BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

These ones are probably well-known by now, but if not:
In front of the two mast antenna for 882 the building constructed to house
the Komintern transmitters (PDSV-1000 and DSV-150; the building itself is
a GDR industry standard), to the right the old building from the fifties
(Lorenz 5 kW, Funkwerk Koepenick 250 kW, ex-Erfurt Lorenz 20 kW, own
construction from former jammers 4 kW). To the right of the antenna was a
small 51 metres mast, to the left of it a trideco antenna, both already
gone when this photo had been made.
Feedline to 1323 antenna, even crossing a public road.
Feedline arriving at 1323 antenna.
1323 antenna with building of antenna tuning, now also housing the new
TRAM 1000 transmitter.
Control room in old transmitter building. Behind the operator's shoulder
the controls of the antenna matrix switch. Desk including audio switching,
standard audio level meter, industry standard intercom. Geithain speaker
out of frame to the right. A Dabendorf EKD series communications receiver
still sat above the meters when I visited the station in 1994, it should
have been in frame here, so apparently had already been removed at this
point.
This receiver was meant to pick up Radio Moscow programming from
dedicated SSB feed frequencies (reportedly transmit from a site near
Samara, but not the broadcasting site there, thus probably Novosemeykino)
if the audio circuit from Moscow failed, but I was told that often the
received signal was unusable, at least when it would have been needed.
The old audio circuit arrived at Frankfurt/Oder from where the signal had
been routed through the usual circuits to Wachenbrunn, its quality was
rather dubious, bandwith not much poorer than 10 kHz but quite distorted.
Thus the Russian side planned to upgrade to a satellite link already in
1994.
Unfortunately no pictures of the old transmitters. I had no camera with me
when I was there either, so all I could do is sharing more memories
verbally. The rumbling air cooling of the ex-Erfurt 20 kW and its glowing
tubes, the gentle hiss from the PDSV-1000 (gentle when considering that it
was churning out a megawatt of HF), standing inside the DSV-150 and so on.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX July 30)
1485drm Wie ich festgestellt habe, strahlt SWR auf 1485 kHz nun das
Programm "SWR cont.ra" aus, also nicht mehr "Das Ding" Jugendradio.
(Michael Bethge-D, wwdxc BC-DX July 30)
GERMANY/MALEDIVES Minivan Radio will resume shortwave broadcasts from 1
August. The Maldivian opposition station has only been available via the
Internet since it stopped shortwave broadcasts four months ago in
anticipation of winning an FM licence, but has so far been unable to
procure one. It has been decided to resume shortwave broadcasts in the
run-up to a referendum in late August on whether Maldivians want a
parliamentary system or presidential system of government. Broadcasts will
be daily at 1600-1700 UTC on 11965 kHz via a transmitter in Germany.