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Short e-mail from Israel Defense Forces Radio Galei Zahal confirming my reception of this station. The program in Hebrew was audible on 1287 kHz. Content of the email:
"Greetings, I certify that the radio signal you have heard is of Galei Zahal, IDF radio.
Regards, Neomi Shlomot,
Assistant to the person in charge of Public Inquiries
In the name of Yael Hadad,
The person in charge of public inquiries.
(Piotr Skorek, Poland; via Anatoly Klepov-RUS
via RUSdx #1272 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14)
1287 kHz Medium wave Israel Galei Tzahal back on the air.
Israel army radio returned to medium waves.
"Galei Tzahal" ("IDF Waves"), the radio station of the country's armed forces - the Israel Defense Forces - the IDF, with the beginning of the new year 2024, again broadcasts on medium waves, and in this case on two frequencies at once - on the main one - 1287 kHz (with power 100 kW), on which the station ceased broadcasting in 2005, and 945 kHz - on which Galei Tzahal also broadcast in the earlier past.
All of these unexpectedly resumed medium-wave broadcasts of Galei Tzahal are conducted from a transmission center in the city of Yavne, not far from the largest city in Israel, Tel Aviv (note that once upon a time, short-wave foreign broadcasting of Israel, Kol Israel, also operated from this transmission center "("Voice of Israel"), including overcoming jamming, broadcast to the USSR; however, all shortwave broadcasts of Israeli foreign broadcasting were stopped in 2013, despite the fact that since
2008, only one Israeli foreign broadcasting service remained on short waves - the Persian edition of "Kol Israel" for Iran); the shortwave antennas at Yavne were dismantled around 2017).
At the moment, the Galei Tzahal radio station, which has now started broadcasting again on SV, is the only radio broadcaster in Israel using medium waves. Other broadcasters have abandoned them, so the country's state broadcasting left medium wave around 2012.
https://obob.tv/sobytiya/izrail-vernulsya-na-srednie-volny/
(via Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #1272 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14)
(BC-DX 1568/WWDXC Top News)