BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

The wording of the mentioned release suggests that probably *all*
shortwave transmissions will stay on air, like was the case when Radio
Norway International had been closed down and NRK could not get rid of the
transmission contract for another two years. But this will turn out
tomorrow anyway.
(later) And so it happened, at least on 6025 (9525 was skipping over me,
only a faint carrier could be detected here). As scheduled 3975 had been
switched to another feed at 2059:30 for Hungarian, probably recorded
material since it did not start with the Radio Budapest opener but was not
// 540 either, thus no relay of Kossuth.
English ran into the 2129 minute, not getting chopped off like German
before. After closing the program, an antenna switch had been made on 6025
while the other transmitter which had to change the frequency, too, came
on even later, only at 2130/31; apparently Jaszbereny site staff listens
before making switches and does not cut off programming that's still in
progress. Now Spanish is on, even with two announcers, talking about this
being the very last transmission as far as I can understand it. It should
indeed be the last foreign language transmission at all.
Btw, we just compared the Eutelsat Hotbird signal of Radio Budapest with
shortwave and found a nice analogue satellite delay between them. So
Jaszbereny still receives audio via terrestrial circuits.
Rimavska Sobota did as well while temporarily relaying Radio Budapest,
since it was practically synchronized with Jaszbereny. Good old steam
radio.
For me time to remember the song by Blankenfelder Boogie-Band, played via
FM here in eastern Germany exactly 15 years ago: Gut' Nacht, heut' Nacht.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 30)
Right now, in the 1200-1300 hour, 6025 is on, apparently relaying Kossuth.
The former Radio Budapest audio subcarrier on the analogue Duna TV
transponder on Eutelsat Hotbird 6 carries Kossuth as well. There is no
signal on 7275 kHz, scheduled to go on air on Sundays during this hour for
Gruss und Kuss (// 6025), so obviously they did not keep all shortwave
transmissions on air and the remaining schedule needs to be figured out
now.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld July 1)
Radio Budapest's last day of English broadcasting, on 30 June, with
unceremonious, with the usual play of Insight Central Europe, co-produced
with other international broadcasters of the region (Radio Prague, Radio
Austria International, etc.). The actual goodbye, albeit brief, came at
the end of the broadcast on 29 June. Listen to this mp3 excerpt.
The farewell message confirmed that Radio Budapest will continue
international broadcasts in Hungarian only. "This is part of changing the
programme structure of Hungarian public radio in order to have a more
cost-effective operation."
See Radio Netherlands Media Network blog, 30 June 2007.
And Pester Lloyd, 27 June 2007.
In its final days, the Radio Budapest English Service broadcast programs
from its archives, including several presented by its former head, Charlie
Coutts, who died in 2000. More about Mr. Coutts in his obituary,