DX-Window No. 82- weekly soft-copy-only newsletter by theDanish Shortwave Club International Tavleager 31 DK-2670 Greve, Denmark Editorial stop September 21, 1997 Editor-in-Chief: Finn Krone finn.krone@vip.cybercity.dk Co-editors:Anker Petersen 100413.2375@compuserve.com Wian Stienstra wian@compuserve.com Don Phillips 101521.2167@CompuServe.com
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DSWCI-0143 Finn Krone, Denmark - NRD535, Drake R7A, 60 m LW
- David M. Clark, Ont-Canada - Drake R8, JRC NRD-515, with
Sherwood SE-3, Ant: - Carolina Beam + JPS ANC-4 noise
phaser
Friends, MR. DX - Arthur Cushen - is no longer. We will miss his contribution to our world of DX. The DX community is mourning - a special section of tribute is included in this issue. Now, remember that there will be a local DSWCI meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday 4 October where we have prominent guests: The EDXC secretary Risto Vahakainu and EDXC deputy secretary Arto Mujunen, both from Finland, will attend the meeting. (We are looking forward to seeing you agn, Risto and Arto!). If you have the chance, you are welcome! The meeting will be held at our President Anker Petersen's home in Skovlunde, the address is Udbyvej 11, 2740 Skovlunde. If you plan to come, please notify Anker at AnkerP@compuserve.com 73's Finn AFGHANISTAN 7200, Radio Voice of Shari'ah of Kandahar Province will broadcast programmes from Tuesday 16th September, the pro- Taleban Radio Voice of Shari'ah (Kabul) reported on 14th September. - The broadcast will be from 0700-0815 (0230-0345 gmt), the radio said. (Radio Voice of Shari'ah, Sep 14 via BBCM) ALBANIA (presumably) 9679.8, TWR, Sep 21, 0750, in English with "Back to God" prog, still announces the old 9755 khz (Pashkevich) ALGERIA 7245, CHÂINE 3-RADIO ALGERS INT, Sep 02, 1659, Arab service with Time Beeps and songs by Jean Michel Jarre at 17:00. Quite strong and stable signal. A very good tip when listening this station is the fact that they mix French words and expressions with the Arab conversation. This is the only station that usually does!. (Garzon) ANGOLA 5985, Vorgan, Sep 20, 1900-1910, Portuguese,Male announcer with local political news plus comments, followed by African area news items. 33333 (Clemitson) 5985, VORGAN, Sep 18, 2056, Portuguese talk, slow vocal ballad, simple "VORGAN" ID at 2100; time check at 2103 and off with march/anthem "N'Kosi Sikele i Afrika" (thanks to Vashek Korinek for identifying this) at 2105. Solid signal most days, but audio is somewhat boomy and lacking in characteristic VORGAN brilliance. Also, programming is noticeably more subdued than before. (Hill) ARGENTINA RAE, Radiodifusion Argentina al Exterior, from 1st October 1997 will have the following full NEW schedule:
Japanese NEW 1000-1200 (currently 1100-1200) 11710 khz.
8098.0L, Radio Continental, Sep 18, 0558-0820, Spanish program of news and music, seemingly 24h now, fading out around 0830 (Kuhl) 13365.0L, Unid feeder, Sep 11, 2025, typical Spanish language program of Buenos Aires FM station relayed on shortwave; at the same time telephony on USB; all very weak despite RAE powerhouse today on 15345v; the good old times of late openings are starting their come back, thanks to the new solar cycle (Kuhl) Here is a wide list of postal addresses & phone/fax of Argentinian radios:
LR1 RADIO EL MUNDO / FM HORIZONONTE
LR6 RADIO MITRE / FM 100
LR4 RADIO CONTINENTAL / FM HIT
LS6 RADIO BUENOS AIRES / FM RO
LS11 RADIO PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
LRA6 RADIO NACIONAL MENDOZA
LS 10 RADIO DEL PLATA / FM
LRA 1 RADIO NACIONAL
LRA36 RADIO NACIONAL ARCANGEL SA
LRA RAE - RADIODIFUSION ARGENTINA
ARMENIA
In a covering letter I received together with a QSL from
VOICE OF ARMENIA they say: We have immediate plans to
increase our English hour, to open a website on the Internet,
and perhaps even attach audio to it. Furthermore, during the
actual anniversary month of December this year, we shall have
an active amateur radio station at the radio building. This
special event station will sign with the call letters ER6R50
(R50 suffx is selected to commemorate our 50th anniversary of
course), and it will give a chance to our ham listeners to
exchange greetings with our announcers, either in CW or SSB
modes. (Schotmans)
AUSTRALIA 5025.0, NTSS Katherine, Sep 13, 2130-2200, English programme with 10 minutes of news, followed by music; quite good (Kuhl) Monash University is working on a deal with Radio Australia to broadcast educational programs in English and other languages to Asia. This may lead to the reactivation of the Darwin transmitters, or leasing Asian transmitters (Guy Healy, The Weekend Australian, Sept 13, via Matt Francis, WORLD OF RADIO 910) AZERBAIJAN 6109.97, V.o.Azerbaijan, Sep 8, 1700-1800, in E & Ru (PanIview-BUL, Pankov, Ivanov, Chengeliev, Ivanova, via BC_DX) BANGLADESH 7185, V of Islam (Tent), Sep 02, 1807, Hindi chants with strong QRM by DW. Faint signal only barely audible under DW (SIO/211). (Garzon) BELARUS 11960, R Belarus; Kalodzipcy, Sep 02, 1820, Comments in Belarussian and at 18:29 ID, Interval Signal, then news. Great signal (SIO/544) and //7210. (Garzon) Some changes of Radio Mayak SSB relays were made at the beginning of September. Here is a current monitoring schedule from Sep 15: 0300-1500 4982, 1200-1400 4855, 1500-0300 2382 and 3355. There are frequent breakes and switching from USB to LSB from time to time (Timofeyev, NERRS Monitoring) BELGIUM Today (Sept 20) I was at the RVI open day and I was able to gather some news:
* As we already knew, it was confirmed that the Spanish and
Arabic transmissions will be abolished. French and German
will be broadcast only during weekends.
UTC Freq Relay Direction
Azimuth
BOLIVIA 6014.8, R El Mundo; Santa Cruz, Sep 18, 2213-2230, LA music, female speaker with short announcements in Spanish, canned ID at 2227 UTC. 24333 (Veldhuis) 6025, R Illimani; La Paz, Sep 21, 0139-0158, Spanish, Musical Program, Spanish, 23322, time check "ocho minutos para las 22.00 hora de este dia 20 de setiembre" advertsiments, ".....transmite Radio Illimani, La Voz de Bolivia" (Eramo) 6135, Radio Santa Cruz, Sep 13, 2240, Spanish language program, live coverage of a music contest; armchair listening (on the DSP receiver; hardly believable how good shortwave can sound) (Kuhl) BOTSWANA 4820, R Botswana; Gaborone, Sep 16, 0419-0500, local language, man announcer, news, comments and music, ID mention Botswana and Gaborone 23222 (in the first 20 minutes) after this time weak signal (Eramo) BRAZIL 4765.0, R Rural; Santarem, Sep 21, 0235-0255, fair with music and Ids- except for the usual strong 4830, 4980, and 5077 this was only LA with tolerable signals de LA in the whole band! (Krone) 4845, R.Cultura, Sep 18, 0157-0200*, talk by man - 0200 jingle talk and s.off (Vaghjee) 4865, R Alvorada; Londrina, Sep 18, 0115-0157*, Religious talk, religious song 0130 Jingle and back to religious prog 0154 jingle - heard Londrina and kiloherts by man -0157 S.off (Vaghjee) 6060, Radio Universo; Curitiba, Sep 21, 0641-0803, Portuguese, Man Preacher, Gospel Music, 23332, ID, "....1210 Khz....ZY727 31 metros 9565 KHz, 25 metrs 11765 Khz, 49 metros 6060 KHz...Radio...Sistema Universo da Comuniçao.." (Eramo) 6135.2, R Aparecida; Aparecida, Sep 21, 0243-0304, Portuguese, Religious Program, Music, Advertsiments, ID, 22222 //5035 KHz, time check "hora certa cero hora dois minutos horario da Brasilia .... Radio Aparecida..." (Eramo) 6170, R Cultura; Sao Paulo, Sep 19, 2205, Talk, Telephonade, followed by advertisements - jingle at 2215 - Talk on Education 2220 Advertisements (Vaghjee) 6183.1, R Nacaional de Amazonia; Brasilia, Sep 03, 0822, at 0822 comments in Brazilian on present affaires and great fun with listeners and phone-ins. Great signal (SIO/544) with ads, the longest "Petrobras". Some sentences related with the State of Para. (Garzon) 9505.0, Radio Record; Sao Paulo, Sep 17, 2158-2203, Brazilian popmusic, Portuguese announcement of frequencies, ID. "A Voz do Brazil" at 22:00 UTC, // several other Brazilians in the 31 and 25 meterband, which also carried that program. 34444 (Veldhuis) 9565.0, Radio Universo; Curitiba (p), Sep 17, 2358-0003, Nice music, Male speaker with (religious?) talk in Portuguese. 33443 (Veldhuis) 9584.9, Radio Globo; Sao Paulo, Sep 18, 2133-2140, Portuguese talk, advertisements, ID. 24433 (Veldhuis) 9615, R Cultura, Sep 14, 2225, with guitar played songs and PP - very marginal signal with this antenna (Liangas) 11780, R Nacional Amazonia, Sep 19, 2304, ID many times - Radio Nacional Amazonia, musica de Brazil, advertisements 2313 ID, Radio Nacional, songs (Vaghjee)
11785.1, Radio Guaiba; Porto Alegre, Sep 17, 2338-2344,
Excited man speaker in Portuguese with sports report,
"Gooooaaalllll!", tentative ID. 23432 (Veldhuis) 11785.21, R. Guaiba; Porto Alegre, Sep 19, 2154, Po talk by OM ment Guaiba few times, later Porto Alegre, phone-ins presented by female announcer. (Joosten) 11794.40, R Guaiba; Porto Alegre, Sep 13, 2115-2125, usual format of Port anns and Musica Popular Brasileira. Ex 11785 kHz. 34433 (Elbe) 11855.02, R. Aparecida; Aparecida, Sep 18, 2040, LA-music, fading in, Po talks and some phone-ins, no ID heard but must be them. (Joosten) 11915.02, R. Gaucha; Porto Alegre, Sep19, 2207, phone-in discussion with presenter, ID at 2214 by YL, jingles mentioning Porto Alegre. (Joosten) 11925.05, R. Bandeirantes; Sao Paulo, Sep18, 2031, playing their jingle on 2034 and commercials, Po talks. (Joosten) 11925.1, R Bandeirantes, Sep 16, 1755, very early and fair reception. Globo fair as well! (Krone) 15135.00, R Record; Sao Paulo, Sep 17, 1950-2005, P, phone- in, pops, //9505 (good) 14233 (Phillips) CAMBODIA 11940.34, Nat'l Voice of Cambodia, Sep 14, 1302-1315*, woman opening the Vietnamese pgme, then seq'd EZL domestic vocals to quick closing anmt at 0315. Carrier cut 30 seconds later. Weak but quite readable thru moderate het using USB given R. Romania- 11940 was not very strong. (Clark) CANADA 6130, CHNX, Halifax, (heard on 29 July 1997) confirmed with a verification letter in one month. They added a sticker, a schedule and a short note by Wayne S. Harvey, chief engineer. Harvey wrote to me : "Thanks for the cassette and the report. I am interested in reports technically. We are only at 50 watts but hope to get back to 500 watts soon. I've added a timed ID saying CHNX and where we are in July and hope it helps to ID our station. Keep listening and I remain your friend". Address: P.O.Box 400 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2R2 (Bernardini) 6130.0, CHNX, Sep 20, 0655-0710, program of oldies, interrupted by CHNX identification; quite good while nothing else interesting came through (except for a U.S. pirate on 6955 just before 0650 UTC) (Kuhl) CHINA 3950, Qinghai PBS; Xining (p), Sep 19, 2335, Talk in Chinese by man and woman. Weak and very noisy. (Vaghjee) 4035, Xizang PBS; Lhasa, Sep 19, 2345, Chinese Music. Fair reception (Vaghjee) 4330, Xinjiang PBS, Sep 19, 2350, Songs of the Region and chinese instrumental music. Very noisy (Vaghjee) 4750, Xizang PBS; Lhasa, Sep 20, 0015, Talk by woman and man in chinese lang Noisy (Vaghjee) 4734.93, Xinjiang BC, Sept 8, 1546, Uighur program with Chinese music (Willfor) 4735, Xinjiang PBS; Urumqi, Sep 20, 0008, Talk in Uighur with list of names - Lou Chan chong chang chang chou etc. Very good (Vaghjee) 4865, Gansu 1, Sept 8, 1553, Chinese and Gansu mentioned often during talk (Willfor) 4980, Xinjiang BC, Sept 8, 1603, Mongolian Program with id in the news (Willfor) 5220, China Radio Intl; Beijing (Feeder?), Sep 18, 2020-2040, English, Male commenting on Chinese economy and World Bank. 22222 (Clemitson) 7194.9, Xinjiang PBS; Uighur Service, Sep 21, 2318, Exotic music drama with male and female vocals, drums and other percussion, brief narrative announcement by woman between each selection. Not positive of language, but it was nontonal and presumably Uighur as scheduled. Followed past 2345. Fairly strong, though choppy and echoey; extremely poor and barely readable on // 4734.9. (Hill) CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE 5985, R TV Congolaise; Brazaville, Sep 14, 1600, just after s/off of R.Myanmar R.Congo has been heard with a Radio play in French followed by a song on Moboutou 1614 Religious Prg in African lang. weak (Vaghjee) CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 5066.33, La Voix du Congo Dem., Bunia, Sep 14, 1710-1804, F, faded in from 1710, local mx, tk, tent. ID at 1800, anthem - heavy drums, close 24232 (Phillips) 5066.3, La Voix du Peuple; Bunia, Sep 16, 1735-1803*, missed ID - I was out looking at the moon eclipse. When I came back 1801 the NA (I believe it was) was being played (Krone) COLOMBIA 6062.3 is where Colmundo Bogotá is to be found as of Sept 17. Seems to be having some tx problems from time to time. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 6063.7, Colmundo Int, Sep 03, 0753, "Colmundo, la gran cadena radial de la Paz". Good signal (SIO/444) and institutional ad about "El respeto a los animales; si Dios los puso ahí, no tenemos derecho a maltratarlos". Better signal at around 0749. (Garzon) 6201.1, the unid parrish broadcaster is still going strong, weekdays 2320-2400 approx., Sundays until 0100 approx. Believed to be from Granada, Antioquia. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) COSTA RICA 6105, R Universidad de Costa Rica; San José, QSL-card full data, stickers, folder, v/s Marco Gonzalez in 45 days 2 IRC (Eramo) CUBA 6000, R Habana Cuba, Sep 21, 0344-0350, tuned in to Arnie Coro's "Dxing Unlimited" dedicated to late Arthur Cushen (Krone) ECUADOR 6050, Radio HCJB, Sep 13, 2230, Spanish domestic service with identifications and religious talks; good reception (Kuhl) 9365, HCJB Quito, Sep 20, 0700 English for Eu. (ex 9765) good signal, 21455SSB announced as //. (Pashkevich) ETHIOPIA 5500, V.O.the Tigray Revolution, Sep 18, 1520, fine signal (best in lsb!!!) with its typical African music (Lindenthal) 5500, V.O.the Tigray Revolution, Sep 21, /0355, IS into programming 0400, YM echo ID, talk //6315 kHz. Weak on 5500, 6315 fair but QRM ute (Krone) 9704, R Ethiopia, Sep 21, 1458, male speaker in Amharic with mention of Ethiopia followed by IS with electronic keyboard, gong and at 1500 Amharic with clear mentioning of Ethiopia. 24333 (Rooy) GERMANY/LITHUANIA Universelles Leben, SANTEC-Studio, Marienstrasse 1, D-97070, Wurzburg, Germany, via Lithuania and Germany:
1100-1200 s...... German Eu............. 9710-Lithuania
GUAYANA 3290.0, GBC, Sep 10-12, 0500-0600, English program, on Sep 11 dedications, pop, rap, oldies; good readable; on Sep 10 they had a bulletin of news at 0500-0505 UTC, but obviously not daily; on Sep 12 they relayed VOA news at 0500-0506 UTC, followed by a program of Soul music (still VOA relay?); 3289.9 NBC already faded out (Kuhl) 3290, GBC seems non active 0900-1000 for last week, also checked 5950 with no joy, did not check every day, (Wilkner, Sep 21) HAWAII 17555, KWHR; Naalehu, Sep 17, 0600, relay of Pulse FM. Finally received again after 10 days of trying daily. 14231. Be carefull because Pakistan is also heard on some days on this channel. It looks like KWHR stays to be hardcore DX here in Europe. (Schotmans) INDONESIA 3224.8, RRI Tanjung Pinang, Sep 13, 1124, Islamic music. 1130 time pips then local news entitled "Warta Berita Daerah" by female. ID at 1146 "Inilah Radio Republik Indonesia Tanjung Pinang",then dangdut music. 1200 Jakarta news relay. Suddenly signed off at 1214. Poor(Yamada) 3231.85, RRI Bukittinggi, Sep 15, 1627 (Lindenthal) 3250, RRI Banjarmasin, Aug 23, 1650, Local pops. Suddenly signed off at 1652. Usually signs off at 1500. This was heard at Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia (Yamada) 3976, In DXW81, (Vaghjee) reported hearing on 3976 RRI Surabaya and your comment was that not so. Quite a while back I have myself reported hearing this station and some DXers from US jumped on me saying they were burned out and not on air at the present. However I have a good recording a station IDing as RRI Surabaya using this frequency (3976) and have heard it once or twice in the last 12 months. At least when I do check on the Indonesians, when I am DXing in the bush. They maybe not on air all the time, they maybe using another station transmitters, I don't know, but I have a clear ID of RRI Surabaya on this frequency. I also have noted that Juchi Yamada reported this as RRI Surabaya while back. I wonder who is correct? (Kecskes) 3395.13, RRI Tanjung Karang, Sep 15, 1631, with excellent modulation. (Lindenthal) 3996.1, RRI Kendari(presumed), Sep 7. 1712, local pops and male talk. Poor. (Yamada) 4000.1, RRI Kendari, Sep 6, 1324, Local pops. 1400 IS then, local news by male. (Yamada) 4003.2, RRI Padang, Sep 18, 1630, was logged with some typical musicplay (Lindenthal) 4753.24, RRI Ujung Pandang, Sept 8, 1549, local music, not sure if program was local (Willfor) 4777.0, RRI Jakarta, Kebayoran, Sep 10, 1415, male talk and local pops. In parallel with 9565 and 11785, but 4777.0 was slightly earlier than other 2 frequencies. 4777.0 was heard after short absence and slightly down its frequency (ex- 4777.1 (Yamada) 4925, RRI Jambi, 1515, one of the fist stations coming into MEU is RRI Jambi 4925. From around 1515 traditional music can be heard. At the top of the hour full ID, SCI and relay of national news from RRI Jakarta. (Lindenthal) 4925, RRI Jambi, Sep 21, 1530, Female speaker in BI, 1533 traditional gamelan music with drums and gongs until 1538 then female ann agn, guitar music southeast asian style, ID at 1543 as: "Radio Republiek Indonesia Jambi programa regional." 24333 (Rooy) 5059.10, RRI Yogjakarta, Sep 21, 1507-1517*, Male speaker in BI with warta berita followed by march music with indonesian male songs and at 1516 love ambon tune, male speaker in BI and s/off at 1517, //11785. 23222 (Rooy) 6153.4, RRI Biak, Sep 6, 1410, telephone conversations and local pops. 1458 SCI. 1500 Jakarta news relay. Still heard at 1730. Poor. Recently the schedule is very variable. (Yamada) 7173.2, RRI Serui, Sep 15, 0835, Islamic music. 0855 reading of Holy Koran. 0904 Islamic talk then religious music. 0911 ID by male as "..bersama kami Radio Republik Indonesia Stasiun Serui." Suddenly signed off at 0915. Fair. (Yamada) 9630.0, RRI Jakarta, Sep-15, 1328-1457, //9565,11785 with ID's as "Programa Nasional Satu" (Timofeyev, NERRS Monitoring) 9680.0, RRI Jakarta, Sep 15, 1047-1300*, //15150 with ID's as "Programa Nasional Dua" and Jakarta news relay at 1100-1107 and 1200-1218 //9565,11785 (Timofeyev, NERRS Monitoring) 11785, RRI Jakarta, Sep 21, 1059, Under VOA heard with pieces of song of the coconut islands. weak (Rooy) 15125.0, RRI Jakarta, Sep 16, 0450-0655 with ID's as "Programa Nasional Satu" (Timofeyev,NERRS Monitoring) IRAN 6165, VOIRI, Sep 19, 2225-2228, Talk in English, song. Full ID followed by schedule and address - 2228 S.off. Fair (Vaghjee) IRAQ
11785, Radio Iraq International, Sep 14, 2000, French at new
time. At 2022 into English until 2054. Afterwards open
carrier. Took tx of air at 2103. BTW: they are now announcing
the correct frequency. Still badly modulated. Sept 16 I tuned
in at 1930 when they just changed from Arabic into French. At
2002 The English program started and lasted until 2058. So
the English program is not fixed to a length of 30 minutes.
(Schotmans)
11787, R Iraq Int, Sep 21, 1040, Arabic with piece of ID at 1041 as: min Iraq, at 1049 Arabic music with handdrum and female songs, at 1055 female ann, local flute, no news at 1100 but fine Arabic music with handdrums, flute and violins. 25332 (Rooy) Main prgr in Arabic on SW: 11785v kHz 0900-1155; 11292v kHz 0600-0900,1900-2305; 9755v kHz 1900-2300; 9715v kHz 0600- 0900,1400-1600. Kurdish prgr: 6560v kHz 0215-2030 (BBCM Sep 18) ISRAEL 5915, Kol-Israel, Sep 14, 1625, Arabic songs, 1630 Pips, ID. Fair with interference by other stations 1630 Chime by R.Russia (Vaghjee) JAPAN 3925, Radio Tanpa, Sep 19, 1400-1430, 44444 Japanese drama, musical program. (Mitsuaki) KUWAIT 9880, R.Kuwait, Sep 19, 1450, Prayer in Arabic and songs - 1500 ID - News, fair/good (Vaghjee) LITHUANIA
Hello coleagues,
73! de Sigitas Zilionis
Re. Baltic: You ought to have been listening to Media Network
a few weeks ago
:-) Jonathan did an update, or maybe that should be
"downdate" on Baltic Radio International. That was a project
conceived by UK radio consultant and broadcaster Paul
Rusling. The plan was to build a mediumwave transmitter in
Lithuania with an antenna directed at southern Sweden and
Denmark to broadcast commercial programmes, a sort of
Scandinavian version of Radio Luxembourg I suppose. At one
stage Rusling was claiming that he had a licence and that
construction was under way, but he now says (on Media
Network) that the project failed because promised commercial
backing never materialised. The old, old story :-) Rusling
indicated that he had lost interest in the project, and is
now involved in other ventures including the recent, even
crazier, idea to beam commercial programmes to the UK from
Latvia on 576kHz !!
Inspired by this creative use of the ether, I am considering
purchasing a mediumwave station in Vladivostok to broadcast a
local service beamed at this part of the Netherlands :-)
MALAGASY
3140, R. Madagasikara, Sep 15, 0302-0305, 1st tent glimpse of
this NF w/ music but vy weak/noisey and quickly faded under
co-channel ute carrier. *0259-0326 Sept 16, man with s/on ID
& freq first noted on 5009.6, then switched to 3140 (best on
LSB) for definite // of brief anthem at 0300, choral vocal by
woman to 0305, short anmt by man and domestic music to 0320
when into daily drama introduced by a whistling theme,
repeated at 0325. Weak-fair at best and sometimes faded under
ute QRM; occasional breakthru of a different audio signal,
presumed 1570 image, was sometimes confusing but on peaks,
the origin of the
3140 signal was obvious. Best circa 0305-0315 (a bit after
xmtr SR = 0247).
*0257-0259 Sept 17, mostly in the mud again this date but
bits of IS broke thru, // 60mb signal down to 5009.5. Should
be somewhat easier as QRN season dissipates but tuning in
extreme LSB position is necessary at my QTH. (Clark)
3140, R Malagasy, Sep 20, 1645-1700, mixture French &
Malagasi, Talk programme with Tribal musical and song
inserts. Female with Malagasi ID at 1700 33232 (Clemitson)
MALAYSIA
5005, RTM Sibu; Sarawak, Sep 19, 2225, flute music and
popular music, male presenter in presumed Iban, best
reception in USB, at re-check 2257 far too weak, presumed
RTM. (Joosten)
7295, RTM Radio 4, Sep 15, 1500, this is a fine indicator for
Southasia. The 10 kW transmitter is rarely logged in
southeast Germany. Several IDs and jingles mixed with pop
music till 1500, when Radio Liberty in Bielorussian occupies
the frequency (Lindenthal) Yes, nice, except it also tells
that winter in approaching, ed.
MALI
4835, R TV Malienne; Bamako, Sep 14, 0627-0633, French,
Music, man announcer, ID, News. Weak signal and high static
noise (Eramo)
MEXICO
4800.70, XERTA; Mexico City, Sep 19, 0222, W ID "desde
Mexico, XERTA....." and into lounge-jazz rendition of "Stormy
Weather". Numerous and varied ID's, great signal, though
plagued by weak het. (Novello)
6010, XEOI-R Mil; México DF, Sep 03, 0719, Canción by Roberto
Santamaría "Una historia de amor como no hay otra igual",
followed by an exalted speech on the "Patria y la bandera"
(Nation and Flag). ID at 0730. (Garzon)
9705, Radio Mexico International, Sep 21, 0342-0356, series
of ballads with man annr giving a nice ID between selections.
Fair. (D'Angelo)
MONGOLIA
15170.0, Vo Mongolia, Sep 12, 0900-0930, English program with
news and mailbag; easy catch on clear channel; tnx tip
Schaay/Bueschel (Kuhl)
15170, V.O.Mongolia, Sep 21, 0859, IS followed by male
speaker in Mongolian
with ID, again IS and female in English with: R Ulaanbator,
IS and female in English with: The Voice of Mongolia and freq
ann, echo in programing. 25333 (Rooy)
MOZAMBIQUE
4930, R Mocambique-Maputo, Sep 18, the reception is still
poor but have been heard the ID at 2119, at 21.29 and 20.00
its Emissao Interprovincial Maputo (Vaghjee)
MYANMAR
5985, R Myanmar; Yangon, Sep 14, 1510, main point to end the
news - id and just after the nx commentry on Developments &
Economic and enmy abroad followed by continious western music
of year 1950 at 1600 program ended by good night by YL
(Vaghjee)
NEW ZEALAND
3935.00, R. Reading Service; Levin, Sep 18, 0525-0600, non-
stop E female speaker till 0540. When rechecking at 0555 they
had some instrumental jazz, followed by male announcer.
Fading out around 0600. Quite a regular one here around
equinoxe. 15442 (Elbe)
NIGER
9704.2, La Voix du Sahel, Sep 21, /0259, s/on with short IS,
Vernacular ID, IS, then pres. news. At 0305 usual type local
songs. Fair (Krone)
NORTH KOREA
3250, R. Pyongyang, Sep 19, 1100-1115, Japanese Service News
on the North-South relationship, economy in Korea. 44444
(Mitsuaki)
PAKISTAN
6060, R Pakistan, Sep 14, 1430, Radio Play in Urdu - 1535
Pips, News in Urdu, 1443"Radio Pakistan se Khabre Khatam
houii" [END OF THE NEWS FROM RADIO PAKISTAN] - followed by
announcements. Weak (Vaghjee)
11565, Radio Pakistan, Sep 15, 1415, with it's English
Program. (Lindenthal)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
4890, NBC, Sep 18, 2050, Music and announcement on
independence anniversary
and local Goverment followed by ID "This is N B C" at 2059
and speach of Govornor General on Independence Anniversary.
(Vaghjee)
9675, NBC Port Moresby, Sep 14, 0750, & 0803-0804:30* first
noted fair and alone on channel with chatter by man in
English. Brief news ending at 0803 re-tune, then into vocal
music until carrier cut mid-song. Signal was improving with
the approach of xmtr SS = 0808. Suddenly up well on 4890
after about a 10 second intervening delay. Also noted
undoubtedly RRI Sorong-9741.8 w/moderate carrier but too weak
for audio to predictable 0757*; R. Kiribati-9809.96 was not
detected and presumed off-air. (Clark)
PARAGUAY
9737, R Nacional, Sep 14, 2344, with sport program 33232
(Liangas)
11939.31, R. Encarnacion, Sep 14, 2245, occasional bits of
LAm music and talk
by man fading in at very weak level. Totally smothered after
RCI's *2300. (Clark)
1200, R. Libre had it official start today. They have been
broadcasting for many months now with "test" broadcasting.
They have now moved the transmitter QTH from Itagua to Ñemby.
They have also new studio complex in Fernando de La Mora
(suburb to Asuncion). Street address is "Zavala Cue 1615,
Fernando de la Mora" and will broadcast from 05:00 to 00:00
localtime. They will still maintain the Itagua studio.
Previous they ann. that they used a 25 kW transmitter, but
now in a local newspaper they write that the transmitter is
an Harris 11 kW AM stereo. The station had past several
problems to get on to air (not technically). Director is:
Benjamin Fernandez Bogado. Telephone is 021-509087 / 021-
509088 / 021-509089. The station was earlier R. Arasapoty, on
1360kHz. (Iversen)
The Trans Chaco Rally (car) will start the 25th and go to the
28th of Sept. Several station will bcst from this event. R. 1
de Marzo, R. Uno, R. Cardinal and they will certainly use
mobile transmitters in the range of 5300 - 5900 where they
have been before. So keep an eye on this band plus other
utility bands. Also earlier heard station in this event in
the 8 MHz range. (Iversen)
PERU
4549.44, Radiodifusora Tropico; Trinidad; Beni, Sep 20, 1020,
tentatively the one with with man droning on and on,
mentioning Trinidad a few times. Only copied about 25% of
his talk due to QRN. (Novello)
4571.8v, R Gotas de Oro; Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Sep 20 1035,
pretty Andean fiddles and guitars, time checks by male DJ
between
most songs, canned echo "...Gotas de Oro!" insert. Carrier
unstable, wobbling up and down 100 Hz. Had to keep retuning
to
keep signal intelligible. Competition from QRN and
occasional
car-alarm jammer. (Novello)
4774.95, R Tarma, Sep 21, 0225, here are this weeks loggings,
prepared while listening to a mix of electric guitar rock and
Andean acoustic guitar selections here on Tarma. If I had
any more energy I'd turn it into a logging, hi. (Novello)
4914.6, Radio Cora; Lima, Sep 14, 0330-0334, Spanish,
Comments and Musical program, Advertisements. ID "Radio Cora
del Peru, emisora perteneciente .... en 4915 kHz ..... banda
.... de 60 metros, transmite desde Lima, capital del Peru"
22222 (Eramo)
4995.2, R Ancash; Huaraz, Sep 21, 0332-0339, Spanish, Man
announcer, Musical
Program, time check "diez de la noche con treinta y cuatro
minutos" Coments by man ID "....en radio Ancash....." (Eramo)
5677.1, R Frec San Ignacio, Sept 14, 2345, poor. Sept 18,
5677.0, same time, with Señora Matallana esoteric show, which
was not in //with R San Ignacio, 7040.5. (Klemetz/Dateline Bogota)
6017.8, Radio Victoria; Lima, Sep 21, 0629-0640, Spanish,
religious program, man
announcer,music, time check "la una con treinta y ocho
minutos" ID
"...sintonizan Radio Victoria......las 24 horas del día"
(Eramo)
6115, Union Radio; Lima, Sep 03, 0810, Merengue and Vallenata
music with brief IDs in between songs. Each minute passing
by, signal becomes weaker and weaker. At 0810 SIO/242.
(Garzon)
6115.03, R Union; Lima, Sep 18, 0655, rapid tropical dance
and
rap selections, "Union, La Radio" IDs between selections.
Entertaining
programming, and great signal: S9 on a wide open frequency at
this time
of the local night. (Novello)
6115.1, Radio Union; Lima, Sep 21, 0601-0618, Spanish,
musical program, advertisements, ID, 32222 "la madrugada de
Radio Unión" "Por las carreteras del Perú Ud. sintoniza Radio
Unión...." (Eramo)
6480, R Altura; Huarmaca, Sep 17, 0127, local mx and
"comunicaos", ment. area of Huancabamba among other places.
Fair/poor. (Nigro)
6674.6, R Ondas del Río Marañón, ex-6520.3, Sept 17, 2255,
with selections of "cumbia tropical andina" (i.e. 10-year old
HJ pops). Also Sept 18. R Huamachuco
is gone. [See 6675.6] (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota)
6675.6, R Ondas del Río Marañón, Sept 14, 0000*, poor, ex-
6520.3, signal with s/off at midnight after selections of HC
mx labelled "Atardecer en los Andes". Gave name of general
manager (unintelligible) and promised to be on back on
the air by 6 am, local time. Slogan "la frecuencia
internacional" would seem to indicate that reports have been
received from abroad. [See 6674.6] (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota)
6797.7, Radio Ondas del Rio Mayo, Nueva Cajamarca (presumed),
Sep 15, 0044-0105, Peruvian music, male announcer in
Spanish, time check. No ID at top of the hour. 24343
(Veldhuis)
6810.5A, R Ondas del Rio Mayo, Sep 17, 0205*, w/ NA, also at
1045 w/ad string, ment. "Av. Cajamarca", "dengue...Hospital
de Nueva Cajamarca", ID Moved from 6797. (Nigro)
6811.2, R Ondas del Río Mayo, Sept 17, 2145, poor signal and
audio, with "Voz y sentimiento del pueblo del Ecuador"
followed by "Atardecer andino". Lots of ads and messages with
same old arguments: "visítenos y se convencerá", "cuidado
con las imitaciones", "avisar, por favor, a la parte
interesada". (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota)
6811.23, Ondas del Rio Mayo; Sep 19, 0207* noted here with ID
by M, a couple minutes of chatter, then Peruvian anthem.
(Novello)
7040.5, R San Ignacio, is on the air 1200-2400. (Klemetz
/Dateline Bogota)
7745.9 R Cristal is at "distrito de San Hilarión, provincia
de San Martín, región de San Martín". Owners are Lucho García
Gaona and Marina Gaona; station is being run by family
members. S/on varies from 2330 to 0045 and s/off is at approx
0300 if one is to believe their announcements. On Sept 14
(Sunday) the stn was on the air as early as 2130, with s/off
for "refuelling" 2345-0015. Rafael Rodríguez same night
heard speaker say stn will be officially opened on Oct 13.
(Klemetz, /Dateline Bogota)
RUSSIA
Tura: In Evenki Autonomous Area the Evenki State TV and radio
company (?Kheglen) in the town of Tura is broadcasting
broadcast local programmes in the Russian and Evenki
languages daily from 0000 to 0100 and from 0400 to 0415 on
4040 kHz.
(Voice of Russia "DX Club" Sep 7 via BBCM)
RWANDA
6055, Rdiff Rwandaise, a QSL card came last week after one
month from reporting. The transmitting power is 100 kW
according to the QSL card. (Ritola in Hard-Core-DX)
SAINT HELENA
A pirate radio operator from Eastern Europe has announced
that he plans to jam this year_s Radio Saint Helena Day
transmission. A letter asking about the background for this
remained unanswered so far. Hopefully this will not become
reality. But this let us draw some kind of conclusion about
earlier cases of strange interferences on the otherwise clear
shortwave channel Radio Saint Helena uses once a year. (Kuhl)
SAUDI ARABIA
Latest observed schedule of BSKSA (Sep 15-16):
MAP: 0600-0900 9718.2 11708.5 11818.5, 0900-1200 11818.5
15060, 1200-1500
15060 15230 15377, 1700-1800 11780 11948.2 11965, 1800-2300
9555 9870
HQ: 0300-0600 7150 9553.5 9620 9718.2 11785, 0600-0900 9530
11785,
0900-1200 17880 21530, 1200-1600 7150 15277.8, 1600-1800
7150(till 1700)
9730 11708.5 11833.4, 1800-2100 9703.2 11935
Call of Islam: 1500-1700 11780 11948.2 11965
2nd px: 0300-1700 9578.6, 1700-2100 12038.4
External services: 0400-0500 15335 Somali, 0400-0600 15060
Turkish,
0500-0600 17755 Swahili, 1000-1200 21705 Indonesian, 1200-
1400 15345
Urdu, 1400-1500 15345 Bengali, 1400-1600 11730 Persian,
1500-1600 9730
Turkmen, 1600-1700 17775 Bambara
(MAP/Call of Islam can be also heard on 10990 or 3868 in USB,
and 2nd px in
LSB) (Timofeyev/NERRS Monitoring)
7150, BSKSA, Sep 19, 1715, Prayer - 1725 ID in Arabic,
followed by religious talk (Vaghjee)
SINGAPORE
3915, BBC, Sept 12, 2059, with local id for Far Eastern Relay
Station, at 2100 over to bbc news, first time I hear a local
announcement from a BBC station on SW! (Willfor)
SOUTH AFRICA
17690.0, ZS6SARL via Sentech Relay, Sep 20, /1257-1355*,
special transmission celebrating World Amateur Radio Day
(held once a year on the third Saturday of September),
transmission sponsored by Sentech and South African Telecom;
they mentioned the possibility that they will do this again
next year; booming signal and close to FM quality on the DSP
receiver; tnx tip in BCDX (Kuhl)
SRI LANKA
9729.95v, SLBC Colombo, Sep 15, 1417, on sligthly variable
frequency can be heard with mostly popmusic. (Lindenthal)
TAIWAN
5949.9, VOFC, Sep 02, 0720, English service with comments on
USA, Australia and GB. Quite good listening here (SIO/333)
but some deep fading anyway. At 06:50 Spanish Service with
continous music due to technical problems (as announcer
said!). This program in Spanish is not shown on the new bran
VOFC schedule, so NEW?. (Garzon)
9955, WYFR via VOFC, Sep 19, 1615-1650, 34444. Russian
reading passages from the Bible, religious talk. (Mitsuaki)
TANZANIA
5050, R Tanzania; Dar-el-Salaam, Sep 14, 0338-0400, Swahili
(presumed), Man and woman announcer, Music & Comments, ID, IS
News. Very weak (Eramo)
TONGA
the latest information I heard said that there were testing a
little while back, but Tonga did suffer another storm damage
and they gave up the idea of returning to shortwave for good.
Will only be on FM frequency. (Kecskes)
UGANDA
4975.98, R. Uganda, Kampala, Sep 18, 1943, Vernacular talks
about Liberia,
Kampala and Uganda itself, E female presenter w/ quick ID at
1959. (Joosten)
UKRAINE
7150, R Ukraine Int, Sep 21, 0330, "The Whole World on the
Radio Scale" DX news in English. Strong (Krone)
URUGUAY
11735, R Oriental (p), Sep 17, 2040, but very weak in S
(Krone)
USA
7490, WJCR Upton Kentucky, Sep 17, 2200-2300, Lots of
contemporary Christian music, strong but not very well
modulated, Presenter was not very talkative, so didn't ID'ed
them at first, but with the aid of some DX-friends on the net
and after getting some sleep I succeeded. Was surprised to
hear no begging for money. (Schotmans)
9954.97, Radio Cochiguaz via WRMI, Sep 17, 2200-2229, Spanish
program of latin music and identifications, one announcement
in English, giving address in Buenos Aires; also tried Radio
Pirana same time next day, but conditions were too bad (Kuhl)
15745.0, EWTN tv tone; India; via WEWN, Sep 13, 1715-1833,
live coverage of the
funeral ceremony for Mother Theresa from Calcutta (Kuhl)
UZBEKISTAN
6060, R Uzbekistan, Sep 14, 2325, with IS then ID and
programming in Mongolian
43433 under this was the startup of the Xinjiang Programming
43443 (Liangas)
VENEZUELA
4980, Ecos del Torbes, Sep 21, 0325, English ID "This is Ecos
del Torbes broadcasting station in San Cristobal in the state
of Tachira, Venezuela, South America. YVOC 4980 kilocycles in
the 60 m band, YVOD 780 kilocycles AM". (Krone)
CLANDESTINE STATIONS
AZERBAIJAN
9677v, Vo Justice, Sep 11, 1500-1600: not heard today, not
even a trace of
it (Kuhl)
CUBA
6030, R Marti, Sep 03, 0701, Relaying former program "Dos a
las dos" with messages from Cubans abroad for families in
Cuban territory. Phone-in messages at live on 3059941676.
(Garzon)
NIGERIA
Do we have a fourth clandestine now? UTC Sunday Sept 14 but
not since, Ivan Grishin heard after Germany's relay of
Lithuania on 5910 at 0030-0100 another half hour until 0130
identified as Voice of New Nigeria, talking about corrupt
regime, music and vernacular, with P.O. Box in Boston, not
sure if same one announced by V. of Free Nigeria, still Sat
1900 on 11680. Maybe for exiles in NAm, on this beam, and a
bit late for Nigeria itself (WORLD OF RADIO 910)
11680, Voice of Free Nigeria, Sep 20, 1936-2000*, talk by
National Treasurer of Free Nigeria Movement, who is also a
song writer, about song writing and fighting injustice in
Nigeria mentioning "greed" as the number one enemy of
Nigeria; a couple of local tunes and some brief talks in
local languages. Program cut off in mid-sentence. Fair to
good signal. (D'Angelo)
SPAIN
This week I received a kind of dramatic Spanish language
document from a station calling itself Radio Resistencia
based in Madrid, entitled >>Declaracion de Guerra<<
(declaration of war). It seems this is an illegal radio
project with a highly political (leftist) background. They
see themselves as a people_s radio. No frequency was given,
but it seems they are on the air already (on FM?)(Kuhl)
TURKEY
The Voice of Independent Kurdistan (Kurdish: Aira Dengi
Kurdistani Sarbakhoya; Turkish: Burasi Radyo Kurdistana
Sarbakha) observed /0400-0530* (unconfirmed), /1400-1530*,
daily in Kurdish on 6205v kHz (BBCM Sep 18)
PIRATES-EURO
6289.94 R. Zodiac _(very tent), Sep 21, 0443, w/ slight
carrier with male voice just breaking over the tops of the
severe QRM from wx front moving in here. CW QRM from Pt-Pt
stations. (Rippel)
PIRATES-NA
6955.0U, Radio Free Euphoria, Sep 14, 2304-, funny English
program with DJ
Captain Ganja (Kuhl)
6955.2U, KNBS, Sep 15, 0000-, English home growing service of
the California
Marihuana Cooperative; never heard something like this before
(Kuhl)
UNIDENTIFIED STATIONS
3203.96, UNID, Sep 15, @ 1630, Again Sep 18, was 99%
identified as a second harmonic of a low powered czech mw
transmitter of 1602. A longer speech program sounded rather
like czech language, but the exact station name is not yet
known.
(Lindenthal)
3899.95, Unid cland, Sep 11, 1825-1837*, Arabic programme
with bulletin of news from 1829, in their ID they mentioned
>>Kurdistani<<; weak signal without jammer (Kuhl)
4852, UNID Brazil?, Sep 18, 0209, Jingle talk in Spanish or
Portuguese, Espania 0214, Jingle advertisements 0219 Heard
woman confessing? and crying (Vaghjee)
4970, Sept 8, 1600, Arabic music, and AA talk, Baghdad
mentioned often (Willför)
7104.9, UNID, Sep 02, 1759, Pop music and Time Beeps at 1800.
Muffled audio and an UNID Chinese service in the bottom.
(Garzon)
7543.6-LSB, UNID, Sep 15, 1530, Lest ye forget, the Spanish
preaching-and-music outlet is still going and still heard by
me if by no one else, such as Sept 15 a bit later than usual
around 1530 with music, (Hauser)
7560, UNID, Sep 21, 1400, I just heard a station with
continious musical prg and announcements same style as WMR
and I think {THINK} that the voice sounded same as Stig!
unable to indentify - the address was of Rendel Dk. (Vaghjee)
no, I have no idea. It is Randers Denmark but that is close
enough (ed)
11785, VOA Udorn Thani Thailand?, Sep 21, 1057, Female & male
speaker in Chinese, heavily jammed by China? (Michiel Schaay
told me that China jamming some VOA chinese programs). 23222
(Rooy)
compiled by
Deadline: Fridays
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United Nations Radio programmes in RealAudio can be found
under the following
address: http://www.internetbroadcast.com/un.htm. The
information on that
homepage contains the latest headline reports, the highlights
of current and
past news, the daily press briefing, and an interview with
the Executive
Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Dr Nafis
Sadik, the, as the
homepage tells us, "first woman to head one of the UN's major
voluntary-funded
programmes". (AS)
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DXAntwerp editor Herman Boel sent us the following news about
his homepage:
Due to popular demand, my on-line publication "The World on
Radio" has now
changed back to its original country order format. It now
however includes
also programme information of some stations (more in the
near future),
which makes it the ideal companion for every DXer and
programme listener.
Have a look at it on the following page:
http://www.club.innet.be/~ind1570
The file is now reduced to 64kB (instead of the earlier 240
kB).
People who would still like to get the frequency list, can
do so by sending
me an e-mail: hb@innet.be. Please specify which word
processor you are
using.
73
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The US magazine "Popular Communications -- The Monitoring
Magazine" has got
its homepage at http://www.popcomm.com/. The website contains
information on
the magazine itself. (AS)
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Reminder: DSWCI is currently starting discussions on the
possible use of
computers as another means of publishing. For more
information on this, see
the recent issues of the club magazine, Shortwave News. Send
Your opinions to
editor Don Phillips 101521.2167@CompuServe.com. (DSWCI)
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Anker Petersen found an interesting address in the latest
issue of DX-Fokus.
These days, one can hear the new medium wave --- sorry, Finn
:-) ---
transmitters from the Faroe Islands. Here are the Internet
addresses:
(If someone can tell me what the stuff on that homepage wants
to tell me, this
would be appreciated. I don't understand any word on that
homepage... TK)
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And that's all again for this week. No, wait, I still have
got an
interesting somewhat off-topic item for you: If you want to
sent a fax to
radio station by email, you should try http://www.tpc.int/
Goodbye for now, and until next week
Sincerely Yours,
Thorsten
Mikhail Timofeyev/NERRS writes: "Answering to your question I
can say that I usually use some "Soviet made" communication
receivers, such as R-250M2 or R-399A (Titarev has the same!).
As I am a broadcasting engineer of the GPR-2 now I can
periodically work at our monitoring centre near St.Petersburg
- if I have any free time there I can listen to the world
using various professional directional receiving aerial
systems. Yes, there are the fantastic results from time to
time with these antennas!"
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21 September 1997
**ELECTRONIC DX PRESS AUSTRALIA - NEW FEATURE OVER HCJB,
QUITO, ECUADOR**
I am pleased to announced that arrangements have been made
for news from
the "Electronic DX Press Australia" to be broadcast in the
"DX Partyline",
over HCJB, Quito, Ecuador.
The first presentation will be on Saturday 27 September 1997,
during the
English releases.
The feature will be known as "EDXP News" and it will
concentrate on
shortwave broadcasting from Asia, the Pacific, and the Far
East, and
special full-detailed EDXP QSLs wll be issued for correct
reception
reports.
Reports should be sent to:
EDXP QSL SERVICE,
QSLs will be sent airmail - return postage would be
appreciated - two IRCs
or two US dollars, outside of Australia. Within Australia,
four 45 cent
mint Australian stamps.
All reports will also be forwarded on to HCJB in Quito.
DX Partyline for the Pacific is broadcast on Saturdays at
0909 UTC on 9645
kHz and 21455 kHz.
Other timings:
Saturdays 0809 on 9765 kHz, Sundays 0109 on 9745 and 21455
kHz, 0409 on
9745 and 21455 kHz.
Reception reports and comments on this new feature from
anywhere in the
world would be welcomed! The "EDXP News" segment will be a
regular feature
in the DX Partyline, initially on a monthly basis.
Bob Padula
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Guido Schotmans has interesting information from Voice of
Armenia for us:
Here is some information, I received by snail mail, together
with a QSL.
VOICE OF ARMENIA CANADA BUREAU
50 YEARS HISTORY OF THE "VOICE OF ARMENIA".
It was in 1943, at the time of the fiercest battles of World
War II, that Radio Armenia addressed its first words, in
Armenian, to its Armenian listeners outside of country.
Armenia was calling home its surviving sons and daughters who
had left their native land during the Armenian Genocide of
1915 to take refuge in hospitable Arab countries.
After World War II came the Cold War. The Moscow based
central radio committee set up a powerful propaganda machine
to disseminate communist ideologies throughout the world.
Radio Armenia, in September 1947 started its first
international broadcasts in Arabic, then followed up with
programs in Kurdish, Persian and Turkish. In following years,
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Georgian and Azeri
languages were added to our programming.
In late forties and early fifties, sometimes our older
colleagues tried to tell the truth about the communist regime
to the Armenian audiences living in Arab countries. However
these attempts were immediately censored by higher
authorities, and these daring announcers have often
disappeared overnight, finding themselves on a train to a
gulag in Siberia.
Radio Armenia was reborn in 1990, after the democratic forces
had won the parliamentary elections, while Armenia was still
under the Soviet regime. When we finally got rid of
censorship of Moscow, truth finally could be told in our
broadcasts. We changed our name to Radio ARAKS, which is the
name of a river in the heartland of historic Armenia.
However, we adopted our present name "VOICE OF ARMENIA" in
1994, which reflects a better international image of Armenia
on the airwaves.
After the declaration of independence of the REPUBLIC OF
ARMENIA in 1991, Major changes have also occurred in the
tasks and Responsibilities assigned to our radio; two major
ones being the strengthening of the independence of the
Republic of Armenia and the promotion of friendship with
neighbouring countries. The programs of dissemination of the
communist ideology has been replaced by programs aiming to
restore for Armenians scattered all over the world the faith
in a rebirth an independent and free homeland. Today, tiny
Armenia's population is 2.9 million, yet 3.6 million
Armenians, the sons and daughters of 1915 Genocide Survivors,
live scattered all around the globe. This is one of the
reasons why Voice of Armenia broadcasts today in 11 languages
10 hours a day. Our broadcasts target Armenians who live far
from their ancestral land and who have forgotten their mother
tongue, as well as Europeans, Americans, Astans, Australians
who want to know more about Armenia and Nagorno-Karabagh.
Our offices are located at 5 Alec Manoogian Ave., in capital
Yerevan, where a team of 76 people prepare our international
broadcasts in 11 languages that go on air at our transmitters
daily, with 1000 KW. power.
The director of the Voice of Armenia is Dr. Levon V.
Ananigian, who has been at this duty since 1972. Our programs
in English can be heard daily on 31m. band, 9965 KHz, between
2030-2100 UTC.
The opening format of our radio has been the same for four
decades:
Signature tune: "SPRING" by Father Gomitas (*)
Female announcer: "YEREVANN E KHOSOUM" (Yerevan is speaking)
Opening melody: "DANCE OF THE ROSE MAIDENS" by Aram
Khachaturian, from the ballet "GAYANE".
Announcers: "YETEROUM HAYASDANI TZAYNN E" (Female voice)
"The Voice of Armenia is on the air".
"BARI YEREGOH SEERELY HAYRENAGITZNER....." (Male voice)
"Good evening dear compatriots. We are beginning our daily
broadcast in (our) mother tongue, for the Armenians in Europe
and in Latin America."
(*) Gomitas was an Armenian monk. In his short life he
composed thousands of songs and melodies, based on Armenian
folk tunes. He died in 1915, during the first days of the
Armenian genocide, among 600 intellectuals who were massacred
first.
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