BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda at 2100 / 2110 UTC, I started to go after West
and South Africa but with limited results unfortunately. After 2300 only
few Africans remain and stations from the Middle East show up on lots of
frequencies.
I was surprised that Pakistan and India had not been heard but this might
have resulted from conditions and the relatively short aerials. From late
evening and through the night Europe was audible astonishingly good. I
logged some of them only. Especially Spain and France showed up with most
of there frequencies and had stable and strong signals. I mentioned a
couple of these stations in the log section. I would wish the opposite way
when in Europe would look the same, hihi. During the night lots of
stations from South America showed up on about 30 channels, mostly weak,
some quite strong, but I did not pay attention to it. Local sunrise takes
place at 0615 / 0315 UTC respectively and propagation lasted until around
0830 / 0530 UTC."
(Stefan Schliephacke-D, staying in Uganda, dswci DXW Jan 23)
4750 R Dunamis. In two e-mails received Jan 15 from Mrs. Marty McLaughlin
at Bible Voice Broadcasting, she indicates that R Dunamis has been off the
air for several months due to both a transmitter and an antenna problem -
they are awaiting the arrival of the engineer from the U.S. who custom
designed the installation to get back on the air, hoped for by the end of
Jan.
(Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Jan 23)
Being in Kampala I checked the Ugandan MW frequencies of the Uganda
Broadcasting Corporation. While almost all of the neighbouring countries
Kenya and Tanzania's station are active, the situation in Uganda is
totally different. From the listed transmitters only two are active which
are as follows: Butebo 729 MW Blue network (listed as Red network 100 kW),
but irregularly, and Kampala Red Network as listed (20 kW) (909 MW ?. Ed)
in // with 7195 (daylight) and 4976 (evening and mornings). This might
explain that there is a investment plan existing with a Japanese company
to reorganize the usage of the MW and invest in new transmitters as
reported in MWN recently.
(Stefan Schliephacke-D, staying in Uganda, dswci DXW Jan 23)
USA NEW 100 KW MEDIUMWAVE TRANSMITTER PLANNED FOR MARATHON, FL.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB)
has issued a tender for the supply of turnkey services to upgrade the
power distribution system at its Marathon Transmitter Station in the
Florida Keys. Work involves upgrading one of two existing electrical power
services provided by the public utility service to better accommodate the
planned installation of a new 100kW mediumwave transmitter system.
(Source: FedBizOpps)
Related story: BBG/IBB to install new mediumwave transmitter at Marathon
(RNW MN Jan 18, via dxld)
Our visit to New York last week found lots of work in progress on two of
the city's AM sites. Construction is now in full swing on the daytime 50
kW power increase at Salem's WWDJ (970 Hackensack NJ), where a new Nautel
transmitter and phasor are in place in a trailer at the transmitter site
the station shares with WWRV (1330 New York). The new daytime signal is
expected to be on the air by late March.
Meanwhile, a few miles to the south, there are now eight towers up at the
shared site of WKDM (1380 New York) and WWRU (1660 Jersey City NJ), where
WKDM has boosted its night power from 5 kW to 13 kW, using its original
three towers and a new tower that's been added to its array. (Lots of
pictures coming soon over at Tower Site of the Week!)