[HCDX]: DX Listening Digest 00-04 Jan 13

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

	DX LISTENING DIGEST 00-04, January 13, 1999
		edited by Glenn Hauser

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THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 1019: See topic summary at
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wor1019.html

INFORME DX DESDE NORTEAMERICA. La primera parte de nuestro informe de 
enero sale al aire el viernes 14 y domingo 16 en Radio Enlace por 
Radio Nederland.

** ANGOLA. New SW transmitter at Mulenvos
Excerpts from report by Angolan government radio on 31st December

Radio Nacional de Angola [RNA] is to have a modern transmitter in 
February 2000. RNA Director-General Manuel Rabelaes says the 
transmitter will replace the existing shortwave transmitter at 
Mulenvos... Source: Radio Nacional de Angola, Luanda, in Portuguese 
1900 gmt 31 Dec 99 ((C) BBC Monitoring via WORLD OF RADIO 1019, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

Mulenvos is the site for the rated 100 kW transmitters on 11955, etc 
(Hauser)

** AUSTRALIA. G'day Glenn. Enjoy your programmes...been listening for 
years. Caught your show on WWCR, 1330 utc on 15685 last night [UT 
Tue] at good level. Thought you might like the following Alice 
Springs freqs. Though not sure which are currently active. [Re: story 
on WOR Extra 32 about Alice Springs School of the Air]

School of the Air 3845, 5340, 5370, 7760, 8035. 
Royal Flying Doctor Service 2020, 4350, 5410, 6950. 

Hope this will be of some interest to others. Keep up the good work. 
Loved your Aussie language. CHEERS MATE!!!!!! (Jeff Bell, Perth, 
Western Australia, Jan 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CANADA. This week on C'est la Vie...the accent is on...accents. 
Why is it that when you learn a second language as an adult, you 
never sound like a native speaker, no matter how well you speak? Yet 
when kids learn a second language, they manage to pick it up much 
better. Also, an exploration of the range of accents in the French 
spoken across Canada, and the reasons behind those differences. 
That's on C'est la Vie, with Bernard St. Laurent, UT Sat Jan 15 at 
0029-0059 via RCI on 5960, 9755 (CBC Hotsheet amended by Hauser, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CANADA. Hello, Here's what we are working on for this week?s 
edition of Quirks & Quarks:

Our feature item is The Search for Extra-solar Planets: For the first 
time, astronomers have detected the light from a planet outside our 
own solar system. It turns out to be blue. As more and more planets 
are discovered circling nearby stars, scientists say it's just a 
matter of time before we find one that's just like Earth. We'll find 
out what that means for our search for life elsewhere in the 
Universe. 

Plus, we'll discover why tall men have more children than short guys.
That's on Quirks & Quarks,  this Saturday right after the noon news, 
on Radio One. Quirks and Quarks 12:09 - 1:00pm on CBC Radio with host 
Bob McDonald (McDonald) And on RCI Sunday 1305-1358 on 9640, 13650, 
17710 (Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE 11670, Ethiopian Voice of Unity ? or 
Ethiopian for Democracy ? Jan 12 at 1600 open the program with music, 
then ID by man in Amharic as ..... Democratic Ethiopia Unity, then 
continued by mentioning Democratic many times, and meter band also  
mentioned (probably frequency given), then news bulletin mentioning 
many African countries such as Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya 
as well as America until 1620, then short instrumental music and 
after that a long talk by the same announcer on Sudan. Good and clear 
reception (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)  
And see bottom of this issue, as well as DXLD 00-02

** FINLAND. Radio Finland will be broadcasting results of the Finnish 
presidential election on Jan 16: English 0000-0030 6135 (Europe), 
0700-0730 9655 11665 (North America); German 0030-0100 6135 (Europe), 
1030-1045 6055 (Europe); French 1045-1100 6055 (Europe); Russian 
0100-0130 6190 (East Europe), 0730-0800 6120 (East Europe). Special 
election results broadcast will be repeated on Feb 6 if a second 
round of voting is required. (Matt Francis, Electronic DX Press) 

Is the election on Jan 16 (Sunday), so the broadcasts are on UT Jan 
17 (Monday), or both one day earlier? (Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1019, 
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE [non]. We continue to note that the V. of Greece relays at 
1800-2200 via VOA USA sites are not synchronized; Jan 12 at 1910 
check, 17705 was first, 17565 was second. We have been unable to get 
an explicit answer from VOA about why this is the case, since their 
schedules show 17705 is Delano and 17565 Greenville. For 
propagational reasons, we tend to agree this is currently the case: 
17565 is not quite as solid and strong here, as would be expected 
from a signal beamed south from Greenville versus one aimed right at 
us from Delano. Thus we are forced to make another hypothesis: Delano 
may get the satellite feed direct, even though it is farther away, 
while Greenville gets it routed through Washington, involving an 
additional hop? It is also possible that even from the same site the 
two could be staggered to even out power consumption, as is done at 
Bonaire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** GUAM. Effective Mar 26, KTWR will discontinue the Pacific DX 
Report program, as well as several other locally produced features. 
This decision has been made by the Trans World Radio Asia Pacific 
Board of Directors. Regrettably, there will no longer be any scripts 
produced for PDXR by us, but EDXP material will continue to be used 
as a key news source until the program terminates late in March. EDXP 
QSLs will continue to be offered until that time. Host Charlie 
Troxell advises that he and his family will move to another ministry 
on Guam during April. As a matter of interest, all of those 174 
weekly scripts were compiled voluntarily by us, with financial 
support neither sought nor expected. The audience of PDXR is 
considered to be high, but that seems not to be of interest to the 
people responsible for policy and programming at KTWR. This is 
similar to the situation when KTWR first came on the air, when we 
assisted with setting up the first DX program on KTWR - "DX 
Listener's Log", which was hosted by Bill Damick, who subsequently 
returned to the USA. Sad to see the end of this program, and we hope 
that our work over those years has been recognised and appreciated by 
the global SW monitoring community. 

If you do not have an EDXP QSL for this program, you still have until 
the end of March! Thu 0800 15330 (first edition), repeated Fri 1030 
9865, Mon 1545 15330, Tue 0900 15200 (Bob Padula, Electronic DX Press 
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ISRAEL. Dear friends, please receive the following changes to the 
b99isr02 schedule, effective JAN 17 2000 

Add 
5830 1500 1630 29 30 39-40 250 090 Persian
5830 1700 1830 2-10 27 28  250 330 Yiddish, Hungarian,
                                   Romanian, Yiddish
5830 1830 2000 2-10 27 28  250 330 Russian 

6240 1500 1630 29 30 39-40 250 027 Persian 
6240 1700 1800 10-13 37-38 250 294 Spanish, Ladino 
6240 1900 1945 10-13 37-38 250 294 Mabat 
6240 2000 2030 52-53 57    250 187 English 
6240 2030 2215 10-13 37-38 250 294 French, Hebrew 

Hope that it would not make any problem (Moshe Oren, Bezeq, Jan 13)

Mabat is TV news in Hebrew from Reshet Bet (Doni Rosenzweig, Jan 13)

We spelt out the langs from abbrs. Unfortunately he does not show the 
frequencies deleted in turn, but recently new 7510 at 2000-2100 is 
still on the schedule, so 6240 must replace something else (Glenn 
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ITALY. A friend of DX'ing has asked me to post this: Alfredo 
Cotroneo, who runs Nexus-IRRS in Milan, Italy has started 
experimental evening transmissions on weekends on 7120. These 
*should* be audible at least on the East Coast and in the Central US 
and Canada. These transmissions are especially interesting because 
they're in pure SSB (USB) with 10 kW of power into an L-dipole, i.e. 
pretty much omni-directional. These transmissions feature free radio 
programs from Europe, and the producers are eager to see if they 
reach NAm. Nexus would like to get as many reports as possible to get 
a picture of reception over there. Reports can be emailed to: 
info@xxxxxxxxx The Nexus homepage is: http://www.nexus.org The sked 
URL is: http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/IRRS-SW_B99.html 
(via Larry Nebron, John Norfolk) There we found the actual time for 
this:

7,120 kHz 0200-0300 Sat & Sun zones 17-20, 27-30, 37-39, 10 kW 
SSB/USB non directional in English, German (DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. The Mailbox edition on the RNZI website is still Dec 
20 as of Jan 13 (Larry Nebron, CA)

The next Mailbox will be recorded on Monday 1st February (Adrian 
Sainsbury, Frequency Manager, RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL, reply 
to Nebron, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. Perhaps the ``9052`` for V. of Sudan in the BBCM 
schedule quoted in DXLD 00-03 is actually 9520 as BC-DX reminds us 
with sked in NASWA LN, which has actually been heard on 9517.44 (DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** TIBET [non]. First Tibetan-language web site opens in China
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua 

Lanzhou, 10th January: The first Tibetan-language web site on the 
Internet opened recently in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China?s 
Gansu Province. 

The web site - http://www.tonguer.net or http://www.gs.cninfo.net - 
features the history, language, culture, religion, medicine, folk 
customs, arts, painting and landscape of Tibet in Tibetan language 
and pictures. Visitors can study the Tibetan language and Tibet?s 
history and achievements through the web site. 

The opening of the web site is a scientific research result of a 
group led by professor Yu Hongzhi at Northwest China Institute for 
Ethnic Groups. 

The Tibetan ethnic group has a long history and a population of 5 
megaTibetans mainly live in southwest China?s Tibet Autonomous Region 
and Qinghai and Gansu Provinces in northwest China. 

Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 1304 gmt 10 Jan 00
((C) BBC Monitoring via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The above should be of particular interest to, and perhaps only to, 
Thomas Roth (Hauser)

** U K O G B A N I. Merlin Network One SW schedule, complete, to Eu 
u.o.s.:

Roy Masters: M-F 1700-1800 6185

Imagination, from Stafford Broadcasting Society: Fri 1900-2000 6010

Celtic Notes, from Wales Radio International: Fri 2130-2200 6010, Sat 
0300-0330 9735 Am, 1130-1200 17650 Au

Global Sound Kitchen: Fri 2200-2300 6170 7165 9615, Fri 2300-2359 
3985 6170 7165, Sat 0000-0200 3985 6180 7165, Sat 1400-1600 9605 
13640 15510, Sat 1600-1800 3965 9655 13640 (© BBC Monitoring Jan 12 
via WORLD OF RADIO 1019, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KIPM, pirate normally on 6950/6955 and 13910/13915 says it 
has produced 7 shows with more to come: 1) Traffic Report Obscura; 2) 
God, Illuminator of Our Lives; 3) Primordial Time Journey; 4) 
Ramblings from the Heart of Darkness; 5) Entropy; 6) Electromagnetic 
Madness; 7) Arecibo Alpha 1.  Stands for Illuminati Prima Materia; 
``each show is one hour in length and highly cerebral in content``. 
Addresses: Allan Maxwell, KIPM, P O Box 24, Lula, GA 30554 or 
KIPM_outerlimits@xxxxxxxxxxx (Maxwell Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

PROPAGATION OUTLOOK

And now the solar forecast. This week the more active side of the sun 
is expected to be facing us. Solar activity should be mostly low, 
with only M-class solar flares taking place occasionally. Solar flux 
levels should peak early this week at around 200, but then gradually 
fall. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be 'quiet', but levels 
could increase towards next weekend. MUFs during daylight hours at 
equal latitudes should be around 34 MHz for the south and 31 MHz for 
the north. Paths this week to India should have a maximum usable 
frequency, with a 50 per cent success rate, of about 40 MHz. The 
optimum working frequency, with a 90 per cent success rate, will be 
around 35 MHz and the best time to try this path should be between 
0800 and 1200 UTC. And that's the end of the solar information. 
Updated propagation information since this bulletin was prepared is 
available at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/update.htm and for 
more on propagation generally see 
http://www.rsgb.org/society/psc.htm. (GB2RS RSGB News Jan 12 via John 
Norfolk via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

THIS DAY?S AMHARIC LESSON

Herein you will find a transliteration of the ID of the new DTK 
station called 'Ethiopian Voice of Unity' Weds 16-17 on 11670. This 
is with a help of an Ethiopian person. Text is first in Amharic, next 
is the translation in English. 

Yihi Foneta Demokrasi ye ItyoPPya Andinet Dimts new. Foneta Demokrasi 
ye ItyoPPya Andinet Dimts kezzih betatch betegeleTut qeninna seatotch 
indihumm meter bandotch beAmarinnya Qwanqwa beItyopphyanna 
beteqorababotch agerotch lemmeegenyu ItyoPPyan program matelalef 
yijemmiral. Berabu, beItyoPPya aqoTaTer kemishitu and seat iske 
hulett seat dres be25 meter band woym be 11 sheeh 6 meto saba 
kilohertz. Ihud, keTwatu 5 seat iske 6 seat be13 meter band woym be21 
shih 5 meto hamsa kilohertz yemmeetelalefu programotchin inditadamTu 
betihitna yasasbal. Foneta Demokrasi yeItyoPPya Andnet Dimts 
yeItyoPPyan hagerawi hilawe lemeTebeq: beItyoPPya hizb ikkulnet layy 
yetemeserrete andinetin lemamTat, yeItyoPPyan hizb hilawenet 
lemaskeber: beItyoppya demokrasyawi sirat lemasfat: yesebawi mebt 
mekeber lemaregageT: yeHigg belaynetinna tikiklennya danyinet 
lemasgenyet: yetsota, yehaymanotinna yebiheresebotch ikulnet 
lemaregageT: yemahberawi tseTita lemasgenyet bemmeederegew tigil 
akwahwan lemaregageT yeteqwaqwame Tabiya new. Yezuriya bota habt 
kenehizbu indismamu indiyagelegilinna indiqeTel: kehullum ager 
hudadinna demokrasyawi, ItyoPPyawi, libbawi digafinna tibibir 
yifelligal. Foneta Demokrasi, ye'ItyoPPya Andinet Dimts. [sic]

----- This is Foneta Demokrasi, Ethiopia's Voice of Unity. Foneta 
Demokrasi, Ethiopia's Voice of Unity, begins transmitting Ethiopia's 
program in Amharic language for those found in Ethiopia and in 
communicant countries, on the days and hours and likewise meter bands 
revealed below. It humbly reminds you to listen to the programs 
transmitted on Wednesday, from 1 hour until 2 hours in the evening by 
Ethiopian reckoning, on the 25 meter band or at 11,670 kHz; Sunday, 
from 5 hours until 6 hours in the morning on the 13 meter band or at 
21,550 kHz. Foneta Demokrasi Ethiopia's Voice of Unity is a network 
established to guarantee a situation in the struggle made to 
safeguard Ethiopia's national existence, to bring a unity based upon 
the equality of Ethiopia's peoples, to induce respect for the 
existence of Ethiopia's people, to spread Democratic order in 
Ethiopia, to guarantee respect for human rights, to promote the rule 
of Law and fair justice, to guarantee equality of genders, religions 
and ethnicities, and to promote social security. In order to serve 
and continue that the region's wealth harmonize with the people, it 
seeks contributions and democratic Ethiopian moral support and 
cooperation from all countries. Foneta Demokrasi, Ethiopia's Voice of 
Unity. (Zacharias Liangas, Greece; also via Mahendra Vaghjee, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)  

You can hear a recording of this opening announcement on my website, 
the Interval Signals Archive - click to the Clandestine Services 
section at: http://home.clara.net/dkernick (Dave Kernick, Jan 13, 
hard-core-dx via DXLD)                                       ###


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