BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

During the [HFCC] Conference, the report of the Working and Discussion
Groups of HFCC on DRM was made. Rachel Staviskaya, a representative of the
Russian State Broadcast Company "The Voice of Russia", said that VOR has
been transmitting in DRM radio for many years and not only from Taldom,
Moscow region, but also from Khabarovsk to China. And all are waiting only
for receivers.
(Olex Yegorov, Whole World on the Radio Dial Sept 13 via dxld)
?? News to us that Khabarovsk be a DRM-capable site. The DRM DX schedule
besides Taldom in Russia shows instead Komsomol'sk/Amure: 0100-0300 daily
15735 213 Asia 90 VoR RUS Russian Komsomolsk Amur 0300-0500 daily 15735
213 Asia 90 VoR RUS English Komsomolsk Amur
So which are we to believe? HFCC registrations also show K/A. Perhaps in
faraway Moscow it's easy to mix up the two.
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Russia is soooo wide ...
15735 0200-0600 to zone 44 K/A 250kW 213deg towards Seoul, Shanghai,
Canton, HongKong, Saigon, Singapore, Sumatra, Indian Ocean. (wb)
I was in Novosibirsk, Sibera, 28 July-2 August, 2008. Only three active
AM-stations noted: Radio Rossii 171, Radio Slovo 270 and Radio Mayak 576
kHz. The receiver used was Sangean ATS-909.
Signal strenghts of local AM-stations were not very good, so I suppose
these are kept on the air with reduced power for mostly old people who are
used to tune their AM-radios into a certain wave-lenght or "volna".
I also noted that regional breaks (local news & advertisements) were
audible on FM only while AM frequencies of Radio Rossii and Mayak relayed
Moscow at the same time.
It seems that there is going on a huge shift from AM to FM in Russia.
Private stations have already moved to FM (very few exceptions) and now
the giant state-owned VGTRK-channels like Radio Rossii and Mayak are also
moving to FM (including OIRT-FM).
(Jorma Mantyla-FIN, mwdx Sept 21)
RUSSIA/ETHIOPIA Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio on 17655 and 21555 kHz is heavily
jammed today 1700-1730 UT by the Ethiopian government with same like BUZZ
signal of DWL Amharic once on 15 MHz, i.e. white noise hissing. Weak
Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio program is hardly read underneath here in Germany,
but I'm outside the main lobe signal. On 21555 only noise hash noted.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 22)
Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio in Amharic, new opposition station from Sept 11:
1700-1730 on 17655 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaEa Tue/Thu/Sat
21555 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaEa Tue/Thu/Sat
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 16)
This could also be heard, but very weak om 17655 kHz on Tuesday. 21555 kHz
was not audible at all.
(Bjoern Fransson-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 17)
Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio in Amharic via Samara, Russia. (TDF brokered) This
does make sense - 8 to 8.30 p.m. Ethiopian time, i.e. 1700- 1730 GMT. The
reference to "2:00 to 2:30 Ethiopian time" also makes sense. As I
occasionally point out on this list, east Africans start counting the
hours at sunrise and sunset. So, in Swahili for example, "saa moja",
literally "clock one", means seven o'clock.
I think that starting counting the hours from a clearly observable event