Despite broadcasting with a power of just 1 kilowatt and despite directing their signal towards the east, Radio Center in Latvia often has a powerful signal on 1602 kHz at my place. Or rather a powerful signal on 1602.14 kHz as the station is always on a high offset frequency.
Radio Center broadcasts religious programmes in Russian towards Russia with station identifications in Latvian, English and Russian inserted between the programmes. Radio Center used to operate within Russia, but has been forced to leave Russia only to relocate in the Latvian capital Riga. According to their web site, their office in Moscow has been “temporarily closed”. I guess the closure is permanent – at least as long as Vladimir Putin rules Russia with an iron fist.
Radio Center is run by the “Russian Christian Radio Center”. Their president and long time radio friend Andrey Nekrasov confirmed my reception of the station with a no-data QSL letter. This was for a reception made in March last year.
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