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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: VK3BVW on December 08, 2013, 1041 UTC
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Rumours of the Voice of Russia's demise have been circulating for months now. Virtually nothing has come out of the state broadcaster itself, but rather mumblings have been published in other external news sources. So…..here's another one - but with a somewhat different slant. This one claims that VoR is wanting to INCREASE its Kurdish language service, not decrease it or close the service down! It really makes me wonder what the REAL facts are about VoR's future!
Read about it at:
http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/the-voice-of-russia-mystery-continues.html
(http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/the-voice-of-russia-mystery-continues.html)
73,
Rob VK3BVW
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What is going on with the good Comrades at VoR? Sometimes I wonder if they are caught in a power struggle of some kind...
You know, the way they are going, one would only be half surprised if they suddenly started relaying my shows...
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I'm not sure VoR staff knows what is going on. I suspect any decisions about the future of the station are made much higher up than at the VoR staff level. When first reports of closure came out, a few DXers wrote to the station but staff seemed unaware of any proposed changes. They haven't endorsed nor denied any changes. Speculation abounds! Great fodder for gossip hounds though! ;D
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Further to the above:
Today, a report from the Kremlin - http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/19805 (http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/19805) - states that Putin has signed a decree that calls for re-organisational change of state-owned media, and the "elimination" of VoR (along with other divisions). However….it does not say that Russia is leaving shortwave! Interesting.
Rob
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http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_12_09/Putin-liquidates-RIA-Novosti-to-replace-it-with-global-news-agency-Rossia-Segodnya-Russia-Today-3227/
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It's interesting to note that nowhere in the new media Act signed by Putin does it say that the shortwave service has gone. Nor in the VoR statement released today was there any mention of the end of the SW services. But the name Voice of Russia has changed! It seems to be a re-organisation of the services under a new umbrella organisation.
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I haven't heard them ID as "Voice of Russia for a while now. They seem to call it "Radio VR".
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Noted just now on 21800 kHz at 0700 with the English ID as "This is Radio VR, the Voice of Russia"!!
That's what you call "an each-way bet"!! :D
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I can only assume that everything has been lumped together to keep it under Putin's control - he is ex-KGB after all.
Do we know the actual time for the last Transmission? I'll raise a glass to them
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according to the ARRL web site the VOR will be off the air on 1/1/2014 so I must assume (there's that word) the last date of transmission would be the last day of December of this year...
But who knows????
73
Vince
ka1iic
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I wondered what would be the last language broadcast and at what time will they cease transmitting?
Somebody should call them up after they shut down and thank them for all the years
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Don't dance on their grave just yet!! VOR, VR, RT or whatever they are now calling themselves, have registrations with HFCC for new frequencies:
Effective Jan 1 2014:
5900 Irkutsk 1000-1400 Chinese
6110 Moscow 1700-1900 English
6125 Kaliningrad 1700-2000 French
9560 Irkutsk 1000-1400 Chinese
9625 Kaliningrad 1400-1500 Russian
9680 Irkutsk 1500-1800 Russian
HFCC via Bob Padula.
Rob VK3BVW
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So does Radio Ukraine International. 3985 5970 6145 etc. They have been off shortwave for years. They are known as "wooden registrations" sort of a cover your ass thing. I don't put much faith in HFCC registrations as an indication of actual broadcasting.
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Did they not shut down and merge stuff to become radio Ukraine?
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Radio Kiev turned into Radio Ukraine in about 1991 or 1992. Prior to that it was a part of Radio Moscow. They had a couple of 1 megawatt transmitters as I recall. I could always hear them well but I don't know if they were actually running 1000 KW. They shut down about 3 or 4 years ago when the state stopped funding them. I remember the male announcer with a deep voice who would speak slowly & distinctly & he could be understood in all but the worst propagation conditions.
btw I am listening to Voice of Russia on 9395 as I type this & they just ID'ed as "The American Voice of Russia". Thats a new one.
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Todays ID on 9395 ,via Armenia & targeted at Central America was "...Voice of Russia for America". I guess this is the broadcast intended for American medium wave stations.
I guess this is what i heard back in September
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,12440.0.html
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Noted here also with this variation:
9395 ARMENIA. VoR or Radio VR - Erevan. Weak signal for English to CAm at 0950, ID at 2256 as "We are the American edition of the Voice of Russia". At 2300, ID as "This is the Voice of Russia" then a news report of another shooting in an American school. Faded at 2305 as the band began to close up for the morning, Dec 13.
This is different to the Radio VR annct we hear in the Australian/NZ edition.
Multiple personalities it seems.....
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12075 khz -- 1330UTC - Using the Radio VR ID with a decent S9 signal.