DX Listening Digest 8-088 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/dxld8088.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1419 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA RA / AZORES / BOLIVIA / BULGARIA / BURKINA FASO / CANADA CHU / CANADA CKDH+ / CHAD / CHINA +non / CUBA non / DJIBOUTI / ECUADOR / EGYPT / FALKLAND ISLANDS / GABON / GEORGIA / GERMANY / HAWAII / HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Eutelsat/BBG / IRELAND / ISRAEL +non / JAPAN non / KOREA NORTH / KURDISTAN / LAOS non / LATVIA / LIBERIA / LIBYA / MEXICO +non / NETHERLANDS / NEWFOUNDLAND / NEW ZEALAND / OKLAHOMA KZLS/KNID / PALESTINE / PERU / SERBIA non / SINGAPORE / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / SURINAME / TAIWAN / UK BBCWS / USA VOA/BBG / USA WRNO / USA WBCQ / USA +non WYFR / USA KVMN / USA KPFK/KSFV/KRUZ/KLYY+ / USA WDCG/WCPE/WKSL/WMNX / USA KUNM+ / USA DTV non / USA WEAR / VENEZUELA / UNIDENTIFIED 5670 / UNIDENTIFIED 6104 / UNIDENTIFIED 6105 / UNIDENTIFIED 8096 / UNIDENTIFIED 15675 / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.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 1419 SUMMARY: *VOA quietly terminated Russian broadcasts July 26; airtime may be taken over by R. Liberty from August 1 *``A certain lack of strategic thinking`` by the Bush administration, says freemediaonline.org *WYFR much stronger on 21670 than other 13m frequencies, indicating it`s beamed northwest, contrary to schedules *WYFR abruptly replaced 7780 with 7730 due to interference complaint *WEWN off the air since July 28 for two weeks of maintenance *WRNO tests not heard since about July 23; planned to start programming August 1. Check 15590 in daytime, 7505 at night *TV Martí as a government station supposedly not under FCC jurisdiction, but FCC authorizes it to continue using channel 13 from Florida Keys until January 24, 2009, and with ``technical parameters at variance from those previously authorized``, whatever that means *Rudy Espinal, once popular SW host on Radio Clarín, now announces on FM station Raíces, webcasts: http://www.radioraices.org.do *Only one report of FM de Mérida, Yucatán, lately, July 25 at 1200- 1230 in Florida on 6104.84 *R. Nevada, Murillo, Tolima, Colombia, pirate station on 1510 heard in Bogotá on second harmonnic 3020 around 2300 *Unidentified Peruvian on 5059.2 is La Voz de las Huarinjas, Huancabamba, until 0215 and at 1320, ex-6819v *A Peruvian called R. Andina on 6936.3 until 0304; not sure if the one in Huancabamba, ex-6673, or Huancayo, ex-4995, or another station *R. Marañón, Jaén, Perú, 4835v, barely audible abroad or presumed off; but monitored earlier in Ecuador with very strong signal. May be using NVIS vertical-incidence antenna, close-in `umbrella` coverage *R. Voz Missionária, Brasil confirms it is deliberately using 5870; heard at 0245 in Texas, presumably, aside WHRI 5875 *Two Brazilians on 6105, but R. Cultura Filadélfia is off, allowing the other one, R. Canção Nova to be heard in Argentina at 2101 *unID on 3450v heard with programming pointing to Bolivia *unID on 2280 is second harmonic of R. Guaraní, 1140 in Argentina for Paraguayans *LRA36, Antarctica, 15475.96, surfaced briefly in Iowa at 2006-2020 July 22 *By shortwave, AM, FM, satellite and internet, this is World of Radio 1419, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA, or woradio at yahoo.com See our website for much more, http://www.worldofradio.org *CFRX, Toronto, about ready to reactivate on 6070; but will collide again with Chile all night. If close enough to Toronto, you may hear it in daytime without interference *CBC British Columbia starts Chinese news service, http://www.cbc.ca/bc/chinesenews with RCI people who are turned into translators from journalists as RCI downgrade continues *CHWO 740 Toronto is now CFZM under new owner; adult standards format continues but adding talk show and old time radio. Info and QSL via http://www.odxa.on.ca/cfzm/ *Recommended BBC frequencies for North America, none beamed here any more *New unlisted DRM station from Côte d`Azur on 25770-25775-25780, heard in Austria, AGORA DRM TEST; not to be confused with another DRM in France on same frequencies by TDF in Rennes *Iran`s Italian language service is called Radio Italia, rather presumptuously, and has changed a frequency at 0530-0630, 9770 ex- 11670, which are via Lithuania *Dutch pirate station Radio Lowland plans marathon broadcast Friday August 1 from 0700 to 2400; or hopefully later for North American reception, on 6310 *Strong African music on 5050 heard in Sicily July 22 around 2300; next day earlier, also Russian music on 5060. Pirate or big station testing? *Morocco no longer heard on 15340, or 15345 clearing frequency for Argentina to Europe M-F 1800-2200 *V. of Nigeria, 9690, heard once in June, once in July around 1400 in Oklahoma; strange propagation, long or short path or something else? *Chad reactivated on 4905 morning and evening; still on 7120 daytime? *Buea, Cameroon confirmed reactivated on 6005, obits at 1455 heard in Nigeria, blocked by BBC after 1700 *R. Cairo in the clear to Europe on 11550, thanks to temporary absence of WEWN *R. Singapore International closed down after July 31, but SW relays of domestic services should remain audible in Europe around 2300, on 6000, 6150, 7235, 7275 *RRI Makassar, Indonesia, missing from 4750 but heard again in Florida until 1000 *July 22 was last good day for V. of Indonesia in English at 1300 on 9526; missing since then, and believed on 11784.9 instead, blocked by Firedrake and VOA; also by Hmong Lao Radio, WHRI Sunday and Saturday *Democratic Voice of Burma website http://www.dvb.no/ hit by distributed denial of service of attack, blamed on Myanmar government *V. of Strait, Fuzhou, China, 4940, in Chinese but with English IDs heard at 1300, 1325 *CRI Esperanto service heard in 1300 hour on 11650, about what else? Olympix *The Cross, Micronesia, still awaiting antenna parts to resume 4755 *Scott Base and McMurdo, Antarctica monitored in New Zealand on 5785, 10639, 9106, but not on 5078, 5080, 5140 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, July 29 ### NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1419 Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 0530 WRMI 9955 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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