New Years Day Test Broadcast planned from SM Radio Dessau

 

SM Dessau QSL

SM Radio Dessau will conduct a test transmission on January 1, 2026. The test is scheduled for 1200 UTC on 12060 kHz (100 kW), from the Gavar, Armenia transmitter facility.  

Send your reception reports, including the location where you received the broadcast, plus the date and program details to: maxberger@smradio-dessau.de

Printed QSLs will be sent to listeners who write by mail, including return postage (Germany: €0.95 / other countries: €1.25).

SM Dessau QSL

Postal address for reception reports:

SM Radio Dessau

c/o Max Berger

Saalestraße 44

06846 Dessau

Germany

((FH/Teak Publishing)

Radio Andorra slated for special New Year's Eve program

 

A classic favorite, Radio Andorra is scheduled for a New Year's Eve broadcast at 19:00 - 0100 UTC.

French Programming will air on 7515 kHz (100 kW)  to Europe, via Noratus, Armenia. 

A live chat will be opened on our YouTube channel for your comments. at:  

https://youtu.be/1kq9BzJ10IQ 

Aqui Radio Andorra: www.aquiradioandorra.com

-Enjoy six hours of dance music from the 1940s to today.  This special broadcast will be from the former staff of Radio Andorra, after a 40+ year absence.

Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2623740684647373/

https://www.facebook.com/AquiRadioAndorra 

(FH/Teak Publishing)

Classic program from Radio Andorra will broadcast Jan. 8

 

Next broadcast of old material from Radio Andorra will be on the air, this Sunday, January 8th, 2023.

It will be as always in French "carte blanche à Georges Chelon".

1700-1900 UTC on 7220 kHz, but no longer from Austria. It will be from Gavar, Armenia. 

(Christian Ghibaudo/BDXC)

Iran International TV, broadcast schedule

Clandestine - Iran International TV 

All times UTC / daily unless otherwise indicated, programming targeted to Iran

Farsi
0400-1000  11560 (Yerevan, Armenia) transmitter
1000-1200  thas  11560 (Yerevan, Armenia)
1100-0400 801  (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
1200-0400 6270 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
1500-0600 1395 (Yerevan, Armenia)
1745-0300 1395 (Yerevan, Armenia)
(shortwave frequencies variable, due to jamming)

Website http://www.iranintl.com
Email info@iranintl.com

Iran International TV
Bldg 11, 1st Floor
Chiswick Business Park
566 Chiswick High Rd.
London W4 5YA, United Kingdom
(WRTH 07 Feb)

Armenia's medium wave summer schedule

Good to see this station, despite it only being active on medium wave, is indeed broadcasting, and reported in the World Radio TV Handbook updates. Just prior to publishing Global Radio Guide-Summer 2019, we received word from one particular hobby newsletter, that the station was inactive on medium wave and shortwave. 

Public Radio of Armenia has once again, been added to the Global Radio Guide database. Sorry for any confusion for our readers.

Armenia, Public Radio of Armenia - Summer Schedule 2019

All times UTC

Azeri
Days/ Area kHz
1715-1745 mtwtf.. Cau,ME 1314erv
1730-1745 .....ss Cau,ME 1314erv

Kurdish
Days / Area kHz
1600-1630 daily   Cau,ME 1314erv
1630-1700 daily   Cau,ME 1314erv* Turkish Days Area kHz
1700-1715 mtwtf.. Cau,ME 1314erv
1700-1730 .....ss Cau,ME 1314erv

Key: * Kurdish (Kurmanji) for the Yezidi ethnic minority in Armenia
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(WRTH 2019, via RUSdx #1030 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 26)

Armenia
On May 19, a program sounded on medium wave 1350 kHz from 1818 to 1840 UT - one voice reads the expression from the Holy Bible in English, and the other immediately translated into Turkish. Similar programs, but in English and Persian sound on Thursdays and Fridays from 18.05 UT on 1377 kHz.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL; via RUSdx #1030 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 26)

Public Radio of Armenia schedule update

QSL via Gayle Van Horn Collection

The following winter schedule, includes revisions for Armenia, within the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide, 2017-2018 edition.

Broadcast are daily unless otherwise indicated. Transmission are from the Gavar, Armenia transmitters.

All times UTC

Arabic
1815-1845 1314 mw 4810me

Assyrian
1530-1545 1314 mw 4810eu

Azeri
1715-1745  mtwhf     1314 mw  4810as
1730-1745  Sat/Sun   1314 mw  4810as

Farsi
1745-1800 1314 mw  4810as
1800-1815 1314 mw  4810as

Greek
1545-1600 1314 mw  4810eu

Kurdish (Yezidi)
1630-1700 1314 mw  4810eu

Kurdish (Kurmanji)
1600-1630 1314 mw   4810eu

Turkish
1700-1715  mtwhf  1314 mw   4810as
1700-1730  Sat/Sun  1314 mw  4810as

Station opens broadcast with interval signal and national anthem.
Website: www.armradio.am
(WRTH 2018)

Monitoring Armenia

Voice of Armenia
monitored 23 June 2017

Weak to good signal 

All times UTC

1530-1545 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Assyrian
1545-1600 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Greek
1600-1630 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Kurdish
1630-1700 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Yezidi
1700-1715 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Turkish
1715-1745 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Azeri
1745-1815 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Farsi
1815-1845 on  4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic

(DX Re Mix 1015)

Armenia monitoring

Voice of Armenia QSL (Gayle Van Horn Collection)

International Public Radio of Armenia is the foreign service of Armenian Radio.

Transmitter site: Gavar, near Noratus, Gegharkunik
MW - 1000 kW; SW - 100 kW.

Time/UTC  Days    Language  Target           Freqs/kHz
1530-1545 Daily   Assyrian  Middle/Near East 4810
1545-1600 Daily   Greek     Middle/Near East 4810
1600-1630 Daily   Kurdish   Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1630-1700 Daily   Yezidi    Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1700-1715 Daily   Turkish   Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1715-1730 Mon-Fri Azeri     Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1715-1730 Sat/Sun Turkish   Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1730-1745 Daily   Turkish   Middle/Near East 1314 4810
1745-1815 Daily   Persian   Middle/Near East 4810
1815-1845 Daily   Arabic    Middle/Near East 4810

Middle East & Caucasus on Mediumwave and Shortwave published by / British DX Club, UK.
(via Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #912 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 19)
(WWDXC/Top Nx)

Sputnik launched in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Armenia

Multimedia news agency announced the launch of Sputnik information portal in Armenia. The new portal will operate in Armenian and Russian languages. The resource is available at sputnik.co.am and sputnikarmenia.ru, is intended to represent all the diversity of views on topical international issues. Radio "Sputnik Armenia" is already broadcasting in FM-band in the country, and on July 1, is made available to site users and sputnik.co.am sputnikarmenia.ru. Portal in Armenian and Russian languages ​​complement the line of information resources Sputnik, already working in English, French, Serbian, Portuguese,

Arabic, Hindi, Polish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Kurdish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Belarusian, Moldovan, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Ossetian and Abkhazian languages.

Reflecting the pattern of a multipolar world, Sputnik sites designed for an audience that is interested in comparing the plurality of alternative points of view. The quality of the information published on websites and sputnik.co.am sputnikarmenia.ru, defined as the high professionalism of its journalists and the use of multimedia formats. The site provides the reader with a variety of content: infographics, videos, photos, online esters Internet voting. In addition to the operational news Sputnik offers its audience analytics, exclusive interviews, expert opinions.

Sputnik - news agency and radio multimedia information hubs in dozens of countries. Sputnik includes sites analogue and digital broadcasting, mobile applications and pages on social networks. For subscribers round the clock news feeds Sputnik published in English, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. (ria.ru. via OnAir.ru in RUS-DX No. 827, Jul 05)

Sputnik launched radio in Azerbaijan.

Sputnik international news agency announced the start of broadcasting in Azerbaijan. Radio Sputnik Azerbaijan aired on radio station Araz 103,3FM. Broadcasting is carried out in the Azerbaijani language and a newscast on the most relevant events in the world and the region, leaving 11 times a day.

News block radio Sputnik Azerbaijan go live on top of each hour from 10 to 20 hours, five days a week. To consult the news releases can also be in text and audio format on the portal Sputnik Azerbaijan in the multimedia section. Information portal Sputnik in Azerbaijan in Azerbaijani and Russian languages ​​are available at sputnik.az and ru.sputnik.az, was launched in May 2015. Sputnik - international news agency and radio multimedia information hubs in dozens of countries. Sputnik includes sites analogue and digital broadcasting, mobile applications and pages on social networks. For subscribers news feeds Sputnik clock appear in English, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese. (ru.sputnik.az in OnAir.ru via RUS-DX No. 827)

DxWindow # 533/08 Jul)

DXing and QSLing Armenia

Using transmitters via Armenia.

All times UTC

 

0000-0100 9395, 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Spanish

0100-0200 9395, 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Spanish

0143-0155 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA/VoMongolia 12..... Russian

0200-0300 9395, 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Spanish

0300-0400 9395, 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Spanish

0400-0500 9395, 9765 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Spanish

1100-1300 15565 Overcomer Ministry 1.....7 English

1600-1700 11985 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 French

1700-1800 11985 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 French

1800-1900 11985 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 English

1900-2000 11985 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Russian

2200-2300 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Portuguese

2300-2400 9395 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Russian

2300-2400 9750 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1234567 Portuguese

(Harold Frodge, MI via AOIKI)

Armenian village head "instructs villagers not to listen to Radio Liberty"

Residents of Zovuni village in Armenia say that the village head, Serzh Avetisian, has found new methods to restrict people’s right to information. He bans residents from listening to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the village. Serzh Avetsisian calls people from his office and instructs them not to listen to the radio station.
Residents do not intend to obey Serzh Avetisian’s order as Radio Liberty is the only source of information in the village.
(Source: A1+/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

RFE/Radio Liberty broadcast to Armenia off the air

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts to Armenia are off the air since Saturday midnight and its Internet site has been blocked in a blackout on independent news, imposed as part of a state of emergency that went into effect on 2 March. Under an emergency decree issued by Armenian president Robert Kocharian, media may use only government-sanctioned news for a 20-day period.
RFE/RL’s Armenian Service broadcasts to Armenia four hours daily in Armenian on FM frequencies of two local affiliates who, in compliance with the decree, took RFE/RL programmes off the air, filling the time slot with music instead. RFE/RL is the only Armenian language foreign radio in the country.
RFE/RL’s main Armenian language website, azatutyun.am has also been blocked, but still managed to register during the first day of March as many unique visitors (23,000) as it averages in an entire month. Two thirds of the visitors are from within Armenia. RFE/RL’s Armenian Service is adding website domains to get around the blockage and continue broadcasting independent news in Armenian for Internet listeners.
In the last RFE/RL broadcast Saturday night, correspondents in Yerevan reported live from the scene of protest rallies, which were forcefully dispersed by police and Interior Ministry troops. Despite media identification, a driver for RFE/RL was beaten by police. The young female correspondent he was accompanying managed to escape, running from the violence.
Another RFE/RL correspondent in the Armenian town of Gumri, covering a similar demonstration, was manhandled and threatened by Interior Ministry troops, but stood her ground. She was pushed around until the troops realized she was broadcasting live and their threats were clearly audible to listeners.
Until the Sunday curfew, protesters in Armenia had held daily rallies since the February 19 presidential election they say was rigged by the government. At least eight people are reported dead in the government’s violent crackdown on the demonstrators over the weekend.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)