BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Looked after the frequencies for Radio Romania International in German: No
need for adjustments during the reconstruction work at Galbeni here, they
had cut back to two frequencies for A07 anyway, as shown at
But will the "upgrading works" really concern the "antenna system" only?
Today 9760, on air 1400-1500 for Romanian, was again (I think I reported
such observations already a couple of times) mostly a loud hiss, with
program audio being audible underneath only. So apparently the
transmission systems are in really dire need of a repair.
In the past Galbeni had alongside the two 250 kW shortwave transmitters
(and mediumwave 1179) also two further, presumably very old transmitters
of 120 kW each. One of them carried Romania Actualitati, the other one was
leased by Radio Moldova International, and both suffered from a horribly
distorted modulation. They finally went off years ago and Radio Moldova
International resorted to webcasting only. I have to admit that I was
quite surprised to find that they are still around, with the link to their
MP3 stream labelled as "on air" and giving a schedule which is still the
same than for the shortwave transmissions gone years ago.
has also two studio pictures, still with the equipment from the USSR days,
interestingly not including the ubiquitous Oktava's but instead Gefell
mics.
The one on the announcer's desk is an UM70, and these mics were the
workhorses in East German radio studios. I know a guy who in the early
nineties got a high quality condenser mic from some idiots who considered
any East German products as trash with no value: In some junk shop he
spotted an item presented like in this picture
He recognized it only as "hey, a DT64 mic!" and took it out of
nostalgia away for the little money the shop wanted for it (in fact he
still is too ashamed to tell how small the price in fact was). Years later
he learned what a more regular price for these mics would be and sent his
one to Microtech Gefell to get it refurbished to perfectly working order.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 9)
RUSSIA TDP station R.Xoriyo Ogadenia in
Somali via TRW from May 19:
1600-1630 15260 SAM 250kW 188deg to EaAf Tue/Sat, x1600-1700 Tue
TRW=TV Radio Wawes
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX June 5)
CLANDESTINE (Russia/Chechnya): RADIO FREE CHECHNYA / RADIO CHECHNYA
SVOBODNAYA: via SAINT PETERSBURG (KRASNY BOR), 7330 kHz. Full-data
(including site; power; and "Radio Chechnya Svobodnaya") long Saint
Petersburg Regional Center transmitter and antenna scenes card in 7.5
years with no follow-up reports. No response yet to slightly more recent
reports although I sent follow-ups for them.
(Wendel Craighead-KS-USA, DXplorer June 8)
SAUDI ARABIA Heard 15250 May 23; they identified as Broadcasting Service
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 1213 UT, signed off 1227 UT as English
service of Radio Jeddah, "we have been transmitting on the following
frequencies" and then abrupt off.
(Mike Barraclough, June WDXC Contact direct and via dxld)