Operation "All Ostans on Medium Waves"

The main aim of this DX-mission was to receive and to make recordings of regional IRIB MW stations from all the provinces (ostans) of the Islamic Republic of Iran with identification announcements (except Alborz province where is no regional MW broadcasting at all).


The mission has started in February 2017. Many interesting air recordings were made since February: from routine IRIB Radio Markaze Azerbaijaneh Gharb which is always booming with superstrong signal here to quite difficult for reception IRIB Radio Semnan, IRIB Radio Qom or IRIB Radio Mazandaran. Almost all the stations were received with Degen's ferrite and telescopic whip antennas in park, Azerbaijaneh Gharb, Mahabad and Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari were received with the same receiver but using 25 m wire as antenna in QRMy location.

Radio Tehran is actually not a regional program but a special municipal IRIB channel, however I included it to my collection because there is no any other regional MW broadcasting in Tehran province.

The DX-hunting was quite fascinating and exciting because I received also some other interesting stations on the IRIB frequencies when trying to catch ID announcements there. Thanks to Mauno Ritola from Finland for invaluable help and information on actual IRIB frequencies (some data in public frequency bases in Internet is inexact and obsolete). So, Iranian stations can be not only a source of QRM for European amateurs but also interesting DX-trophies.

Well, here are the results of the DX-mission (headphones are preferable for listening):

Alborz province (capital: Karaj)
IRIB Radio Alborz There is no regional broadcasting on MW
Ardabil province (capital: Ardabil)
IRIB Radio Ardabil 1197 kHz 10.03.2017  PLAY 
Azerbaijan, East province (capital: Tabriz)
IRIB Radio Tabriz
1026 kHz 14.02.2017  PLAY 
Azerbaijan, West province (capital: Urmia)
IRIB Radio Markaze Azerbaijaneh Gharb
936 kHz 14.02.2017  PLAY 
IRIB Radio Mahabad
882 kHz 15.02.2017  PLAY 
Bushehr province (capital: Bushehr)
IRIB Radio Bushehr
1305 kHz 24.02.2017  PLAY 
Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari province (capital: Shahrekord)
IRIB Radio Jahanbin 756 kHz 08.11.2017  PLAY 
Fars province (capital: Shiraz)
IRIB Radio Fars 1287 kHz 07.03.2017  PLAY 
Gilan province (capital: Rasht)
IRIB Radio Gilan 657 kHz 22.09.2017  PLAY 
Golestan province (capital: Gorgan)
IRIB Radio Golestan 1368 kHz 27.02.2017  PLAY 
Hamadan province (capital: Hamadan)
IRIB Radio Hamadan 981 kHz 17.11.2017  PLAY 
Hormozgān province (capital: Bandar Abbas)
IRIB Radio Khalij-e Fars
693 kHz 13.04.2017  PLAY 
Ilam province (capital: Ilam)
IRIB Radio Ilam 972 kHz 24.02.2017  PLAY 
Isfahan province (capital: Isfahan)
IRIB Radio Isfahan 837 kHz 15.08.2017  PLAY 
Kerman province (capital: Kerman)
IRIB Radio Kerman 1062 kHz 25.02.2017  PLAY 
Kermanshah province (capital: Kermanshah)
IRIB Radio Kermanshah 1278 kHz 15.02.2017  PLAY 
Khorasan, North province (capital: Bojnourd)
IRIB Sedaye Markaze Khorasan-e Shomali
873 kHz 29.03.2017  PLAY 
Khorasan Razavi province (capital: Mashhad)
IRIB Sedaye Khorasan-e Razavi
684 kHz 01.03.2017  PLAY 
Khorasan, South province (capital: Birjand)
IRIB Sedaye Khorasan-e Jonubi
963 kHz 08.11.2017  PLAY 
Khuzestan province (capital: Ahvaz)
IRIB Radio Khuzestan 711 kHz 17.03.2017  PLAY 
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province (capital: Yasuj)
IRIB Radio Dena 891 kHz 17.03.2017  PLAY 
Kurdistan province (capital: Sanandaj)
IRIB Radio Kordestan 999 kHz 21.02.2017  PLAY 
Lorestan province (capital: Khorramabad)
IRIB Radio Lorestan 927 kHz 31.08.2017  PLAY 
Markazi province (capital: Arak)
IRIB Radio Markazi 774 kHz 17.03.2017  PLAY 
Mazandaran province (capital: Sari)
IRIB Radio Mazandaran 819 kHz 23.10.2017  PLAY 
Qazvin province (capital: Qazvin)
IRIB Radio Qazvin 1125 kHz 28.02.2017  PLAY 
Qom province (capital: Qom)
IRIB Radio Qom 1467.4 kHz 12.04.2017  PLAY 
Semnan province (capital: Semnan)
IRIB Radio Semnan 1089 kHz 21.11.2017  PLAY 
Sistan and Baluchestan province (capital: Zahedan)
IRIB Radio Zahedan 783 kHz 18.09.2017  PLAY 
Tehran province (capital: Tehran)
IRIB Radio Tehran 1332 kHz 19.09.2017  PLAY 
Yazd province (capital: Yazd)
IRIB Radio Yazd 1035 kHz 02.03.2017  PLAY 
Zanjan province (capital: Zanjan)
IRIB Radio Zanjan 792 kHz 26.10.2017  PLAY 

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