Radio Romania Antena Satelor longwave (LW) frequency 153kHz has more attention from DXers, compare with FM and medium wave (MW) frequencies

 

The Radio Romania Antena Satelor, a fifth radio station by Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company to focus on rural affairs and folk music currently broadcasts on LW, MW and FM frequency, as well as DAB+ in Bucharest.

 

Here are the tuning frequencies of Radio Romania Antena Satelor.

 

* LW 153kHz from Bod transmitter covers Romania and Moldova. (200kW)

* MW 531 kHz from Urziceni covers Bacău, Brăila, Călărași, Ialomița, Vrancea (14kW)

* MW 603 kHz from Herastrau covers Ilfov, Giurgiu, Prahova, Teleorman (400kW)

* MW 630 kHz from Voinesti covers Argeș, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Olt, Vâlcea (400kW)

* MW 1314 kHz from Vala Lui Tarian covers Dobrogea (50kW)

* MW 1314 kHz from Timisoara covers Banat (30kW)

* FM 89.0MHz Comanesti (1kW ERP)

* FM 103.2MHz Sulina (1kW ERP)

* FM 106.9MHz Zalau (0.05kW ERP)

 

Among all the frequencies listed above, Radio Romania Antena Satelor LW 153kHz gains the attention most from the DXers outside of Romania because LW 153kHz is the only radio station in Romania, and DXers outside Romania perform DXing of Radio Romania LW 153kHz to monitor the signal propagation. During the darkness, the sky wave signal can transmit to most of Europe region, even Asia continent sporadically. Hence, it gets more attention from the DXers to monitor Radio Romania Antena Satelor longwave transmitter propagation.

I watch most of Radio Romania Antena Satelor signal monitoring videos on YouTube, most of the videos are the receiving signal of LW 153kHz.

Less attention from DXers over Radio Romania Antena Satelor on FM and MW frequencies because its FM frequencies output power are very low, so it is hard to receive Antena Satelor on FM frequency in distant areas.

For MW frequencies, I don't really see any DXers monitored Radio Romania Antena Satelor on high power medium wave frequencies MW 603kHz and 630kHz because both frequencies were occupied by Radio Romania Actualitati and other European radio station. Hence, Antena Satelor MW frequencies are hard to be caught.

For FM frequencies, Antena Satelor has more attention than MW. Currently, I only see few DXers caught Radio Romania Antena Satelor via FM frequency through Sporadic E propagation, notably FM 89.0MHz and FM 103.2MHz.