DX Listening Digest 8-104 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/dxld8104.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1426 / ABKHAZIA / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA VL8T / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRIA / BAHAMAS / BAHRAIN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA CBC / CANADA CJRN / CANADA CFRX / CHINA / CUBA +non / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA +non / FRANCE +non / GERMANY +non / INDIA +non / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL WATERS +non Abie Nathan / IRAN +non / IRELAND non / JAPAN / KOREA SOUTH +non / LATVIA +non / LITHUANIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MOZAMBIQUE non / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS / NEW ZEALAND / NIGER / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PHILIPPINES A08 / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SYRIA / UKRAINE / UK BBCWS+ / UK JohnnieWalker / USA +non VOA / USA WBCQ / USA WRNO / USA non CVC / USA WTNT/WWRC / USA KUNM+ / USA ham W6DI / USA KGOW / USA WPRR / USA WQHR733 / USA Florida/pirates / USA MSNBC / USA NAB / VENEZUELA non / VIETNAM non / YEMEN / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 1314 / UNIDENTIFIED 1700 / UNIDENTIFIED 5010 / UNIDENTIFIED 6003 / TESTIMONIALS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION / TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING 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 1426 SUMMARY: *New Bolivian on 6075, heard in South and North America, morning from 1000 UT and evening until 0230, is Radio Causachun Coca, ``long live coca`` *Radio Virgen de Remedios, Bolivia, on 4555 for a while, back to 4111 *Radio Nove de Julho, Brazil, back on SW, 9820; named for 1932 date of revolt against dictator Getúlio Vargas, and had been forced off the air by another dictator later; reported from S America but not yet N America [watch out for Cuba 9820 from 2200 except weekends] *Two Hondurans doing the same thing at 1123, preachers in English being translated into Spanish, R. Luz y Vida, 3250, and Radio Misiones Internacional on 3340 *Radio Verdad, Guatemala, 4052.5, heard with Swedish ID at 0548 *XEPPM, Radio Educación, Mexico City, 6185, normally off air in daytime, came back on after 1400 Sept 10 while sponsoring the Bienal about DRM and other radio matters; also heard on a Thursday until 1100 closing with Del Campo y de la Ciudad show, Sept 11 marking assassination of Salvador Allende *Radio Vision Cristiana, 530, South Caicos; and Caribbean Christian Radio, 1020, Grand Turk, off the air for weeks from hurricane damage and power outages *UT Sept 13, as Hurricane Ike was about to hit Houston, KGOW, Bellaire TX, 1560, relayed KPRC-TV channel 2 and ran day power of 50 kW all night, instead of usual 100 watts; widely heard in eastern North America and Europe *Houston`s major news radio station, KTRH, 740, not so widely heard tho 50 kW; may have stayed on tight direxional pattern *Nothing heard then on FEMA frequency 5211; MARS nets heard on 4008, 4021, 5153.5 *KLVI, 560, Beaumont TX still off the air days after hurricane, but sister FM stations carrying its news *Highly recommended, Bill Moyers Journal on PBS Sept 12, about reclaiming civil discourse, against rightwing hate talk radio, full transcript and video: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09122008/watch.html *VOA anchor Neil Currie speaks out against turning off SW transmitters, reducing language services *WWRB worth listening to only when playing big band fill music, on 3185 one night in the 0000 UT hour, another in the 0100 *Last Saturday night on WWCR, 5070, UT Sunday Sept 14 at 0230, previous week`s World of Radio 1424 played by mistake, so those depending on this transmission missed #1425, which was really the previous editon to the one you are hearing now; unless you retrieve it, e.g. from http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html *Reminder that WBCQ is running World of Radio Fridays at 2301 on Area 51, 5100; also temporarily Mondays at 2201 on 7415 [in addition to Wed 2100 on 15420, Thu 2330 on 7415] *Via shortwave, satellite, AM, fm and internet, World of Radio 1425; our address where your contributions are welcome: woradio at yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA *CHU frequency change from 7335 to 7850 is not yet ready; will give 30 days notice in on-air announcements *Revived CFRX, Toronto, frequency corrected closer to 6070, but modulation dropped to almost inaudible. We researched other stations using 6070, including Belarus, Liberia, Indonesia, North Korea, Thailand, Russia, Philippines, Swaziland, China, Romania, and worst of all Chile, all-night *Arabic on 710 kHz around sunset is CJRN, Niagara Falls, at least during Ramadan; previously they even interrupted a hockey game for call to prayer *Inside the Music is runing a series, The Nerve, on music and the human experience, such as war and music, Sundays 8 pm on CBC Radio 1, Saturdays noon on CBC Radio 2; local times + delayed zonal webcasts *Shortwave transmitters at Flevo, Netherlands are being dismantled, so RN abandoned plans to ever use them again; for spare parts in Germany *Deutsche Welle German service, Saturdays at 1430 has intriguing music show, Muzprosvet; can be heard well even in NAm on 15420 via UK *The Mighty KBC, Holland, via Lithuania, tests toward India, Australia and New Zealand the next three Saturdays, Sep 20, 27, Oct 3 at 1030- 1059 on 9770 *Switzerland in Sound interviews Bob Thomann on his 80th birthday Sept 24; available this weekend *Radio Exterior de España mentions that it plans to continue on SW plus additional platforms, but the DX program in Spanish will be renamed [no longer Amigos de la Onda Corta] *La Bañera de Ulises, excellent show of Mediterranean music and culture, once on REE, then only on RNE Radio 3, was canceled at Junend, but six years of shows archived, plus blog at http://labaneradeulises.org/ *Radio Medi Un, Morocco, 9575, has wonderful music, Arab, French or even English *1Africa, Zambia, 13590, aimed at Nigeria, also puts good signal into North America around 1900; stealth evangelism with constant musical bed aimed at younger listeners, in stark contrast to neighbors on dial, plodding Harold Camping on 13615 and equally soporofic preacher on WINB 13570 *New Ethiopian clandestine I mentioned recently is Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio, Tue/Thu/Sat 1700-1730 on 17655 and 21555 via Samara, Russia; higher frequency inaudible in Europe *Another new Oromo clandestine is on 15670, 1600-1700 Sun/Tue/Thu [V. of Oromo Liberation Front] *Israel redesigned REKA website, including on-demand to four remaining English programs no longer on SW: Weekend Report, Sunday Edition, Culture Report and Face to Face via http://www.iba.org.il/reka/ *More mixups on All India Radio: Guwahati 4940 and 7280 were off the air a while; Gorakhpur on 3935 instead of 3945, so don`t take it for New Zealand *Democratic Voice of Burma reported testing relay via KHBN Palau, 13- 14 on 12095 Mon-Tue-Wed, but not confirmed *RRI Indonesians making it on 60m, especially 4790 Fak Fak mostly with Qur`an before and after 1300, unlike 4750 and others; is it more Islamic? *Papua New Guineans making it to Oklahoma on 90m, around 1300, best being 3385, R. East New Britain, Rabaul *Radio Australia, 9785 via Darwin heard with English lessons for Indonesians at 2230 UT Saturday; quite different from Kang Guru Radio English, also provided by Australia, on RRI 9680, Wed & Fri 0805 *KHNU, Hilo, Hawaii, 620, ex-KIPA back on air testing; full power is 10 kW plus two repeaters on west side of Big Island *We can enjoy abstract kaleidoscopic art on TV screen thanks to not- quite-locking-in DTV on a channel from Oklahoma City [32] with local analog interference; see if you can get something similar *Propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder, Sept 16 NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1426 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sat 2000 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415 [temporary, confirmed Sept 15] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 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 _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
