regional radio station as part of the European Media Group, which began broadcasting in Togliatti on November 16, 2018 at a frequency of 107.4 FM. In the near future, it will sound in Stavropol (102.6 FM) and Ryazan (106.7 FM). The musical broadcast of Kalina Krasnaya is built around an author's song - for the listeners there are works by such artists as Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Oleg Mityaev, as well as favorite music from Soviet cinema. (http://emg.fm/news/393) Television. Russia. ------------------- Moscow. TV channel "TNT MUSIC". WEB: https://tntmusic.ru/ TNT MUSIC is a new music and entertainment channel, a joint project of the holding company Gazprom-Media and the company Solaris Promo Production. It went on the air on May 31, 2016 and from the first days of its existence declared itself as an ambitious and promising television project focused on the interests of the modern audience. TNT MUSIC - this is high-quality and popular music, exclusive entertainment programs and TV shows. MUSIC. In the air, only the best clips, TNT MUSIC charts are a reflection of world music trends. Over 10,000 clips of Russian and foreign artists. ENTERTAINMENT. TNT MUSIC knows all about fashionable entertainment. Interviews, reports, live broadcasts from festivals and sporting events, special projects, TV shows, movies and TV shows. The entertainment part of the video content is created taking into account the experience of the most successful projects of the TNT channel. The audience of TNT MUSIC are men and women aged 14 to 44 years. The core of the audience - people with average and above average incomes, trying to keep abreast of the latest news, appreciate high quality. TNT MUSIC broadcasts throughout Russia and is presented in packages of 750 cable operators. The channel is broadcast from the Yamal-401 satellites, from the Tricolor TV platform, also from the Horizons 2 and Express AM5 satellites, from the Telecard platform (Orion Express), in IP-TV networks of operators and mobile operators, on OTT platforms and in smart tv. QSL WORLD ========== AG = Alexander Golovikhin, Togliatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" AK = Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia CT = Claudio Tagliabue, Italy / https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080049528677701/ VL = Vasily Lazarev, Samarskaya oblast, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" DE = Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" DK = Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" IZ = Ivan Zeleny, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" & "open_dx" KB = Konstantin Barsenkov, St. Petersburg, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" Stig Hartvig Nielsen, World Music Radio, Denmark / Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 192, Issue 31 Bangladesh ---------------- Received a QSL card from Radio Bangladesh Betar for receiving - 05/25/2018, 15.15-15.45 UTC at a frequency of 15505 kHz. On the card - a monument of some sort Bengali heroes. The report was sent by e-mail to the address: rrc @ dhaka.net. (DK) China --------- Received a QSL card from the Arab Service of China International Radio for reception - 09/15/2018, 06.00 UTC at the frequency of 9,590 kHz. Card released arab CRI service. Report sent by email: arab @ cri.com.cn (DK) Denmark ------------- World Music Radio (WMR). QSL-CARDS Please note that the current QSL-design will be used for reception reports covering reception in 2018 only. A new design will be used in 2019. An eQSL is available for reports sent to wmr@wmr.dk - a reply can be expected within a month or so. A printed QSL is available for reports sent to World Music Radio, PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers S?, Denmark. Return postage is kindly required. For a fast reply enclose 5 euro or 5 USD (QSL will be mailed from Denmark, where postage rates are the highest in the world - 29DKK for a post card). If less return postage is enclosed, you will still get a QSL-card, but will have to wait some time till the QSLs can be mailed out from outside of Denmark. Please note that no QSLs are available for reports made by listening via remote receivers. Stig Hartvig Nielsen, World Music Radio - WMR www.wmr.radio DPRK ---------- Received a QSL card from Voice of Korea for receiving in Russian - 06/10/2018, 07.00-07.55 UTC at the frequency 15245 kHz. On the card - Immortal flower Kimchenirhva. The report sent by regular mail. (DK) - Received a QSL card from Voice of Korea for receiving in Russian - 07/17/2018, 14.00-14.55 UTC at the frequency 12015 kHz. On the card - Immortal flower Kimchenirhva. The report sent by regular mail. Also sent a magazine in Korean "Korea Today" and the English newspaper The Pyongyang Times. (DK) France / Germany ----------------------------- Received e-qsl from Radio Atlantic2000 International for receiving 12.16.18 / 9.00-9.25 UTC / 7440 kHz (VL) Germany -------------- * Received an e-qsl from Radio Jake FM for receiving 12/22/18/08 .00-08.30 UTC / 7440 kHz (VL) * I received a Welle 370 QSL card. 25.11.2018 / 11: 00-11: 59 UTC / 6070 kHz (Channel 292) Ad: Welle 370, Funkerberg 20, Senderhaus 1, 15711 Konigs Wusterhausen, Germany. You can view the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_32.html (AK) * Radio Ohne Namen - e-QSL (6070 kHz / 15.00 UTC / 24-12-2018); Reception through KiwiSDR-Norway; Blog: http://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2017/06/radio-ohne-namen.html (KB) Guam -------- Ktwr guam Received e-QSL card from KTWR for the report on the reception of their special Christmas DRM broadcast on December 23, 2018. Carol Witthun also sent the full station's current schedule. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2018/12/28/e-qsl-ktwr-guam-dekabr-2018-goda/ (DE) India ---------- * Received a QSL card from AIR for acceptance through Bhopal - 12.09.2018, 00.25 UTC at at 4810 kHz and via Gangtok - 08/31/2018, 01.00 UTC at 4835 kHz The report sent by email: spectrum-manager @ prasarbharati.gov.in. Confirmation on the All India Radio card with indicating transmitters in Bhopal and Gangtok. (DK) * Received QSL card All India Radio. E-mail: spectrum-manager @ prasarbharati.gov.in Card for several admissions reports - 22.9.2018, 13.9.2018 / 16.15-17.15 UTC, 17.45-19.45 UTC / 11560, 13695, 9445 kHz You can see the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_34.html (AK) Latvia / USA / Russia --------------------------------- Received Radio Center QSL Card. Russian Christian Radio Center. 13.11.18 / 03.00-04.00 UTC / 1485 kHz Address: Radio Center, 634 Ave "Y', Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA Email: rcrc @ radiocenter.net Confirmed report Andrey Nekrasov. You can view the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_67.html (AK) - Quote from the letter: "About hearing, thanks for the message. We test the antenna with a minimum transmitter power to study the signal propagation pattern and its azimuth of directivity in practice. The results clearly show in which direction the radiation goes, and in which direction the electro-magnetic waves are concentrated. It is quite obvious that in the future there will be another frequency and transmitter power. In addition, there is a possibility of installing the antenna in another place, near the border of the Russian Federation. We are continuously working on the organization of regular broadcasting in the direction of the European part, where the Russian-speaking population is concentrated. Unfortunately, we are forced to leave Moscow soon due to toughening of laws in the sphere of dissemination of religious information. There is also the option of working on a commercial project in Russia. " Andrey Nekrasov. Madagascar ----------------- Received QSL from Madagascar World Voice for receiving in Russian - 11/17/2018, 18.00-19.00 UTC at the frequency 11885 kHz. Stamp stamped KNLS - MWV. On card - a chameleon. The report sent: mwvradio @ gmail.com. (DK) - Received QSL from Madagascar World Voice for receiving in Russian - 11/17/2018, 19.00-20.00 UTC at the frequency of 9690 kHz. Stamp stamped KNLS - MWV. Confirmation on a postcard with a lemur. The report sent: mwvradio @ gmail.com (DK) Myanmar ------------ Received e-QSL from "Myanma Radio" (576 kHz, via Yangon) for receiving in Burmese. Report sent to: nptradio.eng [at] gmail.com (IZ) Netherlands ------------------ * Received eQSL Free Radio Vicroria. E-mail: freeradiovictoria @ gmail.com You can see the confirmation here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_24.html (AK) * Received e-qsl from The Mighty KBC Radio for receiving 12/15/18/13: 00-14: 00 UTC / 11600 kHz and for receiving 16.12.18 / 01.00-02.00 UTC / 5960 kHz (VL) - Received e-qsl from Radio The Mighty KBC for receiving 12/22/18/13: 00-14.00 UTC / 11600 kHz (VL) Poland / Lithuania ---------------------- * Received a QSL card from the Russian service of Radio Poland for receiving - 11/18/2018, 17.00-17.29 UTC at a frequency of 1386 kHz (via a transmitter in Lithuania). On the card - views of the city of Torun. The report was sent by e-mail: ru @ radio.com.pl. The card indicated the time of admission. (DK) * Received QSL-card of the Russian edition of the Polish Radio. 05.11.18 / 17.00-17.30 UTC / 1386 kHz You can view the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_43.html (AK) Slovakia --------------- Received QSL card from Radio Slovakia International. 01.12.2018 / 16: 30-16: 59 UTC / 738 kHz / Russian You can view the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_28.html (AK) South Korea ------------------- Received a QSL card from KBS for receiving 2 November at 6040 kHz. In the photo, the meeting of two sisters after 60 years of separated families. (AG) Thailand ------------- IBB Thailand Transmitting Station IBB Thailand Transmitting Station, Udonthani, Thailand also sent a card to confirm the reception of Radio Thailand on June 20, 2018. QSL with a beautiful photo was sent on November 27, 2018. Unfortunately, in the process of mailing over QSL pretty mocked. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2018/12/19/qsl-radio-thailand-tailand-iyun-2018-goda/ (DE) Taiwan / Bulgaria ------------------------- * Received qsl card from Radio Taiwan International, Russian service for receiving 24.11.18 / 17.00-18.00 UTC / 5900 kHz (VL) * * Received a QSL card from the Russian Service of Taiwan International Radio for reception - 11/22/2018, 17.00-17.30 UTC at a frequency of 5900 kHz (via a transmitter in Bulgaria). The card is marked by the old ISS. The report sent by email: russ @ rti.org.tw. (DK) Turkey ---------- Received a QSL card from Voice of Turkey for receiving in German - 06.27.2018, 17.30-18.25 UTC at a frequency of 9840 kHz. The report sent by e-mail: deutsch @ trt.net.tr. Card for June 2018. (DK) USA -------- Received a QSL card from Radio Miami International for receiving - 05/20/2018 02.30 UTC at a frequency of 9395 kHz. The report sent to the addresses: radiomiami9 @ cs.com and info @ wrmi.net. On the card - photo of the antenna field on the background Sunrise. (DK) Vatican / Philippines ---------------------------- Received a QSL card from the Russian version of Vatican Radio for receiving - 11/06/2018, 12.30-12.49 UTC at 6145 kHz (transmitter in the Philippines). On the card - Pope Francis on the plane talking to passengers. The report sent by e-mail: russo @ spc.va. (DK) Vietnam ------------ Received a QSL card from the Russian service "Voices of Vietnam" for receiving - 10.28.2018, 16.30-16.58 UTC at a frequency of 9,730 kHz. On the card is Lake Gianh. The report sent by e-mail: golosvietnama @ gmail.com. (DK) Pirate radio -------------------------- Radio Stancia Russian Hooligans Ricevuto Radio Station The Russian Hooligans Music Station - free radio (TX probabile dalla Germania). Domenica 16 dicembre 2018, alle 11.05 UTC a 6.220.25 kHz AM, qualità della ricezione discreta. Perl'ascolto ho utilizzato il ricevitore SDR FDM S1 Intel Core i7-4771 CPU 3.5 Ghz e il software SDRSharper v0.3h mentre l'antenna Report, inviato via email a radiostanciarussianhooligans@hotmail.com, conferma con messaggio email e QSL elettronica, in 12 gg. https://it2021swl. (CT) THE CALENDAR =========== 24 / December ------------------ 12/24/1924 - the beginning of regular broadcasting in Leningrad in the amount of 10 hours a day using a 1 kW transmitter of the Radio Broadcasting Company established in the Petrogradsky district of the city in the building of the Electrotechnical Institute on Pesochnaya Street 5 The studio was located in the same place). (https://vk.com/club171176221) 25 / December ------------------- December 25, 1925, 93 years ago, the first test radio broadcast was conducted, Vladivostok radio. Start broadcasting The beginning of radio broadcasting and broadcasting in the Far East of the USSR dates back to the beginning of 1924, when an initiative group of radio amateurs was organized in Vladivostok. This group, with the approval of the local party organs, developed the Charter and organized the Proletradio voluntary society on February 7, 1924. G.V. was elected chairman of the society. Potter, who worked at that time as executive secretary of the Primorye regional party newspaper Krasnoye Znamya ... The construction of the first broadcasting station in Vladivostok was completed in 1925. On December 25 of the same year, the first test broadcast was conducted. On January 1, 1926, at 18 o'clock, the Vladivostok radio ‑ broadcasting station began its work, the first radio transmission took place ... The station operated at a wavelength of 485 meters, its call signs were RA-17, and the power was one and a half kilowatts. Audibility was quite satisfactory both in Vladivostok and in the regions of Primorye ... (https://vk.com/radioreceiver) 25 / December. ------------------ December 25th Detskoe radio (Children's radio) is 11 years old. This is the only radio station in Russia, the broadcast of which is entirely devoted to children. The broadcast of the first radio for children began on December 25, 2007. During this time, the radio station has become for young Russians a reliable friend, with whom it is interesting, fun and useful to spend time ... Today, Detskoe radio broadcasts in many regions of Russia, including all the major cities with a population of over 1 million people, and modern technologies have made the radio station available anywhere in the world - simply install the free Children's Radio mobile app in your smartphone. In addition, the program can be listened to and through satellite broadcast operators. In Moscow, the best radio for children sounds at 96.8 FM. The site of the radio station - www.deti.fm. (http://www.gpmradio.ru/news-page/uid/14919) 30 / December ------------------ 12/30/1986 - on this day 32 years ago, the reception workshop No. 2 built in the Naziya village of the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region was put into operation, designed to provide technical monitoring and short-wave backbone radio communications. (https://vk.com/club171176221) HISTORY DX AND RADIO ==================== 1973 & 1974 ------------------ Archive. Anatoly Klepov. Moscow. Confirmation of admission. Radio Gorky. Russia. 15.11.73 / 15.00-15.40 UTC / 827 kHz You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_99.html 01.31.74 / 15.00-15.40 UTC / 827 kHz You can see here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/12/blog-post_27.html 1992 ------- Archive. Fedor Brazhnikov. Irkutsk. Confirmation of admission. Radio Alma-Ata. Kazakhstan. English edition. 12.23.92 / 15.03-15.28 UTC / 5915 kHz You can see the card here - http://www.irkutsk.com/radio/qsl/Kazakhstan_b.JPG 1993 ------- Archive. Fedor Brazhnikov. Irkutsk. Confirmation of admission. Radio Lena. Russia. 1.11.93 / 10.55 UTC / 5920 kHz 1.11.93 / 11.50 UTC / 6125 kHz See the card here - http://www.irkutsk.com/radio/qsl/Radio_Lena.JPG WORLDWIDE NEWS. ================== Romania. ------------- Radio Romania International (Inter Radio Romania in Russian). Club DX program - Author and presenter: Tatiana Codreanu 12/22/2018 Topic: Analysis of the audibility of the Russian service station for December. Duration: minutes - 7:24 http://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/club_dx_22_12_2018-2591520 (http://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/pages/home/) Turkey ----------- More than a third of Istanbul radio stations will soon cease broadcasting, since next year they plan to switch to a new radio tower, which will seriously limit broadcasting. 50 out of 130 city radio stations will be taken off the air as soon as the transition to the new Chamlyj TV radio tower is made due to the limited capacity of the tower. It is expected that the tower will begin to function next year, writes Hurriyet. The Supreme Council of Radio and Television of Turkey (RTUK) issued a statement saying that reducing to 80 active radio channels will eliminate the problem of hostile signals, which has arisen due to the large number of stations in the city. The statement indicated that complaints of hostile signals came from Bulgaria. The authorities said that the cost of the frequency will be 20 million Turkish liras. mk-turkey.ru (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__71817/) FTIOM, UBMP & Uncle Bill's Rockless NYE Special --------------------------------------------------------------- From the Isle of Music, December 30-January 5: This week, we celebrate the new year with a Cuban dance party including some new music that most of you have not heard before plus great music from past decades. The broadcasts take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800- 1900 MSK) 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0100-0200 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US). This has been audible in parts of NW, Central and Southern Europe with an excellent skip to Italy recently. 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC (New CETs) on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany. SPECIAL: Uncle Bill's Melting Pot AND Uncle Bill's Rockless New Year's Eve Special: 1. Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, Dec 30 2018 & Jan 1, 2019 Episode 94 presents music from Senegal A. Sunday 2300-2330 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe B. Tuesday 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If current propagation conditions hold, the broadcast should reach Iceland AND Western Russia due to a long skip. 2. Uncle Bill's Rockless New Year's Eve Special: Unusual new year's customs and music from around the world. A. For Europe: Monday, December 31, 1800-1900 UTC on Spaceline, 9400kHz from Bulgaria B. For the Americas and portions of Europe: Midnight, December 31 (0000-0100 UTC Tuesday, or 7-8pm Eastern Time US) on WBCQ 5130 kHz Happy New Year! William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC 73!