GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-33, August 9, 1999

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LAST WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA 30: See topic summary at
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Worx30.html

THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 999: Topic summary available Aug 12 at
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Wor999.html

** CHINA [non]. CRI: the schedule of the relay over the French Guiana 
facility is: 0200-0257 Spanish 13685; 0300-0357 Mandarin, English 0400-
0457 both on 9720; 9720 is new, replacing original 9730. (Bob Padula,
Electronic DX Press)

So it was, Chinese checked at 0341 UT August 9 on 9720; has adjacent
from 9715, and hard to tell here why they moved. However, at 0448 
recheck found English back/still on 9730, but with a BIG problem:
two audio feeds of the same program at same level about 2 seconds
apart! Unlistenable, at least in speech; furthermore, RCI relay on
9560 had exactly the same problem so it was somewhere between China
and the western hemisphere. Isn't it about time this old SW medium got 
its act together? At the very least, wasn't anyone monitoring at either 
site? Of course not. If nothing else, they should have dumped feed and 
run fill music/apologies (Glenn Hauser, OK, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING)

** GERMANY. Tuning in for a BBC WS Prom Concert, Bartok's Concerto for
Orchestra, Sun Aug 8 at 1510 on what would have been the best frequency
17840, found a heavy mix with something in Portuguese, almost as loud
as BBC, which had not been there two weeks before. Kept mentioning
"Alemanha", first in Luso, after 1531 in Brazilian accent, so pretty
sure it's Radio Deutsche Welle; also had its characteristic audio 
processing sound. At first I thought BBC had its wires crossed, with
two feeds at once, since there was no discernable subaudible heterodyne
-- meaning virtually zero-beat frequencies, but BBC has no Portuguese
scheduled at this hour, and the Port signal faded independently of BBC
audio. It was gone by 1600. What genius thought this frequency could be 
shared by BBC and DW without harm? (Glenn Hauser, OK, REVIEW OF
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

** IRAQ. 7161 - Mother of Battles Radio. S/on at 16.00 with Arabic 
music, followed immediately by Recital of Koran, then music; ID at 
16.06 by woman in Arabic as "Idha'at umm al-ma'arik, Idha atu kul 
al-arab", then songs and talks mainly on Sadaam Hussein and America. 
18.50 Recital of Koran followed by military music, probably NA; time 
pips, short announcement and went off at 19.00. Poor and very noisy 
reception August 5 and 6 (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, WORLD OF RADIO
999)

** ISRAEL. As of Aug 10 1999 the following three 1400 UTC frequencies 
will be changing

OLD      NEW
17615 ->17620
11605 ->15210
9435  ->13750
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(Daniel Rosenzweig, August 2, WORLD OF RADIO 999)

** LATVIA. I've just heard that Radio Latvia Int'l has made its last
shortwave transmission. This was announced during Saturday night's
transmission, 31st July, in English 1900-1930 on 5935 kHz. They said
that they would now only be on internet, but no details given as to
site. So we have lost another SW service this week, along with R.
Bras as you recently mentioned on World of Radio (Edwin Southwell,
England, 3rd August, WORLD OF RADIO 999)

** MEXICO [non]. Thanks to Joe Hanlon for tipping me that WRMI's Viva 
Miami on 7465 UT Sun August 8 at 0400 was a special from the Orizaba
DX meeting. Turned out to be nearly an hour long, in English, 
interviewing many of the participants, apparently a repeat of live 
broadcast the previous Tuesday (?). When I checked 24 hours later,
the frequency was already off, UT Mon (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

** U S A. AFRTS -- Here is some programing on 12689 kHz

7-27 [Tuesday]

04:40   Pentagon News Break
04:46   UPI News update
04:49   AFN Sports
04:50   Moon Eclipse
04:53   Osgood File
04:55   DOD break about Mortars
04:57   Tokyo Stock market info
04:58   DOD Sexual harrasment
04:58   Kosovo ABC news
04:59   One minute of American History

7-27

19:30   CNN Headline News
20:00   AFN Sports Major League Baseball

73 (Cam HP1AC Castillo, Panama, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)
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