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[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 8-046; World of Radio 1403
DX Listening Digest 8-046 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/dxld8046.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1403 / AFGHANISTAN / ANGOLA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA +non CVC / BAHRAIN /
BENIN / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA +non / CANADA RCI / CANADA +non
CBC/China / CANADA CBCR2 / CANADA CFVP / CANADA ORCA FM / CANADA Talking houses
/ CANADA +non CKKW+ / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CROATIA non / CUBA /
ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ETHIOPIA / FRANCE / GERMANY EAST /
GERMANY non / GOA +non / GUINEA / HONDURAS / INDONESIA non / ISRAEL / JORDAN
+non / KOREA NORTH / LAOS / LIBYA / MACAU / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / NETHERLANDS
non / NIGER / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA +non DTV/FM/KTUL+ / PERU / SAUDI ARABIA /
SICILY / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SPAIN / SWEDEN / TAJIKISTAN / TURKMENISTAN
/ UK +non BBCWS / UK BBCR3/Proms / USA WWCR / USA KUSW/LDS/BYU/KTBN / USA NOAA
/ USA WZFN / USA WOR / USA WQEW / USA WQHJ332/Radio Top Inter / USA Randi
Rhodes/AA/Nova M / USA WWBN / VENEZUELA +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZIMBABWE /
UNIDENTIFIED 1710 / UNIDENTIFIED 3200 / UNIDENTIFIED 6039 / UNIDENTIFIED 7120 /
UNIDENTIFIED 17436 / TESTIMONIALS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / LANGUAGE LESSONS
For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.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 1403 SUMMARY:
*Despite best efforts of BBCWS to prevent us in Western Hemisphere
from hearing them on shortwave, we still can: e.g. 13865 at 1700-1900
intended for Western Russia; earlier in our mornings, 11750
*Some English broadcasts of R. France International, at 1200 and 1600
*Issoudun transmitter site in France now carrying some paid religion
*Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal schedule in Dutch
*Deutsche Welle in Amharic at 1400-1500, which has been jammed by
Ethiopia, now on 15410 and 15660, colliding with Chile and Russia,
respectively
*Austria via Canada now 1500-1600 on 13775, mixing German and English
*Serbia`s new 6185, English to North America at 0000, 0100l, poorly
heard, colliding with Mexico
*R. Bulgaria English schedule
*R. Vilnius, Lithuania, English to North America [both transmissions
collide with Chinese jamming]
*R. Ukraine International English schedule
*Don`t overlook the private Ukrainian low-power, R. Dniprovska
Khvylia, heard on 11980-LSB
*Radio PMR, Pridnestrovye, appears to be Monday-Friday now on 12135
and 6040
*Voice of Russia, audible in North America on good days at 1400-1500
on 15660, 1600-1700 on 13855; unlisted 15425 from Far East heard in
English from 0100
*Some English broadcasts from Voice of Greece
*Cyprus` Greek semihour on weekends only, on new 5930, et al.
*Algeria`s Qur`an service, allegedly moderate, heard on frequencies
relayed via Portugal, UK
*Polisario station from Algeria to Western Sahara heard again on 6300,
also MW 1550
*TWR Benin`s new 100 kW on MW 1566 language schedule, heard as far as
New England
*Something on 6024.95 in English may be FRCN Enugu, Biafra, Nigeria
*Equatorial Guinea, 6250, widely reported in evening, occasionally in
morning
*SW Radio Africa, for Zimbabwe, 1700-1900 on 12035 is via Norway, per
HFCC
*VOA Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, 4930, heard much later than usual due to
elexion situation
*The non-commercial, non-communist, non-Christian, non-corporate DX
program, World of Radio 1403, P O Box 1684, Enid OK, 73702 USA; or
woradio at yahoo.com See http://www.worldofradio.org for much more
info
*Thanks this week for financial support from Kraig Krist in Virginia
*Standard disclaimer
*Tanzania`s official station renamed TBC, ID heard at 1700 via
Zanzibar on 11735; plans external service in English and French to
neighboring countries
*Difficult to identify station on 7120.37 at 1500-1700 may be R.
Hargeysa. Somaliland with new transmitter
*New clandestine for Somalia is Radio Freedom, of the Alliance of the
Re-Liberation of Somalia, Wed & Fri 1330-1400 & 1730-1800 on 7175 via
Eritrea, jammed by Ethiopia
*IRIN Radio, a UN agency, has new broadcast via South Africa in Somali
at 1730-1745 on 9665, heard in Europe [the other broadcasts mentioned
were misidentified, really France; and watch out for Spain at same
time on 9665]
*R. Cairo`s new 11550 in European languages 1500-2245, the last
sesquihour in English, is off-frequency about 11550.1 and collides
with WEWN throughout
*V. of Turkey`s English to North America at 2200-2250 on 6195 is
barely audible in Oklahoma; much better new relay via Canada 0300-
0350 on 7325 was in Turkish by mistake until we contacted the Turkish
and Canadian authorities, then English from April 4. 1230 on 15450 is
also heard on good days
*Awful buzzy Saudi transmitter heard on 15205 from 1600; English at
1000-1230 on 15250 poorly heard in Europe
*Hours of Israeli Arabic clandestine to Lebanon and Palestine, [al-
Machreq], expanded on 756 kHz, heard in Egypt from 2310 until 0600
*Kol Israel`s only remaining SW broadcast, Persian at 1400-1500+, on
11604.97 and 13850 with Iranian bubble jamming on 13849.86
*Radio Pakistan Current Affairs Channel in English on SW; 0300-0400
5940, 1600-1645 4835
*Azad Kashmir Radio schedule from Islamabad and Rawalpindi sites in
Pakistan proper
*Portugal no longer blocks All India Radio on 11620, including English
at 2045-2230, and other frequencies in use then
*IBC Tamil, via Germany to Sri Lanka at 0000-0100 moved again, to 7205
*Lao National Radio, 6130, has English lesson Saturdays at 1412; the
seven gongs at 1200 UT heard 2.5 minutes early
*V. of Tibet, based in Norway, says China has stepped up jamming to
three blockers at once
*China changing its jamming methods; for a while added some regional
channels, then nothing but Firedrake, later with new electronic
sounds too
*Firedrake on 5330 heralds another new frequency for Sound of Hope
*CRI relay via Albania at 2100-2200 on 7285, 5960 heard with Easy FM
service instead
*Shiokaze broadcast at 2030-2100 jammed by North Korea on 6045 so
moves to 5965; and has other anti-jamming alternates
*Kamchatka Radio local programming cutaway from Radio Rossii now at
0710-0800 on 5920, colliding with WBOH, ex-clear 6075 at 0810
*R. New Zealand International supposed to be on 9655 at 1100-1300, but
sporadically heard on 7145 instead, or 9655 until 1400 instead of
6095 from 1300
*VOA Greenville collides with Habana on 6180, both in English at 0500-
0700 [and VOA has now doubled power, so looks like a radio war]
*Mixup caused VOA programs via Greenville and Bonaire both to be on
17895 at same time; resolved by moving Bonaire to 17550, 1830-2030 in
French; Greenville 17895, 1830-2100 in English
*After one day on 15420, colliding with DW and BBC, WBCQ moved back to
17495
*WWCR-3 moved to 7465 at 1100-1600, better coverage than 12160,
including Rock The Universe Saturdays at 1200-1300
*CBC complains to China over blockage of CBC websites; yet CBC has
been in bed with the Chicom for years in unimpeded shortwave relay
exchanges
*DST started 4 weeks later in Mexico than USA on April 6, former US
date; so Radio Educación, 6185, moved schedule forward an hour, 2300-
1100+, signing on in English as well as Spanish
*Fourth harmonic of La Voz del Níquel, Colombia, heard in Colombia on
5600 at 1128
*Radio Pio XII, Bolivia, 5952.45, heard with live broadcast at 0130
*New A-08 Aoki schedule, excellent resource with shortwave schedules
by frequency: http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/bia08.txt
*Propagation outlook from Boulder: A- and K-indices peaking at 30 and
6, April 23; solar flux peaking at 80, April 21-28 ###
NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1403
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955
Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular]
Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1130 WRMI 9955
Wed 2300 WBCQ 15420-CUSB [NEW, but returned to 17495-CUSB]
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
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