Radio DARC announces December 29 broadcast

 

Moosbrunn Austria

AUSTRIA On Sunday, December 29, 2024, RADIO DARC will have the honor of finally burying the station with a 2-hour farewell broadcast. It could be the last Radio DARC broadcast from the facility.

The plan is to blow it up as soon as it is shut down, as the ORF management has made clear.

Radio DARC is asking whether you are interested in contributing content to the farewell broadcast. A comment, a statement or an audio contribution...

The Moosbrunn farewell from SMR Dessau is planned for New Year's Eve from 12-13 UTC on 6070 KHz. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to find out whether there will be another broadcast from there after that.

(RTI Hoererklubecke November 2024 by Bernd Seiser-D, TopNews Nov 3/WWDXC Top Nx0Bc-DX 1597/12 Nov 2024)

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Survey of December program farewells to Moosbrunn

Moosbrunn, Austria transmitters/Wikipedia

Long-time shortwave fans will remember the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz interval signal and the station IDs in four languages. Just as 'Sweden Calling DXers' / MediaScan on Tuesdays and the 'DX Juke Box' / 'Radio Netherlands Media Network' on Thursdays for the English-speaking DX community, the media programs with Wolf Harranth were an incentive for German-speaking shortwave fans to tune in to the Austrian foreign service.

On December 31, 2024, the historic pause signal will sound once again and for the last time. People at Moosbrunn knew of expected cuts at AWR and had negotiated less airtime. The obviously very short-term end of the rental of 11 hours daily by Adventist World Radio came as a surprise and hit the ORS Moosbrunn shortwave station hard. Without this major customer, the station (2 x 100-kW-transmitters) can no longer be operated economically.The complete shutdown of AWR shortwave except KSDA Guam must have come as a surprise even to the different AWR studios.

Radio DARC Germany

Sun, December 29, 2024, 10:00-12:00 hrs UT: 6070 kHz

Radio Joystick

Sun, December 15th, 2024, 11:00-12:00 hrs UT: 7330 kHz.

DJ Charlie Prince has already found a new station for his Radio Joystick <https://radiojoystick.de>

From 2025, his one-hour Music and Malta program will be broadcast from ENC Woofferton, England. He is also saying goodbye to ORS Moosbrunn with a special broadcast. "For a decade, the ORS Moosbrunn transmitter near Vienna helped listeners to Funky Sounds 4 Central Europe! Topics of the Charlie Prince Show on shortwave: Malta, media, music - and more! At the end of 2024, the operator ORS announced the end of the modern broadcasting station! JOY is thus losing its long-time traditional frequency 7330 kHz and is complaining about this with a special broadcast on December 15th at 12 noon Central European Time on 7330 kHz!"

SM Radio Dessau

Thur, December 26, 2024, 09:00-15:00 hrs UT:

6070 kHz 100-kW-Marathon: Radio DARC, 10:00 SM Radio Dessau, 11:00 Radio Klein Paris, 11:30 FM Kompakt, 12:00 Jake FM, 13:00 Decade AM and 14:00 Radio Power Rumpel.

Tue, December 31, 2024, 12:00-14:00UTTC on 6070 kHz Farewell program SM Radio Dessau (https://www.smradio-dessau.de) has announced two special broadcasts for the end of December 2024, one traditional and one occasion-related: Since 2018, SM Radio Dessau has organized a 100-kW marathon broadcast for the second day of Christmas with programs that otherwise broadcast on Channel 292. According to the advertising card, the broadcast on December 26th will be "probably the last marathon".

This time, Michael Fischer of Jake FM, P.O.Box 500138, 47870 Willich, GER   100kw

qsl@jake-fm.de  will manage the QSLs.

In June 2018, SM Radio Dessau had its first 100 kW broadcast over ORS Moosbrunn. The special relationship was first documented in a farewell broadcast in 2022. SM Radio Dessau in the announcement of the current farewell broadcast for the ORS Moosbrunn transmitter: "After we retired the 300-kW-transmitter in 2022, we are now unfortunately retiring the entire Moosbrunn station." Reports are welcome under this address:

Max Berger, Saalestrasse 44, 06846 Dessau, Germany

maxberger @smradio-dessau.de

Moosbrunn staff

Tue, December 31, 2024, 09:00-12:00: 6055 kHz

The Moosbrunn shortwave station will also be bid farewell in style by its operators. They would have love to use the iconic 6155 kHz frequency but decided that would ruin any reception of the low power frequency neighbours on 6150 and 6160 kHz.

The three-hour program block features a recently rediscovered program of Herbert Richard Leutgeb and Charlotte Trnka [sic] about 50 years of broadcasting in Austria, the anniversary program with Wolf Harranth about 100 years of regular broadcasting in Austria, which had already attracted 300 reception reports on October 6, 2024, and four episodes of the recent OE1 series "Hello World, this is Radio Austria International".

I had asked for foreign language announcements/features but the three/two-and-a-half staff at ORS Moosbrunn are not program producers. Please be reminded, that ORS is only a technical provider and not the ORF. So, it is still a success that they were able to secure three hours of broadcasting time from their superiors.

((Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, English version of an original article forRadio-Kurier printed magazine December 2024; via WWDXC Michael Bethge)

The Shortwave Marathon to broadcast December 26

 

Moosbrunn, Austria transmitters

The Shortwave Marathon on 6070 kHz via Moosbrunn, Austria, will broadcast on 26 December 2022.

All times  UTC

0900-1000 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German SM Radio Dessau

1000-1100 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German RADIO DARC

1100-1200 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German SatZentrale

1200-1300 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Jake FM

1300-1400 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Decade AM

1400-1500 on  6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Radio Klein Paris

(DXB 12 Dec 2022)

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V.O.R.W. announces special Saturday programming

Dear Listeners,

I'm very happy to announce that there will be a special broadcast of VORW Radio International this Saturday, August 22nd on 6070 kHz Shortwave for listeners in Europe and Asia!

The broadcast will be transmitted with 300 kW of power and should guarantee a clear signal to listeners all across Europe and much of Asia. If you don't have a radio or aren't located in the target area, there are still ways to listen!

The show will be broadcast live from a transmitter Moosbrunn, Austria and will feature a fun hour of music and commentary. I hope to take listener music requests as well!

Here is the broadcast schedule:

(LIVE) Saturday 1700 UTC (1 PM Eastern / 7 PM CEST) – 6070 kHz – Moosbrunn 300 kW – Europe, The Middle East & Africa

If you do not have a radio, you can still listen online via a WebSDR Receiver streaming the audio at the following link:

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am - At 1700 UTC (1 PM Eastern / 7 PM CEST) Saturday

A QSL will be given to any and all listeners who submit reception reports. Feedback is most welcome at vorwinfo@gmail.com

I hope you can tune in!

All the best,

John (VORW Radio International)
Manuel Méndez, Spain/BDXC)

Weekend special programming

Austria 
Radio Joystick, The Charlie-Prince Show, Moosbrunn, will be on air  Sunday November 3 at 1100 UTC, like all first Sunday of the month on 7330 kHz: https://radiojoystick.de/

Since 2013 we broadcast via Media Broadcast. The transmitters are located in the small town of Moosbrunn near Vienna, broadcasting our shows on every first Sunday of each month at 12:00 h German time with 100 kW at 7330 kHz on shortwave to Western Europe!

The first Sunday of each month on shortwave 7330 kHz in Europe! On the Internet, the latest program is available at any time on demand for your listening pleasure. Our programs are produced for syndication as a free offer to stations that easily and efficiently may add their own jingles and commercials!"

Finland 
Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, will be on air from Friday, November 1, 2200 UTC, to Saturday, November 2, 2200 UTC on 11720, 11690, 6170 and 5980 kHz.
Schedule:
http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm
Schedule #231
2nd Nov 2019
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00-01 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 22-23
01-02 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 23-24
02-03 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 00-01
03-04 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 01-02
04-05 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 02-03
05-06 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 03-04
06-07 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 04-05
07-08 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 05-06
08-09 5980/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 06-07
09-10 5980/11690 1602 94,90 British soul, funk & r ´n ´b - Heppu Hyypiö
07-08
10-11 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Huomenta Virrat - Dj Häkä 08-09
11-12 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Fine-landers. Asiaa Suomesta ja suomalaisuudesta monesta eri näkökulmasta. Freesejä vinkkeleitä, hieman pilkettä silmäkulmassa ja ennen kaikkea pientä nippelitietoa tuhansien järvien sekä saunojen maasta. 09-10
12-13 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Fine-landers - Kauhajoen Opiston radiotoimittajalinja 10-11
13-14 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Studiossa Dj Onni 11-12
14-15 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Virrat Tänään - Dj Häkä 12-13
15-16 6170/11720 1602 94,90 TrickyTrew's Sounds of the 60's 13-14
16-17 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Kantoaaltoa Suomirokilla höystettynä by dj Esa 14-15
17-18 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Jääkiekkoselostus IPK-KooVee 15-16
18-19 5980/11690 1602 94,90 Jääkiekkoselostus IPK-KooVee 16-17
19-20 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Jääkiekkoselostus IPK-KooVee 17-18
20-21 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Progressive rock and other strange things by dj Esa 18-19
21-22 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 19-20
22-23 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 20-21
23-24 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Closing ceremony by SWR crew 21-22 Live stream 10-24 SA / 08-22 UTC via Radioverkko.fi  http://www.radioverkko.fi
(HCDX)