Thursday, February 08, 2007

Changes observed in Hungarian radio

HUNGARY No more OIRT frequency operation in Hungary.
I send you some information about the changes of the Hungarian Radio programs. The Hungarian Radio definitely stopped to transmit Kossuth Radio programs on 10 OIRT frequencies on 31.01.2007 at 24.00 hours.

The ceased transmitters are as follows:
Budapest: 67.40 MHz Kabhegy: 72.98 MHz Kekes: 71.21 MHz
Komadi 66.14 MHz Miskolc: 66.80 MHz Nagykanizsa: 71.03 MHz
Pecs: 71.81 MHz Sopron: 72.86 MHz Szentes: 66.29 MHz Tokaj: 71.33 MHz

At the same time from 01.02.2007 they launched the MR4 channel (Magyar Radio 4 = Hungarian Radio 4) for national minorities on 4 MW frequencies, namely: Budapest (Lakihegy) on 873 kHz; Pecs on 873 kHz; Marcali on 1188 kHz; Szolnok on 1188 kHz. MR4 uses also the Hot Bird 3 satellite at 20.00 - 08.00 hours for repetition of the preceding day program. (13 degree - East; transponder 72; frequency: 12.14944 GHz; polarisation V; dual mono; CH1 (L)

The Hungarian Radio from 01.02.2007 launched the MR5 channel (Magyar Radio 5 =3D Hungarian Radio 5) for the transmission of the live parliamentary sessions via Hot Bird 3 (13 degree - East; transponder 72; frequency: 12.14944 GHz; polarisation V; dual mono; CH2 (R) and via the Internet.
(Istvan Hegedus-HNG, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 3) c.f. bc-dx #792
(Source: WWDXC Top News (BC-DX # 793)