** RUSSIA [non]. Not shortwave but MW, Radio Liberty in Russian via Bolshakovo,
Russia heard at S9 at 0200 UT on 1386 kHz. Station ident in Russian by male
followed by news. Mentions of USA, Putin, North Korea, etc., ident at 0214
followed by talk by male. Tecsun PL-660 (Jon Collins, Birmingham UK, Aug 25,
WORLD OF RADIO 1893, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1386 has been shared, not
always cordially, by Russia/Kaliningrad and Lithuania. Per the following, the
new Radio Liberty service must be via Lithuania instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** LITHUANIA. VILNIUS IS PREPARING TO INCLUDE A
TRANSMITTER FOR BROADCAST TO RADIO LIBERTY AND RUSSIA AND
BELARUS.
VILNIUS, August 25th. / TASS /. Lithuania received from the
United States, mounted and next week will turn on the transmitter of long waves
for broadcasting to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine programs "Radio
Liberty." This was reported on Friday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Baltic republic.
The inclusion ceremony will be held on August 29 with
the participation of Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius and Transport and
Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis.
"The new Nautel NX-200
transmitter will replace the old equipment, which worked for about 40 years,"
the Foreign Ministry said. "The program will be broadcast in Russian with the
help of a new transmitter mounted at Veshintai in Anikšciai
district."
The arrived technician is three times more powerful than the
previous device: its power is 200 kW, and the former - 75 kW.
The
US-funded broadcasting of Radio Liberty, launched in 1953 from West Germany, is
now being conducted from Prague. On the territory of the USSR, this instrument
of Western propaganda, which occupied the extreme anti-Soviet positions, was
drowned. In 1991, the radio station was allowed to operate directly in Russia,
but in 2012 Radio Liberty stopped broadcasting to Russia, but continues on the
Internet. Re-broadcasting of programs by Russian radio stations is not carried
out.
More on TASS:
Maybe
the correspondent was wrong and the Transmitter will work on MW?
(Anatoly
Klepov, Moscow, RUS-DX #939, Postscriptum #1, Aug 27 via WORLD OF RADIO 1893,
DXLD)
Radio Liberty was *forced* to stop broadcasting from inside Russia.
Why start LW from Lith now? Surely refers to 1386 kHz, Sitkunai, which has been
used by R Baltic Waves, and listed as 75/150 kW in WRTH. What is the full
schedule?
BTW, I wonder what TASS stands for now? Used to be Telegraphic
Agency of the Soviet Union (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)