GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-26, June 17, 1999 {Items from this and all our reports may be reproduced and re- reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages} THIS WEEK WE'RE ON VOA COMMUNICATIONS WORLD with media news, substituting for the vacationing Kim Elliott, not the half-hour edition, but one report on all 12 airings of CW on VOA News Now at :36 past odd UT hours, UT Saturday June 19. THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 993: See topic summary at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Wor993.html CONTINENT OF MEDIA 99-04 will soon be available on RFPI, and on http://www.DXing.com Topic summary also on our WOR website CANADA. Today, I starting hearing sign off announcements on CBC Radio 740. Announcements that run every 15 minutes, advise listeners that as of the 19th, CBC programming will no longer be heard on 740 and that they should tune to 99.1 FM. The announcements cut into regular programming using a soft fade in [out] and advise listeners to call a number if they have reception concerns. No mention is made of the Paris and Crystal Beach relays. (Andy Reid, Ont., June 14 via Hauser) 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 minutes 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. [Presumably this also explains delays in downloading WOR 992.] 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 frequencies 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) ETHIOPIA [non]. 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) KOSOVA [non]. As from Friday 11th June, a Radio Netherlands transmitter in Flevo is carrying two hours of programming from Radio 21, the exiled Albanian- language station from Pristina, capital of Kosovo. The transmissions are arranged in cooperation with Press Now, an organization set up to support the independent media in the former Yugoslavia. The transmitter will be on the air at 1827-2025 UTC on 9495kHz beamed to Eastern Europe. Radio Netherlands is *not* responsible for the content of these programmes and QSLs are not available. In Albanian except for English news around 2015 (Andy Sennitt, swprograms, std disclaimer, WORLD OF RADIO 993) NEW ZEALAND [non]. Whilst enjoying RNZI's classical music on Cadenza, UT Tue June 15 at 0126 on 17675, despite -- not because of -- the rolling fades some diehard SWLs say add to the experience --, a far greater problem appeared out of nowhere - Dr Gene Scott; then by 0127 R. Nederland's ID signal joined him to mess with RNZI. This was on the Yachtboy 400, which was connected to external outdoor antenna, but not overloaded until this moment -- unplugged it in favor of indoor reel-out antenna, and still the mix tho somewhat lessened. Only by going to the whip alone did it disappear, but RNZI's signal level also dropped too much. This was doubtless mixing produced within the receiver, and I soon figured out the unwitting culprits: RN which had just opened Dutch on 11865 from Bonaire; and KAIJ 5810 Dallas, which when summed, equal 17675. Oh, for valve receivers! (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) NIGERIA. Following the BBCM report from Nigeria Media Monitor that V. of Nigeria had been off the air since May 30 as of June 14, we checked 7255 UT June 17: 0445 tune in, fair signal in Arabic, presumably VOA which inexplicably has been using VON's main external service frequency. *0448 stronger carrier with continuous noise, no doubt taking feed from an open FM STL circuit; 0452 quiet and then tone; 0457 talking drums, mention of "Nigeria", ID in Swahili; 0458 pallid undermodulated anthem; 0459 VON ID in English by woman and someone turns up the volume level; mentions 15120 (unheard), program summary, 6 am timecheck, 0501 music opening women's program, couldn't catch the title, introduced by a man. Generally several notches above VOA co-channel (Glenn Hauser, OK) PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Has domestic SW service extended hours? I used to hear national anthem, then sign-off at 1200 on 4890 Port Moresby. But right now June 10 at 1329 I am hearing lovely local music at 1329 (Brian Gilbert, Roseburg OR, WORLD OF RADIO 993) I saw a BBCM report in May that NBC was expanding hours more in the daytime or to 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) PERU. Spanish language station I have been hearing for the last 3 evenings on 6955.5 khz am +/-. The first reception was on Jun 13 at 0319-0402. Also heard Jun 14 and Jun 15 in the 0200-0300 hour as well. Format is similar to those Spanish stations heard in the tropical bands. Lots of local music and fast speed local language announcers. Although the signals here have ranged from poor to good I have not been able to copy this station's ID. I do not think it is a pirate transmission though it is around the area of the popular pirate frequency 6955. (Paul Demsky, Maine, WORLD OF RADIO 993) PERU. 6955.5kHz 0430z R dif Paraton, Huarmaca, now here ex-6676 etc... heard with chicha mx and frequent t/cs, using novel hour format i.e "faltan seis minutos a cero cero horas...". Poor modulation on live annc, much better on full id at 0501 after Andean flute intro... hrd past 0530. Thanks to Peter Grenfell who alerted me after chasing pirates (as usual...). (Paul Ormandy, Oamaru, New Zealand, hard-core-dx, WORLD OF RADIO 993) SPAIN. REE sked shows News in Catalan/Galician/Basque, which used to be several times a day, only at 2200-2230 Mon-Sat, on 7270, 7275, 9595, 9765-CR, 11880-CR, 15110-CR, 15170, 17575. And the special Spanish program for Equatorial Guinea is Mon-Sat 1600-1700 on 15375, 17755 (BBC Monitoring June 9 excerpted by Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 993) SWEDEN. Greetings, Glenn. Just returned from a week in Italy and saw the news about the death of Arne Skoog. This is sadly ironic, because just two days before that, I had a ham radio contact with a station in Stockholm. The operator also used to work for Radio 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 Radio Sweden ham station, which is still in operation. His other hobby was completely non-radio-related: building and playing violins, a key instrument in traditional Swedish folk music. 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 shortwave as the classic and vital medium for international broadcasting 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) UKRAINE. I heard RUI in English on their new freq of 9560 June 10 0000-0058, but reception was poor, about equal strength to 5905. Things did get slightly better by the end of the hour, but still not that great. The other freqency listed for this hour, 9945, was in Ukrainian and was better than 9560, actually becoming fairly good beyond 0100. Some nice Ukrainian music from RUI on 9945 during the 0000-0200 period. Broadcast is in Ukrainian. (Ivan Grishin, Ont., June 11, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) UKRAINE. Most evenings since May 27 I have been hearing Radio Ukraine International on 17715 kHz at 21:00 in English, signal weak but in the clear, probably beamed east, so could possibly be audible in western NA. 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) UKRAINE. On June 14, RUI was heard in English UT 2100-2200 on 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) ###