BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Grafenwoehr, only some dozens metres away from the next buildings
(unthinkable if it were civilian buildings), seriously disturbing DSL
lines and other electronical equipment there. Finally the grounding grid
had been damaged, so the transmitter did no longer radiate properly. The
construction of the new facility plus the demolition of the old
Grafenwoehr site costs about 1.4 Mio. USD. The Grafenwoehr transmitter
will be moved to Vilseck and installed as aux there.
A newspaper clipping with a photo of an AFN announcer in front of the new
antenna, exercising with an EV RE20 (one weights about 700 grams), is in
the Yahoo Group (Photos / Miscellaneous).
Google's map service censors the complete Grafenwoehr area (like they do
with the Brunssum/Geilenkirchen region), but Bavaria's land survey office
has this to offer:
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Sept 6)
A new American Forces Network transmitter in Vilseck, Germany, went live
Aug. 28, replacing an older transmitter in Grafenwoehr that was
interfering with household electronics.
The old transmitter, located in the Grafenwoehr housing area, hampered
some on-base residents' ability to connect to the Internet, according to
an AFN technician. Damage to an underground portion of an antenna, caused
by construction, distorted the old transmitter's signal, and was partly to
blame for the problem.
The new AM 1107 transmitter, which broadcast's AFN's Power Network, was
built following a $100,000 study aimed at remedying the problem and
providing better service to listeners in the Grafenwoehr and Vilseck
communities.
In all the project will cost the Grafenwoehr community $1.4 million,
including the cost of demolishing the old transmitter building and
deconstructing its antenna. The old transmitter will be transferred to the
new transmission site and serve as a backup to the newly installed
transmitter.
The new transmitter is located in a remote corner of Rose Barracks, far
from housing areas, while the former site was roughly 100 meters from on-
base housing.
Stars and Stripes, European edition, September 5, 2008
(Mike Terry-UK, via BrDXC-UK, mwdx Sept 7)
GUIANA FRENCH DRM on 15310-15315-15320, Sept 9 at 1259 UT and continuing
past 1301 UT, steady S9+18 and likely from one of the W. Hemisphere sites,
Bonaire which has used frequency before at other times, or HCJB? No,
Guiana French reactivated as in this case the DRM DX schedule has it for
three days only:
1200-1400 09/08-09/10 15315 292 Mexico 150 TDF GUF various Montsinery
And details here:
also showing 11825, 17875 and 21620 kHz at other times of day.