DX Listening Digest 8-002 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/dxld8002.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1389 / AFGHANISTAN / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRIA / BELARUS non / CANADA CFRX / CANADA non RCI/CRI / CHAD / CHINA / COLOMBIA / ECUADOR / EGYPT / GABON / GERMANY B07+ / GREECE / GUATEMALA / ITALY / JAPAN / KOREA NORTH / KUWAIT / LATVIA / LITHUANIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA / MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND / NORTH AMERICA TCS / OMAN / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SEYCHELLES non / SOUTH AFRICA non / SWEDEN non / SWITZERLAND / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TURKEY / UGANDA / UKRAINE non / UK non BBCWS+ / USA AFN / USA +non VOA/IBB / USA RFE/RL / USA KAIJ / USA PBS / USA NERW / USA WHRB / USA KMPT / VATICAN / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 2380 / UNIDENTIFIED 2525/3092/3180 / UNIDENTIFIED 4781 / UNIDENTIFIED 5580 / UNIDENTIFIED 13870 / UNIDENTIFIED 17565 / PUBLICATIONS / SHORTWAVE MUSIC / LANGUAGE LESSONS / 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 1389 SUMMARY: *Radio Arctica, unusual pirate/clandestine, also on demand via http://www.radioarctica.net.tc/ *KBC Radio via Lithuania modifies schedule to 2130-2230 on 6265 *New Year`s Eve monitoring by Kim Elliott *Radio Barretina, Catalan pirate *Austria cuts off Blue Danube Waltz *Serbia`s revived shortwave to serve diaspora; why, then, Italian to North America? *No Italian from Italy, but we can hear Vatican *Ukraine revives high-power Lviv SW transmitter to North America on 7440 *RWM timesignals moving from one site to another near Moscow *Voice of Russia to add two dialects of Kurdish *Olympía Radio, Greek coastal station still uses voice mirrors *Mauritania back on 4845, sometimes all night but not on New Year`s *Africans running late on New Year`s Eve: ELWA, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad, Zambia, Equatorial Guinea *XERTA, Mexico City back on air, new 4800 but poor signal, and hard to ID *Radio Maya, Guatemala, inactive on SW, allegedly webcasts via http://radiomaya.com *Cuba still jamming something on 15710; former Radio República transmitter on 5954.1 heard again without jamming; República via UK moves from 6100 to 6185, bad news for Mexico *Cuba changes 530 jammer programming again, to Radio Enciclopedia *Venezuelan minister claims RCTV equipment expropriated is depreciated to worthlessness, yet TVes has the best coverage *Radio Nacional, Venezuela, still off-frequency from 630 kHz *Radio Amazonas` awful signal heard occasionally off 4940 *Radio Superior, new Peruvian on 4523.5 *Radio Tumupasa, Radio San Miguel, Bolivia and their problems *Radio Cultura FM, São Paulo, not carrying Metropolitan Opera this season *Argentina suddenly changes to DST of UT -2 as of Dec 30 *RAE, external SW service languages thus shifted one UT hour earlier; [English at 17 on 15345, 01 on 11710] *Israel confirmed still on the air in 2008, such as English at 1030 on 13855, 15760; 9390 on the air longer than registered *Bangladesh Betar is replacing 1000 kW MW transmitter with new solid- state unit; also plans to replace 250 kW SW transmitter *Radio Japan`s New Year Eve show on only two SW frequencies, but live for a change marking 2008 at 1500 UT *The Crystal Ship, North American pirate, frequency preferences on 6700, 6875, 3430, 5385 *WIMA, 1150, Lima OH, special MW DX test, Sat Jan 5 at 0700-0730 UT; details at http://www.dxtests.info *WBT, 1110, Charlotte NC, has a new `Time Machine` show Saturday nights *WAMC Albany NY applies to usurp another public radio station`s frequency in northern New York, then backs off *Community station in Bend, OR, faced with two competitors for its frequency *KUWR, Laramie WY, adds two more frequencies, one jazz, one classical NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1389 **flexible times Fri 0730 WRMI 9955** Fri 1200 WRMI 9955** Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 [not expected 7465] Fri 2330 WBCQ 5110-CLSB [NEW from Dec 21] Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160 Sat 2230 WRMI 9955 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1200 WRMI 9955 [new] Sun 1615 WRMI 7385 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1130 WRMI 9955** Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 0830 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: 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 [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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