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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1154: WWCR: Wed 1030 9475 RFPI: Wed 0100, 0700 on 7445, 15039 WJIE: M-F 1300, daily 0400; Sun 0630, Mon 0700, Tue 0630 or 0700, 7490 ONDEMAND http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/worldofradio.html (Download) http://www.k4cc.net/wor1154.rm (Stream) http://www.k4cc.net/wor1154.ram (Summary) http://www.worldofradio.com/wo1154.html DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS update is now complete, tho some items need to be confirmed; reader input welcome: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. NORWAY 18940 Oct 25, 1445-1530 with non-stop orchestral music loop instead of the expected R Afghanistan relay, good. (Korinek). On Nov 03 at *1330, the satellite relay from Kabul was working again when the programme in Pashto began. However, I noticed that Kvytsøy did broadcast an unidentified broadcast in Chinese 1320-1326*, followed by relay of R Norway in Norwegian *1327- 1330* and then the programme of R Afghanistan. There was heard a second programme under the Pashto programme in an unidentified language (not Danish!) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. A new station, probably Armenia (Home Service) observed today, 3 NOV between 1750-2002 UTC close down on 4890 kHz USB. Partly distorted modulation, good signal level. After 1930 UTC mixing with Papua New Guinea which could be heard very well in LSB. National anthem at 2000 UTC (it was midnight in Armenia) and sign off... GOOD DX, (Karel Honzik the Czech Republic (Czechia), hard-core-dx via DXLD) Hi Karel. Same heard here, and seems to be Armenia. Actually, this station was also heard here on this frequency on 15 Oct from 1600 till sign-off 1800. 03 Nov the signal was strong also here. Best 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. The Melbourne Cup Australia will come to a stop at 3.10 pm Eastern Summer Time on Tuesday November 5, 2002, for the running of the world's most famous race, the Melbourne Cup. That's 0410 UTC. It's expected that some 150,000 spectators will watch the race from Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse - the day is a Public Holiday in Melbourne and nearer country districts. Run over 3200 metres (that's two miles in the old system), prize money will be A$3,675,000, distributed to the owners of the first four placegetters. Australians will also bet heavily on this race, wagering many millions of dollars on the outcome, either on-course, by telephone betting, or at hundreds of Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) shops or hotels across the nation. TAB outlets will open at 8am on the big day, and queues of hundreds of people will flood each agency throughout the hours eading up to the race. With a capacity field of 24 runners, the odds of picking the winner are 1 in 24! The race was first run in 1861. The race will be televised live over over Network 7, and will be carried globally via satellite. It will also be the feature event in the ABC's "National Grandstand" sporting service, broadcast over 774 ABC Melbourne (AM) and via all of the other State and Territory AM networks. Radio Australia will carry all of this in its English language service. The ABC domestic radio coverage starts at 10.00 am Eastern Summer Time (2300 UTC). Yes, indeed, us Australians like our horse-racing, and our gambling! No, my own horse is not running in the Cup, being stabled in New South Wales, under preparation for barrier trials later this month. Have fun, and don't forget to cheer! (Bob Padula, Melbourne, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. If it still needs to be confirmed: RVI via Tbilisskaya is indeed on 7465 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Thimpu, Oct 30, *0100- 0125 (fade out) Morning service in Dzongkha heard quite clear when AWR Abu Dhabi signed off at 0100* after a programme in English. Talk and Buddhish monks singing, native music at 0120. This uses to be audible in Europe during our winter. 24322 It is scheduled Mon-Fri only (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. 12125 Voice of Biafra International, Nov 02, 1915- 2000*, mostly English talk about Biafra and Nigeria, some music, also non-English segment for a few minutes at 1942. Ann as "coming to you from Washington, DC." Decent with Utility QRM on low side (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Monitoring R. Bulgaria to confirm new schedule for DX program Bulgaria Calling, heard instead apparently revived Letterbox, Sat 2240, Sun 0340. At other times, Bulgaria Calling started well before the :45 mark, or well after, longer than usual and shorter than usual (via Bill Brady, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Does anyone have new program schedule showing exactly when these two are supposed to be on? (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. Radio Canada International: The North American component RCI schedule tends to follow the seasonal shifts in daylight / standard time; from a programming perspective, the weekday morning (1300-1600 UT) program has entirely new content since the domestic CBC morning schedule has been overhauled. 1300 UT weekdays: RCI listeners will be able to hear the final hour of the new program The Current, hosted by Anna Maria Tremonti, a CBC journalist who won awards for her coverage of the was in Bosnia. There isn`t much information on the CBC website regarding The Current, but an item in the Toronto Star newspaper calls The Current an ``…on-the- news show…`` whatever that means. 1400 UT weekdays: Sounds Like Canada has already debuted; the Star characterizes the program this way: ``…Sounds Like Canada aims to address [the concern that CBC Radio One didn`t resonate with listeners outside of Metro Toronto] head-on: Rather than Toronto-based producers feeding material to a studio host, items will be fed from producers across the country — staff and freelance. [Program host Shelah] Rogers will be criss-crossing the country, on location as much as in the studio. The idea is to capture that holy grail of diversity the CBC has always sought. `The hope is we get more color, flavor, texture, all those things,``` as quoted by Adrian Mills, the architect of the new CBC Radio One schedule that produces the programming relayed by RCI on shortwave weekday mornings. By the way, you won`t see either program listed in the new season`s RCI brochure now reaching your mailbox. RCI chose not to hold off on the new brochure until the new Radio One schedule kicked in; it would have made sense for them to at least footnote the 1300-1600 time block as ``subject to change``, since these CBC changes have been in the works for much of the year. It is possible that other RCI programming originating with the CBC Radio One domestic spoken-word network (e.g. Quirks and Quarks, The House, Vinyl Cafe) might also disappear from the RCI schedule as the Radio One overhaul continues. So far, the reviews I`ve seen for ``Sounds Like Canada`` are middling at best. Shelagh Rogers` talents appear to be squandered, based on the initial program editions. However, given Ms. Rogers` foreign correspondent experience, one hopes that the segments with Ms. Rogers in the field will be of greater interest and quality. (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Nov NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** CANARY ISLANDS. 6715U Full Gospel Las Palmas Church Heard with decent signal during church service at 2315, Nov 01, tho frequency noisier than in earlier months. Intermittent data bursts block frequency at times, incl. s/off this night, but frequency is usually clear. Went off around 2330. Friday only at this hour (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** CHINA. in the current issue of 'The Messenger' from China Radio a feature is 'A Brit's Eye View', the impressions of a ex London University student who joined the English Service of CRI and failed to find millions in the cities on bicycles with buttoned up collars waving little red books. It is now just a myth as are many other misconceptions which Westeners dearly hold. The writer concludes that he is just a little cog at CRI in China's drive to reclaim its place in the world. The stamp corner is devoted to a series of five views of Lighthouses, while surprisingly the Mail Bag is down to just five letters from the millions of listeners the station claims that tune their way - must be due to the high postage cost of snail mails these days (CHRISTOPHER J WILLIAMS, Nov World DX Club Contact via Mike Barraclough, DXLD) ** CHINA. Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi noted back on winter frequencies on 3-5 MHz, Oct 30, 0145-0200: 3950 // 5060 Chinese Sce, 4330 Kazakh Sce, 4500 Mongolian Sce and 4980 Uighur Sce. (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia, great looking oversized "Tarjeta QSL" with globe, frequency, photos, station description on front, good veri statement on back, tho space for name-date-time details not filled in, printed V/S Martin Stendal, Administrator. Very colorful, and entire card in both Spanish and English. Four months after CD report, though I have E-mailed other mini-reports since. Address on envelope: Colombia Para Cristo, Calle 44 No. 13-69 - Local: 1, Bogota, Colombia. Very nice (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** CONGO. 5985, R Congo verified with a two page handwritten letter in English from Roger Olingou in 782 days for a French report and US$1.00 return postage. My verie signer is a 35-year old English language broadcaster for R Congo who apologized for the reply taking so long, "I'm sorry it that it took too much time to reply to your letter. The letter was in the director's office and he gave it to me very late." He invites reports to be directed to him ("Keep writing to me directly so that I reply right away.") at the station (Radio Congo, B. P. 2241, Brazzaville, Congo) or his home address (B. P. 5754 Oueuzé, Brazzaville, Congo). Although my reception report was in French, he informs me that the Congo is a French speaking country. Since people don't understand English they apparently couldn't read my letter. However, he did close indicating he needs a mobile phone but would be willing to accept money to buy it himself (Rich D`Angelo, PA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) (A DX-er must have patience! DSWCI Ed) ** CONGO DR. 9550, 30.10 2000, Radio Okapi frequent announcements at the hour with a little jingle with "Okapi", repeated several times. The music sounded very Latin American. Also in parallel with 11690, but weaker. QSA 2. JE/RFK (Jan Edh/ Ronny Forslund, Sweden, SW Bulletin, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9550, 2.11 1910, unID but certainly Radio Okapi! Typical African "high-life" music, at times heard quite well. When talk sometimes was heard it was so weak you hardly could hear the language. The frequency seems to be clean but heavy splash from nearby stations. S 2. BEFF (Bjorn Fransson, Sweden, SW Bulletin...) 11690, 31.10 0530, Radio Okapi also in the morning. Heard better than previous evening. QSA 2 JE/RFK (Jan Edh/Ronny Forslund, Sweden, SW Bulletin, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11690.0, R Okapi, Oct 27, 0540-0630, the usual fare of local pops and IDs in French, very weak signal and // to even weaker 9550 (Vashek Korinek, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) 11690, R Okapi, Nov 3, 0025-0105, Afropop and Latin American songs with male announcer, a jingle ID now and then mentioning several times Okapi; no ID, time check or news on the hour (Harald Kuhl. Germany, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) Covered by R Havana Cuba here (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. 5054.61, Faro del Caribe, 0249 10/31. Reactivation? Not heard by me since last May 2002. M in SS followed by upbeat vocal music. Extremely weak levels (may be due to solar storm now on, or transmitter-antenna?) - difficult even with SE-3. Used to be one of the best CA stations regularly heard here). (Don Nelson, OR, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CUBA. Re Jeff White`s report on Chinese SW radios being given away by US Interests: Last year one of our members got his portable Sony confiscated in Havana Airport when he brought it for his holidays DX- ing on Cuba (Ed. Anker Petersen, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** CUBA. Somewhat surprised and pleased to encounter Cuban sacred music on RHC, 9820, UT Mon Nov 4 from 0610 tune-in until 0625, presented by `Armando Guerra` -- I assume they all use pseudonyms – including something about the Virgen del Cobre (Copper Virgin); after a few iterations of the IS, the staff announcer said goodnight, as if he were heading home after starting the last tape, and Guerra was back with a quite different musical show of the Cuban top ten. Some minutes before 0700 I roused enough to note that R. Reloj relay had begun, past 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. I succeeded to get this tentative B02 schedule out of the Egyptian Radio & TV Union Broadcast Engineering: 0030-0430 9900 Arabic Eastern North America 0045-0200 9475 Spanish North America 0045-0200 11680 Spanish Central America 0045-0200 11790 Spanish South America 0200-0330 9475 English North America 0200-2400 12050 Arabic General Program to North America and Europe 0300-0600 9855 Arabic Voice of the Arabs to North Africa, Southern Europe and Arab Gulf 0300-0030 15285 Arabic Voice of the Arabs to the Arab Gulf 0350-0700 9770 Arabic General Program to North Africa and Southern Europe 0350-0700 9620 Arabic General Program to North Africa and Southern Europe 0350-1200 9800 Arabic General Program to the Arab Gulf 0600-1400 11720 Arabic Voice of the Arabs to North Africa, Southern Europe and Arab Gulf 0700-1100 15115 Arabic General Program to West Africa 0700-1500 11785 Arabic General Program to North Africa and Southern Europe 1015-1215 17775 Arabic Foreign service to Middle East and Afghanistan 1100-2400 11540 Arabic General Program to North Africa, Southern Europe and Arab Gulf 1100-1130 17800 Arabic Foreign service to Central and South Africa 1115-1215 17665 Thai Southeast Asia 1215-1330 17775 English South Asia 1215-1315 17665 Malay Southeast Asia 1230-1330 15160 Farsi Tajikistan 1300-1800 17675 Arabic General Program to North Africa and Southern Europe 1320-1450 17665 Indonesian Southeast Asia 1330-1430 17775 Bengali South Asia 1330-1530 11560 Farsi Iran 1300-1600 15220 Arabic Foreign service to West Africa 1430-1530 9780 Azeri Azerbaijan 1500-1600 15170 Hindi South Asia 1500-1600 17710 Pashto Afghanistan 1500-1600 7315 Russian Western Russia 1530-1630 11635 Uzbek Uzbekistan 1530-1630 15155 Afar East & Central Africa 1530-1730 11975 Swahili Central & East Africa 1600-1800 15170 Urdu South Asia 1600-1645 15620 Zulu Central & Southern Africa 1600-1800 6230 Turkish Turkey 1600-1800 9950 Albanian Albania 1630-1730 15155 Somali East & Central Africa 1630-1830 15255 English Central & Southern Africa 1645-1730 15620 Shona Central & Southern Africa 1730-1815 15620 Ndebele Central & Southern Africa 1730-1900 15155 Amharic East & Central Africa 1800-0030 9700 Arabic Voice of the Arabs to North Africa and Southern Europe 1800-1900 9988 Italian Europe 1800-2100 9675 Hausa West Africa 1830-1915 15255 Lingala Central & Southern Africa 1830-1930 15375 Wolof West Africa 1900-2000 9990 German Europe 1900-0030 11665 Arabic Voice of the Arabs to Central & East Africa 1915-2030 15425 Fulani West Africa 1930-2030 15375 Bambara West Africa 2000-2200 11990 Arabic Australia 2000-2115 9990 French Europe 2030-2200 15375 English West Africa 2030-2230 15335 French West Africa 2100-2200 9675 Yoruba West Africa 2115-2245 9990 English Europe 2215-2330 11790 Portuguese South America 2300-0030 9900 English Eastern North America 2330-0045 15590 Arabic Foreign service to South America 2330-0045 11680 Arabic Foreign service to South America (Tarek Zeidan, Egypt, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** FINLAND. 5990, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Villat, Nov 02, 0855, 1420-1430 and 1705-1726, Finnish and English speaking DJ’s with Finnish and British pop music. Best in the afternoon: 35333. Parallels on 25 m.b. were weaker: 11720 at 0855 and 1420, and 11690 at 0905. (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** GHANA. 3366, Ghana B.C., 2100 ID and News in EE. Good signal. Also heard its spurious 3285.65 and 3346.35 kHz, fair condx. Nov. 2 (Nobuo Takeno, Kawasaki, Japan, NRD-535D with 10m wire, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** GREECE. Despite two reports that they would move Nov 3, VOG was still on 15725 at 1420, clashing with WRMI trying to broadcast a Wavescan from a few weeks ago. Maybe tomorrow? Nov 4 did not check until almost 1600, but no trace of Greece on either 15725 or 15650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3291.3, Voice of Guyana with a live phone-in program with greetings to friends and relatives. Several "Welcome to the Voice of Guyana". Program in English. Good at 0320 Nov 4. 73's (Claes Olsson, Port Charlotte, FLORIDA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** HONDURAS. 5010U, HRMI, 1245 with weak signal and talk in Spanish. 1256 with canned ID in Spanish, then one in English announcing 3340 (never heard) and 5010 [Nov 2]. Also at 0258 but gone by 0307 check on Nov 3. Signal much weaker than other stations from the region and seems to be irregular (Hans Johnson, TX, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** HONG KONG. 3940 USB Hong Kong: Radio TV Hong Kong, Cape d'Aquilar. Hainan Yacht Race Special Weather Forecast Transmission. Opened with VOA News Flash at 2130, off at 2131, signature song "Blue Peter" at 2133 and then Weather Forecast, that was repeated several times until transmission was over 2144 UT (Jari Lehtinen, Finland, 20, 21 & 22 October 2002, hard-core-dx Nov 3 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SATELLITE RADIO: 100 CHANNELS BUT WHERE ARE THE SUBSCRIBERS http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/business/yourmoney/03RADI.html?pagewanted=all&position=top At 69 years old, the white-bearded man is a tad mature for satellite radio's target demographic group. Yet the remainder of his profile fits like a well-worn cowboy hat: he logs more miles on the nation's highways than most truck drivers do, and he spends much of his time there tuned to the radio. His musical tastes are all over the map — from Django Reinhart, the jazz guitarist, to Neil Young — and they aren't satisfied by the limited song menus on most commercial radio stations He is not the type to spend money frivolously, but he is happy to pay $10 a month for programming that is largely free of the commercials that now saturate the conventional AM and FM bands. "I think it's a bargain," said the traveler, who happens to be Willie Nelson, the singer. He bought an XM satellite radio system last fall for his tour bus, after hearing about the company's new 100-channel nationwide service. "It's got music you just can't hear on the commercial stations." Although listeners of some public radio stations can find diverse programming in a dozen or so genres, those who tune in to satellite radio can choose from as many as 60 musical categories, such as Mr. Nelson's favorites, Hank's Place and Frank's Place, which feature the music of Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra. XM's competitor, Sirius, even offers feeds from the BBC and C-Span, as well as National Public Radio programming. A rising chorus of naysayers has driven down the stock prices of the new medium's two pioneers, XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio, to all-time lows. But word-of-mouth accolades like Mr. Nelson's only reaffirm the belief of professional investors like Frank V. Jennings that satellite radio is the next big thing. An avid listener himself, Mr. Jennings, who manages the Oppenheimer Global Growth and Income fund, is betting that there are many others like him and Mr. Nelson. [...] (via Joel Rubin, swprograms via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Voice of Iranian Revolution operated by Komala, the Kurdish arm of the Communists Party of Iran (CPI), began the morning (local) transmissions in Kurdish *0325-0430* (except Fri) on 3880 and 4380 kHz. First time noted on Oct. 16th. Heard ID "Aira dangi shurashi Irana, dangi shurashi Irana e Kurdistana", but the station also is using the spoken ID "Dangi Radio Komalah". A website announced on the air: http://www.komalah.org Another Komala (independent organization) operates a station Voice of Komala which bcasts on 3930, 4610, 6810 (the last freq. inaudible) with the spoken ID "Radio dangi Komala". This radio station announced on air the two websites: http://www.radiokomala.org and http://www.komala.org also e-mail address komala_radio@hotmail.com and 3 frequencies. Both Komalas begin to broadcast at the same time- 0325 UT (R. Petraitis, Lithuania, Oct 22-25, 2002 for CRW via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Anternacional. Today I received my first "clandestine" QSL. Iran - Radio Anternacional, 9940 kHz. A n/d e-mail reply in 2 days from "azar majedi"; who was pleased I could hear them in the US thanking me for my report. The station name was spelled as Radio International (Anternacional). (S. R. Barbour Jr., NH, Oct 21, 2002 for CRW via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. In a friendly personal letter from Oct 20, 2002, Sylvia Rapoport of Kol Israel English News wrote to me that 'not only does Kol Israel no longer have souvenirs such as pennants to send to its listeners, the engineers also no longer use listener reports thereby making it impossible to verify your report.' She returned my USD and enclosed a blank QSL from Kol Israel. My enclosed PPC was not returned. The answer came in 16 days for a report to Kol Israel, External Service, P. O. Box 1082, Jerusalem 91 010, Israel (M. Schoech, Germany, Oct 2002, Cumbre DX viaz DXLD) When going to the trouble to reply like this, why not just do the QSL anyway? Contrary to Bureaucratic Policy, that`s why! (gh, DXLD) ** ITALY [non?]. Just time to hear this: From rec.radio.shortwave "Hi There, IRRS-Shortwave will be running a test transmission on Monday, Nov. 4, 2002 between 2100-2200 UTC on 6,280 kHz. The broadcast will be beamed primarily to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. We will be testing audio processing equipment and CCM modulation with a new 100 kW transmitter. We welcome your reception reports via email to: reports@nexus.org (via Mike Terry, DXLD) ITALY? IRRS will be running a test today at 2100-2200 UTC on 6280 kHz with various material in Eng from IRRS (**NOT** R. GAP stuff), and depending on results IRRS and Radio Gap will agree on a schedule tomorrow (Alfredo, IRRS via Johnson Cumbre DX, Nov 4 via DXLD) Since IRRS have made clear it`s too expensive to broadcast from Italy, and have talked vaguely about using other sites, I think it unlikely this is their own transmitter in Milano. Would a few DXers please get a fix on this?? (gh, DXLD) ** KAZAKHSTAN. V. of Orthodoxy, Alma-Ata. 9355 kHz, QSL in 83 days, no IRC. Also, a letter from Andrey Kurovskoy. The report had been emailed to Paris irinavo@wanadooo.fr and sent by snail mail to Sankt Peterburg. The reply is from Paris. ( ***a new country to me). (Igor, hard-core-dx via DXLD) Zhurkin, Russia? ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 6600.0, clandestine, V. of the People, Good signal but jamming was interfered. Heard at 1230 with radio drama and male talk at 1245. Korean language. Nov 2, 2002 (Juichi Yamada, JAPAN, Jembatan DX via DXLD) Note proximity of this to MYANMAR below (gh) ** LAOS [non]. CLANDESTINE: 12070, Hmong Lao Radio, 0100-0122, Nov 1, Hmong, comments, mention several times Hmong, English lessons?? by female announcer, Musical program, 45444, (Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. 5935, Laser 558 via Ulbroka, Oct 27, 1010-2005, Test with repeated four hour blocks in English with pop music and reading of reception reports from test in July e.g. from Harald Kuhl and Jürgen Blum. 55555 fading to 45544 at local noon. Strong QRM from 1900 from Voice of Russia in Arabic on 5935. (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) Faded in here at 2020 and heard until close 2100* (Berg & D`Angelo, ibid.) ** MEXICO. E.post svar fra XERTA 4800 på f/u - v/s Veronica Coria Miranda. For adresse se http://www.misionradio.com (Tore B Vik, SW Bulletin Nov 3 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. So much for my presumed schedule of XERMX DX and mailbag shows, timeshifted from the April-October version still posted in pdf at http://www.imer.gob.mx/programacion/rmi.pdf following change to standard time. Sunday Nov 3 at 2325 both 9705v and 11770v were in English, not Spanish Radio Correo del Aire as expected. It was an interview about how Israeli culture is promoted in Mexico. Then around 2330 the program was identified as DX-perience, and kept talking about DRM, etc. Hard to follow, with weak signals, undermodulation, hets, jamming overflow, and soft-spoken announcer. Now, the old sked shows DXP Sundays at 2100-2130 UT = 1600-1630 CDT, so we expected it to have been at 2200 UT now (not checked), but instead it is two+ absolute hours later than before. I do know that Mexico City and XERMX are in fact on CST = UT -6 now, having heard a timecheek last night. Since the show runs past the half-hour mark, when XERMX normally goes to music, perhaps the entire schedule was just running a sesquihour late due to some previous outage today, DXP was still going and identified as such at 2348. Confirmation of all further airings will be required, especially lacking a current schedule from the station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO [non]. Monte Carlo Radiodiffusion has been the official Radio broadcaster for the Principality of Monte Carlo since 1995 broadcasting to Europe, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa and to the Cote d'Azur on FM after taking over the operations of Radio Monte Carlo. It is owned by jointly by the Principality and Télédiffusion de France the major shareholder. The transmitter site at Roumoules located in the French Alps contains the original TWR megawatt MW transmitter, a facility which was installed in 1987. Today it broadcasts TWR programmes for four hours a day and those of Vatican Radio for two hours a day. There are also three longwave transmitters at Roumoules, two recently up-graded to 1.2 megawatts, which broadcast Radio Monte Carlo programmes for 19 hours a day, that's from 5am till midnight. Five 105 meter masts provide beams in five directions form the medium wave aerial and there are four 300 meter masts for the longwave transmissions. Other transmissions including those on shortwave come from the Fontbonne/La Madone sites on Mont Angel, signals from which no doubt you all have heard either from the two 100 kW units or the main 500 kW facility. The antenna farm allows beams to be directed to the target areas mentioned at the beginning of this spotlight. There are two 600 kW medium transmitters which can be coupled, one at 300 kW and a 50 Kw unit which allow 24 hour broadcasting on three frequencies. Finally, 12 FM transmitters at various locations broadcast along the Côte d'Azur. Daytime the longwave facility is beamed to Southern France and Switzerland while medium waves reach most of Italy. At night the 1 megawatt transmitter and its five directional tower aerial reaches the whole of Europe from Spain to the Caspian and from North Africa to Greece. The future might see new medium and short wave units being purchased (via JACK FITZSIMONS, Nov World DX Club Contact via Mike Barraclough, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 6596.998, 12.10 1510, Defense Broadcasting Station, prat, prat. Svag modulation. 3 Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin via DXLD) Country not specified, but I guess it`s Burma – listed on 6570 (gh, DXLD) 6596.998, 12.10 1510 Myanmar, Defense Broadcasting Station, just talk, talk. Weak modulation. 3 SA (Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson) According to SA`s mail to me this is the mentioned frequency, so I think this must be the Myanmar station drifting (Thomas Nilsson, ed., SW Bulletin, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note proximity of this to KOREA SOUTH [non] above (gh) ** MYANMAR. 5986.83: R Myanmar, Yangoon. English News at 1450 UT, commentary at 1515. In between, 1980's disco music; the other day the music slot was filled with jazz arrangements of English folk tunes like "Greensleeves" (Jari Lehtinen, Finland, 20 & 21 October 2002, hard-core-dx Nov 3 via DXLD) ** NAMIBIA. 3290.1, NBC, Windhoek, Oct 27, 0235-0245, English pops, very strong but badly undermodulated. No sign of 3270. 6060.0 NBC, Windhoek, Oct 25, 1500-1510, English news, ads, strong but badly undermodulated. 6175.0 NBC, Windhoek, Oct 25, 1510-1515, English with government propaganda on farmers' evictions, strong but also undermodulated (Vaclav Korinek, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Radio Netherlands -- There are a few changes in Radio Netherlands` program schedule for the new season. First, Aural Tapestry goes on hiatus for the winter, as it did last year. It`s replaced in the schedule by Sound Fountain; it kicks off with a five-part series called ``A War of Words`` – information in times of conflict. Some of the world`s leading experts in the field of communications and peace studies give their views on propaganda, corporate media, war correspondents and negotiators. Part one, ``The Producers``, which aired the last Sunday in October as Journal was in production, the program investigated how governments are manipulating information under the guise of the ``war on terror.`` The general description of Sound Fountain: ``…a torrent of ideas from award winning documentary producers Michele Ernsting and Dheera Sujan. Interesting topics approached in an unusual way. Sound montage, esoteric conversations, inner musings and atmospheric music all add up to sound surprises…`` Second, Roughly Speaking has finished its run; through the end of the year you can hear Dutch Classics, in which Helene Michaud will be sifting through the Radio Netherlands archives of Dutch classical music. In the new year, The Amsterdam Forum will debut. This new program will be an extended interview with a leading Dutch figure. Third, Wide Angle will have its initial airing one day earlier – on Saturdays – apparently replacing the current feature entitled Best of Wide Angle (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Nov NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Hi Glenn, Re Rich Cuff's comments in the NASWA Journal, quoted in DXLD 2-171: Unfortunately the new On Demand audio system is not yet ready for launch. We had hoped to launch it with the start of the winter schedule, but a number of delays occurred. It's hoped to start testing the new system in January. 73, (Andy Sennitt, RN, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. 9705, La Voix du Sahel, 2133 Nonstop Nice African music, 2150 News? by local language and 2200 Clear ID at 2200 as Radiodiffusion Télévision Niger, Good. Nov. 2 (Nobuo Takeno, Kawasaki, Japan, NRD-535D with 10m wire, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 3326, R. Nigeria Lagos, 2047 Music and talk in EE. 2100 ID as Radio Nigeria Lagos, but Non IS of Drums. Audible. Fair. Nov. 2 (Nobuo Takeno, Kawasaki, Japan, NRD-535D with 10m wire, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PALESTINE [non]. CLANDESTINES: 3985, Voice of Palestine, Voice of Palestinian Islamic Revolution, via VoIRI, Iran, Nov 2, *1930-1945, Arabic talks about Palestine and Arabic songs, 35444 // more disturbed 6025, 6065, 6200 and 11905 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. MOROBE'S RURAL PEOPLE TO GET MORE OF RADIO MOROBE From the Independent: Oct 31 2002 RURAL residents of the Morobe province may soon have access to the vital services of the National Broadcasting Corporation's (NBC's) Radio Morobe through the medium wave following a visit by three officials from the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) early this week. Provincial station manager, Kikalem Meruk, told The Independent that Radio Morobe was one of eight provincial stations owned by NBC that was to be visited by this JICA team. Mr Meruk said the purpose of the team's visit to the radio station was to see first hand the available facilities, the staff and the services that were being rendered to the people of Morobe. In addition to this, they were also to hold talks on possible assistance to the station to boost its services. Mr Meruk said discussions which were held with the officials included the possible installation of another transmitter for the local station to broadcast its Kundu service on the medium wave band. However, this would be subject to the team's findings, proposal and eventual approval by the Japanese government for funding assistance. The station manager explained that of the eight stations visited, the Japanese government would be assisting three to five of them. He said the talks with the team had proven quite positive and he was confident that Radio Morobe would receive this boost. He said the team also paid a courtesy visit to the provincial administration where they met with deputy governor, Gigo Zaliong and provincial advisor, Malalu Angu, who both briefed the JICA team of the funding assistance rendered by the provincial government to the radio station. During this occasion the Japanese officials were told of the vital role that the station was playing in getting vital information through to the people especially in the rural areas. He said the Japanese officials appeared quite impressed with the kind of support and commitment demonstrated by the provincial government and had indicated that they would be looking at assisting with another transmitter. Mr Meruk said Radio Morobe, which had fallen victims to vandals in the city, had been fortunate to have had the provincial government and AusAID come good with substantial funding to help get the station back on air. He said the station was broadcasting on short and medium wave bands, however the service was not all that effective. He said the installation of another transmitter would ensure a strong and clear reception for many more listeners throughout the province (via Don Nelson, DXLD) More MW = less SW? (gh, DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. On Oct 24, Adan Mur sent me these data for the transmitters broadcasting 24 hours a day: 1480 MW (omnidirectional - 0,25 wavelength - 1 KW, from Ñemby). 2300 (omnidirectional - 0,625 wavelength - 60 watts, from Villeta). 7737 (directional – 60 and 240 degrees - 300 watts, from Villeta). 9983 (directional - 184 degrees - 300 watts, from Villeta). (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** PERU. Re DXLD 2-171, 10354.3 R. Willkamayu I found the following item in a list at: http://www.radiodifusion.com/archivo/Radios_del_Peru.pdf Radio Wallkamayu OBX-7L Wanchaq, Cusco 940 Khz 1KW Perhaps the 11th harmonic of a slightly off AM carrier? 10354/11 = 941.27 (Mark Mohrmann, Coventry, VT, Nov 4, http://www.sover.net/~hackmohr/ DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3375, R. San Antonio celebrated its 9th anniversary in October according to e-mail from Hno Rolando of the Carpio Montalvo, Director of Radio San Antonio. Also, he notes that in September Radio San Antonio became a member of the network, Peruvian Satellite Quechua, which is an organization of eleven transmitters at the national level united to try to preserve the Peruvian culture Quechua. It combines its efforts together with other South American transmitters in Bolivia and Ecuador. Since Radio San Antonio is a cultural station without profit they do not have the resources to acquire a satellite receiver that is important to interchange information with the other transmitters of the Peruvian Satellite Quechua network (Rich D'Angelo, PA, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Caro Glenn, Conforme o boletim de programação da RDP, que pode ser solicitado a Isabel Saraiva (isabelsaraiva@rdp.pt), a programação de sábado e domingo sofre alterações quando há transmissões esportivas. Portanto, só nos resta acompanhar "A Guitarra Portuguesa e o Fado", nos sábados, e "Cantando Espalharei", nos domingos, com uma tabela do campeonato português de futebol. Quando não tem futebol, vai ao ar as rubricas. Aliás, 'rubrica', no Brasil é usada no sentido de assinatura abreviada, de próprio punho. Já em Portugal, eles usam no sentido de título ou indicação geral de um assunto. Na verdade, os portugueses, na minha opinião, usam a palavra 'rubrica' onde os brasileiros usariam a palavra 'programa'. 73s! (Celio Romais, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** QATAR. AL-JAZEERA TO TAKE ON CNN, BBC IN ENGLISH From http://www.hindustantimes.com Agence France-Presse, Doha, November 02 Al-Jazeera satellite television is planning to launch an English- language channel late next year to rival the leaders of world television news, managing director Mohammad Jasem Al Ali told AFP on Saturday. "The English channel will compete with the BBC and CNN and deal with news through a different eye to the Arabic channel," he said. "We expect to launch towards the end of 2003." Free-wheeling Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel in Arabic, based in the gas-rich Gulf state of Qatar, has become the dominant force in Arab television news on the back of worldwide scoops on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and, more recently, the Chechen hostage drama in Moscow. The director general said no budget had been decided for the new venture but it would not involve any partners. "I don't think it will be as expensive as JSC because there will be a lot of logistical synergies and collaboration to keep costs down." However, the new channel will have its own studios and buildings on the existing site in Doha and recruit its own new staff. "We will need first-class international television journalists with native or near native English," Al-Ali said, adding that he already received a lot of CVs. As part of the push into the English-language market, by January 2003 JSC viewers, estimated at some 45 million worldwide, will be able to select from a remote control a voice-over in English. "We are recruiting interpreters to provide a simultaneous translation from Arabic," the director general said. An English version is also shortly due to be added to the successful aljazeera.net Arabic language website. Turning what the director calls a small profit in the sixth year of operations, Al-Jazeera is still also negotiating over a project to start a business channel with US and other partners. The station that launched with an output of just six hours a day on November 1, 1996, today has a total staff of 500 producing non-stop news which has turned the staid Arab world upside down. It has also spawned imitators and Saudi Arabia's MBC, based in Dubai, is set to launch another rival news channel in the coming months (Nov 3 via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Re: ||| 6235 1800-2200 27,28 S.P 200 265 RUS RRS Quite misleading registration: RRS would be Radio Rossii but apparently this frequency carries Voice of Russia programming exclusively, right now after 1830 in accordance with the VoR schedule German or rather a Universelles Leben programme, so let's say it carries the output of the German service control room. What's the actual transmitter site? Right now the audio is in synch with 7300, pointing to Tbilisskaya. By the way, the 7300 transmitter suffers frequent trips, a problem which arises once in a time on this unit as I recall (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7300 is listed as Samara in B02, and the plot shows that the registered beam perfectly centers above Germany which is the primary target (4h German, 1h English). 73s, (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, DX LISTENING DIGEST) || What speaks against St.Peterburg? Actually nothing, they could take the same satellite feed than Tbilisskaya. And right now 6235 is quite poor but 7300 still good, so it may indeed be Popovka... But I am quite sure that 7300 is indeed Tbilisskaya. This is some standard frequency, carrying the whole evening program of VoR German service, and it used to be in summer on 15540 and in autumn on 11980; years ago it was in summer on 11980 and in winter on 7360 instead. This transmitter is still quite distinctive although the horribly mistuned carrier frequency circuit (Trägerfrequenzleitung in German, I do not know the proper English term for such circuits) was replaced about two years ago by a much, much better satellite link. "Suspects" for Samara would be 7125, 7215 and 7380, but some of them may indeed originate from Yekaterin`burg instead. VoR German services used to post a list of transmitter sites at http://www.vor.ru/German/Liste/liste.html This list gives own VoR data but so far the page has not been updated yet. Otherwise the guesswork would be unnecessary since this information appears to be trustworthy. Bolshakovo shortwave: The site is still listed for VoR German 1000- 1100 on 12010, as always using two transmitter pairs on two different antennas. It could be interesting to monitor this frequency... (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What speaks against St. Peterburg? 6235 is primarily intended for the English program (1900-2200) and the coverage is "perfectly" centered at the UK; see the enclosed plot of the HFCC data. At least regarding Radio Rossii frequencies, some changed site are currently in operation. Mikhail Timofeyev announced in a Russian DX mailing list that the broadcasts to Southern Russia and Caucasus 0300- 0700 on 9450, 0730-1400 on 15355 & 1400-2100 on 5905 are now transmitted from St. Petersburg instead of "Kaliningrad resp. Moscow" (actually, all 3 are listed as Kaliningrad in the HFCC list). 7300 for German from ARM would not be wise to use, as it would give a much worse coverage, it would skip over half of Germany in the evening, as you can see in the enclosed plot (which is automatically generated from the HFCC data). You can compare this with the "perfect" coverage if Samara is used. 7300 is a standard frequency listed for Samara in winter seasons since many years (already in HFCC winter 1994/95). The 7360 you are referring to, is indeed supposed to be in use from ARM [``Armavir``] with the standard 290 beam according to HFCC, but for French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian, which is the "right" target as it centers more in the west. KLG [Kaliningrad] 12020 at 1000-1100 if run according to the HFCC registration: the 245 beam has a first center above Eastern Germany, a second one above SW Germany, and a third one above France; the 205 beam has a center above SW Poland and the very SE of Germany, and another one above Italy (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. Clandestine, 7182.02, R Kavkaz (tentative), Nov 1, 1900-1915, when R Bangladesh 7185 was Off. News in Russian or a Russian dialect with four items from Moscow and one from New York. At 1911 a woman and a man talked with jingles in between. 24232. At *1912 R Bangladesh came back on the air on 7185 in Bengali with a noisy carrier QSA 4. When it signed off 1959* the Russian station had disappeared (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. SAUDI GROUP PLANS MEDIA CENTRES IN US, EUROPE "TO COUNTER ANTI-ARAB PUBLICITY" | Text of report in English by Saudi news agency SPA web site Manama, 3 November: Saudi Arabia's Dallah al-Barakah Group (DBG) is planning to launch a 100m-dollar media blitz in the United States and Europe to counter anti-Arab publicity in the West. "There is a project to establish (television) channels in English, and to set up a news agency," DBG Chairman Salih Kamal told reporters. "Now is the time to explain to them about Islam. We think we didn't do our duty to have a bridge with other states," he said on the sidelines of a banking conference in Bahrain. Kamal said DBG was in discussions with Arab businessmen to set up a company to run the channels and the agency in the next few months, with 100m dollars in capital. "The plan is still under study but the agency and the channel will be established in different European countries," he said. The member states of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed last year to launch a media blitz to counter rising anti-Arab publicity following the 11 September incidents in the United States. The GCC states have proposed that three satellite television channels be set up. Source: SPA news agency web site, Riyadh, in English 0750 gmt 3 Nov 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES. B-02 FEBA SEY Broadcast Schedule [ENGLISH || at right] FEBA Radio - Mahe, Seychelles, Indian Ocean Broadcast Schedule B02, Winter 2002 27th October 2002 to 30th March 2003 Transmitter Site (SEY): 04 deg 36" S, 55 deg 28" E. B: Broad beam of 68deg at -6dB, CHR 2/2/0.8 N: Narrow beam of 35deg at -6db, CHR(S)4/2/0.8, slew +/-12 or 18deg NORTH INDIA, NEPAL, TIBET Frequency Azimuth Power Time UTC Days Languages kHz deg Kw ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0015-0030 smtw... MARATHI 7265 040 B 100 0015-0030 ....t.s PUNJABI India 7265 040 B 100 0015-0030 .....f. DZONKHA 7265 040 B 100 0030-0100 s..wtfs HINDI 7265 040 B 100 0045-0100 .mt.... HINDI 7265 040 B 100 0030-0045 smtw... BANGLA 9465 040 N 100 0045-0100 ....t.. BANGLA 9465 040 N 100 0045-0100 ......s ASSAMEESE 9465 040 N 100 0815-0900 ....t.. HINDI 15460 040 N 100 1200-1230 smtwtfs TIBETAN 15445 040 N 100 1230-1245 s...... BHILI 15445 040 N 100 1230-1245 .mt.... MUNDARI 15445 040 N 100 1230-1245 ...w... MARWARI 15445 040 N 100 1230-1245 .....fs BHOJPURI 15445 040 N 100 1245-1300 s...... MARATHI 15445 040 N 100 1245-1300 .mtwt.. PUNJABI India 15445 040 N 100 1300-1315 s...... KANGRI 15445 040 N 100 1300-1315 .m..t.. ORIYA 15445 040 N 100 1300-1330 ..t.... GUJARATI 15445 040 N 100 1315-1330 sm.wt.s GUJARATI 15445 040 N 100 1315-1345 .....f. GUJARATI 15445 040 N 100 1330-1345 sm..... NEPALI 15445 040 N 100 1330-1345 ..twt.. CHATTISGARHI 15445 040 N 100 1330-1345 ......s MAGHI 15445 040 N 100 1400-1415 smtwtfs URDU India 11600 040 B 100 1400-1415 .....fs HINDI 11600 040 B 100 1415-1430 smtwtfs HINDI 11600 040 B 100 1430-1445 smtwtf. HINDI 11600 040 B 100 1445-1500 sm..t.. HINDI 11600 040 B 100 1430-1500 ......s KUMAUNI 11600 040 B 100 1415-1430 smtwtf. BANGLA 15445 040 N 100 1430-1445 .....fs BANGLA 15445 040 N 100 SOUTH INDIA, MALDIVES, SRI LANKA Frequency Azimuth Power Time UTC Days Languages kHz deg Kw ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0100-0130 smtwtfs TAMIL 7265 040 B 100 0130-0145 st.tfs TAMIL 7265 040 B 100 0145-0200 s...t.. TAMIL 7265 040 B 100 0145-0200 .....fs BADAGA 7265 040 B 100 0130-0200 smtwtfs TELUGU 9465 052 N 100 0815-0830 ......s TELUGU 15460 052 N 100 1345-1400 s.twtfs SINHALA 9810 052 N 100 1345-1415 smt.tfs MALAYALAM 15445 052 N 100 1345-1400 ...w... MALAYALAM 15445 052 N 100 1445-1500 smtwtfs TELUGU 15445 052 N 100 1500-1515 ..t.... TELUGU 15445 052 N 100 1500-1515 s.....s MALAYALAM 15445 052 N 100 1500-1515 ...wtf. ENGLISH Slow 15445 052 N 100 || 1500-1515 sm.wtfs KANNADA 11600 040 B 100 1500-1515 ..t.... TULU 11600 040 B 100 1515-1530 s.....s KANNADA 11600 040 B 100 1515-1530 .mtwtf. ENGLISH 11600 040 B 100 || 1530-1545 smtwtfs ENGLISH 11600 040 B 100 || 1545-1600 smt.tfs ENGLISH 11600 040 B 100 || 1645-1700 ...w... DHIVEHI 11605 052 N 100 1630-1700 .....f. DHIVEHI 11605 052 N 100 PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN Frequency Azimuth Power Time UTC Days Languages kHz deg Kw ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0200-0215 s...tfs SIRAIKI 9465 028 N 100 0200-0215 .mt.... HINDKO 9465 028 N 100 0215-0230 smtwtfs SINDHI 9465 028 N 100 0230-0245 s....fs BALUCHI 9465 028 N 100 0230-0245 .mt.... BRAHUI 9465 028 N 100 0230-0245 ...wt.. BALUCHI S.Iran 9465 358 N 100 0200-0215 smt..fs URDU Pakistan 11640 028 N 100 0200-0230 ...wt.. URDU Pakistan 11640 028 N 100 0215-0230 smt..fs PUNJABI Pakistan 11640 028 N 100 0230-0245 smtwtfs PASHTO 11640 028 N 100 0230-0245 smtwtfs PASHTO 15555 028 N 100 0245-0300 .mtwt.. DARI 11640 028 N 100 0245-0315 s....fs DARI 11640 028 N 100 0245-0300 .mtwt.. DARI 15555 028 N 100 0245-0315 s....fs DARI 15555 028 N 100 0315-0345 s.....s HAZARAGI 15555 028 N 100 0430-0500 s...... FARSI 15535 352 N 100 1400-1440 smtwtfs URDU Pakistan 9485 040 B 100 1440-1455 ...wtfs HINDKO 9485 040 B 100 1440-1510 .m..... URDU Pakistan 9485 040 B 100 1440-1455 ..t.... PUNJABI Pakistan 9485 040 B 100 1455-1510 s...tfs BALTI 9485 040 B 100 1515-1530 sm..tfs TURKMEN 9485 358 N 100 1530-1545 smtwtfs UZBEK Southern 9485 358 N 100 1545-1600 smtwtfs HAZARAGI 9485 358 N 100 1600-1630 smtwtfs DARI 9485 028 N 100 1630-1645 smtwt.s PASHTO 9485 028 N 100 MIDDLE EAST Frequency Azimuth Power Time UTC Days Languages kHz deg Kw ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0345-0430 smtwtfs ARABIC 15535 340 B 100 0445-0515 .....f. SINHALA 15555 340 B 100 1100-1245 s.twtfs ARABIC 15535 340 B 100 1100-1300 .m..... ARABIC 15535 340 B 100 1245-1300 ....tfs ENGLISH Slow 15535 340 B 100 || 1800-1900 .....f. MALAYALAM 11600 340 B 100 EAST AFRICA, ETHIOPIA, SUDAN, INDIAN OCEAN Frequency Azimuth Power Time UTC Days Languages kHz deg Kw ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0315-0400 .m.w..s SWAHILI 11885 280 B 75 0315-0345 s.t.tf. SWAHILI 11885 280 B 75 0345-0400 s...tf. ENGLISH Slow 11885 280 B 75 || 0915-0930 smtwtfs FRENCH 15430 208 N 75 1100-1130 smtwtfs PORTUGUESE 15445 232 N 75 1515-1530 smtwtfs NUER 11885 280 B 75 1530-1545 smtwtfs DINKA 11885 280 B 75 1545-1615 ......s MAKONDE 11885 280 B 75 1600-1615 smtwtf. MAKONDE 11885 280 B 75 1600-1630 s...tfs AMHARIC 11640 322 N 100 1600-1630 .m..... GURAGENA 11640 322 N 100 1615-1630 ..tw... GURAGENA 11640 322 N 100 1615-1645 smtwtfs. SWAHILI 11885 280 B 75 1645-1700 sm.w.fs SWAHILI 11885 280 B 75 1630-1700 smtwtfs AMHARIC 11640 322 N 100 1700-1730 s....f. OROMO 11640 340 B 100 1730-1745 .mtwtfs TIGRINYA 11640 340 B 100 1730-1800 s...... TIGRINYA 11640 340 B 100 1700-1745 smtw.fs SOMALI 9485 340 B 100 1700-1800 ....t.. SOMALI 9485 340 B 100 1700-1730 smtwtfs SOMALI 11885 280 B 75 1830-1900 sm..tfs FRENCH 9485 280 B 75 1830-1845 ..tw... FRENCH 9485 280 B 75 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Engineer, FEBA Radio, Ivy Arch Road, WORTHING BN14 8BX, UK. WEBSITE: http://www.feba.org.uk/schedule B02bs01 dated 22.10.02 rww (via Wolfgang Bueschel, DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. Hi Glenn, I found the SRI shortwave schedule in about 30 seconds :-) On the Home Page of http://www.swissinfo.org click on English On the English menu, click About Us The link to the shortwave and satellite frequencies is on the right hand side of the page. Unfortunately it's only available as a PDF file, but it is up to date :-) 73, (Andy Sennitt, Holland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re DXLD 2-171: Yes, Glenn, very difficult to find the SRI SW schedule on the swissinfo site. There is no direct link on the main swissinfo page; you have to go to the sitemap page (last item on the left text menu) and it is the very last item on that sitemap page, swissinfo/sri products. On this products page the shortwave and satellite frequencies pdf file is the third item on the right menu. The link for the SRI products page is http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=901 The link for the shortwave frequencies file is http://www.swissinfo.org/pdf/broadcast_schedule-eng.pdf Regards (Harry Brooks, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Try: http://www.swissinfo.org/pdf/broadcast_schedule-eng.pdf 73, (Erik Køie, Denmark, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: English, B-02, complete; J = Jülich, Germany; S = Sottens, Switzerland; M = Montsinéry, French Guiana: NEAR EAST & AFRICA: 0730-0800 J 9885 160 J 13790 200 S 17665 165 0830-0900 S 21770 165 1730-1800 J 9755 115 J 13790 115 S 15555 140 1930-2030 S 9755 200 J 13660 165 J 15485 145 M 17660 115 SOUTH AMERICA: 2330-2400 S 9885 230 M 11660 175 (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SYRIA [non]. Arabic Radio observed 2 november, 1628utc with ID on 12120. SINPO 45343 here in Belgium (Silvain Domen, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. Latest Sked: L'Europe de l'Ouest : . Sur 7.225 kHz, de 1700 à 2300 UT Sur 7.275 kHz, de 0400 à 0700 UT Sur 11.730 kHz, de 1400 à 1700 UT Le Moyent-Orient :. Sur 9.720 & 12.005 kHZ, de 0200 à 0500 UT Sur 15.450 & 17.735 kHz, de 1200 à 1700 UT Sur 9.720 & 12.005 kHZ, de 1700 à 2100 UT L'Ouest de l'Afrique du Nord : Sur 7.190 kHz, de 0400 à 0700 UT Sur 11.950 kHz, de 1400 à 1900 UT Sur 7.190 kHz, de 1900 à 2300 UT (via Patala, DXing.info via Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** TUNISIA. 7190, RTT. Full data email QSL letter from Abdessalem SLIM. Word attachment contained verification info and schedule. My report was addressed to Ont@ati.tn. Subject was "Correspondance pour M. Abdessalem Slim". Received 6 days after my French language report, 22 years after the first of 14 previously unsuccessful reports. I had tried almost everything over the years ... registered mail, tapes, cards ready-to-sign with SASEs, local postcards, mint stamps, IRCs, $, email. Country verified number 196 on the long, steep path to 200 (Evans, TN, November 2, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Glenn, R. Ukraine International, 0400 UT 6020 November 2, 2002 was poor for a few seconds until V. of Turkey came on 6020 making RUI useless. 73, (Kraig Krist, VA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oh, yes, I was going to point out this inevitable clash; and 6020 is supposedly the only RUI frequency at this hour during the `minimum` schedule period (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Subject : The World Service is my oyster DOMESTIC RADIO PALES INTO INSIGNIFICANCE COMPARED TO THE BBC'S FINEST EXPORT Sue Arnold, Sunday November 3, 2002, The Observer Apart from friends, family and the Times crossword, the only thing I really miss when I'm abroad is the radio. Some years ago, I bought a pocket-sized portable shortwave set from Dixons at Glasgow airport, along with a booklet explaining how I could tune into the World Service in 100 different countries. But it is very much hit and miss and, even when I hit, the reception is abysmal. What I need is a good old-fashioned shortwave wireless like the one John Osborne used to keep in his bathroom in Edenbridge. It could pick up anything, he once told me - sheep stations in New Zealand, space stations in Texas - but was vast and not exactly portable. If only, instead of all that shower gel and shoeshine stuff they leave in your bath room, hotels would automatically install a radio in every room, but I suppose they reckon a colour television offering local stations, CNN, Sky and BBC World will do. It most definitely will not. BBC World Service radio is infinitely better than its flashy, noisy fledgling, BBC World TV. I speak from experience, having just spent a few days in two vintage hotels - the Dzveli Metekhi in Tblisi and the Pera Palace in Istanbul, both stuffed to the gills with antique bric-a-brac - phonographs, wind-up telephones, free-standing marble-and-mahogany basins and, in the Pera Palace, a display case full of Kemal Atatürk's chamber pots - but sadly not a single wireless between them. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Index on Censorship, the World Service's drama department is broadcasting a season of banned plays and I was looking forward to Workshop Negative, whose author, Cont Mhlanga, narrowly escaped having the fingers of his writing hand amputated after its first explosive performance in Zimbabwe. Then there's Westway, the World Service soap about everyday doctors in west London which packs more incident into one episode than Ambridge does in a year. On Wednesday, the Today programme had Robert Elms arguing the case against Alnwick, just voted the most desirable place to live in Britain. Rubbish, said Elms, picturesque villages are boring. He wants multiracial, multicultural excitement, not feudalism and sheep, which pretty much sums up the difference between Westway and The Archers. Westway has Albanian refugees, Nigerian students, Parsee managers, Indian chemists, dossers, drug addicts and, thank God, not a single organic carrot. Having failed to elicit either revolutionary drama or medicated soap from my Dixons portable, I switched on BBC World TV. Instead of the Russian hostages, I got a self-conscious, public-school prat called Orlando talking about the multimillion- pound sandwich empire he was hoping to build on his 700-year-old family name. Orlando is the youngest son of the Earl of Sandwich. It wasn't a news item, it was a dreary half-hour feature confirming what foreigners have always suspected about the English being wet, snobbish and commercially inept. What depressed me was less the negative PR than the decision to give 30 minutes' airtime to such fatuous rubbish while a global network of intelligent, well-informed, BBC correspondents with really interesting things to say kicks its heels. Radio news beats TV news every time, and before you trot out that old chestnut about a picture being worth a thousand words, let me tell you that BBC World bulletins are such a mishmash of flashing images, throbbing music, rolling Teletext and frenetic voiceovers that I'd settle for no pictures, 500 words and a chorus of 'Lily Bolero' any day. Television is glitzy, radio is intelligent. I'll take that further. Radio 4's news bulletins are better informed and written than anything on TV but they are acorns beside the majestic oaks of World Service news programmes such as The World Today, World Briefing and News Hour. Earlier this week, I switched from a Radio 4 news bulletin - Angus Deayton and John Leslie losing their jobs, Michael Portillo urging IDS to stick to his guns and Brits being allowed to bring more duty-free cigarettes home - to Alex Brodie presenting News Hour. It had items on the Tamil Tigers, the Labour Party in Israel, maize mazes, Russian legislation to lower the marriage age to 14, and why Alnwick has been voted Britain's top town. They didn't invite Robert Elms's comments because, in global terms, he isn't an A-list celebrity. One hundred and fifty million people listen to the World Service every week. I'm not surprised (via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U K. BBC World Service --- The schedule changes are as I`d predicted, and are summarized in the following table. Summer Time Winter Program 0000 0100 Meridian / Popular Music 0100 0200 Science / technology / health 0200 0300 Sports / Business / Analysis / FOOC (Wednesdays) 0300 0400 Music / Religion 0400 0500 World Today 0900 1000 World Update 1200 1200 Newshour 1300 1300 Outlook, Off The Shelf 1400 1400 Meridian / Popular music 1500 1500 Science / technology / health (Sundays: FOOC, People and Politics) 1600 1700 Europe Today / business / sport 2200 2300 World Today 2300 0000 Outlook / Westway / various features BBC World Service Highlights The most interesting program on the November World Service schedule looks to be Young In China, a four-part documentary series beginning Friday, November 8th, 0230 UTC, repeated the following Monday, 1530. The series attempts to reveal the thoughts and aspirations of the first generation growing up under China`s one-child policy. A group of young people at home, at work, and out socializing are profiled over the course of the series. Tuesdays, beginning November 5th, 0430: A History of Political Thought is a new 12-part 15-minute weekly series exploring the issues of human governance – the individual versus the common good, and authoritarianism versus democracy. The series is hosted by Charles Haviland. Wednesdays, beginning November 6th, 0045, with a repeat Thursdays, 0430: Tell Me My Future is a new four-part fifteen minute series in which Martin Stott takes a real life ``guinea pig`` approach to astrology, fortune telling, palmistry, and aura readings to gauge different predictions, and learn how and why people seek to be given a glimpse into their future. Thursdays, beginning November 7th, 0230, repeated Fridays, 1530: Sports International runs a new four-part 30-minute series exploring the multi-billion dollar world of USA sports called US Sports Incorporated. The series looks at how the sports industry has grown and how USA sports have been exported elsewhere. The series tries to answer a question I`ve long pondered: Why are some sports entirely USA-based, USA-led, and USA-devised? Sunday, November 10th, 1030: Since shortwave listeners are often history buffs, it`s worth noting the annual Service of Rememberance from The Cenotaph in London. Each year in Britain, on the Sunday closest to Armistice Day (our Veterans` Day in the USA), those who have died in the two world wars and other recent conflicts are remembered. The Remembrance Ceremony will be broadcast live to all regions at this time. Fridays, beginning November 15th, 2330, repeated Sundays, 0430: Inventors Imperfect is a three-part series in the usual Global Business timeslot looking at how people of flawed genius have influenced our times. Ada Lovelace – the daughter of Lord Byron – worked with Charles Babbage whose Difference Engine is considered the first computer. George Boole – remember Boolean Algebra? – and Sir Joseph Banks, a botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook, are also profiled. Saturdays, beginning November 23rd, 0230, repeated Tuesdays, 1530: I Have a Right looks at how the rule of law in countries targeted by the USA and its allies has changed in the wake of last year`s terrorist attacks. This is a three part, 30-minute series. Saturdays, beginning November 23rd, 1330: The Caribbean Connection is a three-week documentary on the Caribbean roots of black culture in Britain, and how the music and experiences of the region have influenced the arts and music in Britain. Hip-hop saxophonists Soweto Kinch and singer Juliet Roberts are the artists profiled in the first installment. That`s all for November; see you in December! 73 DE (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Nov NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** U K. 2LO TRANSMITTER - GIFT TO NATION MARKS BBC'S 80TH ANNIVERSARY From tesug@cix.co.uk The BBC is celebrating its 80th anniversary by presenting its original transmitter to the Science Museum as a special gift to the nation. The handover takes place after a special concert on Thursday (November 7) featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. The BBC, in conjunction with Crown Castle International (who are now responsible for the BBC's terrestrial transmission systems), will hand over its first transmitter - the 2LO - to the Science Museum, so that it can be fully restored and in future, displayed for the benefit of the nation. The transmitter was made by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in 1922. It takes its name from the number of the Post Office broadcasting licence issued to Marconi to operate an experimental radio station for London, and it was the first transmitter to be used by the BBC - then the British Broadcasting Company - when it was formed later the same year. The company grew quickly, and 2LO was overtaken by more powerful transmitters in 1925. It survives today thanks to the efforts of BBC engineers who found it in pieces in the basement of a transmitter station at Brookmans Park in the 1950s. It was last exhibited in 1992 - the BBC's 70th anniversary year - when it was part of 'The Greatest Show on Earth' display at Broadcasting House. It has been in the care of Crown Castle International since 1997, when the BBC's terrestrial transmitter network was sold off. BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies and Peter Abery, Chief Executive of Crown Castle, will jointly present 2LO to the Science Museum. It will be received by Lord Puttnam, a trustee of the Science Museum. BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies said: "Future generations should be able to share what is a fascinating piece of early 21st century technology. We also want them to understand its significance in the development of our broadcasting system, which is held up as a model for the world. So I can't think of a more appropriate home for 2LO." Dr John Griffiths, Senior Curator of Media Technologies at the Science Museum, said: "The 2LO radio transmitter was there at the birth of the BBC in 1922 - it is truly an icon of broadcasting history. Fortunately it has survived and the Science Museum is proud to acquire such an important piece of our nation's heritage for the national collections. It will be restored by Science Museum experts with a view to put it on display for future generations to marvel at." Also this from The British Vintage Wireless Society http://www.bvws.org.uk/index.htm The Science Museum in London is holding an event on 14 November 2002 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the BBC beginning transmission. On the evening of 14 November 1922 the fledgling BBC began transmitting; the call sign '2LO Calling' became a household word. The original transmitter, 2LO, has miraculously survived and on 7 November the BBC and Crown Castle will kindly donate it to the national collections, on the evening of the BBB's anniversary celebrations at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. 80 years on the Science Museum will celebrate this historic event on the evening of 14 November at its London storage facility, Blythe House. There will be two short talks on the significance of 2LO in radio and television history, a chance to see other significant items from the national collections and, of course, refreshments. The date is 14 November 2002 and the venue is Science Museum, Blythe House, near Olympia. The doors will be open from 6.15pm and the event will close at around 9.15pm. The evening is free, but spaces are very limited - tickets will be on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to reserve a place please contact Jane Davies at the Science Museum (Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD) or by email - j.davies@nmsi.ac.uk or telephone 0207 942 4201. A map and programme details will be sent out nearer the date. (via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) ** U S A. After all the publicity this week about Ventana a Cuba, the new VOA service started last week [see DXLD 2-164, 2-168], VOA really had egg on its face Sunday night. I tuned in about 0103 UT Monday Nov 4 and found fill music instead on all five of the listed frequencies, 9480 9590 9885 11700 11990. Including EZL version of ``Goldfinger`` at 0116, sure to arouse the suspicions of Cubans. So the transmitter sites knew what was going on and had the proper frequencies running, but the feed got lost somewhere between Washington and Delano, Greenville --- if it went out at all. No break at 0130, more fill music, not Ritmo Beat. One can imagine the program presenters back in Washington thinking they are on the air, never bothering to tune in a shortwave radio for aircheck. More likely, it was pre-recorded anyway and the tape (or file?) could not be found by master control (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. From rec.radio.shortwave: ...I'm hearing WWRB, from Manchester, TN, on new frequency of 5050. All kinds of studio relay problems, just playing filler music, except for someone from studio explaining that they're trying to fix connections, so Bro. Dan can speak. Local quality, very strong (Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL, Louisville, KY, via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U S A. Just out of curiosity, has anyone received a QSL card/letter from WWFV Copperhill, TN? I have tried several times with no luck (Bob, New Mexico, USA, hard-core-dx via DXLD) I think, nobody has ever received one (even when they used their old call sign). They have promised special QSL's, awards, etc., but I have never seen a report confirming these promises were realized (Guido Schotmans, Belgium, ibid.) ** U S A. I found a list of Boston area Haitian stations (mostly X- band) at the Haitian-Americans United website. See: http://www.hauinc.org/Html/Community/Media/Radio/RadioStations.html have fun, Paul McDonough, Medford, MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. ILLINOIS MAN KILLED WHEN RADIO TOWER COLLAPSES (This type of accident seems to be happening more recently - Mike) From The Glasgow Daily Times (Glasgow in the USA that is). November 01, 2002 CENTRALIA, MO. (AP) - Federal officials were investigating the death of an Illinois man who was killed when a radio transmission tower collapsed. Sean Burroughs, 29, of West Frankfort, Ill., was killed Tuesday when the 400-foot KMFC-FM tower he was repairing outside Centralia twisted and fell. Burroughs was secured to the tower with a rope - about 120 feet in the air - when he fell. Burroughs, who was part of a four-man crew working for the Henderson, Ky.-based Nationwide Tower Company, was pronounced dead at the scene. Three co-workers at the site were uninjured. Jerry Clair, owner of the Centralia-based Christian-format radio station, had contracted with Nationwide Tower to do maintenance work on the tower, including replacing steel cables that support the tower. Manuel Olmedo, area director of federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration, said Wednesday that he had dispatched one OSHA official to the area. "We're looking to ascertain what the cause of the accident was and also if the employer was following safe practices," Olmedo said. Olmedo said the investigation would likely take about three months. Officials from Nationwide Tower declined to comment (via Mike Terry, DXLD) Not that it matters with a wire-service story, but which Glasgow? Hardly any town names are unique to only one state in the US. In this case, starting with Kentucky and Montana. We know it`s from a foreigner when the state is not mentioned, except in the case of obvious major cities. BTW, there is a bigger Centralia in Illinois, the state the victim was from, but the accident was in another Centralia, in the adjacent state of Missouri (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. TV TOWER TO BE BUILT AS A BACKUP IN TIMES SQ. By DAISY HERNÁNDEZ A top Manhattan real estate developer said yesterday that it would start constructing a new 358-foot tower atop one of its buildings in Times Square to serve as a backup for television stations that lost their main antennas in the Sept. 11 attacks. The Durst Organization said the planned tower, at the Condé Nast Building at 4 Times Square, would serve stations that have been using the antennas on the Empire State Building since the loss of the antennas at the World Trade Center. "This would be used to satisfy the immediate need," said Douglas Durst, co-president of the real estate firm. The Metropolitan Television Alliance, a coalition of broadcasting executives, has said that the Empire State Building is not tall enough, and its antennas not strong enough, for it to become a permanent site for them. The coalition has instead been looking to build a 2,000-foot tower in New Jersey to replace the one at the World Trade Center. The alliance originally hoped to build its 2,000-foot tower on Governors Island. But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rejected that idea this spring, saying he wanted the island to become an education center. Since then, television executives have been considering locations in Bayonne, N.J., and Jersey City. But talks with the two municipalities have yet to result in a deal, said Edward Grebow, president of the alliance. "Unfortunately, in our business, height matters," Mr. Grebow said. Four Times Square already has an antenna that serves eight FM radio stations. It was originally intended to serve up to four television stations, but no one had expected that it could compete with the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building, Mr. Durst said. The new tower would serve up to 18 television stations, he said. "We think that even if they are successful in creating a project they're probably many years off," Jody Durst, co-president of the Durst Organization, said of the plans for a 2,000-foot tower. The loss of the antennas at the World Trade Center left about a million viewers, mostly in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, with fewer television channels. More than 200,000 people signed up for cable; others purchased satellite dishes. (NY Times Nov 1 via Jeff Kadet, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. Fight over rights to broadcast stupid ballgame in Columbus OH: http://www.theotherpaper.com/substory2.html (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. B-02 Schedule: Adventist World Radio (correction) Corrected version of sked previously circulated (thanks to Mike Barraclough for noticing that previously I had mistakenly shown all Meyerton transmissions as coming from Agat, Guam) ========================== AWR - Adventist World Radio Sked effective 27 October - 30 March 2003 Afar 1700-1730 AF 15485ab Amharic 0300-0330 AF 11975ab 1700-1730 AF 15465ab Arabic 0400-0500 ME 9875mo 0500-0600 AF 11905mo 0600-0700 AF 9840ju 0600-0700 AF 11670mo 1700-1800 ME 15385mo 1800-1900 AF 11740mo 1900-2000 AF 11845ju 1900-2000 AF 15130mo Bangla 1300-1330 sAS 15385ab 1300-1330 sAS 15660ag Bulgarian 0500-0600 EU 9885ju 1800-1900 EU 12015ju Burmese 1400-1500 seAS 11940ag Chin 2300-2330 seAS 11850ag Dyula 0730-0800 AF 17820mo 2000-2030 AF 11935mo English 0030-0100 sAS 6055ab 6035ab 0100-0130 sAS 9835mo 0400-0430 AF 9650me 0430-0500 AF 12080me 0430-0500 cAS 15160ab 0500-0530 AF 6015me 0530-0630 AF 15345me 0830-0900 EU 9660mo 17820mo 0900-0930 AF 17670mo 1000-1030 seAS 11705ag 1000-1100 neAS 11900ag 1300-1330 cAS 17870ab 1330-1400 AS 11755ag 15660ag 1330-1400 sAS 15385ab 1600-1700 sAS 11560ag 15495ag 17630ag 1630-1700 EU 9850mo 1630-1700 sAS 11980ag 1630-1700 sAS 9890ab 1730-1800 ME 9385ag 1800-1830 AF 5960me 6095me 1800-1900 AF 11985me 2000-2100 AF 15295me 2000-2100 EU 5955ri 2000-2100 neAS 7160ag 11700ag 2100-2200 AF 9660mo 2130-2200 neAS 11960ag 11980ag Farsi 0230-0300 sAS 9695ab 0330-0400 ME 9740mo 1630-1700 ME 11905mo Filipino 1030-1100 seAS 11705ag 1700-1730 ME 9385ag French 0500-0530 AF 9875me 0700-0730 AF 9840ju sa-th 0800-0830 AF 17820mo 2000-2030 AF 11845ju 2000-2030 AF 12105me 17695me 2030-2100 AF 11935mo Fulfulde 1900-1930 AF 17695me German 0800-0830 EU 9660mo 1600-1630 EU 7235mo Hausa 0600-0630 AF 15225me 1930-2000 AF 15255me Hindi 0000-0030 sAS 6055ab 6035ab 1400-1430 sAS 17700ab 1530-1600 sAS 17640ag 1530-1600 sAS 15215ab 1700-1730 ME 11675ag Igbo 0530-0600 AF 15225me 1930-2000 AF 17695me Indonesian 1100-1130 seAS 15260ag 2200-2230 seAS 11850ag 15320ag Italian 0900-1000 EU 15195ju sa,su Japanese 1300-1330 neAS 11755ag 11980ag 2100-2130 neAS 11960ag 11980ag Javanese 1130-1200 seAS 15260ag 2230-2300 seAS 11850ag 15320ag Kannada 1430-1500 sAS 17775ab 1530-1600 sAS 17515ag Karen 1430-1500 seAS 15660ag 2330-0000 seAS 11850ag Khmer 1330-1400 seAS 11850ag Korean 1200-1300 neAS 9780ag 2000-2100 neAS 9385ag Malagasy 0230-0330 AF 3215ri 1530-1630 AF 3215ri Malayalam 1530-1600 sAS 11985ag 1530-1600 sAS 17590ab Mandarin 0000-0200 neAS 17635ag 17880ag 1000-1100 neAS 15260ag 15430ag 1100-1200 neAS 11900ag 1100-1300 cAS 17835ab 1100-1300 neAS 11660ag 1100-1500 neAS 15725ag 1200-1300 neAS 15225ag 1400-1500 neAS 11800ag 2100-2200 neAS 11720ag 11750ag 2200-0000 neAS 11655ag 17880ag Marathi 1530-1600 sAS 13790ag 1600-1630 sAS 9890ab Masaai 1730-1800 AF 12130me Nepali 1500-1530 sAS 13790ag 1500-1530 sAS 17590ab Oromo 0300-0330 AF 9650mo 1730-1800 AF 15485ab Punjabi 1500-1530 sAS 15215ab 1500-1530 sAS 17640ag Romanian 1730-1800 EU 5840ju Russian 0400-0430 cAS 15160ab 1330-1400 cAS 17870ab Sinhala 1400-1430 sAS 15660ag 1430-1500 sAS 17700ab Somali 0330-0400 AF 12015ab 1630-1700 AF 15465ab Swahili 0400-0430 AF 12080me 1700-1730 AF 12130me Tachelhit 0700-0730 AF 9840ju fr Tamil 1330-1400 sAS 15150ab 1500-1530 sAS 11985ag 1730-1800 ME 11675ag Telugu 1400-1430 sAS 17775ab 1500-1530 sAS 17515ag Tigrinya 0300-0330 AF 11945ab 1730-1800 AF 15465ab Urdu 0130-0200 sAS 9835mo 1400-1500 sAS 15385ab 1600-1630 sAS 11980ag Vietnamese 0100-0200 seAS 15445tw sa 1400-1500 seAS 15550tw 2300-0000 seAS 15320ag 2300-0000 seAS 15445tw Yoruba 0500-0530 AF 11970me 2030-2100 AF 12105me Transmitters: ab = Abu Dhabi, UAE ag = Agat, Guam ju = Juelich, Germany me = Meyerton, S.Africa mo = Moosbrun, Austria ri = Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia ta = Talata, Madagascar tw = Taiwan [Alan Roe/Michael Beesley/Sergey Kolesov] We intend to expunge the previous version from the archive html (gh) ** U S A [non]. Chuck Roswell, the TWR frequency manager is retiring on December 31st, so monitors reports have to be dumbed down so that office workers can understand them (David O. French, London`s East End, Nov World DX Club Contact via Mike Barraclough, DXLD) ** VANUATU. The South Pacific hunting season has begun at my QTH (one day earlier than in previous years): 7260, R. Vanuatu, 0656-0710 with southsea music, station announcement, yellow bird interval signal at 0700 followed by news in English read by male announcer, yellow bird IS again at 0710, signal faded out very quickly after that. Nothing heard on 4960 kHz Considerable QRM from V of Nigeria and SWF3 on adjacent channels. Reception was significantly better with NRD-535D than with IC-R75 (both connected to ALA-1530). 73, (Enzio Gehrig, Denia /Spain (38.50N-000.07E), Nov 4, NRD535D/IC-R8500/IC-R75/R5000 Dipole/ALA1530/RF Systems MTA hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. 780 MW, R. Coro, Coro, Feb 3, 1940-2010, heard on Aruba with 5 ID’s, sports report (Venezuela-Mexico), ads and Mariachi music. A reception report was sent on Feb 15 to Apartado 7421 in Coro. On Oct 29 I received the unopened letter back with a stamp from the Coro Instituto Postal dated August 29 saying that this Apartado was suspended. It had two other stamps dated March 6. Obviously nobody cared during these six months to forward it to the street address of this old station which no doubt is known by everyone in Coro (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 5035: VOV Xuan Mai. Hmong language service, ID at 2230 exactly according the WRTH Vietnamese ID transcription. Programme consisted of extremely ethnic folk singing with monotonous melodies that lasted for more than 15 minutes per song. Really exotic listening! (Jari Lehtinen, Finland, 23 October 2002. hard-core-dx Nov 3 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Voice of Vietnam B02 Below is a tentative B02 schedule for Voice of Vietnam's external service, not all details are yet completely monitored. Thanks to Olle Alm, Jerry Berg and Hans Johnson for their assistance. 1242 kHz is via Thoi Long, Can Tho Province, 2000 kW. Overseas relays: mos - Moosbrunn, Austria; sac - Sackville, Canada; skn - Skelton, UK Some transmissions are also carried on FM 101.5 MHz for the Hanoi area. Language Times Target area Frequencies (kHz) Cantonese 1300-1330 Indochina, THA 1242 1430-1500 Indochina, THA 7285 1530-1600 Asia 9840, 12020 2230-2300 Asia 9840, 12020 Chinese (Mandarin) 0830-0930 CHN 9840, 12020 1330-1400 Indochina, THA 1242 1500-1530 SE Asia 7285 2200-2300 CHN 9840, 12020 English 0100-0130 N America 6175sac 0230-0300 N America 6175sac 0330-0400 C America 6175sac 1000-1030 AUS, SE Asia 1242, 9840, 12020 1100-1130 SE Asia 7285 1230-1300 SE Asia 9840, 12020 1330-1400 Europe 7145, 9730 1400-1430 SE Asia 1242 1500-1530 SE Asia 1242 1600-1630 Europe 7145, 9730 1630-1700 Indochina, THA 1242 1800-1830 Europe 5955mos, 7145, 9730 1900-1930 Europe 7145, 9730 2030-2100 Europe 7145, 9730 2100-2130 Europe 7145, 9730 2330-2400 SE Asia 9840, 12020 French 1230-1300 Indochina, THA 1242 1300-1330 Europe 7145, 9730 1830-1900 Europe 7145, 9730 1930-2000 Europe 5955mos, 7145, 9730 Indonesian 0930-1000 INS, SE Asia 9840, 12020 1030-1100 INS, SE Asia 1242, 9840, 12020 1430-1500 INS, SE Asia 1242, 9840, 12020 Japanese 1200-1230 J 9840, 12020 1400-1430 J 9840, 12020 2130-2200 J 9840, 12020 Khmer 0000-0030 CBG 7285 1130-1200 CBG 1242 1200-1230 CBG 7285 1330-1400 CBG 7285 2230-2300 CBG 1242 Lao 0030-0100 LAO 7285 1230-1300 LAO 7285 1400-1430 LAO 7285 Russian 1130-1200 RUS 9840, 12020 1300-1330 SE As 7285 1630-1700 Europe, SE As 7145, 9730 2000-2030 Europe 5970skn Spanish 0300-0330 C Am, Car 6175sac 1100-1130 C Africa 7145, 9730 2000-2030 C Africa 7145, 9730 Thai 1130-1200 THA 7285 1200-1230 THA 1242 1500-1530 THA 9840, 12020 2300-2330 THA 9840, 12020 Vietnamese 0000-0100 C Am, Car 7145, 9730 0130-0230 N America (E) 6175sac 0400-0500 N America (W) 6175sac 0900-1000 AUS, SE As 1242 1530-1630 SE Asia 1242 1700-1800 Europe 7145, 9730 1830-1930 Europe 5955mos 2030-2130 Europe 5970skn 2300-2400 INS, THA 1242 (Alan Davies, Indonesia?, Cumbredx mailing list Nov 3 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. VOV Updated schedule Nov-4 This is the actual operational schedule for VOV, incorporating some minor programming sequencing revisions made since the new period commenced on Oct. 27. VOV Director advises that the continuing use of overseas relays is now subject to intensive and ongoing review: this has been reflected in the deletion of relays via Russia some months ago. Other frequency and programming changes may occur during the B-02 period. ----------------------------------------------------------- VOICE OF VIETNAM - B02 SCHEDULE - EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 4 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------- Updated to November 4, 2002 * Foreign Service (FS) * Services to Asian countries (VOV6) Data derived from information made available from the station, and via actual monitoring. [Number after kW is azimuth degrees] 0000-0030 Khmer 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Cambodia VOV6 0000-0100 Vietnamese 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 290 Af FS 0030-0100 Lao 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Laos VOV6 0100-0130 English 6175 Sackville 250 kW 212 ENAm FS 0130-0230 Vietnamese 6175 Sackville 250 kW 212 ENAm FS 0230-0300 English 6175 Sackville 250 kW 212 ENAm FS 0300-0330 Spanish 6175 Sackville 250 kW 212 ENAm FS 0330-0400 English 6175 Sackville 250 kW 212 ENAm FS 0400-0500 Vietnamese 6175 Sackville 250 kW 268 WNAm FS 0830-0930 Mandarin 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 57 China VOV6 0930-1000 Indonesian 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA VOV6 1000-1030 English 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA FS 1030-1100 Indonesian 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA VOV6 1100-1130 English 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 SEA FS 1100-1130 Spanish 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 290 Af FS 1130-1200 Russian 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 290 Russia FS 1130-1200 Thai 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Thailand VOV6 1200-1230 Japanese 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 57 Japan VOV6 1200-1230 Khmer 7285 Hanoi y 50 kW 216 Cambodia VOV6 1230-1300 English 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA FS 1230-1300 Lao 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Laos VOV6 1300-1330 French 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1300-1330 Russian 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 SEA FS 1330-1400 English 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 216 Eu FS 1330-1400 Khmer 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Cambodia VOV6 1400-1430 Japanese 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 57 Japan VOV6 1400-1430 Lao 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 Cambodia VOV6 1430-1500 Indonesian 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA VOV6 1430-1500 Cantonese 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 As VOV6 1500-1530 Mandarin 7285 Hanoi 50 kW 216 SEA VOV6 1500-1530 Thai 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 Thailand VOV6 1530-1600 Cantonese 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 As VOV6 1600-1630 English 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1630-1700 Russian 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1700-1800 Vietnamese 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1800-1830 English 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1800-1830 English 5955 Moosbrunn 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1830-1900 French 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1830-1930 Vietnamese 5955 Moosbrunn 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1900-1930 English 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1930-2000 French 5955 Moosbrunn 100 kW 320 Eu FS 1930-2000 French 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 2000-2030 Russian 5970 Skelton 250 kW 140 Eu FS 2000-2030 Spanish 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 290 Af FS 2030-2100 English 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 300 Eu FS 2030-2130 Vietnamese 5970 Skelton 250 kW 140 Eu FS 2100-2130 French 7145 9730 Son Tay 100 kW 320 Eu FS 2130-2200 Japanese 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 57 Japan VOV6 2200-2230 Mandarin 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 China VOV6 2230-2300 Cantonese 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 As VOV6 2300-2330 Thai 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 Thailand VOV6 2330-0000 English 12020 9840 Son Tay 100 kW 177 SEA FS Transmitter Sites: Hanoi 20N59 105E52 (Hanoi western suburb) Son Tay 21N12 105E22 (30 km NW of Hanoi city) Note: The Hmong Service is not included here, defined as a Domestic Service Compiled: (Bob Padula, November 4, 2002, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Anyone care to pick out any contradixions between the two versions? (gh, DXLD) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROPAGATION +++++++++++ 160 Meter/MF Propagation Indices I posted this earlier this morning on the 160 Topband Reflector, with a few typo's. I'm reposting it here now with corrections and some additional information specifically for the MF broadcast band. Also I will not be publishing #2002-31 of the KN4LF 7 Day Medium Frequency Radio Propagation Outlook until sometime on Monday. Due to the dismal Topband propagation conditions seen during the CQ WW contest last weekend, I've received numerous requests for and explanation of 160 meter propagation correlation with propagation indices. Unfortunately MF propagation is so complicated that the usual indices are not clear cut indicators of 160 meter propagation conditions, like with HF frequencies. However the following indices parameter levels will (((generally))) point to good 160 meter propagation conditions. 1.) Dropping indices numbers are better. 2.) Solar flux under 150, under 100 better, 70 is best for E layer multi hop. 3.) Solar flux of at least 100 for E valley-F layer ducting mechanism. 4.) Previous 24 hour Ap index under 10; under 7 for several days consecutively is best. 5.) Previous 3 hour Kp index under 3 for mid latitude paths, under 2 for high latitude paths; 0-1 for several days consecutively is best. 6.) Energetic protons no greater then 10 MeV (10+0) for 160/120 meters and no greater then (10-1) on MF broadcast band. 7.) Background x-ray flux levels less than C2 for several days consecutively for 160/120 meters and less then C1 for MF broadcast band. No current STRATWARM alert. IMF Bz with a negative sign, indicates a better chance of high latitude path auroral absorption/unpredictable refraction or scattering of MF RF signals, when the Kp is above 3. See my MF radio propagation theory notes for more information http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm 73, Thomas Giella, KN4LF/NNN0HUS, Plant City, FL, USA KN4LF 160 Meter Amateur Radio Resources And More: http://www.kn4lf.com KN4LF Daily Solar Space Weather Geomagnetic Data Plus MF Propagation Outlook: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm FL Meteorological & Climatic Institute: http://www.kn4lf.com/sub/fmci.htm FMCI 2002-2003 FL Daily Winter WX Discussion: http://www.kn4lf.com/sub/fmci17.htm (Nov 3 via hard-core-dx via DXLD) MEETINGS ++++++++ Calling All Shortwave Radio Listeners to attend the FINAL meeting for the year 2002! The Ameriucan Shortwave Listeners Club-ASWLC final 2002 meeting will be held on December 7th at 12 noon at 16182 Ballad Lane in Huntington Beach, CA 92649. At our meetings we discuss all aspects of SWLing worldwide. Top subject at this time of the year is the B-02 Frequency schedules. You are invited to attend these monthly meetings as they are always open to the general public. On hand for all to enjoy will be the usual donuts and coffee plus colas. A printable map with directions is available at our web site. Contact person is Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA at 714-846-1685 or email: wdx6aa@earthlink.net. We hope to be seeing many of you attending the meeting and do not forget to Bring A Friend! (Stewart H. MacKenzie, WDX6AA) "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio where Culture and Language meet" http://communitylink.ocnow.com/groups/aswlc ###