GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-64, Dec 1, 1999 {Items from this and all our reports may be reproduced and re- reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages} ** CANADA. RCI press release dated Nov 10 said new SW transmitters would be inaugurated at Sackville on Nov 16, capable of digital (RCI Nov 25 via BBC Monitoring, summarised by Hauser) No further details about how many, what powers, whether in addition to or replacing old units, new frequencies, etc., etc. Who cares? (Hauser) ** COSTA RICA. TIDGS barely audible in noise level at 1824 check Nov 30 on 9725, confirming that he is running this all day whether it propagate or not (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** GREECE [non]. Unlike the day before, VOG via Delano Nov 30 at 1220 check was where it should be, 9690, not 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** KOREA NORTH. I monitored R. P'yongyang again UT Nov 30 on 17735.4; this time the sked announcement did not start until 0155. For 1200- 1400, the ME/AF frequency sounded more like 9630 than 9640; at 1500- 1700 6520, I think. At 0100-0200 sounded like 15630, but I hear nothing there nor on other possibilities 15650, 13650, 13630. Note Al Quaglieri's report of new 9850v going into English at 1100, not mentioned here. Monitored again 0154 UT Dec 1 but still could not nail down all the frequencies due to poor reception. Identical announcement even more marred at 1255 on 9849.88 (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** KOREA SOUTH. Labour unionists at the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) went on strike as of Tuesday morning [30th November] to protest proposed pay cut. KBS officials said that they do not expect immediate problems in operations as non-unionists will take over. Source: Yonhap news agency, Seoul, in English 0024 gmt 30 Nov 99 (BBC Monitoring, exerpted by gh) No mention of RKI in particular, but checked 1130 broadcast Dec 1 on 9650 Sackville and seemed normal programming, mentioning website http://rki.kbs.co.kr which now has World Cyberstamp Exhibition up. When you finally pick a country, frame showing the stamps is so small that you cannot make out any details on the stamps in order to answer the questions for ``boon prizes'' which require you to laboriously go through every country page one by one. And how do they expect us to read black type on dark blue? BTW, can someone explain the meaning and need for the seemingly extraneous .co. which appears in the URLs in certain countries such as UKOGBANI and KOREA SOUTH and not others? And I saw nothing on the RKI website, at least not up front or ``About Us'' regarding the strike (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** PARAGUAY. Radio Nacional workers to stage indefinite strike. The National Workers Federation (CNT) on 30th November will stage a demonstration at 1100 a.m. in front of Government House to repudiate the dismissal of two Radio Nacional del Paraguay union leaders. This will be a peaceful demonstration. There will be no marches or speeches. According to CNT General Secretary Eduardo Ojeda, the CNT is summoning all media members to take part in the demonstration in view of the fact that the state-owned radio station forbids union activities. (Source: 'ABC Color' web site, Asuncion, in Spanish 29 Nov 99 BBC Monitoring, excerpted by Hauser) So check 9737 ** PERU. Hi Glenn - 6522.04, R Ondas del Rio Maran~on, Aramango, La Libertad, 0054 Nov 30, reactivated here with typical Andean programming of huaynos, comunicados, ads, and numerous IDs to informal signoff at 0107. Plagued by utes and fishing boat traffic, but pretty good signal. Thanks to Henrik Klemetz for confirming my transcription of the ID (Jay Novello, NC, Nov 30) ** PHILIPPINES. BBC 12095 in nice and clear at 1145 Dec 1 during Sports International about Cuba, so I thought FEBC might have moved, but at 1258 recheck, ``Jesus Saves [al-leg-ed-ly]'' IS was audible under BBC (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa has become quite reliable here, including the English at 1800 on 17870 (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** U S A. It's 1754 Nov 30 and I am about to turn on the radio; what should I listen to? The VOA Editorial, of course. Echoing on 17895, it was introduced and outroduced as ``reflecting American ideals and institutions'' - nothing said about it being the official view of the US Government. Is this a policy change at VOA? Or does it depend on whether they are filling in the absence of an Official editorial? Sandy made a big deal of these not being written by VOA staff, so who did write it? What it was about today made no lasting impression on me, except for a dig at ``Fidel Castro's Communist Dictatorship'' (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** U S A. Listened to WGTG, 9400, more or less AM, for a few minutes before and after 1830 Nov 30 when Dave was pushing SSB. While it is true that almost all 2-way voice communication on SW is SSB, he blurs the distinxion with broadcasting when he indicates that all SWBC will convert to SSB within a few years. Can you spell DIGITAL? Actually, Dave once claimed that his transmitters were digital-capable, so I would not be surprised if he flip-flops on this issue once the trend becomes clearer to him. Trouble is, there are no digital SW receivers to market yet (Glenn Hauser) ** VATICAN [non]. The VR ident signal caught my ear at 1228 Nov 30 on 6020, when it certainly could not be coming from Europe; overriding poor R. Australia. 1230 VR opened Guoyu, and the audio was quite good for such a distant relay, via R. Veritas Asia, Philippines. This is one of the less known relay deals, tho not surprising considering they are all Catholics. Come to think of it, it is surprising: why is WRMI more interested than WEWN in relaying VR?? M. Angelica must think she is more infallible than the pope (Glenn Hauser, OK) THIS DAY'S ITALIAN - AMERICAN LESSON. This will come as a great surprise to those who have never bothered to learn the first thing about Italian phonetics, which is quite regular and logical once you know the system, unlike English. With the exception of stress not always being as obvious as it is in Spanish, you can pronounce anything in real Italian even without actually speaking or understanding the language. Anglicization of names is inevitable, but I believe that two well-known American SW/DX persons do not object to their Italian names being pronounced correctly although they do not make an issue of it. The trigraph -gli- has no G sound in it, hard or soft! But an LY sound, close to the Castilian LL. So there really should be no hard G pronounced in Quaglieri or Figliozzi. Try to say: kwa-LYEHR-ee, fee-LYOH-tsee. Repeat and repeat. (Guglielmo Glenn Hauser) DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE TEST SCHEDULE as registered [note 25 MHz frequency at the bottom - tests likely sporadic - gh]. kHz UT CIRAF ZONES SITE kW AZI DATES COUNTRY STA 6010 1300-1330 8 SAC 250 240 CAN DRM RCI 6020 0000-0030 8 SAC 250 240 CAN DRM RCI 13650 0130-0200 11-16 SAC 250 176 CAN DRM RCI 13685 1630-1700 27 28 SAC 250 060 CAN DRM RCI 13760 1530-1600 28 29 SAC 250 047 CAN DRM RCI 15180 0100-0130 11-16 SAC 250 176 CAN DRM RCI 15325 1600-1630 27 28 SAC 250 060 CAN DRM RCI 17740 1500-1530 28 29 SAC 250 047 CAN DRM RCI 17875 1900-2000 37 38 46-48 SAC 250 105 CAN DRM RCI 52 53 57 17875 2030-2130 55 58 59 SAC 250 105 CAN DRM RCI 11915 0800-0930 28S WER 500 135 D DRM DWL 5875 1000-1200 27E 28W RMP 500 080 3110-2503 G DRM MER 6185 1800-1900 18S RMP 500 047 3110-2503 G DRM MER 9665 0200-0300 8 RMP 500 300 3110-2503 G DRM MER 9665 0200-0300 14 RMP 500 227 3110-2503 G DRM MER 11670 0700-0900 59 RMP 500 260 3110-2503 G DRM MER 13650 0500-0700 46S RMP 500 169 3110-2503 G DRM MER 15125 1200-1400 41S RMP 500 092 G DRM MER 15255 2000-2300 46S RMP 500 169 3110-2503 G DRM MER 15485 1600-1800 41S RMP 500 092 3110-2503 G DRM MER 21800 1000-1200 29 RMP 500 062 3110-2503 G DRM MER 21800 1200-1400 18S RMP 500 047 3110-2503 G DRM MER 5925 0330-0355 4S 8 9 BON 100 350 2211-2911 HOL DRM RNW 5925 1100-1155 11 12N BON 100 180 1511-2211 HOL DRM RNW 5965 1000-1055 11 12N BON 100 180 1511-2211 HOL DRM RNW 6165 0530-0555 2S 3S 6 7 10NW BON 100 320 0612-1312 HOL DRM RNW 9715 0600-0625 2S 3S 6 7 10NW BON 100 320 0612-1312 HOL DRM RNW 9820 0800-0825 55 59 60 BON 100 230 1701-2401 HOL DRM RNW 9820 0900-0925 55 59 60 BON 100 230 1701-2401 HOL DRM RNW 11715 0700-0725 55 59 60 BON 100 230 1701-2401 HOL DRM RNW 11730 0130-0155 4S 8 9 BON 100 350 2211-2911 HOL DRM RNW 15155 0030-0125 4S 8 9 BON 100 350 2211-2911 HOL DRM RNW 15315 0230-0255 14-16 BON 100 170 3101-0702 HOL DRM RNW 15535 2200-2225 46 47 52N BON 100 080 2911-0612 HOL DRM RNW 15535 2330-0025 46 47 52N BON 100 080 2911-0612 HOL DRM RNW 17895 1830-1855 46 47 52N BON 100 080 2911-0612 HOL DRM RNW 17895 2130-2155 46 47 52N BON 100 080 2911-0612 HOL DRM RNW 21590 1930-1955 14-16 BON 100 170 3101-0702 HOL DRM RNW 21590 2000-2025 14-16 BON 100 170 3101-0702 HOL DRM RNW 6105 0605-0650 8 9 SIN 250 300 POR DRM DWL 13635 0830-0900 13 15 SIN 250 240 POR DRM DWL 13650 0200-0240 11 SIN 250 261 POR DRM DWL 15145 0250-0325 47 48 SIN 250 129 POR DRM DWL 15150 1130-1200 28 SIN 250 035 POR DRM DWL 17590 0700-0750 47 48 SIN 250 156 POR DRM DWL 21470 0800-0825 28 SIN 250 035 POR DRM DWL 21540 1100-1125 28 SIN 250 052 POR DRM DWL 21560 1500-1555 41 SIN 250 085 POR DRM DWL 25770 0900-0950 47 48 SIN 250 156 POR DRM DWL 25770 1000-1050 47 48 SIN 250 129 POR DRM DWL 25770 1200-1250 8 9 SIN 250 300 POR DRM DWL 25770 1300-1355 11 SIN 250 261 POR DRM DWL (HFCC registration via Wolfgang Bueschel) ###