GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-42, Sept. 30, 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 ON WORLD OF RADIO 1005: See topic summary at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wor1005.html ** ANGUILLA. DGS on 11775 was splattering beyond 11715, noted when tuning in RKI via RCI at 1030 Sept 26 (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** AUSTRALIA. The 10-40 window is Africa and Asia between 10 degrees North and 40 degrees North, where most of the people who have not heard the Gospel live, i.e. most Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. On 22 Sep 99, Glenn Hauser wrote: > . It is believed that 60 percent of the world’s population could be reached from this location, in the ``10-40 window,'' referring to latitudes [10 south to 40 north?]. (Roger Pitot, Pretoria, South Africa, hard-core-dx) ** AUSTRALIA. AUNTIE WITH ATTITUDE PUTS HER BOOTS ON FOR THE TROOPS By LAUREN MARTIN Good eeeevening East Timor! Radio Triple J's Francis Leach has been enlisted to speak to the peacekeepers. Broadcasting from Melbourne, the host of the JJJ news and reviews show Creatures of the Spotlight will send out a special hour- long session, every night at 9.30 Timor time, on Radio Australia's shortwave frequencies 9500 and 11660kHz. [1330 UT] Leach's take on news, as well as interviews, music and messages from home - to begin within a week - will complement an already- expanded programming set directed at East Timor and Indonesia. And, yes, that includes the footy finals. But family and friends who want to send messages to troops in East Timor via Leach will have to wait until the ABC and the Defence Department work out the logistics. Radio Australia has moved money around to fund the nightly broadcast and plans to continue "for as long as we're in there [with troops]". (Sydney Morning Herald on 24th September, 1999 via Robert Williams) Whatever became of Australian Defence Forces Radio? (Hauser) ** COLOMBIA. Last February we had an item from BBC Monitoring giving websites for Colombian rebels and military. I recently rechecked them and found that FARC, which operates all the Voces de la Resistencia, at http://www.ucsd.edu/farc-ep/ no longer works; evidently the University of California at San Diego decided it no longer wished to be associated with them. As for ELN, one does not reach them at page http://www.voces.org but defaults to the server. The army's web page http://www.ejercito.mil.co however, still exists and is quite strange. It took several minutes to start loading with opening animation initially unreadable of world map eventually zeroing in on Colombia with a bit of music (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** COSTA RICA. RFPI Membership Drive: And now, the premiums... 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In Peace, (Debra Latham, General Manager, Radio For Peace International, Sept 28, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 4960.12: Radio Villa, 0310-0403. Following up on Jay Novello's log, excellent signal here, with all bachata program featuring "Los 5 Grandes de la Bachata!". Breaks for "Las Deportivas", canned ID's and nice, nice music. This station will easily take the place of Ecos del Torbes as favorite LA powerhouse if they keep programming like this. (Mark Mohrmann, VT, Sep 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 4960: R Villa, la sencilla, announces 1480 in addition to 4960; SW Reports wanted to Apartado de Correos 804, Santo Domingo. Stn owner, Agr. (short for Agrimensor, meaning Surveyor) Roberto Vargas, who also owns R Cima 100, may wish to find out if distant foreign listeners really notice the ID change from "Cima" to "Villa"? The number of reports may have dwindled considerably over the years, and so he may wish to gauge the present-day impact of SW. After all, he knows "the rules of the game" and how to produce feedback from DXers. When R Cima surfaced on SW I talked to him on the phone, and when he asked me how to get back to reporters - money was no object, he said - I suggested a QSL-package consisting of a card or a letter, "a pennant or something else". The eventual outcome was a card and a letter, "a pennant a n d something else", actually an anniversary coin, and, as an added bonus, a music tape. Whatever reason there may be to the change of program feeder, I think we should flood Surveyor Vargas with letters and friendly messages now that he is asking for listener feedback. (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Sept 25, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** ECUADOR. My German dictionary isn't handy, but I believe Hans- Joachim is saying that he just heard from Rosiak of the HCJB German department Monday at 2140 UT that the [unnamed] volcano is about to erupt... Might be interesting to monitor HCJB this evening, English from 0000 to 0700 on 9745, 12015, and 21455-USB also audible, with news at 0100 and 0400, followed by Studio 9, the most likely times they might say something about this. The HCJB website, http://www.hcjb.org.ec has some general info on Pichincha and another volcano, at least in the Spanish section, but I don't see anything there about imminent eruption. (Glenn Hauser) Horst Rosiak von der deutschen Redaktion von HCJB hat mir eben gerade ein eMail geschickt. (Montag / 23.40 Ortszeit / 21.40 UTC) Er schreibt, der Vulkan steht kurz vor dem Ausbrechen. Man ist staendig auf dem Sprung - um alle Massnahmen einleiten zu koennen. Ich wollte Euch diese kurze Info noch schnell zukommen lassen Gruesse (Hans- Joachim Koch, Germany via Hauser) Above was a RIBOLD Extra issued at 0051 UT Sept 28. The 0100 UT newscast Sept 28 explained: the mayor of Quito has raised the alert status from yellow to orange, meaning an eruption of Guagua Pichincha is possible in days or weeks. There is no need to leave Quito unless one has respiratory problems. The yellow alert had been in effect since last October. On Monday there were 1,542 seismic events of low magnitude. Then I caught part of the news at 1200, which said the stores in Quito been cleared of essentials such as bread and milk. You'll recall that HCJB has an extensive contingency plan in the event of an eruption or associated events, reported here some months ago (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** KURDISTAN. CLANDESTINE Voice of the People of Kuridistan presumed the one on 6985 Sunday 26th, man in Arabic or similar 1720, brief burst of music, mention of Kurdistan and Mujahed and further music and talks. Fair signal on clear channel, distorted on AM but easy copy on both LSB and USB. (Mike Barraclough, England, Sept 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** KURDISTAN. CLANDESTINE Voice of the People of Kurdistan has moved to 6985 from 7000. 17.00 Id then Nx also on 4060 20 and 23 Sep (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, Sept 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** LAOS. 6130: Laos National Radio Vientiane Sep 25 at 1300-1330, Good reception with Musical Prog in English and Laotian presented by man and woman, no ID but Vientiane has been mentioned many times. (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI still missing from 9700 as of this morning (Sept 29), and 17675 isn't of any use out here during the wee hours of the morning. As a substitute, I'm listening to Radio Australia around UT0800, coming in well on 15515. (Ivan Grishin, Oshawa, Sept 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** OMAN. 15140: R. Sultanate from Muscat heard on Sep 24 at around 1430; the program was in English. Unable to hear any ID as the reception was poor and try again the next day - the reception was fair 1420 with English songs, 1425 the name of announcer was given as "Geeta Madari" followed by details of to-morrow program as "Good Morning Oman" then songs until 1430, then time pips and ID by man as "Radio Sultanate of Oman in FM" followed by news bulletin - first headlines, then in detail - ID at 1436 between the news, and it ended at 1438, then followed immediately by talk by woman on people of Oman; 1501 announcement by man and immediately followed by program in Arabic (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, Sept 26, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** OMAN Radio Sultanate of Oman heard Sunday 26th September, 1357 local music, 1400 identification as English service, gave FM frequencies and announced 15140 as being directed to Europe. News headlines, feature programme on local events, full news 1430, tuned out, returned 1450, music to switch to Arabic service 1500 without any closing announcements. Good signal but low level hum on transmitter. (Mike Barraclough, England, Sept 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** OMAN [non]. Checked 15140 for reported English hour at 1400, Sept 24. Tune in at 1355 to find two or three equally weak signals producing pronounced subaudible heterodyne, one of which was in Spanish, and by 1405 this was building to dominate: La Voz de los Andes, natch (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** ST. HELENA. As from 1st October 1999 the Information and Broadcasting Section of the Office of the Chief Secretary will officially come under the St Helena News Media Board. On this basis I wish to inform you that our postal and e-mail address will change with effect from 1st October as follows: St Helena News Media Board Broadway House Jamestown Island of St Helena E-mail - sthelena.news@helanta.sh Radio St Helena The St Helena News Media Board St Pauls Island of St Helena E-mail - radio.sthelena@helanta.sh All telephone/fax lines and numbers will remain as at present both for St Helena News and Radio St Helena. If you have any further quries about the St Helena Media Broad then please do not hesitate to contact us. Yours sincerely (John Drummond, sthelena list) ** SOMALIA. AYDID RADIO TO RESUME BROADCASTING Text of report by Somali newspaper `Ayaamaha' on 29th September Reports say that the Voice of the People [pro-Aydid] radio will be back on air with effect from today [29th September]. The radio has been off air for the past several months. The management has been busy working on the rehabilitation of the radio in the past few weeks. Reports also say all necessary arrangements have been made and the radio is expected to be on air this evening in the 49 metre band. Source: `Ayaamaha', Mogadishu, in Somali 29 Sep 99 ((c) BBC Monitoring) More likely in the 6.8 MHz range, I suppose (Hauser) ** U S A. WTJC was booming in on 9370.8 around 2350 UT 9/28 with some pretty cheezy gospel music and occasional "FBN" network IDs. Full ID 0000 "This is WTJC, Newport, NC, a member of the FBN Radio Network..." Gave mailing address as 520 Roberts Road, Newport, NC 28570. (Randy Stewart, Springfield MO, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) ** U S A. WTJC, 9370.8, gave no ID at 0100 Sept 29, just IS and into USA Radio network news -- the first choice of the far right for its slanted coverage - with music and bible quotations at commercial breaks; checking tape later, found WTJC ID in news commercial break; 0104 mentioned ``FBN'' and into network program; until 0200 playing Amazing Grace on piano in minor key, really weird; 0200 sharp heard full WTJC ID by woman with contact info, recorded to display on WOR 1005; 0300 again skipped any legal ID for USA news; recheck at 0920 was still on badly mixing with ute; 1120 check, some other religious broadcaster was on 9370.0 in Spanish; that's the hour WTJC is not authorized. 1202 WTJC came back with news; 1218 full ID again. Congratulations on picking a frequency with so much interference! Real pros at work and self-defeating yet another gospel huxter of which we already have far too many on American SW. Checked the next evening, UT Sept 30 around 0245, the carrier seemed to be on, unmodulated, mixing with RTTY (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** U S A. ABC PERSPECTIVE Sundays 1100-1200 on all three AFRTS frequencies 4278.5 6458.5 12689.5 (Rod Williams, GA, Sept 26) That includes essays by Hugh Downs, and retreads from TV's 20/20 ** U S A. From Al Weiner Worldwide on WBCQ 7415, UT Sat Sept 25 at 0000: Per call from Mister Mike, new show with him and Tim Tron, Real Radio, starts Oct. 16; will have guests such as FCC enforcer Riley Hollingsworth. Didn't hear any time given, but that be on Saturdays. Idio [?] Audio, weird music show starts next Friday at 6-7 pm [2200- 2300 UT]. Nathan Molley [?] World-Wide Request show from Radio Middle East, Cyprus, this Saturday at 2000. R 510 Int'l temporarily takes 2330-2400 UT slot on Saturdays. The Allen Sane Show, with Ivan Sun 2030-2100 plays really good music. Will be bringing back The Album Zone at a different time than before; and wants to get Gary Bourgois back on, but not at previous Friday evening valuable prime time. Al was retiring his hand tool bag which has accompanied him on many radio adventures and giving it away. (Glenn Hauser, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING) ** WALES [non]. Merlin has a new customer, seemingly all via UK sites, Wales Radio International; just caught end of Sept 26 Saturday 1230-1300 broadcast on 17650 when they were giving weekly schedule, also Fri 2030-2100 on 7235 (not 7325) and UT Sat 0200 on 9795 -- bet that one is to NAm (Joe Hanlon, PA, enjoying his new communications receiver, WORLD OF RADIO 1005) RADIO-PORTAL http://www.radio-portal.org is online since Sept. 2nd, 1999 on a test basis, offering a portal site with search engine especially for amateur radio, DXing, SWLing, Clandestines/Pirate/Satellite/Scanner. Further features will be added during this month. Regular operation starts on October 1st, 1999. Why a new search engine - aren't there enough already? There are several reasons for a special search engine which covers selectively a special field of interest: Usual search engines will bring only a small part of the URLs, as the database may not cover certain items adequately. In August 1999, a well known search engine brought exactly one hint for the search "longwave"... Radio-portal is going a new way. All data will have a close connection to the field of interest, the URLs had been checked manually and are being updated permanently. The search engine has been developed especially for radio-portal, and it's fast! No frames are used, so every page can be boomarked and saved on HD as a personal address book, which, of course, can be updated any time. Best Regards, (Willi Passmann, DJ6JZ) ###