Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Radio Onda testing on shortwave

 


Radio Magazine is reporting that Radio Onda has started tests on 6140 kHz via Luxembourg. 
(nothing heard when checked here at 1800 - dk)

Translated from French:
LUXEMBOURG: It's the return of the short waves to the historic transmitter centre of Junglinster. The transmitter of the Belgian station Radio Onda has just been put into service at 6140 kHz and is doing its first tests with a power of 1000 W.
A great success for the station of the Brazilian community in Belgium that will be able to cover Europe, in addition to its broadcast on the dab+ 12b of the Brussels region.
The association has always wanted to broadcast in short air from Belgium.
Having received no follow-up to their applications for a Belgian licence, they had turned to the Netherlands in recent years.
A licence had been granted to them immediately by the Dutch authorities, but the broadcasting from that country has, over the years, been too heavy for the station.
Eventually, they turned to Luxembourg, where the minister delegated to the Prime Minister, in charge of Media and Connectivity, Elisabeth Margue, quickly granted them a licence.
The installation was made possible thanks to the amateur radios of Broadcasting Center Europe, which are installed at the same site.
Radio Onda programs are sent from studios that are installed in a Belgian railway station located in the Brussels district of Laeken.
Radio Onda, Bockstael Station, Avenue Émile Bockstael, 1020 Brussels. (Radio Magazine 13 May)
(Dave Kenny/BDXC)