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AFGHANISTAN 7079v, Voice of Shariah, Kabul, 1300-1715 Jan 2, mostly relig progr in the month of fasting, currently hrd in Pa/Da with good quality sigs. Maybe the old tx given a clean up in the New Year. Ar at 1645 and En 1700. (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN 4S5SL UADX, via NU, Jan 2)

ALGERIA 1550 National Radio of SADR, nx in Ar, many mentions of Sahara, Dec 1, 2220. (Sheigra Dxpedition to north west Sutherland, with Dave Kenny, Graham Powell, Tony Rodgers, in BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

AUSTRALIA Latest sked from Radio Australia: 0000-0100 En 9660 12080 15240 17715 17750 17795 21740 0000-0100 Vn 15415 0100-0200 En 9660 12080 15240 15415 17715 17750 17795 21740 0100-0700 Grandstand* 9660 12080 15240 17715 17750 Sat 0200-0300 En 9660 12080 15240 15415 15510 17715 17750 21725 0200-0700 Grandstand* 9660 12080 15240 17715 17750 Sun 0300-0400 En 9660 12080 15240 15415 15510 17750 21725 0400-0500 En 9660 12080 15240 15415 15510 17715 17750 21725 0500-0600 En 9660 12080 15240 15510 17715 21725 0500-0600 Khmer 15415 17750 0600-0800 En 9660 12080 15240 15415 15510 17715 17750 21725 0800-0900 En 5995 9580 9710 12080 15415 15510 17750 21725 0900-1100 En 6080 9580 11880 17750 0900-1200 Tok Pisin 5995 6020 9710 12080 1100-1200 En 6080 9580 1100-1230 Ch 9500 11880 1200-1400 En 5995 6020 6080 9580 1230-1330 Vn 9500 11880 1330-1430 Vn 9500 11660 1400-1430 En 5995 9580 1430-1700 En 5995 9500 9580 11660 1700-1800 En 5995 9500 9580 11880 1800-2000 En 6080 7240 9500 9580 9660 11880 2000-2100 En 9500 9580 9660 11880 12080 2000-2100 Tok Pisin 6080 7240 Su-Th 2100-2130 En 7240 9500 9660 11880 12080 17715 21740 2130-0000 BI 11695 15415 2130-2200 En 7240 9660 11880 12080 17715 21740 2200-2300 Ch 15240 2200-2300 En 17715 17795 21740 2300-0000 En 9660 12080 17715 17795 21740 2300-0000 Khmer 15240

*Grandstand is a weekend sports progr. Radio Australia's Brandon site is also used to relay BBCWS from 2200-2300 on 9660 and 12080. (R. Australia/Ferguson-VA via NASWA, Jan 4)

CHILE 9635 Voz Cristiana, 1604 Jan 2, dialog in Sp between two males chatting about their trips all over the Americas. Fair-good, //21500, which is the choice, QRK 5. (Nigro-URG, via NU, Dec 3)

CHINA [TIBET] 1494.2 Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, Dec 4, 0050, Ch sce, //3960, 4500. 1521 CRI Xinjiang, Dec 8, 1800, IS & ID's in Ch & Ru. 1593.3 Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, Dec 4, 0030, Mongolian sce, //4980, 5060. 3990 Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, Dec 3, 1606, nx in Uighur, //4735. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

Just a note to say that I've made some additions to Radio China http://www.swl.net/radiochina In the "Times & Freqs" section is a first attempt to list all China's Regional PBS stns http://www.swl.net/radiochina/notebook-index.html and in "On the Drawingboard" is info on Hans's visit to RRI-Denpasar early in Oct last year, with lots of photos and some RA audio clips http://www.swl.net/radiochina/drawingboard.html (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 3)

CLANDESTINE (Tibet). 7455, Voice of Tibet: is now on 7455, change in freq because on Dec 17 7465 was co-channeled by RCI audio at 1230-1256, when it suddenly went off the air a minute after VOT s-off. This was no RCI operation, but surely China using RCI audio to jam VOT. However, not hrd since then. The very next day VOT tested both 7465 & 7455, with the intention of changing to 7455, since CH jammers take 5 days to a week to change a jamming freq ! However, the next day and after, CH didn't co- channel VOT. VOT, however, chose to move to 7455. Probably will jump to 7465 if CH appears on 7455. (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK UADX, via NU, Jan 3)

DIEGO GARCIA Found in WRTH page # 174: The original population of approx. 3000 were repatriated to Mauritius. [Oh !!!! ]

FRANCE 738 RFI Paris, Dec 7, relay in En 1400-1500, followed by Vietnamese from 1500. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

GABON 12014.00 RFI in Port via Moyabi, 250 kW 125 degr, observed here on odd channel, Dec 31, 1700-1800, //15530 Issoudun-F, apparently a typo error on their relay site in Gabon. (WB, Dec 31)

GERMANY Nothing like new DW Ukr sce on SW 5995 7155, 0530-0600 on Jan 2nd, 4th. Nothing on these channels at all. MW 999 Grigoriopol-MDA carries DW Ru sce instead of promised Ukrainian. (Vladimir G.Titarev-UKR, Jan 4)

6015, Radio RSG via DTK-Juelich, *0900-1200* Jan 1, special New Year's progr of this local FM stn with greetings and mx, some special anmts for SWLs. Also asking for Rrs:

Radio RSG, D-42621 Solingen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.radiorsg.de/ (Harald Kuhl-D, via NU, Jan 3)

Their regular addr is shown on the website: Radio RSG, Aleestrasse 1, D-42653 Solingen, Germany. (Jerry Berg-NY, via NU, Jan 3)

Programmtips Januar DLR Jan 08 1335-1400 Selbstmord in der DDR DLR Jan 10 1630-1700 Sportreportage in Deutschland DLF Jan 14 0805-0810 Kaiser Wilhelm auf Edison-Walze DLF Jan 14 0910-1030 Deutsche Bahn AG, Live in Leipzig Hbf DLR Jan 17 0805-0900 Reise durch den indonesischen Archipel DLF Jan 20 1815-1900 Das letzte Jahr der SED, die Partei der einzigen Wahrheit DLF Jan 21 1815-1900 Probleme beim Hauptstadt Werden. DLR Jan 22 1205-1230 Rot-Gruen, Streit Ausbau Frankfurter Flughafen DLR Jan 23 1405-1600 Hoyerswerda DLR Jan 26 1205-1230 Immo Zwangsversteigerungen in Berlin DLF Jan 27 0910-1030 Hoerer fragen - DLF auf dem Pruefstand DLR Jan 31 1630-1700 IOC und das Doping

GUAM AWR is often heard here in DEN at 2100-2200 on 13720 with Jpn at 2100 and En (incl Wavescan on Suns) at 2130. Change from 15610 100 kW 345 degr. (Erik Koie-DEN, Jan 39)

HUNGARY 540 When I was looking for Hof/Wuerzburg 520 I noticed on 517 kHz a strong signal //540 Kossuth R Budapest tx at Solt. Continuing searching I found signals with decreasing strength every 23 kHz, so that the spectrum looked like this 494 517 540 563 586. My first thought was that there was a fault in the front end of my NRD535 as Budapest comes in with about S9 +40 dB here in this part of Austria. I immediately tested the same freqs with my Drake R8B - the same effect, but not so strong, Solt is S9 +20 here. A further test a few days later on both and a Sony SW77 showed that the phenomenon still existed.

Sent an e-mail to R Budapest, and got the reply: My name is Narancsik Mihaly, I'm working at the Quality Assurance Dept. of Antenna Hungaria Co. - and received your e-mail from Magyar Radio. Antenna Hungaria Co. transmits the progrs of Magyar R. Our txing stn at Solt txs the progr of Kossuth R on 540. The peak carrier power is 2 MW, which is Dynamic Carrier Controlled. Reacting on your observation, we examined the problem and we found the reason of the trouble. The staff of the txing stn at Solt repaired the defective unit during the night of Dec 5th. (Hubert Gabler-AUT, in BDXC-UK Communication, Jan)

ICELAND 207 Reykjavik 189 has been very good and found a similar strong signal on [back] 207 at 0800 on Dec 21 way over DLF so assume its the new Eidar tx. -- Some American/Canadian MW audible - incl up on 1670 and 1690 - but not so good as last year [1997]. (Noel Green-UK, Dec 24)

It is also still on MW 738 and 666.12, both missing from WRTH99. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

Reykjavik on new 9260 Dec 24-25, extended Xmas sked, 2215-2300+ //9275, 11402, 13860, all RC USB. Not usually on 4 freqs at once. Icelandic talk, classical and church mx, mass at 2341 check, still here at 0050 mx, gone at 0102 check. Next night, Dec 25 back to usual sked at 2300, only on 11402, 9275. (Alexander PA via Hauser, Review of Internat Broadcasting, also via Cumbre Dx, Dec 31)

INDIA AIR Ranchi heard today (5th) at 1515-1546 with very strong signals here on 4960 with slight modulation problem. At 1546 the stn s-off abruptly after starting the 1546 progrs for a few seconds.

Just heard in today's nx that AIR and Doordarshan (TV) Engineering Staff are going for 72 hr nationwide strike from tomorrow (6th) and this may affect the normal txion of both radio and tv. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jan 5)

IRAN Teheran moved this week on [even] 7285 right on top of DW-Wartch at 0030-0130 in Bengali replacing 6015. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jan 5)

1539 IRIB unknown site, Nov 30, 2318, Persian, //Bushehr 1503, Bandar Abbas 1566, Dorud 927.

1188 presumedly IRIB Tehran provincial sce, talk in Persian, Pe mx, not //Tehran Main progr. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

Some Japanese DX sources say that IRIB Tehran have a plan of Japanese progr. I received an answer from IRIB as follows:

["your question about I.R.I.B Japanese program

IN THE NAME OF GOD

Dear Mr. Gaku Iwata hello, you had a question about I.R.I.B Japanese progr. Now, we haven't progr for Japan. But, we have plan broadcast a program with Japanese language for your country in near feature. Thank you for your attention. Your brothers in Iran wish to you a very, very happy new year. IRIB.Frequency Control and Design Bureau, Majid Farahmandnia"] (Gaku Iwata-JPN, Jan 3)

Also WRTH '99 on page #589 mentioned Japanese and Georgian language sections as future plans, ed.

IRAQ 3900.2v, Rep. of Iraq Radio, 2200, have been hearing Baghdad arnd this time daily since Dec 27 with Ar talk and ME mx. Reasonable strength, but audio is highly variable, sometimes faint or none at all, sometimes obliterated by a strong hum, sometimes adequate. Had been on exactly 3900 till Jan 2, when found to have slid up to 3900.2. Tnx original tip from several European rptrs in DXW. (Hill-MA in NU, Jan 3) 2250-2339 Dec 30, traditional AR vocals, AR man. Pretty weak, and sporadic ARO QRM. (Krueger-FL in NU, Jan 3)

JAPAN [and non JPN] NHK New Year's Eve monitoring, today Dec 31, since 1100 til 1545 the usual NHK World Year End Hitparade is in progress.

Here are my observations, due to very limited information output of NHK Tokyo, all monitored freqs, relay locations, power and azimuth are estimated.

No relay observations on NHK via Montsinery-GUF this year, so far.

5975 1100-1545 45444 G NHK via Skelton 250 kW 070 degr 9750 0800-1600 45444 J at 1200 NHK Yamata direct 300 290 11705 1400-1500 21221 CAN NHK via Sackville 250 240 (QRM Tinang- PHL) 11710 1200-1545 55555 G NHK via Woofferton 300 075 11815 0900-1500 21221 J NHK via Yamata direct 300 235 12045 1300-1600 22222 CLN NHK via Ekala 300 350 13645 1100-1200 55555 G NHK via Woofferton 300 070 15590 1100-1230 24222 J NHK via Yamata direct 300 270 17680 1300-1545 35333 G NHK via Rampisham 500 062 21630 1300-1545 22222 ASC NHK via Ascension 250 240 21700 1100-1545 32322 GAB NHK via Moyabi 500 350

5975 only, BBC did interrupt with its own BBCWS IS and ID by mistake at approx. 1458-1505, but later switched back and joined the NHK progr again. Both UK outlets 11710 and 17680 still remaining on NHK progr during the fault clearance. (WB, Dec 31)

1500 UT on 11705, R. Japan, NHK Warudo. Actually checked this as early as 1100 when found on 6110 instead of 6120 via CAN; did Sackville forget again to retune the tx from last night's freq? Already going with super-rapid talk and Jpn pop mx in annual frenzy pre-empting En. 1443 came "Auld Lang Syne". 1445 a gong from Kyoto as things got more serious, "NHK Warudo" ID. Chanting and gonging really got going at 1458. This year RCI did not interrupt with its own IS by mistake. Respectful silence and 4-pip NHK timesignal at 1500, violin solo perhaps by Midori whom I heard mentioned earlier. Then interview with her. (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 1)

JORDAN 11690 On Nov 4th at 1700 R Jordan announced that due to maintenance work the stn would be closed from the 7th-19th Nov and would resume txions on the 20th. (BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

KUWAIT 1566 Cland - Al Mustaqbal (The Future), Nov 30, 1600, Ar mx, ID - Iraqi National Accord, from CIA stn Kuwait [Harris 50 kW tx acc IRW].

1566 Cland - V o the Armed Forces -, Dec 7, 0023, Ar shouting, ID "Huna al Iraq, Saut al-Quwwat al-Mossallah", from CIA stn Kuwait.

1575 Cland - Al Mustaqbal (The Future), Nov 30, 2215, Kurdish to 2230, then Ar, very strong, from CIA stn Kuwait.

1575 Cland - V o the Armed Forces -, Dec 3, 1715, ID "Huna al Iraq, Saut al-Quwwat al-Mossallah", from CIA stn Kuwait. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

Here is a rundown of the schedules most recently published by BBCM in May 1998 for bcs from Iraqi-oppostion radio stns 'The Future (Al-Mustaqbal)' and 'Voice of the Armed Forces' operating in the range 1557-1584 kHz, which also attracts jamming that is audible here in Europe. Other Iraqi opposition groups may also use this tx, which is believed to be located in Kuwait. Most bcs are in Ar and exact times of bcs by each stn may vary: VoAF 1400-1500 1700-1800 2000-2100 2300-0000 The Future 1500-1700 1800-2000 2100-2300 0000-0020

The addr for the Iraqi National Accord, who operate The Future (Al- Mustaqbal) is: Iraqi National Accord, P.O.Box 3124, London SW19 1RL, United Kingdom. e-mail: [email protected] (BDXC-UK, Communication, Sept 1998)

1575 The Voice of the Military Forces and the Internal Security Forces: I sent a RR and a cassette tape to the Iraqi National Accord office in London. I received a hand-written letter 26 days later from Mr. H. Hmoud that included the following: "We 'Iraqi National Accord' received with thanks your letter dated July 9, 1998, concerning 'Voice of the Military Forces and the Internal Security Forces'. The Iraqi National Accord for years has its broadcasting stn 'Al Mustaqbal', which means 'The Future', and it bcs directly to inside Iraq. Our friends and colleagues inside Iraq who are listening to Al Mustaqbal bcing mention that they monitored 'Voice of the Military Forces and the Internal Security Forces'. But our movement, the Iraqi National Accord, has nothing to do with it, and unfortunately we have no idea who is responsible for such a Voice." (Burnell-CAN, Aug 10 via HDX, CRW, in BDXC-UK, Communication, Sept 1998)

MALAYSIA A couple of domestic txions are putting out strong hxs in the 25mb at the moment, first noted on 18 Dec. R Malaysia Channel 1 in Malaysian is heard here daily during local daytime on 11930 (2x5965) with poor audio; much better is Channel 7/8 in BM at 0400-1300 and Suara Islam at 1400-1600 on 12050 (2x6025) which sounds here like a 50 kW tx when propagation is good. (Alan Davies-CBG, via Cumbre Dx, Dec 18)

MALI 7170 The CRI broadcast 0830-0857 is in Hausa, probably from the MLI relay, believed to be in //with the regular satellite feed. Well heard here in Melbourne-AUS. (Bob Padula-AUS, Dec 30)

Regarding "CHN" on 7170 at 0830-0857, I was very intrigued to read that neither Hans van den Boogert nor Sonny Ashimori could hear it, but that Bob Padula could !

Many thanks to them for trying. As reported to you, it is still heard here, but varies considerably from day to day, and I cannot identify language or service.

However, I wonder if the BBCMS schedule of Dec 23 from CRI provides the answer: 0830-0900 Hausa for AF (only on satellite). Could it be that 7170 is also being used via Mali ?

It would explain why HvdB and SA do not hear it but BP (where mid-summer in Melbourne is known to produce unusual propagation [via northern SoAM path]) and I can hear it at Blackpool-UK. ORTM Bamako v7285 and Guinea 7125 have both been received around this same time, as well as Nigeria 7255 - although this is not so regular. So a path to West Africa is open. I've scanned 49 & 31 mb for a possible //, but nothing is heard that resembles 7170.

My impression is that this 7170 signal does not originate anywhere in EUR and ALB on air on v7270 at this same time is much better received. However, CHN/TWN, Siberia & both Korea's are regularly heard on 7 MHz at this time. I noted that you were not able to hear 7170 on the 24th. IF it is MLI, perhaps WeAF has faded at your location further east than me ? (Noel Green-UK, Dec 30) [yes, 100 % same thoughts occured to me toooooo, ed]

Re: CRI in Hausa via Mali. CRI via Mali has extended its bc span recently, and now opens at 1400 with En to AS on 15125 and 13685. 7170 continues to be heard here quite well, big signal at 0830, then weakens by 0845. NIG 7255 also heard at this time, plus ALG/MTN on 7245 - latter audible until around 1000. Is in Hausa, from announcers with a very strong Chinese accent. May need to check the "usual" Hausa progr 1730-1757 on 15125 11970 (both Mali) 9760 7235 to see if the same.

7170 is obviously in Africa, and my original supposition of Mali remains unchanged.!

Interestingly, CRI-Mali 9665 0100-0300 Spanish unheard here since 31 Dec and may no longer be in use, or moved to another channel. [or the personell has changed their time shift, when opening is now at 0830 and 1400 UTC ??, ed]

Many African signals now noted here in Melbourne at 0200-0400 on 5, 6, 7, and 9 MHz for our mid-summer midday mode - includes R. Botswana 7255 ,the "cow bells", stn opening 0255; all Meyerton outlets audible, plus Sao Tome, Botswana, etc!! Weather here very hot - predicted 38 degr C for today Sun 3 Jan. (Bob Padula-AUS, Jan 3)

NEW ZEALAND 9700 R NZL Internat Rangitaiki, 1059 countdown to New Year. Speaker announcing 7 instead of 6 time pips because of leap seconds. However, only 6 pips were played. At 1100 New Year announcement and New year gathering reports from Auckland, Christchurch and other cities. SINPO 45444. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Dec 31)

PAKISTAN Pakistan tell me they are restoring some of their former "morning" txions, no details so far. (Noel Green-UK, Dec 24)

Noted Hindi on a new channel 9740 at 0030-0130 (on VoA En to SoAS too [via KAV 250 105 degr]). Also a new En sce noted on 15455 at 0200-0230 announcing //channel 11980 but Ur on this 11980. Beng is also heard on 15455 (splashing FEBC on 15450) at 0100-0200. There may some more changes from PAK as the normal scheduled channels are not heard. Anyone have the new sked? (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jan 5)

PERU 6797.7 Ondas del Rio Mayo, Sp, male ann, musical progr (Peruvian Cumbias), Comunicados: "Atencion Departamento de Cajamarca " time checks: "son las siete de la noche con cuatro minutos, son las siete y cuatro minutos en todo el pais" ID " en Ondas del Rio Mayo a esta hora de la noche ." 0003-0010, 33433 Jan 03. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jan 4)

PHILIPPINES 11730 & 11890 Radio Pilipinas Tinang heard at 1730[-1930] with En/Tagalog program, both 250 kW 283 degr; both have been very good today. But no trace of 15190, not even a carrier traced, no propagation in 19 mb today. (WB, Dec 31)

RUSSIA 918 R Pomorye, Arkhangelsk, Dec 7, 1500-1510, ID "Govorit Arkhangelsk, Radio Pomorye", //6160, local nx at 1510. 5930 R Murmansk, Dec 4, 1510, ID "Radiokompania Murmansk", local nx. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

VoVTN Hanoi relays over Russian relays 5905 Krasnodar 0300-0400 En, Sp 500 kW 290 degr to CeAM 5940 Krasnodar 0100-0300 En, Vtn 500 315 to NoAM 7390 Moscow 2000-2130 Vtn, Ru 500 240 to EUR/NoAF 7440 Moscow 1800-2000 Vtn, En, Fr 240 240 to EUR/NoAF 9875 Petropavlovsk 0400-0500 Vtn 200 065 to ALS, CAN, WeUSA (Bob Padula EDXP, via BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

All three freqs (7330 7310 9470) are continuing to carry R.Mayak progrs. Noted today, 4\12 [typo, should read Jan 4 ?] at 0840 onwards. Also 6035 and 7330 were noted at 1540 with R. Mayak progrs. So, are there really any changes as it was announced ? (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Jan 4)

Until New Years Eve, Mayak used two txs at the Popovka stn near St. Petersburg, now only a single one and only until 1500 (or received the tx hall again new instructions, Mikhail?). The canceled slots are 0300-0600 7440, 0630-1000 11630, 1030-1400 11785, 1430-1800 6045 [not to be confused with Radio Rossii via GPR-1 Moscow 1930-2200] and 1830-2000 5990.

Obviously Arkhangelsk and Kovylkino continues with their usual business (Arkhangelsk two txs 0300-0600 5950, 0300-1600 7330, 0630-1500 7310, 1530- 1800 5990, 1630-2300 15215; Kovylkino one tx 0300-0500 5900, 0530-1300 9470, 1330-2200 6035).

Regarding Arkhangelsk, I would assume that they at Mayak just realized, that it makes no difference, whether or not they have to pay the supposedly modest rents for these modest power txs, especially as the MW (918 / 100 kW) and SW txs for R Arkhangelsk should provide enough heat [LW 234 there has currently no customer and is herewith off air, as reported some months ago by Pavel Mikhailov.] (Kai Ludwig-D, Jan 5)

"VOICE OF ROSSIA" World Russian Sce 0200-0400 7125 (Grigoriopol, 1000 kW, 320 degr) 7350 (Moscow, 1000 kW, 285 degr) 9850 [15470 since 06/03/99] (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 250 kW, 65 degr) 9890 (S.Petersburg, 800 kW, 270 degr) , 12000 (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 250 kW, 65 degr) 12010 [15425 since 06/03/99] (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 100 kW, 65 degr) 12010 [15425 since 06/03/99] (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 100 kW, 65 degr) 12060 [12040 since 06/03/99] (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 250 kW, 35 degr) 13640 (Khabarovsk, 100 kW, 50 degr) 13665 [15520 since 06/03/99] (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 100 kW, 65 degr)

1300-1500 7170 [7315] (Vladivostok, 1000 kW, 225 degr) 9830 [9470] (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, 250 kW, 180 degr) 12015 [15510] (Samara, 250 kW, 120 degr)

1600-1700 9470 [9830] (Moscow, 200 kW, 190 degr)

1800-1900 7310 (Moscow, 250 kW, 270 degr)

2000-2100 7185 [7440] (Moscow, 200 kW, 240 degr) 7310 (Moscow, 250 kW, 270 degr) 7320 (Moscow, 250 kW, 250 degr) 7380 [15465 since 06/03/99] (Ekaterinburg, 200 kW, 265 degr) 9450 [9775] (Moscow, 250 kW, 270 degr) 9795 (Ekaterinburg, 200 kW, 280 degr)

2100-2200 7310 (Moscow, 250 kW, 270 degr) 7320 (Moscow, 250 kW, 250 degr)

Radiostation "Tikhiy Okean" Vladivostok, in Ru 0815-0900 6020 (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, 100 kW, 40 degr) 7175 (Khabarovsk, 100 kW, 40 degr) 7210 (Khabarovsk, 100 kW, 20 degr) 7490 usb (Khabarovsk, 80 kW, 65 degr) 9895 (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, 200 kW, 180 degr) 10344 usb (Irkutsk, 250 kW, 85 degr) 17570 (Irkutsk, 1000 kW, 150 degr)

1900-1945 4810 (Vladivostok, 100 kW, 140 degr) 7135 (Vladivostok, 999 kW, 230 degr) 7345 (Khabarovsk, 100 kW, 40 degr) 9850 (Vladivostok, 200 kW, 90 degr)

Progr "Kamchatka Rybatskaya" Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Ru 2000-2100 Tue/Thur/Sat - 7355 (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 100 kW, 245 degr) 12065 (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 250 kW, 65 degr) (Nikolay Rudnev-RUS, via RUS DX, Jan 5)

SERBIA 1652 UNID - presumed Serbian pirate. Non-stop typical Serbian mx to close 0004 UTC, no ID. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

SLOVENIA 1566 A stn identifying as "R Ljubljana informata musica ..." heard on Dec 3, 1449, not listed in WRTH or elsewhere. (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

TINIAN IBB / VoA / RFA organization is presently testing two 500 kW units, which removed from Maxoqueira Portugal relay (ex 6 x 500 kW units).

The new VoA tx on Tinian Isl. may start conducting high power tests as early as tomorrow, Tue, Jan 5, as follows: 0900-0930 UTC on 6095 & 13710, 0930-1000 on 7295 & 15115, 1000-1030 on 9785 & 17665, and 1030-1100 on 11895 & 21760. (Ferguson-VA, Jan 4) They plan to use two fqys at a time, 295 degrees. (Jerry Berg-NY, Jan 4)

Acc tips from NU and Cumbre Dx 6095 13710 0900-0930 7295 15115 0930-1000 9785 17665 1000-1030 11895 21760 1030-1100

Report from Taiwan. Test from the relay just finished. I was in class most of the time, but could sneak out every now and then to check reception.

7294.99 VoA Tinian, Jan 5, 0937-0943, "Talk to America" rerun, 45444 15115.0 VoA Tinian, Jan 5, 0937-0943, "Talk to America" rerun, 55544 11894.99 VoA Tinian, Jan 5, 1043-1059, non-stop mx. Off without any annt 45434 21759.97 VoA Tinian, Jan 5, 1043-1059, non-stop mx. Off without any annt 45434 15115 is clearly a winner. Never had such good reception of VoA. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 5)

Report from the Netherlands 15115 0945 Talk to America. First day of testing from this site. At 0947 the progr was suddenly interrupted and replaced by instrumental mx. Huge signal ! SINPO 45544. Off the air at 0958 leaving Radio Cairo on clear channel.

17665 0959 same instrumental mx as logged earlier on 15115. SINPO 44544 with 3.5 kHz bandwidth. When I used the 6.2 kHz filter, consideravle sidesplash interference was noted from VoRUS in German from Samara on 17660.

9785 1004 instrumental mx, //to 17665. SINPO 44444.

11895 1031 same instrumental mx as logged earlier on 9785, 15115 and 17665 and //to much weaker 21760. SINPO 45544.

21760 1034 weak signal, parallel to 11895. SINPO 21221. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jan 5)

Report from Germany 0901-0927 13710 SINPO 44433 // 6095 SINPO 23432 0930-0958 15115 SINPO 44444 // 7295 SINPO 24432 0959-1030 17665 SINPO 44433 // 9785 SINPO 3-44433 1031-1059 11895 SINPO 44433 //21760 (Harald Kuhl-D, Jan 5)

THAILAND 1593 Nung Por Nor, Dec 9, 2305, talk in Thai, ID "Nung Por Nor", not listed in WRTH on this freq. [but Sor Wor Tor at Ranong] (Sheigra Dxpedition BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

UKRAINE A superb European opening tonight, but not a trace of RUI on any of their NoAM or European listed freqs. Must be several weeks since I've heard them. Not paying their power bills again? Perhaps to reduce energy consumption, the txs were turned off? Regular blackouts were the norm when I traveled there in Oct, 1997. (Walter Salmaniw-CAN, in Cumbre Dx, Dec 29)

POSTPHONED til definite start on February 1st, 1999. Deutsche Welle, Ukrainian language dept., 04 Jan 1999 [via Joerg Sajuk, Bavaria-Germany, Jan 4]

Nothing like DW in Ukrainian on SW 5995 7155 0530-0600 on Jan 2nd & 4th. Nothing on these channels at all. MW 999 Grigoriopol carries DW/Russ instead of promised Ukrainian. (Vladimir G. Titarev-UKR, Jan 4)

Thank you for the information. The translation [should read transmission ?] on 5995 and 7155 kHz will begin tomorrow. The program on this frequencies and on 999 kHz will be DW/Ru until to the end of January. (Deutsche Welle, Head of Technical Monitoring Div., Jan 5)

UK Continuing the aspidistra topic, Andrew Tett adds a few words about the late lamented MW facility at Crowborough. Mention was made of the book called 'The Biggest Aspidistra in the World'. I remember, recording a BBC R4 play of the same title in the early seventies. It was a kind of 'docudrama' about the wartime efforts of Sefton Delmar and friends and it intrigued me, a pre-teen schoolboy, at the time. We recorded it on the old Brookmans Park R4 freq of 908 kHz on a standard radio-cassette and so the quality was not so good. I remember the daytime signal strength from Crowborough on 809 was phenomenal in Surbiton rivalling the colossal R4 908 kHz signal. I was surprised that the tx was transported to Orfordness. There are two txs on air at times from that site, 648 and 1296, and 1296 sounds ropey. I suspect 648 is relatively new as it has Dynamic Carrier Modulation -- just watch your signal strength meter. (BDXC-UK, Communication, Sept 1998)

In the sixties and seventies Crowborough 809 kHz heard on my Blaupunkt car radio even during daytime in Paris-France like a powerhouse, and in Frankfurt-Germany on great signal level to. (ed)

AFTER THE BATTLE No 75 (BLACK PROPAGANDA), by Mark Kenyon. This very well written 25-page article charts the history of British propaganda broadcasting during the war, from the secret studio installations in and around the Bedfordshire village of Milton Bryan (near what is now Milton Keynes) to the building and requisitioning of the 500 kW "ASPIDISTRA" transmitter in Ashdown Forest near Crowborough.

The article summarises the fascinating story told by the late Sefton Delmer in his 1962 book "Black Boomerang" (long out of print and now very hard to track down). It is particularly well illustrated with good quality original photographs of the studios and transmitters both as they were in the 1940s and as are today. Many of the buildings where Delmer devised and created his black propaganda stations such as "Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik" (also known as "Atlantiksender"), "Gustav Siegfried Eins" and "Soldatensender Calais", are still standing, although some are in quite a sorry state. It came as a surprise to me that, even during wartime conditions, the underground bunkers in Ashdown forest which housed the massive "Aspidistra" transmitters were built with great style, the art deco interiors reminiscent of 1930s Odeon cinemas.

After The Battle No 75, costs just œ3.88 to UK adresses, œ4.50 to Europe (prices include postage) from Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd, Church House, Church Street London E15 3JA, United Kingdom. tel +44 181 534 8833 fax +44 181 555 7567 e-mail [email protected]

Also of interest: the following out-of-print books on broadcasting during WW II, are also well worth obtaining if you can track them down:

BLACK BOOMERANG by Sefton Delmer, published by Secker & Warburg in 1962. 320pp hardback.

THE BLACK GAME by Ellic Howe, published by Michael Joseph, London 1982. 278pp hardback.

RADIO GOES TO WAR by Charles J Rollo, published by Faber & Faber, London 1943. 246pp hardback.

THIS IS THE BRITISH FORCES BROADCASTING NETWORK - The story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany - ny Alan Grace. Not about clandestine radio, but about a broadcaster which was established as a result of the war, this book charts the history of the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) from its beginnings in Algiers in 1944 through its establishment in post-war Germany, right up to the mid 1990s and the introduction of television. A 204 page hardback book, well illustrated.

This is the British Forces Broadcasting Network, by Alan Grace, ISBN 0- 7509-1105-0, published 1996 by Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, price œ14.99. (Dave Kenny, in BDXC-UK, Communication, Sep 1998)

"Hitler's Irish Voices" by David O'Donoghue is published by Beyond the Pale Publications, P.O.Box 337, Belfast BT9 7BT, Northern Ireland. e-mail: [email protected] ISBN 1-900960-04-4, price œ7.95 (BDXC-UK, Communication, Jan)

----UNID 5875, 0231-0259* Dec 27, abrupt s-off, lots of talks by M&W ancrs, probably in Farsi. I did not hear the word "Mojaheed" at any time. SINPO 35443. (Gabriel I. Barrera-ARG, via NU, Jan 3)

Its the BBC in Persian 0230-0330. tx Rampisham 500 kW 095 degr. Same tx before in Spanish to SoAM on 5875 too, 0000-0130 two 500 txs at 227 and at 260 degr.

//at 0230-0330 Persian is Zyyi Cyprus island 7165 250 kW 77 degr, and from the EAST via BBC Thailand relay 15380 250 kW at 305 degr too. May you can catch that via the Pacific Ocean ???, ed.

USA [non] UNID 11500 Radio Free Asia presumed CIS site with test of loop tape with En and Ru ID as follows: "This is Channel 4. Radio Free Asia program channel 4." This only lasted a few minutes and they were off of the air by 1203. (Hans Johnson-USA, Jan 3)

The nearest in freq and time is RFA in Khmer 1200-1300 11510 and //9395 9930 11540 and 13750.

But VoR Moscow is using this channel 1300-1400 in Hindi to SoAS, via TJK 500 kW 155 degr. Also very strong here in Europe when monitored today Jan 5th. Any estimation ? ed.

VATICAN As from 1.1.98 Vatican Radio moved 5 kHz down on 13760 at 1450- 1610 with En at 1550-1610 to SoAS. Other channels at this time are 9865 and 11640. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jan 5)

VIETNAM VoVTN observed on new 15110 *0900-1127*. 0900 Ch, 0930 BI, 1000 En, 1030 BI, 1100 Sp. all //12020. Spurious signals noted on 15100 and 15120. From 1130 they use 9840 and 12020. From 1300 7145 and 9840. (Pavel Miroshnikov-RUS, Jan 2)

More on VoVTN: The current sked for the former 9840/12020 txions seems to be 7145 & 9840 to EUR, 9840 & 12020 to EaAS, and 12020 & 15100 to SEA & AF. 7145 noted Dec 29 with Fr at 2030 and En at 2100, co-chan. VoTUR (also Fr, and not sked for this freq) plus DW in Ru; was //9839.8. Vietnamese heard daily at 0000-0100 on 12020 & 15100; also Sp at 2000. A separate sce, Cambodian 0000 and Lao 0030, currently observed on 7285.2, but no trace of former //9730. (Jones-PRG, via NU, Jan 3)

YEMEN 6135 Yemen RTV Corporation, Al Hiswah, 1515 Ar songs, annt. SINPO 24332. In //with San'a relay under DW Nauen on 9779.9. (Michiel Schaay- HOL, Dec 31)

SUPER FREQUENCY LIST ON CD-ROM. Produced by Klingenfuss Publications in Germany, the latest - 5th edition of January 1999 - now resides in the PCs of many radio monitoring enthusiasts worldwide! It contains over 11,000 entries of cland, dom and internat bcs on SW, available as a standard .DBF file for open access. It connects readily to leading rx control programs. It ALSO contains some 11,600 special freqs monitored in 1998 from the companion hard-copy product "1999 Guide to Utility Radio Stations", PLUS 920 abbreviations and 16,100 formerly active utility freqs! All this is on one compact disk for PCs with Windows. It is divided into three parts: utility freqs, bc freqs, and formerly active utility freqs. It includes the digital data decoding shareware progr "Radiocraft" by French radio amateur F6FLT.

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The biggest advantage of this product is that it has a special relational search algorithm built in, which means that if you want to know all of the bcing stns on the air in (say) Mongolian at (say) 1017 UTC it will give you the answer in less than a second, complete with all data! Searches may also be made ion any field, such as "find all stns bcing in Tibetan"! Individual entries may be copied and subsequently processed by an ext word processing applications - a limit of six copy operations over one minute applies. It is not possible to print directly from the program. Searching is based on abbreviations selected from a large list, for langs and countries. The two- letter language abbreviation system is used, and times are shown as xx:00, which is the international standard. The product is great for quick checks of frequency occupancy at any time specified, which can't be done very easily (or at all!) from hard-copy references!

The broadcasting stations' data is the same as in the frequency listing in the sibling hard-copy product "1999 Shortwave Frequency Guide". The nine database fields are: frequency, country, transmitter site, station, start time, finish time, target zone, language, and remarks. Searches can be made on any field.

I asked the CD to give me details of bcing stns using SSB or USB. There were five entries for USB and 13 for SSB. Purists may complain that "SSB" should not be listed in the database, but USB or LSB instead!!! I also asked the CD to tell me if there were any stns bcing in Balinese - the answer was one (KTWR Guam)!!! Clandestine entries are given, and I asked the CD to tell me how many entries there were: an answer of 159 was returned, complete will all details.

The data is that which existed at the end of Oct, incl details of the B98 winter period ext sce txs (starting on 25 Oct) where those details were known at the time of compilation. A quick scan of the data shows some listings which are no longer valid - they expired on 24 Oct; they include CRI, R Pakistan, RRI, FEBA, R Australia, KFBS Saipan, VoUAE Abu Dhabi, RFA, KTWR and the VoGRC. The dom and Cland entries were compiled by BP(!) relying on scores of experts (many of whom will be reading this EDXP!). Much of the data on the dom stns in MLA, INS, IND, CHN, PNG, THA, SNG, VTN, LAO, CBG, and BUR was based on actual monitoring during my travels into SoAS during 1998, rather than rely on outdated "official" information handed out by stns and used without amendment in other publications.

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No, it does not have addresses, QSL policies, personnel, or other information or bcing stns - it is a FREQUENCY LIST, offered as a Guide to world txions. It should be acknowledged that the A99 (summer) internat bcing txion period begins on 28 March and this means that there will be changes to the ext sce entries, and for some Clandestine stns using facilities of major broadcasters. Timings for dom sce stns should not change a great deal, except for some parts of SoAM and northern CHN.

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Reference can be made to the Web site for sample pages and screenshots of all Klingenfuss products: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Klingenfuss/ (taken from EDXP, written by Bob Padula-AUS, Jan 4)

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This file is put together on a voluntary basis, and is also included in our WWDXC WWW homepage,-German AGDX Club-direct address: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wwdxc/topnews.htm or via Link of Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wwdxc Both actual and previous week issue are available. e-mail [email protected] vy73 de Wolfgang DF5SX - e-mail [email protected]

BC-DX 402 12 Jan 1999 ______

ALBANIA v12069.8 TWR Albania? En relig programming, but no ID. (Hans Johnson-USA, Jan 6)

Odd freq is an indicator, that the outlet is really coming from ALB and not MCO. Last year in W97 TWR En was via Cerrik-ALB v9685 100 kW 310 degr. (ed.)

I had a contribution from David French who is a TWR monitor. He had been asked to monitor 12070 mornings and said it was fine. TWR is looking to add another freq for their morning En bc as they did last year. Site not specified but David assumed ALB and said that 12070 may well be on from 1st Jan. (Michael Barraclough-UK, Dec 30) v12069.87, TWR 0830-0856, lang En, weak but clearly in En. Simple "This is Trans World Radio" ID at 0845, otherwise relig talk. Where is this from? 13342. (H.v.d.Boogert-TWN, via DXW, Jan 1/6)

COSTA RICA Thanks to RFPI Members' contributions, operation should be more reliable now: has backup blowers for cooling units on 10 and 30 kW txs; and some backup tubes, so if there are failures can be quickly replaced. Also can change freq quickly to avoid interference if really necessary rather than wait 5-6 weeks for crystals to be ground in US and shipped. Another on-air fundraiser is coming up soon. (James and Debra Latham, RFPI Mailbag Jan 1 via gh, Jan 6)

RFPI is about to put its audio on internet, says Weekly Update; listen for annts. We have also noticed 15049 showing up sporadically in the 1800-2100 period again, and on Dec 31, 6975 was already on and audible here at 2131 check; on Jan 5, 15049 was testing in the morning. Sp programming is supposed to be back in the 1200-1600 period. (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 6)

IRAN v9625.56 VoIRI 1335-1428*, lang Mandarin, nx read by a non-native Mandarin announcer. 1411 history progr presented by a man and women who were clearly from CHN. 1421 ID then nx headlines. 1425 s-off annt with schedule, web and snail mail addr. 1428 IS. //11885 (24443), 15200 (14232), 15375 (24242), 9880 (111). 22442. (H.v.d.Boogert-TWN, in DXW, Jan 2)

KIRIBATI There is a discussion about operation of R Kiribati in 31 mb in German newsgroup ADXB-OE NL. So here is a hot item from Cumbre DX:

Radio Kiribati Bill Reiher, Manager of Radio Kiribati, told Cumbre DX of the latest happenings at his stn. The reason SW listeners have not heard us recently is because our tx has been off and on for a few months. We have a problem with a printed circuit board. We have ordered a replacement and we should be on by the end of the year or early next year. This sce is for Christmas Island. Sometimes, they are not happy with reception and we have to switch freqs. So listeners should look for us on 9825 if they don't hear us on 9810. We come on at 1830. From 2130-0000, we have schools bcs. From 0000-0130, we have our nat sce, and then we s-off. At 0500 we sign back on and operate until about 1000, it depends upon how many mx requests we get from listeners. This tx is run by [the local] telecom and is an interim sce. It is running at about 1 kW into a log-per ant pointed at Christmas Isl. We are buying a new tx of 10 kW power that we hope to put on the air next year. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright, via Christoph Ratzer-AUT, Dec 17)

Item in Cumbre Lite #220: 9810 KIRIBATI R Kiribati 0555 NA-Atkins Nov-28-30

MOLDOVA Fax in Sp from R. Moldova Internat asks for listener support against increasing govt moves toward closing down the stn. To help keep RMI on the air so that world public opinion will not be deprived of first- hand news about Moldova, please write to:

Mr. Petru Lucinschi, President of the Republic of Moldova, Ave. Stefan Cel mare, 154 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Ministry of External Affairs 31 of August St., 80 Chisinau, Rep of Moldova

To contact RMI itself: Radio Moldova Internacional Str. Miorita 1 277028 Chisinau, Rep of Moldova Tel.: +373 2 723379 / 723385 Fax: +373 2 723307; Telex: 163210 (Iurie Moraru, Director of [Sp] Department, RMI, via Ruben Guillermo Margenet-ARG, Jan 4 via Hauser)

PAKISTAN Switched on to hear new RFA Tinian relay, but definitely not on the first day freqs. So catched very strong Islamabad Urdu txions on v15527.71 and v17835.22 around 0950. (WB, Jan 6)

TINIAN (c.f. BC-DX #401) New Tinian SW relay site by IBB / VoA / RFA organization: These were tests at night to check for arcing in the antenna field. There probably will be more, but not actually scheduled like these. At least so far. (Ferguson-VA via NU, Jan 6)

TONGA I heard on the news last night that the island of Tonga has been hit by a cyclone with over 100 mph winds. The report said that over 70,000 people were left in the dark and every banana tree was stripped off the island. Well, I guess we won't be hearing Radio Tonaga on SW in our lifetime because their antenna was mounted to a banana tree.

With their main export gone, this may cripple the country for many years to come. I heard Tonga 12 years ago and reported it to you. I had some help from the FCC Monitoring Stn on Hawaii who DFed the signal and they let me listen to it on the phone. (Artie Bigley-KY, Dec 28, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING and WORLD OF RADIO 971)

USA WORLD OF RADIO on WGTG - We have cancelled, due to unreliability so we could never be certain our show would air as scheduled. We do thank them for the airtime provided in the past months.

CONTINENT OF MEDIA. A new edition for January has been produced and will start airing soon on RFPI, and via http://www.DXing.com

For topic summary see http://www.angelire.com/ok/worldofradio/Com9901.html

It includes an expanded version of our 1998 Shortwave Year in Review, which appeared in a shorter version on VOA Communications World Dec 26. (WoR by Glenn Hauser-OK, Jan 6)

WMLK, 9465, unmistakable intonations of Elder Meyer barely audible at 1955 Jan 4 in heavy sideband splash from The Overcomer on 9475. Tnx for tip to Hans Johnson, Cumbre, who found out they're back with only 20 kW, daytime only. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 971, Jan 7)

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BC-DX 403 18 Jan 1999 ______

AFGHANISTAN Observed back on the air around 1515, good signal on 7079.9, back Jan 12th after a few days being off the air. (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 13)

ALBANIA 1458 [Serbia Kosovo] New MW Relay of DW's Albanian and Serbian progr via facilities of R Tirana in Durres Fllake with 500 kW will start on Jan 17. 1458 Serb 2100-2115, Alb 2115-2130.

These progr are distributed via SW and satellite. This sce will be reenforced and widespread into Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Vojvodina. Due of restrictions by the present Serbian govt, DW lost all nine independent rebroadcasting stns in autumn 1998. DW Serbian bcs 135 mins daily, Alb section 100 mins daily. (DW, Jan 15)

ALGERIA v11715.10 33333 & v15160.91 43333 RTA Bouchaoui 1600-1612 nx in both Fr and then En, followed by En political comment. Strong splatter of BSKSA 11708.22. An UNID French lang stn noted around 2000-2200 on 7145 kHz 54554, ahead of VoVTN co-ch. Seemingly RTA Bouchaoui registered 1800-2300 98 degr. (WB, Jan 17)

ARGENTINA v15344.94 RAE SP noticias from 2100 UTC 35443. Disturbed ionosphere tonight Jan 17: very strong signals from far away stns like THA 9535, AIR 9910/9950, AFS 9510, MRC 9575/9690, GAB 9580 55555, ALG 7145, ASC 15400, EQA 15115/15550, ATN 15315, BOT 12080, UAE 9695, SIN-POR 9625 etc. (WB, Jan 17)

BELGIUM RTBF Brussels resuming SW txions 1 Feb 1999. In Fr to CeAF: Mon-Fri 0400-0600 9490 0600-0810 17650 1100-1315 21565 1600-1810 13820 Sat 0530-0600 9490 0600-1100 17650 1100-1215 21565 1700-1910 13820 Sun 0530-0600 9490 0600-0915 17650 1200-1215 21565 1600-1810 13820. Tx site DTK Deutsche Telekom Juelich, 100 kW, Azimuth 180 degr.

Reports to RTBF, Relations International, 1044 Brussels, Belgium. e-mail relint.r@rtbf.be (C.Vanoudheusden-BEL, Michael Barraclough-UK, Jan 17)

BRAZIL 6000 0705 R. Guaiba, P, much QRM, received in LSB. 22222 v6040.4 0710 RC Paranaense, P, ID, TA, adv, MPB, 24322. 11815 0728 R Brasil Central, P, ID, adv. (Enzio Gehrig-SPA, Jan 13)

R Globo in Port at 0830 the only 25 mb Brazilian stn monitored here on 11803.98. (WB, Jan 16)

CHINA 684 kHz 800 kW RFI in French 1300-1400 to SoVTN and PHL via Dongfang on the far most western tip of Chinese Hainando Isl. Propagationwise an excellent location across the Chinese Sea to VTN, PHL, but also CBG, LAO and even THA. (RFI printed schedule; Uwe Volk-D, Jan 16)

The CPBS/CNR Minorities schedule has changed yet again. The former 0000- 0130 block now runs 0030-0330. The first hour (Tibetan) is observed on 8566 11375 11710 12080, and is followed by Uighur and Kazakh on 10260 11375 11630 & 15670. I've still to check 0530-0700, but 0500 Mong on 9920 seems to be gone. Kor is still hrd at 1000 on 8566 and 9920, but there's no trace of any Minorities progr between 1100 and 1200. (Jones-PRG, via NU, Jan 10)

9782.08, Qinghai PBS; Xining, 0558-0607, lang: Mandarin, instumental mx, pips, ID and heavy promotion then for adverts on Qinghai PBS, because they reach every corner of the country and greater Asia too (at least, that's what they claim). Said QRGD more than 20 times in 4 mins. 0606 singing. 25232. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 7)

Guangxi Foreign BS was noted on new 9820 at 1000, IS&IDs, opening, reports, advts at 1013, SINPO 43443 with CW and RNW co-ch. (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jan 12)

CRI in Jpn was received on 9855 from 0930 with strong co-ch VoA in Ru and FLATTER, also PRC's jamming from 9845 (VoA Ch). (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jan 12)

In the past I had several e-mail addresses of the German dept of RCI in Beijing. As it seemed they never received any message, I asked my e-mail partner and friend who is living in Beijing to call the German dept and get the latest valid addresses. e-mail: [email protected] web URL address: www.germany.com.cn (Volker Willschrey-D, Jan 14)

CLANDESTINE 7000 Sudan Alliance Forces "Sawt Nedal al-Shab al Sudany" with Ar. Quite strong signals 1640-1705, but suffered from even stronger interference from telegraphy. Good ID in the clear at 1704. (Bjorn Fransson-SWE, Jan 9)

From German Ham Radio Club DARC - Band Watch. 7000.0 Radio "Voice of Freedom and Renewal" Radio against Sudanese govt. Heard on 8 Jan at 1620. Internet addr see "Voice of the Sudan Alliance Forces".

7000. Radio "Voice of the Sudan Alliance Forces" Also Radio against Sudanese govt. Ar lang 1645-1715. ID: "Sawt Nedal al-Shab al-Sudany al-Mosalah". Addr: Sudan Alliance Forces, 37 Cassidy Street 228, Kingston, Ontario K7K 7B3, Canada. tx location unknown. http://www.safsudan.com (Ulrich Bihlmayer DJ9KR, Jan 12)

5830 1800 Radio-ye Iran-e Fardi heard both days with good strength, but splashed. Seemed to have the same progr both days as I recognized a song in En at exactly the same time both days. Addr? www-site? (Bjorn Fransson- SWE, Jan 8/9)

Clandestine radio stn from COL to COL 6239.8 Voz de la Resistencia 1103- 1115, anthem followed by s-on ID in Sp. LA ballads and at 1113 "The Internationale". Overall weak signal. Fading and gone by 1125. (Mohrmann- USA, via Cumbre Dx, Jan 8)

4025 An UNID stn in Ar, Kurdish first observed on Nov 28. Was heard back on Jan 8, s-on at 0325 with mx, 0330 Ar ID, prayer, ID in Kurdish, followed by progr mainly in Ar, fade out around 0440 (s-off presumed at 0450). ID in Ar "Sowt-o ittihadi Islami...Kurdistan" and in Kurdish "Dendzi ... shuju ... Kurdestana" & presumed result is: "Voice of the Patriotic Islamic Party of Kurdistan". (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 10/16)

Two stns are heard daily of Iraq Communist Party (or there are two Comm Parties as usually ...) 4000 Voice of Iraq Communist Party in Ar 1500-1604* & *1627-1700. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 10/16)

3900 & 4760 Voice of the People of Iraq in Ar & Kurdish: *0357-0500 (fade out here), *1730-1830*. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 10/16)

Voice of the Communist Party of Iran is resuming its txions in Persian on 3870 & 4370 at *0428-0527*. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 10/16)

CONGO 6014.9 RTV Congolaise, Jan 13, approx 1800-1900, mostly Vernacular talk with strong French accent, a lot of local melodies - weak and //5985. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jan 15)

COSTA RICA On Tue Jan 12 at 1901, James Latham announced a different freq schedule for RFPI perhaps temporary for operational reasons due to current board of advisors meeting?

6975 0000-0800 (no mention of -1200 on weekends, but maybe), 15050 1800- 2330 (x2100-0300), 21460-usb 1400-0300 (x1200-0300). Continent of Media has a new time, Tue at 2000 only and did appear Jan 13 at 2003, but it was still the old Dec-Jan edition. Jan-Feb should start Jan 15. The RFPI morning block in Sp seems to have come back only on Mon Jan 4; since then, if heard at all, RFPI has been back with further repeats of En before 1600. (Glenn Hauser, OK, U.S.A., Jan 14)

CROATIA For Hrvatski Radio Zagreb e-mail addr, try [email protected] attn. Mr. Vladimir Lusic (head of Hrvatski radio Internat Relations Dept) or simply [email protected]. [email protected] (Ivana Matanic) (via Volker Willschrey-D, Jan 11)

DENMARK This is to tell you that we now have our local radio stn, The Voice Denmark's No. 1, on the Internet in RA. If you have a G2-player, hear it on http://www.voice.dk - click up left 'On Air'. Via satellite it is heard in EUR at 5 degr east, 11938 MHz, audio: 7.74/7.92 MHz. (Erik Koie-DEN, Jan 12)

Wrong address. Several reports from Germany for the first half of Dec have been addressed to 'PTT, Tietgensgade 37, DK-1530 Copenhagen V'. This addr belongs to our mailing sce, Post Denmark, so these letters have been very much delayed.

This address is given in the German-language "Sender und Frequenzen" handbook to get QSL's for the Kalundborg txs and was included some years ago, as Radio Denmark did not verify reception reports. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jan 12)

Change in the R Denmark (and Norway) schedule as of Jan 1st. The txions are beamed to AUS, but via the Canary Isls and SoAM. The beam is 250 degrs from the Norwegian tx at Sveio near Haugesund: 0830 and 0930 13800 was changed to 15735. (Erik Koie / Radio Denmark, Jan 13)

ETHIOPIA 11800 R. Ethiopia, VoPeace, back again on this freq at 1900- 2000 Jan 7 & 9 with Somali progr. IS at 1900, En ID by woman, "This is R Ethiopia," and continued with "This is VoPeace bcing for Somalia from the ext sce of R. Ethiopia." Talk by man in Somali/AR followed by prayer, talk and songs for Ramadan. At 1959, anmt in Somali/Ar, then En, as "you've been listening to a Somali progr produced by Voice of Peace from the ext sce of R Ethiopia . . . We shall be on the air again tomorrow in the 25 & 31 mb with progr produced by VoPeace". Eent off at 2001. //9560. (Vaghjee- Mauritius via NU, Jan 10)

GERMANY 5850 Sunrise Radio I started checking for these guys at 1000, and I noticed that they have an En nxcast, focusing on nx of the sub- continent, and a weather forecast at this time. (Hans Johnson FL USA Jan 12-13)

Deutsche Welle's "DigiClock". If you have always wanted to know what "three o'clock" is in Singhalese, then you need no longer be deprived of this knowledge. The DW-online editorial dept offers you a quite special sce: a clock which announces the exact time in 45 languages -- and none of these is dialect ! As a tribute to DW's bi-weekly Sanskrit broadcasts, the clock also speaks Sanskrit. http://www.dwelle.de/english/headcrash/digiclock/ (DW-plus, Febr 1999)

11840 Came across of Good News Hour via DTK Juelich, US English relig progr, addr in Texas was given. Sat only 1600-1700 to AF, 32322. Also Suns only 0700-0800 in 260 degr to AUS, NZL on 13740, 25222. (WB, Jan 16/17)

HUNGARY Special progr by Radio Budapest in Italian[!] language. Txions every Wed from Jan 13 til final day Feb 10, 1999, at 1948 and 2148 on 3975 7185 7285 to EUR. At 2348 on 11985 and 13685 to SoAM; at 2148 on 11985 to NoAM; at 0148 6120 and 9835 to NoAM; at 1148 on 17670 21560 and 25700 to AUS.

RR's to be send to: Florence DX, Casella Postale 5640, I-50127 Firenze, Italy. and/or Radio Budapest, Brody Sandor ut. 5-7, H-1800 Budapest, Hungary. information via web, URL: http://www.intrasoft.it/italradio (Florence DX via Morandotti, via Franco Probi, Radioincontro, Jan 14) [Italian/English translation by your ed.]

INDIA AIR updated B98 sked for 13 MHz channels: 13620 0215-0300 Pu, 0300-0345 Da, 0400-0430 Pe, 0430-0500 1730-1945 Ar (ME); 1945-2030 Fr NWAF 13630 0100-0130 Myanmar 13695 0315-0345 Hi EaAF 13700 0130-0200 Tib, 1000-1100 En AUS, 1115-1215 Tam, 1215-1245 Telugu 13710 1330-1500 En SoEaAS 13720 1515-1615 Swa, 1615-1730 Hi EaAF 13770 1615-1730 Hi ME 13780 1745-1945 En, 1945-2030 Fr NoWeAF 13795 0000-0045 Tam, 2300-0000 Hi SoEaAS (Jose Jacob-IND, via EDXP, Jan 10)

IRAN 15111.5 VOIRI new freq? 1215 in It with a bit of splatter from HCJB on 15115. //to 15084.2, which was better. (Hans Johnson FL, Jan 17) Scheduled It 1200-1300 13600, v15084 and 15115.

KOREA D.P.R. v11709.95 R Pyongyang in Ru 0700-0750 playing patriotic songs. Fluttery signal 33433, //muffeled v13790.08. (WB, Jan 17)

KOREA Rep. of RKI Seoul in Ru noted with fair signal on 5975 at 1130, some co-ch Ute QRM and Tibet (tent.) on 5969v. (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jan 12)

WRTH '99: NO listing for AFKN under Korea, Rep.of. And also repetitions of the internat schedule for RKI in the "Main" section. I too have commented to them about separating the listing for overseas progrs from the main entry, but to no avail. (Martin Gallas Jacksonville, IL, Jan 11)

[UK] From Mon Jan 25 RKI Skelton relay 2000-2230 3970 will be replaced by 3980. Ge 2000 and En 2200 105 degr, Fr 2100-2200 175 degr. (Daniel Friese?- D via ADXB-OE NL, Jan 17)

KYRGYZSTAN Kyrgyz Radio on Dec 17 nx in Ru at 0200. On Dec 3: 0010-0025 nx in En, both on 4010 & 4050. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Dec 21/Jan 16)

MALAWI v5993.2 MBC Radio One, Jan 13, 1655-1816*, mostly in Chichewa, many ID's as "MBC Radio One" and "Internat Service", 1800 En nx and weather - poor to fair past 1640 (again on this freq after some months of silence), R ETH was on 5990.4 at this time, Vo the Broas Masses of Eritrea was on 7085 and 7175 only (no any signal on 6190). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jan 15)

MALI CRI via Bamako-MLI, new schedule, updating B98: 0830-0857 Ha 7170 1400-1557 En 15125 13685 Asia 1600-1657 Ar 15125 13685 1700-1727 Sw 15725 11970 1730-1827 Ha 15125 11970 1830-1927 Ar 15530 13685 1930-1957 Po 15500 11975 2000-2127 En 15500 11975 2130-2227 Fr 15500 11975 2230-2257 Ch 15500 11975 2300-2357 Ch 11975 0000-0257 Sp 9665. (Nagoya DX Circle / Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Jan 10)

MOLDOVA The pro-Russian separatist "Radio Pridnestrovya", Tiraspol is operating now *0500-0600* & *1630-1800* in Ru (Mon-Fri 0530-0600, 1730-1800 in Ukr & Moldovian) on 1467. Announcing also bc times at 0600, 1400. Heard with "Telephone type" sound/audio. At 0459-0500 hrs 2 txs are heard mixed "R Rassia" & "Mayak" progrs. The programme of R Pridnestrovya is containing no more "black hostile propaganda" vs. Chisinau, Moldova. "The Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic" as called itself has its own parliament, president etc.

While R Moldova Internat (seems their bcs will be ceased soon) is using the facilities of Bacau Galbeni Romania. The txs located in Moldovian territory in Grigoriopol are owned by MCB Russia (MW 999 & 1467, SW 5 x 1000 kW). 999 is on the air: DW Ukr 0530-0600[from Feb 1], DW Ru 1600-1700, 1900-2000; TWR in Ru, Ukr, Bjelorussian Mo-Fr 2000-2030 (some days til 2100), Ukr daily 1830-1900. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 10/16)

MYANMAR R Myanmar, 5986, fair at 1140 with local progr, heterodyne (due to VoA Delano 5985) and RKI Seoul on 5975 were QRMing. (Feodor Brazhnikov- RUS, Jan 12)

NEPAL 3229.8 Radio Nepal is back on its winter freq of 3229.8 kHz like previous years for the winter. This has been on not more than a week now. It would be interesting to know when winter starts in Nepal ! Replacing 7165 //5005. Observed in the evening. Weak signals, just a little stronger than a heterodyne on RRI Bukkittinggi-INS.

Yet to check whether the daytime bc is still on 7165. 5005 the all season freq still prevails. This winter freq of 3229.8 is weak and appears to be from the 5 kW standby tx in Jawalakhel rather than Kumaltar which is listed for 100 kW. Going by strength it can't be anywhere near 100 kW. Need to check this with the stn. (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 17)

NETHERLANDS Please inform me if you know the addr for send reports to TSS-HOLLAND that bc on Jan 9 via Merlin Network One. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera- ARG, Jan 14) Anyone can help?

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLS DXers have been hearing test txions of the new IBB - International Broadcasting Bureau relay stn at Tinian, the Northern Marianas Islands. When it goes into regular sce, Tinian will be used heavily by RFA. RFA has not received permission from the THA and PHL govts to use VoA relays in those two countries, so, until now, RFA has had to depend largely on leased SW facilities in the former USSR and in various PAC isl locations. But VoA, especially its Mandarin sce, will also use the Tinian isl site.

The six 500 kW Brown Boveri txs at Tinian have an interesting history. They were used at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty relay site at Maxoqueira- POR, from 1991 to 1994 perhaps one of most short-lived SW sites ever. In fact, the Maxoquera txs were installed just as VoA was constructing its new site at Briech-MRC. The new nearby sites were used by VoA and RFE/RL to tx to the same countries in the same langs at the same times. The end of the Cold War, budget cuts, and the consolidation of VoA and RFE/RL engineering operations, resulted in the closing of the Maxoquera site. Three of the txs are now testing at Tinian, and three will come on line at a later this year. (Kim Elliott-USA in VoA CW, via TRS, Jan 11)

17665 Presumed VoA/Tinian here 0900-0913 and sent the same progr on 11895 0930-0943. Just mx played, no ID's at all. Very good reception, but fading. (Bjorn Fransson-SWE, Jan 9)

Tinian broadcast schedule. The IBB tx stn on Tinian is scheduled to begin bcs of VoA and RFA progrs from 0800 UTC Jan 15. This schedule of bcs from the IBB Transmitting Station on Tinian Island is effective from 0800 UTC Jan 15, 1999:

Time(UTC) kHz Org Lang 0800-1000 11995 VOA ENGL 0800-1000 13650 VOA ENGL 1000-1100 11995 VOA CHIN 1000-1100 13650 VOA CHIN 1100-1200 9860 RFA LAO 1100-1200 13790 RFA LAO 1200-1300 11825 VOA CHIN (* Khmer also heard) 1200-1300 13790 RFA KHME (* Chin also heard) 1300-1400 11825 VOA CHIN 1300-1400 15250 VOA CHIN 1400-1500 15260 RFA CANT (* Vietn also heard) 1400-1500 15470 RFA VIET (* Cantonese also heard) 1500-1600 13735 RFA MAND 1500-1600 15215 RFA BURM 1600-1800 11850 RFA MAND 1600-1900 13735 RFA MAND 1800-2000 11790 RFA MAND 1900-2000 11740 RFA MAND [* switch error til Jan 16] Note that the stn will not be operating 2000-0800 while construction work continues. (Ferguson-VA direct and via NU, Jan 14)

Tinian is very strong and should be very well received in SoEaAS and CHN as it is heard at super strength in IND and CLN-SLK one more hop away from very detailed monitoring carried out so far. The stn had some operational problems with wrong feeds on certain freqs, but now well into operations to the sked for Radio Free Asia and VoA. Also with Tinian coming into operation even though with only 2 of the 500 kW txs, VoA added 0800-1000 VoA Newsnow to AS/PAC. When all 5 txs are in operation SW reception should be very good for VoA and RFA in Asia. Iranawila the 13th VoA relay stn which has had more than its share of problems is expected to be operational later this year. They have already conducted some tests of their antennas. (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 17)

11995 / 13650 VoA, Jan 15, *0745-1058*. Carrier on and 0755 Yankee Doodle IS and ID. 0800 Country Mx USA. Did a recheck at 0945 and found VoA Express with Hootie and the Blowfish mx. Curiously enough both channels were not //with 11995 running a split second behind 13650, so I wonder it the progr was run from two different tape feeds. SINPO on both channels 45434.

13789.98 / 9859.99 RFA, Jan 15, *1059-1130, Scheduled Lao progr, although it sounded a lot like Vietnamese to me and they also mentioned VTN a lot. Had an ID in Lao and En mentioning "the following progr is in Lao" at 1129 then continued. SINPO 45544/44434. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, in DXW, Jan 15)

As I write this at 0820 Jan 15, I am hearing great signals (SIO 444) on both 13650 and 11995 carrying VoA En progr Country Music USA (not //NewsNow). (Richard E. Hankison-USA, Jan 15)

Around 1040 UTC VoA in Ch noted from Tinian on 11995 and 13650 SINPO 35553 herein. TX break on 13650 at about 1045. (Martin Elbe-D, Jan 15; Michiel Schaay- HOL, Jan 15)

No propagation into EUR at 1700-1800, Jan 15. ed.

Report of Jan 16, signal not very strong, all freqs 200 Hz down, XXXXX.98 kHz, some languages changed compared to the published schedule, but seemingly some control errors on the switch board occured. The schedule above show the exact desire:

0800-1000 VoA Tinian 13650 25322 fluttery signal, both VoA Express progr. 11995 12321 QRM R Rossii 11990. Sat/Suns RDP Sines-POR co-ch powerhouse.

1100-1200 RFA Tinian 9860 33433 QRM splatter RNW Wertachtal 9855. Laotian progr. //CIS 15660 17530. 13790 22322 QRM splatter Sveio Norway 13800. Laotian progr. //CIS 15660 17530. To handle audio peak signals: Interestingly in order to handle power consumption of PDM pulse modulation on main power connect effectively, progr audio feed of 9860 is slowed behind by 3/4 second against 13790 feed. Similar procedure is in use on RNW Bonaire isl relay.

1200-1300 RFA Tinian 11825 31321 QRM RUI Kiev co-ch. Khmer lang progr instead of VoA Chin. //CIS relays 9395 11510 11540. Tinian 1/2 second behind CIS relays. VoA Tinian 13790 35433 VoA Ch progr instead of RFA Khmer. //9680 11965 12040 but all heavily jammed.

1300-1400 VoA Tinian 11825 31331 QRM RUI Kiev co-ch powerhouse. VoA Chinese. 15250 25332 //9680 11965 12040 but all heavily jammed.

1400-1500 RFA Tinian 15260 35333 Vietnamese sce. //CIS 9365 15660. 15470 35333 Canton lang. In EUR the 19 mb freqs fade-out around 1430 today Jan 17th. (WB, Jan 16/17)

NORWAY The next HFCC and ASBU will make be in the beginning of Feb in Lisbon, to coordinate the summer schedules for 1999. Due to increased sunspot activity most of us will be using new freq bands which have not been used for a long time,. This means that we all need to find new freqs - this will make the job more difficult for each of the coordinators. As was the case in Tunis we will also coordinate with the Arab delegations. Considering the little time we have at our disposal it won't be easy. But we will all do our best to get a good result if possible". (Olav Grimdalen-NOR, R Norway, via EDXP, Dec 15)

PAKISTAN 15427.74, 1216-1230*, Ch progr; M and W and some Ch mx. One traditional-sounding song, then one Pop-like song. W again w/poss. ment of "GMT" (sked??), then NA 1229. Progr off, but carrier remained on. Asian sounding. (Dave Valko-USA, Jan 10)

Acc to Dave Valko one of the Islambad units ghostly approx. 2 kHz down.

Urdu ME sce 0430-0700 v15172.72 and 17555.20; 11725 not traced here. Urdu WS 0800-1120 Jan 16th 15527.73 and 17835.12, Jan 17th 15527.73 and 17835.23. Hindi 1130-1200 on 11995 only, no trace of 9510 and 13580. Chinese sce 1200-1230 on v15427.73, typical PAK jingles. Irani 1300-1345 15624.98, //11935.00. Urdu ME sce 1330-1530 11570.13 15462.73, und Karachi 15172.78 jumping up and down, 15172.60 ... .85. (WB, Jan 16)

ROMANIA A home sce progr "Magyar - German" is heard 1900-2000 in German on MW 1197 1323 1593. Not on 909 whre the progr was Romanian (cf. WRTH). (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Dec 21/Jan 16)

RUSSIA B98 season DW relay freq usage in Russia and Moldova:

Lang START ENDE FREQ stn / site kW Azim Target UKRAINIAN 0530-0600 999 GRIGORIOPO 500 0ND URS RUSSIAN 1600-1700 999 GRIGORIOPO 500 0ND URS RUSSIAN 1900-2000 999 GRIGORIOPO 500 0ND URS TURKISH 1700-1750 1170 KRASNODAR 600 210 SEUR/ME CHINESE 1000-1050 5895 PETROPAVL. 200 263 CHN CHINESE 1330-1355 5895 PETROPAVL. 200 263 CHN RUSSIAN 0000-0100 5925 SAMARA 200 117 URS GERMAN 2200-0000 5925 NOVOSIBIR. 1000 085 FE PERSIAN 1800-1850 5935 SAMARA 250 188 ME RUSSIAN 1600-2000 5945 SAMARA 200 117 URS PERSIAN 1800-1850 5965 KRASNODAR 200 147 ME RUMANIAN 2000-2100 6000 SAMARA 200 246 EUR JAPANESE 1230-1300 7305 NOVOSIBIR. 500 085 FE CHINESE 1330-1355 7305 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 CHN URDU 1430-1515 7305 NOVOSIBIR. 500 195 SAS HINDI 1515-1600 7305 NOVOSIBIR. 500 195 SAS ENGLISH 1600-1645 7305 NOVOSIBIR. 500 195 SAS GERMAN 1000-1200 7315 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 FE GERMAN 1200-1400 7315 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 FE GERMAN 1400-1600 7315 SAMARA 250 140 SAS GERMAN 1600-1800 7315 SAMARA 250 140 SAS GERMAN 1000-1200 7340 PETROPAVL. 250 241 FE GERMAN 1200-1400 7340 PETROPAVL. 250 241 FE GERMAN 2200-0000 7375 NOVOSIBIR. 500 125 FE CHINESE 1000-1050 7390 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 CHN RUSSIAN 2000-2200 7395 IRKUTSK 100 083 RUS GERMAN 1600-1800 7445 MOSKVA 250 169 ME GERMAN 1800-2000 7445 MOSKVA 250 169 ME GERMAN 1000-1200 9480 NOVOSIBIR. 500 145 SAS/SEAS GERMAN 1200-1400 9480 NOVOSIBIR. 500 145 SAS/SEAS BENGALI 0100-0150 9815 NOVOSIBIR. 1000 180 SAS ENGLISH 0200-0250 9815 SAMARA 250 140 SAS ARABIC 1300-1600 9860 KRASNODAR 500 188 ME GERMAN 1000-1200 9900 IRKUTSK 250 110 FE GERMAN 1200-1400 9900 IRKUTSK 250 110 FE RUSSIAN 0000-0100 11975 VLADIVOST. 200 20 US RUSSIAN 0000-0100 12045 PETROPAVL. 250 263 RUS ENGLISH 0900-0950 12055 IRKUTSK 250 110 SAS PERSIAN 1000-1050 15525 SAMARA 200 188 ME (DW via A.Volk-ADDX, Jan 14)

MW Krasnodar Tbilisskoye 1089 & SW 6005. 1600-1700 as follows: Sun, Mon VoR in En; Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Islamskaya Volna in Ru & Ar. Sat Kala Aturaya in Assyrian. All //9480.

On 1089, 6005 1800-1900 Mon Adygei R in Adygean, Ar, Tur; Fri Adygean R in Adygean; Wed, Thu & Sun 1830-1900 Kabardino-Balkarskoye R in Kabardinian. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Dec 21/Jan 16)

MW Krasnodar Tbilisskoye 1089 schedule: Mo-Fr 0400-0500, Mo-Fr 1500-1600 R Kuban Krasnodar in Ru. Mo-Fr 1300-1400 R Adygea in Ru & Adygean. Daily 1400-1500 (Sa-Su 1300-1600) R Rassia. Daily 1700-1800 & 1900-2000 VoR in Ar. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 11/16)

MW Krasnodar Tbilisskoye 1170, 1200 kW schedule: 1500-2030, 1500 VoR Tur, 1600 as MW 1089, 1700 DW in Tur, 1800 VoR in Ar, 1900 IBRA R in Tur, 1930 CRI Beijing in Tur, 2000 IBRA R in Ar. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jan 11/16)

RWANDA Good signals from 1600 on 6055. There is a short nx bulletin in En around 1605. Mostly in Fr at other times with lots of Afro mx. A real pleasure to have this on the band as a regular signal. (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 13)

SERBIA "R Free KOSOVO" belongs to the Albanian Guerilla UCK. Started broadcasting on Mon Jan 4th on FM channel from the Kosovan mountains. (Thomas Schmid-Pristina, Kosovo, in German left wing and Green movement newspaper "taz - tageszeitung", Jan 7; via Juergen Lohuis-D)

SEYCHELLES 9455 FEBA Mahe, 1900-1945, Ar prayer, his voice is unmistakable, remainds me on his pray via former ELWA Monrovia outlet 11835, heard for decades in the 70s and 80s. (WB, Jan 17)

SINGAPORE 7245 Malay sce noted with opening at 2300, followed by nx and mx progr. Good signal, but strong RL in Ru co-ch and severe PRC's jamming on 7250 (against CBS-Taipei). (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jan 11)

SUDAN 5500 NF R Omdurman 1705 -1805 man and woman on news and commentaries in Sudanese / Ar 1705-1730 with local mx intervals. At 1733 with progr 'Anadi Kehen' (an interview), 1745 mostly with mx progr then on 1800 with nx. NO clear ID Heard though on most times Sudan on progr headlines has been heard. Good signal 44444 with antenna tuned properly. (Zacharias Liangas-GRC, Jan 13)

TADJIKISTAN The half hour edition of Communications World will have a new SW outlet, perhaps as early as this weekend. It's Dushanbe-TJK, site of jamming txs in the former Soviet Union, but now home to strategically placed SW txs for hire. Communications World will be bc, on a trial basis, from Dushanbe Sun at 0930 on 15605. In addition to SoAS, this might be audible elsewhere in AS, and perhaps even as far as EUR and AF. (Kim Elliott-USA, VoA CW, via Kai Ludwig, Jan 9)

Kim Elliott's VOA Communications World which was to come over Dushanbe via WRN arrangement 0930-1000 15605 as a complete 30 min edition didn't come through Jan 17 due to feed problems. Dushanbe was on playing a continuous RFA queue loop with piano melody.

(Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 17)

[But not heard January 10! - looked out on 17605 instead of 15605 today Jan 17th, my fault, ooohhh dear... ed]

Increased 24 hrs progr on 4635. Regularly heard often at 2200. On Dec 9 at 0230 progr in Ru ID "Radio Payk-i-Ajam". (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Dec 21/Jan 16)

4635, Tadjik R Dushanbe, Jan 10, 0017-0030, Vn, male speakers with agitated talk and Tadjik folk mx, fair signal with some fading and QRM by UNID CW stn. 33333 (Thomas Roth-D, via DXW, Jan 13)

TAIWAN Radio Taipei Internat bcs live on Internet round the clock. Ge 0600, En 0700, Fr 1800, Ar 2000, Sp 2100. Asian langs at other times. The VoAsia in En can be heard at 1400. http://www.cbs.org.tw/english/index.html (Jean-Michel Aubier-F, Jan 11)

[non?] 13750 A Chinese speaking stn on Jan 6 & 7 at 1000. On the 6th a woman appeared to be reading a series of numbers but the signal too weak to distinguish what was happening on the 7th. A clandestine operation? New Star Broadcasting Station ? (Noel Green-UK, Jan 6)

Yes, they're loud and clear on this channel here in TWN. Hum in the signal, if you can detect that in Europe. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 12)

TONGA While I'm sure the Tongans have more to do at the moment than getting back on SW, the lack of banana trees shouldn't affect their bcing plans for the rest of our lifetimes. Banana "trees" are actually a very hard-stemmed herb with a two year lifespan. The first year they grow very fast to a height of around 3-5 meters. The second year the bananas grow and the tree dies. (Don Moore, Iowa, responding to our 99-02 report)

Glenn: As far as Tonga goes, as I recall they were using an inverted V antenna connected to a coconut tree for the SW sce on 5030 per several reports that RN did on them during the last sesquidecade. Were they active before the storm? If they were, they are no doubt off the air now. I wrote this but was't expecting it to be printed. It was something I wrote tongue in cheek. (Artie Bigley, KY, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jan 14)

Considering the lifespan of banana 'trees', coconut would seem far more likely as antenna mast. (via Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 14)

UKRAINE I checked RUI Kiev Sun Jan 10, En 2200-2300 on 4820 5905 6020 7205 and 7420. At the start of the DX Club progr at 2245 it was announced that the high power Mykolayiv tx was currently off the air though no reason was given.

I'm listening to Cairo on 9990 as I write this e-mail following the tip in 402, can't remember when I heard them with such clear modulation. Also your mention of Sweden Calling Dxers brought back memories of the yellow bulletins coming through each week but I think that they were blue before they went yellow, this is going back to 1964 when I started, what a good service to the DX community, as I remember you only had to contribute once a year to stay on the mailing list. (Michael Barraclough-UK, Jan 12)

UK RKI Seoul is now on 3980 (x3970) Ge 2000, Fr 2100 and En 2130 from Skelton-UK. (Jean-Michel Aubier-F, Jan 11; http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jm.aubier/ )

On Sun, January 3rd, European Klassic Rock more commonly known as EKR Klassic spelled with a K ceased operation. EKR provided an adult rock programming service on an analog audio subcarrier of the Astra satellite.

The brief EKR press release said that EKR closed due to a number of factors, none specified. However, Mark points out that financial problems may have been one of those factors. In Sep 1998, EKR began replacing blocks of its own programming to other radio programming services which presumably purchased that time. These include Solar Radio during the overnight hours, and Radio Caroline from 10 am to 6 pm Suns.

Communications World listeners have discussed at length the pro's and con's of radio via satellite. On the Astra system, you can deliver a high fidelity signal throughout EUR. On the other hand, audio reception via an Astra tv can be cumbersome. It's not as portable and cozy as terrestrial radio. And, in most homes, persons who wish to use the Astra rx to watch tv tend to overrule those who want to use the rx to listen to radio. (Kim Elliott-USA in VoA CW, via TRS, Jan 11)

Maritimes / Coastals: As 1998 comes to an end, many famous maritime radio stns closed down. Schevenigen (pronounced: Scave-en-in-gen) Radio PCH in the Netherlands and Sydney Radio VIS in AUS closed at 2359 UTC on the 31st of Dec 1998.

In the UK, Portishead Radio is also to close down, along with Rugby Radio GBR. At one time, Portishead was the largest communication centre in the world. To mark these closures, the Radio Officers Association will run two special events. The first - a DX event - will take place throughout April. It will be based on the old Commonwealth "Area" scheme, when ships sailing under the British flag would relay their messages to Portishead via area stns in CAN, NZL, AUS, HKG, SNG, IND, MAU, AFS and MLT.

Eighteen stns have been revived and will operate mainly CW - the operators will accommodate all speeds and abilities of CW. Also during April, old coastal radio stns around the coast of GB, IRL and the whole of EUR will return to air for a special event. Twenty UK stns at sites from Lands End to Wick will be on air as GB Zero and their old callsigns on the 10th and 11th of April. They will be joined by DAN, PCH, SAG, and many other stns which have now closed. Special awards are available for both these events.

For further details contact David Barlow, G3PLE, whose addr is correct in the current RSGB Yearbook, or see the web site at: http://homepages.enterprise.net/dbarlow (GB2RS News via Trevor Bates on Fidonet area shortwave via JKB, Jan 11)

International Marconi Day will be on the 24th of Apr 1999 to celebrate the birth of Guglielmo (pronounced: Goo-li-el-mo) Marconi. (GB2RS News via Trevor Bates on Fidonet area SW via JKB, Jan 11)

BBC-WS - German and Czech to be killed. BBC plans to cut World Service broadcasts, newspaper reports: URL: http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,8416-14475-102600- 0,00.html

The BBC plans next month to announce large cuts in its World Sce, including closing its Ge and Cz operations, the Sunday nxpaper the Observer said. The plans will also bring yet more ire on the head of director-general John Birt, already under attack for many of his strategies to modernize the BBC. Despite repeated attempts it was not possible to contact anyone at the BBC authorized to comment. (http://www.nandotimes.com Jan 16)

USA 6458.5U, AFRTS relay, Jan 3, 2121-2127, it's still active, excellent with American football 49'ers vs. Packers coverage. 4278.5U and 12689.5U untraced. (Krueger via DXW, Jan 13)

The Armed Forces Radio and TV Sce Broadcast Center (AFRTS-BC) provides 10 separate progr sces to our global audience via satellite. The SW signal is being provided by the U.S. Navy to their ships at sea during an operational exercise. They provide one or two of those sces randomly during the bc day. There is no printed schedule available for these SW bcs, as we have no idea which sces they will use at each hour. Often there are progr changes which would make a printed schedule obsolete. We have our bc schedule; however, with 10 sces, these large operational data base files are intended for internal use. Thanks for your E-mail and interest in AFRTS Charles Barker. (Mathias Eisenkolb-D, Jan 14)

VoA Special English, times and freqs: 0030-0100 1197 1548 1575 7215 9890 11760 15185 15290 17735 17820 AF EUR ME. 0130-0200 7405 9775 13740 LatAM. 1530-1600 1575 6110 9760 9845 12040 15460 AS. 1630-1700 13600 15445 17895 AF. 2130-2200 1548 9595 9760 EUR ME.

Spoken at a slower speed and with a vocabulary of 1500 words. VoA Special English has been bcing for more than 39 years. Most Special English bc begin with the nx followed by a four-minute report on science agriculture development or the environment. This is followed by longer feature programs. (Franco Probi-ITA, Radioincontro, Jan 11)

VIETNAM v9839.78 VoVTN Hanoi En nx at 1600, co-ch disturbation by VoR Persian. No // could be found here in EUR, VTN maybe on 7145 to SoAS. En nx started at 2030 on both v9839.78 and 7145, latter underneath RTA Bouchaoui co-ch. (WB, Jan 16/17)

YEMEN 6135 R Yemen, Jan 13, approx 1800-1900, Ar - good (En on 9780 only at this time). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jan 15)

AGDX and ADDX TO HAVE A JOINT MAGAZINE.

The following press release from AGDX is acknowledged to the Dec 1998 edition of EuroDX, the journal of the European DXC Council:

AGDX (Arbeitsgemeinschaft DX) e.V, the umbrella organisation of German speaking radio listener clubs has published for the past 25 years the monthly magazine "Weltweit Hoeren" (WWH). Commemorating such a silver jubilee is not an east thing when at the same time the forthcoming years will need to be covered adequately. This is a challenge, especially in times which we all know to be difficult to mobilise energies for club related affairs.

As that our long term serving chief editor Walter Eibl can no longer balance his personal and professional duties and commitments with the challenges of the regular production of our magazine, with maintaining the level of standards we have set and we were known of. Recurring to publish commercially was not a solution, and available funds from a membership community which rather deceases, cannot justify such an approach. Considering facts and many facets, it was finally decided to liaise with the ADDX e.V for the joint production of the new magazine "Kurier mit Weltweit Hoeren", starting Jan 1999.

This will also bring synergy from both organisations and serve the German speaking DX scene with news sand information even better than in the last - a joint effort for a point hobby. A joint announcement from the ADDX and the AGDX will soon follow. (Dr. Anton j. Kuchelmeister, AGDX President, via EDXP-AUS, Jan 11)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 404 27 Jan 1999 ______

AFGANISTAN Voice of Shariya heard here in Pa/Da: 0100-0400 & 1300-1630 on NF 7079.6-7082.6 (43433), (x7199v). Nx in Ur, Ar and En 1630-1715. (PanIview-BUL, Ivo Ivanov & Rumen Pankov, Jan 15)

ANGOLA v11954.80 R Nacional, Por, 35433, //weak 4950 1830-1850. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 6)

Vorgan schedule. Angolan grey cland VORGAN - a Voz Resistencia da Galo Negro - operated by UNITA resumed bcs earlier this month as peace in the south African nation shattered. SW listeners may try to follow the stn's published schedule: 0700-0900 5950, 1200-1430 11830, 1900-2100 7100. (Schedule courtesy of CRW Portugal contributor Rui Pires (CT1FAK), which was originally published in "Luso-Americano.") An addr, unfortunately, is lacking since UNITA has been isolated by the international community and cannot legally maintain representative offices abroad. (Nick Grace C., Martin Schoech, in CRW, Jan 25)

ANTARCTIC LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, a modern and new tx of 10 kW power is now going to the Antarctic Territory. The new tx was purchased in Atlanta, USA and is a CCA for SW, with this, will cover all Antarctic Territory with its bcing progrs and may bc during 24 hrs if necessary.

The old tx, was purchased in 1982 and only 2 times at day was permitted bc up today. The new tx will bc on 6030, 11955 & 15475 and will be operated by the own personal of Base Esperanza. Currently the tx is in Base Marambia, and will go to Base Esperanza in the ice-breaker ship 'Almirante Irizar'. The new tx will start its operations in next Feb 1999. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, Jan 20)

BELARUS Vitiebsk Regional Radio was noted today on 7105 with own progrs until 1645. Powerhouse S9+50db, much stronger then 6115, 7210 which were not in //. At 1645 into Radio Stolitsa relay, the same as 6115 and 7210. (Nikolai Pashkevich-RUS, Jan 19)

2338 Radio Mayak 1930 USB, nx in Ru with //only on MW. Also heard on Jan 16 at 0530, again with nx and parallel to 7400. (Pijpers via Cumbre Dx, Jan 15/16)

BELGIUM [minor correction] RTBF Brussels resuming SW txions 1 Feb 1999. In Fr to CeAF: Mon-Fri 0400-0600 9490 0600-0810 17650 1100-1315 21565 1600-1810 13820 Sat 0530-0600 9490 0600-1100 17650 1100-1215 21565 1700-1810 13820 Sun 0530-0600 9490 0600-0915 17650 1200-1215 21565 1600-1810 13820. Tx site DTK Deutsche Telekom Juelich, 100 kW, Azimuth 160 degr.

Reports to RTBF, Relations International, 1044 Brussels, Belgium. e-mail [email protected] (C.Vanoudheusden-BEL, Michael Barraclough-UK, Jan 17)

The evening broadcast on Saturdays ends at 1810 like all other days, not 1910. The azimuth is 160, not 180 degrs.

RVI Brussels MW: MW 1512 from Febr 1st, 0600-0730 300 kW, from 0730 25 kW. (Golfgids, Paul Brems-BEL, Jan 21)

BOLIVIA v5927.1 Radiodifusora Mineria, 0930-1115, weak, first log for me ! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 31/Jan 1)

4471.7 Radio Movima, Santa Ana, Jan 21, 0049-0113* Sp, Man announcer, musical progr "Escala Musical" ID "...Radio Movima //Movima.. informacion", 34232. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jan 24)

BOTSWANA / SAO TOME VoA in En with "VoA News Now" on 15510 at 1100-1130. Listed as Sao Tome and //to 17650 17750 both from BOT. Their current "VoA Guide" shows non of these. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

BRAZIL 9585 R CBN Globo Sao Paulo, propagation southwards down the Atlantic coasts of AF and SoAM still continues to be quite good here around 0800. Many Brazilians well audible on 31 mb and have found the one using 9585, on air before 0900 two mornings this week. Paraguay also well audible on v9737 next to the mighty DW 9735.

Conakry heard with Koran and tlks in vernac at 0810 on 7125, then into Fr with lovely African rhythms 0820. Still traces of a signal as late as 0915. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

Scheduled 0900-1500 in winter season, now 0800-1400 ?? ed.

BULGARIA R. Bulgaria will stop bcing in Sp Mar 27 for economic reasons, reports Mario Pace, YV4FCU on the YV2FSW DX net Jan 17. We call upon all DX organizations and colleagues to send letters of protest to the station's management in order to save this service. (Jorge Garcia Rangel, Barinas, Venezuela, via Hauser, Jan 21)

CAMBODIA v11940.36 National Voice of Cambodia, 0028-0037, Fr, ID, IS follwing Thai progr, best 45544, signal going down to S=9. No chance to hear a reliable signal at 1200, due to powerhouse BBC Kranji-SNG En by Radio in Chinese on 11945 100 kW 25 degr. Strong splatter of 9+20 dB signal. I can hardly follow the CBG progr, 1205-1217 En, ID, report about "Anti Malaria progr", 1211 ID like "The Kingdom of Cambodia", 1213 CBG song, 1217 Fr ID, QRG's, CBG press review, mx bridges. RX switched to lsb mode. UNID CHN mainland stn on odd near 11945, with talks, like wanted "jamming" disturbation against BBC lessons progr. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 9)

Yesterday I tuned in to the VoCBG at midnight UTC. They had two mins of dead air before they signed on and then one minute into the bc the tx broke down! Those engineers over there must be quite frustrated. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 20)

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP It has now been confirmed that R MINURCA has been off the air on 9900 since sometime in Dec '98. In an e-mail from David Smith received today he says that the 20 kW Telefunken tx isn't working anymore. They have no spares and it would cost more to repair and transport than it would cost to buy a new compact unit. So they are currently looking around for replacement equipment. However Radio Minurca remains on the air on FM - and on a low power tx operating 0600-1600 9500, 1600-0600 5900. Has this been heard by any DXer ??? The power must be very low. I believe that the 20 kW Telefunken never ran more than a maximum of a couple of kW's. The security council will decide in a couple of weeks if Minurca will be extended until the end of the year. Furthermore Mr. Smith says that the first dispatch of QSL cards were posted yesterday. I also understand that the Danish engineer from ST Broadcast Sce is back in Denmark. Since Christmas I think. (Stig Hartvig Nielsen in Hard-Core DX, via Cumbre Dx, Jan 21)

CHILE Vo Cristiana seems undecided where to operate on 25 mb around 0800+. Heard on air on 11745 mixing with TWN on Jan 9th. On Jan 11 it was using 11714.1 and on Jan 15 back up to 11889.4. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

CHINA On 18 Jan I heard CRI Beijing in Ge at 1800 on 9710 //6950. The txion was not audible on the parallel freq 9920. Did anyone else hear this German progr on 9710 and is this a new freq for this program? (J. Damen- NL, via Kai Ludwig, Jan 19) v2897.95 UNID Ch talking stn, resumably harmonic(?), 0940-1100, //progr 1413 kHz, at 1100 two short / one long time pip. (Xinjian Urumqui?). Looked out for RPDT2 Ngada on 2899.04, but nothing was heard. (Roland Schulze- PHL, Jan 6)

4850 CNR Beijing, 1300-1400, Ch, ID, ahead of an Indian stn which IDed as "This is All India Radio Kohima" ! by a short pause of CNR. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 9)

CNR Minorities sce (CNR4) introduced a new schedule on Jan 1st: Kaz 0230-0327 15670 11630 11375 10260, 1400-1457 11630 10260 9390 8566 4970 4330 Mongolian 2330-0027 and 1100-1157 5420 4190, 1500-1557 9390 8566 Kor 1000-1057 9920 8566 Tibetan 0030-0127 12080 11710 11375 8566, 1200-1257 11740 9755 9565 9390 8566 (relayed on 6200 6130 6110 5995 5950 4820 via Lhasa) Uighur 0130-0227 15670 11630 11375 10260, 1300-1357 11630 10260 9390 8566 (relayed on 4735 3990 v Urumqui) (NDXC via EDXP, Jan 21)

China Radio Internat changes: 1600-1700 in Ar on 13681.0(44544), instead of nom. 13685. 1600-1700 in Ru on add NF 7250 under Vatican R. In Sp to EUR - spurious signals: 2100-2300 7515v/7205v or +/-155v from nom 7360//6020. (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

CUBA RHC La Habana noted opening at 1100 on 11705 in Sp mixing with VoA PHL En co-ch. RHC //11760. 11705 is audible on both sidebands so not the SSB tx used at night ? (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

Radio Habana Cuba heard here in Sp to EUR/ME, 2100-2300 on NF 11705usb(44454), (x13660). From 2200 strong co-ch NHK via Sackville relay //11760, 13680. 2000-2200 in Fr, En, Fr to Eu on NF 13720, but from 2100 on same is AWR in Jap/En to SoAs. (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

COLOMBIA v6168.3 Voz de la Selva Reactivated and again using this ID. Heard on Jan 16 1150-1200*. Canned ID sounding to my ears as "Voz de La Selva, Voz Oriental." Left the air without anthem around 1200. I presume that this is the tx nominally on 6170 and most recently IDing as Carocal Colombia. (Hans Johnson-USA, in Cumbre Dx, Jan 16/17)

ECUADOR 3360 Radiodifusora Cultural Catolica Voz del Upano, Macas, 0254- 0307*, Sp, female and male announcer, educational progr about malaria and paludism, ID "HCVB7 Radio Difusora Cultural Catolica, Voz del Upano a traves de la frecuencia de 3360 kHz onda corta banda internacional de 90 metros ... Voz del Upano, Ciudad de Macas, Moroni Santiago ... y la direccion postal....al finalizar nuestra programacion, escuchemos el himno nacional del Ecuador" (choral version), 34333. Listen again on Jan 16 until 0330 with educational program En lesson's. Very strong signal. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jan 15/16)

ETHIOPIA 11800 Voice of Peace. Back again on this freq 1900-2000 with Somalia progr. IS at 1900, En ID by woman 'This is R Ethiopia' and cont'd with 'This is VoPeace bcing for Somali from the ext sce of R Ethiopia.' Somali/Ar px followed. Closing annts in Somali, Ar and En 1959, off at 2001. Same progr also on 9560 and went off at same time. Good and clear on 11800 while 9560 was noisy. (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, in EDXP, Jan 7/9)

FRANCE From Jan 1 R. France Internat deleted some freqs 0400-0600 9550 Fr 0500-0600 9805 Fr 0500-0700 7280 9745 11685 Fr 0600-0700 6045 Fr 0700-0800 21620 Fr 1600-1700 11670 Rom, 15460, 17620 Fr 1600-1800 7315 9495 21685 Fr, 9845 Ar 1700-1800 7350 Ar 1800-2000 7135 9485 Fr 1900-2000 5995 6175 Fr 2000-2100 5915 7350 Fr 2100-2200 5945 Fr

Additfreqs from Jan 1: 0600-1200 11670 Fr 0800-1000 21580 Fr. (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

GABON Current freqs and times of txions, all French, of Africa No. 1: 9580 at 0500-2300, 17630 at 0700-1600 and 15475 at 1600-2100. E-mail addr is [email protected] (Af. No. 1 website via JKB, Jan 18)

GERMANY DTK news: Sunrise R in En and Indian langs now heard at new time 0755-1830 on 5850 (x0700-) to avoid WYFR in It til 0745.

Brother Stair in En, changes from Dec 23, 1998 (acc. schedule): 0000-0400 11660 AUS/NZL - deleted 0200-0400 5910 NoAM - additional 0400-0500 9605 ALS - deleted 0600-1000 13810 AUS/NZL, (x0500-1200) 0900-1500 5965 EUR - deleted 1600-1800 13810 ME, ex1400-1800 same 1800-2000 6130 EUR - additional 1800-2100 11925 ME - deleted 2000-2200 11965 SoAF - additional 2100-2400 12040 AUS/NZL - deleted (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

Rainbow Radio, of Grapeca / Ragpeha organization in Amharic via DTK Juelich tx site. ID in Amharic: "Kestedamena rediyo ye selamena yewendimamach dimtse". 0100-0200 Sat 6155 AM, 1000-1100 Sun 5910 EUR, 1600-1700 Thu 11840 AF Addr P.O.B. 140 104, D-53056 Bonn, Germany. (BBCM via NU 1510, and via CRW)

Clandestine to ETH: 11725 [via DTK Juelich Germany], Voice of Oromo Liberation, verified with a date-only ltr with the wrong fqy penned in (9490) in 14 days for a rpt to Berlin from V/S Taye Teferra, Secretary, SBO Committee Europe. The ltr gave the sked as "currently b/cing to EaAF and the ME on 9930 (which was crossed out and 9490 penned in) kHz in the 31 ("/25" was penned in next to it) mb 1600-1700 on Mons, Weds and Sats." This must be an old sked, and an obvious form ltr. From the ltr: ". . . the aim of the Voice of Oromo Liberation is to reach millions of Oromos living in rural areas cut off from the rest of the world by a curtain of poverty, illiteracy and above all colonial oppression." (D'Angelo-PA via NU, Jan 25)

31 mb freq belongs to the other VoOL outlet via Kiev Ukraine, formerly on either 7570, 9490, or 9925, but now registered on 9980 100 kW, Mon/Wed/Sat at 1600-1700 to zones 38, 39, 48 at 160 degrs. VoOL never heard here in past months, no report appeared in the DX press so far. ed.

GUATEMALA 3300 R Cultural, 1110-1125, Sp, weak signal herad for the first time ! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 24)

GUAM Some freqs changes of AWR/KSDA Agat: 1500-1530 Malayalam NF 9355 (x13720 to avoid AIR) 1530-1600 Marathi NF 9355 (x11980 to avoid BBC) 2100-2200 Jpn/En NF 13720 co-ch RHC, (x15610). (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

GUIANA Fr v3289.9 Voice of Guyana, 0950-1005, pres. En, very weak. Heard for the first time ! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 4)

ICELAND I've been listening to Iceland's two LW outlets and found they were not carrying the same progr at 1835 on Jan 14. 189 had pop mx and 207 talk. I wonder if one - or both - are carrying the regional bcs listed by the WRTH, but under Ch2 - FM 2 ? Unfortunately, 207 disappeared under DLF Aholming and Kiev before 1900 and reception not good enough at 0810 today Jan 15 to distinguish if that regional txion - listed in WRTH - was on air. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

7735 (instead of 7535) Reykjavik 1855 with presume nx. Some freqs on 1857 and info by OPM and YL. Gongs at 1859 then ID "Utas Reykjavik". At 1918 with sport nx, closed 1930. (Zacharias Liangas-GRC, Jan 5)

INDONESIA v3165.20 RDK Serang, 1105-1124*, active again !, local mx, 1105 ID "Radio Daerah Kabupaten Serang", TA, instrumental INS mx. Weak. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 6)

3985.2 RRI Surabaya, 1220-, end of "Warta Berita" relay from RRI Jakarta, NA, very weak to get a positive ID. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 5)

4945.2 RRI Ambon, 1020-1032, again active, adts, popular mx, 1025 & 1032 ID. 23432 (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 23)

6070.83 RRI Jayapura, 1020-, female talks, mention many times "Indonesia", covered by jamming. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 25)

IRAN V0IR0I changes: 1100-1230 En odd 11832.3 instead of nominal 11830 1530-1630 Ru strange odd 9708.3 //9575, 9740. 2330-0230 Ar NF 7270 co-ch R.Tirana from 0000. (PanIview-BUL, Jan 15)

ITALY 9515 RAI Caltanisetta. The jamming(?) on 9515 was noted off on the Jan 9th, and not heard since! [yes remarkable clear signal noted from RAI now, ed]. The specific matter referenced seldom in the hobby press. Like a jamming sound heard on this channel during our daytime at least for the past 2 - 3 years. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15; WB)

MADAGASCAR 15145 DW: I see that in a recent updated DW sked, an En txion from DW is listed for this freq from RNW's Talata Volodny relay site at 0900-0950, 200 kW 245 degr to So&EaAF. This also appears in WRTH and PWBR, although I don't recall seeing many specific references to it in the hobby press. (Jerry Berg-USA, NU, Jan 17)

There are two more bcs of DW via RNW relays: Bonaire toWeNoAM in En at 0300-0350 11750, and 0500-0550 11795 250 kW 320 degr.

In exchange RNW uses DW Wertachtal 9855 1130-1325 towards UK & IRL, and also leased DTK Juelich 6045 100 kW at same time. (WB, Jan 18)

MALAWI 5993.2 MBC Radio One 1655-1816* mostly in Chichewa, many ID's as "MBC Radio One" and "International Service", 1800 En nx and weather - poor to fair past 1640 (again on this freq after some months of silence), R ETH was on 5990.4 at this time, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea was on 7085 and 7175 only, no signal on 6190. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, also via Cumbre Dx, Jan 13)

MALAYSIA 11885 VoMalaysia 1230 another sick tx at Kajang is 11885 Mandarin 1030-1230 (exc. Cantonese 1100-1115), noted with distorted audio at 1030, and inflicting severe splatter on R Australia 11880. Some days it seems to have very intermittent audio with long periods of open carrier. (Alan Davies-CBG, via Cumbre Dx, Jan 15)

MALI 7170 CRI, 2322, Talk in Ch lang by several announcers. Signal was strong with a weaker parallel heard on 11975. Is this a new freq for CRI at this time? I searched my electronic records and found no broadcasts reported for CRI on 7170. Ralph Brandi found a 2230-2327 CRI Ch lang bc listed in the 1999 WRTH. Txion was heard beyond 2327, however. (Costello in DXW, Jan 14)

Very little information available, even "CRI Messenger" magazine and included English section schedule prints out always OUTDATED schedules. CRI Bamako is listed for Ch 2230-2357 on 11975, and also 2230-2327 on 15550. Guess CRI Bamako changed to 7170 (to WeAF?) and 11975 at 2230-2357 now. (ed.)

MAURITANIA 4845, ORTM, 2330-0000, almost all tlk by M and W. Even though R. Kekchi was underneath, I thought I hrd this in Sp briefly at one point. Played some of the lcl stringed mx that's almost identical to their IS. Couldn't get an ID at ToH due to Kekchi fading up to equal lvl and mixing w/Mauritania. Glad to see them back on at this time on this old freq. (Dave Valko-USA, Jan 20)

MOROCCO VoA via Briech Morocco relay, 1600-2200 old 15410 replaced by 15240. (VoA Communications World by Kim Elliott, via JKB, Jan 16)

MOCAMBIQUE v3210.1 R Mocambique, Por, 23332, 1630-1650. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 4)

NETHERLANDS Address of Business Nieuws: Business News 1395 AM, Postbus 74045, NL-1070 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Klaus Elsebusch DL 3 EAY, Jan 23)

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLS IBB Tinian relay. Yes TIN 1 and 2 are a second or so apart. I think it is to reduce the draw of the power generators so that both txs don't draw peaks at the same time. I observed this and I don't think of any other reason. (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK UADX, Jan 13)

Some Clubs are already categorising "Tinian Island" as a "country" for QSL purposes. Is this logical, as the place is part of the US Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, a few km from the island of Saipan? Can a member of the amateur radio community advise the status of Tinian Island for DXCC award purposes? Now see this . . . . .

"Tinian Island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, western Pacific Ocean, formerly administered by the United States (1947-1986) as part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and by Japan (1919-1944) under a mandate of the League of Nations. Tinian is a coral island about 16 km (10 mi) long and a little more than 6 km (4 mi) wide. It is notable for its herds of wild cattle and its ancient ruins, consisting of two rows of truncated pyramids built of masonry. Its population (1990) is 2,118.

Following World War I the island, formerly a German[!] possession, became one of the most heavily fortified Japanese bases in the Pacific. During World War II, US forces invaded Tinian on July 23, 1944, and brought the island under American control within a week. Tinian then became an important base for air operations against Japan." (MS Encarta 98 Encyclopedia; via EDXP, Jan 21)

NORWAY I have rcvd a note dated Jan 7 from R. Norway Intl advising that RR's will no longer be verified due to "tight economic budgets and reduction of staff." The Technical Manager, Olav Grimdalen, is interested in rpts, even though he cannot send out QSLs, and his addr is: Post-og Teletilsynet, Box 524, Centrum, N-0105 Oslo, Norway. (Bob Padula-OZ in EDXP via NU, Jan 25)

PAKISTAN UNIDed 15625 VOSA?? Azeri type songs till 1335, then YL in Persian with refs to IRN, then hymn, and s-off . Unclear ID at 1332 due to signal low (sedaye bikurle batar??) 32333. (Zacharias Liangas-GRC, Jan 16)

No, is R PAK Islamabad, 11935 & 15624.98 Irani sce 1300-1345 nominal. ed.

15483 approx. R Pakistan 0100-0245 noted with Urdu 0100-0230 and En dictation nx 0230-0245, good signal but awful whistle with CNR on 15480; En 0230-0245 also heard with poor modulation on 15240v, actually around 15238 on the 19th, 15239.5 on the 20th. (Alan Davies-CBG, via Cumbre Dx, Jan 19/20)

PERU 6676 Radiodifusoras Paraton, Huarmaca, Jan 14, 0027-0048*, Sp, male announcer, time checks and ID "... siete de la noche con treinta minutos en Radiodifusoras Paraton ...", 23322, s-off with Nat Anthem. (Nicolas Eramo- ARG, Jan 14)

6204.2 Radio Cusco, Cusco, Jan 21, 0152-0156, Sp, Man announcer, huaynos and commts, time checks and ID "nueve minutos para llegar a las nueve de la noche en Radio Cusco...", 34232. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jan 24) v6045.63 R Santa Rosa, 0832-0855, weak, first log ! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 31)

PHILIPPINES 11995 FEBC Manila 1307 in En with country mx programming. C&W songs interspersed with what appears to be interviews with country singers. Signal moderately erratic with QRM from signal on USB. Confirmed by Dave Onley as "Country Crossroads" program via #swl in IRC. (Mark Fine- USA, Jan 23)

PORTUGAL 9715, Jan 18, 2100 RDP, R Portugal on new freq with football, just like a Brasilian stn. Match: Rio Ave-Porto. The following day only Ru talk was on the freq. Again Portuguese and again football on Jan 21st at the same time. New frequency? (Bjorn Fransson-SWE, Jan 24)

Ru lang is DW Wertachtal 1600-2200. RDP Lisbon registered 0000-0430 100 kW 294 degr to zones 6-8 only, ed.

RUSSIA Jan 26th, WalcuttD wrote: Check this URL! http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990125/V000214-012599- idx.html

From: Vladimir G.Titarev on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 2:27 AM How to understand this... last night news (RL/Russ): "... RUS will start jamming against VOA,DW,BBC,...etc., in case they will not pay licence in time (one month or so)..." may be smth wrong with my ears or what?... who could clear up. Tnx (Vladimir G.Titarev-UKR, Jan 26)

Funny... I haven't heard this (I should check my ears..) but jamming will cost much more then the licence fee income. Is there anybody to confirm this news ? (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Jan 26)

6030 VoR Moscow, 1605-1628, Ge nxs, drama, "Oh' Tannenbaum ... ", 1628 "... alle Hoerer des Moskauer Rundfunks ...", 32332. Tx Moscow 50 kW 270 degr. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 25)

Got this from a Cumbretista asking for help with 7210. Any help would be appreciated. Can't figure out 7210 at 1445-1500. Hearing a huge signal, don't think lang is Ru. Strange thing, at 1500 I can hear in background VoR IS while pres Minsk-Belarus is well over with 2+1 pips followed by a R. Rossii ID (which by listening to Al Q. IS online, R. Rossii has 5+1 pips) Does Programma Pershaya; Minsk share tx time with R. Rossii? R. Rossii, in other words, already seems to be broadcing by 1430. (via Hans Johnson, Cumbre Dx, Jan 23)

7210 2000-1600 zones 33,34 KHB 100 kW 020 degrees daily. KHB is Khabarovsk tx site in the Russian Far East.

Radio Rossii is heard strong here in Irkutsk on 7210 at 2000-1600. (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jan 24)

"RUS-DX" # 66 - B On this matter mentioned above, from monthly information bulletin of Russian DX League. Radio Rossii + local progrs in Ru 7210 - 100 kW - RV-914 - 2000-1600 - Khabarovsk (Nikolai Rudnev-RUS) Voice of Russia, 7210 1617 in En - 30/11 - tr. Samara - 55454 Belarus - CIS Belorusskoe Radio, 7210 1230 in Belarusian - 27/12 (RUS-DX #66, Jan 21)

Here is the latest schedule for "regional" SW txs of Radio Rossii and local sces: 4030 15 RV-215 switched off Anadyr 4040 5 RV-865 2200-1800 Tura 4050 15 RV-676 switched off Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 4485 15 RV-147 0000-2000 Yzykovo 4485 100 RV-656 switched off Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 4520 2 RV-667 1800-1400 Palana 4610 15 RV-737 switched off Komsomolsk-na-Amure 4795 50 RV-44 2200-1800 Ulan-Ude 4820 50 RV-703 0000-2000 Khanty-Mansiysk 4825 50 RV-725 2000-1600 Yakutsk 4860 80 RV-438 2000-1600 Chita 4895 50 RV-700 0000-2000 Tumen 5015 100 RV-441 switched off Tavrichanka 5290 5 RV-1095 0000-1600 Perm 5290 50 RV-98 2200-1800 Krasnoyarsk 5930 50 RV-790 0200-2200 Monchegorsk 5940 100 RV-1001 1800-1400 Arman 6060 5 2000-1600 Blagoveschensk 6095 3 RV-1472 0000-1600 Khanty-Mansiysk 6125 5 RV-1327 0200-1600 Yoshkar-Ola 6160 40 RV-297 0200-2200 Arkhangelsk 7140 50 RV-726 2000-1600 Yakutsk 7185 3 RV-1094 switched off Perm 7200 5 RV-1326 0200-1600 Yoshkar-Ola 7200 100 RV-729 2000-1600 Yakutsk 7210 100 RV-914 2000-1600 Khabarovsk 7320 100 RV-647 1800-1400 Arman 7345 50 RV-727 2000-1600 Yakutsk 9530 100 RV-646 1800-1400 Arman 9600 100 RV-645 1800-1400 Arman 11650 5 RV-1095 1605-2000 Perm 11840 15 RV-677 1800-1400 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 15165 5 RV-1326 1605-2200 Yoshkar-Ola 15200 3 RV-1094 switched off Perm 15235 3 RV-1472 1605-2000 Khanty-Mansiysk 15315 5 RV-1327 1605-2200 Yoshkar-Ola (Nikolai Rudnev-RUS, vai RUS-DX, Jan 21)

QSL sent by Radio Petrozawodsk, in 41 days, all details card, MW 765 kHz, heard in Finnish language at 1530 UTC on DX camp in Denmark. Address is also different to WRTH. Not Ul. Frunze 20, 185 630 Petrozawodsk, but replaced by Pirogova 2, 185 630 Petrozawodsk, Karelia, Russia. (Martin Elbe-D, Jan 26)

SEYCHELLES FEBA Mahe heard on new 15460 (x15540) in Tagalog to ME workers in the Gulf states, which includes many words and sentences in En too. Giving an addr in Manila-PHL and scheulde 1000-1100, on Fri only acc to sched. Ar followed at 1100. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 15)

SOLOMON ISL. 5020 SIBC Horiara, was not active on Jan 5th at 0900-1100. But turned in Jan 6th at 1917, En relig progr, ID "... this is the Solomon Island Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Happy Hours ... 20 minuts past six o'clock ..". Annt active on 5020 and FM, but not on MW 535. Armchair listening, S=9+40 dB ! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 3/4)

SOMALIA 11204, R. Hargeisa, new freq, 1400-1630, in Somali, 1630 ID in Ar. Fair and distorted audio. Did not hear on 7071, nor R. Mogadishu, VoPeople 7060, while R. Holy Koran is still on 6900. (Vaghjee-MAU via NU, Jan 24)

SOUTH AFRICA 9650 TWR, 1640-, IS, En ID, "You are tuned to the Internat Voice of Trans World Radio", IS again, px in vernaculars. TX unknown. [Relay via Meyerton-RSA. ed] 44544. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 5/6)

9650 1640-1655 zone 48 500 kW 20 degr Somali 9650 1655-1730 zones 47,48 500 kW 5 degr Juba/Shuw/Ar

TAHITI 15170 French Polynesia, RFO Tahiti. Fair at 1102 with Fr nx, into talk progr with studio audience at 1105 after ID for 'Radio France d'outre mer'. (Matt Francis-AUS, EDXP, Jan 16)

15170, tent. RFO Tahiti, 0145 Jan 9 with a very poor signal of island mx and Fr talk. (Atkins-OCSP via NU, Jan 25)

TANZANIA v11734.1 R Tanzania Zanzibar, 1850-1900, 33443. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 6)

TURKEY Harmful interference on an Amateur Radio Freq in band 7 MHz by "The Voice of Turkey", TUR. Again I have found "The Voice of Turkey" on an exclusive amateur radio freq on Band 7. The last time the stn was heard was on Dec 5, 1998 (only one day). I have already informed the German Telecoms. and Aziz Sasa from TRAC, the Turkish Amateur Radio Club. Freq 7100, mode A3E, date: 22 Jan, 1718-1925 and still lasting on. VoTUR QSA: 5 (S9 + 65 dB) at a dipole, further observations: progr in Tur lang //5980 9460 and 9560. Will you please monitor the stn / freq yourself and inform you national telecoms. authorities. (Ulrich Bihlmayer-D, DJ9KR, Jan 22)

UKRAINE [KHAZAKHSTAN non] 11840 Radio Almaty 1202 (presumed) "Ave Maria", sung by woman until 1208, then announcement by man:"your attention please". "Top of the World" sung by woman until 1214. Another annt by man. Signal fairly clear but weak and barely readable during annts. (Mark Fine- USA, Jan 23)

That's NOT from Kazakhstan tx site ! Really from UKRAINE. Radio Almaty's 2nd progr "Shalkar" is relayed by Ukrainian txs during daytime on 11840, and //9620, both via Kiev Ukraine 100 kW at 264 degrs. In exchange R Kievs Ukrainian progrs are relayed by three mediumwave txs in Kazakhstan, see items in WRTH under KAZ and UKR.

Relay of Kazakh Radio "Shalkar" program: (Kazakh, Russian and German) 0200-0400 5905 9600 0400-0500 9600 0500-0600 9600 11840 0600-0700 11840 0700-0900 9620 11840 1000-1600 9620 11840 (J. Sajuk, Bavaria, Germany - Ukraina DX-Monitoring-World-Ring - Oct 29, 1998)

Today 0900-1000 both txs were totally off. (Jan 24, ed)

Shut-downs in the Ukraine. Since Jan 17th, Klaus Lieberwirth misses the usual txions of Radio Kazakhstan via Brovary on 9620 and 11840. I checked this today at 1400 and found also no trace of them, so seemingly the txs are indeed off.

Acc VoR "Klub DX" (via Andreas Erbe), Radio Ukraine uses for it's Romanian bcs 1800-1830, 2030-2100 and 2200-2230 now 657 only. Seemingly this refers to a shut-down of the 1431 tx at Kopani, which I assume to be silent like the 1000 kW SW txs there. At least just in these moment I cannot hear the 1431 outlet anymore (which was otherwhise nearly unmistakable here). (Kai Ludwig-D, Jan 26)

USA I was tuning around the 19 mb this afternoon at 1900 and noticed there was high freq audio splatter all over the band. I tracked the source down to 15365. Does anyone know something about this stn and it's tx? They should be notified about this problem since it's causing interference to many stns on 19 meters. (J W Schermerhorn, via Kai Ludwig, Jan 18)

?? registered is IBB / VoA Greenville-A 15365 1830-2100 (-2130 Mon-Fri) Fr, En, Fr, Ha; 2100-2130 F, En

AFRTS/AFN is again much more active on its three USB relay freqs lately -- often heard on two or three of them at once, 4278.5, 6458.5 and 12689.5. I continue to suspect 6458.5 may not be at Key West, but Puerto Rico instead. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 973, Jan 21)

Freq changes of WSHB in En to EUR: 2200-0200 on NF 9385(45554) (x5850) //5825 to NoAM. (PanIview, Jan 15)

Wrong address of R KTBN in German handbook "Sender und Frequenzen 1999", page 284 under USA: KTBN, P.O.B. 7040, Salt Lake City, UT 84107, U.S.A.

"Skinny" Johnny Mitchell of KTBN mentioned the correct address: "Superpower KTBN SW Radio", P.O.B. 18147, Salt Lake City, UT 84118, U.S.A. (Daniel H. Friese-D, Jan 25)

QSLs: WMDM 1690, letter in 50 days. Addressed to P.O.Box 600, Lexington Park, MD 20653, U.S.A. but addr on the letter head is: Bay Media Network, Box 439, Leonhardtown, MD 20650, U.S.A. Verie-signer is Stacy Reynolds, Program Director. Website http://www.thebaynet.com (Martin Elbe-D, Jan 26)

VANUATU 4960 R Vanuatu, 1048-1100, Pidgin, ID, time, internat mx, ahead of VTN co-ch. Very strong S=9+30 dB ! Now very powerful signal again, like some time ago !! (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 1)

VIETNAM 15110 VoVTN Hanoi. New freq En 2335 //12020. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Jan 9) And in En 1000-1030, followed by In 1030-1100, also //12020. (Matt Francis-AUS, EDXP, Jan 15)

(c.f. BC-DX #403, correction) 7145 //frequ seems to be rather TRT Ankara Turkey ahead, not RTA Algiers. VTN En nx started at 2030 on both v9839.78 and 7145, latter underneath TRT co-ch. (ed)

SOUTH ASIA RADIO GUIDE

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Would appreciate your comments, suggestions and if possible some comments in the GUESTBOOK col. This will encourage me in this effort to dx listeners around the world. Thank you for visiting SARG home page.

The URL of SOUTH ASIA RADIO GUIDE is: http://www.angelfire.com/in/alokdg (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jan 24)

New WRTH web site. They finally are constructing a web-page. Let's wait and see what it will have for us! The official Web site of the World RadioTV Handbook is finally on its way! Both http://www.wrth.com and http://www.wrth.co.uk have been registered, and a single page is now on display at both URL's advising that the Web site is under construction. Thanks to Tom Sundstrom for advising us of this. (via DXW, Jan 20)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 405 01 Feb 1999 ______

AFGHANISTAN v7079.1 ... 7078.63 Vo the Sharia. 1345-1530. Male talks, mayne in Dari? Pure Quran singing progr, no instruments, talks on Islam. 1430 three time pips. 1446 politics on Talaban, Iraq, Sadam Hussein. 1500 three time pips, supposedly nx in Dari, reports til 1528, then Quran singer again. S=7, 23432. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 18)

ALASKA KNLS, Anchor Point, Alaska - A99 schedule Mar 30 to Sep 28, 1999, that means schedule change occurs always on Tues.

0800 9615 En 0900 9615 Ru 1000 9615 Ma Ch 1100 9615 Ru 1200 9615 Ma Ch 1300 9615 En 1400 9615 Ma Ch 1500 9615 Ma Ch 1600 9615 Ma Ch 1700 11780 Ru (Printed schedule via WWDXC/Michael Bethge-D, Jan 31)

AUSTRALIA R Australia will conduct a test txion on Sun 14 Feb to evaluate propagation of 21 MHz into SoEaAS during their local evenings. The test is from the Shepparton txing facility, and will be on 21710 at 0900-1358. The target areas are SoEaAS as well as Ce&WeEUR. QSLs for this txion will be marked as "test txion". (Richard Jary-AUS, Jan 26 via Hauser, Jan 29)

Test Txion. Sun 14th Feb 1999, Shepparton-VIC. 0900-1358 on 21710 bearing 329 degrs to SoEaAS, Ce&WeEUR. They are evaluating the 21 MHz bcs into the early evening periods into SoEaAS. QSL requests to the normal addr, and will be marked by return as "TEST TRANSMISSION". (Nigel Holmes RA, and John Wright (ARDXC), in Cumbre Dx, Jan 28)

ASIA Freq Guide - current at 25 Oct, 1998 0000-0500 17750 S 100 329 0100-0500 15415 S 100 329 0600-0900 15415 S 100 329 0600-1100 17750 S 100 329 0900-1200 6080 S 100 005 0900-1100 11880 S 100 329 1400-1800 5995 S 100 334 1430-1700 11660* S 100 329 1430-2130 9500* S 100 329 * these bcs may be heard at a weak strength in EUR.

PAC Freq Guide to PNG, Solomon Isls, GUM and JPN (also try En txions directed to AA on 329 and 339 degrs)

1800-2000 6080 S 7240 S 100 100 005 030 1800-2100 9660 S 100 030 2100-2200 7240 S 9660 B 100 10 030 010 2300-0800 9660 B 10 010 2100-0800 17715 S 100 030 0000-0800 15240 S 100 353 0200-0900 21725 S 100 355 0800-0900 5995 B 9710 S 10 100 010 353 0800-1200 9580 S 100 030 0900-1400 6080 S 100 005 1200-1400 6020 S 5995 B 100 10 030 010 1200-2100 9660 S 100 030

SoWe&SoCe PAC, NoAM 2000-2200 12080 B 10 080 2100-0200 21740 S 100 070 2100-0800 17715 S 100 030 2200-0200 17795 S 100 050 2300-0900 12080 B 10 080 0200-0900 15510 S 100 070 0800-1200 9580 S 100 030 1200-2100 9660 S 100 030 1200-2130 9580 S 100 070 1400-1800 5995 S 100 030 1700-2200 11880 S 100 065 1800-2000 7240 S 100 030

RA's weekend sports progr "Grandstand" is bc on Sat 0100-0700 and Sun 0200- 0700 into AS on 17750, the CePAC 17715, the SoWePAC 12080 and 17715. (Nigel Holmes, Txion Manager, RA Email: [email protected] via Uwe Volk-D, Jan 29)

BHUTAN 5030 BBC Thimpu, 1315-1344, En progr, at 1317, "This is the Bhutan Broadcast Sce", ID by female, nx til 1326, internat mx, splatter from VTN 5034.4 and co-ch QRM Fujian, 22432. No problem with Icom R70. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 16)

CAMBODIA 11940.358 National Voice of CBG, 0028-0035, Fr ID, IS, followed by Thai progr, nice CBG mx, 45544. Also 1205-1220, En nx, anti malaria report in CBG, 1214 CBG song, 1217 annts, IS, Fr ID, QRG's, signal lowered to 23432. Poor modulation. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 9)

CHINA The UNID stn on 5440 is not a clandestine stn but Xinjiang PBS Kazakh Sce, (x4970) and in //with 4330 - this has been here since late last year, and it s-off around 1650. Several Xinjiang PBS freqs seem to have been dropped recently, I've now had the opportunity to check in our local afternoons here and it confirms my observations made in our late evening/early morning period - former Xinjiang freqs which used to be well audible in EUR (5060, 4735, 4500) are no longer traced. 3960, 3990, 4980, 5440 are still heard. (Kernick in DXW, Jan 28)

RCI heard on 6550 at 1650 is most likely a feeder from Beijing to Xian. This is a usual CHN freq, with CRI in Ch 1500-1600. Bill Westenhaver of RCI confirms this is not Sackville, and that CHN occasionally uses SW instead of satellite link. "The problem," said Westenhaver, "is that the Chinese never tell us just when this is done, nor exactly why. If we knew the when and where, we could QSL them." Meanwhile, I also note that Lebanon has been absent from 6550 for quite some time. Does anyone know better? (Sonny Ashimori-JPN in Cumbre Dx, Jan 23)

Voice of the Strait with reduced hrs. Since the beginning of this year Voice of the Strait has dramatically reduced it's bcing hrs. The two networks have been merged into one and the daytime bc has been eliminated.

Bcing hrs are now as follows: 2055-0000 (morning bc) 0855-1800 (evening bc) 846 1269 4900 5050 6115 7280 9505 and 90.6 MHz are the ann freqs. Exact schedule unknown yet, but at 0855 s-on 9505 is used, while later in the evening 4900 and 5050 are used (the later only came on late Jan).

Obviously not many people have noticed this, but it might show the start of a change in attitude of the communist regime towards TWN.

On the other hand it may be even simply a cost cut. After all, SW awareness is very low in TWN and Sw radio's were even being banned until the end of martial law. With the proliferation of FM not many people are inclined to tune into s ave. Also, the MW band is so full of TWNese stns that the only two mainland stns audible in Taipei are 540 CNR 2 and 549 CNR Chinese World.

Still an interesting development. - China Hua-yi Bcing Comp with new freq. As a result of VoStrait dropping their long-time freq of 4940, China Hua-yi Bcing Comp has immediately taken over this channel and is using it for it's evening bc which ends at 1600 now. 4940 runs //to 4830, but this channel was not observed until the end of Jan.

At last check CHN Hua-yi BC is still using 6185 for their mid-day bc which starts at 0255 UTC. - There seems to be an increased activity on the dom SW scene in CHN, apart from the two cases mentioned above. I encourage everyone to observe and report new outlets / freqs or bcing times. In case of doubt please first check fo all outlets of CNR 1, CNR 2, CNR Taiwan and CNR Chinese World.

You can also check the Radio China web site (http://www.swl.net/radiochina) and in the "Fun with Chinese" section you will find audio clips with IDs of the following Chinese stns:

CHN National Radio, CRI, CHN Huayi Bcing Corpor, Fujian PBS, Gansu PBS, Heilongjiang PBS, Jiangxi PBS, Voice of the Strait, Xinjiang PBS.

For people who are curious what mid-afternoon reception in TWN is like, here a 49 mb bandscan done on Jan 28 0715-0745 (1515-1545 LT).

6015 0715 Jamming, probably against KBS Seoul which is in this freq. 6030 0716 CNR 1 //7504 SINPO 25333. 6055 0717 NSB Radio Tampa 1 //9595 SINPO 25333. 6064 0718 UNID music SINPO 15121. 6070 0719 R Pyongyang in Jpn //7580, 9650 SINPO 35344. 6085 0721 CBS TWNn in Mandarin with the variety network. Jammed, but slightly. //11775 heavily jammed. 6115 0726 NSB R Tampa 2 //9760 Carpenters mx. 6125 0728 R Pyongyang in Ma Ch //7200, 9345 SINPO 35344. 6145 0730 R Japan in Jpn SINPO 35232. 6165 0732 R Japan in Jpn //6145 SINPO 35343. 6180 0733 CBS TWN, in Ma Ch with the variety network. //6085, jammed. 6250.33 0734 Pyongyang Bcing Sce with singing SINPO 34343. 6398.83 0737 Pyongyang Bcing Sce //6250.33 SINPO 33333.

See the Asian BCing Institute clandestine radio web page http://www.246.ne.jp/~abi/chiclae1.htm for interesting information on some of the former Chinese clandestines. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 31)

CLANDESTINE [Iraq] 4760 VoIraqi People, "Saut'l Shaab'l Iraqi," 0422 Jan 24, in Ar, man with comments alt. with Ar songs, frequent IDs; good, //3902.94 just fair. Both fading out fast after 0500 (no trace at 0510 on both freqs, possibly s-off). And at 0455 Jan 26, both fair, this time on 3900 //4754.4. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, in NU, Jan 31)

COSTA RICA Joe Bernard announced this revised RFPI freq sched Jan 22 at 1900, repeated Jan 23 at 0300 just before COM: 6975 0000-0800 (weekends -1200); 15050 expanded to 1300-0300; 21460-USB 1200-0300.

RFPI's sporadic Sp noted back Wed Jan 27 at 1345 with RN transcription reviewing 1998, both on 21460-USB and 15049 which had continuous audio breakup problem. Then paz monologue by Willie Barrantes, and at 1530, the nominal Mundo Radial time, another DX progr instead, Radio Enlace transcription from RNW, which may or may not have included a DX nx segment from us - but we'll never know as both freqs dumped off a couple mins later. Sp again at 1330 check Jan 28.

BTW, he is announcing a diff addr for RFPI we've never heard given in En, with a postal code attached to the box number: Apartado Postal 88-6150, Santa Ana, CTR. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 974, Jan 29/30)

CUBA Clarification on the use of 11705. During our morning Sp lang progr we operate for two hrs, 1100-1300 on that freq. We use standard AM, with 100 kW antenna beaming 137 degrs azimuth from Habana to target area in SoAM. At 1300, R Japan starts to use the freq, when we sign off on that channel.

At night our local time, 11705 is with our En lang progr, using USB with - 12 dB carrier insertion, power is 30 kW PEP and the antenna is a rhombic about 12 dB gain over a dipole and beaming to 037 degrs, but with sidelobes that give some additional coverage.

This was formerly on 9830 0100-0500, and I decided to move it to the 11 mHz band to benefit from the higher MUFs due to the increase of solar activity, as the days are becoming longer 11705 SSB will work better and better during the time frame from 0100-0500.

The 9830 0500-0700 is now done with a 10 kW SSB tx, also running on USB with a -12 dB pilot carrier level. What your friend in the UK is listening to is our 11705 morning Sp bc, that , as you see , is on AM ! The other stn using that freq is not heard at all here or in the target area, so for us the channel is perfectly useable. (Arnie Coro CO 2 KK, Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich, Host of Dxers Unlimited, RHC, Jan 26)

DENMARK On Mon Febr 1st, R Denmark will change some freqs as follows: WeNoAM 1930 and 2030 will 11635 be changed to 15705. NZL 1930 9810 will be changed to 13650. (Erik Koie-DEN, Jan 28)

GERMANY Deutschlandfunk/DeutschlandRadio Programm Tips fuer Februar: DLR 05 1805-1900 Egon Erwin Kisch. DLF 06 0805-0900 Die Deutsche Buecherei Leipzig. DLF 06 1305-1500 Fotografische Streifzuege. DLR 09 1515-1535 Auswanderer "Auf nach Uebersee". DLF 10 2005-2100 Querkoepfe, Amateurkabarett, ex-DDR. DLR 12 1335-1400 Entstehung von Volkseigentum. DLF 13 0710-0750 Neuer Bahnhof, Berlin-Friedrichstrasse. DLR 14 0805-0900 Mit der Eisenbahn durch China. DLR 18 1805-1900 Deutsche Fremdenlegionaere. Bombentrichter, Bambusfalle. DLR 19 1805-1900 Erinnerungen eines SS-Mannes. DLR 19 2205-0100 100 Jahre Erich Kaestner. DLR 20 1405-1600 Wolfsburg. DLF 20 2205-0100 100 Jahre Erich Kaestner. DLF 24 2005-2100 Querkoepfe, 100 Jahre Erich Kaestner. DLR 26 2205-0100 Stalin, ueber Bitterfeld, Palast der Republik, DDR Funk. DLF 27 2205-0100 Stalin, ueber Bitterfeld, Palast der Republik, DDR Funk. DLF 27 0905-1000 Klassik Pop, Olivia Molina. (Times in UTC, DLF- DLR)

Radio era at [former] R Bremen tx site ends. On Sun Jan 31 at 0900 the two MW radio masts in Bremen Hollerland will be blasted. German Super Highway A27 which passes the Hollerland site, will be fully closed during the "Blown Up" time.

UHF tv and FM outlets moved to Telekom tower in Utbremen already in 1997. SW outlet 6190 kHz of common SFB Berlin and R Bremen progrs shut down in Oct 1996. Subsequently the Siemens Austria SW tx was taken over by then SWF Baden Baden, now SWR and re-erected at SWF/SWR MW site Bodenseesender Rohrdorf.

The Radio Bremen MW outlet moved away from the suburbs to new site Bremen Oberneuland location in the meantime. (Mathias Eisenkolb-D, Jan 29)

6015 [on Jan 1st outlet], R. RSG via DTK, Solingen, sent nice QSL sheet, computer generated but colorful, with photos of antennas, pix of personalities, full-data (time shown as "0900-1200 GMT"), "QSL"; also stickers and many travel brochures for the area. Says next SW txion will be Jan 1, 2000. (Jerry Berg-MA, in NU, Jan 31) Yes, the QSLs sent out recently, widely reported in DX press, ed.

HUNGARY NoAm En outlet of R Budapest 0330-0400 now on 6020 & 9835, acc to RVI radio World today. [supposedly Hung lang in 0230-0330 time slot on same channels{?}, ed] (RVI Radio World, Jan 31)

INDIA [Andaman Islands] 4760, AIR Port Blair; Jan 23, 2325-2335, Hi, signing on with NA and local ID at 2327; Indian mx and local ID again at 2330 followed by news. SINPO 45434. If someone wants to hear a local ID from AIR Port Blair, I can recommend listening to the station signing on at 2325. The stn annt is in Hi, however the name of the Andaman Isls capital Port Blair was clearly to understand. (Schnitzer-D in DXW, Jan 28)

4800 AIR Hyderabad, 1230-1245, Hi, ID nx, 44544. First time to observe with such strong signal here. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 16)

[occupied Sikkim] 3390 AIR Gangtok, 1405-1440, vernac, supa mx, 1420 and 1430 ID, 1430 nx in En, modulation carries strong growl tone. Best in usb mode. Slow mx from Sikkim. 22332. Difficult reception, but no problem with Icom R70. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 16)

INDONESIA v3583.1 UNID INS tsn, 1204-1340, Dangdut mx, no annt at all, S=5-7, Varies 3582.99 ... 3583.02. No relay of RRI Jakarta "Warta Berita". Best in lsb. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 12)

3985.8 RRI Surabaya 1130-1140, again active, IS, time pips, local mx, 1132, 22432. At same time heard also RRI Palu on 3960.2 with 44544 ! RRI Pointianak on 3976 55544, s=9 +40 dB. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 12) v4855.5...4855.7 RRI Palambang reactivated after long absence. 1055-1200. At 1100 choir, 2 short / 1 long pips, "RRI Palambang ...". ID by male, local progr til 1110. Best Sinpo was 24332, signal was weak. Suggest they have a low power outlet, not nominal 10 kW as listed. At 1200 relay of RRI Jakarta, //2899 2960 3204.1 3541.9 and many other INS QRG's. Best in LSB mode to avoid the QRM from upper side. Palambang heard on R70 + amplifier only, no signal except noise on Drake R8 could be traced. (Roland Schulze- PHL, Jan 19)

9614.3 RRI Semarinda, 0150-0205, female tlks, telephone no in Semarinda given, advt on cellular phone companies. At 0400 RRI Jakarta relay. // 9552.4 S=7, 9614.3 strong QRN S=2, 9705 S=9+20 dB, 11760 S=9, 15125 S=9 +20 dB. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 19)

11785 VoINS, En nx, local nx, asking for RR's, at 0845 QRGs given as active // 9525, 15150. But only 11785 on air. S=9 +30 dB. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 17)

LUXEMBOURG [non]. Merlin Network One is carrying "The 208 Sound" at various times between 1000 and 1800. Further checking revealed that the progr is originating from Radio Luxembourg. See http://www.nordrhein.de/home/s.konrad/radio/208/208-news.htm The web site declares that RL is alive ! (Jim Frimmel, TX, Jan 26, WORLD OF RADIO 974, Jan 29)

The Jan MNO schedule shows "The 208 Sound" [208 refers to R. Lux's old metric wavelength]: for one hour each at: Tue 1500, Wed 1700, Thu 1500, Sat 1000, Sun 1300. (REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

Two of the MNO freqs in use at most of these times, continue to clash with previous occupants, and nobody seems to care: 17630 with GAB, 21550 with CHL, making them useless for MNO here. MNO has 21550 0700-1900; 17630 0700- 1600. So try 9915 0700-1600, 13660 0800-1200, 13645 1200-1400, 13680 1400- 1600, 6185 1600-1800, 3965 1700-1900. All these are for EUR or AF; The 208 Sound is not scheduled at any hour when MNO is bcing to NoAM at 2000-0600. (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 30)

MAURITANIA On the 28th. of Jan I listened to Mauritania drifting across the freq band during the whole txion. At 0655 traced on 4839.8, then at 0725 just before fading out it was on 4838.4. So the drifting rate was about 46,6 Hz/min. Because of fading out, I can't find out if R. Mauritanie succeeded to superpose MLI on 4833. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jan 29)

MONGOLIA VoMongolia noted 26 Jan on 12085, 0900-0930 Jap, 0930-1000 unid lang (?Mongolian), 1000-1010* Ch. Regularly a fair signal here. (Alan Davies-CBG, Jan 26)

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLS (Tinian-MRA) RFA's Vietnamese sce 1400-1500 on 15470 started to get jammed as of 23rd Jan. Took the Hanoi authorities just about a week to find this and get their jammers on. The jamming is severe, using no less that 3 txs. One is a badly humming carrier with a ripple as well. Another open carrier and a third carrying Hanoi Dom Sce that is carried on 5925 and 9875. Other RFA Vietnamese freqs are 9365, 9455 KHBI Saipan, and 9930 KWHR. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, via DXW, Jan 25)

The following new VoA/RFA txions via Tinian, all SINPO 55544 ex. where noted: VoA News Now in En, noted 22, 23 and 24 Jan, 0800-1000 11995 13750. RFA Cambodian noted 23 Jan, 1200-1300 13790. RFA Vi noted 23 Jan, 1400-1500 15470. SINPO 42542 with strong het on USB, possibly VTN jamming? The same effect noted intermittently on //13685. (Alan Davies-CBG, Jan 26)

11995 VoA Tinian, tx open from 0743, heard til 0852. From 0745 maybe a technician fault, switched in a Asiatic language til 0749, then progr break, but tx still on. Very powerful signal without any QRM + QRN, S=9 +40 dB. 0758 VoA ID, IS. Jan 17 + 19.

11825 RFA Tinian, 1251-1310, Khmer progr, addr in Hong Kong was given at 1257: "...you have been listening R Free Asia in Khmer, ...", song in Khmer. 1300 progr in Ma Ch, talks on TWN. 55555. S=9 +40-50 dB. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 15-17)

RUSSIA Radio Stantsiya Tikhiy Okean has added a NEW schedule at 0130-0215 on 21750. First noticed on Jan 16. Hidekazu TORII informed me of UNID RUSian stn at this time on the freq. Good signal. Location of tx site is unknown. Lang Ru. ID as"Vy slushaeche Radiostantsiyu Tikhiy Okean iz Vladivostoka". (Hironao OGUMA-JPN, Jan 16/30)

21750 registered at 0200-0400 to zones 44,50,51,55 via Novosibirsk 250 kW 125 degr. To EaCHN, KOR, PHL, PNG, EaAUS Queensland.

MW 1332 New stn "Munisipal'noe Radio Vladivostoka" can be heard here from Oct 1998 to Jan on MW 1332, schedule is 2100-1400. Mainly Ru & western Pops DJ. ID as "Munisipal'noe Radio Vladivostoka rabotaet ezhednevno chasov na chastote 1332 kiro gerts." Lang Ru.

Mayak, 6020 & 9670, Komsomol'sk na Amure, Khabarovsk Kray, was QRTed from Jan 1. Maybe it's because of lack of fund. (Hironao OGUMA-JPN, Jan 30) http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~MS8N-TKN/RUSSIA/rsflist.htm

QSL sent by Radio Petrozawodsk, in 41 days, all details card, MW 765 kHz, heard in Finnish lang at 1530 on DX camp in Denmark. Address is also different to WRTH. Not Ul. Frunze 20, 185 630 Petrozawodsk, but replaced by Pirogova 2, 185 630 Petrozawodsk, Karelia, Russia. (Martin Elbe-D, Jan 26)

Local progr now 1510-1525 in Fin and 1525-1600 in Ru. (Mauno Ritola-FIN, Jan 27)

From the Washington Post web site: Mon, Jan 25, 1999. Russia may start jamming VoA and other foreign radio bcs if they fail to obtain government licenses, officials said Monday. Mikhail Seslavinsky, the chief of Russia's Federal TV and Radio Sce, warned VOA, the BBC, Germany's DW and several other foreign bcs that they have less than a month to apply for the licenses, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Seslavinsky added that the threatened moves shouldn't be seen as a return to the Soviet-style practice of jamming foreign bcs. He called on all foreign bcs to follow the example of the American RL, which got a govt license last summer. (* Copyright 1999 The Associated Press, Jan 26)

Re: Jamming. I am almost sure that news report about jamming was a RL editorial error. The point is that some internat bcs - such as VOA, DW, BBC or RFI - are also relayed via our local MW or FM txs on UNLICENCED BASIS. Approx one month earlier the FSTR (Russian Federal Sce of TV/Radio Bcing, or "Russian FCC") notified some Russian colleagues of these bcs about necessity to get the licences for their bcing. Otherwise the FSTR will promulgate a decree to stop these txions after one month. There were no any words about jamming against VoA or DW !

I think that RL nx editor did not understand simply this situation in full. By the way, this FSTR instruction is also for many Russian local MW/FM stns which bc without any licence at present (for example, for more than 20 stns in Moscow region). And one note for my Russian colleagues: please see the latest edition of "Obshchaya Gazeta" for more details I would also like to say that Russian authorities do not have any objections against any relays of Internat bcs via local txs here in Russia.

For example, we relay here at St.Petersburg four progrs on MW (828 RL/VoA, 1188 DW, 1260 BBC, 1440 RFI) and there were no any problems with these txions by political reasons. Unfortunately, we do not have any SW txions of these stns via our Popovka / St.Petersburg txing centre at present (for targets such as SoEaEUR, western RUS or the ME). Maybe VoA will be able to use our 200 kW SW txs sometime in the future? (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jan 27)

SOMALIA 11204 R. Hargeisa [rather R Mogadishu, see below], new freq, heard around 1530 with a fair signal thanks to tip from Mahendra Vaghjee-MAU. Somali, progrs songs etc, the typical & characteristic horn of AF mx. Somali is a beautiful mix of the Swahili and Ar langs. I remember almost 25 years ago catching Radio Hargeisha on 11660. It was fascinating to observe the lang at times sounding Swahili then Ar. And although I was on a dom set without freq readout I knew I had caught R. Hargeisa !

Also another Somali with Quran chants heard on 6900 Jan 19, must surely be Holy Quaran Radio, which appears on 7000 Jan 25. Their freq dial seems to move in 100 kHz steps ! (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, via DXW, Jan 25) v11204.15 in USB mode - no it's not Radio Hargeisa. I confused this stn for R Hargeisa but in fact it really is RADIO MOGADISHU - Voice of The People (V.O.P) s-on at 0400-0500 (and sometimes at 0500-0600). Again at 1100-2100 in diff AF langs as well in En at 2000-2015, the last progr is in Swa at 2045 and went off after Recital of Koran and NA.

It also has a one hour txion 1600-1700 on 7060. While R Hargeisa was on 7071, although it is not being heard actually [1500-1900] and finally Radio Holy Koran is on 6900 [1600-1758]. (Mahendra Vaghjee-MAU via Michael Schnitzer-D, Jan 31)

SWITZERLAND SRI En noted 26 Jan around 1110 with weak but stable signal on unlisted 9940. not the first time I've heard this freq. Most likely a spur of strong 9540 via BBC Singapore, unless it's a product of my rx -- second opinions welcome. (Alan Davies-CBG, Jan 26)

TAHITI 15170, RFO Tahiti, 23 Jan, 0239, PAC Isl pop mx and talk in Fr by a man. Good to hear Papeete at this time once again. I have been hearing the stn in the wee hours of the morning (say 0700 or so) here in New Jersey, USA. No doubt a solar flux of 178 helped. (Costello in DXW, Jan 23)

TAIWAN 13680 [UNID site] Female voice in Ch noted *1502-1505, repeating 'Ge di shouyin zhan, xianzai wu bao, xianzai wu bao, guangbo quxiao, guangbo quxiao' (as heard, i.e. 'All receiving stns, there are no reports at present, txion cancelled'), then at 1505 'Qing tingzhi shouting, zaihui' ('Please stop listening, goodbye'). Possibly another TWN numbers stn (when it has any numbers to send)? Mixing with weak Merlin Network One country mx, CRI unid lang (?Ar) comes on the channel at 1600. (Alan Davies-CBG, in Cumbre Dx, Jan 23) v2897.95 UNID Ch talking stn, resumably hx of TWN stn, 0940-1100, //progr 1413, at 1100 two short / one long time pip. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 6)

No its BBC Taiwan, // 1413 and 1449.

If Mr. Schulze would have taken out a calculator and divided 2898 by two, then he would have found 1449. Check what stn is on there //with 1413 and you'll find the BCC from TWN, third AM progr from Kaohsiong and Taitung respectively.

While I'm typing this is it 0900 and broad daylight and I can faintly hear this hx. In an hour the sun will go down and maybe then I'll get some better signal, maybe even a stn or two from PHL. (Hans van den Boogert-TWN, Jan 27)

TAJIKISTAN Communications World as a 30 minute block at last materialized Suns 0930-1000 on 15605. This was the first time I was able to listen to all three segments after the VoA News Now format came on. [very poor signal here in EUR, ed]

As for us and many third world DXers/SWLs having it on WRN on demand is of little use when we have to pay for a long telephone call and most internet accounts are 5 hrs for the month at a fairly affordable price for the upper income bracket people. A more realistic package costs about $50 and add to that one's telephone ticking away ... no Sir unless and until toll free internet access telephone lines become a reality, for most people the internet is just a white elephant. This however much we highlight for most people is unbelievable. If I were to do my listening via the Internet radio, however fascinating and more versatile it is, would cost more than my monthly salary. This I can do for a fraction of the cost on radio. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, via DXW, Jan 25)

4635 Tajik R, Dushanbe, 1845-2010 late progr in Taj, ID, tlks, folklore. Heard in // with 5800 and 7515 until they signed off at 1902. 44444. (Petersen in Cumbre Dx, Jan 23)

VoA CW noted on 15605 via WRN London & Dushanbe, 24 Jan. Carrier on by 0915, groups of three hoot-like tones at 1 sec intervals repeated every 10 secs from approx 0920, progr from 0930-0959, another minute or so of hoots then carrier off at 1000.

Rather disappointing reception here, weak with het from unid carrier (prob Utility) on LSB and unintelligible during occasional long, deep fades; also some local electrical noise, overall SINPO 23322. (Alan Davies-CBG in Cumbre Dx, Jan 26)

UKRAINE 21510 RUI Kiev, 1249, Jan 23, in En with mx progr, hosted by woman. Usual freq list read by man at 1256. Nice signal. (Fine in DXW, Jan 28)

Since Jan 17, Klaus Lieberwirth misses the usual txions of R Kazakhstan via Brovary on 9620 and 11840. I checked this today at 1400 and found also no trace of them, so seemingly the txs are indeed off. (Kai Ludwig-D, in DXW, Jan 28)

UK After some recent tests, Merlin moved definitely with KBS Seoul via Skelton from 3970 to new 3980 (2000-2230), away from the harmful RFI Issoudun powerhouse on 3965. (Willi Stengel via K.Ludwig via DXW, Jan 28)

USA {IRAN [non]} I am fluent in Persian, I am originally from IRN. That Persian (Farsi) sce of R WWCR calls itself Radio Porseh. That means Questions. In exact translation it is RADIO QUESTION INTERNATIONAL. (P. Mohazzabi, Jan 21, WORLD OF RADIO 974, Jan 29)

No reception of this here since, 1100 Fri/Sat on 12160, just not propagating as a rule. Sometimes fades in by 1245 as Sat Jan 23, when the publicized London Radio Sce show has NOT been appearing. It appears it was my mistake to put the Kurdish version on Tue instead of Thur; taking another look at the WWCR schedule. In context along with M/W/F entries, which T means Tue and which means Thur is obvious, but not when out of context. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 974, Jan 29)

WOR on WBCQ: Don't you believe that VOA CW has moved from Wed 2200 to Sun 2100 as PanIview reports; it was never VoA CW on Wed but that other DX progr, which stays put. They also have WEWN confused with WSHB on 9385. (BTW, if this should reach the guys at PanIview, please correct my addr Box 1684, not 1634, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK 73702, U.S.A:, Jan 29)

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THU 2130 WWCR 9475 FRI 1930 RFPI 15049, 21460-USB SAT 0330 RFPI 6975 SAT 1130 RFPI 6975 SAT 1800 RFPI 15049, 21460-USB SUN 0200 RFPI 6975, 15049, 21460-USB SUN 0330 WWCR 5070 SUN 0730 WWCR 5070 SUN 1000 RFPI 6975 SUN 1030 WWCR 5070 SUN 2300 RFPI 15049, 21460-USB MON 0600 WWCR 3210 MON 0700 RFPI 6975 MON 1500 RFPI 15049, 21460-USB [irregular] TUE 1330 WWCR 15685 TUE 1900 RFPI 15049, 21460-USB WED 0300 RFPI 6975 WED 2200 WBCQ 7415 You are invited to be a regular weekly listener! Glenn Hauser, Jan 29.

Experimental Stations. Recent W1AW ARRL Bulletin (ARLB007) has announced the FCC granting of Experimental Radio Service License to the ARRL to make 2-way radio tests between 5100 and 5450 using teletype and SSB modes. The callsign WA2XSY was issued Jan 8, and among reasons given for "development" of a new amateur frequency band is to fill the propagation "gap" between 3.5 and 7 MHz (and probably BCB on 40 meters as well). (John Croft, Jr., K3NJ The Maryland Crofts are John K3NJ, Kathy KB3BPN, John III and Carolyn. http://patriot.net/~croft - Submissions [email protected] via Heinz Paulitsch-AUT, Jan 29)

AFRTS progr 12689.5 from Key West-FL, and 6458.5 from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Stn in Isabela, Puerto Rico. The signal originates from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Stn, Key West, FL, at 12689.5 and Naval Computer and Telecommunications Stn, Puerto Rico at 6458.5.

From QSL letter: Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Stn, Key West-FL, bcs with a 48 foot inverted cone antenna from Boca Chica-FL with 8 kW of power. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Stn, Puerto Rico bcs with a ground-based, omnidir wire antenna with a 30 foot diameter. The signal is bc at 10 kW from Isabela, Puerto Rico.

AFRTS SW radio txions have historically existed to provide AFRTS radio sce to U.S. Navy vessels and outlying military posts receiving limited American radio or tv through other means. The signals will be in existence for a limited time until a new technology, which is currently being tested, allows for reception of AFRTS via satellite. We are pleased that you have received the AFRTS SW signal and thank you for your interest and confirmation of the signal's quality. (Wayne E. Eternicka, Bc Operations Specialist, via Willi H. Passmann, Jan 28)

VIETNAM 4960 VoVTN Hanoi 1510 woman talking in Vi, S3 level (Churchill Jan 19) 4960.04 Hanoi Home Sce. Presumed 1030-1045. Noted both a man and woman in possibly Vi lang comments which continue until 1035 when Vi mx is presented. The signal was good. (Bolland Jan 26)

9840 VoTN Hanoi 1807. En, female voice. Nx about the relation between VTN and US. ID "This is The Voice of Vietnam". Poor signal on this freq via VTN, but very good on 7440 via RUS. SINPO 23222. (Mendez, all on Cumbre Dx, Jan 23)

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ALBANIA TWR Monte Carlo in Ru via Cerrik tx: 1900-1945 on NF 7325 (35433) (x7330) to avoid VoR in Gr. (PanIview-BUL, Rumen Pankov-BUL, Ivo Ivanov- BUL, Feb 1)

ALGERIA 11715 R Algeria Internat, 1700, Feb 2, SINPO 33333. Sp world and Arab nx by female voice. ID: "Buena escucha en compania de Radio Argelia Internacional". (Franco Probi-I, RADIOINCONTRO, Feb 9)

ASCENSION ISL RTE Radio One in En via BBC relay: 1830-1900 (x1730) on 17885 (45544), 250 kW, 27 degr. (PanIview-BUL, Feb 1)

AUSTRIA 1476 MW Wien Bisamberg usually starts txions at 1700. But heard today, Sun morning Feb 7th around 0900-1000, bcing progr Austria 1 (Classic/Culture). Very special 1476 kHz QSL card available via:

ORF - Radio 1476 Rainer Rosenberg Argentinierstrasse 30a A-1041 Vienna, Austria (Harald Suess-AUT, Feb 7)

BELGIUM From March 28th: "Hier ist Bruessel" (German lang bcast of Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal Brussels) will be shortened from 30 [Sats/Suns only] to 15 mins, but in future will be on air DAILY again. (Paul Brems- BEL, Feb 4)

New RTBF Internationaal Fr lang relay on SW cost 322.000 EURO per year in total, renting costs of SW tx at DTK Juelich 247.000 EURO. The rest are costs of personell at Brussels and feeder line circuit to Juelich-Germany. (RVI Golfgids, Feb 6-7)

BOSNIA [YUGOSLAVIA] R Yugoslavia via Bijeljina-Bosnia heard on new 11870 with Ru 1600-1630 off. Would seem to replace former 11835. (Noel Green-UK, Feb 3)

R Yugoslavia has added a bc in It lang, part of a general expansion of its internat bcs, now 15 hrs a day in 12 langs. The stn's Internet offerings have also been expanded. (VoA CW, Feb 6) [on MW or SW band ?, ed]

BRAZIL After a very good day of FE reception on the Feb 2nd, Brazil was again coming in well this morning - the 3rd. There was a signal on 6170 at tune in 0810 at weak level playing rancho style mx but audio was indistinct, and I could not positively identify the language. It faded quickly by 0820. My guess is that it is Brazil and will try again to confirm it. Also on 6010.2 there was a stn I at first thought Sp but then became unsure ! This at 0800. Signal only weak and very indistinct due to heterodynes from other(s) closer to 6010. [see under Mexico also]. The Brazilians on 6000 and 6135 were both up to SIO 3+, but still nothing on 5990 or lower. (Noel Green-UK, Feb 3) [6010 R Mil-MEX or R America Lima-PRU ??, 6170 Cultura Sao Paulo-B or Caracol-CLM?, ed]

6105, Radio Cultura, 1103, Relig progr, probably from "Dios es Amor" church, not in Po as could be expected but in Sp. It was a promo by man ment. their wide audience in LatAM. Then followed man in Po with usual relig stuff, which I didn't pay much attention. (Nigro via Cumbre Dx, Jan 30)

6135 Radio Aparecida 0715-0740 stn promo, attractive folklore mx, fair signal, but DW on 6140 too strong in the end. Parallel to very weak 5035. (Pijpers, via Cumbre DX, Feb 4) 11705 Radio Nova Visao in Po at 2230. First time heard at this location. ID, relig programming with frequent mention of "Jesus Cristo." On exact freq rather than the split freq of 11704.3 reported in WRTH '99. (Treibel, via Cumbre Dx, Jan 30)

11830 CBN Aranghera, Feb 4, 1455-1500, Por, nx and economic comments, adverts ID's " estamos a presentando CBN Brasil" "CBN Aranghera", 35333. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Feb 4)

11895 LBV Mundial, Rio Grande do Sul, Feb 4, 1420-1453, Por, sports comments, adverts ID with musical jingle "LBV Mundial em la frecuencia da 11895 kHz" 45433. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Feb 4)

BULGARIA An UNID Bulgarian regional stn heard on 864, 0400-1000 UTC? (Harald Suess-AUT, Feb 7) WRTH lists Blagoevgrad 150 kW for decades, and 10 kW at Samuil. ed.

R Bulgaria in Ru to CeAs from Feb 1: 1500-1600 on NF 9485, Plovdiv 250 kW, 45 degr (x9385) to avoi bc of Radio 101 progrs on the frequency 94.3 MHz. The duration of concessions for the area of Zagreb County and the city of Zagreb is five years. (BBCM via AGDX, Jan 9)

ERITREA On 10th Jan Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea radio announced the following new schedule for progrs in the Tigrigna language eff Mon 13th Jan: 0300-0400 Mon-Fri, 0500-0600 Sat-Sun, 0930-1030 daily, 1200-1300 Sat-Sun, 1700-1800 daily. Carried on 945, 5000 and 7085 kHz. (BBCM via AGDX, Jan 10)

ETHIOPIA Radio Fana replacing 9335 by 6940 kHz, and //6210 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

GERMANY/MOLDOVA/MONACO DW - Deutsche Welle ceased using MW Monte Carlo 702 kHz, 600 kW, 245 degrees, acc DW programm magazine "DW radio" Febr 1997. French 1200-1300, Arabic 1300-1600, German 1600-2000 UTC.

Additional Russian via MW Maiac, Moldova, 999 kHz, 1000 kW, 1600-1700, 1900-2000 UTC.

Additional Serbian language progr at 0730-0745 UTC on 6010 & 7190 kHz.

German changes: 1800-2200 UTC to OCE/SoEaAS, Trincomalee 7125 replacing 11765 kHz. Delete German via Juelich to ME: 9545 at 1600-1800, 21560 at 1000-1400.

Delete Juelich: 9770 kHz 1300 Bosnian, 1330 Croatian, 1400-1430 Macedonian. 11720 kHz 1430 Urdu, 1515-1600 Hindi. 17875 kHz 1000-1050 Persian.

Delete Nauen: 7255 kHz 0930-1030 Romanian.

Serbian via Juelich 1030-1100 7225 replacing 13790 kHz. Japanese via Trincomalee-CLN 1230-1300 7225 replacing 11825 kHz. (DW magazine) (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

DW to provide radio for German troops in Sarajevo. DW will provide Bundeswehr soldiers with a comprehensive selection of information in the Sarajevo area also during its follow-up mission. The Bundeswehr st "Radio Andernach" will extend its radio progr, which now carries mainly entertainment progrs, from 12 to 24 hours. The Bundeswehr has been provided with satellite receiving equipment for this purpose. The start of broadcasting in Sarajevo has been promised for mid-Jan and depends on the allocation of a frequ by the govt of the Bosnian Federation. In the past, DW cooperated with the Bundeswehr's "Desert Radio" during the Bundeswehr operation in Somalia. At that time, DW set up a large satellite rx system in the desert, thus providing the forces with a comprehensive selection of radio and television progrs. (DW press release, Jan 9, BBCM via AGDX)

Since New Year NDR tx Helpterberg MW 657 kHz ceased sce. (Bruno Wiedemann, Frankfurt/Oder, Jan 15)

Yes, both Helpterberg 657 kHz and Putbus 729 kHz are off & silent since Jan 1st. Comment and explanation of NDR Technical Departement: advice our listener to tune in NDR 4th progr via MW Hamburg 972 kHz, at reduced power of 100 kW (nominal 300 kW). (NDR Hamburg, via Kai Ludwig, Jan 16)

Contact address of WDR Cologne Computer Club: http://www.wdr.de/tv/Computer-Club/dk0wr.html (WDR via Manfred May , Jan 15)

INDIA AIR launched a real time bc sce on the Internet on Jan 13, providing news update in Hindi and English in addition to current affairs, music drama, speeches, discussions and items from AIR archives. This sevice is on http: //air.kode.net (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN, UADX, Jan 14)

AIR Shimla v3222.99 kHz at 1537 UTC, English news, in parallel to 3345, 3365 kHz, etc. AIR Mumbai 4840 kHz at 1535 UTC great instrumental folk mx, strong signal. AIR Aizawl 5050 kHz at 1507 UTC, Hindi folk songs, female announcement, 1515 presumed news, 15.30 male speaker with news in English, parallel to 3345 kHz. Competing with Voice of the Strait on same channel. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jan 16)

INDONESIA Radio Republik Indonesia, Ujung Pandang on 4753 kHz 1552 UTC folk song, 1558 interval signal, presumed news by male speaker. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jan 16)

IRAN IRIB Tehran changes: 1730-1930 in Bosnian, Alban, Italian on 7145, 9610, and 9720 (x6005 & x7140) kHz. Bosnian at 2130-2230 9720 (x6005). English addit new time 1100-1230 UTC 11875, 11930, 15260 kHz. VoPalestine Islamic Revolution in Arabic: 0400-0530 7115 & 9610 (x5995 & x9670). At 1930 UTC on 7190 kHz.

SEDAYE MOJAHED - MKO Mojahedine Khalq Organization Here is the part from the interview given on Nov 17, 1996, with B. Moradi Head of Public Relations Dept. of the Mojahedine Khalq Organization (MKO), leaders are Maryam & Massoud Rajavi.

Q - There are several radio stations hostile to Iranian govt, which are "yours", of MKO? A - Our radio is called "Sedaye Mojahed" translated as "Voice of the Crusadors". Q - Do you have relations with similar radio sts as Sedaye Khargar, Sedaye Hezbe Communiste Irana, or Denji Kurdestana Iran? A - All are known for us. Q - Where are your studio & txs located (based)? A - In the border regions of Iran (with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and sea-Persian gulf). Q - And exactly, I have your envelope marked by Iraqi mail service? A - It is all, I can say. Q - Number of txs? A - Nine. Q - On which wavelengths I can hear Sedaye Mojahed? A - We have two progrs. "Main progr" on stabil frequencies 6020, 6175, 7070 kHz is on the air at 0300-0700 & 1500-2100 UTC. Some parts of this progr are used in our "Operational progr" on 'moving' freqs in the range of +/-30 kHz, or 4450, 4650, 5150, 5450, 5750, 6450 kHz at 1700-2100 UTC.

Q - Why do you have 'moving' freqs? A - To avoid the jammers of mullah's regime uses 30% of the total number of its txs to jam SM and prevent reaching this voice to Iranian people. We need your advice and help in our battle against the jamming. If you have any idea, technical material on this subject we appreciate receiving it. Contact via: Box 199, BG-1000 Sofia-C, Bulgaria.

Observations of Sedaye Mojahed in Persian: Main progr 0257-0657 & 1457-2057 UTC on 6175, 7067, and probably on 7185 kHz [latter one is heavily jammed 24 hrs a day, WB] Operat. progr 0254-0507 & 1654-2107 UTC on 4450, 4650, 5150, 5450, 5750, 6450, all varying +/-30 kHz. 1654-2107 UTC also on 9430 kHz. 0254-0507 also on new 7225 (x9580, x9590) kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

On 7th Jan Voice of Mojahed, the radio st of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), announced the following new schedule for its broadcasts, eff from 6th Jan: 1500-1700 UTC 6175 kHz, 1700-2100 UTC 5450, 5150, 4650, 4450, 3850 and 3550 kHz. 0300-0700 UTC repeat of 1700 bc on the same frequs. 0700-0900 UTC on 6175 kHz.

This radio st, which is hostile to the Iranian govt, bcs from txs in Iraq. It should be noted that all frequs are changed constantly during transmissions in an attempt to avoid jamming. (BBCM Monitoring Jan 7, via AGDX)

"Denji Kurdestana Iraq" in Kurdish, "Sawto Kurdistan al Iraq" in Arabic Thurs before 1400-1455 UTC 4070. Daily 0345-0600 & 1645-1930 UTC. "Denji Gelli Kurdestana Iraq" in Arabic on 4110 kHz range 4095-4115 kHz, daily 0330-past 0655, before 1345-1604, Thurs before 1345-1415 & 1457-1604 UTC.

[non Iran] Radios of Communist Parties of Iran & Kurdistan 3888 (3875- 3895) & 4400 (4360-4405) kHz, jammed: Persian "Sedaye Hezbe Comm-e Iran" 0430-0530 & 1657-1757 UTC. Kurdish 1425-1529 Denji (approx Urdji) Irana. On 3945 (3930-3955), 4190 (4180-4230), 1330-1427 Surani Kurdish, 1430-1515 Kurdish "Denji Kurdestana Iran", 1530-1610 Persian "Sedaye Khargar".

Note: Denji / Sawto = Voice. Gelli / Shaab = People. Hezbe / Urdji? = Party. Khargar = Worker. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

IRAQ IRAQ Opposition PUK radio announces Arabic schedule. Voice of the People of Kurdistan was observed on 7th Jan, bc in Kurdish 0950-1115 UTC followed by Arabic from 1115 UTC on 6009 kHz.

Voice of the People of Kurdistan, the radio st of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by Jalal Talabani, was heard in Arabic on 4119 kHz at 1500 UTC on 10th Jan with the following announcement: "The Voice of the People of Kurdistan transmits its Arabic progrs at three different times: The first begins at 1500 UTC, using a 75 mb SW frequ of 4010 kHz. The same progrs are repeated the next day at the following times: The first begins at 0400 UTC, using a 75 mb SW frequ of 4010 kHz and the second after the Kurdish programmes, which begin at 1000 UTC on the 49 m SW frequ of 6020 kHz. (BBC Monitoring Jan 7-10, via AGDX)

ITALY IRRS Milan Fr-Sun 2300-2400 3985usb mode, "Cumbre Dx" relay Suns at 2330 UTC. RAI Rome in English at 2200-2230 on new 6150, 9565, 11815 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Alan Roe in Contact, Jan 10)

JORDAN Jordan Radio Amman in Arabic at 0600-0900 on 11810, 11835, and 15435 kHz. Latter bc spurious demodulated signals on 15245, 15270, 15600, and 15625 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

LIBYA Maybe test transmissions from new tx site in Western Libya: additional carrier tests observed on 6155, 7120, 9655, 9705, 11770, 11785, and 11815 kHz, all from 0830-1100 UTC. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

NETHERLANDS From Jan 1st, 1997 new 'Talk Radio 1395' on 1395 kHz MW. (ex JazzRadio progr, but still in Dutch Cable Networks available). Address: Talk Radio, Postbus 345, 1200 AH Hilversum, Netherlands (Paul Youngs in WDXC Contact, Juergen Lohuis-D, Jan 2)

PAKISTAN Radio Pakistan Karachi Turkish 1700-1800 UTC on new v9513.8 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Radio stations in Papua New Guinea started broadcasting 24 hours a day on 6th Jan. During the overnight period from 1400-1930 UTC (when the stations previously closed) txs on MW & SW - including those in the TB - now remain on the air. BBC Monitoring has observed the Karai Sce of the National Broadc Corpor operating on 4890 kHz 1400-1930 UTC (when it would normally have been off the air) several times over the past two weeks. (RNMN via BBCM via AGDX, Jan 9)

RUSSIA/CIS Radio 3, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky new privat radio st on 855 kHz.

Khabarovsk 1188 kHz with 10 kW, bc FEBC-Russia 0500-1200 UTC, via Vladivostok 1296 kHz, 10 kW same progr, but at 0800-1100 UTC.

R Venets Moscow 1233 (x1071) kHz left the air due to financial reasons in November. Krasnoyarskoye Radio Gorod (R City), previously called like Radio Babushkin Sunduk, is one of two Krasnoyarsk sts sharing the frequ 1332 kHz. Radio Russkaya Volna (Russian Wave) is the other.

Radio Ussuriysk commercial st 2300-1200 UTC on 1503 kHz since November. Address: ul. Kirova 28, RUS-692503 Ussuriysk, Primorskiy Kray. Tel. 241 - 3 26 64. Stavropol 1557 kHz re-transmits BBC WS in Russian, full time relay. (Igor Zhurkin-RUS, WDXC Contact Jan, also Vladimir Kovalenko, Dimitriy Kuznetsov, Oleg Bulatov, Yuriy Prokopenko)

SAUDI ARABIA Holy Quran px in Arabic 0600-0900 UTC additional 7150 & 9715 kHz, //9530 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

BSKSA Riyadh in Arabic at 1040 UTC on v11818.6 kHz. (Roland Schulze-PHL, DSWCI SWN Jan)

BSKSA Arabic to EUR 1200-1500 15230, 1700-1800 11910, 1800-2300 9870. Call of Islam 1500-1700 11910. (Allen Dean, WDXC Contact Jan)

SOMALIA Radio Mogadishu (pro-Aydid), Voice of the Masses of the Somali Republic (Somali: Reediyo Moqdisho, Codka Shacabka ee Jamhuriyadda Soomaaliya) was first heard on 19th July 1993. It broadcasts in support of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), lead by Husayn Muhammad Aydid, who succeeded his father Gen Muhammad Farah Aydid after his death in Aug 1996. It described itself as "Voice of the Great Somali People" until April 1994 and then used the title "Voice of the Somali People" (Codka Ummad Soomaaliyaeed"). The present name was adopted on 16th June 1995.

A separate station, which calls itself "Radio Mogadishu, Voice of the Somali Republic", is controlled by Ali Mahdi Muhammad (Aydid's main rival in Mogadishu).

6890-alt 6870 kHz. 0300-0500 Somali, 0900-1030 Multilingual, 1030-1110 Radio Panorama in Somali. 1300-1305 E nx, 1315-1320 Arabic, 1330-1335 Amharic, 1345-1350 Swahili, 1400-1410, 1530-1532, 1700-1740 Somali, 1945- 1955 Somali, 2000-2005 E nx, 2015-2020 Arabic, 2030-2035 Amharic, 2045-2050 Swahili, 2100 signing off. (BBCM via AGDX, Jan 14)

SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa in Portuguese 0400-0500 UTC replaced 7185 by 9695 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

I had to make a change to Radio Sonder Grense's daytime frequency this week, from 7185 kHz to 7270 kHz. A jammer [see under Iran] suddenly put in an appearance in the late afternoons, and was causing a lot of damage. Eastern sts propagate very well here in the afternoons, so I suspect it may be coming from that direction. I've tried to identify the station on 7185 kHz now that RSG no longer uses that frequency, but I've had no success. (via Colin Miller-CAN, Jan 16)

PROPAGATION TO SOUTHERN AFRICA On Wed Jan 15 at 0400 UTC unusually good signals were noted from that area on 60 and 90 mb, especially TWR Swaziland on 4775. Others noted included: 3306 ZWE, 3320 AFS, 3340 UGA (tent), 3356 BOT, 3396 ZWE, 4800 LSO, 4820 BOT. (Colin Miller-CAN, Jan 16)

SRI LANKA SLBC Velanda Sevauya, an amalgamation of the Sinhala Commercial Sce and Sri Lankan FM bc 24 h on 4870 & 6185 kHz since Nov 1st. (Oliver Goonawardena-CLN, in WDXC Contact Jan)

SWEDEN SR Stockholm in Swedish at 1100-1130 UTC addit 9865 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

SWITZERLAND From Januar 15th, 0505 UTC, daily TWR/ERF Christian window program with folk music Radio Eviva via MW Beromuenster Gunzwil 1566 kHz, also via Swiss PTT cable network and ASTRA satellite. Schedule is 0505-0530 UTC starting with biblical impulses, music under the title "Gruezi". Scheduled at night 2000-2100 UTC. On Mons most important news magazine from the Christian scene. On Tues Advisers progr "Impuls", experts and affected persons on microphone. On Jan 21 "Coping with conflicts - or harmony, at all costs".

Gospel songs, Country, Canzoni, Song Writer, and Oldies on Weds. "Forum" on Thurs Economy, Church, Politics and Society in talk rounds. Classic mx on Fris. On Sats presents Contemporary and Christian Literature Scene. On Suns "Mosaic" progr, contributions around the Christian believing. QSL address: ERF - Evangeliumsrundfunk Switzerland, Postfach, CH-8330 Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. (ERF D-Xpress, Jan 17)

TAJIKISTAN At 1830 UTC Radio Tajikistan noted now on new QRG of 5800 kHz. Signing off at 1900 UTC. Stronger than //QRG 4635 kHz. (Matthias Gatzke-D, Jan 11)

TURKEY TRT Ankara has reacted to the complaints of the Ham Radio operators europeanwide concerning causing harmful interference by TRT Ankara in 40 mb: delete 7100 kHz 0400-0800 UTC. Add 7300 kHz 325 degrees 0400-0500 English, add 6040 kHz 335 degrees 0500-0800 UTC Turkish. Both tx Emirler 500 kW, HR4/4. Effective from Jan 27th. (TRT engineering via Uli Bihlmayer DJ9KR via DF5SX, German BAPT [FCC Telekom] Jan 16)

Persian at 0930-1025 11795 replaced by 11715 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

UAE UAE R Dubai back on 13675 kHz since mid Dec, on 15395 kHz together with QBS Qatar [0705-1305]! English at 1030, 1330, and 1600 UTC.

VoUAE Abu Dhabi in Arabic on new 9845 kHz at 1300-1800 UTC.

Also Abu Dhabi 7125 kHz noted here, observed from 1600-2300 UTC, but may be used the whole night(?). On 1600-1800 UTC //6180, 11710 kHz. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10; WB Jan 12-18)

UKRAINE Radio Briz, Sevastopol, 1476 kHz + FM, belongs to Ukrainian Navy. Radio Vinnitsa local outlets on 1530 kHz. Radio Kharkhov 2nd progr, shared with Radio Promin on 837 kHz. Radio Mazhor, Simferopol shares with R Promin 2nd px of Ukrainian Radio. Radio Liberty ceased to use relay at Lesnoy since Nov 1st. In Dec the tx was used 1400-2200 UTC by R Delovaya (Business Wave), then all transmissions were stopped. Onix Radio Kharkhov 1539 kHz has reduced power. Radio DI Dnepropetrovsk on 1593 kHz (x1215) Four local (oblast) stations are not shown in WRTH, 0410-0500, 1610-1700, but Kharkhov observed at 1800-1900: 711 kHz Radio Donets, 837 Radio Kharkhov 2nd px, 1071 Radio Dnepropetrovsk, 1530 R Vinnitsa. (Igor Zhurkin-RUS, WDXC Contact Jan, also Vladimir Kovalenko, Dimitriy Kuznetsov, Oleg Bulatov, Yuriy Prokopenko)

UNID STATIONS 1600-1700 7570 kHz - Somalia? 0300-0600 odd 6084 kHz Iraq? (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

A station noted on 4920 kHz in English during our late afternoons from around 2045 UTC. Mentioned additional transmissions in the 41 and 31 mb. Must be from Africa. Nothing listed in new WRTH. (Colin Miller-CAN, Jan 16)

UNITED KINGDOM & relays BBC London changes: German M-F 0600-0630 3980 Skelton (x3985), 1630-1700 6010-CYP (x5875). Turkish 1600-1700 5875 Rampisham (x6020). Persian & English WS 1615-1830 6095-OMA (x6090). Continuing tests of RKI Seoul via Skelton 3970: Korean 1730, 1830-1930 Russian. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

USA VoA Slovak 1800-1830 7155 & 9645 Tangiers-MRC, replacing 7270 & 9735.

New schedule of RFE South Slavonic sce. 1700-2230 Serbian except Bosnian 1900-2000, Croatian 2230-2300, Music 1830-1900. 1700 1197 Munich (x1593), 7115 Pals, 7245 Woofferton. 1800-1900 1197. 1900-2000 1593 Holzkirchen. 2000 1593, 7155 9600 9690 all Tangiers. 2100 1593, 5955 7165 9680 all Tangiers. 2200-2230 1593. (Paniview-BUL, Jan 10)

On 5085 kHz WGTG, McCaysville GA, at 0345 UTC, good to fair with religious talk show, much better than last time. (For you mapheads, McCaysville is on State Road 5, near the Tennessee line. It's about 100 miles North of Atlanta.) (BUENEMAN, MO-USA, via TFW, Jan 2)

9400U kHz, at 2145 UTC, WGTG Mckaysville, phone in on Generic versus patent antibiotics. Detailed discussion about comparative advantages. I was tempted to phone in since I'm also a microbiologist! (Norrie, via DXW, Jan 11)

MIAMI - During the past week, WRMI has added five hours of English talk programming daily, Mon-Fri. These are syndicated dom radio progrs in the U.S. which are interested in reaching an expanded international, as well as national, radio audience. The new programs are "The Derry Brownfield Show" 1600-1700 UTC, "J.D. Live" with Jon Dougherty 2000-2100, "The Henry Feinberg Show" fr 2100-2200, and "The Hour of the Time" with William Cooper fr 2200-0000 UTC (all Mon-Fri 9955 kHz). In addition, WRMI has added a new weekly progr called "The Voice of Reform" with Tony Hernandez, UTC Weds 0200-0300 & 1400-1500 UTC 9955 kHz. This progr is produced by the Florida chapter of the Reform Party, the political party founded by former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot. The new programs are basically conservative in character, and deal with agricultural, political, moral and religious issues. Views expressed are not necessarily those of WRMI, which sells airtime to progrs with widely divergent viewpoints. As a result of adding the new programs, WRMI's schedule has been expanded as follows: MON-FRI (local days in the Americas): 1100-1400 UTC Spanish 1400-1500 UTC Spanish/English 1500-1715 UTC English 1945-0200 UTC English 0200-0300 UTC (UTC Tues-Sat) Spanish/English 0300-0330 UTC (UTC Tues-Sat) Spanish

SAT: 1100-1400 UTC Spanish 2000-2100 UTC Spanish 2100-0100 UTC English 0100-0415 UTC (UTC Sun) Spanish

SUN 1200-1300 UTC Spanish 1300-1500 UTC English 1500-1700 UTC Spanish 2000-2130 UTC English 2130-2200 UTC Spanish 2200-2230 UTC Portuguese 2230-0100 UTC Spanish 0100-0300 UTC (UTC Mon) English 0300-0415 UTC (UTC Mon) Spanish

WRMI has also scheduled special monthly bcs of Kiwi Radio from NZL (in English) at 1000-1030 UTC Jan 25, Feb 23, and Mar 30, 1997. As a result of the expanded sched, we have been able to add some addit airings of our progrs Viva Miami, Wavescan and Con Frecuencia. Viva Miami (in English) can now be heard Mon-Fri 1530-1600 UTC; UTC Tue-Fri 0115-0145; Sat 2100-2130 and 2200-2300; UTC Sun 0030-0100 and 2100-2130. Viva Miami (in Spanish) is heard UTC Tue-Fri 0230-0300 and Sun 2330-0000 UTC. The English-language DX progr "Wavescan" from Adventist World Radio is currently bc Sat 2330-2345 UTC, Sun 1345-1400, UTC Mon 0200-0215, and Thur & Fri 1500-1515 UTC. The Spanish-language DX progr "Con Frecuencia," produced by Ruben Guillermo Margenet, is aired UTC Sat 0230-0300, Sun 2130-2200, and UTC Mon 0000-0030. (Jeff White, WRMI -- Radio Miami International, Jan 13)

UZBEKISTAN VoRussia via Tashkent relay 13785 & 17860 at 1000-1300 UTC in English. (Nikolay Rudnev-RUS, Dec 16)

BBCM-BBC MONITORING information primarily sourced to German AGDX umbrella organization may not be further reproduced, except with BBC MONITORING permission.

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 407 14 Feb 1999 ______

AFGHANISTAN 7078.42 ... 7078.70 Voice of Shariah Takhar, 1345-1421, vernac, Quran prayer, mentioned "AFG", "Kabul", 1358 male talks in echo effect, 1359 ID, bird calling sound, two different birds, one of them is a cuckoo at 1400. Best signal was 34543, S=9+10 dB. Also a jamming stn found on this freq range... (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 26) Noted on 7079.81, heavy HAM radio QRM, S=2 today Feb 13, ed.

ALBANIA 9945 TWR relay in Armenian 1600-1632 sign off. B98 freq with //7395. Both signals fair with a slight edge to 9945. Progr mostly talk in unknown language. Familiar TWR IS at s-off. (Treibel-USA via Cumbre Dx, Feb 9) Both Cerrik-ALB, 100 kW 90 degr, on Sat/Sun only 1602-1617, ed.

R Tirana in Alb to EUR at 1500-1800 on odd 7272.00, //MW 1215 and 5985.08. German at 1830-1857 on v6209.93 and 7105, //strong MW 1458. (WB, Feb 13)

ARGENTINA Please note that 15820 is a freq in use from the Argentine LTA stn. That is a army military stn, which takes the signal from any MW or FM stn in Buenos Aires, and relays the signal in the direction of the Antarctic Territory where there are some Argentine military bases. These txions are made principally during soccer events. Of course, the MW or FM stns of ARG nothing know about this. In the past they also used other freqs for these relays. If the stns confirm reports, this is only by courtesy of the stn signatory. According to a girl friend that returned from Base Esperanza, from Sept 1998 the Base Esperanza does NOT receive any signal from stns or TV or cable. Because of this, they are using the re-txions through the LTA military stn. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 12)

ARMENIA Relig ministry radio progrs in German lang via AR- Intercontinental. 1900 daily Stimme des Trostes (CH-Ebnat Kappel, Switzerland) 1915 Suns Arche Hamburg (Postfach 540407, D-22504 Hamburg, Germany) Mons Radiofenster (Bibelcenter, D-58339 Breckerfeld, Germany; common production center of Bibelcenter Breckerfeld and Brot zum Leben Ennepetal). (KiR, Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Feb 1)

BOSNIA [Serbia] 6100 The Italian bc from R Yugoslavia Belgrade [via txs on Bosnia territory] is at 1830-1900 on 6100. It's also available in Real Audio on their Website. (Andrew G. Sennitt-HOL, Feb 12)

BRAZIL I've been busy monitoring Brazilian stns 0730+ during this current period of very good reception from that area and I enclose the results. I cannot ID them all so have had to assume they are as listed in WRTH /Passport. The morning of the 27th was truly excellent and I could hear stns in 60, 49, 31, 25, 19 & 16 mb. Quite amazing !

Reception on 49 mb is made difficult by the number of European stns using it, and the spectrum of 5950 - 5990 is dreadful due to splash and splatter from HOL, D and BEL. I used to hear 5970 and 5980 but cannot trace them now. 11895 I heard it about one year ago - but cannot trace it currently. Even on the good day of Jan 27th it was not audible. 15415, heard here last year, is not audible either. And 15325 is not traced. If it is only 1 kW on 17815 they are operating very efficiently. Their signal was 35433 on the 27th at 0840 ! I've checked 17875 many times but it would seem not in use around 0800. By the way some freqs deviate only by a few Hz , but I've put 'v' where this is noticed.

5970 Juelich using this channel for En relig progr -- enormous level. 5980 No signal traced, horrendous splatter from 5970 and BEL 5985 until 0830. 6000 R Guaiba Porto Alegre usually at 0800. 6010 Three stns audible at low level by 0800. Sp speaker, maybe R Mil- MEX. Others not IDied. v6040.3 R Clube Paranaense Curitiba often audible at 0800. 6135.05 R Aparecida assumed, usually audible at 0800. 6150 R Record Sao Paulo irreg heard 0800 and in // with 9505 and 15134.9. 6180 clear channel, R Nac Amazonia seems to be using 11783v now. v9505 R Record appears to open 0800 MOST days and audible past 0900. 9565 Assumed R Universo Tupi audible thro VoA Ar then clear but low 0830. 9585 Assume R CBN Globo SP opens 0800 some days, 0900 others. 9615 Assume R Cultura SP regularly heard on air at 0730 at fair to good level. v9630.1 R Aparecida regularly on air at 0730 at fair to good level. v9645.1 R Bandeirantes SP audible thro VAT until 0800W and then co-ch with CNR. 9665 Assumed R Marumby Flor. at 0845-0910 with splash / het from Pyongyang-KRE varying up to 9666.2. 9675 Brazilian Port. at good level on air 0810 to sudden off 0818 and not since. R Cancao Nova has not been heard here in some time. 9725 Assume R Clube Paranaense Curitiba opens approx. 0800, fair level. v11704.9 R Transmundial ID heard at 0858. Is audible around 0800 but unable to confirm ID then due splash from RFI 11700 which goes off 0857. v11725 R Novas de Paz Curitiba heard from 0900 when mixing with BBC-SNG. v11783.3 R Nac da Amazonia heard with IS 0855 and s-on 0900. v11785 R Guiaba Porto Alegre heard before 0800 mixing with EGY. v11804 R Globo RJ heard on air before 0800 when mixing VoA Ar 11805 til 0830. v11815 R Brasil Central Goiania heard on air before 0800. 11830 R CBN Anhanguera Goiania opens approx. 0800. 11895 A VERY weak signal detected several times but no ID possible 0830. 11915 R Gaucha Porto Alegre heard on air before 0800 when mixing with TWN. 11925 R Bandeirantes SP heard before 0800 mixing with TUR. v15134.9 R Record SP observed around 0830, very distorted audio. //9505 6150. 15445 RadioBras heard with IS 1155 and s-on 1200. v17814.95 R Cultura SP heard on air 0745 til 1100 when SUI opens. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 27)

Radiobras with px in En for NA at 1200 on 15445 SIO 243 (Jan 31). R Globo several days off the air until Feb 4. Feb 5 back on the air on 11800 (!), from Feb 6 back on 11805. R Guaiba, Porto Alegre on 6000 2230 SIO 333 on Feb 3. R Paranaese, Curitiba on 6040 2249 SIO 322 on Feb 3. (US C&W mx) R Trans Mundial via Radio Nova Visao, Santa Maria on 11705 daily with good signal. Until 2200 in Por, 2200-2230 Ge, 2230 Por again. Only slight co- channel interference by RHC appeared. (Uwe Volk-D, Feb 11)

6135 R Aparecida; Feb 4, 0715-0740, stn promo, attractive folklore mx, fair signal, but DW on 6140 too strong in the end. Parallel to a very weak 5035. (Pijpers)

9630.10 R Aparecida; Feb 1, 0740-0750, Feb 1, songs, ID annts //5035.1, 34333 (Phillips)

11765 R Universo; Curitiba, Feb 5, 1922-1931, relig prog //9565, 34433 (Slaen)

11785 R Guaiba; Porto Alegre, Feb 5, 1900-1915, ann for "Capao da Canoas", commentary about weather in tourist region of Rio Grande do Sul, 45544 (Slaen)

11830 CBN Anhanguera; Feb 4, 1455-1500, News and economic comments, ads. ID's "estamos a presentando CBN Brasil" "CBN Anhanguera", 35333, (Eramo)

11895 LBV Mundial; Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Feb 4, 1420-1453, Sports comments, ads, ID with musical jingle "LBV Mundial em la frecuencia da 11895 kHz" 45433, (Eramo) (all via DXW, Feb 10)

9615 R Cultura, Sao Paulo, Feb 10, 0842-0924, Por talk incl morning sermon, songs - weak but clear, a lot of other Brazilian stns were also observed at this time from very weak to almost fair signals on 9505, 9565, 9585, 9630, 9645, 9665, 9725, 11765, 11785 (best one), 11804, 11815, 11915, 11925 (there is one of the most my favourite long distant monitoring as all stns can be heard at this time by long path "North EUR-EaAS-SoPAC-SoAM" with the antenna beam between 40 and 50 degrs (no any propagation with "short beam" of approx. 240-250 degr at this time.))

15325 R Gazeta, Sao Paulo, Feb 10, 0949-0957, Por morning sermon - weak but clear, blocked by a powerful BBC signal at 0957-1014 and past 1014 - by Chinese jammer from 15320. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10)

CHILE v11890.06 Voz Christiana in Sp and choir mx, S=3. (WB, Feb 13)

CHINA 6065 CRI, Feb 10, 1600-1800, Ru - new freq and apparently too bad choice - fair. 11948.5 Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Feb 10, 1133 and later till closing at approx. 1545, Tibetan //6130 - poor to fair, moved from 11952. (Mikhail Timofeyev- RUS, Feb 10)

CLANDESTINE STN from ? to IRAN 6230 *1545 + 1630 I believe 6230 is a new freq of V of Mojahed. When I checked it on Sat 30 Jan, I heard it very clearly in Persian //to 5750-40 and 4650- 40. Although, the txions on 4 and 5 MHz were jammed, 6230 was not subject to any jamming. Subsequent checks from 01 Feb-03 Feb, I noticed that 6230 is heavily jammed. Probably, the Iranians discovered this new channel after a while. Another observation is V of Mojahed txions on 4 and 5 MHz constantly shift freqs to avoid jamming but 6230 is virtually fixed and I did not notice any attempt by the stn to move the freq. V of Mojahed has previously used 6220 and I have seen some reports indicating that Mojahedeen Khalq commenced using txs from CIS because the Iraqis have not been able to provide the necessary technical support. This evening, I noticed that jammers are on 6220. 6230 was clear with Ar mx and the language sounds similar to Tu. I guess, it is Cairo in Tu 1600-1800. (Sarath Weerakoon-SLK 4S5SL, UADX, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 4)

COSTA RICA "BLICKWINKEL" laeuft im Original broadcast Donnerstag um 2330 & Freitag um 0730. Allerdings betraegt die Sendezeit nur 15 Min. Eventuell wird sich dies aber in den naechsten Monaten noch aendern. Wobei wir natuerlich auch darauf achten muessen, die Sendezeit in den jeweiligen Sprachen dem Hoererstamm, der dieser Sprache maechtig ist gerecht zu werden. Die meisten Hoerer sind nun mal leider nicht allzusehr der deutschen Sprache zugetan bzw. mit ihr vertraut, sondern eher englischsprachig. Sie koennen somit in Zukunft den Neuigkeiten aus CTR lauschen. Schicken Sie dochmal einen Empfangsbericht! Schoene Gruesse vom RFPI-Team aus dem 35 Grad warmen Costa Rica ins kalte Oesterreich. (RfPI Sabine Kapuschinski-CTR, via Herbert Meixner-AUT, Feb 11)

Addr: Radio for Peace International, Apartado 88 (c/o Sabine Kapuschinski), Santa Ana, Costa Rica. e-mail adress [email protected]

CROATIA Croatian R Dom Sce First progr on SW: 1000-1800 13830 2100-2200 9860-J 0600-1730 9830 1600-2000 7525 0500-0800 7305 0800-1630 7185 0730-1630 and 2030-0500 6165 1800-2100 5890 Nx in Croatian on the hour; and 5 mins of En nx: 0705 (Sun 0805), 0905 (Sun 1005), rest daily: 1305, 2005, 2305. URL: http://www.hrt.hr/oiv/hr_inoz_eng.html (Real Audio available) (BBC Monitoring Feb 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 976, Feb 11)

CZECH REP The tx and antenna facilities mentioned in BCDX 406 by OM Rimantas Pleikys-LTU could be the Radio Metropolis equipment. They were on the air with test txions in 1993(?) for a few weeks only. They had great plans to serve all continents with progrs in Cz, En, Ge and Ru. In their test progr they mention this tx site, which was leased by Ceske Radiokommunice, as far as can remember. I still have a recording of this test txn. (Uwe Volk-D, Feb 11)

GEORGIA 189 I heard Georgia on LW 189 at 1915 on Jan 25th, //5040. Very low, but definitely them. There was unusually no trace of either Iceland or the RAI stn at Caltanisetta, which is often heard here. Heard also Van-TUR in the background of Warsaw-POL 225 at same time. (Noel Green-UK, Jan 25)

GERMANY 1431 New youth radio progr "MegaRadio" has got the Sachsen state licence, and will broadcast soon via MW Dresden Wilsdruff 1431. 24 hrs progr format. (ORF Vienna Intermedia, via HjB, Jan 22)

I have been trying out if the DW has made some changeswith antennas/azimuths on 6075 / 6140, as from Feb 1st. I note it's now Nauen on 6140 until 0950 via 010 degr. Then Juelich at 305 degr til 1800. This one is now often stronger than 6075 which I note is non-dir from Wertachtal. This one is also strong but only about equal with 6085 usually. (Noel Green-UK, Feb 1)

Croatian R - Ext Sce on SW, all via DTK Juelich: 0000-0200 9925 AM, 0200- 0600 6130 AM, 0600-1000 13820 AUS. In Croatian, but with Sp nx on the hour in the first bc, En on the others. (BBC Monitoring Feb 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 976, Feb 11)

GERMANY/ITALY/LITHUANIA/RUSSIA German lang broadcasts of "Universal Life" via R Belarus, Minsk has been ceased from Jan 1999, ex Thurs&Fris 2000 on MW 1170. Remaining broadcasts via Russian and DTK - Deutsche Telekom facilities: 0545-0600 daily Wachenbrunn-GER 1323 1030-1100 Sat IRRS Milano-I 7120 1030-1130 Sun IRRS Milano-I 7120 1300-1400 Sun Sitkunai-LTU 9710 1330-1400 daily Astra satellite WRN3 1830-1900 Mon-Wed Juelich-GER 6010 1830-1900 Tue Sat VoRUS 1323 1386 5950 7300 7390 7360 9480 11980 1830-1900 Sun Wachenbrunn-GER 1323 1900-1930 Wed Bolschakovo-RUS 1386 2030-2100 Mon Thu IRRS Milano-I 3985 2200-2245 Fri Sat Wachenbrunn 1323 (KiR, Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Feb 1)

GREECE In a letter of Dec 21, Dionisios Angelogiannis of ERT says he has been overloaded with work and continues to be. In his new position, he hopes to find some money to install the new VoA-donated txs in Avlis and Thessaloniki. It is a big installation and the substructure in Avlis is not good. New building has to be done, electrical supply has to be increased. He was preparing new assignments for the next HFCC meeting in Lisbon. (John Babbis, Maryland, Feb 5, WORLD OF RADIO 976, Feb 11) v11594.83 and 9935.0 ERT Thessaloniki in Gr at 0755. (WB, Feb 13)

INDONESIA v15149.82 VoI Jakarta surprisingly strong at 1800-1900 in German, but fade-out before 1900 when French starts. (WB, Feb 13)

11760 RRI Jakarta. 0225 In, no other dom sce outlets heard from INS on this band at this time, Feb 4 (Tyson) Craig notes Jakarta on 9630, 9680 and 9565 not heard at this time and believed inactive at least for local morning period. 11785v Voice of Indonesia. *0030-0400* various languages, Sp 0030-0100; En 0100-0200; In 0200-0300, Ar 0300-0400* in // 9525 Feb 9. (Tyson-AUS via EDXP, Feb 11)

4777.1 RRI Jakarta evening sce is NOT active in past two weeks. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 26)

KAZAKHSTAN 15250 I can add that today I heared R Kazakhstan with awful humming tx from tune-in 0550 until past 0700. Perhaps this is the new morning freq, and the afternoon channel is 11570. 11950 could not be heard here. So Irkutsk DXer can update their excellent web site again. (Andreas Erbe-D, Feb 8)

I also heard them today at 0700 onwards, in Kaz/Ru. No modulation problems were noted, but heavy co-channel QRM from RRI Bucharest-ROU in Ar. 11950 was silent, on 11570 I heard a very weak UNID stn (not KAZ). (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 10)

One more new freq of R Kaz. Observed today at 0015-0045 on 6230 in Ru and Kaz with some distorted audio. (Pavel Miroshnikov-RUS, Feb 11)

Here is a new observed SW schedule of Kazakh R (Feb 10-11): 0000-0300 6230 7240 0300-0400 7240 13830 0400-0600 13830 15250 0600-0900 15250 17825 0900-1200 no transmion 1200-1400 15250 17825 1400-1500 11570 17825 1500-1800 9505 11570

Programs from Astana studio: 0000-0100 and 0700-0900, other time from Almaty studio. I can add that these two txs are located in the KAZ territory and you could hear their signals on 9505 (2nd px) and 11950 (1st px) in the past. But now there is a single px in Ru and Kaz on all freqs and with the ISs and ID jingle in Kaz at the beginning of each hour. The signal level on all freqs is more high than on 9505 and 11950 (I think the new aerials azimuth is also in use). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10)

Quick log on Feb 13: 15250 in Kazakh lang at 0730-0900 noted providing audio hum tone distortion. S=3-4. At 1230-1400 on 15250 and 17825, both S=2, QRM by RRI Tiganesti on v15249.86 250 kW 292 degr; and VoUAE Abu Dhabi in Ar on co-ch 17825. At 1520 and 1630 strong on 9505 S=4, and //11570.20, QRM of R PAK on latter freq. (WB, Feb 13)

KUWAIT Latest schedule of R Kuwait. Progr Target CIRAF Time Freq Main Ar (39 & 40) 0200-1305 6055 (6,7,8,27,28) 1800-2400 9855 (38) 1315-2130 9880 (6,10) 0000-0530 11675 (6,7,8,27,28) 1615-1800 11990 (6,7,8,27,28) 0930-1605 13620 (41) 0445-0930 15110 (41) 1315-1730 15110 (38) 0200-1305 15495 (37,46,47,48) 1800-2400 15495 (29, 30) 0400-0805 15505 (6,7,8,27,28) 1745-2300 15505 (37,46,47,48) 0815-1740 15505 (34,43,44,45) 0900-1505 17885 En (6,7,8,27,28) 1800-2100 11990 General nx main Ar 0300,0400,0500,0730,1000,1300,1500,1700,1900,2100,2200 En (SW) 1830, 2057. (Website Ministry of Information via JKB, DXM WDXC-GER Jan 99)

LUXEMBOURG 1440 R Luxembourg is bcing the following religious progrs in Ge lang: Sat 1830 Mw Freundesdienst, CH-5023 Biberstein, Switzerland 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach, D-51702 Bergneustadt, Germany 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach 0415 Stimme des Trostes, CH-Ebnat Kappel, Switzerland 0445 Mw Werner Heukelbach Sun 0500 Mw Werner Heukelbach 0515 Hilfsaktion Maertyrerkirche 0530 Mw Freundesdienst 0545 Mw Weg zur Freude, D-76232 Karlsruhe, Germany 0600 Mw Arche Hamburg, Postfach 540407, D-22504 Hamburg, Germany Mon 1830 Mw Freundesdienst 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach Tue 1830 Mw Freundesdienst 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach Wed 1830 Mw Freundesdienst 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach Thu 1815 Mw Freundesdienst 1830 Lutherische Stunde, Postfach 1162, D-27367 Sottrum, Germany 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach 0515 Rundfunkmission der Evang-meth Kirche, Postfach 311141, D-70471 Stuttgart Fri 1830 Mw Freundesdienst 0400 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1845 Mw Werner Heukelbach 0515 Rundfunkmission der Evang-meth Kirche. Also on FM 88,9; 93,3 and 97,0 MHz near the LUX/GER border, in Cologne, Trier, Saarbruck region. Via satellit Astra 19,2 o East 11.391 GHz, stereo carrier 7,38/7,56 MHz. (KiR, Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Feb 1)

MALAYSIA 6175 Voice of Malaysia, Feb 10, 1638-1659, Ar, Ar mx and BM pop songs, many ID's as "Huna Saut Malaysia" (past 1700 in Malay) poor, //9750 very good. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10) new 5005 RTM Sibu, is NOT more active on this freq since mid Jan. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 26)

MALI v9632.96 RTM Bamako in vernac at 0830 S=2, and //11960.00, S=1. (WB, Feb 13)

MONGOLIA 4850 R. Ulaanbaatar, Feb 10, Mongolian, nx - poor to fair with QRM from UZB and CHN (CNR-2) till 1309 when powerful RMayak came on the freq of 4855. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10)

NORTH MARIANA ISLS Ref the following extract: "Some Clubs are already categorising "Tinian Isl" as a "country" for QSL purposes. Is this logical, as the place is part of the US Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Isls, a few kms from the island of Saipan? Can a member of the amateur radio community advise the status of Tinian Island for DXCC award purposes?"

I had the pleasure of visiting Saipan on business twice last year, in Feb and in Oct, and am hoping for the opportunity to visit again.

The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Isls often referred to as "CNMI" belongs to the US, but has its own immigration dept. Even U.S. citizens must present their passports to customs officials upon entering Saipan (the usual point of entry). Nevertheless, Americans are typically waved through, but passport stamps can be requested and will be honored. (In my case, it makes a nice and unusual souvenir!)

The island of Tinian lies just a few miles from Saipan. While it's a few kms from Saipan, it is close enough that it looks like it is connected to Saipan.

As for DXCC status of Tinian, it does not hold any of its own. All ham radio contacts with CNMI count for the commonwealth, which has its own amateur radio prefix, KH0. US-licensed hams may operate from any of the commonwealth's islands solely on the authority of their home tickets.

They identify by adding the KH0 prefix to the ends of their calls. In my case, I can sign WB9IHH/KH0. As the US is also allocated prefixes in the blocks AA- AL, plus all of the K, N, and W series, I can legally change the "KH0" to "AH0", NH0", or "WH0".

CNMI is also home to two SW outlets, FEBC (KHBI) and RFA. KHBI is on the northern end of Saipan, where many World War II memorials have been established. During my initial visit to Saipan in Feb 1998, I was treated to a personally guided tour of the FEBC studios and tx site by Bob Springer, KH0AF, who is the director of the relay site. The stn is truly impressive, and Bob is a quite person to visit with.

That's more information that you asked for when you queried about Tinian's DXCC status. But get me started talking about CNMI and I can go on for pages! (Jim Clary, WB9IHH / VQ9JC, Feb 9)

NUMBER STN 4880 UNID new spy stn heard here for the first time on this QRG, 1915. Very weak S=2, EN: "... message No. 43 ... Alpha Romeo Sierra Lima ...".

PAKISTAN v3663.20-3663.10 Azad Kashmir, R Muzzaffarabad tentat., subcontinental mx, 1350 female annt, signal very weak, QRM and QRN, but switched on at 1455 again. female annt "...Islamabad PAK ...". Rare stn here in the PHL, and much QRM, is ham band covered. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Jan 31)

Quick PAK log of Feb 13: 0500-0700 Ur WS to ME workers, 11750.00 (x11725), 15175.05, and 17555.19, 0800-1120 Ur / En WS to EUR and NE, 15530.05, 17835.20. 1200-1230 Chinese on 15430.05. 1300-1345 Persian 11935.00, heterodyne on 11936.37. 15625 couldn't traced here, only poor carrier on 15624.00. 1330-1615 Ur WS to ME+AF, 11570.13, 15170.08, 15465.05. 1800-1845 Ar 7470.00 and 9329.98. No trace of Ur WS 1700-1900 today, not on 11570 and not either 15335. [but good propagation today, AIR 11620 very strong] (WB, Feb 13)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2410 R Enga, Jan 21, 1202-1300* s-off, Pidgin, talks over finance problems, bussiness report, rock mx. 34433 - 24432. En country mx 1223-1252, then Pidgin again. before s-off ID and NA+choir. Not regular active !

3217 R Southern Highlands, Jan 31, -1212*, regular active, ends with NA 1211-1212*. 34333

3315 R Manus, 1200-1205*, Jan 31, Pidgin, time annt, choir singer, birth call in background, no NA ! 1202 progr ends, 1205 tx s-off. 35433.

3375 R Western Highlands, Jan 31/Feb 2, 1145-1151* / 1030-1100, Pidgin, relig song, "Good night listeners ...", s-off no ID, no NA ! S-off time regular around 1150, active again regularly. 1030-1100 Pidgin, time annts, 1100 three short / one long time pips. drum intervalls, ID and QRG's, local mx band "The Blue Grashoppers". 45433 / 34543.

3395 R Eastern Highlands, 1058-1125, Feb 2, Pidgin, ID by male and wrong time annt, two minutes difference compared to WWVH Hawaii. Talk about the new school year 1999. nice south sea mx, IS native song without instruments. 35443 S=9+20 dB.

4890 or 9675 NBC Port Moresby stns, NOT more active since Jan 19th, no morning, no daytime, and no night progr noted here. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 2)

PERU 9504.6 R Tacna, Feb 10, 2254-2259, Sp talk on local items - but no ID, blocked by R Veritas Asia carrier past 2256 (one more Peruvian stn - R Victoria - was also noted at this time on 9721.4 with poor signal. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10) v5773.72, R. Panancial(?), 1044-1100, M at t/in w/ment of " .para todo el Peru" and ending w/ID. 1051 live M again w/ment of Panancial, then canned tlk by diff. M 1052-1055 w/ment of la sierra and corazon. Soft LA mx. 1057 live M anncr w/ID and ment of onda corta, another ID and tlk w/ment of "Peru, Andina", and one more ID ending tlk at 1059. Back to mx. Voice audio seemed a bit muffled. Kind of weak. Best hrd in the last 3 days though. Thanks Jay Novello and others. (Dave Valko-USA, Feb 10)

PHILIPPINES Eff Jan 1, RVA Manila bcs in Filipino (Tagalog) are now: 2230-2255 to HKG and TWN 6075 1500-1525 (1525-1555 Wed, Fri, & Sun) to ARS/ME 9670 Ru sces are: 0230-0255 to Khabarovsk 11805 0300-0325 to Yakutsk 11805 1430-1455 to Sverdlovsk 9660 1500-1555 to Novosibirsk 9660 (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Feb 11))

ROMANIA v9616.38 RRI Bucharest's multilingual morning sce using unstable tx at 0600-0656, which is registered on 9625. //7105, 9510, and 11775. (WB, Feb 13)

RUSSIA German lang religious txions via VoRUS. dail 0545 1323 Universal Life, Haugerring 7, D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany Fax 0931-3903233, Mon 1743 Mw Werner Heukelbach D-51702 Bergneustadt, Germany 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach Tue 1743 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1830 Universal Life 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach Wed 1743 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1843 Lutherische Stunde, Postfach 1162, D-27367 Sottrum, Germany 1900-1930 only on 1386 kHz Universal Life Thur 1743 Mw Werner Heukelbach 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach 2200-2245 only on 1323 kHz Universal Life Fri 1743 Mw Freundesdienst (til Feb 1999) 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach 2200-2245 only on 1323 kHz Universal Life Sat 1743 Mw Freundesdienst (til Feb 1999) 1830 Universal Life 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach 2200-2245 1323 Universal Life Sun 1743 Mw Freundesdienst 1800 Universal Life 1943 Mw Werner Heukelbach Werner Heukelbach Ministry is testing at 1743 UTC at first. (KiR, Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Feb 1)

MIDXB is a weekly e-mail newsletter, but it's in Ru lang ONLY (KOI-8 encoding). For more information please check the following URLs: http://www.poboxes.com/rts - RTS general info http://www.internews.ru/rts - official releases and publications http://www.radio.hobby.ru - Russia's Club of DXers (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 9)

5905 (I presume that the 5095 was a typo). I question Sonny Ashimori's site ID for RUI as Irkutsk. I have seen no evidence for some time now that RUI is being relayed by txs in the Russian Federation. Gone, it appears, are the days of lovely FE relays to west coast NoAM, etc. I suggest that all freqs of RUI are indeed coming from UKR itself. (Salmaniw-CAN in Cumbre Dx, Feb 12)

Walter must be right. I think I mistook it for a Russian tx on the same freq 5905. Thanks, and sorry for the error. (Sonny Ashimori-JPN, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 12)

7175 Radiostantsiy Tikhy Okean, Vladivostok, FE, 0835-0900*, Ru reports, 0845 two time Ids were given! 0848 talk on US dollar, 0852 ID again, time annt and telephone no. given. Greetings to shi sailors in Sardinia area in the Mediterr sea ! "Doswidanija ..." and saxophone fade out mx .. at 0900*. S=9+20 dB / 45544. //17570 S=9+40 db, 45554. No signal traced on ssb-mode 10344.

15105 R Tatarstan via Samara, 0520-0600*, Tatar lang, mixed with R Rossii Ru items before 0520. Then Tatarstan... Kazan items. After ID in Ru at 0530, to Tatar lang segment again. 0557 harmonica mx, 0558 s-off and 0600* tx switch-off. Audio muffeled. At 0515 rating was 34333, but fade down to S=4-6 at 0600. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 2)

SAUDI ARABIA v12038.51 BSKSA Riyadh 2nd progr at 1830, Ar phone in progr, S=3. (WB, Feb 13)

SOUTH AFRICA new A99 Broadcast Schedule for TWR via Meyerton AFS 28 Mar 1999 - 31 October 1999

UTC DAY LANG FREQU PWR AZI TARGET AREA 0330-0400 12 Tigrinya 7215 250 5 Eritrea 0330-0400 345 Oromo 7215 250 5 Ethiopia 0330-0400 67 Amharic 7215 250 5 Ethiopia

1527-1542 1234567 Yao(FEBA) 7265 250 19 Mozambique 1542-1557 1234567 Sena(FEBA) 7265 250 19 Mozambique

1600-1630 1234567 KiRundi 9530 250 19 Burundi 1630-1700 1 Borana 9530 250 19 Ethiopia 1630-1700 234567 Oromo 9530 250 19 Ethiopia

1725-1830 1234567 Amharic 9530 250 19 Ethiopia

1630-1700 1234567 Tigrinya 11705 250 5 Eritrea

1640-1655 1234567 Somali 9650 500 20 Somali 1657-1712 123 Shuwa 9650 500 5 Chad 1657-1712 456 Juba 9650 500 5 Sudan 1657-1727 7 Arabic 9650 500 5 Sudan

1830-1900 1234567 Hausa 9800 500 335 Nigeria 1900-1930 1234567 Kanuri 9800 500 335 Nigeria

1830-1900 1234567 Fulfulde 9510 500 330 Sahel 1900-1930 1234567 Yoruba 9510 500 330 Nigeria 1930-2000 1234567 Nupe 9510 500 330 Nigeria 2000-2030 1234567 Twi 9510 500 330 Ghana 2030-2045 6 Ewe 9510 500 330 Ghana

1830-1900 1234567 Bambara 9685 250 315 Ivory Coast 1900-1930 1234567 Baoule 9685 250 315 Ivory Coast 1930-2000 1234567 French 9685 250 315 Ivory Coast 2000-2015 67 French 9685 250 315 Ivory Coast (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Feb 10)

SUDAN [tentat.] 9230, Voice of Free Eritrea, (Sudan ?), Feb 4, 1531- 1559, Part of ID in Ar, ".al-Hurrah". Short fragments of "Horn of Africa" mx with male reciting in rhytmic Ar with several random time-signals in between. Eritrea mentioned several times. Male choir singing a patriotic song, sounding a bit like the soccer kind. Sign off with an immediate change of the guard: the Voice of Truth at 1600. Presumed. Poor signal.

9230, Voice of Truth, Feb 4, 1600-1633*, "Sawt al Haqq" ID, Talk in Ar by two males taking turns reading; mx varying from the traditional Ar to short bouts of shouting by a group of males, but also a more subtle sounding children's choir. Sign off with ID "Sawt al Haqq, sawt al-harakat " Presumed. Poor signal. (Pijpers, via DXW, Feb 10)

SWAZILAND new A99 Broadcast Schedule for TWR via Manzini SWZ 28 Mar 1999 - 31 October 1999

UTC DAY LANG FREQU PWR AZI TARGET AREA 0300-0330 1234567 Ndebele 3200 035 003 Zimbabwe 0300-0330 1234567 Swahili 5965 100 5 East Africa 0300-0345 1234567 Shona 3240 025 003 Zimbabwe 0345-0400 1234567 Lomwe 4775 050 003 Mozambique 0400-0430 1234567 German 3200 025 233 South Africa 0400-0430 1234567 German 4775 050 313 Namibia 0400-0430 1 34 67 Chewa 6040 100 5 Malawi 0400-0430 2 5 Tumbuka 6040 100 5 Malawi 0430-0500 1234567 English 3200 025 233 South Africa 0430-0500 1234567 Chewa 6040 100 5 Malawi 0430-0705 7 English 4775 050 233 Southern Africa 0430-0720 6 English 4775 050 233 Southern Africa 0430-0735 12345 English 4775 050 233 Southern Africa 0500-0730 12345 English 6100 050 233 Southern Africa 0500-0720 6 English 6100 050 233 Southern Africa 0500-0705 7 English 6100 050 233 Southern Africa 0505-0730 12345 English 9500 100 5 Central Africa 0505-0720 6 English 9500 100 5 Central Africa 0505-0705 7 English 9500 100 5 Central Africa 1400-1415 1234567 Urdu 15330 100 43 Pakistan 1435-1440 12345 Portug 7315 050 5 Mozambique 1440-1510 1234567 Portug 7315 050 5 Mozambique 1510-1525 1234567 Makua 7315 050 5 N Mozambique 1510-1555 1234567 Malagache7175 100 53 Madagascar 1525-1555 1234567 Lomwe 7315 050 5 N Mozambique 1600-1630 1234567 SiSwati 1170 50 ND Swaziland 1600-1630 12345 Tshwa 4760 025 3 Mozambique 1600-1630 1 34567 Chewa 6135 050 5 Malawi 1600-1630 2 Tumbuka 6135 050 5 Malawi 1600-1630 7 Shangaan 4760 025 3 Mozambique 1600-1700 6 Portug 4760 025 3 Mozambique 1600-1830 1234567 English 9500 100 5 East Africa 1630-1645 1234 Portug 4760 025 3 Mozambique 1630-1645 5 7 Shangaan 4760 025 3 Mozambique 1630-1658 1234567 Chewa 6135 050 5 Malawi 1630-1700 1234567 Zulu 1170 50 ND Swaziland 1700-1715 123456 Tswana 3200 050 233 South Africa 1700-1715 123456 Sotho 3200 050 233 South Africa 1700-1715 7 Pedi 3200 050 233 South Africa 1700-1800 67 Swahili 9585 100 5 East Africa 1700-1815 12345 Swahili 9585 100 5 East Africa 1715-2215 1234567 English 3200 050 233 South Africa 1800-1815 67 Kimwani 9585 100 5 Mozambique 1800-1830 1234567 Ndebele 3240 025 3 Zimbabwe 1800-2045 1234567 English 1170 50 ND Southern Africa 1830-1900 1234567 Shona 3240 025 3 Zimbabwe 1830-1845 1234567 Umbundu 6130 100 313 Angola 1845-1900 123 Chokwe 6130 100 313 Angola 1845-1900 4 6 Luchazi 6130 100 313 Angola 1845-1900 5 Portug 6130 100 313 Angola 1845-1915 7 Portug 6130 100 313 Angola 1900-1915 1234567 Ndau 3240 025 3 Mozambique 1900-1915 345 KiKongo 6130 100 313 Angola 1900-1915 6 Lunyaneka6130 100 313 Angola 1900-1930 1234567 Lingala 9525 100 343 D R Congo 1900-1915 12 7 Portug 6130 100 313 Angola 1915-1945 1234567 Portug 6130 100 313 Angola 1930-1945 1234567 French 9525 100 343 D R Congo 1945-2000 1234567 Kimbundu 6130 100 313 Angola 1945-2000 67 French 9525 100 343 D R Congo 2000-2005 12345 Portug 6130 100 313 Angola (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Feb 10)

TAIWAN Here shows some exact sked of CHN and TWN: CNR Taiwan: 0055-0615 0955-2405 549 765 1116 5090 6016 7620 9380 11100 11935 15710 0055-0615 11100 11935 15710 0955-1300 6015 7620 9380 1300-2300 5090 6015 7620 2300-2405 6015 7620 9380

CNR Chinese World: 2055-0105 0355-1805 684 927(X909) 1089 6790 9170 11000 15880 2055-2400 6790 9170 0000-0105 9170 11000 0355-1300 11000 15880 1300-1400 9170 11000 1400-1805 6790 9170

Voice of Strait: 2055-2400 0855-1800 846 1269 4900 5050 6115 7280 9505 2055-2400 4900 5050 6115 0855-1300 6115 7280 9505 1300-1800 4900 5050 6115

China Huayi BC: 0255-0600 0900-1600 6185 4940 4830 666 0255-0600 0900-1300 6185 4940 1300-1600 4940 4830

Voice of Pujiang: 1200-1600 3280 4950 5075

Voice of Jinling: 0155-0400 7215 1155-1600 5860 (always with noise)

Last, attached latest schedule of Radio Taipei Int'l (eff Jan,1999) Any amendments would be welcomed to Miller ([email protected]) in TWN.

CBS RADIO TAIPIE INT'L schedule as followed (eff Jan 01, 1999)

1. VARIETY NETWORK (in Ch)

747 2200-0000 250kW 900 2200-0400, 0900-1100, 1200-1800 300kW N. China (11-12 VoAsia) 927 0900-1800 1200kW M. China 1008 0600-0900 600kW S. China 1098 1330-1900 300kW S. China ( 10-13 WYFR ) 1206 0000-0600 100kW S. China 3335 0700-0200 100kW M. China 6085 0400-0200 300kW S. China 6180 0400-0900, 1100-0000 100kW N. China 7285 0700-1100 100kW M. China 9280 0100-0500 100kW N. China 9690 1400-1800 100kW S. China 11775 0400-0700, 1000-1800 300kW N. China 11840 0400-1800 100kW N. China 11970 0200-1000 100kW NE. China 15125 0800-1100, 1500-1700 250kW SEAs

2. NEWS NETWORK ( IN CH )

603 0900-1600, 2100-0000 1000kW S. China 1008 0900-1600, 2100-0000 600kW S. China 1422 2200-0300, 0600-1600 50kW W. Taiwan 1521 0900-1700 1200kW N. China 6040 0900-0500 100kW S. China 7105 0400-0000 300kW M. China 7250 0900-0400 100kW N. China 9610 2200-0100, 0300-0600 250kW N. China 9630 2300-0500, 0900-1800 300kW M. China 11725 0400-1600, 2200-0000 100kW M. China 11860 2200-0000 100kW SEAs 15125 2200-0100 250kW SEAs 5950 1100-1200, 1400-1500,2200-0000 eNAm.ANZ 15440 2200-0000 eNAm

3. DIALECT NETWORK (in Amoy, Hakka, Cantonese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur)

1) Amoy (mainly spoken in Taiwan, Fujian) 0000-0600 603 S. China 0800-1200 747 M. China 0200-0300 11550 11915 SEAs 0300-0400 11915 SEAs 0500-0600 11745 SEAs 0800-0900 11745 Aus.NZL 1000-1100 7130 11550 15345 SEAs 1300-1400 7130 11860 SEAs

2) Hakka (mainly spoken in Taiwan, E. Guangdong, S. Fujian) 0900-1500 1206 M. China 0000-0100 11745 SEAs 0100-0200 15345 SEAs 0200-0400 7130 SEAs 0900-1000 15345 SEAs 1400-1500 15345 Aus.NZL 1500-1600 9610 Australia, NZL

3) Cantonese (spoken in Hong Kong, Guangdong) 0000-0500 9690 S. China 0900-1400 9690 S. China 0100-0200 11550 SEAs 0500-0600 11915 15270 15345 SEAs 1000-1100 7445 9610 11915 15270 Aus,NZL,SEAs 1100-1200 15270 SEAs 1200-1300 9765 SEAs 1300-1400 9765 15345 SEAs

4) Mongolian : 1000-1100 11905 Mongolia Tibetan : 1100-1200 11905 Tibet Uighur : 1200-1300 11905 Xinjiang

4. EXTERNAL NETWORK :

English 0200-0300 11740 9680 5950 NAm.CAm 11745 11825 15345 SEAs 0300-0400 5950 9680 NAm 11745 11825 15345 SEAs 0700-0800 5950 NAm 1200-1300 9610 Australia. NZL 1300-1500 15125 SEAs 2200-2300 9985 5810 EUR Spanish 0100-0200 11825 15215 SAm 0400-0500 11740 CAm 0600-0700 5950 NAm 2000-2100 11665 EUR 2300-0000 9690 11720 SAm French 0700-0800 7520 EUR 1800-1900 17555 EUR 2000-2100 11665 EUR Germany 0600-0700 9985 EUR 1800-1900 9955 EUR 2100-2200 15600 17750 EUR Russian 1305-1400 15695 9610 EUR 1705-1800 9955 EUR Arabic 2000-2100 9630 11775 ME. NAf Japanese 0100-0200 15270 11745 Japan 1100-1200 7130 15345 Japan 1400-1500 7130 11745 Japan Indonesian 0405-0455 585 S. Taiwan 0800-0900 7130 11550.11915 Indonesia 1100-1200 11550 Indonesia 1200-1300 15345 Indonesia Vietnamese 1500-1600 11745 15345 Vietnam 2300-0000 11745 15345 Vietnam Thai 0600-0700 15270 15345 Thailand 1400-1500 11860 15270 Thailand 2200-2300 585 7445 Thailand Chinese 0100-0200 17845 15215 11845 SAm 0400-0500 5950 9680 NAm 7130 11825 15270 15345 SEAs 0700-0800 7130 SEAs 0900-1000 7445 11550 11745 11915 SEAs.NEAs 9610 Australia. NZL 1200-1300 11745 15270 SEAs.Japan 1900-2000 9955 15600 17750 EUR

5. Voice of Asia

English 1100-1200 585 900 7445 SeAs Indonesian 1200-1300 585 7445 11860 Indonesia 1600-1700 585 7445 11745 Indonesia Thai 1500-1600 585 7445 15270 Thailand 2300-0000 585 7445 15270 Thailand Chinese 0300-0700 7285 S. China 0700-1100 9280 N. China 1100-1300 15125 SEAs 1300-1500 7445 585 SEAs (Miller Liu-TWN, Feb 3)

TAJIKISTAN 4635.36, Tajik Radio; Feb 07, 0020, pretty flute mx with central Asian flavor, bouncing back and forth between here and 4635.30, IS and "Inja Dushanbe" twice at 0100. (Novello via DXW, Feb 10)

UKRAINE LW & MW stns in Kyiv 207 500 1st progr of Nat R 0327-2300 549 500 2nd progr (Promin) 0200-0100 //71.3 MHz FM 612 10 BBCWS in Ukr, En & Ru 0400-0800, 1400-1800 & 2000-2200. 783 500 3rd progr (R Muz) 0327-2300 //72.68 MHz FM 1134 2 1st progr 0327-2300.

The Ukr 4th channel also broadcasts on 657 kHz from Tchernivtsi to Moldova with Romanian progrs at 1800-1830, 2030-2100, 2200-2230. (unknown contrib in WDXC-UK Contact, Feb '99)

UK The BBC German Sce is to close, here is an extract from Mark Byford's statement.

We have taken the decision to close our German language sce. The decision has not been taken lightly, nor is it in any way a reflection on the team who have worked very hard and enthusiastically to produce a highly professional sce both here in London and Berlin. It is a decision based on our overall priorities and recognition of a changing world around us. In future, all our sces to WeEUR, incl Germany, will be focused on En. This is in line with our overall strategy to provide an enhanced En offer in the most developed countries of the world, targeting opinion formers and decision makers.

On the back of the success of the breakfast progr The World Today for EUR, introduced last year, we plan to establish a new Business Correspondent in Frankfurt for the WS and a new correspondent in Berlin. Our online coverage of German affairs will be enhanced. We aim to secure new FM rebroadcasting deals in Leipzig and Thueringen to complement our FM presence in Berlin.

May I, on behalf of all the senior team across the WS, offer my appreciation to all the Ge lang staff at what is a difficult and sensitive time. They have always shown dedication, commitment and professionalism which has continued throughout the recent period of uncertainty over the future of the sce.

We will also rationalise some of our SW txion network and reduce costs in the Hungarian, Thai, Czech and education sces to achieve better value. But, to confirm, we are closing just one language sce and the money released will be re-invested in WS developments. (Feb 12)

(c.f. BC-DX #406) {GERMANY non [tentat]} 6090, on checking a rpt from Adrian Peterson that he was hearing a gospel stn in AR at 2100 ... I guess, it's HCJB relay via UK. Scheduled 2100-2200 on 6085, 250 kW, 160 degr towards NoAF in Ar lang. Yesterday I catch the ID which sounded like "Idh'a Til Akhbar min Mutekha min Britaniya". Postal addr in France was given. The stn is on the air 2100-2230 on 6090, perhaps a new freq, due to co-channel BR on 6085 and new s-off time. (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 10)

Regarding Merlin and its failure to register with the HFCC or the ITU I too find them to be an irritating cause of interference to Fr lang Africa No. 1 from Gabon on 17630 during U.S. East Coast mornings.

From a programming standpoint, I find Merlin to be a bland version of BBC's R 2, with progrs obviously taped well in advance that contain mindless chatter and boring mx available elsewhere, despite repeated on-air claims to the contrary. It's sad that they feel the need to step on a well-known internat broadcaster that has been using the same freqs for as long as I can remember. (Mike Cooper, Atlanta, Feb 2, RIB, Feb 11)

Merlin 11985 also messes up the last hour of KWT in En at 2000 on 11990. (Ivan Grishin-CAN, Ont, RIB, Feb 11)

URUGUAY R Oriental, Montevideo on 11735 2143 SIO 242 on Feb 4. (call-in px) 2204 px in Italian "Aqui Roma"(!) 2204-2220. It px also heard on Feb 5. R Monte Carlo, Montevideo on 9595 2243 max. SIO 232 on Feb 4. Signal varied between 1-2. Sport px. Emisora Ciudad, Montevideo on 9650 2305 SIO 333 (football from Buenos Aires). (Uwe Vok-D, Feb 11)

USA WORLD OF RADIO ON WBCQ: Due to WWCR cancelling our first bc Thur at 2130 on 9475, from Feb 10 we are doing a phone-feed only mins after production is completed, Weds at 2200 on WBCQ 7415. (Glenn Hauser, Feb 10)

WWCR has been heard on 2390 and 3210 around 0800 for a few mornings at weak to fair level but there is no trace at that time of WGTG which - acc to a report in EDXP - was to move off 6890 and on to 3270. But maybe it isn't bcing at that time ? (Noel Green-UK, Feb 3)

WBCQ's tx is fixed on 7415, I believe Noel is talking about WGTG. (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 11) Somebody referred to WBCQ being on 3270 and 6890. It's not WBCQ, but WGTG. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Feb 11)

Winter B98 txion schedule of WGTG as of last revision 13 Jan 1999. tx UTC frequency and mode (*) CIRAF Target Zones 1 1400-2300 9400 USB/AM 10, 61, 55 1 2300-0700 5085 USB/AM 10, 61, 55 2 2100-0300 6890 USB 3, 2, 1 2 0300-0700 3270 USB 3, 2, 1 (*) Most of the programming is changing over to the USB (upper side band) mode. The singular exception is the relig progr airing primarily on Sat and Sun. You will need a SSB-capable radio to listen to most of WGTG's programming. (WGTG website via JKB at DXM/WWDXC, Jan 20)

Heavy CHN jamming against RFA outlets XXX 13760, KHBI 15665 and 17615 around 0730.

The newest Cumbre schedule, which went into effect at 0500 on 6 Feb 1999

WHRI ANGEL I (AMs/Carib) Sat 0600 7315 Sat 0830 7315 Sat 2330 9495 (Sat 1830 9495 has been dropped)

WHRI ANGEL II (EUR/ME/AF/RUS/NoAM) Sat 0600 5755 Sat 0830 5755 Sat 2300 5745 Sun 0400 5755 (Sun 0530 5755 has been dropped) Sun 1400 6040 (time change) (Sun 1830 13760 has been dropped, but see WHRA for other bcs on this freq that may be audible for those in the Angel II target areas)

KWHR ANGEL III (AS) Sat 0230 17510 Sat 0600 17780 Sun 0430 17510 Sun 0600 17780 Sun 1830 9930

KWHR ANGEL IV (SoPAC) Sat 0800 11565 (all Angel IV txions of Cumbre are on this freq) Sat 1030 (NEW TRANSMISSION) Sat 1230 Sun 1030 Sun 1300 (Sun 0730 has been dropped)

WHRA ANGEL V (AF/ME) (may also be audible for many WHRI listeners) Fri 2305 13760 (time and freq change) (Sat 0330 7465 has been dropped) Sat 2330 13760 (time and freq change) Sun 2330 13760 (time and freq change)

The program may be heard on Real Audio whenever it is on SW the World Harvest website http://www.whr.org Also, it is audible on demand at the Cumbre DX website http://www.ralabs.com/cumbre

The postal addr for SW RR's: World Harvest Radio, P.O.Box 12, South Bend IN 46624, U.S.A. (Marie A. Lamb-USA, DXing with Cumbre, Feb 6)

VIETNAM Here is an observed schedule of two main 100 kW VoVTN txs (Feb 10-11): 0830-0930 9840 12020 0930-1030 12020 15110 1130-1230 9840 12020 1230-1300 12020 15110 1300-1400 7145 9840 1400-1430 9840 12020 1430-1600 12020 15110 1600-2000 7145 9840 2000-2030 no transmission 2030-2130 7145 9840 2130-2230 9840 12020 2230-2400 no transmission 0000-0100 12020 15110

All langs as in WRTH (for 9840, 12020 or 15010). I also noted an unusual strong Hanoi HS1 signal on 15471 //5925 and 9875 as a jammer for RFA in Vietnamese at 1400-1500 (Feb 10). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Feb 10) v9839.78 S=3, and //7145.00 S=2, VoVTN Hanoi in En, bussiness report, minister visit to AUS. 1300-1400 and also 1600-2000. (WB, Feb 13)

If you've been in the hobby as long as me, you'll remember the Barlow Wadley XCR-30. It was a South African-made SW rx that was popular in the 70's, before the likes of Sony got into the market. But why am I telling you this?

Now there's a whole Website devoted to it, and very impressive it is too. If you're younger and want to know what DXing was like before they invented digital readout, this is a great site to browse at http://members.xoom.com/barlowwadley/ (Andy Sennitt-HOL, in DXW, Feb 10)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 407-C 14 Feb 1999 ______

GERMANY ex-GDR "Vlatava" clandestine station operations. Hello, maybe you can help with this: I'am searching, on which freq in 1968 the "Vltava" clandestine was operational. Possibly you also know something about the site? All I have at hand is the statement "Dresden area", which of course immediately leads to Wilsdruff.

What I know for certain is, that during the occupation Wilsdruff had to carry "Radio Berlin International" on 1358 kHz - officially; a Wilsdruff engineer told me some years ago (unfortunately I did know about this "Vltava" at this time, otherwhise I had of course asked), that the feederline from Leipzig was bringing nothing but "Radio Volga[??]". Any comments would be highly appreciated. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 4)

Hello Kai, here is some info on Vltava (Moldau) clandestine stn.

Inicial bars of Bedrich Smetana's symphonic poem "Vltava" (Moldau), which was an IS of Vltava, sounded in the air for the first time in the night towards Aug 21, 1968, when the occupation troops crossed borders of Czechoslovakia. At first the stn played only mx with annts in Czech: "The patriotic group of members of CSSR Central Commitee of the Communist Party, the CSSR Govt and the CSSR Parliament has just asked the Warsaw Treaty Allied Forces to enter our republic in order to defence the socialism. Stay by your rxs and inform your neighbours!"

The frequency was on 1430 kHz. At that time the Dresden Wilsdruff tx on 1043 became silent. After heavy jamming against Vltava, it tried another frequency - 1043 (Aug 24), but returned back to 1430 on the next day. At that time the 1043 channel was occupied by a low power (reserve?) tx, probably located in Dresden with usual DDR-programming on this channel.

Vltava became "famous" for its speakers with a heavy German accent. Although grammatically correct, the pronounciation was terrible. With its omnidir antenna the stn was perfectly audible in Bohemia. In Moravia and Slovakia the reception was possible in the evening hrs only. The stn was on the air usually at: 0530-0730, 1130-1330 and 1600-2400.

Radio Vltava never announced officially by whom it is operated, but it was understood that either R Berlin Internat or Allied Forces Headquaters were behind the "curtains". In the second half of Feb 1969 the Dresden tx returned to its freq of 1043 and replaced its low power substitute. Vltava was then aired by one of the RBI txs, still on 1430, using omnidir antenna. Two weeks later the name "Vltava" disappeared and the stn started to identify itself as "R Berlin International". Together with this change the IS changed to the old German communist song called "Bruder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit!". So it was the story of Radio Vltava. I hope it is still of some help to you. (Karel Honzik-CZE, Feb 4)

Karel wrote: "The freq was on 1430 kHz. At that time the Dresden Wilsdruff tx on 1043 kHz became silent. After heavy jamming against Vltava, it tried another freq - 1043 (Aug 24), but returned back to 1430 on the next day. At that time the 1043 channel was occupied by a low power (reserve?) tx, probably located in Dresden with usual DDR-programming on this channel."

There were originally two txs at the Wilsdruff site, some 10 kms west of Dresden: The 250 kW main tx "SM4" and a 20 kW back-up unit, called "SM4E". So it is quite clear, what happened: The 250 kW tx was retuned to 1430, while the back-up tx took over the regular 1043 sce.

Since 1979, the 1431 channel belongs regularly to Wilsdruff. It is allowed for 250 kW daytime and 150 kW nighttime, but was actually operated with the 20 kW tx, carrying "Berliner Rundfunk", while the 250 kW rig continued on 1044 with "Radio DDR". As there was no longer a back-up available, they had for maintenance work then regular silence periods on one morning per week, appr. from 8 to 12 AM.

In 1990, the 1431 channel was taked over by the new established "Sachsenradio", shortly after this "Sachsenradio" moved into 1044, the now so-called "Radio Aktuell" from Berlin was furthermore aired on 1431.

In 1991, 1431 was alongside with all other "Radio Aktuell" MWs shut down. In the first six months of 1992, the new "Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk" operated 1044 only with the 20 kW tx. This once again changed: From July 1992 until June 1993 the famous "Jugendradio DT64" was carried on 1044, first using full 250 kW, in the last months on reduced power 150 kW as a cost saving measurement (and also to avoid the quite frequent PA tube failures; the first break-down happened just a half hour after the tx was on July 1st 1992 switched on again).

Since it came to an bad end with DT64 (not only regarding 1044, also and above all regarding the program contents), 1044 was operated for the "MDR info" all-nx progr just with the old 20 kW tx anymore. A couple of months ago a new solid-state tx took over these sce.

Just recently 1431 was assigned to a commercial stn, called "Mega-Radio", but this doesn't mean, that there will be activities soon: These broadcaster owns already at least Woebbelin 576, Burg 1575, Berlin 603 kHz.

Nobody knows, why and to what, as these stn never was going on the air anywhere; I was told, it is just a P.O.Box at London.

Karel wrote: "Radio Vltava never announced officially by whom it is operated, but it was understood that either Radio Berlin International or Allied Forces Headquaters were behind the 'curtains'".

Or the Soldatensender / Freiheitssender "headquarter" at the radio school Berlin-Gruenau (there was some fully equipped studios, which was in the Fifties used as "gape-filler" from the move out of the Masurenallee radiohouse in [British sector] West Berlin until the Nalepastrasse radiohouse in [Soviet] East Berlin was ready).

In the second half of Feb 1969 the Dresden tx returned to its freq of 1043 and replaced its low power substitute. Vltava was then aired by one of the RBI txs, still on 1430, using omnidir antenna at Berlin-Koepenick, I guess? (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 5)

While talking about the "Vltava" operation from 1968, I was just pointed to special activities of GDR radio from appr. May 1981 until Sep 1982: Editorial staff with knowledge of the Polish lang was withdrawn from their usual work and needed to maintain silence about their special task. What their colleagues was knowing: These task was to produce programming for POL, officially "to tell the truth", and it happened in a shielded shack right on the waterfront of the Spree river on the Nalepastrasse radio areal, at least as far as it the editorial matters concerns. The uninvolved staff didn't know anything about freqs; we are speculating about OIRT-FM from the Frankfurt/Oder txs as a possibility, which would also explain, why these operations remained widely unknown.

Regarding studios of Freiheitssender 904 / Soldatensender 935: Former GDR radio staff is rather certain, that these stns were bcing, at least from a particular time, not / no longer from Berlin-Gruenau but from Bestensee, some 10 kms south of Koenigs Wusterhausen. There was a emergency production facility, likely with subterranean studios.

Finally regarding "Vltava": At times, when Wilsdruff was carrying DT64 on 1044 kHz, some "official persons" of the at this time not yet Deutsche Telekom but still Federal Post confirmed, that Wilsdruff did "special" txions toward the CSSR, although they stated, these was regular RBI programming. Well, this may be just a matter of opinion, as "Vltava" in 1969 indeed changed it's appearance into "R Berlin International", meanwhile forcing me to assume, it was actually a RBI operation, herewith produced at Berlin Nalepastrasse rather than secret locations. Any comments would be highly appreciated. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 6)

After once again "thinking about it", it is quite clear to me, why the engineers at Wilsdruff told me about "R Volga": These guys was advised, that they had to retune the 250 kW tx for "R Berlin International", and they heard no RBI ID's in the programming but the "Vltava" ones and misunderstood it as "Volga", as they of course didn't know about the real ID and had no knowledge of the Czech lang. Or was indeed also Radio Volga carried on 1430 (if so, // 263 to serve the occupation troops)?

Possibly I will soon receive a script about Vltava, which is of course in German. Please give me a hint, if it would be of interest for you. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 9)

From my point of view (I grew up in Western GER, travelled to POL via GDR first time in 1984 and several times a year since 1986. I had a lot of political discussions with friends there already during this years) this is a very interesting detail, but I am absolutely not astonished about:

As widely known today, officials in GDR where very frightened about the ideas of 'Solidarnosc', even more than officials of Soviet Union. So it's easy to understand that officials in GDR did not feel satisfied with actions of Soviet Union, but felt they have to do something themself to keep their position stable (without success, as we know today). There is materail published now in GER about GDR activities against POL starting in summer 1980, I have a book about this at home. This includes trials of Honecker for a stronger politic against 'Solidarnosc' from Sovjet Union.

At the other hand I cannot remember to read (in books of memorial from both official and oppositional persons) or hear from friends about this. I think this activity was without great effect. A lot of people in poland tried to ignore politics totally, but concentrated to manage daily live (and needed a lot of energy to do so), those interested in politics very seldem accepted official positions, even in case they have been party member.

So any bc being even neerer to ideology than official Warsaw publications had no chance for any wider acceptance. I think that listener in POL have not got the idea of such bc originating in GDR, but supposed it to be 'Russian'.

A political joke I heard in 1986 in POL, related to official tv nx, and sure widely known in Poland during that time: There are three kinds of nx in POL: - True nx, - unsecure nx, - false nx. True nx are the sports nx, unsecure nx are the weather predictions, false nx are the political nx. I hope this gives some background on the situation. (Dr.-Ing. Joerg Hertzer-D Feb 8)

Other clandestine operations from the GDR. Beside the well-known operations Deutscher Soldatensender and Deutscher Freiheitssender there were also some other clandestine operations from the GDR. Vltava and the Polish progrs were mentioned, progrs for American soldiers in West Berlin were in the news few years ago. But also SW facilities in the GDR were in use for clandestine stns. All three I know about started around the end of the 50s, and used not only GDR txs to reach their target, but also others in Romania and/or Bulgaria. These were:

- the "Voice of the Truth" (Radiofonikos Stathmos i Foni tis Alithias), a station of the Greek communist party

- "Our Radio" (Bizim Radio), Turkish communist radio stn

- "Radio Iran-Messanger" (Radio Peyk-e Iran).

The last two were on the air still in the 80s, though I don_t know when they stopped using GDR txs.

Any information on these? (Andreas Erbe-D, Feb 10)

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ALBANIA TWR in Persian via Cerrik 100 kW / 90 degr, 1700-1800 (Sat, Sun, Mon till 1745) on new 9440 (43433), strong QRM Kol Israel 9435. (x9445) //12089.8 also Cerrik. (PanIview-BUL, Rumen Pankov-BUL, Ivo Ivanov-BUL, Feb 15)

6099.92 R-TV Shqiptar Progr-1, 0630-0645 Feb 17, very good with seeming commercials, ALB woman DJ, phone calls, frequent references to Tirana. Varying 6099.92-.95. (Krueger-FL, via NU, Feb 21)

ANGOLA 4950 R Nac da Angola, Feb 12, 0459-0502, Por, nx progr, ID "Esta e R Nac da Angola, da Luanda transmite R Nacional", 35433. (Nicolas Eramo- ARG, Feb 14)

ANTARCTICA "Good lord! It's HUGE here!" (Rippel-VA, 2352 Feb 18) Hrd at S9 level, with some fading. My best ever rcpn of this stn. Nice slow Argentinean mx, with all SP vocals at 2345. Male SP ancrs, long pauses between songs. No ID at 0000, songs continuing. Seems as if the current mid-latitude solar storm is helping very southern hemisphere SW stnssome fading, but not nearly as bad as with northern latitude stns. (Dan Henderson-MD, via NU, Feb 19)

They were about an S7 here; if them, better than I've hrd them in the past. They just signed off at 0059 Feb 19 with no closing anmt. Wasn't in my shack the whole time, so don't know if they ever IDed during the half hour I listened. Will check out the recording later. (Sgrulletta-NY, via NU, Feb 19)

15475.8, tent., LRA36, Feb 16 with Sp ballad-type tunes (each one 3-4 min.) and singing, but no anmts except perhaps briefly at 2300, and no IDs, from 2226 tune-in to 0000, when they abruptly left the air. Signal was 35433, and strength slowly picked up during the time I was listening. (Dan Greenall-ONT via Sellers-ONT, via NU, Feb 19)

15475.8 LRA36 R. Nac Arcangel is back on the air with test txions ("emision de prueba") 0003 accordion and other mx, IDs at 0035 and 0100 "Transmite LRA36, R Nac Arcangel San Gabriel. Esta es un emision de prueba. En la frecuencia de 15475 kiloHertz en la banda de 19 metros con 10 kilovatios de potencia. Desde la base Esperanza, en la teritorio Antartico Argentino "; fair to poor; thanks Jay Novello, swlchris on #swl. (Ralph Brandi NJ, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 20)

AUSTRIA Fuer alle Wiener und jene aus der Umgebung: Das Wiener "Phonomuseum" (Mitteilungsblatt Nr. 114, Mollardgasse 8, A-1060 Wien) ladet in seiner neuesten Ausgabe zu einem Abend unter dem Motto "Radio Nostalgie" ein.

Er findet am 5. Maerz 1999, im Hause der Oesterreichischen Phonothek, Gumpendorferstrasse 95/2.Stock, A-1060 Wien statt. Beginn ist 19 Uhr, Eintritt ist frei. Fuer Sitzplaetze bittet man um Vorbestellung. (Tel: 01-5973669 Fr. Mag. Hofer).

Prof. Karl Grell wird ueber den Wandel der Rundfunkunterhaltung von Einst und Jetzt sprechen und mit Musikbeispielen deutlich machen, wie sehr sich das Programm in den vergangenen 50 Jahren veraendert hat. Prof. Karl Grell (Komponist, Arrangeur, Kapellmeister) war selbst viele Jahre als Programmleiter im Oesterreichischen Rundfunk taetig, sodass hiermit ein am Rundfunk unmittelbar Beteiligter sein Wissen weitergeben kann.

PS: Fuer uns Radiohoerer koennte dieser Vortrag sehr interessant werden, auch was die Zukunftschancen des Radios betrifft. (Harald Suess-AUT, Feb 16)

BELARUS/LITHUANIA JAMMING A WOULD-BE STATION ? On Feb 13, 1999, Rimantas Pleikys, coordinator of the R Baltic Waves project, found a stn operating on 6230/6235 and carrying distorted audio txion of the 1st home sce progr of Belarussian Radio. The stn was on the air throughout Feb 13, and continued the following day, Feb 14, with the same jammer-like distorted (frequency modulated?) signal of Belarussian Radio.

A couple of months ago, Rimantas Pleikys made preliminary tx tests for the R Baltic Waves project, by transmitting test signal on 6235, a possible RBW freq. R Baltic Waves is a project to bc radio progrs from LTU into BLR reflecting views of Belarussian opposition movements, in contrast to Lukashenko's official propaganda. (Sigitas Zilionis, DX Editor, Feb 14) [email protected]

I noted the jammer-like distorted signal a couple of times, (but not daily !) including today, Feb 15 at 1400 onwards, on 6245v, but in both cases it was the audio signal of the VoRUS in Ch with the fundamental freq of 6205. Definitly not a spurious signal, the distorted audio has disapeared in a few seconds earlier (at 1500) then the audio on 6205. Also today I heard another Ch speaking stn on the background, seems the CHN authorities are using VoR Chinese sce. to jam something. Acc to the nx, CHN has tried to use RCI progrs as a jammer a few weeks back. (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 16)

HFCC lists Novosibirsk tx site 6205, 1400-1500, 240 kw, at 110 deg.

3346 R Mayak relay Orsha, Feb 9, 1945-1950, Belarus, light classical mx, talk, //2338 USB feeder, 44444 (Phillips, via DXW, Feb 17)

BRAZIL 3375.02 R Nac, Sao Gabriel, 1002-1026, Feb 8, Por, Ids, advt, romantic mx, 1010 ID "R Nacional...", at 0126 again ID with call ! 23432 (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 9)

CANADA It seems to be "Canada Week" so far on 49 mb ! Amazing how condx constantly change on these lower bands around 0730/0830 at this time of the year.

6070 After a tip from Mike Barraclough I found CFRX Toronto audible 0800 when Sweden left 6065 on Feb 16+17. Fair level using LSB to avoid DW 6075. Only annc CFRB, all talk incl "News every 30 min on CFRB". Wx sport business etc. Still audible 0900+ but fading.

6130 CHNX Halifax using only USB (nothing on LSB) also well audible with usual "Oldies 96" as well as wx. Annc as "-- a Maritime Broadcasting System Station". Can still copy this one at 0910, one hour after sunrise.

6160 CKZN St Johns - I assume this one - surely not CKZU Vancouver ! - ID as CBC only. Had progr from Channel Africa on "CBC Overnight" until 0800 when "Nx on the Hour from CBC Radio One". At 0805 "CBC Overnight" with progr from DW. All in En. Not listed as active at this time. Still audible but very low at 0900 when DW via ATG boomed in at s-on for En to OCE on 6160. (Noel Green-UK, Feb 17)

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP Good nx for those who didn't succed in picking up the very weak signals from Radio Minurca late 1998. David Smith today informed me that Radio Minurca will have a new and more powerful tx up and running between now and the end of March - and it will run on 9900.

Btw - more nx from the CAR. I noticed Radio Centreafrique with a very strong and clear signal Feb 17th on the new freq of 5035 at sign on 0430. Previously they have always (well almost) been off channel !! (Stig Hartvig Nielsen-DEN, Feb 18)

CHINA Add changes of CRI in Ru, 1600-1700 on add 7120 (55544) over DW in En, 1600-1800 on add 6065 under R Sweden. (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

MW DongFang 684 kHz, RFI Paris via CHN relay scheduled here in Fr 1200- 1300. RS checked it in the PHL, at 1240 til 1305, but heard Ch progr in progress only. ID was "Joung jang Guangbo Diantai..", five short / one long time pips at 1300 UTC, very strong signal. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 2)

CHINA [non] CLANDESTINE FROM CIS to TIBET. VoTibet has set up a new web-site at http://www.voti.com

VOT has set up a new web-site in addition to the present www.vot.org (which offers VOTs daily 30 mins. progrs aired on SW to Tibet on real audio), including an updated progr archive containing the last seven days progrs. The new web-site provides more detailed information about VoTibets activities, and in addition VoT is planning to offer a brief presentation of the daily progr headlines in En text with link to the real audio sce. By introducing the new web-site VoT aims to provide a better sce to the real audio listeners as well as to the Tibet Support groups and others engaged for Tibet worldwide. It is also VoTs hope that the new sce will encourage more Support Groups and others to provide VoT with informed on Tibet related news and events taking place in their country/region. For more information contact please check out: http://www.voti.com or e-mail Voice of Tibet: [email protected] (World Tibet News - Feb 4, via Mizuno Mitsuaki-JPN, via DXW, Feb 17)

ETHIOPIA En progr of R ETH on both 9560.2 and 7165 kHz, disturbed reception. The better one is 9560.2, QRM by RCI 9555 from Skelton-UK. Nx at 1630. Announced addr: R Ethiopia Ext Sces, P.O. Box 654, Addis Abeba, ETH. (Enzio Gehrig-E, Feb 18)

GERMANY DW, Operational Schedule B-98 (Update Mar 1999)

Lang START ENDE FREQ stn / site kW Azim Target additional ALBANIAN 2115-2130 1458 DurresFllake 500 338 antenna B, Kosovo,ALB SERBIAN 2100-2115 1458 DurresFllake 500 338 antenna B, SER, ALB change ARABIC 1300-1600 12015 KRASNODAR 500 188 ME (x 9860) CHINESE 1000-1050 9450 PETROPAVL. 200 263 CHN (x 5895) CHINESE 1000-1050 15610 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 CHN (x 7390) CHINESE 1330-1355 9450 PETROPAVL. 200 263 CHN (x 5895) CHINESE 1330-1355 15610 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 CHN (x 7305) ENGLISH 0200-0250 12045 SAMARA 250 140 SAS (x 9815) ENGLISH 0900-0950 15470 IRKUTSK 250 110 SAS (x12055) GERMAN 1000-1400 12000 NOVOSIBIR. 200 111 FE (x 7315) GERMAN 1000-1400 13810 NOVOSIBIR. 250 085 FE (xPetropavl-K.) GERMAN 1000-1400 15490 NOVOSIBIR. 1000 145 SAS/SEAS(x 9480) GERMAN 1400-1800 12055 SAMARA 250 140 SAS (x 7315) GERMAN 1600-2000 9830 MOSCOW 250 169 ME (x 7445) GERMAN 2200-0000 7340 NOVOSIBIR. 1000 085 FE (x 5925) INDONESIA 1100-1125 11895 TRINCOMALE 250 105 SEAS (x11775) JAPANESE 1230-1300 12055 NOVOSIBIR. 500 085 FE (x 7305) PERSIAN 1800-1850 7305 KRASNODAR 200 147 ME (x 5965) ROMANIAN 2000-2100 9470 SAMARA 250 245 EUR (x 6000)

Delete GERMAN 1000-1400 7340 PETROPAVL. 250 241 FE RUSSIAN 1600-2000 5945 SAMARA 200 117 URS (DW Plus magazine, March 1999, and previous schedules)

Brother Stair in En via Juelich, changes from Feb 4: 1330-1730 6010 to EUR - new time -, (x1500-1700), 1800-2000 deleted 6130 EUR. 1800-2000 addit 13810 (34333) SoAF, 160 degr.

Txions of AWR in Tu via Juelich not yet began: 0500-0530 5890 & 2100-2130 9470 via Juelich. 2130-2200 7105 via Forli (Italy). (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

AP item on Feb 17th, 15:23 (MEZ- CET) via http://news.lycos.de/news/ge/textidx.asp?Text=/news/ge/Kultur/199902171523 MAW9819.htm

BBCWS En sce on FM via txs at Weimar and Erfurt in Thuringia state: Weimar 96.2 MHz and Erfurt 106.6 MHz inaugurated on Wed 17th. Mote outlets will follow, at Jena, Nordhausen and Ilmenau. (Martin Schoech-D, Feb 17)

GREECE Addit px in Tu to Balkans of VoGRC, 1600-1610 792 9375 and 7475 co-ch RFA in Korean. (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

HONDURAS 3250.70 R Luz y Vida, San Luis, 1035-1107, Sp, relig progr, with mx bridges, 1058 ID by male, and 1103 ID again, "R Luz y Vida, San Luis... Los Andes ..". 14332. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 9)

INDONESIA 9860 RRI Jakarta. New freq with Programa Satu at 1100-1200 causing severe co channel to RFA Lao progr. Maybe x9680 or an error reversing the 6 & the 8 digits at the tx site?

11760 RRI Jakarta, Cimanggis. 0225 Ins, no other Dom Sce outlets heard from INS on this band at this time.

11785v VoINS, Cimanggis. *0030-0400* various langs, Sp 0030-0100; En 0100- 0200; Ins 0200-0300 & Ar 0300-0400* in //with 9525. (Craig Tyson-AUS, Feb 4,9,12)

11860 RRI Jakarta, Cimanggis. "Warta Berita" at 1203 and local pops & female talks at 1209. This was Programa Satu in //15125. Ch stn on the same freq interfered with the signal. Programa Dua freqs were not heard today. (Jembatan DX, Juichi Yamada-JPN, Feb 14)

9614.8 RRI Samarinda, 0630, S=9+20 on SPR-4, s-off at 0700, no QRM, no QRN. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 9)

ITALY VoHope German sce AWR (Adventist World Radio) 28 Mar-30 Oct 1999 SW Forli 0900-0930 7230 2,5 kW, 1200-1230 7230 2,5 kW

Addit SW Rimavska Sobota-SVK 1300-1330 7230 250 kW 1700-1730 7240 250 kW RR's appreciated, especially 7240 freq. See also under Slovakia. http://www.stimme-der-hoffnung.de/radio/kw/

Addr: AWR - Europe, C.P. 383, I-47100 Forli, Italy

STIMME DER HOFFNUNG, Am Elfengrund 66, D-64297 Darmstadt, Germany tel +49 - 6151 95 44-65 fax +49 6151 95 44-70 e-mail: [email protected] (Lothar Klepp-D, Feb 17)

KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh Radio is noted today, on a new freq 6255 at 2000+ with a progr in Kazakh lang, a lot of local songs, at 2045 nx bulletin and the weather report. (Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 19)

Progrs from Astana studio: 0000-0100 and 0700-0900, other time from Almaty studio.

I can add that these two txs are located in the KAZ territory and you could hear their signals on 9505 (2nd px) and 11950 (1st px) in the past. But now there is a single px in Ru and Kaz on all freqs and with the ISs and ID jingle in Kazakh at the beginning of each hour. The signal level on all freqs is more high than on 9505 and 11950 (I think the new aerials azimuth is also in use). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, via DXW Feb 20)

In past 18 months a lot of the former Almaty SW txs were silent, so it puzzeled me last year what happened on that former Alma Ata tx site. Also a big foreign relay user of the SW site Alma Aty suffered by an extended long break time.

Now their home sces are back, and even much stronger and with much clearer audio now. So, I suppose at least either their feeder circuit and the antenna arrays refurbished or the txs moved from Alma Ata to another tx site near Astana and subsequently the antennas were rebuilt and have got back their originate gain ?? (ed, Feb 20)

6230, Kazak Radio, February 9, 2330, presumed the one with nonstop ranting by man in a language I couldn't identify. 2342 switched over to a program of regional pop mx some with a central Asian or Turkish flair annouced by both M and W, on some occasions in Russian, sometimes in another language. This continued straight through until 0300 carrier drop, with nothing special at the top or bottom of any hour. This station has been heard by Pritam Saini and others in #swl since about Feb 5. Finally caught the signon of this one, at 0000 Feb 13, as per Timofeyev above (doesn't explain why they were heard 2330 earlier in the week, though). Low modulation today, but IS a couple of times, male and female announcement, then long choral anthem. Circumstantial evidence, since no ID heard. (Novello)

LITHUANIA We hope, that the Radio Baltic Waves will start bcing in May, probably on 612, 40 kW (Vilnius), and //in the 6 MHz band, 50 kW, or 100 kW, on Sw (Sitkunai). (Rimantas Pleikys, Radio Baltic Waves Coordinator via Pijpers, cia CDX, Feb 19, also via Rimantas Pleikys and Bjorn Fransson-SWE, Feb 20)

MADAGASCAR 5590 ? I just heard a new Malagasy stn here at 1815 with regional Malagasy songs. A few sounded like relig and also a Fr song sung by Malagasy. Talk by man in Malagasy after every song many times the word. "Malagasy" has been announced Couldn't copy what sounded like an ID at 1845 due to distorted audio and QRN. Stn then went off suddenly. It would be interesting to know if this stn is running with a license then it would be third stn after RTM (Radio National and AWR) otherwise it will be just like R. TV Analamanga and R.Tsioka Vao (6075). Further observation would be necessary if it still on the air. (Mahendra Vaghjee MAURITIUS, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 20)

MALTA Acc to their newest publication, the e-mail address of the Voice of the Mediterranean in Valletta (Malta) has changed as follows: [email protected] Web-Side: www.vom-malta.org.mt (Volker Willschrey-D, Feb 16)

MARIANA ISLANDS R Free Asia has adjusted its sked for Ch programming from the KHBI Saipan relay. Now noted on 9455 *2000-2100 (x9355), heavily jammed by CNR Dom Sce co-channel and "[white?] noise". 9355 is still jammed with CNR Dom Sce programming even though RFA has vacated that channel! (Bob Padula-AUS, via EDXP, Feb 17)

MEXICO 6185 R Educacion, Mexico, Feb 11, 0714-0716, Sp, musical progr, Sp and En ID and time check "Usted escucha R Educacion Onda Corta, una quince tiempo de Mexico, siete quince Horario Universal Coordinado. You are listen R Educacion Short Wave", 35433. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Feb 14)

I have been keeping check on 6010 and, on the 7th, I could hear Sp more or less on 6010 which suddenly built up in strength, pushing my S-meter up to 7, and gave several excellent clear ID's as R Mil "transmitiendo del Ciudad de MEX". The same happened again on the 8 + 10th but slightly earlier. R Educacion 6185 was peaking the meter over S=9 same time and R Transcontinental 4800.7 was also up to S=7 on the 10th, both around 0820 with clear ID's. (Noel Green-UK, Feb 12)

Since Feb 10, Radio UNAM, XEYU on 9600, has begun testing; I have heard it more or less 1400-2300 daily. I've found out that they are using 650 watts. I hear a strong carrier, but voices are very low, retransmitting the signal of their MW 860 stn. I hope you can pick it up. Reports can be sent to Adolfo Prieto 133, Colonia del Valle, 03100 Mexico DF, to Ing. Gustavo Carreno, technical department, but I don't know if they will answer. (Hector Garcia Bojorge, Mexico DF, Feb 14 via Hauser)

I checked for this Feb 16-17: weak and wobbly carrier around 9600.2 is presumably this, blocked by Vatican in Vietnamese (!) until 2402* when could still detect carrier, but never any audio, as late as 0545. (Glenn Hauser, OK, Feb 17)

Terry Krueger has nailed this one down: 9600.15, R. UNAM, 0628-0701* Feb 19, tnx Bojorge tip in DX-Window, definitely back on. Tune-in to non-stop classical solo piano concerto till 0645, then man with, "Estamos sintonia con R. UNAM . en un momento . sistema Mexicana . ." and contd. with chatter, referencing local events, upcoming prgmng and the public appearance schedule of "el Presidente de la Republica." Fill mx 0658, then "El fin de transmision . radio ciudad nacional . XEUN-FM, 96.1 estereofonico . buenas noches," followed by orchestral NA from 0659. Clear and very good. Didn't copy all of the closing ID, which, while it referenced the FM (and at least in the past 9600 always relayed the MW 860 prgmng), I believe is independent of the FM. The 860 kHz MW channel is pretty much toast here due to local WGUL co-channel, but 9600 used to be parallel and 0700*. This one also used to be a really nice QSLer, with big packages of schedule books, etc. (Krueger-FL, via NU, Feb 19)

9600.1 Radio UNAM 0313 Tuned in to hear classical mx. Very weak signal. Noise dropped and signal came up at the bottom of the hour - enough to hear male and female announcers in Sp including three IDs; two for Radio UNAM and one partial of Radio Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. What luck! (Hankison, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 19)

MOLDOVA From Feb 20, VoR will add a new MW freq for VoR bcs in Ru. MW 1548 at 2000-2100 towards SoEUR (BUL,YUG, etc.). (Pavel Mikhailov-VoR via Nick Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 19) [Grigoriopol- Pridnestrovye tx]

MW 1548 from Grigoriopol/MDA was today indeed again on air with VoRUS, as announced by Pavel Mikhailov (via Nick Pashkevich) 2000-2100 with the Ru sce, but the tx was already operational before 2000, carrying a unid lang sce. The signal on 1548 was weaker than on 999, likely these outlet uses a directional array. By the way, I'am unsure, whether or not TWR from 2000 on 999 is (was) daily, but at least today there was no bc, at 2000 (after DW Ru sce) the tx was switched off. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 20) [VoR 1900-2000 Greek, 1930-2000 Slovak]

In the past 1548 was even much stronger here in CeEUR than 999. It was the time as I just get occupied with the radio topic, but indeed I remember that 1548 (which I at this time believed to originate from Vinnytsa then...) was quite strong here. I cannot tell, whether or not it was in those days (1993/94) even stronger than 999, as these channel was still occupied by the dull Hoyerswerda outlet of Deutschlandradio with it's low and tinny-sounding modulation, resulting in a fluttering mud of Hoyerswerda, Grigoriopol and the Kishinev-based jammer. However, I would suspect, both transmitters was running full 1000 kW this time. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 21)

Here is the present B98 TWR schedule: 999 MW TWR via Grigoriopol 1830-1900 in Ukr. 2030-2045 We-Fr Ru, Tu Ukr, 2030-2100 Mo Bel. 2045-2100 We+Fr Ru, Tu+Th Ukr. (TWR schedule leaflet, Oct 7, adapted by ed)

Yesterday Feb 20 first time logged RUS in Ru on 1548 kHz huge signal of S9+40 coming from 60/240 deg to my QTH (last time i've checked this QRG/QRT - Feb 17 - nothing but VoA KWT fair plus IRN deep background).

Judging on azi: Maiac (Gri-pol,MDA), and also Voronezh, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Ufa (RUS) are on the beam-line. No comments yet. (Vladimir G.Titarev-UKR, Feb 21)

Acc to the informatiom from the technical dept. of VoR 1548 kHz site is Samara (?!), 250 kw. Today I sent an e-mail to my friend in Samara asking him to check it out. From Mar 28, 1999 TWR will use 999 kHz as follows: 1730-1800 daily in Ukr. 1900-1930 daily in Ukr,Ru,Bel. (Nick Paskevich-RUS, Feb 21)

MONACO TWR Monte Carlo in Rom heard from Feb 1: 1700-1745 addit 7190 (55555) //5840 via JUL/DTK. (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

MYANMAR 5986 R Myanmar 1458 to 1600* with progr of vocal pop mx, female announcer En, En nx 1515, light orchestral mx with no annts to 1558, then female announcer En and NA, 1600 carrier off. Steady S2. Audio modulation disappeared from 1530.5 to 1538 on Feb 14. On Feb 16 very nice S3+ signal 1507 with light orchestral mx. This channel has heavy splash from BBC Thailand on 6090. (Churchill, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 19)

NEPAL 5005.3 //3229.75, R Nepal, at 1700 Feb 21. As far as I can remember, Nepal hasn't been off freq on the 5005 tx. I am sure some Nuers can correct me on that! I think Roland Schulze-PHL observed that R Malaysia in Sibu on 5005 has been off the air. I confirm that I too observed the stn off from about late Jan. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Feb 21)

PAKISTAN 15465.04 R PAK Ur WS at 1500, //11570.13 (and KAZ underneath 11570.21), but no trace of Karachi 15170, due of Riyadh-ARS strong in Fr on co-ch. Turkish 1700-1730 9769.98, and //poor 12015, latter underneath RFI Moyabi in Port. Ur EUR sce 1700-1900 on 11570.13 and 15335.05, but latter no propagating today to get positive ID. Ur progr form Islamabad to ME workers 1800-1900 on 9475.04 even, suffers QRM by AWR Juelich in Armenian co-ch. See monitoring list below. (WB, Feb 16)

11975.1 R Pakistan noted the last few nights with IS at 0228, typewriter mx interval, and then sign on in En at 0230 with ID, freq annt and dictation speed nx. //to 15485.1 but poor audio on both channels. (Johnson, in Cumbre Dx, Feb 17)

Here is the monitoring list of Feb 14, 16, 20: Urdu 0500-0700 11750.05 (API-1 100 kW 282 degr) S=0 retimed 15170.04 (API-5 250 kW 282 degr) S=3 17555.04 (API-6 250 kW 252 degr) WS to Gulf & ME. S=2

Urdu/E 0800-1120 15530.04 (API-5 250 kW 313 degr) 0800-1103 Urdu WS S=3-4 17835.18 (API-6 250 kW 313 degr) 1105-1120 slow speed nx. S=2-3 Hindi 1100-1145 9510 could not be traced here in EUR, 11995 very, very poor, only fragments and pieces of PAK mx could be heard, S=1-2, 13580.73K S=1-2, very, very poor, supposed to be PAK, carrier measured, signal wandered 13580.6 ... 13580.86 within 20 minutes lapsed time. Chinese 1200-1230 11895 15430.04 to CHN. S=3 (powerhouse BBC on 11895) Mitali/Bangla 1200-1245 11975.00 15624.98 to BGD/IND. Both S=1 only. Persian 1300-1345 11935.00 S=0-1 15624.96 to IRN. S=3

Urdu 1330-1530 11570.13 S=3 15465.06 S=3 15170K WS to Gulf & ME. No trace on 15170 S=0, due BSKSA-ARS in French. No trace of KAZ 11570 on Feb 20th anymore. Russian 1500-1530 6060 9330(this now via 313 degr) to CIS and RUS. Only S=2 on 9330.00. English 1600-1630 11570.13 15465.06 15170K WS to Gulf & ME. 15325 17720 to Ea&SoEaAF. No trace of 15170 15325 and 17720. Turkish 1700-1730 12011.50K S=2 9769.98K S=4 (x13580K) to TUR. Urdu 1700-1900 11570.11 S=4 15335.05 S=3 WS to WeEUR. Arabic 1800-1845 7469.99 S=2 9329.98 S=3 to ME & NoAF. Urdu 1800-1900 9475.00 Islamabad progr to Gulf & ME. S=1 French 1930-2000 11570.12 to WeEUR 9400.00 to No&WeAF. on both carrier only, no audio progr today. K = Karachi 50 kW, others Islamabad 100/250 kW. (WB, Feb 14,16,20)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4890 Karai Nat R, The Voice of Papua New Guinea. Active again, last time heard on Jan 19. Checked every day since. Feb 7, 1120- 1130*, relig progr in En, had badly tx problems, breaks in the midst of the progr. 44333. On Feb 8th, S=9 +30dB, at 1203 wrong time annt, "its nx time, 10 o'clock, the National nx..". 45544. Also heard morning sce from 2040 onwards, progr in En, internat nx, ""Sunshine breakfast show...". 35443. 9675 also active from Feb 6th again, 0945-1030. King Hussein Jordan nx, weather report +32 degr in Port Moresby, +36 degr in Mt. Hagen...". S=9 +40dB. //4890 off this day.

3205 R Sandaun, Vanimo, 1020-1040, Feb 2, Pidgin, 45533. 3220 R Morobo, Lae, Kundu sce, 1000-1016, Feb 2, nx in En, "yesterday Feb 1, was the beginning of the school year in PNG", 34443. 3325 R North Solomons, Kieta, 1028-1053, Feb 6, Pidgin, "Sunrise studio", 33433. (usually INS stn RRI Palang Karaya on top, but faded out that day.)

PNG monitoring list Feb '99 approx. 0930-1210 UTC 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th (2000 UTC) 2410 R Enga, Wabag - - - + - - + + - 3205 R Sandaun, Vanimo + + + + + - + + - regular night sce 3220 R Morobo, Lae - + + + + - + - - 3235 R WesternNewBritain + + + + + + - + + 3245 R Gulf, Kererna ------3260 R Madang + ------3275 R SouthHighlands,Mendi+ + - + - + + + s-off 1210 3290 R Central, Boroko ------3305 R Western, Daru ------3315 R Manus, Lorengau + ------3325 R North Solomons,Kieta+ - + - - + - + - 3335 R East Sepik, Wewak + + + + - - + + - 3345 R Northern, Wewak + + + + + + + + - regular night sce 3355 R Simbu, Kundiawa ------3365 R Milne Bay, Alotau + + + - + + + + - 3375 R Western Highlands + + - - - + - - - 3385 R East New Britain ------3395 R Eastern Highlands + + + - + - - + - 3905 R New Ireland,Kavieng + + + + - + + + - 4890 NBC Port Moresby ------+ + + 9675 NBC Port Moresby ------+ - - (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 9)

3345 R Northern has reactivated. Heard at 1202 with several Ids in Pidgin and En, NA and s-off. All PNGs were doing well and these were noted: 3205 3220 3235 3275 3325 3335 3345 3365 3375 3395. No East New Britain or Madang, and of course no Western or Central. (Dave Valko PA, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 21)

PERU 5678 R Illucan, Cutervo, Feb 9, 0229-0240, Sp, musical progr, ID "emitiendo una voz amiga desde Cutervo, los que hacemos Radio Illucan", 33222,

5700 R Frecuencia San Ignacio, San Ignacio, Feb 12, 0106-0112, Sp relig progr and mx, ID "R Frecuencia San Ignacio presento", 24332. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Feb 14)

RUSSIA One of those Mayak-DSB-outlets was audible here today on 5264 with "Podmoskovnyie Vechera" IS at 0700. Quite a strong signal S3 at 0630. (Andreas Erbe-D, Feb 14)

Radiostn. Tikhy Okean now found on new 17675 at 0815-0900 which presumably replaces 17570. Very bad splash from powerhouse FNL 17670. [but Pori will move to 17820 and 21670 in A99] (Noel Green-UK, Feb 17)

SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA Riyadh at 0650 and 0745 11818.51 and 11868.41. (WB, Feb 14)

SEYCHELLES Freqs changes of FEBA Radio Internat: new 15460 (x15540) 1000-1058 Tagalog Fri only 1100-1130 Ar daily 1145-1200 Tsanga Sat/Sun 1145-1200 Nepali Mon/Tue 1200-1230 Tibetan daily new 11665 (x11600) 1300-1330 Malayalam 1330-1345 Tamil (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

SIERRA LEONE Sierra Leone Bcing back on air. SLBS, following damage to its offices and library of recordings, is now back on air, bcing local nx once again. During the rebel occupation of Freetown, two staff members of SLBS - a man and a woman - were killed. Some staff are still missing. Cyril Juxon-Smith, the Officer in Charge of SLBS, reports that SLBS is appealing for tapes and discs to replace something of what has been lost. (http://www.oneworld.org/cba/ CBA / Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, Feb 16)

SLOVAKIA AWR via Rimavska Sobota. Seemingly AWR will use the Rimavska Sobota facilities in Slovakia again more extensive in the upcoming A99 season, especially also to cover EUR. Lothar Klepp of AWR's German section ("Stimme der Hoffnung") announced today, that their programming, which uses on SW currently just the tiny Forli/Italia 2500 watts outlet, is to be carried via Rimavska Sobota again, namely 1300-1330 on 7230 and 1700-1730 on 7240. They are interested in RR's, especially about 7240. Note: 7230 will also be on air from Forli for other slots, incl Ge 0900-0930 and 1200- 1230. (Kai Ludwig-D, Feb 19)

SRI LANKA 15395 VoA Colombo, was off freq for a couple of months, creating a heterodyne. It was corrected two weeks ago. 1400-1800 is the En News Now sked here. These VoA Ekala txs will stop VoA relaying once the Iranawila operation gets under way. The txs will then probably carry SLBC to IND. They might also be available for relays to IND. In the meantime, SLBC to SoEaAS and AUS at 1030-1130 uses 11835 and 17850, both 35 kW VoA txs. Although the stn ancs 15120, it has long been off. En nx at 1045. (Voctor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Feb 21)

TAHITI Today Feb 17 RFO Tahiti heard again on 15170 in progress bcing France-Inter px, 24432, 0735-0750z. Also two ute stns heard. Mahina Radio (FJA) daily on 8803 at 0740z bcing sea weather report in in USB. At 0731z on 8867 Tahiti Control talking to LAN CHILE 38. (Enzio Gehrig-E, Feb 17)

15170, RFO Tahiti, 0435-0503, Feb 5, but regularly here most of time, weak stn with South Sea mx, lang may be Tahitian, 0459 ID Polynesia by female ann, from 0500 in Fr lang. Heard on Drake SPR-4 only, modified by R West, but not on R-8A rx. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Feb 9)

UKRAINE 9610 (registered to be from Kharkov-UKR) is puting out a 2nd harmonic, noted Feb 14th on 19220 with SINPO 25532 around 1000. (Andreas Erbe-D, Feb 14)

UNID Unknown 7513.5 unIDed 2030 with operas similar to Vietns (not //9840). After 2045 with man in Ru but signal faded out after 2054 so I could not catch origin. QRG moving upwards to stop to 7515. (Zacharias Liangas-GRC, Feb 15) (spurious of 7390? VoVTN via Russia relay there, ed)

A NUMBER STN 4880 UNID new spy stn heard here for the first time on this QRG, 1915. Very weak S=2, EN: " message No. 43 Alpha Romeo Sierra Lima .". [c.f. BC-DX #407]

No, this one is not a new stn. 4880 is a well-known freq for the Israeli number stns, E10 with its ENIGMA designator. The callsign mostly noted on 4880 ist ULX, but E10 often uses different callsigns on the same channel. [on 11565 too?, ed] (Andreas Erbe-D, Feb 15)

UK Addit px of BBC in Alb from Jan 25: 1100-1115 Mo-Fr 13745 (55555) and 15115 (55555). (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

Announcement of BBC World Service's Three Year Plan. Yesterday afternoon (10 Feb 1999) Mark Byford, chief Executive BBCWS announced to his staff the World Service's Three Year Plan which has the endorsement of the BBC Board of Governors and the Foreign Office. A transcript of the letter sent to BBC World Service staff summarising the plan is given below.

Today I am able to announce the World Service's Three Year Plan, of which I attach a summary version. The plan sets out our journey together for the next three years, into the new millennium and the dawn of the digital age. It will help to secure our position as the world's leading internat broadcaster.

I am aware that delays in the launch of this plan have meant that many of you have lived with uncertainty over the past few months. I am grateful for the patience and understanding you have shown during this difficult time. The plan now has the endorsement of the BBC Board of Governors and the Foreign Office.

I want to stress that this plan is primarily about expansion and development. From speaking to many of you around the building, I know that you are all very aware of the huge challenges facing us. We must analyse closely and carefully the explosion in new media technologies, the way our audiences are changing in their profile and how they will access the World Service in future; and we must ask how, in this exciting new world, we can still be as relevant as possible and best fulfil our goal of being the world's reference point. I am fully aware of the creative enthusiasm across the WS for meeting these challenges.

We have ambitious plans for the Internet. We want to continue the drive to improve all our programming. We will re-align our English offer to provide increased flexibility for different markets and to position ourselves for the emerging on-demand world of the future. We must take advantage of new FM opportunities and exploit new technologies. Significant capital investment over the next three years will be deployed to turn us from an analogue to a digital programme making team.

The increased funding we will receive over the next three years, together with our efficiency savings progr allows us to invest in new activities. But, in order to undertake everything we believe necessary and to absorb our rising costs, we have had to look very closely at the most effective use of the Grant in Aid. This has forced some hard choices.

We have taken the decision to close our German language sce. The decision has not been taken lightly, nor is it in any way a reflection on the team who have worked very hard and enthusiastically to produce a highly professional sce both here in London and Berlin. It is a decision based on our overall priorities and recognition of a changing world around us. In future, all our sces to Western EUR, including GER, will be focused on English. This is in line with our overall strategy to provide an enhanced English offer in the most developed countries of the world, targeting opinion formers and decision makers.

On the back of the success of the breakfast programme "The World Today" for EUR, introduced last year, we plan to establish a new Business Correspondent in Frankfurt for the WS and a new correspondent in Berlin. Our online coverage of German affairs will be enhanced. We aim to secure new FM rebcing deals in Leipzig and Thueringen to complement our FM presence in Berlin.

May I, on behalf of all the senior team across the World Service, offer my appreciation to all the German language staff at what is a difficult and sensitive time. They have always shown dedication, commitment and professionalism which has continued throughout the recent period of uncertainty over the future of the sce.

One of the many things that characterise the WS is that people here are immensely dedicated to the principles and values that govern our bcing: accuracy, independence, objectivity, fairness. Those principles will remain the foundation of everything we do in the future.

The WS plan focuses on the next three years but it is positioned for the start of a ten year journey. It is a dynamic and exciting vision. The WS cannot stand still if it is to maintain its leading role as the world's most trusted and respected internat broadcaster.

Our aim for the future is for the WS, as a multi-media broadcaster and content provider across a wide range of languages, to be the world's reference point. It is my privilege to lead a team packed with talent, expertise, dedication and professionalism to meet this goal. (Mark Byford, Ariel Feb 12)

USA Freq changes of VoA 0600-0630 & 1400-1415 Alb addit 1215. 1800-1830 Amharic new 13675 co-ch Dubai (x7150). 1830-1900 Tigrina/Oromo & Sat/Sun En - same change. 2200-2230 Creole CeAM new 21485 (x15120). 0100-0230 Ur Pa Da new 9705 (x9505). 1700-1830 Por AF new 15545 (x15505). 0430-0500 Ser new 7125 over VoR En (x7130). 1200-1300 & 2300-2400 Sp SoAM deleted 12025. 2300-2400 Sp SoAM new 17875 (x15350). 2100-2200 Ukr new 7190 (x7180).

RFA Uighur 0100-0130 7485 (45444) //15405 not heard. (PanIview-BUL, Feb 15)

AFRTS I heard your progr "Computer Update" via "Into Tomorrow Radio Network" in SWE, and found it very interesting. Now I also enclose a copy of my report of reception to the AFRTS Radio office in Washington DC. I hope it is of interest for you. --

Hello, The txion that you heard was one that is somewhat rare. We checked with AFRTS at March Air Force Base in California.

AFRTS - Armed Forecs Radio and Television Service - also called AFN, Armed Forces Network. The sce is for the troops to listen to - for nx and entertainment. It's to keep them in touch with their part of the world, back home.

This is the official report from AFRTS, in response to your e-mail ...

The U.S. Navy provides SW txions of our programming when operationally required, i.e., ships are on deployment, out of range of the INMARSAT satellite. It is not a part of the AFRTS-BC scheme of things. This is just a U.S. Navy thing ....

Your reception report is very interesting, since I have been a SWL'er for many years. I wish I had caught that one. I realize the freq that you had tuned-in to, was different than what we got in the above report from California.

"Into Tomorrow" with Dave Graveline is a LIVE three hour bc on many stns in the US. We are a network. Air time is Suns at 1906 (0206 PM Eastern Time).

Following each bc we edit-out all the commercials, and reduce it to a one hour progr for AFRTS to air on their five networks, the following weekend. Each of their five networks offers the progr five times over the weekend - starting on Fri.

So the bc that you caught on 12 Feb, 1999 at 2135 UTC was a tape that was recorded LIVE on 7 Feb 1999. Then, that satellite txion was picked-up in Key West-FL and re-broadcast as a SW txion from there.

Now that you know we exist, catch us on the internet. We provide LIVE audio and video during the bc. Again, we are on the air at 0206 PM New York City Time - which I believe is 1906 UTC - every Sunday !

UP COMING TOPICS: Live Sunday broadcasts... 21 Feb - "Technology On The GO" 28 Feb - "Computer Update - The Mac" 07 Mar - "Gadgets & Gizmos" 14 Mar - "Y2K, the Law, and You" 21 Mar - "Small Office - Home Office" 28 Mar - "Internet Update" 04 Apr - "Car Audio & Security"

Send some e-mail questions for each of these shows, and enjoy each excursion into tomorrow.

Steve Zeigler, Senior Producer "Into Tomorrow" with Dave Graveline www.graveline.com [email protected]

A R N - The Advanced Radio Network. "Into Tomorrow" with Dave Graveline. Consumer Electronics & Technology http://www.graveline.com (via Bjorn Fransson-SWE, Feb 20)

11954.88, WINB Red Lion; PA, *0001-0017 Feb 15, abruptly on w/ M ID and referenced bcing to MEX, addr, then into oldie En gospel vocals. Excellent. (Krueger, via DXW, Feb 17)

UZBEKISTAN 17685 BBC London in Ur via Tashkent?, at 0805 fine signal into EUR. (WB, Feb 14)

VIETNAM 5034.73v R Dai Teng Noi listed here. Hrd 1310-1330 Feb 20 with what sounded to me to be the scheduled Hmong progr, but it HAS been 29 years(!). Hosted by male, fair-poor level. Very brief anmt at 1330, and plug pulled abruptly as per sked. Very tentative. (Bryant-OK in NU, Feb 21)

15471 Hanoi 1, 1450 Feb 20, presumed the one as heard by Timofeyev Feb 10 (". unusually strong Hanoi HS1 signal on 15471 //5925 and 9875 as a jammer for RFA in VT at 1400-1500," Cumbre). All talk, no fanfare at 1458 plugpull. Pretty good signal. (Novello-NC in NU, Feb 21)

"SHORTWAVE GUIDE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA" I am pleased to advise that this new hard-copy reference is planned for worldwide publication on May 10, 1999, featuring SW bcing from the countries of INS, MLA, SNG, PHL, LAO, CBG, Myanmar, VTN, and THA. GENERAL DETAILS - A4 format - 36 pages - commercially printed and saddle stitched - illustrated with maps, images, charts and diagrams.

PURPOSE This new Guide is intended to be an expert single-volume timely reference of immediate application to anyone with an interest in SW bcing. It will appeal to monitoring hobbyists needing accurate and up-to-date information, to frequency planners, to professional monitoring organizations, to media producers, and to folk who are interested in learning about the impact of SW bcing from the region in the closing months of the millennium. It brings together a a vast amount of information unavailable in this format anywhere else.

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Treffen fuer Kurzwellenhoerer und DXer in Bremen und Umgebung. Terminuebersicht fuer 1999 - (Informationsstand: 15.02.99)

Die Treffen finden normalerweise jeden 3. Sonnabend im Monat statt. Ort: Gaststaette Buergerstuben, Alte Hafenstr. 14, Bremen-Vegesack. (vom Bahnhof Vegesack aus gesehen hinter dem Parkhaus)

Zeit: normalerweise 16.30 Uhr LT Termine 1999: 20. Feb, 20. Maerz, 17. Apr, 15. Mai, 19. Jun, 17. Jul, 21. Aug, 18. Sep, Oktober: Seebergen!!! siehe unten!, 20. Nov, 18. Dez.

Wenn die Wirtsleute Urlaub machen oder unser Raum anderweitig belegt sein sollte, werden die Treffen in privatem Rahmen durchgefuehrt. Naeheres wird dann kurzfristig bekannt gegeben. Bitte beachtet auch entsprechende Ankuendigungen in der Klubzeitschrift Kurier mit Weltweit Horen.

DX-Camp in Lilienthal-Seebergen - Vom 15. bis 17. Okt veranstalten die Kurzwellenfreunde Bremen wieder ihr bekanntes und beliebtes DX-Camp in dem alten Bauernhaus des Bruningshof an der Bergstrasse in Seebergen. Das Dorf liegt voellig im Gruenen an einem Geestruecken nordoestlich von Bremen. Bitte merkt Euch diesen Termin schon einmal vor. Wegen des Camps findet im Okt kein DX-Treffen in Vegesack statt.

Info: Frank Helmbold @ HB2 [email protected] Tel. 04235-957581 (18-19h) Fax 04235-957582

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 409 06 May 1999 ______

ALBANIA On May 3rd R Tirana Internat sce had only a single tx for its disposal. Tirana Ge single 7215.00 1730-1757, not //9570. Tirana It 1800-1827 single 6109.95, not //7240. Tirana En 1915 noted on v9515.

Albanian txs observed this morning May 4th: v6100 off the air, only R Belarus progr heard here. v7109.96 via Cerrik, R Tirana in Albanian 0600-0100 registered. v7149.93 via Cerrik, seemingly 2nd progr of Home sce, reg 0800-1400. v9584.92 via Cerrik, seemingly 1st progr of Home sce, reg 0800-1300. (latter replacing 6100 in our EUR morning ??, plays a lot of Albanian pop mx). v6090.2 R Tirana in Albanian noted at 0200 on Apr 27th.

Albanian at 1700 on odd 6101.86 [when I checked 6100 for R YUG in Ru], lets R Belarus on even 6100 in the clear. (WB, May 4th)

ANTIGUA 11985 New DW freq noted on Apr 25 in Ge 0600-0800. It sounded like a relay, but made no announcement before closing. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26) [could be ATG relay, nominal 12000 in March, 11755 in A99, ed]

ASCENSION ISL 17650 R Japan NHK World noted on this new Freq, 0800-1000 seems x15220 via ASC relay. (WB, Apr 4)

BELARUS 6070 Belarus is noted here, //6100 6115 6165 7140 7145 and 7210. I can't trace anything on 5965, so maybe 6070 is a replacement for this ? Voz Christiana-CHL dominates 6070 before 0700. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30) [and ext sce replaced 7105 by 11960 too, ed]

BOTSWANA I checked where the VoA closing mx was coming from at 0700 on 9630 to find out it was Botswana relay ! I cannot recall hearing anything from southern Africa as late as this before on 9 MHz. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26)

CHINA Some new freqs of China Radio Internat. 11650 15.00-16.00 & 17.00-18.00 in Russian 11650 20.00-21.00 in Mandarin to Af 11685 18.00-20.00 in Russian 11700 16.00-17.00 in Ru, co-ch R.Bulgaria in Bul & RFI in Fr 11740 18.00-19.00 in Farsi, co-ch FRA in Mandarin 11750 16.00-17.00 in Arabic to Af, co-ch R.Qatar in Ar 11750 20.00-21.00 in Mandarin to Af, co-ch R.Aigiers in Sp 11750 21.00-22.00 in Arabic to Af 11775 18.00-21.00 in Hu,Bul,Cz,Rom,Pol,Hu to Eu 11910 17.00-18.00 in En to Af, co-ch R.Georgia 11945 16.00-21.00 in Russian, co-ch RFA in Mandarin 13650 17.30-18.30 in Mandarin to Af, co-ch VOA In Az/Tu 13650 19.00-22.00 in En,Mand,Ar to Af, co-ch RCI in Fr/En 15165 17.30-18.30 in Mandarin to Af 15165 18.30-22.30 in Fr to Af, ex 11720 to avoid R.Bulgaria 15270 16.00-16.30 in Turkish to ME 15300 15.00-18.00 in Mand, Ru,Cantonese, co-ch RFI in Fr. (PanIview-BUL, Apr 18)

CRI has made some changes in its freq schedule on May 2nd. N 9870 1600-1657 En //9565 (ex 7190?) N11720 1500-1527, 1530-1557 Pashto? (ex 11515?) N11750 1500-1527 Persian (ex 9440?) N11775 2200-2257 Sp //7360, 9640, N13650 (ex 6020 or 7120) N11825 1730-2227 Mandarin/Fr //7800, 9820, 15165 (ex 7335) N13650 2200-2257 Sp //7360, 9640, N11775 (ex 6020 or 7120) N15300 1700-1757 En //7405, 9570, 11910 (ex 9710) N15415 1500-2127 various* (ex 7235) * 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800 Ru, 1900, 1930 Cz, 2000, 2030 Pol, 2100-2127 En. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, May 3-4)

CZECH REP R Prague spur on 9624 at 0700+, and this presumably came from their nominal 9880, it was so strong and clear I could copy easily ! (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

ECUADOR HCJB in German from Mar 28: 0430 11960 9885 0600 11875 1930 17795 21470 2100 17795 21470 (Ruediger Klaue, Director German Language Sce, via WE, Apr 25)

GERMANY 6140 Nauen old RBI unit with 100 kW at 350 degr 0600-2000. I've been listening to DW quite often on 6140 and some interesting programmes. They seem to fill in the times when English is not broadcast to elsewhere with progrs recorded earlier -- repeats. I could never understand why they wanted to put German on this frequ as well as 6075, and having English there now makes much more sense. There is a break in Ge lang at 1330-1600. Regular EUR sce in En at 2000-2050 is on single 11970 via Sines-POR, 250 kW 35 degr. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26)

HUNGARY R Budapest in German: Mo-Sa 1730-1800 3975 6025, 1930-2000 6025 7170; Suns 1700-1800 3975 6025; "Gruss & Knutsch" [light mx greetings progr] also on Fris 1330-1430 6025 only. Suns 1200-1300 6025 7220. "Radio E" Suns 1400-1430 6025.

In A99 season 6025 again on air, carrying daily 0300-2200 home sce relay //Duna-TV via satellite. (RB via KL, Apr 25)

INDONESIA RRI is again audible on v11784.9 with En at 0800-0900. I couldn't hear this at all during the winter here in EUR. Other Asians are NHK 11850, via SNG 11920 at 0800, FEBC-PHL in BI 12005 also from 0800. RFI via Irkutsk 12025 0930-1030. DW via Kamchatskiy 12000 from 1000. RNI from same site 12065 at 0930. NHK 12030 daily 0800-1030, and Tikhy Okean Vladivostok is found on 12070 0715-0800. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26)

IRAN New freqs of VOIRO/for A-99 period (monitoring). Arabic 0130-0730 NF13775; 0130-0430 NF13660; 0330-0430 NF11800. 0330-0530 NF13740,NF17610 0330-0530 NF9885,NF11730,NF13700 VOIPalest. Revolution [NG heard 9670 also. 11730 is the strongest in Stuttgart] 0730-1030 NF21470. 1030-1630 NF13615; 1330-2130 NF13645; 1630-1730 NF9575,NF11765v. 1730-2130 NF9870,NF13730v. [v13730.3 is off, hetting co-ch ORF Moosbrunn !] 1830-2130 NF11815,NF11965. 2130-0130 NF7105,NF9785. Armenian 0300-0330 NF11800//7235; 1630-1730 6005,6185,7235; 0930-1000 NF11660//11705,15260; Azeri 0330-0530 NF13590//? new morning px Bengali 0030-0130 NF9515 (under Spanish sce),NF11835,NF13640 1430-1530 NF9535,NF11665,NF11680//11875. Bosnian/ Albanian/Italian 1730-2000 NF13720//7295,9610,11660. Bosnian 0530-0630 NF15515,NF17565//15230; 2130-2230 irr NF9022,NF9515,NF11660//7285.

Chinese 1330-1430 NF15370,NF17580//11885; 2330-0030 NF17560,NF 21570. English 0030-0130 NF9795,NF11970//9022; 1100-1230 NF13710,NF15430,NF21510//15255,17560; 1530-1630 NF11680,NF 15150//13605; 1930-2030 NF9880//9022; 2130-2230 NF11740,NF13745. German 0730-0830 15084v,21770; 1730-1830 NF11680,NF11815,NF13685//9022. [co-ch RVI Juelich 13685] French 0630-0730 NF17780,NF21470//21770; 1830-1930 NF11680,NF13685,NF13790,NF15130//9022; 2330-0030 NF9795,NF11970//9022. Hausa 0530-0630 NF17600,NF21470//21810; 1930-2030 NF15210//11715, 2230-2330 NF9022//? new px. Italian 0630-0730 NF17560//9022,15084v,17605; 1200-1300 NF17495//15084v,15115. Kazakh 1500-1530 NF11850,NF15120v. Malay 1230-1330 NF15120v,NF15590,NF17510,NF21510. Pashto 0230-0330 NF11670//9525; 1230-1330 NF9505,NF9790,NF11855,NF13710. Persian(Farsi) 0000-0400 NF11680//15365,15084v; 0930-1100 NF13695,NF15240//15084v,17780 till 1030; 1530-1730 NF15205//15084v; 1930-2130 NF9725//15084v. Russian 1400-1500 NF15280//9735,11930,11960; 1530-1630 NF11770,NF11850, NF13690,NF15405//9740; 1730-1830 NF9625,NF11855//7115,7300; 1930-2030 NF9915 or 9916//7175,73O5. Spanish 0030-0130 NF9515 (0ver Bengali sce),NF11730,NF13700, [9515 and 11730 booming in, tremendous signals, ed] 0130-0230 NF9515,NF11730,NF13700, 0230-0330 NF13605; 0530-0630 NF17780//15260; 2030-2130 7260,9022. Swahili 0330-0430 NF17590//13605,15320,15610., 1000-1100 15560,17570; 1730-1830 NF15370//15320. Turkish 0430-0600 NF15140//15365; 1600-1730 NF 9545,NF11815//9022. Urdu 0130-0230 NF13640//9525,9590; 1330-1500 NF9790,NF11725,NF13710,NF15120//9525,11775 1630-1730 NF7140,NF7295,NF11740//9525v. (PanIview-BUL, Apr 18)

I do have a few more frequs to add to the schedule above, I think. Their Persian sce appears to have been cut back -- 15365 which is registered is not in use, and when v15084 is being used for the ext sce, Persian is often difficult to find.

Heard with new Alban sce 0630-0728 17585 since at least Apr 28. Their Italian sce 0630-0730 appears to be using two txs on 17560 which are NOT in sync, causing a bad echo effect. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

IRAQ / CLANDESTINES Voice of Kurdestanian Iran in Ku is on the air 1300- 1358 and 0227-0325 on NF3950, NF4100 (x4010, x4150). (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr)

KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh Radio again on the air daytime. 04.00-08.00 on 17825(45554). Also good reception evening: 17.00-21.00 on 6255 but some days with demodulated audio. [heard on Apr 25/26, but changed again, see below, ed]

Kazakh R has again changed its SW schedule. Here is a new one: 2300-0300 and 1300-1700 on new 12115 (strange, but very good choice) with 1st progr relay in Kazakh and Ru (instead of 2nd progr in Kazakh). Latest schedule (0400-0800 17825, 1700-2100 6255) is deleted. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, May 3-4)

Presumed R Kaz'stan dom sce noted 3 and 4 May on 12115 around 0010-0200 fade-out. Good signal here, Ru/Kazakh pop mx and announcements, and LL each day around 0050 (Kazakh with Ru explanations, I think). Frequent mentions of Kazakhstan and Almatiy, ID on the hour also mentioning Kazakhstan. (Alan Davies, Chiang Mai, THA, May 4)

LAOS Luang Prabang is loud and clear locally on 705 only, and is on most of the day except local afternoons and late evenings. No sign of anything on HF, so it looks as though 6973v is definitely inactive. 705 relays Vientiane at 0000-0030, 0500-0530 and 1200-1230, apparently using 6130 as the source as it carries the intermittent background howling which has recently appeared on 6130.

Phonsavan, Xieng Khuang Province appears now to be on AF only (ie the local street loudspeaker system), no sign of them locally on listed 1215 or anywhere else during visit 15-18 Apr. (Alan Davies, Luang Prabang, Laos, Apr 20)

LEBANON High Adventure World Network stn "VoHope" schedule on 11530: En 1300-1500, 1600-1730, Sun En 1730-1800. Persian 1530-1600, 1730-1800. Turk 1800-1830. Ru Mo-Sa 1830-1900, daily 1900-2100. Ar 2115-0500, 0515-1000, 1015-1300.

Suns only Armenian 1430-1500, Turk 1530-1600, Ukr 1600-1630. Tu Th Sa Turk 1630-1700. Sa & Su Amharic 1700-1730.

IBRA Radio progrs Ar 2100-2115, 0500-0515, 1000-1015. Suns Tatar 1830-1845. Suns Ru 1845-1900. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr)

MOROCCO 21515 VoA 1434 to 1459* in Albanian This entire period was given over to people leaving messages and contact phone numbers to missing personnel in the Kosova conflict. Their actual phoned in, recorded messages were broadcast. One after another after another. There was no VOA programming at all, other than a woman and man giving out a phone number (in Germany) where people could leave these messages, to be included in future broadcasts. It was very moving to listen to, even though I know no Albanian. My view of the VoA has changed as a result of hearing this. English ID at 1459 sign-off. Anyone know the tx site? (Grimley Apr 18) Cumbre via Kai Ludwig: VoA Briech tx.

NEW ZEALAND RNZI replaced 11740 by much better 11695 fr Mar 31, to avoid RFA Chinese, heard at 17.51-19.50 45333. (PanIview-BUL; WB, Apr 26)

OMAN New freqs of Radio Oman in Ar for A-99 period: 0200-0500 NF 15355(34334); 0500-0800 NF 17580(45544). (PanIview-BUL, Apr 18)

PAKISTAN R PAK Turkish 1700-1730 is co-channel VoA on 9770, //11600. Tamil 15465 1000-1030, Hi 15465 1100-1200, Ch 15465 1200-1230, Bangla 1200- 1230 15625 17660. Irani 1300-1345 15625 17835. Ru 1515 7260. Ar 1800-1845 is co-ch with TWR from Cerrik-ALB now on 11635 (up from 11630 to avoid VoR), //15735. Urdu 0500-0700 now with 250 kW on 21460, 17555 now with 100 kW (x11725). Islamabad progr in Ur 1800-1900 11600. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

PALESTINE/SYRIA? UNIDENTIFIED At 1800 on MW 675 Ar speaking stn with nx often mentioned "Palestine" ("Filistina"), it's not ARS, LBY, QAT. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr) [[ WRTH lists Ramallah city under 'Israel', not yet PALESTINE state now, WB ]]

PHILIPPINES Radio Veritas Asia Manila. SW Txion Schedule 28 Mar to 30 Oct 1999

Bengali 0100-0125 15335 250 300 1400-1425 9680 250 300 Hindi 0130-0155 15335 250 300 1330-1355 9680 250 300 Hmong 1000-1025 9555 250 280 Indonesian 2300-2325 11820 250 222 2300-2325 9505 250 222 1200-1225 9505 250 222 Kachin 0030-0055 9535 250 280 1230-1255 9670 250 280 Karen 0000-0025 9535 250 280 1200-1225 9670 250 280 Mandarin 2100-2255 6190 250 355 1000-1155 9520 250 331 Burmese 2330-2355 9535 250 280 1130-1155 9670 250 280 Filipino (EA) 2230-2255 6075 250 355 Filipino (ME) 1500-1525 9610 250 300 (Wed, Fri & 1525-1555 9610 250 300 Sun ext.) Russian 0230-0325 11805 250 015 1430-1525 9660 250 330 Sinhala 0000-0025 11805 250 280 1330-1355 9660 250 280 Tamil 0030-0055 11805 250 280 1400-1425 9595 250 270 Telugu 0100-0125 15530 250 280 1430-1455 9595 250 280 Urdu 0200-0225 15335 250 300 1530-1555 9670 250 300 Vietnamese 2330-2355 9670 250 280 0130-0225 15530 250 280 1030-1125 11850 250 280 1300-1325 7265 250 280 Zomi-Chin 1530-1555 9525 250 280 (Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat) (via AE, Apr 25)

QATAR has come out from wherever it has been "hiding" and appeared on 17880 at s-on 0705. But co-channel with ARS Holy Quran from about 0900 ! (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

ROMANIA 11580 R Moldova Internat in Romanian 1130-1200 via Galbeni tx, fine audio and strong signal today, could follow all details on bomb attacks against Novi Sad-YUG. (WB, Apr 26)

A progr called "Radio Neumarkt Aktuell" in German [minority] language was heard 1800-2000 on 1197, 1593 kHz.

On Suns only, R Timishoara MW 630 is bcing 1300-1400 in Bulgarian- pavlikyan, in Czech lang from 1330. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr 11)

RUSSIA 17795 Gene Scott in En via Samara to SoAsia, 1230-1700, 250 kW, 130 degr, zones 41 49 54 55 59. (Klaus Lieberwirth via AE, Mar 23)

31 mb - I am surprised to still be able to hear the Russian on 9600 listed Magadan or Arman. It's been audible past 1100 some mornings and is certainly the same stn I've been hearing all winter, with same signal characteristics. Also traces of NSB Tokyo 9595, and s-off 9760 at 0800. Also KNSL 9615 from 0800, VoGRC Delano 9770 from 0900, VoMalaysia 9750 0850 IS s-on at 0900 BI, NHK 9750 was dominating MLA in last winter. PNG 9675 s- off at 0745. RRI is heard on 9630 //15125 around 0700+. RA Brandon 9660 til 0830. BBC Delano 6175 at 0630. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26)

RUSSIA/GEORGIA The non-registered tx on approx. 9489.8 is on the air 0325-0600, Sat 1100-1200, Mon-Sat 1405-1700. Reported progrs: Abkhaz R in Abkhaz, Ru, Georg, Vernaculars 0325-0445, Sat 1100-1200, Mon- Sat 1405-1445.

R Sochi in Ru 1445-1500 on-Sat, other times R Rossii. Since Mar 28 no R Kuban sce anymore. At 1520 on exact 9490 is s-on another tx with same progr of R Rossii -- both txions rumbling ! (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr) Registered is 9490 VoR Krasnodar Armavir 1515-2100 zone 18, 100 kW, 325 degr. (WB)

SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA Riyadh now in Fr 0800-1000 on new 21705, co-ch VoA Udorn-THA in Ch. Their Gen Ar sce new 21505 v0830-1200, is very strong here. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 26)

SERBIA Some of the local radio stations are not on the air on MW (for example Bor 981 ). The others relay RTSerbia progr, resp. Belgrade I (7200.03, 684, 711, 1026, 1269) or Belgrade II (1008, 1440). Belgrade II often relay progr I.

New progr was observed on Apr 11 on MW 693 (in WRTH as Negotin site, relay Belgrade I) //96.1 MHz (in WRTH, as local Radio Smederevo). The program consists nx on back hour in Serbian, and nx in En from xx.20 til xx.25th minute of each hour, from local Belgrade sources only !

Each two nx items are with long pause in between.

It seems these are records by phone line or absent the relay stations. The important news is, this station is bcing without any ID or IS (like a secret service station ?) Reported 1100-1600 UTC.

Seldom local progr can be heard from R Nis 711.

Voivodina (autonomous area, south of Hungarian border, large population of at least 40% Hungarian speaking nationals) Novi Sad 1269 relay from Belgrade I 684. 1107 the same progr as usual progr earlier.

Montenegro / Crna Gora: Podgorica (x Titograd) I on 882 & 1503 as usual progr earlier.

Kosovo: For s o m e months ago Pristina I and II (1413 & 1512) are n o t heard anymore. Usual progrs in Albanian language on this channels registered. But Pristina III (549) in pure Serbian is on the air, and relays Belgrade I (684).

The Serbian SW txs (except RTS Belgrade home sce relay on 7200.03) are located in Bosnia i Hercegovina (in its province Republika Srpska, -- pro Serbian part of BIH), at Bijeljina tx site. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr 11)

The ext sce of R YUG via txs in Bijeljina Bosnia is still off, further checks of Ge 1630 [7215 and 9620] and Ru 1800 [6100 and 7165], both services not heard. (WB, May 3rd, 1830 UTC)

Obviously the microwave link is once again down; however, they now get it, in which way they can nevertheless broadcast: Both Ge at 2000 on 6100 and En at 2100 on 6185 (scheduled // 6100 was not on air for whatever reason) was feeded to Bijeljina through telephone connection, while the IS was inserted at Bijeljina (it needs no knowledge of Ge to discern the keywords "das waren die Nachrichten von Radio Jugoslawien"), likely simply as usual. Possibly they use at Beograd just a phone rx, some noises during the Ge bc indicated that; however, the En nx was opened with the usual jingle, indicating a studio production, especially as a telephone hybrid certainly belongs to the essential equipment of any radio studio. (Kai Ludwig, May 3rd)

Yes, R YUG Belgrade night progr on May 3rd on air again: R YUG Ge 2000- 2017?? on single 6100.00 [not on 7230 !], exact freq of Bijeljina Bosnia tx site.

French 2030-2048 s-off only 6185.00 [not on 6100]. audio undermodulated.

English 2100-2123 s-off only 6185.00 [not on 6100]. audio overmodulated. [see also schedule of May 4th below.]

BUT with narrow bandwidth telephone line audio quality, all txions on 6100, and later on 6185 were very d r e a d f u l , often difficult to understand any content of the text. [in German: aber mit saumaessiger Telefonuebertragungs-Qualitaet]. At same time Serbian home sce RTS Belgrade Stubline 7200.03 surprisingly had much better audio.

Obviously especially the En sce was an emergency radio progr, containing pure nx reading only, like a progr of the Kurdish fraction in the ME Kurdistan area.

This morning May 4th: 7200.03 still heard between 0500 and 0600 UTC, but off when checked 0700- 1000 UTC range. But heard later at 1530 UTC again, on both 684 and 7200.03.

R YUG in En to AUS/PAC on single 7230 heard at new time 1930-1947, not on //6100. Today is back to better audio and easily to follow compared to dreadful signal a day before.

Followed by long extended Serbian txion to AUS/PAC from 2000-2047, so French sce on single 6185 belated today.

French started about 2050 til 2107 on 6185, also much better audio today.

Followed by En nx sce to EUR also on 6185 at 2108-2125.

Signal strength of the single outlet of Bijeljina tx estimated at about 50 kW of power only, that compared to well performing v7200.03 from Belgrade direct with 100 kW of power at the same time. (WB, May 4th)

R YUG in Ru heard in Apr 1500 on 11870. (WB, Apr 10)

Serbs Listening in on NATO http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- rv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/secure050199.htm (Hans Johnson, Apr)

Allied Voice 1003 kHz (Serbia) Already known: Radio stn called "Allied Voice" bcs in Serbian from airplane on 1003, 3 FM freqs and 1 TV ch 21 for people of Serbia, YUG. The plane flies 6000 m (18000 ft) high and the MW tx has 10 kW.

I heard the stn for the first time yesterday, Apr 25, between 1000-1320 s- off. My location is Plzen in the Czech Rep, 90 km SW from Prague. Yesterday I had a poor signal here in our house, in the middle of all that noise of bigger town (170 000 people).

Today (Apr 26) I took my car, a Lowe HF-150 rx and 50 m of wire and drove to the edge of the city. The noise was as strong as in our house so I drove on, some 10 km north to the area of small villages and forests. When I connected the wire to my rx, I could not believe my ears, the signal was so good. I have been listening for more than 1 hour untill the s-off at exactly 1400.

Acc to my observations, Allied Voice (Zayednichki Glas) is on the air daily for 3-4 hrs (Apr 25: 1000-1320; Apr 26: 1030-1400). The progr consists of anglo-american pop and rock with short comments (2-4 mins) every ca. 15 mins. The stn ID is (in Serbian) "Allied Voice", "Allied Voice of NATO", "Radiostation of NATO forces" and similar modifications. Anti-Miloshevich comments and propaganda are read by men and women with a strong American accent (!). It seems they are Serbs living in the US already for many years.

The signal is technically quite OK, propagation from airplane flying so high above the ground is excellent, the signal has no fading at all (it is early afternoon of our local time!). Although it has only 10 kW, its level was practically the same as the one of Hrvatski Radio on 1134 kHz (600 kW). The signal of Belgrade on 684 kHz (2000 kW, now maybe less) was poor with long and deep fadings.

My location is ca. 1000 km from Belgrade. I think that it is possible to hear the signal up to 1500 km from Serbia. Leave your town with a portable - (or car-) rx and a role of wire and it is very probable that you will hear it (untill it is too late).

After all the txs are a bit funny. I think that accented speeches and strong propaganda contents will hardly find massive audience, especially in Serbia where people are now very sensitive of everything what is coming from NATO countries that are destroying their country. It reminds me the time in August 1968 when five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied our country (the then CSSR). Immediately after their entry the clandestine stn called VLTAVA went on the air from Dresden, East Germany. Strong accent of German speakers and communist propaganda did not find their listeners and the stn remained only a source of jokes ... (Karel Honzik, the Czech Republic, Apr 26)

SPAIN REE Madrid using 12035 again 0630-0900. New 15585 came on at 0700 and carried their Oceania sce //17770 til 0900, when 15585 obviously changed to their European beam and replaced 12035. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

TAJIKISTAN 5770 Dushanbe heard in Persian, Dari, Tajik, about 0200. (RUS-DX via AE, Mar 23) 7515 replaced by summer freq 9905, //5800, approx. 1700-1830 s-off in Tajik. (WB, Apr)

THAILAND Incomplete sched of 'HSK9 R Thailand World Sce' monitored here 1-4 May. All txns exc. En 0530-0600 are carried by R Thailand's own txs on both 9655 and 11905. At this loc, 9655 is usual very strong, 11905 very weak. It's not uncommon for one of these 2 freqs to be off, however -- pattern varies from day to day. Other freqs are via VoA Udon Thani. 9655 and/or 11905 are also occ. noted between Ext Sce txns (0200-0300, 0430- 1100) with open carrier or rarely relaying R Thailand dom sce (e.g. 9655 noted rel. 1st Prgr at 0610 on 29 Apr, //7115).

Announced frequencies are usually incomplete or incorrect. Target areas shown are as per announcements.

0000-0030 En 'News Hour': 9655, 9690, 11905 0030-0100 En-NAmE 'News Hour': 9655, 11905, 15395 0100-0200 Th-NAmE: 9655, 11905, 15395 0300-0330 En-NAmW 'News Magazine': 9655, 11905, 15395 0330-0430 Th-NAmW: 9655, 11905, 15395 0530-0600 En News & Features rel from BKK FM Sce: 15445 1100-1115 Vi- As/Pac: 7260, 9655, 11905 1115-1130 Camb-As/Pac: 7260, 9655, 11905 1130- 1145 Lao-As/Pac: 6030, 9655, 11905 1145-1200 Burm-As/Pac: 6030, 9655, 11905 1200-1215 Malay-As/Pac: 9655, 11805, 11905 1215-1230 Indon-As/Pac: 9655, 11805, 11905 1230-1300 En-As/Pac News & Features: 9605, 9885, 11905 1300- 1315 Jap: 9655, 11850, 11905 1315-1330 Mandarin: 9655, 11850, 11905 1330- 1400 Th: 9655, 11905, 11955 1400-1430 En 'V of Thailand' tourism promos/features: 9655, 9830, tent. also 11905. (Alan Davies, Chiang Mai-THA, May 4)

TUNISIA RTT Tunis radio stn confirms no more directly. But QSL cards of RTT txions are available via ONT - Office Nationale de la Telediffusion, Mr. Abdesselem Slim Cite Ennassim I, Borjel-1080, Tunis, Tunisia or B.P. 399 Cedex, Tunis, Tunisia (S&F Feb)

Absent of RTT SW Sfax txions in recent weeks puzzeled us up, Noel Green and yours truly wondered if this is perhaps due to installation of their three new txs to erect in coming months. RTT seems to operate only on weekends on 12005 and 17735. No 41 mb outlets, 11730 and 15450 sce could be heard. (WB)

TURKEY VoTUR add new prgrs in Macedonian & Bosnian, due to the war in YUG and Kosovo crisis: 0800-0827 & 0830-0857 on 11690 (55555). In Bulg new time 0630-0730 on NF7275(55555), ex1130 on 9555. (PanIview-BUL, Apr 18)

TURKMENISTAN A progr in Ru was heard (rare event) on Apr 10, 1930-2000 on 5015 kHz. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Apr 10)

USA WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL MASTER SCHEDULE of Glenn Hauser's Bcs, as of Apr 22, 1999 Local means time at the station.

For updates see http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio

>>>> See NEW WoR Sat 1130-1200 12160 relay.

UT CDT LOCAL PROGRAM STATION FREQUENCY

WED WED WED 2100 4:00p 5:00p WOR WBCQ 7415

THU THU THU 1530 10:30a 9:30a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3

FRI FRI FRI 1100 6:00a 12:00n WOR WRN-Internet On-demand may start 1400 9:00a 8:00a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 1745 12:45p 7:45p MR/REL RN Astra-RNW2 1900 2:00p 1:00p COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 1930 2:30p 1:30p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 2115 4:15p 4:15p MR WWCR 15685

SAT 2255 5:55p 12:55a MR/REL RN 15315 11715 9895 Astra-RNW2

SAT 0055 7:55p 2:55a MR/REL RN 15315 9895 Astra-RNW2 0255 9:55p 4:55a MR/REL RN 9590 6165 Astra-RNW1

FRI 0300 10:00p 9:00p COM RFPI 6975 15049 101.3 0330 10:30p 9:30p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3

SAT 0330 10:30p 4:30a WOR WRN Astra 1B

SAT 0755 2:55a 2:55a WOR WNQM-TN 1300 0800 3:00a 9:00a WOR WRN Astra 1B 0955 4:55a 4:55a WOR WNQM-TN 1300 [above reported at 1030/5:30 am instead July 11] 1100 6:00a 5:00a COM RFPI 6975 101.3 1130 6:30a 5:30a WOR RFPI 6975 101.3 1130 6:30a 6:30a WOR WWCR 12160 [NEW] 1600 11:00a 5:00p WOR WRN Galaxy V, Astra 1B, C-SPAN, KRVM-1280 OR, WLIO-35 SAP OH WGHR-100.7 GA 1730 12:30p 11:30a COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 1800 1:00p 12:00n WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 1830 1:30p 2:30p WOR WPKN-CT 89.5 [week delay]

SUN 0130 8:30p 7:30p COM RFPI 6975 15049 21460-USB 101.3 0200 9:00p 8:00p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 21460-USB 101.3 0229 9:29p 9:29p WOR WWCR 5070

SUN SUN 0530 12:30a 6:30a WOR WRN Galaxy V, C-SPAN, KRVM-1280 OR, WLIO-35 SAP OH, WGHR-100.7 GA 0630 1:30a 1:30a WOR WWCR 5070 0740 2:40a 2:40a MR WNQM-TN 1300 0930 4:30a 4:30a WOR WWCR 5070 [to be deleted] 0930 4:30a 3:30a COM RFPI 6975 101.3 1000 5:00a 4:00a WOR RFPI 6975 101.3 1030 5:30a 11:30a WOR WRN Af/As/Pac satellites 1835 1:35p 8:35p MR/REL RN Astra-RNW2 2300 6:00p 5:00p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3

MON 2355 6:55p 12:55a MR/REL RN 15315 11715 9895 Astra-RNW2

MON SUN 0330 10:30p 10:30p WOR WSUI-IA 910 [week delay]

MON 0355 10:55p 5:55a MR/REL RN 9590 6165 Astra-RNW1

MON 0500 12:00m 12:00m WOR WWCR 3210 0700 1:00a 1:00a WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3 0740 2:40a 2:40a MR WNQM-TN 1300 1400 9:00a 8:00a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 1500 10:00a 9:00a WOR RFPI 21460-USB 101.3 [irr.]

TUE TUE TUE 1230 7:30a 7:30a WOR WWCR 15685 1900 2:00p 1:00p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 2000 3:00p 2:00p COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3 2030 3:30p 3:30p WOR WWCR 15685

WED 0300 10:00p 9:00p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3 0400 11:00p 10:00p COM RFPI 6975 15049 101.3 [irr. repeat default] WED WED 1200 7:00a 6:00a COM RFPI 21460-USB 101.3 [ditto]

NOTE: WOR is weekly; COM and MR approximately monthly but aired weekly. MR serialized almost every week on RN Radio-Enlace. MR times on RFPI extremely variable; WNQM times unconfirmed lately. WRN times also relayed by many other FM stations and cable systems.

UZBEKISTAN R Tashkent address via Uzbek Airline bureau in Frankfurt- Germany changed to another location just around the corner to Kaiserstr. 7, seems the same zip code as before.

Email address for Radio Tashkent [email protected] (WWDXC DXM Swopan Chakroborty, Calcutta, India, Apr 30)

Tashkent often very good on 17775 and found on //[also 7285] 9715 15290. 1200-1500 to SoAS. From Sept 27: 5975 7285 9715 15290. 0100-0330 7190 9375 9530 9715. (Noel Green-UK, Apr 30)

VIETNAM I heard VoVTN every 10 kHz in the 22 mb between 13660 and 13810 with a faulty tx causing this problem. In January similar VTN faulty tx heard elsewhere in the Pacific but in the 19 mb, center frequency was 15110 kHz then. Later only VTN heard on 13740, En at 1600 1800 1900, and 2030. The //frequency of 9729.2 varied down to 9727.5, but fortunately that odd signal could easily separated from even 9730 signal. 9728.71 on May 4th. VTN still using v12019.6 as heard around 1000. (WB, Edwin Southwell, Noel Green, Apr)

VoVTN in En to NoAm via Armavir tx: 0300-0357 on NF 9830(55555), 500 kW / 290 degr. (PanIview-BUL, Apr 18)

After many months on 6386v, Yen Bai moved to new 6347v on 17 or 18 Apr, first noted around 1015 on 18 Apr. Usual poor audio, the carrier is often observed varying up and down several 10s of Hz every second or so, and +/- approx 1 kHz between txions. There's obviously a further carrier problem here as tuning the BFO around the channel produces more of a 'buzz' than the usual clean 'whistle' you normally get from AM stns. Usual hours are 2330-2400, 0400-0600, 1000-1030v and 1200-1330v, also irreg 0935v-1000 relaying Hanoi 1.

What seems to be another VTN regional has appeared recently on 6451v, first noted around 1215 on 16 Apr. Fair reception here at 0255-0500 and 1200- approx 1330 with some utility QRM, tentatively also around 2245 when early morning propagation is very poor. A tentative guess at deciphering the ID is Thai Nguyen, Bac Thai Province. I have been assuming that longstanding signal on 7156v is also Bac Thai, but as far as I can tell the 2 freqs are never in //, though unfortunately the audio level on 7156 is so low, except during relays of Hanoi, that it's often hard to distinguish anything that's being transmitted let alone hear a positive ID. If it really is Thai Nguyen on 6451 this is a little surprising, as I'm not aware of any listings of this station between 6 and 7 MHz, but it's definitely not just a freq change by one of the 'usual' VTN regionals as these are still heard at the usual times and places. Another slight oddity is that the music on 6451 includes lots of vaguely Chinese-sounding and Western-type pop mx, unlike the other regionals which carry only very distinctive local folk music. However, a look at the map suggests that Bac Thai is quite close to Hanoi and hence presumably a less 'remote' province than the other regionals which might explain the less conservative musical taste. If it turns out this isn't in fact coming from VTN, then SW China would be another possibility. (Alan Davies, Luang Prabang, Laos, Apr 20)

Finally got a clear ID for the sta on 7154-7156v at beginning of local prgr at 0300 on 24 April (after nearly a year of trying), it's definitely Ha Giang, not listed Thai Nguyen. Meanwhile I'm now convinced that Thai Nguyen (Bac Thai Province) is the sta I've recently noted on 6451v at 0255-0500 and 1155-1400, also tentatively around 2245.

An additional transmission recently noted from Son La 4976v, which is clearly audible at this favourable location during daytime at 0300-0500.

[Note to Bob: 9875 is definitely the replacement for 10060 (since around Oct '98). 12035 only carries VoV2 at 0150v-1000 -- in previous seasons it also carried Ext Sce later in the day, but I haven't checked this recently.] (Alan Davies, Luang Prabang, Laos, Apr 24)

Time for another end-of month summary of domestic stas on HF, current as of 27 Apr although some early morning txns before around 2315 not checkable in past couple of weeks due to poor propagation:

4795-4796v Son La 2200-2300, 0300-0500, 1200-1400 4960 Hanoi 2 2200-1600 5035 Hanoi Hmong 2200-2300, 0500-0600, 1200-1330 5595-5598v Lao Cai 2230-2300, 0400-0600, 1000-1030, 1200-1330 5925 Hanoi 1 2200-1600 (Fri -1700) 6165 Hanoi Hmong as 5035 6347v Yen Bai 2325-2400, 0400-0600, 1000-1030, 1200-1330, irreg relay Hanoi 1 0935v-1000 (x-6386v). Audio often very poor, carrier wobbles around every second or so. 6397v Lai Chau 2200-2300, 0400-0530, 0955v-1155v 6451v Thai Nguyen c.2245, 0255-0500, 1155-1400 (T.N. is in Bac Thai Province, signal is rather weak). First 5 mins of txn before the hour consist of same piece of gentle orchestral music accompanied by lah-lahing choir, followed by shorter military-sounding piece played by band, then ID mentioning Bac Thai and Thai Nguyen by male then female anncr. 6494-6496v Cao Bang 0300-0500, 1200-1400 (I would expect there also to be an early morning txn around 2300 but have never traced one). Carrier wobbles up and down noticeably every 2-3 secs. 6695-6696v Lao Cai as 5595-5598v, both freqs always noted in // 7154-7156v Ha Giang 2200(?)-0130, 0258-0500/0530/0600v, 0858-1425 relays Hanoi 1 exc. local prgrs 0300-0500, 1300-1425, possibly also around 2230. Low to non-existent audio, especially during local segments, only intelligible local ID audible here is at 0300 following 2 mins of Hanoi 1 relay at 0258-0300). 9875 Hanoi 1 2200-1600 (Fri -1700) 12035 Hanoi 2 0150v-1000

Partial sched of V of Vietnam Ext Sce noted here 25-27 April. Some txns appear to have been deleted recently, esp to China (this is reflected in announced schedule in Mandarin, so it's not just a case of untraced freq changes). All txns now only heard on 1 or 2 HF freqs.

Although some txs may be used for jamming, these reductions also seem to affect times of day when there's no obvious jamming aimed against foreign stns broadcasting to VTN. Most freqs are slightly off channel, especially 9730 (recently noted around 9729v clashing badly with BBC WS Indonesian & Burmese via SNG at 1300-1400).

I suspect that 13740 during the local evening at 1100-1130 and 1300-1400 is via VTN rather than Russia judging by propagation and apparent absence of satellite delay, but this needs to be checked. All txns last around 25 mins except where indicated:

Cambodian: 0000, 1200 and 1330 on 7285 Cantonese: 1200 on 1242 1430 on 7285 1530 on 9840, 12020 English: 1000 on 9840, 12020 1100 on 7285 1230 on 9840, 12020 1330 on 9730, 13740 1400 and 1500 on 1242 French: 1300 on 9730, 13740 Indonesian: 0930 and 1030 on 0940, 12020 1430 on 1242, 9840, 12020 Japanese: 1200 and 1400 on 9840, 12020 Lao: 1230 on 7285 Mandarin: 0830 and 0900 on 9840, 12020 1330 on 1242 1500 on 7285 2200 on 7285 (announced but not checked) Russian: 1130 on 9840, 12020 1300 on 7285 Spanish: 1100 on 9730, 13740 Thai: 1130 on 7285 1500 on 9840, 12020 Vietnamese: 1530-1630 on 1242 (Alan Davies, Chiang Mai, THA, Apr 25)

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ALBANIA Poor reception this morning, Sat 8th, surpressed high noon propagation, low signal level in 41 mb, both R Tirana and TWR Shijak.

0600-1000 approx., v7109.96 R Tirana Cerrik, reading over and over refugee addresses and phone/cellular numbers. 24332 in Stuttgart-GER.

0800-1400 approx., v7149.93 R Tirana Cerrik seemingly 2nd home progr service. 34333 TWR Shijak v7385 in Slovak 1030-1100 Sats.

0800-1300 approx., v9584.92 R Tirana Cerrik, on May 3rd, v9585.03 on May 8th, v9583.93 on May 10th, seemingly 1st home progr service?, also reading of refugee addresses and phone numbers were given. 33333 TWR Cerrik v9490 in Slovak 1030-1100 Sats, much stronger at same time. (WB, May 2-10)

R Tirana's dom sce on Wed night was back more-or-less on channel on 6100 (had been on v6102 on Tue). Just after 1900 it had an interview in En with a British aid worker about the refugee situation, with a passage-by-passage translation into Albanian. (Chris Greenway-UK, May 9)

ANTARCTIC 15475.8 LRA36 R Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel. The txion expected for May 1/2 UTC was not on the air by technical problems at the last minute. Because the strong Antarctic winds, one wire of the antenna was cut. The txion will be make on the next weekend at the following time: Sat 8 May *2330-0100* (-0100* Sun 9 May). (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-Arg, May 2)

AUSTRALIA Nigel Holmes explained some of RA's major freq changes for A-99 eff Mar 28:

SEAs/WEu 0900-1400 21820 is new, following the test on another 21 MHz freq a few weeks ago. But is QRP to 70 kW, due to continuing problems at Shepparton, for an indefinite period; not expected to make much difference at a loss of less than 2 dB

CPac/NAm 1100-1400 9580 starts 2 hrs later than before, but should still be good in Nam.

PNG/SWPac 0800-1200 13605 is resumed; 1200-1700 11650; 2100-0800 on 17580 (x17715) due to QRM.

Japan/PNG Grandstand, weekends 0200-0800 on 21725 (x15240), and does indeed include AFL from ABC http://www.abc.net.au/ra for new freq and program schedules. (RA Feedback Mar 26 via GH)

RA's Feedback was missing without apology or explanation, when checked at usual 0005 Sat Apr 10 on 21740; instead, AS-PAC, Sat edition. Via J.Norfolk, new posted schedule shows Feedback shifted to 0030 by when I had quit listening. Extracting all the Feedback times: Fri 2110, Sat 0030, 0610, Sun 0330. Also check out Media Report, UTC Thur 2330 etc. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 985, Apr 14)

AUSTRIA In response to the humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and in ALB, the ORF (Austrian Bcing Corpor) is about to launch a new radio progr in cooperation with Radio Austria International. The new "ORF Neighbour in Need radio programme" will begin bcing Mon, 26 Apr 1999, on MW 1476 and SW 5945. For five hrs a day, from 2000-0100 CET , the "ORF Neighbour in Need radio programme" will offer comprehensive information and sce bcs for EUR, especially for Austria and for all the crisis regions in the Balkans (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo). The latest world nx and other sce information will be bc in four langs (S-Cr, Alb, En and Ge). In conjunction with the Red Cross, the sce will also include missing persons announcements in S-Cr, Alb and En for those people driven out of Kosovo. Appropriate mx will round out the progr. (ORF Website Apr 22)

MW Vienna Bisamberg 1476 power of usually 60 kW seemingly increased. In the past ORF used this channel daytime with 600 kW, at night with 240 kW. Powerful signal noted here in Stuttgart now, comparatively to Bolshakovo 1386, Sweden 1179 or Norway 1314 kHz, ed.

Since Mon, May 3rd, 1476 tx power output is 600 kW again. (Peter Ungerboeck-AUT, May 10)

BELGIUM/GERMANY important news from BEL: RTBF's Kosovo progr 2100-2200 7345, MW 621 kHz and FM in Belgium. French speaking Belgian RTBF will broadcast a special progr named "Radio Balkans". It will be bc daily at 2100-2200 UTC in "La PremiŠre" (first national radio progr) on MW 621 and FM and on SW 7345 to SoEaEUR (via DTK Juelich in Germany). The first 15 mins will be the nx in Fr; the rest of the progr will be in Fr and Albanian and should form a link between Kosovo refugees in BEL and their families and friends who stayed behind in the Balkan. (Paul Brems, RVI Golfgids, May 1)

CAMBODIA The following situation noted during visit late Nov 98 - late Feb 99: Nat R of Cambodia dom sce 2230-0800 and 1030-1500 on 740 and 918 (in //, possibly with different directional patterns), carries nx in En at approx 0640-0655. Correct address is: General Dept of the National Radio of Cambodia, Street No 106 (Preah Mokahsal Triamei Kossamak), Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia, Tel (023) 226964.

Nat VoCambodia (Ext'l Sce) 0000-0115 and 1200-1315 on very distorted 1360 and 11940v, 15 min segments in En, Fr, Thai, Lao and Vn. One or both txs often observed to go off air before end of txion, 11940 is the only HF bc freq in the country still observed.

Battambang 1200-1410 on 999 (x1453) with local programming, addr is: AM Radio Office, Street No 1, Battambang, Cambodia. (the Battambang postal sce leaves a lot to be desired though). Tx is a couple of km north of town, with 2 stayed masts on the Ea side of the highway to Sispohon, good audio/modulation. [Memories come back. I have been there in Dec 1972. It wasn't harmless to reach the place then. It was war time in whole SoEaAS, not only in VTN, ed]

Sihanoukville x1255 kHz is inactive, although the presumed tx site still exists with 2 stayed masts on a promontory high over the Gulf of Thailand, about 2 km We of the town.

Phnom Penh 1300 kHz also inactive, P.P. Municipality Radio is now on FM 103 MHz only, 24h in Khmer, and is apparently also responsible for 97.5 MHz 'Love Radio' 24h mostly in English with occasional live relays of R Australia news. I was unable to trace Stung Treng 585 kHz, but not checked locally. Altogether there are some 15 FM stas active in Phnom Penh, including the BBC and RFI relays, and 1 each in Sihanoukville, Kompong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang (reportedly also in Pailin and possibly elsewhere). (Alan Davies-LAO, Mar 15)

CANADA RCI has added 15470 on their 2000-2130 broadcast; usually the best reception here in mid-USA compared with the other freqs aired at that time. At other times, 15325 is still better. They don't seem to have deleted any of the other freqs listed in the printed sked. So they must have added a transmitter? [//13650]. (Will Martin, MO, Apr 28, RIB via GH, May 6) [RCI Woofferton 15150 has been suffering by co-ch RRI Jakarta, 1900-2159, ed]

CROATIA I believe that I heard Croatian Radio on 21475.2 at 1500. It was very weak though. Can you confirm indeed they registered this channel, and give any thoughts on what the tx site might be? (Hans Johnson-USA)

It's not from Juelich but their own facilities at Deanovec, which are herewith used on a freq above 13 MHz for the first time, if I correct. 21475 is listet to be on air 1300-1800 through one of the two 10 kW txs. (Kai Ludwig-D)

FRANCE RFI's printed schedule shows "Meteo Marine" sce at 1130-1200 on 6175 to WeEUR/Atlantic 500 kW 270 degr; 15300 to WeAF 2x500 kW 155 & 204 degr; 17575 to USA/MEX 500 kW 295 degr; 21645 to CeAM 500 kW 270 degr; 13640GUF & 15515GUF to CeAM 500 280.

Portuguese to Brazil: 0930-1000 11670GUF, 2030-2100 15200GUF 17620GUF 2200-2230 17620GUF

CHN relays: Fr 0100-0200 17710, 1100-1200 11600, 1300-1400 MW [Dongfang Hainandao Isl.?] 684, 1600-1700 MW Kunming-Yunnan 1296, and 6090. En 1200- 1300 11600, 1400-1500 11910.

RFI Paris in English, A99 schedule: 1200-1300 9805Ce&EaEUR 15155Ce&EaEUR 15195NoEaEUR 15540We&CeAF via GAB 11600X-SoEaAS -- GUF relays deleted in A99. 1400-1500 17560ME/EaAF 11910X India, X=Xian-CHN relay. 17680SoEaAS/India. 1600-1700 11615NoAF/ME 11995We&CeAF via GAB, 12015Ce&EaAF via GAB, 17850. 1600-1730! 15210Ce&EaAF 17605EaAF. (RFI printed schedule, May 1)

GERMANY 15275 DW Wertachtal heard here on new freq (x15185) for Hausa 0700-0730 //on 13790 17860. [probably to avoid strong spurious signal of VoIRIB v15183 (also on v14985, on both sides of fundamental v15084), ed] (Noel Green-UK, May 4)

Acc to M. Fuhr, currently the AFN outlet at Bitburg on 1143 carrys mostly special programming, not in //to the other AFN outlets on 873 and 1107. AFN Bitburg covers the Spangdahlem air-base, which is now in use for the air- raids on Serbia. (Kai Ludwig-D, Apr 4)

VoTibet noted in Tibetan dialects 1225-1255 7455[TJK?] //and new 11580 [tentat Deutsche Telekom tx site Juelich-GER]. Addr: Wellhavensgat 1, N- 0166 Oslo, Norway. e-mail : [email protected] Website: www.vot.org (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN, via NU / DXW, Apr) 1225-1255 11575 (x11580) (H. Johnson-USA, Apr)

5975 Europaradio via DTK Juelich, May 2, 1400-1600, Ge, En, Fr popmx, local LUX commercials. Trying to sell CD's and a "Europaradio" membership card. Strong signal, but not very stable. (Pijpers, via DXW, May 6) [Very strong in Stuttgart SoGER]

R Rainbow, Voice of Peace and Brotherhood (Amharic: Kestedamena rediyo ye selamena yewendimamach dimtse), transmitted via DTK Juelich, Germany: Amharic 0100-0200 9855 Sat, 0900-1000 5995 Sun, 1600-1700 15105 Thur. (DTK)

"Good News World" bcs in En via Juelich: 0700 13740 265 degr Sun 1000 5995 nd Sat 1300 15330 090 Sat 1700 11795 115 Sat 1600 15105 160 Sat 2300 9405 260 Sun 0100 9855 295 Sun Addr: Good News World, P.O.Box 895, Fort Worth, TX 76101, USA e-mail [email protected] (DTK)

GERMANY & ITALY Merger talks are underway between Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom. If the merger is completed, the merged companies would have $64 billion in annual revenues and 350.000 employees. The Italian group is fighting off a hostile bid from Olivetti, so this is a big deal in the European telecommunications business. (Financial Times via D'Angelo-PA in NU, Apr 25)

INDONESIA 9525, VoINS, 0814 Apr 24, En, //11785. Usually on 11785 at 0800-0900, then swaps to 9525. 11750 RRI Jakarta, inactive. 11785 RRI Jakarta, has shifted to 11760 & 11860. Only used by VoINS now. (Foster-OZ in NU, Apr 25)

Now the clock of RRI Jakarta is about 1 minute earlier, so nx on the hour starts at 59 mins. The title of the military nx progr at 0730 was changed from "Berita ABRI" to "Berita PNI". (Juichi Yamada-JPN, May 9)

IRAN The new Alban sce of VoIRIB 0630-0727 heard on 15230 15260, //17585. Bubble jammers still on this freq daily, -- must be for nearly ten years now ! (Noel Green-UK, May 3-4)

JORDAN R Jordan was noted on two new freqs 15290 1100-1300 (x15355), 13630 1300-1630 (x13620?). (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Apr 27, also via CDx)

LAOS Full sched for Lao Nat'l Radio on 576/6130 is 2200-0730, 0925- 1455/1500v.

After many months on 4682/4683v, the regional stn at Sam Neua (Houa Phan Provc) has moved to a new freq a fraction under 4653, first noted at 1035 on 27 March. Schedule is 2300-0130 and 1000-1230, incl. relay of Vientiane Nat Sce nx at 0000-0030 and 1200-1230.

Still no trace recently of Luang Prabang on 6973, or anywhere near.

The radio scene in Vientiane looks like this: Lao Nat Radio Nat Sce *2235-0730, 0930-1455/1500v on 576, 6130. City Sce 2300-1100 on 702 (WRTH lists 1190), relays Nat Sce nx at 0000- 0030. FM Sce 2300-1505 on 103.7 MHz (WRTH lists 97.5).

Internat Sce on 1030 2330-0030 in Vi, Kh; 0500-0630 in Th, Fr, En; 1130- 1400 in Th, Vi, Kh, Fr, En. That's it, apart from numerous Thai MW/FM stns easily audible across the Mekong. (Alan Davies-LAO, Apr 10)

LITHUANIA New HF transmitter. On Apr 1st, 1999, Lithuanian radio and tv txing center started to use a brand new 100 kW "Continental Electronics" 418F type SW tx, installed at Sitkunai site (18 km No-We of Kaunas, CeLithuania). A new vertical curtain HR 2/2/.5 type 12/9/7 MHz non- reversible antenna, with reflector, beamed at 260 degr, was erected in order to improve the WeEuropean coverage.

Daily schedule on 9710 is as follows: 0900-0930 R Vilnius/Foreign Sce, in Lith, repeat of yesterday's progr. 0930-1000 in En, repeat of yesterday's program) 1000-1100 2nd dom progr, press review. 1100-1200 1st dom progr, nx and talk.

Suns only: 1200-1300 Universelles Leben (Religious, in German and English- Universal Life) Other planned new Sitkunai freqs in kHz, at various times: 9555 9790 11615 11625 12020.

Both - a new (100 kW, 260 deg) and an old 50 kW (9710 kHz, 260/80 deg) HF txs could be leased to foreign broadcasters.

F.pl.: construction of HR 4/4/.5 type 310 degr antenna for the R Vilnius NoAMcan Lith and En lang sces. Work to be finished until Nov 1999. (Rimantas Pleikys-LTU, Apr 27 via GH's WoR)

Note no mention of 0030 bc on 9855, which is no doubt still via DTK Juelich, Germany, despite some speculation otherwise. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Apr 29)

MALAYSIA The following dom freqs via Kajang noted 12-15 March: (RM=R MLA) 4845 RM Channel 6 Tamil 24h; rather low audio level.

5965 RM Channel 1 Malay 24h; audio rather poor, but somewhat improved after several months of being nearly unintelligible, generally slightly off freq (below channel), hx often noted on 11930.

6025 RM Channel 8/7 0400-1300 in Malay, Suara Islam 1400-1600 in Malay, good audio, strong hx often noted on 12050.

6175 Suara Islam 1400-1600, good audio

7295 RM Ch 4 En 24h; good, but faint audio from Ext Sce and Suara Islam on 6175/9750 often heard in background.

9750 Suara Islam 1400-1600 good audio.

RM Sarawak, Kuching 4895 (2200-2330*, ?1000-1500), Sibu 6050 (2200-2345*, ?0900-1500, local prgr around 0900-1200) and Kuching 7270 (2200-0015*, ?1000-1500) regularly noted in //, reception best here just before 1500 s- off. Also Kuching 7130 with distinctive RM Sarawak IS before 0100 s-on. All other former Sarawak HF channels now inactive.

RM Sabah regularly heard *1030-1330 on approx 5979, I believe 4970 has been inactive for at least a year or more. (Alan Davies-THA, Mar 15)

MYANMAR Dem VoBurma, 1245-1345 17750; 1430-1455 17750 [via DTK Juelich- GER]. //15600, 11850 and 5945. Activitsts for NCGUB, addr: P.O.Box 6720, Skt. Olavs Plass, N-0130 Oslo, Norway Website: www.communique.no/dvb/ e-mail: [email protected] Burmese and portions of Shan/Karen/Kayan langs. ID in Burmese: Democratic Myanmar a-Than. (M. Francis-AUS, Apr 3 for CRW)

4725 R Myanmar minorities sce 0930-1330. Not recently noted continuing to 1430 -- in the past, this segment has appeared to contain adult education prgrs with lots of En technical phrases on subjects like statistics.

5973 Myawaddy R Stn irregular, generally around 1100-1300 and 1430-1530. Noted 14 Mar at 1430-1530.

5986v R Myanmar 0930-1600

7185 R Myanmar 0030-0230

9731v R Myanmar 0330-0830 (Sat/Sun 0245v-0830). The txion in Burmese occasionally reported on 9730 around 1400 is from the BBC WS via Singapore 1345-1430, not R Myanmar. R Myanmar is noted in En at 0200-0230, 0730-0830, 1500-1600. (Alan Davies- THA, Mar 15)

Myawaddy Radio St noted on 5973 around 1305 on Fri 9 Apr and around 1435 on Sun 4 Apr. Intended sched presumably remains 1100-1330, 1430- 1530 but I estimate it's only on around 10% of the time -- Sunday 1430-1530 seems the most reliable time each week, though it often goes off air early.

Minor change to R Myanmar Sat/Sun morning sched sees 7185 on at 0030-0300 (x-0230), // 9731 after the latter comes on around 0240-0250v. Noted Sun 4 Apr and Sat 10 Apr. The segment 0200-0300 is in En, with annct telling SW listeners to retune to 31 mb just before 0300. (Alan Davies-LAO, Apr 10)

NETHERLANDS LW 271 -- 400 m antenna towers of Delta Radio. Today the Dutch govt gave permission to build two antenna towers 35 kms off the coast of the Netherlands. The towers will be used by Delta Radio to transmit their progrs to the UK, probably on LW 271. Earlier, Delta Radio tried to get permission to build antenna towers in the Netherlands near the town of Apeldoorn. This permssion was not given due to many protests of people living in the neighborhood but also due to environmental reasons because the antenna towers will be 400 (!!) meters in height. The govt has no possibilities to stop the building of the towers in the North Sea, even the sealife will suffer from the electromagnetic currents and the birds from the towers. (Max van Arnhem-HOL, Mar 9)

RUSSIA/INDIA TWR is now heard on new 15580, 0000-0230 (x9825); 9400 1130/1145-1500 (x7420) in SoAS langs. (Jose Jacob-IND in EDXP, Apr-10)

15490 R Tikhiy Okean, Apr 25, 0715, opening of program with Ru annt as: "Govorit Wladivostok" followed by usual organ IS and male speaker in Ru with ID as: "Radio Stansya Tikhiy Okean" followed by short piece of mx and at 0716 female speaker in Ru. Parallels with much weaker 12055, 12070; 12055 = Komsomolsk-Amur, 24222; 12070 = Khabarovsk, 24222 ; 15490 = Irkutsk, 33333. (van Rooy-HOL, via DXW, Apr 28)

R Tatarstan, sked via Samara 200 kW Mar 28-Oct 20: 0400-0500 11665 66 degr, 0600-0700 9690 57, and 0800-0900 11925 308. (Nikolai Rudnev-RUS, in RUS-DX, Apr)

Special bcs of VoRussia on YUG/Kosovo conflict.

En EUR 1900-1920 12000 11980 7350 1548 Ru EUR 1920-1940 12000 11980 7350 1548 Ge 1940-2000 12000 11980 7350 1548 Fr EUR 2000-2020 12000 11980 7350 1548 S-Cr 0300-0430 9485 9440 1548 2020-2040 12000 11980 7350 1548 2100-2230 12000 7350 1548 Alb 2040-2100 12000 11980 7350 1548 Italian ceased. (Konstantin Gusev, [email protected] )

SAUDI ARABIA seems to have settled on v17759.8 for Gen Ar sce at around 0700 but a dreadful distorted signal. (Noel Green-UK, May 4)

SERBIA [non ] NATO bcs to Yugoslavia. In support of Operation Allied Force, elements of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing have deployed to Germany. Two of the unit's "Commando Solo" aircraft left Harrisburg Internat Airport Sat night [Mar 27], along with one support aircraft.

Addit personnel and equipment will depart in a military airlift later this week. In all, approx 100 members of the 193rd will take part in the mission.

The "Commando Solo," which the 193rd flies, is a specially modified EC-130 turboprop aircraft. It serves as an airborne bcing platform, txing messages over radio and tv freqs.

Previous deployments have been carried out in support of the Persian Gulf War and during operations in Haiti and Bosnia. (Steven Thomma and Richard Parker, of Knight Ridder, Washington, in Harrisburg Patriot- News Mar 29 via P-mail from Brian Alexander, WoR via GH, Apr 9)

(c.f. BC-DX #409 also) Question on whether anyone was still hearing Radio Yugoslavia.

Belgrade was the target for air strikes this evening (Fri May 8) for the first time since last Sun. As on Sun, the raids targetted power facilities and a BBC corespondent in Belgrade says the city is in darkness.

When I heard this news I tuned into 7200 at 2150 looking for R Beograd, and found it was not there. The stn had been there on 7200 earlier this evening, coming in strongly, as it had been since Mon May 3rd, being heard consistently well on this freq in the evening, seemingly on full power. Audio has also been good the last few days - noticeably better than on Mon; this ties in with WB's observation. As Dave Kenny noted earlier this week, the daytime signal on 7200 is poor here in southern England.

Despite loggings reported by WB, and via GH, of R YUG being back on the air, I have had NO joy in hearing them in spot checks since Wed May 5th. Has anyone else had any luck?.

The following is a summary sent by Wolfgang Bueschel following my question on whether anyone was still hearing R YUG. However, the gist of it (which ties up with his message last week) is that R.YUG's txions are still highly erratic, but that the best freqs to try are 6100 in the first part of the evening (up to around 2030) and then 6185. (Remember that R Tirana dom sce is also on v6100 in the evening.) Meanwhile, I heard R Beograd dom sce back on 7200.03 last night (Sat May 8) after Fri May 7th night's raids. However, the audio was noticeably of "telephone" quality. (Chris Greenway-UK, May 9)

YES, RTS Stubline 7000.03 heard every day with acceptable audio, BUT due of unknown circumstances, there are long lasting txion breaks during daytime in the morning, highnoon, afternoon in CEST. On Mon 3rd morning off the air, but came back later that day.

From May 4 til May 8: At 0430 progr still in progress but only til approx. 0700 UTC. Spot checks at 0800, 1000, 1400 revealed the stn was still off. From approx. 1600 on air again, the whole evening, and supposedly night, always //MW 684.

<... of Radio Yugoslavia [via Bijeljina BIH] being back on the air ...> My monitoring of May 3rd and 4th, see BC-DX #409. Poor signal, not more than 50 kW, as estimated here. R YUG NOT heard 5th til 7th.

R YUG Bijeljina BIH, observations May 8th: NOT Ar 1430, NOT Ru 1500, not checked between 1530-1800, NOT Ru 1800, NOT En 1830, NOT Sp 1900 on air.

6100 1900-2001 UTC Serbian nx, and taped recorded reports via phone line. Much better audio quality, very little buzz tone, seemingly not full power of 500 kW, maybe half with 250 kW, as registered on regular schedule for some txions already.

2001-2002 10 times IS interval signals.

2002-2017 Ge progr, nx only, IS 19 times. Signing off at 20.22:06.

Switched from 6100 to 6185 in the meantime.

6185 s-on 20.22:35, 4 x IS, 20.23:10 started in Fr lang, nx, 2032-2034 few short audio breaks on feeder line, but tx was steady on air. End of Fr txion at 2036, 12 times IS, 20.37:53 tx s-off.

6185 started again in En lang at 2100, nx til 21.21:40, end of En txion, followed by 32 times IS.

21.25:03 Identification in Serbian, nx and life?/taped? reports til 22.12:10, foolowed by seven times IS, tx s-off 22.13:20 UTC.

Remarkable is NO service to AUS/PAC/NZL 7230/7220 in Serbian anymore today !!! I think 6185 will not work downunder in autumn/early winter there. Ge txion on 6100 heard around 2005 UTC on May 10. (WB, May 8-10)

SPAIN I've been trying to follow morning txions via REE Madrid: [and completed by the FCC registrations, but NOT checked yet, ed] Spanish to EUR 0500-0700 9730 11920. 0700-1700 15585, 9500 1200-1700, 7275 1700-2300. 12035 0700-1700 registered 60 degr, but heard on air at 0600-0855, but different schedule given for weekdays weekend etc.

Sp PAC 0700-0900 260 degr via CLM & VEN 17770 & 21610, different progr to EUR outlets. Sp ME from 0900 21610. En EUR 1800-1900 9655, 2000-2100 15285, 2100-2200 9700, 38 degr. Ge 1730-1800 Mo&Thu only, 9665, 50 degr. Ru 1700-1730 9500 [fr Sept 5th? not clear stated in printed schedule, ed] 15150 [RRI co-ch here], 68 degr. (Noel Green-UK, May 4)

3210 0100-0400 10,11,12N CRI 100 0 3-7 Sp 5970 0100-0400 12 CRI 100 110 3-7 Sp 5970 1100-1400 10,11,12N CRI 100 0 2-6 Sp 5970 1400-1700 10,11,12N CRI 100 0 17 Sp 5990 0100-0400 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 3-7 Sp 6020 0100-0400 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 3-7 Sp 6055 2300-0600 4,6-11 NOB 350 290 1-7 Fr/Sp/En 6125 2300-0500 12-16 NOB 350 242 1-7 Sp 7170 1900-2000 37E,38-40,47,48 NOB 350 110 2-6 Fr 7270 1900-2300 37,38W,46 NOB 350 170 2-7 Ar/Sp 7270 2100-2300 37,38W,46 NOB 350 170 1 Ar/Sp 7275 1700-2300 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 1-7 Sp 9500 1200-1600 27,28W NOB 350 0 2-7 Sp 9500 1200-1700 27,28W NOB 350 0 1 Sp 9500 1700-1730 18,27,28 NOB 350 068 1-7 Ru[fr Sept 5th?] 9520 0900-1200 27,28W NOB 350 0 1 Sp 9540 2300-0500 4,6-11 NOB 350 272 1-7 Sp 9595 1900-2000 37,38W,46 NOB 350 170 7 En 9595 1900-2100 37,38W,46 NOB 350 170 2-6 Fr/En 9595 2100-2300 37,38W,46 NOB 350 170 17 Fr/En 9620 2300-0500 12-16 NOB 350 230 1-7 Sp 9620 1000-1200 44,45,65 BEI 120 102 1-7 Sp 9630 1100-1400 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 2-6 Sp 9630 1900-2300 4,7-11 NOB 350 290 1-7 Sp 9655 1800-1900 18,27,28 NOB 350 038 1-7 En 9660 1000-1200 44,45,65 JPN BEI 120 102 1-7 Sp 9665 1700-2000 18,27,28W NOB 350 0 1 Sp 9665 1700-2000 18,27,28W NOB 350 0 2-7 Sp 9665 1730-1800 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 24 Ge 9665 1800-1900 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 2-6 Fr 9690 0200-0400 4,6-11 NOB 350 290 1-7 Rele [?] 9690 0415-0445 4,6-11 NOB 350 290 3 Sefardi 9700 2100-2200 18,27,28 NOB 350 038 1-7 En 9710 0500-0700 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 1-7 Sp 9730 0500-0700 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 1-7 Sp 9765 0000-0100 10,11,12N CRI 100 0 1-7 Sp 9765 1400-2400 10,11,12N CRI 100 0 1-7 Sp 11680 2300-0200 12-16 NOB 250 230 1-7 Sp 11795 0115-0145 10-14 NOB 350 248 3 Sefardi 11795 1300-1800 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 1-7 Sp 11815 1100-1400 12 CRI 100 110 2-6 Sp 11815 1800-2400 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 1-7 Sp 11880 0000-0100 12 CRI 100 110 12 Sp 11880 0100-0400 12 CRI 100 110 1-7 Sp 11880 2200-2400 12 CRI 100 110 1-7 Sp 11890 0500-0700 38-40,47N NOB 100 098 1-7 Sp 11910 1200-1400 50,51,54E,64AUS/NZL/PHL/TWN XIA 120 138 1-7Sp 11920 0500-0800 18,28,29 NOB 350 050 1-7 Sp 11945 2300-0200 12-16 NOB 350 230 1-7 Sp 12035 0700-1700 18,27-29 NOB 350 060 12-6 Sp 13720 0900-1700 27,28W NOB 350 0 1-7 Sp 15110 1900-2300 4,7-11 NOB 350 302 1-7 Sp 15125 1400-2200 daily 1800- 12 CRI 100 110 17/1-7Sp 15150 1700-1730 18,27,28 NOB 350 068 1-7 Ru[til Sept 4th?] 15160 2300-0500 12-16 NOB 350 242 1-7 Sp 15170 1300-0100 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 1-7 Sp 15170 1700-2400 46,47,52,57 NOB 350 161 1-7 Sp 15205 1800-1900 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 1-7 Fr 15205 2100-2200 18,27,28 NOB 350 050 1-7 Fr 15215 0700-0900 50,55,58-60 NOB 350 260 1-7 Sp 15285 2000-2100 18,27,28 NOB 350 038 1-6 En 15285 2000-2100 18,27,28 NOB 350 038 7 Fr 15375 1600-1700 46,47,52,57 NOB 350 161 2-7 Sp 1600-1700 Mon-Sat Guinea Equatorial special progr 15375 2100-2300 46,47,52,57 NOB 350 161 1-7 Sp 15385 2300-0600 4,6-11 NOB 350 290 1-7 Fr/Sp/En 15480 0700-0900 50,55,58-60 NOB 350 260 1-7 Sp 15585 0700-1700 18,27-29 NOB 250 060 1-7 Sp 17560 1900-2200 38,39,47,48 NOB 350 110 1-7 Fr/Ar 17575 2200-2400 38,39,47,48 NOB 350 110 1-7 Sp 17665 0500-0700 38-40,47N NOB 350 098 1-7 Sp 17715 1700-2200 12-16 NOB 350 230 1-7 Sp 17755 0900-2100 46,47,52,57 NOB 350 161 1-7 Sp 1600-1700 Mon-Sat Guinea Equatorial special progr 17770 0700-0900 50,55,58-60 PAC/PNG/INS NOB 350 260 1-7Sp 17770 1700-2100Sun-2300 46,47,52,57 NOB 350 161 2-7 Sp 17770 1825-1855 37E,38-40,47,48 NOB 350 110 1-7 Sefardi 17845 1800-2100 Sat -2200 10-14 NOB 350 248 1-7 Sp 17850 1700-2200 7,8,10,11 CRI 100 340 1-7 Sp 21570 0900-1700 12-16 NOB 350 230 1-7 Sp 21610 0700-0900 50,55,58-60 PAC/PNG/INS NOB 350 260 1-7Sp 21610 0900-1900 37E,38,39,47,48 NOB 350 110 1-7 Sp/Ar 21700 1200-2200 10-14 NOB 350 248 1-7 Sp (REE printed sched)

TAIWAN/USA R Taipei Internat freq schedule A99, *WYFR-FL relay: EUR Ch 0000-0100 & 0300-0600 9610 1900-2000 9955 15600* 17750* 2200-2400 9610 Cantonese 0100-0200 7520*

En 2200-2300 11565* 15600* Fr 0700-0800 7520* 1800-1900 17750* 2000-2100 9955 15600* Ge 0600-0700 9985* 1800-1900 9955 2100-2200 11565* 15600* Sp 2000-2100 15715* 2100-2200 9610 Ru 1305-1400 11745 15665* 1705-1800 9955 fax +886 2 2598 2294 e-mail cbs@cbs.org.tw URL http:\\www.cbs- taipei.org (via Benno Klink-D, May 7)

R Taipei Int'l 15345 noted recently with strong spurs around 15331 and 15359. As the freq is on most of the day, causes QRM with numerous stns incl BBC WS En 15360 via Kranji-SNG. (Alan Davies-LAO, Apr 10)

TUNISIA I noted some problems with RTT txs: only one was in use at +0700- 1400 17735.2 and 1800-2230 [and mornings til 0700] 12004.6. There were not any // freqs. (Mikhail Timofeyev, also via EDXP, Apr 13) [There is a building project to erect three new txs on same Sfax location, ed]

UKRAINE 1602 Radio Skyway - Luhansk , 24hrs sked, can be hrd in Kremenchuk arnd 14...09 UTC, best in the daytime, coming through heavy QRM in dark (YUG- 2 st, Spain at night, an unid Greek arnd 05-06). All progr in Ru lang. Ads, games, and mostly Ru + En pops, non-stop at local night (mx of 70s: Credence, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Abba, etc.) 1 kW nominal, but recently reported as 0.5 kW. An exc. DX challenge. (Vlad Titarev-UKR, Mar 7)

UNITED KINGDOM LW 279 Isle of Man longwave licence award announced Mon 29/03/1999 - BY STEVE CONWAY.

The Isle of Man Communications Commission has announced today that it is intended to grant a LW licence to the Isle of Man International Broadcasting Company Limited (IoMIBC) subject to the approval of Tynwald, the Isle of Man Government's Court of Government.

The stn is expected to broadcast under the callsign "MusicMann 279".

Chief Executive, Paul Rusling,and the Chairman of the Board, John Ross- Barnard expressed their great pleasure on hearing the news. "The founders, particularly Paul Rusling, have worked hard for the last five years to realise an inspired vision" said John Ross-Barnard.

In noting that the licence award remains subject to the approval of Tynwald, IoMIBC confirmed that there would be no further comment until after the conclusion of the procedure, expected towards the end of April.

The Communications Commission notes in its statement that the IoMIBC proposals for the stn will create employment on the island, and generate revenue for the govt.

One of the features of IoMIBC's application is the use of a new type of bc antenna, which will result in the need for a much smaller tx-mast than would otherwise be expected.

As well as being subject to the approval of Tynwald, the stn will have to seek planning permission for it's proposed txion site.

CONWAY's COMMENT: The award of the LW licence to Paul Rusling and his team marks the successful conclusion of a 5 year campaign to establish a LW stn on the island.

Newstide and its predecessors have covered this story since Oct 1994, during which time events sometimes moved so slowly that it seemed as if the whole project was just a pipe-dream.

Our initial exposure of the project came as a shock to the team who were quietly working away and hoping to avoid publicity. Over the years as we covered each development in the saga, we came to know more about the IoMIBC proposals than it was possible to publish.

As fuller details emerge of the IoMIBC's plans over the next few months, I think you will see that the winner of the licence has been chosen wisely.

Well done to the Isle of Man authorities for deciding to allow a LW stn on the island!

What a contrast to the UK Radio Authority, who bent over backwards to ensure that the UK would not get such a service of its own!

[http://www.newstide.com/] Ray Woodward e-mail [email protected] ]

Permission is hereby granted to reproduce the above information, provided that full credit is given to the original contributor AND to the British DX Club. (via Piet Pypers-HOL)

USA/CUBA R Marti seems to be making some freq changes. Heard using 5890 0630 May 2nd, but not since. 7405 in //, both not on Mon UTC May 3rd either [thats Sunday in the target], but again at 0600 on May 4th. Both with Cuban jammers too, and I can hear jammers on 6030 but not Marti -- co-ch SWR Muehlacker too strong. [Heard jammers on harmonic 12060 also, ed]. WBCQ 7415 on air 0630 taking what seemed phone calls about computing, May 2nd. (Noel Green-UK, May 4)

Radio Free Asia, eff 1999 Mar 1, complete sked: 0000-0100 Lao 7480 7550 11580 13820 0030-0130 Burmese 7520 7530 9400 11590* 13710 0100-0130 Uighur 7485 15405 0100-0200 Tibetan 7555 9570 11580 7470 0300-0700 Mandarin 15665 17615 11540 13820 1100-1200 Lao 9860* 13750 13790* 15660 15695* 17530 1200-1300 Khmer 9395 11510 11540 13750 13790* 15695* 1300-1400 Tibetan 11540 15385 11590* 7470 1400-1500 Cantonese 7550 9445 15260 1400-1500 Vietnamese 9365 9455 9930 11520 13685 15470* 15660 1500-1600 Burmese 9360 11590* 13820 15215* 1500-1600 Mandarin 11945 7540 9805 9445 9910 13735* 1500-1600 Tibetan 7495 11520* 7470M 1530-1630 Korean 7460 11565* 1600-1630 Mandarin 9445 1600-1700 Mandarin 7540 11945 9910 9805 13735*11850* 1630-1700 Mandarin 9445 1700-1800 Mandarin 9455 9805 9910 7540 11945 13735* 11850* 1800-1900 Mandarin 7455 7540 9355 9650 15510 13735* 11790* 1900-2000 Mandarin 7540 9355 9650 9775 9876 15510 11790* 11740* 2000-2100 Mandarin 9355 9875 15510 9775 7540 7455* 2100-2200 Mandarin 7540 9845 9355 15510 9650 9775 2200-2300 Cantonese 7555 9570 9845 2200-2300 Korean 7460 9395* 9455 9650 15510 2230-2330 Khmer 7520 9930 11510 11570* 17510 2300-2400 Mandarin 9650 15515 7540 9905 13820 9650 2300-2400 Tibetan 7415 7550 9875 5855M 2330-0030 Vietnamese 7455* 7515 9390 9780 9930 13720 *=new frequencies (19-Mar/Kruger/EDXP/Padula-AUS via NASWA)

Some interesting VoA relays, from the IBB website: 0800-1000 En 11995 Tinian, Marianas 0800-1000 En 13650 Tinian, Marianas 0930-1000 En 15605 Dushanbe, Tajikistan 1000-1100 Ch 13650 Tinian, Marianas 1000-1200 Ch 11995 Tinian, Marianas 1200-1400 Ch 11825 Tinian, Marianas 1300-1400 Ch 15250 Tinian, Marianas 1300-1500 Ch 7390 Novosibirsk, Russia 1600-2220 En 15240 Morocco 1800-1830 En 12025 Tinang, Philippines 1800-1830 En 6140 Udorn, Thailand 1800-1830 En 9615 Biblis, Germany

VIETNAM Latest observed dom freqs, 14-15 March '99: 4796 2200-2300, 1200-1400. I'm 99% sure this is Son La, x-4740v.

4960 2200-1600 VoV2, Hanoi

5035 2200-2300, ?0500-?0600, 1200-1330 VoV Hmong, Hanoi

5597v 2230-2300, 1000-1030, 1200-1330 Lao Cai //6844v.

5925 2200-1600 (Fri 1700) VoV1, Hanoi

6165 as 5035, VoV Hmong

6386v 2325-2400, ?0400-0530, 1000-1030v (occasionally 0935v-1030v), 1200- 1330v. Very distorted audio, relays Hanoi 0935-1000. Assume this and 6397 are Lai Cau (should that be Lai Chau?) and Yan Bai, but not sure which is which.

6397v 2200-2300, 0955v-1125/1135v, very close to N Korean clandest stn around 6399.

6496v 1200-1400 Cao Bang, recently observed with 'wobbly' carrier fluctuating +/- several 10s of Hz every couple of seconds, poor audio.

6844v as 5597, Lao Cai. Over the past 5 months has lurched upwards in freq at an average of over 1 kHz per day from the 6660-6680 kHz area.

7156v *2325-?0130, ?0300-?0500, 0900-1425. WRTH99 suggests Bac Thai. Appears to relay VoV1 Hanoi throughout except for local segment around 1300-1425 (which is unintelligible here due to poor propagation and QRM).

9875 2200-1600 (Fri 1700) VoV1 Hanoi. There is no txn break at 1400-1500.

12035 0150v-1000 VoV2 Hanoi.

VoV1 also noted 1350v-1500 on 9930v, 13685v and 15470v (jamming RFA Vn). (Alan Davies-THA, Mar 15)

After two days on 6825 (x-6846v), unpredictable Lao Cai moved yet again to 6689v, noted daily since Apr 3rd. (Alan Davies-LAO, Apr 10)

INDONESIA A very comprehensive listing of all currently operating Indonesian HF b/cers will be given in the 32-page "Shortwave Guide to South East Asia" which is being prepared by Bob Padula. It will also include a complete address list. The Frequency listing is based on actual monitoring, with s/on and s/off times, for RRI (Domestic and External), and non-RRI b/cers.

Regrettably, the Indonesian data contained in the WRTH99 is very old and misleading, containing details of stns which have been inoperative for several years, and appears to be merely a repeat of previous editions, with no up-dating having been made. The Indonesian section in the new Guide brings together lots of information about radio b/cing there, not available elsewhere. There is an updated listing of all Provinces and Special Regions, plus a useful glossary and English translation of Indonesian words/phrases to assist in IDing local and regional HF b/cers.

Other coverage will include Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Vietnam. Planned release date is May 10.

Price is A$10 (to Australian addresses), or US$10 (10 IRCs) elsewhere via economy air. Orders received before Apr 30 will get a special voucher redeemable for A$5 or US$5, for purchase of any "Padula Books" products. Payment in Australian/US bills, cheque, money order, GIRO transfer, postal order, for credit of "Bob Padula" or "Padula Books" (cheques must be in Australian dollars and drawn on Australian banks).

Mail to: Bob Padula, 404 Mont Albert Road, Surrey Hills, Victoria 3127, Australia, [email protected] or [email protected] (EDXP)

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AUSTRALIA New licensing law will require intl bcing sces txed from AUS to obtain a content license as well as a txioning license so that secs are not "contrary to national interests." (BBC Monitoring via DXPL) This opens the door for continued planning of an HCJB tx site in WeAUS. (DXPL via NU, May 9)

New licensing law -- a move that could see the re-opening of the US$32 million Cox Peninsula tx once used by RA. The tx, near Darwin, was closed two years ago after big cuts in funding for the ABC, which runs RA. Some of the world's biggest internat bcs are believed to be interested in using the tx to bc to AS. A govt spokesman said RA would be allowed to use the tx again by entering into a commercial agreement with any internat broadcaster granted a licence to lease it. (ABU via EDXP, May 12)

The tentative registrations for Darwin for A99 are included in the ABU-HFC consolidated file which was posted to hard-core-dx some weeks ago. They are: 13605 1100-1700 21525 0000-1000 25725 1000-1400. (EDXP, May 12)

AZERBAIJAN [Nagorni-Karabakh] 9677.5v, Voice of Justice: They are still on, last check being at 0600-0630 Mar 6; but they are still completely unreadable (having the same problem with modulation). I guess they are so self-admiring that they never hear themselves or others--striking persistence in heating the ionosphere, two years or more. Interesting if any native Azerbaijans could catch one word of the whole of their 30 min. progr. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, Mar 7)

BELGIUM Frequency change of RVI, 13745 changed by 13740 at 0600-0656, 1300-1600 (Suns) and 1600-1630. (Paul Brems-BEL, Apr 1)

CANADA RCI Montreal in En/Fr 0500-0600 Mon-Fri on 7295, 9595, NF15330, NF15400 via BBC. 0500-0600 daily on 5995, 9755, NF11830 (listed in schedule 11930), NF 13755 via Sackville & on NF 6145 via Wertachtal. 1900-2000 in Fr on NF 15470 (listed in schedule 15265). 2000-2100 in En; 2100-2200 in En/Fr on NF 15470, NF 17570. (listed in schedule 15265 and 17870).

Fr 2000-2200 15470 and 17570 the RCI' txions are mixed with those of MNO, which are aired via Sackville on 17695 at the same time !!! (PanIview-BUL, May 3)

CHINA CRI Beijing changes from May 2 include the following: 9870 1600-1657 En //9565 (x7190?) 11720 1500-1527, 1530-1557 Pashto? (x11515?) 11750 1500-1527 Persian (x9440?) 11775 2200-2257 Sp //7360, 9640, N13650 (x6020 or 7120) 11825 1730-2227 Mandarin/Fr //7800, 9820, 15165 (x7335) 13650 2200-2257 Sp //7360, 9640, N11775 (x6020 or 7120) 15300 1700-1757 En //7405, 9570, 11910 (x9710) 15415 1500-2127 various* (x7235) 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800 Ru; 1900, 1930 Cz; 2000, 2030 Pol; 2100-2127 En. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, May 3/4)

En sces from May 2 are now listed: 0300-0400 9690(E) NAm 0400-0500 9730(G) 9560(C) Nam 0900-1100 15210(J) 11730(K) Spac 1200-1300 11675(K) 6950(B) 7265(B) Spac 1200-1300 9715(B) 11660(B) 11980(*) SEA 1300-1400 11660(B) 15180(X) 11980(*) SEA 1300-1400 11675(K) 11900(J) Spac 1300-1500 7405 WNAm 1400-1500 11825(X) 15110(U) Sas 1400-1600 13685(M) 15125(M) E and Saf 1500-1600 7160(X) 9785(J) 1600-1700 9870(B) W and Naf 1600-1700 9870(B1) 9565(J) E and Saf 1700-1800 9570(X) 7405(J) 11910(X) 1700-1800 9710(*) Eu 1900-2000 11750(B) 9440(B) 13650(K*) W and Naf 2000-2100 9440(B) W and Naf 2000-2130 11735(alt: 11975)(M) 15500(M) E and Saf 2000-2200 6950(B) 9535(U) Eu 2100-2130 15415(*) Eu 2200-2300 9880(T) Eu Key: B=Beijing; M=Mali; X=Xian; E=Spain; K=Kunming; U=Urumqi; C=Canada (Sackville); J=Jinhua; T=Taldom(Russia); *=test freq from unspecified site. (EDXP)

CUBA [CHINA non] New CRI relays via Cuba on 5990 and 9570.

Further observations of the 5990, 9570 relays: Sat May 8 at 0035, 5990 was on with Sp; but this time stayed on post 0100 with open carrier, and 9570 was not on, some proof that both are same tx; left a rx on 5990, and finally at 0142, En audio came up!; 0200 into Ch still on 5990 instead of 9570 as previously, on this date allowing Romania to resume audibility at 0200 En on 9570 //11725. Then at 1157 9570 had OC, 1200 Ch, 1208 brief tx break; Sat 2300 and 0000, 5990 with usual En, Sp. Sun May 9 0100 9570 was missing. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, May 14)

It's Cuba! While listening to CRI [5990] at 2300-2355, there was a stn in Por on the same freq, very much sounding like a mixing problem at the tx. I almost fell off my chair when the RHC IS came on at 2329.

No doubt this means that the new CRI relay is in Cuba.

Will Arnie Coro, our friend in Havana, give us all the details on this arrangement in an upcoming "DXers Unlimited"? (Ivan Grishin-CAN, May 7, via RoIB)

CRI on 9570 at 0100 En and 0200 Ch - I noticed it too; powerful signal, 40+ over S9 meter pinned ! Minor background presumed RRI in between speech pauses. (Bob Thomas, CT, May 6, RoIB)

Both May 8 & 9, 5990 was very good, although still starting a few mins after 2300. Reception on 9570 at 1300 was fair-poor on May 8 & 9. (Ivan Grishin, Ont.)

It's nowhere near so strong here, indicating a nearby site, and beamed up the east coast; and combined with 5990 being designated for Caribbean, which would be unlikely from as far away as Mali, the evidence for this being Cuba is building up. (Glenn Hauser, OK, May 7, 8-9, 14)

CYPRUS [non] 15765, AWR, May 6, 0606-0623 song, then woman speaking in a lang that resembles Ar (Arabic with a regional accent?), man talking, several mentions of word "aleikum" (ah-LAY-koom), then short piece of baroque style mx ... At 0620 there's a fanfare, and woman announces "AWR, Box 1984, Nicosia, Cyprus", then hymns, 15521. (Escoto via DXW May 12) AWR via Slovakia relay is registered on 15735 in Ar 0500-0700 165 degr. ed

GEORGIA [ABKHAZIA] R Republik Abkhazia: For all who are trying to get in touch with them, it may be important to note that Sukhumi is now called Sukhum, probably to emphasize their independence from Tbilisi ("Sukhumi" sounds a bit Georgian, rather than Abkhaz or Ru). There is still strong tension in Tbilisi-Sukhumi relations, despite the recently reported success in peace negotiations. Other reports from the region tell it differently. The clue to many failures in trying to mail to Sukhum is that snail mail is going via Tbilisi. So I'd advise DXers who are still trying to get something from RRA to write "Sukhumi" on the envelope, but use "Sukhum" inside. Not a big deal, but may be helpful. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, Mar 7)

GERMANY Start of Radio in Germany after WW II on May 13, 1945. Txion via R Bremen 2nd progr on June 13, 1405 UTC.

Programmhinweis Sendereihe ueber DDR [SBZ] Rundfunk bei R Bremen-2. [sic, DDR Rundfunk gab es erst ab Okt 1949, ed]

13. Juni R Bremen-2, 1605 Uhr MESZ: Am 13. Mai 1945 um 2000 Uhr meldete sich der erste deutsche Nachkriegssender der sowjetisch besetzten Zone. Alles ist provisorisch: Ein Tisch, ein Stuhl, ein Mikrophon in einer Ruine direkt am Sendeturm in Berlin-Tegel. Tage spaeter sicherte eine ueber die Truemmerberge verlegte sechs Kilometer lange Feldleitung die Uebertragung aus dem ehemaligen Reichsrundfunkgebaeude in der Masurenallee. Das von sowjetischen Offizieren kontrollierte Funkhaus lag im britischen Sektor, die Sendetuerme im franzoesischen Sektor und die Kabelzentrale im amerikanischen. Eine komplizierte Rundfunkgeschichte beginnt. Bis 1952 senden der Berliner Rundfunk und der Deutschlandsender aus der Masurenallee. Radio Bremen strahlt jeweils sonntags 1605 Uhr MESZ eine vierteilige Sendereihe von Karin Koebernick ueber "die Stimme des anderen Deutschlands" aus. (via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, AGDX/Kurzwellenring-Sued, May 11)

R Kharmonia, Iashi, Romania Sat 1600-1630, and NOREA R SWE-DEN Fri/Sat 1630-1645 both relig txions in Romanian via TWR via DTK Juelich on 5840, 115 degr. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Mar 1)

Deutsche Telekom Relays via 100 kW txs in Juelich: Hrvatski Informativni Centar (HIC) in Croatian: 2300-0100 9925 SoAm; O100-0500 9925 NoAm 0500-0700 13820 AUS; O700-0900 13820 NZ; 2000-2100 NF 13810 (relay Home Sce 1) SoAF (x9860).

Brother Stair/The Overcomer Ministry/TOM/in English: 0200-0400 NF 9860 (45444) NoAm; 0600-1000 13810 (55544) AUS/NZ; 1600-1800 NF 13810 (55555) ME (x registered 6130); 1700-2100 NF 3965 (45554) Eu (x registered 3960).

Adventist World Radio (AWR): 1600-1800 Bul/Rom NF 9875 (55555) (x9825/x9925); 1800-1900 Arm/Ru Sun,Tue,Thu 9475 (55544); 2000-2100 French/English NF 15560 (35433) (x9835); 2100-2330 Arabic/French NF 9490 (45554) (x5890); 2130-2200 Dyula NF 15560 (35433) (x9835).

Trans World Radio (TWR): 0645-0850 En Eu NF 6045 (45544); 1230-1315 YUG langs NF 9490 (55555).

High Adventure Ministry (HAM) - Voice of Hope: 0700-1100 En and other European langs 5975 (45454) 1330-1530 En and South Asian langs 15715 (55555).

Das Wort Universelles Leben / The Word Universal Life: 1730-1800 Mon-Wed Ge Eu NF 6195 (55555) (x5890); 1830-1900 Thu Fr SoAf NF 11785 (54454) (x11735); 1730-1800 Sat Sp Eu NF 6195 (55555) (x5890). 1600-1630 Sun Fr SoAf NF 15105 (54555) (x11840); 1800-1830 Sun En CeAf NF 11830 (45554) (x11785); 1830-1900 Sun En SoAf NF 11785 (54454) (x9490).

Good News World R in En 0900-1000 Sat NF 5995 (45433) Eu (x5910); 1300-1400 Sat NF 15330 (55555) SoAs (x15385); 1600-1700 Sat NF 15105 (44544) SoAf (x12015); 1700-1800 Sat NF 11795 (55555) EaAf (x11605); 0100-0200 Sun 9855 (45554) NoAm; 0700-0800 Sun 13740 (45544) AUS/NZ; 2300-2400 Sun 9405 (55544) SoAm. Addr: Good News World, POBox 895, Fort Worth, TX 76101, USA e-mail [email protected]

Christliche Wissenschaft - Christian Science (WSHB) in Ge 0900-1000 Sun NF 5985 (45544) (x1800 Wed 5910).

Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese: 1245-1345 NF 17750 (45554) (x15330); 1430-1455 NF 17750 (55555) (x15635).

Sunrise R in En and Indian langs: 0600-2000 5850 (44544) (x0800-1830 same freq)

IBC Tamil Sce in Tamil: 0000-0100 NF 9355 (55555) (x registered x7150 & x7475).

Radio Rainbow in Amharic: 1600-1700 Thu NF 15105 (45454) EaAf (x11605). 0100-0200 Sat 9855 (45554) NoAm; 0900-1000 Sun NF 5995 (45533) Eu (x5910).

Voice of Oromo Liberations in Oromo: 1700-1800 Thu,Fri,Sun NF 15715 (55555) EaAf (x11605).

Lutherian Hour in Fr 2000-2100 Sun 11695 (45544) NoAf.

Voice of Deliverance in En 0100-0130 Mon 9855 (45554) NoAm.

Voice of Orthodox in Ru 1500-1600 Wed 11900 (55544). (PanIview-BUL, May 3)

The address of the commercial station "Europaradio", txing on 5975 via Juelich, on Suns only, 1400-1600: Europaradio, 11 Rue Stalingrad, L-4326 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. (Klaus Koehler-D, via DXW, May 12)

Deutsche Welle is considering the use of a Macedonian MW tx for bcs in Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian. This was announced on the occasion of 30 years of DW bcing in Macedonian. Negotiations are to be held in the next few weeks. The report mentioned the Ohrid tx site. This might mean the use of 1242 (5 kW) or 1314 (10 kW). (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D; DW press release, May 11)

Deutsche Welle plant Anmietung von MW tx in Mazedonien. [Laut WRTH 1999 stuenden in Ohrid die MW 1242 (5 kW) und 1314 (10 kW) zur Verfuegung.]

Intendant Dieter Weirich: "Rolle der DW als 'internationale Medienfeuerwehr' immer bedeutsamer" - 30 Jahre Mazedonisches Programm DW- radio.

Die Deutsche Welle (DW) plant die Anmietung eines Mittelwellensenders in Mazedonien zur Ausstrahlung ihrer Radioprogramme in Mazedonisch, Albanisch und Serbisch. Das gab der Intendant des deutschen Auslandsrundfunks, Dieter Weirich, am 11. Mai 1999 in Koeln bei einer Pressekonferenz aus Anlass des 30jaehrigen Bestehens des Mazedonischen Programms von DW-radio bekannt. Danach betrage der Bekanntheitsgrad von DW-radio/Mazedonisch in diesem Land 35 %, die regelmaessige, woechentliche Hoererschaft zwoelf %.

Das Mazedonische Programm von DW-radio wird ganz oder in Teilen wiederausgestrahlt, ueber Rebroadcasting mit 25 mazedon. Sendern, weitere 15 Sender uebernaehmen das Albanische Programm der DW. Sogar in Australien uebernaehmen mehrere Radionetworks DW-radio/Mazedonisch fuer die dort lebende mazedonische Bevoelkerung. (DW press release, May 11, 92/99)

In diesem Zusammenhang zu sehen: Der Soldatensender Andernach wird seinen MW-Sender nicht auf dem Balkan einsetzen, u.a. wegen Frequenzproblemen. Geplant sind dort nun mobile KW-Einheiten mit bis zu 15 kW Leistung mit eigenen Programmen, wobei ein spezielles Friedensprogramm mit Zielrichtigung Beograd mit den Programmsprachen Serbo-Croatisch und Deutsch in Ueberlegung ist. Derzeit sendet Andernach im Grossraum Sarajewo auf 97,7 MHz und 104,8 MHz ausschliesslich in Deutsch zur Versorgung der dort eingesetzten SFOR-Truppen. Programm und Technik werden in der Regel von Zeitsoldaten bewaeltigt, es gibt jedoch Einspielungen von DW und ARD- Anstalten. (amid via WE, May 12)

HUNGARY For A99, R Budapest plans to use 21560 and 21745 to AUS, in Hung, 1000-1100 (1100-1200 Suns). The 11 mb freq 25700 used in B98 1100-1200 Suns will be deleted. Hung to SoAM 2200-2300 (Suns 2300-0000) will use 17565 and 15120. (Marija Dobrowski, via EDXP, Mar 4)

German lang txions on MW Pecs 1350 at 1805 [1605 UTC?]: "Sie hoeren Radio Fuenfkirchen...". DX publications given the wrong information 873 kHz, year by year. (Kai Ludwig/Andreas Erbe-D, Apr 5)

IRAN IRIB Mashhad (QTH: IRIB Khorasson Centre, P.O.Box 555, Zip code 91735 Mashhad, Iran). Full data letter in 180 days by reg mail. Enclosed with a greeting card, stn profile sheet, and "old" Schedule Guide. A banknote of US$1.00 for reply cost was returned. (Takuji Sahara-JPN, via Cumbre May 9)

Iran has extended the use of 13720 kHz now blocking out Cuba in the evenings on that freq. At 2030 Iran is heard in an unknown [Albanian !] lang, followed at 2130 in En. At 2130 they bc to SoEaAS and AUS on announced (and well-heard) 11740 and 13745. They do not mention 13720 which is also very strong here in Copenhagen. IRN stops on 13720 at 2225 UT, and DW signs on 5 mins later (over the open carrier from IRN). (Erik Koeie-DEN, May 12) [registered for Alban 1830-1930, Bosnian 1930-2030, but heard Italian instead //7295, 11660. Now Albanian 2030-2127 on 11660 and Zahedan tx 13720. ed]

ITALY ITALIA 2 - La stazione RAI Radiodue di Milano transmitting via new MW freq 693 kHz (x1035. Addr: RAI di Milano indirect via, RAI Lombardia, C.so Sempione 27, I-20141 Milano, Italy. (Dario Monferini & Play DX, via RI, Apr 1)

[strong signal here in SoGermany. Remainds me, that this channel was used for decades by famous signal from VoGDR (former Deutschlandsender) Wachenbrunn ex-GDR, 250 kW, all night and day signal, ed]

LITHUANIA R Vilnius Sitkunai running 9555 with 100 kW 1330-1355 Lit, 1355-1425 Ru, 1425-1435 Bjelo. (Klaus Lieberwirth-D, May 11)

New to the Radio Netherlands Real Radio E-zine this week is an article by Bernd Trutenau about Lithuania's new 100kW SW tx. The article includes a historical overview of bcing in Lithuania, and is illustrated with photos taken by Bernd on a recent visit to the Sitkunai tx site. This is the first of many specially commissioned features which Real Radio will be publishing in the coming months. Check out http://www.rnw.nl/realradio (via DXW, Andy Sennitt, May 12)

MALAYSIA ABU SHORTWAVE COORDINATION GROUP TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER. The ABU High Frequency Coordination Group (ABU-HFC) will meet in Kuala Lumpur on Sep 07-10, 1999 to coordinate SW radio schedules for the B-99 and A-2000 seasons. The meeting will be preceded on Sep 6 by a one-day workshop on use of new data processing software developed by the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau. The meeting and workshop are expected to be attended by participants from all over the AS-PAC region, EUR, NoAF and NoAM. Altogether the ABU-HFC group will address about 60 % of the world's SW radio txons. In a typical coordination process, ABU-HFC participants offer their SW schedules for the forthcoming bcing seasons for coordination within the group. The bulk of the coordination activity takes place in a face-to-face meeting of the participating broadcasters. The mutually accepted results are then incorporated into a new and improved combined schedule at the end of the meeting. The ABU-HFC is a group of SW radio frequency managers supported by the ABU. It was set up in 1996. Today, it coordinates three times as many daily txions as it did three years ago and almost all major SW broadcasters participate in its work.

The A99 schedule coordination was prepared by the end of Februaries, with 32 broadcasters participating. This wad completed by e-mail and data transfer was carried out was the Internet. The combined schedules were posted on the ABU Website to facilitate easy access for participants. This year, 47600 daily txions were projected, up 60 % on last yearns figures. This resulted in higher levels of interference, and through the coordination process a 23 % interference reduction was achieved. (ABU via EDXP)

MARIANAS ISLANDS [Tinian] 21505 IBB 0905 En continuous mx incl country, country-rock, banjo, blues, and some pop "oldies" such as "Feliz Navidad." at 0943 a taped male ID, "This is a test txion from an IBB stn located on the island of Tinian in the western PAC." Mx continued thereafter & same ID was repeated at 0959. Good-excellent signal. (Famularo-JPN, via Cumbre, Mar 17)

Listeners may want to check out other freqs from the 13 Mhz band through 21 MHz, as I've recently come across other blocks of mx with strong signals, but no ID. The txions usually cut out without any announcements but this evening (JST) I finally got a clear ID. (Famularo-JPN, via Cumbre, Mar 17)

NAMIBIA On Mar 21, Namibia shifted fr summer to winter time, UTC+1 hr. 1000 UTC = 1100 local time. German sce via SW (Deutsches Hoerfunkprogramm): Mon-Fri 1100-1200 7215. Daily 1700-2000 3290. National Radio in En 2000-0459 3270 / 3290. No time shift in RSA - South Africa. (Hans W. Lange-D, Mar 27)

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES In summer the new 100 kW MW stn will go on the air at Bonaire by Trans World Radio - TWR. The new tx build by Canadian company, Nautel NA-100, will replace an old 500 kW tx, operating at present on 800 kHz since 1964. This was the first not European based facility by TWR, founded 1954. In the European and Mediterranean area first own tx gone on the air in the year 1959 via Tangier (Morocco), then 1960 via R Monte Carlo (Monaco). But not only the tx will be replaced at Bonaire, the antenna equipment will be too. Four antennas 130 meters in height will replace the old five 186 meters antennas. Targets of MW bcs from Bonaire are Ce- and So-AM, Caribbean and Cuba with three langs: En, Sp and Po, further plans are bcs in Creole lang. (Lothar Ruehl-D, ERF/TRF press release, Apr 8)

NORWAY A special bc is scheduled to take place on 675 on Wed May 12th 1999 between 2000 and 2400. The txion will be carried from the new Norwegian AM-site at R”st in Northern Norway, replacing the old tx on same freq located in Bod”.

If everything goes well, the tx will be put on air during daytime on May 12th. At this time Bod” will be shut down. R”st will carry the normal progr ("Europakanalen" in parallell to for instance 1314 kHz Kvits”y) until 2000 UTC when a special prerecorded progr will be aired exclusively from R”st until midnight when "Europakanalen" will be switched back. The timeslot should give grey-zone propagation possibilities for northern EUR, so even if the Dutch Radio Tien Gold txs on the same freq, some long distance DX could be possible. Remember also that this new site is far better than Bod”, regarding location. R”st is way out into the Atlantic Ocean, with lots of seawater all around, and a brand new tx.

Up to date info will be available at http://www.dxlc.com/ in a few days time, reporting on the progress and possible late changes. (Bernt Erfjord, DX-Listeners' Club, May 6)

PHILIPPINES IMF World Missions (California) plans to set up a stn in Batangas, using the tropical bands, 31 and 19 mb from a site overlooking the South China Sea (tropical band for the PHL, internat bands for CHN and VTN). (Cumbre via EDXP via NU, Apr 11)

9581a, DZRM (or other Mediumwave relay), May 4, 0835, Tagalog male talk including En phrases such as, "Top Stories." Telephone interview with female who mentioned, "Quezon City." Background mx was evident. This freq has been used by Filipino bcs in the past. Fair-poor. (Famularo in DXW, May 12)

13315usb DZMM relay; Mar 18, 2305 in Tagalog with male news & ads. This is the alternate freq to 13170usb, fair-poor. (Famularo in DXW, Mar 24)

PORTUGAL A99 - RDP Lisbon - Frequency Schedule Mon-Fri in Portuguese EUR 0500-1200 15140 100 kW LPV 30ø/11 dB 0500-1200 11960 100 RH0S 52/20 0645-0800 11660 250 HRS 55/18 via Pro-Funk Sines (DW site) 1600-1900 11860 100 RHOS 52/20 13625 100 RHOS 65/20 11800 100 LPV 30/11

EaAS/Timor 1200-1400 17740 300 RHOS 66/20 ME 1200-1400 21515 100 RHOS 81.5/19 AF 1000-1155 17725 3OO HR 142/20 1600-1900 17680 3OO HR 144ø/22

GUI/Capo Verde/Brazil 0600-2400 21655 100 RHOS 215/20 carries RDP Africa, via Lisbon 101.5 FM only.

USA/CAN 2300-0200 11655 100 RHOS 310/20 9715 100 RHOS 294/18 0500-0700 15585 100 RHOS 310/19

VEN 2300-0200 13700 100 RHOS 261/20 Brazil 2300-0200 11840 100 RH0S 215/18 15295 100 RHOS 215/20

Brazil/CapoVerde/GUI 1000-1200 21725 100 RHOS 215/20 1600-1900 21780 100 RHOS 215/20

Sat-Sun in Portuguese EUR 0700-2000 15555 1OO LPV 30/11 9780 1OO RHOS 52/19 0830-1000 11995 250 HRS 55/20 via Pro-Funk Sines (DW site)

EaAS/Timor 1000-1155 17740 100 RHOS 66/20 AF 0700-1700 17725 3OO HR 144/22 1700-2000 17680 3OO HR 144/22

GUI/Capo Verde/Brazil 0600-2400 21655 100 RHOS 215/20 carries RDP Africa.

USA/CAN 1200-2000 15200 100 RHOS 294/20

VEN 1200-2000 17745 100 RHOS 261/19 Brazil/CapoVerde/GUI 1200-2000 21800 100 RHOS 215/18

Mon-Fri in Tetum language to Indonesia. EaAS/Timor 1100-1200 17740 3OO RHOS 66/20 (Carlos L.R.de Asuncao Goncalves-POR via NG, May 10)

RUSSIA Apr 23, 1999 the chief of the Federal sce of Russia on tv and radio bcing Mikhail Seslavinsky sent to the chiefs of leading Russia's TV and radiocompanies his appeal with the estimation of barbarous bombardment of the Belgrade tv. It tells:

"In the night from Apr 22 to 23 this year NATO forces inflicted a missile- bombing strike on the state telebroadcasting company of YUG. Undoubtedly, these antihuman acts have caused the most severe concern in all mass media of Russia, especially radio and tv. It is no doubts, that the mass media of any country can not be responsible for operating of the parties in armed conflicts. The transformation of an electronic mass media of YUG in the hostages of a situation, conscientious destruction of a telebroadcasting complex, connected with it human victims is an obvious and provocative challenge to all bcing community.

That fact is specially offensive, that the appeal with the request to express the decisive protest against a capability of similar operating, which I sent on Apr 9 this year together with the Chairman of the Russian state bcing company "Voice of Russia " Armen Oganyesyan to the General secretary of European Broadcasting Union Mr. Albert Scharf, has not followed any response.

I invoke you to exhibit solidarity with your Yugoslavian colleagues and to render them intellectual and, whenever possible, information support".

Schedule of the information progr "Balkans" prepared "by the VoRUS " 20- mins progrs in En at 1900, Ru 1920, Ge 1940, Fr 2000, SerboCroatian 2020, Alb 2040 on freqs 12000, 11980, 7350 on SWs and MW 1548. Another sources indicate also 7320 and 9865. Addit translations on SerbCroatian 0300-0430 9485, 7440, 1548; and 2100-2230 12000, 7350, 1548.

Ru sce of the "VoRUS" is interested in RR's of this txion on all freqs very much. (fax: [+7 095] 9506116 or 2302828; e-mail: [email protected]). (NAT bulletin of 29.04.99 via RTS Center, also weekly electronic MIDXB)

VoRUS bc to Balkans: 1900-2100 by the way, 12000 from St. Petersburg/Popovka, 200 kW, 215 degr. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Mar 30)

R Rossii in St.Petersburg has changed its tx with more powerful and modern one. Instead of former freq 873 kHz 150 kW in Olgino (20 kms northwest fr St.Petersburg) now is used 801 kHz 600 kW in Popovka (30 kms south fr St.Petersburg). On 801 kHz the progrs of TRK "St.Petersburg" were txed before, however because of financial problems the company has refused this tx. (Alexei Osipov-RUS, in MIDXB 109 via Vadim B. Alexeew)

I was informed by Mikhail Timofeyev, that from today (Apr 2nd) VoRUS has further expanded it's special bcs about the Kosovo war. The complete schedule is already available on www.vor.ru/kosovo/ where they also in detail deal with the topic: 1900 En, 1920 Ru, 1940 Ge, 2000 Fr, 2020 S-Cr, 2040-2100 Alb on MW 1548, 7350, 11980 and 12000; 2100- 2230 S-Cr on 1548, 7350 and 12000; 0300-0430 S-Cr on 1548, 7440 and 9485. 9485 and 12000 with 200 kW towards 215 degr from the Popovka site near St. Peterburg, latter one was today skipping over eastern GER. 7350 and 11980 no real powerhouses but sufficient signals; by means of some audio characteristics 11980 originates from the Tbilisskaya site, slight overmodulation somewhere in the feed path present; 7350 with striking narrow audio bandwith, could originate from Samara. MW 1548 as well-known from Grigoriopol (Moldova-Pridnestrovye).

The 20 mins lang blocks are separated by a hand-over to the colleagues from the following language staff and a gong. It is rather remarkably, that they also speak straight to the NATO troops, including a affirmation, that 'our bc company will continue to give you information, which you don't get from your superiours'. (Kai Ludwig via RUS-DX, Apr 4)

St.Petersburg-Popovka as follows: 1900-2230 12000 200 kW 215 degr Apr 2-Sep 4 1900-2230 9710 200 kW 215 degr Sep 5-Oct 30 0300-0430 9485 200 kW 215 degr Apr 2-Oct 30

9450 China Radio, txing via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, operates here at *1200-1300*, power is 200 kW, which makes it well heard in AUS. Progrs are in Ch and the freq is valid from Mar 28-Sep 4. The autumn/winter freq for the last period was probably 5895. China Radio is a media ministry of the Assemblies of God, and has been bcing over several radio stns for more than 30 years. The stn responded to my report on "Real Light Radio" sent to P.O. Box 90337, Jianshaju, Hong Kong, with a sked all in Ch (not much help), but then replied in En from their TWN "field" address at 21 Chang Chun Road, 7th Floor, Taipei 10413, Taiwan. Director Richard Adams can be contacted by E-mail at [email protected] but stn staff can provide more specific details at [email protected] (Foster-AUS, via NU 1522, Apr 14)

KALININGRAD - VoRUS has bcs on 1386 0900-1200 from Apr 9th. There is a 1200 kW well-known Bolshakovo's tx using 275 degr for this day txsion. It will be very interesting to know about the possiblities of receiving this txion on the Baltic coast of GER, POL, DEN or SWE. If you already heard this one at this time, please send me a short opinion about it by e-mail: [email protected] This request is from the chief engineer of Bolshakovo's txing centre near Kaliningrad and I will send all your comments directly to him. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Apr 21)

7345 Yakutskoe R. Mar 10 -0930- 34433 Local px in Yakut lang. (OGUMA Hironao-JPN, Mar 21)

Radiostantsiya Tikhiy Okean 0130-0215 is now on 21820 (x21750). First noted on Apr 1. Good signal here. Acc to Mr. Takeshi Kanai & Oguma's monitor, 21750 has disappeared from Mar 29. (OGUMA Hironao-JPN, Apr 1)

SAUDI ARABIA Bcing Sce of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - BSKSA complete schedule for A99. Addr of Technical/Freq management: P.O.Box 61718, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fax +966-1-404-1692

9555 1800-2300 37,38 RIY 500 295 Ar 9580 0300-0600 38E,39,48W JED 50 000 Ar 2nd 9580 1700-2100 38E,39,48W JED 50 000 Ar 2nd 9730 1500-1700 23-26,30-35,40,42-45 RIY 500 040 Turkistani 9870 1800-2300 27,28,37N RIY 500 310 Ar 11710 1600-1800 38 JED 50 315 Koran 11745 1400-1600 40 RIY 500 040 Pe 11820 0300-0600 38 JED 50 315 Koran 11855 0600-1700 38E,39,48W JED 50 000 Ar 11935 1800-2300 37,38 RIY 500 295 Koran 11950 1500-1800 40,41NW JED 50 068 Ar 11950 1800-2100 40,41NW JED 50 068 Koran 15170 0300-0600 19-23,29-31,40 RIY 500 355 Koran 15275 0400-0600 28S,39N RIY 500 340 Tu 15275 1500-1800 37,38 RIY 500 295 Ar 15345 1200-1400 41N RIY 500 070 Be 15345 1400-1500 41E RIY 500 070 Ur 15380 0600-0900 39N RIY 500 310 Koran 15435 0300-0600 40,41NW JED 50 068 Koran 15435 1500-1800 27,28,37N RIY 500 320 Ar 17560 1200-1500 40,41NW JED 50 068 Ar 17560 1600-1800 46-48 RIY 500 270 Koran 17760 0400-0500 48E RIY 500 175 Koran 17760 0500-0600 48S,52E,53 RIY 500 190 Swa 17760 0600-0900 38 JED 50 315 Koran 17760 1200-1600 38 JED 50 315 Koran 17775 1700-1800 46-48 RIY 500 250 Ar 17880 0900-1200 41,49,50,54 RIY 500 100 Koran 17895 0300-0600 24-26,30-35,40,42-45 RIY 500 040 Koran 21495 0600-0900 40,41NW JED 50 068 Koran 21495 0900-1200 41,43-45,49,50 RIY 500 070 Koran 21505 0900-1200 37,38 RIY 500 295 Ar 21505 1200-1500 37,38 RIY 500 295 Ar 21670 1000-1200 54 RIY 500 100 Ins 21705 0800-1000 46,47 RIY 500 270 Fr 21705 1200-1500 27,28,37N RIY 500 310 Ar 21705 1400-1600 46,47 RIY 500 270 Fr (Marija Dobrowski via EDXP #120, Apr 8) The Fr sce 0800-1000 on 21705 appears to originate from the Dom Network, using spare tx capacity. (Bob Padula-AUS, Apr 8)

SERBIA R YUG in Ru was heard 1800 on 6100, //7165 is silent yet (for a month or so). 2030 6185 Fr is seemingly regular.

If not sleeping deep into night I use to listen 1602 kHz AM, there are two Serbs, one with RTSerbia. 1st prog 684 kHz is huge here. Not checked the rest. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, May 10)

R Yugoslavia seems to have been moving around different servers in the past week. The URL http://www.radioyu.org doesn't always work. Tom Sundstrom advises using the direct IP number which is http://62.229.99.175 but if you still have problems, nx in En from the Serbian perspective is also available on the Website of RTS - Radio Television Serbia. Go to http://www.rts.co.yu and click on the News button. (via DXW, Andy Sennitt, May 12)

SEYCHELLES The Seychelles Govt has announced a reclamation project in Mahe. Flat new land is to be created for housing and other development in the bay, north east site of the island, where Far East Broadcasting Authority - FEBA radio masts are situated. This may be affect FEBA bcing. (FEBA Radio News via JKB/WWDXC in DXM 4/99)

SOUTH AFRICA [to NIGERIA] 6205 R Kudirat 1900-2000. Nx followed at 1909 by ID (R Kudirat Nigeria, The Voice of Democracy) also announced //11540, but actually on 11560. Into local lang at 1945. (SIO 433) Reasonable signal, not so good modulation. (David Howship-UK, in Cumbre, May 5)

SRI LANKA 13750 DW Trincomalee, new freq, Ins at *2200-2250* Apr 5; I think this is first use of this band by Trincomalee. (Bob Padula-AUS, via EDXP, Apr 11)

SWEDEN Change in schedule from Teracom/Radio Sweden. Due to interfence problems, we have made a freq change of our bc 1630-1700, ADD 7135 to zones 19,28E,29,30 Hoerby 500 kW 70 degr, delete 7170. (Magnus Nilsson, Teracom/Radio Sweden, May 10)

TAJIKISTAN [tentat. via Dushanbe] CLANDESTINE from CIS? to IRAN. 5830 Radio Tommorow's Iran Talks and instrumental mx. *1700-1730* in Persian. ID "In Radyo-e Iran-e Farda." QRM from no moduration carrier (Jamming ?) on same freq, very strong. (Satoshi Hasebe-JPN, via Cumbre, May 1)

7245 R Tajikistan 1645 in En with 15 min progr. ID, freq details and progr details followed by nx in En. Reception was good here in NoIND. (Alok Das Gupta-IND, Mar 16)

UK / NETHERLANDS Extra txions of RNW towards WeEUR on Mon May 17th til Fri 21st, most likely in Durch langauge. Parallel to the four txs at RNW Flevopolder in Holland, RNW will use two txs at [Merlin] Skelton in Northern England, target area will be France.

0500-[0557] via Skelton 5975; //all via Flevo: 5955, 7130 and 989. 0700-[0757] via Skelton 6015; //all via Flevo: 5955, 9895 and 11935. (Paul Brems-BEL, RVI Golfgids, May 13) [Obige Meldung ist wohl verstaendlicher, als die Angaben in ORF InterMedia am 14.Mai]

If you're interested in SW nostalgia, I found a site that has an illustrated history of the BBC Daventry txing stn. The article was originally published in Practical Wireless magazine, but is now used with permission at http://www.daventry-index.co.uk/about/bbctx/BBC01.html (DXW, Mar 3)

USA R Marti had been booming in on 7405 until s-off 0900, and with Cuban jamming. However, it was not on air today May 10, when tried around 0630 -- but the jammers were !

I could hear similar jamming on 5890 & 6030, but no audio, and what sounds very similar jamming mixing with RFI 9805 at 0730 and after they left the air at 0800. Marti was heard on 9565 at 0900 on May 9, //7405.

On the higher bands I have been hearing such as ERT Athens 17700 [listed on 17705 0600-0800 250 kW 296 degr] for JPN INS AUS NZL PAC around 0630 mixing with CNR-2. This is shown as via Delano-USA and presumably coming long path. At same time, BBC is audible from same listed site on 6175, maybe taking a slightly less long route. I found a nice sounding CNR-1 in FM mode fr 0700 acting as a jammer on 21540 VoA. 21705 similar, but the lower freqs were not propagating strongly enough to hear FM. (Noel Green-UK, May 10)

Cuban jamming of WRMI on 9955 kHz, what he doesn't realize is that the jamming skips over much of the island, making it effective only in the ground wave areas. In fact, we receive more letters from CUB than from any other country in Latin America. We recently spent a week making telephone calls to listeners in CUB and asking them about reception quality in their area. We spoke with people from one end of the island to the other, and reception was generally very good. Many people said the jamming was audible, but did not make listening to the program difficult. One gentleman on the western end of the island told us he listens to the news on the Voice of the Foundation from 6-8 a.m. every day. Another listener in eastern Cuba put the telephone up to his rx's speaker so we could hear how WRMI was coming in at around 7 p.m. Eastern. The signal was excellent, and there was absolutely no sign of jamming.

And finally, ask yourself this very logical question: If WRMI were NOT being heard in Cuba -- a country with severe power shortages and frequent blackouts -- do you really think the Cuban govt would spend so much electricity trying to jam our freq?

Soviet jamming did not stop people from listening to VoA, Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle and the other stns, and Cuban jamming will not stop people from listening to R Marti, WRMI, etc. If anything, it just calls attention to the importance of the programming. (White-USA, via Cumbre, Mar 18)

VIETNAM The Voice of VTN finally has a proper official Website of its own with current freqs for the Ext Sce. To access the schedule in all langs go to http://www.vov.org.vn/docs1/english/history/international.html and click on the progr button, which actually leads to the freq schedule. This site also functions as a Website for the VoV dom sces. There's an overview in En at http://www.vov.org.vn/docs1/english/index.html but if you want to read the progr schedules for the different networks you will need a Vietnamese font otherwise it displays as gibberish. (via DXW, Andy Sennitt, May 12)

New edition of "Long and Medium Wave Stations in EUR, NoAF, and the ME"

The latest edition (publ date: 13 May 1999) of the publication "LW and MW Stations in Europe, North Africa, and Middle East" is now available. It can be obtained in two ways:

* electronically as a PDF file. Please visit my homepage to download for free: http://come.to/dxing

* as a paper publication at the modest price of BEF 300, USD 10, DEM 15 in banknotes. Order your copy at: Herman Boel, Roklijf 10, B-9300 Aalst, Belgium

Thanks to many collaborators this list is unique in its sort. It lists all known stns in EUR, NoAF, and ME per frequency (with exact locations, power output, txing times, and lots of other information), and per country (with addresses and verification information).

Furthermore it is very up-to-date (unlike some other publications) and is updated at least twice a year. All feedback (see feedback form in the publication) is most welcome. (73 Herman Boel-BEL, DXAntwerp, http://gallery.uunet.be/hb/ http://come.to/dxing

Press release from DSWCI

The DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY (DBS) edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen.

The DSWCI which counts about 400 experienced DX-ers in 45 countries all over the world, has just published its annual TBS - Tropical Bands Survey for the 27th year in a row. Since most of our members are devoting most of their DX-ing on the exciting, dom bcing stns, not only on the tropical bands (120, 90 and 60 mb), but also on the higher SW bands, the Club has decided to expand this Survey to the full spectrum of 2200 - 22000 kHz. We will now concentrate on stns bcing to a domestic audience or relaying such bcs to expatriates abroad.

This new Survey is based upon many official sources and DX-bulletins. In order to make the DBS reliable, each stnn frequency has been confirmed on the air by our own monitors around the world and is marked with an A or B in the list. To make this DBS up-to-date, most freqs which have not been heard during the past year have been deleted.

Depending on this worldwide monitoring effort throughout the period May 1998 - April 1999, each entry is classified using the following codes for their appearance on the freqs mentioned:

A: Regular. B: Sporadic. C: Likely inactive. S: Seasonal changes.

The 44 pages A-4 size DBS is sold by the treasurer: DSWCI, c/o Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK-3500 Vaerloese, Denmark for EUR 10, USD 12, DKK 75 or 14 IRC per issue with airmail delivery. 15% discount is given, if a DX Club orders a total of 20 copies or more. Cash notes are accepted.

(Danish Shortwave Club International, Anker Petersen [email protected] Bent Nielsen [email protected] May 9)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 412 23 May 1999 ______

AUSTRIA MW 1476 ORF Vienna Bisamberg MW tx bcing with reduced power of 60 kW at 1600-2000, and full power amplifier of 600 kW at 2000-2300. (ROI Internat Hoererservice via Dr. Erwin Woellerdorfer-AUT, May 20)

CHINA Today received from CRI English Section schedule (eff as of May 3) indicates new testing freqs as follows: to EUR 1700-1800 9710; 2100-2130 15415. To SoEaAS 1200-1400 11980, to We&NoAF 1900-2000 13650. I checked 15415 May 11th and there was presumably no signal from CRI on the freq (the selection is faulty anyway due to strong signal of Tripolis on that freq here in Poland). (Rybus-POL, via DXW, May 19) [most probably these outlets originate from new antennas at Urumchi, Tibet tx site, in far western mainland China. This station used 41 and 31 mb antennas only in the past two years, and has been silent for few months in last year, seemingly to erect new additional antennas on 25, 22, and 19 mb on same location. ed]

CRI Beijing in Vietnamese recently noted on MW 684 at 1600-1700, first heard around 13 May. Presumably the new tx in [Dongfang coast on] Hainan finally on air. Weak signal here compared to powerhouse 1296 in Yunnan, impossible to determine whether this channel carries RFI earlier in evening as per schedule due to QRM from Thai stns. (Alan Davies-THA, May 22)

VoRUS Moscow in En recently heard at 1400-1500 on MW 1269, //15550 etc. First noticed around 12 May. Presume this is relayed via CRI MW tx in Yunnan for SoEaAS. Rather poor here under Thai stns. (Alan Davies-THA, May 22)

CONGO [KINSHASA] 7205 La Voix du Peuple, Lubumbashi, *0330 with a patriotic song on the Congo, same song until 0359, then NA followed by more songs. At 0411, ID in Fr as Lubumbashi, La Voix du Peuple, then day and date and the name of ancr, followed by talk on "Le Combat" prgm to commemorate the second anniversary to liberate the Congo. Also hrd at 1858 when Poland went off, until 1920 when covered by BBC. Good signal from here when Congo is alone, but not hrd when another stn is on the freq. 2130*. (Vaghjee-Mauritius, via NU, May 19 & 20)

COSTA RICA 15049 RFPI There have been two complaints from Portugal sent to Control Nacional de Radio concerning RFPI operating near a marine freq. The whole issue of RFPI's status and operation is a political matter in CTR and the matter is out of the Control Nacional de Radio's hands. The complaints have been forwarded to the ITU for review. Per Melvin Murrillo, Director of Control Nacional de Radio. (DIRECT Fleming, Cumbre Dx, May 18)

ERITREA/SUDAN [CLANDESTINE to/from AF] The presidents of Sudan and Eritrea signed a peace agreement on 2nd May in Qatar. It therefore seems likely that the three Eritrean opposition stns hosted by Sudan (Voice of Truth, Voice of Free Eritrea and Voice of Democratic Eritrea - all on 9230) and the two Sudanese opposition stns hosted by Eritrea (Voice of Sudan and Voice of Freedom and Renewal on 8000 and 7000 respectively) will cease operations. (Greenway, British DX Club May 3 via Cumbre May 7)

ETHIOPIA About exETLF SW txs in Addis Ababa. I wonder whether the Ethiopian Government ever paid any compensation. (V. Goonetilleke, Nov 22, 1998)

Several months ago I took note of the question, via Radio Netherlands broadcast. I have published a thesis on international missionary broadcasting and I think I am able to answer your question: After the nationalization of the Radio Voice of the Gospel the Lutheran World Federation claimed a compensation of about 8 Mio. US-Dollar which was, of course, never paid.

About a decade later, however, when Ethiopia was plagued by famines an agreement was reached. The Lutheran World Federation would receive about 600.000 US-Dollar over a period of three years, but would spend the money within Ethiopia.

There is an English book on the Radio Voice of the Gospel: Lundgren, Manfred: Procclaiming Christ to His World. The Experience of Radio Voice of the Gospel 1957-1977, Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, about 1983, about 300 pages worth reading, but no ISBN. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, May 16)

FRANCE Freq change of RFI in Se/Alb 0500-0600 on NF 11975 (55555) (x7280) //9805 (55555). Additional prgr of RFI in Albanian Mon-Fri only. 1010-1030 on 11670 (55555) and 15155 (55555). (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

GEORGIA A strange radio called itself "Radio Khara" in a language like Georgian or Abkhaz or similar is on the air Mon & Thu only 1600-1632 on 4875, [Dusheti tx registered here]. Nx, playing western pop mx. Mailing addr is given: "Shona Rustaveli Prospect" in (presumed) Tbilisi. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, May 13)

GERMANY Changes of DW: 0700-0800 in Cr(xGe)/Alb on add 9650 //7190, 11905; 1130-1200 in Bosn (xGe) on 9650, 11905; 1700-1800 in Cr/Alb on NF 7185 (x7125) //11905, 15470; 1800-1900 in Alb/Bosn(xGe) on 7125, 15470 1900-2000 in Ro on add 6140/ /7125, 9470, 11855. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

RTI/TRT on DW monitoring receiving stn Bockhacken. On May 9th Mrs. Chiu Bihui of R Taipei Internat and Mrs. Engin Asena and Ufuk Cecim of TRT Ankara visited the Bockhacken monitoring station of DW Cologne. DW monitor Herr W. Brennecke has been interviewed.

Report features of this visit may heard via R Taipei Internat on letterbox progr May 21, at 1800, 9955.

Via TRT Ankara German sce DX progr on May 29th, 1730, 13790. (Benno Klink-D, DG1EA, May 21)

GREECE VoGRC has a new e-mail addr for RR's: [email protected] (or directly to engineer Mr. Dionisios Agelogiannis at [email protected]). (Mizuno Mitsuaki-JPN, via Cumbre, Apr 14)

IRAN/IRAQ Report on Kurdish radio scene: VoPeople of Kurdistan now 0237-0515, 1437-1819, 1943-2050 on 6015 v7020 (x4060 / x6010). VoIranian Kurdistan 0227-0339 & presumed 1300-1400, 3950 4100 (x4010, x4150). Vo the Worker, 1427-1517, 1627-1726 4100 (x4190).

There are four Communist Kurdish radio stations: VoIranian Communist Party (pro-Chinese) 3870, 4370, presumed from Western China.

Vo the Worker (pro Soviet) presumably from Iraq or Syria.

Vo Iraqi People (pro Chinese) 1700-1800 3905 4755.

Vo Iraqi Communist Party (pro Soviet) 1650-1800 4000. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, May 13)

6999.8a The Voice of the People of Kurdistan, The Voice of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 0252 anthem, clear ID by man in Kurdish: "Ehra Dange Gelli Kurdistana", twice. then talks by man who ment. Kurdistan. Q'ran chants followed and then, local songs.

(Horacio Nigro-URG, in Cumbre Dx, May 15)

7000.3 VoPeople of Kurdistan, 1659, ID in Ar. Fair. SIO 433. (Antonello Napolitano-I in Cumbre Dx, May 20)

JAPAN [Ascension Isl/Gabon/Fr Guiana] Some new freqs of R Japan NHK World Network: 0430-0700 in Ru, Sp, It, Swe, Ge, Fr to EUR on NF 15355 (44554) via Gabon relay 500 kW / 350 degr. Till 0500 co-ch Oman (x12030).

0800-1000 in Jap on NF 17650 (55544) via ASC relay, but listed in schedule 17895 //NF 21550 via Gabon, 11710 via Woofferton.

1500-1600 in Jap on NF 21600 (45544) via FrGuiana. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

LITHUANIA The new 100 kW SW tx in Sitkunai is currently using 9555 to RUS 79ø and 9710 to WeEUR 259ø at the following times: 9710 100 259ø, Mon-Sat 0900-1200 Lithuanian R 1 in Lith. Exc 0930-1000 R Vilnius in En, 1000-1030 R Vilnius in Lith. Sun only 0900-1330 Lithuanian R 1/2 in Lith. Exc 0930-1000 R Vilnius in En, 1000-1030 R Vilnius in Lith. 1200-1300 Universelles Leben (Wuerzburg Germany) in Ge, 1300-1330 in En.

9550 50 79ø, Mon-Fri 1330-1435: Lithuanian R 2 in Lith. Exc. 1355-1425 in Ru, 1425-1435 in Belaru. Sat/Sun only 1330-1425 Lithuanian R 2 in Lith. Exc. 1345-1415 in Ru, 1415-1425 in Belaru. Read the full story on RNW website: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/lithuania.html

(Bernd Trutenau-LTU, also via DXW, May 19)

Vilnius on 9555, I found it on May 12 active. Started with "Russian" type tones at 1320 then stn opened 1330 with fanfare - ID? - then nx read by man adn woman in Lith., commentary and talk followed nx. At 1355 clear ID was given in Ru and woman read nx, which was followed by commentary and talk. At 1425 another language which seemed to be announced as Belorussian sce began. Nx was read by man until 1435 when tx closed. At 1430 VoA made a 'crash' start on 9555, presumably Udorn Thani in Pashto. (Noel Green-UK, May 13)

On May 7, 1999, Lithuanian R expanded its presence on SW by adding about an addit hour of bcs daily via Sitkunai SW stn in CeLTU. The freq is 9555 which hasn't been used by the Sitkunai stn for more than decade. Earlier this year, the stn installed a new 100 kW Continental 418F tx which replaced the old 50 kW unit on Apr 1, 1999. The new tx is now used for all SW bcs originating from Sitkunai.

Bcsts before 1330 are beamed at 259 degr via newly installed curtain antenna HR2/2/.5 (which is non-reversable), but after 1330 they are routed to the old curtain antenna HR4/4/.5 and beamed at 79 degr (the old antenna is reversable and can operate both at 79 and 259 degr). Because the old antenna can not handle 100 kW of power, the output power of the tx is reduced to 50 kW after 1330.

Bcsts of Lithuanian R starting at 1330 are meant for listeners in RUS and BLR, therefore the majority of the programming is not in Lith lang. (Sigitas Zilionis, direct and via Anker Petersen DXW, May 17-19)

You can send comments about this progr to the following e-mail addr: [email protected]

About the reception quality here at St.Petersburg: there was too poor reception with portable rx in use only yesterday at 1415-1430 because of strong local electric noise (at 1430 blocked by VoA Pashto via Udon Thani) at my home. But Alexey Osipov told me that he heard the signal with almost good level till 1430 with Russian made old tube rx in use... (Mikhail Timofeyev thanks to Alexey Osipov/St.Petersburg DX Club, May 19) [at least for the progr to nearby Belarus I would recommend a pure fountain antenna on 49 mb instead, ed]

MW STATIONS some new MW txs are heard here, but not listed in WRTH '99: 1116 Hungary, at 2200 in Hungarian, //MW 540. 1215 Iran, home sce 2, 1628 vernac, 1630 in Persian. 1431 Ireland, 2230 nx in En & Irish. 1467 Saudi Arabia, main progr, 2235, //1440 1521. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, May 13)

NETH ANTILLES On May 12 at 2230-2325, RVI Brussels outlet to NoAM via Bonaire relay on 15565 350 degr, suffered an audio mixture signal of R Nederland txion in Sp on 11715 to SoAM 170 degr. (RVI Golfgids, May 22)

21590, R Netherlands; 1950-2025*, "Weekend" En magazine px w/features on skinheads in Prague, Turkish Army & roller bladers in Paris; IS back @2027 w/IDs in Dutch. This freq isn't on their latest sked. (Harold Frodge-MI, via Cumbre Dx, May 15)

Yes, daily RNW En sce to WeAF [and big signal in EUR too, in our night], missed in their printed schedule: 2030-2125 WeAF BON 15315 080 degr, BON 17605 080 degr 2030-2125 Ce&WeAF BON 21590 090 degr

NORWAY New MW stn Roest 675 kHz, in Norwegian and En. When co-channel Lopik Dutch stn blank out with MW frame aerial: 2230 UTC SINPO 33543. (Martin Elbe-D, DD9MW, May 21)

PAKISTAN Freq changes of R Pakistan 1515-1545 Ru NF 7260 + tx noise, (x6060) //9330 (45554). 1800-1845 Ar NF 15735 (45544) (x9330) //11635 (43433). (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

QATAR New schedule of QBS Qatar Al Khaisah in Ar fr Apr 24: 0245-0706 11785, 0707-1306 17880, 1307-1706 11820, 1707-2130 17895. all //9570v. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

ROMANIA R Bucharest announced on its nx sce in Romanian, that longwave Bod near Brasov 153 kHz ceased service recently, because the main power bill wasn't paid. (Erich Bergmann-D, May 17)

RRI Bucharest En lang bcs has been monitored as follows: 0200-0300 NoAM 9570 11725 11740, AS 11810 17735. 0400-0500 NoAM 9570 11740, AS 11810 17735. 0600-0656 NoAM 11725 11940. 0640-0655 EUR nx sce 9625 11840 11885 15270. 0700-0800 AF 15340 17745. 1300-1400 EUR/NoAM 9690 15390 15445 17720. 1730-1756 EUR/AF 15380 17735 17865. 2100-2156 9570 11725 11840 15180. 2300- 2356 9570 11810 11830 15105. (WB, MB, Ivan Grishin and others, May)

[Moldova] R Moldova Internat via Galbeni-ROU in A99: 0200-0225 Sp 9400 LatAM, 1100-1125 Sp 11580 LatAM,.1930-1955 Sp 7520 Spain, 2100-2125 Sp 7520 Spain, 0230-0300 Ro 7520 USA & CAN, 0300-0325 En 7520 USA & CAN, 0330-0355 Ru 7520 RUS, 0400-0425 En 7520 USA & CAN, 1130-1200 Ro 11580 USA & CAN [but also WeEUR], 1800-1825 Ru 7520 RUS, 1900-1925 Fr 7520 France, 2000-2025 Fr 7520 France, 2030-2055 En 7520 UK, 2130-2155 En 7520 UK. (Yurie Moraru, director of RMI departement, via Ruben Guillermo Margenet / RI, May 20)

RRI Bucharest Spanish sce DX progr "Club de Oyentes de RRI"/"Rincon Diexista" every Sun 1800 11830, 15380; at 2200 15270, 15365; every Mon 0000 11830, 15105, 15340, 17375; at 0300 11810, 11970. (Ruben Guillermo Margenet via RI, May 21)

RUSSIA Radiostn "Atlantika" will bc for sailors and fishermen in Ru via its "personal" txs in Murmansk. The following freqs will be in use: 4429 6510 13093 17266 all usb mode. (Ozerov RUS DX via Klepov, Apr 9) Formerly, the stn was on the air 0100-0200 Wed Sat Sun, 0810-0910 Tue Wed Fri Sat, 1200-1300. (Klepov RUS-DX, Apr 9)

The VoR Moscow En bc specifically addresses its messages at NATO soldiers asking them to question their campaign. Part of their appeal to servicemen on the website reads: "Neither the NATO leaders nor President Clinton are likely to be worried if this Easter happens to be the last in your lives. They don't care if your missiles and bombs turn Easter into a nightmare and spell death for men, women and children of YUG. Use your brains" (Barraclough, British DX Club via Rodgers Apr 6)

Hi, today [17th] I received a letter from Rumen Pankov in Sofia-BUL of May 13: Bad news was four weeks ago, Pavel Mikhailov - the editor and presenter of VoR "DX Klub" DX program - my DX friend since 70s with heart attack is in hospital -- may blessing for him for his returning on the DX stage.

That's why his "DX Club" in VoRussia Russian sce is absent still for four weeks now. (ed, May 17)

RCI now is using two RUS relays, as of May 10. The schedule is 2200-2259 12075 Irkutsk Ru 100 kW, 066 degr; 2300-2325 11640 Chita Ch 250 kW, 194 degr). These are the first regularly-scheduled use of RUS relays by RCI, though some have been used for special bcs before. (Westenhaver-CAN, in Cumbre Dx, May 21)

GPR-1 Moscow schedule til Sept 4: RRossii 5905 1530-2100 100 000 5910 0100-0400 100 000 5940 1430-2100 100 240 6205 0100-0500 100 240 7440 0430-1500 100 000 9720 0430-1400 100 240 9845 1830-2100 250 310 11735 1730-2100 250 265 11980 0100-0400 250 265 12020 0100-0500 250 310 13705 0530-1800 250 310 15455 0430-0700 250 265 15590 1700-2000 500 245 17660 0730-1700 250 265

VoR Moscow 9450 2300-0200 1000 270 9450 1600-2000 250 270 9470 2300-0200 1000 265 9480 1500-2000 250 275 9710 1500-2100 250 270 9775 1700-2100 250 250 9810 2300-0200 250 275 9860 2300-0200 500 250 9865 1700-2100 500 270 11630 1500-2000 250 260 12030 1500-1900 200 250 12060 1600-1900 250 250 12065 1730-1900 200 190 12070 0000-0300 500 280 12070 1400-1700 200 190 12070 1900-1700 500 275 13615 1300-1600 500 115 15460 1200-1600 500 135 17570 1200-1600 250 100

Ibra Radio 12015 2000-2100 200 190 12020 2000-2100 250 240

VoVTN Hanoi 12030 1900-2030 200 250 12070 1700-1900 500 275

CRI Beijing 9880 2200-2300 250 275 En 12035 1830-1930 250 190 Ar

BBC London 12045 1700-1800 250 115 VOMedit Malta 12060 1900-2100 250 250 DW Cologne 15540 1600-2000 250 170

GPR-2 St.Petersburg schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 7390 1730-2000 400 215 7390 2300-0200 800 268 7440 1700-1900 400 222 9480 0000-0300 800 268 9720 1700-2100 400 268 9810 1500-2000 400 215 11985 1500-1700 400 147 12000 1600-1900 200 215 15595 1730-1800 400 147 15595 1830-1900 400 147 17580 1500-1600 400 147

RRossii 7445 1730-2100 400 147 9845 0100-0600 400 147

CRI Beijing 15595 1800-1830 400 147 Persian 17580 1600-1700 400 147 Ar

GPR-2 Kaliningrad schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 7310 1500-1900 120 245 7330 1500-1900 120 205

R Nederland 5835 2030-2130 240 (205 and 245 degr) Dutch

TCR-4 Armavir (Krasnodar) schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 7305 1500-1900 100 160 9640 1700-1900 500 190 9830 2300-0200 500 290 11675 1700-2100 500 315 12030 0000-0200 500 290 12060 2300-0200 500 260 15485 1500-2100 500 295 15535 1600-2000 250 280 17610 1300-1400 500 110

VOR/Adygejskoe R/Kabarbino-Balkarskoe R 7325 1500-1900 100 190

RRossii 9490 1530-2100 100 325 12015 0830-1500 100 105 12025 0100-0800 100 105

VoVTN Hanoi 7250 0100-0300 500 315 9830 0300-0400 500 290

DW Cologne 11705 1700-1750 200 145 15525 0800-0830 500 105 17715 1300-1600 500 190

Yekaterinburg RC schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 11745 1700-2000 200 263 11930 1700-2100 200 281 15350 1600-2000 200 263 15455 1600-2000 200 263

RRossii 7220 2100-1700 200 050

GPR-10 Irkutsk schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 9900 1000-1400 250 110 15470 1000-1100 250 110 15490 0600-0700 500 152 15490 0800-0900 500 152 15580 1200-1400 250 125 21790 0500-0900 250 152

RRossii 9655 1030-1500 100 063 9805 1900-2200 100 063 15475 2230-1000 100 063

Radio Station Tikhiy Okean, Vladivostok 10344 0715-0800 250 083 usb mode 12065 1800-1845 500 152 15490 0715-0800 500 152

BBC London 9890 2200-2300 250 125

DW Cologne 7395 1900-2100 100 083 13720 1000-1400 250 110 15470 0900-0945 250 110

RFI Paris 12025 0930-1030 500 152 12025 1100-1300 500 180 15535 2300-0100 500 180

R Nederland 13710 0930-1130 250 152

TWR 9400 1130-1600 250 227 15580 0030-0200 250 227

VoA 7150 2200-2300 250 152

GPR-11 Novosibirsk schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 11640 1130-1300 200 111 13685 1130-1230 200 111 15535 1000-1100 200 111 15550 1330-1600 500 180 17665 1000-1200 500 085

DW Cologne 9875 1430-1645 500 195 11795 2200-2400 500 085 12045 0100-0150 500 180 12055 1230-1300 500 085 13690 2200-2400 500 125 15490 1000-1400 200 111 15605 1330-1355 200 111 15610 1000-1050 200 111 17845 1000-1400 500 145

RFI Paris 12045 2200-2300 200 111 12075 1200-1300 500 125

VoA 11990 1300-1500 200 111

TCR-12 Chita schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 11845 1200-1300 500 197 12025 1400-1900 500 248

RRossii 4860 1900-1500 80 nondir

BBC London 11640 1300-1530 500 200 12055 2200-2300 500 200

Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy RC schedule til Sept 4: VoR Moscow 7340 1200-1300 100 244 9790 1200-1300 250 244 15455 0100-0300 200 064 15520 0100-0300 100 064 17630 0200-0500 250 064 17690 0100-0500 250 064 21755 0100-0300 100 064

VoVTN Hanoi 17595 0400-0500 100 064

R Nederland 5930 1330-1425 250 244 12065 0930-1125 250 244 12065 1330-1425 250 244

RVI Brussels 9865 1200-1230 250 244

Kamchatka Rybatskaya 7300 1900-2000 100 244 12050 1900-2000 100 064 [all VoR, VoVTN, KR Radio, 064 degr towards Alaska, WeCAN, WeUSA from Pacific side]

Vatican Radio 7340 1315-1345 100 244 in Japanese[!] [and direct //13765 15500]

DW Cologne 9450 1000-1050 200 263 9450 1330-1355 200 263 12000 1400-1800 100 244 12045 0000-0100 250 263

TWR 9450 1200-1300 200 263 VoA 12065 2130-2200 250 244

VoRUS relayed via SW txs of MDA, ARM and TJK. 28/03/99-30/10/99. via Moldova 7125 0000-0500 1000 310 7180 (01/08-30/10) 0000-0500 1000 310 9665 (28/03-30/07) 0000-0500 1000 295 via Armenia 9965 2300-0200 1000 258 11510 1600-1900 1000 190 15735 1930-2100 1000 258 via Tajikistan 4730 1300-1600 100 180 4940 1300-1600 100 ND 4975 1300-1600 100 ND 9945 0100-0200 1000 265 9975 1500-1900 200 235 11500 1300-1400 1000 152 17495 0700-0900 1000 117 (Nikolai Rudnev-RUS, May 10)

SERBIA Serbian radios - from time to time are on the air, the progr is consisting of half-truths and full lies. They are hostile vs. the Bulgarian minority in Eastern Serbia. I finally hope that the Air Force will stopping with the usual communist dictator (supported by ex-USSR states). On May 2nd, fr 1945 til May 3rd 1645 no any Serbian (& Vojvodinan, Kosovan) radio was on the air. Now they aired the central radio progr from Belgrade a couple of hours daily. Annt: "Radio Televizije Srbije, Radio Beograd, Radio Novi Sad, Radio Prishtina i udrozeni stanice srbije". Heard here using 684 711 1026 1062 1107 1269 1440 1485, and 7200.03. MW 549 is not on air - is bombed maybe.

In Montenegro - Crna Gora - local stations are still on the air. Annt when the central radio progr from Podgorica 882 kHz is on air: "Radio Crna Gora i obstinsko radio stanice". (combined, Rumen Pankov-BUL, Josef Gaupmann-AUT, May 13)

[Serbia non] Since Mar 27 special air craft of Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing, Commando Solo modified EC-130 Turboprop, fly on the Hungarian airspace and broadcast the NATO voice towards ex-YUG target: daily 1600-2000. FM 92.5 MHz deleted, still on air MW 1003 (10 kW), FM 102.5 and 106.4 MHz, also on TV ch 21. 1003 kHz could be heard in the Czech Rep, Vienna-AUT and Ljubljana-Slovenia also. (Josef Gaupmann and Harald Suess-AUT, May 16/19)

Just checked the R Yugoslavia website and they now omit the NoAM sce. Here is what they show: 1800-1830 6100 Ru to RUS/Moscow. 1830-1900 7230 Se to AUS. 1900-1930 7220 Sp to Spain. 1930-2000 6100 Se to EUR. 2000-2030 6100 Ge to WeEUR. 2030-2100 6185 Fr to WeEUR. 2100-2130 6185 En to WeEUR. 2130-2200 6185 Se to WeEUR. (Ivan Grishin, May 13, REVIEW OF INTERNAT BROADCASTING, via GH, May 19; Latest RYUG schedule per website May 2-Sep 5 also via Kenny British DX Club via Rogers, May 18)

SOUTH AFRICA Amateur Radio Mirror is bc Mons 1800 on 3215 via Sentech, and 7082 on amateur radio. Suns 0800 on 7082 in 40 m amateur band, also via Sentech on 9750 and 21530. On Sun the 16th of May the normal Amateur Radio Mirror International newscast by the SARL at 0800-0900 on 9750 and 21530 will be repeated at 1500 on 21530. This is because part of the progr will be to celebrate World Telecom Day.

ZS6SARL on 21530 via Sentech Meyerton, RSA. [email protected] and [email protected] Mail addr: P.O.Box 1842, Hillcrest 3650, South Africa (Klaus Koehler-D, Harald Kuhl-D, DL1ABJ, May 16)

SRI LANKA/USA Here are the actual REGISTRATIONS for the new IBB Iranawila relay on Sri Lanka Island. The project is much belated. The original test plan dates for November 1997 (!). The list given below shows up to four txs in use in parallel. The station didn't carry tests with the regular progr, except of some rare tone tests.

At present a lot of the listed transmissions are coming from different IBB sites in periode A99, like from Ekala-CLN, Biblis-D, Briech-MRC, Kavalla- GRC, Lampertheim-D, Pals-E, Poro-PHL, Tinang-PHL, Udorn Thani-THA, or Woofferton-G.

Voice of America 5955 1330-1500 KHME 073 6035 0100-0130 URDU 356 6120 1500-1600 VIET 073 7115 0100-0300 ENGL 334 7130 2200-2230 KHME 073 7130 2230-2330 VIET 073 7140 0030-0100 HIND 356 7215 1400-1800 ENGL 356 7235 0300-0430 FARS 332 7255 0400-0600 ARAB 310 7265 0200-0230 DARI 356 7275 0130-0200 PASH 356 9505 2330-0000 BURM 057 9535 1230-1330 LAO 065 9590 1600-1700 BANG 033 9595 1800-1900 TURK 310 9605 1800-2100 ARAB 299 9680 1700-1900 FARS 340 9720 1130-1230 BURM 057 11875 0800-1000 RUSS 356 15185 1330-1430 URDU 340 15205 1300-1400 RUSS 356 15245 1500-1545 UZBE 340

Radio Liberty 7155 0430-0630 PERS 332 7245 2100-0000 RUSS 356 9615 1600-1700 PERS 334 9625 2300-0000 KAZK 340 9660 0200-0400 UZBK 340 9680 1600-1700 TUKM 340 9715 0000-0100 KYRG 356 9745 0100-0200 KAZK 348 11815 0600-0800 RUSS 356 11825 1700-1800 UZBK 340 11855 1100-1200 KAZK 332 11875 1000-1100 RUSS 356 11925 1900-2000 TABA 340 15205 1100-1300 RUSS 356 15340 1500-1600 KYRG 356 15355 1200-1300 KYRG 332 15355 1300-1400 UZBK 340 15370 1400-1500 TUKM 340 (IBB via Uwe Volk, May 15)

TAJIKISTAN [CLANDESTINE from CIS to IRN] Radio Iran of Tomorrow. You may like to know that there is now a web site site www.ri-ot.com for the stn with audio. RIoT bcs every day 1700-1730 on 5830. (A.Khatarmi, via Cumbre Dx, May 21) [most likely via Dushanbe-TJK, ed]

Dem Voice of Burma in Burmese via Dushanbe-TJK: 1245-1345 NF 15600.2 //1775O DTK, 5945 A1maty. 1430-1455 NF 15605.0 //17750 DTK, 11850 KVI Norway, 5945 Almaty. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

THAILAND Or Sor (Dusit Palace) Station noted 18 May at 0330 s-on, into usual weekday morning sequence of En lang nursery rhymes and children's songs performed by Singaporean or Malaysian-sounding choir. This stn has a very eclectic taste in mx, especially compared to the usual content of Thai dom stns. The King of Thailand is well known to be a jazz enthusiast, which probably explains the large amount of jazz played. Fair on approx 6149.5, but //1332 and 104 MHz probably give useful reception over a larger radius, especially in the evening when the channel is swamped by SNG on 6150. Usual sched remains 0330-0500 and 0900-1200 Tues-Sat and 0230-0500 Sun, but occasional minor variations often noted. (Alan Davies-THA, May 22)

TURKEY TWR Ankara A99 schedule - eff 28 Mar to 31 Oct 1999. 5960 1600-0400 38E,39,40W CAK 250 Tu 5980 1600-0400 18,27,28,37 CAK 250 Tu 6070* 1530-1630 29S,30S,39N,40-43 EMR 500 Turkmen 6115 1700-1800 29,30,40-44 EMR 500 Uzb 6135 1800-1900 27,28,37N CAK 500 Bosn 6195 1600-1700 29S,30S,39N,40,42 EMR 500 Georg 7170 2030-2130 30S,39-41,49S,54,55,58-60 EMR 500 En 7190 2200-2300 17,18,27,28W,37N EMR 500 En 7220* 1700-2200 37,38,46 EMR 500 Tu 7270 0300-0400 38E,39,40W EMR 500 En 7275 0630-0730 28 EMR 500 Bulg 9445 2100-0700 3SE,4,5,7-11,18,27,28 CAK 500 Tu 9460 0700-2100 27,28 CAK 500 Tu 9460 2100-0700 8,9,11-14,18,27,28W,37 CAK 500 Tu 9515 1400-1600 38E,39,40W CAK 250 Ar 9525 1630-1700 28 EMR 500 Mac 9555 0100-0200 29E,30,40,41N,42 EMR 500 Uzb 9555* 1130-1230 28S EMR 500 Bulg 9560 1600-2200 29S,30S,39-41,49,54,55,58-60 EMR 500 Tu 9615* 1730-1830 18,27,28 EMR 500 USB mode Ge 9630* 1030-1130 38NE,39N,40W CAK 250 Gr 9655* 1430-1530 28S EMR 250 Gr 9670 1930-2030 37,38,46 CAK 500 Fr 9675 1700-1800 19-26,29,30 CAK 500 Ru 9700 1930-2030 27,28 EMR 500 Fr 11655 0300-0400 2-5,6E,7,9,10,18,27,28W EMR 500 En 11660* 0400-0900 29SE,39NE,40W EMR 500 Tu 11680 0730-0800 28 EMR 500 Alb 11690 0800-0830 28 EMR 500 Mac 11690 0830-0900 28 EMR 500 Bosn 11765* 1830-1930 18S,27,28W,37N EMR 500 USB mode En 11795 0830-0930 39NE,40NW CAK 250 Pe 11795 1800-1900 29,30 EMR 500 Tatar 11835 0700-0830 29SE,30SW,40NW CAK 250 Azerb 11860 1330-1400 28 EMR 250 Se 11860 1500-1600 29S,30-32,39N,40,42-44 EMR 500 Kaz 11865 1400-1500 29S,30S,39N,40,41N EMR 500 Azerb 11885* 2200-0400 3-11,18,27,28 EMR 500 Tu 11910 0400-0700 18,27,28 CAK 250 Tu 11910 1130-1230 28 CAK 250 Alb 11910 1900-2200 18,27,28 EMR 500 USB mode Tu 11930 0930-1030 28E CAK 250 Rum 11930 1030-1130 28S CAK 500 Gr 11955 0400-1600 38E,39,40W,48N CAK 250 Tu 11960 1600-1700 29,30,39E,40-44 CAK 500 Kyrgyz 13640 2200-2300 5S,8E,9,11N,27,28W EMR 500 En 13655 1300-1600 39-41,49,54,55,58N,59N EMR 500 Tu 13665* 1930-2030 27,28W EMR 500 USB mode Fr 13695 1830-1930 27,28W EMR 500 En 13760 0900-1100 38E,39N EMR 500 Ar 13790 1730-1830 18S,27,28W EMR 500 Ge 15190 1400-1600 37,38,46N EMR 500 Ar 15210* 1230-1400 29SE,39E,40 CAK 250 Pe 15325 2200-0100 40E,41E,49,54,55,58N,59 EMR 500 Tu 15350 0700-1600 18,27,28,37N CAK 500 Tu 15385 1600-1630 27,28 EMR 500 Cr 15405* 0930-1030 27,28 EMR 500 Hu 15430* 1000-1500 38,39W Fris only CAK 250 Tu 15450 1300-1400 19-22,29,30 EMR 500 Ru 15475* 1330-1430 27,28 EMR 500 till 140899 Ge 17560* 1230-1330 30,39E,40,41,49,54,55,58N EMR 500 En 17600 0400-0900 29SE,39E,40 EMR 500 Tu 17690* 0400-0700 30,40,42 EMR 500 Tu 17705* 0700-0830 29SE,40 EMR 500 Azerb 17705* 0830-0930 40,41N EMR 250 P 17715 1200-1300 40,41N,49,54,55 EMR 500 Ur 17760* 1330-1430 27,28 EMR 500 fr 150899 Ge 17830 1230-1330 18,27,28W EMR 500 En 17860 0900-1100 37,38W EMR 500 Ar 21550 1100-1200 30-32,40N,42-44,64 EMR 500 Ch 21715 0100-0300 40E,41E,49,54,58N EMR 500 Tu 21715 0300-0400 40E,41E,49,54W,58N EMR 500 En 21715 0400-1000 40E,41S,54,58N EMR 500 Tu 21715 1000-1300 40,41,49,54,55,58N,59N EMR 500 Tu

* marked freqs are not functional now, due to temporary tx problems. (TRT via Benno Klink DG1EA, May 19)

UK LIVE COVERAGE OF WORLD CUP CRICKET. Avid and prospective cricket fans can hear daily live commentary of this year's World Cup cricket matches by clicking on the BBC Cricket web site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cricket

Play begins daily at 0945 and continues to completion around 1830. In addition, listeners able to hear the BBC Asia/PAC stream on SW can hear live commentary 0945-1700 daily on 15310, and from 1700 to close of play on 9510.

R Australia is supplying live commentary of Australia's matches on SW as well. Here on the east coast of NoAM, 11650 has been audible from just after local sunrise until around 1330 fade out. And R New Zealand Internat is also offering live commentary of New Zealand's matches. Coverage on those dates will start at 0935 on 9700 and continue after 1100 on 6100. The latter freq will have considerable difficulty propagating to the east coast of NoAM. It could be audible in western sections of North America until about an hour after local sunrise.

The schedule of matches, which continue into mid-June, is available from the BBC Cricket web site listed above. (John Figliozzi-USA, via EDXP, May 16)

Merlin Network One remaining schedule. Some nights ago I noted a unusual silence on 3985 and dropped MNO a line. The answer was: "Unfortunately we no longer use 3985 for as many hours as before. The current schedule reads, here are these remains:

EUR 0400-0500 3985, 0500-0600 6045, 0600-0700 6110, 0700-1600 9915, 1600- 2000 6175, 2000-2200 17695(via Sackville-CAN back to EUR). NoAM 2200-2400 11985, 0000-0200 9600, 0200-0400 9795.

...and that's all, undoubtly a rather heavy cut-back and actually no good sign. For EUR listeners the shut down of 3985 (away from these insignificant single hour in the morning) is a severe loss, as it cuts off all nightshift workers and other night-birds without a satellite dish, who looks for other mx selections than these dull AC mash across the FM band. (Kai Ludwig, May 20; Kenny via Rodgers)

RNW Skelton 6015 kHz test, 0700-0757, signal was S=5 +40 dB. BUT //Flevo outlet on 5955 is a little bit stronger: S=5 +50 dB. In same category S=5 +50 dB also DW 6075, BR 6085 at same time. S=5 +40 dB: Skelton 6015, Juelich Voice of Hope 5975, Juelich TWR 6045, DW 6140, ORF 6155. (WB, May 19)

RNW Skelton 5975 kHz test, 0500-0557, signal was S=5 +30 dB. BUT //Flevo outlet on 5955 is a little bit stronger: S=5 +50 dB. In same signal strength category at this time S=5 +50 dB, also ORF Vienna Moosbrunn 6155. For comparison, all same strength category S=5 +30 dBalso BBC Rampisham+Skelton 6195. S=5 +10 dB: Hoerby-SWE 6065, BR Munich Ismaning 6085, DW 6075, DLR Britz 6005.

These outlets via Merlin Skelton were operating between May 17th and 21th only as a test. (WB, Kai Ludwig-D, May 19-21)

BBC in Alb addit progrs now on the air Mon-Fri: 1000-1030 (Sat/Sun -1015) 13745, 15555, 1767O 1315-1345 (Sat/Sun -1330) 11680, 13670, 15115. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

USA [CUBA non] I checked R Marti's new 21500 via Delano around 2150 May 15 - and Cuban bubble jamming had already attacked it. However, due to larger skip distances on higher bands, I expect Cuba cannot skywave-jam this; should have used this band long ago, but IBB can only be dragged kicking and screaming into 13 mb ! I'm not really complaining, since that means less QRM to other stns. (Glenn Hauser, OK, May 19)

Apparently AFRTS is now actively promoting its SW sces for the first time in many years, and even promises to verify them. In the FAQ on the new AFN Balkans Website (the home page title of which says 'welcome to AFN Bavaria') I found this:

Are any AFN/AFRTS radio signals available on the SW bands?

Yes! Freqs of all worldwide AFN stns are listed at the Internet site: http://www.afrts.osd.mil

The U.S. Navy also provides the AFRTS radio signals on High Frequency Upper Side Band from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Stn, Key West, Florida at 12689.5 and at Puerto Rico too at 6458.5. This is a temporary condition intended for ships at sea. However, we have had RR's from FIN to JPN indicating good reception. All RR's and requests for QSL cards (reception verification reply cards) will be answered by Navy Media Center, at e-mail [email protected] http://www.afneurope.army.mil/Balkans/ (Andy Sennitt via DXW, May 19)

Some changes of VoA: 1300-1315 Alb 17895 (x17740) //9625, 11680, 15205; 1400-1500 Alb 17610 (x17740) //11680, 21515; 2200-2215 Serb 7235, 9760, (x7140, x9575) //11820. (PanIview-BUL, May 17)

UZBEKISTAN On July 1st, 1999 R Tashkent celebrates its 5th anniversary of German lang bcs. At present on the air 1935-2030 5025 5035 5060 9540 9545(x7105) 11905.

R Tashkent addr via Uzbek Airline bureau in Frankfurt-GER changed to another location just around the corner: Radio Tashkent, c/o Uzbekistan Airways, Kaiserstr. 7, D-60311 Frankfurt Main, Germany. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, May 16)

E-mail addr for Radio Tashkent (Radio Tashkent International, Ozbekiston, 700049 Toshkent shahar, Xorazm Kochasi 47, Ozbekiston Teleradio Kompaniyasi, Respublika Radiosi) [email protected] (WWDXC DXM Swopan Chakroborty, Calcutta, India, Apr 30)

9430 TWR India via Tashkent. NF now in use for morning pxs to Indian sub- continent, *0000-0030, 200 kW 130 degr. (Dobrowski via EDXP, May 17)

VATICAN CITY Schedule of R Vaticana to all continents via http://www.wrn.org/vatican-radio/freq/freq.htm (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, May 20) [see also under Russia]

VIETNAM 12019.55 VoVTN 1022 talk by man in En. 1025 Vocal tune by female, chant like. 1028 Female gives song title (not understood), ID and goodbye to open carrier. *1030 in language with clear ID to female talk. //9840. Poor signal, in the clear. (Dan Ziolkowski-WI, Cumbre Dx, May 17) [see also under Russia]

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ALBANIA TWR in Persian via Cerrik-ALB 1635-1750 on v9474.93 & 12089.94, 100 kW, 90 degr.

R Tirana monitoring: Alb 1400-1700 5985.07 & 7269.71 both 50 kW nondir; 1900-2200 7295 100 kW 350 degr; 2300-0500 6100 & 7269.92, both via Cerrik 100 305. Ital 1800-1830 6109.96 via Shijak 100 nondir, 7239.92 via Cerrik nondir. En 1915-1930 9509.9 via Cerrik 100 305; but //7180 covered by Woofferton. 2130-2200 7160.14 via Shijak 100 310, & 9634.84 Cerrik 100 305. Turk 2000-2015 6115 via Shijak, 100 120. (WB, May 29)

BELGIUM 1512 Starting from Jun 13, RVI extend the MW Wolvertem schedule in Dutch to WeEUR by one hour. RVI "Dak van de wereld" in Dutch of 1800 and 2000 UTC, repeat at 2300-2400 UTC, 300 kW. [RNW Wolvertem relay in English in between at 2030-2230.]

0600-0700 N WAV 200 137 13740 SE Europe (x13745) 1600-1630 N WAV 200 197 13740 SW Europe (x13745) 1300-1600 Suns only Sport WAV 200 197 13740 SW EUR (x13745)

In July during the bicycle race "Tour de France" special live coverage commentaries in Dutch at 1300-1600 UTC on 9925 and 13740. (RVI Golfgids Paul Brems-BEL, May 27)

CLANDESTINE "VOPeople of Kurdistan" noted today at 1655 on 7000.8 in Ar with freq mentiones of Kurdistan. This is not the Sudanese stn at this time. (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

COLOMBIA [CLANDESTINE] R Patria Libre, on May 20, RCN and Caracol networks, and the daily "El Tiempo" newspaper, quoted a Colombian army press release saying that the army had busted an ELN "communications center," including tx, studio equipment, tapes, coax cable, antenna wire and batteries, in the vicinity of the little town of Santa Ana, located in a mountainous area of NoWe Antioquia Dept, in an area controlled during the past 15 years by the Carlos Alirio Buitrago guerilla front, which, in mid- May, was forced to disperse following an army onslaught. One day later, AFP in another cable, identified the tx site as that of R Patria Libre, the ELN radio stn which was set up by the Spanish priest Manuel Perez, who was the organization's leader at that time. (Henrik Klemetz-SWE, via NU, May 23)

COSTA RICA 5954.1 R Casino is the stn here, reactivated after a couple of years off the air. As before, tx coming on shortly after 1000 but running just an open carrier until 1033. 1033, presumed anthem heard then straight into an ID by man in Sp and other opening annts. Weak and still in the QRM sandwich between R Cultural on 5955 and WYFR on 5950. Casino played mostly vocal mx, but once again fading to just a carrier shortly before 1100. I wonder if this is still their rated 1 kW tx that first came on in 1945? Very nice to have them back, I thought they were gone for good. (Hans Johnson via Cumbre Dx, May 15) [though not propagating towards EUR that time, ed]

ECUADOR [see the freq difference] HCJB Quito frequ changes from Tue June 8th: En sce to EUR 0700-0900 11950 replaced by 11735, 500 kW, 34 degr. Ru 0330-0430 & Ge 0430-0500 11960 replaced by 11865, 500 kW, 34 degr. [to avoid VoA Kavalla on 11965 250 kW, 95 degr] (HCJB DXPL, May 29; Ruediger Klaue, Director German Lang, May 28)

HCJB will be changing two of our freqs to EUR as of 8 June 1999. I would appreciate your help in "getting the word out" to our valuable listening friends in EUR. The changes are as follows En 0700-0900, we will begin using 11730 kHz as of 8 June 1999.

Dropping 11950 Ru and Ge 0330-0500, we will begin using 11865 as of 8 June 1999, dropping 11960. Although the original freqs were providing a good signal into EUR, apparently our long path was causing interference in the SoPAC and we feel it is best if we change these freq. (Allen Graham, Producer, The DX Partyline HCJB, May 30)

ERITREA VOBMasses of Eritria. Interesting freq usage with 7100 being so close to ETH on 7110, and 7170.5 next to ETH 7165 ! Two different sces at this time of 1655 UTC. 7100 gives fair to good reception. 7170 spoilt here by VOA s-on at 1658 on 7170 co-ch itself. 7170 carried at 1650 a talk by a lady in what sounded very much like En. It is hard sometimes to tell with the heavy accent, but the amnesics was more a European type than Afro. (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

ETHIOPIA R Ethiopia home sce doing nicely on 5990.45 (Malawi just a heterodyne on 5993.4) at 1700 Sunday when VoA is not on this freq Sats/Suns. //7110 and 9704.1 Amharic progrs. Best of the three is 9704.1.(Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

7110 R Ethiopia, *0259-0306 May 30, IS followed by opening ID and anmts by man, short mx bridge and another man with nx. Poor-fair. (D'Angelo-PA in NU, May 30)

FINLAND R Finland commenced a NEW sce to SoAS 0000-0015 15250 & 11995 in Finnish, daily, as of May 24. (Craig Tyson-AUS, via EDXP May 24)

GEORGIA v9489.76 Abkhaz R Sukhumi played a Russian folk song, mens chorus, most likely R Rossii relay at 0535. (WB, May 30)

GERMANY/ALBANIA 1593 VoA/RFE MW Holzkirchen now non-stop 1700-0330. Also extended txion schedule on VoA/RFE via ALB-Durres MW 1458 kHz. (Uwe Volk-D, May 25)

PLC-Versuche in Herrenberg. Auf der DARC-Homepage gibt es die ersten Ergebnisse ueber die PLC-Versuche in Herrenberg als Real-Audio-File. Als Beispiel wurde die Frequenz 4927 kHz eingestellt und Demodulation in SSB, AM und FM demonstriert. Ueber Geraetschaften und Antennen wurden keine Aussagen gemacht, aber im naechsten Heft der CQ DL soll ein Artikel darueber stehen.

Hoert Euch die Stoerungen unter http://www.darc.de

(links steht die Menue-Leiste, Navigation zu CQ DL, Download der .ra File beim Zugriffszaehler) am besten selbst an. Fazit: DX [Amateurfunk und SWL auf Kurzwelle] scheint so unmoeglich zu werden. (Jan Balzer-D, May 27)

GUINEA R Conakry, QSL rcvd in 29 days for $2 and a postcard, v/s Monsieur Boubacar Yacine Diallo, Directeur General/ORTG. Addr on envelope: Ministere de la Communication, Republique de Guinee, Direction General de L'Office de Radiodiffusion Television Guineee (ORTG), B.P. 391, Conakry, Guinea, Tel. +224 451408, FAX +224 451408. (Enzo Gehrig-Spain via NU, May 23)

INDIA Most dom SW outlets carry World Cup Cricket. 22nd May 1600-1700+, 4960 Port Blair, 4920 Chennai, 5040 Jeypore, all carrying Cricket ball by ball commentaries. This will continue for the next one month. (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

INDONESIA 11760.05, RRI Jakarta-Cimanggis, May 21, 1458-1513, female speaker in BI with mention of Indonesia Barat followed in the same minute by SCI. At 1500 female speaker with "warta berita" with news about Timor, YUG and ISR, reports from Bali and Surabaya until 1512: then "Love Ambon" with choir, at 1513 ID as"Inilah Radio Republik Indonesia national programa satu", freq annt. Best in USB to avoid QRM R Finland on 11755. (van Rooy-HOL, via DXW May 25)

ITALY 21520 - 21535 - 21710 RAI 1938-1942 Filler mx to 1942, then OMs with live commentary from the European Cup Winners Cup Final (soccer) from Birmingham-UK. These freqs are normally used Suns only to relay live soccer from Italy, signing off at 1700. So both the day and the time are unusual here. Look for a 'repeat performance' of this tx on Wed May 26, when the European Champions Cup Final is played in Barcelona. (John Grimley ON-CAN, via Cumbre, May 19)

JAPAN 21610 - 17825 R Japan 0300-0400 En nx 0311, Hello from Tokyo with Mari Kishi and John Hamlin. Email at hello@intl.nhk.or.jp

Trivia - I met Maria Kishi, John Hamlin and Murray Johnson when I was in Tokyo last Feb 1999 at the NHK Broadcast Centre. I was given a brief tour of R Japan and NHK World TV by Ms Kishi. This was arranged before arriving in Tokyo by using the email addr above. Acc to Ms Kishi, R Japan, "had just gone digital". This had caused much upheaval as the producers had been deskilled and had to adapt to get the new equipment to do its tricks, while maintaining transparency to the listeners. They were running the digital technology in parallel with the analog technology. It is in with the DAT recorders and the phasing out of the reel to reel analogue recorders. Mari Kishi is much shorter than she sounds. John Hamlin is more Canadian than he sounds. Murray Johnson is an Australian. He is the English Section's Sumo wrestling expert. (Lindsay Allen-AUS, via Cumbre, May 23)

KAZAKHSTAN Kazak R SW sked is confirmed at 2300-0300 4545 & 12115, 0300- 1300 4545, and 1300-1700 4545 & 12115. (BBC Monitoring, via NU, May 23)

Kazakh R 1st and 2nd progrs have merged and the sce has been renamed Kazakhstan RV (radioveshchaniye - Radio Broadcasting). Carries progrs in Ge, Uighur, Korean, Azeri, Turkish and Tatar, buth these are unconfirmed. 2300-1700 on MW & FM. ("Communication" British DX Club, June '99)

6180 R Almaty, 0200 May 27, IS, NA, brief ID by man, then talks in vernac. Q'ran chants afterwords. Very good signal on clear channel. (Nigro-Uruguay, via NU, May 30)

MACEDONIA On May 26th DW signed a contract with MRD - Makedonska Radiodifuzija. Deutsche Welle (DW) radio progrs to Macedonia target and neighbouring states will be transmitted via 1.000 kW MW tx Skopje I in Macedonia on 810 kHz. At present the 100 kW tx Skopje II on 1314 kHz is in use by DW already. The MW audience is much wider in the Balkan states in comparision with SW. Weekly audience of foreign radio stns: DW 12 %, BBC 9 %, VoA 1 %. Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian progrs will be fed via satellite HOTBIRD 5. Macedonian is rebroadcast by 25 progr stations world wide amongst few in Australia, Albanian by further 15 stations. (DW via Kai Ludwig-D, May 28)

Aid for Macedonia. On the occasion of the anniversary of 30 years DW Macedonian language programme, DW announced financial help in future to modernize the MRD MW tx center at Skopje in Ovce Pole. (Martina Bertram DW, May 27)

MEXICO MEXICAN NATIONAL DX MEETING: Once again this year, WRMI is handling the internat publicity for the Fifth National Meeting of Mexican DXers, which will take place Jul 30-Aug 2 in the mountain city of Orizaba, in Veracruz State -- a few hours by bus or car west of the port city of Veracruz. This will be an excellent opportunity for DXers and SW listeners from throughout MEX and other countries to get together and discuss their hobby with others.

Most of the Mexican DXers speak at least a little En, and they warmly welcome their DXing colleagues from NoAM, EUR, LatAM and anywhere else to attend their annual meeting. Last year, SW bcs and listeners from several countries attended the Mexican National DX Meeting, and many of the seminars were bilingual. For complete details, you can write, call or fax us at WRMI, or you can e-mail us at: wrmi@compuserve.com (Jeff White-USA, Mar 20)

MOLDOVA 7125 VoRUS 0425 female and male talks on computer problems and its solving (esp. on Millenium); 0428 jingle and mx. Some people at VoR say tx site is Kishinev/Chisinau, some people say it is Grigoriopol. Verified an e-mail-RR within 9d by card and progr schedule. v/s not given but tx site stated as Kishinev (Chisinau). (Elsebusch-D, May 26)

VoR uses the Grigoriopol site, which is located inside Pridnestrovye, the area of Moldova which has been annexed by Russian seperatists. It is the only SWBC site in Moldova, which explains why Radio Moldova Internat is obliged to use a tx in Romania ! [see item under Romania too]

The Russians often register tx sites under the name of a nearby (or even not so nearby) city. This also applies to the HFCC registrations. I asked Mr. Titov, Chief of the Main Centre for the Control of Broadcasting Networks, about this a few years ago, and he confirmed that many of the listed sites are not where the lists say they are !

The locations mentioned in WRTH have been researched by Olle Alm and a team of Russian DXers over many years, involving much travel and studying of maps. While they are still not 100% accurate, they are probably considerably more so than the lists used by the people who verify the QSLs!

Sites used to relay foreign bcs such as Radio Netherlands [and BBC, VoA/RL/IBB, DW, TWR, RFI, RVI, CRI, RVAT, MLT] are generally correct as the client stations usually inspect the facilities before contracts are signed. (Andy Sennitt-HOL, via Cumbre, May 28)

NEPAL On the night of the Nepalese General Election, (I missed the date unfortunately,20th May??) not written in the log book, but R.Nepal transmitted all night without closing at 1715 and was even noted on 5005.4 at 0000 UTC with very good signals. I didn't hear the // 7164 although it should have been operational. So if anyone heard NPL all night on 5005.4 then I can confirm it ! (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES TWR Bonaire. The new "Trans World Radio" magazine says that TWR Bonaire will turn off their 500 kW 800 kHz tx later this year. It will be replaced by a 100 kW solid-state tx (manufacturer unknown, but Continental likely, see item below) and a 4-tower directional array, to cover primary target areas of Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and the Amazon region. The reason is to reduce operating costs, as the 500-kW rig uses LOTS of electricity. (Glen Kippel KF6LXI, via HCDX, May 25) [... and difficult to get spare parts and valves, ed]

In summer the new 100 kW MW stn will go on the air at Bonaire by Trans World Radio - TWR. The new tx build by Canadian company, Nautel NA-100, will replace an old 500 kW tx, operating at present on 800 kHz since 1964. This was the first not European based facility by TWR, founded 1954. In the European and Mediterranean area first own tx gone on the air in the year 1959 via Tangier (Morocco), then 1960 via R Monte Carlo (Monaco). But not only the tx will be replaced at Bonaire, the antenna equipment will be too. Four antennas 130 meters in height will replace the old five 186 meters antennas. Targets of MW bcs from Bonaire are Ce- and So-AM, Caribbean and Cuba with three langs: En, Sp and Po, further plans are bcs in Creole lang. (Lothar Ruehl-D, ERF/TRF press release, Apr 8)

NEW ZEALAND 17675 RNZI Rangitaiki, May 24, 2132-2137, En nx by male speaker, ID: "From Radio New Zealand International, this is mailbag", female speaker reading letters. (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, May 25) Mailbag is every 2nd week Mon 2135, Wed 1735, Thu 0305, and Fri 1930.

PAKISTAN Radio Pakistan's A-99 [respectively Z-99] schedule fr May 3-Sep 4th has now arrived and is: Hindi 0100-0130 7155 9740 Urdu WS 0100-0215 15485 17895 WS to So&SoEaAS Bangla 0130-0200 11930 15455 Assami 0200-0230 11930 15455 English 0230-0245 15485 17660K 17895 slow speed nx bulletin to So&SoEaAS to India 9640. Gujrati 0330-0400 17555 (API-1 100 kW 233 degr) to EaAF Urdu 0500-0700 15175.19 (API-5 250 kW 282 degr) 17555.04 (API-1 100 kW 282 degr) 21460.13 (API-6 250 kW 252 degr) WS to Gulf & ME. [17555 badly QRM by KOL Israel French 0500-0517 only, ed]

Urdu/E 0800-1120 15530.18 (API-5 250 kW 313 degr) 0800-1103 Urdu WS 17835.10 (API-6 250 kW 313 degr) 1105-1120 slow speed nx.

Indonesian 0900-0930 15405 17535K to INS MLA BRU TZA. Tamil 1000-1030 15464.96 17535K to SoIND and S-L. Hindi 1100-1200 9510 11995.04 15465K. Chinese 1200-1230 11895 15465 to CHN. Bangla 1200-1230 11975 15625 to BGD/IND. Persian 1300-1345 11935 15625 to IRN.

Urdu 1330-1530 11570 15465.19 17510.88K WS to Gulf & ME. Turki 1430-1500 6075 7260(both via 270 degr) to AFG and CeAS. Russian 1500-1530 7260 9330(both via 313 degr) to CIS and RUS. English 1600-1630 11570 15465.19 17510K WS to Gulf & ME. 15320 17720.03 to Ea&SoEaAF. 1615-1630 E slow speed nx bulletin.

Turkish 1700-1730 11600.04 13580 (x9770) to TUR. Urdu 1700-1900 11570 15335.19 WS to WeEUR. Arabic 1800-1845 11640(x11635 to avoid TWR) 15735 to ME & NoAF. Urdu 1800-1900 11600.04 Islamabad progr to Gulf & ME. French 1930-2000 11570 to WeEUR, 15335 to ME/NoWeAF. K = Karachi 50 kW, others Islamabad 100/250 kW. [no trace of Ru 9330, and Tu 13580, ed]

Home sces API1 100 kW 6060 1350-1358 Balti nx API2 100 kW 7200 regional news 0330-0430 Balti 0445-0545 Sheena 7195 home sce fr Islamabad: 1300 Urdu nx; 1304-1316, 1323-1600 Pushto, regional news 1316-1323 Pushto 7310 1615-1700 Aaina (Islamabad progr) API3 100 kW 5045 home sce fr Islamabad, 1420-1428 Sheena nx. API4 100 kW 7110 0600 Urdu nx 0604-0800 Rawalpindi progr incl. 0700-0704 Punjabi nx, 0800-1115 Islamabad progr incl. Sindhi nx 0800-0804, Pushto nx 0900-0904, Urdu nx 1000-1004, E nx at 1100-1104. Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushto are regional nx.

Link services from Islamabad API-7 10 kW API7 10 kW 6070 0200-0215 Urdu nx comm, 0215-0225 Urdu editorials. 0230-0245 link for slow speed nx bulletin. 0300-0310 En nx. 9645 0400-0404 Urdu nx, 0500-0504 E nx, 0600-0604 Urdu. 11835 0900-0930 Indonesian link, 1000-1004 Urdu nx 1100-1104 E nx 9645 1200-1210 Urdu nx & comm, 1230-1300 Kashmiri, 1300-1302 Urdu nx headlines. 1400-1414 E nx & commercial nx, 1500 Urdu nx & comm 1515-1530 Urdu newsreel. 7230 1600-1630 E nx comm, link for ME slow speed bulletin, 1700-1715 Urdu nx/Pasmanzar.

API8 100 kW Rawalpindi III, 68 degr. 4790 0045-0435(Fri -0345), 1230-1330, 1345-1815. 7265 0800-1215 (Fri 0930-1215)

Regional sces Quetta 10 5025 0045-0404(Fri-0345) & 1200-1805. 7155 0600-1145(Fri 0400-0820 & 1000-1145). Peshawar 10 6140 1100-1400. (Noel Green-UK, May 24)

During World Cup Cricket in the UK, API-6 250 kW is being used on 17835 to bc commentaries from approx. 1000 to approx. 1930, depending upon state of play. This appears to be meant for Gulf & ME area. So, 17835, 11895 & 11570 are inactive when commentaries are bc.

Heard today on 17835.10 with separate Kricket progr at 0930. [33333 due to Romania? on 17840]. (WB, May 30)

ROMANIA [MOLDOVA] I just checked out Radio Moldova Internat from 1100 on 11580. The power-grid hum problem was meanwhile again fixed, so the program modulation is no longer buried but it is still all but no pleasant listening due to strong non-linear distortion, seemingly already on the feeder line. Also the tx still have it's other diseases, showing in a background hiss and repeated trips. (Kai Ludwig-D, May 29)

RRI Bucharest - currently 2100-2157 on 9570 11810(x11725) 11840 and 15180. At 1300-1357 En on 15445, not 15405. (Michael Barraclough-UK, May 29; WB)

RUSSIA VOA Irkutsk noted 7150 with Mandarin *2200-2300*, but severe co- channel QRM AIR GOS up to that stn s-off 2245*. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, May 22)

Angarsk - The new "Radio Sed'moy Etazh" (the Seventh Floor Radio) stn began bcing recently on freq 1242, which was earlier used by Angara Radio. The stn addr: Angarsk-27, P.O.Box 1131, phone (395 18) 6-17-34, e-mail: [email protected]. Test program was aired on Mar 24, 1999. (Fyodor Brazhnikov in MIDXB N 110, May 23)

9825 & 12065, R/S Tikhiy Okean, *1800 May 12, 9825 SINPO 44444, 12065 SINPO 33433, in Ru; IS and opening anmt. (Oguma Hironao-Japan via Vostochnoe Radio/JA-DX) 21820 R/S Tikhiy Okean, *0132 Apr 25, SINPO 45444, in Ru; IS, opening ID as "Rabotaet Radiostantsiya Tikhiy Okean. Vy slushaeche programmu ." "Vash priyomnik nastroen na volnu radiostantsii Tikhogo Okeana." (Oguma Hironao-JPN via Vostochnoe Radio/JA-DX, via NU, May 30)

SERBIA Both Belgrade HF txs 684 and 7200 were off from May 25th, from approx. 1000 UTC time of NATO's bomb attack on the tx centre. (HCJB DXPL, May 29)

Radio Beograd on MW 684 severely damaged. Yesterday afternoon [May 25th], the main MW TX site of R Beograd south of Belgrade suffered heavy damage and has been off the air since. No stand-in txion has been noted yet. As a precise damage report is very difficult to come by, I don't know whether the mast itself was damaged or just the TX bulding, or both. (Igor F. Pifat YT1MM, [email protected] via HCDX, May 26)

A very short piece of tv report from Belgrade tx site was shown in German tv, a tx building and a large [in diameter] professional dish antenna, both heavily damaged. On the other hand, the nearby antenna tower mast was [looked like] undamaged. (WB, May 29)

[May 27th] MW 684 kHz seems to be silent for two days now, no main power anymore for the Continental 2000 kW unit ? That's quite obvious, as a loss of main power in big parts of Serbia was reported; amongst other things a big coal plant near Belgrade (at Obrenovac, if I remember correct) was destroyed.

On May 24th at 2300 UTC MW 684 was on air (as ever //7200.03, performing Serbian folk mx), although evidently running just a fraction of 2000 kWs. But yesterday tonight both 684 and 7200 was silent, while R Yugoslavia continued to bc. At least 7200 is still off air right now (May 26th at 1410 UTC). (Kai Ludwig-D, May 26)

On May 28th from 2200 UTC, RT Srbje local stns on MW 1440, 981 and 1062 has been observed near Nuremberg-Germany. (Erich Bergmann-D, May 28)

Tx Stubline in Serbia has been destroyed. SW 7200, MW 684, 1107 and 1269 are off the air at present. On May 28th, MW 1503 kHz was still on, the latter freq is used by two tx sites: 1 x Studio B from Belgrade and 1 x Radio Podgorica in Ulcinj - on Montenegro state. (Harald Suess-AUT, May 29)

The Radio Yugoslavia Website seems to have settled down at http://62.229.99.175 following reports from Washington that the US Govt has no intention of applying its Yugoslav trade embargo to the Internet. New since Sunday is a page of photos from Tanjug showing, amongst other things, internal and external devastation to the RTS building following the NATO attack. (Andy Sennitt-HOL, in DXW, May 25)

That's the situation right now: The RTS main MW tx at Belgrade on 684 is off air since the main power facilities was getting their "smack", and Stubline on 7200 too. R YUG is on the air acc their limited schedule, see BC-DX #412.

About the freedom of speech: At the request of Germany and under NATO pressure, the EUTELSAT satellite organization decided to kick RTS off from it's bird on 10ø East. This decision still needs to be confirmed by the companies behind EUTELSAT, but these are mainly the state-owned telecom organizations of various NATO members, including Deutsche Telekom-Germany. RTS is a popular source for pictures at foreign TV stns (at least the German ones), maybe that's the primary motive for particular guys to force it off satellite. (Kai Ludwig-D, May 24)

SOUTH AFRICA This is the A99 SW schedule from Meyerton Radio Station at Bloemendal. Last updated on the 22 May 1999 at 0500 UTC.

UTC UTC Freq. Antenna Power from to in khz bearing in kw Studio Remarks 0000-0530 3320 290 100 RSG SABC Afrikaans sce 0244-0330 6050 20 500 BBC En Swahili 0258-0325 6150 19 250 CHAF Swahili 0258-0355 5955 20 500 CHAF En Fr 0300-0600 3255 Omni 100 BBC-W 0300-0600 6190 15 100 BBC-W 0300-0400 7135 19 250 RFI Fr 0300-0330 6015 5 250 AWR En 0330-0400 7215 5 250 TWR 0330-0400 9690 32 250 AWR Somali 0358-0430 9610 5 250 BBC Swahili 0358-0455 5955 20 500 CHAF En Fr 0400-0430 9690 19 250 AWR Swahili 0428-0455 9525 5 250 CHAF Fr 0429-0500 6135 32 250 BBC Por 0429-0500 7205 335 500 BBC Por 0430-0500 3390 76 100 BBC Por 0430-0455 3345 76 100 CHAF Por 0458-0555 11720 335 500 CHAF En Por 0500-0530 5960 275 100 AWR 0500-0530 6015 5 100 AWR 0530-0800 7185 290 100 RSG 0558-0655 15215 320 500 CHAF En Por

0600-1700 6190 Omni 100 BBC-W 0600-1700 11940 15 100 BBC-W 0600-0615 11735 320 500 TWR 0659-0730 17695 350 500 BBC Fr 0800-0900 9750 Omni 100 SARL Sundays only 0800-1630 9650 290 100 RSG 0800-0900 21530 19 250 SARL Sundays only

1258-1455 11900 5 100 CHAF Sat&Sun only En 1258-1455 21530 328 250 CHAF Sat&Sun only En 1258-1455 17860 19 250 CHAF Sat&Sun only En 1458-1525 15150 19 250 CHAF Swah 1458-1555 17770 20 500 CHAF En Fr 1527-1557 7265 19 250 TWR 1540-1555 9500 19 250 TWR Fri & Sun only 1558-1655 11900 19 250 CHAF Swah Fr 1558-1655 6150 20 500 CHAF En Por 1600-1700 9535 19 250 TWR 1628-1655 3345 76 100 CHAF Por 1630-0530 3320 290 100 RSG 1630-1700 15620 32 250 AWR Somali 1630-1700 11705 5 250 TWR 1640-1655 9650 20 500 TWR 1657-1712 9650 5 500 TWR 1658-1755 17860 335 500 CHAF En Por 1659-1900 15420 19 250 BBC En 1700-2200 3255 Omni 100 BBC-W 1700-2200 6190 15 100 BBC-W 1700-1800 12130 19 250 AWR Swah En 1712-1728 9650 5 500 TWR Suns only 1730-1800 9670 19 250 TWR 1729-1745 9520 335 500 BBC Por 1729-1745 6070 32 500 BBC Por 1730-1745 3390 76 100 BBC Por 1745-1800 7230 20 500 BBC Swahili 1758-1855 17870 320 500 CHAF En Fr

1800-1815 9670 19 250 TWR Sat only 1800-1830 9670 19 250 TWR Mon-Fri 1800-1900 3215 Omni 100 SARL Mons only 1800-1830 5960 275 100 AWR 1800-1830 6100 5 100 AWR 1800-1830 7230 76 250 BBC Fr 1835-2005 9700 315 250 TWR Mon,Sat&Sun to 2015 1830-2030 9510 330 500 TWR Sat only until 2045 1830-1930 9800 335 500 TWR 1900-2000 11560 330 250 WRN 1900-2000 6205 328 250 WRN 2000-2030 9745 32 500 AWR Fr 2005-2020 9695 315 250 TWR Mon+Sat+Sun only 2030-2045 9510 330 500 TWR Sat only 2030-2100 3390 76 100 BBC 2030-2100 7205 328 250 BBC Por http://home.mweb.co.za/an/andre46/ (Comments to Andre du Toit. [email protected] May 23)

SARL - Addrs for South African Radio League. Apparently there is some confusion about the addr for RR's to the SARL - South African Radio League. I confirmed the following addrs this morning with SARL:

Snail-mail reports go to: P.O.Box 1842, Hillcrest 3650, Rep of South Africa

E-mail reports can be sent to: [email protected] (Kathy Otto Sentech (Pty) Ltd South Africa, May 23)

TAJIKISTAN 5800 Tajik Radio, 1745-1810 Apr 24, SINPO 33333, Tajik lang, local mx. Nx at 1800. (Oguma Hironao-JPN, via Vostochnoe Radio/JA-DX, via NU, May 30) [parallel also on summer freq 9905, WB]

R Tajikistan, V/S Mr. Ramazonov Nasrullo, Foreign Relations, En reply seeking US$5 to cover the cost of reply; IRCs not exchangeable there. (Panzeri-Italy in Play-DX, via NU, May 30)

THAILAND VOA Udorn noted 7190 NF Mandarin *2200-2300*, and in Indonesian 7225. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, May 22)

UAE Dubai started to use 11725 since Sun the 23rd 0200 onwards, causing severe interference to VoA Udorn to SoAS. Also on 11725 is Romania in En 0200 onwards to 0255, again co-ch to VoA. Very poor freq coordination I must say ! ! (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

11978 UAE Radio & TV, Dubai, around 1700-2121 May 27; strong. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, via NU May 30)

UK Merlin Network One made its last 24 hour SW bc on Friday. It is now on the air Mon-Fri 1600-1700 on 6175 via Skelton. (Michael Barraclough-UK, May 29)

USA R Marti is now heard on air 0600 on [not print out] 11660, 9805 [under RFI], and 7405, all jammed, and jamming also audible on 6030. They are off on Monday mornings UTC, but the Cuban jammers are still heard on air ! (Noel Green, May 25) Jammers heard too on Sun May 30.

Latest R Marti schedule til Oct '99, all progrs are bc on MW 1180 50/100 kW tx at Marathon Key, Florida. SW freqs are from the VoA txing stns at Greenville-NC, and Delano-CA.

R Marti is off-air Mons 0300-0900 for tx maintenance[?]. All bcs are in Sp. Daily 0000-0300 1180 6030 7365 11660 15330 Tue-Sun 0300-0400 1180 6030 7365 7405 11660 Tue-Sun 0400-0700 1180 6030 7405 9805 11660 Tue-Sun 0700-0900 1180 5890 6030 7405 9805 Daily 0900-1200 1180 5890 6030 9565 9805 Daily 1200-1300 1180 5890 6030 7405 9565 9805 13820 Daily 1300-1400 1180 7405 9565 13630 13820 Daily 1400-1700 1180 11815 11930 13630 13820 Daily 1700-2100 1180 9825 11930 13630 13820 Daily 2100-2200 1180 9825 11930 13820 21500 Daily 2200-2300 1180 6030 11930 13820 15330 Daily 2300-2400 1180 6030 7405 13820 15330 ("Communication" British DX Club, June '99)

UZBEKISTAN 9430 TWR India, Tashkent, 0000-0030 Indian langs. The UZB outlets are intriguing, being subject to deep fading, very similar to our summer Midday Asian propagation mode. Possibly, this is long-path txion, via EUR, the NoAtlantic, NoAM, with signals arriving here from the north east.

9375 9530 R Tashkent *0100-0300+, with En 0100-0130. 9715 R Tashkent 0200-0300, with Pashto 0200-0230. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, May 25)

VATICAN CITY A99 Vatican Radio - EUR 1st progr 0230 ALBANIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 0245 SLOVENIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 0300 CROATIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 0315 CZECH 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880 0330 SLOVAK 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880 0345 HUNGARIAN 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880 0400 POLISH 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880 7250-B 0420 GERMAN 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880 7250-B 0440 FRENCH 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 7250-MN 0500 ENGLISH 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 7250-MN 0520 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 7250-B 0530 MASS IN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 7250-B 9645-MN LATIN 11740-LM 15595-E 0600 IT/FR/EN Mo-Sa 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 7250-B 9645-MN 11740-LM 15595-E 0610 ROUMANIAN LITURGY Sun 93.3 1530-CD 7250-C 9645-C 0645 ARABIC Mo-Sa 93.3 1530 5880-MN 9645-FG 11740-HI 15595-E 0730 MASS IN ITALIAN Sun 93.3 105 527 1530 7250-A 0830 ORIENTAL LITURGY Sun 93.3 1530-BC 11740-CD 15595-E 17550-D 0900 PAPAL AUDIENCE Wed 105 527 5880 1000 IT/FR/EN Mo-Sa 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 9645-MN 11740-MN 15595-E 21850-FG 1000 ANGELUS Sun 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 9645-MN 11740-MN+C 15595-E 21850-FG+CD 1015 ITALIAN Sun 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 1030 FRENCH Sat 93.3 11740-LM 1050 SPANISH Sat 93.3 11740-LM 1200 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 9645-MN 11740-MN 15595-E 21850-FG 1300 SP/PORT 93.3 1530 9645-L 11740-L 1400 GE/POLISH 93.3 1530 5880 9645-B 11740-A 1430 MUSIC exc.Fris 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 7250-A 9645-MN 1430 ITALIAN Fri 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 7250-A 9645-MN 1500 VESPERS 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 7250-A 9645-MN 1530 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 5880 7250-A 9645-MN 1600 FR/EN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880 7250-MN 9645-MN 15595-E 1630 ALBANIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 7250-D 1645 SLOVENIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 7250-B 1700 CROATIAN 93.3 1530-CD 4005 5880 7250-B 1715 HUNGARIAN 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880-B 7250-B 1730 CZECH 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880-B 7250-B 1745 SLOVAK 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880-B 7250-B 1800 POLISH 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880-B 7250-A 9645-B 1820 GERMAN 93.3 1530-AB 4005 5880-B 7250-A 9645-B 1840 ROSARY 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-NA 7250-A 9645-MN 11625-E 1900 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-NA 1920 ESPERANTO Sun 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-NA 1930 FRENCH 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-NA 7250-MN 9645-MN 1950 ENGLISH 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-NA 7250-MN 9645-MN 2010 SPANISH 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-L 7250-L 9645-L 2030 PORTUGUESE 93.3 1530 L 4005 5880-L 7250-L 9645-L 2045 ARABIC 93.3 1530 4005 5880-GH 7250-G 9645-HI 2100 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 2130 ITALIAN 93.3 105 527 1530 4005 5880-MN 2210 MUSIC 93.3 105 527 1530

A99 Vatican Radio - EUR 2nd progr 0210 ARMENIAN 7345-D 9645-D 0230 RUSSIAN 6185-B 7345-C 9645-CD 0300 UKRAINIAN 6185-C 7345-C 0320 BYELORUS 6185-B 7345-B 0340 LITHUAN 6185-B 7345-B 0400 LATVIAN 6185-B 7345-B 0420 RUMANIAN 1611 6185-CD 7345-CD 0440 BULGARIAN 1611 6185-CD 7345-CD 0500 SCANDINAV 1611 7345-A 9645-A 0615 UKRAINIAN LITURGY Sun 96.3 1611 9770-C 11740-C 1230 RUSSIAN 96.3 15595-BC 17550-BC 1550 ARMENIAN 1611 11715-D 15185-D 1610 RUSSIAN 96.3 1611 9585-C 11715-B 15185-CD 1640 UKRAINIAN 96.3 1611 9585-C 11715-C 1700 BYELORUS 96.3 1611 9585-B 11715-B 1720 LITHUANIAN 96.3 1611 9585-B 11715-B 1740 LATVIAN 96.3 1611 9585-B 11715-B 1800 RUMANIAN 96.3 1611 6185-CD 7365-CD 1820 BULGARIAN 96.3 1611 6185-CD 7365-CD 1840 ROSARY 96.3 1611 6185-CD 7250-A 1900 SCANDINAV 96.3 1611 7250-A 9645-A 1920 ESPERANTO 03/04/99 96.3 1611 7250-A 9645-A 1920 PHILIPPINE Fri 96.3 1611 2000 RUSSIAN 96.3 7305-BC 9585-BC

A99 Vatican Radio - Africa progr 0240 FRENCH 103.8 9660-F 0310 ENGLISH 103.8 9660-F 0340 SWAHILI 103.8 9660-F 11625-F 0400 ARABIC 96.3 9645-E 11715-E 0405 AMHARIC/TIGR 103.8 9660-F 11625-F 0430 FRENCH 103.8 9660-G 11625-FG 0500 ENGLISH 103.8 9660-G 11625-FG 15570-F 0530 MASS IN LATIN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 0530 PORTUGUESE 103.8 11625-HI 13765-G 15570-FG 0600 IT/FR/EN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 0600 FRENCH 103.8 11625-HI 13765-H 15570-G 0630 ENGLISH 103.8 11625-HI 13765-H 15570-G 0645 ARABIC Mo-Sa 93.3 1530 9645-FG 11740-HI 15595-E 1000 IT/FR/EN Mo-Sa 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 21850-FG 1000 ANGELUS Sun 93.3 1530 15595-E 21850-FG+CD 1130 MASS IN EN Fri 103.8 15595-DE 17550-D 1200 ITALIAN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 21850-FG 1530 ARABIC 96.3 11625-E 15595-E 1550 MASS IN EN Sat 103.8 12065 13765-D 15500-D 1610 SWAHILI exc.Sat 103.8 15570-F 17550-F 1620 SOMALI Sat 103.8 15570-F 17550-F 1635 AMHARIC/TIGR 103.8 15570-F 17550-F 1700 FRENCH 103.8 15570-F 17550-FG 1730 ENGLISH 103.8 13765-G 15570-F 17550-FG 1800 PORTUGUESE 103.8 13765-I 15570-FG 17550-G 1840 ROSARY 103.8 1530 1611 9660-G 11625-E+HI 13765-I 1900 SPANISH Sat 103.8 9660-G 11625-HI 2000 ENGLISH 103.8 9660-G 11625-H 13765-HI 2030 FRENCH 103.8 9660-G 11625-H 13765-HI 2045 ARABIC 93.3 1530 7250-G 9645-HI

A99 Vatican Radio - Americas progr 0030 PORTUGUESE 96.3 7305-I 9605-IL 0100 SPANISH 96.3 7305-I 9605-IL 11910-L 0145 SPANISH 96.3 7305-I 9605-IL 11910-L 0230 FRENCH 96.3 7305-M 9605-MN 0250 ENGLISH 96.3 7305-M 9605-MN 0315 SPANISH 96.3 7305-M 9605-MN 1100 PORTUGUESE Mo-Sa 96.3 21850-I 1130 SPANISH Mo-Sa 96.3 21850-I

A99 Vatican Radio - Asia, Australia & New Zealand progr 0040 HINDI TAMIL MALAY ENGLISH 103.8 7335-D 9650-D Change to sked is that since 3rd May CVA to SoAS replaced 7335 0040-0200 with 12055. Excellent signals here in SoAS. (Victor G.Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, May 22)

0400 ARABIC 96.3 9645-E 11715-E 0530 MASS IN LATIN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 0600 IT/FR/EN Mo-Sa 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 0645 ARABIC Mo-Sa 93.3 1530 15595-E 1000 IT/FR/EN Mo-Sa 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 1000 ANGELUS Sun 93.3 1530 15595-E 21850-CD 1130 MASS IN EN Fri 103.8 15595-DE 17550-D 1200 ITALIAN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 1230 CHINESE exc.Sat 103.8 6020 15500-CD 17630-CD 1230 MASS IN CHINESE Sat 103.8 6020 15500-CD 17630-CD 1315 JAPANESE 103.8 7340 13765-BC 15500-BC [7340 1315-1345 via Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy relay in FE Russia, 100 kW 244 degr ] 1345 ENGLISH 103.8 15500-C 17550-C 1405 VIETNAMESE 103.8 13765-D 15500-D 1450 HINDI TAMIL MALAY ENGLISH 103.8 12065 13765-D 15500-D 1530 ARABIC 96.3 11625-E 15595-E 1550 MASS IN EN Sat 103.8 12065 13765-D 15500-D 1600 FR/EN 93.3 105 1530 15595-E 1840 ROSARY 93.3 105 1530 11625-E 2130 JAPANESE 103.8 9585-BC 11830-BC 2200 CHINESE 103.8 7305-C 9600-C 11830-CD 2245 ENGLISH 103.8 9600-C+D11830-C+D 2315 VIETNAMESE 103.8 7305-D 9600-D (R Vaticana web page, schedule created 19 Mar 99)

VIETNAM 5035 R Dai Tieng Noi, May 19, 2202, Hanoi Hmong Sce, female speaker in Hmong followed at 2204 by Hmong songs by woman. Heard for first time //6165, under Chad at 2210 with male followed by more Hmong vocals at 2212 and on 5035 mixing with Brazil. 5035 = 23333; 6165 = 22332.

9729.6 VoVTN Hanoi, May 21, 1315, Female speaker in Fr with mentions of VTN and Hanoi after short piano tune. //stronger 13740.05. Hetting 9730 SLBC Colombo. 9729.6 = 34333; 13740.05 = 44444. (van Rooy-HOL, via DXW May 25)

SHORTWAVE LISTENERS CLUB SAAR Pf. 1230, D-66585 Merchweiler (Saar), Germany

DAS 26. INTERNATIONALE SWLCS-DX-CAMP, DAS LETZTE IN DIESEM JAHRTAUSEND, FINDET IN DER ZEIT VOM 30. JULI BIS EINSCHLIESSLICH 1. AUGUST 1999 IN MERCHWEILER IM HERZEN DES SAARLANDES STATT.

An diesen drei Tagen werden auf dem Gelaende in der Dorfstrasse 13, in einem Zeltlager die Moeglichkeiten des weltweiten Rundfunkempfanges vorgefuehrt. Hier kann man, sowohl mit einfachsten Radios, als auch mit modernsten Empfaengern, Rundfunksendungen aus nahezu allen Laendern dieser Erde empfangen. Ungefaehr 50 Laender strahlen auch Programme in deutscher Sprache aus, die oftmals ohne groesseren Aufwand hier zu hoeren sind.

Dieses letzte SWLCS-DX-CAMP in diesem Jahrtausend bietet noch eine ganze Menge mehr, so z.B. Radio- und TV-Satellitenempfang - digital und analog . Computer- Funkfernschreiben . Fax auf Kurzwelle . Wettermeldungen per Funk und Computer . METEOSAT-Direktempfang . Tropenbandempfang . Free Radio - Inforamtionszelt . Empfaengerausstellung - auch Oldies . CB-Funk . Packet- Radio . QSL-Karten-, Diplom- und Wimpelschau . SWLCS-Clubservice . Diplomabteilung des SWLCS . Tonbandring des SWLCS . Informationsmaterial der internationalen Rundfunkdienste . Newcomer-Betreuung . Tombola . umfangreiche Antennenanlage

Am Samstag, dem 31. Juli 1999 findet um 2000h Ortszeit auf dem DX- Campgelaende eine Mitgliederversammlung des ERSTEN HOERERKLUB VON RADIO SLOWAKEI INTERNATIONAL statt.

Auch die SWLCS-CB-Sonderstation "Radio Mike Null" (RM0) ist an den drei DX- Camp-Tagen "on the air". Saemtliche Verbindungen werden mit einer attraktiven Sonder-Qsl-Karte bestaetigt. Auf Wunsch erfolgt auch eine Einweisung von CB-Funkmobilen ueber RM0 auf Kanal 30 (27.305 kHz in FM). Natuerlich gibt es auch in diesem Jahr eine schoene Teilnehmerurkunde.

Uebernachten ist kein Problem - entweder kann in einem der Zelte oder in einer der nahegelegenen Pensionen bzw. Hotels die Nacht (Naechte) verbracht werden. Selbstverstaendlich kann man sein eigenes Zelt mitbringen; kostenlose Stellplaetze sind genuegend vorhanden. Natuerlich ist auch fuer das leibliche Wohl auf dem Gelaende gesorgt.

Wir moechten mit unserem nunmehr 26. Internationalen DX-Camp ganz besonders die bereits bestehenden Kontakte unter den Kurzwellenhoerern foerdern und vertiefen, die Bevoelkerung auf dieses schoene Hobby aufmerksam machen und nicht zuletzt die hervorragende Zusammenarbeit mit den Rundfunkstationen im In-und Ausland verdeutlichen. Jedermann ist herzlichst eingeladen.

Also - Treffpunkt am 30., 31. Juli und 1. August 1999 beim 26. Internationalen DX-Camp, dem letzten Camp des SWLCS-Kurzwellenhoererklub Saar in diesem Jahrtausend in MERCHWEILER, IM HERZEN DES SAARLANDES !

E-Mail Adresse von Peter Hell: [email protected]

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BC-DX 414 07 Jun 1999 ______

AFGHANISTAN 7070v (7085 alt.), Takhar R, it bcs in support of the anti- Taleban Northern Alliance led by Ahmad Shah Masud. It was controlled by Taleban forces Aug 9-Oct 17, 1998 when it IDed as R Voice of Shari'ah of Takhar Provc. Prior to Aug 9 it bc in support of Borhanoddin Rabbani, the former president of AFG, who was ousted from Kabul by Taleban forces in late Sep 1996. Daily in Da/Pa 1300-1415, 0130-0245 (repeat of previous afternoon bc). (BBC Monitoring, via NU, Jun 7)

ALBANIA R Tirana monitoring: Alb 1400-1700 5985.07 & 7269.71 both 50 kW nondir; 1900-2200 7295 100 kW 350 degr; 0300-0800 6100 & 7269.92, both via Cerrik 100 305. 0800-1300 9584.92 Cerrik 100 310. 1300-1700 Albanian off the air. (PanIview-BUL, Jun 5) Ital 1800-1830 6109.96 via Shijak 100 nondir, 7239.92 via Cerrik nondir. En 1915-1930 9509.93 via Cerrik 100 305, badly co-ch TWR Meyerton-RSA.; But //7180 covered by VoA Woofferton 300 kW 105 degr in Kosovian Albanian. 2130-2200 7160.14 via Shijak 100 310, & 9634.84 Cerrik 100 305. Greek 1830-1845 6109.93 via Shijak 100 non-dir. Turk 2000-2015 6115 via Shijak, 100 120; //7155.16 via Cerrik, 50 non-dir. (WB, Jun 1)

IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA MW Durres 1395 500 kW. 0330-0400 Serb, 0430-0500 Croa 330 degr. VoA MW Durres 1458 500 kW 0530-0600 Serb 338 degr. VoA MW Durres 1458 500 kW 1430-1445 & 1830-1900 Alban 030 degr. VoA MW Durres 1458 500 kW 1600-1700 S-Cr 338 degr. (IBB schedule)

ARMENIA IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA Kamo 12025 500 kW 100 degr. 1400-1500 Tibetan. (IBB schedule)

BELGIUM 1512 *ONLY* on Jun 13th, RVI extend the MW Wolvertem schedule in Dutch to WeEUR by one hour. RVI "Dak van de wereld" in Dutch of 1800 and 2000 UTC, repeat at 2230-2330 UTC, 300 kW. [RNW Wolvertem relay in English in between at 2030-2230.]

0600-0700 N WAV 200 137 13740 SE Europe (x13745) 1600-1630 N WAV 200 197 13740 SW Europe (x13745) 1300-1600 Suns only Sport WAV 200 197 13740 SW EUR (x13745)

On July *3rd to 25th*, during the bicycle race "Tour de France" special live coverage commentaries in Dutch at 1300-1600 UTC on 9925 and 13740. (RVI Golfgids Paul Brems-BEL, May 27/Jun 1)

Sorry Wolfgang, the extension on 1512 kHz at 2230-2330 UTC is *ONLY* on 13th June 1999 because of the (European and national) elections ! (Paul Brems-BEL, Jun 1)

BHUTAN BBS was received with good signal and Malaysia co-channel on 5030 in En at 1315: nx, reports; UN Calling Asia; mx progr. (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Irkutsk, EaRUS, May 27)

BULGARIA IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 RFE MW Vidin 1224 2200-0330 S-Cr 500 kW 205 degr. (IBB schedule)

New telephone no. of R Bulgaria German sce (Bd. Dragan Zankov 4, BG-1040 Sofia, Bulgaria) +359 - 2 - 98524 - 660. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 3)

CANADA/INDONESIA I spoke with the CBC's freq manager's secretary about 15150 at 1900-2100, and told her how RCI was clashing with the VoINS. She told me she would look into this problem and speak to Mr. Hendro Martono, the director of the English sce, VOI.

She had no intentions of moving to a different freq, but I indeed told her that they are also bcing to AS and AF at that same time. (Gordon Hein, Jr., Alcester SD, May 17, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) [15150 CBC via Woofferton-UK relay, 1900-2200. Not via Skelton as registered, ed]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP 9900 Radio MINURCA. We are now back on this freq with 1 kW of power. (Smith, via Cumbre, May 31)

CHAD Big signal from Ndjamena 6165 2130-2205* with long NAnthem at s-off. (Bob Padula-AUS, May 30)

CHILE Voz Cristiana, Santiago: annts at 2115 gave 21550 6070 11745 17680 as being in use, May-29 (Nozaki-JPN via EDXP, May 31) Extremely good signals here in Melbourne on NF 6070 in period 0600-0800+, May-31. (Bob Padula-AUS, via EDXP, May 31)

CUBA CRI confirms Cuba freq. I (finally!) received a response from the CRI Beijing engineering dept, for an email inquiry I sent about 1 week ago, asking about the relay frequs that have been reported by various DX'ers.

"Dear Maryanne Kehoe, The two freqs are testing via Cuba, we hope you send comments on the reception and programmings. Sincerely, English Sce". (Maryanne Kehoe-USA, via Cumbre May 26)

CRI relay at 2300 on 5990 is still intermittent, missing entirely some days and sometimes having mixing problems when they are on. (Ivan Grishin, Ont., May 25, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 3)

CYPRUS 17720 BBC tested from Zyyi-CYP end of May for a replacement of 15285 in Pashto at 0745-0945 ON FRI ONLY. (Alok Das Gupta-IND, via DXW, Jun 2)

GEORGIA Re new stn in Georgia (in BC-DX 412): If this is real, the first word of the street name in the addr should be Shota. Shota Rustaveli and the national epic of Georgia go together. The name of the epic usually comes out as "The wearer of the tiger's skin," or something with the same meaning. (Campbell-UK, in NU, May 30)

A strange radio called itself "Radio Khara" in a language like Georgian or Abkhaz or similar is on the air Mon & Thu only 1600-1632 on 4875, [Dusheti tx registered here]. Nx, playing western pop mx. Mailing addr is given: "Shona Rustaveli Prospect" in (presumed) Tbilisi. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, May 13)

GERMANY Grand Collecting Convention and Radio Market on MW 801 & SW 6085 tx site [Munich] Ismaning of the Bayerische Rundfunk [and VoA 1197 & ex AFN Munich 1106].

On the occassion of the 50th anniversary of the Bayerische Rundfunk, and 20 years of GFGFe.V. - Club of the Friends of Historical Radio Technique -, the convention, market and sightseeing view will include

* Sunday June 13, 1999

* 1000-1400 LT Radio Market - historical antique radios, shellac records and spare parts. * 1130-1530 LT Sightseeing program.

* Special Radio progr of historical recordings on local MW tx 585 kHz, * to be heard on the tx site only.

* Lecture report. Construction LORENZ company 100 kW MW tx Ismaning in 1938/1939.

* Lecture report. Start of FM radio in Germany 50 years ago at Ismaning tx site.

* Sightseeing program. LORENZ company 100 kW MW tx Ismaning of 1938/1939.

* Sightseeing program. TESLA Prague company 100 kW SW tx Ismaning of 1942.

[used for VoA/RIAS Berlin relays between 1945 and the mid Eighties. Especially for RIAS 6005 kHz outlet true north to cover the ex-GDR at 0325-1540, and VoA 75 mb 3980 outlet at 1600-2400, ed]

* Sightseeing program. First FM broadcasting tx in Germany of Rhode&Schwarz company

* Sightseeing program. Most modern transistorized 100 kW MW tx Ismaning.

* Sightseeing program. DAB tx, Digital Audio Broadcasting.

* Popular Bavarian Beer Tent and local restaurants.

Information, description, route map, hotel rooms etc. on internet page http://home.t-online.de/home/br.ochsenkopf/

Address: Senderanlage Ismaning (tx site), BR HA Senderbetrieb, Senderstrasse 57 D-85737 Ismaning, Germany. phone: +49 89 96 00-215 (from Germany 089-96 00-215).

Route by car: take the A9 / E45 super highway Munich-Nuremberg and vv, to exit no. 71, at Garching Sued, 14 kms north of Munich.

Follow national road B471 to Ismaning Nord, then take B388 towards Moosinning/Erding, but even after 9 and a half kilometers at Zengermoos leave the B388 rightwards in direction of Brennermuehle and straight to the BR tx site tall towers. (thanks to a tip of Christoph Ratzer-AUT, OE2CRM, Jun 3; and DARC CQ-DL June, page 478)

Programmhinweise auf Sendungen des DLF Koeln und DLR Berlin: 04 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 Befreiung von Auschwitz. 04 Jun 1715 DLF Kakao, eine suedamerikanische Versuchung. 05 Jun 0705 DLF Versenkung Fluechtlingsschiff 'Wilhelm Gustloff'. 07 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Gruppe Ulbricht landet in Berlin. 08 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Selbstmord Hitlers. 08 Jun 1715 DLF Cuba - Kreolen, Mestizen und anderen Anderen. 09 Jun 1705 DLR Tagebuecher Victor Klemperer, 3. Teil. 10 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Parteineugruendungen in der SBZ. 11 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Die Potsdamer Konferenz. 12 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess Nuernberg. 14 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Gruendung der SED. 14 Jun 1235 DLR Munitionssucher in der Nordsee in den 50er Jahren. 15 Jun 0705 DLF 1945 - Demontagepolitik in Deutschland. 15 Jun 1715 DLF 24 Stunden Teheran. 16 Jun 1905 DLF Leipziger Kabarettlandschaft. 17 Jun 1705 DLR So liebte ich den verhassten Feind. 18 Jun 1810 DLF Tourismus - Japaner in Deutschland. 21 Jun 0250 & 1010 DLR Buna Patent fuer IG Farben. 23 Jun 0250 & 1010 DLR 1954 - Miss Europa Christel Schaack. 23 Jun 0705 DLF 1948 - Gruendung des NWDR Hamburg. 24 Jun 0705 DLF 1948 - Hunger in Deutschland. 25 Jun 1705 DLR Timbuktu - La Mysterieuse. 26 Jun 0705 DLF 1948 - Beginn der Berliner Blockade. 26 Jun 1305-1500 DLR Live aus KoeWu. Wiege des deutschen Rundfunks. 28 Jun 1205 DLR Mexikanische Hassliebeslieder. 29 Jun 1105 DLR Selbstmord - Spaetaussiedler in Lahr. (in UTC; DLF/DLR June 1999)

IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999. RFE MW Munich Ismaning 1197 300 kW 115 degr. 1600-1700 & 2200-0330 S-Cr.

VoA MW Munich Ismaning 1197 150 kW non-dir. 0700-1500 En.

VoA MW Munich Ismaning 1197 300 kW 065 degr. 0330-0400 & 1900-1930 Czec, 0400-0415, 1700-1730, 1945-2000 Slvk. 0415-0430, 0500-0700, 1800-1900 & 1930-1945 En. 2000-2200 Poli.

VoA MW Munich Ismaning 1197 300 kW 115 degr. 0430-0500 & 1730-1800, 1500-1530 Bosn Mo-Fr, 1530-1600 En.

RFE MW Holzkirchen 1593 150 kW non-dir. 1700-1930, 2000-2100, 2130-2200 S-Cr.

VoA MW Holzkirchen 1593 150 kW non-dir. 1930-2000 & 2100-2130 Serb. (IBB schedule)

DTK Juelich broadcasts. HAM / The Voice of Hope in En and Indian langs extended broadcasts to SoAS: 1330-1630 15715 100 kW 090 degr. Radio Europe from Luxembourg, Suns only 1400-1600 5975 (45544). (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

GREECE V of GRC at 0000-0350 to NoAM is on 12105 (x15630 Athens 100 kW 323 degr), but still //11645, 9420, 7450. (Joe Hanlon, PA, June 1, WORLD OF RADIO 991, Jun 3)

HUNGARY R Budapest in German at 1930 replaced 7170 by 3975, //6025. (TWR ERF DX Mix, May 8)

German lang txions on MW Pecs 1350 at 1605 UTC. "Sie hoeren Radio Fuenfkirchen...". Observed at Wolfsburg on the following freqs, all Pecs progr in German: 873, 1116, 1188 und 1350. (Martin Elbe-D, DD9MW, Dec 12, 1998; correspondence Jun 7; comments by ed)

[873 is registered for Pecs a n d Budapest Lakihegy both 20 kW. Radio Fuenfkirchen/Pecs on 1350 10 kW. In WRTH '99 page 457 the following more Hungarian MW stn listed 540, 810, 873, 1188, 1251, 1350, 1485, 1602.]

INDIA AIR WS in En to AUS/NZL now on 15020 at 1000-1100 (x15050 x15040). (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

INDONESIA 11760 RRI Jakarta, Cimanggis. Local pops until 1400, then ID by female as "RRI Programa Nasional Satu Jakarta" and "Sandiwara Radio" (radio play). //4777.1 & 9565. (Yamada Jembatan DX May 26)

11860 RRI Jakarta 2159-2202, IS followed by ID and nx read by a male speaker in BI. (Antonello Napolitano-I, via Cumbre May 21)

11760 RRI, with nxreel-style progr from 1030 tune-in May 25, fair till Cuba carrier blot at 1038. National progr, //to, but delayed slightly from, the stronger 15125 channel.

15149.85 VoINS, 1857 May 24 with closing annt in Sp, and a complete "Love Ambon" to 1900 when German progr started. (Ward-ONT, via NU, May 31)

IRAN v15117.36 off freq Zahedan at 1200-1300 in Italian, //15084.19 Kamalabad, and new 17495 Sirjan. (WB, Jun 4)

ITALY Voice of Mediterranean txion on Suns via Santa Palombara-Italy 11770 in En retimed to 0800-0900 (x0930). (Edwin Southwell-UK, in DSWCI SWN June)

New Sunday schedule of VoM Valetta-MLT: 0700 It, 0800 En, 0900 Maltese, 1000 Fr, 1100-1200 German, on usual 11770, and //via UNID site 9815 (55555). (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

JAPAN On the occassion of 64th anniversary of NHK R Japan an hour long live bcast is arranged between 0700-0800 on 11890 15590 kHz in BENGALI on 4th June, HINDI on 5th June and URDU on 6th June. In Bengali live b'cast will be aired from Calcutta. (Alok Das Gupta-IND, Jun 1)

KOREA Rep. of 7550 RKI Seoul 0900-0930 Ko, s-on, ID, nx. Very strong signal, audio has some hum in it as usual. Very strong spurs (with good, clear audio) heard every 50 kHz: 7400, 7450, 7500, 7600, 7650, 7700... Weaker spurs with more distorted audio heard on 7425, 7475, 7525, 7575, 7625, 7675, etc. (Sonny Ashimori-JPN, via Cumbre May 31)

KUWAIT IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA MW Kuwait 1548 600 kW 2200-0030, 0100-0300 En 323 degr. 0030-0100 SpecEn 323. 2100-2200 SpecEn 080. 0300-0400, 1700-1900 Pers 016. 0400-0600, 1900-2100 Ar 323. 1400-1700 En 080 (IBB schedule)

LATVIA IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 Radio Liberty MW Riga 576 0300-0400, 1500-1630, 1900-2030 450 kW non-dir Belorussian 0300-0400 576 6065 7295 9635 9750 1500-1630 576 7295 9610 11725 15565 1900-2030 576 6105 9535 9750 11865 (IBB schedule)

MACEDONIA [Kosovo-Serbia] Radio 21: An independent Albanian-lang stn, R 21, plans to bc from a refugee camp near Skopje, Macedonia. They were a web-only stn operating from Pristina. They were raided just before the NATO bombing started, and the staff fled. They have uploaded some audio to their website at http://www.radio21.net and they are now fund raising for equipment that will permit them to commence bcing from a mobile studio at the refugee camp. Projected start date is Jun 16 with a special global bc on FM, satellite, the internet "and maybe SW." (RNMN) Presumably would be a relay via someone else's SW xmtr. (Jerry Berg-NY, in NU, May 31)

MALAYSIA R Malaysia Sarawak was heard on 5030 with fair signal after Bhutan signed off at 1400. There were nx in local lang, followed by mx progr with western and local pops at 1408, also jingles & IDs as "Radio Malaysia Sarawak/Radio Malaysia Kuching/RTM". (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Irkutsk, EaRUS, May 27)

NEW ZEALAND ZLXA: Will be issuing a special QSL commemorating the increase of 1602 MW from 1 to 2.5 kW on June 19, and are seeking rpts for listening before and after that date. [Not sure if QSL is for rpts on 1602 only--JB]

They now have a website: http://www.radioreading.org/rrs.htm (Clark-NZ via RNMN)

Sked given on website [which I have converted to UTC from NZ time, which is UTC+12]: 3935, 24 hrs; 7290 2000-1000 Mon-Fri, 2000-0500 Sat and 0130-0600 Sun; and 5960, when in use, same times as 7290. (Jerry Berg-NY, in NU, May 31)

NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA Agingan Point, Saipan (xKHBI), 100 kW 190 degr. 9355 1100-1300 En 240 degr INS 9355 1300-1400 En 285 SoAS 11660 0900-1000 Ru 340 RUS 11660 1000-1100 En 310 CHN 13820 1800-1900 En 300 SoAS 15665 0900-1100 En 300 CHN (IBB schedule)

RFA via KHBI 17615, Mandarin 0615-0630, reg 0300-0700. (Bob Padula-AUS, via EDXP, May 31)

VoA Tinian Isl, near Saipan, 500 kW. 9545 1200-1300 Ch 303 degr CHN 9545 1300-1400 Ko 325 KRE/KOR 11765 1300-1400 Ch 303 CHN 11775 0800-1000 En 325 EaAS 13610 0800-1000 En 280 EaAS 13610 1000-1100 Ch 304 CHN 13625 1300-1400 Ch 295 CHN 15150 0800-1000 En 295 EaAS 15240 1000-1300 En 317 EaAS 15260 1000-1100 Ch 303 CHN

RFA Tinian Isl, near Saipan, 500 kW. Ca 1400-1500 13670 289 2200-2300 15430 287 2200-2300 15485 292 Ma 0300-0700 13670 304 0300-0700 13760 304 0300-0700 15150 313 1500-1800 13690 309 1600-1800 11795 319 1800-2000 11955 313 1800-2200 11740 319 1800-2200 13695 309 2000-2200 11700 313 2300-0000 15430 319 Burm 0030-0130 13770 279 Khme 1200-1300 15185 279 Kor 1530-1600 11855 279 Uigh 1200-1300 9545 313 Vn 1400-1500 9635 279 2330-0030 11805 279 Lao 1100-1200 9545 280 1100-1200 15185 279 (IBB schedule)

PAKISTAN 17895.14 R Pakistan 0231 Supposed slow-speed En nx, read by woman (was actually read pretty fast for slow speed nx) until 0244. ID: "Gen Overseas Sce of R Pakistan" and short tone, then dead air at 0245. Signal strength erratic at times, but gaining strength at 0240. Noted //15485.22. (Mark Fine-USA, May 31)

PHILIPPINES VoA in Burmese on a new channel Poro-PHL 15225 (x7220) 50 kW 264 degr at 1130-1230 //11850 9720. (Alok Das Gupta-IND, Jun 1)

QATAR The latest QBS monitored scheduled is: 0243 with IS, at 0245 progr - v0703 11785. v0707-v1305 17880. v1307-v1705 11820. v1707-2130 c-down on 17895. //9570.1 also with IS 0243, fade-out approx. 0300, back again around 1800- 2130, registered 0245-2130. (Ray Merrall in DSWCI SWN June)

ROMANIA IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA MW Lugoj Boldur 756 0330-0400 & 2100-2130 Serb, 0430-0500 Croat, 400 kW 190 degr. (IBB schedule)

The Galbeni outlet of Romania Actualitati (1st Romanian home sce) on 15105 presents currently the same useless kind of signal, which used to be typical for Radio Moldova Internat: A dreadful hum, which almost completely buries the progr audio. Perhaps the usage of the two 120 kW txs (a power level, which reminds me to Chinese equipment) there was changed: Radio Moldova is now carried through the one in better shape, while the faulty one is now used for the less important home sce relay instead. // 11790 (registered as Tiganesti, but it should actually originate from Saftica instead) has still a somewhat low modulation depht, but this has already improved, compared to the very low audio a while ago. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 4) [the faulty one used on 17850 in Z98 season, ed]

RUSSIA IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 VoA Usseriysk MW 648 1000 kW 230 degr 1300-1400 Kor. VoA Irkutsk 7150 1000 kW 152 degr 2200-2300 Ch. VoA Novosibirsk 11990 200 kW 111 degr 1300-1500 Ch. VoA P-K 12065 250 kW 244 degr 2130-2200 Kor. P-K - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-RUS. (IBB schedule)

4795 Buryatskoe R 0820-0830 35333-2 Buryat talk until 0830, then Ru talk with very bad audio. //LW 279 kHz. 5290 Krasnoyarskoe R 2210- 34333 Ru. Local progr followed IS. Opening annt as "Govorit Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarskoe vremya 6 chasov 10 minut. Dovroe utoro.". Then weather forecast. //LW 216 kHz. (Hironao Oguma (Mongolia) Japan Premium via Iwata, via Cumbre May 28)

From May 10 RCI Montreal in Ru to FE on second freq: 2200-2300 NF Irkutsk 12075 (45544), 100 kW 066 degr. //13710 (45554) via Kimje-KOR 250 305. (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5) Also 2300-2325 Chita Atamanowka 11640 250 kW 195? degr Chinese. (Kai Ludwig via NTT June)

R Mariya in Pol via Samara-RUS now retimed: 1500-1930 12010 (55555) and 1930-2200 7400 (55555). (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

SERBIA It is a disaster on radio scene in YUG these days. More and more txs went off the air after they were destroyed or heavily damaged by NATO bombing. During the last week the following txs were not audible (I heard them before): Belgrade 684, 7200 [silened since May 25]. Novi Sad 1107, 1269. The only tx from YUG/Voyvodina I hear is Sid on 1323. It relays Belgrade 1. Of course I cannot hear all possible YUG txs in my location so maybe some other ones are on the air (what our Italian or Greek friends could confirm?). (Karel Honzik-CZE, in HCDX via Lamb, via Cumbre, Jun 3)

MW Cacak/Bor 981 The only Serbian MW stn bcing 1st home sce progr of Belgrade, suffering by QRM, noted here in Upper Austria. All other Serbian MW stns couldn't traced here so far: 684 711 1008 1440 1503 etc. From Montenegro state Podgorica 882 [and five more low power local stns on common channel] and Ulcinj 1503. (Harald Suess-AUT, May 31)

Central progr RT Srbje [without location, Belgrade not mentioned], heard yesterday Jun 1st after 2200 UTC on 981, 1062, 1440, and also via Novi Sad 1107. High power Belgrade 684 kHz still off the air. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 2)

At 0655 UTC on May 30th, two NATO missiles hit the txing site of RT Srbje at Stubline, near Belgrade. According to the stn's Website "There were no casualties but material damage incurred is massive".

Another bomb reportedly hit the Mt. Avala txing complex, which amongst other things houses the 2000 kW MW tx operating on 684, plus high power FM txs for Beograd 1, 2 and 3. [...] The attack on RTS was followed by a further attack on Mt. Avala at 0050 on April 25 which struck the power stn supplying power to the txs. [...] At 2030 on April 30th, a further NATO attack completely destroyed the mast on Mt. Avala. Constructed in 1965, the 195 metre mast was considered as an exceptional architectural masterpiece and a symbol of Belgrade.

The satellite earth stn "Jugoslavija" in Ivanjica was also hit in a NATO attack. All three uplink antennas (Jugoslavia 1, 2 and 3) were destroyed. The first, which is 32 meters in diameter, was built in 1973 and was used for communications with AF, AS as well as with No&SoAM. The second came into operation in 1983 with the goal of providing telecommunications links with No&SoAM, AF and the ME, while the third dish (13 m in diameter) was used for telecommunications links with 15 European countries. (R Nederland web page, via Kai Ludwig, Jun 5)

SINGAPORE 11920 R Japan Kranji relay 0909-0917 male talk in Jpn, mx bridge. ID at 0915. //11710 Woofferton, 17650 Ascension, 21550 Moyabi. (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, via Cumbre May 29)

13735 Swiss R Int. relay 1206-1216, Ge progr. Nx by man, 1210 progr "Swiss Info ...". Very strong signal 45554. (Takeshi Kanai-JPN, via Cumbre May 25) [1100-1330, 250 kW 025 degr to zones 44,45 JPN, KRE/KOR, EaCHN, ed]

SOUTH AFRICA [c.f. BC-DX 413] More freq changes for Channel Africa arrived:

UTC UTC Freq. Antenna Power from to in khz bearing in kw Studio Remarks 0259-0330 6050 20 500 BBC En Swahili (x from 0244) 0258-0355 5955 20 500 CHAF En Fr (x6035) 1258-1455 11720 5 100 CHAF Sat&Sun only En (x11900) 1600-1700 9670 19 250 TWR (x9535) 1730-1800 9665 19 250 TWR (x9670) 1800-1815 9665 19 250 TWR Sat only (x9670) 1800-1830 9665 19 250 TWR Mon-Fri (x9670) 1835-2005 9700 315 250 TWR Mon,Sat&Sun to 2020 2005-2020 9700 315 250 TWR Mon+Sat+Sun only (x9695) 2030-2045 9510 330 500 TWR Sat only (deleted)

New, additional: 2030-2100 6135 32 250 BBC Por 2030-2100 9745 5 250 AWR http://home.mweb.co.za/an/andre46/ (Comments to Andre du Toit. [email protected] May 29)

See the latest SENTECH update below. The two "WRN" txs at 1900-2000 on 6205 and 11560 are obviously R Kudirat-NIG, which in an open (?) secret is fed from London studios via WRN satellite facilities - but according to this has just been deleted. Is anyone still hearing them?? Nothing audible here June 2 at 1900 on 11560 but that's inconclusive (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 991, Jun 3)

Both not included on schedule, but still *ON AIR* today Jun 2nd 1900-2000 11560 330 250 WRN - vailed operation of R Kudirat. 1900-2000 6205 328 250 WRN

Clandestine from RSA to NIG, R Kudirat deleted from schedule, but still heard as of Jun 2. Thanks also to reports from several DXers including Fathi-EGY, Vaghjee-MAU, and Das Gupta-IND. This one is still on 6205 and 11560 from 1900-2000. Perhaps just deleted from Meyerton schedule to try and hide the tx site? (Hans Johnson-USA in Cumbre, Jun 2)

The SENTECH schedule you published last week showed 6205 and 11560 1900- 2000 from the WRN studios as deleted. These are the Radio Kurdirat freq. However the stn is still on the air, noted again 5th June with good signals on both freqs. (Mike Barraclough-UK, Jun 5)

SRI LANKA Sri Lanka BC Corp has retimed their evening txion to IND in Hindi at 1330-1530 (x1510-1630) 11905 7190. (Alok Das Gupta-IND, Jun 1)

Clandestine (Sri Lanka). Voice of the Tigers: They have been on for a few months, 7460 at 0100-0230, 7382 at 1400-1530, all Tamil and unjammed. Probably 1-2 kW located in the north of the country. (Victor Goonetilleke- Sri Lanka 4S7VK UADX, via RNMN)

SWEDEN Radio Sweden txions valid until 30th Oct 1999: En 1130-1200 18960 305 21810 280 NoAM. 1230-1300 17895 055 21810 085 AS AUS. 1330-1400 9435 100 17505 085 AS AUS; 15240 305 NoAM. 1730-1800 6065 140-240 wide beam, exc. Sun, EUR. 1730-1800 9590 220 Suns only, EUR. 1930-2000 1179 060 & 270 6065 140-240, EUR. 2130-2200 1179 060 & 270 6065 140-240 9430 180, EUR. 0130-0200 13625 100, AS AUS. 0230-0300 9495 290, NoAM 0330-0400 9495 320 12060 320 WeNoAM.

Ge 1830-1900 Mo-Sa, 1830-1930 Sun only, 1179 060 & 270 6065 140-240, EUR.

Swe 0400-0600 Mo-Fr 6065 140-240, EUR. 0400-0700 Mo-Fr 17505 (fr Sept 13625) 130 ME/AF. 0500-0600 Mo-Fr 9490 220 SWEUR 17505 130 ME/AF. 0600-0700 Mo-Fr 9490 220 SWEUR. 1000-1010 Mo-Fr 6065 180, 9490 140-240 EUR; 21810 180 AF.

0600-0800 Sat 6065 140-240, EUR; 17505 175 AF. 1000-1030 Sat+Su 6065 180, 9490 140-240 EUR; 21810 180 AF. 0700-0900 Sun 6065 140-240, EUR; 17505 175 AF.

daily 0000-0030 13625 235 Canary Isl, Madeira, Northern SoAM. 0100-0130 13625 085 AS/AUS; 13625 275 Canary Isl, Madeira, SoAM. 0200-0230 9495 290 NoAM. 0300-0330 9495 305 12060 305 WeNoAM. 0400-0430 9495 320 (alternate 12060 305) WeNoAM. 1030-1040 21800 085 Mo-Fr AS/AUS (-1100 Sa/Su). 1030-1040 18960 290 NoAM; 21810 265 Canary Isl, Madeira, SoAM. 1200-1230 17870 055 EaAS NZL. 1200-1230 18960 305 (alternate 21810 280) NoAM. 1300-1330 17870 085 AS/AUS. 1400-1430 15240 305 NoAM; 17525 085 AS AUS, ME. 1445-1610 6065 140-240 EUR; 18960 305 NoAM. 1500-1530 13860 085 EaEUR. 1545-1610 13860 135 ME/AF; 17485 220 SWEUR/WeAF/Brazil. 1800-1830 6065 140-240 EUR; 13770 085 ME/AF; 17505 220 SWEUR/WeAF/Brazil. 2000-2100 6065 140-240 EUR; 9450 220 SWEUR/WeAF. 2100-2130 6065 140-240 EUR; 9430 220 SWEUR/WeAF.

Est 1430-1445 1179 060/270 Estonia; Tallin 103.5 MHz. 1600-1615 1179 060/270 6065 055-070 Estonia. 1630-1645 6065 055-070 Estonia. 1700-1715 1179 060/270 6065 055-070 Estonia.

Latv 1615-1630 1179 060/270 Latvia. 1645-1700 6065 085 Latvia. 1715-1730 1179 060/270; 6065 140-240 Latvia.

Ru 1200-1230 17895 055 EaRUS. 1300-1330 15240 085 EurRUS. 1630-1700 1179 060/270; 7170 085 Eur&CeRUS. 1900-1930 9590 070 EaRUS. 1900-1930 1179 060/270; 6065 100 EurRUS; Mo-Sa only.

MW 1179 kHz bcing 0345-0600 and from 1400-2230. Best reception in No&CeEUR, Baltic states, and UK&IRL. Local FM in Stiockholm 89.6 MHz.

Addr: S-105 10 Stockholm, Sweden. e-mail: [email protected] http://www.sr.se/rs & real audio: radiosweden.com (Direct, Jun 4)

TAIWAN Clandestine from TAIWAN? to CHINA. 15388 New Star Bcing Stn 1132, usual s-on routine and into Ch numbers. Quite strong. Can't understand why no one else hasn't heard this before. (Dave Valko-USA, via Cumbre May 28)

TAJIKISTAN Tajik Radio, V/S Mr. Ramazonov Nasrullo, Foreign Relations, Engl reply seeking US$5 to cover the cost of reply; IRCs not exchangeable there. (Panzeri-Italy in Play-DX, via NU, May 31)

TANZANIA 7280 R Tanzania, in Swah around 1900 May 27 to 2100*; high-life Afropop mostly, 2045 man with nx, into religious sce, 2057 choral, 2100 sked, 2100:40 NA, two min. of OC, 2104:30 off. SINPO 32322. //5050.06 stronger and clearer until 2054 when CHN appears with IS; this freq also s- off at 2104:30. 7280 also hrd with abrupt s-on at 1756 May 29, nice signal despite noticeable splatter from Spain and UZB. (Vladimir Titarev-UKR, via NU, May 31)

UKRAINE Recent changes in RUI schedule valid from May 24: 6090 replaced by two freqs: 9560 1700-0100, 9620 0200-1600. Tx in 6020 will work as follows: 0000-0800 omni-dir, 0900-2300 beam 242 degr. WS is going to organize Real audio txion on Internet. (From Alexander Egorov, author of RUI DX progr by phone via Sergey Kolesov-UKR, via Cumbre, Jun 3)

RUI Kiev schedule from May 24 kHz UTC Azimut Zones CIRAF 5905 1700-0200 254 27S, 37N 6020 0600-2000 242 28 6020 2100-0500 ND 18-20, 27-30 6130 0600-1600 254 27S, 37N 9560 1700-0100 254 27S, 37N 9620 0200-1600 264 27, 28 9945 2200-0400 238 13, 14, 15, 37, 46 11840 0400-1700 090 29, 30 21520 0500-1200 096 30, 40, 41, 54, 55, 58, 59 (Alexandr Egorov, Kiev, Ukraine, via RUS-DX, May 31)

RUI Kiev's new 9620 (replacing former 6090 during daytime) performs reasonably here in EaGER, resulting in the Ukraine now during the day audible on two SW channels instead of a single 11840 one, which is stronger although beamed into Kazakhstan instead CeEUR (90 degr). 6020 and 6130 still get's almost completely lost in daytime suppression, especially the latter one channel is a rather ridiculous choice, operational from 0600- 1600 and aimed at zones 27S and 37N, where it will hardly arrive, considering that it not even reaches the savage EaGER. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 4)

UK IBB txion schedule, A-99 summer, eff Mar 28, 1999 RL Skelton 15105 300 kW 095 degr 1600-1700 Ukr. 15245 300 kW 090 degr 1500-1600 Azerbaijani. (IBB schedule)

Merlin Network One made its last 24 hr [SW] broadcast May 28. It is now only on the air Mon-Fri 1600-1700 on 6175 via Skelton. (Mike Barraclough, England, May 29, via GH)

It'll be interesting to see how and if Eric Wiltsher explains the drastic cuts to SW from MNO -- he's been such a promoter, tho always regarded SW as secondary. (Hauser)

I've checked the 1600 6175 Mon-Fri bc and it is Roy Masters "Foundation of Human Understanding" which according to the Jaybee Newsline, which is a telephone based information sce, has a paid contract with MNO. The satellite sce is apparently continuing and they are talking about putting the network out on the internet. (Mike Barraclough-UK, Jun 1, WORLD OF RADIO 991, via GH)

Extensive R Northsea-Story in Englisch: http://www.guernsey.net/~bebridel/rniradio.html

History of BBC relay station Daventry: http://www.daventry-index.co.uk/about/bbctx/bbc1.html (Hans-Friedrich Dumrese-D, Jun 7)

USA 17625.95 KVOH 0026 Sp religion, ID in En @ 0030 "This is KVOH, Los Angeles, California, bcing on the 16 mb on a freq of 17.775 MHz", //17775, also heard (much stronger) by Jim Miles in OK; spur or new freq? (Ralph Brandi-USA, via Cumbre May 22) [Spurious signal likely, should be also symmetric on approx. 17925. Registered 17775 1400-0500 50 kW 100 degr to zones 10-12. ed]

7555 KJES Radio, Lord's Ranch, New Mexico, May 31, 0159-0232, test bc towards WeCAN in En with utility-like announcer giving addr, then long Hail Marys, and again addr given. 45343. (Escoto, Sennitt, via DXW, Jun 2)

World of Radio BACK on Thurs. WWCR has switched our 2030 time on 15685 from Tues back to Thurs, as of May 27. This will make the first airing on WOR more timely again. WoR on WWCR is now: Thur 2030 15685, Sat 1130 12160, Sun 0230 5070, 0630 5070, Mon 0501 3210, Tue 1230 15685. (WoR by Glenn Hauser, Jun 3)

Following a tip by Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX via WoR tuned into presumed WWBS Macon Georgia on 11900 1040 June 5th, continuous Southern evangelist, poor strength and interference from DW on 11905, monitored for 15 mins and signal was fading up, checked again at 1150 and only a carrier detectable. Hans says is operating Sats/Suns 1000-1200. (Mike Barraclough-UK, Jun 5)

R Taipei-TWN Internat in Ge & En via WYFR Florida txs: 2100-2300 17750 replaced by 11565 (45544), //15600 (35433). (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

RFE/RL/R Free Iraq in Ar, A99 schedule: 0200-0400 6140 (55544), 7255 (55544), 9730 (45444), 9865 (55555). 1500-1700 6185 co-ch VoIRIB Tehran in Armen fr 1630. 12025 co-ch RFI Paris in Ar fr 1600. 11805 (55544), 15160 (55555).

RFE/RL/R Free Iran in Pe, A99 schedule: 0430-0630 7155 co-ch VoMedit Malta via Rome fr 0500. 11945 under strong UAE R AD in Ar. 9510 (45544), 12015 (55555). 1500-1700 9615 (55555), 13665 (55555), 15495 (55555). 11785 strong QRM Rep of IRQ R on 11787. (Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov in PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

Log of RFA monitoring by Christoph Ratzer-AUT during holiday tour to northern Thailand, Laos, May 01-20, 1999. 7470 1300-1400 Tibetan *** *** 32332 QRM China. 7470 2300-0000 Tibetan *** *** 34333 7540 1500-2200 Mandar *** *** no signal 7540 2300-0000 Mandar *** *** no signal 9365 2300-0000 Tibetan *** *** 32332 jamming 9455 1400-1500 Vietn SAI 285 22332 9545 1100-1200 Lao TIN 279 45444 9635 1400-1500 Canton TIN 287 23222 9875 2300-0000 Tibetan HOL 077 33333 QRM CHN 9905 1500-1800 Mandar HBN 318 23222 9910 2300-0000 Mandar HBN 318 45444 9920 2300-0000 Tibetan *** *** no signal 11500 1400-1500 Canton *** *** no signal 11510 1400-1500 Vietn *** *** 44444 11510 1500-1600 Tibetan *** *** 44444 11530 1500-1600 Burmese *** *** no signal 11540 2330-0030 Vietn *** *** 44444 11560 2330-0030 Vietn *** *** 44444 11580 2330-0030 Vietn *** *** 32332 QRM VTN 11590 1300-1400 Tibetan *** *** 22332 QRM CHN 11590 1500-1600 Burmese *** *** 44444 11750 1500-1600 Burmese TIN 280 34333 11765 1500-1600 Mandar TIN 309 32332 QRM CHN 11785 2300-0000 Mandar NLS 285 only DW in German 11945 1500-2000 Mandar SAI 300 22332 QRM CHN 13690 1500-1800 Mandar TIN 295 22332 QRM CHN 13720 2330-0030 Vietn SAI 285 22332 jamming 13750 1100-1200 Lao HBN 270 no signal 13820 1500-1600 Burmese *** *** 44444 13830 1300-1400 Tibetan *** *** no signal 15185 1100-1200 Lao TIN 280 34333 15510 1500-2000 Mandar DL 311 32332 QRM CHN 15515 2300-0000 Mandar DL 311 15331 15560 1100-1200 Lao *** *** no signal 15560 2330-0030 Vietn HBN 270 23222 15680 1500-2200 Mandar *** *** 45444 (!) 15680 2300-0000 Mandar *** *** 44333 15695 2300-0000 Tibetan *** *** 34333 17805 1100-1200 Lao *** *** 34333 17855 1300-1400 Tibetan HOL 077 34333 QRM CHN: other txion from CHN on same freq. (Christoph Ratzer-AUT, OE2CRM, Jun 3)

UZBEKISTAN [neither clandestine nor Muslim, hjb] Dear Sir, One information for your DX nx bulletin 06/99. "Jiban Tarango" ["Wave Of Life"], the only one Bengali clandestine [see CLEAR UP below] stn is now bcing its religious (Islamic [sic]) progr on 15470 from 1330-1355. Acc to stn director right now they are not verifying RR until they get permission from IBRA headquarter in Sweden.

Contact addr in India is Jiban Tarango (in Engl "Wave Of Life"), P.O.Box 16057, Calcutta-700017, India. Phone +91 33 5623060 e-mail: [email protected]

Or directly to their (IBRA) headquarter in Sweden IBRA RADIO, BOX-4033, S-14104 HUDDINGE, SWEDEN Phone +46 8 6089680 e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected] (Swopan Chakroborty, Calcutta-IND, via WWDXC DX Magazine, May 29)

[Tashkent 15470 240 kW, 130 degr, 1330-1400 to zones 41 PAK IND BGD, 49 SoEaAS, 54 INS MLA SNG.]

Jiban Tarango currently bc 1330-1400 UTC via Tashkent 15470 is neither a clandestine nor a Muslim progr. In spite of their frequent references to the Quran and Muslim traditions these progrs are of Christian origin and sponsored by the bcing ministry of the Swedish pentecostal movement, IBRA- Radio.

They have been on the air since May 1995 via a 240 kW tx in Tashkent-UZB. 15470 is their usual summer freq, while in winter a freq in the 7 MHz range is use, mostly 7400. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 7)

VIETNAM/RUSSIA This En progr schedule just in from the VoVTN Hanoi; currently heard at 1700-1728 on 12070 via RUS; 1800-1828, 1900-1928, 2030- 2058 on 13740. (Edwin Southwell-UK, May 30, via WoR by GH)

Daily: News and Current Affairs, followed Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri by Press Review. Final items are: Mon - Vietnam Land and People. Tue - Vietnam Culture and Sports. Wed - Letter Box & Talk of the Week. Thu - Vietnam Economy; Business Forum. Fri - Rural Vietnam. Sat - Weekly Review; Historical Events; Music. Sun - Sunday Show. (VoVTN via Edwin Southwell, WORLD OF RADIO 991, Jun 3)

DX - Camp Doebriach Austria 1999 (10.-31. Juli 1999)

Auch dieses Jahr wird dieses traditionsreiche Hobbytreffen am Kaerntner Millstaetter See stattfinden. Dieses DX-Camp ist fuer alle Freunde des Rundfunkfernempfangs, von der Lang- Mittel- und Kurzwelle, ueber UKW- und TV-DX bis hin zu Amateurfunk und Satellitenempfang interessant, einfach f r jeden, der im Kreise Gleichgesinnter Hobbyferien machen moechte.

Naehere Informationen habe ich unter http://www.elitas.com/adxboe zusammengestellt. (Christoph Ratzer-AUT, Jun 3)

An alle, Das zweite RMRC DX Campo findet vom Fr 20.08. bis So 22.08.99 statt. Naehere Informationen gehen in den naechsten Wochen raus. Informationen auch via E-Mail: [email protected] oder telefon 06131-362397. Gruss Eberhard Ahl, May 24

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced, but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 415 15 Jun 1999 ______

ALBANIA v7149.92 [0800-1400] carrying R Tirana's home sce 2nd progr in Alb 35443, and at same time 1100-1200 the other home sce 1st progr on v9585.04 [0800-1300] which carried phone talks between Albania and Germany, latter 45444. (WB, Jun 12) v14220 ALB's 2 x 7110 harmonic was causing a het to HK3JBR in Bogota, ZL4NR in NZL, AL7HX in Alaska, from 0700-0800. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

ALGERIA RTA Algiers ext sce bcs til Oct 24, 1999: 7245 0300-0500, 0800-1500, 1800-2200 Ar, 0500-0800 & 1500-1800 Tamazight 11715 1500-1600, 1800-2200 Fr, 1600-1700 En, 1700-1800 Sp. 11750 0300-0500 Ar, 0500-2200 Fr. 15160 1400-1600, 1800-2100 Fr, 1600-1700 En, 1700-1800 Sp. 100 kW., exc 11750 which is 50 kW only. RTA, 21 Blvd. des Martyrs, Algiers, Algeria. (RTA progr leaflet, via Conexion Digital, Jun 7)

ARGENTINA 15345.03 RAE Buenos Aires in Sp carrying letterbox and rumba mx at 2300-2400. 35333. (WB, Jun 11)

AUSTRALIA 11650 New freq in // with adjoining R Australia outlet on 11660. Strong signal in Seattle area (S-9 compared to S-7 for 11660 on a very stingy S-meter). Tx site of new 11650 unknown to me at present. Progr was in En at 1530, ID as "Across Australia, this is R National" at 1600. (Wally Treibel-USA, in Cumbre Jun 7)

R Australia relays their dom network, Radio National, at times. (Hans Johnson, Cumbre)

BELGIUM RVI Brussels, two freq changes eff Mon 14 June 1999: 1730-1800 En and 1800-1859 Du to SoEaEUR and ME East via DTK Juelich: move from 13685 to 13670 to avoid interference from VOIRI in Ge & Fr, CRI in Ar to NoAF.

Suns 1000-1056 Du to AF via Wavre: move from 21505 to 21630 to avoid interference from BSKSA Riyadh-ARS. (eff 20 June). Abu Dhabi on 21630 registered til 1000, but left the air usually at 1004 ! (RVI Golfgids, Paul Brems-BEL, Jun 11)

CHINA CRI Beijing is heard with a new (? not included on my latest sched) Fr sce at 1300-1357 on 17880. The beginning of the txion is blocked by Qatar so not yet known where they are aiming for. Could it be their Bamako- MLI relay into Africa? There is a co-channel with QAT on 17880 between 1200-1300 (after ARS goes off), but have been unable to identify whether CRI or not. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

CRI Beijing ext sce in Sp 0000-0057 7160, 17720 0100-0157 9665, 17720 0200-0257 13685-GUF, 17720 0300-0357 9560-CAN, 15765? [15765 should rather read 11765 Brazilia relay ?, ed] 2100-2157 6020, 7360 2200-2257 6020, 7360 2300-2357 7160, 11650

CRI Beijing ext sce in En 1200-1300 11980 SoEaAS 1300-1400 11980 SoEaAS 1700-1800 9710 EUR 1900-2000 13650 NoEaAF 2100-2130 15145 EUR China Radio International, English Service, Beijing 100040, P.R. of China. E-mail: [email protected] (CRI progr leaflet, via Conexion Digital, Jun 7)

CRI noted 15165 *1030 NF for Khmer //9440 (poor); good at s-on but hammered after 1100 by REE/15170 slop. IDS from co-ch KTWR heard weakly underneath at 1057 (they're sked *1100 in Ins). (Bob Hill-USA, via EDXP Jun 3)

Changes of CRI from May 3: 1400-1430 in Tu & 1500-1530 in Farsi NF 11750, ex 11515 1500-1900 in Ru NF 15415 over LJB, ex 7235 1600-1700 in Ar NF 17880, ex 13685? //17580 1600-1700 in En NF 9870, ex 7190 //9565 1700-1800 in En NF 15300 co-ch RFI, ex 9710 //11910 1730-2230 in Mandarin/Fr NF 11825 co-ch VOA, ex 7335 1900-2100 in Cz/Pol NF 15415 over LJB, ex 7235 2100-2130 in En NF 15415 over LJB, ex 7235.

New schedule of CRI in Sp 2100-2300 on NF 11775, ex 6020 //7360 to Eu 2200-2300 on NF 9640, NF 13650 to Eu (no announced!) 2300-2400 on NF 11880, ex 7160 //11650 to SoAm 0000-0100 on NF 11880, NF 17720, ex 7160, 11650 to SoAm 0100-0200 on NF 17720, ex 11650 //9665 to SoAm 0200-0300 on NF 17720, ex 11650 //13685 to SoAm 0300-0400 on 9560, 11765 to SoAm. (PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

CUBA Radio Habana Cuba txions in Sp: 0000-0200 5965, 9505, 9820, 11760, 11875, 15230 0200-0500 5965, 9505, 9550, 11760, 11875, 15230 1100-1200 6000 1200-1400 6000, 9550 1400-1500 6000 2100-2300 11760, 13660, 13680 R Habana Cuba, Apartado 6240, La Habana, Cuba. E-mail: [email protected] (RHC e-mail file, via Conexion Digital, Jun 7)

HUNGARY R Budapest ext sce in En 0100-0130 9560 NoAM 0230-0300 9840 NoAM 1900-1930 6025 7170 EUR 2100-2130 6025 EUR 2130-2200 3975 EUR Radio Budapest, Brody Sandor 5-7, H-1800 Budapest, Hungary. (RB via Conexion Digital, Jun 7)

GERMANY Yesterday afternoon the DW radiohouse at Cologne suffered a complete main power failure, resulting in a loss of all txs for nearly 12 hrs until this morning. The main power switching facilities in the buildings basement catched fire after a short-circuit of a switch, which is responsible for changing between power grid and emergency generating sets. Nobody was injured, there is no summary about the caused damage so far. (via Ostdeutscher Rundfunk [East German Radio] Brandenburg) (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 5)

UNIVERSAL LIFE schedule for En txions is now Tue 2100 1323 [VoR] Wachenbrunn-D, to EUR. Sat 1630 15105-JUL ISR LEB ETH. Sun 0100 9495-JUL IND. 1300 9710-Sitkunai Lithuania, to EUR. 1300 9955-WRMI Miami FL, to NoAM. 1600 15105-JUL CeAF. 1830 11785-JUL SoAF. (Sergey Kolesov-UKR, British WDXC Contact June)

There is also a txion at 1800 Suns on 11830-JUL beamed to CeAF. (Klaus Koehler-D)

DW is noted with Fr at 1700-1800 up on 7195-RRW (x listed 7185) to avoid extended sce to YUG / ALB on 7185. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

HRT Zagreb-Croatia was heard using 9470 on air at 0615-0700, in //13820-JUL on Jun 3&4. A test? HRT direct with a different px via Deanovec on 5945 7365 & 9830. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

HRT Croatian Radio Zagreb, was having trouble with its sce to NZL 0500-0700 on 13820 (via DTK Juelich) due to unreliable propagation. Following a series of test txions on 9470, it moved to that freq on Jun 8th. It plans to return to 13820 in early Sept. The sce to AUS 0700-0900 continues on 13820 and noted here in Melbourne with super strong signals. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP Jun 8)

R Bremen sendet auf der Mittelwelle 936 jetzt fast ausschliesslich das Programm "Funkhaus Europa" //zu 103.3 MHz (WDR Langenberg). Funkhaus Europa ist ein kosmopolitisches Radioprogramm mit Programmsegmenten vom WDR, von Radio Bremen und SFB 4 Multikulti. Weiterhin sind hier sonntags von 1005-1100 MESZ Programme der DW (Radio E), der BBC in En und von RTBF in Fr, sowie Mo-Fr von 1800-1830 MESZ die Programme "Europe Today" von der BBC und von 1830-1900 MESZ der DW in Fr zu hoeren. (Juergen Lohuis-D, Jun 13)

INDIA All India Radio schedule eff 28 Mar-31 Oct 99

Arabic 0430-0530 AS 13620 15050 1730-1945 AS 9910 13620 Baluchi 1500-1600 AS 1071 6165 9620 11585 Bengali 0300-0430 0800-1100 1445-1515 1600-1730 AS 1134 Burmese 0100-0130 AS 9950 13630 1215-1315 AS 11620 11710 15475 Chinese 1145-1315 AS 11840 15050 17705 Dari 0300-0345 AS 9910 11735 11895 1315-1415 AS 7140 9910 ENGLISH 1000-1100 AS/AU 11585 11735 13700 15020 17387 17840 1330-1500 AS 9545 11620 13710 1745-1945 EU/AF 7410 9635 9950 11620 11935 13780 15075 15200 2045-2230 AU/EU 7150 7410 9650 9910 9950 11620 11715 2245-0045 AS 7410 9705 9950 11620 13625 French 1945-2030 AF 9910 13620 13780 Gujarati 0415-0430 AF 15075 17387 1515-1600 AF 11620 15175 Hindi 0315-0415 AF/AS 13695 15075 15180 17387 0430-0530 AF 15075 17387 1615-1730 AF/AS 7410 9950 12040 13720 13770 1945-2045 EU 7410 9950 11620 2300-2400 AS 9910 11740 13795 Indones 0845-0945 AS 15050 17387 Nepali 0130-0227 AS 594 3945 6045 9810 11715 0700-0800 AS 7250 9595 11850 1330-1430 AS 1134 3945 4860 6045 11695 Persian 0400-0430 AS 13620 15050 1615-1730 AS 7265 9910 11585 Punjabi 1230-1430 AS 702 Pushtu 0215-0300 AS 9910 11735 11895 13620 1415-1530 AS 7140 9910 Russian 1615-1715 AS 11620 15140 Sindhi 0100-0200 AS 1071 5990 7125 11790 1230-1500 AS 1071 6165 9620 11585 Sinhala 0045-0115 AS 1053 1300-1500 AS 1053 9700 15020 Swahili 1515-1615 AF 9950 13720 Tamil 0000-0045 AS 1053 4790 9835 9910 11740 13795 0115-0330 AS 1053 1100-1115 AS 1053 1115-1215 AS 1053 13700 15075 15770 17595 17860 1215-1300 AS 1053 1500-1530 AS 1053 Telugu 1215-1245 AS 13700 15770 17595 Thai 1115-1200 AS 13630 15340 17895 Tibetan 0130-0200 AS 9565 13700 17585 1215-1330 AS 1134 9565 11695 Urdu 0015-0100 AS 702 1071 6155 9595 0100-0200 AS 702 6155 9595 11620 0200-0430 AS 702 1071 6155 9595 11620 0830-1130 AS 702 1071 9595 11620 1430-1600 AS 702 4860 6045 1600-1930 AS 702 1071 4860 6045 (AIR Web Page - via British WDXC June CONTACT Magazine)

[Andaman Isl.] 4760 AIR Port Blair *2325 Ending "Song of India" and s-on with "Vande Mataram" and annts; into droning instrumental featuring tabla and tanpura. Pips at 2330 and followed with presumed news relay in unknown language, then seemed En from 2335 with numerous references to PAK. Weak amid horrendous static. (Bob Hill-USA, June 11)

IRAN 21570 VoIRI 2330, have added a another channel for their Ch sce in file: //21485 and 17560. Both 13 mb channels were fair though 17560 was severely splashed from both sides. (Paul Ormandy-NZL, via Cumbre Jun 6)

KAZAKHSTAN An addition to info of Mikhail Timofeyev on Kazakh R 6255 at 1800-2200 with progr from studios in Astana.

Astana is the new capital of Kazakhstan, known previously as Akmola. Akmola was known previously as Tselinograd, and Tselinograd was known previously as Akmolinsk. So funny ?

Yes, Astana is the 4th name of this city. Meanwhile, Astana is the 4th capital of Kazakhstan !

The first was Orenburg (now in the Russian federation), the second was Kzyl Orda, the third Alma Ata. (Daniyar Smagulov-Alma Ata KAZ, British WDXC Contact June)

12115 R Astana/Almaty[?] Kazakh light mx songs noted between 2300-2400, strong signal 45444. (WB, Jun 11)

12115 R Almaty 0000-0030 IS twice, then either a jingle or signature tune which sounded like it was sung in En. Male mentioned Almaty and Alma Ata, followed by male & female alternating talk with mx bridges. (George Maroti-NY, via Cumbre Jun 9)

KOREA D.P.R. of R Pyongyang in Sp on v13650.07 at 2330, 22222. (WB, Jun 11)

The Asian Broadcast Institute has just put our an excellent multi-media presentation on the numbers stns of the NoKorea. Check it out at: http://www.246.ne.jp/~abi/ransu/ransu-e.htm

(via Johnson Cumbre, Jun 10)

KUWAIT R Kuwait has a different address to that given in PtWBR and the WRTH. New address is Ministry of Information, Engineering Affairs, Dept. of Frequencies P.O.Box 967, Safat 130010, Kuwait. (Edwin Southwell-UK, British WDXC Contact June)

LAOS 4640.7 Houa Phan (presumed) I believe they are here now (x4653). Heard at 1130 with weak talk, but got a bit better just after Wyoming sunrise at 1137 when they had instrumental mx. Sure sounded parallel to Lao National Radio on 6130 for the nx after 1200. (Hans Johnson-USA, via Cumbre Jun 10)

LEBANON 11530 High Adventure R, The Voice of Hope, Marjayoun, 6 kW, QSL- l full data, 39 days for 2 IRC, sent RR to Cyprus addr and the stn reply via ISR according to the radio stn this is the addr: P.O.Box 77, Metulla, Israel, via e-mail [email protected] (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jun 8)

VoHope stn manager Gary Hull had this to say about their new tx. We conducted our first audio test with progr material Thur [Jun 10] on 6280 at 10 kW from Marjayoun. Test only lasted 10 mins. We need to finish the cooling system and do final checks on all systems. Hopefully if all goes well we will begin bcing a normal schedule of progrs this week, perhaps as early as Tues.

We are looking for RRs. They would be of great help as we set up for the future. We particularly need to know if there is any co-channel interference.

After we are sure 6280 is working flawlessly we will try to change to 11515 0800-1600. This might come several weeks down the line. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright, Jun 13)

MONGOLIA 19440 VoMongolia 1500-1530 En bc is being heard here on the 2nd hx of 9720. (Ian Wadman, British WDXC Contact June)

9720 VoMongolia opening in En, after an IS at 1459, with an ID as "This is the Voice of Mongolia". Only poor to fair, and best on LSB as there is another carrier on 9720.2. Listed and announced parallel of 12015 barely audible. (Walter Salmaniw-CAN, via Cumbre Jun 6)

NETHERLANDS ["KOSOVO"] Radio 21 relay via Flevo. As from Fri 11th June, a RNs tx in Flevo is carrying two hours of programming from Radio 21, the exiled Albanian-language stn from Pristina, capital of Kosovo. The txions are arranged in cooperation with Press Now, an organization set up to support the independent media in the former YUG.

The tx will be on the air at 1827-2025 on 9495 beamed to EaEUR. RN is *not* responsible for the content of these progrs. (Andy Sennitt, swprograms, std disclaimer via Hauser Review of International Broadcasting, Jun 12)

Netherlands has reached an agreement with the Pristina stn "in exile," Radio 21, to bc two hours a day in Alb on SW from the RN Flevo tx site. These txions have been arranged through the Amsterdam-based "Press Now," a grouping of organizations which actively support the independent media in the Balkans, [see http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/index.htm

Bcs are scheduled at 1830-2025 on 9495, beamed to SoEaEUR. The sce is intended for the hundreds of thousands of Kosovar refugees in the region who are in desperate need of information as they make plans for an eventual return home. The first txion was on Fri, Jun 11. RN is not responsible for the content of the R. 21 progrs, which are prepared by R. 21 journalists and sent to RN over a modem link. Radio 21 was on the air from Pristina for more than a year as a web-only stn, having been refused a bc license by the Serbian authorities. On the night of Mar 23, 1999, their premises were destroyed by the Serbs, and the staff of R. 21 were among the first to flee the country. A limited sce has resumed on the web at http://www.radio21.net but this SW sce means that R. 21 can now reach many more people.

Memories Of the Millennium. RNMN is launching a contest to find the most popular "Memory of the Millennium", a stn which won't make it into the next century but which stands out as a major contributor for this century nearly gone. Stns like WNYW New York, or the virtual stn NDXE that never was. Or what about KYOI, Radio South Atlantic, Radio Moscow, or Radio Berlin International?

Ideas are welcome to [email protected]

The winner will be selected in Sept and will receive a great new book about radio history. That's it for the moment, Jonathan Marks, Diana Janssen and Andy Sennitt (RNMN News Update, direct, also via Klaus Koehler, also via NU)

OMAN Latest sked for R Oman, Muscat, all pxs in Ar 6020 0300-0500 7230 1600-1800, 2200-0000 9575 1400-1600 9735 1800-2200, 0000-0300 11805 1800-1900 11890 1800-2200 13620 0500-0600 13640 0600-1400 15140 0900-1600 15355 0200-0300 15375 1600-1800 17590 0600-0900 (BBCM, via EDXP Jun 02) (This shows 24-hr broadcasts now on HF. - Bob Padula EDXP)

PAKISTAN Some corrections to Radio Pakistan's A-99 [respectively Z-99] schedule fr May 3-Sep 4th [full schedule see BC-DX #413]: Gujrati 0330-0400 17555 (API-1 100 kW 233 degr) to EaAF Urdu 0500-0700 15175.19 (API-5 250 kW 282 degr) 17555.04 (API-1 100 kW 282 degr) 21460.13 (API-6 250 kW 252 degr) WS to Gulf & ME. [17555 badly QRM by KOL Israel French 0500-0517 only, ed] Turki 1430-1500 6075 7260(both via 270 degr) to AFG and CeAS. Russian 1500-1530 7260 9330(both via 313 degr) to CIS and RUS. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

POLAND 9540 Came across of very disturbed signal of R Polonia in Ru 1100-1127, I think nobody will understand just a single word when listening to this terrible signal. This txion is directed at 72 degr north-east, so maybe I get only a disturbed signal here in GER from the back lobe. Much better audio on //7250. (WB, Jun 12)

R Polonia sked eff 28 Mar-30 Oct, 1999

Belaruss 1130-1155 7285 6050 1330-1425 7275 5995 1630-1655 7285 6165 1700-1755 7180 6035 2030-2055 7285 6085 Czech (xmo) 1000-1025 7285 6015 (xsu) 1600-1625 7215 6095 ENGLISH 1200-1255 11820 9525 7270 6095 1700-1755 9525 7285 6000 1930-2025 9525 7285 6095 6035 Esperanto 1330-1355 7285 7225 1800-1825 7205 6095 German 1130-1155 9525 6095 1400-1425 7285 6095 Lithuan 1300-1325 7305 6095 1500-1525 7180 6035 Polish 1030-1055 7285 6015 1100-1125 7285 7270 1530-1625 7285 6035 2100-2155 7270 6095 6035 Russian 1100-1125 9540 7305 1300-1325 9525 7285 1430-1455 7275 6095 1800-1825 7180 6000 1900-1925 7215 7270 6095 6035 Slovak (mo) 1000-1025 7285 6015 (su) 1600-1625 7215 6095 Ukrainian 1430-1455 7285 6110 1500-1525 7205 6095 1530-1555 7180 6095 1630-1655 7180 6035 1830-1855 7270 7205 6035 6000 2030-2055 7270 6095 (Andrew Baransky - British WDXC June CONTACT Magazine)

RUSSIA Voice of Russia in Sp to LatAM til Oct 31, 1999: 0000-0100 7125, 7390, 9450a, 9470, 9480, 9665b, 9810a, 9830, 9860, 9965, 11500, 12010b, 12030b, 12060, 12070b 0100-0200 7390, 9450a, 9470, 9810a, 9830, 9860, 9945, 9965, 11500, 12010b 12030b 12060. a - freqs til Jul 31 only, b - til Sep 5th. (Jorge Aloy-ARG, via Conexion Digital, Jun 7)

SAUDI ARABIA 4790.4 BSKSA Riyadh, 1810-2005, I first thought this was Azad Kashmir R on extended sce due to the fighting, but soon realised that the language was Ar. Mostly talks with frequent mention of Saudi Arabia, martial mx, no clear ID was heard, but it must have been them on a new channel. 25232 (Anker Petersen-DEN, via Cumbre Jun 6)

[I think that is BSKSA 2nd progr half harmonic of v9580, which I heard almost daily on Greek Rhodes isl during holiday in 1987, ed]

SERBIA The Belgrade tx site, housing the 684 tx, was hit by two NATO missiles 0655 May 30th. The stns website says that there were no casualties but material dammage incurred is massive. (Radio Netherlands Real Radio website)

Re Stubline WOR 991. BBCM heard 7200 go off the air at the precise moment that the Stubline site was bombed at 1108 UTC on 25th May - and the RTS dom sce has not been subsequently been heard on SW at all. Hope this clarifies the situation. (Dave Kenny (BBCM) via GH SW DX report, Jun 7)

NATO Radio TV _ EC-130 airplane txions _ on new MW 1270; 2040 UTC in Alb. 2139 UTC En nx. SINPO 33543.

EC-130 airplane on 1003 kHz 1940 UTC, 33443. Long lasting and deep fadings. Annts in Serbian , ID's as "NATO Radio Televizije" and US pops. Fade away around 2008, c-down ? Anyone knows the address of the stn ? (Martin Elbe-D, Jun 10)

Some informations about Allied Voice / EC130E aircraft: http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Military_Affairs/air_national/193fact.html http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/kosovo-int.html

(Kurt Brandstetter-AUT, Jun 12)

Yugoslav forces have apparently thwarted some NATO air attacks because at times allied pilots speak to each other and to ground-based air controllers over open communications systems according to NATO officials and US intelligence reports.

Although the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia is the most technologically sophisticated in history- with the largest percentage of precision guided bombs ever- some NATO countries' aircraft do not carry secure communications equipment. Their governments were either unwilling or unable on short notice to equip their planes with secure radio gear compatible with US aircraft and other up-to-date planes in the 19 member alliance.

"All the NATO aircraft aren't equipped with the same kind of equipment we have" said an Air Force official. When the planes without secure communication take part in operations pilots in other planes must speak on unsecured radio frequencies that NATO knows are being monitored by Yugoslav forces as well as civilian radio enthusiasts, said communications experts. "If you have 20 aircraft flying together but some who don't have secure communications no one can use it" said one NATO aviator.

Following NATO practice the conversations are in English. As a result Yugoslav forces are using English speaking civilians, many of them English teachers, to listen in on and translate unencrypted voice communications between NATO ground controllers and some of the NATO warplanes taking off each day. In some cases Yugoslav forces have apparently known the target and timing of a NATO attack and the direction in which the planes were flying.

One US pilot reported that each time he used the code word for a specific SA6 ground-to-air anti aircraft missile site the missile was immediately hidden and he was unable to strike it as a target. This happened twice and suggested to analysts that Yugoslav forces also have access to NATO code words for specific targets.

"Communications is truly the weak link in this chain of operation" said Bruce Lambert a defence analyst and communications specialist at DFI International, a defence consulting firm in Washington. Lambert and other experts say that the lack of communications inter operability has posed a problem in Operation Allied Force because the duration of the air war has given Yugoslav forces time to figure out the patterns and to decade the pilot chatter they are hearing every day.

Aircraft from NATO's most advanced military countries- the United States, Britain, France and others, have equipment in the cockpit of their fighter jets that allows them to scramble communications and to receive secure target and other data from AWACS and other surveillance aircraft whose job is to survey the skies and ground. But newer alliance partners do not. Also the United States does not want to share all its capabilities with other nations, even allies.

The NATO operation faces another challenge, ever more sophisticated hobbyists who collect and then disperse, via the Internet, military radio frequencies and the takeoff of NATO jets headed out for bombing runs each day from bases in Italy, England, Germany and elsewhere. "They stand at the end of runways, look at the tail wing numbers and call me" said John Pike, an intelligence expert at the Federation of American Scientists whose Web site includes a detailed description of the types and squadrons aircraft belong to.

About a week into the war Lt. Col Ed Worley, an Air Force public affair officer at the Pentagon, received a call from a retired military officer saying that, using his radio equipment, he had heard NATO pilots talking about operations and was worried that it could compromise war planes. Worley recalled that he was ey. "shocked and dismayed" so he called the Air Force operations centre. "Our operations folks said that we have to talk in the clear all the time" he said. (Washington Post, May 1st, originally summarised on WoR via British WDXC Contact June)

MW listening in Belgrade, first week of June 1999. Dragan Stankovic reports: On Sun, May 30th NATO destroyed R Belgrade's MW tx located at Stubline. The tx on Mw 684 was one of the strongest in EUR, with a power of 2000 kW. Since other tx sites have also been hit during the course of the bombing campaign, it's now very difficult to listen in to radio txions from Serbia on MW. Among the rare stns I've noticed still operative on MW is R Jagodina 1440 with a power of 20 kW. This tx which previously used to carry the local radio stn, now relays the progrs of RT Srbje Belgrade. (RN website via Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 13)

SWEDEN ARNE SKOOG passed away. Radio Sweden is sorry to tell the DX community that Arne Skoog, the founder of Sweden Calling DXers, and a key figure in the founding of the Swedish DX Federation and the European DX Council, passed away on Mon Jun 7. (Maryanne Kehoe-USA, Jun 9)

Arne was 86. The June 15th edition of MediaScan (the successor to Sweden Calling DXers) will be a tribute to Arne Skoog.

Addr: S-105 10 Stockholm, Sweden. e-mail: [email protected] http://www.sr.se/rs & real audio: radiosweden.com

George Wood: [email protected]

We Third World DXers are grateful to this man than any other I am sure. If not for him we would not have been in contact. It was Sweden Calling DXers that turned us into DXers. We may otherwise have been casual SWLs and our interest would not even have developed. His vision was our outlet to the International DX Scene, and the platform where we came into contact with the rest of the world.

What launched the Ceylonese SWL Club in 1966 and our entry into the International DX Press was Arne and SCDX. Through SCDX we were heard all over the world. Many lasting friendships built and information that we could not get otherwise brought to us. Frankly a great part of the internationalized hobby owes it to Arne's vision.

I am thankful that I was able to meet Arne in 1984 when George Wood invited me as Guest of honour to the EDXC 1984. Today as we say good bye to a great man who has meant so much to us DXers, I am happy I was able to touch the hand that brought so many of us to gether. A good life has come to an end. I am richer for having been touched by him. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Jun 9)

I donot know how to express my feeling about the sad demise of Arne Skoog, the DX father of all of us. It is really a shocking news for the DXers in SoAS and to the world DX community. The three names we could not forget Arthur Cushen, Arne Skoog and Harry van Gelder.

In the late 60's when there was no electronic bulletins like today, we had to depend on the famous SCDX - the only source to know some DX news. We, the DXers, were known to each other through the SCDX. Still I can well recollect all those famous DXer's names heard over the SCDX. If we missed the b'cast then there was the printed version of SCDX - I still have some old issues of SCDX.

After seeing the printed version of SCDX I got the idea of starting a DX bulletins under the banner 'Radio DX Club of India'. Later, in 1973 four Indian clubs merged together and formed 'INDIAN DX CLUB INTERNATIONAL'. At that time the only publicity or contact we got were from SCDX and DX Juke Box. Most of the members of the club got in touch with us through these two programs. We also depended heavily on the heard DX news from SCDX as this was the only source of station news we got while DX Juke Box programs contained more feature type programs.

The DX news from South Asia were known to the whole world through SCDX and everyone came to know the radio scene in this part of the world through our contributions in the programs.

I'm very unfortunate that I could not meet him during my visit to Stockholm in 1979 but still usual New Year Greetings Card were exchanged.

We were very indebted to Arne for the immense help for the DX community and without his program we were not the same as at present.

If I can still remember correctly he mentioned in his last SCDX program mentioned that one 'wood'(Skoog means in Swedish wood) will be replaced by another Wood (George).

We will really miss you Arne. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jun 9)

UKRAINE 9620 has now a powerful signal [44554] of RUI Kiev tx into CeEUR around 1100-1200, in Ukr, 264 degr to zones 27 & 28. //6130 & 11840. At same time RUI carried the En sce to AUS/NZL on single 21520 only. At 1155 heard mentioning the full RUI En schedule in length to all continents and many channels, but unfortunately this schedule suspended in mid April due lack of main power budget. (WB, Jun 12)

UK HCJB via Merlin Communications tx 500 kW / 85 degr in Ru and Ukr to CeAs now on the air: 1600-1730 NF 11760 co-ch VoINS til 1630 (x12015) 1800-1900 Ru, Geor, Tatar, Ukr 11780 is deleted ! (PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

Job rotation. Eric Wiltshire in an interview by Dr. Kim Elliot on CW VoA: I spoke to the Head of MNO, Eric Wiltshire. Eric says he is leaving the Merlin organization. His progr the Media Zoo, which focuses on satellite bcing, will continue until June 30th. Eric says MNO continues 24 hrs a day on satellite, and the MNO SW schedule will soon expand again, but only for progr-makers who pay for the time. (Kai Ludwig, Jun 9)

USA WYFR is running different programming to EUR at 2000 on 17750 and 15695. I contacted the Okeechobee site who say that if the response is favourable it will continue. (David Ansell, British BDXC-UK)

UNIDentified stn using 7394.35 on air at 0600 until fade-out c0730. Low level and hum in audio. WRNO New Orleans ? On Jun 7th hat TOM (Brother Stair) in //with WBCQ 7415, which left air at 0616. [Those concerned about the once mediocre WRNO should note some B.S. weak with breakups on 7395 at 1110 check Jun 9, //WWCR 7435, presumably this. (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jun 10)]

Other stns from the AMs on this band are: 6975 RfPI Costa Rica until fade out c0800. On Mon Jun 7 had edition #991 of WoR from Glenn Hauser and //15048.95. 7315 WHRI in En (different to 5745). 7335 CHU Ottawa (USB only) and audible up until c0900. 7355 WYFR strong in En. 7370 VoA via GR in Fr. 7405 R Marti _ not on air Mons UTC at 0600 _ but Cuban jammers are. 7415 WBCQ "The Planet" s-off seems variable. On Jun 6th still going 0700 with technical talk/phone in show when pirate stn "Laser Hot Hits" hit the air on 7414.88. 7425 Catholic stn WEWN in Sp. 7490 WJCR with Christian songs. 7510 KTBN _ not on air Mon Jun 7th until c0730. 7520 WYFR Italian 0600, and relaying R Taipei Internat - TWN in Fr from 0700. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 7)

UNIDentified supposed to be US stn heard carrying En [relig?] progr observed on v13647.48 at 2340, and some breaks in between, hetting Pyongyang on v13650.07. At same time WJCR couldn't observed on usual 13595, so unfortunately the stn may drifted upwards[?]. (WB, Jun 11)

Freqs changes of VoA 1800-1900 Amh daily, 1830-1900 Tigr/Oromo M-F, 1830-1900 En Sa/Su all NF 15525, x15435 to avoid LJB; 1730-1800 Azeri NF 15135, x13650 to avoid CRI; 0130-0200 Bang NF 17805, x9760; 1600-1700 Bang NF 11965, x5955; 1130-1230 Bur NF 11850, x11910; 0430-0500 Cron NF 6125, NF 7185, x6050, 7180. 1830-2100 Fr/Ha NF 21485, x15365; 1430-1500 Geor NF 11780, NF 15245, NF 15455; 0330-0430 Kinyarwanda NF 9805 co-ch R.Marti, x5970; 1300-1400 Kor NF 11765, x9545 to avoid DW. 1700-1800 Ru NF 9615, x11815 to avoid VOIROI; 0330-0400 Ser NF 7115, x7125 to avoid VOR; 1200-1230 Sp NF 11925, NF 15360, x11945, 15265; 2300-2400 Sp NF 17890, x11960; 1630-1730 Swa NF 11665, x11695, re-x11765 1630-1730 Swa NF 15555 co-ch RDP Sat/Sun, x7290 0000-0100 Tibetan NF 11690, x6095

Some changes of RFE/RL: 1100-1200 Kaz NF 11870, ex 11855 to avoid BSKSA 1600-1700 Geo NF 11670, NF 15380, NF 17745 1700-1800 Geo 9790, 11925, 15135 deleted all 1800-1900 Geo NF 11665, NF 13635, NF 15115 1900-2000 Geo 7190, 9725, 9785 deleted all 1800-1900 Ser add NF 9625, NF 11895, NF 12045 //1593 1900-1930 Sern add NF 7285, NF 9625, NF 11895 //1593 1830-1930 Ukr 7285, 9625, 11895 deleted all 1800-1900 Aze NF 9615, ex 11815 to avoid VOIROI 1800-1900 Turkm NF 7260, ex 7155 to avoid R.Jordan 1900-2000 Ru NF 9725, ex 9660 and deleted 7245 1900-2000 Tatar-Bashkir NF 7150, ex 9860 to avoid CRI 2200-0100 Ru on add NF 5975 demodulated audio 2200-0330 Ser add 1197, 1458, 1593 //1224 till 0300 plus 6130, 9650, 11730 till 2400. (PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

15695 RFA *0100-0200* New freq for Tibetan; announces "RFA Channel 4" at s-off. Muffled, distorted audio; quite strong with polar flutter. Site said to be Dushanbe-TJK. (Bob Hill-USA, Jun 12) [Scheduled is also 17730 from CeAS.]

4278.5 AFTRS 0459, //6485.5 (Puerto Rico) and 12689.5 (Key West) Usual nx, short features. Ads against drunk drivers ("We and the Armed Forces take care of our own"), anti-snuff, Commerce Dept for business abroad. Ad for AFTRS on balance of sports - "Policy of AFRTS Radio to give balance to our sports - something for everyone"(First time I have heard any mention of AFRTS on any bc I have heard, although there are frequent Armed Forces ads. (Don Nelson-USA, via Cumbre Jun 8)

A-99 schedule of "Wavescan" //via KSDA & Forli: 0930-1000 old 7230 (23332) via Forli; 1000-1030 NF 11560 (34433), x11660; 1030-1100 old 11795 (34533); 1230-1300 NF 11800 (45554) via Forli, x7230; 1230-1300 NF 15330 (34433), x15225; 1330-1400 NF 11705 (44433), x11660. 1330-1400 NF 11750 (43443) , x15225; 1430-1500 NF 9355 (35443), x11980 to avoid CRI; 1530-1600 NF 11930 (55544), x11625. 1600-1630 NF 9355 (55544), x11750 to avoid RFA; 1730-1800 NF 11560 (55444), x11565; 1730-1800 NF 11965 (55544), x9355; 2130-2200 NF 15550 (45433), x13720; 2330-2400 old 11775 (34433). Please note: "Wavescan" not aired via Meyerton, Rimavska Sobota and Juelich txs ! (PanIview-BUL, Jun 5)

UZBEKISTAN R Tashkent dom sce noted on rarely heard 9540, Uzbek, 2200- 2230 parallel 4850, Jun 8. Also on 9715 9530 9375 opening at 0100 in En, Central Asia Mode. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP Jun 9) [2130-2200 En on both 9540 & 9545, ed]

VIETNAM 4796 Son La (presumed) woman in Viet. 1242 S2 but poor modulation. Some type of local mx at 1243. 5597 Lao Cai w/ local mx - man singing or chanting, no inst 1212 decent S2 lvl. //6689 also at S2. Retuned 5597 at 1217 but had shifted to 5595, still with local mx as before. 5595 drifted up to 5595.5 at 1221. 7155 Ha Giang (presumed) w/ S2 carrier but no copyable audio hrd at 1302. Drifted to 7154.6 after 1302. (Churchill, via Cumbre Jun 6)

YUGOSLAVIA R YUG progr schedule period to 1330 UTC 5th Sept 1999. New Internet Website at http://www.radioyu.org and the old one is no longer valid.

Time UTC Language Zones Target Area kHz kW Azim. 1800-1830 RUSSIAN 28ne,29,30n RUSSIA/Mos. 6100 250 040 1830-1900 SERBIAN 55s,58,59 AUSTRALIA 7230 250 100 1900-1930 SPANISH 37nw SPAIN 7220 250 265 1930-2000 SERBIAN 27,28w EUROPE 6100 250 310 2000-2030 GERMAN 27,28w EUROPE/w 6100 250 310 2030-2100 FRENCH 27,28w EUROPE/w 6185 250 310 2100-2130 ENGLISH 27,28w EUROPE/w 6185 250 310 2130-2200 SERBIAN 27,28w EUROPE/w 6185 250 310 (R YUG Belgrade via website via JKB, Jun 99)

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Im Juli oder August erscheint mal wieder eine neue Auflage der FMLIST vom UKW/TV-Arbeitskreis der AGDX. Die Liste enthaelt nicht nur Sender aus Mitteleuropa sondern auch aus vielen anderen europaeischen und Mittelmeerlaendern. Naehere Info bekommt man entweder bei: Hans- [email protected] oder [email protected] (bei dieser Adresse beachten: VornameUnterstrichNachname, nicht Punkt oder Leerzeichen). (Frank Helmbold-D, UKW&TV AK, Jun 8)

Die meiner Meinung nach beste UKW-Uebersicht (oeff.-rechtl. und kommerziell) ist "Hoerfunk- und Fernsehsender in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland".

Da ist auáer UKW noch L-M-K und TV drin. Bei TV z.B. A L L E deutschen Fernsehfuellsender mit Offset und Hauptstrahlrichtung in Grad. Mit Listen nach Rundfunkanstalten, Kanaelen/Frequenzen und Sendernetzkarten. Die '99 Ausgabe ist gerade erschienen oder erscheint in Kuerze.

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ALBANIA R Tirana Cerrik in Alb noted at 1615 on 5985.08. Registered 1400- 1700 50 kW non-dir. (WB, Jun 20)

ARGENTINA RAE Radiodifusion Argentina al Exterior & LRA1 Radio Nacional Buenos Aires, are bcing all Tues (local time), at 2300-0100 (0100 Wed) up to the end of this year, the 'Ciclo de Recitales en Vivo', that is to say Life Recital's Cycle with only folkore mx 'in life' from different argentine singers. At this time, you will hear the LRA1 through the RAE freqs of 15345, 11710 & 9690, in //to MW 870 of Radio Nacional and its LRA network freqs. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, Jun 15)

AUSTRALIA Current freq schedule A99 of R Australia. Asia 0000-0500 17750 S 100 329 0100-0500 15415 S 100 329 0600-0800 15415 S 100 329 0600-0800 17750 S 100 329 0830-1100 17750 S 100 329 0900-1400 21820 S 100 329 0900-1100 11880 S 100 329 1400-1800 5995 S 100 334 1430-1700 11660* S 100 329 1430-2130 9500* S 100 329 * these bcs may be heard at a weak strength in EUR.

Pacific, PNG, Solomon Isls, Guam and Japan (also try En txions directed to AS on 329 and 339 degrs) 1800-2000 6080 S 100 005 7240 S 100 030 1800-2100 9660 S 100 030 2100-2200 7240 S 100 030 9660 B 10 010 2300-0800 9660 B 10 010 2100-0800 17580 S 100 030 0000-0800 15240 S 100 353 0200-0900 21725 S 100 355 0800-0900 5995 B 10 010 9710 S 100 353 0800-1200 13605 S 100 030 1100-1400 6020 S 100 030 5995 B 10 010 1200-1700 17750 S 100 030 1700-2100 9660 S 100 030

So-We&So-Ce Pac Ocean, NoAM 2000-2200 12080 B 10 080 2100-0200 21740 S 100 070 2100-0800 17580 S 100 030 2200-0200 17795 S 100 050 2300-0900 12080 B 10 080 0200-0900 15510 S 100 070 0800-1200 13605 S 100 030 1200-1700 11650 S 100 030 1700-2100 9660 S 100 030 1100-2130 9580 S 100 070 1400-1800 6180 S 100 030 1700-2200 11880 S 100 065 1800-2000 7240 S 100 030

R Australia's weekend sports progr, Grandstand is bc on Sat from 0200-0800 and Sun from 0300-0800 into Asia 17750, the CePac on 17580, the SoWePac on 12080 and 17580 kHz and into PNG, the WePac and JPN 9660, 17580 and 21725.

"TX Site, Power and Bearing" refers to the tx site associated with the indicated bc. Tx sites are Shepparton, Victoria (S) and Brandon, Queensland (B). Tx power is either 100 or 10 kW. Txion bearings are in degrs. (RA website via JKB WWDXC DX Magazine, May 99)

The 6 MHz band is very interesting from our mid-morning until early afternoon, with Voz Cristiana, Santiago-CHL on 6070 audible continuously from fade-in at around 2200 until past 1200! That's more than 14 contiguous hours! The propagation (short) path is southerly from Santiago, just grazing the northern Antarctic region, then northerly into Melbourne. Path length is about 7300 km, with a lot of it in darkness for all of those 14 hrs. Other 6 MHz signals at our local noon as at Jun 17 (0200 UTC) included Marti 6030, DW Wertachtal 6040, REE 6055, DW Wertachtal 6075, BR Munich Ismaning 6085, and DW Wertachtal 6100. Other unusual signals on 6 MHz during our daytime included Radio Clube do Paranense, Curitiba 6040 2230- 2300 and VOA-Kavalla 6035 *0100-0130* Urdu. We are just into the period of the year when daylight hrs in Melbourne are minimum - sunrise Jun 16 was 2130, and sunset was 0700. That gives only 9hrs 30mins of daylight! The strongest of the morning Brazilians is R Aparecida on 6135, audible from as early as 2100 to well past 2300. Matt Francis in Canberra-AUS also notes Brazilians on 9 and 11 MHz in the same time period.

9530 R Nova Visao, Santa Maria. Light mx, 2140-2200* 9615 R Cultura, Sao Paulo. Very weak at 2130 tune-in and gone by 2200 9645 R Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo. Best of all Brazilians on 31mb, 2140-2210 9725 R Clube Paranaense, Curitiba. Very weak with soccer commentary 2130, only possible due to clear frequency. 11780 R Nacional de Amazonia, Brasilia, good 2150-2215 11805 R Globo, Rio de Janeiro, good from 2145, until blocked at 2200 by VOA-Phil in Ins. 11815 R Brasil Central, Goiania. Good 2130-2215+ 11915 R Gaucha, Porto Alegra. Good 2130, blocked at 2200 by DW Wertachtal in Ins. (Bob Padula-AUS EDXP, Jun 18)

BELGIUM RVI Dutch via two txs in // at 0600-0700: Loc kW deg QRG target WAV 200 163 5985 S Europe (France, SoGER, SUI, AUT, NoItaly, NoSpain) WAV 100 32 5985 N Europe (NoGER, Scandinavia) WAV 200 137 13745 SE Europe (Medit area, NE) (RVI Golfgids Jun 16, via Paul Brems)

BULGARIA For two weeks now, the DX progrs of R Bulgaria in En (featuring ham radio and bc tips) and in Ge (some items translated also in Fr & Sp sces of R BUL) are with new progr content and please if you have a bit spare time - listen to. These are test DX progrs waiting for listeners opinions. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

CAMBODIA 11939v Nat Voice of CBG, 1200 carrier only; 1202 - opening mx with ID and sked, followed by non stop pop songs; SIO 322. (Fedor Brazhnikov-RUS, va Cumbre, Jun 15)

COSTA RICA Notes from RFPI Mailbag June 11 with Joe Bernard and James Latham: internet problems continue; can't keep online for more than 15 mins at a time, preventing uploading of audio files to site, but two of the new Progressive News shows are there.

Starting next week, besides 2200, PNN will be repeated at 0130 Tue-Sat. As Universidad de la Paz grows, it is expected that they will have new high- speed internet access by end of year.

21460 has been off for a week or more; not believed a serious problem, but haven't had time to work on it. The other freqs are working well. FM 101.3 is running at full power covering the Central Valley. Sorry, VISTA is late, still working on getting it out. RFPI E-mail weekly previews not received lately. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 17)

CUBA Eff Jun 16, from 2000-2200 RHC European Fr & En txions move from 13720 to 13750. AM tx 50 kW, antenna 4x4/0.5 CCIR standard curtain, azimuth 050 degrs. The txion was previously on 13720 but have experienced incompatibility with Iran, so we decided to move.

Eff Jun 16 RHC txion in Fr & En to EUR using the SSB modulation system will run from 2000-2200 freq 13660, tx 20 kW PEP, antenna rhombic 13 dB gain 10 degrs take off angle, azimuth 41 degrs.

Send reception reports directly to me at: [email protected]

Arnie Coro CO2KK, host of Dxers Unlimited Radio Habana Cuba e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected] Postal addr: Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich, La Torre no.127, entre 35 y 37, Nuevo Vedado, Plaza Ciudad Habana, 10600 CUBA. (Arnaldo Coro CO2KK, RHC, Jun 14)

CYPRUS I can add that BBC WS no more use 6180 at 1800-2000, Limassol Zyyi 250 kW 007 degr to EaEUR. First noted on June 13th. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, via KL, Jun 17)

ETHIOPIA/GERMANY BBCM reported that Voice of Oromo Liberation audio is available on their website, but there was a typo. Correct URL is: http://www.visafric.com/Dimtsi_hafash.htm (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 17) [SW outlets via DTK Juelich-GER, ed]

FM long distance FM reception noted on Jun 5th & 6th in BUL, 1000-1800: 69.47 MHz R Peterburg (St. Petersburg), approx. 2000 kms away ! 68.50 & 68.63 GTRK Tatarstan. 69.80 Armenian R Yerevan 2nd progr, //1395. 88.60 Sawto Shaab, Syria (Voice of People). 67.70 Syria home sce 2nd progr on OIRT band range ! It was not an image freq ! Also heard several stns from RUS, UKR, ISR, EaTUR, IRN etc. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

GERMANY DW is noted using 21715 for Ar at 1300-1555, x21705 Wertachtal 500 kW 120 degr, where ARS Ar is heard. //13790 Sines-POR, 15535-WER 17785- NAU&WER and, I think, a poor 17715 Krasnodar Armavir-RUS. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

Since the merger of the German public broadcasters SWF and SDR their SW freqs Muehlacker 6030 and Rohrdorf 7265 have been bcing the popular mx progr SWR 3. The only exception is SWR-International, a progr about the problems and achievements of second and third generation immigrants in Germany. It is bc on Sats and Suns 1600-1700 on 6030 while 7265 continues with SWR-3-programming. Beside this progr there are only short splits when 6030 and 7265 carry different annts of regional concern. (At times there are rumours surfacing in the non-German-speaking international DX scene that SWR 7265 would change to 6190. This might have been a misunderstanding. Some time ago the SIEMENS-Austria tx formerly operated by Radio Bremen 6190 was moved to Rohrdorf and replaced the old tx of 7265.) (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener D-Amberg, Jun 19)

Acc to an item in todays press, Deutsche Telekom will allow the construction of a new hotel on the grounds of the closed [ex-GDR main] Ruegen Radio maritime station at Glowe. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 16)

(Bayern) Der seit Jahren angekuendigte Wechsel der Mittelwellensender Hof und Wuerzburg von 520 auf 729 scheint binnen kurzem bevorzustehen. Kai Ludwig hatte Anfang des Jahres den Wechsel des Wuerzburger Senders fuer Maerz angekuendigt. In einem Gespraech am 13.6.1999 wurde Dr. Hansjoerg Biener ein solcher Termin bestaetigt, doch habe es Probleme mit den Bauteilen gegeben. Der Bayerische Rundfunk betreibt fuer sein Nachrichtenradio B5 aktuell in Hof und Wuerzburg zwei Kleinsender (je 200 Watt) auf der Frequenz 520, die unterhalb des eigentlichen Mittelwellenbereiches liegt und von vielen Radios (zum Beispiel dem Grundig Satellit 700) nicht empfangen werden kann. Diese beiden Sender sind der Rest von einst zahlreichen Fuellsendern auf dieser ungewoehnlichen Frequenz, deren Nutzung auf die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit zurueckgeht. Seit 1998 werden sie im World Radio TV Handbook faelschlich auf 801 gelistet. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 14)

Von Mittwoch, 16. bis Sonntag, 20.6.1999 wird der in Stuttgart ausgetragene evangelische Kirchentag von einem speziellen Veranstaltungs-Radio "Event- Radio" begleitet. Gesendet wird auf der UKW-Frequenz 96.0 MHz mit einer Leistung von 200 Watt (Standort: DTK-Turm Stuttgart Frauenkopf). Veranstaltungs-Radios zu Kirchentagen gab es schon oefter: 1998 ging "Hitradio Katholikentag" auf UKW 95,8 MHz zum Kirchentag in Mainz auf Sendung. Quelle: http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/vigurs/51/meldungen.htm (Christian Bruelhart-D, Jun 18)

"Event-Radio" 96.0 MHz, 200 Watt, 24 hrs. Kirchentagsradio: Infos, Gebete, Musik. Fuenf Redakteure senden live vom Studio auf dem Stuttgarter Killesberg, Messezentrum. Leiter ist der 45-jaehriger baptistischer Theologe Guenter Mahler. Traeger des Kirchentagsradios ist die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Rundfunk.

Ueberall gleichzeitig koennen die Kirchentagsbesucher zwar immer noch nicht sein. Doch die Frequenz UKW 96.0 MHz und spezielle Kopfhoerer mit integriertem Empfangsteil bringen sie diesem Wunsch ein Stueck naeher. Rund um die Uhr stroemen Andachten, Veranstaltungstips, Interviews und sogar Weltnachrichten in die Ohrmuscheln der bummelnden Glaeubigen. Oldies aus den 70er, 80er und 90er Jahren plaetschern zwischendrin und die ganzen Naechte hindurch.

Das "Event-Radio" feiert auf dem Kirchentag Premiere. Nach dem Abschlussgottesdienst am Sonntag abend herrscht dann wieder Stille auf UKW 96.0. [eher ein Rauschen mit akustischen Fetzen von SWR Weinbiet 95.9 und Hornisgrinde 96.2, ed]

Hoerbar im Autoradio noch noerdlich von Tuebingen, also suedlich 40 km ausserhalb Stuttgart. Der Sender strahlt vom Stuttgarter DTK-Fernmeldeturm am Frauenkopf. Der am gleichen Standort befindliche DLR Berlin 1 kW Sender kommt deutlich staerker herein. (ed, Jun 16)

GUAM KSDA is heard using both 11560 and 11965, 100 kW 300 degr, at 1700 in Persian and 1730-1800 En. BUT they are NOT in sync. 11560 is slightly 'behind' 11965 - although signal characteristics are the same. 12130 from Meyerton-RSA has a different En progr at 1730. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16) [KSDA may protect their Diesel engine power supply circuit against sync peak level electricity consumption, like RN Bonaire is doing, ed]

IRAN VoIRI Tehran found using Kamalabad v11735.62 [x11635?] - that freq appears to come up most days - for Ar from circa 1630 and //to better 13645. Still traces of signal at 1750+. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

1730-1830 noted on 9870 9885 13645 13730(x13660) (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Mar 30)

Bosnian (S-Cr) progr 2130-2230 up on odd Zahedan 9517.3, 500 kW 289 degr. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 17)

Acc to e-mail from Mr Jalalian Naser of the VoIRI, they want a RR to hear the following Ch progr. This is to decide the freq of Jpn progr which will be bc from this summer. 1330-1430 Ch 15370 17580 17630 15200 11885. (JpnSWC Jun 13, via Cumbre)

IRIB's usual e-mail address is NOT functioning at present [email protected]

For undefined time replaced by [email protected] (Klaus Koehler-D, Jun 17)

VOIRI in Fr 0300-0725 17780 21470 (x15250 x21810) and 21770. 1830-1927 9022 11680 11900 13685 13790 15130. 2330-0027 9022 9795 11970. (Cees Vanoudheusden-HOL, Jun 20)

IRELAND RTE has started a Mon-Fri sce in Alb lang for refugees staying in the country and via the Athlone sender using 612 MW at 1830-1930. As well as playing lots of Albanian mx, they are also rebroadcasting progs from other overseas broadcasters, such as DW and BBC. At 1902 on Jun 15th it seemed strange to hear the ID "Ju flet Londra" (BBC) on this freq. Their Radio 2 continues via 1278 MW & FM during this time. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

KOREA Rep.of RKI Seoul bcs in ten diff langs on a total of 24 freqs targeting 9 directions: EUR, NoAM, SoAM, SoEaAS, ME & AF, AUS, CHN, JPN and Non-Dir. Latest A99 schedule.

Europe Korean 1 1700-1900 7550 0900-1100 13670 Korean 2 0700-0800 9535 7550 Russian 1800-1900 15360 Arabic 1600-1700 7275 7550 1900-2000 6480 7550 15575 English 1 1900-2000 7275 2100-2200 15575 0800-0900 13670 English 2 2100-2130 6480 2100-2130 3970 French 1700-1800 7275 1900-2000 6145 German 1800-1900 7275 6480 2000-2100 6145 7550 15575 Spanish 2000-2100 6480 7275 1600-1700 6150

NoAM Korean 1 2300-0100 15575 Korean 2 0300-0430 15575 Korean nx sce 1100-1130 6145 9650 English 1 0200-0300 15575 English 2 1030-1100 11715 Spanish 0100-0200 15575

SoAM Korean 2 0100-0200 11810 0300-0400 11725 11810 0900-1000 7550 Korean nx sce 1100-1130 9580 En 1 0200-0300 11725 11810 Spanish 1 0100-0200 11725 1000-1100 7550 9580 Spanish 2 1000-1030 11715

SoEaAS Korean 2 2100-2200 9640 En 1 1230-1330 9570 13670 Chinese 2200-2300 9640 Ins 2300-2400 9640 1130-1230 9570 13670 1330-1430 9570 13670

ME & AF English 1 1600-1700 9515 9870 Fr 1700-1800 9515 9870 1900-2000 9870 Spanish 1 1800-1900 9515 9870 2000-2100 9870 Arabic 1900-2000 9515 2100-2200 9870 Russian 1500-1600 9515

AUS PAC Korean 1 0900-1100 9570 En 0800-0900 9570

China Korean 2 0100-0200 7275 0300-0400 7275 1200-1300 7285 English 1 0200-0300 7275 Chinese 2200-2300 7275 1130-1230 6055 1300-1400 7285 Ins 2300-2400 7275

Japan Japanese 0000-0100 11810 0800-0900 5975 7275 9640 1200-1300 5975 6135 1170MW 1400-1500 5975 7275 Non Direction Korean 1 1700-1900 5975 2300-0100 5975 0900-1100 5975 7275 Korean 2 2100-2200 5975 1000-1100 1170MW Korean News Service 1100-1130 9640 English 1600-1700 5975 1900-2000 5975 1230-1330 9640 Ins 1130-1230 9640 Chinese 2200-2300 5975 1300-1400 5975 6135 1170MW Russian 2000-2100 5975 1100-1200 5975 6135 1100-1200 7275 1170MW. (RKI website via JKB WWDXC DX Magazine, Jun 99)

LEBANON We are at this moment listening to the new SW tx from VoHope in LEB. Here are the details: 15 Jun, 2125, freq 6279.5, SINPO 44444, lang Ar, //to 11530. Station ID in En at 2130 announcing P.O.Box in Limassol-CYP. (Ludo Maes-BEL, Jun 15)

High Adventure Radio, 6280 is once again on air. (Herbert Meixner-AUT, Jun 17)

Good sigs here in Melbourne 6279.5 //11530, 2230-2300 Ar. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP Jun 16) [Marie Lamb told 11530 to be replaced by 11515]

6280 High Adventure R back on air on Jun 15th, 1800-2200 En progr, on 11530 is usual progr. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

MACEDONIA DW is building a new 1200 kW tx for MW 810 to replace the present 133 kW old tx unit located in Ovchje Polje site, near Skopje. This tx will be used for home sce & DW progrs in Alb, Mac, Bos & Se sces. Taken from the interview with technical director of Macedonian Radio, heard on DW radio in Macedonian lang., May 20th. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

MALI CRI via Mali relay: 0830-0900 7170 Hausa 1400-1600 15125 13685 En 1600-1700 15125 13685 Ar 1700-1730 15125 11970 Swa 1730-1830 11970 9890 Ha 1830-1930 15530 13685 Ar 1930-2000 15500 11975 Por 2000-2130 15500 11975 En 2130-2230 15500 11975 Fr 2230-2300 15500 11975 Ch 2300-0000 11975 7170 Ch. (NDXC via EPXP #122 May 12)

MOLDOVA R Moldova Internat A99 schedule valid to 30 Oct. 0200-0225 Sp 9400 1100-1125 Sp 11580 Am(Latin) 1930-1955 Sp 7520 2100-2125 Sp 7520 Spain 0230-0300 Ro 7520 0300-0325 En 7520 USA & CAN 0330-0355 Ru 7520 1800-1825 Ru 7520 RUS 0400-0425 En 7520 1130-1200 Ro 11580 USA & CAN 1900-1925 Fr 7520 2000-2025 Fr 7520 France 2030-2055 En 7520 2130-2155 En 7520 UK (Ruben Guillermo Margenet via Franco Probi in RI 117/99, 20 May 1999)

PAKISTAN Some freq changes of R Pakistan: 1330-1530 Ur v17516 (x17535) //15465. 1600-1630 En v17511 (x17535) [*today measured 17507.56, ed] //15319.95 15465 17719.97. 1700-1730 Tu 13580 (x9770 to avoid VoA), //11600. 1800-1845 Ar 11640 (x11635 to avoid TWR ALB) (PanIview - Rumen Pankov-BUL & Ivo Ivanov-BUL, Jun 16) [*today Jun 21 measured to the nearest 10 Hz, ed]

ROMANIA Radio Romania International A99 schedule

SPANISH E/ARG 0000-0100 11830 15105 15340 17735 MEX 0300-0400 11810 E 1800-1900 9625 11840 15380 E/ARG 2200-2300 15270 15365

PORTUGUESE POR/B 2200-2300 11970 15180 15335 17745 B 0100-0200 15340 17735

ITALIAN I 1400-1430 9510 I 1500-1530 756 9750 I 2000-2030 756 9510

ENGLISH USA/J/NZL 0200-0300 9510 9570 11725 11740 11810 17735 USA/IND 0400-0500 9570 11740 11810 17735 USA/CAN 0600-0700 11725 11940 wEu 0641-0655 9625 11840 11885 15270 Af 0700-0800 15340 17745 wEu/CAN 1300-1400 9690 15390 15445 17720 wEu 1700-1800 15270 15380 17735 17865 wEu/nEu 2100-2200 9570 11810 11840 15180 wEu/NAm 2300-0000 9570 11810 11830 15105 DX Mailbag on Sats, Listener's Letterbox on Thurs.

FRENCH CAN 0500-0600 9605 11725 wEu 0615-0628 9625 11840 11885 15270 wEu/Maghreb 1100-1200 11940 15250 15390 17815 wEu 1500-1600 15340 15390 17805 17815 wEu 2000-2100 7195 9530 9750

GERMAN wEu/cEu 0628-0641 9625 11840 11885 15270 wEu/cEu 1200-1300 11775 15390 15405 17805 wEu/cEu 1600-1700 11775 15195 17805 wEu/cEu 1900-2000 9570 11840 11940 15405

ROMANIAN USA/CAN 0000-0200 9510 11940 AUS 0500-0600 15250 17745 wEu 0600-0615 9625 11840 11885 15270 0900-1000*Sun only 15380 17735 17745 17790 21480 not checked yet 1000-1100*Sun only 15250 15380 17735 17745 17790 not checked yet wEu/cEu 1100-1300 9530 11970 15340 ISR 1600-1700 15270 17840 wEu 1700-1900 11940 15405 wEu/cEu 2100-2200 9650 11775 LAm 2300-0000 15270 15365

Romania Actualitati dom sce relay 2300

ARMANEASHTI cEu 1800-1830 756 11725 cEu 2030-2100 756

HUNGARIAN HNG 0600-0630 5965 HNG 2030-2100 630 7180 9725

SERBIAN YUG 1700-1730 756 7145 YUG 1900-1930 756 11775

GREEK GRC 1730-1800 756 11775 GRC 1930-2000 756 11775

RUSSIAN FE 1300-1400 11905 15405 17745 wRUS 1500-1600 11970 15365 wRUS 1900-2000 7205 9550

UKRAINIAN UKR 0530-0600 5965 UKR 1600-1630 756 5970

BULGARIAN BUL 0500-0530 5965 BUL 1630-1700 756 5955

TURKISH TUR 1530-1600 756 9550 TUR 1830-1900 756 9750

PERSIAN to IRN ceased service. Replaced by CHINESE progr to EaAS, BUT blind entry. 1430-1500 no freqs print out 2000-2030 no freqs print out [2000 UTC is too late in CHN !]

ARABIC Maghreb/EGY 0700-0800 15250 15380 17720 17840 Maghreb/EGY 1400-1500 15365 15380 17535 17745 * for Seamen, Suns only, but not included in printed schedule. (RRI printed schedule, via Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

RUSSIA Now Pavel Mikhaylov - presenter of famous "DX Klub" progr of in Ru via R Rossii Moscow -is recovering at home after heart attack in the end of April. Let's hope to hear his outstanding programme in near future, May 30.

A big joy and hope for our friend ! Last edition of his "DX Klub" progr was no.453 of Apr 18, 1999. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

R Rossii is heard using 11735 1730-2000. Is this GPR-1 Moscow 250 kW at 263 degr, which uses 17660 until 1700 ? GPR-1 Moscow 100 kW at 000 degr listed 1530-2100 on 5905 doesn"t seem to be there - only RUI-UKR. Other freqs audible at 1730 are 5940 7360 7445 9490 & 13705. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

Different schedule direct from Russia: 1730-1800 7355,7445,11735 1800-1900 4895,5905,5930,5940,7355,7445,9490,11735 1830-1900 9845 1900-2000 5905,5930,5940,7355,7445,9490,9805,9845,11735 2000-2100 5905,5930,5940,7355,7445,9490,9805,9845,11735 (Konstantin Gusev, Moscow-RUS, Jun 13)

1700-1800 5940 9490 13705 1800-1900 5940 6160 7355 7445 9490 11735 1900-2000 5940 7355 7445 9490 9845 11735 2000-2100 5905 5940 7355 7445 9845 11735 11880

Moscow Islamic Centre - "Islamskaya Volna". MW 1494 St.P.; 1089 & 1170 Krasnodar Armavir; 612 Moscow. 1500-1600 Tue-Fri, irreg 612 1089 1170 1494 9730, Ar & Tatar.First heard May 1992, as "Rukhi Miras" ("Spiritual Heritage"). (BBCM, Jun 16)

SERBIA R Yugoslavia seems to have En daily 6185 via Bijeljina-BIH only at 2100-2120, but I hav'nt checked out the whole of their schedule. I'm hearing an En lang nxcast on MW 1440 until 2105 when the tx goes off. However, it depends when LUX signs-off whether it's heard or not. Sometimes their anthem starts at circa 2100-2102, sometimes they stay on later than 2105. The En is very well spoken but no ID yet heard. Could it be the YUG stn listed on 1440? [or from NE/ME states, ed ?] (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

RTS dom sce, at 0800 on Jun 13 the ONLY on air were 711, 1008 and carrier on 684. All other MW stns were silent. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

[BOSNIA] 6185 R YUG, 2100-*2120* in En with nx, ID, 2119 IS, end tx at 2120, poor reception and needs USB due to others using this and other nearby freqs. (John Kecskes-AUS, Jun 13)

7230 R YUG Belgrade via Bosnian tx site Bijeljina in Sp to SoEUR 1900- 1925v (x7220 to avoid RL in Ru). (PanIview - Rumen Pankov-BUL & Ivo Ivanov-BUL, Jun 16)

SEYCHELLES To avoid VoIRI-IRN in Bengali, FEBA Mahe found using new 11695 (x11665) at 1515-1630 and until 1700 Fri/Sun. Langs listed as Azeri, Persian, Hazaragi (Kazakh?) and Dari, with En on Suns 1630. (Noel Green- UK, Jun 16)

SOUTH AFRICA 9665 TWR Amharic and En annts, 250 kW 019 degr, 1730-1830 (Sat -1815), playing EaAF mx, (x9670). (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 17)

SWEDEN Greetings, Glenn. Just returned from a week in Italy and saw the nx about the death of Arne Skoog. This is sadly ironic, because just two days before that, I had a ham radio contact with a stn in Stockholm.

The operator also used to work for R Sweden, and knew Arne, as I did. We brought up the subject, and both wondered how he was doing.

Arne was a radio amateur in addition to being a pioneer DXer. In fact, he was a founder of the R Sweden ham stn, which is still in operation. His other hobby was completely non-radio-related: building and playing violins, a key instrument in traditional Swedish folk mx. I had the privilege of working with Arne when I presented Sweden Calling DXers for just under two years back in the '66-'67. Arne was a quiet, very traditionally-minded man, who appreciated and lived simple values. His support for SW as the classic and vital medium for internat bcing will surely prove to be far-sighted. Arne did his own thinking, and did not allow himself to be distracted or beguiled by buzzwords and fads. We could use a few more people like that. He will be well remembered in our 'logbook'.

Respects to a 'silent key'. (Bob Zanotti, with Bob Thomann, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 17)

R Sweden is sorry to tell the DX community that Arne Skoog, the man who founded "Sweden Calling DXers" (the program that became "MediaScan") more than 50 years ago, has passed away.

Arne died last Mon, June 7th, in his beloved home province of Jaemtland. He was 86.

SW radio became a mass medium during the Second World War, and afterwards there many hobbysts, known as DXers, who explored the world over the airwaves, the web-surfers of that time. But there was precious little information to help them find their way. Back in 1948, Arne Skoog was a young engineer here at R Sweden, and he convinced management that it would be a service to our growing audience to provide a regular news magazine about their hobby.

Originally, the information in the program was based on Arne's own extensive listening, but soon listeners began writing in with news from their own monitoring. That material went into the progrs, and everyone who contributed went on the mailing list to receive a newsletter based on the scripts. An early example of interactivity, and a fore-runner of the many e-mail mailing lists today, like this one.

Arne was also very instrumental in the organization of clubs for listeners, both here in Sweden and in EUR. In today's program Claes Englund, a longtime friend of Arne's, and a former chairman of the Swedish DX Alliance, and an early Secretary General of the European DX Council, tells us about Arne's importance in the growth of the SW listening hobby.

Claes says that when Arne started, their were two DX clubs in Sweden. Soon there were more than 70. The Swedish DX Parliaments became the model for the later European DX Council conferences, bringing together broadcasters with their listeners.

Arne Skoog retired in 1978, when this program celebrated its 30th anniversary. But he stayed in contact with us and the hobby. Arne was highly critical when satellite bcing started here in the 80's, and management decided to change this progr into a general media magazine, shifting the focus away from SW.

In connection with the program's 45th anniversary, in 1993, I asked Arne, about his objections. You can hear his comments in today's progr. He was highly critical of the shift away from SW, and underlined the limitations of satellites and satellite bcing in a manner that management at the time failed to grasp. While some may have objected to Arne's public criticism of R Sweden, his powerful comments were based on love for radio and the stn. History has shown that Arne was more right than wrong.

And, engineer at heart, Arne was not against the advance of technology. When personal computers arrived on the desktop, Arne enthusiastically embraced the new technology. He heartily approved of Internet broadcasting. Arne saw the parallels between the growth of the Internet and the radio hobby, and he once told Claes Englund that DXers are "Ether-surfers".

We've received many e-mails from members of the DX community sharing their feelings about Arne's passing. We'd like to thank all of you who have written. You've confirmed our belief that a giant has passed from the stage. You can find some of these condolences on our website in the online verison of this newletter at: http://www.sr.se/rs/media/scdx.htm

You will be able to find RealAudio links to today's progr. We're also encouraging listeners to use our Internet discussion forum, Talkback to share their feelings about Arne and his role as a DX pioneer. You can find Radio Sweden Talkback at: http://www.deja.com/~radiosweden (Radio Sweden SCDX #2315, Jun 15)

UKRAINE Most evenings since May 27 I have been hearing RUI Kiev on 17715 at 2100 in En, signal weak but in the clear, probably beamed east, so could possibly be audible in WeNA. I can't believe no one has heard this, but so far I haven't heard any other reports of it. (Peter Hallam, Northern Ireland, WORLD OF RADIO 993, Jun 17)

On Jun 14, RUI was heard in En 2100-2200 9560 with a readable signal. //17715 was extremely poor. The only listed freq for RUI's 0300 broadcast, 9620, was covered by Spain. (Ivan Grishin, Ont., WORLD OF RADIO 993, Jun 17)

UNID 11555 1605 VERY weak En relig sermon, noted on //15160 21605. Discovered while band scanning. Have no idea who this is, (and so far no else does either!) stn's SIO=242. No breaks for an ID noted at 1630, sermon continued up to fade-out at 1640. Subsequent checks to no avail later in the days, or subsequent days. Anyone have any idea?! Would love to include it in M.T., but I'm baffled! (Gayle VanHorn-NY Jun 15, Cumbre Jun 18)

UK On Jun 11 Country Music R was heard on 7325 at 2000-2100 presumed via Merlin facility. CMR is known to bc via Astra satellite as analogue on tv CNBC tr 50 / 10.729 GHz, VP and subcarriers stereo 7.38, 7.56 MHz and digital on tr 51 & 83, freq of 12.070,5 GHz. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

Test TX. Experimental radio test txion from London tonight Fri 11th June, 2100-2200. One hour test of new radio stn "Indigo Blue", underground dance mx from secret location in London. Pirate radio presentation style by Lunar Princess. The SW freqs are: 6140 7325 9505. You can also hear the txion on Analogue Sky channel 58. This is one of the Sky Box Office freqs but tune the audio to 7.38 and 7.56 for stereo reception of the show. Listen and contact me with comments. Lee - special collectors QSL for furthest Indigoer. [email protected] I would say it was almost certainly via Merlin capacity - given the freqs listed, fortunately I didn't hear it myself. (Ray Woodward via British DX Club, Jun 15)

USA I have been listening to the txion at 1800-1830 indicated on the IBB sched as "RL" ind the "KO" language on Biblis-D 5965, 100 kW 105 degr, Briech-MRC 9745 & 15280 both 250 kW 59 degr. Also via MW 1458-Durres Fllake-ALB, 500 kW 030 degr. I think it announces as R Free Europe (not RL) and in Shqiptar language and to Kosovo which I interpret as RFE Albanian sce to Kosovo. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16) [RL-5 is the feeder circuit call only]

I've been hearing R Marti up on new 21500 around 2100, which I see is via Delano-CA, signal is quite good some nights, with Cuban jammers too. (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16

7240 lsb mode, ANARC SWL Ham Net for latest in SWL, MW, LW, DX tips is heard on every Sun 1500 (1000 a.m. EaT). Contribution via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel #SWL while the net is in progress. Or: http://www.trsc.com/Radio/SWL_NET/swl_net.html (Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jun 16)

WHRA to change frequencies ! Beginning Mon Jun 21, 1999 at 2300 time WHRA will replace 7385 by 7580. This freq change affects all progrs 2300-0500 Mon-Fri.

For more information see our web site at www.whr.org or email us at [email protected] Phone +1 219-291-8200 (WHRI, Joe Brashier-USA, Jun 15)

Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott is taking some time off, so he has graciously invited me to put this week's edition of "Dxing with Cumbre" on the WRN in place of his usual 30-min version of VOA's "Communications World." Our thanks to Dr. Elliott for this invitation. Here is where the half-hour version may be heard, according to the CW schedule posted at http://www.trsc.com/cw/cw_schedule.html

Half-hour edition bc on SW (Satellite feed provided by WRN) Sun 0200-0230 5070 (WWCR) Sun 2000-2030 7415 (WBCQ) Mon 0530-0600 3210 (WWCR) Thu 1230-1300 15685 (WWCR)

Half-hour edition via satellite and internet. The half-hour edition of CW is available on demand in Real Audio format from: http://wrn.org/ondemand/communicationsworld.html and http://www.voa.gov

Via satellite: WRN: World Radio Network and W0KIE: W0KIE Satellite Radio Network

EUR Sat 0830-0900 WRN1, Astra 1B, 19 degr East, tr 22 (VH1), 11.538 GHz, v-pol, audio subcarrier 7.38 MHz; and WRN2, Eutelsat Hot Bird, 13 degrs east, 10.933 GHz (horizontal), audio subcarrier 7.74 MHz on Quantum 24 TV. Also via WRN affiliates in EUR: http://wrn.org/europe.html

AF/ME/EaEUR Sun 0400-0430 WRN1, Intelsat 707, 1 degr west, 3.9115 GHz, right-hand circular-pol, symbol rate 8.022 Mbaud, FEC 3/4, MPEG2. From the menu select audio stream "WRN1" and listen to the left channel for WRN1. Also on Multichoice, channel 51, to SoAF.

Sun 0830-0900 WRN2 (as above, exc listen to the right channel for WRN2).

AS Sun 0400-0420 WRN1, AsiaSat-2, 100.5 degrs east, 4.000 Ghz, v-pol, MPEG2 DVB, symbol rate 28.125 Mbaud, FEC 3/4. Select "WRN" from audio menu and listen to left audio channel for WRN1. Also on Usen cable radio in JPN.

Sun 0830-0900 WRN2 (as above, except listen to the right channel for WRN2).

NoAM Sat 0230-0400 WRN2, Galaxy 5, 125 degrs west, tr 6 (TBS), 3.820 GHz, v-pol, audio subcarrier 6.2 MHz. Also available as Internet audio stream: http://wrn.org/live.html

Sun 1400-1430 WRN1 (as above exc audio subcarrier 6.8 MHz). Also available as Internet audio stream: http://wrn.org/live.html

Fri 0200-0230 W0KIE Satellite Radio Network, GE-1, 103 degrs west, 3.94 GHz, v-pol, audio subcarrier 5.7 MHz narrow band (4DTV-W1-951). Also in Real Audio from http://www.w0kie.com

Reception reports welcome at [email protected]

The regular Cumbre SW bcs on World Harvest Radio will be available as usual; the latest schedule is at http://www.whr.org (Marie Lamb-USA, Jun 16)

VATICAN STATE [SANTA MARIA DI GALERIA] Enclosed please find the reply of R Vatican with respect to status and location of the txing site of Sta.Maria di Galeria. The conclusion to be drawn appears to be that Vatican City and its exclave St.Maria di Galeria should be considered not as one but as two radio countries (examples would be Angola/Cabinda or Russia/Kaliningrad). It follows that certain radio country lists should be amended accordingly. (Glantschnig hard-core-dx via Hauser Review of International Broadcasting Jun 12)

Dear Mister Glantschnig, The txing site of Santa Maria di Galeria belongs to the Holy See, although it is not part of Vatican City. It is indeed an exclave - extra-territorial area - of the Vatican and therefore is not under the jurisdiction of the Italian State. (Ibid.)

I suggested this to the NASWA Country List Committee several years ago. They felt that the territories were too close to be considered different countries, even though they are distinct places. (Moore hard-core-dx via Hauser Review of International Broadcasting Jun 12, via Cumbre Dx, Jun 18)

VIETNAM La Voz de VTN Hanoi in Sp: 0000-0100 9830 1100-1130 12020 13740 2000-2030 9730 13740 (Conexion Digital-ARG Jun 14)

6383v Yen Bai B.S. *1200-1330* Talk & mx. Vn ID as "Day la dai phat thanh Yen Bai.", "...cua dai phat thanh Yen Bai." SINPO=33333. QRM from Utility Fax stn. Schedule as follows by monitoring : *1200-1230 Local lang (Miao- Yao group Lang.) 1230-1300 Vn (Northern dialect) 1300-1330* Vn (Standard).

6497v Cao Bang B.S. *1200-1400* Talk & mx. Vn ID as "Day la dai phat thanh Cao Bang.", "...cua dai phat thanh Cao Bang." SINPO=34333. Freq is stroll incessantly from beginning to end. Schedule as follows by monitoring : *1200-1215 Local lang (Miao-Yao group Lang.) 1215-1230 Vn (Northern dialect) 1230-1300 Vn (Standard) 1300-1400* Vn (Standard).

6689v (reactive) R.TV. Lao Cai *1000-1330* Talk & mx. Vn ID as "Day la dai phat thanh truyen hinh Lao Cai.", "...cua dai phat thanh truyen hinh Lao Cai." SINPO=44333. //freq is 5595v, state of SINPO=34333. Schedule as follows by monitoring *1000-1030 Vn (Standard) 1030-1100 Local lang (Tai group lang) (1100-1200 txion stoppage) *1200-1230 Vn (Northern dialect) 1230-1300 Local lang (Miao-Yao group lang) 1300-1330* Vn (Standard). (Satoshi Hasebe-JPN, via Cumbre, Jun 8/9/10)

6689.7 Lao Cai Bcing Stn (tent) here now, ex 6695v? A Vnse stn here at 1200, but can't hear listed //5595v or find it on a search of the area. (Hans Johnson-USA, via Cumbre Jun 18) v9839.75 VoVTN Hanoi 1025 Talk by a man to male vocal mx. 1027* woman says a few words to open carrier. Lang listed as En, but too weak to tell. *1030 mx to man with sign on, then female speaks. Listed as Ins. //12019.7 same quality, very weak but in the clear. (Dan Ziolkowski-USA, via Cumbre Jun 15)

PLC Power Line Communication, discussion in English: http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,37215,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.h

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Suedwestrundfunk bietet der Kurzwellenring-Sued wieder eine Senderfuehrung an. Dieses Mal geht es um den Mittel- und Kurzwellenstandort Muehlacker. Die Mitarbeiterschaft des SWR Muehlacker ermoeglichen einen Senderbesuch. Das ist um so freundlicher, als der Sender wochenends nicht besetzt ist. Termin ist Samstag, der 24. Juli, ab 1330 Uhr Ortszeit MESZ. Da der SWR 10 Tage vorher eine Liste der Teilnehmenden braucht, moegen Interessenten moeglichst schnell in ihren Terminkalender schauen und sich anmelden.

Kontaktanschrift: Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Wittelsbacherstr. 21, D-92224 Amberg. Tel 09621-87468 e-mail: [email protected]

Der Kurzwellenring-Sued hat in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder Senderfuehrungen organisiert, so zum Dillberg, nach Rohrdorf und zum Langenberg (zusammen mit KWFR). Neben dem Projekt Muehlacker wurden bzw. werden die Projekte Ismaning und Frankfurt/Hoher Meissner verfolgt. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 14)

HOBBY CONVENTION on Radio & TV exhibition in Berlin.

Ein Hobbytreffen anlaesslich der IFA '99 findet am Samstag, dem 28.8.99, statt. Um 1600 LT treffen sich die Freunde der ultrakurzen Wellen, um 1800 LT stossen die anderen DX'er dazu.

Veranstaltungsort ist voraussichtlich wieder das Preussische Landwirtshaus, Flatowallee 23, 14055 Berlin-Charlottenburg, unmittelbar am Olympiastadion (S-Bahn). Radio Oesterreich International wird den Termin wahrscheinlich wieder mit einem Hoerertreffen verbinden.

Das Lokal verfuegt auch ueber einen Biergarten - hoffen wir also auf sommerliches Wetter !

Weitere Informationen zu dem Treffen werden in Kuerze in Kurier mit WWH veroeffentlicht werden. Man kann sich aber auch direkt an den Organisator wenden: Thomas Kubaczewski, Flatowallee 16/916, D-14055 Berlin, Germany. Tel. 030 3043078, Fax 030 3046371. (Frank Helmbold-D, Jun 19)

Vom 24. Juni bis 27. Juni findet ja wieder das Sommer-DX-Camp im "Kull-Haus am Grossen Parsick" in der Naehe Krefeld/Duisburg statt. (Naturfreundehaus an einem toten Rheinarm, sehr idyllisch gelegen!) Wir haben noch Plaetze frei; aber auch Tagesbesucher (empfohlen: Samstag!) sind herzlich willkommen! Wer Interesse hat, bekommt von mir per Snailmail oder Fax eine Anfahrtskizze und auch weitere Infos, falls gewuenscht. Anfragen an untenstehende Mailadresse bitte moeglichst bis Dienstag, 22.06.! Oder einfach abends 18-21 MESZ anrufen! (Ulrich Schnelle-D, Jun 19)

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ALBANIA On Jun 23 UT 0130, R Tirana's two NoAM freqs, 6115 and 7160, were both very strong, but so severely distorted that I could not make out what was being said except for the frequent references to "Kosova". I seem to recall R Tirana being off the air for a few days a month or two ago. Apparently their tx woes are not over. (Ivan Grishin, Ont.CAN, WORLD OF RADIO 994, Jun 23)

ANTIGUA Joe Hanlon notes that 5975 has been closing much earlier than scheduled 0700, at 0400. However, here's what I found when checking at 0400 Jun 28: 5975 went off, but came back on, indicating a change of antenna, or perhaps even of tx site; it had been Antigua throughout. 6175 was already off and stayed vacant. 6185, however, was still on with the usual Mexican clash. (Glenn Hauser-USA, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 28)

Registered BBC/Merlin Antigua site: 5975 2100-0500 6-8,10,11 ATG 250 160 degr towards SoAM 5975 0500-0800 6-8,10,11 ATG 250 290 degr towards WeNoAM

ASCENSION ISL BBC S. Atlantic Relay Stn w/ Merlin One Communications letterhead and f/d letter signed by Nicola Nicholls, tx engineer in 75 days - included full stn technical info on separate sheet. (Bruce Churchill-USA, via Cumbre Dx, Jun 24)

BHUTAN Web connection seen as boon for Bhutan. Govt hopes Internet access will help foster growth in commerce and education.

THIMPHU, Bhutan -- The secluded Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a country without a road to the outside world 40 years ago, Tuesday logged onto the information super highway after a traditional Buddhist ceremony of monks' chants and auspicious offerings.

Queen Ashi Dorgi Wangmo Wangchuk hit a keyboard command releasing an image on terminal screens of unfolding scarves to open Druk Net -- Bhutan's Internet service provider -- and sent an e-mail greeting to Bhutanese students and missions abroad.

Guests at the ceremony, including diplomats visiting to attend King Jigme Singye Wangchuk's silver jubilee celebrations Wednesday, were given a five ngultrum (12 U.S. cents) banknote, and a bag of fruit and nuts to foster an auspicious start for Bhutan's latest link with the outside world.

Bhutan's first domestic television broadcaster also goes on air Wednesday to coincide with celebrations of King Jigme Singye Wangchuk's 25 years on the throne.

The advent of television and the Internet to this poor country, where per capita gross domestic product is just $520 per annum, mark the latest stage in King Jigme's policy of modernization. It comes a month after the country, which has one telephone line per 100 people, hooked up to a fully digitalized telephone network.

Internet hailed as boon for Bhutan

There has been a debate within Bhutan over the potential impact of television on a traditional agrarian society, steeped in Buddhist beliefs and locked away from the rest of the world by high mountains, but the king believed the people were ready. The decision earned him a new nickname: "His Majesty, Light of the Cyber Age." "It seems now the timing is right for our society to welcome Internet and information technology given the progress made in information technology infrastructure and the education of our people," the queen, one of King Jigme's four wives, said in her inauguration speech.

Druk Net was a collaboration between Bhutan, the United Nations Development Program and the Canadian-based International Development Research Center.

Ministry of Communications officials hope Bhutan will have up to 500 Internet users by year-end, with access available from all parts of this mountainous country of 700,000 people.

The government hopes this will promote commerce and education and help a policy of decentralization so that faster decision-making can be done at the local level.

The Web site for Druk Net is http://www.druknet.net.bt and there is an information site on http://www.nic.bt http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2268577,00.html?chkpt=h pqs014

(Reuters Jun 1, 1999, via Don Moore CA, Jun 13)

CAMBODIA Nat'l Radio of CBG seems to have been experimenting with its use of MW freqs. Noted from 1-10 June with nat'l prgr on 918 kHz only (previously 740 & 918), with 740 coming on only at 0000-0110v and 1200- 1310v to carry ext sce Nat'l Voice of Cambodia, //11940v. Since aprrox 10 Jun, nat'l sce has been on 740 kHz only, with nothing observed on 918. Usual hrs are 2230-0800/0810v, 1030-1500. Nx in En is carried some days (?Mon-Fri) at approx. 0755-0810. Not sure that ext sce MW freq 1360 in Phnom Penh is really still active -- they're still announcing it. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

CHILE [non]. On this week's Radio-Enlace on R. Nederland, Miguel Angel Morales, Radios Cooperativa de Chile, reported from California that the Sp numbers stn on 11485 at 0500 is from USA to agents in Chile. (Glenn Hauser- USA, WoR, Jun 28)

CHINA Observed sched for 684 kHz, presumably via new facility at Dongfang, Hainan Prov, is 1300-1400 RFI Fr, 1400-1700 CRI Vi. No sign of RFI Fr as per RFI schedule. There are indications that the same tx is used to relay V of Russia Vi on 603 at 1200-1255. The tx on 603 goes off abruptly before the end of the VoR progr, then open carrier with similar strength appears on 684 a couple of mins later, then into RFI audio on the hour.

Some new dom freqs noted in Jun (at least they're new to me): CNR2 on 11670 and 15285 -- seem to be on all local daytime from before 0000 to past 1100.

Xizang/Tibet PBS in Tibetan noted on 6130, around 1445 on 20 Mar among other occasions, //4035 & 6200. All three freqs are strong, though the modulation can be a bit feeble at times. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

COSTA RICA On this week's RFPI Mailbag, James Latham asserted he was now "motivated" to finish fixing the 21460-USB tx, which needed a new cooling fan. Sure enough, when we checked after 1800 UT Sun Jun 27, it was back on. However, later in the afternoon, 15049 was down. More from the Mailbag: electricity has been installed to the top of the mountain to the south of RFPI, which blocks its radiation toward the south. RFPI expects to have txs up there in 6-8 months allowing better reception southwards. (Glenn Hauser-USA, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 28)

CUBA The commie dentro-cubanos have attacked another Miami R stn with heavy bubble jamming: Voz Cristiana, txed from CHL on 21500, as noted before and after 1700 Jun 21, burying VC underneath but no trace of jamming on VC's //21550 which is always stronger here, aimed at MEX.

Actually, tho I find their programming of no interest whatsoever, I'd be surprised if VC has any political content of concern to the dentro-cubanos. I suspect this is another instance of running jammers far beyond the necessary h r s [24 hrs daily ?, ed] on a given freq, i.e. 2100-2200 with R. Marti, Delano, on 21500, as previously reported. The Cuban commies are bringing not only shame upon themselves for being so lacking in self- confidence that they feel jamming is necessary - but also derision for being so incompetent in carrying it out. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 994)

ECUADOR 9885 HCJB is looking out for another 31 mb freq to Europe, Ge at 0430-0500 time range only.

Checked the 31 mb today: 9885 Co-ch SRI Montsinery-GUF medium signal level, til 0430 and from 0500 UTC also VoA Botswana fair level. Should resulting in a signal mess in the Americas. [PanIview-BUL mentioned co-ch VOIROI in Ar at same time, but not audible here in Stuttgart, ed]

Monitoring shows the following compensation channel Ranking kHz 1st 9775 (best frequ here in Europe !) 2nd 9890/9895 3rd 9600/9605 4th 9710 5th 9870 6th-9th 9365, 9385, 9390, 9395.

9525/9530 free channels, but very strong RL/RFE stations on nearby channels of 9520 and 9535.

9600/9605 Minor QRM by 9610[SRI Juelich ?] and Kavalla 9595. BUT RCI Skelton England Relay 9595 s-on with IS already at 0458. SRI Berne (via Juelich ?) to SoEaEUR 0400-0630 on 9610 kHz ! (x13635 ??)

9650 free channel, but Pori-Helsinki-FIN 9655 powerhouse signal.

9710 free channel, but WYFR in the Americas on both side channels 9705 and 9715 heard.

9720 R Victoria, Lima Peru in Sp on 9721.7. Daily guest.

9765 HCJB in Jpn at same time.

9775 BEST channel. Very minor QRM by Yemen v9779.79.

9870 free channel, but UNID stn in Romanian on 9875 s-on at 0458.

9890/ 9895 totally free channels. Cairo-EGY on 9900 c-down at 0430 BUT RNW Flevoland starts interval signal already at 0456 !! Flevo should crash-start at 0500. (HCJB via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 21, report by WB, Jun 27)

EGYPT For a while I've noted R Cairo NoAM sce at 2300 on 9900 for first txion knocked out by 9895. The second for WeNoAM at 0200 on 9475 is usually audible for me but continues with that trademark garbled audio on speech and mx; mx often overmasks voice overs. Same old same old that's been going on for years despite complaints from listeners. I've sent my share of scoldings. Now and then a clean txion is heard but it doesn't last long. Very next day or so. (Bob Thomas-CT, Jun 24, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

ETHIOPIA 6210 Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 0350-0416, local lang Amharic, female announcer, mx progr, ID by man "...Radio Fana...", SINPO 24332. (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Jun 20)

Clandestine Ethiopia. R Rainbow, Voice of Peace and Brotherhood (Amharic, "Kestedamena rediyo ye selamena yewendimamach dimtse"), was first hrd in Sep 1997, although it may have begun bcing some months earlier. The stn is reportedly operated by an ETHian opposition group called Research and Action Group for Peace in ETH and the Horn of Africa (RAGPEHA). It bcs via hired SW txs in Juelich-GER.

0100-0200 Sat 9855 to NoAM, 0900-1000 Sun 5995 to EUR, and 1600-1700 Thurs 15105 to ETH/EaAF. (BBC Monitoring, via NU, Jun 20)

GERMANY/SWITZERLAND 9610 DTK Juelich relay. When looking out for another HCJB freq for Ge at 0430-0500 replacing present 9885, came across of SRI Fr outlet at 0430 on 9610, seemingly replacing scheduled 13635 to SoEaEUR, 100 kW 100 degr, 0400 En, Fr 0430, 0500 Ge, 0515 Fr, 0530 En, 0600-0630 It. (WB, Jun 27)

DW Radiohouse. Reading about the power failure in the DW radiohouse, I am wondering if this will escalate the moving of employees to the new HQ (Berlin?). Another report I read somewhere said building engineers have said that the place is full of asbestos, these recent problems not a good sign, IMO, if DW is expecting to sell the building or get another tenant for it! (Maryanne Kehoe-USA, Jun 19)

DW changes: 0600-0800 Ge NF 11985-ANT relay, (x9690) to avoid RRI. 1500-1550 Brasilian NF 17695 (45544) not listed in sked.

DTK Juelich news: Add times of Brother Stair in En from May 28: 1400-1600 EUR Daily NF 6010 (34433). 0400-0600 NoAm Sat/Sun NF 9425 (45444). 0200-0400 NoAm 9860 is deleted.

New time of Universal Life in En to SoAS. 0100-0130 Sun NF 9495 (55544), (x1300-1330 on 15330).

Good News World Radio in En heard from Jun 6: 0900-1000 Sun NF 13800 (45544). (PanIview-BUL, Jun 16)

DTK - Deutsche Telekom, Juelich, May 31, 1999 Operational Schedule A-99 (Mar 28 - Oct 30) A99DTK05.txt

Freq startstop ciraf zone ant azi typ day 9490 0300-0459 47,48,52,53 306 160 3 23456 RTB 9490 0430-0459 47,48,52,53 306 160 3 17 RTB 17580 0500-0712 47,48,52,53 303 160 3 23456 RTB 17580 0500-0959 47,48,52,53 303 160 3 7 RTB 17580 0500-0806 47,48,52,53 303 160 3 1 RTB 21540 1000-1206 47,48,52,53 301 160 3 23456 RTB 21540 1000-1117 47,48,52,53 301 160 3 7 RTB 21540 1057-1117 47,48,52,53 301 160 3 1 RTB 17800 1500-1712 47,48,52,53 303 160 3 123456 RTB 17800 1557-1712 47,48,52,53 303 160 3 7 RTB 7345 2057-2159 28 104 115 5 1234567 RTB 030599-

5975 1100-1559 28 401 ND 25 1234567 ERL 020599- 5985 0900-0959 28 104 115 5 1 CHW 11785 1830-1859 52,53,57 306 160 3 5 RRP (x11735) 5900 1000-1500 28 404 060 15 23456 Digital test DTK 17750 1245-1345 41,49 108 080 3 1234567 DVB 17750 1430-1455 41,49,50 109 080 3 1234567 DVB

9855 0100-0159 7,8,9 105 295 3 1 GNW (RRA) 13740 0700-0759 55,58,59 106 265 3 1 GNW -230599 13800 0900-0959 55,58,59 208 260 3 1 GNW 300599- 5995 0900-0959 27,28 401 ND 25 7 GNW (RRA) 15330 1300-1359 41,49 109 090 3 7 GNW 15105 1600-1659 38,47,52,53,57 302 160 3 7 GNW (RRA) 11795 1700-1759 39,40 105 130 3 7 GNW 9405 2300-2359 12,13,14 110 260 3 1 GNW

5975 0700-1059 27,28 406 290 15 1234567 VOH 15715 1325-1529 40,41 110 090 3 1234567 VOH -300499 15715 1325-1629 40,41 110 090 3 1234567 VOH 010599-

9925 0100-0259 6-10 112 300 3 1234567 HIC 9925 0300-0459 2-10 104 325 3 1234567 HIC 13820 0500-0659 55,59,60 202 230 3 1234567 HIC 13820 0700-0859 58,59,60 208 270 3 1234567 HIC 13810 2000-2059 38,39,52,53,57 306 160 3 1234567 HIC 9925 2300-0059 11-16 202 230 3 1234567 HIC

11695 2000-2059 37,38 405 175 13 1 LHL 9855 0000-0100 8,9 104 295 3 1234567 LRT 5850 0600-1100 27,28 105 295 3 1234567 SUN 5850 1100-1959 27,28 406 290 15 1234567 SUN

9860 0200-0359 7-9 212 305 3 1234567 TOM -300499 9425 0400-0559 6,7,10 119 310 3 17 TOM 010599- 13810 0600-0959 55,56,58,59,60 206 250 3 1234567 TOM 6010 1400-1559 27,28 212 305 3 1234567 TOM 010599- 13810 1600-1759 29,38,39 208 100 3 1234567 TOM 140499- 3965 1700-2059 27,28 403 ND 25 1234567 TOM

9495 0100-0129 41 110 090 3 1 UNL 15105 1600-1629 47,48,52,53 302 160 3 1 UNL 6195 1730-1759 27,28 401 ND 25 234 UNL 100499- 6195 1730-1759 27,37N 405 215 13 7 UNL 11830 1800-1829 46,47 306 160 3 1 UNL 290399- 11785 1830-1859 52,53,57 306 160 3 1 UNL

9855 0100-013O 8,9 105 295 3 2 VOD -310599 11900 1500-1559 28,29 202 060 3 4 VOO 140499-

6140 0600-1900 27,28 111 120 3 1234567 DWL 140499- 6045 1027-1225 27,28 401 ND 25 1234567 DWL (RNW) 5960 1900-1959 27,28 401 ND 25 1234567 DWL (VRT) 5910 1800-1859 27,28 401 ND 25 123456 DWL (VRT) 9770 1300-1659 27,28 105 130 3 1234567 DWL 010499- 21510 1800-1859 52,53,57 301 160 3 7 DWL (VRT)

13685 1730-1859 28,29,38,39 103 115 3 1234567 VRT 140499-

5840 0300-0359 28,29,38,39 104 115 5 1234567 AWR 7230 0800-0859 28,38 104 145 5 17 AWR 15620 0700-0929 37,46 308 200 3 1234567 AWR 9875 1600-1759 28,29,38,39 104 115 5 1234567 AWR 9475 1800-1859 29,30,39,40 110 100 3 135 AWR 15560 2000-2059 37,38,46 308 200 3 1234567 AWR 9490 2100-2329 37,38,46 406 200 15 1234567 AWR 15560 2130-2159 37,38,46 308 200 3 1234567 AWR

13635 0355-0630 28SE,29 208 100 3 1234567 SRI 17685 0555-0815 37S,38W,46 307 200 3 1234567 SRI 15545 0555-0815 37S,38 302 160 3 1234567 SRI 15315 0955-1230 37N 308 210 3 1234567 SRI 15220 1625-1815 28,38E,39 102 115 3 1234567 SRI 17640 1625-1815 38,39 107 115 3 1234567 SRI 9885 1725-1930 18,28,29W 308 040 3 1234567 SRI 15220 1825-2130 47,52,53,57 302 160 3 1234567 SRI 17580 1825-2130 37S,38W,46 307 200 3 1234567 SRI 9885 0025-0545 8,10,11,12N 102 295 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 21750 0555-0815 47,52,53,57 301 160 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 13685 0825-1030 55,58-60 202 240 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 21770 1055-1330 29,30,40,41,49,50 207 080 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 17670 1355-1615 29,30,40,41 207 080 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 21720 1625-1815 38,39,48 106 145 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 13770 1825-2130 38,48,53 106 145 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)** 9885 2155-2400 13-16 112 240 3 1234567 SRI (SOT)**

6045 0645-0850 27,28 401 ND 25 1234567 TWR 9490 1230-1315 28, 38N, 39N 104 130 5 1234567 TWR 010499- 5840 1600-1645 28,29,39 211 110 3 1234567 TWR 140499- * changes ** active on demand (DTK via Volker Knuetel-D WWDXC, Jun 18)

AWR Adventist World Radio CHW Christliche Wissenschaft (WSHB Christian Science) DTK Deutsche Telekom DVB Democratic Voice of Burma DWL Deutsche Welle ERL Europa Radio Luxembourg GNW Good News World Radio (RRA - Radio Rainbow in Amharic) HAM High Adventure Ministry HIC Hrvatski Informativni Centar HRT Hrvatska Radiotelevizija Croatia LHL L'Heure Lutherienne LRT Radio Vilnius (Lithuania) RNW Radio Nederland Wereldomroep RRP ? (The Word Universal Life in Fr to SoAF ?) RTB Radio Television Belge de la communaute Francaise (R.T.B.F.) RTE Radio Telefis Eireann SRI Swiss Radio International [SOT = Sottens-SUI tx site] SUN Sunrise Radio (England) TOM The Overcomer Ministry (Brother Stair) TWR Trans World Radio UNL Universelles Leben UNR UN-Radio VOH Voice of Hope VOD Voice of Deleverance VOL Voice of Oromo Liberation (SBO - Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo) VOO Voix de l'Orthodoxie VRT/RVI Radio Vlaanderen International WRN World Radio Network

QSL card via DTK Juelich Transmitter Stn, in 22 days. V/S Walter Brodowsky, Technical Advisor for SWBC Stn-Juelich.

Address for direct rpts: Deutsche Telekom AG, Rundfunksendestelle Juelich, Merscher Hoehe, D-52428 Juelich, Germany. Fax +49 2461 697 372 c/o Walter Brodowsky. (Kusalik-CAN, Jan.

Edited, corrections and comments by your ed, acc PanIview-BUL information).

Vailed transmissions of IBC and VOL missed in this schedule.

Tamil sce via WRN organization. 9355 0000-0059 41 111 090 3 1234567 WRN (IBC) (x7475)

VOL Voice of Oromo Liberation (SBO - Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo) 15715 1700-1759 38,39,48 104 125 3 156 VOL (x11605) (WB, Jun 28)

PLC Power Line Communication Problem. Interesting file: http://www.elektroniknet.de/funkschau/aktion/kongress99/powerline/vorschau. htm (Olaf Haenssler-D, Jun 29)

Programm Tips DeutschlandFunk - DeutschlandRadio - Juli 1999 DLF 01 Jul 0705 Die Gruendung der DDR DLF 02 Jul 0705 Sowjetische Internierungslager in der DDR DLR 04 Jul 1630 Hoerspielregisseure der Nachriegszeit DLF 06 Jul 1715 Entnazifizierung nach 1945 DLF 07 Jul 0705 Todesurteil in der DDR DLR 09 Jul 0250 u. 1010 Spion Richard Sorge wird gehenkt DLF 10 Jul 0705 Interzonenhandel BRD - DDR DLR 11 Jul 0705 Dorfleben auf der Insel Bali DLF 13 Jul 0705 Junge Gemeinde in der DDR DLR 15 Jul 1105 Amt Neuhaus zu Niedersachen zurueck DLR 18 Jul 0705 Sandinos in Nicaragua DLR 19 Jul 0250 u. 1010 Sandinistas in Nicaragua DLF 20 Jul 0705 Tod Stalins 1953 DLF 21 Jul 0705 Aufstand 17. Juni 1953 DLF 22 Jul 0705 Deutschland Fussballweltmeister 1954 DLR 22 Jul 1105 Umweltbundesamt Berlin 1974 DLF 25 Jul 1805 Alte Schellack-Platten DLF 26 Jul 0705 Jugendweihe DDR 1955 DLR 27 Jul 0250 u. 1010 Comet 1 - erstes Duesenverkehrsflugzeug DLF 27 Jul 1715 MS Voelkerfreundschaft (DLF/DLR, July 99)

261 New LW antenna for RadioRopa 261 Burg near Magdeburg, ex GDR tx center. On German super highway on the way to German HAM Radio exhibition and convention, and also on the hotel room in Friedrichshafen near Swiss border I was surprised to hear RadioRopa 261 from Northern Germany on medium signal level. (ed)

LW Burg 261 is using the former ex783 kHz antenna of GDR era. The 324-m-mast has been rebuilt for LW use. The tx container is placed direct on the foot base of the mast.

The exact txion time of RADIOROPA 2.6.1 (spelling as created by the stn) on LW 261 is from 0555-0008 CET (0355-2208 UTC, outside the DST one hour later) with crash start and abrupt cut off respectively, while the progr continues overnight on satellite. As well-known, own programming is produced at Magdeburg in a little studio, housed in the office rooms of the "ADN" news agency. From there the stuff is feeded through a ISDN circuit to Luxembourg, where an automatic server system handles all switchings between jingles, mx and satellite take-overs. The herewith created program signal is transmitted via the "Astra" satellite system in the German "ADR" system.

At the Burg site the LW 261 signal is aired through a 324 metres tall mast, erected in 1953, which was originally designed for the 2 x 250 txs on then 782, from 1978: 783 kHz 1000 kW "RW 1000" type Made in USSR unit, and now modified for longwave operations. The new semiconductor tx is not housed in the tx halls but in a container straight under the mast, the ADR signal is catched by a dish in usual small size (maybe some 90 cm), which is mounted on one of the containers walls.

By the way, the original 200 kW Tesla LW tx is now in use for remote control applications, i.e. for utility sces. These should be the only rig, which remained inside the tx halls, as the MW units (two Funkwerk Koepenick 250 kW and a single USSR-made 1000 kW txs) was a couple of years ago dismantled; the 20 kW outlet of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, in the end on 531 kHz, was operated by a ancient mobile tx in trailers, radiating through a triangle dipole array.

For your information, after the original "Radioropa" was withdrawn from LW in favour of the new created RADIOROPA 2.6.1 sce, it was renamed into "oldie.fm"; I think there is no need for further explanations about the new program format. Recently the well-known conglomerat at Daun selled the former "Radioropa" to the Leipzig-based "Radio PSR". In concistency "oldie.fm" since May 31th resides in the Radio PSR radiohouse, no longer in own rooms. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 28)

A chance to get a separate QSL of both, MW BR Hof and Wuerzburg ! MW BR5 progr 520 kHz tx Hof 200 W, NEW freq 729 kHz tx Wuerzburg 200 W.

729 Zufaellig entdeckte ich letzten Samstag ein BR Signal auf MW 729. Es sieht also so aus, als wuerde der schon laenger angekuendigte Frequenzwechsel weg von 520 kHz jetzt wirklich wahr. Offenbar hat man mit einem der beiden low power tx's Wuerzburg und Hof angefangen, denn 520 kHz kann immer noch (jetzt deutlich schwaecher) empfangen werden. Ich tippe, dass Wuerzburg jetzt auf 729 kHz sendet, denn dieses Signal kommt hier gerinfuegig staerker an. Ich kann B5 jetzt auf 729, //520 empfangen, 729 kommt etwas staerker (oder besser: etwas weniger schwach) an. (Uwe Volk-D, Jun 28) e-mail from Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich: Vielen Dank fuer Ihre e-mail und Ihr Interesse an unserer MW 520 kHz.

Sie haben richtig beobachtet, die Frequenzumstellung von 520 auf 729 kHz hat bereits Ihre Testphase erreicht. Offizieller Umstellungstermin ist jedoch der 1. Juli 1999. Der Sender Wuerzburg ist damit der erste Sender an dem die Frequenzaenderung vorgenommen wurde. mfg Ines Bergmoser, Technische Information des BR. Also 520 kHz Sender Hof 200 W, 729 kHz Sender Wuerzburg 200 W (Uwe Volk-D, Jun 30)

Der seit Jahren in BR-Frequenzlisten angekuendigte Wechsel der MW Sender Hof und Wuerzburg von 520 auf 729 kHz duerfte binnen kurzem vollzogen werden. Kai Ludwig hatte Anfang des Jahres den Wechsel des Wuerzburger Senders fuer Maerz 1999 angekuendigt. In einem Gespraech am 13.6.1999 wurde Dr. Hansjoerg Biener ein solcher Termin bestaetigt, doch habe es Probleme mit den Bauteilen gegeben.

Nun kann das Nachrichtenradio B5 aktuell des Bayerischen Rundfunks tatsaechlich auf beiden Frequenzen gehoert werden. Damit ergibt sich fuer alle, die sich dafuer die interessieren, die wahrscheinlich kurzzeitige Chance die bisher auf Gleichwelle sendenden BR-Sender Wuerzburg und Hof getrennt bestaetigt zu bekommen.

Der Bayerische Rundfunk betreibt bisher in Hof und Wuerzburg zwei Kleinsender (je 200 Watt) auf der Frequenz 520 kHz, die unterhalb des eigentlichen MW Bereiches liegt und von vielen Radios (zum Beispiel dem Grundig Satellit 700) nicht empfangen werden kann. Diese beiden Sender sind der Rest von einst zahlreichen Fuellsendern auf dieser ungewoehnlichen Frequenz, deren Nutzung auf die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit zurueckgeht. Seit 1998 werden sie im World Radio TV Handbook faelschlich auf 801 kHz gelistet. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 30)

GUAM 15330 KTWR Nice QSL on high quality Kodak photo paper of KTWR's recently completed Log periodic antenna to CHN durring it's final stage of contruction. Partial info on sticker on back, signed by Kathy Greggowski. Was accompanied by a bc schedule, a small book on Christian Doctrine and a hand written letter from Mrs. Greggowski on KWTR stationary congratulating on reception from Wisconsin. Received in 41 days, typed letter and $2 enclosed (Jon Oldenburg-USA, via Cumbre, Jun 24)

GUIANA French 5054.90 2330 RFO Matoury-GUF fade in at 2230 / 33222 in Fr. ID at 2338: Ici la Radiodiffusion Guyane. (Mathias Eisenkolb-D, Jun 28)

INDIA A new and updated version with all A99 schedule has been uploaded in SOUTH ASIA RADIO GUIDE home pages. The following pages are available:

1. English lang bcast as heard in SoAS. 2. Vernacular bcast of SoAS. 3. A complete Frequency Database in 4 parts. 4. A separate pages on Reg, Ext and Nx hookup schedule of AIR Delhi. http://www.angelfire.com/in/alokdg (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jun 21)

IRAN New info of VOIROI prgrs: Voice of Islamic Revolution of Iraq in Ar: 0330-0530 9670 9885 11730 13700.

Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution in Ar: 0330-0430 11800 13660 (under strong BBC in Ar).

Ar WS 0330-0530 13740 13775 NF15185 NF17610. 1330-2130 9885 (x1630-2130). 1630-2130 NF 11735 (x13730 to avoid ORF).

Other langs sces: 0630-0730 Alb NF17585 NF15230 add px. 1500-1530 Hi 7150 9830 co-ch HRT Zagreb, 11775. 1500-1530 Kaz add NF13645 co-ch Ar sce. 0230-0330 Pa add NF13605 co-ch Sp sce. 1630-1730 Ur NF7195 (x7140). (PanIview-BUL, Jun 16)

IRELAND I have had mail from John P. Kelly, Project Co-Ordinator of RTE's Albanian Language Radio Sce on MW. Here are a few quotes:

"We are now txing on all 2FM MW txs from 1900 BST to approx 2045 with the intention of being on air until 2100 by the end of the week. Right now, we are using one half an hour from BBC WS and similar from DW in Cologne.

Three evenings per week, we are using a fifteen minute segment from SR in Sweden. We are almost ready to go with a BBC En lang series, supported by the Language Support Unit of the Irish Refugee Agency.

Besides this, we are playing quite a bit of Alb mx and, where possible recording and txing the voices of the refugees in the reception centres (greetings, birthdays, local colour etc.). We have received a number of requests for children's programming and we are sourcing this. (There are) plans also to do some background on the areas in which the centres are located (in Ireland)."

Mr. Kelly's reference to "all 2 FM MW txs" means that RTE is using not only Athlone and Cork as I stated before now, but also Dublin 1278 10 kW. The latter would be in indistinguishable to me at my location due to masking by much closer Cork, same freq, same power. The fact that I reported the progr was sometimes longer than the announced 90 mins is confirmed and the promise of two hrs is excellent.

For those who might be confused by "BST", translate as Irish / British Summmer Time, one hour ahead of UT. So, the Kosovar refugees in IRL can expect programming 1800-2000 UT shortly. So, summary: RTE Albanian Language Radio Sce:

Weekdays 1800-1930 (but up to 1945 noted; 2000 UT imminent) Freqs: 612 Athlone tx, 100 kW; //1278 Cork tx, 10 kW; 1278 Dublin tx, 10 kW. (Finbarr O'Driscoll, Ireland / 24 June '99, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

ISRAEL KOL Israel Hebrew progr 'Reshet Bet' addit on 17535 from 1900(- 2115 ?). (HCJB DXPL, Jun 26)

Progr schedule Apr 2 - Sep 13, from Sep 14 one hour later. 9390 1900-2115 11585 1800-0300 11590 0330-0455 & 1600-1755 15615 0000-2400 15640 2000-0500 15650 1800-1845 17545 0500-1855 tv ch 1 nx at 1800-1850. (KOL)

KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh R on June 28 at 1548 on 12115, O=3 in German. Annt and advert, also local //FM 101 MHz. (Herbert Meixner-AUT, Jun 29)

LAOS Just back in Thailand after a month in southern Laos, which is one of the few remaining corners of SoEaAS with no practical Internet access. Great place for listening to the radio though, especially on the FM band. Stns from SNG, MLA, CBG, INS, THA and tentatively Brunei comeing in well most days, with the BBC on 88.9 MHz via Singapore often giving better daytime reception than on HF.

Lao Nat'l Radio Vientiane 6130 is sounding rather unwell at the moment. Off air altogether 13-21 Jun, now back but with very shallow and muffled audio at 2200-0730, 0925-1500, //576. The extent of the problem seems to vary, but usually this channel is now more or less unintelligible, e.g. at check 0530 on 28 June. At least the persistent background howl has been cured. This freq is used as the feed for 25-30 min nx bulletins from Vientiane to provincial stns at 0000, 0500 and 1200. These relays are rather sporadic these days, as the regionals continue with local progrs (usu Lao mx) when reception on 6130 is poor or non-existent.

Luang Prabang has returned to SW, varying around 6970.5-6972. First noted 25 May at 1215 with rather weak signal, then silent for several days but strong and regular since 31 May at approx 2200-0700 and 1025-1400.

Sam Neua, Houa Phan Province, has moved to 4641v (x-4653v), first noted 24 May. Usual hrs are approx 2300-0130, 1015-1230.

Pakse 1370 (WRTH lists 1350) noted daily 24 May-14 June at 2200-1400. The tx site still appears to have a couple of HF arrays identical to those at Luang Prabang, but nothing to be heard from Pakse on SW of course. This stn often inadvertently relays R Singapore Int'l in En 6150 at 1200-1225 -- obviously using an insufficiently selective rx to pick up Vientiane 6130 so that the 2 stns are heard with roughly equal volume.

Savannakhet 585 (WRTH lists 1430) is a bit less regular, noted frequently 14-26 June at 2200-1230v but off for several days around 18 Jun. The tx site, right next to the Mekong, has a more efficient-looking antenna for MW than Pakse and Luang Prabang. I suspect that the power may be closer to 10- 20 kW than the 3 kW listed in WRTH. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

LEBANON New tx for Voice of Hope in LEB on the air. We are at this moment listening to the new SW tx from Voice of Hope in LEB. Here are the details: Date: 15 June 99 Time: 2125, 6279.5, SINPO 44444, Ar lang, // 11530, Station ID in En at 2130 announcing P.O.Box in Limassol, Cyprus. (Ludo Maes-BEL, Jun 15)

11514.8 Voice of Hope 1740 En prayer by female speaker, gospel song, Bible reading by male speaker. Testing their new tx on this new freq. Distorted modulation, but the level of degradation was varying from slight to severe. SINPO 34333 at best. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jun 28)

MALAYSIA R Malaysia ch6 in Tamil noted with usual hum on 4845 around 1945-2045 on 6 June. I have seen this freq listed as 2200-1600, but it still seems to be on 24 hrs and is regularly noted staying on past 1600. In the small hrs of the local morning it is a very prominent signal, as it's the only bcing tx in So/SoEa/EaAS on 60 metres at that time, as far as I know. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

MONACO TWR uses now 9515 (x9490) for its bc in Romanian 1600-1645. Heard on June 26 at 1630 with progr from NOREA Radio. Via Monte Carlo 500 kW 65 degr (re-x9445). (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 26)

PERU 9721.7 Radio Victoria, Lima, ID in Sp, heard today at 0425-0500 in EUR. Interference by REE IS from 0457 on 9730. SINPO: 24433. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 25) [heard today Jun 27 too, ed]

PHILIPPINES FEBC has introduced a new sce for Filipinos abroad, at 0300- 0400 on 15450 in Tagalog (with the usual mixture of En words and phrases), usually a blend of pop mx and rlg prayers, sermons etc. Noted 11 Jun around 0315-0335, among other occasions. En to S Asia on 15450 seems to be cut back to 1 hr at 0100-0200. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

ROMANIA RRI Bucharest European sce in Romanian on 15105 heard again performing a broad band terrible signal quality today. Also accompanied by two spurious signals on +/-75 kHz = 15030/15180. (Herbert Meixner-AUT, Jun 21)

Same distorted signal noted today at 1100 UTC on center freq v15104.82, and parallel distorted signals 53 kHz away on centered 15052.65 [6.3 kHz wide] and 15157.90 [4.4 kHz wide] kHz. (WB, Jun 27)

RUSSIA/POLAND 7400 R Maryja via Samara tx site, full-data E-mail in 42 days, V/S Fr. Jacek Cydzik CSsR. Addr: [email protected] (Korinek-RSA, via NU, Jun 20)

R Rossii is heard using 11735 1730-2000. Is this GPR-1 Moscow 250 kW at 263 degr, which uses 17660 until 1700 ? Indeed: GPR-1. Moscow -04/09/99 11735 1730-2100 250 kW 265 degr, RRossii. Other freqs audible at 1730 are 5940 Chkalovskaya 100 kW / 240 degr to Belarus, between 1400 and 1430 retuned from 9720 into this channel.

7360 Rudnev gives also 7355 instead [yes Jun 27 at 1810: on both 7355 & 11735], Samara 100 kW / 128 degr 1730-2100, before this using 7365 1330- 1700, 11655 0930-1300, 12065 0530-0900 and 7305 0100-0500.

7445 Popovka near St. Petersburg towards Caucasus

9490 Tbilisskaya 1530-2100, 100 kW towards northern Russia (325 degr), same tx than until 1500 on 12015.

13705 GPR-1 Kurovskaya? Taldom? Lesnoy? 250 kW towards 310 degr. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 27)

9530 R Rossii, Magadan, Jun 14 1700 s-on-1730 34333 Ru. Nx from Moscow. // 9600(22332), 5940(44433).

11840 R Rossii, Sakhalin, Jun 14 1800-1815 33433 Ru. Nx. Morning gymnastics. // LW 279, also good reception here.

11840 R Sakhalin Jun 17 0158-0300 33433-22332 QRM NHK R Japan. Sakhalin's MW stn produced by Sakhalinskoe R can be heard on SW. Weather forecast, local nx etc. ID at 0259 "Prodolzhenie programmy Radio Sakhalin slushaeche diapazone srednikh voln na chastote 531 kHz. 14 chasov." (Hironao OGUMA- JPN, Jun 20)

"RUS/GEO/AZE ?" 15635 Tamil Bcing Corp, a new Tamil lang stn, "may start up anytime this week." They will operate at 1230-1330 in Tamil to IND and SLK. This is not the same as IBC. It is based in London and uses txs in the CIS. Background rpts say that it is more favourable to the Sri Lankan govt, and they carry some nx from SLBC. They are already on TV in Europe. They have a website: http://www.tbc-london.com (Victor G. Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, via RNMN Jun 24)

Nothing posted on the site yet except their E-mail addr, which is [email protected] (Jerry Berg-USA, via NU, Jun 27)

ST. HELENA R. St. Helena: It has been almost 8 months since the 1998 RSH Day, and rpts are still trickling in, although a total count reveals that this amounts to just 50% of the previous year's rpts. They are still in the process of compiling an acknowledgement ltr, and QSLs are about to be posted. The drawings for the lottery and the competition are still to take place. Stn Mngr Tony Leo said on June 15 that C&W has agreed to host a final txion, which will take place at 1900-2400 UTC, Sat, Oct 23. (Ekwall-Sweden, via NU, Jun 20)

R St Helena Day 1999 We have just been informed that a final(?) txion on SW (with support from the Cable & Wireless PLC) will take place on Sat 23 Oct between 1900-2400 on 11092.5. More information to be found on the web-page. I will release this information on Gotland at the NatWest Games (Island Games) next week to the present media. Please, look on www.sthelena.se for more infos about the games and news. (John Ekwall [SMTP:[email protected]]

SERBIA/SAUDI ARABIA MW 1440 UNID stn. I'm hearing an En lang nxcast on MW 1440 until 2105 when the tx goes off. However, it depends when LUX signs-off whether it's heard or not. Sometimes their anthem starts at circa 2100-2102, sometimes they stay on later than 2105. The En is very well spoken but no ID yet heard. Could it be the YUG stn listed on 1440? [or from NE/ME states, ed ?] (Noel Green-UK, Jun 16)

QTH Kremenchuk-UKR (33Ea/49No). Checked at 1900 with ext.omni antenna, too much QRN. ARS dominates S9+10dB. RFI (Moscow/SPb - slightly echoing) S9+. UNID S9+ (continuous playing of classic opera, seemed Russian, not sure yet). Loop dir'd to YUG gave nothing (Moscow RFI on top).

2106-2235 UTC, ARS dominates, "below" it - YUG hrd clearly (nx/polit review at the beginning of the hour, classical mx. Combined ID during nx: "Radio Belgrade Pervy(1) program, Radio Novia Sad i Radio Pristina); later only R.Belgrade ID hrd. Distorted slightly (M=4/3) Nothing more been hrd. Missed to mention: YUG - no word in lang other than Serb (2106-2235 UTC), so observed by Noel UNID/engl is still a puzzle. (Vladimir G.Titarev-UKR, Jun 20/21)

I just checked it out: This doesn't sound like YUG. As the Marnach carrier was cut off at appr. 2104, the Jagodina tx became audible with nx and correspondent reports in Serbian, i.e. the usual RTS stuff, but no En nx. Furthermore it didn't s-off; I would guess, it is operational daily 24 hrs as RTS always used to do.

[or from NE/ME states, ed ?] Possibly it was ARS Saudi Arabia. Acc to the WRTH, BSKSA operates it's foreign lang progr in Fr (as well-known, these partly now also on SW) and En until 2100, which could also mean, that the progr actually closes with a final newscast at 2100. Maybe the 1440 outlet from Dammam no longer carries the Gen Ar progr (// 1521 and others as well as SW) but now the Foreign Language Program instead. But that's of course just pure speculation.

By the way, as Marnach was running the silent carrier after the anthem, a clear appearence of the Luxembourg Effect was audible with echoing DLF programming. Evidently the mixing signals originated from both Donebach-153 and Heusweiler-1422, as the echo suited to the delay, which 1422 is behind 153.

The 1422 channel from the Saarlaendischer Rundfunk tx uses to be at night clear better than the various Deutsche Telekom txs here. 756 uses to suffer from Lugoj-ROU, 1269 is no longer wiped out by Novi Sad, but still rather weak due to the gain reduction in southern direction. But rather interesting was tonight the result on 549: DLF just underneath another stn. First of course I assumed it is Radio Mayak but was rather amazed to found it not //1143, where the Bolshakovo 150 kW outlet uses to dominate the channel in eastern GER clear above the AFN txs, also not Slovenia //918. It turned out to be R Ukraine //1242! In the same moment there was no sign of it on previously nearly unmistakable 1377, also 1404 had just France. So I wonder about the current state of the Ukrainian MW bcs, especially considering the heavily reduced SW txions? (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 21)

MW 1440 ? ARS is // Main AR 1521, 900,... Possibly just on this particular evening the En and Fr lang programming was due to a switching error at Dammam not only aired on modest power 1098 but also on 1440, which comes in quite often here as well as 1512 does. 900 becomes just occassionally around sunset audible and is otherwhise buried under Milano, but 1521 is here almost regular, quite easy to catch also with a car radio and so on. Otherwhise these channel just belongs to Urumqui and Kazan here, away from SVK of course.

Moscow 1440 still carries RFI 2100 s.off. Both SPb & MSK tx's been heard - very slight phase shift (echoing). I guess, the signal is feeded through the international circuits to Moscow and from there via landline to St. Petersburg, resulting in these minor delay. These txs are not so regular audible here, nevertheless I remember some rather surprised and confused "RFI heard on 1440?!" reports back when these outlets was new and the origin not yet known. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 25)

Latest: ethnic confrontation at RTV Pristina. Radio Television Serbia reported that on June 24th a group of ethnic Albanians tried to force their way into the building of RTS Pristina, but were prevented from doing so by KFOR.

The group was made up of former employees of RTS Pristina, whom RTS claims walked out of their jobs in 1990. KFOR was informed about the incident so that further violence was prevented. The attackers smashed the glass doors to the building and threatened the employees who were at their working places.

The incident was hardly unexpected. In 1990, following the break-up of the Federal Rep of Yugoslavia, the government-controlled RTS Pristina ended most of its bcs in Albanian. The authorities feared that the bcs would be used to promote the cause of seperatism. The remaining, mostly nx, progrs are merely translations of material prepared in Serbian.

Monitoring by RNMN correspondent Karel Honzik in the Czech Rep indicates that the high power MW tx of R Pristina on 1413 is off the air. On March 29th he reported: "My monitoring brought negative results during the last few days (I heard the stn for the last time some two weeks ago)" (www.rnw.nl) (via Kai Ludwig-D, Jun 26) [only MW Pristina 549 kHz is on air, Rumen Pankov-BUL]

1269 NATO Radio to YUG. Josef Gaupmann in Vienna heard NATO Radio on MW 1269 this morning. Stn announced also a FM freq. Word progr this time rather in Albanian lang interspersed by instrumental mx. 1269 kHz is the former RTS Novi Sad freq, the tx hardware equipment destroyed in air force attacks in Apr/May this year. (Harald Suess-AUT, Jun 27)

RTS Back on satellite - but who's watching ?

Dragan Stankovic reports: "The satellite channel of Serbian state broadcaster RTS has resumed satellite bcs to EUR. As of Jun 23, RTS SAT is available via the AMOS satellite (4 degr West), but only in digital MPEG-2. The freq is 11.421 GHz/Hor (Symbol rate 3440 and FEC). There is no nx whether RTS SAT will also be available via an analogue transponder.

Ironically, the fact that RTS is now back on satellite will however not increase its viewership in Serbia which has been significantly reduced following NATO bombardments which destroyed the majority of its transmitter sites. An estimated 10-15 per cent of the population own satellite dishes, but only a very small minority (certainly not more than a few thousand) have the necessary digital reception equipment to receive the satellite sce. The same is the case with Serbian expatriates throughout EUR, many of whom bought analogue satellite reception systems exclusively for tuning in to RTS SAT. Now, in order to continue receiving RTS, they will have to pay a little less than 1.000 DM - the cost of a free-to-air digital rx.

Previously, RTS SAT was previously available in analogue via the EUTELSAT II F2 satellite (7 degrs East) before EUTELSAT member states, under pressure from NATO, decided to switch off the channel".

Update June 28th: The RTS Website carries the following annt: Radio TV of Serbia continue to bc progr via satelite "amos 1" 4 degrs west (04§ W), receiving freq 11.421 GHz horizontal polarisation 3.440 MHz band, code ratio 3/4. Unfortunately, this satellite signal can be seen only in AM. We are trying to proceed cooperation with EUTELSAT, but at this moment all our effort are inefficienct. We will inform you about all future changes on this site". (sic).

Updated nx coverage is available on the web stn of radio stn Beograd 202 which is operated by RTS. Listeners in Belgrade can tune in-to the stn on a secondary tx bcing on 1503 kHz. (RNW via Kai Ludwig, Jun 28)

MINISTER VUCIC CALLS RFE/RL 'ILLEGAL.' Aleksandar Vucic is the Serbian minister of information and one of the fathers of last fall's repressive media law, which banned rebcing of most foreign progrs, including those of RFE/RL. He recently said in Belgrade that RFE/RL bcs continue to be "illegal" and that the govt of Serbia has not given a permit for it to bc.

"That they have a strong FM signal again is not surprising, since NATO cleaned out the radio airwaves over Serbia by targeting our txs," Vucic noted. To reporters' questions about whether govt agencies will try to obstruct the freqs on which those radio stns are bcing, Vucic answered, "We have obstructed them the whole time." (Patrick Moore-CZE, Jun22; via RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT, Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc.)

NEWS BROADCASTS ONLINE Listen to nx for the South Slavic region daily at RFE/RL's 24 hrs LIVE Bc Studio on the RFE/RL Web site: http://www.rferl.org/realaudio/index.html

SOUTH AFRICA As from today Channel Africa will change the freq of 6150 to 9525. This is in the time slot 1558-1655. The full schedule is available at http://home.mweb.co.za/an/andre46 (Andre du Toit-RSA via Mathias Eisenkolb-D, Jun 29)

SRI LANKA 11905 SLBC in Colombo closed down today at 1850 with the NatAnthem, this time is much later than the scheduled 1530. SINPO at 1830 54444. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jun 25)

SWAZILAND Freq change of TWR Manzini in Swahili: 1702-1747 (Sat/Sun till 1802) NF9790, (x9620, re-x9585). (PanIview-BUL, Jun 16)

TAIWAN Radio Taipei Internat hat angekuendigt, dass in den Monaten Juli und August Flugtickets von EVA AIR und CHINA AIRLINES nach Taipei zu gewinnen sind. Genaues ist in den Briefkastensendungen freitags (Wiederholung samstags 0600 UTC) zu erfahren. (Juergen Lohuis-D, Jun 26)

THAILAND 9535 QSL, sked for 127 d v/s Amporn Samosorn, Chief. QTH: Radio Thailand, World Service, Public Relations Department, Roayal Thai Government, 236 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Din Daeng, Bangkok 10320, Thailand. (via Cumbre Dx, Jun 24)

R Thailand dom sce on 7115 now reverted to signing-on early in the morning, presumably 2200, after several months of coming on air around 0200v. Possibly due to the disappearance of strong signal in Slav lang previously on 7115 around this time, probably R YUG to NoAM. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

Comment about above item in BC-DX #416: Very like to a third harmonic[!!] of 5905 which in use at 1700-0200 with 254 degrees. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jun 22)

UK BBC WS En to SoAS on 17790 now noted daily at 0530-0600, thus filling a long-standing gap. This segment appears to be via THA. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23) [registered is Zyyi-CYP 250 kW 107 degr.]

USA WORLD OF RADIO SHORTWAVE-ONLY SCHEDULE AS OF JUNE 28 Days and times strictly UT

Wed 2100 WBCQ 7415 Thu 2030 WWCR 15685 [NEW as of late May] Fri 1930 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Sat 0330 RFPI 15049 6975 Sat 1130 RFPI 15049 6975 Sat 1130 WWCR 12160 Sat 1800 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Sun 0200 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 6975 Sun 0230 WWCR 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR 5070 Sun 1000 RFPI 15049 6975 Sun 2300 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Mon 0500 WWCR 3210 Mon 0700 RFPI 15049 6975 Tue 1230 WWCR 15685 Tue 1900 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Wed 0300 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 6975 Wed 1100 RFPI 15049 [NEW; temporary?]

NOTE: RFPI's 21460-USB is inactive but nominal times are shown. For full details on all our bcs and publications see http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio (World of Radio SW Schedule, by GH, Jun 25)

WAVESCAN 1999 DX CONTEST -- "World's Largest QSL Collections." The details of the 1999 AWR "Wavescan" DX Contest have been announced. In brief, you are asked to submit one reception report on an AWR txion and also indicate how large your QSL collection is, who in your country holds large QSL collections, past and present, what is your longest wait for a QSL, etc. The world winner will receive a bronze medallion and a copy of a book by some guy named Berg; other winners will receive PWBR or WRTH, and there are other awards as well. Entries must be postmarked in Sep 1999 and received before the end of Oct. (Adrian Peterson-USA, AWR Wavescan, direct and via NU, Jun 20)

7580 Last week you received an item on a frequency change for WHRA, that change was from 7385 to 7580. It affected all progrs 2300-0500 DAILY ! All 7 days per week. (Joe Brashier-USA WHRI, Jun 21)

Awful anti-Semitic rhetoric can be heard on some stns, such as WGTG 5085 Tues and Wed at 9 pm EDT. In fact, some of the exact wording heard there was also associated with the recent synagogue bombings in California. (Loren Cox, KY, Jun 19, RoIB, Jun 23)

Bandscanning on the analog ICF-5900W, came across SSB on 12180 at 2022 Jun 24. Was wacky paranoid call-in talkshow typical of WGTG, which was missing from 9400 - and a couple days ago when 9400 was on I couldn't find any second freq. 12180 is USB only, no carrier, and as a matter of fact this show was //WWCR on 12160; how convenient.

Dave Frantz told me some months ago he planned to use 12 MHz; since I no longer have any personal interest in WGTG, haven't really kept up with developments there, but this one is news to me. Confirmed at 2100 as "Genesis Communications Network on WGTG, McCaysvile, Georgia" GCN with a Minnesota address. By this time 12160 was no longer //. (Glenn Hauser, OK, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jun 28)

VIETNAM Lai Chau recently moved from long-standing 6397v to 6382.5v, and has also changed its hrs -- now heard at approx ?2200-2400, 0400-0530, 1155v-1355v. This could be a deliberate change of freq to allow a later evening bc while avoiding the strong NoKorean stn on 6398v.

Yen Bai now returned to 6387v (x-6347v) at approx 2325-2400, 0400-0600, 0955v-1030, 1200-1330v. Modulation varies between poor and awful. Occasionally appears to be temporarily off-air or back on 6347v -- needs more investigation. (Alan Davies-THA, Jun 23)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

ALASKA KNLS plans to add a second 100 kW tx and antenna, but not before next summer. The new unit will be used during the same time prime-time hrs. RFA continues to bc via the stn, but is slowly reducing its hrs as the new sites in the PAC are taking over more of the load. All this per KNLS. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 6)

ALBANIA Freq change of TWR in Polish via Cerrik: 0515-0530 NF 9779.8v strong co-ch R Sann'a in Ar and RDP/R Portugal in Port. (x9765v) //7385.1 via Shijak. (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

ARMENIA 17525.2 R Free Asia *0030-0130* Burmese txion heard here evenings since Jun 28; weak and echoey with variable audio. Tx location per ABI Web site. (Bob Hill-USA, Jul 4)

BELARUS Belorussian R Minsk is heard on 6260, noted at 1930 with fair signal, still on at 2015 with //6115. (Nikolai Pashkevich-RUS, Jul 3)

BELGIUM Starting 3rd Jul 1999, and for the next 3 weeks, RVI has addit daily txions because of the "Tour de France": 1300-1600 on 9925 and 13740 for So&SoWeEUR.

On Thur 8th Jul 1999, the last hour of RNW via RVI Wolvertem MW 1512 will experimentally be txed via a dipole antenna which may improve reception at long distances (but may cause fading at shorter distances). So, RVI's progrs until 2027 and RNW's first hour at 2027-2125 will be txed via the usual antenna; RNW's second hour at 2125-2230 will be via the dipole antenna. The switch at 2125 will take 15 seconds. Reports (comparing reception before and after 2125) can be sent to [email protected] and to [email protected] (Paul Brems-BEL, RVI, Jul 1)

Antenna test RR of Herbert Meixner in the far eastern Austria near Austrian-Slovakian border reported: RX NRD 535DG and ARA 30 antenna. Speach audio response was a little bit clearer, when the dipol antenna was used. Equal signal strength and fadings. Strong thunderstorm QRM and some interfering co-channel Italian stations. 0=3/4. (Herbert Meixner-AUT, Jul 8)

BRAZIL 15265 RadioBras ceased SW txs to EUR ? On the annual meeting 1999 of Austrian SW Club ADXBOE in April 99, ORF Vienna freq planner Mr. Ernst Vranka announced ceasing of RadioBras' German sce. (bm, and via Cristoph Ratzer-AUT, OE2 CRM, Jul 8)

BURKINA FASO TWR Burkina SW site planned. As part of a joint project with HCJB, TWR is also seeking permission to set up a new SW txion facility in Burkina Faso which would improve reception in WeAF. An HCJB supporter has already donated funds for a 100 kW tx. (TWR NoCarolina, Jun 30 via BBCM, exerpted for WORLD OF RADIO 995, Jul 8)

CHILE R Voz Cristiana, current sked daily 0000-0100 6070 11745 15375 & 21550 0100-1100 6070 11690 11745 & 15375 1100-1200 6070 11690 15375 & 21500 1200-1300 9635 11690 15375 & 21500 1300-1400 9635 15375 21500 & 21550 1400-2000 9635 17680 21500 & 21550 2000-2100 6070 17680 21500 & 21550 2100-0000 6070 11745 17680 & 21550 (BBC Monitoring vi NU, Jul 4)

CHINA Some freq changes of CRI Beijing 1400-1457 En, 1900-2157 En,En,Ar NF 15360 (45554); 1730-1827 Mandarin Ch NF 13765 co-ch Vatican R. 1730- 1827 Mandarin Ch; 1830-2227 Fr NF 11760 (45554), but strong co-ch R Georgia 1930-2100 in En/Ge/Ru ! 1800-2157 Ge,Ge,En,En NF 7590 very weak signal here. 1830-1927 Ar; 1930-1957 Tu; 2000-2157 En NF 13675, under strong signal of UAE R Dubai in Ar till 2050 ! (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

CLANDESTINE [Colombia] 6170v, LV de la Resistencia, very good recpt in local morning hrs on June 8 & 11. (Gaviria-CLM, Conexion Digital, Jul 4) 6210v R Patria Libre, 2225-2230* May 26, revolutionary mx, very poor. (Gaviria-CLM, Conexion Digital, Jul 4)

La Voz de la Resistencia del Bloque Oriental, FARC-EP clandestine, heard Mar 11 until closing just after 1200 on 6170 [probably rounded from 6168.3 where Rafael Rodriguez has measured it and where we hear traces of it]. Gave sked as 1130 and 2130 on this frequency, 1700-1800 on "VHF 7735". And read communique which admits that the three American missionaries whose bodies were dumped in Venezuela were executed by Commander Guildardo's Tenth Front, without consulting higher FARC authority. They had entered into Cubas indian territory without permission. It is not FARC policy to disappear Colombians or people of other nationalities. Those seeking to enter FARC territory should identify themselves and seek permission in order to avoid any further such lamentable incidents. Nor is it FARC policy to turn over their combatants to other states, but Cmdr. Galdardo will be punished according to FARC law. (via Jorge Garcia Rangel, Venezuela, MUNDO RADIAL, in gh's summary translation I suppose that news agencies have picked up this development? But I haven't seen or heard it.) (G.Hauser SW Report via HCDX, CRW Mar 19)

FARC clandestine La Voz de la Resistencia del Bloque Oriental presumed on 6168.3, bits of mx and talk audible around 1145 Mar 16, but fading into daylight; a bigger problem is the mixing product of R Marti on 6170, from the two superpower signals on 5890 and 6030, 140 kHz apart, which lasts until 1200*. (Glenn Hauser, OK, MUNDO RADIAL) (G.Hauser SW Report via HCDX, CRW Mar 19)

[from/to BOUGAINVILLE] 3850 R Independence Bougainville had been off, but was noted in Sydney a few days ago, 0930 s-on until 1050 off early from usual 1100. Still 6 watts and the only SW stn operating from the island at the moment. (Sam Voron-AUS, via Cumbre, Jun 30)

[from SOMALIA to ERITREA/ETH] Sam Voron is planning a new radio progr over RFree Somalia. This bc would be a peace progr to halt the fighting between Eritrea and ETH. The project is in the early stages, but the goal is to obtain sufficient funding and expertise to bc a two hour daily progr, possibly on 7100. More details as we have them. As for RFree Somalia, it continues to operate just two hrs a day (1000-1200) as the local population is the only source of funding of fuel to run the stn's generator. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Jul 2 Copyright)

CUBA RHC's En sce on 9820 and 9830usb appears subject to deliberate QRM from a "twittering" noise - not quite the same as their jamming of R Marti - but not traced on 9550. All three go off at 0700. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8)

DENMARK yfrekvenser_pa_langbolge. It's about the Danish stn in Kalundborg, txing on 243. The power of this tx is 300 kW. I am working at that stn, so I know - A college and I keep the stn running every day.

For you to know: we are running 3 AEG-Telefunken txs in N+1 combination, one of this txs is a 2-freq-tx for LW and MW. Type 4040, the other two are of type 4004 and 4008.

Best regards, and 73's from OZ4NT Niels-Jorgen Traelle Kalundborg Denmark e-mail :[email protected] (via Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 8)

EGYPT R Cairo is heard well on 29th Jun at 2330-0030 on 9900 surpassing the signals from R Netherlands on 9895 - both are NOT beamed to SoAS. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 5)

FINLAND R Finland is to add at least two langs: Mari and Udmurt, which are spoken in the former USSR. Both these langs are from the Finno-Ugric group of langs. Progrs will commence this Autumn in conjunction with an organisation concerned with the Finno-Ugric minority in the ex-USSR. (Communications World Jul 03, via Mick Ogrizek via EDXP)

These two langs have approx a half-million speakers each in Russia alone. (Mick Ogrizek, EDXP Jul 6)

GERMANY Freq change of SRI Berne via DTK Juelich: 0400-0630 NF 9610 (55555) to SoEaEUR (x13635). (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

Changed freq Jun 9, all other remaining technical parameters the same.

11785 Thurs only 1830-1859 zones 52,53,57, 160 degr, RRP (x11735) RRP call bcing organization:"Radio Reveil-Paroles de Vie" from CH-2022 Bevaix, Switzerland. (DTK Juelich, Jul 5) I heard a very weak signal in dead zone some 350 kms SoEa of Juelich, definite txion in French language. (wb, Jul 1)

Acc Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich technical dept MW Wuerzburg 729 now operating on increased power 500 watts. It is expected that the Hof tx (like the Wuerzburg one a ancient 1 kW unit, running on reduced power 200 watts) will retuned from 520 into 729 in three or four weeks. (Michael Fuhr-D, Jul 4)

6085 Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Leipzig via BR Ismaning SW txr 2250 in German, featuring the terrible railway accident at Langenweddingen back in the Sixties, followed by "Dreilaendernotizen" shortly before the hour and nx. Eff from July 1st Bayerischer Rundfunk has upgraded it's SW sce and advertises the new progr arrangement on 6085 as "new shortwave".

It consists on their "B 5 aktuell" news network together with a selection of indeed interesting progrs from another FM network, called "Bayern2Radio". The "Bayern 1" network, which until now was carried on SW most of the day, is now taken just two hours on weekdays for a current affairs magazine. It's quite obvious, that Bayerischer Rundfunk count's it's SW tx not only as a toy. Of special interest for DXers should be, that 6085 carries as overnight sce 2200-0400 now the all-news network of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) at Leipzig, called "MDR info" (that's the ID you will hear), hence another public stn from Germany is present on SW for the very first time. [MDR Leipzig had a SW relay 9730 in pre-GDR era between 1947-1949, using SFR Paris tx type on Wiederau facilities with 12/50 kW of power only, ed]

Certainly it will be a completely new experience for them to receive RRs from overseas. Regarding e-mail it should be the best idea to addr it directly to their technical dept,

By the way, the tx of what some jokers call "Bavarias foreign service" is no tiny one but a 500 kW Telefunken S4005 model (another joker: "Little Wertachtal"). For my knowledge the lowest possible output power of these rigs is 125 kW (refer also to Radio Netherlands on 9860 via Wertachtal), hence 6085 should be more powerful than just 100 kW. I dimly remember, that somewhere 250 kW was mentioned.. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 5)

[6085 powerful 500 kW SW tx in PSD modulation was erected in 1982. From 1946-1977 10 kW homebrewed 10 kW unit was in use. Nov 1978-1982 50/75/100 kW units rent from USIA-VoA during daytime, still 10 kW at night. Ex- Reichspost SW txs, made in Czechoslovakia by RadioSlavia-Tesla, Marconi type. wb]

AFN Frankfurt MW 873 kHz to close? It is rumoured, that AFN could leave 873 at Frankfurt at the end of this year. Known for certain are so far just mysterious annts of the responsible "LPR" authority about a further MW channel at Hesse for commercial bcs, forcing speculations, if this means the reallocation of a former GDR freq into Hesse (namely 1089, which was used since 1987 from Wachenbrunn and Burg to replace the not synchronized and therefore badly working co-channel operation with Wilsdruff on 1044). On the other hand the US Army will widely leave the "Rhein-Main" area and just stay at Wiesbaden and Hanau, where either 50 watts FM txs or low power MW txs on either 1107, 1143 or 1485 are planned, hence a shut down of 873 seems to be not as inconceivable as it appears in the first moment (by the way, since the BBC killed it's German sce nothing is inconceivable for me anymore).

AFN Frankfurt 873 kHz, Mr. Smith at AFN Frankfurt bcasting house on the phone line: "No Comment. Wait for our Press Releases". (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 4/10)

As a completion regarding the Burg site: The described 324 metres tall mast, which now functions as antenna for LW 261 kHz, was imported together with the 1000 kW MW tx from the USSR, i.e. erected specially to boost 783 from 250[Koepenick tx] to 1000 kW in July 1978. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 2) The ARRT antenna installation on the 324 metres tall mast of 1978 dismantelled in 1996. And replaced by few vertical rhombic aerials around the mast for LW 261 usage. wb

DTK Juelich schedule changed. Operational schedule of July 1st, 1999 freq star-stop ciraf zones ant azi day duration organization 9490 0300-0459 47,48,52,53 306 160 23456 2803-311099 RTB 9490 0430-0459 47,48,52,53 306 160 17 2803-311099 RTB 17580 0500-0712 47,48,52,53 303 160 23456 2803-311099 RTB 17580 0500-0959 47,48,52,53 303 160 7 2803-311099 RTB 17580 0500-0806 47,48,52,53 303 160 1 2803-311099 RTB 21540 1000-1206 47,48,52,53 301 160 23456 2803-311099 RTB 21540 1000-1117 47,48,52,53 301 160 7 2803-311099 RTB 21540 1057-1117 47,48,52,53 301 160 1 2803-311099 RTB 17800 1500-1712 47,48,52,53 303 160 123456 2803-311099 RTB 17800 1557-1712 47,48,52,53 303 160 7 2803-311099 RTB 7345 2057-2159 28 104 115 1234567 0305-311099 RTB 5975 1100-1559 28 401 ND 1234567 0205-311099 ERL 5985 0900-0959 28 104 115 1 2803-311099 CHW 13720 0557-0659 18 308 020 1234567 0107-310899 RNW* 11785 1830-1859 52,53,57 306 160 5 2803-311099 RRP 5900 1000-1500 28 404 060 23456 2803-311099 Dig.Test 17750 1245-1345 41,49 108 080 1234567 2803-311099 DVB 17750 1430-1455 41,49,50 109 080 1234567 2803-311099 DVB 9855 0100-0159 7,8,9 105 295 1 2803-311099 GNW 13800 0900-0959 55,58,59 208 260 1 3005-311099 GNW 5995 0900-0959 27,28 401 ND 7 2803-311099 GNW 15330 1300-1359 41,49 109 090 7 2803-311099 GNW 15105 1600-1659 38,47,52,53,57302 160 7 2803-311099 GNW 11795 1700-1759 39,40 105 130 7 2803-311099 GNW 9405 2300-2359 12,13,14 110 260 1 2803-311099 GNW 5975 0700-1059 27,28 406 290 1234567 2803-311099 VOH 15715 1325-1529 40,41 110 090 1234567 2803-300499 VOH 15715 1325-1629 40,41 110 090 1234567 0105-311099 VOH 9925 0100-0259 6-10 112 300 1234567 2803-311099 HIC 9925 0300-0459 2-10 104 325 1234567 2803-311099 HIC 9470 0500-0659 55,59,60 202 230 1234567 0906-050999 HIC 13820 0500-0659 55,59,60 202 230 1234567 0609-311099 HIC 13820 0700-0859 58,59,60 208 270 1234567 2803-311099 HIC 13810 2000-2059 38,39,52,53,57306 160 1234567 2803-311099 HIC 9925 2300-0059 11-16 202 230 1234567 2803-311099 HIC 11695 2000-2059 37,38 405 175 1 2803-311099 LHL 9855 0000-0100 8,9 104 295 1234567 2803-300699 LRT* 9855 0000-0100 8,9 105 295 1234567 0107-311099 LRT* 5850 0600-1100 27,28 105 295 1234567 2803-311099 SUN 5850 1100-1959 27,28 406 290 1234567 2803-311099 SUN 9860 0200-0359 7-9 212 305 1234567 2803-300499 TOM 9425 0400-0559 6,7,10 212 320 17 0105-200699 TOM* 13810 0600-0959 55,56,58,59,60206 250 1234567 2803-311099 TOM 6010 1400-1559 27,28 212 305 1234567 0105-311099 TOM 13810 1600-1759 29,38,39 208 100 1234567 1404-311099 TOM 3965 1700-2059 27,28 403 ND 1234567 2803-311099 TOM 9495 0100-0129 41 110 090 1 2803-311099 UNL 15105 1600-1629 47,48,52,53 302 160 1 2803-311099 UNL 6195 1730-1759 27,28 401 ND 234 1004-311099 UNL 6195 1730-1759 27,37N 405 215 7 2803-311099 UNL 11830 1800-1829 46,47 306 160 1 2903-311099 UNL 11785 1830-1859 52,53,57 306 160 1 2803-311099 UNL 11900 1500-1559 28,29 202 060 4 1404-311099 VOO 6140 0600-1900 27,28 111 120 1234567 1404-311099 DWL 6045 1027-1225 27,28 401 ND 1234567 2803-311099 DWL (RNW) 5960 1900-1959 27,28 401 ND 1234567 2803-311099 DWL (VRT) 5910 1800-1859 27,28 401 ND 123456 2803-311099 DWL (VRT) 9770 1300-1659 27,28 105 130 1234567 0104-311099 DWL 21510 1800-1859 52,53,57 301 160 7 2803-311099 DWL (VRT) 13685 1730-1859 28,29,38,39 103 115 1234567 1404-130699 VRT* 13670 1730-1859 28,29,38,39 103 115 1234567 1406-311099 VRT* 5840 0300-0359 28,29,38,39 104 115 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 7230 0800-0859 28,38 104 145 17 2803-311099 AWR 15620 0700-0929 37,46 308 200 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 9875 1600-1759 28,29,38,39 104 115 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 9475 1800-1859 29,30,39,40 110 100 135 2803-311099 AWR 15560 2000-2059 37,38,46 308 200 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 9490 2100-2329 37,38,46 406 200 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 15560 2130-2159 37,38,46 308 200 1234567 2803-311099 AWR 9610 0355-0400 28SE,29 211 110 1234567 0906-311099 SRI 9610 0400-0630 28SE,29 104 115 1234567 0906-311099 SRI 17685 0555-0815 37S,38W,46 307 200 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 15545 0555-0815 37S,38 302 160 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 15315 0955-1230 37N 308 210 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 15220 1625-1815 28,38E,39 102 115 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 17640 1625-1815 38,39 107 115 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 9885 1725-1930 18,28,29W 308 040 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 15220 1825-2130 47,52,53,57 302 160 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 17580 1825-2130 37S,38W,46 307 200 1234567 2803-311099 SRI 9885 0025-0545 8,10,11,12N 102 295 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 21750 0555-0815 47,52,53,57 301 160 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 13685 0825-1030 55,58-60 202 240 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 21770 1055-133029,30,40,414950207 080 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 17670 1355-1615 29,30,40,41 207 080 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 21720 1625-1815 38,39,48 106 145 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 13770 1825-2130 38,48,53 106 145 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 9885 2155-2400 13-16 112 240 1234567 2803-311099 SRI (SOT)** 6045 0645-0850 27,28 401 ND 1234567 2803-311099 TWR 9490 1230-1315 28,38N,39N 104 130 1234567 0104-311099 TWR 5840 1600-1645 28,29,39 211 110 1234567 1404-311099 TWR * changes ** active on demand

AWR Adventist World Radio CHW Christliche Wissenschaft RRP Radio R‚veil Paroles de Vie, CH-2022 Bevaix, Switzerland. RTB Radio Television Belge de la communaute Francaise DVB Dem. Voice of Burma SRI Swiss Radio International DWL Deutsche Welle SUN Sunrise Radio ERL Europaradio Luxembourg TOM The Overcomer Ministry GNW Good News World Radio TWR Trans World Radio HIC Hrvatska Informativni Centar UNL Universal Life LHL L_heure Lutherienne VOH High Adventure Ministry (ex HAM) LRT Radio Vilnius Litauen VOO Voix de L_Orthodoxie RNW Radio Nederland Wereldomroep VRT Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (ex RVI) (DTK Jul 5)

I received word from a well-placed source, that DW plans to use in B99 again it's 25740 channel. It needed the hint of these source for me to realize that these is a regular DW channel, as I was still growing up when they stopped using 11 metres. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 10)

GUAM Freq change of KSDA Agat: 2300-2330 Cant daily, 2330-2400 in Shanghainese, Mon-Fri & in Uighur Sat/Sun NF 17870 (45554) (x17865). (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

GUINEA ORTG stn addr: Ministere de la Communication, Republique de Guinee, Direction General de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Television Guinee (ORTG), B.P. 391, Conakry, Guinea. Tel/fax +224 451408. v/s is Monsieur Boubacar Yacine Diallo, Directeur General ORTG. (Enzio Gehrig in Communication BDXC-UK, July 1999)

HUNGARY R Budapest heard using new 17810 in //21560 104 degr for their Hung sce to AUS at 1000-1100 (-1200 Sun). No trace of their scheduled 9735. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8) [from Apr 14, 9735 replaced by 17810, ed]

INDIA R Kashmir: Union Minister of Information & Bcing Pramod Mahajan has said that R Kashmir Srinagar will be "further strengthened to counter PAK propaganda." (DH News Svc, India via Vaghjee-Mauritius via NU, Jul 4)

IRAN VOIRI Tehran noted on new 9725 with Persian 2100-2130* //7130 (Bob Padula, EDXP, Jun 25)

Acc to IRIB web page, VOIRI is going to initiate Jpn progr starting Wed Jul 21, 1300-1300 on 15200 & 17630. Progr will be on Mon Wed Sat, and repeated on Sun Tue and Thur. In the past few months it has been widely speculated here that IRN would start Jpn sce, but it seems finally materialized. Currently at 1330, both freqs are well heard (SINPO 45444-45433) here with Chinese lang progr. (Toshi Ohtake-JPN, in EDXP Jul 6)

IRELAND [non] Latest sked for RTE Dublin: 1000-1030 11740-SNG AS/AUS; 1830-1900 17885-ASC AF; 1830-1900 Mon-Fri 12160-WWCR EUR/AM/AF, 1900-1930 Sat/Sun 12160-WWCR EUR/AF/AM. (BBCM, via EDXP, Jun 23)

RTE's daily nx bulletin on SW has been extended to CeAM on 6155 [ATG? -wb] at 0130 [tx site?? -gh]. The freq for AF has been changed to 21630-ASC at 1830. Services to NoAM on 12160 (at 1830) and to SoEaAS, incl AUS on 11740- SNG at 1000 continue unchanged.

[WWCR and Merlin/Singapore, respectively -gh] Depending on conditions these freqs should be receivable beyond the target areas. (J. Hayde, RTE, Jun 30, WORLD OF RADIO 995, Jul 8)

MALTA The new schedule for the Voice of the Mediterranean had an error for timings of bcs on 7155. The corrected schedule for bcs on 7155 is as follows: 7155 via RAI Rome, Mon-Sat: 0500-0530 It, 0530-0600 En, 0600-0630 Ar. (Erik Koie-DEN, via EDXP, Jul 8)

KAZAKHSTAN Almaty started their Ge progr today, Mon Jul 5, at 1742 12115. Haven't heard En yet. (Erik Koeie-DEN, Jul 5)

KIRIBATI 9810 R Kiribati is back on. After several months in which the stn was off the air awaiting spares, the audience on Christmas Isl started complaining, particularly as there was a parliamentary session coming up.

R Kiribati is carried over a tx of the Kiribati PTT. There are actually two 1 kW txs available for sce, and in light of the listener complaints, the PTT pressed the remaining tx into sce for R Kiribati. However, the tx was only available to R Kiribati outside of normal business hrs. But it was used from 0530-0930 for the Christmas Isls.

The arrangement worked well and R Kiribati has since gotten its spares for the other tx. The bottom line is that it will now take two txs failures to knock R Kiribati off the air. The stn will only operate from 0530-0930 if on the back up. If their regular tx is available, then they will be on from 1830-2130 and 0000-0130 in addition to the above-mentioned bcs.

A log periodic antenna continues to beam the signal to Christmas Isl, but listeners there need a sensitive set to pick it up. Many thanks to Bill Reiher of Radio Kiribati and Mr. Enota of Kiribati PTT for this information. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Jul 2 Copyright)

KYRGYZSTAN Kyrgyz R addr: Kyrgyz Radio Bishkek, 4010 e-mail verification received after 3 months to a paper reception report from Nargis Atakanova, English Service, of behalf of Bayma Sutenova, Vice- President. e-mail addr: [email protected] Postal addr: Kyrgyz Radio, Jash Gvardia blvd. 63, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Pentii Lintujarvi in Communication BDXC-UK, July 1999)

LAOS Luang Prabang has recently moved up slightly to around 6972. Ominously, it has been off air on a number of occasions in the past few days (e.g. evenings of 3 and 5 July and around 0500 on 6 July), and the audio, while still fairly good by SoEaASan dom SW standards, has deteriorated noticeably recently - catch it while you can. Noted 0015 on 8 July with strong signal, local mx progr replacing relay of news from inactive Vientiane 6130. (Alan Davies-THA, Jul 8)

LEBANON v11515 VoH Per Gary Hull, stn manager- "We found the [new] tx to be working fine except for the automatic switch for freq change and the lack of VSWR protection. For this reason we are waiting for new parts to arrive before we begin daily switching between 6280 and 11515. For the past week we have been running continuously on 11515 at 10 kW." (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 3)

LIBYA VoAfrica has now settled(!) with their En nx bcast at 0125-0130 on 15435 and received well here in SoAS. But there is some variations by one or two mins. On 1st-3rd Jul they were at 0125-0130, but on 4th Jul they started at 0127 and ended at 0132. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 5)

MADAGASCAR 5009.5 R Madagasikara 2256 on extended sked with bouncy, Caribbean-flavor pop songs and high-energy DJ in Malagasy; no break observed across the hour and no spoken ID caught. (Bob Hill-USA, Jun 26)

MALAYSIA SHORWAVE COORDINATION GROUP TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER. The Asia-PAC High Freqy Coordination group (ABU-HFC) will meet in Kuala Lumpur in Sept, to coordinate schedules for the B99 (winter) and A00 (summer) seasons. The meeting will be preceded by a one-day workshop on the use of a new data processing system. Participants are expected from the Asia-PAC region, EUR, NoAF and NoAM. This group will look after about 60% of the world's SW txions. The bulk of the coordination activity occurs in face-to-face meetings of participating bcs. Mutually accepted results are then incorporated into a new and improved combined schedule at the end of the meeting.

This should not be confused with the "HFCC/ASBU" (High Frequency Coordination Conference / Arab States Bcing Union) which is an accredited committee within the ITU, which will be meeting in Vienna late in Aug 1999 to prepare the B99 coordinated schedule.

There are some problems with coordination of the work of each group: for example, R Australia requirements are submitted to the ABU-HFC, but tend not to take into account freq requirements of HFCC/ASBU members for relays in the Asia-PAC region on R Australia channels. One glaring example for the present period is the simultaneous use of 17580 by both R Australia Shepparton and RNW Khabarovsk for bcs to the SAME target area ! The RA usage was planned via the ABU-HFC process, whereas the RNW allocation was via the HFCC/ASBU group. (EDXP, Bob Padula-AUS, Jun 30)

MEXICO 9705 R MEX Internat 0400 male speaker with freq and time annt in En. Sp annt at 0406 and into En again with long boaring talk. At 0421, speaker promises to verify RR's with their latest QSL card. ID at 0428. At 0431 into Sp with female speaker. SINPO 33333 at best, but often only 32322. RMI was suffering interference from a 800 Hz tone or heterodyne, but as the recording was made automatically, I could not establish whether RMI or the interfering signal was txing off freq, or another stn was simply sending out a test tone. VOA was dominating this channel when re-checked at 0459. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 3)

MOLDOVA TWR expands MW bcs via Moldova. The US-based international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) has announced that from 2nd Aug it will start hiring airtime on a 1000 kW MW tx in Grigoriopol, Moldova. It will be used mainly for bcing to the Balkans [no frequency given, of course]. (TWR North Carolina June 30 via BBC Monitoring, exerpted for WORLD OF RADIO 995) [freq either 999 or 1548 kHz, wb]

MONACO Freq change of TWR in Romanian eff Jun 10 1600-1645 NF 9515 (54554) over RAI 1 (x9490), //5840 DTK. Future change in Bulg, eff Aug 2: 1815-1830 (Sat till 1845) NF 1548 via Pridnestrovye-Moldova, ex 1394.8 via Albania. (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

NETHERLAND/KOSOVO-METOHIJA Radio 21 Pristina in Alb now is on the air via R Nederland's Flevo 500 kW, 113 deg. to SoEaEu. First noted Jun 11 1828- 2025 9495 (55555). Studio located in Skopje capital of Macedonia. Nx in En (6-7 min) at 2015 ! (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

PAKISTAN Changes in R Pakistan's A-99 schedule, May 3-Sep 4th: R PAK has shifted to nominal 17510 for Urdu WS 1330-1530 and En nx & slow speed nx sce, all to Gulf & ME 1600-1630 from 17535 to avoid QRM. Tx Karachi APK-3 but subject to freq deviation and //11570 v15465.19. World Cup Cricket has finished, by the way, so all sces are operating as per schedule now. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8)

Hindi 0100-0130 7155 9740 Urdu WS 0100-0215 15485.22 17895.14 WS to So&SoEaAS Bangla 0130-0200 11930 15455 Assami 0200-0230 11930 15455 English 0230-0245 15485.22 17660K 17895.14 slow speed nx bulletin to So&SoEaAS to India 9640. Gujrati 0330-0400 17555 (API-1 100 kW 233 degr) to EaAF

Urdu 0500-0700 15175.21 (API-5 250 kW 282 degr) 17554.96 (API-1 100 kW 282 degr) 21460.13 (API-6 250 kW 252 degr) WS to Gulf & ME. [17555 badly QRM by KOL Israel French 0500-0517 only, ed]

Urdu/E 0800-1120 15530.18 (API-5 250 kW 313 degr) 0800-1103 Urdu WS 17835.10 (API-6 250 kW 313 degr) 1105-1120 slow speed nx.

Urdu 1330-1530 11570.07 15465.19 v17510.05K WS Gulf & ME. Turki 1430-1500 6075 7260(both via 270 degr) to AFG and CeAS. Russian 1500-1530 7260 9329.98(both via 313 degr) to CIS and RUS. English 1600-1630 11570.06 15465.18 17510.4K WS Gulf & ME. 15319.95 17719.97/17720.03 to Ea&SoEaAF. 1615-1630 E slow speed nx bulletin.

Turkish 1700-1730 11600.04 13580 (x9770) to TUR. Urdu 1700-1900 11570.06 15335.19 WS to WeEUR. Arabic 1800-1845 11640(x11635 to avoid TWR) 15734.97 to ME & NoAF. Urdu 1800-1900 11600 Islamabad progr to Gulf & ME. French 1930-2000 11570.06 to WeEUR, 15335.19 to ME/NoWeAF. K = Karachi 50 kW, others Islamabad 100/250 kW. (Noel Green-UK, May 24)

PHILIPPINES R Pilipinas, bcs daily as follows: Tagalog & En at 0230-0330 11885 15120 & 15270. 0330-0400 13770 15330 & 17730. In En 1730-1930 11720 15190 & 17720. Addr: R Pilipinas, Philippine Broadcasting Sce, 4th Floor, Media Centre, Visayas Ave., Diliman, Quezon City 1103, Philippines. (BBC Monitoring, via NU, Jul 4)

POLAND on LONGWAVE.

Today Polish R Raszyn on LW did the same procedure than yesterday: Until noon using 225, then retuning into 198, early in the evening moving back into 225. Again 198 was clear stronger than 225, possibly the antenna was designed especially for the 198 freq. It's most likely the first national LW sce with freq changes. Could it be the case, that Poland got a hint, they should use 198 to avoid a permanent loss of the allocation? 1200-1500 on LW 198 kHz, remaining time span on LW 225. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 6)

It turned out, that radios with analogue tuning has the advantage, that one notice unexpected changes in the LW band occupation, which remains undiscovered while using a PLL rig with stn presets. I was just alerted by Helmut Senger from Hoyerswerda, that the Raszyn tx of Polish Radio moved from 225 into 198, where it was already bcing until the antenna mast at Gombin collapsed in 1991, leaving Raszyn as only LW facility in Poland.

Interestingly the signal on 198 is stronger than it was on 225; the hierarchy of strong LW signals here in Elsterwerda, some 50 km north from Dresden, now reads as 1. Zehlendorf-177, 2. Burg-261, 3. Raszyn-198, 4. Donebach-153, 5. Topolna-270.

So the question is of course about the tx power. Raszyn was listed in WRTH 1994 on 198 with 200 kW but in WRTH 1999 on 225 with 600 kW instead. Maybe 600 kW are the current power on 198 and until now 225 was on the air with just 200 kW.

I should add, that there is also another possibility: The new LW facility, which was here and there reported as under planning, was meanwhile constructed. So far I consider, that I cannot remember any reports regarding this, hence I assume that still Raszyn does the job, possibly after some upgrade. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 5)

[LW 225 kHz from 1995]: Reconstruction work on new LW tx mast for 225 kHz starts with 75 kW, later to be increased to 2000 kW at Gombin will commence in Aug '97, and operational in Dec '97. The mast will be 646 metres high, like its predecessor. Previously used mast collapsed in a thunderstorm in August 1991. (HCJB Quito DXPL Dec 16, 1995)

[LW 225 kHz from 1996]: Reconstruction of Gabin Konstantynow LW 225 kHz radio mast in question. A campaign is under way which is based on false information. Protest will be considered which has been made by an association which does not wish to consent to the reconstruction of the mast. A propaganda campaign is being conducted in some media, based on completely unverified information. That the mast is being to maintain contact with military submarines, and that there are some Soviet agents circling around this. There is no proof that the mast is harmful to health. The mast is harmless.

The previous Gabin longwave mast collapsed in a thunderstorm in August 1991. (Polish Radio 1, Mar 29, 1996, via BBCMS, AGDX)

The aerial of the LW transmitter at Gombin near Plock can built up again. The Country Constitution Court has rejected a complaint for this one applied for to the farmers living around the plant. Putting into operation of the transmitter is now provided for 1998. Since collapse of the 646 metres high aerial in Gombin in August 1991, due to faulty replacement method of a stretch cable, the 225 kHz outlet was alternatively bc via Warsaw Raczyn tx with 600 kW. Raczyn is originally registered for 198 kHz channel, which will be in use again from 1998. (Polskie Radio Warsaw, via Andreas Erbe-D, Sept 3, 1996)

World's tallest radio mast can be rebuilt. The Supreme Administrative Court has decided that the radio mast in Konstantynow near Gabin [which was the tallest structure in the world] can be rebuilt according to the present plan. The court rejected a complaint by people living in the vicinity of Gabin against the decision by the environment minister, who gave a positive opinion of the project to rebuild the radio mast situated near their homes. The inhabitants say the mast caused many illnesses...

[The 646-metre-high mast, used to broadcast programmes of Polish radio channel one on 225 kHz, collapsed on 8th August 1991. The accident was found to have been caused by negligence during repair work. Attempts to rebuild the mast have been blocked by opposition from local residents.] (BBCM via AGDX, Polish Radio 1, Sept 2, 1996)

LW mast reportedly crucial to "Polish raison d'etat". The Supreme Administrative Court [NSA] in Lodz has overturned the decision of the [central city of Plock] governor regarding the reconstruction of the [LW] radio mast in Konstantynow near Gabin [central Poland]. The reconstruction work has been stopped. The decision of the NSA is final...

The residents of the villages surrounding Konstantynow took the case to court to have the decision on the mast reconstruction overturned. They believe that the mast represented a health hazard. Tests conducted by the occupational health institute from Sosnowiec [Silesia] did not confirm that. Earlier a similar complaint was dismissed by the NSA in Warsaw.

Some time ago the 600-metre high mast in Konstantynow near Gabin was said to be the highest in Europe. It collapsed five years ago as a result of negligence during maintenance work. Before the disaster the first progr could be heard all over Poland and almost throughout entire Europe. Today two-thirds of the Poles receive it without disturbance.

Next year the old mast in Raszyn [near Warsaw], which took over the functions of the Konstantynow mast, will have to undergo maintenance work. This may result in a break in transmission of the first progr. The people who support the mast reconstruction stress that the first progr enables the radio to fulfil its mission, as 70 per cent of Poles listen to it.

For Poland, the whole country and the Polish raison d'etat the first progr, a progr which would be bc by a single tx and on a single freq, should be reinstated. This progr should enjoy the same conditions as the national commercial stations do. Most Poles want LW bcs to continue.

Three-quarters of Poles support the reconstruction of the Gabin [LW] radio mast, Polish radio said on 11th Oct, quoting a poll by the OBOP polling institute. More than 70 per cent of Poles do not want to see a halt to Polish Radio First Programme LW bcs which would occur if the decision on the reconstruction of the mast was withdrawn, the radio added. (BBCM via AGDX, Oct 18, 1996)

The chairman of the board of Polish Radio has said that currently there are a dozen or so proposals for resiting the [LW] mast that was once located in Gabin [about 100 km west of Warsaw]. The most likely site for the new mast is the area round Belchatow [central Poland]...

The Polish radio chairman said that it is planned to eventually have 60 of VHF txs so that reception of the first progr is possible everywhere in Poland in the so-called high [European] VHF band, 87 - 108 MHz. (Polish Radio I Dec 6, 1996, BBCM via AGDX)

[LW 225 kHz from 1997]: Polish Radio's new LW masts likely to go ahead. The Polish Radio new bcing centre can be built near Solec Kujawski, Bydgoszcz Province [northern Poland], in the coming year. Official procedures preceding the start of the construction can be completed still this summer. The odds are that residents of the Solec commune approved the construction of the two over-300-m high Polish Radio masts for the first channel in the referendum on Sunday. The channel's scope was reduced after the fall of a 650-m mast at Konstantynowo near Gabin in 1991. The scope of the new txs will be smaller than that guaranteed by the mast near Gabin. The Polish Radio first channel will be heard well in Poland and in Lithuania, Belarus and most likely in Germany and Austria. The investment's cost is put at about 15.5m US dollars. (BBCM via AGDX, May 26, 1997)

New Radio Tower. A new AM Poland Radio I Program broadcast tower will be erected near Solec Kujawski, following a local referendum just completed to approve it's construction. The local population is hoping that many jobs will be created to erect and operate the tower. The new tower is a replacement for a fallen steel mast, which crumbled to the ground several years ago, as a result of errors in maintenance. Since the replacement is not going to be as tall as the original, it's signal strength will be weaker. (DONOSY - LIBERAL DIGEST May 27, ISSN 0867-6860. Contact Barbara Klimas at [email protected] - via Joerg Hertzer-D, Jun 9, 1997)

Polish Radio to change freqs during maintenance. In spite of the maintenance work on the [radio] mast in Raszyn [central Poland], announced for late Sept, the First Programme of the radio will be audible throughout the country. Polish Telecommunications SA has informed Polish Radio that on 24th Sept 1997 it is starting maintenance work on the mast of the LW txion centre at Raszyn. The work is to go on for eight weeks. In view of the fact that Polish Telecommunications SA has not completed the construction of the LW mast at Konstantynow, near Gabin, the decision to shut down the Raszyn stn means that Polish Radio will not be able to transmit the most popular radio progr, the First Progr on LW.

During the maintenance work on the mast at Raszyn, the First Programme will be txed on the freqs of all of the existing First Progrs VHF tx, on MW freqs of Radio Bis, the lower VHF range of the 2nd Progr and the upper VHF range of Radio Bis [formerly Polish Radio 4th Progr].

In view of the inability to implement the act on the reconstruction of the mast at Konstantynow, the board of Polish Radio SA has undertaken the construction of its own txing stn for the First Progr. Thanks to the attitude of the residents and the authorities of Solec Kujawski, work is to begin there in the near future which will ensure good reception of the First Progr, which is so very necessary for all the residents of our country and also the most popular radio progr. (BBCM via AGDX, Aug 22, 1997)

On Sept 24th, 1997, maintenance work on the [radio] mast in the LW txion centre at Raszyn [central Poland] will start. The work is to go on for eight weeks. In view of the fact that Polish Telecommunications SA has not completed the construction of the LW mast at Konstantynow, near Gabin, the decision to shut down the Raszyn stn means that Polish Radio will not be able to transmit the most popular radio progr, the First Progr on LW 225 kHz.

Polish radio must reorganize to meet competition. The need to compete and the resultant constant need for modernized technology, mean that the years ahead may be critical ones for Polish Radio, member of the Polish Radio board of directors, writes in 'Rzeczpospolita'. These difficulties, in the author's opinion, are augmented by the urgent need for independent construction of a [LW] tx stn to bc the First Programme. (BBCM via AGDX, Oct 22, 1997)

[LW 225 kHz from 1998]: The Raszyn LW tx on 225 is back on air since a couple of days. The MW carries still PR 1 //225, at night they are now off. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jan 25, 1998)

After four months of repairs to the LW radio mast at Raszyn in central Poland, the first progr of Polish radio returned to the air on 26th Jan, Polish radio reported. The chairman of the board of Polish radio, Krzysztof Michalski, said that for a week Radio One could be received on LW, MW and VHF. Monitoring research confirmed that Polish Radio 1 was available on the normal 225 kHz freq. (BBCM via AGDX, Jan 26, 1998)

Polish Radio to build new LW 225 kHz txion centre. The Polish Radio LW tx centre near Solec Kujawski [central Poland] will be ready within 13 months. This afternoon [7th Apr] Polish Radio president Krzysztof Michalski was presented with the final official planning permission for building the transmission centre. Two 300-metre masts will be erected at a former military training ground 7 km from Solec. For several weeks now, Polish Radio has been building a power line and an access road for the future centre. [Michalski:] ... I think that in about a year's time good quality txions of the Polish Radio First Progr will reach not only all of Poland but also a significant part of EUR. (Polish Radio, via BBCM, via AGDX, Apr 7, 1998)

ROMANIA Summer A-99 schedule of Radio Romania Internat. Bucharest.

Ar: 0700-0756 NF 17720, NF 17840, //15250, 15380 1400-1456 NF 15365, NF 17535, //15380, 17745.

Aromanian (Armaneashti): 1800-1826 NF 11725S, //756; 2030-2056 756.

Bulg: 0500-0526 5965S; 1630-1656 756, 5955S.

En: 0200-0256 NF 11725, //9510, 9570, 11740, 11810, 17735 0400-0456 9570, 11740, 11810, 17735 0600-0656 NF 11725, //11940 0641-0654 NF 15270, //9625, 11840, 11885 0700-0756 15340, 17745 1300-1356 NF 15445, NF 17720, //9690, 15390 1700-1756 NF 15270, NF 17865, //15380, 17735 2100-2156 NF 15180, //9570, 11810, 11840 2300-2356 NF 11725, NF 15105, //9570, 11810, 11830.

Persian: 1430-1456 NF 15180, NF 17720 2000-2026 NF 15180, NF 17720.

Fr: 0500-0556 NF 9605, NF 11725 0615-0628 NF 15270, //9625, 11840, 11885 1100-1156 17815, //11940, 15250, 15390 1500-1556 17815, //15340, 15380, 17805 2000-2056 NF 9530, NF 9750, //7195.

Ge: 0628-0641 NF 15270, //9625, 11840, 11885 1200-1256 NF 15405, NF 17805, //11775, 15390 1600-1656 NF 15195, NF 17805, //11775 1900-1956 NF 11840, NF 15405, //9570, 11940

Gr: 1730-1756 and 1930-1956 NF 11775S, //756.

Hung: 0600-0626 5965S 2030-2056 NF 7180, NF 9725S, //630.

It: 1400-1426 NF 9510S; 1500-1526 NF 9750S, //756 2000-2026 NF 9510S, //756.

Por: 0100-0156 15340, 17735 2200-2256 NF 15180, NF 15335, //11970, 17745.

Rom: 0000-0156 9510, 9570, 17735 0500-0556 15250, 17745 0602-0615 NF 15270, //9625, 11840, 11885 0800-0856 NF 17865, NF 21480, //15370, 17790, 17805 Sun 0900-0956 NF 17840, NF 21490, //15340, 17745, 17790 Sun 1000-1056 NF 17805, NF 21480, //15380, 15390, 17735 Sun 1100-1256 NF 9530S, 11970, 15340 1600-1656 NF 15270, NF 17840 1700-1856 NF 15405, //11940 2100-2156 NF 9650, //11775 2300-2356 NF 15270, //15365.

Ru: 1300-1356 NF 11905S, NF 15405, NF 17745 1500-1556 NF 15365, //11970 1900-1956 NF 9550, //7205. Se: 1700-1726 NF 7145S, //756; 1900-1926 NF 11775S, //756.

Sp: 0000-0056 NF 15105, //11830, 15340, 17735 0300-0356 11810, 11970 1800- 1856 NF 11840, //15380 2200-2256 NF 15270, //15365.

Tu: 1530-1556 NF 9550S, //756; 1830-1856 NF 9750S, //756.

Ukr: 0530-0556 5965S; 1600-1626 756, 5970S. S=Saftica/Tiganesti tx power 50 kW. Relay HS1 (Romania Aktualitati) via Galbeni txs: 9690v 1700-0800; 11790v 0800-2000; 15105v 0800-1700 all three buzzy and demodulated audio signal ! (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

RUSSIA R Mariya in Pol via Samara tx: 1930-2200 NF 7380 (45433) (x7400). (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

11925 Tatar R, Samara 0835 sounds like literary reading in Tatar. Ru lang lesson, when re-checked at 0850. ID at 0856. SINPO 45444.

11665 Tatar R, Samara 0400 s-on with female ID. SINPO 33333. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 3 / 4)

SERBIA Radio YUG back on full schedule. Evidently R Yugoslavia is back on full schedule with two txs after a restoration of the studio-tx-link to the Bijeljina site. Noted them tonight in Ge at 2000 on 6100 no longer with a emergency nx bulletin per phone patch but with a full half hour progr (nx, press review, even again "sights in YUG"), feeded through regular bc circuit and closing with a refer to the next edition tomorrow at 1630 on 7215 and 9620. After some IS a piece of mx was played to fill the gape until the start of the Fr sce at 2030, for which the second tx also camed up on 6185... in a word: Business as usual. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 6)

R Yugoslavia's NoAM sce is back, heard UTC Wed Jul 7 at 0000 on 9580 in En, and on //11850 but the latter is mixed with China (Mali?) in Portuguese. (Joe Hanlon, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 995, Jul 8)

We were hearing it too, but 11850 was not among the freqs listed at the beginning. Same old same old soporific style but nice jingles. Also found En back at 0430 on same two, but this time 11850 was clear, 9580 weaker and side-splashed. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 8)

SRI LANKA R Japan via Ekala relay is playing havoc with 'off' freq in all their txions viz. 11887 (actual 11890) at 0130-0300 & 0630-0800; 11877 (11880) 1400-1500 and 12042 (12045) 1500-1700, thus disturbing not only their progrs but also to those adjacent channels. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 5)

[IBB IRANAWILA test ?] UNID 15130, noted at 0804 with non stop instrumental mx. Test? Same unid txion was noted last week at appr. 0820- 1030. (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, via Cumbre Jul 8) [only RL 11875 is scheduled 0800- 1000]

SWITZERLAND SRI 9610 via DTK Juelich-GER seems a poor choice 0400-0630. Tremendous splash from DW 9615 0500-0545 En, and co-ch BBC ASC in Fr 0600- 0630. A SWL friend tells me that he heard a comment during a recent SRI En txion that they intend resuming their former European sces from start of the winter schedule due to a large number of complaints received. (Noel Green- UK, Jul 8)

TAIWAN In the German letterbox progr July 2nd/3rd Radio Taipei Internat mentioned an addit txion in Ge starting Jul 6 at 1900-2000 on Taiwan tx 11775.

From this date two progr hrs will be produced. The first half is bc at 1800-1900 on 9955 and at 2100-2200 on 15600 and 17750 kHz via WYFR relay. The 2nd half is at 1900-2000 on 11775 and at 0600-0700 on 9985 WYFR. (Erik Koie-DEN, Juergen Lohuis-D, Jul 3)

THAILAND 7195 R Thailand, Udon Thani 1900 s-on and En nx, first day on new freq. Tip for this freq change came from Mikhail Timofeyev. Booming in with SINPO 55544. (Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS, Jul 2; Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 4)

R Thailand dom sce 6070 noted 7 Jul at various times around 0200-0500 //891, 7115, with separate programming at times on 4830 only. Previously for many months, 4830 and 6070 (also 92.5 FM in Bangkok) were always noted in parallel, separating at times from 891 and 7115. 891 and all 3 HF freqs often carry the same prgr for extended periods, esp. in local early morning and late afternoon/early evening. (Alan Davies, Khon Kaen-THA, Jul 8)

TURKEY Freq change of VoTUR in En to EUR: 1230-1325 NF 15225 strong, but low audio, (x17830). Txion in Hung BACK the air: 0930-1025 15405 (55555). First noted June 15. (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

UK Freq changes of BBC in Alb: 1000-1030 Mon-Fri (Sat/Sun til 1015) NF 15190 (x15555) to avoid RDP R Portugal in Port. Also deleted 13745. 1315- 1345 Mon-Fri (Sat/Sun til 1330) deleted 13670. (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

[non] Direct QSL cards from then BBC, now Merlin relay sites Oman, Seychelles, Cyprus, Singapore. Addr: BBC East Mediterranean Relay, Box 209, Limassol, Cyprus. BBC Far Eastern Relay, Box 434, Singapore BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station, Grand Anse, Mahe, Seychelles British Eastern Relay Station, Masirah Island, Sultanate of Oman; or Box 3716, Ruwi Post Office, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. (Martin Elbe-D, Jul 4)

BBC Oman QSL letter. Addr: BBC Oman; B.E.R.S.; P.O.Box 6898; 112 Ruwi; Masirah Island; Oman. No return postage. In 44 days. V/s QSL-letter is David Plater (A45XJ/G4MZY), D. Plater via Email: Middle East Lazy-DX-Network Sat/Sun from 1400 UTC on ham radio band 14184 kHz. (Feb 99)

Virgin R will begin operations on HF via Skelton from 2100, Fri Jul 2, all 250 kW, as follows:

Fri 2100-2300 6140 (114 degr) Fri 2100-0100 7325 & 9720 (both 150) Fri 2300-0100 6015 (114); and Sat 1300-1700 7130 (150), 9750 (175) & 12035 (105). (Merlin Communications, via Ferguson-VA via NU and direct, Jul 4)

Checked on today's afternoon, best freq is 12035, barely heard on 9750 and unaudible on 7130. No Virgin R ID was heard, but DJ mentioned CMR ("here on CMR"). What it could be ? My first guess was Country Music R, but what they playing is not country music but endless rap style songs. (Nikolai Pashkevich-RUS, Jul 3)

I had no opportunity to listen to last night txs, but what MNO right now carries is not Virgin R. Noted on 12035 with 1258 crash start into MNO ID, then straight into mx selections with somewhat hard to understand DJ talks (evidently these stuff was produced without consideration of a SW txion), so I cannot for sure tell about the progr producer. 12035 is excellent, //9750 considerably weaker and no sign of a signal on 7130, either there is just no one or a weak one is buried under the ever present local noise here. I will drop MNO a line to find out about their current SW bcs; looks like these could be indeed regular now. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 3)

Hrd from *2059 Jul 2, opening with long combined Merlin Comm./Merlin Network One ID, then into an introductory anmt by man ment. "Country Music Radio (presumably the CMR that has bc via MNO in the past) and what appeared to be the "Flat Earth" prgm with gal host "Luna" and I believe sponsored by Levi's (tho no ads as such hrd).

Occasional anmts in En, MC/MNO IDs on the hr., but mostly rock mx. "Luna" joined by Paul Thomas at 2100, but same format cont'd. I listened on and off to 2300 and never hrd any mention of Virgin R, and this was not //to the Virgin R website audio.

9720 was decent at the start and built quickly into a very good signal. 7325 was weak to begin with but usable later. 6140 was the weakest of the three. Nothing hrd on 6015 at 2300 -- they stayed on at least 9720 and 7325 past 2300; not sure of 6140. Also hrd at *1259 Jul 3 on 9750 and 12035, the latter better but neither very good. I think the 1300 prgm this was a repeat of the Jul 2 2100 progr. (Jerry Berg- MA via NU, Jul 4)

12035 1345-1500+ Jul 3, mainly with horrible industrial techno/rave mx incl. Chemical Brothers, etc. Both listed //7130 & 9750 were blocked. Poor signal, improving to fair arnd 1430. (Martin-OZ, via NU, Jul 4)

Last night Merlin Network One was once again on SW, noted at 2340 on powerhouse 6015 and somewhat less strong 7325 and 9720. The 49 mb channel was pounding like it did as the BBC was bcing in German for the very last time and indeed it looks like not only the freq but also the aerial is the same than at this time (a HR 4/2/0.5 aiming at 102 degrees, operated with +12 degrs slew).

The on-air annt was still a little bit unclear, but now I'am rather certain about the origin of the programming, which MNO now carries Fri/Sat 2100- 0100 and Sat 1300-1700 also on SW: Looks like it are these people, who did a test txion via MNO on June 11th, at this time identifying as "Indigo Blue". Anyway these stuff evidently has nothing to do with Virgin Radio. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 10)

Visit to Radio Northsea RSL off Clacton on Sea. David Morris is hoping to organize a a visit to the Radio Northsea RSL off Clacton on Sea, there may also a possibility to visit the Radio Caroline RSL off Southend on Sea later in the day. If interested please ring David Morris on +44 1202 631868. (DX Diary, Communication BDXC-UK, July 1999)

USA Addit changes of IBB: VoA 0530-0630 in Fr to AF Mon-Fri NF 11855 (x11875); 0130-0230 in Pashto/Dari NF 9505 (x9585); 1130-1230 in Burmese NF 15225 (x7220); 2200- 2215 in Serb addit 1458-ALB.

RFE/RL 1700-1800 in Ukr NF 15380 (x15265); 1800-1830 in Kosovian-Alb addit 1458-ALB; 1900-1930 in Kosovian-Alb addit 792-GRC; 1900-1930 in Kosovian- Alb NF 7175 (x7180) 1900-2000 in Ru NF 7115 (x7245); 2215-2400 in Se addit 1458-ALB.

"DXing with Cumbre" changes acc edition #176 / June 9: add Sun 1400 15105 tx#1, add Sun 2300 5745 tx#2, add Sun 2200 9495 tx#1, del Sat 0800 11565 tx#4. Also ann: del Sun 1605 17650, but heard June 13, 20, 27 !

Freq change of WHRA 5 from June 21, acc edition #177: 2300-0500 D a i l y NF 7580 (55555), ex7385. (OBSERVER-BUL Ivo Ivanov, Jul 3)

WSHB heard using 18915 (x18910) from 1600 after a tip from John Stewart-UK. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8)

RL's Ar sce 1500-1700 heard on new 9825[-KAV from Jun 23rd]. //heard are 15160 & very loud 11850, but no trace of listed 12025-KAV. ID sounds "Idha til Iraq al Hurr min Prague". They give an Internet address at www.iraqsurr.org (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8)

Woofferton outlet replaced by Briech-Morocco from May 9th. RLIQ 1500-1600 KAV 6185 108 04/02-10/30/1999 RLIQ 1600-1700 KAV 6185 108 03/28-10/30/1999 RLIQ 1500-1700 KAV 9825 104 06/23-10/30/1999 RLIQ 1500-1600 LAM 11805 108 04/02-10/30/1999 RLIQ 1600-1700 LAM 11805 108 03/28-10/30/1999 RLIQ 1500-1600 KAV 12025 104 04/02-06/22/1999 RLIQ 1600-1700 KAV 12025 104 03/28-06/22/1999 RLIQ 1500-1600 WOF 15160 102 04/02-05/08/1999 RLIQ 1600-1700 WOF 15160 102 03/28-05/08/1999 RLIQ 1500-1700 MOR 15160 005 05/09-10/30/1999 (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8)

Fundamental Broadcasting Network in NoCarolina will soon have the USA's newest SW stn on the air. Officials at FBN tell Cumbre DX that they have installed and tested an Armstrong 50 kW tx. The stn still has to conduct some further tests, but hopes to be on the air with progrs in a couple of weeks. Primary target will be EUR, although the initial bcs will probably occur in the local evening. Programming will be a relay of the FBN (Christian). (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 6)

Cumbre DX readers may recall that Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, Idaho, acquired KGEI's 250 kW tx some years back. Chapel officials tell Cumbre DX that they have no plans for this tx, preferring to concentrate on their FM translator network instead. Sadly, this once fine tx sits in pieces, sans antenna, in a potato hut in Idaho. [A potato hut is a half-buried barn used for storing potatoes.] (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 6)

WCJR 13595 has been off about a month. The final in the old RCA tx was going so they kept reducing the power. When it got to 5 kW they shut it off. It did always operate on freq, though. [There were some reports of a drifting stn in this range several weeks ago. v13643 around 2100, wb]. This tx is to be replaced by a 50 kW Continental. When it returns to the air, there is a possibility that it will be used in the 7 MHz range at night for Sp to LatAM.

The tx on 7490 was converted to a similar Continental about 10 weeks ago. It is running at about 25 kW right now. As far as the RCA txs go, one is "junk." The plan for the other is to convert it linear modulation and use it as a 30 kW back up. All this per the stn. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 6)

UZBEKISTAN On Jul 1st, R Tashkent is bcing German sce since five years. Please great the staff of R Tashkent on the occasion of this anniversary.

Direct addr: Radio Taschkent, 49 Khorezm Street, 700047 Taschkent, Uzbekistan. In Germany: Radio Taschkent c/o Uzbekistan Airways, Kaiserstr. 7, D-60311 Frankfurt (Main), Germany. e-mail (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Jun 15)

Radio Tashkent, new sked as at Jul 3rd: 1200-1230 En, 1230-1300 Ur, 1300-1330 Hi, 1330-1400 En, 1400-1430 Ur, 1430- 1500 Hi, all 7285 9715 15295 17775. 1520-1550 Da, 1550-1630 Uz, 1630-1700 Pe, 1700-1730 Ar; 1700-1730 Tu 9540. 1730-1830 Uz, 1830-1900 Pe, 1900-1930 Ar, all 6190 7285 9540 9545 9715. 1935-2030 Ge 5025 5035 5060 9540 9545 11905. 2030-2100 En 9540 9545. 2130-2200 En 7105 9540. 2330-0000 MandCh, 0000-0030 Ui, 5060. 0100-0130 En, 0230-0330 Uz 7190 9375 9530 9715. 0130-0200 Da, 0200-0230 Pa 7190 9715. 0600-0630 Tu 15200. (BBCM via EDXP, Jul 8)

VIETNAM 13740 VoVTN *0000 Coming on with opening annt that included mention of VTN; continued with man and woman swapping the mike in Vn, occasionally pausing for short bridges of Oriental orchestral mx. Into interview or discussion at 0015. Lousy signal at s-on, then gradually improved a bit. This channel recently reported as new by Timofeyev, who says it's the Dom Sce //9730. (Bob Hill-USA, Jun 26)

Domestic Broadacsting Survey. This booklet is the replacement for the former TBS - DSWCI Tropical Broadcasting Survey.

It covers all domestic bcs from 2200 to 22.000 kHz. It's produced by the Danish SW Club International, and compiled by Anker Petersen. It's 44 pages A4, and may be ordered through Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK-3500 Vaerloese, Denmark. Price is DKr 75, DEM 20, 14 IRC's, œ 7, incl of airmail postage. (Nx of the world, Communication BDXC-UK, July 1999)

Convention on great Berlin Radio and TV Exhibition - Aug 28, 1999.

Wegen moeglicher Kollision mit dem Bundesligafussballspiel im Olympiastadion wurde das Treffen der ORF KW Hoerer und der AGDX Arbeitskreis UKW/TV/Sat-Dxer vom Preussischen Landwirtshaus am Olympiastadion in das Fernsehzentrum des SFB verlegt. Die Absicht, das Treffen am selben Ort und auch zeitlich zusammenhaengend stattfinden zu lassen, waere dann nicht mehr gegeben gewesen, wenn das UKW-DXer Treffen dort verblieben waere.

Thomas Kubaczewski und Frank Helmbold haben den Treffpunkt wie folgt geaendert:

Treffen der AGDX Arbeitskreis UKW/TV/Sat-Dxer Sonnabend/Samstag, 28. August 1999 1600-1800 MESZ (1400-1600 UTC) bredow Bistro, Hotel am Studio Kaiserdamm 80/81, Ecke Soorstrasse Berlin-Charlottenburg anschliessend

Treffen der ORF KW Hoerer- und Hobbytreffen (ORF Vienna listener meeting) Sonnabend/Samstag, 28. August 1999 ab 1800 MESZ (from 1600 UTC) Fersehzentrum des SFB Berlin (SFB Berlin TV center) Sitzungssaal 14. Obergeschoss (14th floor) Masurenallee 20 Berlin-Charlottenburg (TK, Jul 3/8)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 419 19 Jul 1999 ______

AUSTRALIA 9500 Fine signal of Feedback progr RA Shepparton noted on Fri fr 2105, //11880. Feature of RA's Khmer progr and dom sce progr relays in Cambodia. (WB, Jul 16)

BELARUS 6080, R Stolitsa reg progr, 1500+ Jun 27, electric mx mix, 1540 ID with FM freq mentioned, //7210 & 6070. At 1600 IDed as 3rd progr of Byelorussian R. Seemed to be another Slav underneath, vibraphone IS at 1600, Kiev HS maybe? (Crawford-RUS, via NU, Jul 12)

CHINA/RUSSIA Radio France Internat noted on 11600 at 1200-1300 in Cambodian instead of En via Xian in China. The //15155 continues with En programming. Any wrong feed to the tx? (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 11)

RFI is scheduled in Lao 1100-1200, Cambodian 1200-1300 12025 via Irkutsk- RUS 500 kW 180 degr. RFI in Fr via Beijing-CHN 1100-1200 120 kW 217 degr. RFI in En via Xian-CHN 1200-1300 120 kW 188 degr.

7200 UNID Chinese dom stn signing on at 2100, carrier on from about 2052. Free channel now due RTS Stubline-YUG is off after air strike attack.

CRI En strong on 15415 at 2100-2200, signal well above co-ch Libya yesterday. (WB, Jul 16)

CRI changes. For about three weeks from mid June CRI was using a number of addit freqs, apparently on a trial basis. Freqs noted are 12045, 13675, 13765, 15110 (addit txions), 15310, 15360. The Urumqi txers normally using 7265 and 9860 (from 1900) were temporarily redeployed during this period and replaced by much weaker Beijing units. Two addit txs in use appear to have been from Urumqi as well (TDP lists 4 x 100 kW that have not been heard before). From about 8 July all is back to normal from Urumqi.

From mid June the two txs at Xian West, normally using 7800 and 9820 to EUR and 9457 to SoAS, EaAF, have been off the air. 7800 is covered by Xian East and 9820 has been replaced by 11760 from an unknown site.

The 7800 tx has a loud howl on the carrier, the same kind that used to be heard on one of the Kharkiv (UKR) txs. The same tx can be heard on 9535 at 1500, 15180 at 0900 15260 at 1200 and 11915 at 1000. In the case of Kharkiv the howl seems to come from the parallelling of two txers. Krasnodar used to have a similar problem from its opening in 1967 until the mid 90's. Modern information has revealed that the Krasnodar howl was generated when four 100 kW units were operated in parallel. With only two txs in parallel the problem did not appear. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 14)

7200 Since the Belgrade-YUG Stubline tx on 7200 is off and destroyed now, due of NATO air raides, I can hear an UNID Chinese dom stn on 7200, carrier still on at about 2050-2059 with fadings, then into opening procedure at 2100 UTC. Any idea? (WB, Jul 16)

7200 is CNR-2 from the Beijing main HS tx centre (x7770). This freq change was made quite a while ago. The beam is towards NoWeCHN, which produces a rather good signal here during darkness. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 17)

At same time CRI in En 15415 ahead of Libya yesterday ! Featuring Tibet landscape and culture. 43443 (WB)

This is from one of the high power txs in Urumqi. This txion was introduced (then on 7235) last Spring. During warmup at 1457 and at times also during later progr breaks this tx sometime leaks an off air signal picked up on 9730. At 1457 BBC Vn can be heard, and later an Ar speaking stn. So 9730 (7780 in the winter period) is also used as feeder. The new 7590 in // with 6950 is no doubt another feeder for Urumqi. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 17)

CUBA/VIETNAM The director-general of VoVTN, Tran Mai Hanh, visited RHC July 12. RHC director Milagro Hernandez Cuba welcomed Tran, who is also a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party. [so, maybe VoVTN via RHC relays are next] (RHC website July 12 via BBC Monitoring, exerpted by Hauser, Jul 15)

DENMARK R Norway / Denmark change. A minor freq change was made this morning for the bc to RUS, SoEaEUR and the ME 0300-0455: 9475 was changed 5 down to 9470 kHz. Our web-page has been corrected: http://www.dr.dk/rdk/a99e.htm (Erik Koie-DEN, Radio Denmark / ehk@dr.dk Jul 14)

ECUADOR RICH McVICAR: The following article was mostly written in early 1997, a few months after my family and I left Ecuador. Before it was finished, I lost it and soon forgot all about it in the business of moving from Maine to New York state and starting a new job. I recently stumbled across an old floppy backup disk on which the article appeared and finally finished it. I'm sending it to various clubs and individuals. Please feel free to use it in your newsletter/bulletin if you believe it would be of some interest.

Not SW, but very interesting. Paul Ormandy has posted it on his webpage, which is http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/3216/HCJB-690.htm

GEORGIA [ABKHAZIA] 9489.75, Abkhaz Radio, operates daily at 0325-0800, 1030-1130 and 1400-1700; carries R Sochi nx in Ru daily at 0445-0500 and Tue-Sat at 1445-1500, and R Kuban from Krasnodar irregularly on Sat at 0600-0700. When not carrying its own progrs, Abkhaz Radio relays R Russia from Moscow, R Kuban from Krasnodar or R Sochi. The timing of these relays, as with all progr on Abkhaz R, is subject to change. Addr: Aidgylara Street 34, Sukhumi 384900, Rep. of Abkhazia, via Russia. (BBC Monitoring, via NU, Jul 12)

GERMANY NOSTALGIE Webseite des KWRS - Kurzwellenring Sued. Hallo OM's hier ein Gruss aus Suedafrika, die Nostalgieseite des KWRS ist nach wie vor zu finden auf http://home.pix.za/pa/pak02372/kwrs.htm jetzt mit einigen Tondokumenten versehen.

Alles Gute, Gerhard Marz P.O.B. 706, ZA-2128 RIVONIA, Rep South Africa Tel. +27 82 5747 354 FAX +27 12 352 5346 http://www.marzinfo-cape.co.za (Jul 17)

15715 heard opening at 1700-1759 off. Language not familiar to me but clearly mentions "Oromo" and "Ethiopia" with mx from Horn of Africa. My guess is that its VOL - Voice of Oromo Liberation (SBO - Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo) in the DTK list as you indicate, and heard Thurs 8th, Fri 9th of July.

[scheduled Suns at 140 degr to zones 38 LBY-EGY, 39 NE-ME, 48 EaAF. ed]

UNID on 15105 heard on air at 1635 on Fri Jul 9th mixing with Bucharest- ROU. This also sounded Horn of Africa type lang and music. I presume it may also be via Juelich but can't see a listing for a Friday. This and ROU both went off 1700. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 10)

[scheduled Sats 1600-1700 at 160 degr to zones 38 LBY-EGY, 47 CeAF, 52 GAB- COG-ZAI-AGL, 53 TZA-MWI-MOZ, 57 NMB-RSA-BOT, supposedly GNW - Good News World Radio; but on Sun at 130/160 degr Universal Life progr instead.

RRA - Radio Rainbow in Amharic on Thur at 140 degr to zone 48 EaAF: Organization: GRAPECA / RAGPEHA, addr: P.O.Box 140104, D-53056 Bonn, Germany ID in Amharic: Kestedamena rediyo ye selamena yewendimamach dimtse. (BBCM, via NU, via CRW31)]

RNW heard 0600-0700 in Du on former Merlin freq 13720. Assume is Juelich in use July/Aug only and instead of listed 13655 in schedule. //are 5955FLE 210 degr, 9895FLE 127 degr, 11935FLE 191 degr. [13720 (x13655) is Juelich relay at 20 degr, 100 kW.] (Noel Green-UK, Jul 10)

Missed Sunrise Radio 5850 via DTK since Jul 1st ? (Herbert Meixner-AUT, Jul 16)

5850 Sunrise Radio untraced, open carrier on 6110, one of their ex-freqs, I believe. Or has the contract with 'Sunrise' simply come to an end and not been renewed ? (Woodward British DX Club Jul 11 via Rogers via Cumbre)

Unfortunately, we have not read the original article. Therefore we should be interested in any information on this subject.

Are you able to confirm that AFN will leave Frankfurt, and can you give us any more details? What will happen to the transmitter installations on AM and FM? We should be very thankful for your reply. (Michael Bethge Chief editor of "DX MAGAZINE" WDXC, Jul 7)

AFN is considering a move. However, plans are not firm. We can not project when or if we will move. If we had to guess, we'd say in two years, certainly not by the end of 1999. Keep in mind that a contract has not been signed, money has not been allocated and we still have not agreed to move anywhere! Regards, George Smith, Jul 7 Smith, George Civ, HQ AFN-Europe, INTERNET:[email protected]

From Arctic News Desk: LW 153 & 177 will carry DLF-progrs in the future and LW 207 & 261 will carry the DLR Berlin txions. (Mobi radio news, via Arctic News Desk, Jul 14)

Die Webseiten des Kurzwellenring-Sued sind ab sofort unter der neuen Webadresse http://www.kwrs.de zu finden. Die von Dr. Hansjoerg Biener zusammengestellten aktuellen Informationen haben nun die Adresse http://www.kwrs.de/aktuell.html (Georg Einfalt-D, Jul 16)

IRAN 15200 VOIRI Japanese test bc 1318-1328 45444-44433. Interview to Japanese persons who live in IRN. Good signal. //17620 also good condition. Thanks for Shiraishi via Japan Premium express Jul 12. (Takeshi Kanai-JPN Jul 13, in Cumbre)

IRELAND/UK/USA Finally remembered to check RTE's new relay to CeAM on 6155 UT Mon July 12: *0129:45 amidst ad for Mazda, then Irish Mirror and its sports coverage. Then ID as "Radio One, just after half past 6" so presumably delayed from 1730 like on WWCR. Still no info on site for this one, but signal was good with rolling fades; could be DTK [no, see below].

Three mins of news by woman, concluding at 0133 with "News again at 7" -- not for the megalisteners to this freq -- are they oblivious of their SW audience? Another Irish Mirror ad, car insurance country-wide by phoning 617-9950, timecheck for 25:7, into weather summary, and 0137 sports nx, whence I departed. Off a bit before 0200 but I wasn't listening in time in case there was some switching error to give us a clue on relay site. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 15)

The new RTE Overseas Sce on 6155 at 0130 daily to CeAM is coming from Rampisham-England (Merlin) acc to mail received from Julie Hayde (RTE, Dublin).

By the way, your recent posting on DX report omitted to say that the same sce via WWCR 12160, goes out at 1900 Sat & Sun. The 1830 slot is Mon-Fri. (Finbarr O'Driscoll-IRL, 12 Jul '99, WORLD OF RADIO 996, JUl 15)

ISRAEL 17615 KOL Israel in En to EUR/NoAM 1355-1430 replaced 17535 by new 17615, due of RRI Bucharest in Ar on former channel. //still 15650. IBB Iranawila-CLN test in Tibetan on next door 17620 too. (WB, Jul 17)

KOL Israel Jerusalem; a few minor changes: En 0400-0415 now 9435, 15655 (x15650, x11605) and 17535. En 1400-1430 15650 and 17615 (x17535). (RVI Radio World Jul 18, via C.Vanoudheusden-HOL)

KOSOVO Im Kosovo sind nun etliche Lokalstationen wieder bzw neu on air gegangen. Neu soll ein Radio CAKOVA z.B. sein. Details noch nicht bekannt. Waehrend der Kriegshandlungen sind alle Lokalstationen geschlossen worden oder sie mussten das serbische Zentralprogramm uebernehmen. (Harald Suess- AUT, Jul 15)

LIBYA Heard regularly Sats: "Voice of Africa" 15415 0=3-4 at 1130-1230. 1130-1145 En, 1145-1200 Fr, 1200-1230 Ar, from 1230 tent local sces. (Dr. Woellersdorfer-AUT, Jul 17)

MALI 11975 CRI Bamako relay in Fr at 2130 is one and a half seconds behind direct 11760 and 11825 txions. (WB, Jul 16)

MALTA VoM Valetta heard in En from 1900 on 12060 via RUS relay on Jul 8th. Follows VoRUS in Ar. Also in Ar on 7155 via Rome St.Palombara-ITA relay, mixing with RL in Persian, both close at 0630. Have not heard VoM beyond this time as yet. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 10)

MOLDOVA On July 14, the German TWR section "Evangeliumsrundfunk" at Wetzlar spread out a press release, which emphasized 1548 as the freq, which will be used for extended TWR sces via Grigoriopol from Aug 2nd. In the beginning they will air two hrs of programming in Bulg, Rom and gipsy langs per day, later also bcs in Mac and Se are planned. It is stated, that TWR could secure for exclusive rights to air Christian programming via Grigoriopol and has a precedence over other bcs to expand it's txion times [means VoR can anytime drived away from 1548 on TWR request like from 1386 on any interested bcs request I guess -kl].

For the 1548 channel these press release also mentions a power of 1000 kW (claiming it to be the most powerful MW tx in these region, although it is one amongst other 1 MW outlets there at best), which I guess could mean that full power operation was arranged with "the Russians"; somebody mentioned 1548 as currently running on just 250 kW a while ago, although prior to the Kosovo war and VoR special sce, so maybe these is meanwhile out-dated. (Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 15)

Trans World Radio weitet Programme fuer Osteuropa aus. Grigoriopol/Wien (lo). Die weltweit groesste christliche Radiomission Trans World Radio (TWR) weitet ihre Programme fuer den Balkan aus. Wie der Direktor von TWR-Europa, Werner Kroemer (Wien) mitteilte, werden vom 2. August an christliche Sendungen ueber den staerksten Mittelwellensender der Region aus Grigoriopol in Moldavien auf MW 1548 ausgestrahlt. Mit der 1000 kW starken Station erreiche TWR vor allem Bulgarien, Rumaenien und Jugoslawien mit einer potentiellen Hoererschaft von 56 Mill Menschen. So sollen ab August zunaechst zwei Stunden taeglich abends Programme in Rumaenisch, Bulgarisch sowie in den Zigeunersprachen Romani und Kalderesch ausgestrahlt werden. Spaeter sind auch Programme in Mazedonisch und Serbisch geplant. TWR konnte sich das Exklusivrecht auf die Ausstrahlung christlicher Programme sichern und hat Vorrang bei der Ausweitung der Sendezeiten vor anderen Programmanbietern.

Bereits seit Dezember 1996 sendet TWR russische, weissrussische und ukrainische Programme ueber einen kleineren Mittelwellensender von 500 kW Leistung auf MW 999 ebenfalls von Grigoriopol nahe der Hauptstadt Chisinai. Dort werden auch Programme ausgestrahlt, die beim Evangeliums-Rundfunk in Wetzlar entstehen.

Fragen beantwortet die Leiterin der ERF-OEffentlichkeitsarbeit, Frau Annette E. Gerling, Tel. +49 (0) 64 41 - 9 57 - 2 29. (INTERNET:[email protected] Jul 14)

NETHERLANDS 1224 Q Radio is approx. two weeks off, due of repairing and maintenance work on the stn. (Juergen Lohuis-D, Jul 12)

675 will probably change owner very soon. (BE) 828 will change to Classic Rock during the autumn. (BE) 1332 Hoppa R has been testing on this freq from a tx at Alphen a/d Rijn, 30 kms from Utrecht (Ruud Voss in EuroLog) 1485 Haagstad R has been heard testing with very low power in Hindustani. (Kotalampi's webpage; all via Arctic News Desk, Jul 14)

PAKISTAN Changes in R Pakistan's A-99 schedule, May 3-Sep 4th: The Islamabad progr to Gulf & IRN 1800-1900 found on new 15174.98 with no trace of signal on former 11600. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 8, WB, Jul 14)

POLAND Tests have been been reported on LW 198 in connection with a major freq reshuffle and tx upgrade planned for this autumn. On Sept 1st, the 1000 kW LW tx at Solec Kujawski (near Bydgoszcz) will be inaugurated on LW 225. It will replace the 600 kW back-up tx in Raszyn near Warsaw, which has been working on LW 225 since the collapse of the Gabin (Konstantynow) mast in 1991. Polskie Radio is planning to use Raszyn on LW 198 during daytime for one of its progrs after Sept. (Bernd Trutenau-LTU, Jul 16)

MW 936 The Polish P3 has been heard testing on this freq?! (Horst Rauch-D, via BE, in Arctic News Desk, Jul 14)

PORTUGAL UNID from Cumbre #251: 21800, 1751-2002 s-off, mostly mx - seemed to be Ce or SoAmerican style mx - many instrumentals. First heard Jul 10, then again on Jul 11 just before 1600. (Lee Silvi-USA, in Cumbre Jul 11)

21800 Undoubtedly RDP Lisbon in rather Portugues than Sp. Is scheduled here Sat/Sun only, that's why Jul 10th and 11th noted on air.

Scheduled and registered 21800 1200-2000 zones 12 to 15, 100 kW 215 degr.

QATAR 17895 QBS Doha, 1950-2108 Jul 5, continuous mx until 2000 5+1 time pips and brief talk, followed by mix of talks and mx for the next hour. 5+1 time pips and ID at 2100, followed by world nx. Nice signal. (Richard D'Angelo-PA USA, via NU, Jul 12)

17895 Came accross signing off procedure playing NatAnthem at 2121-2124. 35322 (WB, Jul 16)

RUSSIA VOICE OF RUSSIA 70TH ANNIVERSARY RADIO FORUM. VoRUS is holding a Radio Forum to mark the stns 70th Anniversary. The questions are listed below: 1. How did you first come to hear about the VoRUS, formerly R Moscow?

2. What's your assessment of the VoRUS as a source of information about political, economic and cultural life in Russia?

3. What's your overall impression of Russia from listening to our broadcasts? Answers to or Voice of Russia, 25 Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow, Russia 113326. (Maryanne Kehoe-USA, via Cumbre, Jul 15)

SERBIA/BOSNIA 6270 R YUG Belgrade in Fr via Bijeljina-BHI 2130-2200 produces a spurious mixture signal of 85/170 kHz away, nominal 6100 and 6185 kHz. (WB, Jul 16) Heard on three rxs, AOR7030, Kenwood R-1000, and Sony ICF2010.

R YUG had some Orthodox church mx during the last ten mins of the En txion at 0000 July 14. More such mx progrs from Belgrade would be welcome. They also gave out the e-mail addr: and website address: beograd.com/radioyu (which is outdated -- it redirects you to their current site: http://www.radioyu.org

I also noted some new jingles on RY last night. On UT Suns 0000-0030 9580, 11850 there is no En, but Serbian, more musical respite with folk mx instead of all the talk. (Ivan Grishin-CAN, July 14, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 15)

11850 R YUG back on air in En to WCNA. Excellent reception in the clear, but 9580 is only fair to good, with adjacent splatter from VOA with Daybreak Africa on 9575, I believe from Greenville. Same style as before. (Walter Salmaniw-CAN in Cumbre, Jul 13)

9580 R YUG 0007 Female announcer in En lang with details on Russia's roles in reconstruction of Bosnia. Various time frames where given on the reconstruction of various bridges and railways. (Jon Oldenburg-USA in Cumbre, Jun 7)

R YUG in Sp to Americas, 2300-2330 on 9605 and 9680. (Jorge Garcia Rangel via Radioincontro, Jul 16)

SOMALIA 6690 R Mogadishu 1735 male speaker in unident lang, folk mx and talks again. At 1800 tune and female speaker in En, anthem, at 1802 male speaker with world nx in En, a.o. about Palestinian leader Yaser Arafat, the situation in Congo and Colombia. 1808 pop songs. SINPO 35232 at first, but improving to a solid 35333. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 12)

SOUTH AFRICA 6135 BBC Meyerton in Port 250 kW in 36 degr, noted here on clear channel at 2045. Fluttery signal, at best on upper sideband, 6140 is free at this time slot. (WB, Jul 16)

SRI LANKA IBB (VoA/RL) Iranawila relay site in Sri Lanka. Proof of performance test schedule. 4 x 500 kW Marconi-UK txs.

The IBB Relay stn in Sri Lanka will start a one week PoP (proof of performance) test - on the 17th and finishing on the 24th July. This will be the first scheduled bcs from the stn. IBB is interested in reception reports. After the tests are over, the stn will revert to nighttime (local) operation for a few months. Txions will be plain AM (no enhanced carrier modes) from [Marconi] 500 kW txs via HRS 4/4/0.5 or HRS 4/6/0.5 antennas. (Jim Watson-SLN, Jul 14)

0000 July 17 to 0800 July 24 SRI LANKA VOA A couple of frequency changes made to the test schedule for the new IBB Transmitting Station at Iranawila, Sri Lanka:

Time Freq Azi Lang Time Freq Azi Lang 0000-0100 6010 25 Tib 0000-0100 15115 ! 25 Tib <<< 0000-0100 15565 291 En 0000-0100 17650 25 Tib 0100-0200 7115 25 En 0100-0200 15175 ! 4 Ch <<< 0100-0200 15460 20 Ch 0100-0200 17650 41 Ch 0200-0300 7115 33 En 0200-0300 11695 4 Ch 0200-0300 15115 41 Ch 0200-0300 15520 ! 20 Ch <<< 0300-0330 11695 33 Amh 0300-0400 6090 255 En 0300-0400 15115 25 En 0330-0400 11695 275 En 0400-0500 6090 356 En 0400-0500 13770 267 En 0400-0500 17740 318 En 0500-0600 6065 247 En 0500-0600 11695 25 Tib 0500-0600 15460 25 Tib 0500-0600 17740 25 Tib 0600-0700 6065 286 En 0600-0700 6170 299 En 0600-0700 9770 348 En 0600-0700 17740 20 En 0700-0800 6065 356 En 0700-0800 7275 25 En 0700-0800 9770 25 En 0700-0800 13620 33 Ch 0800-0900 6170! 340 En <<< 0800-0900 7275 334 En 0800-0900 9790 4 En 0800-0900 12040 25 En 0900-1000 7275 4 En 0900-1000 9770 340 En 0900-1000 11695 25 En 0900-1000 17740 41 Ch 1000-1100 6170 332 En 1000-1100 9790 255 En 1000-1100 11695 49 En 1000-1100 15445 41 Ch 1100-1130 13795 255 En 1100-1200 13760 4 En 1100-1200 17650 20 Ch 1100-1200 17650 41 Ch 1130-1230 13795 49 Burm 1200-1300 9515 291 En 1200-1300 9535 12 En 1200-1300 21555 267 En 1230-1330 13795 73 Vn 1300-1400 13685 4 Ch 1300-1400 13760 49 Kor 1300-1400 17650 20 Ch 1330-1400 9890 73 En 1400-1500 7215 25 En 1400-1500 13685 25 Tib 1400-1500 15480 20 Tib 1400-1500 17620 25 Tib 1500-1600 6120 73 Vn 1500-1600 7215 25 En 1500-1600 13755 73 Vn 1500-1600 17640 310 En 1600-1700 7215 25 En 1600-1700 7215 291 En 1600-1700 9555 33 Bang 1600-1700 21815 255 En 1700-1800 7215 25 En 1700-1800 7215 291 En 1700-1800 17795 310 En 1700-1800 21535 255 En 1900-2000 9680 73 En 1900-2000 15520 73 En 2000-2100 21815 73 En (df, Jul 13)

Local addr for the Iranawila stn: Intl B/Cing Bureau, Sri Lanka Transmitting Stn, c/o U.S. Embassy, 210 Galle Rd., Colombo 3, Sri Lanka. (Dan Ferguson-VA via NU, Jul 15)

IBB US Iranawila tests, RR of July 17th at Stuttgart-Germany.

Not a tremendous event -- especially on our summer propagation conditions - -, like the inauguration of IBB Tinian-MRA island was.

My rush RR from centre EUR, though our region I S N ' T the main target of these test txions. All the bcs have fluttery signals and deep fading periodes, I guess the signals hopps on some secondary paths around the world.

In comparision to the DW Trincomalee operation on 21 MHz, reception of such long distance broadcasts is best at 0400-0700 UTC in our summer. Best reception in EUR on higher bands like 25 to 13 mb, on bearings of 290-310 degrs.

Best and s t r o n g e s t signals were on the broadcasts at 0400-0500 17740, and 1500-1600 on 17640.

Nevertheless I think somebody is interested to hear how it gets to Stuttgart-Germany.

0330-0400 UTC En 15115 23222, interview on Palestine, 11695 nil.

0400 UTC En 17740 S=3 at 318 degr. The s t r o n g e s t station on 16 mb, above of the signal strength of mostly powerful BBC Zyyi-CYP txion on 17640 at 0400-0700 UTC. But poor fluttery. Signal fraction of a second behind //7170-WOF and 11965-KAV outlets. 13770 SINPO 15221, deep fading and fluttery.

0500 UTC Tibetan 11695 nil, 15460 11221, 17740 15221, all 025 degrs.

0600 UTC En 17740 25222.

0700 UTC Ch 13620 15221.

0800 UTC all nil.

0900 UTC Ch/En lessons "I'm a VoA reporter ..." 17740 25222 deep fadings, 9770 & 11695 both nil.

1000 UTC Ch 15445 13111, poor signal, below readable level. QRM of nearby CRI on 15440. 9790 & 11695 both nil.

1100 UTC En 13795 1-25221, 13760 25222 a little bit better, but both deep fadings. Ch 17650 22222 badly splatter QRM by VoR Moscow 17660, which is right powerful on 265 degrs towards Germany.

13795 stopped En txion at 11.29:37 UTC, switched towards Burma, not readable signal, but guess it was on air at about 11.29:54, Burmese progr content not understandable, so S=0-1.

1229 UTC Burm 13795 still S=0-1. Then 1230 into Vietn, same level S=1-2, fragments of Vn lang discovered. En 21555 S=25332, nx at 1230, medium level fadings. Signal strength on same level like Voz Christiana Chile 21500 at same time. But nevertheless much stronger stns on band, like REE, UAE, ARS, and even SSB outlet from HCJB Quito on 21455usb. 9515 & 9535 nil.

1300 UTC Ch 13685 23222, 17650 23222 but QRM splatter RUS 17660. Kor 13760 25211.

1400 UTC Tibetan 17620 21221 QRM side splatter of KOL Israel 1355-1430 on new 17615 (which moved here from 17535 due of RRI Ar QRM). //13685 25222, 15480 22222 side band splash.

1500 UTC En 17640 45444 s t r o n g e s t signal of this first day test serie here in EUR. //7215 24222. Heard CW by Kim Elliott featuring this Iranawila test serie.

Vietn 13755 25332 (sounds really like back antenna loop reception), //6120 nil.

1600 UTC En 21815 25222, on 18th: 35322-3, still fluttering signal. Bangla 9555 nil.

1700 UTC En 7215 underneath, suffering hum noise from R Tirana German language transmission on co-channel 7215.04, SINPO 31221. Parallel En 17795 310 degr 35322, featuring Kennedy aircraft rescue action on NoEaUSA coast. 21535 25222 had two transmission breaks for two seconds each at 17.56:48 and 17.58:36 UTC.

1900 UTC En 21815 nil. 15520 22222, suffering by an other UTE? carrier nearby on 15520.08. 9680 23332 program content readable.

Yes I copy that, good operations, no problems of modulation etc. Just an occasional one/two seconds breaks on a txer. (Wolfgang DF5SX, Jul 17)

Thanks for the reports. No real problems noted with the operations. Freq selections have been pretty excellent ! COL 7115 and evening 1400 7215 shows a massive improvement, naturally! Other than the 6 and 7 MHz freqs the higher band ones are not really getting to me with the full sky wave.

Over here in Sri Lanka where IRA is about 75-80 kms from my QTH, it is not the best to get a good sky wave. On low freqs I do get the sky waves after 0100 when it is 7 a.m. here on 6 and 7 MHz. The daytime first use of 6 and 7 MHz by VOA before 1100 is most welcome as the 6 and 7 MHz VOA is stronger than any IND and SLN dom sce reception.

21 MHz gives us an echo. There is a possibility that we might just hear a long and short path although more likely the difference between the sky and grund wave. These tests will be over and if the VOA/IBB is satisfied they will accept the station from the Marconi contractors. The operational schedule will not be this one although there will be much of it in it. (G.Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK UADX, Jul 17)

...not a tremendous event Ohhhh, not so on late afternoon, I nearly felled from my bed while tuning into 17640 at 1555: Iranawila was booming in. ...All the broadcasts have fluttery signals and deep fading periodes.

...only the noticeable fading of roughly 0.5...1 Hz somewhat reduced the fun, SINPO 55534. Further results: 1315 - 17650 SIO 343 (splash from powerhouse GPR-1 R Rossii 17660) 1415 - Both 17620 and 15480 S=1-2 1605 - 21815 S=2

1700 - 17795 SIO 453 (signal behaviour like on 17640 prior to 1600, but weaker); 21535 blocked by local noise peak right now (KL)

GVG: 21 MHz gives us an echo.

KL: The same uses Nauen to do here, some 130 kms away. Also Wertachtal frequently presents heavily echoing signals on 13 metres.

GVG: There is a possibility that we might just hear a long and short path although more likely the difference between the sky and ground wave.

KL: Propagation expert Wolfram Hess thinks that in these cases of echoing 13 metres signals from nearby txs inside their dead zone the first signal is a backscatter instead of regular F layer refraction and the second one the usual longpath skywave. (G.Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK UADX, and Kai Ludwig-D, Jul 17)

13760 11:02 En nx, acc to proof performance test schedule. SINPO 25332. Multipath reception echo.

13795 11:02 En nx, acc to proof performance test schedule. SINPO 25332.

17650 11:08 Ch talk acc to proof performance test schedule. SINPO 33443 at best, but mostly 32442.

21555 12:36 Press Conference USA in Proof of Performance Test Schedule. SINPO 55544.

Reception on 21555 was much stronger here, than in the Stuttgart area. I must add that I used a T2FD for these observations. With my MK-1 longwire, their signal on 21555 was weaker (S3) and much more noise and fading was noted. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 17)

I heard Iranawila 1700-1800 on 7215 with a good but fluttery signal, on 17795 with a good and not so fluttery signal and on 21535 with a weak signal. The txers went off at 1800. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 17)

For your information. I am going to try to hear it here in Copenhagen. Tonight on its first day of bcing, I heard it at 1910 on 9680 with 35344 and on 15520 with 34344. (Anker Petersen-DEN, Jul 17)

15310 One of the UNID entries describes unidentified instrumental mx. I should be able to shed some light on this, I work at the new VOA facility in Sri Lanka and we have recently been conducting some system tests, using 15310 and bcing the VOA 'house music' channel. 500 kW tx'r - 4x6 antenna 0300-1000. (Jim Watson-SLN, Marconi, Jul 10)

From Marconi Communications, VOA (Sri Lanka) Project Site Office, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

I am currently employed as a contractor at the IBB (VOA) Relay station in Sri Lanka as the engineer responsible for the control room, antennas and towers. Next week, we will start a one week PoP (proof of performance) test - starting on the 17th and finishing on the 24th July. This will be the first scheduled broadcasts from the station. If anyone is interested in tuning into these tests, I can e-mail them a schedule. I have approval from the IBB to pass this on and they are obviously very interested in any feedback from listeners. After the tests are over, the station will revert to nighttime (local) operation for a few months.

Transmissions will be plain AM (no enhanced carrier modes) from 500kW transmitters via HRS 4/4/0.5 or HRS 4/6/0.5 antennas. Most of the transmissions are directed at 49, 356 and 255-275 degrees.

I am not an employee of the IBB/VOA, this mailing is offered just in the hope that it may be of interset to fellow SWL'ers. Any reports would be gratefully appreciated and I'll pass them on to the IBB as they come in (unless requested not to). Best Regards Jim Watson-SLN. ------Marconi Communications, VOA (Sri Lanka) Project Site Office, P.O. Box 14, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

Fax : + 94 32 54584 Tel : + 94 71 770542 ------(Kurt Brandstetter-AUT, Jul 14)

SWAZILAND Malagache progr noted on the new 9585 (x7175) 100 kW 53 degr, at 1510-1525 from TWR and 1525-1555 from FEBA (from the same tx in SWZ). Signature tune of TWR noted just before 1510 and Signature tune of FEBA Radio noted at 1525. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 11)

TAIWAN Happened across an annt from RTI via WYFR 5950 at 0714 Jul 14, that three freqs are off for technical reasons until mid-July (all of them from TWN itself), 11745 at 0300, 9610 at 1200, 15125 at 1400. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 15)

UKRAINE Acc to the official transliteration scheme, adopted by the Ukrainian Legal Terminology Commission, the capital should be spelt Kyiv in En. The name of the country is Ukraine, not The Ukraine. The combinations ya, ye, yi yu should be written this way only at the beginning of words, otherwise as ia, ie, i, iu (hence yi become i only). iy and yy should be written ii and yi, respectively. More information from: http://rada.kiev.ua/translit.htm (web-page found by Bernd Trutenau-LTU, in Arctic News Desk, Jul 14)

UK BBC Mandarin heard on unlisted 11870 in //15285SNG and tent. 9605NAK- THA (mixing UAE Abu Dhabi), only jamming audible on 11640 and no propagation on listed 6055YAM-JPN. 11870 audible 1300 until co-ch R YUG came on channel at 1500 in Ru. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 9)

Replaced 11640 via Chita-RUS relay by 11870 ? [ed] Scheduled 1300-1530 500 kW at 195 degr, to zones 43 WeCHN-TIB & 44 EaCHN & KOR/KRE.

VIRGIN RADIO, London; on Fri and Sat 1300-1700 9750 and 12035; 1300-1430 15235. (RVI Radio World Jul 18, via C.Vanoudheusden-HOL)

ISLE OF MAN [non]. http://www.longwaveradio.com Isle of Man Internat Broadcasting Comp Ltd plans not only LW 279 but also per the website on the page showing LW coverage map, satellite, shortwave, and internet:

"Reception will also be possible over most of EUR by satellite and at certain times of day further afield into the ME and former Soviet Union on SW. We also propose bcing to NoAM on SW. The radio stn's txions will be available on the Internet."

No doubt the SW will not be from Man itself, but Merlin, DTK, etc. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 996, Jul 15)

USA 7465 WRMI Following up on a tip that originated with DXPL which appeared in Review of International Broadcasting, I asked Jeff White about their new test freq. Here is what he had to say: We should be on 7465 tonight (Tues night) at 0330-0500 with En programming. The plan is to stay with this schedule for at least the next few weeks. If it works well, we'll probably expand the use of 7465 to an hour earlier sometime in the near future. (WRMI Jeff White via Johnson, Jul 13)

The AFRTS/AFN SSB relays have been going for almost a year, and we've never seen a progr schedule for them. AFRTS has declined to provide any, since it seems that any one of 5 different progr streams might be on SW, apparently chosen at whim or upon request by target vessels. So we need monitoring observations of exactly what has been heard, whether 2-hour talk or mx shows, or 1-minute bits, in case the info be repeatable.

July 14 Wed at 0715 all three freqs were on and //12689.5, 6478.5 and 4258.5 with Paul Harvey noon playback (Ed Baxter subbing), without all the commercials so ended at 0727 when The Ocean Report appeared. Then until 1259 was The Law Show with wacky cases, on 12689.5 only. [email protected] If a lot of people will monitor these freqs and keep track of what's on when, we can construct a partial schedule. Every little bit helps. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 996, Jul 15)

WRMI has just started testing on a new freq! 7465 daily at 0330-0500, to NAm, expected to be expanded. (Jeff White, WRMI, on HCJB DX Partyline July 11 via Hauser, Jul 15)

Well, poorly timed announcement, as no such test occurred that same UT day, As The World Czeched. Instead stayed on 9955, evidently on the NW antenna as the signal was fair rather than non amid the Cuban commie jamming, but with some bilingual gospel huxters rather than R. Prague relay at 0330 -- what has become of that, which was supposed to be 7 dpw in En at that hour? S-off at 0400 was generic for 9955, no mention of 7465.

Anyhow, 7465 was clear and unjammed. So Jeff has finally taken our advice to get a new freq and hope the dentro-cubano commie jammers don't follow. Remains to be seen if he will also keep fuera-cubano Sp programming off it to give the jammers no excuse to follow except spite. Nor next night, UT July 12, when stayed on 9955 in Sp past 0430. Nor July 13 (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 15)

7465 Radio Miami Internat Miami, FL 0330 no signal from WRMI yet, but jamming already noted. At 0331 WRMI came on with ID and addr. SINPO 33443. (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 16)

WRMI's new 7465 finally started UT Wed July 14: tune-in at 0329 to find open carrier, and 9955 already off; 0330 ID giving the new freq to NoAM, and into "Word of Spirit Radio Broadcast". At 0415 recheck another wacky preacher was in progress. At least there was no jamming -- yet. We hold faint hope that this will carry some decent programming on weekends, such as Wavescan, Viva Miami. The xoom WRMI website July 15 had everything but a program schedule. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 996, which includes a tape of the historic first "7465" announcement, Jul 15)

Last Friday's Al Weiner Worldwide on WBCQ 7415, UT Sat July 10 spent the last half hour from 0030 with a taped report following a visit to the navy's super-power VLF station NAA in Cutler, Maine. The key word here is *BIG*. Mainly operates on 24 kHz. So AWWW can be sort of a media program. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 996, Jul 15)

End of maritime Morse in NoAM. RealAudio clip (7:30) of NPR "All Things Considered" (7/14) feature on end of Morse shore stations in North America: Previous link for NPR Morse story doesn't seem to work ... try this, and scroll down to the Morse story: http://programs.npr.org/npr2/PrgDisp.cfm?PrgDate=07/14/1999&PrgID=2

If THAT doesn't work for you, you'll have to navigate through the site. Try: http://programs.npr.org (Al Quaglieri-USA, Jul 15)

WRNO I was finally able to talk with Ashton Hardy (station counsel) and find out what was really happening here. WRNO had a fire in Dec that destroyed their main tx, that's why they aren't on 15 MHz. No one was hurt as the tx was unattended at the time. In fact, a call from the FCC about WRNO splattering all over the 19 mb is what prompted the engineer to drive out to the site. The remaining tx is operating on low power but is confined to the 7 MHz range. The stn, once for sale, has been taken off the market until the old tx can be fixed (Hardy believes it is beyond repair) or a new one is bought. They are waiting for the insurance claim to be settled. Once another tx is obtained, the stn will be for sale again. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 6)

I am a contestant for the title of Ms. Georgia Achievement 1999 of the Miss American Achievement program. My pageant bio includes a mention of my involvement in the shortwave radio hobby. The URL for my bio is below. MAA is strictly a mail-in program, so if you know other outstanding girls and women, encourage them to take a look at the main site of http://www.coronationinc.com and have them consider entering for 2000. (Maryanne Kehoe-USA, in Cumbre Jul 11) Wow, COOL! Good luck, Maryanne! (Cumbre Ed.)

VIETNAM Yen Bai has changed freq again to 6393 (x6387v). I have been unable to trace Thai Nguyen (last heard in early Apr on 6451v) for several months -- presumably it's now inactive, although at the best of times it was far weaker than the other VTN regionals.

A check of VTN regionals noted just after 1200 on 15 July:

4796 Son La, varies around 4795-4796. 5596 Lao Cai, //6689, varies around 5595-5598. 6382 Lai Chau, recently varying around 6382-6383. Clear ID at 1200 s-on - this and Yen Bai are easy to confuse as they have more or less swapped freqs over the last few months.

Audio from Lai Chau is usually much better, and the sta opens with a long piece of gentle, repetitive music played on strings and woodwind starting around 5 mins before the hour.

6393 Yen Bai, usual very poor modulation. 6689 Lao Cai, //5596. Appeared to be off air for a few days this week, back with poor audio on 14 July but clear as a bell on the 15th.

7155 Ha Giang, apparently relaying Hanoi 1 but as usual hard to hear much due to the very shallow modulation. Varies 7154-7156. (Alan Davies-THA, Jul 16)

Long and Medium Wave Stations in Europe, North Africa, and Middle East.

The latest edition (publication date: 17 July 1999) of the publication "Long and Medium Wave Stations in Europe, North Africa, and Middle East" is now available. It can be obtained in two ways: * electronically as a PDF file. Please visit my homepage to download for free: http://come.to/dxing

* as a paper publication at the modest price of BEF 300, USD 10, DEM 15 in banknotes. Order your copy at: Herman Boel, Roklijf 10, B-9300 Aalst, Vlaanderen (Belgium)

Main changes in the new edition are: * all times in UTC, instead of CET (as requested by many of you). PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEANS YOU YOURSELF WILL NEED TO SUBTRACT ONE HOUR DURING SUMMER TIME!! * addition of exact coordinates of transmitter site for various broadcasters (to be expanded) * addition of some images, in order to make the list a bit nicer * insert of all changes and new information received in the past two months

Thanks to many collaborators this list is now really unique in its sort. It lists all known stations in Europe, North Africa, and Middle East per frequency (with exact locations, power output, transmitting times, and lots of other information), and per country (with addresses and verification information). Furthermore it is very up-to-date (unlike some other publications) and is updated at regular intervals.

All feedback (see feedback form in the publication) is most welcome and helps to improve the list even further. 73 Herman Boel. (Jul 17)

Some of might have found my site called "Eldorado for LA DXers", which includes useful information for the serious LA-DXer. Today I have moved it to another URL: http://www.algonet.se/~mwm/eldorado/index.html

At the moment there are information about 851 veriesigners, 630 anniversaries and 430 e-mail addresses and/or links to web-pages, all about radiostations in LatAM. (Nils Jakobsson-SWE, Jul 18, [email protected] )

RICHARD A. D'ANGELO...a review:

On The Shortwave, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio by Jerome S. Berg. ISBN 0-7864-0506-6. McFarland & Co., Inc.

Every once in a while, a special book arrives in the bookstores that is a "must have" for the radio-monitoring enthusiast. 'On The Shortwaves, 1923- 1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio' by Jerome S. Berg is just such a book.

Written by "Jerry" Berg, a current member of the North American Shortwave Association's ("NASWA") Executive Council, past NASWA Log Report editor and lifelong shortwave listener, the book covers shortwave broadcasting and early shortwave broadcast listening. Jerry is also well known for his work as Chair of the Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications ("CPRV"), which is a committee of the Association of North American Radio Clubs ("ANARC").

Shortly after founding the CPRV, Jerry's committee work expanded into general research into the early days of radio broadcasting and listening. This combination lead him to putting pen to paper and developing a book that captures the thrill and excitement of the early days of radio broadcasting, radio listening and DXing. The book is the product of extensive scholarly research into the history of medium wave and shortwave radio broadcasting and listening and the events surrounding that period. I can highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the early days of radio and shortwave radio in particular.

On The Shortwaves, 1923-1945 begins with a review of broadcasting's roots and the growth of medium wave DXing, which was the foundation for the future development of shortwave DXing. The first "wireless" experiments and the efforts of experimenters and inventors such as Marconi, De Forest, and Armstrong are detailed. The story moves into shortwave broadcasting and shortwave DXing through World War II. There are numerous references to the popular radio literature of the 1920-1940 time period, such as, Hugo Gernsback's "Radio News" and "Short Wave Craft" magazines and the ever- popular "Radex" magazine. There are numerous QSL illustrations taken from the archives of the CPRV collection. In his book, author Berg has conveyed the flavor of the mystery and the magic of shortwave radio's early years.

The book is divided into eleven chapters plus endnotes, a reading list and an index. The chapters are entitled: 1/ Broadcasting Roots, 2/ Distance, 3/ The Arrival of Shortwave, 4/ Stations of the 1930s, 5/ Shortwave Broadcasting in the United States, 6/ Reception, 7/ The Popular Shortwave Press, 8/ Organizing, 9/ Verifications, 10/ Stations and Voices of War, 11/ Listening in Wartime.

The book was written to appeal to those with an interest in shortwave broadcast history and the early days of DXing. The early days of the listening hobby were quite different from today's environment. Consequently, the book provides an intriguing contrast between DXing at the close of the millennium and the early DXing movement.

The book covers numerous topics in its eleven chapters. Readers will enjoy coverage of the radio personalities during the early days of radio broadcasting. There is extensive discussion about frequency utilization and interference, early short wave literature, receivers, antennas, set building, early shortwave broadcasters in the United States and around the world, the birth of the Voice of America, clubs, government and private monitoring, broadcasting during World War II, clandestine radio and listening during wartime.

Collectors of vintage radio equipment will find the material on receivers particularly interesting as well as the many reproductions of radio advertising from that time frame. Today's hobby club members will find the chapter devoted to the formation and emergence of the early radio club's very interesting. The Newark News Radio Club, the National Radio Club and the International Short Wave Club were the pioneer organizations in the sharing of DX news and information. Clearly, On The Shortwaves, 1923-1945 extensively covers the growth and development of this fascinating medium like no other work before it.

Over the years, numerous DX'ers and shortwave listeners, myself included, have gotten to know Jerry Berg. As Chair of the CPRV and an avid fan of radio history, Jerry has accumulated a wealth of radio broadcasting history, both medium wave and shortwave. Often at radio gatherings, hobbyists get to listen to Jerry telling stories from the early days of radio broadcasting while leafing through one of the many CPRV albums of QSL cards and letters from the early days. These discussions usually perk one's interest in the subject matter.

Thankfully, he took the time to put together this terrific book which captures so much of the flavour of that time period from a listeners perspective. What sets this book apart from any other books written about the early days of radio broadcasting is that a radio hobbyist, with the insight of a true radio hobbyist, has written this one.

On The Shortwaves, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio By Jerome S. Berg is a 272 page, hardbound (7 x 10 inch) book, which includes 157 photographs and illustrations. It is available direct from the publisher (McFarland & Co., Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640, USA) for US$42.50 plus US$4.00 shipping and handling in the United States and US$6.00 elsewhere.

Also, orders may be placed by telephone (1-800-253-2187) or FAX (1-336-246- 5018) or through the publishers' website Orders can be charged to VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, or Discover cards.

The book is available via other Internet booksellers, e.g. (via WDXC, July 99)

Extracts of items sourced to EDXP may be further reproduced but only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP.

BC-DX 420 30 Jul 1999 ______

AUSTRALIA A presentation was made on the objectives and purpose of R Australia by Mr Jean-Gabriel Manguy, Network Manager, at the ASIAPAC-21 Conference in Malaysia during April. He discussed and elaborated on these key points.

RA celebrates its 60th birthday this year. It is now a media organisation operating within Asia and the PAC, rather than just a broadcaster operating from Melbourne. Its current charter is to provide radio and on-line services of interest to and about the Asia PAC region.

It works with other media organisations in the region to make progrs of interest and relevance to local audiences. Increasingly, it works with educational institutions and non-governmental organisations to develop progr content for radio and in-line sces.

Mechanisms for delivery of its sces include progrs on compact disc for rebroadcast, live satellite relays via the Palapa C2 facility, live bcing on the Internet in Web audio or text files, cassette, and SW.

Six langs are currently used - En, Ins, Mand, Vn, Cambodian, and Tok Pisin. RA also prepares special feature progrs for audiences through partner stns in CBG, VTN, PNG, the PAC, CHN and INS. There are over 76 partner stns in the region offering RA progr material bcing 330 hrs a week in 20 countries. (ABU, via EDXP, Jul 22)

Here's part of a message I received from Nigel Holmes of RA. VL8K at Katherine has been off-air for about a week because of a tx failure so that's why 2485 and 5025 haven't been heard. The sce should be back on air by tomorrow (Tue 27 July). Please let me know if your DXers hear it at about the usual strength.

The site has one 100 kW Continental tx and a TCI omni-directional broadband dipole aerial (2.2 - 5.5 MHz). The tx is operated at 50 kW carrier and 75 % maximum modulation. 50 kW is the maximum allowed for a dom HF sce and the reduced modulation gives a good fade protection margin for for listeners within the intended reception area which is a radius of 450 km from the tx. The other two sces at Alice Springs (VL8A) and Tennant Creek (VL8T) are identical in design. All three sites are operated by remote control & have been very reliable. The Continental txs are very reliable, especially when operated at half power! (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, via Cumbre Jul 27)

AUSTRIA Meine Sendung ueber die UNISPACE III fuer Radio 1476 steht, das heisst besser - sie laeuft, Mon 26. 7. bis Fr 30. 7., jeweils ab etwa 1825 MESZ [1625 UTC] - "Radio 1476 Horizontal". (Nicht von der anfaenglichen Musik beirren lassen, die Sendung kommt bestimmt!) (Michael Jensen, Jul 20)

Kurzwellen stoeren Netz ... [OIRT 4 m band ? ed] Manche Kabel-Anschluesse in Vorarlberg wurden durch Kurzwellensender gestoert. Jetzt gibt es eine Loesung.

Oestliche Kurzwellensender haben in den letzten Wochen Internet-Nutzer in Vorarlberg im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes gestoert: Cablecom-Kunden im Raum zwischen Hohenems und Hoechst klagten immer wieder ueber extrem schlechte Qualitaet des Internet-Zugangs. Sorgfaeltige Messungen haben nun gezeigt, dass die Kurzwellensender an sogenannten "offenen Steckdosen_ von Kabel-TV- Anschluessen auf derselben Frequenz wie der "Rueckkanal_ des Internet eingestrahlt hat. Dadurch war keine Uebertragung mehr moeglich, erklaert Cablecom-Geschaeftsfuehrer Bruno Steiger.

Cablecom wird nun auf eigene Kosten in jedem betroffenen Haushalt auf eigene Kosten einen Filter anbringen, der die Aufnahme des Stoersignals verhindert. Ausserdem werden saemtliche Hausinstallationen ueberprueft. Da diese Woche zudem eine neue Lichtwellenleiter-Strecke zwischen dem Provider Teleport im Medienhaus in Schwarzach und Hoechst in Betrieb genommen wird, wird sich die Uebertragungsqualitaet zusaetzlich verbessern. (Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Jul 26; via http://www.vol.at (Kommentarlose Weiterleitung)

BANGALDESH 9550 R Bangladesh; Kabirpur, Jul 25, 1559-1603, IS, male speaker in UNID lang, chants. At re-check 1630 clear mention of Bangladesh, followed by beautiful song with female vocals. Ar 1600-1630, Be 1630-1730. 22432 (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 26)

BELARUS 11960 1500-1600 relayed progrs: Mon - Radio Gomel, Tue - Radio Vitebsk, Wed - Radio Brest, Thur - Radio Mogilev, Fri - Radio Grodno, Sat/Sun - Radio Stolitsa Minsk. (Anatoly Klepov-RUS, "Club DX" # 456 / VORussia, Jul 23)

I hear the 6080 progr also on 6115 and 7210. In Klingenfuss 6080 and 6115 are listed under Stolitsa R, 7210 is listed under R Minsk. The 7210 is the strongest with S9+10-20 and excellent modulation. (Kjell-Ingvar Karlsson- SWE, Jul 27)

BELGIUM On July 8th we did an experiment with a Belgian antenna. As you may know, Radio Netherlands and Radio Vlaanderen Internat exchange airtime. This means that Radio Netherlands uses 1512 MW, a tx which is located in Flanders. At 2125 on Thurs we explained about a simple test with an alternative antenna, at 2127 the switch was made, and then we asked whether listeners could hear the difference. Phone, fax or e-mail we said.

Frankly, we were not prepared for the level of response via the phone. The answering machine was blocked for more than an hour and half (1 am local time) and the RN reception desk saw all ten phone lines light up suddenly. We're pleased to say that several hundred people got through and that the reactions are useful in determining whether we should switch from the current vertical to the horizontal dipole antenna tested on Thurs.

We have never doubted that people are out there, but we were all amazed and gratified at the level of this response. (media RNW, Jul 12)

BRAZIL R Nacional do Brasil's ext sce (En 1800-1920, Ge 1930-2050) has been missing from 15265 for at least 6 weeks now. Extensive search for a new freq has brought no success, so I guess that either their tx is once again out of order or the sce has been cancelled at all. Does anybody know more? (Matthias Gatzke-D, Jul 16, WORLD OF RADIO 997, Jul 22)

In the wake of reports that RNB's European sce is closing down, I have been checking for the NoAM sce, and not hearing it, either - En 1200-1320 supposed to be on 15445. Jul 20 at 1227 check I heard nothing but FEBA on 15445 with IS, and into Nepali(?). After 1300 FEBA clashes with something else, presumably Romania. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 997, Jul 22)

Full translation by gh: The problem is that the president has extinguished RadioBras, which was responsible for the txs. Until it is decided which govt agency becomes legally responsible for them, the txions, even if they continue, will be precarious. Hug.] (Luiz Cruz, Brazil, July 19, radioescutas. WORLD OF RADIO 997, Jul 22)

BULGARIA R Varna MW 981 and several BUL FM txs is on the air at 0600 with nx for holiday-makers on the Black Sea coast in En, Ge & Ru.

The other stations on Black Sea coast are Radio Glarus-BUL. Holiday radio-TUR. Holiday Radio Constanta Mamaia-ROU. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

CANADA 6030 CFVP I hadn't heard this one in a few days so I rang Ken Pasolli at the stn. He explained that a recent storm had knocked their AM outlet off the air. While they quickly fixed the AM, he didn't think to even check the SW nor can they monitor the latter from their downtown studios. Ken thought that the SW was most likely off the air and that they would go out and take a look in the next day or two. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 27)

CHILE Voz Cristiana has been audible since June 6 on 5675, //6070 in the daytime (Emilio P. Povrzenic-ARG, DX via Radio Nuevo Mundo, via GH)

6070 plus 5675 equals 11745, which I think is another VC freq, so this would be a difference mixing product. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Jul 27)

CHINA/RUSSIA 120 kW txers. Some time ago I received an extract from one of your nxletters where Kai Ludwig commented on the Romanian 120 kW txers that this power level reminded him of Chinese equipment.

Well, this unusual level originally is a Soviet invention. The first 120 kW txer was the famed RV-96 in Moscow, which started testing in Nov 1937. It consisted of two parallel 60 kW units and was designed by Aleksandr Mints, the father of Soviet high power bcing. Apparently it was produced by the Komintern factory, which from the 60's onwards brought the USSR to the top of the power league with txers of up to 2500 kW.

RV-96 was moved to Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) upon the Nazi attack on the USSR, but apparently was moved back to Moscow after the war. Two more txers of the same model were built in Irkutsk and Komsomolsk, respectively. During and after WWII three 60 kW units were built in St. Petersburg.

The oldest (oldest judging from the antenna tower designs) SW stn in the Moscow area, Noginsk, was using 120 kW txers into the early 90s. The Lesnoy stn also had 120 kW txers. The known 120 kW unit was part of a group of seven txers with the same operating characteristics, and most likely the whole group consisted of 120 kW units built in the early 50's. These disappeared in the late 80's and were replaced by additional 250 kW units. The inside and outside of the Lesnoy stn is featured on the RNW first CIS QSL card from 1993. The txer shown, RV-193, disappeared early in 1993, and may have been the last one ot the 120 kW group.

The old Irkutsk txers went off the air around 1974 when the new Angarsk super power site was in full operation. There were two FS units at the old site and an educated guess is that one was the 120 kW unit from around 1940. The second one could have been of a similar type. In the early 90's Khabarovsk still had four 120 kW units in operation. The fate of the 120 kW unit built at Komsomolsk is not known.

I would guess that the Russian 120 kW design was exported to China before links were cut off in 1956. It is difficult to determine how many 120 kW txers are actually operating in China, since the Chinese are not very open about their real facilities. Anyhow, it appears that many of their oldest txers are of this kind, with listings for the Beijing, Baoding, Xi'an and Kunming sites. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 11)

Your UNID Chinese on 7200 2059+ is possibly CNR-2, noted here in Melbourne reliably. s-on is 2058. VOA-Phils also on 7200 s-on 2200, also in Chinese ! (Bob Padula-AUS, Jul 21)

R China Internat on new channel 9685 1800-1900 & 1900-2000 in Ge lang S=5, but progr a little bit delayed [Urumqi tx site?] compared to //6950. (x9710 due of co-ch VoR). (Frank Kreuzinger-D, Jul 26)

CRI noted 26 Jul on new 9685 replacing much QRMed 9710 with the German txion at 1800-2000, still from the Urumqi site. At 1957 the txer as usual switched to 9535 for the En txion. Before 2000 9535 had utility noise on both sides. This turned out to be from a RTTY txer on the lower side of the 7590 feeder. When the IS started at 2000 the system switched to the satellite link. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 27)

CRI R Beijing in Tamil now uses 15210 (x9457) and 11575 at 1400-1500. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 25)

CRI in En powerful signal at 1700-1800 on 15300, probably via Urumqi ? (WB, Jul 29)

CRI has made some adjustments to its summer schedule, and bcs from GUF relay, at Montsinery, are as follows: 0200-0257 Sp 13685, 0300-0357 Mandarin, and En 0400-0457 on 970 [9730 ? ed]. Txions from the Sackville-CAN relay: 0300-0357 Sp, and 0400-0457 En on 9560. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Jul 29)

[TAIWAN non] Jamming has been intensified against CBS sces for the Chinese Mainland. Interference is now broad-banded, extending to 10 kHz either side of nominal carrier freqs. Channels observed in Melbourne with severe disruption are 7250 9630 and 7105 (News Network), and 9690 (Cantonese network). (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Jul 29)

CLANDESTINE fr/to ANGOLA 7100 In response to Mocanu's question, I really heard Voice of Broad Masses of Eritrea from 1747- since I received a QSL from them. On the other hand, I have checked my log on 20 Nov 1998: 1658-1740 VORGAN. (clearly identified). (Sergey Kolesov-UKR, in Cumbre, Jul 9)

COLOMBIA [Clandestine] 6168.3 VOZ DE LA RESISTENCIA, Bloque Oriental de Colombia. 1130. 44444 (Yimber Gaviria-CLM, Conex 13, Jul 15)

CUBA Bubble jamming against non-Marti Voz Cristiana, 21500, has resumed, noted both around 1300 and when VC was clearly audible underneath at 1909 Jul 19. Just to be sure R Marti hadn't sneaked in here, the 21500 bc was indeed //21550. WYFR on 21525, not far from Cuba, was quite weak by comparison, but beamed to NoAF? (Glenn Hauser, OK, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Jul 22)

ECUADOR 15140 HCJB Pifo, Jul 25, 2238-2250, Booming in with lovely Andean mx, short annt and ID by female in Sp. At 2247 promo or advt, followed by romantic song with male vocals. Very pleasant listening with 6.4 kHz filter and some treble and bass adjustments, using AOR AR7030's sync detector. 44444 (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 26)

EGYPT R Cairo new 1500-1530 9780 Azeri. (Klaus Lieberwirth-D, Jul 14)

ERITREA/SUDAN CLANDESTINE (to Sudan) 7999.9, Voice of Sudan, 1700-1757* Jul 17, with progr of politics and mx in Ar and stn anmt before s-off. At the same time a strong mx jammer playing HoA-type songs on 8000.0 (USB only) tried to make listening to the Voice of Sudan difficult. The mx jammer left 8000U at 1803. And also the Sudan Natl Bcing Corp. used 8000.0 (full AM) for bcing its dom sec till 1759* (much to my surprise, following a news bltn they ran an ad spot for a U.S. oil company). So currently three different stns are using 8000 at the same time. Instead of ending their long time radio war following a recent peace agreement between Eritrea and Sudan, seemingly it is getting even more intensified. (Harald Kuhl-D, via NU Jul 20)

CLANDESTINE from SUDAN to ERITREA?, 8020, UNID Voice of Dem Eritrea?, 1527- 1531, Ar: Chants, ID unfortunetely only partly copied and S/OFF at 1531. Fair. SIO 343 (Antonello Napolitano-ITA, in Cumbre, Jul 15)

5500 Voice of the Tigre Revolution 1713 with id and mx, most mx had Ar influence, but also some "western" type of mx. (Patrik Willfoer, Cumbre, Jul 13)

ETHIOPIA 11800 Voice of Peace, 1059-1107, R Ethiopia's IS and ID in En as "Voice of Peace" followed by a progr in Somali which started with MX, ID, freq annt, and Quran recitals. At 1105 talk and songs. Fair/Good. SIO 353. (Antonello Napolitano-ITA, in Cumbre, Jul 18)

9704.2 R Ethiopia Gedja, Jul 25, 1454-1501, ETHian popmx, male speaker in vernac, IS, ID, chime, talk. 24332 (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 26)

GERMANY LW 153 DLF Donebach was off during daytime hours for maintenance some days in July. Noted off on Jul 19/20/21 til 1600 UTC. Maintenance work at Donebach on 153, today Jul 19. Radio Romania Actualitati via tx Bod Romania (near Brasov/Kronstadt) noted instead, SINPO 15442 at 0800. (Erich Bergmann-D, and other contributors, Jul 21)

5850 Sunrise R via DTK Juelich, tells me that they have been off SW for about a week. They are having "problems with the txions" and "we're trying to sort it out." They could not say when or even if they would be back on SW. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 19)

Overcomer Ministry now using 13810 via Juelich 0600-0959 to CIRAF 55 56 58 59 60 (=AUS/NZL), beamed 250 degr (long path into AUS). Super strong sigs here in Melbourne and perilously close to Croatian R on 13820, also via Juelich, 0500-0659 to CIRAF 55 59 60 (230 degrs), and 0700-0859 CIRAF 58 59 60 (270 degrs). (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Jul 22)

9355 IBC R London, via DTK Juelich. 0000-0030. Inicio de emisiones en Tamil con ID, musica asiatica y luego un largo comentario por locutor. 34433. (Marcelo Cornachioni-ARG, Conex 13, Jul 20) [no, not print out in latest DTK schedule. Its rather bc via Kamo-Armenia tx ?, ed]

Closure of AFN Frankfurt at the end of 1999. We have been informed that there has been an article in the newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" on the closure of AFN Frankfurt at the end of this year and its move to Mannheim or Karlsruhe. Unfortunately, we have not read the original article. Therefore we should be interested in any information on this subject.

Are you able to confirm that AFN will leave Frankfurt, and can you give us any more details? What will happen to the tx installations on AM and FM? We should be very thankful for your reply. Yours sincerely, Michael Bethge Chief editor of "DX MAGAZINE", Jul 4.

Closure of AFN Frankfurt at the end of 1999. Here's all the information presently available. We'll continue to maintain our radio txs in Frankfurt [MW 873, 150 kW] and on the Feldberg, north of the city [FM 98.7 MHz 60 kW]. (Roger Williams AFN Europe Public Affairs Officer. Jul 22)

American Forces Network Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, for over 30 years, [and more 24 years at Hoechst Castle near Frankfurt from 1945 onwards, ed] will relocate to a new location, possibly as early as the fall of 2000, an AFN official confirmed Wednesday. The most likely scenario has AFN headquarters moving south to Mannheim, which is about an hour's drive from Frankfurt, while the local affiliate, AFN Frankfurt, would relocate north to Hanau, said Roger Williams, an AFN spokesman.

Last Friday, AFN formally submitted its plan to U.S. Army Europe, the 26th and 104th Area Support Groups, and the Army Broadcasting Service in Washington D.C., the network's parent organization. Moving AFN out of Frankfurt makes sense because, aside from Rhein-Main Air Base, which won't be around much longer anyway [facilities should move to Ramstein Pfalz Air Base soon, ed], the U.S. military has already vacated the metropolis. Williams emphasized the pending move is mostly about cuttings costs and bring AFN physically closer to the audience it serves. "We are inconvenient for the customers," Williams said, "and we are away from the flag poles of the major commands."

While Mannheim is the leading candidate to get AFN, it's not the only suitor. Another prime location is the European Stars and Stripes compound in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Williams said. AFN has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a site survey to determine the costs of upgrading the facilities in Mannheim, in particular Coleman Barracks, and Griesheim-Darmstadt. Officials have also looked at sites in Wiesbaden and Kaiserslautern. But, said Williams, "all indicators are pointing to (the Mannheim) location right now."

The move should occur sometime during fiscal 2001, which begins in Oct 2000. Williams said there are currently 61 civilian and military personnel assigned to the headquarters staff and another 17 people who work for the Frankfurt affiliate. "I heard they want to be closer to the troops," said Klaus Berg, the general director of Hessischer Rundfunk, a German public radio and television stn. The stn is adjacent to the two-story AFN complex in the Dornbusch section of Frankfurt. In the past, when Frankfurt was home to 5th Corps, the Frankfurt Army Regional Medical Center and the 3rd Armored Division headquarters, the community was bustling. Across the street from the AFN stn, for example, was a post exchange and commissary.

Today, if an AFN employee needs to renew their ID card, they need to travel to Wiesbaden or Heidelberg to make it happen. "They seem to fell a little bit isolated, because everything but the Air Force went away," Berg said. "They are an island." Berg, members of his staff and tens of thousands of other Germans grew up listening to AFN-Frankfurt. In fact, Berg, who is now 61, said he learned to speak English by listening to AFN and the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC.

Calling them good neighbors and colleagues, Berg said he regrets their decision to leave but he understands the reasons behind it. ""They are very familiar with Frankfurt," Berg said, "and Frankfurt is very familiar with them." (KEVIN DOUGHERTY, AFN staff writer. Jul 22)

MW tx tests in northeastern Germany.

Acc the "LRZ" media authority of German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutsche Telekom has announced upcoming tx tests on MW freqs, which was abandoned in the last years and now designated for commercial bcs.

The tests should start at the end of July and last through the whole Aug. They will start with the Woebbelin site south from Schwerin on both 576 and 999, then during the Aug one after another Rostock 558, Neubrandenburg 657, Putbus 1017 (instead of previous 729 channel) and Greifswald (as announced, not Putbus) 531 will be tested.

Last week, Power-Radio signed the contract with Deutsche Telekom and it is said that they already establish their studios, so it looks rather good that they will indeed start bcing on Greifswald-531, Rostock-558, Neubrandenburg-657 and Woebbelin-999 on Sep 9th as announced.

Regarding "MEGA Radio", which holds the licence for Woebbelin-576 and Putbus-1017, the "LRZ" authority now treats them like if they were already on the air. These bcer recently announced, that it will start as soon as possible after the tx tests, maybe "already" in August. However, so far nobody has seen any studios etc., so literally nobody is believing in these statement. Looks like "LRZ" just tolerate this situation because there are no other interests for the freqs so far. ("LRZ" via Michael Fuhr-D, Jul 19)

GUAM Changes of KTWR Agana in En fr Mar 28: 1430-1600 Mon-Fri & 1430-1630 Sat & Sun on 15330. Pacific DX report is on Mon new 1545-1600 (x1615-1630).

Freq changes of AWR Ksda Agat Guam: 1400-1600 Sinh/En/Telugu/Marathi on NF 9355 (x11980). 2300-2330 Cantonese, 2330-2400 Shanghainese Mon-Fri, 2330-2400 Uighur Sat/Sun NF 17870 (45544) (x17865). 1600-1630 Wavescan Suns on 9355 heard. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

HONDURAS I asked Jeff White about the status of R Copan. Here is what he had to say: There are no real plans at the moment to reactivate R Copan, but our engineer was in Honduras recently and talked to the authorities about possibly reactivating it at some point in the future, and they didn't seem to have any problem with that. So we'll see what happens. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 13)

INDIA All India Radio's PANAJI tx is now using its operation beyond 1730. Although scheduled in A99 period but only in the first week of Jul they are using this tx site beyond 1730. 9635 1745-1945 GOS-IV 9705 2245-0045 GOS-I 11715 2045-2230 GOS-V 11740 0000-0045 Ta, 2300-2400 Hi. Still slight problem is there with modulation. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 25)

A new and updated version with all A99 schedule has been uploaded in SOUTH ASIA RADIO GUIDE home pages. The following pages are available: 1. En lang b'cast as heard in SoAS. 2. Vernacular b'cast of SoAS. 3. A complete Frequency Database in 4 parts. 4. A separate pages on Regional, External and News hookup schedule of ALL INDIA RADIO.

The URL is : http://www.angelfire.com/in/alokdg e-mail [email protected] [email protected] SARG Home page :http://www.angelfire.com/in/alokdg (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Jul 25)

All India R En nx in the GOS at 1800 on 15075 11620 9950 7410. Nx about the Kashmiri issue. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Jul 12)

PRIVATE SECTOR ENTRY INTO FM-RADIO CLEARED IN INDIA. On 7th July '99 govt of India cleared the entry of the private sector into FM radio bcing. Govt expects that with this decision nearly 150 FM channels will be set up in the country which will more than double the FM network. Currently FM txion covers 17% of the country's area & 21% of the population. The salient features of this policy are:

* Govt to grant 10 year licences to private operators for setting up of 150 new FM channels in 40 cities outside of the All India Radio network.

* Pvt operators can avail 12 FM channels in four metro's ,while in 36 other townships the number of new channels will range from 2-8.

* An applicant will be permitted only one licence per centre.

* Apart from private commercial broadcasters, licences would be granted to NGO's, educational institutions & community radio's.

* No foreign participation allowed.

* Private FM broadcasters cannot cover news & current affairs.They can cover areas like music, entertainment, education, business, capital market, airline, railway & bus schedules ,traffic,sports & weather.

* Capital adequacy norms for pvt operators-Rs 3 crore for capital investment & Rs 2 crore for working capital per station.

* Licences issued will be non-transferable.

* Channel's identity must include frequency also. (Alokesh Gupta-IND, Jul 24)

IRAN what appears to be announced as the Azeri sce is heard at sign on 1630 on 7170. Their schedule says Azeri 1630-1830 on 7170 too ! It opens with usual electronic piano IS, three chimes, ID and usually a non-vocal rendition of the anthem. What is interesting is, that there is much mention of Tabriz, and one of their ID's seemed to be "Tabriz Radio...", although I will admit that my Azeri is not very fluent !

Their schedule indicates "Zahedan" adjacent to their Pushto services, so may mean that at least some if it originates there, but I cannot get good enough signals to copy clearly. I seem to remember someone reported the group of services using 7180 also came from a regional centre. This is only clearly audible here from about 1555-1629 in an UNIDentified language, schedule shows Tajik. No clear ID yet heard. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 24)

Mikhail Timofeyev-RUS mentioned Mashhad 7180 Uz 1530-1600, Tajik 1600-1730. [ed]

This schedule shows sces bc by the VoIRI from its studios at Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan province in NoEaIRN, for listeners in CeAS. The MW tx on 720 is at Tayyebad, also in Khorasan province. The Tajik bcs at 0330 & 1600 may be in standard Persian.

Stn ID in Persian: "Inja Mashhad ast, Seda-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran, markaz-e Khorasan". ("This is Mashhad, the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khorasan centre."). Addr: P.O.B. 555, Mashhad, Iran.

7180 720; 0100-0300 Dari. 0300-0330 Uz. 0330-0500 Taj. 1330-1530 Ur. 1530- 1600 Uz. 1600-1730 Taj. (BBCM via AGDX, Oct 1998)

17620 VoIRI is currently testing in Jpn, tnx to tip from Hideyuki Watanabe hrd *1300-1326* Jul 17, good signal, //15200; two progrs, "Sekai no Jyosei" (The World's Women) and "Kon'nichi no Iran" (Today's Iran). ID in JP is "Iran Kokuei-Hoso, Kokusai Rajio," which means "Iran Natl Broadcast, Intl Radio." The official txion will commence on Wed, Jul 21, and will be aired on Mon, Wed & Sat, rebc on Sun, Tues & Thurs. "The request and opinion will be welcomed to FAX 0098-21-205-3273, voice 0098-21-205-3227 or 216-2627. Send rpts to P.O. Box 19395-6767 Tehran, Iran." (TIN-JPN, via NU, Jul 20)

The test txion was composed of annts for the establishment about the progrs in Jpn and two programs incl "Sekai no Jyosei" (The Worlds' Women)and "Kon'nichi no Iran" (Today's Iran), and all programming was hosted by a female Jpn. Her name was not mentioned on the air. The stn name is identified in Jpn as "Iran Kokuei-Hoso, Kokusai Rajio" which means "Iran National Broadcast, International Radio". According to the stn ID, the new Jpn sce is established for the purpose of promoting the mutual understanding and friendly relations between Iranian and Japanese people, that have maintained a long history since a long time ago. Regular programming will include nat and internat nxcasts, social and cultural topics, at 1300-1330 on Mon, Wed, and Sat, and will rebc on Sun, Tue and Thur. Requests and opinions welcomed to FAX: 0098-21-205-327 3, TEL: 0098- 21-205-3227 or 216-2627. Send reports to PO Box 395-6767, Tehran, Iran. (Takayuki Inoue Nozaki, EDXP, Jul 22)

IRAQ Since July 4th Voice of Mojahed on new 9350 and from June 6th on 7450. Together with IRN jammers now "wandering" 4700-4950, 7000-7100, 7400- 7500, 9300-9400 plus more six freqs out of BC and amteur radio bands at 0200-0500 and 1400-1800. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

CLANDESTINE from IRAQ? to IRAQ The Voice of the People of Kurdistan, the Voice of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (a Kurdish party) (presumed) on 7000v (between 6999 and 7001). *1950-2030 in Ku. Revolutionary song, Koran, Kurdish talks and mx. SINPO=34333. //freq is 4062v (between 4061 and 4063), not QSY ! SINPO=23332. IDed "Ehra Dange Gelli Kurdistana." in Kurdish. (Satoshi Hasebe-JPN, via Cumbre, Jul 18)

Baghdad is now heard regularly on powerhouse 9685 between about 1600 and about 1900 (varies). 11786.98 was found in //but very poor around 1830 on July 20.

And a heterodyne to the BBC on 7160 turned into a transmission same day as it gradually faded up and drifted up to 7162 and was IDed as Baghdad also and in //. This was still going at 2000. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 24)

Iraq irregularly on 11785 in Ge from 1930-2100. O=3-4, bad modulation. Addr: Radio Iraq International, Postbox 8145, 12222 Bagdad Irak. (Dr. E. Woellersdorfer-AUT, Jul 19)

CLANDESTINE IRAQ/KURDISTAN Voice of Kurdishtan at 1730 on 4060.5 //7000 fair signals. Maybe the 7000 gets into EUR for any Kurds who care to listen? Voice of the Iraqui Kurdistan heard on 4085.2 at the same time almost equal in strength. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Jul 10)

JORDAN DST in Joran started on July 1st. In En now 1000-1630 on 11960 (1 hour earlier). (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

KOSOVO R Pristina wieder teilweise auf Sendung. Nach einer einmonatigen Pause ist am Mittwoch nachmittag der Rundfunksender R Pristina wieder teilweise auf Sendung gegangen. Der UN-Verwalter Bernard Kouchner erklaerte, die UNO und die Organisation fuer Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE) wollten "allen eine neue Art von Informationen" zur Verfuegung stellen und "so mit Ihnen einen Dialog eroeffnen".

Kouchners franzoesische Ansprache wurde ins Albanische, Serbische und Tuerkische uebersetzt. Seiner Rede folgte eine 15minuetige Nachrichtensendung, die UN-Mitarbeiter vorbereitet hatten. In den kommenden Tagen soll R Pristina pro Tag eine Stunde Programm in drei Sprachen bringen. Uebergangsweise wurde die Franzoesin Mirjana Cerovic zur internationalen Direktorin des Senders bestellt. (AFP, via Benno Klink-D, Jul 28)

LIBERIA I haven't heard of any log of R Liberia Internat recently, so it might be of interest to you to note that the stn is on the air. 5100 R Liberia Internat, 11 Jul, 2045-2130 weak but stable, 2045 relig talk (in African En) about compassion, 2100 ID/drums, national nx, extensive coverage of each item e.g. appeals of Pres Taylor, educational system / Christian academies, ID/drums, 2115 non-stop WeAFcan mx, 2130 ID. (Dr. Hansj”rg Biener-D, Jul 12)

LUXEMBOURG/GERMANY Hallo, hier aktuelle Infos zum Europaradio: Europaradio on tour. Von Mitte Juli bis Sept ist Europaradio (So 1100-1600 auf KW 5975 kHz) mit der Wunschbox unterwegs. Auf Camping- und Marktplaetzen, Stadtfesten oder Einkaufszentren kann man dem Team begegnen, wird angesprochen und ist mit etwas Glueck in der Wunschbox. Die Termine gibt's im Radio oder koennen per Fax 00352/575354 erfragt werden. Neu im Programmplan ist TOP-3, die Luxemburgische Hitparade. Hier wird Musik aus Luxemburg der 50er bis 90er Jahre praesentiert.

Moderator soll ein Kuenstler aus Luxemburg sein. Vorsitzender und Programmdirektor von Europaradio ist Jean Paul Heinen, der im Okt 1995 den erfolgreichen Privatsender Radio Tele Europa (RTE) gruendete. Programmchef ist Stephan Kues. Der 22-jaehrige sammelte erste Radioerfahrungen beim Offenen Kanal Saarland als Moderator und Tontechniker.

Das Programmschema von Europaradio: 25. Jul; 16-18 Uhr MESZ "Wunschbox on Tour" 01. Aug; 16-17 Uhr "Wort aus Musik"; 17-18 Uhr "Top Charts" 08. Aug; 16-18 Uhr "Wunschbox on Tour" 15. Aug; 16-18 Uhr "Luxemburg mal anders - Eine Reise durch Luxemburg" 22. Aug; 16-18 Uhr "Wunschbox on Tour" 29. Aug; 16-17 Uhr "Zum Todestag von Lady Di"; 17-18 Uhr "Europamagazin". Zur Sonnenfinsternis im Aug werden fuer Empfangsberichte spezielle QSL-Karten ausgestellt.

Die Anschrift lautet: Europaradio, Postfach 212, L-4003 Esch/Alzette. (Quelle: RADIO JOURNAL - www.radiojournal.de) Auf die Sonder-QSL duerfen wir gespannt sein ! (Klaus Koehler-D, Jul 22)

MALAYSIA R Malaysia Sarawak, SW freqs. It was received with QSL-letter from Yusof Ally, Dir of Bcing.

Station kHz LT (UTC +8) Dialect Used Kuching 7145 0600-2400 BM Kuching 4895 0600-0900 1200-1300 1800-2300 Iban Kuching 7160 0600-0900 1300-2400 Ch/En Kuching 7130 0600-0800 1200-1400 1800-2300 Bidayuh Kuching 5030 0600-0800 1200-1400 1800-2300 Bidayuh Kuching 7270 0600-0900 1200-1300 1800-2300 Iban

Reg stn 5005 and RTM Sibu 6050 0600-0900 1200-1300 1800-2300 Iban

Reg stn RTM Miri 3385 0600-0900 Iban 1100-1200 local Miri 6060 1200-1300 Iban 1300-1800 Kenyan 1800-2300 Iban (Feodor Brazhnikov-RUS, Jul 29)

MAURITANIA On Jul 21, 2020 tent Mauritania on 4831.74, playing AF mx, signal weak, defint. not Bamako-MLI. (Christoph; Erich Bergmann-D, Jul 21)

MOLDOVA TWR in Bulg Aug 2 - Sept 5: 1815-1830 Sun-Fri, 1815-1845 Sat only NF Grigoriopol 1548 (x1395-ALB).

TWR in Bulg Sept 6 - Oct 30: 1800-1830 Sun-Fri, 1800-1845 Sat only NF Grigoriopol 1548.

TWR in Romanian Aug 2 - Oct 30: 1830-1845 Sun-Fri NF Grigoriopol 1548 (x1395-ALB). (PanIview Rumen Pankov- BUL, Jul 15)

MOROCCO 15345 King Hassan II funeral, RTV Marocaine Nador 1555 Ar live report from the funeral of King Hassan II. Reporter often mentions Maghreb, Hassan and Allah. Crowd shouting on the background while reporter seemed to be getting more emotional. SINPO 54444.(Michiel Schaay-HOL, Jul 25)

NETHERLANDS/KOSOVO Radio 21 from Flevoland. We've received a steady trickle of RRs on the txions of the Kosovo stn Radio 21 via our Flevo tx site. Most of these reports ask us to QSL the txion. However, as we have announced on the air and on our Website, this is not possible. Radio Netherlands only verifies reports on its own progrs, regardless of where they are txed from. Similarly, when other organizations (e.g. Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal) use Radio Netherlands txs, they verify their own progrs, not us.

In the case of Radio 21, this is a humanitarian operation and we have merely provided technical facilities. We strongly urge you *not* to bother Radio 21 with RRs. They know they are being received in the Balkans and have no interest in reception elsewhere. This is essentially a temporary dom bc, not an internat one. Apart from making progrs, Radio 21 personnel are busy trying to re-establish a base in their home city of Pristina, and this must take priority. (media RNW, Jul 12)

NIUE Isl. "... A month earlier I was in Niue, a PAC Isl nation with the population of a very small town. ... Tiny Niue had a radio stn which operated in equally laid back style. Officially Radio Niue started bcing at 6 am but that depended on the announcer getting out of bed in time - some mornings it would be 6.15 or even 6.30. In the week before my visit there was a day when it was 7.30 before without any opening music or prior warning, Radio Niue suddenly squawked into life. 'Yes, yes, I know you think I've really overslept this morning,' were the opening words. 'But actually I've been talking to you, playing records, bcing the nx, for the last hour and a half. It's just that I forgot to turn on the tx.'" (from Planet Talk/Lonely Planet Publications, Nr. 39/1999, Hawthorn/AUS, via Dieter Krumbach-D, DL5NFZ, Jul 29)

PAKISTAN R Pakistan replaced v17555 by 17835 at 0500-0700 in Urdu to NE&ME. This is to avoid ISR in French, which is active on that freq at 0500, and also to avoid a loud and noisy UTE on about 17551. Tx is API-1 Islamabad 100 kW 282 degr. Turk sce at 1700-1730 left 11600 but no trace on 15 MHz so far, may be co-ch with something else. But 13580 continues. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 24)

[13579.94 on Jul 26; 11640.00 to avoid KOL 11605?, and 13579.96 on Jul 29, ed]

15485.1 R Pakistan 0230 ID En to SoAS. Female announcer. Fair signal. 15625 R Pakistan 1213 in Be to SoAS. Mx then female and male anncrs. Fair to Good signal long path. In the clear. (Bill Thomas-USA, Cumbre, Jul 19/21)

AZAD KASHMIR AKR going strong 4790.4 and Muzaffarabad on 3662 with diff progrs. (Victor Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK UADX, Jul 12)

PORTUGAL RDP special progr to AF 21655 ceased? Missed since Jul 17. From Jul 19, 1600-1900 RDP usual Port progr //21780 17680 13625 11860 11800. (Klaus Lieberwirth-D, Jul 21)

RUSSIA "DX Club" the famous progr of VoRUS in Russian is back on the air. Stopped in April, when Pavel Mikhailov suffered a heart attack.

Heard again on July 7th at 1540 on 15490, but the editor and presenter was Vadim Alexeev. He said that Pavel is recovering at home and will be back in the future on Pyatnitskaya studio. May blessing for him ! (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

VoRussia. Ru sce, DX-progr. 1340 Sun 693 1323 9945 15510 15525 2040 Sun 612 693 1215 9865 12070 0140 Mon 7125 9480 12070 15455 17565 17660 17690 21755 1540 Wed 648 15490 17580 (RUS-DX Anatoly Klepov-RUS, Jul 18)

SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh 0600-0900 replaced 15380 by 15355. Now bad co-ch NHK Gabon in Ge and Fr. (Klaus Lieberwirth-D, Jul 21)

SERBIA I was just hearing RTS Belrade Stubline again on 684 at 2030 on 20 July. Not particularly strong and most likely a provisional arrangement. News programme // 1107. (Olle Alm-SWE, Jul 20; P. Ungerboeck-AUT, Jul 21; W. Herzog-AUT, Jul 22)

RTS Beograd noted yesterday Jul 22, from 1900, //1107, and weak 1296 and 1440. On 837 a Hungarian lang progr tent from R Novi Sad in Voivodina Serbia. (Erich Bergmann-D, Jul 22)

[nothing heard of RTS on SW //7200, ed]

B92 Radio stn B92 is back on air ! But suffering still limitations by the dictatorship restrictions.

Hallo! Die Tageszeitung "taz" meldet am 29.07.99: B92 sendet unter neuem Namen. Der populaere unabhaengige Belgrader Lokalsender "Radio B92" hat nach mehr als vier Monaten gestern sein Programm unter neuem Namen und auf neuer Frequenz wiederaufgenommen. Der Sender nennt sich jetzt "B2-92". Zunaechst wird nur Musik gespielt, die Politik- und Informationsprogramme sollen ab naechster Woche wieder zu hoeren sein. Jugoslawische Behoerden hatten nur Stunden nach Beginn der Nato-Luftangriffe gegen Jugoslawien den regimekritischen Sender geschlossen. (Juergen Lohuis-D, Jul 29)

Ist aber, da die Zensurgesetze nicht aufgehoben sind "gleichgeschaltet". (Josef Haas-AUT, Jul 29)

SEYCHELLES FEBA Radio moved their 11885 to 11640 (since BBC left this channel) at 1300-1330 in Malayalam & 1330-1345 in Tamil. (Alok Dasgupta- IND, Jul 25) [see also 11640/11870 under UK, ed]

SRI LANKA R Japan Ekala (Sri Lanka). Relay tx has rectified the problem on Jul 6 by changing the faulty synthesizer, as per e-mail message received from Mr. Koichi Komada, Assistant Manager Progrs, Internat Bcing & Planning Dept, NHK. Mr. Komada is in charge of overseas relay txs of R Japan. (Kanwarjit Sandhu, EDXP, Jul 22)

TAHITI 15170 RFO Tahiti Papetee. 0540-0550. Musica local. Anuncios en polinesio. 24432 (Arnaldo Slaen-ARG, Conex 13, Jul 10) [??, widely reported that "RFO station gone for ever", ed]

TAIWAN MERLIN Comm Internat Limited signs exclusive agreement with the CBS of Taiwan.

On Tue 13th July 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan, Merlin Comm Internat Ltd signed an exclusive agreement with the CBS of TWN to market and broker its facilities globally. Merlin already has an exchange agreement with CBS where air time is exchanged between Taiwan and the UK.

However, this agreement means that Merlin has the exclusive right to market CBS' extensive facilities around the world. CBS has some 41 txs, both SW and MW, based in TWN with excellent sces into all the Asia Pacific regions.

CBS and R Taipei Internat progrs are bc via a txion system connecting the South and North of Taiwan. CBS own nine txion sites across TWN, with sixteen Mw txs and twenty five SW txs which transmit programming into Indo- CHN, Mainland CHN and all over the Asia Pacific region. (Merlin Communications website via Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

I wasn't aware CBS had ANY facilities outside Taiwan -- at least not txs. See also the related story under USA [non] below! I think the following story is saying that CSPS will no longer use KHBI, and in effect is being replaced by CBS facilities -- NOT that Saipan stn ownership will be taken over by Merlin from RFA in August! But R Taipei Int'l (never mentioned by this name) will get relays into EUR from UKOGBANI. Haven't the Chinese people enough problems -- and religions -- already without being bombarded with wacky CS propaganda? Why should Merlin care? (Hauser-USA, Jul 22)

MERLIN Comm Ltd signs exchange SW deal with Herald Bcing Syndicate, Inc & Central Bcing System of Taiwan.

Merlin Comm Internat is pleased to announce the signing of a one year contract with Herald Bcing Syndicate Inc. (HBS) to provide SW audio txion of The Christian Science Publishing Society's (TCSPS) progrs into SoCHN, Beijing and IND for three hrs a day. The deal is part of an exchange with Central Bcing System of Taiwan (CBS), the major broadcaster in TWN.

Herald programming will be transferred via the internet from TCSPS's studios in Boston, USA, to Merlin's London control centre at Bush House. The signal will then be uplinked via Merlin's GDS satellite onto CBS' tx in Taipei for rebc into AS and IND. "We look forward to a long, successful relationship with Merlin in bcing in the Pacific Rim," says Catherine Aitken-Smith, Director, Internat Bcing for HBS.

Three hrs of CBS programming in En, Ge and Mandarin will be transferred from their studio in TWN via the internet into the Merlin London Control Centre and then onto Merlin's GDS satellite. The SW signal will then be txed from Merlin's site in Cumbria, in the NoWe of England into WeEUR, GER and EaEUR.

HBS bcs from the island of Saipan on a SW stn owned by R Free Asia until Aug of 1999, when Merlin ommunications will take over these bcs.

Merlin has conducted business in over 100 countries worldwide and txs over 1000 hrs of both SW and MW per day. Outside the UK staff are permanently located in ASC Isl, ATG, CYP, OMA, SEY, SNG and THA. (Merlin Comm website Jul 22 via Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

R Taipeh Internat in Ge from Aug 1st: 0600-0700 9985 via WYFR USA (repeat of 2nd progr hour of previous day). 1800-1900 9955 direct (1st progr hour). 1900-2000 on new 6100 via Merlin-UK relay (2nd progr hour). 2100-2200 11565 and 15600 via WYFR USA (repeat of 1st progr hour). (Willi Stengel-D, Jul 24)

TAJIKISTAN Radio Iran of Tomorrow in Persian heard 1700-1730 on 3rd hx 17490 (from nominal 5830), Dushanbe 200 kW non-dir. (PanIview Rumen Pankov- BUL, Jul 15)

THAILAND 9885 R Thailand 1230-1300 En 1230 R Thailand's evening nx. 1244 a page from Thai history. 1249 nx in perspective on National Language day in honour of the King of Thailand. 1257 world nx updates. 1300 tx sw-off. (Lindsay Allen-AUS, Cumbre, Jul 17)

TUNISIA RTT Tunis verified 963 by letter and detailed card after 127 days against 2 IRCs, addr: Le Chef de Service du Controle de la Recepcion de l'Office National de la Telediffusion O.N.T. Cite Ennassim I - Bourjel - BP 399 / 1080 Tunis, Tunisia.

Tel +216 1 801 177 Fax: +216 1 781 927 e-mail: [email protected] V/s ist Abdesselem Slim (Enzio Gehrig-SPA, Jul 27)

TURKEY VoTUR in En 1230-1325 on new 15225 (x17830) due to BBC Asian stream. In Tu 1900-2200 11910 in usb mode, 54554. That's is the single freq of VoTUR active in USB mode ! (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

UNIDENTIFIED 21505 UNID stn in various times between 0300-0600. No any ID, only light orchestral non-stop mx. Observed on July 13, 14, 15th. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

Comment: either further Marconi tests on Iranawila IBB relay station on Sri Lanka island, or more function tests on Chinese Urumqi SW station, this time on 13 mb, see bc-dx #419 tx test items under China and Sri Lanka. (ed, Jul 25)

UNID stn without any ID is heard daily, s-on varies around 1810 til 1957 on 6800. Each day on different freq in 6760-6830 range. The progr is consisting of Kurdish patriotic and folk songs. Same sounds can be heard via Voice of the Patriotic Islamic Iranian Kurdistan in Arabic, Persian and Kurdish operating on 4025 at 0227-0327. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

UK Merlin Network 1 with techno mx progr was heard on Jul 10, 1300-1700 15235.

BBC changes Pa 0745-0945 only on Fris, new 17720 (x15585), reg is Zyyi-CYP 300 kW 77 degr. Alban 1000-1030 (Sat/Sun -1015) new 15190 (x15555) & 13745, ?RMP 500 kW 95 degr. 1315-1345 (Sat/Sun -1330) delete 13670. (PanIview Rumen Pankov-BUL, Jul 15)

Swinging Radio England heard this night at about 0130. Co-ch QRM by India and Iran. Weak signal at 2155, freq drift v1565.94 from exact 1565.96 ten minutes before. SINPO 22342. (Martin Elbe-D, Jul 19/20)

BBC Monitoring celebrates its 60th anniversary on 26th Aug. A web site has been set up at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/bbcfsu which looks at BBCM over this period. The site is still very much "under construction", but already contains some interesting photos and articles. (Chris Greenway British DX Club via Rogers, in Cumbre, Jul 19)

BBC Mandarin noted opening on 11870[-RUS] at 1300 on 25 July, seems to be via CIS tx judging by sign-on routine (opem carrier for at least 10 mins before the hour, then abruptly into progr a few secs before 1300), //9605, 15285 etc. Nothing heard on 11640 during the past few days, so presume this is indeed replacing that freq. Replaced 11640 via Chita-RUS relay by 11870 ? [ed] Scheduled 1300-1530 500 kW at 195 degr, to zones 43 WeCHN-TIB & 44 EaCHN & KOR/KRE.

A minor change for BBC Thai sce, recently heard at 1235-1300 on 7135 and 9605 (used to sign on at 1230). Not all of the Thai stns relaying the BBC seem to be aware of this change -- R Thailand 837 in Bangkok noted with 5 stray mins of BBC WS En 'Waveguide' at 1230 on 25 July before sudden switch to Thai at 1235. (Alan Davies-THA, Jul 26)

Merlin Internat - new schedule - all progrs in En to EUR: 0000-0100 Sat Global Sound Kitchen 6015 7325 9720 1300-1700 Sat Global Sound Kitchen 9750 12035 15235 1600-1700 Mon-Fri Roy Masters 6175 2100-2300 Fri Global Sound Kitchen 6140 7325 9720 2300-0000 Fri Global Sound Kitchen 6015 7325 9720. (BBCM via EDXP, Jul 28)

Address of R Caroline [email protected] (Piet Pypers-HOL, Jul 28)

Another address Caroline Support Group, 426 Archway Road, London N6 4JH, United Kingdom. (Harald Kuhl-D, Jul 28)

Seit heute sendet Radio Caroline mal wieder mit RSL-Lizenz. Frequenz 1503, die Ross Revenge liegt bei Southend on Sea. Die Lizenz gilt vom 26.7. bis zum 22.8., Sendeleistung 1 Watt. Heute frueh kam um 0430 noch sehr schwach etwas unter R Stoke, um 0440 war Caroline aber endgueltig weggefadet. Muesste etwas frueher eigentlich ganz ordentlich gehen. Und Radio Stoke ist so freundlich, laengere Wortbeitraege zu senden, da laesst sich dann ganz gut die Popmusik von Caroline ausmachen. (Martin Elbe-D, Jul 26)

Gestern haben mich drei Listenteilnehmer angemailt und gefragt, ob ich eine Adresse von RCaroline haette, und ob die denn bestaetigen.

Zuerst die gute Nachricht: RCaroline best„tigt die RSL-Aktionen ziemlich sicher; ich habe 1584, 1503 und 1278 von verschiedenen Standorten bestaetigt. Problematischer ist die Adresse...

Nicht, dass es daran mangelt, im Gegenteil: Ich habe zuviele und weiss nicht, welche denn jetzt die erfolgversprechendste ist. Frueher sagte Caroline die Adresse P.O.Box 963, London SW28 an, ueber die Adresse habe ich 2 QSL-Briefe vom Radio Engineer Steve Masters bekommen (Jan 1995 und Sept 1995). Dann gibt es als weitere Moeglichkeit die Caroline Support Group, 426 Archway Road, London N6 4JH.

Einer der Bootsleute ist Andre Hardy, erreichbar ueber 70 Dumergue Road, Queensborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

Dann gibt es noch den Caroline-Devotionalienhandel, R Caroline Sales, 148 Grange Road, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 9PR.

Von dort gab es eine QSL ueber 1278, Aug 1997, verie-signer John Knight.

Am besten ist es wohl, abzuwarten, welche Adresse jetzt angegeben wird. Oder ein e-mail an [email protected] schicken. (Martin Elbe-D, Jul 27)

USA WORLD OF RADIO 1000. Please don't delay any longer if you were going to send us a cassette recorded greeting, criticism, historical reminiscense or memorable broadcast excerpt for our 1000th numbered progr. Assuming Extra 30 is released in the meantime, 1000 would start the week of August 18, and we would like to prepare it a bit ahead of time rather than at usual last minute; possibly another Extra will be inserted delaying 1000 to August 25+ (Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, U.S.A.)

WORLD OF RADIO SHORTWAVE-ONLY SCHEDULE AS OF JULY 27 Days and times strictly UTC

Wed 2100 WBCQ 7415 Thu 2030 WWCR 15685 Fri 1930 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Sat 0330 RFPI 15049 6975 Sat 1130 RFPI 15049 6975 Sat 1130 WWCR 12160 Sat 1930 WWCR 12160 [NEW] Sat 1800 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Sun 0200 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 6975 Sun 0230 WWCR 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR 5070 Sun 1000 RFPI 15049 6975 Sun 2300 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Mon 0501 WWCR 3210 Mon 0700 RFPI 15049 6975 Tue 1230 WWCR 15685 Tue 1900 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 Wed 0300 RFPI 21460-USB 15049 6975 Wed 1100 RFPI 15049 [NEW; temporary?]

For complete details on all WOR and Continent of Media broadcasts see http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio (GH, Jul 27)

In the last few minutes of AWWW July 24 on WBCQ, Al said there is a new "hacker's program" Tue 8 pm EDT or UT Wed 0000, a telecommunications info progr, "Off the Hook" which we will really like. He loves having Brother Stair take up any vacant times, including M-F 5-5:30 pm, I thought he said, but I hope this was a slip and WoR is not affected Wed. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 998, Jul 27)

WBCQ Al Weiner had this to say about his stn: Things are great at WBCQ, our time is mostly sold and we are running some great alternative progrs. We have purchased our 2nd tx, a Collins, and will have pictures of it on our web site soon. As soon as we get our construction permit from the FCC, we will start. This tx is tunable and we will use it with a bi-directional (EUR-NoAM) rhombic. WBCQ II may be on as early as the fall. We also have a 60 kW SSB tx on site. We will to some testing on SSB, but that is a year or two away. We saw a need for trans- gender and homosexual programming. Elaine did some work and found a great progr, Gender Talk, which we put on the air gratis. Unfortunately, Randi Steele, our former operations manager proceeded to persistently call the progr and tell them that they should not be on WBCQ. Gender Talk preferred not to get in the middle of something and cancelled after only one week. Sadly, Randi apparently called every homosexual program in NoAM and told them not to go on WBCQ. (DIRECT Johnson Cumbre DX Copyright Jul 8)

WGTG I've heard Dave Frantz's hosting a half hour infomercial on the virtues of SSB as well as spots on how listeners will need SSB radios if there is a collapse, whether it is Y2K, chemical/biological/nuclear warfare, or space aliens. Heard the infomercial at 1330 on Jul 9.

WGTG has also given American Dissident Voices a new lease on life. Apparently, even the National Alliance has finally lost patience with WRNO's non-signal. Heard in progress at 0310 Sun on 6890U with William Pierce. Checked on the National Alliance website and found that WGTG was listed as of a July 6th update at 7 and 10 PM Eastern Sats on 6890 (2300 Sat and 0300 Sun). So perhaps the first week for ADV here and probably linked to the stn's willingness to carry Ernst Zundel's Another Voice of Freedom (last heard at 2200 Sun on 6890). National Alliance website listing for ADV via WRNO out of date, still listing 15420. (Hans Johnson-USA, Cumbre, Jul 9)

KAIJ Bill Smith and Hans Johnson recently spoke with KAIJ's chief engineer, Fred Bithell. Here is what Fred had to say. The stn was off for a year to "get parts", but is now on 5810 from 0000-1400 and 13815 from 1400- 0000 using a a 100 kW Continental into a log-per double-bay providing 24.2 dB gain array. The original tx, a 50 kW GE, is off for the air for the moment but there are plans to rebuilt it. Those wanting a QSL card need to write the station that txts the progr, not Los Angeles. Fred checks all the 300 reception reports he receives a week. (Smith and Johnson in Cumbre Jul 21)

VIETNAM 13740 VoVTN Hanoi, Jul 25, 1607-1612, En sce with "Sunday show", hosted by male and female speaker. Audio on LSB stronger than on USB. //v9730. 44444. (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 26)

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BC-DX 421 07 Aug 1999 ______

SOLAR ECLIPSE Don't forget the clips on the Aug 11th, not that you are likely to with all the mentions on TV and in the newspapers ! There will be some interesting effects of both mediumwaves and the lower shortwave bands, especially 6, 7 and 9 MHz. If you get the chance, please listen and let us know the results of what you have heard. A special report will be compiled next.

The solar eclipse will sweep from west to east starting in Newfoundland-CAN at approx. 0930 UTC, through the Scilly Isles and Cornwall-UK at 1010, at Paris 1025, at Stuttgart 1034 [center will be just 1200 metres north of my house, next to Stuttgart tv tower, ed], at 1045 south of Vienna, at 1100 east of Timishoara-ROU, at 1112 near Varna-BUL and Constanta-ROU on Black Sea, at 1120 at Turkish northern coastline on Black Sea, at 1200 north of Kuwait in SoWeIRN, and finally ending in the Indian Ocean west of Bombay at 1230 UTC, by when it will by sunset across India.

Partial eclipses will be visible - ranging from 20% across the Arctic and Sahara to Somalia; 60% in NoSWE&FIN and the Medit coast in MRC, ALG, TUN, LBY; 80% on the line between NoScotland, Oslo, Bornholm, Kaliningrad, Caspian Sea in the North, and Gijon, Andorra, Sicilia, Rhodes, ISR, OMA, in the South.

Look out for unusual reception, especially on MW, and SW 49 41 and perhaps 31 mb during period 0830-120 UTC. It will be worth listening a couple of hours before and after the event - and do report all the results for publication in the various newsgroups and newsletters. The solar eclipse will also be of interest to DXers as the area of darkness (and even partial darkness) is likely to result in some unusual, temporary, reception conditions, particularly on the given bands see below. So. even its cloudy on the day, do take time to switch the radio on and have a tune around. Have a tape recorder running to catch any IDs.

Conditions are likely to change rapidly as the eclipse moves at some 2000 miles per hour. (Tony Rodgers-UK, Communication BDXC-UK, Aug)

Solar Eclipse Monitoring ! Just to tell you guys that the upcoming Solar Eclipse will give you an opportunity to have a go at some experiments. I had a bit of a piece on this in yesterdays RN Media Network. I mean I recorded it for the show, but I do not know whether it went on the air. Basically what I want you to try is.

When a solar eclipse takes place for a little while, even as little as 5 mins there is a decrease in solar radiation falling on that portion of the ionosphere that is in darkness. At a superficial level one might think that these few mins would be too short a time to have any effect on the ionosphere. This is not the case.

In 1980 when there was an eclipse over central India at 3.30 in the afternoon down here in the tropics I had dramatic results. Indian MW stns and low freq stns started to propagate for a few mins. They started to buzz in like MW stns do at sun down and reached a peak just a few mins after the peak in the eclipse.

A few steps. 1. Find details of the eclipse path. I am sure some WWW sites would give that.

2. If you are within about 2000 kms of the zone in eclipse, you can select some stns known to operate at the time on the other side of the zone. The idea is to see that the sky wave will bounce off the ionosphere and get to you as a single hop.

3. If you are within the zone you could expect much more. Just work out the possibility for you, yourself.

4. Look for stns as low in frequency as possible, either stns that are not usually heard at the time of the eclipse on other days or are so weak that you could clearly see a difference on the eclipse time.

5 If you are somewhat far away from the eclipse zone look for signals that would be taking the first or the last hop via the eclipse zone.

6. Make sure your selected stns are monitored a couple of days before and after the eclipse at the time of the eclipse, to make it a scientific test.

7. If you are a Amateur Radio Operator / Ham operator you can go one step further. Find some ham stns with whom you can establish two way communications bouncing your signals via the eclipse zone.

I assure you that you will find amazing results. as I did in 1980 and a few years later. You do not have to be in the total eclipse zone. You can take part in this where ever you are. Good luck and enjoy the experiment. (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke-SLK 4S7VK, UADX, Aug 6)

These may be of interest to those who want to DX the upcoming eclipse of the sun; researchers are looking for your DX logs. http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/ionosondes/eclipse/PUST.html http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast04aug99_1.htm (Nick Hall-CAN, Aug 5)

In connection with the solar eclipse next week, Teracom AB and R Sweden have some special activities and will have special extra txions on 6065, from 0830-1200. This will be on air on the 10th, 11th and on the 12th of Aug. This in order to be able to have some reference material as well as data from the solar eclipse itself.

Progrs will be both in Swe and En. Schedule as follows 0830-0900 P1(Swe) 0900-1100 Lunchbreak (En) 1100-1200 P1 (Sweh). Reports can be sent to R Sweden direct or to [email protected] (Magnus Nilsson-SWE Teracom, Aug 5)

ALGERIA New schedule for R Algiers Ch 1 - Ar 0300-0500 11750, 0800-1500 7245, 1800-2200 7245 Ch 2 - Kabyle 0500-0800 and 1500-1800 on 7245. Ch 3 - Fr 0500-2100 11750, 1400-1600 and 1800-1900 on 15160. (BBCM via EDXP, Aug 4)

AUSTRALIA VNG Possible closure? VNG may have to close in mid 1999 as the National Standards Commission, who provide operating funds, is thinking of pulling the plug on funding.

VNG is the Australian time signal stn currently operating on 2500, 5000, 8638, 12984 and 16000 from Llandilo near Sydney N.S.W Australia. The stn was re-established during 1988 by the VNG users consortium, who with much effort and financial sacrifice by volunteers, moved facilities from Lyndhurst Victoria to it's present site at Llandilo. The VNG users consortium would like to see the stn survive as it provides a low cost time sce which is easy to access via SW.

Right now might be the time to obtain a QSL and possibly a letter of support to: Dr Marion Leiba, Honorary Secretary, C/O VNG users consortium, GPO BOX 1090,Canberra ACT 2601 Australia. (Tim Gaynor-AUS, via Cumbre Jul 29)

Special R Australia QSL cards available on the occasion of 60th anniversary of R Australia on Dec 20, 1999.

Acc of a telephone interview by "Feedback" Moderator Roger Broadbent with John Wright of Australian Radio DX-Club and RA's QSL-Manager: all RRs of RA's English broadcasts between Aug 1st, and Dec 20th, 1999 will be verified using old QSL motives, like The Bell Bird, The Kookaburra, The Koala and The Sydney Opera House. About 200 QSL cards are on stock. Verification cards will reach the listenership within eight weeks. (source Radio Australia, "Feedback", 30/31 Jul; via Gregor Link-D, Jul 31)

BELGIUM RTBF is doing tests with their old (1952) 100 kW tx in Wavre to see whether it is still reliable, in case the new govt would ask / allow them to start SW txions for SoEUR. The tests should continue at least until the end of Aug, on Tues and Thurs at *about* 0800-1400 on 9925 using a rhombic antenna at 167 degrs in direction of Corsika/Sardegna, and further south to CeAF the original target for that antenna built up in 1952.

The tests are a relay of the 1st progr "La Premiere". So at 1000-1205 9925 from Wavre is //with 21540 from DTK Juelich.

RVI outlets during solar eclipse: RVI midday outlet to EUR 1100-1300 on 5985 & 11780, when eclipse center is in Romania. Via Tashkent-UZB at 1200- 1400 on 17685. (Paul Brems-BEL, RVI Golfgids, Aug 5)

BRAZIL R Nac do Brasil (Radiobras) is the Ext sce of the state broadcaster, R Nac do Brasil. The schedule is based on monitoring research and information published by Radiobras. The bcs to AF have not been confirmed. 0115-0215 Po 11780 0415-0515 Po 11765 0700-0800 Po 9745 1000-1120 Sp 9745 1200-1320 En 15445 1330-1450 Sp 15445 1630-1750 Po 15265 1800-1920 En 15265 1930-2050 Ge 15265 1800-1920 Po 17750 1920-0000 Po 17750 Su (BBCM via NASWA)

The problem is that the president has extinguished RadioBras, which was responsible for the txs. Until it is decided which govt agency becomes legally responsible for them, the txions, even if they continue, will be precarious. (19-Jul/Cruz-BRZ/Radioescutas/World of Radio/Hauser, Jul 22)

BULGARIA R Free Europe S-Cr overnight sce via the Bulgarian Vidin MW tx on 1224 is two full seconds behind //Munich-1197 and Holzkirchen-1593, making me wonder how tricky the feed path is. (Kai Ludwig-D, Aug 1)

CANADA A check on 49 mb this morning at 0615 revealed CHNX Halifax audible on 6130usb, and still traced at 0700. Nothing from CAN on 6160 or 6070, but Voz Cristiana-CHL good on the latter. Others from over the Atlantic were: 6185 R Educacion-MEX fair at 0640/0700. BBC 6175 presumably still Delano, and behind 9410, weak and not moving the S-meter. 6090- Anguilla fair in //WWCR 5935 with Dr. Gene Scott & Co. n sync so resumably both are simultaneously fed. ORF via SAC relay 6015 in En at 0630 fair good. 5950 R Taipei Internat via Okeechobee-FL in Sp. KAIJ Denton-TX 5810 with En relig past 0700 at weak level, plus every present WEWN 5825 and WHRI 5745. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 30)

CHAD 6165 Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, 2205-2215 nx in Fr, then 3 pieces of local pop mx with lively male announcer in Fr. Before the last track he gave an ID and said that they were going to close down in a few mins, 2224 brief c-down annt and NA. (Michael Barraclough-UK, Jul 28)

CHILE Voz Cristiana is the stn that the DX-er heard on Aug 1st between 0400-0500 on 15375, in Sp. Yesterday, I heard this stn on some freqs 6070 11745... on same time. (Claudio Morales-ARG, Aug 3; Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Aug 1)

CHINA 13650 CRI Urumqi Spanish *2200-2257*. 13750 Chinese clandestine(?) / numbers stn Mandarin 2200-2300. (B.Padula- AUS EDXP, Aug 6)

I am unsure of the txer site, but the bc of CRI to AF is heard well here in the UK in En on its new freq of 15305 between 1700-1800 with fair signals, good audio and has been quite regular of late. Possibly via Spain, Mali or China itself. (Karl Kruger-UK via EDXP, Jul 29)

15300/15305/15415 are all from powerful Urumqi tx site, which started in 1996-1998 via antenna facilities on 7, 9 and 13 MHz only. But well known DX community noticed a break in service last autumn and also in June this year. So seemingly new antenna farms erected there for usage on 25 and 19 mb, ed.

Here is my late - but rather uncomplete - monitoring report of RCI txions heard from mainland CHN.

COLOMBIA The new addr for the updated version of "Dateline Bogota" covering my entire period in Bogota, 1993-1998, is http://www.algonet.se/~ahk/Dateline.htm There is also a "primer" on Peruvian geography which has not been published elsewhere. I'm about to include a number of pictures in the near future. (Henrik Klemetz-SWE, in NU Aug 4)

CUBA China installs two communication bases in Cuba. "The txions of CRI are now originating from Havana on 9570", asserted an internal report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The FCC located CRI's tx at 22.56N/82.23W, near the town of Bejucal, southeast of the city of Havana. I could have told them it would be south of Havana, but at least they got some DF practice. On a high frequency band identifying themselves falsely as "OPEC21", a US C130 military plane flight_, stated the report. OPEC like most of these oil-related callsigns is a tanker. More likely a KC-10 than a C-130 fitted for refueling.

In Lourdes, province of Havana, that Russia has continued to operate since the disappearance of the Soviet Union and for which Cuba receives $200 million annually.

All of this tends to explain some of the Morse numbers that Camillo Castillo is hearing in Panama. While signals sound Cuban, formats are more Russian. (Hugh Stegman-USA, via A.Erbe-D, Jul 31)

I am hearing R Rebelde on a new freq 9600, opening at various times between 0958 & 1001. The opening annts mention a txion for Cubans in CeAM and the Caribbean. The signal here is good but there is something co-channel (A Russian stn?) as well as sideband splash from NSB JPN 9595. After 1100 there is sideband splash from WYFR and BBC on 9605 but R Rebelde can still be heard. (Barry Hartley Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, Aug 4)

FINLAND R Finland Helsinki, has several daily sces to AUS and AS, acc to this new schedule: 0000-0015 Fi 11995 and 15250. 0600-0630 Fi, 0630-0700 En 15250 and 21670. 0830-0900 Ru 17820 and 21670. 1100-1150 Fi, and 1150-1200 Swe 21465. 1150-1200 Swe 21465. 2130-2230 Fi 9865 and 11845. (EDXP-AUS, Jul 27)

FRANCE RFI Paris, has made some alterations to its summer schedule, and txions to Asia from the Yamata-JPN relay: 1200-1300 9830 Mand. 1030-1200 11890 Fr. 0930-1030 15195 Mand. 1400-1500 15195 Vn. 1030-1200 15215 Fr 2300-0030 17710 Fr (EDXP-AUS, Jul 27)

RFI is heard on air at 0530-0557 sudden off in Ar lang, using 5925 7135. Their schedule shows only Fr at this time. Also, Alban lang is heard on air 0550-0557 off on 9805 11975. Possibly a late addition as both are shown Fr lang only. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 30)

GABON 21550 Today Aug 1st, I heard NHK Radio Japan in Jpn lang on the strange freq of 21550 at the time span 1130-1200. Most likely a NHK R1 Jpn lang relay.

My present NHK printed schedule shows the Gabon relay to the ME at 0800- 1000 only. From which relay site and in what time span the progr is on transmission ? ed

21550 NHK on short wave via Moyabi facilities. Thanks for your e-mail. The Japanese R1 program you heard on Aug 1st on 21550 was a special Summer progr that we broadcasted from 0900-1155 especially on that day. As you have pointed out, usually the progr ends at 1000, but on Aug 1, the progr was extended to 2:55 hrs.

R Japan will bc several other special progrs this summer, from 1-19 Aug. If you are interested, information on our special progrs can be found on our web site http://www.nhk.or.jp/rjnet/

Lastly, our latest broadcast schedule does not include the special progrs. We hope you'll keep tuning into our programs. With kind regards, Radio Japan (Mr. Koichi KOMADA, NHK RJ, Aug 1/2; e-mail [email protected])

GERMANY DW will cease the Greek language sce at the end of this year acc to saving plan of DW chief Dieter Weirich. The final decision will be made by the competent board this month [August].

Mass media in Greece is widely against the plan, and a "cry for help" campaign started mainly in the Greek print press media. DW's Greek progr started in Apr 1964, and DW's Greek sce played a similar role to overcoming the dictatorship in Greek in the seventies. as the BBC did against Hitler Germany in the forties. DW Greek sce was a "speaking tube" and a "historical voice" of the Greek resistance against the military dictatorship.

Today DW's Greek sce is bcing 50 mins daily, relayed by 43 greek radio stations, and is content of the govt radio stn ERA. 57 % of the Greek population listens to the progr at least once a year. Via satellite and internet the DW Greek sce is distributed to greek speaking local radio stations in Florida, Australia, Cyprus, Canada and London-UK.

The Greeks are annoyed, because the remainig eight DW lang progrs to the Balkan are not concerned, the only one is Greek lang sce which will be ceased. Especially the Turkish progr will remain -- at the doubled transmission time. (Stuttgarter Zeitung, Jul 29)

GUINEA ECUATORIAL 5003.9 R Nac de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, 0535-0600, Aug 1, Sp, male annr, ID "Esta es Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial, estacion de la region continental, inicia sus programas diversos en onda corta de 60 metros, frecuencia de 5005 kilociclos por segundo y en FM Stereo en 98.3 megahertzios, estimados radiooyentes, Buenos Dias, le saludamos cordialmente en esta primera emision de la manana, correspondiente a la jornada del domingo dia 1 de agosto de 1999..." also Id as "Radio Bata", 34443 (Nicolas Eramo-ARG, Aug 1)

GUINEA French CRI relay over the FrGUF facility. The corrected schedule is: 0200-0257 Sp 13685, 0300-0357 Ma, 0400-0457 En, both on 9720; 9720 is new, replacing original 9730. (Bob Padula-AUS, EDXP, Aug 5)

INDIA All stns of AIR will be operating round the clock from Oct-05 to Oct-07 for bcing the results of the Indian elections. The process actually starts on Sep-04, continuing on Sep-04, Sep-11, Sep-24, and Oct-01. Many AIR stns on the tropical bands will remain on air all night, allowing propagation on freqs not normally heard outside of Asia. (Jose Jacob-IND, via EDXP-AUS, Jul 18)

Private sector entry into FM Radio cleared, finally. The Indian federal cabinet has cleared the entry of the private sector into FM radio bcing in addition to the FM sces of the state-run All India Radio. It decided to grant 10-year licenses to private operators in 40 cities across the country.

New Delhi expects with this decision nearly 150 FM channels will be set up in the country. Currently, FM txion covers 17 per cent of the country's area and 21 per cent of the population. Besides private commercial bcers, licenses would be granted to non-profit and non-govt organisations (NGO), educational institutions and for community radio stations.

No foreign participation has been allowed. Entry into the sector would be granted to only 100 per cent Indian companies and other entities with no foreign equity involvement.

In another significant restriction, the govt has decided that private FM bcers cannot cover nx[!] and current affairs. Private FM stns would however be able to focus on mx, entertainment, education and information on subjects like business, the capital market, local market nx, airline, railway and bus schedules, traffic, sports and the weather.

The annual license fee would differ from city to city. In smaller cities, it would be between Rs 1 to 2 million, while in the metros and bigger cities it is likely to be around Rs 12.5 million.

BBC Monitoring via Commonwealth Bcing Assoc, Jul 31 http://www.oneworld.org/cba/

INDONESIA 4925 RRI Jambi, Jul 30 2156-2201, Sound of a bird (I guess they use this as their local IS?). At 2157 mx, followed by annt and local ID by female speaker in Ins. At 2159 SCI IS, then Jakarta nx relay with male speaker. 34343 (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 31)

The VoINS En sce, is reaching our shores again on 15150, 2000-2100. It would be a good signal except that there is QRM from the Skelton relay of RCI on the same freq also in En! In fact one can listen to two progrs at once but this gets a little confusing after a while! (Karl Kruger-UK, via EDXP Jul 29)

IRAN v15314.8 Found IRIB here with garbled audio, this may be a spur. Though HFCC registration says 1530-1630, Persian on both 15205 and 15084 are really on air at 1630-1730. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 30)

The recently introduced Jpn sce from VOIRI (1300-1330 15200 and 17630) is not on the air on Fris. There are three Jpnese anns presenting these features - Ms. Mika Nakamura, Ms. Keiko Anada, and Ms. Atsuko Kuroki. On Fris, special bcs feature Iranian mx progr for listeners in JPN. The stn is asking for RR's on cassette, which will be returned with recordings of Iranian mx. (Koji Yamada, Tokko, JPN, via EDXP, Aug )

Both freqs give excellent signals here in Tokyo-JPN. (Koji Yamad, EDXP Jul 27)

IRAQ Clandestine to Iran 11785v, Voice of the Movement of the Mojahedin of Iranian Baluchestan (Pe "Jonbesh-e Mojahedin-e Baluchestan Iran-e Tabari"), bcs daily in Baluchi and Ar 1200-1300, and carries progrs hostile to the Iranian govt and is believed to operate from txs in Iraq. A Baghdad P.O.Box has been ancd as an address.

The stn was first observed on Mar 2, 1987. In Oct 1993 the stn anncd that it bcs in the 19 and 21 mbs, previous freqs incl 15340 11970 9545 7250 & 7180. (BBC M via NU, Aug 4)

ISRAEL As of Aug 10 the following three 1400 UTC freqs will be changing: (x17615) 17620, (x11605) 15210, (x9435) 13750. (rec.radio.shortwave via Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Aug 3)

ITALY New AWR-QSL in 1999, which shows a pencil drawing by Albert Minaj in Florence Italy, of the present low powered AWR tx site at Forli, 1 x 2.5 kW Collins tx, and Hy Grain rotable log periodic antenna. (Klaus Koehler-D, Aug 6)

JORDAN New schedule for R Jordan Amman Ar sce 6105 1530-0200, 7155 1530-2200, 9630 0330-0600, 9830 1800-2200, 11810 0400-1300, 11835 0600-1030, 11930 2200-0200, 13630 1300-1530, 15290 1030-1200, 15435 0000-0800. [11690?] En sce 1000-1630 (BBCM, via EDXP Aug 4)

KOREA REP The Jpnese sce of RKI/Radio Korea announced on Aug 4 at 0820 that Typhoon Olga (Korean name) or Typhoon No.7 (Japanese name) which hit the nation on Aug 2nd damaged some of the antennas of Radio Korea. The Jpnese sce on 6135 is now using a temporary antenna. Some of the other lang sces on that freq are also using temporary alternative antennas. Work is underway to repair the damage as quickly as possible to restore full sce. 9368 houses were submerged or washed away, leaving 24041 persons homeless in many places in SoKOR, incl the capital at Seoul. (Koji Yamada-JPN, via EDXP, Aug 5)

LITHUANIA Lithuanian LT is different from the time in neighbouring countries like Latvia, Estonia, Belarus. Central European Time (CET = UTC+1, +2 in summer) is used in Lithuania. (Sergey Ovchinnikov-LTU, VoR progr "Club DX #458", Aug 1)

MEXICO R Mexico Internat in French bc yesterday at 0430 on 9705, after the En progr, a Fr nx bulletin.

1200-1600 5985 9705 1800-2300 5985 9705 2300-0500 9705 (Su/Mo -0400)

En 1400-1430; 1500-1530; 2200-2230; 2300-2330; 0300-0330 (Tue-Sun in UTC); 0400-0430 (Tue-Sat). Fr 1530-1600 (Wed, Fri, Sun); 2330-0000 (Wed, Fri, Mon), 0430-0500 (Tue, Thu, Sat). Music progrs on remaining days of French progr. The rest of the progr is in Spanish. http://www.telecommex.com/imer/rmi.html (Erich Bergmann-D, Aug 3/5)

MOLDOVA 7520 R Moldova Internat 2013 ID in Fr "Vous ecoutez Radio Moldavie Internationale" and continuing with talk. Modulation tonight was improved from completely unreadable due to loud buzzing noise to distorted though 100% readable. Strong signals.

(Michael Barraclough-UK, Aug 3)

MONACO 702 New AWR progrs via MW Monaco, from 2000 s-on in Fr, 2030 in Ar til 2130 s-off. 0=4-5. (Dr.Erwin Woellersdorfer-AUT, Aug 4)

New QSL card of TWR branch in Wetzlar Germany will be issued in Sept this year. ERF/TWR which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

Der ERF wird aus Anlaá seines Jubilaeums "40 Jahre ERF" eine Sonder-QSL herausgeben. Diese bildet das Funkhaus in Wetzlar aus der Vogelperspektive ab und traegt den Schriftzug "Sonder-QSL-Karte zum Jubilaeum 40 Jahre ERF". Ausgegeben wird diese ab Anfang September. (Klaus Koehler-D, Aug 6)

NEW ZEALAND Join me for the "South Pacific DX Report" on R New Zealand Internat, HCJB, AWR, and NZ's Radio Reading Service - ZLXA. Full details available from the South Pacific DX Resource web-site: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/3216

Or you can listen to RNZI's "Mailbox" here: http://www.audionet.co.nz/ranz.html (Paul Ormandy-NZL, Aug 6)

PAKISTAN The Turk sce 1700-1730 has shifted to 11640 (x11600), //13580. A nice clear channel when FEBA-SEY goes-off, but they stay on Suns in Oromo lang.

To summarise Pakistan's changes: 0500-0700 API-1 17835 (x17555) 282 1700-1730 API-1 11640 (11600) 282 degr. 1800-1900 API-4 15175 (x11600) 260 (Noel Green-UK, Jul 30)

R Pakistan's slow speed En nx at 0230 is currently missing on 15485 & 17895, although these freqs are well heard until around 0215 with the WS in Ur. Has the En bulletin been dropped? (Barry Hartley-NZL, Aug 4)

PHILIPPINES FEBC Manila has adjusted its freq usage for local morning bcs, now noted as follows: 9405 Ma *2200, 9780 Ins *2230, 9805 Lao *2230, 9860 Cambodian 2230. (Bob Padula, Aug-04)

POLAND 225 Radio Polonia Multi Media Show announced last week that the new LW tx expected to be operational on Sept 4th. TEST transmissions to be carried out Aug 13-15 or 15-18th. (Sheila Hughes-UK in BDXC-UK Communication, Jul 18)

PORTUGAL/INDONESIA Eff from Aug 2, 1999, RDP R Portugal Lisbon introduced expanded txs directed to Portuguese Timor-INS, and AUS, incl the use of high powered relay txions from facilities in TWN.

The details are as follows: 1000-1400 daily 17740-POR 300 kW 60 degr, 2100-2300 daily on 17600-POR 300 kW 60 degr, 1000-1100 daily 11550-TWN 250 kW 205 degr, 2200-2300 daily on 11550-TWN, 250 kW 205 degr.

Txions include segments in Tetum (spoken in Port-Timor), Ins and Port.

As monitored here in Melbourne, there is a two second delay on bcs from Taiwan, as compared with direct txions from POR, suggesting a double satellite link. Signal strength is superb on 11550 and 17760, but variable on 17740. This sce is also available directly via Satellite (Asiasat) and via RealAudio on the Internet. (Bob Padula-AUS EDXP, Aug 6)

QATAR 11785 QBS Doha *0240-0319 Jul 27, open carrier until IS at 0242, followed by opening anmts and ID at 0244. Fair-good signal. (Richard D'Angelo-PA, in NU)

RUSSIA 9450 China Radio (True Light Stn) via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, full-data personal ltr in one month, v/s Richard E. Adams, Director. Addr: 21 Chang Chun Rd., 7th floor, Taipei-TWN 10413. (Korinek-RSA, via NU Aug 4)

SERBIA R YUG Belgrade via Bijeljina-BIH facilities, 1630-1700 Ge replaced 7215 by 11870, //9620. (Klaus Lieberwirth-D, Aug 3)

SRI LANKA 11905 SLBC heard playing SLK National Anthem at 0020 UTC, when opening Hindi sce to SoAS, scheduled 0030-0430. (WB, Aug 1)

SUDAN 8000 There seem to be two stns here. Monitored 1640-1800, AM mess with heterodyne, 8000 USB continuous Horn of Africa style mx with occasional breaks, no annts.

7999.8 LSB the AOR 7030 sorted out another stn with talks in Ar or Ar influenced language, occas bursts of patriotic style mx and Qu'ran at 1740, went off 1755, couldn't get an ID, other stn stopped playing mx, but left the carrier on. Opposition VoSudan with accompanying jamming? (Mike Barraclough-UK, Jul 27)

TAIWAN/UK/USA RTI via UK on 6175. R Taipeh Internat in Ge from Aug 1st: 0600-0700 9985 via WYFR USA (repeat of 2nd progr hour of previous day). 1800-1900 9955 direct (1st progr hour). 1900-2000 on new 6175 (not 6100, KL) via Merlin-UK relay (2nd progr hour). 2100-2200 11565 and 15600 via WYFR USA (repeat of 1st progr hour).

R Taipei Internat Ge sce via Merlin Skelton was meanwhile announced as 1900-2000 on 6100, but just the usual mixture of BIH (carrying Belgrade) and ALB was present there, so I roamed across the 49 mb and found these RTI txion actually on 6175, excellent signal but indeed carrying merely a Internet stream from TWN. The progr was from the previous day, at the end they announced what one will hear on Sunday. And these in a rather poor audio quality, it's a disappointment. I haven't seen a schedule for the announced further two hrs of RTI programming in En and Mandarin respectively so far, at least 6175 was cut off at 2000 and nothing found after that on another 49 mb channel. (Willi Stengel-D, Jul 24; Kai Ludwig-D, Aug 2)

High powered facilities in TWN are also being used from Aug 2 for relays of bcs from the Herald Broadcasting Syndicate (USA), which uses KHBI Saipan and WSHB. Networking is managed by the Merlin organisation. This is part of an agreement where R Taipei Internat txions are relayed by Merlin facilities in the UK, from the Skelton site, for EUR.

Details of the HBS broadcasts from Taiwan facilities are as follows: 0900-1000 11725 FE and NoCHN, 1000-1100 11840 SoCHN, 1300-1400 11725 IND.

These txions are multi-lingual, incl En; the schedule is initial, and may be changed due to interference and/or propagation requirements.

The use of relay facilities in Taiwan for RDP and HBS suggests that a new addit tx has been brought on line, but this is speculative only at this stage. Family Radio USA, has used a relay facility in TWN for many years for augmented coverage of IND and CHN, using up to three txs simultaneously. This is part of an existing reciprocal agreement where R Taipei Internat progrs are relayed over WFYR Florida for improved reception in the Americas and EUR. (Bob Padula-AUS EDXP, Aug 6)

TURKEY TRT Ankara is back with the first Ge txion of the day at new time 1130-1230. Emiler tx site 17760 500 kW. Urgent, RRs appreciated. (Benno Klink-D, DG1EA, Aug 4)

UGANDA 5026 R Uganda Kampala, Jul 30, 2055-2100*, Reggue mx, male speaker in vernac (talk was undermodulated). Piece of native mx, at 2059 followed by NA. Then off. USB to avoid 5025, Benin. 44343, but after NA started, a strong RTTY freq was heard. (Mark Veldhuis-HOL, Jul 31)

UK Freq 15585 reported at 1700-1730 is, of course "Ju Flet Londra", their Albanian sce //6050 & 11955. I missed it on their schedule !

15360 is heard carrying the Persian sce at 1615-1715 in //6195-SKN?, 11835- NAK? 17870-RMP?. I cannot hear listed 6095-OMA due co-ch POL. 15360 is delayed behind 6195 and this freq was initially listed for RMP to broadcast HCJB to CeAS [but HCJB cancelled this sce so far; ed], but BBC now presumably via one of the overseas relays. Incidentally, 15360 does not carry the preceding sce in Pashto 1530-1615, also on 6195 11835 17870. (Noel Green-UK, Jul 30)

Finn wins in Inn draw ! The "Olde Leatherne Bottel" at Lewknor, Oxfordshire, was the venue for a gathering on Tue Jul 6th, at the request of WRTH Editor David Bobbett, to witness the WRTH 1999 Questionaire prize draw. The warm evening in early July saw a group of eight assembled to enjoy the Brakspear's ales, and of course see who would be receiving a brand new JRC NRD 545 courtesy of the WRTH !

Each copy of the 1999 WRTH contained a questionaire card, and all those returned were now in a large WRTH "bin" awaiting the draw, made by BBCWS Waveguide presenter Richard Lambley, and a lucky DXer in Finland will soon be tweaking the knobs of the NRD 545. Five runners-up were also drawn to receive copies of the 2000 WRTH. (Alan Pennington-UK in BDXC-UK Communication Aug)

MERLIN expands SW. Since Jul 2nd Merlin Network One has added SW freqs on Fris 2100-0100 and Sats 1300-1700 as follows, all via Skelton-Cumbria-UK 250 kW: Fri 2100-2300 6140 7325 9720. Fri 2300-0100 6015 7325 9720. Sat 1300-1700 9750 12035 15235 (repeat of the previous day). Progr is backed by Virgin R initially is IDed as "Flat Earth R" but now IDs as "The Global Sound Kitchen". Presumably Virgin/Levis were also behind the "Indigo Blue" test. (Dave Kenny-UK in BDXC-UK Communication Aug)

R Northsea International as RSL: RNI on 1575.47, heard from 2205 with SINPO 34443, Aug 5. Latest RSL stn R Northsea Internat comes in with fair reception at 2045 on 1575.47. Yesterday they were on 1575.48. This half kHz-offset makes it possible to dig this one out under Italy and Spain, despite the extreme low power of 1 Watt ERP. http://www.btinternet.com/~rni/ The Snail Mail Address is 73a Connaught Avenue, Frinton on Sea, Essex CO13 9DD, Great Britain Tel: +44 [0] 1255 - 672531 e-mail [email protected] (Martin Elbe-D, Aug 5)

USA After 57 years in service for the first time the "Voice of America" was dumb last Wed. A technical failure stopped all progrs of the US govt stn. The progr break lasted between seven mins and three hrs. (VoA via _dpa via Benno Klink DG1EA, Aug 4)

The Web site has changed. Some friends and long time visitors to this Web site may be aware we have been struggling with medical problems in 1998 and 1999. This year alone, between Feb and Jun, we were hospitalized six times for more than two dozen days, and our attention span has severely waned as we continue to recover from surgeries, physical- and most recently prescription drug-related incidents.

The bottom line is that for many months we have had a problem keeping our own TRS Consultants Web site information up to date. After the second hospital stay in June of 8 days to untangle the drug medications' very severe interactions, we finally made the decision to toss in the towel and reduce our Web site to something of a portal.

Rather than let our site become stale, fill with broken links and fail to recognize new Web sites -- something that is distasteful to us -- we made arrangements to hand off most of the media links and some of the reference material to the recast Radio Netherlands' Media Network pages. Other links and material were picked up by Dave Kirby, N1DK, and this includes information on the ANARC SWL Net, the IRC EFnet #swl chat channel, ham radio, manufacturers and vendors.

The "mind_ material and photographs, financial and political links have been removed altogether. Some of the latter have been moved to Paul Lannuier's Web site.

The changes took effect on Aug 1.

The action to reduce our Web site to a few pages allows us to continue to write for Radio and Communications, do research for Radio Netherlands' Media Network and work on the Web sites we currently maintain. Links to all of what we continue to do are available on the home page. If you link to our Web site, please check your link and adjust it accordingly.

In 1995 we were among the first to the 'net -- evolving from the Pinelands RBBS telephone BBS of the 1980's -- but we are not alone any longer. Additional factors leading to our decision are the many newer Web sites now available for listeners, scanner enthusiasts and amateur radio operators. Over the years we've covered a lot of them in Baudwalking that appears in Radio and Communications. And over the years we have compiled broadcasting and media links for Radio Netherlands.

We are sorry that we are not able to inform everyone of this significant change in our Web site. The Web has grown exponentially these past years and the notification task is overwhelming. It is also impossible to thank everyone who has contributed to our Web site data, but I do appreciate it.

For those of you who have us on a mailing list of some kind, I would appreciate continuing to receive the e-mail. I do read it, and I continue to be interested in shortwave listening. I admit to not finding anything new or different lately; rather than clutter the mail with something repetitive, I say nothing.

Thomas R. Sundstrom TRS Consultants PO Box 2275, Vincentown, NJ 08088-2275, USA phone +1 609 859 2447 fax +1 609 859 3226 Contributing Editor, Radio Netherlands' Media Network Contributing Editor, 'Radio & Communications'

From Radio Miami International

Miami (Jul 24, 1999) - One of the most colorful bcs in Cuban exile radio died last night. Diego Medina, producer of "The Voice of Alpha 66" and Vice-Secretary General of the exile group Alpha 66, died of complications resulting from the flu.

He was a medical doctor each weekday morning, with two clinics in Miami. Many of his patients had been seeing him since he practiced medicine in Cuba before the revolution. And each afternoon, he went to a small radio studio at the offices of Alpha 66 in Miami's Little Havana area to spend hours producing a daily one-hour radio progr for bc to Cuba.

Over the years, the Voice of Alpha 66 was heard on AM radio stns in Miami, as well as on SW stns audible in Cuba, including WHRI, WRMI and for a brief time on WRNO.

Dr. Medina was not a professional radio announcer or producer, but he strongly felt that one of the best ways to promote freedom in his homeland was through radio progrs that could educate the population about democracy and free enterprise. Therefore, he worked tirelessly, five days each week, producing one hour of programming each day in a very rudimentary studio. Often the programs dealt with the anniversaries of important historical events in Cuba, interviews with former political prisoners, or discussions with economists about the Cuban economy. His wife, Sara Martinez Castro, is a poet, and her works were featured regularly in the program. Even Medina's 13-year-old daughter recorded short messages to the Cuban people (which she wrote herself) which were included in the show.

Other Alpha 66 personnel participated regularly in Dr. Medina's progrs, most notably Andres Nazario Sargen, Secretary General of the organization. For decades, the two were inseparable partners and the two main leaders of the exile group. While Alpha 66 has often been portrayed as one of the most militant anti-Castro organizations in the U.S. (Medina said it was prohibited to even mention the organization's name on the U.S. Government station Radio Marti), Diego Medina is remembered by friends in Miami as a kind, gentle man who spoke eloquently on behalf of the Alpha organization and the Cuban exile community.

"He was a very devoted general practice medical doctor," said Jeff White, general manager of R Miami Internat, which transmitted Medina's progrs on several stns for nearly a decade. "He was one of those charismatic people who was well-liked by everybody. And no matter whether you agreed with his politics or not, I've never seen anyone devote more time and effort to a radio progr. He was absolutely convinced about the power of shortwave radio to influence opinions. He would come into our office frequently and ask about RRs we might have received recently from listeners in Cuba."

Dr. Medina's radio progr production dates back more than two decades. He began by producing progrs and bcing them on vacant SW freqs using a small military surplus tx which he put in his van, and a retractable antenna on top of the van. He would drive it around to locations in the Everglades on the outskirts of Miami where he would then bc the progrs on SW freqs like 6666 (because of the obvious relationship to Alpha 66).

"I'm not even sure whether he knew this was against the regulations in the beginning," said Jeff White. But eventually the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) discovered where the txions were coming from, and they sent U.S. marshalls out one night to bust the stn. "I remember Diego relating the story," said White. "He had finished txing a progr, put the antenna down and was ready to leave. All of a sudden, dozens of federal marshalls with heavy weapons surrounded his van and told him to come out with his hands up. They quickly handcuffed him and asked where all of the other people were.

"'What other people?' asked Medina. 'There's nobody else here but me.' They showed him papers indicating that the federal govt was suing his van for illegal radio bcs coming out of it. They didn't even know who was doing the bcs. So they impounded the van, although I think they eventually returned it to him without the tx."

After a few of these scrapes with the FCC, Alpha decided it would be better to buy airtime on officially-licensed stns. R Miami Internat, in its role as an airtime broker, found them time on various stns over the years. The Voice of Alpha 66 was on WHRI in Indiana during most of the 1990's, until late 1998. Afterwards, Medina continued producing progrs for local AM radio in Miami, and recently on WRMI as well.

Medina's devotion to his radio progrs was evident through the last day of his life. "Diego came into our office on Friday evening looking really ill," said Jeff White. "He said he had not slept the previous night due to a bad case of the flu. But he spent Fri afternoon and early evening recording radio progrs with Andres Nazario, to the point where he could hardly speak. The next morning I got a call from our engineer Kiko Espinosa, who was also a good friend of Diego's, saying that Diego had died only about three or four hours after leaving our office. I was shocked, and I realized that he had devoted the last bit of energy he had to the cause that he felt so strongly about." (Jeff White FL, via Cumbre Jul 24)

In QST 7/99 (Clubzeitschrift der ARRL, USA) ist ein Testbericht zum AR7000B erschienen. Ich zitiere den Schluesselsatz: The AR7000B falls slightly short of the performance benchmarks set by some of the other tabletop receivers currently available in the AOR line. Damit bleibt dem AR5000 seine Position als bester Breitbandempfaenger im Amateurfunkbereich also erhalten. Von Boger kam kuerzlich eine Presseinfo, nach der der Empfangsbereich des AR5000 mittels Konverter auf bis zu 5 GHz erweitert werden soll. (Harald Kuhl-D, Jul 31)

ZANZIBAR The following information may be of interest to those who have written RR's in the past to Radio Tanzania Zanzibar and who did not receive an answer. During my five-day visit to Zanzibar, I had the opportunity to visit the radio stn and exchange information and ideas with RTZ staff, especially Ali Bakari Muombwa and Khalid Hassan Rajab. The latter is the chief of the SW radio txer and speaks very good En (he has attended training courses in the US).

Mr Ali Bakari Muombwa, a friendly 25-year old employee, is handling all incoming correspondence, including foreign mail. Ali's problem is that he does not read, speak or write En well enough to read or answer letters from foreign listeners. He has to have all En letters translated into Swahili !

This explains why most RRs remain unanswered -- Ali simply does not understand them. In certain cases, Mr. Khalid Hassan Rajab has answered rpts, even though this does not fall into his area of responsibility. So don't be disappointed if you don't get an answer from RTZ. The employees I have met are extremely nice, they make very little money (about $30 per month), and they do what they can, but they receive far more foreign mail than they can handle.

RTZ employs more than 150 people, including 18 announcers and 10 technicians. The stn bcs 8 hrs a day on 11734 using a 50 kW Chinese made txer and a rhombic antenna directed towards Oman, where a large number of Zanzibar nationals reside. A parallel progr is bc during 18 hrs daily on 585 MW, using a Harris txer, also 50 kw. All bcs are in Swahili, incl a rebc of a 30 min DW nx progr which is txed by satellite directly from Cologne to Zanzibar three times a day.

En bcs are planned for the future. Also, the stn has plans to bc in FM stereo if they can get the funding from the Tanzanian govt. The bc house is impressive, and was built in 1993 with financial and technical help from CHN.

Mr. Rajab was nice enough to show me around on a Sat morning, where I also had the occasion to speak with the stn director and with Mr. Abulrahman M. Said, the Chief Engineer. I also had the opportunity to visit the studios and be present during the recording of a bc. RTZ has four studios with relatively modern Swiss Studio equipment.

The highlight of my stay in Zanzibar was a visit to Ali Bakari's village of Makunduchi, where Ali's family prepared a big welcoming lunch for us. We also took part in the festivities of the annual Makwa Kogwa festival which is the celebration of the New Year by the people of Makunduchi. An interesting part of the festival is the traditional fight between youngsters from North and South Makunduchi, who literally beat the hell out of each other using banana stems. The purpose of the fight is to alleviate pent-up aggressions and to end conflicts among hostile families. It's really an odd sight to watch! After two hours of fighting, the conflicting parties bury the hatchet and drink and dance together until the wee morning hrs. The festival was being filmed by reporters from the National Geographic Society, so some of you may get to see it on TV sooner or later. It is well worth watching.

So much for this. Those of you who mailed me RRs to handcarry to RTZ should receive an answer shortly. Mr. Rajab was nice enough to sign off on them (after carefully reading each and every one of them), and I have personally mailed all letters on Jul 24 from Zanzibar Town. (Enzio Gehrig, Spain, direct, in A-DX, HC-DX, via NU)

RT Zanzibar 11734 verified by a handwritten comment on my report. Original report was from Jan 1, 1996, a f/up was brought to the stn by OM Enzio Gehrig. Tnx Enzio! (Willi Passmann-D, Aug 3)

Aktuelle BC-DX Informationen in deutscher Sprache in der Homepage des KWRS: http://www.kwrs.de/aktuell.html

EDXC Conference 1999. After negociations between the DSWCI - Danish Short Wave Club Internat and the EDXC, I'm happy to announce that the EDXC Conference 1999 will be organised in Copenhagen during the weekend 05-07 Nov.

The EDXC protocol normally puts up a voting on arranging the annual conference, but as we are running out of time with this project and there are no other candidates, I think that we can accept this without comprehensive voting. Comments from the EDXC member clubs as well as from individual DXers are of course most welcome. As we are in a hurry now, I'll declare the case closed on Friday morning the 6th of Aug, so send in your comments quickly.

Here follows a short summary of the conference details: Copenhagen was proposed to the DSWCI as the conference venue because its good location and transport facilities, and also because there is an active group of DXers in the city itself.

The conference venue is Hotel Eremitage, about 11 kms north of Copenhagen, with good connections to the city center. The hotel fee for one night is 515 DKK single room and 740 DKK double room incl breakfast. The banquet dinner fee is 195 DKK. Otherwise no conference fee will be charged, but when participating the excursions everybody must pay the entrance fees and transports.

The preliminary meeting agenda: Fri evening: unofficial gettogether at the hotel. Sat morning: excursions and lunch on your own. Sat afternoon: the EDXC annual meeting additional programme items (videos, talks on actual DX matters etc; your ideas are welcome. Sat evening: the EDXC banquet dinner. Sun morning: excursions.

The excursions are not yet fixed, but possible targets include the new Telemuseum and the Radiohouse.

Like you can see, this will not be one of the big EDXC conferences with heaps of fine items, talks, excursions and so on, but we hope to see many DXers in Copenhagen during that weekend, enjoying a meeting where they can talk about their hobby, learn new things and have a nice time. Best greetings and hope to see you in Copenhagen! (Risto Vahakainu EDXC SG, Aug 3)

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BC-DX 422 SPECIAL 14 Aug 1999 ______

SOLAR ECLIPSE REPORT Unusal reception of radio broadcasting stations compared to usual monitoring conditions at Stuttgart-Germany, same place, same daytime, same band scans etc.

Despite we had unfortunately locally heavy rain fall and cloudy sky, the eclipse occured here at 1033 UTC and lasted 2 mins and 17 seconds in real quiet DARKNESS. Center route of the eclipse shadow was just 800 metres north of my house.

Locally temperature degree degenerated by 4.5 centigrade from about 18 to 13.5 within a duration of 10 minutes between 1023 and 1035 UTC, in 500 metres above sea level.

* -- SHORTWAVE

Primarily no exciting to report from the 49 mb conditions during solar eclipse. Teracom tests of R Sweden 6065 came in very strong - as usual - S=9+60 dB.

BBCWS on special solar eclipse test to NoAM via Rampisham 7325 heard here with 55555 S=5+40 dB. [details see under United Kingdom]

Increased signal strength receiving conditions from about 0915 til 1045 UTC, especially in the 41 and 31 mbs, and two exceptions in 25 mb like RKI- CAN 11715 and WWCR 12160, latter one normally unheard here at this time slot.

Generally more exiting unusual signals monitored from the west, the American continent like CAN, USA, CUB, CTR and ATN, than came in from South and EastEUR. No increase in signal strength from VoT-TUR and ERT-GRC outlets.

Stns from So&EaEUR to report at stronger level: ALB 7150, BLR 7210, AWR 7230, RAI 7240, HRV 7365 at 1000-1100.

RXs AOR7030, Kenwood R-1000, Sony ICF 2010, Yaesu FRT-7700 antenna tuner.

7325 0910 11-8 G BBCWS via Rampisham En WS progr //12095 55555 special solar eclipse transmission towards NoAM progr on symbols in NoIRL. 9565 0911 11-8 USA R Marti Greenville Sp,Cuban jamming co-channel 33333 increasing signals from 0930. 9455 0949 11-8 USA WSHB Port relig progr to Brazil 35333 increased from 0951 UTC. 9605 0950 11-8 USA WYFR Okeechobee Port relig progr to Brazil 44333 9625 0952 11-8 USA WYFR Okeechobee Fr progr at 1008 UTC. 43433 QRM by RUI Kiev on 9620. 9690 0954 11-8 ATG DW Antigua Ge progr //6075 44433 9725 0955 11-8 CTR AWR Alajuela !!!! Sp, at 1007 ID/addr given 34333 9700 0956 11-8 USA ERT via Delano-CA ERT IS 0956, Nx ID 1007 UTC. 25332 9805 0957 11-8 CUB Cuban jammers jamming//9565 against RMarti 45444 against R Marti //9955 agains WRMI Miami. Seemingly on air 24 hours ! 9820 0958 11-8 ATN RNW Bonaire En, eclipse report at 1007 44444 7415 0959 11-8 USA ?Tentativelly WBCQ ? Typically US American mx 22222 of the forties and fifties. 7175 1010 11-8 I RAI Caltanisetta It, "Oh sole mio"over & over 34433 short tx breaks, secondly. 7120 1011 11-8 I IRRS Milano Ge commentary, very strong 55444 7440 1012 11-8 RUS R Rossii Moscow Ru, towards true North at 35333 000 degrees to Russian Arctic. 11715 1013 11-8 CAN RKI Sackville relay Sp progr 45444 12160 1016 11-8 USA WWCR Nashville En sermon prayer 45444 9745 1030 11-8 CYP BBC Zyyi English by Radio lang course 44444 325 degress til 1200 UTC. 9585 1040 11-8 ALB R Tirana Albanian,camp meeting report 55555

* -- LONG- and MEDIUMWAVE

RX Sony ICF 2010 battery driven, no main power supply used. MARTENS MW loop antenna, built-in antenna amplifier off.

Surprisingly no unforeseen reception condition changes occured. Usual LW log at noon.

Reception signal strength given by 1 to 10 shining diodes display on the Sony ICF 2010 signal strength scale. Explanation: 1 = very poor, 10 = very strong, local radio station.

153 D 10 162 F 6 171 CIS mixture just 4 177 D 7 183 D 10 198 G 3 207 D 9 216 MCO 6 234 LUX 8 243 DEN 5 252 ALG 7 261 D 9 270 CZE 7

Usual MW log at noon. 531 SUI 9 549 D 6 557 SUI 7 576 D 10 593 D 10 603 F 7 621 BEL 6 639 CZE 7 648 G/SVN 7 poor mixture 666 D 9 675 HOL 6 711 D 10 720 D 2 729 D 6 747 HOL 6 756 D 9 765 SUI 7 783 D 3 801 D 7 828 D 7 837 F 8 873 D 8 882 D 5 900 I 4 972 D 1 1017 D 9 1107 D 1-6 fluttery 1143 D 10 1197 D 6 1278 F 8 1287 CZE 1 1323 D 7 1422 D 6 1539 D 6

Surprisingly unforeseen reception conditions changed between 1025 and 1107 UTC.

540 BEL 3 630 TUN 2 693 I 6 1035 I 6 1098 SVK 10 ! 1116 I 8 1125#HRV 10 ! 1224 BUL! 5 1233 CZE 10 ! 1251 HOL 4 1269 D 7 1278 F 10 1287 CZE 9 1305 I 4 1314 ROU! 6 in Hung. 1323%D 10 ! 1395 HOL 5 1404 ROU! seemingly Sighet 4 1440 LUX 7 1449 MDA! 2 seemingly Chinsinau Moldova, but carrying same progr as ROU 1458 ! 1458 ROU! Constanta 5 1512 BEL RVI Wolvertem 3, daytime 25kW of power only! 1557 Nice-F and ?Osijek-HRV? mixture, fluttery signal 7-8. 1575 I 4 1602 HNG and YUG 7, many UNID's in Hungarian and S-Cr language.

# HRV Zagreb Deanovec on 1125 only, 55555, no signal on //1134 Zadar ! % VoRussia Wachenbrunn increased from usual 34333 to 55555. 55555 for Nitra-SVK, Melnik-CZE and Litomysl-CZE like a local radio stn !

During solar eclipse no increased reception occured on both 1197-VoA Munich and 1422-DLF Heusweiler, due of strong ground wave signal dominating here and usually blows out the sky wave signal. (WB, Aug 11)

The 97.3% Partial Eclipse at my location in South Wales provided some very good reception on the upper part of MW. Full details, graphs, recordings etc appear in the Eclipse section.

Why not join the Online DX Chat Room Suns from 1800. Details on the Online DX Logbook Homepage at: www.dxsheigra.freeserve.co.uk or www.bigfoot.com/~odxl (Graham Powell-UK, Aug 11)

1584 Turkish R London, 0915 Turkish mx and songs. 34333 1224 Spain, 0920 Spanish male and female speakers. 24222 1449 RAI Due, 0929 advts in Italian with RAI tune. 34333 1449 unid UK, 1027 En male and female speakers, not //198, so BBC Cambridhire best gues here. 34333 900 RAI Uno, 1031 Italian male speaker. 34333 1503 BBC Stoke (presumed), 1031 nx by male. 34333 1521 UK stn, 1032 nonstop popmx. 44444 1584 BBC Nothingham, presumed, 1036 male and female speakers in En mixed with others, heard earlier around 0930 also. 33333 1098 Slovakia, 1039 male speaker in Slovakian. 44444 After eclipse all above frequenties empty again. (Karl van Rooy-HOL, Aug 11)

891 kHz during eclipse. The discussions in the last few weeks had made me curious to the influence of the solar eclipse on MW propagation. I happen to live in the area where we had a total eclipse (SW Germany, 40 km SW of Karlsruhe), so I decided to do some experiment myself. Report below.

I myself was away to watch the event, but I had my receiver and taperecorder set up to run for a few periods. I was lucky enough to see at least something through the clouds. Only the few mins where the eclipse was total (1031-1033), the sky was so thickly covered with clouds that we could not see anything. It still got pretty dark.

Back to MW reception. I monitored MW 891. At my QTH (40 km SW of Karlsruhe), I can normally receive Hulsberg, Netherlands, 20 kW, very weakly during the day on this freq. Distance about 300 km, direction NW. These are the results of my four reception periods:

0930-0935 Reception weak as usual (Only partly readable). 1000-1010 Reception still weak, eclipse already about 50-70%. 1025-1040 Reception very clear. (O= 3/4). Reports of eclipse visibility in NoFrance and

S. Germany (apparently the French had more luck). Detoriation in reception already noticeable direclty after peak of event. During latter part of period (1035-1040) a French speaking stn in the background. I can only think this to be ALG. However, normally this channnel carries Ar. Anyone has an explanation or alternative ?

1050-1105 Reception still fair at start. Fr background stn gone. Reception collapsed between 1053-1055 (i.e. 20 mins after local peak of eclipse), returning to normal levels. (Aart Rouw-D, Aug 11)

Eclipse radio log by Uwe Volk-D, near Hannover, Aug 11: 1010 1575v G RNI(Beatles:Here comes the sun) 24332 1017 1557 F R. Bleue Nice 23332 1030 1566 HOL Polka-Pirat (1031 c/d) 44444 1037 1575 I RAI (RNI nil!) 45433 1030 1593 ROU RTR 35333 1043 1602 I RAI Bozen (local Live Report BZ) 43433 1047 1640 HOL Polka-Pirat 44444 1056 864 F R. Bleue Paris 24332 1102 891 HOL Radio 5 Hulsberg 35333 1110 1152 ROU RTR Cluj 22222 (UV)

Eclipse report by KL. Yesterday I did the due trip, no matter that it needed to start the journey already the day before, directly from the workplace. At Erfurt a shunting accident resulted in a two hrs delay of the Warszawa - Frankfurt train, nevertheless I did my planned visit at Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt, where they currently also install new digital studios, it is currently under discussion, whether or not the cultural progr HR 2 maintains to bc from the current analogue studios instead. And they have of course also a canteen...

From Frankfurt I continued to Karlsruhe, the ICE train was not too heavily occupied, while we passengers received word that the traffic on the highways was virtually collapsed; who knows, how many drivers didn't manage to reach the annularity zone in time. I could also take a quick look at both the Biblis and Lampertheim facilities of IBB, which are not as impressive than other SW tx sites but anyway a couple of masts are significant.

The decision to favour Karlsruhe proved as first price, properly in time the clouds opened, while I could on 576 kHz (not due to conviction, it was just a known SWR freq for me, contrary to the local FM scale) listen to the reports from Stuttgart and elsewhere, where it simply becamed dark and that was it.

Following are my observations alongside with the ones from Michael Fuhr, who drove to a meadow out of Wiesbaden, while I was inside the city of Karlsruhe, resulting in less favourable MW reception situation:

1005: The first skywave signals appeared, especially Wavre 1512, which sounded like running full 300 kW instead of usual daytime power of just 25 kW.

Seldom heard stns during daytime monitored at Wiesbaden: Virgin on 1215, TDF Lille-F 1377, Wavre-BEL 1512 suggests using full power of 300 instead of nominal 25 kW.

1023: British local stns appeared like Fame 1512, County Gold 1476 or Breeze AM 1359 and 1431, all strong UK stns like BBC 909, Virgin 1215, Talk Radio 1053 and 1089, and also BEL & HOL stns Business Nieuws 1395, had tremendous signals like a strong local tx.

1025: Further signals from the UK, BEL and HOL faded in, I noted at Karlsruhe especially the Talk-R. network on 1089, Flevo on 1008 and Lopik on 1395, while Michael had actually all high power outlets alongside with some local stations (1359, 1431, 1476, 1521). At Wiesbaden also Power 612 from Kiel and DLF Neum nster 1269 from northern Germany becamed audible.

1029: No big changes noted by yours truly, who his attention from now fully concentrated to the real event, as the light was meanwhile of a striking dim kind and the blue of the sky changed into a weird violet. At Wiesbaden the Spains appeared (especially on 1080 and 1602), while the UK, BEL and HOL txs becamed weaker. The ERF/TWR Mainflingen tx on 1539, just 30 km away, started to suffer from fading, Spanish signals appeared underneath.

1034: Fade-in at Wiesbaden for signals from Italia (1035, 1332, 1575), France (1206) and the CZE (1233 and 1287).

1039: At Karlsruhe both the above mentioned signals as well as the CZE txs on 954, 1233 and 1287 are audible.

1042: The stns from the west are widely disappeared, instead ones from the east comes in; I had no time to figure it out further as I was concerned to get my train, at Wiesbaden namely Thessaloniki-GRC on 1044 and Domzale-SVN on 918 was identified.

1048: At Wiesbaden the last signals from the east flashed through, slowly the usual daytime conditions come back. (Kai Ludwig-D, Michael Fuhr-D, Aug 11)

Special eclipse radio recordings of IBB - VoA Vienna monitoring on RMS systeMm via: http://193.81.2.21/sounds/vien/ecli/catalog.html (Peter Ungerboeck-AUT, Aug 11)

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FROM: Wolfgang W. Bueschel, 100523,3446 TO: M. Fuhr, INTERNET:[email protected] Joerg Klingenfuss, 101550,514 DATE: 12.08.1999 23:15

Re: Copy of: BC-DX #422 Solar Eclipse special

------Forwarded Message ------

From: Wolfgang W. Bueschel, 100523,3446

DATE: 12.08.99 21:41

RE: Copy of: BC-DX #422 Solar Eclipse special

SOLAR ECLIPSE REPORT - Aug 11, 1999

Unusal reception of radio broadcasting stations compared to usual monitoring conditions at Stuttgart-Germany, same place, same daytime, same band scans etc.

Despite we had unfortunately locally heavy rain fall and cloudy sky, the eclipse occured here at 1033 UTC and lasted 2 mins and 17 seconds in real quiet DARKNESS.

Center route of the eclipse shadow was just 800 metres north of my house.

Locally temperature degree degenerated by 4.5 centigrade from about 18 to 13.5 within a duration of 10 minutes between 1023 and 1035 UTC, in 500 metres above sea level.

* -- SHORTWAVE

Primarily no exciting to report from the 49 mb conditions during solar eclipse.

Teracom tests of R Sweden 6065 came in very strong - as usual - S=9+60 dB.

BBCWS on special solar eclipse test to NoAM via Rampisham 7325 heard here with 55555 S=5+40 dB. [details see under United Kingdom]

Increased signal strength receiving conditions from about 0915 til 1045 UTC, especially in the 41 and 31 mbs, and two exceptions in 25 mb like RKI-CAN 11715 and WWCR 12160, latter one normally unheard here at this time slot.

Generally more exiting unusual signals monitored from the west, the American continent like CAN, USA, CUB, CTR and ATN, than came in from South and EastEUR.

No increase in signal strength from VoT-TUR and ERT-GRC outlets.

Stns from So&EaEUR to report at stronger level: ALB 7150, BLR 7210, AWR 7230, RAI 7240, HRV 7365 at 1000-1100.

RXs AOR7030, Kenwood R-1000, Sony ICF 2010, Yaesu FRT-7700 antenna tuner.

7325 0910 11-8 G BBCWS via Rampisham En WS progr //12095 55555 special solar eclipse transmission towards NoAM progr on symbols in NoIRL. 9565 0911 11-8 USA R Marti Greenville Sp,Cuban jamming co-channel 33333 increasing signals from 0930. 9455 0949 11-8 USA WSHB Port relig progr to Brazil 35333 increased from 0951 UTC. 9605 0950 11-8 USA WYFR Okeechobee Port relig progr to Brazil 44333 9625 0952 11-8 USA WYFR Okeechobee Fr progr at 1008 UTC. 43433 QRM by RUI Kiev on 9620. 9690 0954 11-8 ATG DW Antigua Ge progr //6075 44433 9725 0955 11-8 CTR AWR Alajuela !!!! Sp, at 1007 ID/addr given 34333 9770 0956 11-8 USA ERT via Delano-CA ERT IS 0956, Nx ID 1007 UTC. 25332 9805 0957 11-8 CUB Cuban jammers jamming//9565 against RMarti 45444 against R Marti //9955 against WRMI Miami. Seemingly on air 24 hours ! 9820 0958 11-8 ATN RNW Bonaire En, eclipse report at 1007 44444 7415 0959 11-8 USA ?Tentativelly WBCQ ? Typically US American mx 22222 of the forties and fifties. 7175 1010 11-8 I RAI Caltanisetta It, "Oh sole mio"over & over 34433 short tx breaks, secondly. 7120 1011 11-8 I IRRS Milano Ge commentary, very strong 55444 7440 1012 11-8 RUS R Rossii Moscow Ru, towards true North at 35333 000 degrees to Russian Arctic. 11715 1013 11-8 CAN RKI Sackville relay Sp progr 45444 12160 1016 11-8 USA WWCR Nashville En sermon prayer 45444 9745 1030 11-8 CYP BBC Zyyi English by Radio lang course 44444 325 degress til 1200 UTC. 9585 1040 11-8 ALB R Tirana Albanian,camp meeting report 55555

* -- LONG- and MEDIUMWAVE

RX Sony ICF 2010 battery driven, no main power supply used. MARTENS MW loop antenna, built-in antenna amplifier off.

Surprisingly no unforeseen reception condition changes occured. Usual LW log at noon.

Reception signal strength given by 1 to 10 shining diodes display on the Sony ICF 2010 signal strength scale.

Explanation: 1 = very poor, 10 = very strong, local radio station.

153 D 10 162 F 6 171 CIS mixture just 4 177 D 7 183 D 10 198 G 3 207 D 9 216 MCO 6 234 LUX 8 243 DEN 5 252 ALG 7 261 D 9 270 CZE 7

Surprisingly unforeseen reception conditions changed between 1025 and 1107 UTC.

540 BEL 3 630 TUN 2 693 I 6 1035 I 6 1098 SVK 10 ! 1116 I 8 1125#HRV 10 ! 1224 BUL! 5 1233 CZE 10 ! 1251 HOL 4 1269 D 7 1278 F 10 1287 CZE 9 1305 I 4 1314 ROU! 6 in Hung. 1323%D 10 ! 1395 HOL 5 1404 ROU! seemingly Sighet 4 1440 LUX 7 1449 MDA! 2 seemingly Chisinau Moldova, but carrying same progr as ROU 1458 ! 1458 ROU! Constanta 5 1512 BEL RVI Wolvertem 3, daytime 25kW of power only! 1557 Nice-F and ?Osijek-HRV? mixture, fluttery signal 7-8. 1575 I 4 1602 HNG and YUG 7, many UNID's in Hungarian and S-Cr language.

# HRV Zagreb Deanovec on 1125 only, 55555, no signal on //1134 Zadar !

% VoRussia Wachenbrunn increased from usual 34333 to 55555.

55555 for Nitra-SVK, Melnik-CZE and Litomysl-CZE like a local radio stn !

BC-DX 422 14 Aug 1999 ______

SOLAR ECLIPSE REPORT Unusal reception of radio broadcasting stations compared to usual monitoring conditions at Stuttgart-Germany, same place, same daytime, same band scans etc.

Locally temperature degree degenerated by 4.5 centigrade from about 18 to 13.5 within a duration of 10 minutes between 1023 and 1035 UTC, in 500 metres above sea level.

* -- SHORTWAVE Primarily no exciting to report from the 49 mb conditions during solar eclipse. Teracom tests of R Sweden 6065 came in very strong - as usual - S=9+60 dB.

BBCWS on special solar eclipse test to NoAM via Rampisham 7325 heard here with 55555 S=5+40 dB. [details see under United Kingdom]

Stns from So&EaEUR to report at stronger level: ALB 7150, BLR 7210, AWR 7230, RAI 7240, HRV 7365 at 1000-1100. RXs AOR7030, Kenwood R-1000, Sony ICF 2010, Yaesu FRT-7700 antenna tuner.

* -- LONG- and MEDIUMWAVE RX Sony ICF 2010 battery driven, no main power supply used. MARTENS MW loop antenna, built-in antenna amplifier off.