A04 registration shows very low activity via Almaty site:
5910 1430-1530 Democratic Voice of Burma
7115 2200-2300 Deutsche Welle, English
7170 1500-1600 Voice of Russia
7455 2230-2330 RFA, Cambodian

9355 1530-1600 VoR, rather Voix d'Orthodoxie church, based in Paris,
Russian religious, only Mondays/Thursdays.

9570 2300-2400 Deutsche Welle, Chinese
11520 1345-1500 RFA, Vietnam.
11560 2315-0030 RFA, Vietnam.
11570 2215-2345 RFA, Khmer
13830 0000-0100 RFA, Lao
15625 1230-1330 RFA, Khmer
15635 1100-1200 RFA, Lao
17485 1000-1400 Deutsche Welle, German
17770 1030-1100 Deutsche Welle, Chinese.
But latter frequency coordinated to Vladivostok 15350 (wb, Mar 11)

I guess Radio Novy Vek (ex Radio Tatarstan) heard on 11915.
See WRTH2004, page 334. (Max van Arnhem-HOL, A-DX Mar 11)

Is used regularly by Russia at this time span:
0900-1000 Samara 250 kW 310 degrees. "Tatarstan dulkynynda" (produced
by government public regional station TRK "Novyy Vek", Kazan,
Tatarstan) in Tatar/Russian to Tatar national listener on European
part of Russia (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, Mar 11)

In A04 one hour earlier and 10 kHz up:
11925 0800-0900 18,27-29 SAM 100 kW 310 deg RUS VOR.

From: DXLD 4-047

helmsman wrote:

tommyknocker wrote:

WA4009SWL wrote:



A04 registration shows very low activity via Almaty site:

My guess is that it's getting increasingly difficult to maintain the old
Soviet made transmitters-I doubt many replacement parts besides tubes
are available. (Last time I checked Svetlana still made tubes for the
old Soviet tx's.) They're probably cannibalizing parts from dead
transmitters to keep the working ones alive. My guess is that most of
the old Soviet transmitters that were used to blanket the airwaves with
propaganda during the glory days of communism will die for good within
the next few years, and with them will go stations like Radio Ukraine
(old Radio Kiev) and the various former Warsaw Pact stations.

That will truley be a shame.

Both Kazakhstan, Ukraine and many of the former Soviet Bloc Republics have
transmitters which are of fairly recent vintage, dating from the late 70's up
into the 90's.

I'm sure they'll be with us for some time yet to come.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm