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)

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
Local
Time Frequency
Program details

UTC
Time
SW

MW

FM

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)

Radio Joystick and Scandinavian Weekend Radio, weekend schedules

Austria
Radio Joystick, The Charlie-Prince Show, Moosbrunn, will be on the air Sunday August 4 at 1000 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 hours German time with 100 kW at 7330 kHz on shortwave to Western Europe."

Finland
Scandinavian Weekend Radio, from Virrat, Finland, will air this weekend from Friday August 2 at 2100 UTC to Saturday  August 3 2100 UTC, on 11720, 11690, 6170 and 5980 kHz
Detailed schedule:
http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm

3rd Aug 2019
Local
Time Frequency
Program details

UTC
Time
SW
MW
FM

00-01 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 21-22
01-02 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Dj Onnin yökeikka 22-23
02-03 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 23-24
03-04 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 00-01
04-05 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 01-02
05-06 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 02-03
06-07 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 03-04
07-08 6170/11690 1602 94,90 SWR MusicBox 04-05
08-09 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Country Company Oldies Show 12 pt.1 05-06
09-10 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Soul, funk & r'n'b - Heppu Hyypiö 06-07
10-11 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Huomenta Virrat - Dj Häkä 07-08
11-12 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Finnish national parks & music - Heppu Hyypiö 08-09
12-13 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Studiossa Dj Onni 09-10
13-14 6170/11690 1602 94,90  10-11
14-15 6170/11690 1602 94,90 Virrat Tänään - Dj Häkä 11-12
15-16 6170/11720 1602 94,90  12-13
16-17 6170/11720 1602 94,90  13-14
17-18 5980/11720 1602 94,90  14-15
18-19 5980/11720 1602 94,90 TrickyTrev Show 15-16
19-20 5980/11720 1602 94,90 TrickyTrev Show 16-17
20-21 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 17-18
21-22 6170/11720 1602 94,90 Levyraato - Dj Peeveli 18-19
22-23 5980/11720 1602 94,90  19-20
23-24 5980/11720 1602 94,90 Closing ceremony SWR crew 20-21
Live stream 10-24 SKA / 07-21 UTC via Radioverkko.fi
http://www.radioverkko.fi
Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain/HCDX)

Radio Joystick slated for Sunday broadcast

Radio Joystick, The Charlie-Prince Show, Moosbrunn, Austria, will be on air  Sunday July 7 at 1000 UTC, like all the 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!

We broadcast on 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!"

The Mighty KBC and Radio Joystick updates

From September 1, 2013 “The Mighty KBC” is moving their Jukebox program, between 00:00 to 02:00 UTC to 7375 KHz.

Please email your reception reports to themightykbc@gmail.com  

Thank you!

Radio Joystick is on the air on September 1, 2013
1000 - 1100 UTC on 7330KHz  

Please see our website at: www.radiojoystick.de
(Tom Taylor)

Radio Joystick relay set for Saturday

Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz

Dear Listeners,
The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 6th of March 2010 on 9510 kHz.

The transmission time is between 0900 to 1000 UTC, with a power of 150 KW via the IRRS.

Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month at the same time and on the same channel.

Good listening
73s
Tom Taylor

Radio Joystick and IRRS to continue broadcast in 2010

Radio Joystick can be heard on every first Saturday of each month at 10 hs Central European Time. (0900-1000 UTC) on 9510 kHz. Each show lasts 59 minutes, and consists of Information on Malta, Media - and Music, presented by DJ Charlie Prince, who founded Radio Joystick as a hobby almost 25 years ago!

The first show for 2010 will be with an interview again:
Ms Ingris Kidder, President of the German Maltese Circle, tells all about her experiences on Malta.
Two musical milestone will also be included:
A wilful version of the Beatles Hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand" -
and the most wonderful piece from the movie soundtrack "Three Tough Guys"!
So tune in on the 2nd of January at 10:00 o'clock German local time on 9510 kHz.

Lat not least Radio Joystick wishes a nice Chrismas and a fantastic New Year to every Free Radio Enthusiast!

Contact address:

Radio Joystick

P. O. Box 23 31

55543 Kreuznach

Rhineland Palatinate

GERMANY/ALLEMAGNE.
(Charlie Prince/HCDX)

Weekend radio shows on shortwave

Hi, it's first weekend of November 2009. And so it's time to turn transmitters of SCANDINAVIAN WEEKEND RADIO on again, began at 21:00 UTC time today Friday 6th of November.

http://www.swradio.net/index2.html
info@swradio.net

Wishing good propagation and lots of reports once again. (OBS! Please remember 2 Euro/ 2 US-$, 2 IRC for our reply)

Scandinavian Weekend Radio/ Reports
P,O,Box 99
F-34801 VIRRAT
FINLAND

Alpo Heinonen

CUPID RADIO

Hi there friends
Just to make sure you will remember it !! Saturday November 7, Cupid plans to be on the air. The antenna will be aimed at central Australian at 80 degrees. Good change for you, if you are lisening at the east side of the world Signal is straight over Afghanista, Pakistan, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Hopefully the propagation will help a hand, and the signal will land on your antenna.

Broadcast schedule:
Saturday November 7 - 15.070 MHz

transmitting 400 watts running into a three elements beam ,aimed at 80 degrees east from my location. Beginning at 0900-1100 UTC.

Also there will be simultaneously a signal running on the 48 meter band, on 6205, 6210 or 6305 as this frequency is variable, so the European liseners can listen also to this broadcast. We will be in the chatroom from Mr Iann in France. Come join this nice chatroom at:
you will find it here http://www.easyshopdiscountzone.com/ For any report from any country there will be a special DX QSL, when you receive me on the 19 meter band. Please inclose a nice photo card from your city, no return funds is needed

Send report to:
Cupid Radio
P.O. Box 9
8096 ZG
Oldebroek
Netherlands

RADIO JOYSTICK RELAY

Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz

Dear Listeners,
The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the November 7, on 9510 kHz. The transmission time is between 0900-1000 UTC, with a power of 150 KW via IRRS. Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month at the same time and on the same channel.
(Tom Taylor)

Radio Joystick set for Saturday broadcast

Dear Listeners,

The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday, October 3, 2009 on 9510 kHz.
The Transmission time is between 0800 to 0900 UTC operating with a power of 150 KW via the IRRS.

Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month at the same time and on the same channel.
Good listening 73s
(Tom Taylor, UK)

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Listen each 1st saturday of every month on 9510 kHz

Weekend relays update

Thanks to Tom Taylor for the following info on this weekends relays\Gayle VH

Relay this weekend via 9290kHz

February 10th
Latvia Today 14.00 -15.00 UTC

Radio Joystick
At 1300 UTC on the new channel of 6140 kHz Radio Joystick is on the air from the transmitting station in Wertachtal Germany. We will be using a non-directional antenna system (Quadrant antenna).
Radio Joystick in teamwork with MV Baltic Radio