DX-Window No. 88- weekly soft-copy-only newsletter by theDanish Shortwave Club International Tavleager 31 DK-2670 Greve, Denmark Editorial deadline: November 2, 1997 Caught in the Web
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DX-Window No. 88 Dear Friends, Let's hope all of our distribution problems have been solved now. I have arranged for a special address from where DX-Window can be sent from: dxw@dds.nl. You may also send your items there, but of course my own address will stay open too. From here, also on behalf of Claus, I would like to apologise to all those who have been irritated. The cause seems to be have been anti-spamming filters at the SMTP-servers. In this issue there is plenty of Asian news, including appearances of Indonesian stations in the late afternoon here in Europe, some more Korean news. The best signals from Latin America are currently in the 31 and 25 metre bands... Okay, I have to hurry (I have to be out of the office by 2000 local time or the Security People will be called) so I am signing off. See you all next week! Best 73s Wian ALBANIA 6025, Radio Tirana, Oct. 26, 1945, in English, slight het (Croatia co-channel) present, SIO 444. Listed // 7135 here completely covered by RFI. (Ludwig) ANDAMAN ISLANDS 4760, AIR Port Blair, 2 November, 2215, Hindi Religious Chant, 22.30 ID Ye Akash Vani Port Blair Hair by woman in hindi followed by weather bulletin, fair reception. (Vaghjee) ANGOLA 4950, R Nacional Angola, Oct 28, 2320, Port male announcer, ID. 34443 (Van Arnhem). 7100, Vogan, 31 Oct., 1730-1805, VV. Fast talking, happy sounding Male announcer. Angola, Unita, Cabinda mentioned several times . Programme of Afropop. 1800 I/D in Portuguese followed by newscast. 44444. Some time since Vogan last heard here. (Clemitson) 7100, VORGAN, 31 October, 2000-2102*, Heard from 20.00 till S/off 21.02, on 1 Nov at 1900 and probably s/on at 1900 to 2102, fair and distorted and also heard on freq 9770 at 05.00 with weak reception. (Vaghjee) (s/on was earlier, Mahendra, see above - ed) ARMENIA 4810, R. Yerevan; 29 Oct, 1525 Armenian songs, 1530 ST and ID in Azeri and RR "Govorit Yerevan", male spoken programme followed by music, 1532 female voice "Dobry vecer daragy drusya (Good Evening dear friends)"; SINPO 24332 (Elsebusch) 9965, Vo Armenia, Oct. 31, 2045 in GERMAN, opening identification as "das ist Eriwan - hier Nationales Radio Armeniens - hier Stimme Armeniens", schedule announcement as "von drei Viertel 21 bis ein Viertel 22 Uhr", means simply 2045-2115. Usual powerhouse (1000 kW) signal, somewhat scratchy audio, seems a noise-gate doesn't work correct. // on 4810 too. Additional outlet on Sundays only announced as 0930-1000 on 4810 and 15270; for which audience on 60 metres at this time?! (Ludwig) BELARUS 4982U, UNID, 28 Oct., 1525, Relay Radio Mayak, male talk in RR, 1526 ID "Radiostanziya Mayak", followed by tango-style music, 1530 male spoken news or cmtry, 1531 sport-report (reporter greeting with "Dobry vecer", "Russia" often named), 1536 typical RR-song; SINPO 44333 (Elsebusch) BOLIVIA 9624.9, Radio Fides, Oct 29, 2350-2355, Sp male and female talks about different types of tropical music. I also tried 4845 and found the same programme on this frequency. The 31 mb frequency was slightly better than 4845 and good understandable (Van Arnhem). BRAZIL A number of Brazilians are coming in as late as 0900 in the 25 m band - like 11815 (best this morning). (Krone) 9595, R Record, 26 October, 2345, unusual to hear this one, poor-fair but clear with soccer game. Other Brazilians noted at this time Universo 9565, CBN 9585, Aparecida 9630, Bandeirantes 9645, Marumby 9665, Guaiba 11785, Brasil Central 11815, Anhanguera 11830, Gaucha 11915 and Bandeirantes 11925. (Ormandy) 11805, R Globo, 26 October, 2010, poor-fair woth soccer commentary. Other Brazilians heard at this time were Brazil Central 11815 and Bandeirantes 11925. (Ormandy) 15325, R Gazeta; Sao Paulo, 2 Nov, 0000, just a little signal in R Marti-15330 splash before top of hour; when Marti went off, was able to parallel 15325 with 9685 which was suffering from its own splash on both sides. Canned announcement at 0010 which was probably an ID. (Novello) 17814.91, R Cultura Sao Paulo, 1 Nov, 2215, quiet and pretty Brazilian music, //9615.02. Nice signal. (Novello) BULGARIA 7530, Radio Bulgaria Plovdiv, Oct. 26, 1925, with German service, very good; // 9700 a little bit weaker; both 500 kW transmitters at Plovdiv, running on reduced power 300 kW. (Ludwig) BURKINA FASO 4815, R Burkina, 31 October, 2315-0010*, English program on Bible till s/off at 00.10. May be a special prog on religious matters. (Vaghjee) CAMBODIA 11940.35, National Voice of Cambodia, 1 November, 1308-1313*, Slow western popmusic with cambodian male songs followed at 1313 with female speaker in Vietnamese with clear mentioning of Cambodia and s/off. 24332 (Van Rooy) CANADA 6130 CHNX-CHNS; Halifax NS, 2230, 17 October, Interrupting pop mx program for ann 'You are listening to radiostation CHNX-shortwave, sixtyone-thirty kHz, 49 mb. We are broadcasting from studios of CHNS radio Halifax Nova Scotia Canada 24 hours a day'. Also announcing as 'Oldies 96' Competing with Lao National Radio. (Schotmans) 11865, R Canada International, 27 October, 0230, very good signal, service to the USA and Latin America, with mailbag program. (Ormandy) CHINA 5295, CNR (HS1), Beijing; 27 Oct, 2022-2045, Mandarin. Traditional music until 2035 when YL hosted a programme of evergreen, golden oldies from musicals of yesteryear. "Old Man River", "Make Believe" with Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy etc. //5320//5880 (QRM)//5915//5955 44444 (Clemitson) 17605, CNR1;Beijing, 2 November, 0751, Chinese female speaker, //11800 where weaker, at 0755 western popmusic with Chinese female songs. 11800 = ( unknown location ) 23332 17605 = ( Beijing ) 33333 (Van Rooy) COSTA RICA 5030, AWR, 25 October, 0550, fair-good with religious program in English, clear frequency. (Ormandy) 5953.71, R Casino, 1 November, 1045, LA vocals, male dj , good signal (Wilkner) 6970U, RFPI, 26 October, 0327, seems to be regular here. Heard this day with World of Radio filling in for a missing program, then gave promotion for Review of International Broadcasting, // 7385 was not quite as strong. (Ormandy) CUBA 13715, R Habana, 27 October, 0111, good signal in Spanish, slightly over-modulated though nice and clear. (Ormandy) ECUADOR 4770.10, R Centinela del Sur; Loja, Nov 1, 0025, group Hail Marys, old-time female "Ave Maria" vocals sounding like Edith Piaf. Canned ID 0048, "Esta es R Centinela del Sur, transmite 1210 kHz...4770 kHz onda corta...su estacion internacional, desde Loja, Ecuador, en Sudamerica", over a guitar version of "Telstar". 2, 5, or 10 kW station, depending on which reference you believe, but not too often reported in recent times. (Novello) 4815, R El Buen Pastor; Saraguro, presumed Nov 2, 0304*, Andean musical selections with low-modulation male announcer. Signoff annct buried by roving jammer, followed by Ecuadorian anthem and off. Explicit ID on this one has eluded me for a while now. (Novello) EQUATORIAL GUINEA 6250, R. Nacional, Malobo; Oct 28, 2020-2040, Spanish. Request programme. Malobo mentioned several times. 2030 Station announcement, made against musical background. 43242 (Clemitson) GABON 4890, RFI, 25 October, 0544 fair signal, with news stories in French. (Ormandy) 9580, Afrique Numero Un, 31 October, 2220, African football results in French, 2231 ID followed by musical prog 2300 ID and News Bulletin (Vaghjee) GEORGIA 6290, Voice Of Hope, 26 October,1805, male with syndicated religion, very loud hum/buzz on transmission. Gave address in England and announcements giving frequency as 9310kHz. (Ormandy) GERMANY 5840, Trans World Radio via Juelich, Oct. 26, 1700, in Romanian, SIO 353 when tuning to low side, upper sideband disturbed by RTTY. (Ludwig) 5890, Adventist World Radio via Juelich, Oct. 26, 1708, in Bulgarian, some splatter from superpower RFI on 5900, SIO 343. (Ludwig) 5960, Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal via Juelich, Oct. 26, 1920, in Dutch, SIO 444; // 5910 in 1900-2000 range via Juelich too (otherwhise as usual direct from Waver transmitters), SIO 322. (Ludwig) GUATEMALA 3300, R Cultural, 25 October, 0555, fair signal in clear with English gospel tunes and Spanish announcemnets. (Ormandy) HAWAII 7560, KWHR Naalehu, 1 Nov, 1400-1500, English. "Countdown Magazine" Weekly Top twenty of Christian music. Commercials for Lumber, Vitamin supplements etc. Telephone numbers given, but no QTH. Also announced was "Pulse FM" and 102.3 FM shortwave via KWHR. Reception of the signal was weak to fair, but subject to strong QRM from what appeared to be Zambian AM utilities, which made things difficult. Could this be a // of the KWHR transmissions which have been reported in recent Windows? At present there is a very weak signal on 17555, but whatever it may be is lost under QRM so not possible to confirm if it is the same transmission or not. (Clemitson) ICELAND Our long-time member Torre Ekblom has visited Iceland recently, and went to visit the Icelandic national broadcaster, Rikisutvarpid. Of course we all know about the new longwave transmitter in operation on 189 Kilohertz, but I felt this would be of interest to all of you: 'The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RUV, was founded in 1930 after legislation was passed granting it a monpoly on broadcasting in Iceland. Icelandic Radio operates two radio channels: channel one today broadcasts about eighteen hours per day with a mixed format of news, information, cultural programmes and classicla msuic, beginning in the early morning and closing down after midnight. Channel Two carries a twenty-four hour service of news and current affairs along with light music. Somewhat more than half of the 265.000 Icelanders live in small coastal town of farming areas, many of which are seperated by high mountains. It is therefore necessary to maintain a large number of radio and television transmitters and relay stations for securing the 99% coverage of the entire population that RUV has now reached. The Broadcasting Act of 1985 rescinded the monopoly held by RUV. Licenses for private radio and television may be granted and the Act requires RUV to provide two radio channels and one television channel. Television has been operating since 1966. The Icelandic television network consists of 10 major transmitters and 160 relay stations. The entire network for both radio and television is owned and financed by RUV and operated by the Post and Telegraph Authority. Television is now on the air for approximately 2,700 hours per year, or a little over 7 hours a day on average. On weekdays the daily programme schdule starts in the late afternoon and includes a thirty minute newscast at 8 PM. Programming ends each night just before midnight after a late news summary. Weekends bring a somewhat longer schedule of television programmes and cannot yet afford expensive and varied domestic programme production in great quantity. As consequence, only about thirty-five percent of material shown is produced in Iceland. Foreign programmes are either dubbed or subtitled, usually the latter. The first direct satellite link with the outside world was established in 1981 (being a 'remote' country it is expensive and difficult to be in a satellite beam -- ed). As a member of the European Broadcasting Union, RUV now participates in the daily satellite exchanges of news and sport on the Eurovision network. RUV also belongs to Nordvision, a union of public television broadcasters that promotes programme exchanges.' INDIA 4800, AIR Hyderabad, 26 October, 1730, good signal with 5 minutes news in Englsh, //4920 Madras. (Ormandy) 11735, AIR Banglore, 30 November, 1010, End of English Nx - Id as overseas serv of AIR followed by commentry on Taliban, good reception (Vaghjee) INDONESIA 3905, RRI Merauke, 25 October, 2005, Love Ambontune followed at 2006 by male speaker in BI with full ID as Radio Republiek Indonesia Merauke and also ment of Irian Jaya followed by papua drumsounds (morning wake up), at 2007 female in BI followed at 2008 by western popmusic. 24333 (Van Rooy) 3976, RRI Pontianak, Oct 26, 1530, Weak signal with EE language pop, one song beginning with the first few bars of Cliff Richard's ''Summer Holiday''. Cut off by carrier Budapest. Very tentative. The voice of the announcer on 3976 and 4753 sounded very alike. (Pijpers) (the similarity in voices was perhaps caused by using technical facilities and/or diction. I think the Belgian broadcaster Studio Brussel did this when different provinces broadcast on every day of the week, 1983 or thereabouts - ed) 4003.2, RRI Padang, Oct 29, 2305 female Indonesian news // 4925 . Very weak (Van Arnhem). 4753, RRI Ujung Pandang, Oct 26, 1600, SCI, talk in pres. Indonesian till sign off, by then the already weak signal was drowning in the noise. Some CW qrm. Presumed. (Pijpers) 4925, RRI Jambi, Oct 29, 2258 Indonesian talks, Song of the Coconut Island, warta berita by feale reader. Good signal (Van Arnhem). 9679.95 RRI Jakarta, 2259-2301 Oct 25, SCI followed by news at 2300. Fair and reasonably clear, but almost gone at 2310 recheck. Usually blocked or inaudible at this time. Not detected on any other HF channels. (Clark) 9680, RRI , Oct 29, 2308 Indonesian news on Iraq. // 11755. Good signal (Van Arnhem). 11755 RRI, Oct 29, 2304 Indonesian news //4925 // 9680. Good signal (Van Arnhem). 11785, RRI, 26 October, 2030, poor-fair with English external service announcing as 9525kHz, which was absent. Severe co-channel QRM. (Ormandy) 15149,81, RRI, 29 October, 1730-2100, despite of very lousy propagation of stations in 16 and 19 mb today, -- only HCJB 15550, Libya 15415 and Sackville 15325 on the band --, I came across of a piece of South Sea mx on 15150 kHz, SINPO 25222. Surprise, surprise, it's really Voice of Indonesia's European sce, 1730 Spanish, 1800 German, now from 1900 French sce is in progress, exact freq is 15149.81 kHz. And English service 2000-2100 UTC will follow. No //signal observed here, i.e. either on 7225, 9525, 9565, 11755, or 11785 kHz. Never heard Indonesia at this time slot on 19 mb. Would expect Jakarta here in the mornings between 0500 and 1000 UTC. VoI's European Service left 9525 on Sept 29th, and noted a few days using 7225 kHz instead. In parallel to the South East Asian sports games, VoI schedule became very irregular, mostly sports transmissions could be heard on unusual times and frequencies. (Bueschel) 15150, RRI Jakarta, 1 November, 1221, Female speaker in BI with clear ID at 1221 as Radio Republiek Indonesia Jakarta programa nacional. 24333 (Van Rooy) 15150, RRI Jakarta, 2 November, 1250-1303*, Popmusic with Indonesian male songs, at 1252 2 male speakers in BI with mentionings of Jakarta and Irian Jaya at 1254, at 1256, they mentioned Jakarta and Malaysia and presumed Sulawesi followed by popmusic with indonesian male songs,at 1259 hawaiwan type of guitarmusic until 1301 then silence until 1303 s/off. 33333 (Van Rooy) IRAQ 11785, R Iraq International, various, various, continues to mystify with odd times etc. Noted Oct 26th not going into EE at 0400 and continuing in AA. Next day went into English at 0357 and was immediately beset by a pack of bubble-jammers which seemed to go out of synch whenever the announcers talked. (Ormandy) ITALY 7125, IRRS, 18 October, 0729, fair signal at sign-on with address and 'phone number then into UN Radio program. (Ormandy) KALININGRAD 6145, R. Nederland relay, 25 October, 0455-0517, open carrier present at 0455 initial check, IS in progress at 0458 retune, s/on anmts by woman in Dutch to 0500 time signal, another ID by man, then woman with news. Fair, best on LSB. Still fair at 0515 recheck w/dialogue or interview between man & woman. The Bolshakovo site at 160 kW for Europe dropped effective with the European clock change on Oct 26, as per Rocus de Joode of RN Network & Frequency Planning, note to Steve Lare and forwarded with thnx for tip by Harold Sellers. (Clark) GPR-2 KALININGRAD SPECIAL REQUEST. Attention DXers and MW listeners. Here are some important changes in the GPR-2 W97 Kaliningrad mediumwave schedule: 1) Our transmitter on 1215 kHz uses a NEW azimuth of 245 degrees (except of 230) beamed to Central Europe - daily between 1600 and 2000 UTC with 600 kW. 2) Our transmitter on 1386 kHz uses a NEW azimuth of 275 degrees (except 245) beamed to North-West Europe - daily between 1600 and 2300 UTC with 1200 kW. We very need to know about the reception quality of all our transmissions on these frequencies (Voice of Russia in German and English and Universal Life) and we will be very glad to receive any comments about it. We suppose that some interference take place on 1215 kHz from Virgin Radio (UK) - especially in the western parts of Germany... It is very important for us to know what kind of reception with simple portable MW receivers in use. If you will send us some observations please indicate your exact location or nearest big city. All your information is very important for our technical department here at St.Petersburg and for the chief engineer of our Kaliningrad transmitting centre. Our e-mail address is: nerrs@mail.admiral.ru Beforehand thank to all of you for your assistance! (direct) Comments regarding MW 1215 and 1386 from Bolshakovo (Kaliningrad) site (follow-up to message from Mikhail Timofeyev): Here in the eastern part of Germany (about 50 km north of Dresden) 1386 is now clear weaker than on previous bearing; with melancholy I remember the superpower signal a few years ago (2500 Kilowatts on the 245 degrees antenna), which was after nightfall the strongest signal on the whole MW dial here. 1215 is usually a terrible mess, 600 kW aren't enough to overpower Virgin... (Ludwig) KOREA (NORTH) > 4769.8N, 0955-1025*, R Pyongyang, 17+18/10, tx carrier, 1000 IS, 1005 > instrumental National Anthem, Korean ID "...Pangsong imnida...", revolut > songs, 1020 closing announcement, signing-off at 1025. No // freqs > discovered so far. (Schulze) Hello Friends, Very interesting. I wasn't able to hear this when I checked on Oct. 28. Never heard anything official (RP, PBS, KCBS) on this frequency (4770v). This is the usual random number frequency, and several transmissions are observed every day. It's usually // with 5870. 1000 UTC is one of the usual times, though not daily. Many random number transmissions from North Korea sign on with the same IS as RP/PBS/KCBS (=Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung) but they do not ID like "... Bangsong imnida." IS is followed by some distinctive music depending on broadcast type, but the national anthem is not used. They do not "sign off" but abruptly end transmissions after the last message. Sometimes some music or plain text (e.g. "letter from Big Brother in Pyongyang to Little Brother in Pusan") is aired instead of random numbers. If you (Roland Schulze) heard them sign on with the anthem, and formally sign off at the end, then it's unlikely randum numbers. I will keep checking, just in case they come up again. Thanks, Roland. A big kumusta from your kaibigan sa Hapon! (Ashimori) KOREA (SOUTH) 5975, R. Korea Int., 30 Oct., 1400-1415, Lang. : Japanese. News on the south-north relationship, future, commentary. ID: 'Minasama okikino hoso wa rajio kankoku KBS no kokusai hoso desu.' SINPO 44444 (Mitsuaki) 6480, R Korea Intl, 31Oct, 2050-2105, Spanish!. Music programme featuring local artists. Spanish? Korean lanugage lessons. 2058 Anthem, I/D, Anthem Full English daily schedule of RKI, on to English local news items. Some QRM from utilities 43232. Seldom heard on this frequency. (Clemitson) LIBERIA: 3400, STAR Radio, Monrovia, 25 October, 0455-56 & 0503-0517, good strength open carrrier on/off several times at initial tune-in; from 0503 retune, ongoing talk segments by at least two different male anncrs in vernacular with frequent intervening bridges of African drums, once lasting 25 seconds but subsequent others lasting about 10 seconds. Fair level for stated 4 kW into vertical incidence antenna but somewhat hampered by nearby carrier hets and QRN. Becoming weaker by tune-out. (Clark) 3400 UNID, 28 October, 0555, but surely Radio Star, was heard at 0555 this morning. Reports and a little music was heard, but no details for a reception report, unfortenately. S 2 (Fransson) 5880, R Star (t), 21 October, 1857, sounded like E talk with frequencies but v.weak, Vatican radio signs on at 18.59 on 5883 which gives me a problem. Needs much more work. (Norrie) 3399.98, Star Radio; Monrovia, 28 October, 0540-0555, English programming, first on farming, then clear ID, and a report on a repair of a generator. Some short bridges of African music. I've sent them a mail on Sunday, 26 October drawing their attention on the modulation problem. On 27.10 the problem was fixed. Now the modulation sounds pretty normal. SINPO 24442 And this log was answered by this E-mail: Dear Mr. Elbe, Thank you very much for your detailed reception letter of 28/10/97. I can confirm that it was STAR radio what you heard and we are glad the signal has improved since we swapped frequencies. We do hope the signal is better in West Africa as well and are still waiting reports. Sorry but for the time being we don't have QSL cards. We will send you one as soon as possible. best regards For Hirondelle Foundation Dario Baroni (Elbe) MALI 9633, RTM Malienne;Bamako, 2 November, 0849, Local balafon music until 0859 then male ann in frensh followed at 0900 with Int sig with malinese guitar and male speaker in French with: 'Mesdames, Messieurs, Bonjour' and news in frensh by male speaker, off freq nominal 9635. 24333 (Van Rooy) MEXICO 9600, XEYU, Radio UNAM This week, Dr. Julian Santiago and Alejandro Morales visited the transmitter plant. Dr. Julian says, "The transmitter is turned on every day, but they have a problem. The signal seems to be going to ground. The transmitter technicians tried an experiment; they turned off the AM transmitter at midday for a few minutes, and then checked the shortwave signal and found it impossible to hear. I think the reports about Radio UNAM around 10000 kHz recently are of a spur of their AM signal on 860 with 50 kW." Dr. Julian and Alejandro Morales will visit the transmitter again next week or the week after, and I may go with them. (Bojorge via Johnson via Cumbre DX 162, 25 October) MONGOLIA 12088, Voice of Mongolia, 1 November, 1000, Int sig followed by male in Mongolian with ID followed by again int sig and chinese female speaker. 25333 (Van Rooy) MOROCCO 9575, Radio Medi 1, 31 October, 2305, News bulletin in arabic by man followed by Musical prog with Pop Arabic, English and French songs. Fair reception. (Vaghjee) MOZAMBIQUE 3280, RTM Beira, 1 November, 1800, Moved to 3233 on 1 Nov at 1800, heard the announcer saying 'Kiloherts - problemo .. maputo'. News feed problems as music was on instead of nx? (Vaghjee) (think just transmitters problems, seeing the frequency moves. Perhaps there was an animal in the transmitter frequency part, hi! - ed) 9618, RTM Beira, 0545, mx, prog, 0600, chime, Mazda advert followed with nx in Portuguese - 06.05 went off (?) or lost of signal, very weak reception. (Vaghjee) 9638 RTM Beira, 30 October, 0607, news in African lang fair reception. (Vahgjee) NEW ZEALAND R New Zealand International's new schedule has undergone a minor change. The frequency of 6105kHz allotted to sports broadcasts (i.e. with the All Blacks rugby tour to the UK) will be used up to 1500 UTC when it will then move to 6070kHz to avoid QRM. With some of the rugby games scheduled to begin at 1400z, there will be a frequency change shortly into the second half. This from Adrian Sainsbury at RNZI. (Ormandy) Paul (Ormandy) also writes: 'Join me for the latest tuning tips for the South Pacific on Radio New Zealand International during "Mailbox", fortnightly broadcasts, Monday 0430z on 15115kHz, repeated the following Thursday 0830z on 9700kHz and Friday at 1930z on 11735kHz. Next Broadcasts: Starting Mondays, November 10th & 24th, then December 8th and 22nd, repeated on following days as above. And I'm hosting "Kiwi DX", on ZLXA, the Radio Reading Service, every third Tuesday of the month at 0730z, repeated the following Sunday at 0330z, on 1602kHz, 3935kHz and 5960kHz alternate 7290kHz.' (Ormandy) NIGERIA 4990, R Nigeria, 25 October, 0540, male with business notices in English. Time as "18 minutes to 7..." then pops. (Ormandy) 6090.0, R Nigeria-Kaduna, Oct 30, 2210, Vernacular (Hausa) programme, nice local songs. Almost in the clear, and fair reception (Krone) NORWAY 7545, R Norway, 26 October, 0336, heard here on what may have been a spur on 7520 with spoken program. (Ormandy) PAKISTAN Tried all these freq at 0042 - 3517 - 3664 - 4780 - 4790 - 4816 - 4895 - 4915 - 4949 - 4980 - 5027 - 5054 - 5085 - 5825 - 5920 - 6070 - 6825 and only 3664 -v. weak - 4790 - fair with interference and 5027 fair and the the best among the three s/on at 00.42 IS -with SARANGI Musical instrument- - Prayer followed Salam walecom and Radio Pakistan Quetta ap ki kahit hai - [Radio Pakistan - Quetta atyour Service] in Urdu by man * 5027 (Vahgjee) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 9675, NBC; Port Moresby, 12 October, 0725-0756* Island mx, 0730 pop mx, abrupt c/d at 0756 E (Schotmans) 9675, NBC Port Moresby, 2 November, 0706, Popmusic, at 0708 male speaker in English with clear NBC ID and again popmusic, recheck at 0724 with countrymusic with male songs, at 0726 with male speaker in english with 2 clear mentionings of Papua New Guinea followed by female in English. 23332 (Van Rooy) PERU 6615 Radio Union, Lima has finally printed a full-data QSL-card, which I got in two copies yesterday, together with stickers and an excuse for late answering. My QSL's come from listening in Jan 1995 and Dec 1996!. Gerente Genéral is the verie-signer, but I cannot read his full name, starting with Juan Zubia ....? My 25th Peruvian station verified! (Fransson) (congrats! - ed. My marketing sense says you must be employing special direct marketing techniques for such a high response rate...) 3329.48, Ondas del Huallaga, 1 November, 1005, vocal rendition of the Peru national anthem into flutes, trios -rustic music, xlent signal (Wilkner) 4775, R Tarma, 26 October, 0501, still running closing announcements and requests for reports in English (though doesn't want to answer my reports!), followed by the same in Spanish. Sign-off with tune rather than National Anthem. (Ormandy) 4775, R. Tarma, 1 November, 1000, "...en gran Tarma, Radio Tarma" good signal with no Radio ANDES on 4777v. (Wilkner) 4990.904, R. Ancash, 30 October, 0443, Male anncr w/ commercial @0442 into non-stop Huyanos. (Rippel) 6095, R Nacional del Peru, 26 October, 0403, 30 minute window here until VOA sign-on 0430, m female heard with canned identification then nice Andean/Peruvian tunes back-back. (Ormandy) 6203.8 R Cusco, 18 October, 0904, seems to signon around this time, over-modulated announcements though music sounds fine. (Ormandy) RUSSIA 6045, Radio Rossii, Oct. 26, 2204, with "Vesti" news, typical break (to split up the network into the time-shiftet editions) and music program, SIO 544. 6045 was a usual winter channel of the old "Golos Rossii", so I would presume, these outlet is directed to central Europe. (Ludwig) 9600, Magadan Radio Ochotsk, 2 November, 0803, Relay RRossii news by female in Russian, //11990, 9720 where both stronger, at 0809 weather forecast RRossii by female Wolgograd +3 celcius,SintPetersburg -2 celcius, at 0810 end of news and 9600 continues with own program in russian. 9600 = Ochotsk 23332 9720 = Ryazan 34333 11990 = Kazan 34444 (Van Rooy) 17570, R St Thiky Okean Irkutsk 0815 Start of program with male in russian: Govoryth Vladivostok followed by organ, Int Sig and noise of seawater and seabirds, followed by male in Russian with mentioning of regionale Radio Stansya Thiky Okean followed by female in Russian and popmusic with Russian male songs, echo on this frequency, //10344 on USB, the Irkutsk site suffered in the beginning of the program of several short transmission breakdowns. 10344 = Vladivostok site ( USB ) 24333 17570 = Irkutsk site 34333 (Van Rooy) SEYCHELLES 15540, FEBA, 1 November, 0840-0815, Urdu. YL with I/D at 0815 Islamabad, Pakistan address quoted, on to religious talk with ethnic Gospel music 54444. Very tentative, not quite sure what goes on here... (Clemitson) SOLOMON ISLANDS 5020, SIBC Honiara (pres), 25 October, 1900, Int sig with drums followed by presumed nat anthem followed by male speaker in english at 1902,at 1907 male choir south sea like songs,at 1914 male southsea songs with guitar at 1921 male ann followed by male southsea songs at 1932 male speaker in English, around 1945 fade out. 23222 (Van Rooy) 5020, SIBS (p), Oct 26, 1855-1935, on tip from Karl van Rooy with Niger off. Orchestral mx, 1858 song, 1900 short male ann, poss ID, male news in English, then local songs and pops. Fade out 1935, no ID came through (Krone) SOUTH AFRICA In view of the political developments over the last two weeks or so, you may want to try and pick up a news commentary from South Africa. The latest schedule from Channel Africa reads: ENGLISH 0300-0330 5955 0400-0430 5955 0500-0530 9675 0600-0630 11900 1300-1455 17870 17675 9440 (Sat and Sun only) 1500-1530 9440 1600-1625 5955 1700-1730 15240 1800-1830 15240 FRENCH 0330-0400 5955 0430-0455 9525 1530-1555 9440 1630-1655 11900 1830-1855 15240 PORTUGUESE 0430-0455 3345 0530-0555 9675 0630-0655 11900 1630-1655 3345, 9440 1730-1755 15240 SWAHILI 0300-0325 6000 1500-1525 11900 1600-1630 11900 (BBCM) Of course, in Europe and North America Channel Africa can also be heard via satellite and cable networks on the World Radio Network. (ed) SRI LANKA 4940, SLBC, 28 October, 2342, IS -a song by woman and then by man followed by Ringing of Bell of Hindu Temple and ended by Christian Church 23.45 Time Pips - ID followed by Lagu lagu - Good morning everybody in English by man then frequencies and details of program given- 23.48 ID and time followed by talk man and woman Fair Reception. (Vaghjee) 9730v, SLBC; Ekela, 18 October, 1330-, ID 'This is the All Asia Sce of the Sri Lanka Bc Co' followed by non-stop pop-mx, getting stronger. Correct fq 9729,95 //15425,55 (Schotmans) 9729.75, SLBC; Ekala, Oct 28, 1225, presumed, home service relay with local music featuring reedy wind instruments and tuned percussion. A few words (not EG) by M 1227, wrecked by carrier on 9730 moments later. (Novello) 17895, IBB Relay station; Iranawila, Oct 30, tentative around 1245, tnx Dan Ferguson for the tip; I was standing under the water tower outside the City of Conover, NC's planning office trying to tune this in on a barefoot ICF-1000T. Heard tones going on and off, but no ID was given, so tentative. (Novello) ST HELENA 11092.52, R. St Helena; Jamestown, 26 October, *1858-2012, PTP carrier suddenly in USB mode w/trumpet fanfare IS played 4 times, brief march then by band, ID for MW-1548, then anmt of the special shortwave broadcast on 11092.5 kHz, followed by message from the Governor marking the 7th anniversary of Radio St Helena Day from "your friendly island station, Radio St Helena". Derek Richards then commenced hosting the pgme with several music selections until the overseas phone calls started rolling in. Callers from South Africa and Pacific regions generally seemed to indicate better propagation than last year, whereas callers from Europe and North America generally seemed to experience just fair reception compared with other broadcast occasions. Woman (didn't sound like Joy Lawrence) with local news items at 2003-2010. Quite strong, best from about 1930-2000+ but constant hi-pitched ute carrier on USB marred reception quality; rather precise USB tuning was also required to minimize glaring audio distortion, notably on voice, from the 1.5 kW Cable and Wireless transmitter. Also 2259-2304* - retuned to catch closing anmt, including indication there would be another broadcast next year from "Radio St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean". Transmitter remained on and after pause: "and now for our local listeners on Radio St Helena, it's 11 o'clock". Closing devotional message/choral, then without further s/off anmt, directly into 'God Save The Queen' at 2303. Signal was just as strong as before, S9+ on peaks. (Clark) 11092.5, R.Saint Helena, 26 October, 1900, Opening speech by Governor. At first reception was quite good but decreased rapidly because of the heavy buzzing interference probably coming from MKD in Cyprus. Sometimes Radio Saint Helena disappeared totally under MKD. I think that in the States, the reception must be much better than here in Europe. Probably a lot of European DX'ers went to bed with a headache again. If RSH could move a few kHz down, it would be a nice choice and would improve the reception quality enormously. If a frequency change is not possible, moving from USB to LSB could improve the audio quality too. (Schotmans) As you know from "hundreds" of reports already, not at all good here. But still enjoyed prgr on 11092.5 kHz Oct 26with quiz ard 2020. Then greetings and callers, incl Bryan Clark/Auckland, NZ. So you can include me "in the crowd", hi. Wonder who wanted to spoil reception; signal strength fine. (Krone) 11092U, Radio St Helena, 26 October, *1900-, with IS and ID. Into welcome speech by Govenor of the Island. Fax number given as: 290-45-24. Excellent reception on R1051H. (Rippel) 11092.5U, R. St Helena, 26 October, *1900, "horn start up "life on the ocean wave, This is St Helena Broadcasting, 7th anniversary of Radio St Helena Day"., then into David Norman"s talk. Signal was very good until about 20.30 when fading began. Francois Steyn from the SADX club got through for a chat. (Norrie) 11092.5, R St Helena, 26 October, 1900, best ever heard, poor-fair signal strength at best, may have lifted the S-meter a tad though was very clear. Signal started to fade around 2000 but was traceable still past 2030. Well done to all involved - including Uncle Sol who seems to have cleared the trans-Antarctic auroral paths for us this time! St Helena is very nearly due South of here with a path over the South Pole. (Ormandy) 11092.5, 1902-2040, 26 October, 1902-2040, The reception was excellent compare to last year as I waited nearly two long hrs to hear a 15 minutes transmission. (Vaghjee) 11095.52, R St Helena, 26 Oct, *1900, heard on its annual transmission; horns IS, ID, message from Governor, Linda and Cecil Womack's "Celebrate the World". Despite ute whine, stronger and more intelligible than last year at this location. (Novello) SUDAN 9200, SNBC, 30 October, 0445, Talk by man and woman with back ground Mx - 0515 ID followed by Nx or Political tlk ? weak Reception. (Vaghjee) TAJIKISTAN 4940, Voice of Russia Relay Yangi Yul, 2 Nov, 1412 male speaker in Pashto beamed to Afghanistan area with pieces of western music,//4975. 4975 same relay station, at 1428 male in pashto with mentioning of Afghanistan followed by local Afghan music with Afghan male song at 1429. 4940 = 34333 4975 = 23332 (Van Rooy) 4975, Voice of Russia; Dushanbe, Oct 26, 1655-1700, Choir music. Full ID, IS. Apparent sign off. //4940. Signal weak to poor. (Pijpers) THAILAND 4830, R. Thailand, 25 October, -1701*, (c/down) local QRK 3 (Clemente) 9655.50, R Thailand, 1 November, 1330, Int sig with gong followed by female speaker in Thai with mentioning of Thailand. 23332 (Van Rooy) Frequencies for Radio Thailand's external service via the VoA relay station: ENGLISH 0000-0030 Europe-Africa 9680 0030-0100 US-East 11905 0300-0330 US-West 11890 0530-0600 Europe 15115 1230-1300 Asia-Pacific 9810 1400-1430 Asia-Pacific 9530 1900-2000 Europe 9535 2030-2045 Europe 9535 THAI 0100-0200 US-East 11905 0330-0430 US-West 11890 1330-1400 Asia-Pacific 7145 1800-1900 Middle East 11855 2045-2215 Europe 9680 Other Languages: Burmese 1145-1200 Asia-Pacific 6040 German 2000-2015 Europe 9535 French 2015-2030 Europe 9535 Indonesian 1215-1230 Asia-Pacific 11805 Japanese 1300-1315 Asia-Pacific 7145 Khmer 1115-1130 Asia-Pacific 7285 Lao 1130-1145 Asia-Pacific 6040 Malysian 1200-1215 Asia-Pacific 11805 Mandarin 1315-1330 Asia-Pacific 7145 Vietnamese 1100-1115 Asia-Pacific 7285 Radio Thailand, World Service, Public Relations Department, Royal Thai Government 236 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Huey Khwang, Din Daeng, BKK10320 tel(662)277-1814,277-6139(plus fax),274-9098 and 274-9099(plus fax), website http://www.radiothailand.com, email address: amporn@usa.net or amporn@radiothailand.com (Sedano) UKRAINE 5940, Radio Ukraine, Oct. 26, 2220, in English, as in previous winter seasons co-channel with Vo Russia, SIO 433. In // 6010 from Kharkiv (the transmitter with the growl...) and 7150 (presumably 1 MW from either Kopani or Krasne). (Ludwig) URUGUAY 11735.08, R. Oriental; Montevideo, 25 October, 2305-2317*, weak-fair but clear w/apparent sports broadcast; stn break with ID and jingle at 2308, then excited male anncr continued until carrier suddenly cut 2317. Weak carrier on 9595 subsequently noted but this frequency swamped by adjacent channel slop. (Clark) VIETNAM 4959, Voice of Vietnam, 27 October, *2200-, NA, followed by IS and ID by woman then talk and music. Weak and inteference. (Vaghjee) 5924.60, Hanoi HS1, 1 November, 1355, Fading in around 1345 western popmusic with male and female vietnamese songs,at 1358 female ann in vietnamese followed by int sig and male speaker at 1400 in vietnamese with news,// 10059.20 where stronger (24333). 23222 (Van Rooy) YEMEN 9780, Radio San'a, 30 October, 0450-0505 Arabic songs presented by woman in arabic (Vaghjee) (BTW, did you know that the Republic of Yemen is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula where they have a beer brewery? Just another piece of useless trivia. - ed) ZAMBIA 3330, Christian Voice; Lusaka, 25 October, 0355-0358, C&W-style vocal, 0357 ID as "...the heart of God from the heart of Africa - this is Radio Christian Voice, then devotional vocal. Very strong, overwhelming CHU, especially on LSB. Seemingly enhanced by geomagnetic transition to active/minor storm conditions: 0300 A=13, K=4. (Clark) "Upon hearing rpts about a failed coup in Zambia involving a brief takeover of the radio station by some army officers, and in order to know more about what is going on there, I tuned to 4910 kHz. at 1920 on October 28. The reception was generally fair, and nothing abnormal was observed--African talk and music. At about 1945, I tried 6165, expecting patriotic songs, army announcements and government propaganda. To my surprise, there was nothing like that--instead, there was sports news, and the usual drums and bird sounds, and just a few lines of news about the aborted coup. I assured myself that everything was quiet on the Zambia front. However, just after the news, the male announcer cheered loudly and, in a clear voice, said "Let's Celebrate" while the music was on. The Zambians! At least they know how to take things easily, unlike other African countries that would have used the situation as a propaganda tool for months and months, just to fill air time." (Vaghjee) ZIMBABWE 3396, R. 3, 31 October, 0313, sudden on at 0313. No IS, tuning signal or anthem. They (and 3306) just popped on right into Afro-pops. (Rippel) CLANDESTINES 7515, V of Tigray Revolution, 26 October, 0332, pleasant Horn of Africa music, fair signal. Later also heard in parallel on 5500. (Ormandy) 7999.53, V.of Sudan, 29 October, 0450 monologues in Arabic (5-15 min), AA songs mentions of Sudan, Hkartum. // although weaker 9025.000 (Rippel) ------------------------------------- Voice of the Iraqi People (Arabic: idha'at sawt al-sha'b al-iraqi, idha'at al-hizb al-shuyu'i al-'iraqi) may have some connection with Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, which reported that the station had been inaugurated on 21st March 1982. Seemingly, it shares facilites with the Freedom Radio Station, voice of the Communist Party of Iraqi Kurdistan, which was first heard in February 1997 on the same frequencies. The radio IDs as "Voice of the Iraqi People, radio of the Iraqi Communist Party". In the past, it has broadcast regularly in Sorani Kurdish (Kurdish ID: Era Dengi Gel-y Iraqi) as well as in Arabic. Their schedule is 1830-1930 in Arabic on 4755-v 3855-v with a general programme with news, commentary and cultural items. That same broadcast is repeated the next day from 0400-0500 on the same frequencies. All broadcasts one hour earlier during summer. (BBCM) ------------------------------------- Per announcement on the station, on 25 October at 1130, the radio station of the 'Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia' - the Khmer Rouge Radio is now called 'Voice of the National United Army'. (BBCM) PIRATES On October 26th I heard The Farmers from Holland, on the usual frequency of 6299kHz at 1741 UTC past 1900 UTC. They gave their address in Dalfsen and played a mix of Dutch and EE tunes (one called "Hey Rhonda - Would You Like A Ride on My Honda?"!!!) And one pirate QSL - received today from Frans of "The Borderhunter", gave power as 350 watts with the transmitter site in Belgium. Also sent a QSL letter, QSL card, personal note and history of the area where he lives. (Paul, which country was the letter posted from? - ed) 6955, UNID US Pirate, 2 Nov, 0650-0713*, UNID talk on sw, good morning/afternoon/ evening; Music: Take it easy; Radio Free Speech mentioned ID sounded like Wre* ??? PO 10* SINPO 24322 to 24333 (Brueckner) (not Wreckin' Radio? - ed) ------------------------------------- ODDS 'N' ENDS ------------------------------------- Rich McVicar wrote to our Chairman Anker Petersen: 'This past Tuesday, the local electric company discovered the source of some terrible QRM that I had been complaining to them about. It was our next door neighbour's back massager (!!! - ed), which had been accidentally left running for perhaps more than six months!! It sure is nice not to hear that horrible "FZZZT!" every few seconds all across the MW/SW/LW dial. Since then, I have been returning to DXing. Radio Huayacoctla in Mexico is coming through each night just before 0100 UTC on 2390 kHz, when they sign off with the Mexican national anthem. The 90 mb Guatemalans are pretty regular here in the morning, as they were in Ecuador. I'm looking forward to Radio St. Helena tomorrow. Last weekend, I tried for San Marino, but there was no sign of them. The 25 mb was pretty dead here in eastern North America. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ CAUGHT IN THE WEB @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ compiled by: Andy Sennitt AS andys@euronet.nl Thorsten Koch TK iguidebc@hotmail.com Deadline: Fridays Hi there! From now on, editing of this section will alternate between TK and myself (AS) on a two weeks on, two weeks off basis. Yes, I know what you're thinking - but you won't have to worry about where to send your contributions, because we will forward them to each other as necessary. So you can use either of our E-mail addresses and your contribution will still be used in the next issue. Now this week's news... ------------------------------------- LITHUANIAN WEB PAGES: NEW URL'S WWW pages with information about Lithuanian broadcasters have been moved and restructured. There are three basic pages now: -- Radio, by company: http://www.is.lt/ratekona/rtv/ltu/radio-e.htm FM radio, by frequency: http://www.is.lt/ratekona/rtv/ltu/radio-fq.htm (under construction) TV, by company: http://www.is.lt/ratekona/rtv/ltu/tv-e.htm Old URLs will still be valid, with all references to them automatically redirected to new URLs. This will last for a couple of months, then old URLs will be deleted. For info on foreign brodcasting in Lithuanian, look at http://www.is.lt/ratekona/1index-e.htm#u Sigitas Zilionis, DX Editor ------------------------------------- NEW WEB SITES Radio Veritas Asia now has an official Web site at http://www.pworld.net.ph/user/fmrva/ A detailed winter shortwave schedule is available there. (Marc Vissers). A check on October 29th revealed that the old homepage at http://www.catholic.org.tw/taiwan/vntaiwan/veritas/index.html is not online anymore. (TK) The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation seemingly has a site under construction: http://www.lanka.net/slbc/ (Vissers). I checked this on Nov 1st and from the wording it looks as if it will only be temporary audio service to cover the forthcoming cricket series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. This is what it says: "The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is the first ever radio station in Sri Lanka and since its inception many decades ago it has been well reputed as a reliable radio station providing excellent entertainment to many a listener. The latest in sports events in Sri Lanka which is the Sri Lanka/New Zealand Cricket Tournament will be transmitted via Real Audio by courtesy of the S.L.B.C. to all cricket fans. We ensure that this coverage of the match will like our other programmes provide maximum satisfaction to all. We hope that you will "pitch" in to our transmission and enjoy yourselves listening to the thrilling live updates of the matches. Please come back for more information!" . Well, at least it's a start. (AS) SWF3 Germany, which has a 20kW SW-tr. on 7265kHz, now has its own Web site at http://www.swf3.de/ (Walter Justen) ------------------------------------- STAR RADIO, LIBERIA Star Radio describes itself as a "news-oriented, impartial, independent" FM and shortwave station. It was set up by the Swiss-based Fondation Hirondelle (Swallow Foundation) with funding from the US Agency for International Development, and began broadcasting in July 1997. It is said to be associated with the private FM station Radio Monrovia. In information supplied on the Fondation Hirondelle web site - http://www.hirondelle.org/newsf10.stm - Star Radio says it is "an independent radio station transmitting since 15th July 1997 on FM 104 MHz from Monrovia, Liberia, SW 3400 kHz 0500-0800 [Liberian time, also gmt], 5880 kHz 1700- 2000, broadcasting in Bassa, Dan, English, French, Gbande, Gola, Grebo, Liberian English, Lorma, Kissi, Kpelle, Krahn, Kru, Mandingo, Mano, Mende and Vai." It adds: "Star Radio is staffed by Liberian journalists and managed by the Swiss NGO Fondation Hirondelle with financing from the US Agency for International Development through the International Foundation for Election Systems." The site carries a transcription of daily news items carried in its 0630 and 0730 English-language bulletins. It also states: "Kindly give attribution to Star Radio (Fondation Hirondelle), independent radio station, if using the material." The web site gives the following e-mail addresses: libe@atge.automail.com (Office in Monrovia, Liberia) fondhi@atge.automail.com (Office in Lausanne, Switzerland) The site also gives the following contact numbers for Star Radio: Monrovia: Telephone: +231 226820/226176/227390. Fax: +231 227360. Lausanne: Telephone: +41 21 647 2805. Fax +41 21 647 4469. Source: Fondation Hirondelle web site, Lausanne, in English 24 Oct 97 via BBC Monitoring (C) ------------------------------------- DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA Bernd Mayr of Austria informed us that the homepage of Radio Argentina al Exterior isn't online any more. We did a check on Thursday, October 30th, also visiting some Argentinian websites. While some of the search machines still present the old primenet address, we found no hint on RAE's new URL. We also searched some of the Argentinian governmental websites. Nothing. The original homepage seems to have been a private venture, which was now removed from the server. (Mayr, TK) ------------------------------------- REAL AUDIO FROM CURACAO Radio Koursou FM at http://www.koursou.com/ has now started a RealAudio stream. It's the same programme as is broadcast on the Antilles. (Stienstra) This brings back memories of two great weeks I spent on Curacao in the early 80's with the gang from Radio Earth (remember them?). Antillean music is a fantastic blend of Latin American, African and other cultural influences. And the people on Curacao love their music! I shall certainly be checking this one out. (AS) ------------------------------------- A QUICK TIME CHECK A commercial software house in Germany, HAB Software, has informed us about its Web site at http://www.worldtime.com According to the official blurb, WORLDTIME is a web-based service featuring an interactive world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities, and a database of public holidays worldwide. Sounds like a very useful service for DXers! (TK, AS) ---------------------------- OLD RADIO SITES For oldies like me who remember the time when radios got hot (I even had one that doubled as an electric heater), the URL http://members.tripod.com/~adwiz/tubeglow.html will be of interest, as it is basically a list of links to sites that deal with old time radio and vintage broadcasting. ---------------------------- CORRECTION: ABC RADIO NETWORKS A few weeks ago, it was reported here that Disney/ABC Radio Networks were going to put audio feeds of their top 25 radio stations on a site called audiolounge.com. That item was broadcast by me on Media Network and also by Glenn Hauser, who received a rebuttal from DXer Dave Alpert who works for ABC News. Apparently the story is complete rubbish (Dave put it it a bit stronger than that). Dave checked with senior sources at the network. ABC is apparently not doing business with the company that runs Audiolounge and has not committed itself to any one audio streaming technology. The original story was picked up from two different and normally reliablenews agencies whose items appear on NewsPage, a news service to which I subscribe. Clearly, there was either a genuine misunderstanding or someone deliberately fed erreoneous information to the news agencies. Please don't shoot the messenger :-) (AS) ------------------------------------- That's it for this week. Remember you can send your contributions for this section to either Thorsten or myself. I will be editing next week's section. Till then, 73 from Andy.
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