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Friends, We have a very extensive research on Bolivian stations from TIN. This is what he writes: "From September 12 to September 23, 1997, I managed a regular circuit of Bolivia, the highest and most isolated of the Latin American republics. It was short vacation, but was the 11th visit to Bolivia for me. The travelling route was made by land from Santa Cruz, Montero, Yapacani, Villa Tunari, Cochabamba, Oruro, to La Paz. Naturally I visited many local radio stations with the object of studying and investigating the broadcasting scene. The following list is the result of my monitoring research on the Bolivian shortwavers." - Thank you, TIN! The DXW84XTRA edition mentioned interesting programs arranged by NorDX97. There is additional interesting item in this edition of DXW. Go find it! As well as loads of good stuff - how about Philippines? - or Cameroon? etc. But also horrible news this time. A number of PNG stations with financial problems are have or are going to close down, cf. Papua New Guinea. AFGHANISTAN V of Sharia Kabul 1107 S on 1325 - 1630 in Pashto and Dari. Time
ALASKA/CZECH REP In a note from Mike Osborne, English Host at KNLS, he writes in response
to
ANGOLA 4950, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos; Oct. 8, 2000-2025, Portuguese. Male with I/D. Phil Collins - "She called out to the man in the street", Angolan political affairs. 43232 //1088//3375//7245 - latter heavy QRM. (Clemitson) 5985, Vorgan, ?, Oct. 10, 2015-2040, Portuguese. Pleasant Portuguese ballards. Male with lively announcements of a political nature in which "Unita" very prominent. At times listening to voice audio made difficult due to an annoying "echo". (Vibraphone?). 44343. Nothing heard on 7090 (Clemitson) cf DXW84, ed. ANTARCTICA 15475.96, R.Nac.Arcangel; Base Esperanza, Oct 8, 1945, Talk about Cordoba,
QSL info, lots of Argentine mx. S 24333 (Schotmans)
8098.00-USB, Radio Continental; Buenos Aires, Oct 10, 0620-0900, fair
signal. Oldies mx px "Algo para Recordar". Every 30 minutes, the news flash
"Informa
8098.00-USB, Cadena Cien, Oct 11, 0730-1015*, is undoubtedly a new entry on this shortwave feeder. Fair but sometimes mixing with another Argentine station on USB which identified itself as "Radio Antena ... La Favorita". EE romantic vocals and YL DJ. The shortwave relay was suddenly closed at 1015 as usual. At 0841 canned ID was announced as "102.7 (ciento dos punto siete) Cadena Cien Rosario", so I presume that the station is in Rosario. But after then at 0918 another Canned ID said "94.7 (noventa y cuatro punto siete)Cadena Cien, ciudad de Cordoba." Seemingly, the station broadcasts with some FM repeaters in the country, but it is necessary to make more check on the station if it is audible again via shortwave feeder. No puedes ayudarme GIB? (TIN) 11710.13, R.Nacional via RAE;Buenos Aires, Oct 5, 2028-2111, Soccer
game relay. 35433 good signal. Also Oct 8, 2100, German prgm. openning
mx and ID "Hier ist die RAE, R.A.E., Radiodifuson Argentina al Exterior..."
at 2102. 35333. According to DXWin 82 by Barrera, it scheduled on 15345kHz,
but heard on
15345, RAE, Oct 10, 1920, Italian px, 34333 - received fd cd and nice personel letter, sts, 8 m (Hein) ARMENIA 4990, Voice of Armenia, Oct 1, 1845-1900, Voice of Armenia heard in EE program //4810 kHz, with both over S9+30 dB. No QRM on either channel (Henderson) 15270, Voice of Armenia, Oct 12, 0830-0900, (Sundays only) in English. Good signal. The programme was devoted to the famous Armenian poet Oganez Tumanyan. According to anncmt there is daily prog in English at 2030-2100 on 9965,7480. (Pashkevich) AUSTRALIA 5025.0, ABC Katherine, Sep 30, 2130, News in E, 24532, (Bernardini) BOLIVIA 3200.3 Radio 9 de Abril "La Voz del Trabajador Industrial", Pulacayo; has not been observed on shortwave for a couple of years. The last time I heard the station was in March 1993. 3280, R Chaco "La Voz del Campesino"; Yacuiba, has been inactive since August 1982. (TIN) 3330, R Charcas; Monteagudo, was closed down according to the Superintendence of Telecommunications. (TIN) 3340.2, R Viloco; Mina Viloco, ceased its transmission when the mining center was closed down. (TIN) 3350.2, R 27 de Diciembre; Villamontes, was not heard during my stay
in Bolivia.
3370.5, R Florida; Samaipata, has been inactive for some years. (TIN) 3390.4, R Emisoras Camargo; Camargo, 2300-0200. (TIN) 3472.V, R Padilla Padilla, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 3754.3, R 20 de Septiembre; Bermejo, has not been observed for several
years.
4200.12, UNID, Oct 6-11, 0330+, LA programming (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) surely the "R Nacional" reported by Nigro, ed. 4211.V, R Perla del Oriente; Robore, has not been observed for several
years.
4409.4, R Eco; Reyes, 2230-0200. (TIN) 4420.7, R Santa Rosa; Santa Rosa, has not been observed for a couple of years. The last time I heard the station was in March 1993.(TIN) 4441.3, R Ecologia Internacional; San Matias, has been inactive since January 1994.(TIN) 4449.3, R Estacion Frontera; Cobija, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 4472.1, R Movima "La Voz de Santa Ana del Yacuma"; Santa Ana del Yacuma, 1030-1600 & 2100-0200. (Sunday 1100-1700 & 2200-0100). (TIN) 4508.7, R Emisora San Joaquin; San Joaquin, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. The station has not been observed since October 1995. (TIN) 4530.3, R Hitachi; Guayaramerin, 1100-1600 & 2200-2400. (TIN) 4549.4, Radiodifusoras Tropico "La Voz Civica del Beni"; Trinidad; broadcast here irregularly in September 1997, with "CONTEL" brand transmitter of 3kW power as alternative frequency. (TIN) 4552.3, Radiodifusoras Tropico; Trinidad; was heard almost daily in
September
4599.3, R Emisoras Villamontes; Villamontes, 0900-1730 & 1900-2400
(Sunday
4599.35, Em Villamontes, Oct 8, 1000-1020, fair signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 4600.10, R Perla del Acre, Oct 6-11, 1015, good signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 4600.0, R Perla del Acre; Cobija, 0900-1100 & 2130-0300 (no operation on Sunday). (TIN) 4625.7, Radiodifusora Machupo "La Voz de San Ramon"; San Ramon; has not been heard since January 1994. (TIN) 4631.V, R Emisoras Entre Rios; Entre Rios, has not been observed for several years. (TIN) 4632.4, R 11 de Octubre; Cobija, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 4649.1, R Santa Ana; Santa Ana del Yacuma, 1055-1700 & 1930-0330. (TIN) 4681.7, Paititi Radiodifusion; Guayaramerin, has been inactive since
October 1995, probably due to technical problem. This shortwave outlet
is equipped with
4682.1, Paititi Radiodifusion; Guayaramerin, slightly drifted from 4682.3kHz.
4702.3, R Eco San Borja; San Borja, 1200-0300 (no operation on Sunday). (TIN) 4719.8, R Abaroa; Riberalta, 1000-0400 (Sunday 1000-0100). (TIN) 4732.2, Radio La Palabra; Santa Ana del Yacuma, has not been observed since late December 1996. (TIN) 4756.V, R Emisoras Bolivia; Oruro, has been inactive since a long time ago. The station is planning to resume the shortwave transmission with the support of "ABC" (Asociacion Boliviana para la Cultura de los Trabajadores). The old shortwave transmitter of "Telefunken" brand (5kW) will be repaired by a local radio-engineer, and additionally "INELBO" brand transmitter will be purchased for the shortwave operation. Radio Emisoras Bolivia currently operates at 1000-1300 daily, on CP62 1450kHz medium wave and CP182 105.1MHz FM simultaneously. (TIN) 4765.3, R Guanay; Guanay, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. It was the last time I heard the station was September 21, 1993 while being in San Borja, Department of Beni. According to the Superintendence of Telecommunications, the station has presented a planning application to commence FM transmission instead of the shortwave broadcast. (TIN) 4775.2, R Los Andes; Tarija, has been inactive since February 1983, due to technical problem. (TIN) 4777.7, Radio A.N.D.E.S.; Uyuni, 1000-1130 & 2100-0000. (TIN) 4785.5, R Emisoras Ballivian; San Borja, 1500-1700 with the local newscast
"Informativo Central". (TIN)
4815.0, R Nacional de Bolivia; La Paz, has been inactive since late April 1986. (TIN) 4830.0, R Grigota; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, was not heard during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 4845.0, R Fides; La Paz, 1000-1805 & 2115-0200 (Sunday 1100-1800). //with 6155.0kHz & 9624.9kHz (TIN) 4854.9, R Centenario "La Nueva"; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1030-0200 (Sunday 1030-2300). (TIN) 4856.7, R El Condor; Uyuni, was closed down due to financial problem. It was informed by Jorge Bustillo Burgos, the director of Radio El Condor in La Paz and the president of "UNESBO" (Union de Emisoras Sindicales de Bolivia). When I visited the station in August 1991, it operated only on FM. The station director said that the shortwave outlet had been out of service since 1991. (TIN) 4864.5, R Emisoras 16 de Marzo; Mina Bolivar, 1000-0200 (Saturday/Sunday 1000-2300). (TIN) 4875.V, R La Cruz del Sur; La Paz, 0930-1300 & 2130-0030 (Sunday
0930-1400).
4885.6, R Sararenda; Camiri, 1000-1200 & 1800-2100 (no operation on Sunday). (TIN) 4900.7, Radiodifusora San Ignacio; San Ignacio de Moxos, was irregularly heard around 1100 with weak signal. (TIN) 4926.6, R San Miguel; Riberalta, 1000-0300 (Sunday 1000-0200). (TIN) 4939.3, R Norte; Montero, 0900-1300, 1600-1800 & 2200-0100. (TIN) 4945.0, R Illimani; La Paz, 1100-0400. (TIN) 4965.0, R Juan XXIII; San Ignacio de Velasco, 1000-1430 & 1730-0000. (TIN) 4990.9, R Animas; Animas, 1000-1800 (Sunday 1100-1300). (TIN) 5005.8, R Libertad; La Paz, The shortwave outlet has been used only for football game relay. It is possible to capture its signal around 2300-0200 (Wednesday), 1830-2230V (Saturday/Sunday). When Radio Libertad regularly operated its shortwave transmission in 1995, it was scheduled at 1000-1800 & 2200-0200. The medium wave outlet currently runs at 1000-0200 (Sunday 1000-2400) on 790kHz with an output power of 5kW. (TIN) 5044.9, Radiodifusoras Altiplano; La Paz, has not been in operation for a couple of months. (TIN) 5123.7, Galaxia Radiodifusion; Guayaramin, was not observed during my
stay in
5504.2, R 2 de Febrero; Rurrenabaque, 1200-1500 & 0200-0200. (TIN) 5580.2, R San Jose; San Jose de Chiquitos, was not observed during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 5925.V, R Centinela; Tupiza, ceased its shortwave transmission. Its
150W transmitter is currently modified to able to broadcast on 1430kHz
medium wave.
5927.2, Radiodifusoras Mineria "La Voz de las Mayorias Nacionales"; Oruro, 1000-2300 (Sunday 1100-2200) on 1290kHz and 5925kHz (nominal). The station also broadcasts on 107.7MHz FM stereo simultaneously with medium wave and shortwave. Schedule of FM outlet is 1000-0200 (Sunday 1100-0200). (TIN) 5929.5, Radiodifusoras Amazonia "La Voz del Tropico"; Las Romas de San
Lorenzo, San Antonio: The station formerly identified itself as Radiodifusoras
CVU "La Voz del Tropico" broadcasting from Villa Tunari, capital of the
Province of
5945.7, R Emisoras Pio XII; Siglo XX, was not observed during my stay in Bolivia. (TIN) 5952.4, R Emisoras Pio XII; Siglo XX, 1100-1400 & 2100-0200 (Sunday 1100-1400 & 2100-0100). (TIN) 5964.7, R Nacional de Huanuni; Huanuni, was not observed during my stay
in Bolivia. Currently the station also operates on FM for local audience
living
5975.2, R Nacional de Cochabamba; Cochabamba, has been inactive since March 1986. (TIN) 5984.9, R San Jose; Oruro, has been inactive since May 1986. (TIN) 5996.4, R Loyola; Sucre, 1000-2400 (Sunday 1100-). (TIN) 6014.8, R El Mundo; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1000-0100 (Sunday 1100-2100). (TIN) 6025.0, R Illimani; La Paz, 1100-0400 (TIN) 6065.7, R Mauro Nuenez; Villa Serrano, was not heard during my stay
in Bolivia.
6081.4, R 21 de Diciembre; Catavi, has been inactive for many years. (TIN) 6085.3, R San Gabriel; La Paz, 0855-1800 & 2000-0100. (TIN) 6095.1, R Cosmos; Cochabamba, has been inactive since September 1993. (TIN) 6105.4, R Panamericana; La Paz, 0945-0400 (Sunday 1100-2400). (TIN) 6119.3, Radiodifusoras Integracion; El Alto de La Paz, has been inactive due to technical problem since October 1996. The medium wave outlet broadcasts on 650kHz at 0900-0300 (Sunday 1100-0200). (TIN) 6135.0, R Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 0900-0100. (TIN) 6140.7, R Luis de Fuentes; Tarija, has been inactive for several years. (TIN) 6155.0, R Fides; La Paz, 1000-1805 & 2115-0200 (Sunday 1100-1800). // with 4845.0kHz & 9624.9kHz (TIN) 6155, Radio Fides; La Paz, Oct 11, 0332-0356, Continuous LA music, parallel to 4845. At 0356 signal suddenly cut off by unID station. According to TIN's sked Fides signs off at 0200. No ID heard. Tentative with poor signal. (Pijpers) 6184.9, R Batallon Colorados; La Paz, has been inactive for some years. The experimental transmission on shortwave was last observed in April 1994.(TIN) 6195.0, R Carlos Palenque; La Paz, 0900-2100 daily. The medium wave outlet broadcasts on 930kHz at 0900-0500 (Monday-Friday), 0900-0600 (Saturday), 0900-0200 (Sunday). (TIN) 6557.0, R Television Colonia; Yapacani, has been inactive since August 1997 because its shortwave transmitter was destroyed by thunder. The shortwave outlet broadcast at 2100-0200 when it was active. (TIN) 9624.9, R Fides; La Paz, 1000-1805 & 2115-0200 (Sunday 1100-1800). // with 4845.0kHz & 6155.0kHz (TIN) 9624.9, R Fides; La Paz, Oct 12, 0432-0435 Spanish, man announcer, musical
9712.2, Radio La Plata "La Voz de la Capital"; Sucre, 1400-1930. (TIN) BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA 7105, Radio Bosnie Hercegovine, Sep 30, 0210-0235, good signal, but clobbered by DW and others throughout most of the listening times. At times, signal is good, but honestly, in N. Italy the MW is much better!!! //612. Heard with typical BH mx at 0210-0235, with only 1 ID by OM anncr.(Henderson) BOTSWANA 4820, R. Botswana; Gaborone, Oct. 8, 1040-1055, English. Report on Substainable Enviromental Projects.& Heritage Foundation Strategy in Botswana. 44444. (Clemitson) 7255, R. Botswana; Gaborone, Oct. 9, 0724-0740, English. Female teacher (now called "Educator") conducting a school quiz. Boys V Girls. Results appeared to be 50-50. 55555. (Clemitson) whats happening to boys these days? ed. BRAZIL 3375.08, R Clube; Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Oct 7, 0110, with PT version of "Silence is Golden", Robert Carlos selection, "Feelings", mentions of Rio Grande do Sul, "Clube" sounders, and ad strings. (Novello) 4765, R Integração, Oct 11, 1150, reactivation confirmed, Oct 11, 1150, when concluding prgr apparently called "Os parabens da semana" (Congrats of the week). Caught annc'ts in the passing "pela R Integração AM e onda tropical". A mix of two Brazilians Oct 7, 2350 (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 4795.05, R Difusora; Aquidauana; Mato Grosso do Sul, Oct 7, 0205, with non-stop "semi-classical" music ("Sabre Dance", "Pomp & Circumstance", ID around 0225 by M: "..presenta..a programa do musica... a Radio Difusora...programa ... apostolica...", and into choral music. Alone on channel battling QRN. (Novello) 4795, R Dif Aquidauana, Oct 11, 0125, P "Radio Difusora" ID, Apostolic songs. Fine (Krone) 4815, R Dif Londrina, Oct 11, 0135-0201, P relig, fine ID on the hour (Krone) 4845.3, R Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Oct 11, 0230-0242, mixed songs, anns - also another stn underneath, same split (Krone) 4915, R Anhanguera, Oct 10, 0122, dominating with fine jingle-ID 0122, news. Underneath another Brazilian (R Dif Macapa) with football noted //4765.0, 4845.2, 4875.0, 4885.0, 4945, 4985, 9505, 9584.9, 11785.2, 11815, 11925.1; long string of stations ann'd (Krone) 4935, Radio Capixaba; Vitoria, Oct 11, 0545-0610, Fairly strong signal, building up for hours already, battling local qrm at this hour of the morning: young woman in Portuguese presumably preaching, pleasing crowd. No ID heard, only Vitoria was mentioned a few times. Presumed. (Pijpers) yes, cf next item, ed. 4935, R Capixaba, Oct 11, 0055, P relig, IDs at 0103 & 0104. Weak-fair (Krone) 4945, UNID Brazilians, Oct 10, 0200, one closed 0204*, (missed ID, should be Emis Rural) with fair signals (forgot to pay attention at sign off), stayed on the frequency while writing a couple of e-mail letters, and now, VERY WEAK another Brazilian came in (Progreso/Pocos de Caldas?). So at least 2 active Brazilians on the freq (Krone) 4945, Em. Rural; Petrolina, Oct 11, 0105-0229*, Concurso Musical, many IDs. Fine. Agn UNID Brazil after Petrolina, and agn football, extremely weak. Reactivation, I believe. (Krone) 5044.97, R Cultura do Para; Belem; Para, Oct 9, 0220, '80's Brazilian pops, M DJ, "Cultura" sounders. Hollow-sounding audio but quite readable. (Novello) 6040.46, R Clube Paranaense; Curitiba, Oct 11, 0650-0703, P, romantic songs, full ID, jingle 33333 (Phillips) 6135.10, R Aparecida; Aparecida; Sao Paulo, Oct 8, 2220, Live-sounding choral samba religious songs, PT "Palabre de Dios" stuff. Loud and absolutely alone on channel, but took a dive around 2240i. ID'ed by //5035.04. (Novello) 9645, R.Bandeirantes; Sao Paulo, Oct 10, 0646-0655, Brazil mx and OM talk. Blocked by HCJB on c/c at 0655. 24232. (Kanai) 11780, R.Nac.da Amazonia; Brasilia, Oct 12, 0832-0901, Brazil mx and OM talk. ID at 0858 "Radio Nacional...Brasil". 22222. //6183.23 23332. (Kanai) 11804.90, R.Globo; Rio de Janeiro, Oct 12, 0825-0830, Brazil mx and
OM talk.
11915, R.Gaucha; Porto Alegre, Oct 12, 0804-0832, OM talk. 0815,0830
pips was
11925.06, R.Bandeirantes; Sao Paulo, Oct 10, 0653-0702, Brazil mx and
OM talk.
CAMBODIA 11940.3, Natl. Voice of Cambodia, Oct 10, 0100, Vietnamese pop vocals,
ID.
CAMEROON 3970v, CRTV Buea, Oct 10, 2200, after more than a year, the mysterious
African
4850, CRTV, Oct 7, 2000-2400*, t/in French, mostly French annts (perhaps a few words of English), music through 24 UT s/off without any announcement, but full NA (matched with NA on Microsoft Bookshelf CD). Taped across top of hours but no decent ID heard. Signal best 21, 22, dropping a bit after 23. Interestingly, bubble jammer noted equal to CRTV at t/in 20 UT, seemed to disappear by 2030; no idea what that is about. Probable Uzbek Radio (IS heard 0030) took over 4850 after CRTV carrier drop, just above noise level, not as strong as AIR running s6 on 5010 to 0030. (Sundstrom Oct 7) Bubble jammer is chasing the Voice of Mojahed which is (unfortunately) inside band and jumping between 4830-4890 at present, ed. 4850, Cameroon RTV; Yaounde, Oct 11, 0455-0508, A bit of local reggae
called ''Fly away with me'', followed by announcement in English, also
ID in English: ''This is the CRTV National Station''. After this news in
French with news about Congo, Gabon and the ''Campagne Electoral''. Some
good stretches, signal-wise.
CANADA 6130, CHNX, Oct 9, 2130, was weak but clear signal, clear IDs for the short wave call sign. (Buschau) CHINA 4734.94, Xinjiang PBS; Urumqi, Oct 9 1105, marathon tirade in unfamiliar language by W. Fading fast by 1120, ID'ed by //7194.83 which was gaining in strength at same time. (Novello) 6185, Huayi BC (t), Oct 8, 1200, Chinese-language EZL pops and disco music, animated male and female announcers, fast-paced programming. CNR-style 5+1 pips on the hour, but W talked right over them and no discernable ID heard either before or after. (Novello) COLOMBIA 4955, R dif Nacional de Colombia, carries some prgrs specially intended for listeners abroad, news headlines etc. around 0130. Humming carrier makes listening un-comfortable. 6034.9, La V del Guaviare, usually carries "Radio Sucesos RCN" 2300-0100. Oct 4, 2215, relaying "Miniconcierto" from R Uno, 1340 MW, 6064.5, Colmundo Bogotá is on this fqy since Sept 20 on a somewhat irregular sked; seems genuinely interested in sw, as C.E., Vicente Echeverry, reported back to hq that the sw signal was coming in loud and clear in the town of Pereira, where he was on a corporate business trip. 6115.2, La V del Llano takes Super network news every half hour. On Oct 10, 2315, ranchera "Tu maldito amor", as interpreted by Dr. Henry Pava Camelo, who is crippled (confined to a wheel-chair)and general manager of R Super PAM network. H6201.1, The unid parrish broadcaster no longer audible since Sept 20. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) CZECH REPUBLIC After several more czechs I finally got the entire announcement from
R. Prague I mentioned previously, Oct 6 at 1306 on 13580. Said that as
far as they knew, the
DENMARK RADIO DANMARK schedule 26. October 1997 - 29. March 1998: UTC/Target area/kHz/direction
DOMINICAN REP 5012.7, R Cristal Internacional, Oct 11, 0020-0035, songs, fine ID "Esta es Radio Cristal - la voz de la republica dominicana..." & address. "Concurso de Musica Dominicana" and address to program. Fair (Krone) 5012.5V, R Cristal Int'l, Oct 11, until s/off 0100; better signal than for quite some time. An annc't in Spanish said they were running "a Dominican music contest" with casettes of Dominican music as prizes. In order to participate in what rather seems like a lottery, a dollar bill should be sent to "Concurso de música dominicana", in care of Apartado 894, Santo Domingo, which is the usual stn address. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) ECUADOR 3279.84, LV del Napo, Oct 6-11, 1010, good signal (Wilkner bandscan) 4950.0, R Bahá'i, Oct 9, 2300, was on extended sked until 2300,
all in Quichua,
4960, R Federacion, Oct 11, 0035-0050, Indian (Shuar) program, ID at 0050 by YL & YM. First very weak but signal increased ard ID time. Gone at recheck 0115 (Krone) 21454.97, HCJB Quito, Oct 4, 1635, lots of Spanish & Italian songs
(Ramazzotti) 1700, Informativo de los Andes. S 15342 (Schotmans)
4999.92, VO Broad Masses of Eritrea, Oct 1, 1640, Heard here with S8 level with some QRM, with man in local Eritrean language (Henderson) ETHIOPIA Radio Ethiopia, PO Box 1020, Addis Ababa - Tel: +251-1-551011 - Fax:
+251-1-552263 has this schedule: 5990 7110 9705v kHz in Amharic and vernacular
languages at /0300(Sun 0400)-2000* (BBCM Oct 7)
4777, RTV Gabonaise Libreville/Moyabi, Oct 11, 1955-2010, French. French song and indigenous music mix. Male with ID 2000 African news highlights. 44242. (Clemitson) 9790, Afrique Numero Un; Moyabi, Oct 11, 2015-2030, French. Soccer match South Africa V France. (France won) 44444 (Clemitson) ooops. To comfort you let me tell you that Denmark just qualified this weekend to the finals of World Championships in France next year .-) ed. GEORGIA Voice of Hope transmits from Georgia. I received a QSL card after sending
a report to: High Adventure Ministries, PO Box 109, Hereford HR4 9XR, England.
9494.81, Radio Abkhazia, Sep 30, 0434-0520, with Abkhazian mx, talk in either Georgian or Abkhazian, with excellent signal. AOR PBTuning really cleaned up the het! (Henderson) GUAM 11690, KTWR (Japanese service), According to the latest information
of the PBA
GUATEMALA 4779.80, R. Coatan, Oct 6-11, 1125, xlent (Wilkner bandscan) HAWAII 11565, KWHR Naalehu (2nd tx'er), Oct 6, 0658, Sudden sign-on with (christian? pop) song, ID's as "Pulse FM", continuous (christian?) pop songs but with announcement at 0722 mentioning phone numbers and/or an address. Lots of static noted and still too weak to make a decent reception report for the station. English. 25332 (Vissers) 13760, KWHR, Oct 10, 1608, relig. talks, 44333 (Hein) HONDURAS 2020H, R Moderna, Ciudad de El Progreso: Bcsts on 1010 kHz, w/harmonic
on
2200H, R Tiempo; San Pedro Sula: Broadcasts in 1100 kHz, but has a strong
4930, R Internacional; San Pedro Sula. This one has a shortwave transmitter
4820, La Voz Evangélica de Honduras; Tegucigalpa. Sponsored by
churches and
Dear friends, I am very happy informing you Radio Budapest will broadcast
five programs in Italian according to this schedule:
INDIA 3223, AIR Shimla, Oct 1, 1629, Shimla in Hindi, quiet until 1630, woman announcer "This is All India Radio", starts music program featuring Christian music all in English. S9+4 dB (Henderson) 3245, AIR Lucknow B, Oct 1, 1630, Here with man in Hindi with talk/announcements S9 level, tho modulation levels were low. (Henderson) 3315, AIR Bhopal, Sep 30, Good Ole Bhopal back here with solid, tho not as good as Jaipur, with Hindi nx, S9+5 dB on AOR. (Henderson) expect ard 0030, ed. also Indian pop mx at 1629, ID with Akashvani at 1630 on 10/1. Good S8 level. (Henderson) 3345, AIR Jaipur, Sep 30, /0025, s/on 0025 with classic AIR IS, s/on in Hindu, then into Indian mx, until 0030 with nx in Hindi .. no English nx, into more Indian/Subcontential mx. Excellent signal ... best Indian in 90 meters. Also heard on 9/29, but level not nearly as good as on 9/30. (Henderson) 3345, AIR Jaipur, 1628, Here with drame in Hindi. S8 level. (Henderson) 3365, AIR Delhi, Oct 1, 1626, Delhi putting in S9 signal with OM in Hindi. Good (Henderson) 3390, AIR Gangtok, Oct 1, -1601, here with the worst of all the AIR signals, S5 level, but readable. Carrier off the air at 1601. (Henderson) 3945, AIR Garakphur, Oct 1, 1530-1545, feeder for AIR EE nx. Level S6, some ute QRM (Henderson) 4750, AIR Port Blair, Sep 29, 2358, Indian mx. Some local QRN, though level not too bad for this station. (Henderson) 4760?, ed. 4760, AIR Port Blair, Oct 1, 1610, Nice signal, but het from what sounds like AIR Leh underneath, with Pt. Blair ID heard at 1600, into Hindi mx, some EE in announcements. S8 level signal. (Henderson) 4760.0, AIR Port Blair (or Leh?), Oct 6, 16.16, Indian Music (according
some
4775.0, AIR Imphal, Oct 6, 16.25, Indian songs. Good propagation toward
India:
4775, AIR Imphal, Oct 1, 1607, with Hindu pop music, good only on LSB. No QRM from ute on LSB. Solid S7 signal. (Henderson) 4799.99, AIR Hyderabad, Oct 1, 1610, S9+10 dB level in Hindi drama at 1610, No QRM. (Henderson) 4819.98, AIR Calcutta, Oct 1, (ard 1600? ed), Nice level in a talk in Hindi, some QRM from what sounds like a jammer that is intermittent, S8 level when jammer not there on 10/1. (Henderson) 4840.01, AIR Mumbai, Oct 1, 1612, Man in pgm in Hindi at 1612, S9 +5dB level, little or no QRM on 10/1. (Henderson) 4850, AIR Kohima, Oct 1, 1613, Some Indian pop music, great level (s9+10 dB on 10/1) at 1613. Little or no QRM. (Henderson) 4860, AIR, Oct 10, 1808, slow Indian song, //6045, 33333 (Hein) 4860, AIR Delhi, Oct 1, 1615, Solid S9 level signal, good Akashvani ID at 1615. Some jamming intermittently, but still readable when jammer there. (Henderson) 4880, AIR Lucknow B, Sep 30, /0023, here with solid S9 signal at 0023 with IS, into Hindi ID at 0025, Anthem, then mx. good on 9/30.(Henderson) 4880, All India Radio; Lucknow, Oct 10, 0122-0130, local language man
and female
4895, AIR Kurseong, Oct 1, 1620, S9 +5 dB level, solid YL in talk in Hindi. No QRM on 10/1. (Henderson) 4920, AIR Chennai, Oct 1, 1616, Best readability, tho not strongest signal in the band. OM wailing in Hindi, Solid S9 level (Henderson) 4920, AIR Chennai, Oct 6 and 7, *1200, with AIR IS and ID; next word might have been 'Chennai', but maybe just wishful thinking. Followed by ethereal subcontinental vocals announced by W. S7 at peaks, but losing fast to sunrise after 1215. (Novello) 4940, AIR Ghwahati, Oct 1, 1617, Good S9 level, talk by man in Hindi. (Henderson) 4950, AIR Srinagar, Oct 1, 1621, S9 level, talk in Hindi by man with crowd noise in background. (Henderson) 4970, AIR Shillong, Oct 1, 1622, Solid S9+10 dB level with man in Hindi (Henderson) 5050.01, AIR Aizwal, Oct 2, 1612, //4985 and other AIR stations with history and story on Mohatma Ghandi and some of his teachings. Kurseong on 4895 has a monster level signal-Aizwal is barely audible...but there. My best DX catch of this trip. (Henderson) 7250, AIR Panaji, Sep 29&30, /0124, GOS to Nepal here at typical s/on 0124, IS at 0127, into pgming with "Ni All India Radio Yo" into Nepali news and music. Very strong here...much stronger than ECNA. (Henderson) 4920, AIR (Chennai), Oct 10, 1532, //3365, 4800, 4775, 4950 Engl. news by male, best 33233 most very weak (Hein) 5010, AIR, Oct 8, 0010, t/in, local language, signal building, peaking
s7
11735, AIR GOS, Oct 11, *1000, Into English on this freq, which isn't
listed
13720, AIR Swahili serv., Oct 10, 1612, typ. indian songs, ID, s/off,
44434
13780, AIR, Oct 10, 1805, English political talks, //11620, 7410 43333 //9950 very weak (Hein) 15050, AIR, Oct 11, 0428, nice indian song by female, very weak (Hein) 15050, AIR, Oct 11, 0433, //13620 Arabic koran prayer, weak (Hein) INDONESIA RRI makes some changes, seems effective today the 13th Oct. or lets
say I
4753.4, RRI Ujung Pandang, Oct 5, /2059, start program with Love Ambon
and
7225, Voice of Indonesia, Oct 7, 2000-2100 noted on this new frequency in English //9525. New channel for 1730-2100 service! (Timofeyev) 9552.3, RRI Ujung Pandang, Oct 10, 0824, most likely this one with vocal by woman, then ukelele music that could have been "Love Ambon" and off at 0831. Extremely weak even with superb 31-meter propagation to South East Asia this morning. S/off time fits recent reports from Asian and Pacific DXers. (Hill) 9565, RRI Jakarta, Oct 10, 0907, Incredibly powerful signal with man in Indo and woman PA announer in background, perhaps a sporting event or even an auction; // 9630 (poor) and 15150 (very poor). Absolutely rock-solid, with hardly any flutter, and possibly the strongest Indo I've ever heard, even when DXing from California! Still pounding in with warta berita when rechecked just after 1000. Next day, with geomag storm in progress, was weak and barely readable at the same hour. (Hill) IRAN 6165.00, VoIRI Sirjar, Oct 9, 2200-2210, E, nx, mx, ID, Australian Service 33333 (Phillips) IRAQ 9115v, Rep. of Iraq R, Oct 5, 1815, Talks, music, ID @ 1917 "Idhaat al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah min Baghdad", followed by "Al Akhbar" (the news), muffled audio. Exact frequency was 9115.75 kHz on 5/10. Arabic - 35333. Also heard on 1/10 with sudden s/off at 1915 UTC, but then on 9114.7 kHz (Vissers) 11785, R. Iraq Int.; Baghdad?, Oct 7, 2100, after absence of almost
two weeks on this fq, stong carrier but very awful modulation, speech as
well as music
11785, R. Iraq Int.; Baghdad, Oct 8, 2050, today much weaker signal but also much better modulation, ann. of times and frequencies as before. DW-CLN too strong today after 2100 UTC to copy. E 24332 (Schotmans) 11785, R Iraq Int, Oct 11, 2055-2059*, with news in French, at 2059 closed down with terrible modulation. Signed on again at 2117 and began program in English with great modulation. Modulation became poorer and poorer, and at 2134 modulation was so bad that nothing could be understood. Read lots of letters from listeners and wished to get reports to P.O. Box 8125, Baghdad, Iraq. (Patrik Willför) ITALY 3955U IRRS 2113 Program of religious nature in Italian,
with talk
JORDAN From Jordan Radio and TV (Direct): Arabian Gulf/Far East/Aust'l: Arabic, 1500-0100 6105; 0300-1400 11810. Egypt/Sudan/West Arabia/East Africa: Arabic, 0300-0500 9630; 1200-1530 13630. Central & East Europe/Moscow: Arabic, 0500-0800 11835; 1500-2100 7155. N. Africa/Central America: Arabic, 1000-1200 15355. South America/Brazil: Arabic, 2100-0100 15435. N. America/W. Europe: Arabic, 0300-0800 15435; 2100-0100 11935; ENGLISH, 1000-1630 11690. Western Europe: Arabic, 1600-2100 9830 (Sharp) KAZAKHSTAN Radio Kazakhstan verified a reception report on their home service frequency 11950 kHz with a QSL card of the German section. So this is definitely a chance to get an authentic confirmation. The German foreign service seems to be relayed via Ukraine only, and the German home service transmissions are apparently - as reported earlier - no longer on short wave. My report was on a Russian programme, written in German. (Buschau) seems a good way to QSL this, ed. KENYA 4885, Kenya BC Corp., Oct 10, 2104, Benediction in English and gospel
vocal;
KIRIBATI Referring to the comments in last week's DXW, it's true that the shortwave service was originally set up as a feeder to Kiritimati (a.k.a. Christmas Island) when a mediumwave transmitter was set up there. That MW transmitter operated on 1115kHz, later co-channel with the main MW transmitter on 846kHz. However, the Kiritimati transmitter broke down, and it was decided that since some of the inhabitants had shortwave receivers, the "feeder" would be kept on the air as a de facto broadcasting service. For that reason, it ceased to be a feeder because there was nothing for it to feed! If the mediumwave transmitter, or some other transmitter, has subsequently come back on the air, nobody has told us - and since it would probably be on the same frequency as the main one, DXers would not be aware of its existence. As far as the suggestion to check the Internet is concerned, I've done that many, many times....and so far found nothing. WRTH may be "inconsistent" because DXers are themselves sometimes inconsistent in defining what constitutes a broadcast service. You only have to look at the different guidelines used by various DX organizations to know that. We do not, as a rule, publish details of transmitters that are not intended for reception by the general public. In this case, I decided that since Radio Kiribati itself has stated that the transmission on SW was a "broadcast" then we should list it. If the Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia starts listing its SSB feeders in its official transmission schedule, then I will list those as well. But it doesn't - so I don't :-) (Sennitt) LAOS 6130, LNR Vientiane, Oct, 4, 2245, Nice modern local mx, 2300 ID as
'Thini
6130, Lao National Radio (presumed), Oct. 5, 2240, with talks in vernacular
LESOTHO
LIBERIA 3400, Star R, Oct 10, 1825-1915, thanks to Nordx97 arrangers (cf DXW84XTRA) heard tentatively here with poor quality in English, lots of male and female talk. Muddy modulation. Peak ard 1855, never good enough for ID. Also Oct 12 1740 even weaker (Krone) LIECHTENSTEIN I received at verification from Radio Senlandlimoj, verifying that they DID broadcast from Liechtenstein! I now wonder whether this is my country No. 211 verified - or not? I.e. can a pirate station represent a new country? What do DX-W readers think? Olle Alm says this is a hobby pirate. But then many of the small Peruvian and Bolivian stations should be considered pirates, too? It would be fun to hear other points of view as well (BEFF) MADAGASCAR 3140, R TV Malagasy: In the third week of September, Radio Netherlands Madagascar relay station celebrated its 25th anniversary of continuous operation. Part of the celebrations included the presentation of a 30-kW shortwave transmitter for use by Madagascar's domestic radio service, to be used on this frequency (Media Network/R Netherlands Oct 2 via BBCM) 5009.5, RTV Malagasy, Oct 1, 1623, Looking for AIR, found Malagasy. Solid S9 signal level, YL talk in FF (Henderson) 5009.6, Radio Malagasy, Oct 6, 1710, Song and talks in F, 24432 (Bernardini) MALAWI 3380, Malawi BC (R1) Limbe, Oct 9, 1930-0950, English. Report on R.
Phoenix,
5993.98, MBC (R1) Limbe, Oct 10, 1400-1405, English. TS and ID 1400. Popular Western Pop programme hosted by Male announcer. 32322. (Clemitson) MALAYSIA 7295.0, RTM Kajang, Oct 8, 1455-1500, Popmusic, Radio 4 jingle with ID. Weak signal. From 1458 UTC QRM from RAI Rome bird IS on 7290 kHz., at 1500 UTC Radio Liberty on 7295 kHz. (Veldhuis) MEXICO 4800.72, XERTA Radio Transcontinental, Oct 5, 0800+, made for enjoyable listening all night, with canned ID's between most every song. Good until Radio Buenas Nuevas switched on the xmtr at 1057, causing a huge het. (Sharp) MONGOLIA 9720, V of Mongolia; Ulaanbaatar, Oct 12, 1500 -1530, English to S Asia.
Modest
MOROCCO 9575, Radio Medi Un, Sep 30, 1600-1800, very strong as you could imagine here all day, with excellent ads, Ids in Arabic, French, some Italian, and Spanish ... but no English. Good in early evening, the best 1600-1800. (Henderson) MOZAMBIQUE 3210, R. Mozambique; Maputo, Oct 7, 2000-2015, Portuguese. Female with ID followed by World news. 44343. (Clemitson) 3279, Delegaco de Beira; Beira, Oct 9, 1910-1920, Swahili. Ethnic music
and
3279, Emissao Provincial de Sofala; Beira, Oct 11, 0305-0312, Male in vernacular reading news and mentioning ''Provincial de Sofala'' in newscontext or as ID. Also mentioned were Beira and Maputu. On top of this ''Radio Mozambique, Beira'' was noted twice and added to this excess the Province of Manica was mentioned too. Sudden signal-dip at 0312, in fact it was virtually gone, except for some vague sounds. At 0320 music was heard, faintly. (Pijpers) 3280, RM-Beira, I think will stay on its new freq 3280 as until now
they
9168, R. Maputo; Maputo, Oct 10, 1100-1115, Portuguese. Male announcer
with ID.
9637, Delegacao de Beira; Beira, Oct. 10, 1115-1130, Swahili.
Male with I/D
MYANMAR A quick check metween 1230-1330 reveals very good signals from Defense Forces Unit in Taunggi on 6570 to s.off at 1330. Myawadi is on 5973 kHz doing good at 1230 past 1330 usual s.off at 1530. 4725 the local dialect service is strong, but has been having a loud hum for a couple of months now. s.off at 1330 aprox. - Yangon continues to be on 5985.85 to 1600. 13/10 (Goonetilleke/UADX) NAMIBIA 3270, NBC Windhoek, Oct 7, 1925-1945, English, "Feedback Update" discussion on Labour relations - Strikes lockouts etc. YL's "sung" the ID at 1930. Request to the public to participate in the upcoming phone in programme. 33333 //3290 (Clemitson) 4930, NBC Windhoek, Oct 9, 1520-1545, English. Sports news - ID weather report. African news. 44444 //4965 (Clemitson) NEPAL 5005, R Nepal, Oct 1, 1644, Nepal solid here with some Nepali music S9 level (Henderson) NICARAGUA 5770UC, Radio Miskut, Oct 6, 1314, fair to good on peaks with telco-quality relgious service, hymns, seems to be a regular of late. (Sharp) 5770, R. Miskut (t), Oct 6-11, 1150-1220, very weak signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) NIGERIA 6050, FCRN Ibadan, Oct 11, 0503, Engl. nx, ID, 33443 (Hein) NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 15380, KFBS Saipan, Oct 11, 1030-1100, Javanese?."Hawaiian" styled Gospel songs, followed by a sermon and more Gospel music. ID with frequencies and a Jakarta address at 1100. 44343. (Clemitson) NORWAY 7215, Uke Senderen; Trondheim, Oct 10, 0718, pop music, two female Norwegian
speakers, mentioning UKE, 34444 at best (Schaay)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4890, NBC Pt Moresby, Oct 8, 1955, Pop mx, 2000 UTC News about PNG and
4890.0, NBC Port Moresby, Oct 1, 19.15, Songs, 35333 (Bernardini) Another two provincial radio stations will close down this week due
Only Radio East New Britain and Radio Manus are continuing to operate
NBC's regional coordinator, Aloisius Rumina, said yesterday that
Radio West New Britain closed after the studio became flooded from
PARAGUAY 9735.93, R.Nac. del Paraguay; Asuncion, Oct 12, 0942-1004, Guarani music
and
PERU 3250, R. Comas, prepared card, letter, program schedule (printed on
station's stationary), photo of station studio building and business card
in 16 days. v/s Gamaniel Francisco Chahua, Productor - Programador General
AM, FM, Coordinador de Prensa. (The title is a little vague. On the business
card it says in 3 lines: "Programadoor [misspelled] General AM, FM, Coordinador
de Prensa, Voz
3234.82, R. Luz y Sonido, Oct 6-11, 0920-1005, UTE QRM (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 3250.8 R Comas replied with letter, sked, picture photographs and business card from Gamaniel Francisco Chahua, all in less than a fortnight. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 3329.42, Ondas Del Huallaga, Oct 6-11, 1005-1015, (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 3339.92, R. Altura, Oct 6-11, 1005-20, good signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 4750.1 R San Francisco Solano, Sep 28, 0052, blasting in when into devotional progr "A la luz de la palabra". At the outset of what Mohrmann (NU 1443) terms a "strange mix of EG dance mx, lite guitar instrumentals, pop huaynos and ballads" there was a plug for a local fiesta in honour of San Miguel de Arcángel (archangel St Michael) at the Sóndor market place. Music to be provided by Chiclayo band "Arena caliente"; to quench the thirst} of assistants, "lots of frothy Cristal beer, fizz drinks such as Pepsi, Casinelli and Concordia". (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 4750.05, R San Francisco Solano; Sondor; Piura, Oct 7, 0140, tentatively this with Andean flute and guitar hoedown with group vocals, unstable carrier but not wandering -- just staying right on 4750.05 place and vibrating slightly. M DJ with intelligibility just out of reach, and mixing with SP language voice utility transmission. Yanked power without ceremony after a song at 0159. (Novello) 4752.5, R Huanta 2000, Oct 11, 0017, on its alt fqy, hetting R San Francisco Solano. Also at 1030. Rather poor. (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 4775, R Tarma, Oct 8, 0445, "Amor y musica", anns - fair (Krone) 4904.81, R La Oroya, Oct 6-11, 1047, noted with good signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 5039.29 , R Libertad, Oct 6-11, 1030-1100, excellent signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 5522.34, R Sudamerica, Oct 6-11, 1105, strong signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 6018.30, R. Victoria, Oct 6-11, 1109-20, average signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 6018.14, R Victoria; Lima, Oct 11, 0705-0730, S, sermons, songs (hymnlike), mid-sentence ID 23343 (Phillips) 6045.31, R. Santa Rosa, Oct 6-11, 1112, with average signal (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 6087.9, R Chaski, Oct 9, 0049, still here, with sermon in Quechua. In
addition to previous QRM, now also Vatican R, in Spanish, s/on 0100, on
6090. (Klemetz / Dateline Bogota)
6203.70, R. Cusco, Oct 6-11, 1115 fading (Wilkner bandscan Oct 6-11) 6811.2, R Ondas del Río Mayo; Nueva Cajamarca, Oct 11, 0140-0208*, Spanish, musical program 22222 (high static noise, better recption in USB) time check "faltan once minutos para las nueve de la noche". S/off with National Hymn (Instrumental Version) Id by man...en radio Ondas del Rio Mayo...por las frecuencias del Peru" (the previos day the s/off was at 01.57) (Eramo) PHILIPPINES 13315-USB, National Broadcasting Corporation (Relay), Oct 9, 2314, OM
Tagalog
POLAND/BELARUS Belarus independent broadcaster Radio 101.2 has set up a cooperation with the Belarussian Service of Polish Radio. >>We broadcast half an hour daily producing news, reports, commentaries and programmes. At the moment we are in a very tricky situation when we can not fully announce and use Radio 101.2 name because the Board of Directors of the Polish Radio has a number of objections to that project. Mainly they are afraid of the possible reaction from the Belarussian Authorities. At the same time the head of the 5th Programme of the Polish Radio Mr. J.M. Novakovski is the one who supports the project. The Belarusian Service of the Polish Radio has become the only channel for Radio 101.2 to reach the listeners in Belarus and Europe. In the situation of the total information blockade of Belarus this project is more than important not only for the Radio itself but also for our listeners and people of Belarus. Now they have a chance to receive full objective information in Belarussian language.<< (Kuhl via AMARC) RUSSIA Here is a new morning service from GPR-2 Kaliningrad 1386 kHz transmitter
Sakha Republic Radio - Yakutsk, Dom Radio, Ordzhonikidze 48, 677007 Yakutsk, Respublika Sakha, Russia is on SW in Russian/Yakut /1900-1700 daily on 4825 7140 7200 7345 kHz, local programs: 0910-1000 s.....s, and daily 2100-2200, 2220-2300 (BBCM Oct 7) 9690, GTRK Tatarstan sent a nice answer and confirmation in an English letter, v/s: Hania Hazipovna Galimowa, address: GTRK Tatarstan, ul. M. Gorkogo, 15, 420015 Kazan, Russia. They are on 9690 kHz 0800-0900 UTC from Samara (!) with 100 kW. (BEFF) 17655, RNW via Khabarovsk, Sep 11, 1130, tune, news, gema warta, fokus tengah minggu: interview with Miko Kamal about president privilige to choose West Sumatran governor - Indonesian 433 (Brata) RWANDA 6055.00, Kigali, Oct 8, 2015-2025, Vn, ID, Afropop 44444 (Phillips) 6055, Radio Rwanda (p), Oct 6, 2020, with pop-music and announcements by presenter in African-like French, unfortunately without clear identifications. SIO 353, but at 2030 wiped out by splatter from very strong BBC 6050. (Ludwig) ST HELENA RADIO ST HELENA Some news has been received from St Helena about the broadcast on Sun
Oct
SAO TOME 4950.0, VOA Pinheira, Oct 5, 2050, Talks about Nigeria, song, ID, 55444,
SIERRA LEONE 3316, SLBS Goderich, Oct 11, 2350-0001*, Lionel Richie then local popsong. 0000 Male ann. saying goodbye on behalf of the staff in English, NA orchestral version - just one verse (Krone) SOUTH AFRICA World Music R, 3345//6290, fd cd, from DK, 3 m (Hein) Here are the W97 frequency schedules for Channel Africa's broadcasts to Africa and Radio Sonder Grense (domestic service), effective from Sunday 26th October 1997 to 28th March 1998: CHANNEL AFRICA
RADIO SONDER GRENSE (domestic service)
SRI LANKA Tamil Service of SLBC is using 6035 1300-1400 //5020 kHz. 6035 had been used by the TWR to India and then for a Tamil propaganda broadcast after TWR left it, and now by SLBC. The antenna is a low strung dipole about 30 feet off the ground f0r almost vertical take off. Its on a mashy ground close to the sea and sometimes at high tide its like in a lagoon. This transmitter is a Marconi 12.5 kW which was imported to jam Tamil Tiger broadcasts, which finally came into the hands of TWR which refurbished it and was allowed to use it for some time. Since the TWR wasn't sure how long they would be able to use the TX the antenna was a make shift, strung on ex telegraph wooden poles and the 200 meter long open wire feeders were strung on wooden poled about 7 feet off the ground, using PVC water pipe type home brew insulators. Well that's what you are hearing! Puts in a good signal here. In the meantime the SLBC inaugurated a MW station on 855 kHz said to be 5kW State of the art! operation built by TCI and Marconi/ A twin tower affair, one acting as a reflector. This is located in the North Central Town of Vavunia and broadcasts to the North and the East in Tamil, the heartland of the war ravaged part of the island. Signals are excellent as reported in South India and the North and the East of Sri Lanka, while here in Colombo I can barely hear it, indicating that it is doing what it is supposed to do. Signals are overall S-4 while TWR 400kW on 882 gets a 5. The sked is 2300-1600 UTC. The Station identifies as "Vanam Padhi" which is the name of a bird. No mention os SLBC or Sri Lanka. The only indication are the time checks and postal address which is the same as SLBC. (Goonetilleke/UADX) 9729.9, SLBC Ekala, Oct 6, 1446, SINPO 54444! This station can regularly be heard with strong signals. Oldies and modern Western popmusic, ID in English. Nothing on or around 15425 kHz., where only VOA Phillipines relay could be heard. On Oct 8 weak signal from SLBC on 15425,5 kHz. at 1458 (Veldhuis) 17820, DW Trincomalee, Sep 5, 0630, Report on German cattle export dumping affecting Namibian breeder - English 454. Also 1100 Indonesian, hosted by Marina Pakpahan, news 444 (Brata) 17850, SLBC Southeast Asia Service, Sep 9, 1100, Music: Perry Como and
Hindu
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (e-mail: slbc@sri.lanka.net) present
schedule, daily to Asia:
SUDAN 9200.00, R Omdurman, Oct 9, 1815-1835, E, px about SDN, ID, local singing
TAHITI 15167.34, R Tahiti, Oct 5, 0710, weak and in het, but peaking with a mix of island and contemporary mx, talk by a FR man. (Sharp) TAIWAN (REP. OF CHINA) 11745, V.O.Free China, Oct 10, 0200-0230, the special live prog. of the ceremony at Taipei, the capital of Rep. of China. The address of the President, and so on. (Mitsuaki) TANZANIA 5050.1, R. Tanzania; Dar-es-Salaam, Oct 10, 1930-1950, Swahili. Male with I/D at 1930. Into talk programme. 32222. No // found. (Clemitson) THAILAND For some reason Thailand's Domestic Service was off the air on 4830 and 6070 and 7115 when I was checking today between 1200-1345 and then suddenly when I checked at 1415 both 4830 and 6060 are strong running //with the Domestic Service., 7115 carries a separate Dom Sce. 13/10 (Goonetilleke/UADX) 4830.0, Radio Thailand, Oct 6, 1600, News in Thai (I presume), maybe
a
9885, R Thailand, Oct 10, 1239, EG tlk on mental health problems among
UGANDA 4976.0, Radio Uganda, Oct 5, 2040, Songs and talks in E, 45343 (Bernardini) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13630, UAE R, Dubai, Oct 10, 1620-1630, classical europ. mx, E ID, time. nx, 3-4 (Hein) URUGUAY 11735.07, (p) R Oriental; Montevideo, Oct 10, 0140, probably the one with nonstop play-by-play sports. (Novello) USA Just before WOR 912 broadcast, Oct 7 at 0400 on 5085-USB, Dave Frantz on WGTG announced that their second transmitter would begin testing in a few weeks. I understand he plans to use more tropical-band frequencies near to WWCR. He's looking for new customers and offers low, low rates (Hauser) now that they would be illegally broadcasting anyway what does it take to convince them NOT to broadcast within the tropical bands? What a disaster. Is it really not possible to get WWCR/WGTG stopped in the tropical band range? ed. 15375,5, Radio Catolica Mundial, Oct 10, 1900, Spanish px, weak (Hein) UZBEKISTAN 4850, Uzbekistan (t). Probable Uzbek Radio (t), Oct 6, IS 0100, 0130,
0200, series of 6 or 8 notes played on what sounds to me like a xylophone,
following identification by male very low in audio. RA sound clip at
4850, Cameroon, Uzbek and ? - following up the loggings of Cameroon
and Uzbekistan (t) on Oct 6 and 7, Victor Goonetileki confirmed the IS
we heard
4850, Uzbek Radio 2, Oct 6 0120, alerted by Pete Costello in #swl to W announcing deep Asian vocal music with Indian- sounding strings and flutes. Vibraphone IS twice at 0130 and 0200. Any possible ID was buried in the ambient noise. IS verified by Victor G. via Tom Sundstrom. (Novello) 15295, R Tashkent, Oct 6 1330 with IS and "Radio Tashkent Calling", opening EG language program. Pitch for advertisers 1335. Nice signal this morning. (Novello) VANUATU 4960, R Vanuatu, Oct 4, 0835, 2 OM tlking in presumed Bislama referring to "overseas relations.". "Vanuatu" was mentioned several times. Heard on this date only. (Famularo) VATICAN CITY STATE 527, Radio Vaticana, Oct 11, 0445-0450, Item about Jesuits in French. Parallel to 1530, not 1611 kHz. According to the WRTH on 526 kHz. Poor with slop 31. (Pijpers) didnt notice this is MW. Excuse my ignorance - heard R Vaticana 5883 kHz - is that new? German started 1819. strong (ed, Oct 12) VENEZUELA 4940, Radio Amazonas La Radio: received partly detailed card (time missing) in impressive envelope of Radio Continental after f/up in 2 months via address Radio Amazonas, c/o Sr. Francisco José Ocano, Urb. 23 de Enero, Calle Nicolas Briceno No. 18-266, Barinas 5201-A, Venezuela. A direct report to Puerto Ayacucho remains unanswered. (Kuhl, Oct 8) 4830 R Táchira carries Brazilian run evangelical prgr La V de la Liberación at various times, usually after 0300, in // to R San Cristóbal (1060) and Exitos 5-60 in an ad hoc network called "Cadena de Emisoras Buenas Nuevas" (Good News Network). (Klemetz /Dateline Bogota) 4980 Friendly Ecos del Torbes is celebrating 50 years ("bodas de oro")
this year. One special anniversary broadcast worth listening to is "Recordando
A gozar, muchachos" (Remembering Have a good time, guys), Sat 2200-2300,
featuring lots of oldies recorded by Venezuelan dance band Billo's Caracas
Boys whose "A gozar, muchachos" show was live on R Caracas in the 50's.
Prgr producer, Dr. Simón Zaidman, will appreciate reception reports
either directly to him or via station manager (Mrs.) Lic. Dinorah González
Zerpa to the usual Apartado Postal 152 address. In answer to an inquiry
of mine, Zaidman in the Oct 11 broadcast said that a commemorative pennant
will be ready shortly for reporters to his show. On Oct 18, part of this
prgr will carry special announcements for NORDX 97
VIETNAM 6639.6t, Lao Cai, Oct 4, 1311, Vietnamese folk mx, fanfare, long YL
tlk.
ZAMBIA 4910, ZNBC (R1) Lusaka, Oct 10, 1950-2005, VV. Ethnic music. Talk programme in which Zambia and surrounding countris mentioned. Subject matter appeared to revolve around TV and other broadcasting in region. ID and address at 2005. 44444 (Clemitson) 6165, ZNBC (R2) Lusaka, Oct 10, 1045-1055, English. Male answering questions on mental illness. 22222. (Clemitson) ZIMBABWE 3306, ZBC (R2) Gweru, Oct 9, 1920-1930, Shona/Ndebele/English. Phone in programme. 43232. (Clemitson) 3396, ZBC (R4) Gweru, Oct 9, 1955-2010, VV. Lighthearted music. 2000 I/D and T/S read in English. Followed by social items. 44444 (Clemitson) 4828, ZBC (R4) Gweru, Oct 10, 1430-1440, VV. Male with stock exchange prices, into market discussion with YL. - 1435 ethnic music. 43333 (Clemitson) 5012, ZBC (R2) Gweru, Oct 10, 1340-1404, Shona. Male disc jockey with selection of local musical items. - Time signals in English. ID 1400 Female reading news. 44444 (Clemitson) CLANDESTINE STATIONS CHINA 15388.04, New Star Broadcasting, Oct 7, 0800-0805, usual IS and opening
as "Di-er tai" or second program. 23332 - Surprise, surprise!!!! They are
still active. What I mean is New Star Broadcasting. With my new NRD-525
I started digging for this station again and was surprised to hear them
on 15388 kHz again for the first time in five years. This is probably due
the selectivity of the NRD and the fact that CNR 1 on 15390 kHz shuts up
on Tuesdays from around 6-9 UTC. For fellow nit-pickers: the other noted
frequencies were 8300.01 kHz, 9725.00 kHz and 11429.99 kHz. The fact that
- except 15388 kHz - all channels are good on frequency must mean good,
stable transmitters (Taiwan?). Also here in at my location this station
has quite unstable reception. One day it's booming in, the other hardly
audible. If -and it's a big IF - these signals are coming from the nearest
shortwave site (30 km), then could this be explained? (Boogert)
5910, Rainbow R, Sep 27, /0100, the station began its broadcast with the following opening announcement: "This is Rainbow Radio [Amharic: Keste Damena Radio]. Rainbow Radio, the voice of peace and brotherhood" then schedule as 15365 Thu 1600-1700, 5910 Sat 0100-0200, 6130 1900-2000. (BBCM) 5910, Rainbow R, Oct 11, 0140, Amharic, talk abt Australia (Krone) IRAQ 4060, V.O.Iraqi Kurdistan, Oct 8, 1803-1931*, Arabic news and songs, fine ID and freq's 1900. Arabic continued to 1905 when Kurdish till s/off 1931. Many Ids. Fair (Krone) IRAN 3930, V.O.the Worker, Oct 8, 1715-1801*, Farsi continuous talk by male and female, "Internationale" choir version. Fair (Krone) PIRATES-EURO 6195, Reflections Europe, Sep 28, 2147, fair level. Religious programming dominates this channel. (Henderson) 6220, R Caroline, Sep 29, 0111, UK pirate making it to Italy with John Benson DJ, and good music and plenty of good ads. 23422 level. (Henderson) UNIDENTIFIED STATIONS 5020, UNID, Oct 10, 1642-1645, chinese songs and male announcer, very weak (Hein) 5030, UNID, Oct 10, 1545, asian type music, very weak, Malaysia? (Hein) 5795, UNID, Oct 11, 0510, slow speed songs, later pop oldis, very weak (Hein) 6190, UNID, 0450, music like nat. anthem, then 2 minutes silence, then
different
6210, UNID, from 27 Sep I've been hearing an Arabic lang station which signs off just before 2200. Programming is "soft" -- EZ rock/ AR flute mx/ lite mx & calm OM/YL tlk, sometimes taking phone calls from listeners. I checked Abu Dhabi, 9770 but this was NOT //. Fair reception here in Japan, so EURO listeners should have a clearer shot at it, no? My knowledge of Arabic is almost nil so I couldn't get an ID (Famularo) COMMENT TO 4460 CPBS-1 INTERFERENCE Number station Pijpers heard interfering was indeed Mossad, it is on
4463 khz in am mode and uses three letter id, among others ftj. Sometimes
the id is followed by the no. 2, for example ftj2. That means that there
will be no traffic to follow and presumedly tells the agent that he had
tuned to the right frequency and that he had not missed the broadcast.
- btw, there is a good mailing list for all those interested in number
stations: spook. - Just send an email to
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SPECIAL DX REPORTS FROM DENMARK ...... This coming week a DX Camp will take place in Northern Denmark, using
an
############# Nice response from Andy Sennit below re. Ralph Famularo comments in
DXW84 editorial: >I have been wondering about the continual decrease
in 60mb Africans< says Ralph Famularo. >Does anyone know the status
of such countries as Cameroon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and more recently,
the Central African Republic on 5033v -- are any of these guys planning
to return? It's quite depressing to see one after another of the
African nations disappearing from the bands. Is satellite a viable alternative
in Africa? Will the average African be able to afford satellite receiving
technology? It seems that someone with $$$ or technical know-how should
be helping these nations with their communications infrastructure.<
Regarding satellites, no of course individual Africans are not expected to go out and buy a satellite receiver. A few weeks ago, Belgian TV carried a quite moving documentary about a guy in Tambacounda, Senegal who loves watching TV, but signals from state-run TV are spasmodic, and the cost of satellite TV is too high. So he had the idea of asking all the people in his village to make a contribution. He went to Dakar - a long journey - to visit Canal Plus Afrique and find out more. It turned out that even with everyone making a contribution, it was still too expensive...so he went back to fiddling with his TV antenna to try to get programmes from state TV. But WorldSpace is developing a new concept, with radio transmissions aimed at a handheld receiver. I believe they are estimating that 2 million or so of these sets will be initially available - production is shared between several companies - and many of the sets will be purchased by charities and aid agencies and distributed to those who cannot afford to buy them. The list of broadcasters already signed up is impressive - a mixture of African domestic broadcasters, international broadcasters and commercial stations. This should improve reception to some people, but it is only one part
of the
Don't be misled into believing that African stations are moving from AM and shortwave to satellite. They're not. They are using satellite as an auxiliary service - with the benefit that the signals will reach the entire continent, important in a region with very few external services. In the meantime, there are millions of Africans much more frustrated that we DXers are...imagine if you were unable to hear your national radio network. For our 60mb DX is someone else's only contact with their own country (Sennitt) ############# Leaving for Santiago de Chile tonight for a weeks job down there. Hopefully some nice DX and possibly a visit with ARS people. - Just for the records, my equipment is Radio Shack DX-394, SONY ICF-7600G and the old faithful Grundig Satellit 2000. 12 meters longwire. (Karlsson) sounds nice. Let us have your report from Chile? ed. ############# Looking forward to a vacation-slant-mini-DX'pedition to Cape Hatteras a week from today.... (Novello Oct 12) and we're looking forward to seeing the results - seems to be a nice place for DXing, ed. ############# Hello MW DXers,
531 RNE-5 R5 PONTEVEDRA
(MEDI DX "HOT NEWS"/Garzon) ############# Special radio station for football fans to launch in June 1998 There will soon be a new radio station specially for football fans: on 8th June 1998 a new station, christened `98 Radio France, entirely devoted to the football World Cup will begin broadcasting on France Inter's longwave frequency [162 kHz]. Every day from 0600 hours [0400 gmt] to 0100 hours [2300 gmt] listeners will be able to follow a special programme which includes the rebroadcasting of all the matches in full and news and review programmes devoted to the event. (France Info R Oct 3 via BBCM) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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broadcasts on shortwave on Saturday, December 20th. There is a homepage
online: http://www.exactweb.com/RSMI/ On that homepage is detailed
information available yet. (direct and via Mougenez) but no further details
on the web as of Oct 11 (Krone)
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6) The booklet TDP SW-97, the "Transmitter Documentation Project".
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Full service is expected to begin shortly although some stations, including
The Disney/ABC Group FM stations that have signed up for the new service
are
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