[HCDX]: DX Listening Digest 00-56 April 23

["Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

	DX LISTENING DIGEST 00-56, April 23, 2000
		edited by Glenn Hauser

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VOA COMMUNICATIONS WORLD. If you need to hear it on the radio, rather
than on the web, and missed it on VOA News Now UT Saturday, your last
chance at this week`s edition including our media news segment may be
Sunday 1400 on 18275 LSB+USB from Greenville. WWCR played last week`s
tape instead UT Sun 0200 on 5070, and might not manage to get the
current edition for the further repeats. The last 2 weeks, we have
had little if any reception on 18275 here, but Wolfgang Büschel in
Germany has heard it.

However, our script has now been posted at http://www.trsc.com/cw and
at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/cw0422.html (gh)

** BELGIUM. From Monday 24 April 2000, RVI will change 17735 to 17590
for English to Africa via Jülich at 1730-1800 (Paul Brems, Belgium,
rec.radio.shortwave via John Norfolk, DXLD)

** BOLIVIA. New: 4716.8, Radio Yura, Yura, Provincia Quijarro,
Departamento de Potosi, 1150, ``Esta es Radio Yura, La Voz del Layo,
recordando siempre que estamos trabajando en onda corta, 4715 de
frecuencia en onda corta desde Yura, provincia de Quijarro,
departamento de Potosí`` ``...estamos a escasos 5 minutos de las 9 de
la mañana y pues hasta esta hora hemos acompañado desde Radio Yura,
La Voz del Layo, ahora sí les decimos que sea hasta horas de la
tarde, a partir de las 6 de la tarde estaremos volviendo a vuestra
sintonia, amigos oyentes les deseamos que pasen un buen día y que
Dios mediante..." (Rogildo Fontenelle Aragao, Cochabamba, Abril 22,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 6065, Radio Mauro Núñez, Villa Serrano, Departamento
Chuquisaca, 1330, Tx irregular, programa Encuentro Juvenil (Rogildo
Fontenelle Aragao, Cochabamba, Abril 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. Yesterday, Friday, the 600 and 850 kHz frequencies, which
had been simulcasting 940 News and Info 690 here in Montreal, began
running a tape loop saying that the 600 and 850 frequencies would be
going silent "soon". Today, Saturday, Bill Westenhaver noticed that
the tape loops had been changed, now saying that 600 and 850
frequencies will be going silent tomorrow (Sunday) evening at
Midnight Eastern (0400 UTC Monday). No word on whether or not any
special announcements will be made at that time. If you are out of
range of the Montreal area and would like to hear recordings of the
tape loops currently running, tune in Sunday morning to the
International Radio Report on CKUT-FM 90.3 in Montreal, Radio McGill.
The programme is available in RealAudio, live streaming only through
the CKUT website at 10:30 AM Eastern, 1430 UTC Sunday morning.
http://www.ckut.ca (Sheldon Harvey Co-Host, Int. Radio Report,
President, Canadian Int. DX Club, NRC-AM via DXLD)

** CHECHNYA. Mobile radio station to shortly begin broadcasts

A medium-wave ``Metel`` radio broadcasting station of 100 kilowatts
will be put into service in Naursky district of Chechnya within the
next two or three days, Itar-Tass was told on Tuesday by officials of
the press service of the federal government's plenipotentiary
representative in Chechnya. This broadcasting station will be heard
practically on the entire territory of Chechnya and ``Radio Russia``
will do away with information shortage even in the remotest parts of
the republic. Broadcasts of the ``Mayak`` and ``Radio Russia``
stations can now be heard on seventy per cent of the territory of
Chechnya, chiefly in its lowland part. Radio relaying stations ensure
the reception of broadcasts from Vladikavkaz and Tbilisskaya, a town
in Krasnodar Territory. Moreover, radio programmes are transmitted on
short waves to Chechnya from Moscow and St.Petersburg. kli/ezh All
rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2000, ITAR/TASS News Agency, all
rights reserved, April 18. You may now print or save this document.
(via Mike Cooper, DXLD)

And the frequency is of absolutely no importance, ITAR-TASS obviously
thinks. A previous report we had said the mobile station would be
aboard a train (gh)

** COSTA RICA. RFPI has already modified their published frequency
schedule, upon which the latest WOR/COM schedule distribution a few
days ago was based: 25930-USB and 15049 are now scheduled only until
0300* instead of -0400, with 6975 officially starting at *0300 but
sometimes on a bit earlier. On April 22, 15049 went off at 0305*
after COM had started. So we have removed 15 and 25 from our 0300 and
0330 times on UT Sat and Wed (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EARTH. Dear Glenn: As you may know an expedition is taking place
of a group of people traveling between the north and south poles, by
skis, bicycles, kayaks, and other modes of transportation. You may
read about this on: http://www.pole2pole2000.com  They are up near
the north pole right now, their only means of contact to the outside
world being a Kenwood HF transceiver.

The next scheduled time to monitor contact with these people is at
1330 Sunday UT (8:30 am CDT) on 14150 USB. Ham operators are advised
to remain silent unless their assistance is called upon. The
expedition does NOT need a whole bunch of folks calling in for a QSL.
David Balcaen <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> VE7GYA from 100 Mile House,
British Columbia, will be talking with them. Just thought you might
like to know. (--Franklin Seiberling, IA, April 22, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** MONGOLIA. Hi Glenn, Well, bad propagation has all but taken VOM
out lately, not coming thru most mornings I've checked. I think as of
about a week ago the observed lineup was: 1030 English, 1100
Mongolian, 1130 Chinese, 1200 Japanese. As soon as I can reconfirm
will let you know. (John Cobb, GA, April 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MONGOLIA. Hi Glenn, I checked to see what was happening with
Mongolia on Saturday morning; at 1030 UTC there was nothing on either
12085 or the alternate freq of 12015. A recheck just before 1200
resulted in what sounded like a faint het that sounded like them, but
nothing more than that. I'll give it a shot again Sunday to see
what's going on. BTW, "summer' in that country is basically the month
of June (just like here in New Hampshire!). (Craig Seufert, Apr 22,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MONGOLIA. Glenn, After receiving V. of Mongolia here in English at
1030 UTC on 12085 with a good signal last week, I haven't been able
to pick up even a faint signal for the past two days, April 20 and
21. Just bad propagation or are they having problems? I was checking
for English at 1030. Heard nothing at 1200 April 22, either (Michael
Kallstrom, KY, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MONGOLIA. [Re: DXLD 00-55]. The supposed new schedule of VOM is
confirmed to have been outdated. No reception from VOM, and suspected
off the air at 1200 checks April 21 and 22 on 12085, but April 23
tune in at 1053 to music, and 1056 announcement in English about it
by our usual YL, more music, and she very briefly concluded the
English broadcast at 1100, into IS. So English *is* still at 1030.
Strong signal this date but flutter. And recheck at 1200: opening in
Japanese as usual, not English. Unfortunately, the misinformation has
already been broadcast in the EDXP Report on HCJB DX Partyline. I
hope we will be hearing a correxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS. Glenn, Re the report from the Radio Society of Great
Britain (DXLD 00-55). If the RSGB is 'confused' about the status of
this project, they obviously weren't listening a few weeks ago to
Media Network. I spoke to the station's PR representative in
Amsterdam, and he confirmed that the project is effectively on hold
because the French government has indeed raised an objection with the
ITU (which it is perfectly entitled to do under ITU regulations).

The reason is that the technical characteristics of the project are
not in accordance with what was registered back in the 1970's. The
registration was for a 500kW transmitter at Lopik, but Delta 171
plans to use 2 Megawatts from a different location. The French are,
understandably, concerned about possible adjacent channel
interference to the 162 kHz service of France-Inter, the only public
frequency that covers the entire country. What is now happening is
that Delta 171 is having to submit technical documents to the ITU
that will - hopefully - ease French anxieties. The antennas of Delta
171 will be be directional towards the UK, so it's a matter of
proving that there will not be excessive back radiation.

All this take time: the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly. Delta
171's representative told Media Network that they hoped the problem
would be resolved by later this year so that construction can begin.
(Andy Sennitt, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 4940 Yakutiya - Acc to the report of VK, he has received
for the first time the Rep Radio ``Miks-Master`` on Apr, 4 at 2250 on
the freq 4940, SINPO 254442 [sic]. The stn has a standard commercial-
musical format. There was an annt of the telephone numbers in Yakutsk
42-03-02, 42-03-04, but without mentioning any addr. The freqs were
also announced - 102,5 and 4940. (Vladimir Kovalenko (Tomskaya
oblast-RUS Apr 4), via MIDXB N 158, via RUS-DX via BC-DX via DXLD)

** SPAIN. Hi. REE in Madrid announced tonight that as of next week
they will no longer have news bulletins on weekends. (I don`t recall
if this is to increase the time of the so called DX program). (Bill
Bergadano, KA2EMZ, April 22, swprograms via DXLD)

Radio Exterior de España announced as noted that there will no longer
be a newscast on their weekend programs. On Saturdays, their program
will include Visitor's Book, American Chronicles, and Radio Waves, a
DX and music show with Justin Coe. It is unclear, and was not
mentioned, whether Radio Waves will be lengthened. On Sundays, this
includes Window on Spain, Spanish composers (a very fine program, by
the way), and Radio Club, where listeners' letters are answered by
Deanelle Baker and she plays musical requests of (mostly) Spanish
music. Some of the cutbacks could be due to an English announcing
staff of only 5 (down from 7 few months ago). It is too bad in a way,
but extending these nice cultural and easy listening programs could
be nice too. (Roger Chambers, swprograms via DXLD)

** SWITZERLAND/UK/GERMANY. SRI at a recent conference said they will
continue to use shortwave till the year 2002. This statement leads me
to the question, if after that "date" they are planning to
concentrate on activities on the internet, which SRI (along with BBC
WS) nowadays considers to be the most important medium for
international broadcasters. DW just announced that they will relaunch
their web presence later this year and plans to invest available
resources into DW-online. (Harald Kuhl, Germany, April 22, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. Congratulations to BBC WS who finally got it right ? that is,
merely following at least part of their own long-published schedule:
UT Sat April 22 at 0330, Waveguide actually appeared on all three NAm
frequencies, 5975, 6135 and 6175, and even on the webcast. This is
news! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. DX Information from the British DX Club (BDXC-UK). GLOBAL
CAROLINE WEB BROADCAST: To celebrate Caroline's 36th birthday, the
station will commence global live broadcasting from 8 am British time
on Sat 22nd April. Access the broadcast on http://www.radio-
caroline.nl

MORE AIRTIME FOR CAROLINE. The satellite service of Radio Caroline on
the Astra 1C satellite now commences on Friday evening at 6.00 pm UK
time and continues until midnight. On Saturday and Sunday, the
station is on air from 8.00 am until 11.00 pm. From 6 to 9 on Friday
listeners can hear Dell Richardson specialist programme of good early
Rock and Roll. From 9 until 12 Bryan Chalker present his own brand of
cutting edge country music that he calls Hard Country. On Sunday
night from 9 till 11 Caroline veteran Barry James plays two hours of
the heavier side of rock music. Roy Masters and his Foundation Of
Human Understanding are temporarily absent from Caroline but will
return shortly with extra hours each week. (Mike Terry, BDXC-UK April
21 via DXLD)

** U S A. On this week`s Worldwide, UT Sat April 22 at 0000, Allan
Weiner remarked that he often plays it back Tuesdays at 2300 UT, on
WBCQ-1, 7415. Tho you would never know it from looking at the website
schedule; that is an Available Time Slot. A few other new programs
have been posted there at http://wbcq.net (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. HI GLEN CAN'T TELL YOU MUCH BUT U.S MILITARY NOW USING OUR
MASSIVE FACILITIES HAVE VERY VERY SPECIAL COOL EQUIPMENT ON SITE SOME
NEET GOODIES FOR SURE. ADDING MANY ANTENNAS, TOWERS GOING UP ALL OVER
THIS FACILITY. COOL TO BE SURE!!!!! (Dave Frantz, WGTG, April 22, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. One of the most popular radio talk hosts in America, Art
Bell, is retiring after his April 26th overnight show. Bell says his
family has been in a ``psychological tailspin`` since the rape of his
son by an AIDS-infected teacher, now sentenced to life in prison; and
by false rumors broadcast on WWCR accusing Bell himself of child
molestation. That matter is about to be litigated in Nashville.

Bell?s replacement on Coast to Coast AM, has already been introduced.
He is Mike Siegel, from Seattle beginning April 27. Bell has assured
audiences that Siegel will continue the show's tradition of exploring
the bizarre and unexplained. Tim Burton's film "Mars Attacks" was, in
part, an homage to Bell, says the Seattle Times, via Mike Cooper.
Bell's final show will air live and also on the web beginning at 0500
UT Thursday April 27. Check http://www.artbell.com  Some of Art
Bell`s affiliates, such as WABC New York, may drop the show once Bell
is gone, says the New York Post via Joe Hanlon. (gh, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)                                                ###



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