DX Listening Digest 8-046 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/dxld8046.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1403 / AFGHANISTAN / ANGOLA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA +non CVC / BAHRAIN / BENIN / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA +non / CANADA RCI / CANADA +non CBC/China / CANADA CBCR2 / CANADA CFVP / CANADA ORCA FM / CANADA Talking houses / CANADA +non CKKW+ / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CROATIA non / CUBA / ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ETHIOPIA / FRANCE / GERMANY EAST / GERMANY non / GOA +non / GUINEA / HONDURAS / INDONESIA non / ISRAEL / JORDAN +non / KOREA NORTH / LAOS / LIBYA / MACAU / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / NETHERLANDS non / NIGER / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA +non DTV/FM/KTUL+ / PERU / SAUDI ARABIA / SICILY / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SPAIN / SWEDEN / TAJIKISTAN / TURKMENISTAN / UK +non BBCWS / UK BBCR3/Proms / USA WWCR / USA KUSW/LDS/BYU/KTBN / USA NOAA / USA WZFN / USA WOR / USA WQEW / USA WQHJ332/Radio Top Inter / USA Randi Rhodes/AA/Nova M / USA WWBN / VENEZUELA +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZIMBABWE / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 / UNIDENTIFIED 3200 / UNIDENTIFIED 6039 / UNIDENTIFIED 7120 / UNIDENTIFIED 17436 / TESTIMONIALS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / LANGUAGE LESSONS 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 1403 SUMMARY: *Despite best efforts of BBCWS to prevent us in Western Hemisphere from hearing them on shortwave, we still can: e.g. 13865 at 1700-1900 intended for Western Russia; earlier in our mornings, 11750 *Some English broadcasts of R. France International, at 1200 and 1600 *Issoudun transmitter site in France now carrying some paid religion *Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal schedule in Dutch *Deutsche Welle in Amharic at 1400-1500, which has been jammed by Ethiopia, now on 15410 and 15660, colliding with Chile and Russia, respectively *Austria via Canada now 1500-1600 on 13775, mixing German and English *Serbia`s new 6185, English to North America at 0000, 0100l, poorly heard, colliding with Mexico *R. Bulgaria English schedule *R. Vilnius, Lithuania, English to North America [both transmissions collide with Chinese jamming] *R. Ukraine International English schedule *Don`t overlook the private Ukrainian low-power, R. Dniprovska Khvylia, heard on 11980-LSB *Radio PMR, Pridnestrovye, appears to be Monday-Friday now on 12135 and 6040 *Voice of Russia, audible in North America on good days at 1400-1500 on 15660, 1600-1700 on 13855; unlisted 15425 from Far East heard in English from 0100 *Some English broadcasts from Voice of Greece *Cyprus` Greek semihour on weekends only, on new 5930, et al. *Algeria`s Qur`an service, allegedly moderate, heard on frequencies relayed via Portugal, UK *Polisario station from Algeria to Western Sahara heard again on 6300, also MW 1550 *TWR Benin`s new 100 kW on MW 1566 language schedule, heard as far as New England *Something on 6024.95 in English may be FRCN Enugu, Biafra, Nigeria *Equatorial Guinea, 6250, widely reported in evening, occasionally in morning *SW Radio Africa, for Zimbabwe, 1700-1900 on 12035 is via Norway, per HFCC *VOA Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, 4930, heard much later than usual due to elexion situation *The non-commercial, non-communist, non-Christian, non-corporate DX program, World of Radio 1403, P O Box 1684, Enid OK, 73702 USA; or woradio at yahoo.com See http://www.worldofradio.org for much more info *Thanks this week for financial support from Kraig Krist in Virginia *Standard disclaimer *Tanzania`s official station renamed TBC, ID heard at 1700 via Zanzibar on 11735; plans external service in English and French to neighboring countries *Difficult to identify station on 7120.37 at 1500-1700 may be R. Hargeysa. Somaliland with new transmitter *New clandestine for Somalia is Radio Freedom, of the Alliance of the Re-Liberation of Somalia, Wed & Fri 1330-1400 & 1730-1800 on 7175 via Eritrea, jammed by Ethiopia *IRIN Radio, a UN agency, has new broadcast via South Africa in Somali at 1730-1745 on 9665, heard in Europe [the other broadcasts mentioned were misidentified, really France; and watch out for Spain at same time on 9665] *R. Cairo`s new 11550 in European languages 1500-2245, the last sesquihour in English, is off-frequency about 11550.1 and collides with WEWN throughout *V. of Turkey`s English to North America at 2200-2250 on 6195 is barely audible in Oklahoma; much better new relay via Canada 0300- 0350 on 7325 was in Turkish by mistake until we contacted the Turkish and Canadian authorities, then English from April 4. 1230 on 15450 is also heard on good days *Awful buzzy Saudi transmitter heard on 15205 from 1600; English at 1000-1230 on 15250 poorly heard in Europe *Hours of Israeli Arabic clandestine to Lebanon and Palestine, [al- Machreq], expanded on 756 kHz, heard in Egypt from 2310 until 0600 *Kol Israel`s only remaining SW broadcast, Persian at 1400-1500+, on 11604.97 and 13850 with Iranian bubble jamming on 13849.86 *Radio Pakistan Current Affairs Channel in English on SW; 0300-0400 5940, 1600-1645 4835 *Azad Kashmir Radio schedule from Islamabad and Rawalpindi sites in Pakistan proper *Portugal no longer blocks All India Radio on 11620, including English at 2045-2230, and other frequencies in use then *IBC Tamil, via Germany to Sri Lanka at 0000-0100 moved again, to 7205 *Lao National Radio, 6130, has English lesson Saturdays at 1412; the seven gongs at 1200 UT heard 2.5 minutes early *V. of Tibet, based in Norway, says China has stepped up jamming to three blockers at once *China changing its jamming methods; for a while added some regional channels, then nothing but Firedrake, later with new electronic sounds too *Firedrake on 5330 heralds another new frequency for Sound of Hope *CRI relay via Albania at 2100-2200 on 7285, 5960 heard with Easy FM service instead *Shiokaze broadcast at 2030-2100 jammed by North Korea on 6045 so moves to 5965; and has other anti-jamming alternates *Kamchatka Radio local programming cutaway from Radio Rossii now at 0710-0800 on 5920, colliding with WBOH, ex-clear 6075 at 0810 *R. New Zealand International supposed to be on 9655 at 1100-1300, but sporadically heard on 7145 instead, or 9655 until 1400 instead of 6095 from 1300 *VOA Greenville collides with Habana on 6180, both in English at 0500- 0700 [and VOA has now doubled power, so looks like a radio war] *Mixup caused VOA programs via Greenville and Bonaire both to be on 17895 at same time; resolved by moving Bonaire to 17550, 1830-2030 in French; Greenville 17895, 1830-2100 in English *After one day on 15420, colliding with DW and BBC, WBCQ moved back to 17495 *WWCR-3 moved to 7465 at 1100-1600, better coverage than 12160, including Rock The Universe Saturdays at 1200-1300 *CBC complains to China over blockage of CBC websites; yet CBC has been in bed with the Chicom for years in unimpeded shortwave relay exchanges *DST started 4 weeks later in Mexico than USA on April 6, former US date; so Radio Educación, 6185, moved schedule forward an hour, 2300- 1100+, signing on in English as well as Spanish *Fourth harmonic of La Voz del Níquel, Colombia, heard in Colombia on 5600 at 1128 *Radio Pio XII, Bolivia, 5952.45, heard with live broadcast at 0130 *New A-08 Aoki schedule, excellent resource with shortwave schedules by frequency: http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/bia08.txt *Propagation outlook from Boulder: A- and K-indices peaking at 30 and 6, April 23; solar flux peaking at 80, April 21-28 ### NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1403 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1130 WRMI 9955 Wed 2300 WBCQ 15420-CUSB [NEW, but returned to 17495-CUSB] 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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