DX Listening Digest 8-068 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/dxld8068.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1411 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALBANIA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA CVC DRM / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BULGARIA DRM / CANADA RCI / CANADA CKZU / CANADA CBCR2 / CHINA / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / ERITREA +non / FINLAND / GERMANY +non / GERMANY EAST / GREECE / GUAM / HUNGARY A08 / INDONESIA / IRAN A08 / ITALY / JAPAN / JORDAN / KASHMIR / KENYA / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH / KUWAIT DRM / LATVIA / MALAYSIA +non / MONGOLIA / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NORTH AMERICA TCS / OKLAHOMA KFAQ/KAKC/KMUS/KTBZ/IBOC / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / RUSSIA +non / SAUDI ARABIA / SINGAPORE / SLOVAKIA / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / TAIWAN +non / TINIAN / TONGA / TURKEY +non / UK non BBCMR / UK BBC4 / UK +non TWR/LTW / UK Droitwich / USA AFRTS/AFN / USA WBCQ / USA WEWN / USA +non WYFR/DRM / USA WEUS / USA Marc Fisher / USA Cucamonga pirate / ZIMBABWE / UNIDENTIFIED 6925 / UNIDENTIFIED 15460 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / MUSEA / 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 1411 SUMMARY: *Saudi Arabian transmitters keep radiating nothing but loud buzz, spikes blotting out entire SW bands, notably from 15205, 11915; but occasionally relent, so maybe they are monkeying with problem rather than ignoring it *If this racket had landed in a hamband there would have been hell to pay, with the DARC/Intruder Watchers jumping on it. No one is looking out for the interests of SW broadcasting. But protests are now going to S.A. thru official channels *R. Pakistan WS has live audio of Urdu broadcasts via http://www.radio.gov.pk *Plus little English newscast at 1100, but now shifted to 1000, as Pak suddenly went on DST June 1 of UT +6, which shifted all external broadcasts one UT hour earlier without warning; `major` English broadcast at 1600 now should be 1500-1515 on 9385 11565 15625.4 *Two new 100 kW transmitters being installed at Landhi, near Karachi, will have two rotatable curtain antennas, like those in Portugal, Oman, Turkey *AIR Kargil, Jammu & Kashmir MW station reported in Indian press to have gone on air with 200 kW May 30. WTFK? Must be 684 kHz, but already listed in WRTH two years ago as 200 kW *All CNR-1 frequencies from China carry daily national news conference around 0800-0900, in Chinese with complete translations in English, following quake; still doing so? *Chinese Firedrake musical jamming resumed May 29 after 10 day substitution by CNR-1; SARFT thus admits it is responsible for jamming *CRI English to NAm at 0100 has two separate programs: regular on 9580 via Cuba, 9790 Canada; and China Drive from Beijing, domestic service via Albania 6020, 9570 *V. of Indonesia before and after 1400 this week: on 9525, 9526, or missing; usual unpredictability *R. Veritas Asia, Philippines, 9 of 16 antennas destroyed by Typhoon Cosme, so many transmissions have to be put on remaining antennas at wrong azimuths, e.g. Vatican relay 1220-1315 on 6020 on 280 instead of 355 degrees *Whenever such a pious station suffers a disaster, one must wonder about its true relationship with God *R. New Zealand International`s new analog schedule from May 30 *Broadcast auxiliary from Texas on 25870 identified as from KLDE, 104.9, Eldorado, skipping out thanks to sporadic E; unknown why they are on 11 meters *QSO with Ted Randall on WBCQ 7415 retimed to UT Sundays 0300 *WRMI, 9955 has been working on antenna aimed northwest, and signal seems improved, including 14-16 UT with Prague relays, DX programs such as World of Radio; 16-21 weekdays with WRN relays, 21-24 with Overnight AM for the paranormal community *WEWN puts leapfrog mixing product in Spanish on 11170, 11870 over 11520, at 0100; could happen between 0000 and 0600, also the other way on 12220 *The non commercial, non communist, non corporate, non Christian, non capitalist, non Cumbre, DX program, World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 *Thanks this week for financial support from Larry & Jane Will, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com *Much more info at our website http://worldofradio.org *Standard disclaimer *If you hear Russian on 5920, it`s not necessarily R. Rossii, Kamchatka, on the air 22 hours a day. WBOH, North Carolina has 5 minutes of Russian weekdays at 0635, which we ran across *Also on WTJC 9370, which on another occasion was putting big FMy blob on 9255-9285 *Chuck Bolland in Florida heard R. Rossii at 1000 on 5920, apparently when WBOH was off *WHRI 11785 was accompanied by big spurs around 11771, 11799 clashing with Anguilla, Cuba; but for Hmong Lao Radio, Sunday at 1300 was on unlisted 11750 alone instead; what about this Sat, Sun? *Domestic newspapers can take news from VOA site without cost or copyright problems as long as they initiate it *CKBD Vancouver approved to move from 600 AM to FM; but CBC flagship CBU, which also has many AM and FM relays, has to keep 690 *CJCH 920 Halifax turned off without usual 3-month overlap, becoming 101.3 The Bounce *XEXQ, 6045, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, barely audible in OK at 1302, while inverted V antenna is lowered to only one meter above ground level *R. Nicaragua, government station on 620, knocked off the air by cable theft, and no money to replace it; was best DX bet for this country *RHC, 11680, collides with Spain on 11680 at 0000-0200; and with DRM from Kuwait before 0300 on 11670-11675-11680, New Zealand after 0300 *R. Amazonas, Venezuela, reactivated around 4940 but extremely distorted, heard two or three nights at 0130 *La Voz del Guaviare, Colombia, 6035, 2230-0300 IDs also as Radio Uno in network relay *Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, Perú, 5120.1 heard at 2207 in Colombia; announces 5070 *R. Globo, Rio de Janeiro, reactivated on 11804.7 to 11804.8 both morning and evening *R. Guarujá, Florianópolis, Brasil, 5980.55 reactivated after ``a long period of hibernation with severe technical problems`` *RAE, Buenos Aires, also had severe technical problem, theft once again of a cable feeding programming to transmitter, so off the air May 30-June 1; when back we found it on 15343.9 around 2200 *Woofferton transmitters in UK putting spurs on 9415 and 9610 from mix of 9480 and 9545 at 06-08, with DW relay; also in Arabic on 12380 at 0830, mix of BBC 15180 and DW 13780 *International Radio Serbia took our advice and shifted from 6185 to 6190 for North America 2330-0130, including English 0000 & 0100, no longer colliding with Mexico City; poor here, very good in northeast *Never mind the schedule announced last week of Algeria via France; it lasted only 4 days, but continues to be relayed by VTC transmitters in UK, Portugal; speculation about who pays for all this, French intelligence or CIA to counter Libya`s broadcasts? *Like Pakistan, Morocco went on DST June 1, of UT +1, to save energy, match Europe; effect on few remaining SW transmissions not known, but 15345 may close an hour earlier at 2100 *R. Bana, Ethiopia, 5100 heard in English until 1800 sign-off *Miraya FM Radio, in Arabic, English to Sudan via Slovakia at 15-18 moved to 15650 *But collides with V. of Oromiya Independence Sat 1700-1730 via Germany, so that may be moving *R. Cairo continues colliding with WEWN 11550; was 11550.1, but now heard on 11549.5 including undermodulated English at 2115-2245 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, June 4: solar flux 67-70-67 NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1411 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 0530 WRMI 9955 [new] Wed 1130 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 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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