BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

from the end of 2007. This would mean the end of 567 and 729 and basically
the death of high-power MW in the Republic of Ireland.
Instead, there would be quasi-national AM Christian services for which
applications have currently been received at the BCI
(Herman Boel-BEL on EMWG Yahoo Group Jan 7)
The decision to "Close Radio 1 Medium wave", i.e. 567, is mentioned in the
document RTE's Guiding Principles published in November 2006
However, that document indicates that it will happen in Q4 2008, not 2007,
though it has already been "agreed and costed in the Five-Year plan.
(Andy Sennitt-HOL, dxld Jan 7)
The five applications for the Irish "quasi-national Christian and
religious service" submitted in October 2006 can be viewed in detail at:
Two of these mention RTE's 567 khz ceasing at the end of 2008 after which
RTE would like the channel to be left dormant for a period of time. (The
five applicants (CCN Ireland, R Maria, Spirit R, UCB Ireland & Yes R) put
forward a variety of proposals in the "Transmission Options" sections of
their applications, including using 612 kHz from the existing RTE site at
Tullamore, using 549 kHz from Co Monaghan etc etc)
RTE's Guiding Principles 2006 (dated Nov 2006) also shows "Close Radio 1
MW" (ie 567 kHz) in the final quarter of 2008.
If the closure of 567 kHz has now been bought forward by a year as
suggested by Herman Boel's report then it too could become
available for this new service, though I'm not sure why RTE would
change the timing of this so soon after publishing their
Guiding Principles document above, though they do have Radio 1 on
longwave still of course?
(Alan Pennington-UK, BrDXC-UK Jan 7)
From Herman Boel via the EMWG list
Hi all,
I just got the following interesting answers from RTE:
1) Yes we do still broadcast RTE Radio 1 on 729 kHz with an ERP of 10 kW.
2) RTE has no plan to shut down either 567 or 729 kHz at this point in
time.
3) RTE has no plan to shut down LW on 252 kHz at this point in time, and
of course we are looking at DRM as a possibility among others.
(Herman Boel-BEL,
(via Paul David-UK, mwdx Jan 9)
ISRAEL Galei Zahal observed on already two freqs: 6973 // 15785 kHz as
follows: Dec 30 at 1200-1430, Dec 31 at 0600-1100, Jan 2 at 1500-1800 and
Jan 3 at 0600-1400 UT.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 6)
ITALY Google Earth imagery. RAI Bozen Bolzano 657 kHz MW
46 24 17 N 11 17 26 E
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 11)
JAPAN 3925 Nikkei R. BC Corp., Nagara, 2222-2235, 26 Dec, Japanese,
talks, tunes; 34332, QRM de NAm amateurs. Noted the following evenings.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 4)