[HCDX] Radio Pridnestrovye domestic service - 549 kHz

["Dave Kernick" <dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MOLDOVA - TRANSDNEISTER MOLDOVAN REPUBLIC

Using a remote receiver situated in Vienna, this week I've been hearing the 
domestic service of Radio Pridnestrovye signing-on every day on 549 kHz 
mediumwave at 1700 UTC (current WRTH has this here 0600-2200, so evidently 
incorrect), usually with worthless reception due to extreme co-channel 
interference from Radio Slovenia/Radio Koper, Deutschlandfunk and several 
Russian Mayak transmitters. Today, however, reception was a bit clearer as 
only the Slovenian interference was in evidence, so I've recorded the 
sign-on and uploaded it to the Station Sounds section of dxldyg - this is 
what you'll hear from the start of the recording 25 seconds before the hour:

Characteristic "USSR" on/off transmitter tones
Time check in Russian: "Tiraspol 2000 hours"
Interval signal (same as that used for Radio PMR/DMR external service)
Announcement in Russian: "Tiraspol calling, [capital of the?] Transdneister 
Moldovan Republic"
News in Russian

A clearer, albeit much older (c.1995), recording of Radio Pridnestrovye can 
be found on the Interval Signals Online website at intervalsignals.net.

Dave Kernick

Interval Signals Online 

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