DX Listening Digest 8-027 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8027.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1397 / ALBANIA / ALGERIA / ANGUILLA +non / ARGENTINA ham / ASIA non / AUSTRALIA RA/Seeber / BELARUS non / BENIN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA RCI / CHAD / CHINA +non / COSTA RICA / DUCIE ISLAND ham / ECUADOR DRM / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ESTONIA / ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Euronet / GABON / GERMANY / GREECE / GUATEMALA ham / INDIA DRM+ / INDONESIA / IRAN +non / IRELAND / ISRAEL / JAMAICA / JAPAN / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH non / KUWAIT / LAOS / LATVIA / LIBERIA / LITHUANIA / MACEDONIA / MADAGASCAR / MAURITANIA / MEXICO +non / MOROCCO / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA OUSOM / OKLAHOMA KEIF+ / PAPUA NEW GUINEA +non / PHILIPPINES / POLAND / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA / RWANDA / SIKKIM / SINGAPORE / SOUTH AFRICA / SWEDEN / TAIWAN / TIBET / UK +non BBCWS / USA VOA / USA AFN / USA WBCQ / USA WLO/KLB / USA non YFR / USA WFAQ+ / USA WVZN / USA WHBC / USA NBC / VENEZUELA non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED non 5100 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 6145 / UNIDENTIFIED 11995 / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1397 SUMMARY: *Israeli government tells IBA to keep shortwave, especially Persian, without budget *Monitoring Bahrain in Bulgaria, 9745 and 6010 *Iran on split frequency, 49 meters *Radio Pakistan`s 5050 broadcasts to Afghanistan reviewed *Sikkim`s only SW frequency, 4835, blocked by Pakistan *Nepal not heard on SW 5005 *Bhutan monitored on 6035, and also now webcasting, http://www.bbs.bt *Radio Free Asia reported to be encouraging Uighur independence from China as East Turkestan *RFA QSL reports may have been lost; use qsl @ rfa.org *South China Sea yacht race, Hong Kong to Philippines, March 20-24, will have weather broadcasts from lead boat, not land, on 4060 or backup 2638 kHz [NOT 2368 as stated] *New station authorized in Hawaii on 1340 kHz with 10 kW instead of usual limit 1 kW *KFAR, 660, Fairbanks, Alaska, was off the air due to fire, Feb 21-25 or so *Thanks this week for financial support from Jim Gershman, K1JJJ, via PayPal to woradio @ yahoo.com *KLEF, 98.1, Anchorage, with classical format, rates second in the market *Weather for Gulf of Alaska heard after 0600 UT on 4396, presumably WLO Mobile *Private coastal station WHX672, Brownsville TX, heard on 6223 *KBGG, 1700, Des Moines IA, was Spanish, stunted with `We will rock you`` before going ESPN *NDB at WWRB, Manchester TN, LYQ on 529, adds voice IDs and weather to code IDs; really gets out, interfering with broadcasters on 530 kHz *New on WBCQ, 7415, Sat 2000-2300 is Antenna 4, about what? Displaced shows move to Sundays: 1900 Jean Shepherd, 2000 Last Roundup, 2100 This Week in Amateur Radio *Tentative A-08 schedules for FCC stations show WBCQ on new 15420 instead of 15120, and 5835; silent WRNO on 15590 and 7505 instead of KTBN, so what becomes of it? *WEWN second harmonic heard in Oklahoma on 19950 during sporadic E opening *Radio Unam, XEYU on 9599.3 good for classical music in our afternoons --- until blocked by Vatican 9600.0 starting with 3-minute English broadcast at 2311 *ELCOR transmitter test from Costa Rica, 5954.1, generally on air 2230-2330 with Mexican music *As if prompted by this off-frequency neighbor, REE Costa Rica relay, 5965 has been on 5964.0, hetting Vatican, Cuba *Dominican pastors banned from Radio Vision Cristiana, over financial, local programming disputes between New Jersey HQ and Dominican Republic; also transmits from Turks & Caicos, Ecuador *Radio Nacional, Argentina, heard again on 6285, feeder or spur? *Irish coast guard radio being centralized; plans to close EJK on Valentia Island, 1752 kHz; local protests *Problems at French Guiana relay: no more DRM tests; some transmissions suddenly moved elsewhere; Poland relay on 9660 at 22-23 sometimes without audio or missing *Polish Radio external service, Multimedia show, hints SW may be on the way out *Lithuania getting out of 48 m band for relays of Iran, moving to 7565 including English at 1930; KBC Radio at 2130 to 6140 [update, not 6055 as previously reported]; and 6040 at 0100-0200 UT Sundays ### SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1397 Thu 0630 WRMI 9955 Thu 1530 WRMI 7385 Thu 2300 WRMI 9955 Fri 0030 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0900 WRMI 9955 Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 Fri 2330 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1615 WRMI 7385 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 1230 WRMI 9955 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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