BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

RIAS/VOA unit of 1951 with 17 kW of power, - to enthuse about this "ripe
performance".
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
594 HR Frankfurt.
593 / 594 kHz. After the news and followed by announcement of night
concert relay at 00.05:33 CET on Jan 1st, 2010 Hessische Rundfunk
Frankfurt's mediumwave stations at Weiskirchen and Hoher Meissner switched
off for ever.
So a mixture of Bulgarian, Moroccoan and Portuguese programes remain on
our ears here in southern Germany.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 1, 2010)
Attachment from Kai Ludwig included below - on dxld:
If it works you should hereby get access to a recording of the HR Rodgau-
Weiskirchen 594 kHz transmitter leaving the air, during the opening of the
ARD-Nachtkonzert programme as explained in the separate message.
click HR_594_Abschaltung.mp3
Concerning the closure of 594 kHz: It appears that the Hoher Meissner
synchro transmitter left the air a few seconds before local midnight. The
main transmitter at Rodgau-Weiskirchen (near Frankfurt) stayed on air for
another five minutes of last news, then the carrier had been killed at
23:05:33 UT during the opening announcement of ARD-Nachtkonzert. I suspect
this has been done by engineers on-site, not by timer or remote control.
This relay of ARD-Nachtkonzert replaces as of today the former overnight
relay of MDR Info. It's absolutely crazy: Now the all-news station relays
overnight the same programme of classical music than hr2. And to my
knowledge this saves not even money. No idea why they did this (there are
even conspiracy theories), the announcement of the "changed overnight
programming" does not mention any reasons:
Now 594 kHz is here in Germany dominated by Bulgaria and the BBC relay in
the Ukraine. In the case of Bulgaria it is ironical that this is a
transmission site which looks like a clone of GDR sites, simply because in
fact it is one. Only the original Funkwerk Koepenick transmitter has at
some point (1995 acc. to this source; the old one was a 250 kW, too) been
replaced by a Russian rig:
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Jan 1, 2010)
Personally heard this program often in past 58 years.
History.
Radio Frankfurt started after WW II on Aug 23, 1947 at Heiligenstock
site[by Reichspost in 1935y] via movable mediumwave "Martha" transmitter,
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