BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

9690 0545-0700 30 SAM 250 60
30 Russia south of 60 deg North & between 50-75 deg East
up to Surgut, Omsk-Novosibirsk, Almaty.
11925 0800-0900 18, 27-29 SAM 100 310
Target is all Europe westwards, the strong Russian community.
Zones 18 Scandanavia
27 UK, France, Benelux
28 Central & Eastern Europe, not Baltics
29 Baltics, Russia south of 60 deg North & west of 50 deg East
11, 13, and 15 MHz will also work mornings from Armavir.
But I guess in this time slot they have usual maintenance break,
and maybe 45 to 60 degrees antennas are rather available on Moscow
centres.
Na Volne Tatarstana belongs to Radio Rossii during registration process.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 9)
Who can tell how many listeners there are in Tatarstan itself, or
elsewhere for that matter, but I hear 9690 and 11925 kHz regularly here.
The transmission is worth listening to for the exotic music played -
usually during the last half hour. Hopefully some other site will carry it
instead of Samara. A one-hop service into Tatarstan would, I suppose, be
preferable, but it isn't absolutely necessary via shortwave. And it looks
like there are several hops involved to some of the locations that Wolfy
indicates already.
(Noel R. Green-UK, dxld May 10)
Certainly a lot, since the program is on FM and 252 kHz*) there. The
shortwave transmissions are meant for listeners elsewhere.
In a hurry I can't find exactly when they started, but perhaps at a time
when costs for audio circuits were still an issue (this very issue brought
an end to Radio Vilnius via Juelich and Radio Belarus via Brovary), thus
it was only logical to use Samara. Nowadays things are different, it
should be no big problem to arrange something else, with Novosibirsk being
a possible option for the target of the 0810-0900 slot.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld May 10)
Those SW broadcasts are targeting the Tatar diaspora since the majority of
Russian Tatars live outside of Tatarstan. They are Turkic-speaking people.
Unfortunatelly many Tatars don't speak Tatar any more, that's why "Na
volne Tatarstana" has some Russian segments.
Tatarstan is a wealthy republic (oil money). I won't be surprised if they
continue with SW broadcasting. Perhaps it's a good chance for Deutsche
Telekom to offer its SW relay services.
(Radonez-CAN, dxld May 10)
Since May 1st, the Voice of Russia has added a second broadcast in Italian
at 2130-2230 UT on 1548 kHz (Grigoriopol, Moldova).
(Luigi Cobisi-I, RUSdx May 11)
Italian 1700-1800 15465 12000 (from Sept 7: 12040 12000) Moscow 250 to
Europe
New additional station via TDP-Addis Dimts Radio in Amharic
1600-1700 on 17875 SAM 250 kW 188 deg to EaAf Sun
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX May 13)