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VP = very poor;  A = avoid.  (also in SINPO or SIO code)
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EDITOR NOTICE - From next March 26 till  April 5, I  'll be on
"vacation" in Switzerland with my father, being present, with an
important invention, at the Inventions and Patents Show in Geneva.  Of
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DX MEETINGS
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A.I.R. DX MEETING - With the great loss of our President, next A.I..R.
(Associazione Italiana Radioascolto) DX Meeting will be held here in
Italy on May 1, 2 and 3 1998 in Sirolo, Marche Region. AIR DX Meeting
Sirolo '98: < http://space.tin.it/economia/stgigli  > More news soon.  (
Ed.)

EDXC - The 36 th annual European DX Council conference will be held from
27 to 30 August 1998. The conference venue will be the Radio Museum in
Gothenburg, Sweden, with accomodation in near by hotels. The conference
programme includes a get together party on Thursday 27 evening, opening
ceremonies and reception on Friday 28, a visit to the special Longwave
station facilities in Grimeton as well as banquet on Saturday 29 and
closing ceremonies on Sunday 30. (Play DX # 966 Jan. 26  1998)

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MAILBOX 
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ERIC BUENEMAN - I now have a new Ham Radio/DXing Web Site up. My logs
from the last quarter of 1997 will be included soon. Links to several
Club sites are already up, along with a link to local KMOX (1120 kHz).
The URL for this site is: < http://members.aol.com/n0uiheric/k-index.htm
> 73, Eric

GLENN HAUSER - WORLD OF RADIO'S NEW WEBSITE. With many thanks to Rachel
Baughn and Grove Enterprises for hosting us the past few months, W.O.R.
can now be found at  < http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio > We've
removed the older archives, and added some new info, such as texts of
our Run for the Border reports, Shortwave Year in Review. We plan to
update the site more frequently, but if you check once a week, do it
Thursday after 1800 UT, for the new W.O.R. summary and DX report, as a
rule. --- WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE CHANGES. On WGTG, Georgia, 5085-USB,
delete Tue 0500, and add from March 8 Sun 0030. On WWCR, TN, Thu at 2130
change 9475 to 15685 from March 5. RFPI, Costa Rica, hopes to have 21465
going with 10 kW AM by mid-March, including our Fri 2000, Sat 1800, Sun
2300, Tue 1900 airings.  (Glenn Hauser)

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Thank you  for all our Contributors !
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AL QUAGLIERI (AQ ), Albany, NY, USA   for NASWA LN  ( Listener s
Notebook)  March 1998   via e - mail < http://www.albany.net/~alcue/ >
BOB HILL, Littleton, MA, USA  for DX Report 2/21/98 via e-mail   RX:
Sony ICF-2010 with Kiwa filters  - an old Radio West ferrite loop ANT: a
dipole about 75 meters long and about 12 meters high
BOB PADULA, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia  for EDXP # 80   via e -
mail  <  http://www.wp.com/edxp/ >
BRUNO PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy  for Radiorama Pirate News
Feb. 98 # 3  via e - mail    RX:  Kenwood  R-5000 - Yaesu FRT-7700 
ANT:  15 meters LW - 12 meters dipole - loop & Daiwa AF - 606K filter < 
http://www.arpnet.it/~air/welcome.htm > <  http://www.radiorama.it >
CHARLES BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA  via e-mail  RX:        ANT.:  
GIOVANNI  SERRA, Roma, Italy (ed.)   RX:  JRC NRD 525     ANT:  Alpha
Delta DX SWL-S Sloper  (40 feet)  & JPS NIR 10 filter
GLENN HAUSER ( GH ), Enid OK,  USA for GH SW/DX Report 98-07, Feb 19,
1998 and 98-08, Feb 26, 1998,  via e-mail < http://www.hotmail.com > <
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio >
HORACIO A. NIGRO, Montevideo, Uruguay  via e-mail   RX: Grundig YB400  
ANT.:   randomwire 25m long 
MARK J.FINE,  Remington, VA, USA  via e-mail    < 
http://www.crosslink.net/~mfine/  > RX: Drake R8A   ANT.: 66' longwire
that slopes slightly southeast 
MARTIN SCHOECH, Merseburg, Germany via e-mail RX: Sony ICF 2001D ANT:
Sony AN 1 (active telescopic antenna) <
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/2594/ >
MICHIEL SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands  via e-mail   RX: AOR AR7030  
ANT.: RF-Systems T2FD and MK1
PEDRO ARRUNATEGUI, Lima, Peru   for Casqui DX  # 115
PLAY DX, Milano, Italy  #  969 Feb 16  1998 & # 970 Feb. 23  1998,
Edited by Dario Monferini, via snail mail 
RAUL GONZALEZ,  South America  via e-mail   Get free e-mail and a
permanent address at < http://www.netaddress.com >
TAKAYUKI INOUE NOZAKI  (TIN) , Tokyo, Japan  for Relampago Dx
22/FEB/1998 via e-mail
ZACHARIAS LIANGAS, Thessalloniki, Greece via e-mail   RX:  Lowe HF 150 -
Philips 2935 - Sony ICF 7600 D   ANT:  6 meters sloper  ATU hand made  -
11 m hor ( for 40 m - 60 m ) - 6 m antenna tilted upward  <
http://www.compulink.gr/Users/zliangas >  SHORTED ! <
http://www.clandjop.com/~jcruzan/greek-p.html >  (mirrored for greek
pirate radio )


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SW TIPS    (TIME - Freq. - Country)
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0010- 6064.8- COLOMBIA- R. Colmundo, Bogotá (tent.); 20/02 0010-0041
22222 advs de propaganda política anuncian al Chavo Mosquera NOTA:  a
las 0030 hay QRM de una estación que la cubre por completo, parece que
es ruso el idioma que hablan. ---ARRUNATEGUI, Lima, Peru / Casqui DX  #
115

0015- 4450- BOLIVIA- R. Estación  Frontera, Cobija (tent.); 19/02
0015-0105 22222 advs.. presentarse ante el centro médico en Cobija px
Servicio  especial de mensajes, ya faltan 20 para las 9 de la noche,
Zapatería Cochabamba, la mejor de Cobija NOTA: no dieron el ID, es por
eso que pongo tentativamente. ---ARRUNATEGUI, Lima, Peru / Casqui DX  #
115

0057- 7475- GEORGIA- IBC Tamil, in Tamil (Feb.22/98), sign on with SS,
no EE news heard, very good quality ---SCHOECH, Merseburg, Germany

0108- 15170- FRENCH POLYNESIA- RFO, Tahiti  0108  Bland, generic pop
ballads segued till 0129, when announcement by woman in presumed French
followed by possible adv; low audio and sharp, deep fades. Fair at
first, then nosedived rapidly to threshold level by 0130 and was only a
faint het by 0158 recheck. Entered this in the log as "Tahiti back on?";
confirmed by Bob Padula Email the next morning. They must have obtained
a new xmtr or refurbished the old one. Feb. 22  ---HILL, Littleton, MA,
USA / DX Report 28/02

0110- 11960- CHINA PR- CPBS 1  0110  Typical dramatic offering with
Oriental vocals and long declamations; very choppy. // 12120. Haven't
seen 11960 listed or reported. ---HILL, Littleton, MA, USA  / DX Report,
Feb. 6

0422- 4930.63- HONDURAS- Radio Internacional HRQO2  0422  Ballads with
Spanish vocals. ID by man at 0427. Some QRM from morse code adjacent to
lower sideband, but otherwise nice signal. ---FINE,  Remington, VA, USA
23 Feb

0514- 5470- UNID- R.Veritas in AfroVern / English, 28/02 0514-0613, (new
frequency), African tribal chants, alt with M tlk and ancmt in Vern, M
ancmt in English, pgm preview (ment.: ...Veritas early morning news,
African panorama, african news, beautiful african music, Veritas early
evening news), fqy quote (...in 5.470 MegaHz), ID: This is Radio
Veritas...., brief African tribal chant into M tlk in another Afro Vern
(ment sometimes Radio Veritas), alt with brief tribal chants with
percussions, M IDs and ancmt in EG at 0558: This is Radio Veritas.....,
fqy quote, rel choral chant, ID at 0600, TC, M EG rel song, MM rel tlk.
NOTE: it is clear the pgm is for Africa; what site ? (QRN statics,
better in LSB to avoid ute) F / P ---SERRA, Roma, Italy

0539- 6064.55- COLOMBIA- Colmundo HJCH  0539  Upbeat Latin popular 
music interspersed with announcements by woman. Recorded ID by soft
spoken woman at 0551. Noted frequency down from nominal 6065kHz. Some
QRM from adjacent station on upper sideband. ---FINE,  Remington, VA,
USA 23 Feb)

0600- 6050- CANADA- Canadian Forces Network, in English via RCI
(Feb.09/98), mostly Olympia sports news for Canadian Soldiers, at 0630
french px by CFN, good quality (has same address as RCI) ---SCHOECH,
Merseburg, Germany

0734- 6220- PIRATE EUROPE- Laser Hot Hits  22 Feb.,  Pop rock mx,ID in
English 23332 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate
News Feb. 98 # 3

0738- 6275- PIRATE EUROPE- European Music R. 22 Feb.,  Pop mx,ID in
French, English 33333 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama
Pirate News Feb. 98 # 3

0743- 6260- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Torenvalk  22 Feb.,  Dance folk mx,ID in
Dutch,English 33333 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama
Pirate News Feb. 98 # 3

0750- 6297- PIRATE EUROPE- Farmers ... ? 22 Feb.,  Mx non stop,ID(?) in
English 33333 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate
News Feb. 98 # 3

0758- 3960- UNID- Unid R.  0758  Some kind of music at tune in;
"Transmite ...." at 0759 and into Andean vocal; segued to guitar solo
number, then romantic ballad and another Andean selection. Followed past
0815; weak and battered by fierce QRN. This didn't sound anything at all
like the unID station I was hearing about six weeks ago on this freq
around this time period.  That one seemed more like an Indo or PNG
outlet. ---HILL, Littleton, MA, USA / DX Report, Feb. 11)

0815- 17570- RUSSIA- Radio Tikhy Okean, in Russian (Jan.06 /98), ID at
0815, mx and px for fisher-men until 0858, medium quality ---SCHOECH, 
Merseburg, Germany

0837- 6270- PIRATE EUROPE- Unid R. 22 Feb.,  Pop mx,ID(?) in German
22232 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate News
Feb. 98 # 3

0839- 11565- USA HAWAII- World Harvest Radio Internat., Naalehu, 26/02,
08:39 rlg pop songs, announcements and presumed ID. SINPO 25332. Heard
only on T2FD and not on MK 1 antenna. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands 

0843- 6290- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Pandora  22 Feb.,  Mx(Queen),ID,QTH in
English 23332 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate
News Feb. 98 # 3

0850- 6243- PIRATE EUROPE- Free R.Service Holland  22 Feb.,  Pop
mx,I/S,ID in English 33333 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy /
Radiorama Pirate News Feb. 98 # 3

0855- 12256- PIRATE EUROPE- Wrekin R.Int. 22 Feb.,  Pop mx,ID in English
23332 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate News
Feb. 98 # 3

0859- 6249.5- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Mistero Ghost Planet  22 Feb., 
ID,box,QSY to 41 in English,Italian, French  23322 ---PECOLATTO, Pont
Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate News Feb. 98 # 3

0910- 7338- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Mistero Ghost Planet  22 Feb.,  S/on,ID,mx
in English 23332 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama
Pirate News Feb. 98 # 3

0922- 11650- NORTHERN MARIANNA ISL.-Far East Broadcasting Co., Marpi,
Saipan, 26/02, 09:22 male speaker in Russian, competing with CRI in
Mandarin on co channel. SINPO 43443. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands

0927- 11690- JAPAN- Radio Japan, Yamata, 26/02, 09:27 male and female
speakers in Bahasa Indonesia. SINPO 35333. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The
Netherlands 

0928- 11740- SINGAPORE- Radio Japan, Kranji, 26/02, 09:28 male speaker
in Japanese. SINPO 35333. From 09.30 UTC suffering interference from
unidentified station in presumed Mandarin and under test tones from
another unidentified broadcaster. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands

0929- 6012.4- ITALY- Tele Radio Stereo (slow freq var from 6012.48 to
6012.44...) (reactived) 0929-1031, (Again re checked at 1142 on
6012.40). Noted // 92.7 MHz lcl FM radio stereo, with mx  px Spazio
Mattina (dedications, till 1300 local time, 1200 UTC) with DJ Dario
Sbrigoli (he is learning to do not talk over songs! Hi !)(Italian, USA
and European fine pops song), ID s, phone # 35450945, fax # 35402555, at
0937 till 0941, and at 0951 for one minute WW chat abt lcl beauty
centers, many lcl advs after some songs. At 1000  one minute of nx
(mostly lcl and Italian), then Fabrizia Simonetti tlk for La pagina
dello spettacolo (abt San Remo mx Festival), again mx px at 1005,
inviting to call for px Dedica sera (evening dedications), giving phone
# 35451236.  NOTE: here some advs hrd:  (M over Pink Panther mx theme
"Tony Ponzi investigazione, telefono (giving phone #), massima
segretezza e professionalità, unica sede a Roma in (giving address),
telefono (giving phone #).Siamo anche sulle pagine gialle. Ricorda,
(giving again phone #)---1st W: Sandra, anche tu al supermercato! 2nd W:
Si, sono qui per il Cerbiatto. 1st W: O per i suoi regali.  2nd W: Già,
questa volta Marco vuole la macchina radiocomandata. M: Raccogli i punti
sulle confezioni di Cerbiatto. Ci sono tanti simpatici regali per grandi
e piccini.  Jingle by W: Cerbiaaaattoooo, il cornetto appena
fattoooo...! ( and now some advs in brief, due space problems) --- M W
imitating, in Italian, US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
for Orsolini arredamenti.  --- Ristorante Il Castello.... etc.etc. ---
W: Per i tuoi problemi di cuore, il mago Nicola....etc.etc. ---
Bagaglino, al Salone Margherita, Roma...Bertoldo, Bertoldino e
Bertinotti.....etc.etc....al Salone Margherita, Bagaglino, Roma ! --- M
imitating Fidel Castro for Orsolini arredamenti. --- dal 1975,
Silam....etc.etc.....Silam, un punto di riferimento sicuro per la casa.
(then giving phone #). --- Iperferry..... --- Rivolgiti alla ditta
Fedeli.....etc.etc...Fedeli porte blindate...etc.etc.   Fair with slight
QRM splat and slight muffled audio. Then I continued to hear it on FM
fqy ---SERRA, Roma, Italy February 24..... More news on Gleanings
section (ITALY)

0946- 11775- TAIWAN- CBS News Network, Taipei, 11775.00, 26/02, 09:46
presumed this one with male and female Chinese talks. SINPO 24343.
---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands

0952- 11780- BRAZIL- Radio Nacional Amazonia, Manaus, 26/02, 09:52 usual
long Portuguese talks by male and female speaker, SINPO 25222.
---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands

0954- 9930- USA HAWAII- World Harvest Radio Internat., Naalehu, 26/02,
09:54 US rlg talk by female speaker. SINPO 25332. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The
Netherlands

1000- 5637.31- PERU- Radio Peru 1000-1100 Noted Huaynos music and
Spanish comments from a man. At 1057, canned ID as "Radio Peru" without 
the word "difusora". Signal was fair during the period. ---BOLLAND, Lake
Worth FL, USA  February 18, 1998)

1007- 11815- JAPAN- Radio Japan, Yamata, 26/02, 10:07 male and female
speakers in Japanese. Competing with test tone, presumably from
Tripoli.SINPO 43433. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The Netherlands

1015- 4923.8- BOLIVIA- Radio San Miguel, Tentative 1015-1100 Noted
steady Spanish comments during the listening period with one canned ID
heard from a woman. QRM was so bad and signal not really good, I wasn't
certain what I heard. ---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA , February 16,
1998)

1022- 15168.2- UNID- Unid R., 24/02, 10:22 female and male speakers,
unidentified language but sounds like Arabic, Farsi or Urdu, some music
fragments. Distorted audio, very weak but improving slightly over time. 
SINPO 13241. May have been drifted Algiers. ---SCHAAY,  Doorn, The
Netherlands

1045- 4826.27- PERU- Radio Sicuani 1045-1100 Noted a man in steady
Spanish comments during period. Signal was threshold however, and didn't
present an opportunity to glean any other details. ---BOLLAND, Lake
Worth FL, USA  February 12, 1998)

1100- 4855.51- PERU- Radio La Hora 1100-1110 Noted two men in Spanish
comments. Mentions of Peru often. Signal was poor. ---BOLLAND, Lake
Worth FL, USA February 12, 1998)

1105- 4904.75- PERU-  Radio La Oroya 1105-1120 Noted a man and woman in
Spanish comments until 1110, then music presented. Signal was threshold.
---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA February 12, 1998)

1105- 4970.81- PERU- Radio Imagen 1105-1115 Signal really poor. But
heard two men in Spanish comments during the period. A few mentions of
"Peru". As stated, signal was poor. ---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA
February 16, 1998)

1112- 4995.56- - PERU- Radio Andina 1112-1120 Man in steady Spanish
comments until 1114 when Huaynos music presented. Signal was fair.
---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA  February 16, 1998)

1115- 4935- PERU- Radio Tropical 1115-1130 Noted two men in Spanish
language news program. This continues during listening period while
signal  drops from poor to threshold. ---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA
February 12, 1998)

1118- 6211- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Perfekt 22 Feb.,  Folk mx,ID in German
23332 ---PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy / Radiorama Pirate News
Feb. 98 # 3

1130- 9525- INDONESIA- Voice of Indonesia 1130-1200 Noted a program in
the Japanese Language from 1130 to 1200 UTC. Generally consisted of
comments between two women. Signal was armchair quality during period.
---BOLLAND, Lake Worth FL, USA February 16, 1998)
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