LOG: Re: Rikisutvarpid on 189 kHz

[Piet Pijpers <Piet.Pypers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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>
>Dear Piet Pijpers.
>
>Thank you for your report. The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
>(RUV) is now testing a new longwave transmitter 189 khz. It will be
>officially opened next month and will carry a mixture of our two radio
>programs we transmit on our FM network. The transmitter is located at
>Gufuskalar on the tip of Snaefellsnes peninsula, West Iceland. We are using
>a former US Navy loran mast, 412 meters high. The two transmitters are new,
>manufactured by Harris, each one 150 kilowatts.
>
>The new longwave facility is replacing an older one near Reykjavik that has
>existed since the beginning of RUV in 1930. The purpose is to reach our
>listeners at sea and inland, where we do not have FM transmitters. It is
>also a  back up to our FM system as part of our civil defence arrangements.
>
>We have a smaller longwave station at Eidar, East Iceland, near
>Seydisfjordur. It will broadcast on 207 khz. with a 100 kilowatt
>transmitter, starting soon. Perhaps you will monitor that one as well.
>Please let us know.
>
>
>Kind regards. 
>
>Markus Oern Antonsson
>Director
>Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.
>
>
>
>
>At 15:01 21.8.1997 +0200, you wrote:
>>>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:57:01
>>>To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>From: Piet Pijpers <Piet.Pypers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: LOG: Rikisutvarpid on 189 kHz
>>>Cc: mwcboard@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>Bcc: bdxc-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>ICELAND
>>>189  Rikisutvarpid, Reykjavik 0340-0402 Aug 21 Male talking in Scandinavian
>>language,
>>>mentioning the Faroer, Denmark and Iceland (Island) in one breath, Island
>>mentioned
>>>some times again. Weird nondescript piece of music and no timecheck at
>>0400. Signal
>>>deteriorated by then from fair (2.2 with 183 Felsberg hetting, making
>>signal somewhat
>>>muffled) to very weak or even non-existent. Work called at this moment, so
>>no time to
>>>check out further.
>>>
>>>Rx: Lowe HF225 Europe
>>>Antenna: ATL-3 LW/MW loop
>>>Location: 25 miles SW of Amsterdam
>>>
>>>
>>>                                73   Piet
>>
>>
>>