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BC-DX 343 03 Jan 1998 ________________________________________________________________________ ALBANIA TWR Cerrik in Ru beamed to ISR Sats only 1900-1915 new7315 (x7245), co-ch CRI in Fr, and new 6240 very good (x6235). 1800-1845 Ru to Russia new 7315, co-ch CRI in Ch (x7355). 1440-1555 Ru to Russia addit new 9485 good, //7365 Monaco. Out of their printed schedule with addit broadcasts daily 1915-2000 MW Durres Fllake 1394.9 in Bu, Se, Cr, Mac, Slovene, Rom. (PANIVIEW, Bulgarian DX Newsletter, Rumen Pankov, Ivo Ivanov, Ognyan Chengeliev, Sylvia Ivanova, fax +359 2 650 560, Dec 17) 9939.9, TWR Relay, 1617*, ending Arm with ID, "Trans World Radio, Monte Carlo," and ment. of Yerevan; IS and off. Site assumed as per WRTH 98; fqy down from listed 9950. (Hill-MA via NU and DXW, Dec 27) R Tirana MW schedule: 1089 0400-2300 first nat progr 1215 0630-0700 Alb, 1500-1830 Alb, 18130-1845 Tu, 1845-1900 Gr 1395 0800-1100 Alb 1458 1000-1500 2nd nat progr, 1800-1830 It, 1830-1845 Se, 1845-1915 Ge, 1915-1945 Fr, 1945-2000 En, 1900-2300 Alb This schedule may soon be changed, as we will bc EIR - Europe Information Radio from 1900-2300 UTC on 1458 kHz to Bosnia Hercegovina. (Drita Cico of Radio Tirana in an e-mail to David Kenny-UK, BDXC Communication, Jan 98) AUSTRALIA In our early evening period, from 0700-1000, the usual array of longpath European signals have intensified on 6 and 7 MHz. On 24 Dec, Deutsche Welle's daytime sce to EUR, in Ge, fr Nauen, 100 kW, on 6140 was tracked from 0700 to 1115+. This is extremely late and I believe that it may well have "held on" right through until 1300 when the propagation path swings around to short-route. Lagos on 7255 was audible until past 0930!!! Other very late signals were Radio Netherlands (Flevo) 5955 until 1030+, Zagreb 7185 until 1100, Tirana 7170 until 1000. At 1100, Stockholm on 9865 and Helsinki on 9815 both put in good level signals. As a matter of interest, sunset here in Melbourne on 30 and 31 Dec occurs at 8.45pm (0945 UTC) and it will be that way for about another week or so. (Bob Padula-AUS in EDXP, Dec 31) RA sent a revised freq guide as of Dec 22, with these bcs to Asia marked as those which may be heard in EUR: 1330-1700 11660, 1430-2200 9500, 2130-2300 11695. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Dec 31) RA Shepparton noted at 0900 on 11880, extreme fluttery signal. (WB Jan 1) 5025 VL8K Katherine, 1050-1130, extended bc on this freq?, registered 0830-2130 on 2485 or 3370. ABC progr relay. Only this day 44544. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 9) BELARUS Radiostation Belarus, Radio Minsk, German sce txion changes from Jan 1st: all on Minsk txs at Kalodziscy 1170 7105 7210, Wed Sat Sun 2030-2100 & 2130-2200, Thur 0530-0600, Sun 0530-0600 & 0630-0700. Addr: ul. Krasnaja 4, 220 807 Minsk, Belarus. tel +375 172 39 58 75 fax +375 172 36 66 43 URL: http://www.nestor.minsk.by (Natalja Chlebus, dep chief editor R Belarus, via Benno Klink, Dec 30) [Comment: Given times are seemingly wrong, maybe subtract all times by one hour. Present night schedule of R Belarus is 1930-2000 & 2030-2100. R Minsk Panasonic fax machine shows a date from an other era: Sept 07, 1994!!! ed] BULGARIA The list of weekly DX progrs, editor Ivo Ivanov, bc by Radio Bulgaria. Bulgarian 15 mins Suns 1545 1224 5865 Balkans, 9850 WeEUR. 1645 7415 ME, 15195 SoAF 1845 5935 7425 RUS 1945 747 1224 Balkans 2145 5865 7335 WeEUR, 7515 ME Mons 0145 7170 9415 SoAM 0345 7375 9485 NoAM Russian beamed to RUS Fri 1530 5935 7425 9825 Sat 0330 1224 5890 7230 Mon 1930 5935 7425 On Dec 6th, the Ru sce of R BUL aired a 30 mins interview with Rumen Pankov and Ivo Ivanov. Together with the chief of Ru sce Mrs. Tatyana Markova they discussed the past and present of DX movement in BUL and CIS states. In the latter one the most number Dxers are registered as active listeners of R Bulgaria. (PANIVIEW-BUL, Dec 17) CHINA CRI on several new freqs [via Urumchi txs?] 7315 1730 Ch, co-ch RFI til 1800, TWR fr 1800-1845(Sats -1915). 1830 Ar, 1930-2027 Fr, co-ch RFI fr 2000. 9600 1730-1827 Ch, break til 1900, 1900-2057 En, Ch, co-ch TWR Meyerton til 1930, and VoA in Alb 1930-2000, RFE/VoA Ser 2000-2100. Also QRM fr R Pyongyang in Ar & En. 9685 1900-1927 Tu very strong, //7405. 1930-2000 break. 2000-2157 Ch, Ar very good, //7250 7435 9440. (PANIVIEW-BUL, Dec 17) CRI En 1400-1500 noted on 9700, nx, //7160 7405 9535. Underneath AIR Aligarh Si v9700.52. Hill tribe mx like in bordering THA & BRM 1340 on v6937.24. (WB Jan 1) New 4680 CNR 1 Beijing, 1145-1200, En lesson, questions and answers in En only. 1200 TA, ID in Ch, nx. //3220 4460 5320 5880 6125 6840 7504 7985 9080 9290 9800 15390 all heard. 3990 Xinjiang PBS, Urumqui, 1140- Uighur, //4735, political talks, 1200 TA, islamic mx. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Dec 11) CLANDESTINE RADIO STATIONS Voice of Sudan tentatively fr ARS? noted at 1705 on 12008 even. Voice of Southern Azerbaijan at about 1650-1730 on v7094.94 in Azeri[?]. (WB Jan 1) ETHIOPIA 9560.2, Radio Ethiopia; Gedja, 1714-1718, Male speaker in French with ID and talk. 22432 (Mark Veldhuis-HOL via DXW, Dec 22) [9560.18 Jan 1] 9704.20, Radio Ethiopia; Gedja, 1457, Male speaker in Am followed by IS at 1458, at 1459 Radio Ethiopia ID by male speaker, followed by gong and news by male speaker in Am, at 1503 half minute silence, then continued with the news until 1505, followed by African horn style of mx with Am male songs. Undermodulated. (van Rooy via DXW, Dec 28) [measured 9704.18 on Dec 31] GEORGIA 6292, Voice of Hope, 1703, up fr normal 6290 with usual gospel stuff; fair at first, building to solid level by 1720 or so. (Hill-MA via NU, Dec 27) 6292 VoH 1927 ID in En at 1928 giving Hereford England addr for QSL reports. Then, relig progr in En with male announcer at 1930. However, I'm not sure why it's up 2 kHz fr nominal 6290. (Fine via Cumbre Dx, Dec 27) [measured on Dec 31: back on 6290 even, ed] 5040 0425-0440 and 1540, Georgian R in Dusheti heard here with strong signals, but bad modulation with conversation in Georgian, classical mx and ID. SINPO 34444. (Anker Petersen-DEN, Dec 28/29; WB Dec 31) GERMANY Various broadcaster via DTK Juelich relays: Rainbow Radio in Am to ETH Sat Nov 29 1800-1900 5840 Polish Radio 5 in Ru & Uk heard last time on Nov 23. Brother Stair Radio in En 1900-2100 Tue Dec 2 on new 9475, co-ch KTWR fr 2030. New 1700-1900 Sun Dec 14th 11985 (x1600-1800). Radio Vilnius 0000-0100 in Li/En to NoAM new 5880 very good here, //5905 also heard, but co-ch R UKI. (PANIVIEW-BUL, Dec 17) Voice of Oromo Liberation via DTK Juelich 11605 Sun Jan 1st, at 1700-1800. (WB Jan 1) CLANDESTINE fr GERMANY to MYANMAR 15330 Democratic VoBurma *1245 with booming signal. Traditional mx followed by woman with sing-song ID "Democratic Myanmar a-Than" and into nx. Mx request progr 1312 with male announcer featuring lots of Burmese jazz and pop tunes. 1345* in mid-sentence. This stn has a new website with a detailed progr schedule and a two-week archive of every show in RealAudio: http://www.communique.no/dvb/ (Grace in Cumbre Dx, Dec 29) GREECE (via USA) Voice of Greece via Delano and Greenville includes: 0600-0800 Gr/En 9775 (Delano) 0900-0950 Gr 9590 (Delano) 1200-1350 Gr/En 9690 (Greenville) 1800-2200 Multilingual 17705 (Greenville), 15485 (Delano) E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://alpha.servicenet.ariadne-t.gr/Docs/programeng.htm (BBCMS via Cumbre Dx, Dec 22) ICELAND 5055, Rikisutvarpid, hrd at 1905 Dec 23, all talk in presumed Islandic, with Reykjavik mentioned a couple of times. Old hat or reactivated? (Pijpers-Netherlands, Hard-Core-DX via NU and DXW, Dec 23) 5055U, Rikisutvarpid, 1834, sermon in Icelandic; exc on this channel and //9275U. Also on Dec 23 at 1940 with church bells and Icelandic talk; very good here, but only poor- fair on //7735U. (Hill-MA via NU and DXW, Dec 23) This channel has been observed only on a few occasions during the last two years, reported in Feb 96 and Mar 97, as mentioned in TBL. I rcvd a QSL for a rpt of nearby 5040, 1815-1900 Dec 31, 1994. So it may not necessarily be a reactivation, but a kind of special event operation. (Passmann-Germany, Hard-Core-DX via NU, Dec 24) 5055, in progress 2216 Dec 25--special b/c? Christmas Oratorio at tune-in from 1950, good on Christmas day, ended 2157. Chimes and Iceland time, and Reykjavik ID at 2200; then world and local nx, wx forecast, 2214 "Greensleeves." LSB suppressed partly. Tipped Dave Clark, who found weaker // on 11402. (Ward-ONT via NU, Dec 25) 11402UC, ISBS, 2024-2048, exc with tenor and choir vocals, seemingly live (church?). (Krueger-FL via NU and DXW, Dec 25) INDONESIA 9525, Voice of Indonesia; Cimanggis, 0132-0143, While the National Sce on 9679.9 had popmx, the VOI had nice programming with Indonesian Christmas mx, En talk: students telling about what Christmas means for them, and talk about how Christmas is celebrated in INS.