DX-Window No. 86- weekly soft-copy-only newsletter by theDanish Shortwave Club International Tavleager 31 DK-2670 Greve, Denmark Editorial deadline: October 19, 1997
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Next editorial deadline: October 26, (Sunday) at 17.00 UTC, to Finn
Krone at finn.krone@vip.cybercity.dk.
- DSWCI-0099 Anker Petersen, Denmark - AOR AR 7030, 45 m longwire
- Hector Garcia Bojorge, Mexico
Dear Friends, Seems that we have sold our farm (only a formality left, but you never know...) so I have started looking for another house in the country - they seem to be either too old or too expensive, hi. So: Where there's a will, I want to be in it. ;) The NorDX97 competition arranged by the DX Listeners' Club in Norway was a lot tougher than expected, here at my location at least. Not until the last session on Oct 19 did we listen to truly easy stations - ie. apart from our good-bye to the Fredrikstad transmitter. Thank you for arranging NorDX97 to our friends in DX Listeners' Club in Norway. Not your fault, but many stations may have caused quite a bit of frustration in many a Nordic DX shack, hi. Audibility here: Friday, 17 October: 20.30-20.55 Radio Uganda; 4976 kHz - yes, but weak
Saturday, 18 October: 14.30-14.55 Sri Lanka BC; 9730, 11800, 15425 kHz - yes, best on
9730, 15425 15.00-15.25 All India Radio Jaipur; 3345 kHz -
yes
19.20-19.45 Voice of Free Nigeria; 11680 kHz - yes
22.30-23.00 YV Ecos del Torbes, San Cristobal; 4980, 9640 kHz
- seemingly not!
Sunday, 19 October: 02.40-03.00 OA Radio Satélite, Santa Cruz; 6725,5 kHz -
yes, on 6725.6
ALGERIA 16295.12, R Algiers "Chaine 3", Oct 13, 1500, on this odd frequency with terrific signals. At 1600 in English from Radio Algiers Int., only announcing 11715 and 15160 kHz, but not heard there. They continued in Spanish at 1700 till s/off at 1900 (The next day nothing heard till 1545 when I went out to snail mail this letter to you) (van Delft) ANGOLA The reception was fair to weak at 1915 with heavy inteference by Italian and Spanish language Broadcast till Time Pips at 2000 the reception became much better as Vorgan was alone at that time on this frequency [5981-5987] - "Vorgan Magazine" commentery on Congo was running on Savimbi-Kabila-Congo Brazzaville Congo Kingsasha and Angola was heard till 2015, then followed by ID "Vorgan ..Vorgan" by man and just after that "Vorgan Music" African Pop Song Program presented by man with long talk onb music in portuguese -2001 ID followed by Information and Sign Off at 2104 with National Anthem. (Veghjee) 4950, R Nacional de Angola; Mulenvos, , 1830, continious pop English songs followed by advertisement of Castor Beer- talk in Portuguese - 1900 ID repeated many times and then Journal- News Bulletin- fair (Vaghjee) yes, fair here too, i.e. AFTER NorDX97 entry was to be logged 2040-2100 when it was covered by VOA. 3374.9 was audible, but certainly not easy (ed) 7245, R Nacional-Luanda, noted with very good reception recently, but unfortunately it was not the case - actually noisy reception and covered by other stations. (Vaghjee) ANTARCTICA 15475.97, LRA36 R Nac Archangel San Gabriel, Oct 13, 2000-2100, S, carrier & USB only. Gentle songs and instrumental mx, fading towards 2100. English 2045-2048: description of ARG. I telephoned Noel Green at 2010, so I can confirm that it came in well in Lancashire at that time! 24333 (Phillips) ARGENTINA 8098.00-LSB, Radio Continental AM; Buenos Aires, Oct 18, 0700-0900, fair signal - oldies mx px "Algo para Recordar". Every 30 minutes, the news flash "Informativo Continental" was heard. Also heard at 0800-0910 fair on 19/10/97. At 0800 nx "Ayer y Hoy". (TIN) 8098.00-USB, Radio Continental FM; Buenos Aires, Oct 18, 0700-0900, fair signal (TIN) AUSTRALIA 2485, VLK8K ABC Katherine, Oct 4, 1405, National ABC progr, country mx, music request progr, strong static QRN! (Schulze) 5025.00, VL8K Katherine, Oct 13, 2130-2140, E, OM & YL with news report, ID, no //'s heard 34233 (Phillips) BOLIVIA 4732.2, R La Palabra. In his excellent report on Bolivia (NU 1445 and DXW 85), TIN says this stn has "not been observed since Dec 1996". However, there are reports to the contrary in DXW 55, NU 1414 and 1415. When reading TIN's report, Oct 12, I checked the fqy at 2315, and there the stn was, as usual. And, although not reported, I have a log entry for R La Palabra Aug 18, 0045. (Klemetz, Dateline Bogota) 5927.1, R Minería, Oct 16, with regular programming until 0030, then into football, which may have ended at approx 0200. Cf. Bolivian skeds in NU 1445 and DXW 85, where the Minería SW fqy is said to close down at 2300. (Klemetz) BOTSWANA 4820, R Botswana, Oct 13, 0342, t/in to Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About
You,"
BRAZIL 3255.12, Rdif 6 de Agosto; Xapuri; Acre, Oct 18, 1005, maybe the one riding atop QRN with accordian-led forro mx and PT M talking non-stop over. Or Cairiri? (Novello) 11805, R Globo, Oct 17, 2049-2103*, with sports ann. ID "Radio Globo" - Abruptly off at 2103, 44444 (Iversen) 2100-2125 was the time to listen to this stn during NorDX97 alas. Noted same here (Krone) CAMEROON 4850, CRTV, Oct 11, 2205-2220, FF newscast 'in the usual style' on the forth-coming election on Sunday. Turn-out was only 30% according to the Dutch media due to a boycot by the opposition. BTW, according to full-colour ads in the magazine 'Jeune Afrique' CRTV has a grand total of 9 SW-transmitters. It never states if these transmitters are actually in operation... (Stienstra) CANADA 6070, CFRX, Oct 7, 0309, with baseball results then into DX QSLs from ODXA, phone 416 293 (Norrie) 6130, CHNX-CHNS (tent), Oct 9, 0325, with pops "I'll be working my way back to You", NA DJ and accent but too weak to pull out, (I will try and fax them and determine whether they keep any play sequence records). (Norrie) CHAD 7120, Radiodiff. Nat. Tchadienne; N'Djamena, Oct 16, 1550-1601*, Local music with announcements by woman in vernacular. Interval signal followed by ID and frequencies in French. Again very short IS, sh/down. Good signal but qrmVOA on 7115. (Pijpers) CHINA 4734.94, Xinjiang PBS; Urumqi, Oct 13 *1100, just a followup to log of October 9. This one signs on at 1100 with a simple IS comprised of the first 7 notes of "The East Is Red" played on an electric piano or similar instrument. (Novello) 7530, CNR1, Oct 17, 1733-1800*, At first I thought it was a spur as there was some chomping on the signal. However, at 1733 - after the s/off anthem - other CNR 1 outlets did go off air, while this one continued with non-stop Chinese M-o/t-R tunes until 1800 s/off. Wonder if this is a new channel for them or just a transmitter replacement test. (Boogert) 7770, Chinese National Radio 2, Oct 18, 1135, noted t/in with a surprisingly good signal, one woman talking, nothing distinctive about the program. Parallels noted 9064 and 7440, but both much weaker throughout the listening period. All sites presumed different as no outlets were in sync. At 12 UT, 4 time pips with the last a higher note. Was 10db/s9 at 1135, still s8 at 12. (Sundstrom) 8260N, R Beijing, Oct 3, 1235-1255*, in Bamar, IDs, internat mx, (Schulze) The Tokyo branch of China Radio Int.'s new address:
COLOMBIA 4955, Rdif Nacional de Colombia, Oct 19, 0307-0336, fine reception for the NorDX97 contest time, S (Krone) 6064.5, Colmundo, Oct 18, 2315-2340, not AT ALL easy during NorDX contest;
signal increased after 2330. But better than Ecos del Torbes which could
not be heard during contest time 2230-2300 on any of 4980/9640 kHz here!
Maybe for first time in many years - and that during the competition ;(
6115.2, La Voz del Llano, Oct 17, 2204-2230, hard to separate from stronger (!) R Union on 6115 during NorDX97 (Krone) CONGO-BRAZAVILLE 5985, R.Congolaise de la Liberte, Oct 17, 1650, with nx in FR, ID at 1700 as "R. Democratic Congolaise," and just after anmts in African and French, with long speeches (often hrd ment. of Angola, Unita, Savimbi, Quadafi). At 1728 ID as R.Congo. At that time, reception was weak, with bad audio. But suddenly at 1800, the ID changed to "R. Congolaise de la Liberte," and rectn became better, with good audio. Hrd French nx bulletin with message of congratulations from different federations praising the new leader and blaiming the Dictator Lissouba. At 1835, just before a debate, R.Congolaise de la Liberte was ancd again. (Veghjee) 5984.9, R Congolaise de la Liberte, Oct 19, 1640, F ID at tune in (on
basis of this tip) now that I am editing this thing. Nice local songs.
Fair (Krone) You are quite right at that time 1840 R Congo is being with
good reception with an interview of the newly strong man of that country-
I just heard Mozambique
COSTA RICA 4831.84, R Reloj; San José, Oct 14, 0625-0640, S, romantic and lively songs, ID 34333 (Phillips) CROATIA 5890, Croatian National Radio, Oct 13, 0000-0004, Spanish, News bulletin,
DENMARK 3624.0, OZ/DL1ABJ, Oct 15, 1702, reading stations from Bolivia e.g. Radio Eco on 4702 kHz. But at 1704 two French speaking stations appeared each 500 kHz up and down ... and Harald Kuhl has not longer been copied. The above mentionned QRG is a very bad choice. (Elsebusch) heard here only one time, weak, on 3625 (ed) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 6025.1, Radio Amancer Internacional, Oct12, 2325, Talks in SP, and Id
"Radio
ECUADOR 4919, R Quito, Oct 19, 0340-0405, nice songs entertaining NorDX97 contestants (Krone) 4920, Radio Quito, Oct 15, 0602-0633, Spanish, Music in the caribbean "merengue' style. Announcing as "La Voz de la Capital", 43323 (Escoto) EGYPT V.O.the Arabs 26 September 1997 - 23 April 1998 (one h. later in winter)
daily to Europe and Middle East: 0300-0600 15285 9850 621; 0600-1400 15285
11980 621;
GEORGIA 4930, Mayak Relay; Dusheti, Oct 17 0140 with Mayak IS and RS talk by a couple of male announcers, folk-type mx. Fluttery signal. (Novello) GHANA 3366, Ghana BC, Oct 5, 2018, USB better "delegates from Holland and Cote D'Ivoire to economic conference in EE" (Norrie) also during NorDX97 contest Oct 17 2209-2236, not at all at its best (ed) GREECE 11645, VO Greece, Oct 15, 0343-0349, English, News, 45323 (Escoto) GUAM KTWR with Indian vernaculars at 1330-1415 hrs on a new 15200 replacing 11835 wef 26th Oct. (Dasgupta, Oct 18) GUATEMALA 4835.0, Radio Tezulutlan, Oct 12, 0125, Religious talks Sp., 24432,
GUYANA 5950.53, G.B.C., Oct 17, 0930, "What's going on" by Marvin Gaye, 70's classic, much poorer signal than 3290 powerhouse. 0935 sports news, Per Johnson & Krueger logs. On now 0035 very poor 5950.46 with mx. Wish they would stay on 3290 (Wilkner) HAWAII KWHR Special Test QSL recieved by air mail for an e-mail report after 5 weeks, including also an expired schedule with progam details and info and also a RR-form.(Schotmans) HONDURAS 3250, Radio Luz y Vida, Oct 12, 2218-2235, Spanish, with christian music,
ID
INDIA ALL INDIA RADIO EXTERNAL SERVICE FREQUENCYWISE SCHEDULE W97
3945 kHz
4790 kHz
4860 kHz
5990 kHz
6045 kHz
6155 kHz
6165 kHz
7125 kHz
7140 kHz
7150 kHz
7225 kHz
7250 kHz
7265 kHz
7410 kHz
9545 kHz
9550 kHz
9565 kHz
9595 kHz
9650 kHz
9700 kHz
9705 kHz
9835 kHz
9910 kHz
9950 kHz
11585 kHz
11620 kHz
11695 kHz
11710 kHz
11715 kHz
11730 kHz
11735 kHz
11740 kHz
11790 kHz
11840 kHz
11850 kHz
11855 kHz
11870 kHz
11900 kHz
11935 kHz
13620 kHz
13700 kHz
13710 kHz
13720 kHz
13770 kHz
13780 kHz
13795 kHz
15020 kHz
15050 kHz
15075 kHz
15140 kHz
15175 kHz
15180 kHz
15340 kHz
15770 kHz
17387 kHz
17705 kHz
17785 kHz
17840 kHz
17860 kHz
17895 kHz
3223.0, AIR Shimla, Oct 12, 1617, Talks. Other AIR stations on 90 meters:
4760.0, AIR Port Blair (pres), Oct 13, 1610, Talks man and woman, music, 24432, (Bernardini) 4760.0, All India Radio; location unknown; Oct 19, 1526-1547, Male speaker in vernacular, mentioning Pakistan a few times, TS, ID and news in English, then "This is All India Radio. Please stand by for the next program.", talk. 24433 (Veldhuis) 4775, AIR Imphal, Oct 13, 1115, male accapella vocal lasting at least 15 minutes. AIR ID 1130. Huge S9 signal along greyline. (Novello) 5010.0, AIR Thiru..., Oct 13, 0040, Start of bc, more than local! Usual
music
INDONESIA The Voice of Indonesia is no longer audible here in Germany. At 1800 the 9525 channel is empty, while other stations from Asia comes in with good signals; 11785 empty too, 11755 at this time blocked by Finland. Off air due to technical problems (transmitters affected by the current fire disaster)? (Dieter Leupold, Germany via Ludwig Oct 16) Follow-up: Today (Oct. 18) around 1830 I couldn't detect any carriers on both 7225 and 9525. At 1900 somebody signed on 9525, 7225 remained empty. Due to strong local QRM during this TV primetime I can't say, who is on 9525 from 1900, possibly the carriers from Indonesia was also simply buried under these trash. (Ludwig) 3134.1v, RSDPT2 Halmahera Tengha-Soasia, Oct 4, 1320-1403, presumably ID at 1350. pop mx, lost in QRN.(Schulze) 3231.8v, RRI Bukittinggi, Oct 4, 1415-1500, popular mx, southsea mx,
at 1500
3249.8v, RRI Banjarmasin (p), Oct 4, -1436*, no ID was given, a piece of Gamelan mx, sign-off, earlier than listed (Schulze) 3324.9, RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 12, 1102, Local news, 1110 "Berita Keluarga". ID was heard at 1110 as "Radio Republik Indonesia Palangkaraya". Fair. (Yamada) 3355.3v, RRI Sumenep, Oct 4, 1844-1906, and RRI Jakarta relay progr,
dangdut
4000.0, RRI Padang, Oct 18, 1530-1558, Indo, Ids, 1558 Jakarta relay started - in mix with other Indo (Kendari) - not 4003 (Krone) 4000.2, RRI Kendari (tent), Oct 12, 1541, slow songs, 14321, (Bernardini) but be careful, could be Padang if you couldnt hear them on 4003.2, ed. 4606.3, The local evening program of RRI Serui was reactivated after short absence. First noted on Oct 13. (Yamada) 4789.12, RRI Fak-Fak (presumed), Oct 13, 1140, switched here for evening program as noted by Foster and Yamada. Indopops with rock and country flavors, introduced by M DJ, audio heavy on the low end. Held on well for 15 minutes, then vanished 1156. Nice surprise. (Novello) 4925.0, RRI Jambi, Oct 12, 2255, Again on 4925. They like jumping between
4927.0, RRI Jambi, Oct 12, 1529, Music and talks by woman, 24322 (Bernardini) 5040.0, RRI Pekanbaru, Oct 12, 2311, // with Jambi 4925, 23432, (Bernardini) 9565.0, RRI Jakarta; Bonto Sunggu, Oct 11, 1100, relay of sports festival
at Senayan Stadium,Jakarta at 1000. News was not heard at 1000 and 1100
due to
9565.0, RRI Jakarta; Bonto Sunggu, Oct 12, relay of sports event at
Senayan Stadium, Jakarta at 1134. This program was relayed by RRI Manado(3214.8kHz)
9680, RRI, Oct 18, 0959, Indonesian - 11785 no longer noted at this time (Rooy) 11755, RRI, Oct 18, 0000-1600, possibly for the South Asia Games - most of the time carrying Sports commentaries. (Dasgupta) 11785N, V.O.Indonesia, Oct 18, 0100-0200, noted English //9525 (Dasgupta) 15150, RRI Jakarta, Oct 19, 1159, SCI, news //9680 (Rooy) IRAN VOIRI - Teheran's some of the recent changes :
IRAQ 4755, Rep. of Iraq R, Oct 15, 1905-1938*, Arabic on this another strange frequency. Rather weak (Krone) 11290, R Bahgdad, General Sce, Oct 18, 0750-0855, Arabic with songs, phone-in and talk about Iraq. 35232 (Petersen) 11785, at least on Oct 4 and 10, but not every day, R. Iraq Int'l English
ran from precisely 2057 to 2157, strong but distorted and co-channel from
DW and Brazil (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 914) Also heard here
Oct 14, barely a signal at first check 2015, presumably French; 2103 English
mentioned 25
11785, Radio Iraq Int'l, Oct 15, 0405-0416, English, news, notes about Iraq's geography and some history on Baghdad, 33222, (Escoto) JAPAN The 21st international broadcasters' meeting was held in Stockholm,
Sweden, for three days from August 25. The 6-nation meeting was attended
by Radio Sweden, Radio Australia, Radio Canada International, NHK World
Radio Japan, Radio Nederland and Suisse Radio International. Radio Japan
was represented by Director-General Kunio Irisawa of the NHK International
Planning and Broadcasting Department. .....
The Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication on Oct. 18 announced its decision to close down the standard time and frequency station JJY (2500, 5000, 8000, 10000, 15000 kHz) and replace it with a longwave station in 1999. There was no mention of the new frequency, power, etc. Because longwave travels along the ground and does not depend on ionosheric reflection, the time signal will be 10,000 times more accurate than its current shortwave counterpart. JJY is also often inaudible in western Japan due to severe interference from WWV, WWVH, and other time stations in Russia, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. (Ashimori in Hard-Core-DX) 3925, R Tampa, , 2129 Jingle, 2130 ID "Radio Tampa" followed by talk
- between
KOREA PDR 2850, Korea Central Broadcasting Station, Oct 14, 1600-1630, (domestic service of R. Pyongyang) 44444. ID: Choson Chuan Banson Imunida. Song programs, news is not broadcast at 1600 (Mitsuaki) KOREA, REP To commemorate the 200th edition of the DX Report on Radio Korea International, Adventist World Radio has been invited to participate in a special one-time relay broadcast. The special broadcast will air on December 21st and the early hours of December 22nd during RKI's regular English language broadcasts. This unique opportunity will allow DXers to QSL their reception of AWR as relayed via Radio Korea International's global network. AWR announces that all correct reception reports will earn a verification card with special endorsement to mark the event. For those of you pursuing Adventist World Radio QSL stamps for your Reception Certificates, this will be an opportunity to earn up to three additional sites for your certificate: AWR - Kimje, AWR - Skelton, and AWR - Sackville. RKI hopes you'll join in the fun for this special 200th edition of the
DX
KBS from South Korea has ordered a new 100 kW shortwave transmitter to be installed at their station in Suwon. (TDP/Maes) LAOS 4690.9v, LNR Hoh Phan, regular, 1000-1100* (Schulze, Oct 6) 6130, Lao National Radio, Oct 14, 1140-1202, SEA mx using LSB to avoid CNHX (Carrier + USB only). Peaking nicely about 1147 but fading. Missed big bells but heard TOH ID and into YL talks from 1201. (Rippel) 6130, Lao National Radio, Oct 6, 1350, with ID and pop number "Cherish" (Norrie) 6130, LNR Vientiane, Oct 11, 1400-1459* on free channel. Agn Oct 19 1430-1450 (Rooy) 6130.0, Lao National R., Oct 12, 2340, Reports in Lao about S.E.Asia
(Vietnam
6973v, LNR Luang Prabang, maybe inactive or very low power level. I can't hear them anymore. (Schulze) LESOTHO 3255, BBC Lancer's Gap, Oct 13, 0403, noted briefly in passing with world news, in //with 5975. (Sharp) 4800, LNBS, Oct 15, 2030, good signal but noisy - also 4904 - Chad weak and noisy (Vaghjee) LIBERIA 5880, Star Radio, Oct 13, *0458, with tone. Into IS then anthem at 0459. Sign on anncments at 0500 by OM in EE "Good morning, this is Star Radio FM104....." Into schedule then I greet you, and welcome you to Star Radio." Into vern talks by YL. (Rippel) From NU 1445, Supp. A, Oct 13: The following second E-mail message has been rcvd from Star Radio: "Dear Jerry Berg. Thanks for your reception report sent to STAR radio. STAR radio is a USAID funded independent radio station serving Liberians in Liberia and the surrounding territories. It is managed by the Swiss based NGO Fondation Hirondelle. We broadcast in English, Liberian English, French and 14 local Liberian languages. We are broadcasting on a Collins short wave transmitter from just outside Monrovia. The rated output is 10KW but the signal is nearer 4KW. We use a tuned antenna which is designed to serve the region only. In common with other short wave transmissions the signal bounces off the ionosphere, back to earth again and therefore it's not surprising that you picked it up -- however imperfectly -- in Lexington. We are presently testing our short wave transmitter which has been recently installed. We are transmitting on 5.88 MhZ from 0500 to 0800 and 3.40 Mhz from 1700 to 2000. We shall reverse these frequencies from next Sunday, 19 October. We have been transmitting on stereo FM 104 from 15 July and our signal reaches well beyond the city of Monrovia as the surrounding land is mostly flat. Sincerely, George Bennett, Chief of STAR Radio." -- So: Right now they are closer to 4 kw than 10, and effective Sunday, Oct 19, 3400 kHz will be used at 0500-0800, 5880 kHz at 1700-2000. -- FAX number and E-mail address from NU 1438: 231/227360; and libe@atge.automail.com (Berg in Numero Uno) MALAYSIA 9749.97, Voice of Malaysia, Oct 13, 1225, female DJ with IN anncts and ad-like spots; big signal. Pop mx including light reggae and duet featuring local Celine Dion soundalike, also some business jazz a la Kenny G. Continued straight through the hour at 1300, but faded way down by then. (Novello) MALAWI 3380, MBC, Oct 11, 2153-2203, EE with African accent mixed with fragments of reggae music. Malawi mentioned 2159, ID 'This is MBC' 2200 into newsbulletin. 22222 (Stienstra) 3380, MBC, Oct 13, 0336, very good with hilife, Chichewa woman with local references. All alone on freq. Zimbabwe also strong, 3306/3396. (Sharp) MEXICO 4800, XERTA Radio Transcontinental de América, Oct 15, 0637-0642,
Spanish,
MONGOLIA Today I received a nice QSL-letter, card and info frm The Voice of Mongolia,
12084.981, Voice of Mongolia (R. Ulan Bator), Oct 16, /1159, (programming /language change) with IS then into ID by OM in SEA Lang then ID in EE by YL: "This is the Voice of Mongolia." Into repeat of EE schdedule/frequencies then into EE interview. (Rippel) MOZAMBIQUE Correction to DXW85: Sorry Finn. Red faced. The fault is mine. That log should have read 9618 R Maputo, Maputo etc.... The following log 9637 Delegacao de Beira // should also have been 9618!. Regrets to all. As I mentioned once before age catching up on me. I can even claim to have checked everything before sending it, and still not seen the transposure. (Clemitson) yes, Godfrey, arent we all ... ed. 3279.3, R Mocambique-Beira, Oct 19, 1650-1658, Vern. px of local songs, fine local ID 1656. So a bit on the drift again. Fair (Krone) NEPAL 5005.0, Radio Nepal, Oct 13, 0016, Songs, id and nx at 0.20. At 0.27
songs
5005.0, Radio Nepal, Oct 12, 1607, Slow long songs and talks, 35433,
NEW ZEALAND RNZI recently rang and asked me if I would carry on Arthur Cushen's
DX Report
RNI schedule 26 Oct 1997-March 1998: 1650-1852 9810 Mon-Fri; 1853-2052
11735 Sun-Fri; 1959-2058 11735 Sat; 2053-0458 15115 Sun-Fri; 2059-0458
15115 Sat; 0459-0815 11905 Mon-Fri; 0459-0758 11905 Sat & Sun; 0816-1206
9700 Mon-Fri; 0758-1206 9700 Sat & Sun; CLOSEDOWN 1206-1650: Occasional
Use eg Sport 1206-1650 6105 (Adrian Sainsbury,
Frequency Manager, RNI - E-mail: rnzi@actrix.gen.nz
3935, ZLXA Levin, Oct 16, 0607-0629, E, spoken word by female, short mx interludes, 15231. Almost a daily catch recently, slightly worse than usual today due to some man-made noise. Breakfast TV seems to be interesting :-( (Gatzke) NORWAY 7215, UKE-Senderen; Trondheim (t), Oct 15/16, 1100-1300, Norwegian, various rock and pop mx, some occasional talk, 23422 at best. Very poor signal,so far insufficient for compiling a reception report. Modulation seems to be irregular, sometimes only a carrier is detectale. Blocked completely by super-strong VoA on 7220 as of 1300. (Gatzke) 7215, Ukesenderen; Trondheim, Oct 19, 0948-1058, with Norwegian px of pop mx and news at 1000. Very weak here with SINPO 23322 heavily disturbed by Don Radio, Belarus 7210. (Petersen). 7215, UKE Senderen: Trondheim, Oct 17, 0958-1205,(p), IS sounding like tinkling bells, talk in Norwegian (?), again IS at 1010 and apparent sh/down. At 1057 again IS, talk and much rockmusic. At 1200 timepips, first time I heard these.No ID, just tentative Trondheim. Weak signal with some peaks. (Pijpers) Just checked UKE's homepage, to see if I could find a hint on their
station. They have real-audio now, check under
Von: Henrik A. Schultz <has@nvg.ntnu.no>
11680, RNI Fredrikstad, Oct 18, 1630-1700* with final, special broadcast in English from this transmitter site 1630 s/on to closing with national anthem 1658, oc to 1700. Reviewed history of RNI and Fredristad site itself, interesting background info. No surprises here, very good signal. Audio clip of opening at <http://www.trsc.com/sounds.html>. (Sundstrom) 11680, NRK with very last transmission from Fredrikstad, Oct. 18, *1630-1700*, unfortunately very weak here. The "funeral chant" was barely audible and I had to seek for the final carrier cut on my tape. Can anybody tell about antenna and really operated power? And furthermore, what will happen with the Thomson transmitter? Will it suffer the same fate than it's Komintern and Brown Boverie colleagues of nearly the same age at Nauen: To be scrapped? That reminds me to Koenigs Wusterhausen: One day 6115 was switched off and these cradle of German radio at the end (as far as it SW concerns), without good-bye from DW. (Ludwig) not surprisingly, it was strong here. (Krone) 11680, RNI, Oct 18, 1630-1650, R. Norway Int. (18/10) with final bcst
from Fredrikstad
PAKISTAN 5027, R Pakistan-Quetta, Oct 6, 1800-1808*, Urdu, ID, NA, 1808 sign-off. Nothing on 4790 at this day. (Schulze) 5055.1N, R Pakistan Islamabad, Oct 6, 1520-1533*, Turki[?] ext sce,
NA. Only
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Following comments about the b'casting situation in PNG, I checked the
90mb
3385, Radio East New Britain, Oct 5, 1927, "Morning has broken" by Cat Stevens, into clear ID, time check 27 to 6 (it was wrong!), "It's a Monday morning" (Norrie) 3375, Radio West Highlands, Oct 5, 2015, with ID. At 1951 they played "Edelweiss" I wonder if that is their theme tune. (can anyone confirm). Later on swamped by Angola. (Norrie) 9675, National Broadcast. Commission; Port Moresby, Oct 13, 0803-0827*, presumed news bulletin in English, 08.05 female speaker, light music, 08.08 male speaker in English with presumed frequency and time announcement, long phone interview, 0827 off, no ID heard so this is a tentative logging (Schaay) 9675, NBC, Oct 18, 0730-0805, nice signal with E anns, pops, 0759 IS, news in E - very clear and well modulated. No Brazil-QRM (Rooy) PARAGUAY Two new MW station heard this week, first the 15th of October heard a station on 990 kHz playing continues mx without any ID. Yesterday 18th heard another new on 750kHz ID as " ZP 42 Radio La Voz de la Policia" and "En el 750 de su dial, Radio La voz de la Policia, Orden y Patria". I have not more details, from where, power etc. The first one played much English mx, and can thus probably be from the Asuncion region. If so power is to be around 10 kW. If the station on 750 is also from the Asu region, the power probably is around 1kW. (Iversen) 9737.0, Radio Nac. Paraguay, Oct 12, 2200, Football report, Paraguay
against
PERU 3235, Radio Luz y Sonido, "Emisora Diocesana al servicio de la buena noticia". Postal address: Jr. Dos de Mayo No 1286 Of. 205 - Galerías de la Catedral HUANUCO, Peru. Telf. (064) 51-8500 / Fax: (064) 51-1985 / E-mail: luz.sonido@hys.com.pe. Frecuencies: 3235 KHz 1500 KHz & 105.7 MHz (Néstor Bentaberry, CX-5133, AER-virtual via Sedano) 4485, La Voz de Celendin, Oct 7, 0149, romantc ballads. (Norrie) 4774.95, R Tarma; Tarma; Junin, Oct 18, 1025 with huge signal, ranchero-style selections, and numerous ID's by M: "Radio Tarma...La Voz de la Rio .. de los Andes". (Novello) 4935, R Tropical; San Martin; Tarapoto, Oct 17, 1045, with long religious tirade by man. Finally ended 1058, modulation dropped way down for ID sequence which included a couple "R Tropical" mentions and frequency anncts. Into fast-paced nx 1100. (Novello) 5019.91, R Horizonte; Chachapoyas; Amazonas, Oct 15, 1115, with high Andean guitar plucking, one featuring "chipmunk" vocals. Female announcer, plenty of echo-laden canned announcements by male including "Radio Horizonte" timecheck dropins. Separable from 5020.00 carrier. Pleased to hear this one this late in the morning. (Novello) 6018.2, R Victoria (p), Oct 18, 0700, S anns, advs, mx (Rooy) 6095, R National de Peru, Oct 8, 0308, with full ID, signal quite good (new station for me) (Norrie) and nice catch too, ed. 6095, R Nacional del Perú; Lima, Oct 18, 0401-0425, Spanish,
Man Announcer,
6141.22, R Concordia (p), Oct 9, 0307, with phone in and GLEN MILLER jingle "In the mood" (this was repeated frequently so either this is an ad or some sort of station theme.) This was still going at 0435, almost certain I heard "Arequipa" but never Concordia, (Norrie) 6479.8, R Altura, Peru, Oct 7, 0211, dramatic announcement in S, (Norrie) 6725.56, R Satelite, Oct 19, 0239-0300, ID with nice Peruvian mx and Id. "A esta hora, ahorita presentamos..." 33443 (Iversen) 6725.6, R Satelite, Oct 19, 0240-0300, NorDX97 competitors could listen to a nice program after many difficulties in hearing most of the previous programs (Krone) 6811.2, R Ondas del Rio Mayo, Oct 6, 0154, fair with accordion music.(Norrie) 6811.32, R Ondas del Rio Mayo; Nueva Cajamarca; Oct 18, 1100-1110, huayno and OM talk. (TIN) 7745.88, R Cristal (t), Oct 7, 0214, catchy accordion and flute music, (Norrie) PHILIPPINES 3345.8v, DZB II R Mindoro, Sep 21, 0805-0830, in Tagalog, religious progr. (Schulze) 3345.8v, PHL DZB II R Mindoro, Oct 3, 2320-2331*, in Tagalog & Dialects, 2329 Nat Anthem, choir, religious progr, 2330-2331* five birth calls IS! (Schulze) R.Veritas Asia changes effective 19th Oct. Sinhala 0000-0030 & Tamil 0030-0100 hrs 9670 (ex 11820) Hindi 1330-1355 & Bengali 1400-1425 hrs 9680 (ex 9555) Zomi-Chin 1530-1555 (SAT,MON) 9525 (ex 9555).(Dasgupta) RUSSIA 4730N, VoRussia, Sep 22, 1210-1300*, E nx report, //9715, 9875, 11655. (Schulze) 4859.9v, Chita; Atamanovka; Chita Oblast; Buryat, Sep 10, 1134-1145,
talks ID
9530, R Stantsiya Tikhiy Okean, Sep 15-16, 0720-0800, regular here in
Russian,
9610, Mayak relay; Petrozavodsk (listed), Oct 17, 1320, with Mayak IS once and RS talk. Barely there. (Novello) 9690.0, Radio Tatarstan, Oct 13, 0805, Talks about Tatarstan and traditional
RWANDA 6055, R Rwanda, Oct 18, 2010-2035, F DJ, highlife, IDs as "R Rwanda". Good signal, but difficult French (Krone) 6055.0, Radio Rwanda, Oct 15, 2052, Talk in F. and songs. At 2057 id
in four
SAUDI ARABIA The Ministry of Information from Saudi Arabia has ordered 2 new 500 kW shortwave transmitters to be installed at their station in Riyadh. (TDP/Maes) SEYCHELLES 9455, FEBA Radio; Mahe, Oct 12, 0401-0430, Portuguese, Religious program
man
SIERRA LEONE 3316, SLBS, According to press reports, Nigerian jets targeted this
station in an air attack on Oct 17. (Crawford Oct 17 in Cumbre) Sounds
like they missed, from what I heard on Channel Africa. Anyone still hearing
them? (Johnson/Cumbre)
SINGAPORE 6015, R Singapore Int, Oct 16, 1215-1330, Musical program, 1215 Market Report, music at 1227, 1230 News Bulletin 1236 Music and talk on Singapore Book Shop. Fair reception, much better from 1320 with a prayer song in Sanskrit "Sat gama Ya" then English song. At 13.30 News Bulletin. Program was in English (Vaghjee) SOUTH AFRICA Two additions to Channel Africa's W97 schedule which commences on 26
October 1997: English: 1800-1830 15240 West Africa; French: 1830-1855 15240
West Africa
SRI LANKA 9730, SLBC, Oct 18, 1430-1450, fair with E, c&w //15425.6 (Krone) SUDAN 7200, R Omdurman, Oct 19, 0500, Arabic //9200, but strong (Rooy) SWAZILAND 4775, TWR Manzini, Oct 13, 0357, interval signal, English ID's by man, into German relig. programs at 0400. Believe this is beamed to Namibia. (Sharp) SYRIA Radio Damascus sch daily:
5050, R Tanzania-Dar es Salam; Oct 15, 2050-2100*, ID just after the end of the News in Swahili, followed by religious program for Muslims and Christians just before sign off at 2100 with ID and National Anthem. Bad audio. (Vaghjee) TUNESIA The ONT from Tunisia has ordered 4 new 500 kW shortwave transmitters to be installed at a station in Sidi Mansour. (TDP/Maes) TURKEY 6900, Turkish Meterological Station, Oct 19, 0430, w/ Turkish mx and talks in Turkish by OM anncr. Fair (Rippel) 16016, V.O.Turkey, Oct 15, 1300, another remarkable reception on 16 MHz after hearing Algiers 2 days ago (cf Algeria, ed). In Turkish very strong //9560 kHz (van Delft) UGANDA 4975.96, R Uganda, Oct 13, 0408, English news by man, strong signal but buried in hets (DSP handy for this one). (Sharp) also for NorDX97 Oct 17 2030-2055 with mixed songs - could have been easier (ed) URUGUAY 9650.0, Radio Ciudad De Montevideo (tent), Oct 12, 2240, Sport report,
15531
USA 5890, VOA Greenville, Oct 19, 0410-0435, armchair listening (Krone) UZBESKISTAN 7190, R Tashkent; Tashkent, Oct 17, 0213-0232 Ubesk, Man Announcer, ID, News, Music, ID 34333, (Eramo) VIETNAM 6547, R Yen Bai, Sep 29/Oct 1, 1115-1159*, Vietn dialects, politic talks, with mx bridges, 1130 gongs IS!, hill tribe mx, ID, also given at sign-off. (Schulze) 6538.2-6537.1v, Cao Bang, Sep 29/Oct 1, 1158-1220, Vietnamese talks,
ID, Hill
CLANDESTINE STATIONS AFGHANISTAN R Afghanistan, anti-Taleban station, monitored on 7084a kHz daily in Dari/Pashto /0730-0835*, /1230-1330* (BBCM Oct 10) R Afghanistan - Pro ousted president Rabbani 7084v 1230 -1330 in Pashto and Dari. Could not trace the anti Taleban station during recent monitoring spells. Maybe running low power. (Weerakoon/UADX, Oct 19} ETHIOPIA 9925, Vo Oromo via Ukraine, Oct. 18, 1720, talks in vernacular (Oromo) and some african music, SIO 454, co-channel Radio Vlaanderen was completely blocked. Audio quality could be better, seems their studio production is not on the highest professional level. (Ludwig) IRAQ 4110, Voice of the People of Kurdistan, Oct 13, 2102-2130*. Very strong signal here with Kurdish music and talk. Several clar IDs "Aira Dangi gelli kurdistana", closing with anthem at 2130. (on much later than normal - possibly due to fighting between KDP and PUK) (Kenny) NIGERIA 11680, V.O.Free Nigeria, Oct 18, /1900-1945, sign on in English, NA, "I pledge to Nigeria my country", speeches (Krone) PIRATES-EURO 6298.75, Radio Blue Star/The Farmers, Oct 12, 1650, Songs and talks.
Id as
SAN MARINO PIRATE:
11410, Radio San Marino International, Oct 19, 0835-1050*, new pirate
testing from a 0.2 - 1.0 kW transmitter in the Republic of San Marino heard
till close at 1050 with non-stop Italian and English pop music. Best heard
in USB with 25444. Homepage is seen on http://www.exactweb.com/RSMI.
11410-USB, Radio San Marino International, Oct 19, 0727-0820, 0727 E pops, 0730 into schmaltzy italian Oldies. 0754 off. On again 0800 with E pops, SINPO 45454. For more infos check out their webpage. Of course discussions will go high, if that can be counted as a new country or not. Anyway, work first, worry later! - Still active 1046 with non-stop E. Oldies from the 60ies and 70ies. SINPO 35454. Frequency wandered down to 11409.96 USB by then. E-mail addr: RSMI@exactweb.com (Elbe) 11409.9, R San Marino, Oct 19, 1027, the announced comes in here with a 44444 SINPO. Nice non-stop "Golden Oldies", and some classical music. (Veldhuis) UNIDENTIFIED/IDENTIFIED 4730N, UNID, Oct 6, 1302, (Afghan stn via TJK in Pushto?) 1302, female
IDENTIFIED UNID in DXW85 on 6210 should be Iran, which has been occupying this frequency for long and broadcast in languages from that corner of the world (Fransson) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation can be found at
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ News in Persian language from Kol Israel can be heard on the following
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ XERMX Radio Mexico Internacional has a new web page at this URL:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From today [3rd October], all three national programmes of Croatian
The level of compression of the audio signal and its quality are such
Connection to Croatian Radio programmes can be effected via the web
[Croatian Radio's web site is at: http://www.hrt.hr] (Croatian Radio, Zagreb, in Serbo-Croat 1300 gmt 3 Oct 97 via BBC
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Voice of Mongolia has got a new electronic mail address:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some new radio homepages in Uruguay:
Also, "Diamante FM", 98.7MHz is a FM stn in Montevideo. Its website
is
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Found at http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/special/radyo-timoun/history.html: Radyo Timoun 90.9 FM In 1986, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, then a priest in one of Port-au-Prince's
>From 1986 to 1991, Lafanmi Selavi became a vital hub for the street
children
Since October of 1994, Lafanmi Selavi has expanded dramatically. The
center
In early 1996, a group of these children came together to form Radyo
Timoun.
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