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GERMANY
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So, - DW shortwave and mediumwave radio relays via Russia and CIS states are now history?
Udo Deutscher touring Russia, missed St. Petersburg MW 1188 signal today:

DW stellt MW-Sendungen in Russland ein.
Die Deutsche Welle hat offenbar die MW-Sendungen in Moskau (693 kHz) und St. Petersburg (1188 kHz) eingestellt. An meinem derzeitigen Ferien-QTH in St. Petersburg ist auf 1188 seit gestern nur noch Rauschen (bzw. der übliche innenstädtische Störpegel mit S=9+) zu hören. Und auf der
Homepage der DW ist zu diesen Frequenzen der Vermerk "31.10.2010-31.12.2010" zu finden. Der gleiche Vermerk gilt auch anderen KW-Relais-Ausstrahlungen aus Russland (Grigoriopol, Krasnodar).

Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany via dxld yg (2/1-2011)

GERMANY
Oldiestar/Oranienburg, Germany on 603kHz is now broadcasting in AM instead of DRM-Noise.
Olaf Haenssler via mwcircle yg (2/1-2011)

GERMANY
More German medium wave closures announced today.
Sudwestrundfunk will be closing all mediumwave transmitters by the end of next year. Transmitters listed here, includes high power ones on 576 666 and 1017:
http://www.dxaktuell.de/?p=1355
German press item here includes video report from the Muhlacker 576 site which has been in use since 1930:
http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Muehlacker/arid,238008_puid,1_pageid,
87.html
Annual mains electricity cost of station is 380 000 Euro.
Mike Barraclough via mwdx yg (16/12-2010)

GERMANY
1422  DLF Heusweiler 400kW off air, on maintenance Oct 12 to 16, 2010, daily at 0700-1600 UT, antenna work.

1422  DLF. Bis einschliesslich Samstag, den 16.10. 2010 wird der Sender Heusweiler von 0900h bis 1800h MESZ{0700-1600 UT} ausser Betrieb genommen. Das wurde vorhin im DLF berichtet. Gruende wurden zwar nicht genannt, aber auch ich gehe davon aus, dass Wartungsarbeiten der Grund hierfuer sind.
Heinz Schulz, A-DX (12/10-2010)

1422  Am Rande habe ich mitbekommen, dass DLF Heusweiler, 400 kW, wegen Antennenarbeiten {heute?} ausser Betrieb ist. Bis circa 0700 UT noch auf Sendung, ist der Sender jetzt 0710 UT abgeschaltet. Das praechtige sonnige Hochdruckwetter beguenstigt die Arbeiten am Mast und Feederzufuehrung.
Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews (12/10-2010)

GERMANY
Hello Friends
Another MW-Transmitter says goodbye, SWR closing on October 15 their MW-Transmitter at Baden-Baden on 1485 kHz at 21.00 UTC.
Greetings Peter via mwdx yg (2/10-2010)

GERMANY
Hi, read in German DX-Magazine Radio-Kurier:
From the 26th of June to the 3rd of July 2010 the radio station "Welle370" will be on air on 810kHz with 10W from Königs Wusterhausen/D near Berlin.
Transmission time: 8:00UTC to 20:00UTC.
See:
http://www.funkerberg.de/welle370/
http://www.kulta-kw.de/index.php/kulta-welle-370
73s Olaf C.Haenssler via mwcircle (7/6-2010)

GERMANY
Now Radio Bremen officially announced the permanent shut down of their 936 kHz tx. After closing a month ago they did not announced anything and waited silently for listener complains. Only 200 were received.
The annual MW operating cost in the higher 5 figure EUR range could be better spent on other fields, considering that it is public station financed by our radio/TV license fee.
Interesting their statement that they do not expect a bright future for digital MW, a view probably shared among other ARD stations.
In German:
http://www.radiobremen.de/unternehmen/presse/unternehmen/mittelwelle100.html
Jurgen Bartels, Suellwarden, N. Germany via mwdx yg (22/4-2010)

GERMANY
Press release, issued yesterday [Radio Bremen/936 kHz]:
http://www.radiobremen.de/unternehmen/presse/unternehmen/mittelwelle100.html
Says that in the four weeks since the transmitter has been switched off they received just under 200 reactions, so little feedback that they decided to rather spend the money on new technologies and program formats, especially since "in all likelyhood there will be no
future-proof digitalization of mediumwave broadcasting".
It has been considered to keep the transmitter on air at reduced power, but the operational costs would still be too high to justify it.
As a gesture of appreciation the 200 listeners will be invited to a exclusive visit. (Comment: I suspect the event will become kind of a DX meeting...)
By the way, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk has at present no plans to give up any of its mediumwave frequencies (783, 882, 1044, 1188 kHz), sources hurried to tell even without being asked. In this case it are leased facilities, owned and operated by Media Broadcasting.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (22/4-2010)

GERMANY
Hallo Freunde, unter dem nachfolgenden Link:
http://mittelwellenfreunde.npage.de/
ist mein "kleines MW-Projekt" zu erreichen. Das Projekt umfasst Infos und ein kleines, einfaches Forum rund um das Thema Mittelwelle. Es ist von meiner Seite sicher noch viel zu tun, um es mit Leben zu füllen.
Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Ihr mal vorbei schaut.
73 aus Lünen Friedhelm Wittlieb (25/3-2010)

GERMANY
Radio Bremen 936 is off air since Wednesday, and it seems to be forever as mentioned in a newspaper article. They just test it and if complains are being received they will reconsider. However they have large financial problems and already started to join administration forces with NDR.
I suppose very few listen to 936, and I am glad to have one pest less.
Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany via mwdx yg (13/3-2010)

GERMANY
Antenne Saar is a special German-French information program launched in December 2005 by Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR). The programming consists largely of retransmissions of other SR programs. But every hour during the day there’s French language news from Radio France Internationale (RFI), as well as other broadcasts of RFI and Radio France.  The transmissions take place in DAB and on Medium Wave on 1179 kHz via 10 kw transmitter in Hausweiler. Up till 2nd of November 2009 the schedule was 7:00-17:00 UTC but it’s now expanded to 24 hours.
RundfunkstationeninDeutschland via UKWTV.de via DXing the Finnish Way (10/3-2010)

GERMANY
SWR Ulm Jungingen in AM mode on 711 kHz til March 8th, silent on March 9th, move to new 1413 kHz from Wednesday March 10th, 2010.
SWR Heilbronn Obereisesheim remains on 711 kHz, and will get a new DRM mode
capable unit in near future. At present the AM unit is faulty and a lower power reserve unit is in use.
I guess Obereisesheim will be used only at night time from 2300 to 0400 UT in DRM mode then ... but furthermore still on AM Mode at 0400-2300 UT.
Wolfgang Bueschel via mwdx yg (9/8-2010)

GERMANY
SWR Cont.Ra on new MW frequency 1413 kHz in the Ulm area [instead of 711 kHz] from March 10th.

SWR Cont.Ra auf Mittelwelle.
http://www.swr.de/contra/-/id=7612/nid=7612/did=5568236/1am91ht/index.html
"Raum Ulm: aus 711 kHz wird 1413 kHz. Unsere Hoerer in Ulm koennen sich freuen:
Ab Mittwoch 10. Maerz 2010 haben sie einen deutlich besseren Empfang auf einer neuen Frequenz. SWR Cont.Ra hoeren sie dann im Raum Ulm auf Mittelwelle 1413 kHz (bis Montag 8. Maerz noch auf 711 kHz)."

Die Trennung der SWR Gleichwellensender 711 kHz (frueher auch ueber den stillgelegten SDR Heidelberg Dossenheim Sender) Heilbronn Obereisesheim und Ulm Jungingen hat wohl auch den zukuenftigen DRM Modus im Blickfeld - wenn dann Weihnachten die neuen DRM Empfaenger aus Indien und China anrollen.

711 kHz mag ja tagsueber lokal gehen, 702 kHz aus Monaco und 720 kHz aus Langenberg sind hier nicht allzu stark. Aber ob in Ulm Jungingen 1413 kHz Signale von DLF Saarland 1422 kHz bei einer DRM Bandbreite sauber zu trennen sind ... ?

Die Mittelwelle 1413 kHz wurde frueher von den SDR Sendern Bad Mergentheim (Am Kettenwald), Buchen-Wallduern (Hainstadt), Wertheim (Oberer Haag), sowie Heidenheim (Schloss Hellenstein) genutzt, oder zumindest koordiniert. Damit konnte man die Versorgung im Norden Baden-Wuerttembergs sicherstellen, da der Grundsender SDR Muehlacker auf 575/576 kHz in Richtung Baltikum und DDR seine Leistung drastisch einschraenken musste.
http://home.arcor.de/berlin-rundflug/download/MW-Datenbank.pdf
Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany (8/3-2010)

GERMANY / ESTONIA
ERF via Tartu Pereraadio to increase effect from 100 to 200 kW [on 1035 kHz - see News Archive].

Thema:
Verdoppelte Sendeleistung: Radioprogramme in Russisch fuer 159 Mio. Menschen.
ERF Medien unterstuetzt Sendungen von TWR aus Estland.
Tartu/Wetzlar (ERF). Der Mittelwellensender Tartu Pereraadio in Estland wird in diesem Jahr seine Leistung von 100 auf 200 Kilowatt verdoppeln. Damit ist der christliche Sender in der Lage die potentielle Hoererschaft von 107 auf 159 Millionen zu erhoehen. Das gab TWR-Praesident Lauren Libby (Cary/USA) bekannt. Die Kosten dafuer bezifferte Libby auf fast 300.000 Euro, die durch Spenden aufgebracht werden sollen. TWR ist der internationale Partner von ERF Medien.
 
TWR und ERF Medien (Wetzlar) senden taeglich vier Stunden Programm in russischer Sprache ueber den Sender in Tartu. Der ERF beteiligt sich nach Angaben des Leiters Internationale Projekte, Dr. Thorsten Grahn, sowohl personell als auch finanziell am Produzieren und Ausstrahlen der Sendungen.
 
Fuer TWR und ERF Medien ersetzen die Ausstrahlungen aus Estland seit Mitte 2008 den Verlust der Sendemoeglichkeiten fuer das Zielgebiet Russland, die Ende 2007 ueber die russischen Sender Radio Mayak und Junost weggefallen waren. Die bis dahin taeglichen christlichen Sendungen ueber die staatlichen Sender waren von den Betreibern nach 16 Jahren aus dem Programm genommen worden. Die beiden Radiomissionen betreiben ein Studio in St. Petersburg und Krasnojarsk (Sibirien). Sendungen in russischer Sprache werden auch ueber einen Sender in Moldawien verbreitet, der die Ukraine, Weissrussland und Teile Russlands erreicht. Ferner produzieren die Mitarbeiter in Krasnojarsk Beitraege, die bei lokalen UKW-Sendern in Sibirien ausgestrahlt werden. Ausserdem sendet TWR ein Programm in Russisch rund um die Uhr ueber das Internet.
Source: ERF Wetzlar via Harald Kuhl, Germany (1/3-2010)

GERMANY
Recent observations from Scandinavia about the DRM hiss being gone from 729 kHz can be fully confirmed: Gerhard Roleder reported in the Radio-Kurier magazine that Deutschlandradio cancelled it on 31 Dec 2009.
It now also shows up in a presentation of "available mediumwave transmitters that can be put on air immediately":
http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Freie-MW-Vers-jan10.pdf
What catches one's eye most here is of course the inclusion of 1539 kHz. Apparently Evangeliums-Rundfunk plans to stop its mediumwave transmissions altogether. At present http://www.erf.de/1212-Empfang.html mentions as remaining airtime 0500-0900 and 1830-2200 UT, but I think it now needs to be confirmed if 1539 is still on air at all.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (6/2-2010)
I heard TWR in the morning (close to 0900) on 1539 about a week ago. I'll try to monitor it again.
Sergei via dxld yg (6/2-2010)
ERF has stopped transmitting at daytime so you can rent it at that times. But there are no plans to stop completely and - what's interesting - M&B is restricted of whom they an lease the available airtime to.
73, Stephan Schaa via dxld yg (7/2-2010)
I'm hearing ERF (presumed) this Sun. morning at around 6.30 UT on 1539.
73, Sergei via dxld yg (7/2-2010) 

GERMANY
Hessischer Rundfunk 593 / 594 kHz. After the news and followed by announcement of night concert relay at 00.05:33 CET on Jan 1st, 2010 Hessische Rundfunk Frankfurt's
mediumwave stations at Weiskirchen and Hoher Meissner switched off for ever.
So a mixture of Bulgarian, Moroccoan and Portuguese programes remain on our ears here in southern Germany.
Personally heard this program often in past 58 years.
History.
Radio Frankfurt started after WW II on Aug 23, 1947 at Heiligenstock site[by Reichspost in 1935y] via movable mediumwave "Martha" transmitter, which carried on 14 trucks and was one of numerous movable transmitter units by former "Reichspost" and used by special technical forces from places all over Europe, like Soldatensender Belgrade, in Sowjetunion, Netherlands, Norway and Karelia Finland. Four towers at 121 m height. Was screeend
towards 16 and 121 degrees at Sundvall-SWE and Pleven-BUL.
Replaced on Oct 16, 1967 to new Weiskirchen site. Maximal 950 kW ERP, screened towards Sundvall-SWE and Sofia-BUL at 50°03'21.82"N 08°51'45.42"E
To cover Northern Hessen due to the screening towards Sweden, Hessischer Rundfunk erected a smaller relay station at Hoher Meissner (Hausen Lichtenau) on June 1, 1952. Started with 20 kW, was increased later to 100 and then maximal 250 kW of power during cold war time. Two towers of 110 and 160 m height. Signals were also screened at 17 and 127 degrs.
This caused a heavy buzz on daytime, because exact sychronization between the two MW locations was not very sufficient these days in 1952, 1953 ...
The station was also well heard up to 300 kilometers into communist GDR (Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany) area.
Wolfgang Bueschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews (1/1-2010)

GERMANY
Oldiestar from Zehlendorf, Germany now on 603 kHz. 18:15 UTC 14-12-2009
Fair reception here in Ardenne, Belgium. Best receiving station on this frequency.
Greetings from Ge Huijbens, Beffe, Belgium via emwg yg (16/12-2009)

GERMANY
There will be a special broadcast from DDH47 on 147.3 kHz in December:
On 10th of December 1909 Prof. F. Braun and G. Marconi received the Nobel Prize for Physics at Stockholm. Both gentlemen were honoured for their developments in the field of wireless communication.
On its 100th anniversary, Prof. Braun Day (DL0PFB) will make a special transmission with the longwave transmitter DDH47 (147,3 kHz) of National Weather Service Deutscher Wetterdienst.
From 9th December 2009 23:00 until 10th December 2009 01:00 UTC the transmitter is available for 2 hours in telegraphy.
All people are invited to listen to the telegraphic transmissions of DDH47 and radio amateurs may contact DL0PFB on shortwave in cw only. DL0PFB answers to calls on the declared frequencies and keys DDH47 sometimes in parallel.
During silence periods (h+15-18 and h+45-48) of former maritime radio service, there is ultra slow keying ( 1 dot in 3 seconds ) for long distance tests. The names of famous wireless pioneers will be keyed in that time for proof of reception!

Prof. Braun Day issues a special QSL card, contacts are exchanged via DARC Bureau or direct, when circumstances allow:
(Deutschland SASE, Europe postage 2 US Dollars, overseas postage 4 US Dollars, No IRC)
Contact: Prof. Braun Day, c/o J. Gerpott, Rebhuhnweg 21, 22880 Wedel, Germany.
When: 9. Dezember 2009, 2300 UTC until 10. Dezember 2009, 0100 UTC.
Transmit : DDH47 147,3 kHz und DL0PFB : (3565, 7025, 14052 kHz +/- qrm),
Receive : DL0PFB only shortwave, see above
QRS3 : hourly +15 to +18, and +45 to +48, ulta slow keying 1 Dot in 3 Seconds.
Reception reports are welcome, especially from overseas!
Internet: http://www.mmqtc-award.org
Alan Gale via Steve Whitt, mwcircle yg (7/11-2009)

GERMANY
As of today SR Heusweiler 1179 kHz will be on air around the clock:
http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?8773,747081
"1422Member" is an employee of Saarländischer Rundfunk, directly involved in the operation of the Heusweiler site, so this is first-hand info.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (2/11-2009)
1179 kHz is a Transradio TRAM 10 transmitter with 10 kW. It had been put on air in 2005 for Antenne Saar, a new talk program. Antenne Saar also relays RFI in French and DW in English, in order to ensure that nobody tunes in as polemics say. Only after lobbying from listeners they added RFI's German service to the program line-up, too.
Cf. http://www.sr-online.de/antennesaar/2113/
This transmitter uses the back-up antenna for 1422 kHz. Thus the frequency can not be too far away from 1422, because the back-up function (with a Telefunken, now Transradio, S 4002 transmitter) must still be ensured. If necessary 1179 will be taken off air in favour of 1422 of course. No idea why 1179, which is already at the fringe of the possible range. Probably the authority would have to be asked if no other frequency somewhere above 1179 kHz could be found.
Heusweiler is about 100 km away from the 1440 kHz transmitter in Luxembourg. The reference is quite appropriate, since the high power service on 1422 was a retaliation for Radio Luxemburg on 1440. In last year the 2 x 600 kW Thomson transmitters from the early seventies had been replaced by a new 400 kW installation, dramatically improving the audio quality. The old facility has been polemically described as sounding like a pressure chamber loudspeaker that has been put into a tin. An allegedly authentic photo shows an audio filter with the high-pass set to 320 Hz.
http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/heusweiler_launch.html
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (3/11-2009)

GERMANY
AFN Bavaria put a new 1485 kHz transmitter on air at Garmisch-Partenkirchen:
http://bavaria.afneurope.net/ArticleDisplayDD/tabid/707/aid/10052/Default.aspx

They say that it took them quite some time to find an environmental-wise suitable location. So this is apparently indeed a new location, not the old one that had been closed down at some point in the past, probably towards the end of the nineties.

http://www.northernstar.no/afrs.htm says that this old transmitter was infamous for poor groundwave coverage, hardly exceeding three kilometres.

For the new transmitter the engineer says that he hopes it will reach "to the autobahn", which would be about ten kilometres. The video footage reveals a quite simple antenna, just a long whip with some wires as top load. Noteworth in the audio rack is an old analogue Optimod, almost dwarfing all the other equipment.

Concerning the soldier (actually I was surprised about an AFN presenter only ranking as Private) announcing new FM coverage for Grafenwöhr, Vilseck and Bamberg, complementing but presumably not replacing 1107/1143 kHz: A few days ago a new transmitter in Grafenwöhr already went on air, on 98.5 MHz.
Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (17/10-2009)

GERMANY
1000UTC WDR 720 khz is silent. Maintenance will take place during 3 weeks on the antennas of 720 khz and 1593 khz DRM daily from 0800-1900 hours CET.
Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands via mwc yg (13/10-2009)

GERMANY
Because of high energy cost, from July 1, 2009, ERF Radio cuts back airtime on mediumwave 1539 kHz: they will be on the air daily 5 till 8 UTC and 1730 till 2100 UTC.

----Urspruengliche Mitteilung-----
Von: regina.ratanski@erf.de
Verschickt: Mi., 3. Jun. 2009, 16:43
Thema: ERF Radio reduziert Sendezeit ueber Mittelwelle 1539.
ERF Radio reduziert Sendezeit ueber Mittelwelle 1539.

Alternative Angebote ueber Satellit, Kabel und Internet.

Wetzlar/Mainflingen (ERF). ERF Medien reduziert seine Sendezeit über die Mittelwelle 1539 kHz in Mainflingen bei Hanau. Nach Angaben von ERF Vorstand Hartmut Diehl geschieht dies auch aus Kostengruenden. Die Ausgaben fuer Strom bei dem Sender bezifferte Diehl mit jaehrlich rund 280.000 Euro.

Die Hauptsendezeiten am Morgen und am Abend sollen aber beibehalten werden. Tagsueber, wenn die Mittelwelle nur in Regionen um den Sender zu empfangen ist, werde die Leistung eingespart. Gleichzeitig sei aber ERF Radio ueber Satellit, im Kabel (beides analog und digital) und ueber Internet (www.erf.de) zu empfangen. Bislang sendete ERF Radio taeglich 19 Stunden aus Mainflingen von 6 bis 24 Uhr.

Ab 1. Juli wird ERF Radio von 7 bis 10 Uhr und von 19.30 Uhr bis 23 Uhr ueber die Mittelwelle 1539 kHz bundesweit zu empfangen sein.

ERF Radio ist seit April 1996 ueber den ehemaligen Deutschlandfunk-Sender zu hoeren. Die Telekom hat 2005 den alten 1962 errichteten Sender durch einen auch fuer die digitale Mittelwelle tauglichen Sender ersetzt.
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Harald Kuhl (3/6-2009)

GERMANY
Dear Mr. Ritz(!),
for World Poetry Day on March 21st, the Italian sound artist Alessandro Bosetti is launching his radio speech machine "arcoparlante" on the German Deutschlandradio's medium and long wave frequencies and on the internet. Please join us in this pleasant game and please forward Alessandro's call for participants.
Thank you very much in advance!
With kind regards, Marianne Allweiss

In search of participants for ARCOPARLANTE, a live radio experiment !
On March 21st, together with the radio-art group of Deutschlandradio, I will organize a big STILLE POST ("telephone", telefono senza fili etc...) game. We will be using the middle/long waves and internet streams of the radio station. For four hours, between 8pm and midnight, european time (2pm and 6pm USA east coast time ), a speaker will broadcast several transcriptions from my personal collection of "incomprehensible radio broadcastings". These are recordings of broadcasted speech where neither the language spoken nor the meaning are decipherable. The only certain thing is that they will contain HUMAN SPEECH.
The listeners ( that's YOU !!) will be asked to transcribe what they hear and ( believe to ) understand. Then send it back to us, via email or telephone. In the best case scenario, this will happen in real time. We will be including all the new transcriptions we receive from you into the broadcasting. We will give them to the speaker right away and then feed the "arcoparlante" circle one more time. You are also welcome to send us your transcriptions LATER, by post, passenger pigeon, by hand, etc....
We encourage all listeners (yes, YOU, again !) to record the moments while you listen and try to figure out what the texts are. Feel free to use any recording device (from very good to very bad quality). We'll take anything from cassettes, mini cassettes, cd's, minidisks, audiofiles etc....
So, invite some friends for dinner (if you are in Europe or Africa), for a late lunch or coffee ( if in the Americas) or for breakfast (if you are in Asia ), turn on your radio and play with us !!
Eventually, I will re-compose all the scattered recorded bits and pieces. All these materials will become the building blocks of a final composition.
This is how you can tune in and receive the "arcoparlante" broadcasting on your radio or computer :
Medium Wave : 855 and 990 KHz
Long Wave : 153 and 177 KHz
Satellite : ASTRA 1, Transponder 77, ZDF.vision
Internet stream : http://www.dradio.de/streaming/dplus.m3u
This is how you can reach us :
Snail mail :
Deutschlandradio Kultur
Hoerspiel / Klangkunst
Hans-Rosenthal-Platz
D-10825 Berlin
e-mail : klangkunst@dradio.de
Phone : 00 800 800 22 11 (only during the broadcast)
Fax : +49 (0)30 8503 940 5585
We hope to hear from you and to play with you !! And don't forget to spread the word about ARCOPARLANTE !
Cheers from Berlin, Alessandro Bosetti (9/3-2009)

GERMANY
Blast knocks AFN Germany off the air on 873 kHz.
Stars and Stripes http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53798
Wolfgang Büschel, Germany (4/4-2008)

GERMANY
According to information from the DX 183, where the station has been monitored, Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) has activated the 10 kW xmitter in Heusweiler on 1179 kHz. This frequency has SR 3 programme, and is on air from 8-18 local time (7-17 UTC). News from Paris every half hour.
Ydun Ritz (29/11-2005)

GERMANY
(Northrhine-Westphalia): On the occasion of the RC World Youth Convention, the regional public broadcaster WDR Cologne will broadcast a special "Weltjugendtags-Radio". The programme will be heard from 15 August 9.00 h CEST (7.00 UTC) until 21 August 20.00 h CEST (18.00 UTC) on the following frequencies: locally Cologne FM 87,6 MHz, all over Northrhine-Westphalia with an additional coverage of neighbouring states and countries on the mediumwave frequencies Langenberg 720 kHz and Bonn 774 kHz. The special programme is carried 9.00-23.00 Uhr CEST (7.00-21.00 h) while the rest is a relay from WDR 5 and WDR Funkhaus Europa. International QSL-hunters might appreciate the fact, that the special programme will include service announcements in many different languages, including English at the half hour (:30).
Dr. Hansjoerg Biener (4/8-2005)

GERMANY
Dear Ydun, as reported in the forum of www.ukwtv.de the SWR-tx at Rohrdorf on 666 kHz, currently carrying the programme of "SWR cont.ra", will be signing of for some hours during nightime from June 1st. Exact off-times are unknown yet.
Regards, Sascha Zimmer, Viersen, Germany (20/5-2005)
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