BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

7330,
1800-1900 9895 WER 100 kW / 105 deg to SEEu
Ethiopia [non], Adera Dimtse Radio in Amharic, last transmission
on July 31: 1700-1800 13820 NAU 500 kW / 140 deg Sat to EaAf,
canceled from Aug 7.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 23)
[Gambia non] The Save the Gambia Democracy Project broadcast on 15225
did not appear on 10 July until 1821 UT. It was a new programme in an
unidentified language but sounded like it was produced in the USA. Talk
(sounding like stock market reports or commercials?) over music, followed
by a speaker in phone-line quality. 1826 dead air until 1828, ID which I
didn't catch but mention of "Maryland" and several mentions of something
like "Gambat". Transmitter cut off at 1830 UT.
The following week, 17 July, transmission was as normal from 1815 to
1830 UT with a new programme in a local language identifying as
"Baati Rewmi".
(James MacDonell-NIG, dxld July 18)
Sats only at 1815-1830 UT via MBR(exDTK) Nauen site 125kW at 221 degr.
6140 Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, via Wertachtal, *0906-0930, Sun Jul
04, German pop songs (carrier was on from 0900 UT, but audio first
abruptly on from 0906 UT), German ann transmitter: Wertachtal with 250 kW,
0915 RMV news in German from Hamburg, Schwerin and Rostock, 45544.
6190 Deutschlandfunk, Berlin-Britz, 2100-2110, Jul 04, German news,
ID: "Deutschlandfunk", comment about the presidential election in
Poland. Still on the air! 55555.
(Anker Petersen-DEN, dswci DXW July 14)
6085 / 801 BR Munich Ismaning. The 8/2010 issue of the Radio-Kurier
magazine will include an interview with the head of the Ismaning station.
Herein he officially confirms that 6085 kHz will be shut down at the end
of October due to insufficient listeners numbers. In October the public
broadcasters will have to give reasons for keeping AM transmitters on air,
and on this hearing they will have to quote such figures.
For some time the 6085 kHz signal was on air around the clock, with
silence as audio content between midnight and 6 AM local time. Since 2007
they now switch off the RF signal overnight because this saves a lot of
operational costs and it has been found that the transmitter can be
switched on every morning without problems.
For 801 kHz it is under discussion to use it for Bayern Plus, a music
station for elder people, instead of the currently aired on3radio, a youth
station that basically is just a jukebox, with little live programming
which recently has been further cut back (not that Bayern Plus would be
much different in this regard). But no decision about a date for such a
switch-over has been made so far.
BR folks had good contacts to their IBB neighbours. One day they got a
phone call that "we have to told you that we'll be gone in three months".
The satellite uplink, the last thing that remained there after 1197 kHz
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