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Message from Calico at Saturday, 11-Dec-10 21:44:31 GMT
With sadness, I relay the following:
As of 11 February 2011, Greenland ceases all broadcasts on Medium and Short Waves.
"It is the Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Transport in Greenland, which has decided to dismantle the five medium-wave transmitters, respectively. Upernavik (810 kHz), Uummannaq (900 kHz), Qeqertarsuaq (650 kHz), Nuuk (570 kHz) and Simiutaq (720 kHz). The transmitters are between 5 and 10 kW.
...From 11 February next year it will only be in Greenlandic towns and villages, you could hear the KNR. The vast majority of FM transmitters here uses send forces between 10 and 50 watts, and has a very limited range..
Also end with a short wave from Greenland
In the past few years, the main news broadcasts from KNR has been broadcast on a low power SSB shortwave broadcasts from the Greenlandic town of Tasiilaq. These broadcasts also disbanded at. 11. February.
Plans for an AM short wave transmitter at Telegraføen off Nuuk were downsized during the negotiations for DVBT. The investment was more than 5 million. And the annual operating costs were too high. Furthermore, it was estimated that few users would invest in a shortwave receiver, and that the quality would otherwise be questionable and very dependent on atmospheric phenomena, "explains Mads Byrialsen."
Farewell KNR! Thank you for 50 years of MW …
Source: http://www.radionyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=18070
As of 11 February 2011, Greenland ceases all broadcasts on Medium and Short Waves.
"It is the Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Transport in Greenland, which has decided to dismantle the five medium-wave transmitters, respectively. Upernavik (810 kHz), Uummannaq (900 kHz), Qeqertarsuaq (650 kHz), Nuuk (570 kHz) and Simiutaq (720 kHz). The transmitters are between 5 and 10 kW.
...From 11 February next year it will only be in Greenlandic towns and villages, you could hear the KNR. The vast majority of FM transmitters here uses send forces between 10 and 50 watts, and has a very limited range..
Also end with a short wave from Greenland
In the past few years, the main news broadcasts from KNR has been broadcast on a low power SSB shortwave broadcasts from the Greenlandic town of Tasiilaq. These broadcasts also disbanded at. 11. February.
Plans for an AM short wave transmitter at Telegraføen off Nuuk were downsized during the negotiations for DVBT. The investment was more than 5 million. And the annual operating costs were too high. Furthermore, it was estimated that few users would invest in a shortwave receiver, and that the quality would otherwise be questionable and very dependent on atmospheric phenomena, "explains Mads Byrialsen."
Farewell KNR! Thank you for 50 years of MW …
Source: http://www.radionyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=18070
Message from Calico at Sunday, 12-Dec-10 09:12:59 GMT
Greenland's radio-scape may be understood more if it was also considered in the light of:
1)Its tiny population, (only 56 000 people)
2)Its financial situation; about $ 500 million-which is half Greenland's revenues (!)-comes in the form of a grant, straight from Copenhagen.
Then even the amount of 1.5 million kr that is needed annually to run the AM stations starts appearing as a precious national resource.
Hopefully the current economic climate won't push more AM stations off the cliff...
1)Its tiny population, (only 56 000 people)
2)Its financial situation; about $ 500 million-which is half Greenland's revenues (!)-comes in the form of a grant, straight from Copenhagen.
Then even the amount of 1.5 million kr that is needed annually to run the AM stations starts appearing as a precious national resource.
Hopefully the current economic climate won't push more AM stations off the cliff...
Message from Lanta at Monday, 13-Dec-10 02:27:26 GMT
Some web tips
Medium Wave News http://mediumwave.info/news.html
KRN Greenland Homepage (English) http://www.knr.gl/?id=13
73 Herman
Medium Wave News http://mediumwave.info/news.html
KRN Greenland Homepage (English) http://www.knr.gl/?id=13
73 Herman
Message from Calico at Tuesday, 04-Jan-11 19:29:33 GMT
Along with the developments in Norway (*) there are so many stations going on and off the air, that it would be impractical to start a new thread for every station's news.
Hence this thread was renamed to "MW/SW Station News" from "Greenland gives up all MW & SW"
*(see recent posting in News http://www.globaltuners.com/forum/thread.php?tid=872)
Hence this thread was renamed to "MW/SW Station News" from "Greenland gives up all MW & SW"
*(see recent posting in News http://www.globaltuners.com/forum/thread.php?tid=872)
Message from Calico at Tuesday, 04-Jan-11 19:48:53 GMT
Last chance for QSLs, they are lovely and the station has been on since 1930..
Germany's SWR (Sudwestrundfunk) is closing down all of its Medium Wave Stations by the end of 2011.
MÜHLACKER (586 kHz/100 kW) electricity costs were in the range of 380 000 euro annually, unaffordable.
Report (sadly) titled "The end for medium wave MÜHLACKER: era ends" and good video of the station at:
http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Muehlacker/arid,238008_puid,1_pageid,87.html
More about frequencies and background at:
http://www.dxaktuell.de/?p=1355
Germany's SWR (Sudwestrundfunk) is closing down all of its Medium Wave Stations by the end of 2011.
MÜHLACKER (586 kHz/100 kW) electricity costs were in the range of 380 000 euro annually, unaffordable.
Report (sadly) titled "The end for medium wave MÜHLACKER: era ends" and good video of the station at:
http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Muehlacker/arid,238008_puid,1_pageid,87.html
More about frequencies and background at:
http://www.dxaktuell.de/?p=1355
Message from nickstr1 at Thursday, 13-Jan-11 02:18:15 GMT
I just ran across this gem and thought others might be interested. For those of you who have never heard AM stereo (MW stereo) this will be a real treat. Even though they too have a 9 KHz band step Japan has it working even with this level of bandwidth and remarkably good sound quality. This recording is of JOHR 1287 Sapporo Japan as received in Tokyo on a custom receiver based around the MC13022 decoder IC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMAPKTnJtnA
Found others too, this one really demonstrates the channel separation you get with the C-QUAM technology. Its the beginning of a special program aired on JOQR 1134 Tokyo Japan called Welcome To Stereo showing their first moments of AM stereo broadcasting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLyNcSmAVE&feature=related
Another one of JOQR from that program with their QSL card after the transition mentioning AM stereo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD2BvQ5_7UE&feature=related
And finally two of the famous QR Song, those of you in Japan might recognize this one as JOQR still runs it to this day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbidC00dLA&feature=related
This one was received on a consumer level AM stereo receiver but sadly there is some interference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFqqqU-z0Yg&feature=related
Last edited by nickstr1 at Thursday, 13-Jan-11 02:32:49 UTC
Found others too, this one really demonstrates the channel separation you get with the C-QUAM technology. Its the beginning of a special program aired on JOQR 1134 Tokyo Japan called Welcome To Stereo showing their first moments of AM stereo broadcasting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLyNcSmAVE&feature=related
Another one of JOQR from that program with their QSL card after the transition mentioning AM stereo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD2BvQ5_7UE&feature=related
And finally two of the famous QR Song, those of you in Japan might recognize this one as JOQR still runs it to this day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbidC00dLA&feature=related
This one was received on a consumer level AM stereo receiver but sadly there is some interference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFqqqU-z0Yg&feature=related
Last edited by nickstr1 at Thursday, 13-Jan-11 02:32:49 UTC
Message from Calico at Thursday, 13-Jan-11 09:02:26 GMT
What lovely audio indeed, thanks for the links Nick !
It must be me going deaf in my old days, but I can't notice any L/R Channel separation, can you ?
Or is it a YouTube thingy, or perhaps my headphones ? Checked the "Balance" setting on my mixer, it's in the center.
It must be me going deaf in my old days, but I can't notice any L/R Channel separation, can you ?
Or is it a YouTube thingy, or perhaps my headphones ? Checked the "Balance" setting on my mixer, it's in the center.
Message from RX-Hogger at Sunday, 16-Jan-11 01:49:57 GMT
Tonight at midnight in central Europe on Jan 15/16, 2011, Magyar Katolikus Rádió in Hungary closed down on 810 kHz & 1341 kHz and ceased broadcasting on mediumwave at local midnight or 2300 UTC, they did not renew their AM broadcast license and plan to move into the FM band. In my QTH in Germany on 1341 kHz Magyar Katolikus Rádió had a very dominant big signal which would sometimes be powerful enough to wipe out BBC Radio Ulster from Lisnagarvey (which now is received very well with only minor QRM).
73, AMFMLIST (Björn)
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http://www.amlist.org/ - http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php
73, AMFMLIST (Björn)
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http://www.amlist.org/ - http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php
Message from Lanta at Sunday, 16-Jan-11 02:15:26 GMT
The are still on 540 and 1188 and 1251 khz to if I'm right ? I neder hear them on the freq that you talk about. Very sad that more and more MW stations close down for good
73 Herman
73 Herman
Message from Calico at Sunday, 16-Jan-11 11:54:12 GMT
Thanks for passing this on Bjorn.
Sad times for AM both on MF & HF with so many long established stations perishing.
What else can one say other than it's a race against time now..
The one A.M. (MF & HF) station is closing down after the other, I fear of a snowball effect, an increasing stampede of Stations' exodus from MF and HF, just like it happened back in 1999 with Coast Stations of Marine Radio (Inmarsat etc).
Some of us may have heard of a song, "Video killed the radio star", we could very-very soon be talking about "Digital Media killed Radio"
(http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/videokilledtheradiostarlyrics.html)
Am trying here, just as a teeny-tiny-tiny sign of respect to that technology, to record a few MW frequencies, ID them (with the help of mwlist, radio-locator, topazdesigns,etc) and upload them on YouTube as a record, a post-card from the past when these stations may not be with us anymore.
For anyone interested in this fascinating form of DX, now is the time guys, maybe later we won't have much of a hobby...sigh-sigh-sigh-sigh
Tim
Sad times for AM both on MF & HF with so many long established stations perishing.
What else can one say other than it's a race against time now..
The one A.M. (MF & HF) station is closing down after the other, I fear of a snowball effect, an increasing stampede of Stations' exodus from MF and HF, just like it happened back in 1999 with Coast Stations of Marine Radio (Inmarsat etc).
Some of us may have heard of a song, "Video killed the radio star", we could very-very soon be talking about "Digital Media killed Radio"
(http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/videokilledtheradiostarlyrics.html)
Am trying here, just as a teeny-tiny-tiny sign of respect to that technology, to record a few MW frequencies, ID them (with the help of mwlist, radio-locator, topazdesigns,etc) and upload them on YouTube as a record, a post-card from the past when these stations may not be with us anymore.
For anyone interested in this fascinating form of DX, now is the time guys, maybe later we won't have much of a hobby...sigh-sigh-sigh-sigh
Tim
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