[HCDX]: TFW 64 2/4

[Giovanni Serra <g.serra@xxxxxx>]

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THE FOUR WINDS ON LINE  - Copyright 1998  Part 2
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Year 3 -  Number  64  - Rome,8 July 1998


0954- 15235- SAUDI ARABIA- BSKSA Radio Riyadh, Jeddah,  02/07, 09:54
piece of classical music, followed by medley of pop songs. French ID and
s/off. SINPO 44344. (Schaay, The Netherlands)

1000- 6090- CHILE- Radio Esperanza, Spanish <1000-1100>. Gene Scott
blocks frequency until 1000. (Williamson, NU1463 /ODXA Target Listening,
July 98)

1008- 4753.41- INDONESIA- RRI Ujung Pandang 1008-1020 Noted typical
music and comments during period. Signal was fair.(Bolland, USA July 1)

1010- 4777.72- BOLIVIA- Radio Los Andes 1010-1020 Typical Bolivian music
noted with some brief comments. Signal was poor with lots of splatter.
(Bolland, USA July 1)

1015- 15120- NIGERIA- R NIgeria 1015 , 26 June , news on NIgeria , tel
report , hilife a songs 1035 with music and ID at :42 44444 (Liangas Ag
Dimitrios , Alonissos Greece)

1020- 4935- PERU- Radio Tropical 1020-1030 Man in Spanish comments with
many mentions of "Lima" and finishes with "Viva Peru". This followed
with music. Signal was still good at this time. (Bolland, USA July 1)

1020- 7295- MALAYSIA- Radio 4, 1020-1033, Pop mx and call in EG pgm w/M
hosting. M anncr answered each call with "Hello, Radio 4....".  Played
dedications. Mentioned "this evening" several times.  Poor and fading. 
(Valko, USA 21 June)

1021- 4845.21- INDONESIA- RRI Ambon 1021-1030 Noted a man in steady
Indonesian comments. This being interferred with by Brazil, but not too
much. Indo station was fair. (Bolland, USA July 1)

1025- 5039.2- PERU- Radio Libertad 1025-1035 Noted a man in Spanish
comments. Signal was very poor and was experiencing Pacific Splatter
from another station. (Bolland, USA July 1)

1030- 6075.13- COSTA RICA- Radio Estereo, Double Tentative 1030-1100
Noted man in Spanish comments with mentions of "Costa Rica" during time
announcement. Also, music heard. Signal wasn't too good with much
splatter and fading. (Bolland, USA July 1)

1051- 15060- S ARABIA- BSKSA Quran Stn again back on 26/6 qwith arab
songs  and ID at 1051 . Signal was 44444 (Liangas Ag Dimitrios,
Alonissos Greece )

1100- 7120- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Joystick via IRRS, June 27, Mx,ID in GM,
EG   43333  (Pecolatto, Italy /Radiorama Pirate News)

1115- 5470.7- PERU- RADIO SAN NICOLAS 1115-1130 JUN.29 Mx folk. ¨A
traves de la senal de Radio San Nicolas que transmite en los 5670 khz de
la onda corta banda internacional, la mejor musica vernacular para
Rodriguez de Mendoza y toda la region..¨ Advs. Botica de la Gente
Feliz¨. ( Happy  people´s Drug Store). sl: ¨Radio San Nicolas que buena
radio...¨. (Rodriguez, Colombia)

1145- 5030- BHUTAN- Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS),  1145-1400* 
language, with English 1315-1400*  M / Sa 5030v. (Howard NU1399 / ODXA
Target Listening, July 98)

1158- 12085- MONGOLIA- V.o.Mongolia 3 July 1158*, tune in,  nice
Mongolian musical piece to 1204, then male chat in Chinese to S/ Off at
1204, English follows at 1210 with tuning signal and ID in English,
followed by Nx to fade out at 1214. NOTE:  suffered from chirping sound
on USB and noise on LSB with ICF SW 7600 G in use. SIO: 333 at 1158,
down to 212 at fade out. Also noted Mongolian at 1110, with S/ON on
12085, followed by Chinese at 1140, where signal appeared to peak to SIO
343 (Hanlon, USA)

1200- 11940- CAMBODIA- National Voice of Cambodia (freq. var.)
*1200-1215 English, French & other languages 1215-1315* on 11940v.
Romania co-channel, except 1227-1300. (Clark NU1442 /ODXA Target
Listening, July 98)

1225- 6329- PERU- ESTACION C 1225 - 1250 JUN.29 Esoteric program: ¨Los
Astros, usted y su destino¨ with Los Hermanos Montero. then music folk
in pgm: ¨Aires de mi Tierra¨. (Rodriguez, Colombia)

1245- 13820- CLANDESTINE- Dem Voice of Burma 1245 , 26/6 , with news abt
Asia by OM then yYL speaking and a report  voice @ 58 Program cntinued
and after 1300 with seemingly different dioalect after 1310,  similar to
viet, with small musical interludes a traditional and a pop at :14 The
13820 seems a .2 delay rely from //15330  (Liangas Ag Dimitrios ,
Alonissos Greece)

1255- 6675.6- PERU- RADIO ONDAS DEL RIO MARANON 1255 - 1320 JUN.29 ID:¨
Desde el turistico distrito de Aramango, con su laguna El Porvenir,
belleza natural del Amazonas desde aqui transmite la potente senal de
Radio Ondas del Rio Maranon a la vanguardia  y progreso del Distrito de
Aramango...¨. after pgm: La Hora de la Cumbia Peruana¨. (Rodriguez,
Colombia)

1323- 15255- THAILAND- Radio Liberty, Udon Thani,  02/07, 13:23 Kazakh
programming, in parallel with 11915 and 15145 kHz, both from Kavala.
SINPO 45444. (Schaay, The Netherlands)

1331- 15310- THAILAND- BBC World Service, Nakhon Sawan, 02/07, 13:31
News Hour. SINPO 33433. (Schaay, The Netherlands)

1340- 11690- JORDAN- R.Jordan in EG, 1340-1355, Px: Jordan and its
culture (till 1350), lcl mx pause. F (Serra, Anzio, Italy 7 / 5)

1346- 15370- THAILAND- Radio Liberty, Udon Thani, 15370.00, 02/07, 13:46
female speaker in Kazakh. SINPO 55544. (Schaay, The Netherlands)

1350- 15425- SRI LANKA- Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp., Ekala,  02/07,
13:50 tentatively this one, with non-stop (presumed local) covers of
light pop songs, with some sudden interruptions. SINPO 23432. Suffering
co channel interference from VOA Tinang in English. (Schaay, The
Netherlands) 

1406- 17675- SOUTH AFRICA- Channel Africa in EG, 1406-1419, M topical
tlk abt airliners, aircrafts and helicopters (interviews and ID during
px till 1414), mx and M W ancmt, ID into feature px (interview) F
(Serra, Anzio, Italy7/5)

1410- 6259.4- CLANDESTINE- VOZ DE LA RESISTENCIA 1410 - 1430 JUN.28
political comments and  revolutionary songs. ID:¨ Escuchan Voz de la
Resistencia estacion radial de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de
Colombia (FARC) Ejercito del Pueblo, Comando Conjunto de
Occidente...transmitimos los sabados a las 5 de la tarde por 106.9 Mghz
de FM estereo y los domingos en la manana por banda internacional de los
49 metros en 6260 Khz...¨. (Rodriguez, Colombia)

1428- 9664.97- ITALY- AWR; Forli, July 1, 1428-1433*, AWR tune, English
S/off announcement, schedule, address and webpage URL, slow AWR tune,
off at 1433. 44444 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

1437- 15445- SEYCHELLES- FEBA R. in Bengali / unid Lang, 1437-1450, M
rel sermon till 1440, oriental song (poss rel), continuing sermon
(.....amen), oriental song (poss rel) mix with W address, mx pause, M
ancmt (poss fqy quote, ment shortwave), IS, M ancmt, ID: Feba Radio, rel
mx, M tlk in poss another unid language (pgm not in schedules),rel
choral chant. F (Serra, Anzio, Italy 7 / 5)

1515- 21550- CHILE- VOZ CRISTIANA 1515 - 1530 JUN.28, Gospel music. Id
at the 1530: ¨ Esta es Voz Cristiana alcanzando al mundo para Cristo si
quieres escribirnos puedes hacerlo al Apartado Postal 2889 Miami,
Florida 33144...¨. (Rodriguez, Colombia)

1638- 10000- UNID- Unid R.  1638 27/6 with man speaking in unIDed lang 
due to low signal with an ID that seemed as R Cairo and ref to Al ahram'
newspaper Signal was 21342 with strong uffer from the time signal 
(LIangas Patitiri Alonissos Greece) 

1645- 8000- CLANDESTINE- Dem Allaince of Sudan with songs for more than
10 minutrs Small  speaks from OM with music to continue  (LIangas
Patitiri Alonissos Greece) 

1710- 6985- JORDAN- R Jordan  1710, 27+ 28.6 with arab songs then news
by OM till 1715 and ID "idaatu ..... hashemiya min Amman"  with songs to
follw (Liangas, Greece)

1745- 12060- RUSSIA- V.o.Russia in Italian, 1745-1758, W px: Lettere
dall'Italia (mailbox px), mx pause, // 15455 (with strong QRM splat) 
and  11980  9810.   Fair (Serra, Anzio, Italy 7 / 5)

1748- 15150- INDONESIA- Voice of Indonesia, Cimanggis, July 1,
1748-1755, Beautiful Indonesian ballad, female speaker in spanish, ID,
reading listeners letters. 54444 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

1802- 9750- MALAYSIA- V.o.Malaysia in Bahasa Malaysia, 1802, lcl pop
song, M ancmts and tlk till 1811 (ment many times Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
etc), other M ancmt and ID, lcl song. Fair (Serra, Anzio, Italy 7 / 5)

1900- 21550- CHILE- Voz Christiana, in Spanish (July.01-98), spanish
music, IDs and address announcements, weak  ---SCHOECH, Merseburg,
Germany

1904- 4085- CLANDESTINE- Voice Kurdistani Iraq 1904 ,  26/6 with ID  in
Kurdih then with arab prg and ID " sawt  kurdistani Iraq" then with news
. YL then with ackground music  ID at 1910 and arab song 34433 (LIangas
Patitiri Alonissos Greece) 

1906- 4060- CLANDESTINE- Voice of Kurdistan with ID at 1906 ,, 26/6 as
"aira dangi gelli Kurdistan " with song  follwing and  commentary  read
by YL. At 1917  with sing  Was 24332 ( LIangas Patitiri Alonissos
Greece) 

1932- 9400.07- USA- Save Nigeria Broadcasting Service via WGTG,
1932-1957, Upcoming pgm anmnt, then into SNBS pgm starting w/W anncing
that the pgm would be repeated Une 13th!!  ID by W over dance mx. 
Political tlk and cmntry by W, occasionally w/rel. flavor. More dance mx
w/W anncr singing a cmntry along w/the song!!!  Final ID w/email addr. 
Strong signal.  Never payed any attention to this freq, but it appears
to be an AM signal w/reduced LSB.  Anyone else notice this??  (Valko,
USA 20 June)

1940- 15250- SRI LANKA- VOA 28/6 1940 English lessons in chinese
(Liangas, Greece)

1946- 9680- SRI LANKA- TWR 1946 28/6 rolling ID  with " you are tuned to
international service of TWR 34433    NEW FREQ ??? (LIangas Patitiri
Alonissos Greece) 

1949- 3335- UNID- Unid Radio 5 / 7  1949, classic mx, M tlk at 1958
(unclear), and again same class mx. Poor (Serra, Anzio, Italy)

2113- 11804.01- BRAZIL- R.Globo in PT 2113, M W excited cmntry abt
Soccer World Cup match Brazil vs Chile (4 / 1), mx break, poss ID, other
M tlk with some brief recorded match: ...gooooooooo......oooolll !!!do
Brasiiiiiil....!!!, and canned cmntry (I bet Brazil will win this
SoccerWorld Cup edition. Ed.)  (QRM spat) F (Serra, Italy, 6/ 27 )

2153- 9505.1- BRAZIL- Radio Record; Sao Paulo, July 1, 2153-2158,
Romantic song, male speaker in Portuguese, jingles with ID, promos
and/or advertisements. 34343 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2155- 5805- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Free London, June 27, Mx rock,ID in E 
33333  (Pecolatto, Italy /Radiorama Pirate News)

2200- 3925- PIRATE EUROPE- R.East Coast Holland, June 27, Mx,ID,box 663
in E  33333 (Pecolatto, Italy /Radiorama Pirate News)

2204- 9565- BRAZIL- Radio Universo; Curitiba, July 1, 2204, "A Voz do
Brazil" in Portuguese. QRM from adjecent channels and RRI Jakarta on
same frequency. 32432 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2205- 3930- PIRATE EUROPE- Laser Hot Hits, June 27, Mx rock,QTH,ID in
E(in // with 6220) 22232  (Pecolatto, Italy /Radiorama Pirate News)

2205- 6220- PIRATE EUROPE- Laser Hot Hits, June 27, Mx rock,QTH,ID in E
(in // with 3930)  23332  (Pecolatto, Italy /Radiorama Pirate News)

2215- 12085.22- SYRIA- R. Damascus, *2215-2221, Turned on the receiver
which was already tuned to 12085 and this suddenly popped on w/instru.
NA, then W in AR w/ID and opening anmnts, and into AR vcl mx.  Good. 
(Valko, USA 1 July)

2215- 15140- ECUADOR- HCJB; Pifo, July 1, 2215-2225, Non-stop
instrumental music (violins, flutes), female with ID in the middle of a
song at 2221 UTC, male talk at 2223 UTC. 45444. USB transmitter on 21455
also strong, not // (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2228- 15315- NETHERLANDS ANTILLES- Radio Netherlands relay, July 1,
2228-2231, IS, male with ID, frequencies and program preview in Spanish,
TS, TC, news. 45444 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2232- 15344.3- ARGENTINA- RAE; General Pacheco, July 1, 2232-2239,
Female speaker with news in Spanish, music bridges (with too much bass),
ID at 2237 UTC, then male speaker. 54444. // 9689.91 (also strong)
(Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2243- 15049.07- COSTA RICA- RFPI; Ciudad Colon, July 1, 2243, English
talk. 44444 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2258- 7280- TUNISIA- RTVT, 2258-2315, Live AR vcl mx to ToH, W w/ID, mx
bridge, and W again w/pres. nx and ments of Tunisia.  Ended at 2314. 
Hrd the Koran on later recheck around 2325.  //7225.02.  This channel
was overpowered by R. Netherlands signing on around 2325.  (Valko, USA 1
July)

2339- 15125- INDONESIA- RRI; Cimanggis, July 1, 2339-2351, "RRI Jakarta"
ID at tune in, jingle (sounded like 'super artist', repeated a few
times), ballad, female speaker in Indonesian, Indonesian popmusic, RRI
jingle. 34434 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)

2354- 3360.05- ECUADOR- R. Dif. Catolica Cultural "La Voz del Upano";
Macas (tentative), June 24, 2354-0005, male and female speaker in
English, at 0002 ID: "Radio Difusora...."(rest lost in noise), dead air
for a minute or so, then talk by male, later joined by female speaker.
24232 (Veldhuis, The Netherlands)


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CAMBODIA - Natl Radio of Cambodia sent handwritten QSL ltr, stn
stickers, and sked. V/S Kem Yam, Director of Intl relations. Sent US$1,
one IRC and postcard of Cleveland. Yam said the SW xmtrs are old and
have no spare parts, so "output power cannot reach the original level."
Sked on 11940: En at 0000-0015 and 1200-1215, Fr 0015-0030 and
1215-1230, Thai 0030-0045 and 1230-1245, Lao 0045-0100 and 1245-1300,
and Viet. 0100-0115 and 1300-1315. (Lee Cilvi, Ohio, USA via
www.DXing.com in NU / EDXP # 92)

INDONESIA - U.N.Calling Asia, via RRI Jakarta, 15125kHz: Full data card
with  transmitter site was came from U.N.Radio in 27days for USD 1.00.
Enclosed schedule and calender. Unfortunately the program name was not
indicated in the QSL. (Juichi Yamada, JAPAN/ Jembatan DX # 49)

IRAQ -  Radio Iraq International sent a qsl via Air Mail for its German
Service on 11785 kHz in 92 days, return postage was 1 IRC, return
address given as Radio Irak International, P.O. Box  8145 CN.12222,
Bagdad - Irak. So they consequently used German spelling (Irak inst. of
Iraq and Bagdad inst. of Baghdad). The QSL card itself is a folder card
(smaller that that from the 80'ies), colored pictures (iraqi flag, a
statue, historical buildings from Mesopotamia) on the outside, black nd
white drawing of Iraqi map (monuments as illustrations) inside. The
inside also had my full adderss and the partial data verification (date)
signed by M.el Wettar. Two weeks between issuing qsl card and stamp date
on the envelope. The envelope contained nothing else than the folder
card. (Martin Schoech, Merseburg, Germany)

SOUTH AFRICA - World Music Radio on 3345 & 6290, one QSL card in 210
days for 1 USD, V/s Dxer S.H.Nielsen. Unfortunately,Station closed in
1997. (N.Reiner, Germany / Play DX 985 June 22)  


TAJIKISTAN - V.O.Russia tx Yangi Yul on 4975, QSL card, letter etc, in
45 days, V/s Olga Troshina, segr. (L.Botto Fiora, Gral Italy / Play DX
985 June 22) 

TANZANIA -At the end of march I reported the reception of a verification
letter from The Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar (after only 25 days, on 11734
kHz). There they asked me to do the printing of QSLs for them. Belgian
DXer Guido Schotmans took over this task and designed a beautiful
colored qsl card showing a map of Zanzibar and a tranmitter place on the
island. It seems, he even somehow managed to get the cards to Zanzibar
since today I already received one of those newly designed qsl cards
from them ! It was stamped with station seal and signed by A.M.Said.
Together with it I received a copy of a thank you letter to Guido in
Belgium. Quote 'This will mark another era to Radio DX listening club
because we will be able to supply the needed qsls all over the world.'
Radio Tanzania Zanzibar called me 'a real gentleman' in their letter.
But its easy to spread a message on the net, but not so easy to deliver
cards to Zanzibar. So we should all thank you Guido Schotmans ! Add :
The Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar, Department of Broadcasting, P.O.Box
1178, Zanzibar, Tanzania (Martin Schoech, Merseburg, Germany)

TANZANIA - ZANZIBAR. Do you remember the mailing of M. Schoech informing
us that he received a QSL-letter from Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar in
which they appealed the DX-comunity to do some printing of QSL-cards? If
you do remember that, then you will probably also recall that I have
taken up this challenge and send them a package of some 100 colour QSL
cards. Today I was very glad to see that one of these cards arrived back
here after a trip of
10 weeks. It was accompanied by a kind letter from Mister Abdulrah'man
M. Said in which he expressed his thanks and stated that 'this will mark
another era to Radio DX Listening Clubs' because they will be able to
supply the needed cards. So if you want a QSL-card from Sauti ya
Tanzania Zanzibar, write now ! If you want a picture from this QSL, ask
me and I'll send you the file. Good DX! (Guido Schotmans -
Editor-in-Chief, DX-Antwerp, PO Box 16, B-2660 Hoboken, BELGIUM; Jun 30
/ EDXP # 93)

URUGUAY - R.Sondre on 9620, sent taper report, mint stamps, reply in 101
days, with n/d letter V/s Dr.Jorge L.Mascheroni, director. (N.Rubio,
Argentina /Play Dx 985 June 22)

URUGUAY - R.Sondre on 9622, QSL card, friendly personal letter, info, in
160 days, V/s Ignacio Moreira. Station is inactive on SW (500 W) from
1998 due economic problems. (M.Schnitzer, Germany /Play Dx 985 June 22

VIETNAM - Voice of Vietnam (7250 kHz)-world map card in 68 days. Bumper
sticker also sent. (Bueneman-MO, USA)


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ANTARCTICA - LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel 15476
*1900-2100*, -2030 Spanish, -2100 Portuguese. Only on the air
Mon/Wed/Fri. ODXA Target Listening  July 98)

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