BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

ones used by Media Broadcast in as far as it got no SSB capability and has
not been equipped for automated fast tuning. This transmitter suffered a
failure of the transformer that produced the plate current in 2007, no
such transformer was in the Juelich spare sparts stock due to the design
variants (at least I understand this has indeed been checked) and a
replacement would cost about 100,000 Euro, an amount nobody was willing to
invest into the DX hobby (that's pretty much the reality now).
The mediumwave equipment consisted 15 years ago of a 100 kW solid-state
Nautel for 855 kHz, an S4003 (300 kW mediumwave version of the PANTEL
series PDM transmitters, housings similar to the S4005 shortwave
transmitter; this one was the first PANTEL ever delivered) for 990 kHz and
an S4002 (PANTEL 100 kW mediumwave, looks like its shortwave brother
S4001) as aux. Nowadays two Transradio TRAM transmitters are used as
mains.
And meanwhile word has it that in the last days there were some power
supply problems with the 6190 kHz facility, but some necessary repairs
have been done and now the old tranny should again happily churn away.
(Kai Ludwig-D, SW TXsite July 6, 2010)
GERMANY/UAE 13730 R. Dabanga via Dhabbaya on Aug 04 at 0513-0522 UT.
25232-25332 Arabic, Talk, IS and SJ at 0517 UT.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Aug 13)
13730 R Dabanga // 11500 kHz talks in a Sudanese Vm language at 1700+ UT,
but there is a 1.5 sec difference between both. 13730 kHz has a carrier
QRM. Both are good.
11500 1530-1727 47,48W MDC 250kW 330deg MDG PNW RNW
13730 1530-1727 47,48W WER 500 150 D PNW RNW
(Zacharias Liangas-GRC, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 31-Aug 10)
ICELAND 189 Longwave radio mast Hellissandur, Iceland. A Facebook page
has just been opened, search "Longwave radio mast Hellissandur".
"The Longwave radio mast Hellissandur is a 412 metre high guyed radio mast
for longwave transmissions at Gufuskalar in the vicinity of Hellissandur
on the peninsula Snæfellsnes of Iceland. This mast, which is the tallest
structure in Western Europe, is insulated against ground and guyed in 5
levels by steel ropes, which are subdivided by insulators. It was built in
1963 as replacement for a 190.5 metre (625ft) tall LORAN-C tower, which
was built in 1959, for the North Atlantic LORAN-C chain (GRD 7970). After
the LORAN-C scheme was shut down on December 31st, 1994 the longwave radio
mast Hellissandur was converted to an aerial mast for a longwave
broadcasting transmitter of the Broadcasting Service of Iceland, for a
transmission frequency of 189 kHz and a power of 300 kilowatts."
(Mike Terry-UK, mwdx Aug 13)
INDIA 4760 R Kashmir, Leh. About 80 people are killed and over 300
injured in late night flash floods due to cloud burst near Leh town. Death
toll is likely to go up. Buildings of district hospital Leh and R Kashmir
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