The next Radio Caroline North broadcast live from Ross Revenge will take place on May 10-11th, 2025, and will feature former Laser 558 and Virgin Radio presenter, Tommy Rivers, as well as the regular line up of Emperor Rosko, Chris Williams, Kevin Turner, Ray Clark, Nick Jackson, Peter Philips, Johnny Lewis, Kevin Peters, Ellie Boyce and John Ellery.
(Radio Caroline Supporters Newsletter)
Mike Terry to nordx iog (2025-04-30)
From the New Zealand Radio DX League:
This also affects Newstalk ZB on 927AM and Gold Sport on 1089AM:
“On 12 May 2025 RNZ will be retiring its aging AM radio transmitter site at Kairanga.
The Kairanga site provides AM radio transmissions for the Manawatū-Whanganui region on the 1449 AM frequency.
Listeners to RNZ National on the 1449 AM frequency will need to retune to either 101.0 FM or 567 AM to continue to listen to RNZ National.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/Kairanga“
Svenn Martinsen to DXing.info FB group (2025-04-29)
The end of MW broadcasting from Denmark.
Radio208 will be closed down in the course of May 2025 – so 1440 kHz (currently 300 Watts; previously 650 Watts) will go silent. After having been on the air since December 17th 2019.
1422 in Central Copenhagen has already been switched off some weeks ago. It never worked as anticipated.
And World Music Radio (WMR) stopped broadcasting on 927 kHz some six months ago; and will not return. WMR will however continue on shortwave and through internet streaming.
There are several reasons for closing Radio208. First – it is very expensive to run two radio stations. For the past few years I have paid some 530 euro monthly for music royalties. Second – some “anti-broadcast DXers” (no MW stations in my backyard please!) have been opposing the use of 1440 from Copenhagen. Third: it would be very difficult to get a new experimental license for MW from the Danish authorities as of July 1st 2025 (obtaining a permanent license is not possible). And fourth: I want to concentrate on WMR, as well as a new local, non-commercial FM-station (which actually will generate a bit of income from government funding – instead of Radio208 generating a lot of expenses).
Stig Hartvig Nielsen (2025-04-29)
BIG SUNSPOT ALERT: A big new sunspot is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb, right here. The topology of its magnetic field is not yet visible, so we cannot assess its potential for solar flares. However, big sunspots often produce big flares, so stay tuned.
https://spaceweather.com/
Mike Terry to WOR iog (2025-04-28)
Harbour Light of the Windwards 1400 kHz on higher power.
Acc. to a reply from the station they have managed to raise the power from 2 to 5 kW on 25 April and plan to raise to full 10 kW in the near future.
73, Mauno Ritola to MWlist iog (2025-04-28)
The Harbour Light is back!
I was very pleased to hear the Harbour Light back on 1400 this morning, with an ID “This is the Harbour Light of the Windwards broadcasting from Carriacou. The time is now 11.02”
It had quite a strong signal about ten minutes later. I’ve been watching for their return since they lost their tower in Hurricane Beryl on 1st July 2024. I’ve seen no evidence of even a carrier until today, but they are back a few Hertz above CBC, just where they used to be. It’s a very commendable achievement that they should return to the air after such a significant setback. Well done, Harbour Light!
Andrew Brade to MWCircle iog (2025-04-27)
New Radio Station Alert: Bombo Radyo Malaybalay City on DXCB-AM 864khz is Currently Test Broadcast.
Time: 8:22pm (12:23 UTC)
Date: April 24, 2025
Received in Tacloban City
Taken from HiRadSpek23
Joshua Travis Santos to WRTH FB group (2025-04-24)
Yesterday, April 24, 2025, the TRT transmitter in Izmir was unexpectedly activated on 927 kHz. Presumably due to the earthquake, the cultural program was broadcast in good quality on 927 kHz in Salzburg until shortly after 11:00 PM UTC.
[Translated from German]
Christoph Ratzer to A-DX iog (2025-04-25)
CRI A25
https://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/cria25.htm
Alokesh Gupta to WOR iog (2025-04-25)
1116 kHz has not been used by CRI Russian at least for a decade, but Nagoya DX Club keeps indicating it….
1323uru (Urumqi) and 1323htb (Hutubi) seem to be the same, but there is also mysterious 1323cah in addition to a real 1323hei (Heilongjiang).
Alexander Miatlikov to WOR iog (2025-04-25)
This evening I heard Turkey on MW for the first time in many years.
On 927kHz Power 927 from Italy was sharing the channel with Radio Bir from Turkey.
The language definitely sounded like Turkish so I cross checked with the webstream from Radio Bir and also with a remote SDR in Cyprus (which wasn’t a good signal). Bir had time pips at 2200ut followed by news programme.
Reception on BDMR.
Steve Whitt to MWCircle iog
