BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

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Lars Kalland, SM6NM
(Lars Kalland-SWE, also BrDXC-UK, June 15)
SWITZERLAND The Monte Ceneri transmitter on 558 kHz will be shut down at
the end of this month, so in all likelyhood on June 30. "Closing down the
obsolete mediumwave technology does not impair the broadcast reception in
southern Switzerland and enables SRG to save high expenses", thus the
close-down has been approved:
This news release also announces that a fifth TV program will be squeezed
into the SRG's German DVB-T mux. Uh-oh, I hope it at least runs in 64-QAM
mode with about 20 Mbps of available bitrate. It looks already pretty bad
when four programs have to share the 15 Mbps of a 16-QAM mux. Last year on
IFA I came accross a big screen displaying such a signal, next to other
ones which were fed by a HD source. Just embarrassing.
And here is a discussion about Beromuenster 531 kHz:
To sum it up, SRG still sticks with the plan to close it down at yearend,
but it remains to be seen if 531 will really go dark. In theory it could
also fall into the hands of a competitor, something SRG is quite scared
of. Operating the transmitter at reduced power of 160 kW, as it is the
case already for some time, does not violate any fieldstrength limits in
the vicinity of the site, no matter that SRG uses this argument as an
excuse for the planned shut-down (they are required to not exceed 8.5 V/m,
produced up to 12.7 V/m when 600 kW were run, thus the fieldstrength drops
below the 8.5 V/m limit when going below 170 kW). But they still could
turn around and tell people that technical adjustments now make it
possible etc.etc.etc.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 19)
SYRIA The sound of Syrian TV2, ch.E4 was received with very strong
signal here on FM 67.75 MHz with rx Selena 216B on June 2,6 and 8th at
several times between 0600 and 1600 UT. Also on ch R1,R2,E2a,E3 were
observed TVs from Russia, Iran, Jordan and Syria.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 13)
UNID PIRATES Most likely Ru pirates on their "central" frequency 6660
kHz Religious prgr in Ru till 1932 on LSB and later on USB on April 18th;
Rap songs till 1655 and then playing many times one and same song "La Isla
Bonitta" sung by Madonna but no ID of the radio on June 1st.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 13)
UNID Firedrake jammer against UNKNOWN stn on 15400. Tipped by Nagoya
DXers, Firedrake is heard regularly on 15400 kHz between 0600-0800. Co-
channel BBC starts at 0700, but before that no other station audible. No
break 0700-0705. Reported also between 0100-0300. But against whom?
Another very weak Sound of Hope transmitter?
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, DXplorer June 15)