ICELAND RéV SW relays will end 1 July. The Icelandic public broadcaster RUV officially announced that the relays of its newscasts on shortwave will end on 1 July. (Bernd Trutenau-LTU, DXplorer June 29)
13865 AM/USB, Rikisutvarpid, hrd at 1240-1249* on Jun 30 on their last day on SW, Icelandic talk by a man about fishery, closing anmt by a woman, 1248 UT symphonic mx; SINPO 23322, QRM from Voice of Russia, Moskva, in RS on 13870 kHz. Final b/cs today [Jun 30] are scheduled: 1755-1825 to EUR on 12115, 1835-1905 to NoAM on 13865, 2300-2335 to NoAM on 12115 kHz. The latter was inaudible here in Denmark last night. That is unfortunately the
end of another Nordic SWBCer! (Anker Petersen-DEN, DXplorer July 1)
Heard the 1755 UT broadcast here in Ukraine, Europe. Absolutely terrible thin, less than phone quality audio. Don't know how anyone would listen to such a broadcast in all honesty. Only heard fairly here in western Ukraine. (Walt Salmaniw-UKR, DXplorer July 2)
This service was never meant for the "general public", but was basically a "utility service" (in transmission mode R3E, i.e. AM-compatible USB -6dB carrier reduction) for reception onboard of Icelandic ships which have the necessary utility equipment to receive and "decode" it properly.
One could add that this service started in 1973, but due to its utility character, it for example made it into the WRTH first in the 1978 edition. There it was correctly labelled "For Icelandic seamen" for many years. (Bernd Trutenau-LTU, DXplorer July 2)
The 1973 operation brought Iceland back on SW. The Iceland State B/C Svc had been on SW since at least the mid-1930s. It "officially" closed down on SW in 1965, though there were occasional reports of it even after that. Probably those pre-1965 b/cs were mainly for fishermen as well. (Jerry Berg-USA, DXplorer July 4)
13865USB, at 1229 UT on Jun 30, tuned in on last day at 1215, but signal didn't come up until 1229 UT when hrd Icelandic talk by man, maybe nx items. Stayed with until arnd 1245, when barely a trace of signal left. Tried again 1410 UT, and much better with man talk at tune-in, interview at 1417 UT with English-speaking man. Mx hrd at 1432 UT, then station
disappeared. (John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer July 2)
(Source: WWDXC Top News/BC DX # 815)
13865 AM/USB, Rikisutvarpid, hrd at 1240-1249* on Jun 30 on their last day on SW, Icelandic talk by a man about fishery, closing anmt by a woman, 1248 UT symphonic mx; SINPO 23322, QRM from Voice of Russia, Moskva, in RS on 13870 kHz. Final b/cs today [Jun 30] are scheduled: 1755-1825 to EUR on 12115, 1835-1905 to NoAM on 13865, 2300-2335 to NoAM on 12115 kHz. The latter was inaudible here in Denmark last night. That is unfortunately the
end of another Nordic SWBCer! (Anker Petersen-DEN, DXplorer July 1)
Heard the 1755 UT broadcast here in Ukraine, Europe. Absolutely terrible thin, less than phone quality audio. Don't know how anyone would listen to such a broadcast in all honesty. Only heard fairly here in western Ukraine. (Walt Salmaniw-UKR, DXplorer July 2)
This service was never meant for the "general public", but was basically a "utility service" (in transmission mode R3E, i.e. AM-compatible USB -6dB carrier reduction) for reception onboard of Icelandic ships which have the necessary utility equipment to receive and "decode" it properly.
One could add that this service started in 1973, but due to its utility character, it for example made it into the WRTH first in the 1978 edition. There it was correctly labelled "For Icelandic seamen" for many years. (Bernd Trutenau-LTU, DXplorer July 2)
The 1973 operation brought Iceland back on SW. The Iceland State B/C Svc had been on SW since at least the mid-1930s. It "officially" closed down on SW in 1965, though there were occasional reports of it even after that. Probably those pre-1965 b/cs were mainly for fishermen as well. (Jerry Berg-USA, DXplorer July 4)
13865USB, at 1229 UT on Jun 30, tuned in on last day at 1215, but signal didn't come up until 1229 UT when hrd Icelandic talk by man, maybe nx items. Stayed with until arnd 1245, when barely a trace of signal left. Tried again 1410 UT, and much better with man talk at tune-in, interview at 1417 UT with English-speaking man. Mx hrd at 1432 UT, then station
disappeared. (John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer July 2)
(Source: WWDXC Top News/BC DX # 815)
