GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-69, Dec 7, 1999 {Items from this and all our reports may be reproduced and re- reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages} ** AFGHANISTAN. Kabul radio announces Ramadan changes Text of report by Afghan Taleban radio on 6th December The morning programmes of Radio Voice of Shari'ah which start at present at 0600 hours [local time, 0130 gmt] will start as from the first of Ramadan at 0630 hours [0200 gmt]. The evening programmes of Radio Voice of Shari'ah, which start at present at 1700 hours [1230 gmt] will start from the first of Ramadan at 1530 hours [1100 gmt]. Source: Radio Voice of Shari'ah, Kabul, in Dari 1530 gmt 06 Dec 99 ((C) BBC Monitoring) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Glenn, Re 99-68: Cynthia is a dingbat. You certainly haven't missed anything enlightening from her. She has done some really stupid things and said some even stupider things. She's from DeKalb County, east of Atlanta. (Phil K6EID Cobb County west of Atlanta) At the risk of taking sides in Atlanta neighborhood (racial?) politics, I say judge for yourself from her website. Headlines from her News release file indicate she is an environmentalist, *gasp* liberal; for instance: Human Rights Trampled in Australia, about Kakadu National Park and uranium mining. http://www.house.gov/mckinney/news/pr990712.htm (Hauser) ** CUBA. Estimado Glenn: Te informo que desde el sábado 20 de noviembre sale al aire “Para los Diexistas” a través de Radio Rebelde por O.M. en 670 y 710 Khz y los 5,025 Khz de la banda Tropical de los 60 metros a las 12:03 horas de Cuba, 05:03 UTC. El mismo se transmitirá cada sábado a esa hora dentro del programa “Estaciones” preparado y conducido por mí con una duración de 5 minutos. También puede encontrarse en la página WEB de Radio Rebelde: http://www.cuba.cu/RRebelde/htm [Diexismo parece vacio - Glenn] Asimismo te informo que el domingo 28 de noviembre junto a Melena retomé mi espacio “hablando de diexismo con Manolo de la Rosa” en RHC en el programa “ En Contacto”, último domingo de cada mes a las 13:35 y 01:35 (lunes) para las Américas y a las 21:55 UTC (domingo) para Europa. Sigo en la Revista de la mañana de RHC como informaste en “Mundo Radial” en tu informe DX mensual de noviembre y diciembre y que recibí vía internet. Un abrazo fraterno y feliz 2 000! (Manolo de la Rosa, Dic 7) ** EUROPE. UnID on 3930.5, Dec 4 0240-0830+, very weak with Euro- pops. DJ with British accent. Too weak to catch ID. Euro-pirate? Or S. Africa’s Capital Music Radio as reported on WOR? (Brian Alexander, PA) That was speculation, and later reports from Europe indicate it is a pirate there (Hauser) ** GREECE. From the ERT5 printed schedule for B-99, program schedules in Greek, and my own monitoring I have put together this schedule of VOG in English [precise times for English segments are not given by VOG itself]: * frequency to NAm ** from VOA USA relay NEWS IN ENGLISH (Mon thru Fri) 0300-0310 *7450 *9420 *9375 *12105 0610-0615 9420 15630 11645 7475 1430-1440 9425 *15630 NEWS IN ENGLISH (Sat and Sun) 1410-1420 9425 *15630 NEWS IN ENGLISH (Every Day) 0750-0800 **9775 1800-1815 9425 7450 **17705 **17565 1840-1850 12105 15630 1900-1910 9375 7475 LEARN GREEK (Mathete Ellinika) Fri: 1325-1340 *15630 LEARN GREEK (Mathete Ellinika) Sat: 0740-0800 9420 15630 11645 7475 HELLENES AROUND THE WORLD Sat: 1900-1950 9425 7450 **17705 **17565 MUSICAL BROADCAST IN ENGLISH Sun: 1900-2000 9425 7450 **17705 **17565 2110-2210 11645 9425 (John Babbis, Maryland, Dec 2) ** IRAN [non] Re: 7520 R.international: Glenn, probably the address radio7520@yahoo.com is not correct. I have sent many Messages split in several pieces as suggested by Mail Administrator and the last message sent was a blank as attachment; this too has returned! (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, Dec 7) ** IRAN [non]. Further to my report on this new Iranian clandestine (see G Hauser's Shortwave/DX Report 99-68 issued yesterday): On Sunday I e-mailed the station at radio7520@yahoo.com but it bounced back with the message "This user does not have a yahoo.com account" I'm not sure what to make of this. The address was read out very clearly by the station and "makes sense" (7520 being their frequency). Perhaps there's been mis-coordination between whoever set up the e-mail address and whoever prepares their scripts. As per announced schedule, the station was NOT on the air yesterday (Monday). 7520 is an excellent frequency choice as it's a completely clear channel, also clear either side, at 1730. (Chris Greenway, Dec 7) ** IRELAND [non]. New management at RTE have decided to consolidate SW operations via the Merlin network only, so unless they can be persuaded otherwise, in a week or two the relays via WWCR will cease, M-F 1930-2000 and Sat/Sun 2000-2030 on 12160. WWCR was RTE’s original SW outlet starting several years ago. Still audible in North America daily 1830-1900 via Sackville 13640, and is it still 0130-0200 via England 6155? I see in the latest sked via Wolfgang Bueschel that DTK is registered then with other programming (Glenn Hauser) ** MOLDOVA [non]. Recently I received via fax the sked of RADIO MOLDOVA INTERNATIONAL from 31.10.1999 to 25-03.2000 as follows... 0300-0325 español 9590 América Latina 1200-1225 español 15315 América Latina 2030-2055 español 7520 España 2200-2225 español 7520 España 0330-0400 rumano 7500 EEUU/Canadá 0400-0425 ruso 7520 Rusia 0430-0455 inglés 7500 EEUU/Canadá 1230-1300 rumano 11580 EEUU/Canadá 1300-1325 inglés 11580 EEUU/Canadá 1900-1925 ruso 6135 Rusia 2000-2025 francés 7520 Francia 2100-2125 francés 7520 Francia 2230-2255 inglés 7520 Gran Bretaña Gracias por difundir esta información! 73's y Good DXing. (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Argentina, Dec 6) ** MONACO? TWR on new 6240, Dec 4 *0012-0100: s/on with TWR IS, 0015 into English religious programming with TWR ID, Xmas music; English to 0045, then unID language to 0100. Poor to fair with occasional RTTY QRM. Site? Via Monaco? Heard past several weeks (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SWEDEN. R. Sweden's English section celebrated its ``jubilee'' 60th anniversary with a special hour-long program ``party in studio four'' on Wed Dec 1. I only found out about this by listening to the ``week in review'' on Fri Dec 3. Here George Wood provided brief excerpts from this special (four minutes from an hour long show). My problem is that nowhere beforehand was this special promoted on other DX programs or, as far as I heard, R. Sweden itself. The station's program schedule gave the impression it would be ``celebrated in the new millennium''. How lame. This is just another example of a station failing to promote its own SW programming. Oh yeah, George Wood said that if you missed the original show (and I presume many did) those with computers could hear it on the Internet for the entire hour. Those without computers are out of luck. Sincerely, (Tom Kuca, Depew NY, Dec 4 via P-mail) George also mentions this on today's SCDX/Mediascan: On December 1 the Radio Sweden English Service celebrated our 60th anniversary with a special Jubilee broadcast! In front of a live audience of guests who've worked with us over the years, we listened to recordings of past programs, and talked to commentators, international broadcasting colleagues, listeners, and Radio Sweden voices from the past. If you missed our special Jubilee broadcast, you can still listen to it on the Internet at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/sounds/english60part1.ram http://www.sr.se/rs/english/sounds/english60part2.ram (SCDX/MediaScan 2326) ** TAIWAN [non]. Elementary Mandarin lesson for Russians about numbers caught my ear on very strong 15695 signal next to WOR Tue Dec 7 at 1335. ID at 1340 for Mezhdunarodnaya Radio Taibei, announcer Vasily Mikhailov. Must be WYFR relay now for RTI Russian too (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** TURKS & CAICOS. Attention Arctic Radio Club: you stole an item from one of my previous DX Reports by deleting this source, without which it would never have reached hard-core-dx or any other DX bulletin. Any club or publication that violates the requirement at the head of every GH SW/DX report will be exposed in this way (Glenn Hauser, OK) ** U S A. Y2K department: I heard Harold Camping on a Family Radio call-in program debunking in detail the idea that the world was created by God in 4004 BC, as some creationists have claimed. I almost thought that Camping had embraced evolution, but then his follow-up statement was that the earth was created 13,000 years ago instead (which I am sure is important news to some of the millions of years old fossils!). Camping did make one point I agreed with: anyone who thinks that God will do something dramatic to end the second millennium should look back to the year 1993, because most Biblical scholars have determined that Jesus was born around 7 BC, not the year Zero... (Rev. Jim Renfrew, NRC DX News International DX Digest Dec 6) Wasn't that about when Camping was predicting worldend? (Glenn Hauser) ###