DX LISTENING DIGEST 00-47, April 1, 2000 edited by Glenn Hauser {Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages} WORLD OF RADIO ON WWCR. We were creamed by Chinese exactly co-channel 15685, and not distorted, during the 1230 broadcast Sat April 1, presumably meant to jam V. of Tibet. Let us hope our immediate shift to 1100 on Tue and 1130 on Sat will evade this problem. ** ALASKA. KNLS, English at 0800, not on scheduled new 11780, but actually on 11765 (Chris Hambly, Australia, April 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Australia English Program Guide Updated: March 26, 2000 NEWS at the top of the hour, then: 0010 Sun-Mon CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT Tue-Sat ASIA PACIFIC 0030 Mon HEALTH REPORT Tue LAW REPORT Wed RELIGION REPORT Thu MEDIA REPORT Fri SPORTS FACTOR Sat FEEDBACK Sun CARVING OUT 0110 Mon AWAYE! Tue SCIENCE SHOW Wed THE NATIONAL INTEREST Thu BACKGROUND BRIEFING Fri HINDSIGHT Sat OZ SOUNDS AND ARTS TALK Sun THE EUROPEANS 0210 Mon-Fri THE WORLD TODAY Sat OCKHAM'S RAZOR Sun FINE MUSIC AUSTRALIA 0230 Sat EARTHBEAT Sun INNOVATIONS 0310 Mon-Fri THE MARGARET THORSBY INTERVIEW Sat RURUAL REPORTER Sun CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT 0330 Sat LINGUA FRANCA AND BOOK READING Sun FEEDBACK 0410 Mon-Fri THE WORLD TODAY repeat Sat PACIFIC FOCUS Sun OCKHAM'S RAZOR 0430 Sat JAZZ NOTES Sun OZ SOUNDS 0510 Mon-Fri PACIFIC BEAT including Sport Sat PACIFIC FOCUS Sun PACIFIC REVIEW 0530 Sat CARVING OUT Sun IN CONVERSATION 0610 Mon AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SHOW Tue PRESENTER'S CHOCE Wed BLACKTRACKER Thu AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE Fri MUSIC DELI Sat FEEDBACK Sun PACIFIC FOCUS 0630 Mon-Fri SPORT Sat ARTS TALK Sun CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT 0640 Mon MUSIC DELI Tue AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SHOW Wed PRESENTER'S CHOICE Thu BLACKTRACKER Fri AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY SYTLE 0710 Mon-Fri PACIFIC BEAT inclucing Sport Sat PACIFIC REVIEW Sun PACIFIC FOCUS 0730 Sat IN CONVERSATION Sun RURAL REPORTER 0810 Mon-Fri PM Sat-Sun GRANDSTAND WRAP 0830 Sat ASIA PACIFIC Sun INNOVATIONS 0910 Mon-Fri AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK Sat THE SCIENCE SHOW Sun ENCOUNTER 1010 Mon-Fri ASIA PACIFIC Sat ASIC PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION Sun CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT 1030 Mon HEALTH REPORT Tue LAW REPORT Wed RELIGION REPORT Thu MEDIA REPORT Fri SPORTS FACTOR Sat JAZZ NOTES Sun OZ SOUNDS 1105 Mon-Fri ASIA PACIFIC repeat Sat LINGUA FRANCA AND BOOK READING Sun JAZZ NOTES 1130 Mon-Fri SPORT Sat FINE MUSIC AUSTRALIA Sun IN CONVERSATION 1135 Mon-Fri LIFE MATTERS 1205 Mon-Thu LATE NIGHT LIVE WITH PHILLIP ADAMS Fri SOUND QUALITY Sat SPIRIT OF THINGS Sun COUNTRY CLUB 1305 Mon-Fri THE PLANET WITH LUCKY OCEANS Sat THE SCIENCE SHOW Sun COUNTRY CLUB continued 1405 Mon-Fri THE PLANET continued Sat NEW DIMENSIONS Sun BOOKS AND WRITING 1505 Mon-Fri ASIA PACIFIC repeat Sat MELISMA Sun ENCOUNTER 1530 Mon HEALTH REPORT Tue LAW REPORT Wed RELIGION REPORT Thu MEDIA REPORT Fri SPORTS FACTOR 1605 Mon MUSIC DELI Tue THE COMFORT ZONE Wed VERBATIM Thu HINDSIGHT Fri AWAYE! Sat MELISMA continued Sun THE NATIONAL INTEREST 1630 Tue EARSHOT 1705 Mon-Fri AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK Sat PACIFIC REVIEW Sun NEW DEMENSIONS 1730 Sat EARTHBEAT 1810 Mon-Fri PACIFIC BEAT Sat PACIFIC REVIEW Sun OPEN LEARNING 1830 Sat CARVING OUT 1905 Sat OCKHAM'S RAZOR 1910 Mon-Fri PACIFIC BEAT contuinued Sat PACIFIC FOCUS 1930 Sat-Sun IN CONVERSATION 2010 Mon-Fri PACIFIC BEAT continued Sat PACIFIC REVIEW Sun AUSTRALIA ALL OVER includes news at 2030 2030 Sat OZ SOUNDS 2110 Mon-Fri AM Sat FEEDBACK Sun AUSTRALIA ALL OVER continued includes news at 2145 2130 Mon CARVING OUT Tue HEALTH REPORT Wed INNOVATIONS Thu RELIGION REPORT Fri RURAL FACTOR Sat SPORTS FACTOR 2210 Mon-Fri AM continued Sat ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDTION Sun AUSTRALIA ALL OVER continued 2230 Sat AM 2240 Mon MUSIC DELI Tue AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SHOW Wed PRESENTER'S CHOICE Thu BLACKTRACKER Fri COUNTRY STYLE 2310 Mon CORRESPONDENT"S REPORT MONDAY EDITION Tue-Fri ASIC PACIFIC Sat LINGUA FRANCA AND BOOK READING Sun AUSTRALIA ALL OVER continued 2330 Mon EARTHBEAT Tue INNOVATIONS Wed ARTS TALK Thu RURAL REPORTER Fri MEDIA REPORT Sat IN CONVERSATION (Radio Australia Web Site via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. RSGB News for March 29 (via John Norfolk) features RNB and its English broadcasts to N America and Europe as if they still exist, tho we believe they have been gone for more than a year (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. RÁDIO RGS, Porto Alegre, plans to transmit soon in Spanish and English, in order to cover all of S America, on 6160. Announcers are studying the languages. A new Continental transmitter has also been acquired from Chile for the same frequency. Info from Paulo César Rodrigues, ex-Gerente of Rádio RGS (Celio Romais, RGS, March 31, translated by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE BEGINNING MARCH 26, 2000 UTC Frequencies (kHz) Days/Programs --- ----------------- ------------- ASIA: 1200-1229 9660Y 15195Y Mon-Fri: RCI News/Spectrum Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 1330-1357 9535X 11795X Mon-Fri: RCI News/Spectrum Sat: RCI News/Venture Canada Sun: RCI News/The Mailbag 1630-1657 6140X 7150X Mon-Fri: RCI News/Spectrum Sat: RCI News/Venture Canada Sun: RCI News/The Mailbag 2200-2229 17835X Mon-Fri: The World At Six Sat: CBC News/Venture Canada Sun: CBC News/Arts In Canada UNITED STATES/CARIBBEAN: 0100-0159 5960 9755 Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 0100-0129 11715 13670 15170 Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 15305 0100-0129 5960 9755 11715 Sun: RCI News/Venture Canada 13670 15170 15305 Mon: RCI News/Arts In Canada 0130-0159 5960 9755 11715 Sun: RCI News/Earth Watch 13670 15170 15305 Mon: RCI News/The Mailbag 0200-0229 9755 11715 13670 Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 15170 15305 0200-0259 9755 11715 13670 Sun: CBC News/The Vinyl Cafe 15170 15305 Mon: CBC News/Tapestry 0500-0529 5995 9755 11830 Mon-Fri: First Edition Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 1100-1159 9640 13650 17765 Mon-Fri: World Report/Ontario 17820 Morning 1200-1259 9640 13650 17765 Mon-Fri: RCI News/Ontario Morning 17820 Sat: World Report/The House Sun: CBC News/Quirks and Quarks 1300-1359 13650 17800 Sun: World Report/This Morning 1300-1359 9640 13650 17765 Mon-Fri: World Report/This Morning 17820 1400-1459 13650 17800 Sun: CBC News/This Morning 1500-1559 13650 17800 Sun: CBC News/This Morning 2200-2229 5960 9755 13670 Mon-Fri: The World At Six 15305 17695 Sat: CBC News/Venture Canada Sun: CBC News/Arts In Canada 2230-2359 5960 9755 13670 Mon-Thu: As It Happens Fri: As It Happens/C'est La Vie 2230-2259 5960 9755 13670 Sat: Mystery Project Sun: Madly Off In All Directions 2300-2329 11895 15305 17695 Mon-Fri: The World At Six 2300-2359 5960 9755 11895 Sat: CBC News/Global Village 13670 15305 17695 Sun: Nova Scotia Kitchen Party AMERICAS/CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA/MEXICO: 0100-0129 11715 13670 15170 Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 15305 0100-0129 5960 9755 11715 Sun: RCI News/Venture Canada 13670 15170 15305 Mon: RCI News/Arts In Canada 0130-0159 5960 9755 11715 Sun: RCI News/Earth Watch 13670 15170 15305 Mon: RCI News/The Mailbag 0200-0229 9755 11715 13670 Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 15170 15305 0200-0259 9755 11715 13670 Sun: CBC News/The Vinyl Cafe 15170 15305 Mon: CBC News/Tapestry 0500-0529 5995 9755 11830 Mon-Fri: First Edition Sat: CBC News/Earth Watch Sun: CBC News/Arts In Canada 2200-2229 5960 9755 13670 Mon-Fri: The World At Six 15305 17695 Sat: CBC News/Venture Canada Sun: CBC News/Arts In Canada 2300-2329 11895 15305 17695 Mon-Fri: The World At Six 2300-2359 5960 9755 11895 Sat: CBC News/Global Village 13670 15305 17695 Sun: Nova Scotia Kitchen Party [Note: some versions of the schedule have a typo in the time for above entry showing it starting at 2330 instead of 2300; NSKP runs through April, then Roots & Wings resumes in May -gh] EUROPE: 0500-0529 6145W 7290S Mon-Fri: First Edition 9595S 11710 13755 Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch 15330S Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 2000-2059 5995S 11690S Mon-Fri: RCI News/Spectrum 13650 13670S 15325 15470 17820 17870 2000-2029 5995S 11690S Sat: RCI News/Venture Canada 13650 13670S 15325 Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 15470 17820 17870 2030-2059 5995S 11690S Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch 13650 13670S 15325 Sun: RCI News/The Mailbag 15470 17820 17870 2100-2159* 5995S 7235S 13650 Mon-Fri: CBC News/The Roundup 13670S 15325 17820 Sat: CBC News/Nova Scotia Kitchen 17870 Party [SEE NOTE BELOW UNDER AFRICA] Sun: CBC News/Madly Off In All Directions/The Inside Track AFRICA: 0400-0429 13765S 15345V Mon-Fri: RCI News/African Eyes 0500-0529 6145W 7290S 9595S Mon-Fri: First Edition 11710 13755 15330S Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 0600-0629 11715 13755 15330S Mon-Fri: RCI News/African Eyes 17675W 2000-2059 5995S 11690S 13650 Mon-Fri: News/Spectrum 13670S 15325 15470 17820 17870 2000-2029 5995S 11690S 13650 Sat: RCI News/Venture Canada 13670S 15325 15470 Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 17820 17870 2030-2059 5995S 11690S 13650 Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch 13670S 15325 15470 Sun: RCI News/The Mailbag 17820 17870 2100-2159* 5995S 7235S 13650 Mon-Fri: CBC News/The Roundup 13670S 15325 17820 Sat: CBC News/Nova Scotia Kitchen 17870 Party Sun: CBC News/Madly Off In All Directions/The Inside Track [note: another version of the schedule from RCI shows that the Sat 2105 airing of NS Kitchen Party ends in April and Quirks & Quarks returns in May -gh] MIDDLE EAST 0400-0429 11835V 11975S Tue-Sat: RCI News/Spectrum 15215W Sun: RCI News/Venture Canada Mon: RCI News/The Mailbag 0500-0529 6145W 7290S 9595S Mon-Fri: News/First Edition 11710 13755 15330S Sat: RCI News/Earth Watch Sun: RCI News/Arts In Canada 2100-2159* 5995S 7235S 13650 Mon-Fri: CBC News/The Roundup 13670S 15325 17820 Sat: CBC News/Nova Scotia Kitchen 17870 Party Sun: CBC News/Madly Off In All Directions/The Inside Track *2100-2159: The RCI program schedule gives 11690 while the technical schedule gives 5995. RELAYS S: SKELTON, ENGLAND V: VIENNA, AUSTRIA W: WERTACHTAL, GERMANY X: XIAN, CHINA Y: YAMATA, JAPAN THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. (RCI web site via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. CLANDESTINE from/to CONGO: Radio Liberte. Further to my previous report, I got a note from MLC confirming that they are broadcasting from Gbadolite in the Congo. The MLC also provided me with some more contact information as well as the URL for their official website. Not much about radio on their web site, there is a mention of an MLC station in Kisangani known as Radio Freedom, but I believe that this is on FM only. MLC Tel: (871) 762.280.770 Fax: (871) 762.012.214 Email: MLCongo@compuserve.com Web: http://www.mlc- congo.org (Hans Johnson, Mar 29, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Great Lakes media watchers filled Cumbre DX in on some of the clandestine stations in this region: 6713 Radio Bukavu is now controlled by the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)- Goma faction. Radio Candip, which uses both 3390 and 5066, is controlled by the RCD faction of Ernest Wamba dia Wamba: the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie - Mouvement de liberation (RCD-ML) (via Hans Johnson Mar 29, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. Notes from RFPI Mailbag first airing March 31 at 2000, with Debra Latham and Joe Bernard: while 6975 is down for repairs, 15049 is running 24h, and 25930-USB expanded to about 1300-0300. James has been atop the tower for hours at a time, but needs help from another antenna climber, being awaited. It is hard to get antennas to withstand tropical conditions and 30 kW of load; the cubical quad for 6975 had various harmonic problems [not that we ever heard any trace of 2x or higher harmonics here -gh]. A backup antenna built in November blew apart previously. So antenna improvements are in the planning stage. Hope to have 6975 back on in a few more days running 2200-0800 (and nothing was heard here about changing the frequency). Also, the long-dormant RFPI Weekly Program Update is expected to resume distribution April 2. Progressive News Network has been reduced to three days a week for the time being, so that it could be maintained at the previous level of quality despite reduced resources; rather than dropping it completely, or spreading resources too thin on a 5-day basis. BTW, WOR 1030 was at RFPI in time to start airing Thursday March 30 but for some reason ran at 2230 plus repeats instead of 2300 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Greetings from Quito. This note is especially for our listeners in Europe. Because of interference on our new A00 frequency from 0600-0800 UTC, we will move to 15160 kHz as of 2 April 2000. We welcome information on this revised frequency, and will be more than happy to QSL your report. Just let us know you want one of our QSL cards. Thank you for lots of interesting information shared on the list. Blessings on you all from The Voice of The Andes. (Allen Graham, Producer DX Partyline, via hard-core-dx, via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. New Frequency! 4800v March 29 0007-0015, 333, Radio Oriental, Tena, w/Time check ``19 horas y 7 minutos...7 horas y 7 minutos...continuamos con El Expreso de la Noche (Ballad music in Spanish) hasta las 21.00 horas`` (0200 UT); slogan ``Radio Oriental, su Radio!`` Note: New frequency, ex 4782 kHz. Note 2: April 1, moving to 4802 at 0032 UT with good reception here! announcing still ``4780 kHz`` Reactivated Frequency! 5011 March 30 0020-0058, 454, ERPE, In Quichua/Spanish, ID ``Escuelas Radiofonicas Populares del Ecuador`` (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI / CHINA. Assignments for CRI via Bamako for A00: 7170 0830-0900, 2300-0000 9890 1730-1830 11735 1930-2130 11970 1700-1730 11975 2130-0000 13640 2000-2130 13650 1300-1600 13685 1700-1930 15125 1400-1730 15500 1930-2300 15530 1630-1930 15550 1730-1930 17880 1300-1400, 1600-1700 Ciao (Bob Padula, Elecronic DX Press via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. From Radio Australia's "Pacific Review" program to be broadcast this weekend: - PNG's NBC to be Corporatised. Papua New Guinea's National Broadcasting Commission is to be fully corporatised. A meeting of provincial radio station managers in Madang has been told that heavy reliance on government handouts over the past 10 years has crippled operations. NBC Managing Director Tony Boski says a change from a public service approach to a more businesslike approach is necessary. (via John Figliozzi, NY, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. R. Polonia website A-00 English schedule on SW: 1200-1259 11820 9525 7270 6095 1700-1759 7285 6000 1930-2029 9525 7265 7185 6035 Which means as usual in NAm we must rely on WRN or internet to get it (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL / U S A. 15580 VOA has co-channel interference from RDPI, noted Mar 31 at 2115 (Chris Hambly, Australia) Also April 1 at 1950 (George Thurman, IL) And 15445 also has clash between VOA and RDPI at 1900 April 1 (Hambly) We immediately alerted IBB to this: ``You have a problem...`` AAMOF, the RDP A-00 sked, via Carlos L. R. de Assuncao Goncalves via Noel Green via Wolfgang Bueschel does list both: 15580 is to NAm, 294 degrees, 100 kW ``reserved for special transmissions`` 1200-2300 M-F; and without that proviso 1200-2000 Sat/Sun, but may be extended to 2300. Judging from the enthusiastic show at least on Friday, it was some silly ballgame. 15445 is to Eu, 52 degrees, 100 kW, 1600-1900 M-F but may be extended to 2300; and not mentioned on the Sat/Sun portion of the schedule. Clearly, some improved coordination is needed between IBB and a former host country. VOA has long been on both frequencies, currently 15445 1600-1800 from Botswana, 1900-2200 from Morocco; 15580 1800- 2200 from Greenville (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. VOICE OF RUSSIA PROGRAM SCHEDULE March 26, 2000 - October 29, 2000 NEWS - EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR (11 minutes) NEWS-IN-BRIEF - ON THE HALF HOUR (1 sesquiminute) Time Day: Program UTC 1400 Mon-Sat: News & Views Sun: Sunday Panorama/Russia in Personalities 1430 Mon: Folk Box Tue, Thu: Yours For the Asking/Music At Your Request Wed: Jazz Show Fri: Moscow Yesterday & Today Sat: Timelines Sun: Kaleidoscope 1500 Mon-Fri: Focus On Asia & the Pacific Sat: Newmarket Sun: Moscow Mailbag 1530 Mon: This Is Russia Tue: Moscow Yesterday & Today Wed: Audio Book Club Thu: Folk Box Fri: Songs From Russia/You Write To Moscow Sat: Kaleidoscope Sun: Russian By Radio 1600 Mon, Thu: Newmarket Tue: Science & Engineering Wed, Fri: Moscow Mailbag Sat: Music & Musicians Sun: Science & Engineering 1630 Mon, Wed, Fri: The 20th Century: Year After Year Tue, Thu: Alternative Programs Sat: Music & Musicians continued Sun: Timelines 1700 Mon, Thu, Sat: Moscow Mailbag Tue, Fri: Newmarket Wed: Science & Engineering Sun: Music & Musicians 1730 Mon: Kaleidoscope Tue: Yours For the Asking/Music At Your Request Wed: Moscow Yesterday & Today Thu: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Fri: Folk Box Sat: Songs From Russia/You Write To Moscow Sun: Music & Musicians continued 1800 Mon-Fri Commonwealth Update Sat: Science & Engineering Sun: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Moscow Mailbag 1830 Mon, Wed, Fri: The 20th Century: Year After Year Tue, Thu: Alternative Programs Sat: This Is Russia Sun: Christian Message From Moscow 1900 Mon-Sat: News & Views Sun: Sunday Panorama/Russia in Personalities 1930 Mon: Moscow Yesterday & Today Tue: This Is Russia Wed: Kaleidoscope Thu: Audio Book Club Fri: Russian By Radio Sat: Christian Message From Moscow Sun: This Is Russia 2000 Mon, Thu: Science & Engineering Tue, Fri: Moscow Mailbag Wed, Sat: Newmarket Sun: Music & Musicians 2030 Mon: Songs From Russia/You Write To Moscow Tue: Yours For the Asking/Music At Your Request Wed: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Thu: Folk Box Fri: Jazz Show Sat: Russian By Radio Sun: Music & Musicians continued 0100 Mon: Sunday Panorama/Russia in Personalities Tue-Sat:Commonwealth Update Sun: News & Views 0130 Mon: Timelines Tue: Folk Box Wed: Jazz Show Thu: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Fri: Yours For the Asking/Music At Your Request Sat: Christian Message From Moscow Sun: Moscow Yesterday & Today 0200 Mon, Thu, Sun: Moscow Mailbag Tue, Fri: Science & Engineering Wed, Sat: Newmarket 0230 Mon: This Is Russia Tue: Kaleidoscope Wed: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Thu: Moscow Yesterday & Today Fri: Russian By Radio Sat: Audio Book Club Sun: Songs From Russia/You Write To Moscow 0300 Mon: Sunday Panorama/Russia in Personalities Tue-Sun: News & Views 0330 Mon: Audio Book Club Tue, Thu, Sat: The 20th Century: Year After Year Wed, Fri: Alternative Programs Sun: Christian Message From Moscow 0400 Mon: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century Tue, Fri: Moscow Mailbag Wed, Sat: Science & Engineering Thu: Newmarket Sun: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century 0430 Mon: Jazz Show Tue: Yours For the Asking/Music At Your Request Wed: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Thu: Folk Box Fri: Audio Book Club Sat: Timelines Sun: Moscow Yesterday & Today 0500 Mon: Moscow Mailbag Tue-Sat: Focus On Asia & the Pacific Sun: Science & Engineering 0530 Mon, Fri: This Is Russia Tue: Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century/Russia in Personalities Wed: Russian By Radio Thu: Moscow Yesterday & Today Sat: Christian Message From Moscow Sun: Audio Book Club 0600 Mon, Fri: Science & Engineering Tue, Thu, Sun: Moscow Mailbag Wed, Sat: Newmarket 0630 Mon: Russian By Radio Tue, Fri: Kaleidoscope Wed: Moscow Yesterday & Today Thu: Audio Book Club Sat: This Is Russia Sun: Timelines 0700 Mon: Music & Musicians Tue, Thu, Sat: Update Wed: Science & Engineering Fri: Moscow Mailbag Sun: Newmarket 0730 Mon: Music & Musicians continued Tue: Folk Box Wed: Audio Book Club Thu: This Is Russia Fri: Moscow Yesterday & Today Sat: Kaleidoscope Sun: Songs From Russia/You Write To Moscow 0800 Mon: Science & Engineering Tue: FOCUS ON ASIA Wed, Fri: Update Thu: Newmarket Sat: Moscow Mailbag Sun: Music & Musicians 0830 Mon: Moscow Yesterday & Today Tue: The 20th Century: Year After Year/Russian Musical Highlights Of the 20th Century Wed: This Is Russia Thu: Folk Box Fri: Jazz Show Sat: Christian Message From Moscow Sun: Music & Musicians continued This schedule is subject to change without prior notice Copyright (c) 2000 THE VOICE OF RUSSIA (via John Norfolk, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE in English to Europe, Africa, A-00: M-F 2000-2100 9595 Af, 15285 Eu Sat 2105-2200 and Sun 2100-2200 9595 Af, 9840 Eu (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We believe the NAm service stays on 6055 for now at 0000-0200, 0500-0600, tho last summer they went up to 15 MHz (gh, DXLD) ** U A E. Some odd UAE Radio, Dubai frequencies appear in the English schedule on http://www.angelfire.com/wi/worldbandradio – 17395 and 18600 at 1330 along with 13675, 21605; typos? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K O G B A N I. Practically all BBC WS programmes have new times, made more difficult for us to extract from BBC On Air due to its new emphasis on select local timezones rather than GMT, such as EDT = UT minus 4, irrelevant for the majority of North and South Americans! Write On, the letterbox show still skips one week a month for Waveguide at the same times (in April, week of 22nd), now scheduled as we have converted into UT: W Africa Sat 0845, Sun 1945 W Europe Sat 0745 only E & S Africa Sat 0645, Mon 0945 Middle East Sat 0645, Mon 0345 S Asia Sat 0345 E Asia, Australia, Pacific Sat 0145 Americas Sat 0330 (gh, from April BBC On Air via Chris Hambly, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. On his March 31 broadcast, Art Bell announced his retirement from radio effective April 26. April 28 will be a key date in litigation in Nashville involving WWCR and Ted Gunderson accusing Bell of being a child molester. His entire statement, including an attack on WWCR, can be read and heard via http://www.artbell.com (rec.radio.shortwave via John Norfolk, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Nice harmonic on 2660 Friday morning, March 31, was second only to WWV on 2500. At 1210 in live local news mentioning Texas towns such as Rockwell, Cameron, obits from Rosebud, Bryan, 1213 weather, said local sunrise was just happening at 6:14 am ``here in Cameron``, wrapping up cast from the KMIL Newsroom, 1216 devotions. Next day quick check April 1 at 1220 amid gospel harmonies came ID as ``KMIL is personality and information radio for all of central Texas``. M-Street Directory VIII has KMIL on 1330 in Cameron TX, 500 watts day, 97 watts night, non-directional. No doubt this was the unID harmonic I had from Galveston in February (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. Checking again for the relay via RCI, UT Fri March 31, it was only on the air for the first hour 0100-0200 on 9695, not 0200-0300 on 9695, nor 0300-0500 on 9795 as scheduled. We did not check UT April 1. Since they are tests, perhaps the rest will come up after the DST change and transmitters become available. However, checking the VOV website April 1, http://www.vov.org.vn/docs1/english/programme/index1.html I see that 9695 and 9795 already appear tho heading still shows 31 October to 4 March! and 7250, 7260 via Russia have vanished from English listings, altho we were still hearing 7250 a few days before. It gives the supposed times for English, says nothing about this being a 10-day test nor hints at a new transmitter site: 0100-0130 NE America 9695 0230-0300 NE America 9695 0330-0400 C America 9795 The later frequency is also shown, time conflicting, for Spanish and Vietnamese: 0300-0400 C America, Caribbean Spanish 9795 0400-0500 NW America Vietnamese 9795 I believe that previous language scheduling via Russia, which might actually be maintained, had 0100 English, 0130-0230 Vietnamese, 0230 English, 0300 Spanish, 0330 English, 0400-0500 Vietnamese - the last via DVR on 13665 but that has been deleted too (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Clandestine/Morocco, 7470, March 28-30, +2258-0005*, 343 SIO, Radio Nacional de la Republica Arabe Saharawi, Noted in Arabic at 2258 UT, Spanish after 2315 but I hrd a Listeners' letters program at 2328, man reading a letter of well-known German DXer Harald Kuhl, also other letters until 2358 when OM began with a newscast before ID ``Radio Nacional de la Republica Arabe Saharawi`` and ``Radio Nacional a nombre del Pueblo Saharawi``. Closing announcement at 0005*, next days 0000* UT. Note: In my last message I reported 7490, correct frequency is 7470, sorry! (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###