RUS Analogue TV Shutdown Started

[Chris Howles]

Copy of a message from Skywaves Yahoo group via Jurgen Bartels;

Victor reports:

3 Dec RTRS has switched off all analog channels in test Tver region
except 4 in Tver (6, 10, 26, 49).
Probably till 10 Dec text on the screen
https://pp.userapi.com/c847016/v8470167 ... IjFZyI.jpg
then to turn off completely.

Schedule

11 Feb
Ryazan, Tula, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Magadan, Chechnya

15 Apr
Kabardino-Balkariya, Karachayevo-Cherkesiya, Mordoviya, Udmurtiya,
Chuvashiya,
Moscow and oblast, Sakhalin, Stavropol, Yamal, Amur, Ivanovo,
Kemerovo,
Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Novgorod, Tyumen.

3 June
all the rest

[AMDXHUN]

Bye-Bye SpE TVDX on VHF1

[John Faulkner, Skegness]

It was good while it lasted.

I haven't done TV DX for a few years. I loved to detect the carriers with my Icom PCR1000, fed through to SpectrumLab. Happy memories. Sadly now gone.

[Andrew Webster,Wigan]

This is sad news but was expecting it and Glubokoye 49.757 was in with video a bit ago and 49.750 St Petersburg is in now at carrier level.
I do see these and Sovestk 49.739 with it's wobbly carrier daily but not seen any from UKR so presume they have gone off.

Andy

[daveB]

So is there any indication of how long will FM broadcasts last on the OIRT band???

[Tim Bucknall]

No reason to believe oirt FM will go soon, new txs being opened.

Glad Kaliningrad will be on band 3 for quadrantids shower, I might try my luck..

[dxradiofan]

No reason to believe oirt FM will go soon, new txs being opened.

Glad Kaliningrad will be on band 3 for quadrantids shower, I might try my luck..

Where are new ones being opened do you mean ?

[JanisDX_Latvia]

Yeah, analogue TV dx will be a history :/ and also TV sound DX. Since I'm dxing from 2016, I have cought one analogue TV sound signal from Stavropol/RTPS Grushevyi - 1806 km: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Mhnp-9OMw

73!

[Tim Bucknall]

No reason to believe oirt FM will go soon, new txs being opened.

Glad Kaliningrad will be on band 3 for quadrantids shower, I might try my luck..

Where are new ones being opened do you mean ?

i can't get at my magazines right now but little stations are popping up on oirt all over russia & ukraine even as others are closing its pretty random no obvious trend
theres a new lithuanian too, presumably targeting poor and elderly folks

[AMDXHUN]

Lithuanian?

[JanisDX_Latvia]

Indeed, but not so new transmitter. The OIRT FM low poer transmitter is located in Southern Lithuania. FM99 70,04 MHz https://fmscan.org/net.php?r=f&m=m&itu=LTU&pxf=FM99