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THE FOUR WINDS ON LINE - Copyright Part 3
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Year 4 Number 96 - Rome, 1 October 1999
MADAGASCAR- Andy / Jonathan FYI, With the help of us (and our
possibility to do checks with remote receivers) our technicians at
Madagascar found the problem to be in one of the 500 Watts modulation
amplifiers in the Philips no 1 transmitter. The problems was solved last
Friday. Cheers, (Rocus de Joode, Network & Frequency Planning, Program
Distribution, Radio Netherlands via Andy Sennitt, WORLD OF RADIO 1003 /
SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-40, Sept 16) Re the mixing problem on 17495 we
previously reported. ( SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-40, Sept 16)
NEW ZEALAND- A serious fault has occurred in the operating system at the
RNZI transmitter site. As a result of this fault we have had to suspend
our current frequency schedule. Please note until further notice our
transmission will be on one frequency only - 17675 kHz from 1650 - 1105
UTC We apologise to listeners who may suffer poor reception due to the
limitation of RNZI using one frequency which may not suit some regions
of the South Pacific specially during the period of sunrise.
Transmission engineers are making every effort to repair the fault as
soon as possible. Adrian Sainsbury Technical Manager Radio New Zealand
International, P O Box 123, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND <
http://www.rnzi.com > Fax: +64 4 474 1433 OR +64 4 474 1886 --- Phone
+64 4 474 1437 (via Paul Ormandy, New Zealand)
NEW ZEALAND- Radio NZ International continues to use 17675 exclusively,
as of Wed. Sept 22, providing very good reception past 0800. One benefit
of this arrangement is that there isn't the sesqui-minute break in
programming that normally happens when they change freqs at 0706 (Ivan
Grishin, Ont., WORLD OF RADIO 1004/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept.
23)
OMAN- While scanning the SW bands I came across R. Sultanate of Oman in
English on 15140 at 1425 tune-in Sept 20. Consisted of local
announcements local timecheck for 1830, YL with news, ID 1436 followed
by pops. Into Arabic at 1500 abruptly. Are they back with the English
service or was this a switching error at the transmitter site? They were
also heard on the 18th at around 1505 tune for a short while in English,
then abruptly into Arabic around 1512 (Edwin Southwell, England, WORLD
OF RADIO 1004/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept. 23)
OMAN- R. Sultanate, from Muscat, good signal in English daily 2300-2400
UT on 9735, such as Aug 10-11 (Sonya Van Zoest, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
reporting for my column in CIDX Messenger) Such a broadcast is news to
us, but she includes a copy of her QSL card printed in English for
1-6-1999 on 9735 at 2300-2400, signed by Salim Jamal Al-Nomani, Director
of Frequencies, from R. Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Information, P O
Box 600, Musqat; fax (968) 604 629. I checked the other day and couldn't
hear it here (Hauser, Sept 17/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept. 23)
PIRATE SOUTH AMERICA- Tx via Andino Relay Service: 0100-0200,11/9/99,
6935.2 LSB, R. Wunh, USA, rock oldies years 40´s type of Bill Halley,
SINPO 54444 --- 0200-0245,11/9/99, 6935.2 LSB, R. Strike, Italy, Italian
music, "This R. Strike the first pirate Italy", comments in English and
Italian,SINPO 54444 ----- Tx via Radio Cochiguaz: 2300-0000,11/9/99 6950
LSB, Voice of South Dublin, Ireland, ireland music and comments, SINPO
44444 --- 0000-0100,12/9/99 6950 LSB, Dark Pampa Radio, mx. ID: "This is
Dark Pampa Radio", SINPO 44444 --- 0300-0345,12/9/99 6950 LSB, Radio Sin
Fronteras, music group Soda Stereo, pop music, ID: "Estas escuchando a
R. Sin Fronteras, con música hacia todos los rincones", SINPO 44444.
(Enrique Alejandro Wembagher, Argentina)
TAIWAN- Radio Taipei International is providing very good coverage of
the earthquake. I just heard the UT 0700 broadcast on 5950 via WYFR. The
usual 12-minute news bulletin at 0702 was devoted exclusively to the
earthquake, the second 15 minutes featured a special report on the
quake; the next 15 minutes, a program entitled "Taiwan Today", had even
more details on the earthquake. The featured song in "Taiwan Today" was
"Tomorrow will be a Better Day". Their usual Chinese language lesson
ended the hour. RTI mentioned that they would be providing updated news
of the earthquake, as it became available. Times & freqs for Radio
Taipei International (providing very good reception in NAm, via WYFR):
0200-0300 & 0300-0400 5950, 9680 --- 0700-0800 5950 --- 2200-2300 15600
(Ivan Grishin, Ont., WORLD OF RADIO 1004/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41,
Sept. 23)
U K O G B A N I - [non]. The Stafford Broadcasting Society will be
hiring time on Merlin Network One every Friday night from 1st October
1900-2000 on 6010 via Ascension as well as via Astra transponder 58,
10.847 GHz vertically polarised on sub carriers 7.38/7.56 MHz. The
on-air name will be Imagination and the station will feature an hour of
soft rock from bands such as Barclay James Harvest and Pink Floyd. They
have a website at < http://www.imagination.clara.net/index.html > The
address of the station is P.O.Box 346, Stafford ST17 4AF, United
Kingdom. The broadcasts will air for an initial period of six months.
(Shaun Geraghty, Stafford, UK, World DX Club via Mike Barraclough, WORLD
OF RADIO 1004/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept. 23)
U S A- The Other Side of the Story. Hello Glenn, I saw in shortwave/DX
report 99-38, Allan Weiner claimed he was betrayed by WBCQ's "former
operations manager." If people would like to know Randi Steele's point
of view in the WBCQ hate speech controversy, please direct them to <
http://www.frn.net/wkjce/realaudio/randisteel-wbcq/ >There, they can
hear Randi's interview on WBAI in Real Audio -- including a tape of
Allan Weiner reading and endorsing the original hate speech policy on
his program. They can also read a copy of WBCQ's original hate speech
policy, and view some of Randi's comments about the situation. 73 (Anita
Louise McCormick, Sept 16/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept. 23)
U S A- Dear Glenn, New program starts this Tuesday 2030-2100 on 7415.
Marion's Attic is a program featuring Miss Marion, a little old lady
playing turn of the century music. She has an extensive collection of Al
Edison cylinder recordings wich will be played directly on the air thru
an electronic transducer. Should be some real interesting tunes. Back
then Edison approved all recordings before they were released to the
public. More great alternative stuff on WBCQ-The Planet!! Cheers, (Allan
H. Weiner, WBCQ, WORLD OF RADIO 1004/ GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41,
Sept. 23)
U S A- Glenn: The Greenville sites are OK. They maintained their
commercial power throughout except for one brief interruption. They also
have water from their own wells. The Greenville Site A is somewhat
isolated because of roads blocked by the high water. Three Greenville
employees' homes were affected by the floods, and a fourth employee
living in the flood area has not been heard from. Some employees not
able to get home have been staying at the sites, which have showers,
food, and basic amenities. Charlie Taylor lives in the flood area, but
he has been at work. I'll have a report this weekend on Communications
World. Interesting that Bound Brook NJ, a former VOA transmitter site,
was also hard hit by the floods. 73 (Kim Elliott, VOA, Sept 22, WORLD OF
RADIO 1004 / GH SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 99-41, Sept. 23)
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DX PROGRAMS
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DXING WITH CUMBRE- Hi, everyone! We have two new transmissions via WHRI,
as found on the World Harvest web page. Frequencies are in kHz; times
are UTC. Programs are approximately 30 minutes long. WHRI ANGEL I
(Americas/Caribbean) Sat 0500 7315 --- Sat 0730 7315 --- Sat 2230
9495 --- Sun 1400 15105 --- WHRI ANGEL II (Eur/Mideast/Afr/Rus/N Am) Sat
0500 5745 --- Sat 0730 5745 --- Sat 1430 6040 --- Sat 1800 13760 --- Sun
0300 5745 --- Sun 0430 5745 (new) --- Sun 1530 6040 (new) --- KWHR ANGEL
III (Asia) Sat 0300 17510 --- Sat 0600 17780 --- Sun 0000 17510 --- Sun
0600 17780 --- Sun 1830 17510 --- KWHR ANGEL IV (South Pacific) Sun
1000 11565 --- Sun 1300 11565 --- WHRA ANGEL V (Africa/Mideast) (may
also be audible for many WHRI listeners) Fri 2200 17650 --- Sat 0130
7580 --- Sat 0830 11565 --- Sat 1600 17650 (1603 start time according to
WHR web site) --- Sat 2130 17650 --- Sun 0830 11565 --- Sun 2230
17650 --- The program may be heard on Real Audio whenever it is on
shortwave at the World Harvest website <http://www.whr.org>. Also, it is
audible on demand at the Cumbre DX website; the URL for it is <
http://www.cumbredx.org>. The postal address for shortwave reception
reports: World Harvest Radio, P.O. Box 12, South Bend IN 46624, U.S.A.
Thanks for listening and contributing, as always! 73-- Marie Lamb, DXing
with Cumbre
Hi all, Have just posted an interesting article on radial aerials (i.e.
wires simply laid on the ground) from New Zealand DXer Peter Chambers
to my web-site (see URL below). If you try these out, please let me know
how you find their performance. Regards, Paul --- Join me for the "SOUTH
PACIFIC DX REPORT" on Radio New Zealand International, HCJB, AWR, and
NZ's Radio Reading Service - ZLXA. Full details available from the
South Pacific DX Resource web-site: < http://radiodx.com/spdxr > Or you
can listen to RNZI's "Mailbox" here: <
http://www.audionet.co.nz/ranz.html > (Ormandy, New Zealand)
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