DX LISTENING DIGEST 0-115, September 22, 2000 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com [Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages, and we are provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. For restrictions and searchable 2000 archive contents see} http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html WORLD OF RADIO AND CONTINENT OF MEDIA SHORTWAVE-ONLY SCHEDULE AS OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2000 Days and times strictly UT. RFPI returned to 42m on September 20, so nominal new schedule for this and 15049 are now reflected here, resulting in fewer overnight repeats Monday-Friday. It always pays to check RFPI frequencies beyond the scheduled hours. Wed 2330 WOR WBCQ1 7415 Thu 0130 COM RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Thu 2030 WOR WWCR 15685 Fri 0930 WOR WWCR 7435 Fri 1900 COM RFPI 15049 21815-USB Fri 1930 WOR RFPI 15049 21815-USB Fri 2030 WOR WBCQ2 9330-CUSB [irregular] Sat 0030 WOR WWCR 3215 Sat 0300 COM RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Sat 0330 WOR RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Sat 1100 COM RFPI 6969 Sat 1130 WOR RFPI 6969 Sat 1130 WOR WWCR 15685 Sat 1730 COM RFPI 15049 21815-USB Sat 1800 WOR RFPI 15049 21815-USB Sun 0130 COM RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Sun 0200 WOR RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Sun 0230 WOR WWCR 5070 Sun 0628 WOR WWCR 5070 Sun 0930 COM RFPI 6969 Sun 1000 WOR RFPI 6969 Sun 1830 WOR WWCR 15685 Sun 2300 WOR RFPI 15049 21815-USB Mon 0000 WOR WWCR 3215 Mon 0501 WOR WWCR 3210 Mon 1500 WOR RFPI 21815-USB Mon 2200 COM RFPI 15049 21815-USB Tue 1100 WOR WWCR 15685 Tue 1400 COM RFPI 21815-USB Tue 1900 WOR RFPI 15049 21815-USB Tue 2000 COM RFPI 15049 21815-USB Wed 0300 WOR RFPI 6969 15049 21815-USB Wed 0400 COM RFPI 6969 15049 Wed 1200 COM RFPI 21815-USB Wed 1730 COM RFPI 15049 21815-USB For updates on this version of our schedule check http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wormassw.html WOR available on demand from http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/worldofradio.html COM available on demand from http://www.DXing.com/conmedia.htm WOR and COM homepage including complete info: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio Master schedule by time: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wormast.html ** GERMANY. DX Information from the British DX Club (BDXC-UK). Hi All, Some of you might like to look out for this special broadcast over the weekend, there might also be some associated amateur operation too. You can even take part in a competition to win a 3 day cruise between Hamburg - Harwich - Hamburg if you can answer all the questions given in the broadcasts: 100 YEARS OF MARITIME RADIO BETWEEN HELGOLAND AND CUXHAVEN: Special event on 23rd/24th September 2000. Broadcast in Morse/Gerke Code (please note that this is receive only, and no one should attempt to work them!) Startup: 23rd September 2000 07:00 UTC Closedown: 24th September 2000 19:00 UTC Call Sign: DDK8 Frequency: 11638 kHz traffic: traffic lists, multilingual historic press, weather forecast, Special wireless competition For the latest news about the event, please visit the following sites: http://www.marinefunker.de and http://www.seefunker.de Dear OM's, YL, XYL and SWL On 24th September 1900 Prof. F. Braun and his team managed to cover a distance of 62 Kilometers between the isle of Heligoland in the German Bight, and Cuxhaven with their "spark transmitters". A group of former radio officers prepared a special radio event on shortwave to commemorate this historic date. National weather service Deutscher Wetterdienst supplied frequency DDK8, 11638 kHz to transmit from the original place of the lighthouse at Cuxhaven "Alte Liebe". Listen to the "broadcasts", check the radio call signs of old ships and other stations, find the names of them and win a 3 day trip for 2 person an a real passengerliner on the route Hamburg - Harwich - Hamburg. The winner is welcome on board. Terms of condition read cq DL, MF qtc and listen to announcement during broadcasts. Good luck A special "historic telegramm" has been printed for the public. Send a donation for the lightvessel Elbe 1 and Museum of Maritime Affairs of Cuxhaven. Tx schedule is : h+13 wx, h+25 press (German - English - French, each 3 parts alternating) h+50 traffic list and blind transmission Staff permitting, there may also be some amateur activity from the following stations, anything definite will be announced in the DDK8 broadcasts: Amateur calls for QSOs might be: DA0CUX (Lightvessel Elbe 1 in the port of Cuxhaven) and DL0SWA (Amateurradion group National Maritime Agency BSH, Hamburg National Weather Service, DWD Hamburg, Seewetteramt from 1948 - 1996, now new name) Bands to check are 7 & 14 MHz. 73 for now, (via Alan Gale, G4TMV, Sept 21, BDXC-UK via DXLD) We had something about this in August or July, probably via John Norfolk, but it was so far ahead it got put aside... gh) ** HONDURAS. Radio Costeña (Ebenezer 12-20): Hello all. I have arranged a meeting with the new director of Radio Costeña; he seems to be willing to confirm all reception reports. So please, if you are interested in getting a verification from them, send me your reception reports and I will take them personally to the station. This guy is very interested in DXing, so things might change at the station. Luck to everyone (Elmer Escoto, Honduras, eescoto@simon.intertel.hn Sept 19, radio-escutas via DXLD) ** ICELAND. The Rikisutvarpid relays in USB via Reykjavík Radio (10 kW) have new schedules. Europe: 1215-1300 on 15775, 1755-1825 on 13865. N America: 1410-1440 on 13860, 1835-1905 on 13860, 2300-2330 on 11402. The transmissions to Eu are live relays of the news on RUV Program 1, and the evening bc is now one hour earlier compared with previous years, because the main evening news now starts at 1800 instead of 1900 (Reykjavík Radio via Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, 18 Sep, BC-DX via DXLD) ** IRAN. Re unID: 17700 @0243 with unfamiliar IS, preceded by steady tone for at least 15 mins. Lang unidentifiable. Suggests AIR, but different IS (Alan Glasscoe, CA, Sep 6, DX LD) Maybe Iran in Hindi, as once registered? (gh) Sirjan, Iran, 0230-0300 500 kW 95 degrees to zone 41 in Hindi. Via Pacific path towards W USA. (ed. Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX via DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. Dave, Any word on the sites for RTE sports special this Sunday Sept 24 at 1430-1630 As in DXLD 0-103? (gh) NAm 13720 - Sackville, Af 17810 - Meyerton, AuAs 15360 - Kranji, C&SAm 15240 - Cypress Creek, SEAs 15270 - Taiwan (Dave Kenny, England, Sept 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meanwhile, we found last year`s info in GHDX Report 99-41 issued September 23 showing the same sites and only one different frequency concerning Meyerton to Africa: Sackville: 13720 kHz to NAm Cypress Creek: 15240 kHz to C & SAm Taiwan: 15270 kHz to SE Asia Singapore: 15360 kHz to Australasia Meyerton: 21640 kHz to Africa -- Confirmed start time: 1430 UT Sunday Sep 26, 1999 [football championship] (Finbarr O'Driscoll, Sep 17, 1999, Ireland, WORLD OF RADIO 1004) ** MOLDOVA [non]. Hello Glenn, Here is info about Moldova. Maybe you know it? I called the French service this Thursday. Radio Moldova Int. has stopped all broadcasts on SW on September 4th. Financial reasons forced them to cancel these broadcasts (RMI couldn't pay for the electric bill). But programmes are now on Internet in 5 languages at http://www.trm.md/radio (the site wasn't accessible this morning) The e-mail is : rmi@mail.md regards (Jean-Michel AUBIER, Arcay, France, Sept 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) They were via Romania. Several previous reports about MW closing, but never mentioned SW (gh) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jm.aubier/ (un site consacré à la radiodiffusion internationale principalement en ondes courtes) ** SOMALIA. 6985, Radio Galkayo is at 300 watts, but is heard in Sydney at 1600-1700. Now that I have left Somalia, the English program will only be heard at 1700-1715 when English speakers such as Doctors Without Borders show up to do the program. I am sending a capacitor to replace a faulty one in their driver amplifier. Once the station installs it, they will be back to 800 watts (Voron Sep 19-21) 7020 Radio Banaadir was only noted during the local afternoons during my stay in Somalia (Voron) 7530 Radio Hargeisa *1500 noted at this time in Sydney (Sam Voron, NSW, Sep 19-21, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** U K. Because it is all I've ever known it has never occurred to me that other people might find the way British radio and TV cover football odd. Sky Sports coverage is pregnant with comic possibilities, since it involves an ex-footballer sitting in a grandstand trying simultaneously to watch the game, and talk to camera. Unlike you Americans, we do not have college educated footballers. ITV2's coverage is even stranger. Although they have reporters (but no cameras) at all Premier League games they cannot go over to them whilst play is in progress. So whilst the studio anchor can report, for instance, that Ipswich Town have conceded yet another goal, the reporter at the game cannot be heard until half time or full time. Back in the early 80's no contract could be agreed between football and television with the result that cameras were banned from all grounds. Undaunted the BBC set up on a hill overlooking Charlton Athletics' Valley Stadium with the result that the evening sports news contained coverage of what appeared to be two teams of ants playing with a speck of dust. The situation is likely to worsen as clubs attempt to negotiate their own TV deals outside the Premier League cartel. Manchester United already have their own TV channel, and the big players in TV football such as BSkyB and ntl are acquiring large shareholdings in the major clubs. Radio is not much better. Talk Sport lost the rights to cover the recent European championships to the BBC. So they sent their commentary team over to Amsterdam, installed them in a hotel room, and they commentated on the TV pictures. This was, I believe, the subject of an unsuccessful legal challenge. Curiously I thought that their coverage was better than BBC radio's (Nicholas Mead, UK, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. 9649.98, Emisora Ciudad de Montevideo Sept 12 1447-1503, Sp, ads, at 1453 "Ésta es la radiodifusión privada del Uruguay, ésta es La Voz de ANDEBU", then comments, ads Monteverde, Braila Inmobiliaria, Núñez transporte y turismo, Ferromundo; At 1500 "Rememorando" pgm, "por CX42, una apuesta a nuestra máxima fiesta popular..." program about Murgas music & carnivals (Gabriel Iván Barrera, Argentina, BCDX via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. Dear Friends, New E-Mail address of Radio Tashkent International uzradio@uzpak.uz (received from Fritz Andorf, Meckenheim, Germany) 73,s (Volker Willschrey, Saar, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Hi Glenn, After lurking for a long time in your archives, here´s finally a contribution: Sept 9, 10 and 12. Radio Nacional Saharaui in Spanish between 1803 and 1900 UTC on 7450 (not 7470, as they announce; nothing on 1550 or 1548 either). LOTS of easy listening music in English and short Spanish newscasts of about ten minutes around 1830, sometimes preceded by headlines. SINPO in Geneva: 23242 with 7 meter random wire. From September 12, occasional jamming, possibly from Morocco. Logged ID at 1803 is a canned male voice: "Radio Nacional Saharahui, voz del pueblo saharaui. Nuestra señal se emite diariamente desde las 18 y hasta las 19, tiempo universal coordinado, en transmisión simultánea por los 1550 kilohercios de onda media, banda de 194 metros y los 7470 kilohercios de onda corta, banda de 41 metros (break) Nuestras programaciones están hechas con el deseo de que ustedes las disfruten. Radio Nacional Saharaui, una emisora a su servicio`` (another announcer introduces the daily broadcast). From 1900 on, Arabic program. There are no announcements in English, only Spanish. I decided to send you this log because I had been hunting Sahara libre all summer and all the tips I had found online were wrong (the 2300 UTC broadcast in Spanish seems to have vanished). I only got on the right track when I found a clue from a Latvian DXer in your site. Also, let me warmly thank you for your hard work all these years! !Buen trabajo! (Enrique Fernández, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. The Supreme Court has ruled that a private radio station, Capital Radio, may start broadcasting, breaking the state monopoly. Lawyers for the station say it should start as soon as possible before any further regulations are passed. A BBC correspondent says this should have a great impact, especially in rural areas, where people have had to depend on ZBC, which does not cover the opposition as it is controlled by the ruling ZANU-PF party (gist of a BBC WS news item at 1400 and 1500 UT Sept 22 via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So we wonder what effect if any this may have on V. of the People, 7215 (gh) ###