DX Listening Digest 8-093 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/dxld8093.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1421 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA +non / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRALIA ARDS / AUSTRALIA Goanna / BAHAMAS non / BELARUS / BELGIUM / BENIN / BHUTAN / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BURKINA FASO / CANADA CFUN / CANADA Northern Peaks / CHAD / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CUBA +non / DESECHEO ham / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA / GABON / GERMANY +non DRM+ / GUINEA / HAWAII / INDIA / INDONESIA / IRAN / ISRAEL / KOREA NORTH non / KURDISTAN / LATVIA / MADAGASCAR / MALI / MALTA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NEWFOUNDLAND / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA KGYN / OKLAHOMA KOKC+ / PAKISTAN / PALAU / PERU / POLAND / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SERBIA / SINGAPORE / SPAIN / SUDAN non / SWEDEN +non / SYRIA / TAIWAN non / UK +non BBCWS / USA +non BBG/VOA/IBB / USA WWCR / USA WWRB / USA FCC / USA KVOH / USA WRMI/WBCQ/WOR / USA non WYFR / USA Alex Jones / USA WWWT/WFED/WTOP/KFI+ / USA KUT / USA KGED / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 3291 / UNIDENTIFIED 9555 / UNIDENTIFIED 9601 / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / TINY TRAP / GRAPHIC GAFFES & AUDIBLE ATROCITIES / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM 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 1421 SUMMARY: *Coup in Mauritania August 6 put SW 4845 and 7245 off the air for at least a week, but could be monitored on MW 783 [by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal], by satellite and internet, e.g. via http://www.publicradiofan.com *XEXQ, 6045, San Luís Potosí, México, again barely audible with antenna improvement *R. Habana Cuba, Esperanto, Sunday at 2330 heard on 5965 only, contrary to its own schedule *Esperanto SW broadcasters are mainly communist, 5 hours a day from China, half an hour a week from Cuba, repeated several times *On August 11, RHC made sudden frequency changes: 15120 and 15360 at 11-15, ex 9550 and 11805; 6140 and 6180 exchange languages in evenings, so 6140 now in English 01-07, and 6180 goes off before VOA opens English at 0500, finally ending four-month-old collision *15360 has het at 1400-1415 from off-frequency TWR Swaziland *NBC Radio, St. Vincent & Grenadines, now has webcast; website indicates only on FM, but logged in March on MW 700, ex-710, ex-705 *HCJB, Ecuador, 6050, heard as early as 1920 UT in Florida *HCJB German service at 0630-0730 to Europe on 9740, off air since Aug 1, was back by Aug 11 *R. Bethel, Arequipa, Perú, active on 5949.6 at midday and also at sunrise *R. Cultura, Araraquara, Brasil, reactivated on 3365 *R. Eldorado ESPN, Brasil, distorted on 5745, probably spur *R. Nacional da Amazónia, ex-6180 has been varying around 6188.1, away from Cuba, but now bothering Serbia on 6190 at 0000 *Brasil relay of China at 0300, nominal 9665, heard on 9668.1, exactly same offset, so same transmitter with a mind of its own? *R. Globo heard with distorted signal on 12085, spur of 11805? *R. Renascença, Portugal`s Catholic network starts new service R. Sim on all the MW frequencies and some of the FM *REE, Spain, has many hours set aside for sports coverage Saturday and Sunday evenings, but heard lately here with classical music Saturday afternoons, world music Sundays. Football championships to bring sports back from Aug 31; on 15110, 17595 *World of Radio 1421, is semi-finished. Check our website for much more at your leisure if you can cope with lots of text: http://www.worldofradio.org *Our address, woradio at yahoo.com *Thanks for generous financial support from Dave Ewing in Illiinois who sent a check in the mail to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA *Radio Maarifa heard at 2000-2100 in Arabic and some French IDs on 9565, is a CVC service via Jülich, Germany, stealth Christianity, not as it seems just ``an attitude for life`` *Writers to mailbag of Austrian Radio lament that English will be cancelled by end of year, or earlier? *R. Romania International`s two new transmitters at Galbeni have been on sporadically; what`s going on. 11790 at 0000 was very good *With Russia invading Georgia, maybe it wasn`t such a good idea for VOA to cancel Russian broadcasts a few weeks ago; see http://www.freemediaonline.org/silencing_of_voice_of_america_russian_23072008.htm and http://www.bloggernews.net/117189 *But Georgian service still exists, so VOA doubles that from 30 to 60 minutes; RFE/RL adds another hour to 3:15 already. Complete schedules in DX Listening Digests 8-091 and 8-092 *Also see Kim Elliott`s comments at http://www.kimandrewelliott.com *List of military communication frequencies which may be active in Georgia, in DXLD 8-091 *R. Kuwait has been putting spur in the 20m hamband, 14125. Wolfgang Büschel computed how it happens, leapfrog mix between 9855 and 11990 when both are on air, 1815-2100 *V. of Indonesia sticking to 11784.9v, relatively clear from 1400 after the English hour is over, in Malay, but still a heterodyne from another off-frequency station, R. Guaíba, Brasil just below it *R. Singapore International cleans out its stock of stuff, now that it`s closed down, sending extra blank QSLs and a kilogram of mementos *VOA moves onto some vacated Singapore frequencies the next day, 6000 and 7235 *After 8 days on 5985.78, Myanma Radio back on 5985.00 from August 12, probably from Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw sites respectively *News text service Journaline demonstrated in VIP car at Beijing Olympix, via DRM transmitted from BBC Thailand *Reporters Without Borders pulls off clandestine radio stunt in Beijing on opening day, 104.4 FM criticizing government, audio at http://www.rsf-persan.org//chine/ANG.mp3 *China has not relented with Firedrake jamming as usual on multiple frequencies *R. Australia is our SW source for Olympic coverage, relaying ABC Local Radio until 1500; only on Pacific service, not Asian *World Harvest Radio IDs heard twice in Italy on 9555 between 1330- 1500, but not scheduled there. Must be new relay via KHBN, Palau, which is scheduled; blocked in North America by DentroCuban jamming *WEWN`s downtime for maintenance ended Aug 9, again colliding with Cairo at 2115 on 11550 *WDSS, Grand Rapids MI, 1680, drops R. Disney, and from 18 Aug becomes WPRI with new format Public Reality Radio *CJLO, 1690, Montreal, has begun testing from Concordia University *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 5 ### NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1421 Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] 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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