[HCDX]: Last night in Serbia

["Karel Honzik" <karel.honzik@xxxxxx>]

Several transmitter sites were destroyed last night (April 22/23) in Serbia
by NATO bombs.

Transmitter Beograd-1 (684 kHz) suddenly lost its modulation in the middle
of news at 0006 UTC (April 23). There was only a carrier and noise. The
noise surprisingly affected also the adjacent channels and there were
absolutely no signals audible on 675 kHz (Radio 10 Gold, Holland) and 693
kHz (BBC), both usually very strong here in the night. At 0032 the Beograd
transmitter was switched off and the stations on 675 a 693 kHz returned loud
and clear. In the morning the transmitter was back with its usual signal
level.
These times correspond with Radio Beograd´s announcement (in the morning
news) about bomb attacks on the center of Belgrade that started at 2:06 am
local time.

Radio Free Europe Serbian program seems to be on the air for the whole night
on 1458 kHz from Tirana, Albania. It is the transmitter which produces
terrible intermodulations on 1413 and 1503 kHz.
By the way - this transmitter was donated by China some 20 years ago during
the crisis between China and Soviet Union. It has been rebroadcasting Radio
Peking´s programs for Europe. Later, when another crises occured (this time
between China and Albania), the government in Tirana announced that the
transmitter will be given at disposal to the "heroic Vietnamese nation" for
rebroadcasts of Vietnam foreign service to Europe. But it never happened and
Tirana was using the transmitter for its own foreign service.

Karel Honzik
the Czech Republic
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