DX LISTENING DIGEST 0-129, October 28, 2000 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com {Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. For restrixions and searchable archive of 2000 contents see} http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA 37: see topic summary at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/worx37.html WORLD OF RADIO ON SHORTWAVE SCHEDULING SUMMARY: WWCR, all times shift one UT hour later, same frequencies. WBCQ1, one UT hour later. WBCQ2 Friday broadcast cancelled, new more reliable time to be announced. RFPI, new frequency schedule distributed is not yet in effect; may take a week or two, so keep listening on 15049, including mornings. WORLD OF RADIO ON WRN. As of 0500 UT Oct 29, only the European service had a new schedule posted, showing WOR at one time only, Sunday 0900 UT. See http://www.euormaxonline.com NETS TO YOU, NEW NOVEMBER EDITION by John Norfolk, complete with DST time shifts is soon available at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/nets2you.html The High Frequency Coordination Committee (HFCC) data for the B-00 broadcast season, starting Oct 29, is now available in the 'public' area of the HFCC web site at http://www.hfcc.org (Matt Francis, Cumbre DX) I have posted the preliminary B00 English shortwave broadcasts to North America schedules to my Prime Time Shortwave website. These schedules go into effect, Sunday, October 29. The links are on my homepage http://daniel-sampson.tripod.com/shortwave/index.html Good listening, (Daniel Sampson) ** ALBANIA: Updated B-00 schedule of Radio Tirana on short waves: ALBANIAN 00.00 - 04.30 on 6090, 7270 to NoAm 04.00 - 09.00 on 6100 to Eu (relay I-st National Channel) 08.00 - 11.00 on 7110 to Eu (relay III-rd National Channel) 09.00 - 14.00 on 9760 to Eu (relay I-st National Channel) 10.00 - 15.00 on 7150 to Eu (relay II-nd National Channel) <<<<<<<<< DELETED 15.00 - 18.00 on 5985, 7270 to Eu 21.30 - 23.00 on 7295, 9575 to Eu ENGLISH 02.45 - 03.00 on 6115, 7160 to NoAm <<<< retimed, ex 01.30 - 01.45 03.30 - 04.00 on 6115, 7160 to NoAm 19.45 - 20.00 on 7210, 9510 to Eu <<<< retimed, ex 17.15 - 17.30 22.30 - 23.00 on 7130, 9540 to Eu (Ivo and Anguel, Bulgaria, Observer Oct 25, two languages only excerpted, via DXLD) ** ALGERIA. Algiers noted back on air at 0900 on Oct. 25th after a tip from R. Merrall-UK. Language sounded Tamazight (not Arabic or French) featuring local music. Good signal and may cover traces of Mauritania's Friday only transmission that was being heard on 7245 from 0755. Also sounds Algiers in French with distorted signal back on 15160 at 1515, but still no trace of 11715. ALG 15160 has dropped off into tone only as I type at 1526, so it may be still "under repair"! (Noël R. Green, UK, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. ? TWR, Oct 15 *0028-0100* on 6240. S/on with TWR IS, 0030 continuous religious music, 0045 IS again and religious talk in language. Weak-poor in noise (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Hi Glenn, still no detailed B00 schedule for ORF-ROI is out, but the HFCC file suggests this: 5945 1800 2400 18,27-29,37-39 MOS 100 0 1234567 5945 2100 2130 37,38 MOS 100 0 16 6155 0400 2400 18,27-29,37-39 MOS 300 0 1234567 6155 2100 2130 39,40 MOS 300 125 16 7325 0000 0300 4,7-9 MOS 500 305 1234567 9870 0100 0200 10-12 MOS 300 275 1234567 13730 0000 0100 12-16 MOS 300 245 1234567 13730 0400 1800 17-19,27-29,36-40 MOS 100 0 1234567 13730 2200 2300 47,48,52,53,57 MOS 300 170 1234567 17855 1400 1500 40,41,49,50,54,55,58-60 MOS 500 90 1234567 17865 1600 1700 6,7,10 SAC 250 272 1234567 I guess the Sat/Sun only broadcast on 5945 is just an additional target area definition for the anyway operational nondirectional outlet, only on 6155 it seems that indeed a second transmitter will be in use. Following a comparison of the transmitter operation hours in A00 and B00 for the respective target areas; ORF uses to call the 90 degrees beam, which aims at Australia, "Australasia" as the path runs over Asia: Europe: 39 / 40 North America - Moosbrunn: 6 / 3 North America - Sackville: 3 / 1 "Australasia": 3 / 1 Latin America: 10 / 2 Africa: 5 / 1 Middle East: 8 / 0,14 Asia: 6 / nothing So the shortwave coverage of Europe remains untouched, the coverage of North America is cut by about 1/2, Australia by 2/3, Latin America and Africa by 4/5, Middle East is served for only 60 minutes a week anymore and transmissions into Asia (away from the Australia beam) has been canceled completely. In other words, ORF sacrificed most of the transmissions into overseas targets to keep the European frequencies on air thorough the day; at times to carry just "Österreich 1" home service programming when ROI itself is no longer on air. By the way, last weekend Wolf Harranth mentioned in his show, that he is sitting in the oldest still operational studio within the ORF radiohouse with wooden walls and the desk covered with green felt, a description which reminds me heavily to the Nalepastraße radiohouse at Berlin, the old headquarters of GDR radio (both RBI and domestic services). Regards, (Kai Ludwig, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Glenn, The B00 schedule is now available on the ROI website; it's mostly what the HFCC file already suggested but 7325 is given as 0200-0300 only. Contrary to the original announcements the relays via the German Radioropa 261 longwave service will continue. (Kai Ludwig, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I heard 7325 from 0000 in German, but very poor disturbed reception Oct 29 (gh, OK, DXLD) ** CANADA. There are several changes on shortwave side. I requested (and received) an Excel spreadsheet a couple weeks back from RCI in preparation for my NASWA column. I summarized the changes in the schedule in my NASWA column as follows: "Weekday evenings (Tuesday - Saturday UTC), Spectrum is being replaced by Canada Today, a live one-hour current affairs program at 0200 UTC. On the weekend, Canada Newsweek and Canada Review air in this time block on UTC Sundays, and Canada Review and The Mailbag on UTC Mondays. Glenn Hauser, reporting in swprograms, mentioned that Canada Today will be produced live to allow for breaking news coverage. "Unfortunately, the weekend revamp means that Roots and Wings, The Mystery Project, and Tapestry, excellent domestic CBC programs relayed by RCI, disappear from the shortwave schedule but would be expected to be available from webcasts of the domestic Radio One service. Overall, John Figliozzi and I calculate a weekday loss of two hours / day, and 1.5 hours on Saturday. The early morning broadcast previously consisting of First Edition is gone altogether." (Richard Cuff, Allentown, PA, USA, swprograms Oct 28 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6130 CHNX has reactivated after several months off the air due to transmitter problems. Reception reports are wanted. They also are working on a web site. Here is what station engineer Mark Olson told Cumbre DX- "We went back on the air last night 24 Oct at 10:00pm AST [sic]. We are transmitting at only 40 Watts into a G5RV antenna at an elevation of 40 Feet. The transmitting site is located in Rockingham, a suburb of Halifax and is 550 feet above sea level. Listeners to the East, in particular, the UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany should be able to pick us up with proper conditions. Our signal should also propagate to the southwest through the Midwest. Our program consists of Oldies and our announcers are MJ Finnamore-Pisent, Frank Cameron and Tony Smith. Frank and MJ are our breakfast crew and Tony is on from 10:00 am AST until 6:00 pm. Our website will be updated to include CHNS, CHNX and our sister station CHFX (country 101.9 FM) Individuals, once the website is updated, will be able to send their SWL reports online. The present http://www.mbsradio.com website shows some of our other radio stations. It is hoped, that we may also stream our broadcast online." (Olson via Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX Special Oct 25 via DXLD) ** CANADA. CHNX 6130 back on air Oct 25 and heard from 0630 with usual Oldies 96 format. At 0658 went into continuous recorded announcement "You're listening to CHNX rebroadcasting the programming of Oldies ninety-six CHNS in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on sixty one thirty kilohertz on the 49 metre band. Our transmitting site is located in Rockingham, a suburb of Halifax and running 24 hours a day. This is CHNX shortwave". This ran until 0742 when re-joined CHNS but, when checked again at 0800 was running the recorded announcement. Signal fair at first in SSB-USB only on a clear channel. I read that CHNX is only using 40 watts - that's a remarkable signal if so, but maybe its SSB usage helps. CKZN was about the same today, but that one is very badly "squashed" between ORF 6155 & HRT 6165 (Noël R. Green, UK, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Dear CHNX, Monitoring Times and Glenn Hauser: CHNX can be added into MT shortwave listings. Verification Report on CHNX 6130 khz and QSL card request. CHNX - 6130khz Signal - S9 Interference - moderate Noise - light Audio distortion - moderate Propagation - light fading Overall - good October 25, 2000 08:55 UTC - 09:10 UTC 08:55 UTC - 09:00 UTC Station ID repeating with transmitter location in Rockingham, N.S. 09:00 UTC - Sign-on then news 09:05 UTC - Mike James Show 09:08 UTC - Troggs/Wild Thing Shortly after Wild Thing Deutsche Welle signed on and CHNX was trampled. Equipment: Drake R8B; Antenna: RF Systems - 66 ft longwire with Magnetic Balun I like OLDIES and hearing Canadian news. Welcome back; I will listen often. I also listen to CFRB 6070 khz and CKZU 6160 kHz. When I receive my KIWA Medium Wave Loop (back order) maybe I will be able to DX CHNS 960 kHz? Thank you (James A. Godfrey, Kent State University, OH, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CHNX, 6130, heard again in the Pacific northwest with poor reception, a tape loop at 0507 Oct 28 tune-in, with terrible splash from 6125. When tuned in again at 0558, was running the normal oldies format, which after 0600 was good at times! Heard in the past, but at best they were only poorly heard. A great improvement...either a much more effective antenna, or higher power. A nice DX catch out here as well (Walt Salmaniw, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA CLANDESTINE. New languages for FARC-EP webpages: German and Russian. Cali, Oct 27/00. Hola a todos, de las noticias recibidas de la FARC EP. Clandestina: las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo FARC-EP tiene una página en alemán en: http://home.t-online.de/home/DKP_Berlin/internationalismus.html y una página en ruso http://farc.narod.ru/ (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. Glenn, here are the frequencies we plan to register with the ITU. Of course, they are subject to change if complaints are registered by other s/w outlets. Frequencia Tipo de Potencia Horas Dirección Emisión de Uso (UTC) de Emisión 21.815 MHz J3E 3 KW 1200-0200 40 7.480 MHz 10A3 30 KW 0000-0800 350 15.065 MHz 10A3 10 KW 2000-0200 340 6.970* MHz 10A3 10 KW 0200-1100 10 5.920* MHz J3E 3 KW 0230-1100 150 * Alternate frequency A million thanks to you, Wolfgang and everyone else for all the assistance. It was very helpful for our decision making process. (Joe Bernard, RFPI, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As of Oct 28, still on old 15049, and not yet 7480 either. Not sure when they will be ready to bring these up, but it might be a week or two (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 11705 an interesting frequency: RHC and VOA Oct 21 0145- 0240+: Cuba heard in USB, VOA in LSB. Cuba transmitting in USB but VOA also using this frequency and can be heard in LSB; both in English (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 4410.2, La Voz de la Alabanza, San Francisco de Macorís, (harmonic 3 x 1470) 0207-0417 Oct 25, Religious programing, modern ballad/hymns, short talks and preacher with longer sermons. One talk ended with a Santo Domingo address to write to for more information. Canned ID's "...A-M, La Voz de la Alabanza, 1470 kilohertz amplitud modulada..." Fair to good signal with very good peaks. RTTY QRM just below. Occasional SSB QRM. More info and audio clips at http://homepages.together.net/~hackmohr/whatsnew/4410.htm (Mark Mohrmann Coventry, VT, USA, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Don Glenn, según lo reportado por el colega Mohrmann, todo indica que efectivamente se trata de República Dominicana; en mi apreciación y por lo cual yo lo reporté como Perú, fué por la hora en que yo los escuché, hora en la que no me llega nada del Caribe y es considero que este harmónico es de los más fuertes que yo recuerde. De todas durante el fin de semana voy a continuar con la cacería de más datos, ya que en el audio del colega Mohrmann, la verdad no escucho nada de la dirección aunque él me cuenta que: Hola Rafael: Después de una charla religiosa, un locutor da un breve anuncio: "Escríbanos a ...?Partición?...Apartado M-42, Santo Domingo". Oí este anuncio dos veces en mi sintonía la noche pasada. (Mark Mohrmann via RRR) Interesante será poder escucharla también ya que la próxima semana la República Dominicana cambia de hora, para el ahorro de energía, con lo cual considero las transmsiones radiales empezarán una hora más temprano y beneficiará la escucha (Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Al contrario, según el informe de Dino Bloise el cambio de hora significa emisiones a una hora absoluta más tarde que antes (gh) ** FINLAND. Subject: SWR's Antenna test for NA and Asia listeners on 3-4th November! Here is a little news for DX Listening Digest. HOT NEWS FROM SWR!!! The first private Shortwave Station in Finland SCANDINAVIAN WEEKEND RADIO, SWR will be on the air every first Saturday of the month, 24 hours service each time. We put our transmitter on at 22 hours UTC on Friday evening. We broadcast from town of Virrat in Central Finland, 62.40 N 23.62 E. You can hear our shows on 25 mb on 11690 or 11720 kHz with power of 50 watts. During our next broadcast on 3-4th November 2000 we will have A SPECIAL TEST TRANSMISSION for our Trans Atlantic listeners in North- America as well listeners in Far East in Asia. We will turn our half wave dipole antenna toward 290 degrees at 22 hours UTC on Friday until 4 hours UTC on Saturday. You can take contact to SWR during transmission through our web-site http://www.swradio.net or by phone +358 400 995 559. More info of programme and frequency-schedule can be found on our web-site. Reception reports would be sent to Scandinavian Weekend Radio, P. O. Box 35, FIN-40321 JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND. Please, enclose 2 IRC (correctly stamped) or 2 USD for return postage. Or you can fill reception report form in our website for verification there! FFFR (via Alpo Heinonen, Rovaniemi, Finland, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GEORGIA. Tbilisi now heard in a new language, French, instead of the usual Georgian programme 0800-0830 UTC, followed by English 0830- 0900 UTC on 11910 kHz beamed to Europe. Renowned for muddy audio, they seem to have solved the problem at long last. Only trouble is, signal is still weak. Only heard Monday through Friday. Not received here in U.K. at other scheduled times (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Glenn, Just received the B-00 VO Greece frequency schedule from the VOG Engineer Angelos Angelogiannis. It is a PDF file, which I am attaching to this e-mail (Christos Rigas, Wood Dale, Illinois, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT B-00 from PDF sked shows transmissions in Greek, including these with English segments, exact times unspecified, frequencies in order given in case significant: Eu/NAm 0000-0350 7450 5895 7475 9420 Eu 0600-0700 9420 15630 7475 1700-1800 9420 15630 2000-2050 9420 7450 NAf/Medit 1400-1500 12105 Japan/Pacific/Au 0600-0800 15170 NAm 1200-1400 9690 [Greek only] 1800-2200 17705 SAm/PCZ 1800-2200 17565 Live audio: http://www.ert.ntua.gr So we heard 15455 Delano relay at 1200-1800 for last time Oct 28; no replacement in the 1400-1800 period which has included English Saturdays 1600-1700 and hours of great music, local-quality reception on the car radio. 9690, 17705 and 17565 are also Delano/Greenville relays, we know from experience, and probably also 15170. UT Sun Oct 29 at 0250 check, 7475 missing, but 5895, 7450 audible under very poor conditions, not 9420 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT SA Macedonia Station B-00, all in Greek: 0600-2200 9935 11595; 1300-2200 7430 (via Christos Rigas; excerpted and commented upon by gh, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio's General Overseas Service schedule for Oct. 29, 2000 to Mar. 25, 2001 G.O.S-II 1000-1100 13700, 15020, 17485, 17895 Aust./NZ G.O.S-II 1000-1100 11585, 15020, 17840 NE Asia G.O.S-III 1330-1500 9690, 11620, 13710 SE Asia G.O.S-IV 1745-1945 7410, 9950, 11620 UK/W Eur G.O.S-IV 1745-1945 11935, 17670 Asia G.O.S-V 2045-2230 7150, 9910, 11620, 11715 Aust./NZ G.O.S-V 2045-2230 7410, 9650, 9950 UK/W Eur G.O.S-I 2245-0045 9950, 11620, 13605 NE Asia G.O.S-I 2245-0045 9705, 13605 SE Asia (AIR website via Daniel Sampson, WI, Oct. 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. (Galei Tsahal) Still heard on 15785 (on certain days 15782, where they mix with a Fax station). Seem to be trying to find a clear channel around 6.9 MHz. Heard on 6985 these past few days, but today (Oct 24) on 6970 instead. Adjacent utility traffic a problem. Quite good signals from sign on just before 1800 (varies) - heard past 2100 (Alan Holder, Gurnard Cowes, Isle of Wight, U.K., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. Radio Voice of Jammu and Kashmir Freedom (Urdu: "Yeh Radio Sada-e Hurriyat-e Jammu wa Kashmir Hai") is opposed to Indian control of part of Kashmir. It may also be known as Voice of Independent Kashmir or Voice of Kashmir Freedom. The radio was first heard by BBC Monitoring on 7th February 1991. At the time it was reported to have started regular broadcasting on 2nd February 1991 after a period of tests. The radio is believed to operate from Pakistan or Pakistani-administered Kashmir. It announces a post office box address in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir. Frequencies used in the past include 4080, 5000, 5100, 5300, 5750, 5900, 6300 and 7375 kHz. Two or three frequencies may be used at any one time, but programming on them may not always be in parallel. Transmissions may be in AM or upper sideband mode. Languages : Balti, English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Urdu Address: PO Box 102, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, via Pakistan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0230-0400 Daily in Urdu on 5990v includes 0300 news, 0330 Kashmiri, 0340 Paharai, 0355 Balti. 0745-0845 Daily in Urdu on 7230v includes 0800 news, 0830 Balti; 1300-1430 Daily in Urdu on 5100v includes 1330 news and commentary, 1345 Kashmiri, 1400 Gorji, 1415 commentary in Hindi, 1420 Commentary in ENGLISH (© BBC Monitoring Oct 25 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 11710v, R. Pyongyang 1500 Oct 23 strong but battling KJES on 11715. Interval signal and "This is Radio Pyongyang of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" IDs. Newscast by man was, of course, mostly a paean to "The Great Leader, Kim Jong Il", his father, the Korean Worker's Party, etc. etc. ...interesting that Madeleine Albright's visit with him was buried some six or seven minutes into the newscast. Commentary at 1515 was titled "Those who advocate confrontation (i.e. the South Korean Defense Minister) should be removed." Very nice signal (NO trace of auroral flutter on this frequency at this time of day), decent if muddy modulation, but best in LSB to avoid splatter from New Mexico (Randy Stewart, MO, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** MAURITANIA. R. Mauritanie, Oct 15 0010-0059* on 4826.6v. I knew it wouldn`t last. On the move again. Had been stable on 4845 the past several weeks but once again they are drifting off frequency. Arabic talk, phone talk; Koran at 0049 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 4845, R Mauritanie, 0730 Oct 22 with programming in presumed Arabic and first time ever I've heard them clearly mention both country and "Nouakchott", fair to good this night (David Norrie, New Zealand, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [Same] Oct 22 0045 with what sounded like man in studio talking on phone with child (or woman-- high voice at any rate), into rather odd, monotone solo chanting or singing by man. This continued right up to a brief sign-off announcement mentioning "Nouakchott" and "Mauritania". All this in Arabic, of course. Then the national anthem, again oddly dissonant and non-melodic; off at 0101:15. (The MIDI version on Al Quaglieri's interval-signals website captures its exotic qualities well). Pretty good signal, right on frequency; in fact, it was the co-channel Brazilian (?) that was apparently off and causing about a 300 Hz het (Randy Stewart, MO, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** MAURITANIA. QSL: 4845 R. Mauritanie 0630. Green and yellow card with map of Africa showing Mauritania, and Mauritanian flag. With French and Arabic writing. Received for an e-mail reception report in 1 month and 2 days (really fast for Mauritania) with 3 authentic Mauritanian stamps! (Roland Dragon, NV, Oct 20, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** MÉXICO. 11770, Radio México Internacional was testing this frequency, I tuned in from 15:00 to 5:00, on October 20, with musical program (on the hours they are off air) and their normal programs, it seems to be substituting to 5985 (Hector García Bojorge) Ex-5985. Reports to rmi@eudoramail.com (López Oct 19 via Hauser) Thanks for the tip, daily at *1300, 11770 getting some splash, 9705 is better (Hans Johnson, AZ, Oct 22-25, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Hi Glenn, This schedule came in the post yesterday and now typed up. I thought it may be of interest to you. There are not many changes to the External services, but there are some interesting ones listed for their Home Services. Haya Allal Fala (how is your Urdu translation??!!) is new to me, as are the two 'Current Affairs' transmissions. I believe I read - somewhere - that Pakistan was to counter Indian "propaganda" and maybe this is what is intended. Please feel free to quote all of it - they appear to make these details freely available now. Old APK-2 at Karachi has disappeared off the transmitter listings, but equally old APK-3 is still included, but I cannot hear it currently. 73's and keep up the good work......(Noel Green, UK) RADIO PAKISTAN Schedule for Period B00 External Services 0045-0115 Assami Svce, 0115-0200 Bangla Svce, 0200-0245 Hindi Svce & 0245-0315 Tamil Svc all on APK-3 9780, API-1 11650, API-3 15455 0100-0215 World Service to SoEaAsia on API-5 15485, API-6 17895 0330-0400 Gujrati Service to EaAF on API-3 15325, API-1 17835 0500-0700 World Service to Gulf & M.E. on API-5 15175, API-1 17835, API-6 21460 0800-1105 World Service to WeEUR on API-5 17525, API-6 21460 0900-0930 Indonesian Service on API-1 17660, API-3 15430 1000-1030 Senhali Service, 1030-1100 Tamil Service, 1100-1145 Hindi Service, 1145-1215 Bangla Service and 1215-1245 Nepali Service all on API-1 17655, API-3 15625, APK-3 11645 1200-1230 Chinese Service on API-5 11895, API-6 15465 1330-1530 World Service to Gulf & M.E. on API-5 15100, API-6 11570, APK-3 17510 1400-1430 Turki Service to AFG on 1260, API-1 7375, API- 3 9390 1430-1515 Russian Service on 1260, API-1 7375, API-3 9390 1600-1615 English News & Comm to Gulf & M.E.on API-5 15100, API-6 11570, APK-17510 and to Ea Africa on API-3 15725, API-1 17725 1630-1700 Turkish Service on API-1 11645, API-3 15725, APK-3 9770 1700-1745 Irani Service on API-1 11645, API-3 15725, APK-3 9770 1700-1900 World Service to WeEUR on API-5 9400, API-6 11570 1745-1830 Arabic Service on API-1 11645, API-3 15725, APK-3 9770 1800-1900 Islamabad Programme to Gulf & Iran on API-2 13590 1930-2000 French Service to We EUR on API-6 11570; to M.E. & NoWeAF on API-5 9400 Islamabad: API-1, 2 & 3 100kW; API-5 & 6 250kW; Karachi: APK-3 50kW Home Services Using API-2, 4 & 8 100kW Islamabad & Quadrant aerials API-2 : 0045-0200 9430 Q-I Haya Allal Falah 0600-0900 9540 Q-I Rawalpindi Pgm incl News in Urdu 0600-0604 & 0700-0703 ; Punjabi 0703- 0707 ; Sindhi 0803-0807 ; English 0800-0803 0903-0907 9540 Q-I Pushto News 1000-1115 9540 Q-I Islamabad Pgm incl News in Urdu 1000-1005 & English 1100-1104 1350-1400 6120 Q-I Balti News 1420-1428 6120 Q-I Sheena News 1615-1700 9575 Q-I Islamabad Pgm (Aaina) API-4 : 0200-0400 9845 Q-II Current Affairs 1100-1900 9885 Q-II Current Affairs API-8 : 0045-0215 4790 68deg Rawalpindi III 0430-0515 7284 " Balti 0530-0615 7284 " Sheena 0900-1215 7265 " Rawalpindi III 1445-1810 4790 " Rawalpindi III Quetta 10 kW Dipole: 0045-0404(Fri. 0345) & 1200-1805 5025 0600-1145(Fri. 0400-0820 & 1000-1145) 7155 Peshawar 10kW Dipole: 1100-1400 7320 Rawalpindi 10kW (using API-7 at Islamabad??) 0230-0430, 1230-1330 & 1345-1430 4790 68 deg (via Noël R. Green, England, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERÚ. 4420.87, Radio Bambamarca 1041-1055 Oct 24, Andean vocals, 1046 canned ID with lots of reverb, Announcer with time check and ID. Fair to poor signal. Faded quickly and gone by 1055 (Mark Mohrmann, Coventry VT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. VOR, Oct 21 0158-0230+ on new 12000; tune-in to IS, 0200 English news, pgm on Russian economy. Fair; better on \\ 17595, 15595 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA. 6985 R Galkayo, Oct 19 at 1611 poor though clear with long HOA music tracks, two ids heard. Real surprise to pick this up. Signal held well past 1640. Following two days another much stronger ME station heard here past 1900 but then vanished again so presume a clandestine QSYing around. On 7530, R Hargeisa, Oct 20 at 1825 poor signal though clear in USB. Plenty of talk and some indigenous music, heard following days from 1700 through to s/off 1900. Have been trying to hear this for over 20 years! (Paul Ormandy, Waianakarua, New Zealand Dxpediton on the SPR-4 and Sony ICF-SW55 using a bevy of bevys, via Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SOMALIA. QSLing R. Hargeysa: Try via the Konsularische Vertretung Republic of Somaliland, Zedernweg 6, 50127 Bergheim, Germany. They recently promised to QSL Radio Hargeysa by a decent card. It might be a good idea to include a tape recording and return postage (2 IRCs or two USD for covering air mail delivery) with your report. The guy responsible for this is a ham, so they know what we are talking about ;-) vy73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, Oct 26, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Hi Martin et al, Here's their answer to my request for an address: Cheers, (Paul Ormandy, NZ) From: Radio Somaliland radiosomaliland@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Reception Hi Paul, Thank you very much and I'm appreciating your effort and time. It would be good if you send Real Audio file, I think this is easier and quicker. Again I'm appreciating you the wenderful work. This could not be possible without you. Regards, Osman Omar ===== Radio Somaliland Head Office Ottawa, On Canada. (via hard-core-dx via DXLD) Have a look under http://www.radiosomaliland.com/ Their e-mail is radio@radiosomaliland.com Good Luck! (Martin Elbe, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** SPAIN. 6055 Oct 23 REE, 0555-, 544, English, next Sunday October 29 En to Europe on new 9680 kHz on weekends at 2200 UT (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Radio Exterior de España announced the following schedule changes on the 6055 broadcast at 0030 UTC October 28. The English broadcasts to Europe (2000 UTC) will be on 9680 (ex-15285) and the weekend broadcasts for Europe and Africa will be one hour [later] at 2205 on Saturday and 2200 on Sunday. All other English broadcasts remain unchanged (Daniel Sampson, WI, Oct. 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 21795, Radio Thailand quite good signals in English with news 0555 Oct 25. Closed abruptly 0559 mid-sentence (Bryan Clark, New Zealand, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Radio Ukraine International Broadcasting schedule from 29 October 2000 to 25 March 2001. kHz Time (UTC) site Azimuth Direction 5905** 1600-2400 Kyiv 242 S Europe, S America 6020* 0700-1500 Kyiv ND Central Europe 7420* 1200-2200 Kyiv 74 Northern Kazakhstan 7420* 0100-0400 Kyiv 74 Northern Kazakhstan 9560* 1600-0100 Kyiv 254 South-western Europe 9600* 0500-1100 Kyiv 254 South-western Europe 9610* 0100-1100 Kyiv 93 Southern Kazakhstan 9810** 0100-0600 Kyiv 307 East of North America 11720* 0500-1100 Kharkiv 235 Southern Europe 11770* 1500-0000 Kharkiv 290 North-western Europe 11825* 1200-1600 Kyiv 93 Southern Kazakhstan 11840* 0100-0400 Kharkiv 55 Russia (Tyumen) 11840* 1200-2000 Kharkiv 55 Russia (Tyumen) 13590* 0600-1100 Kharkiv 290 North-western Europe 15520** 0500-1500 Kyiv 272 Western Europe Schedules of programmes in different languages on frequencies marked with the asterisks are as following: GERMAN (one hour): * 1800, 2100, 0000. ENGLISH (one hour): * 2200, 0100, 0400; ** 2200, 0100, 0400, 1200. UKRAINIAN: all remained time on frequencies * and **. ROMANIAN (half an hour): 657 kHz (Chernivtsi) on Medium Waves at 1800, 2030, 2200. Notes: 1) Output of all transmitters is 100 kW (657 kHz - 25 kW). 2) Schedule is subject to alteration. (via Alexander Yegorov, via Rachel Baughn, MT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hard to say if this is newsworthy, but on Oct. 15, on his Creole show, Abner Bellmont was going over WJFP's long list of translators. In French and Creole, (English omitted), he mentioned 26,467 horizontal, and 26,479 vertical "ondes courtes." I may have mistranslated the freqs; mention of the S/W took me by surprise. How can this operation be legal? (Max Swanson, MN, via Calypso Mail, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just as legal as the Tampa and Portland operations, technically 2-way internal communications. But what`s this about polarization, and not exact 11mb frequencies (gh) ** U S A. Subject: Dave Franz (sic) Diatribe Anyone else hear Dave Franz's diatribe this morning? It was just after 10:00 EDT (14:00 UTC). He said the funds coming in from the sale of shortwave radio air time is not paying the bill, so it is up to the listeners to chip in and finish out the tab. He went on for 5 or 10 minutes it seems. After about 2 or 3 minutes I hit the record button and taped it, though I had to do something else. ``The So-Called Men of God`` was his favorite expression and he used it maybe 12 times in 5 minutes. ``The So-Called Men of God`` out there don't contribute ANYTHING and the folks who buy his air time DO contribute SOMETHING. Therefore you should withdraw all funds to the ``The So-Called Men of God`` and send them to Dave Franz. I think he was really emphasizing that he is not a ``The So-Called Man of God``! Therefore, I don't think the ``The So-Called People of God`` should support his station in any way. I enjoy hearing some of the folks on his station and think they are doing a good job, but I don't think I'll listen to them very much if I have to listen to them on his station. Someone needs to get the message across to him that ``The So-Called Men of God out there`` helped to get his station going. (Ask Bro. Stair who sent several men over to help him clear land and do other things. He seemed to think the station was being built for him, or at least that he was going to get a good deal on some broadcasting.) I have heard other ministers on his station, but he seems to want to drive them off. Peter J. Peters was supposed to be on for 8 hours per day on Saturday and Sunday, but they have been late coming on (i.e. 12:00 EDT instead of 8:00, I think) part of the time. I wonder if Dave considers him one of the ``good men of God out there`` or another of the ``The So- Called Men of God out there``. It'll be interesting to see if Pastor Pete stays on WGTG or vacates. OH, the broadcasters are not paying for their time and therefore the listeners need to contribute -- however, he plans to add three more transmitters to the current two! Go figure! (Al Patrick, rec.radio.shortwave October 24 2:51 p.m. CDT via John Norfolk, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ2 has just been authorized a new daytime frequency which will begin testing in a couple of weeks: 17495. Hope to sell time to one particular network (Allan Weiner, AW Worldwide, WBCQ Oct 28 via gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Dear Glenn, Just got authorised to use 17.495 MHz daytime 8am-5pm eastern [1300-2200 UT]. Will begin tune up and testing in a couple of weeks. As soon as a client is found we will begin programming during the days. WBCQ-2 Moves to 9335 on Oct 29. Program notes: Tasha Takes Control moves to Friday at 9pm eastern on 7415. New program starts Sunday at 9pm-11pm eastern, on 9335 "Reality and Beyond" an Art Bell type show dealing with the strange and different. [UT Monday 0200-0400] In the spring we shall be constructing a new antenna system to use with our three operating transmitters. Cheers, (Allan H. Weiner, Oct 27, From WBCQ Central, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WMLK station manager Gary McAvin tells Cumbre DX that they have purchased a 250 kW from SwissCom [I assume that this is an old Swiss Radio International unit-Ed.] The transmitter has already arrived in the USA, but WMLK doesn't plan to have it on until March or April 2001. Among other things, they need upgrade the amount of power being delivered to the transmitter site (via Hans Johnson, Oct 25, Cumbre DX Special via DXLD) No doubt connected with WMLK`s sudden interest in new frequencies, DXLD 0-128, tho planning only 50 kW (gh) ** U S A [non]. ITALY. GUAM [non]: Updated schedule of of AWR's "Wavescan" on SUNDAYS, effective October 29: 09.30 - 10.00 on 9660 via Forli, Italy to Eu <<<<<<<<< new freq, ex reg. 9640 (Ivo and Anguel, Bulgaria, Observer Oct 25 via DXLD) See DXLD 0-125; rest of sked seems same ** U S A. Radio Disney heard on 1680 at 1823 EST 10/28. ID by man at 1900 as KADT, Fresno, CA. (Albert Lehr - Livermore, CA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Another new X-bander ** U S A. 2900.01, WLTP, Parkersburg, WV (2 x 1450 harmonic) 1058 Oct 24, Local weather, ID, Dr. Laura local WLTP ID, into network news. Fair to good signal (Mark Mohrmann, VT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. Amigos diexistas del Mundo, reciban un cordial saludo desde Montevideo, Capital de la República Oriental del Uruguay. Preocupado por el desinterés expresado en algunos e-mail que he recibido en los últimos dias en cuanto a sintonizar emisoras de mi Ciudad (Montevideo), como consecuencia de la falta de respuesta confirmatoria por parte de varias de ellas a los informes de recepción enviado es que les presento la siguiente alternativa. Una vez que ustedes hayan agotado las posibilidades de confirmación directa por parte de la emisora,les sugiero me envien la documentación escrita y/o sonora que corrobora la escucha de la estación en cuestión, así como también el franqueo de retorno postal, para que logre personalmente la confirmación lo cual he apreciado por referencia de varios diexistas que en ocasiones por falta de personal, desconocimiento de lo solicitado o en el peor de los casos por falta de interés, no es posible. Una vez en poder de la confirmación les estaré enviando la misma por correo, intentando brindarles con esta actitud una posibilidad más a tener en cuenta a la hora de procurar obtener la confirmación a sus escuchas de emisoras de Montevideo, en Onda Media, Corta y Frecuencia Modulada. Los envíos deben realizarlos únicamente a la siguiente dirección : Gabriel Gómez, Casilla de Correo 24.066, Codigo Postal 11.800, Montevideo, Uruguay. Sugiriéndoles me avisen por este medio el envío de tal material. Ya sea por gomezdx@yahoo.com o gomezdx@hotmail.com Los invito a visitar mi lugar en http://www.qrz.com digitando en el buscador la señal distintiva de mi estación radioescucha CX 484 Atentamente Gabriel Gómez. Diexista desde 1984. Historiador de la radio con material fotográfico e impreso desde 1922 y registros sonoros desde 1933 (Gómez, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He is offering to help people get QSLs from stations in Montevideo (gh) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. RASD - Sahara (Tindouf? Algeria) now heard Oct 25 at 0700-0800 on new 7357. A good signal at sign on but with heterodyne/splash from WYFR 7355 (Noël R. Green, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. I checked the new HFCC B-00 schedule for V. of the People, which has been on 7215 via Madagascar, but nothing is shown for it on that frequency. However, down on 7120 we find this listing: 7120 1700 1755 53S MDC 50 265 1234567 291000 250301 D Special MDG NEW RNW 1140 I`ll bet this is it, and evidently combines the two previous broadcasts into one (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) +++++HUNTING HARMONICS+++++ Hi all, some logs from Germany: 14450 kHz RTT Tunis, Arabic, 2x7225 1757 UTC 17955 kHz Unid. singing, RUS, UKR or BLR, 3x5985 1650 UTC 18045 kHz Unid. Russian?, not heard on 6015 1645 UTC 18840 kHz ERT, Greece, 2x9420 1655 19620 kHz Voice of Russia, French, 2x9810 1652 vy 73 de (Juergen Lohuis, Oct 26) Hi all, Today I heard the following stations: 19060 Unid. Russian? 2 x 9530 1443 UT 21630 Radiostancija Stalica, Minsk-Kalodziscy, 3 x 7210 1430 UT 21855 Unid. Russian? 3 x 7285 1545 UTC (I tried to hear Mali on this freq.) 23400 R. Bulgaria 2 x 11700 1424 UTC 23660 R. Romania Home Service 1422 UTC 24460 Radiostancija Stalica, Minsk-Kalodziscy, 4 x 6115, // 7210 vy 73 de (Juergen Lohuis, D-44536 Luenen, Germany Oct 27) Hi all, Today I heard 24120 Voice of Russia, 2 x 12060 1515 UTC s/off at 1530 29430 Voice of Russia, 3 x 9810 German 1540 UTC I also heard a mysterious station with the TV sound of ORTN Niamey, Niger on 45.65 MHz in FM mode. This is not a TV channel. Maybe a link to the main transmitter ? vy 73 de (Juergen Lohuis, Germany Oct 28, harmonics@egroups.com) ++++++++++++++++++ Hi all, nice log Juergen, RE: 7285 Russian, I heard Polonia in Russian at this time on 2x7285 on a previous day, so maybe that`s what you heard? Mali was much later in the day. Well done on receiving Tunisia, 73's tim Hi all Today`s logs 24/10/00 21855 RTVM, Mali (3 x 7285) 1747 utc om tlk in arabic influenced dialect of FF and the normal stuff ! 19280 UKR (2 x 9640) 1740 19550 RUS (2 x 9775) 1739 19620 RUS (2 x 9810) 1739 19800 BUL (2 x 9900) 1735 //23400 khz 23760 RUS (4 x 5940) 1715 73's tim hi all, logs for 25/10/00 14940 Vo Russia (10 x 1494) 1527 16434 Vo Russia (11 x 1494) 1528 18760 CPBS, Beijing (2 x 9380) 1545 18840 Foni Tis Hellades, Kavalla (2 x 9420) 1545 18980 Blank Carrier (2 x 9490) 1544 [could be WYFR fundamental? gh] 19180 VOA, PHL (2 x 9590) 1541 19240 UKR (2 x 9620) 1536 19260 unid lang om tlk, V.Wk (2 x 9630) the fundamental was squashed by a nordic unid 1536 19280 UKR (2 x 9640) 1537 19620 Vo Russia (2 x 9810) 1540 19870 GRC (2 x 9935) 1550 30500 R Romania intl FF svc (2 x 15250) 1508 30960 DW, Unid site (2 x 15480) S9+!! 1506 35460 DW, Antigua, (2 x 17730) 1505 39400 Egyptian R (4 x 9850) 1500 73's tim tonight 25/10/00 3006 kHz R Caroline RSL, Harwich (tent) (2 x 1503) 1750 sounded like disco/pops 5562 khz TRT 1, Izmir (pres) (6 x 927) 1757 Both V Poor due to tv interference 73's tim hi all, 25/10/00 2340 Unid v.wk (2 x 1170?) 2772 LBH Radio, Kaliningrad (2 x 1386) 2304 14940 TWR Via St petersburg (10 x 1494) 1858 today 26/10/00 MUF=48.25mhz 30540 R Romania intl (2 x 15270) 1327 30960 DW, Unid site (2 x 15480) 1329 35115 R Ukraine (3 x 11705) 1316 35320 R Rossi (2 x 17660) 1314 35490 R Romania (3 x 11830) 1313 37680 GRC (4 x 9420) 1319 73's tim Hi all, I've just had a rather splendid result! 26/10/00 2340 kHz V of Russia, Tbilisskaya (2 x 1170) I.S at 1930, Sign off at 2058 also unid 2304khz 1957utc (Tim Bucknall, Cheshire, all: harmonics@egroups.com via DXLD) ###