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Romanian transmitter defective, observations

Saturday, March 07 2020



ROMANIA Logged today March 07 at 00.30-00.56 UT.

6040even ROU RRI Bucharest in Spanish language, powerful signal of S=9+30dB
in remote SDR's of Perseus and KiwiSDR net, at Cape Canaveral Florida,
Bonaire, Brazil; in SoAM, wonderful power signal, excellent audio from
bcast center Galbeni-1 tx service.

7325even ROU RRI Bucharest in Spanish language, powerful signal of S=9+30dB
in remote SDR's of Perseus and KiwiSDR net, at Cape Canaveral Florida,
Bonaire, Brazil; SoAM, wonderful power signal, excellent audio from
bcast center Galbeni-2 tx service at 00.37 UT.

9600 kHz channel is empty, nil RadioCom Tiganesti-tx#2 service tonight.

11800 ROU RRI Bucharest in Spanish language, heard on air via
bcast center Tiganesti-tx#3 reserve 300 kW service unit at 00.43 UT.
At present the signal in total South America is much limited,
not to say useless in 25 meterband path at this month of the year.

Useless in Trinidad and Canary Isls target.
S=4-5 in Cape Canaveral Florida state.

S=5-6 in Brazil, but co-channel equal level mixture with
CNR2 Business Radio from Beijing #491 bcast center,
from the east across the equator.

S=8 signal in Pardinho SP Brazil,
but n o t from RRI Tiganesti-ROU,
S=8 of CNR2 Beijing transmission ahead instead.

S=4-5 but of CNR2 Beijing signal in Chile and Colombia.

S=4 poor and tiny RRI ROU heard in (TWR Kiwi) at Bonaire Antilles.

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 7)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Groups.Io" Sent: Friday, March 06, 2020


Subject: [WOR] Romanian transmitter defective

Jimmy James on the ptsw iog points this out::

https://www.rri.ro/ro_ro/emitator_defect-2612551?fbclid=IwAR3ymgJgA3JlSP3xxeFoBKaUwOkS5bO71_VT1NF-NZYfG6N5XIEuMYE2Kos

Radio Romania International / News / Defective broadcaster
Defective transmitter
2020-02-25 12:00:00
Romania International

The transmitter BD 300-1, from Ţigăneşti, which broadcasts RRI programs, is
defective.
transceiver [sic] fault
The transmitter BD 300-1, from Ţigăneşti, which broadcasts Radio Romania
International programs, is defective, announced Radiocom, the transmission
service provider. Work is underway to restart the BD 300-3 transmitter
Ţigăneşti. In the meantime you can listen to RRI broadcasts on the second
shortwave frequency indicated on the RRI website for each broadcast.

Frequencies related to RRI broadcasts in Romanian language from 01.00 and
02.00 UTC to the United States, as well as the Sunday broadcast for Romanian
sailors from around the world, from 08.00 UTC to the Near East, 09.00 UTC to
the Arabian Peninsula, 10.00 UTC to the Maghreb.

The following programs in English are affected: 04.00 UTC to the USA, 06.30
UTC to Australia, 12.00 UTC to Africa, 18.00 UTC to the United Kingdom,
21.30 UTC to the USA, 23.00 UTC to Japan.

Frequencies related to French broadcasts from 06.00 UTC to Africa, 11.00 UTC
to Maghreb, 17.00 UTC to Western Europe are affected.

The following programs in German are affected: 15.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC
towards Western Europe. A German broadcast transmitted in DRM, at 07.00 UTC,
at 6175 kHz, was taken over by the transmitter BD 100-1, from Săftica site
instead.

The Spanish broadcasts are affected from 20.00 UTC to Spain, 22.00 UTC,
00.00 UTC and 03.00 UTC, all to Argentina.

The malfunction affects RRI programs in Russian from 05.30 UTC and 16.00 UTC
to European Russia, respectively 14.00 UTC to the Russian Far East.

Chinese RRI programs from 05.00 UTC and 13.30 UTC are affected.

The RRI broadcasts in the Arabic language from 07.30 UTC and 16.30 UTC to
Mashrek are affected, respectively the broadcast from 13.00 UTC to Maghreb.

Radiocom apologizes for this unpleasant situation and stated that it is
trying to remedy the fault at BD 300-1 as soon as possible and to operate in
the meantime with the BD 300-3 backup transmitter.


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