DX LISTENING DIGEST 1-032, March 7, 2001 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com {Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. For restrixions and searchable 2001, 2000 contents archive see} http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html [NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn] WORLD OF RADIO Extra 40: (stream) http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/worx40.ram (download) http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/worx40.rm (summary) http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/worx40.html ** BELGIUM. Hi Glenn, I just received an Excel-Sheet with the complete A-01 schedule from RVI's frequency management. You were right with the 2300 UT transmission in English on 15565 kHz. The 0700 UT broadcast is definitely on 9865 kHz. The intention of the Moscow relay is to cover not only Europe but also South America. vy73 (Andreas Volk, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHECHNYA. Russia: Rebel radio transmitter seized in Chechnya Excerpt from report by Russia TV on 7 March [Presenter] On the eve of 8 March holiday, security measures have been stepped up in Chechnya... A rebel radio transmitter was seized in a special operation conducted in Chechnya's Kurchaloy District. The person who used the transmitter to listen to the radio frequencies of federal troops and amend rebel activities accordingly has been arrested. Our correspondents report that, in addition, the detained man conducted ideological work among the local population. The military are saying that the situation in Chechnya's Kurchaloy District is among the most difficult ones in the republic. [Viktor Pelishchenko, head of the Federal Security Service department of Chechnya's Kurchaloy District] As has transpired now, the transmitter worked on the instructions of the leadership of the illegal armed formations. It introduced certain amendments into the activities of the illegal armed formations and was engaged in propaganda. Source: Russia TV, Moscow, in Russian 0800 gmt 7 Mar 01 (via BBC Monitoring via DXLD) How novel, a transmitter used ``to listen``! And is this a communications unit, or a broadcast? Maybe, if ``propaganda`` (gh) ** INDIA. From the folks who brought you Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Thiruvanathapuram, etc.: Allahabad will now be `Tirth Raj Prayag' The Times of India News Service LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Rajnath Singh on Monday announced that the historic Allahabad city would be renamed ``Tirth Raj Prayag". The announcement was made at a function attended here by sadhus and sants to felicitate the CM for the success and a peaceful conduct of recent Kumbh mela there. [huhh??? -gh] Incidentally, the CM's announcement coincided with the announcement of the election schedule for two assembly byelections in the state by the Election Commission. The CM himself is a contender from the Haidergarh assembly constituency. The CM quickly conceded the demand to change the name of Allahabad when it was proposed in his speech earlier by Satyavitranand Giri, former shankaracharya. ``When Calcutta can be renamed Kolkota and Bombay as Mumbai, why cannot Allahabad be given a new name?" Giri asked. He said it deserved to be called ``Tirth Raj Prayag" because of the the confluence of the holy Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati. http://www.timesofindia.com/today/07indi52.htm If this new name catches on, I'd bet that acronym-loving Indians would just say "TRP". (Mike Brooker, Toronto, ON, March 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. It`s goodbye to Lithuania via Germany, and goodbye to consistently good reception as well. Radio Vilnius has vacated 6120 [Germany], and is only fair on direct 9875, on March 6 0030-0100 (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Voice of Russia in English now scheduled on new 12010 (ex 5940) as of March 4 1800-2200. For our afternoons, this is the best bet in North America, as everything else is below 10 MHz (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. Glenn, Radio Thailand has performed their March shift from 15395 to 13695, heard March 6 at 0030 sign on. Fluttery, but in the clear (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also U S A ** TURKEY. I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU THAT STARTING ON MARCH THE 13TH WHICH IS A TUESDAY, THE VOT WILL HAVE A LIVE CALL-- IN SHOW ON THE O1:OO AM (TURKISH TIME) [2300 UT MONDAY] BROADCAST. LISTENERS ARE INVITED TO PLACE CALLS IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY APPEAR ON THE PROGRAM. THE LIVE SHOW WILL BE HOSTED BY RESHIDE AND KIZILGUL MORALI ... IF THEY WISH THE VOT TO CALL THEM THEN THEY CAN WRITE TO ankayra@yahoo.com AND WE WILL CALL THEM. THEY MUST GIVE THEIR NAME AND A NUMBER AT WHICH WE CAN REACH THEM. WARM REGARDS, (RESHIDE MORALI, VOT, March 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Following my earlier posting, some disruption to road and rail traffic has continued as a result of Sunday's bomb attack on the BBC Television Centre in White City. However, outwardly at least, all sounds pretty normal. However, during Monday's 5 Live Breakfast programme, some potential listeners wrote to complain that they could not hear 5 live on the web. It was explained that 5 Live were having to use a temporary studio because of the blast, and this studio did not have facilities to contact them to the web, and they were also without a webcamera in their temporary studio - much to their relief I am sure (Paul David, England, March 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The Voice of America's [1999] "The Century In Sound" is this week's feature documentary at The Third Coast International Audio Festival hosted by WBEZ-Chicago (WBEZ is also home to This American Life). The Third Coast International Audio Festival: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org THE CENTURY IN SOUND: AN AMERICAN'S PERSPECTIVE. Voice of America's "The Century In Sound" is a 220-plus element radio documentary that chronicles the 20th century without narration as those 100 years were perceived through the personal lens [sic] of executive producer Adam Phillips and a core group of helpers during the final five weeks of 1999. Many choices seemed mandatory; others were purely aesthetic. However, the core motivation underlying the project was a humanistic one: to give VOA's millions of non-American listeners an experience, in compressed form, both of the century's historic sweep, and the way it felt to be "inside" that sweep as an American. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Click to Listen: 38 min.:) http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/ra/centuryofsound.ram (Read More at Third Coast:) http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org (Chet Copeland/NYC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: NPR's The Connection. A Mar. 6 Boston Globe article mentions that a number of PBS (TV) shows are privately owned. NPR's Car Talk is only nominally from WBUR: Since it went private, it reportedly doesn't help WBUR's bottom line much at all. Also mentions WNYC and N.H. Public Radio as possible originators of a new Christopher Lydon show (Kevin Kelly in Mass. had heard this too). [Read Article] 'The lost connection' http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/065/business/The_lost_connection-.shtml New Lydon page: http://www.christopherlydon.org/ Old show: http://www.theconnection.org/ (Chet Copeland/NYC, March 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The following info I found in the Bangkok Post dated March 6, 2001: VOA to review closure of service Voice of America's board of governors will review the planned closure of the US radio's Thai-language service, following appeals from senior Thai officials, politicians and the US ambassador. An informed source said the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is part of the US committee on international broadcasting, is likely to review the plan on March 21. The board announced in mid-January it will close the Thai language service on Aug 3 ... It said the US $ 400,000 budget earmarked for the Thai service would be spent on boosting other services, including transmissions in Indonesian and Arabic. ... A source said Thai MPs have warned that closure of the Thai-language service might adversely affect VOA's plan to strengthen signals to Cambodia and Burma by beefing up a relay station at Ban Dung with a new 100,000 kilowatt transmitter to be brought in from the Philippines. VOA started broadcasting its Thai-language service in 1942 on shortwave and expanded to 18 stations on both AM and FM in 1988. ... Funding for the Indonesian service is to be increased by $ 1 million, and the Arabic service by $ 4 million. End I guess 100,000 kW should read 100 kW (J. Lohuis) Greetings from Mae Sot, Northern Thailand vy 73 de (Juergen Lohuis, March 7, via Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A CLANDESTINE. Re: Ernie Behr`s previous report of ``Kentucky State Militia.`` -- 3260 USB. Kentucky State Militia Radio 0325- 0353* March 3, Man w/KSMR" ID's, "Take back KY", "This is your 1st amendment station", "Kill a commie for mommie", etc. "The Militia Hour" px; gave list of postal & e-mail addresses for other state militias. Mx by Dave von Kleist(sp?), e-mail ksmr@ure.net. [bounced when I tried-Johnson] SIO=554. On next nite w/longer px (Harold Frodge, MI, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Not that we need anothewr militia station, but.... Heard new Kentucky State Militia Radio. On air now (0314 UT 7 Mar 01). 0310-0400* March 7, Gave info as Steve Anderson, 245 Elrod- Martin Rd, Somerset, Kentucky 42503. Talk about getting new tubes. He said he's only running 500 watts. With "Major Steve Anderson of the 6th Battalion of the Kentucky State Militia". He said regular transmissions would begin by the end of the month. He said he'd be getting new transmitting tubes for higher power, and he'd be getting a satellite receiver to receive satellite feeds like Genesis. He read off the names of states and gave the phone numbers of people to contact in each state. Talk about convention called Norm Creek(?). (Paul McDonough, Medford MA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###