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THE FOUR WINDS ON LINE - Copyright Part 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Year 4 Number 78 - Rome, 18 January 1999 1011- 7480- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Borderhunter, Jan 10, Mx pop,ID in E(weak mode) 33333 (Pecolatto, Italy / Radiorama Pirate News) 1015- 6270- PIRATE EUROPE- R.AL
Int, Jan 10, -Mx pop,ID in Dutch,E 33322 (Pecolatto, Italy / Radiorama Pirate
News)
1030- 6284- PIRATE EUROPE-
Farmers from Holland, Jan 10, Folk mx,ID in Dutch 33333 (Pecolatto, Italy /
Radiorama Pirate News)
1031- 11895- NORTHERN MARIANA
ISLANDS- Voice of America, Tinian, 05-01-99, 10:31, same instrumental
music as logged earlier on 9785, 15115 and 17665 kHz and parallel to much weaker
21760 kHz. SINPO 45544. (Schaay, The Netherlands)
1034- 4990- INDIA- AIR Itanagar
(Presumed) 1034-1045 Noted a man in Hindi language news until 1035. After
that noted Hindi singing by woman. Signal was poor. Faded badly after 1045.
(Bolland, USA, January 16,1998)
1034- 21760- NORTHERN MARIANA
ISLANDS- Voice of America, Tinian, 05-01-99, 10:34, weak signal, parallel
to 11895 kHz. SINPO 21221. (Schaay, The Netherlands)
1055- 4760- INDIA- AIR,
Blair Island, (Presumed), 1055-1110 Noted a woman in comments (not sure of
language, could have been Hindi?). After a man sings a Arabic type song. This
followed by something else musical(?). At 1100, woman gives possible ID
and language programming style change. Signal fades to threshold.
(Bolland, Charles, 1-16-99)
1108- 4499.6- PERU- R. Moderna,
1108-1114, OA mx at t/in and then canned ID w/freq anmnt by M, soft spoken
live M anncr briefly, and into pleasant OA campo mx. M again at 1112 over mx
w/sev. IDs, OA flutes and W vocals. Fairly strong. Not there at 1102
check, so s/on between 1102-1108. Would be nice easy signal on micro-DXpedition.
(Valko, USA 12 Jan.)
1202- 17640- NETHERLANDS- BBC
World Service, Zeewolde, 17640.00, 08-01-99, 12:02, one-day-only relay,
due to power supply maintenance at the Merlin Rampisham site. World news.
Multi-path reception. SINPO 45534. (Schaay, The Netherlands)
1205- 4760- INDIA- AIR, Port
Blair, Andaman Islands (Presumed) 1205-1215, Noted a woman in English
comments until 1210. After that Hindu type music was presented. Signal was poor.
(Bolland, USA January 11, 1999).
1216- 15427.74- UNID- Unid R.
1216-1230*, CH pgming; M and W and some Chinese mx. One traditional sounding
song, then one Pop-like song. W again w/poss. ment of "GMT" (sked??),
then NA 1229. Pgm off but carrier remained on. Asian sounding. Any ideas??
(Valko, USA 10 Jan.)
1300- 11655- UNID- R. Uzbek via
Russia ???, 1300-1308, Anthem and M w/ID sounding like "Eh Radio
Uzbek(??)". Then M w/pres. nx to 1307 w/ments of Moscow, Japan. At 1307
instru. mx bridge, then M tlk again. I'm assuming this is the Russian, but
what pgm?? (Valko, USA 10 Jan.)
1300- 3905- INDONESIA- RRI
Merauke @1300 w/ SCI into Presumed NX by YL. This one has been holding
well past local sunup and competes with NBC (PNG, 4890) as far as tenacity goes.
(Rippel, USA 01/10)
1620- 7000- UNID- Radio Voice of
Freedom & Renewal, Unidentified site, 7000.00, 08-01-99, 16:20, presumed
this one with male Arabic speaker, reporting from live event. Sudanese folk
songs. Sometimes suffering heavy interference from amateur morse
operators. Signing off at 17.00 UTC. SINPO was generally 22332 but peaking
at 33333 for a short time. (Schaay, The Netherlands)
1705- 5500- SUDAN- R Omdurman
(nf), 1705 -1805 man and woman on news and commentaries in Sudanese /Arabic from
1705 till 1730 with local music intervals. At 1733 with program 'Anadi Kehen'
(an interview) . ON 1745 mostly with music program then on 1800 with news.
NO clear ID Heard though on most times Sudan on prorg headlines has been
heard. Good signal 44444 with antenna tuned properly (Liangas,
Greece)
1713- 9200- SUDAN- R Omdurman
1713 prg in French on Hadith. Muffled audio 44443& echo (Liangas
Greece Jan 3)
1730- 6900- UNID- Presumed R
Mogadishu 6900 , 1730 1745 man with continuous talks in arabic. carier +
USB (Liangas 9.1. Greece)
1735- 7085- ERITREA- Voice of
the Broad Masses, Asmara, 7085.00, 08-01-99, 17:35, popular Eritrean
songs, announcements by male speaker in presumed Tigrina. SINPO 45333 on
average. (Schaay, The Netherlands)
1742- 11725- CLANDESTINE- V. of
Oromo Liberation, Ethiopia 1742 Man delivering impassioned rhetoric in
presumed Oromo or Amharic; wild Horn of Africa vocals by female singer. Into
unreadable echo announcements at 1757, more local music, another
announcement, silence at 1758 and pulled the switch a minute later. Fair
but with badly muffled audio. (Hill,USA Dec. 27)
1745- 7515- TAJIKISTAN-Tajik
R (new fqy)1745 very lengthy talks in Tajik by man about Sudan
//5800 ON 1750 strong QRM from 7525 from Croatian radio Muffled modulation
and microphonic noise 44444 (Liangas Greece Jan 5)
1746- 4760- INDIA- AIR,
Andaman Isl., 1746 with Hindi songs with small references in Arabic
(Liangas Greece Jan 5)
1749- 4790- PAKISTAN- R Pakistan
1749 ¯ 1800 quranic verses, 1759 w open carrier (Liangas Greece Jan
5)
1752- 5009.56- MADAGASCAR- RTV
Malagasy in Malagasy 01/13 1752-1800, M tlk, afropop, M W ancmt & ID in
French at 1756: " Radio Madagascar ", then continuing tlk in lcl lang,
afropop mx pause & ancmts. Fair ( Serra, Italy)
1802- 4828- ZIMBABWE- ZBC 1802
relaying BBC?? Small unclear ID at 1804 'this is .... ' With strong QRM
from V of Mojahed on 1803 then on 1805 by jammer After 1810 under jammer was
completely wiped out. Fair (Liangas Greece Jan 5)
1808- 7440- VIETNAM- V.o.Vietnam
in EG, 1808, W nx tll 1809,ID, mx break into cmntry (QRM slight splat) Fair
(Serra,Italy Jan12 )
1810- 5830- CLANDESTINE- Radio
ye Irane harrga 1810 man with serious voice speaking in Farsi, 1816 with
music. ID over music and references to Afghanistan at 1824. Certainly a new QRG
32432 with QRM from Cw at + 100 Hz and woodpecker jammer (Liangas Greece
Jan 5th )
1811- 9165.05- AZERBAIJAN- V o
Azerbaijan (pres) 1811-1813*, lcl chant, sudden S/OFF at 1813 ! F / P ( Serra,
Italy Jan. 12 )
1815- 17870- SOUTH AFRICA-
Channel Africa in EG, 1815-1829, PX: " Newswatch" by M &
corresp.s, Ids, mx breaks etc. Fair ( Serra, Italy Jan. 12 )
1820- 4930- TURKMENISTAN-
Turkmen R Asqabat 1820 with heavily turkic songs 1830-1834 music
only (Liangas Greece Jan 5)
1830- 9695- CLANDESTINE- V of
Palestine // 6035 6145, 1830 two men on news in Arabic first
with news on Lebanon UK and USA . 9695 is best signal (Liangas Greece Jan
3)
1855- 7535- ICELAND- Reikyavik
1855 with presume news . Some freqs on 1857 and info by OPM andn YL .
gongs at 1859 then ID 'Utas Reykyavik' At 1918 with sport news Closed 1930
(Liangas Jan 5th Greece)
1859- 3985- PIRATE EUROPE-
Anteater R. via IRRS, Jan 9, Rock mx,ID,QTH in E 43343 (Pecolatto, Italy /
Radiorama Pirate News)
1903- 4860- INDIA- AIR Delhi, 01
/ 12 1903, lcl chants & M ancmt. Poor (QRN rustle) ( Serra,
Italy)
2000- 4748.2- PERU- Radio Huanta
2000, Huanta, Spanish, Man announcer, News, time checks "ocho y dos
minutos en todo el país", 00.54 - 01.06* s/off National Anthem
(Instrumental Version), ID "Gracias por su
sintonía.....Huanta.....orgullo del Perú" SINPO 24332, Jan 7,
1999 (Eramo, Argentina)
2003- 6135- YEMEN- Republic of
Yemen R. 2003 Woman giving news in Arabic with several mentions of Yemen;
ID "Idha'a-t u-jumhuriyya-t il-yamaniyya min sana'a" at 2015 and into
Middle Eastern vocal. Horrendous co-channel QRM from Finland, then BBC
joined in at 2015, making further copy hopeless. Intermittently readable on //
9780.3. I seem to recall that 6135 was used by Sana'a some years ago; must be
a recent reactivation, perhaps replacing 5950. (Hill, USA Dec.
30)
2148- 3930- PIRATE EUROPE- Laser
Hot Hits, Jan 9, Mx rock,ID in E 22222 (Pecolatto, Italy / Radiorama
Pirate News)
2150- 3936- PIRATE EUROPE-
R.Cochiguaz via Dr.Tim, Jan 9, SA mx,ID in S 23232 (Pecolatto, Italy / Radiorama
Pirate News)
2200- 3900.2- IRAQ- Republic of
Iraq R.(fqy var) 2200 Have been hearing Baghdad around this time daily
since Dec. 27 with Arabic talk and Middle Eastern music. Reasonable strength,
but audio is highly variable: sometimes faint or none at all, sometimes
obliterated by a strong hum, sometimes adequate. Had been on exactly 3900
till Jan. 2, when found to have slid up to 3900.2. Tnx original tip from several
European reporters in DX Window. (Hill, USA )
2215- 5131- PERU- RADIO UNO
2215-2346 JAN. 8, New station, Ex-Radio Vision 2000; now is located in
Dto. Tongod. QTH in Jiron San Martin s/n. ID: ¨Desde el Distrito de Tongod
esta transmitiendo su nueva estacion Radio Uno con lo mejor de nuestra
musica llegando a todos los rincones de nuestro territorio patrio...¨
(Rodriguez, Colombia)
2240- 5264.8- PERU- RADIO LA VOZ
DE CHIRIACO 2240-2310 JAN. 10, Mx Folk. ¨Continuamos presentando lo
mejor de nuestra musica vernacular, desde lo mas profundodel Peru, la musica
nacional aqui en Radio La Voz de Chiriaco, que transmite desde Chiriaco,
Bagua, Republica del Peru con su senal en los 5264 recorriendo todo el
territorio nacional...¨ (Rodriguez, Colombia)
2300- 6949.5- PIRATE SOUTH
AMERICA- Radio Cochiguaz, South America (in LSB), Spanish, Man annoncer, Special
Musical Program (Latin American Music), ID='salso in English and Quechua, 23.00
- 23.50 "Amigo oyente en su receptorestas escuchando Radio Cochiguaz con su
programacion de A=F1o Nuevo" "Thi=s isRadio Cochiguaz from somewhere
in South America" SINPO 23442, Jan 02, 199=9(Eramo, Argentina)
2338- 7003.4- PERU- La Voz de
las Huarinjas, Spanish, man announcer, Musica=lProgram, Comments, time checks
"cinco minutos para las siete de la noche"= ID"Radio La Voz de
las Huarinjas con su bonito programa..." 23.38 - 23.56,SINPO 23322 Jan 02,
1999 (Eramo, Argentina)
2353- 4964.7- PERU- Radio San
Miguel, Cusco (fqy var), Spanish, Man announcer, Musical Program
(folcklore and huaynos), ID by female announcer with the musical theme on the
background "Radio San Miguel Onda Corta" 23.53 - 00.43, ID
"estamos transmitiendo el programa......por Radio San Miguel",
time checks: "siete de la noche y cuarenta y tres minutos" SINPO
34333, Jan 9, 1999 (Eramo, Argentina)
----------------- QSL s ----------------- ALASKA- KNLS on 9615,
0800-0900; on 7365 1300-1400, V/s English service Mike Osborne, WWWeb http://wwwknls.org e-mail: knls@xxxxxxx (D.Monferini, Italy/Play DX 1006 Dec
20)
BRAZIL- Super Radio Alvorada on
2460, card, pers letter, window stickers in 42 days. (V.Korinek, South
Africa/Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
BRAZIL- R. Bandeirantes on 9645,
n/d letter, sticker, stamps in 44 days after a F/up, V/s Samir Razuk, director
gen. (he is Turkish) (L.Roithmeir, Channel Isl, UK /Play DX 1006 Dec
20)
CHILE- La Voz Cristiana on 21500
& 21550, QSL card in 60 days for 1 USD, rpt sent to Miami address, reply
from Miami from Oct 24, http://www.christian-vision.org
(B.Gornati, Italy /Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
COLOMBIA- Radiodifusora Nacional
de Colombia on 4955, letter stencil p/d (old style) 50 años, very nice
boletin de programacion # 8, sept. 98, with nice photo of directora Athala
Morris, reproduction of some reports: Tom Read (UK), Jirki Hytonen (Finland),
Beppe Gornati (Italy), in 45 days, V/s Athas Morris, directora, asking for
reports with SINPO code. Sunday 0045-0145 Canal Internacional by Jesus Valencia
reading reports by listeners (B.Gornati, Italy /Play DX 1006 Dec
20)
GERMANY- Polish R. relay
DW Julich on 5840, card, form letter, schedules in 285 days, V/s Rafal
Kiepuszewski, editor (V.Korinek, South Africa /Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
GERMANY- Voice of Hope relay DW
Juilich on 15715, QSL, station info in 14 days, QTH: P.o.Box 109,
Hereford, HR4 9XR, United Kingdom (V.Korinek, South Africa /Play DX 1006 Dec
20)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA- R.Africa on
15190, V/s Terry Kramer. (J.Cordeiro Pereira, Brazil / Atividade DX Oct. 98, DX
Clube Paulista, Brazil / Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
FRENCH GUIANA- R.NHK relay on
13680 sends a pennant writing to Servico Portugues, Caixa Postal 1747, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ 20001 - 970, Brazil. (J.Souza Rodriguez, Brazil / Atividade DX Oct.
98, DX Clube Paulista, Brazil / Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
HONDURAS- R. Luz Y Vida on 3250,
QSL card, info in 52 days after a F/up and 1 USD, V/s C. Fleck. (L.Roithmeir,
Channel Islands, UK / Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
INDONESIA - RRI Surabaya
3985,8kHz: No data letter in 23days. V/s read like Pmidjingat, PLH Kepala
Stasiun. (Juichi Yamada, JAPAN / Jembatan DX)
INDONESIA - RRI Surakarta
972kHz: Full data letter in 27days. V/s Titiek Sudartik, SH., Kepala.
(Juichi Yamada, JAPAN / Jembatan DX)
ROMANIA - Radio Romania
International, 11940 kHz Aug.10, 1998 at 0400 UTC. Full data QSL card, not
signed, personal letter with unreadable signature, 1999 calendar, Christmas
card, schedule and info on Listeners' Club. I sent a letter and reception
report. Total time: 151 days. Address: Str. General Berthelot Nr.60-64
RO-70747, Bucuresti, Romania (Escoto, Honduras)
RUSSIA- The Voice of Vietnam on
7250. Full data card (not signed), pennant, program schedules for a letter
and reception report. Total time 73 days. Separately, I received from them
a Christmas card. Address: The Voice of Vietnam Overseas Service 58 Quan
Su Street, Hanoi, S.R.Vietnam (Escoto, Honduras)
SINGAPORE- R.Netherlands relay
via tx Kranji on 6120, QSL card in 120 days, V/s Asbari N. Krisna, QTH in The
Netherlands. (V.Korinek, South Africa / Play DX 1006 Dec 20)
SPAIN - Radio Exterior de
España 9540 kHz, Jun.19,1998 0438-0455 UTC 17805 kHz, Aug.09, 1998
1645-1702 UTC. Two full data QSLs, unreadable signature, program schedules,
reception report forms. I sent letters, reception reports. 9540 kHz QSL total
164 days 17805 kHz QSL total 153 days Address: Apartado 156.202 - 28080
Madrid, SPAIN (Escoto, Honduras)
ZAMBIA- ZNBC on 6265, QSL card
F/d V/s Patrick Nkula in 23 days. (L.Roithmeir, Channel Islands, UK / Play DX
1006 Dec 20)
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GLEANINGS ----------------------- BRAZIL- The status of shortwave
and tropical bands in Brazil: There are currently 62 stations transmitting
on SW, with two more to be installed in the states of Sao Paulo and Minas
Gerais. Data is from the Ministry of Communications. On the tropical bands
there are 78 stations, also with two more to be installed, one in
Amazonas, and another in Rondonia. The state with the greatest number of SW is
Sao Paulo, 21 frequencies. SP also leads the tropical list with 15, while
Amazonas has only 9. I wonder which two are the SW stations to be
installed; in Sao Paulo, it may be R. 9 de Julho. Some states have SW vacancies
("vagas"). Ceara has two, which should be for the old Ceara
Radio Clube; Maranhao has one, which should be for the old Timbiras which
once used 19 meters. On tropical bands, the number is much greater: 542
channels; the state of Sao Paulo alone has 60 available (Celio Romais, RGS,
radioescutas newsgroup, Dec 22, translated by gh for WORLD OF RADIO
971) I assume the 542 figure includes possibility of piling up several
stations on each frequency, much like mediumwave (Hauser / GH SHORTWAVE/DX
REPORT 99-01, January 6)
CHILE- The plus/minus 27 kHz
spurs of Voz Cristiana we reported on Dec 21 have not been heard since,
upon occasional checks, especially around 21550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 6 /
SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-02, Jan 9)
CHINA- [non]. CRI relay
via Sackville at 0500 on 9560 certainly still exists despite omission by BBCM -
loud and clear on UT Jan 7 check. No jamming. Of course not--only the
Chinese jam American broadcasts to them (Glenn Hauser, RIB/ SHORTWAVE/DX
REPORT 99-02, Jan 9)
COSTA RICA. Thanks to RFPI
Members' contributions, operation should be more reliable now: has backup
blowers for cooling units on 10 and 30 kW transmitters; and some backup tubes,
so if there are failures can be quickly replaced. Also can change
frequency quickly to avoid interference if really necessary rather than
wait 5-6 weeks for crystals to be ground in US and shipped. Another on-air
fundraiser is coming up soon. (James and Debra Latham, RFPI Mailbag Jan 1
via gh) RFPI is about to put its audio on internet, says Weekly Update;
listen for announcements. We have also noticed 15049 showing up sporadically in
the 1800-2100 period again, and on Dec 31, 6975 was already on and audible
here at 2131 check; on Jan 5, 15049 was testing in the morning. Spanish
programming is supposed to be back in the 1200-1600 period (Glenn Hauser, OK /
GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-01, January 6)
COSTA RICA- On Tue Jan 12 at
1901, James Latham announced a different frequency schedule for RFPI --
perhaps temporary for operational reasons due to current board of advisors
meeting ? 6975 0000-0800 (no mention of -1200 on weekends, but maybe)
15050 1800-2330 (ex 2100-0300) 21460-USB 1400-0300 (ex 1200-0300)
Continent of Media has a new time, Tue at 2000 only and did appear Jan 13 at
2003, but it was still the old Dec-Jan edition. Jan-Feb should start Jan
15. The RFPI morning block in Spanish seems to have come back only on Mon
Jan 4; since then, if heard at all, RFPI has been back with further repeats of
English before 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK / GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-03,
January 14)
CUBA- [non]. Part of Pres.
Clinton's initiative to improve relations with Cubans is "expanding R.
Marti broadcasts"! It's hard to see how this would help, and how Cuba
could be any more saturated with RM than it already is (Glenn Hauser/ GH
SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-01, January 6)
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