BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

solar and wind generators.
Future plans include extending evening transmissions to 0300 UTC. Radio
Familia (105.3 FM) was launched in December 2006 by AFEG, Actualite
Feminine En Guinee, a local NGO.
(DXing.info, via Mike Terry BrDXC-Uk ng June 14 / July 1)
HUNGARY Radio Budapest transmitter sites.
Radio Budapest ceased their shortwave service on June 30th for ever.
All RBP services as registered with WER - marked July 1st - in A-10 were
missed from today July 1st.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 1/2)
Although information was always somewhat vague, it was generally thought
that June 30 would be the last day for shortwave transmissions from the
Jaszbereny site for Radio Budapest, with Media Broadcast sites in Germany
taking over on July 1.
I checked Radio Budapest's 0100 transmission on 6150 on UT June 29 and 30,
and it was coming in with a listenable signal both nights. But checking
6150 at 0100 on July 1 I'm hearing nothing. Other European signals are at
good strength. Is MB late with the switchover? Or is the information wrong
and something else has happened; perhaps even a shutdown of Radio Budapest
on shortwave?
(Steve Luce-TX-USA, dxld June 30)
Re: Radio Budapest transmitter sites.
Did another check of 6150 kHz at 0100 UT July 2 ... still nothing there.
I, too, get the feeling that Magyar Radio has pulled the plug.
From what I gather on various news sources the recently elected government
in Budapest is pushing its own version of the "new European austerity."
MR might have bowed to the inevitable and canceled the deal with Media
Broadcast, if such an arrangement actually ever existed.
(Steve Luce-TX-USA, dxld July 2)
For a check of the late night transmission on 3975: Nothing either. So it
indeed appears that MR on shortwave can be written off.
The noon transmission on 6025 kHz was missing, too. And the
Szueloefoelduenk programme aired last night on 3975 kHz ended with
pronounced references to the online services of Magyar Radio. So I suspect
the planned Wertachtal transmissions (already shown in the operational
schedule, issued May 27) will not start and Magyar Radio simply dropped
the whole affair instead.
In detail what was presumably the last ever transmission from Jaszbereny:
Carrier on 3975 kHz already on when first tuned in at 2057 UT, modulation
started at 2100 UT with opening of Szueloefoelduenk service. Towards the
end both the wrap-up of a certain programme and some kind of continuity
announcement prominently referred to online services, as discussed above.
Then one more time the old multilingual loop with all the voices that have
been fired three years ago. Towards 2200 the loop was accurately faded
down. Carrier dropped for good about five seconds later.
Here is a photo of the Jaszbereny site:
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