[HCDX]: Glenn Hauser's SW/DX, March 5

["Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

        GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 98-09, March 5, 1998

THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 931. Voz Cristiana on air from Chile,
with recording; Polisario keeps changing frequency; Niger back
on SW; Nigeria back on 19m; another English broadcast from Iraq;
CIA has clandestine in transmitter in Kuwait available for R.
Free Iraq; job opening at ORF; BBCWS commits to digital SW; RCI
gets $15 million more; and much more including most of the
stories below (Hauser)

BRAZIL. RNB's English at 1200-1320 on 15445 not only suffers from
worn-out tapes but a worn-out transmitter. Mar 3 at 1227 15445
had distorted music, warble on carrier, and even more distorted
spur on 15500.0, matched by 15390.0 which was under VOA in 
Spanish but in the clear after 1230 when an RNB announcement was
definitely in parallel on all three (Glenn Hauser, OK)

CANADA. RCI has gotten some more money from the government...a 
one-time grant of $15 million (spread over 3 years) for upgrading 
infrastructure...namely improvements at Sackville and upgrading
the studios in Montreal.  The government press release can be 
found on the Web, at http://www.pch.gc.ca under News Releases; 
the code number for it is P-02/98-154. (Bill Westenhaver, RCI, 
via RIB and WORLD OF RADIO 931)

CHILE. Voz Cristiana heard testing on 21551, March 4 at 1918
with ID but hard to understand, music (Ron Trotto, IL) Tuned it 
in immediately, very good signal on 21551.0, soft gospel rock in 
Spanish with frequent lyric "alabandote...adorandote" in devotion
to J.C., 1934 English ID amid nice electronic hymn tune IS, and 
Spanish version at 1954, off abruptly at 1957* Hard to understand
due to mumbling British announcer and audio quality on voice, but
seemed to give this contact info: Casilla 490, Santiago 3, Chile;
fax 56-28557053, vozing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In Spanish also muffled,
frequency was "21550" in both languages, certainly not actual 
21551. Even in English, station name given in Spanish. Booming in 
again next morning at 1355 tune in, same format, English ID at 
1403, 1506, Spanish 1421, 1452, again on 21551.0. Recordings of 
this are on WOR 931 in English, Radio Enlace, Mundo Radial in 
Spanish. We already have far too many religious broadcasters, and 
hardly need another one. This is the old Voz de Chile site 
finally reactivated under new ownership, nominal 100 kW (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, and WORLD OF RADIO 931)

JAPAN [non]. Some changes are coming for Z-98 in R. Japan relays 
via Sackville, Canada, starting April 1 at 0100. English in the 
morning on 6120 reverts to only one hour, at 1100, but there's a 
new hour at 0000 on 11705, along with the usual 0500 on 6110. In 
Japanese, the general service hour will be at 0200 on 5960; the 
"R1" service, domestic relay, I suppose, will be at 0300 on 5960, 
1300 and 1400 on 11705 and new 2200 on 11705. The French Guiana 
relay no longer will carry any English, just Japanese, Spanish 
and Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, from full sked of NHK Warudo via 
Karl Leite, radio-escutas)

LITHUANIA [non]. R. Vilnius via Germany, UT Sun March 1 at 0030
was on 5950 only, not //5880. There is a het on 5950, no doubt
from Guyana. Better that than all the QRM on 5905 (Hauser, OK)

NEW ZEALAND. RNZI still doesn't have streaming audio, but two
programs are now available in audio archive for real-time 
listening or downloading for later listening--Dateline Pacific 
(20 mins weekly) and Pacific News Bulletin (5-10 mins per day). 
Others may be added later as resources permit, such as Mailbox 
later this year, from http://www.actrix.gen.nz/biz/rnzi   
(Adrian Sainsbury, RNZI Mailbox March 2 via Hauser)

NIGERIA. V. of Nigeria is back on 19 meters. A station
with African music and mentions of Nigeria was heard from 1856
March 2 on 15120 (Ron Trotto, IL) I then tuned in at 2037 when
there were tone tests, with occasional long pauses of carrier
with hum, and always flutter, but no voice or music heard; no
ID around 2100; by 2157:30 VOA was signing on the freq. March 3 
from 1935 tune-in, constant hum sometimes overwhelmed audio
which sounded like outdoor political rally, mostly in English;
2013 went into French, and around 2100 another language, probably
Hausa. R. Kudirat, 11540, was much more listenable in the 1900
hour with anti-Abacha comments (Glenn Hauser, OK, and WORLD OF 
RADIO 931)

NIGERIA [non]. BBCM checked V. of Free Nigeria again Sat Feb 28
on 11645 at 1900, and again signal peaked from Africa. Perhaps
they are actually using DW-Rwanda site, with DTK Juelich as a
decoy. Someone could settle this by driving to Juelich, near 
Cologne, on a Saturday evening with a SW radio to determine if
there is a groundwave signal from there (Dave Kenny, UKOGBANI,
WORLD OF RADIO 931)

RUSSIA [non]. The person from Voice of Russia who will be at
the Winter SWL Fest March 13-14, as after-banquet speaker is:
Estelle Winters, a British subject who works at VOR (Maryanne
Kehoe via Joe Hanlon, Mar 2, WORLD OF RADIO 931)

U S A. FCC has issued call letters WBCQ for Allan Weiner's new
50 kW SW transmitter in Maine. When the station goes on air in
late summer, discount rates will be offered to free radio 
broadcasters who would like access to airwaves. More info from
AllanHW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anita McCormick via Harry Helms, DXing.
com, March 2, via Hauser)                                 ###


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