[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-002; World of Radio 1389

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-002 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/dxld8002.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1389 / AFGHANISTAN / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRIA
/ BELARUS non / CANADA CFRX / CANADA non RCI/CRI / CHAD / CHINA / COLOMBIA /
ECUADOR / EGYPT / GABON / GERMANY B07+ / GREECE / GUATEMALA / ITALY / JAPAN /
KOREA NORTH / KUWAIT / LATVIA / LITHUANIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA
/ MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND / NORTH AMERICA TCS / OMAN / PERU / PHILIPPINES /
POLAND / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SEYCHELLES non / SOUTH AFRICA non /
SWEDEN non / SWITZERLAND / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TURKEY /
UGANDA / UKRAINE non / UK non BBCWS+ / USA AFN / USA +non VOA/IBB / USA RFE/RL
/ USA KAIJ / USA PBS / USA NERW / USA WHRB / USA KMPT / VATICAN / VIETNAM /
YEMEN / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 2380 / UNIDENTIFIED 2525/3092/3180 /
UNIDENTIFIED 4781 / UNIDENTIFIED 5580 / UNIDENTIFIED 13870 / UNIDENTIFIED 17565
/ PUBLICATIONS / SHORTWAVE MUSIC / LANGUAGE LESSONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING /
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION

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 1389 SUMMARY:
*Radio Arctica, unusual pirate/clandestine, also on demand via  
 http://www.radioarctica.net.tc/
*KBC Radio via Lithuania modifies schedule to 2130-2230 on 6265
*New Year`s Eve monitoring by Kim Elliott
*Radio Barretina, Catalan pirate
*Austria cuts off Blue Danube Waltz
*Serbia`s revived shortwave to serve diaspora; why, then, Italian to 
 North America?
*No Italian from Italy, but we can hear Vatican
*Ukraine revives high-power Lviv SW transmitter to North America on 
 7440
*RWM timesignals moving from one site to another near Moscow
*Voice of Russia to add two dialects of Kurdish
*Olympía Radio, Greek coastal station still uses voice mirrors
*Mauritania back on 4845, sometimes all night but not on New Year`s
*Africans running late on New Year`s Eve: ELWA, Burkina Faso, Benin, 
 Chad, Zambia, Equatorial Guinea
*XERTA, Mexico City back on air, new 4800 but poor signal, and hard to 
 ID
*Radio Maya, Guatemala, inactive on SW, allegedly webcasts via 
 http://radiomaya.com
*Cuba still jamming something on 15710; former Radio República 
 transmitter on 5954.1 heard again without jamming; República via UK 
 moves from 6100 to 6185, bad news for Mexico
*Cuba changes 530 jammer programming again, to Radio Enciclopedia
*Venezuelan minister claims RCTV equipment expropriated is depreciated 
 to worthlessness, yet TVes has the best coverage 
*Radio Nacional, Venezuela, still off-frequency from 630 kHz
*Radio Amazonas` awful signal heard occasionally off 4940
*Radio Superior, new Peruvian on 4523.5
*Radio Tumupasa, Radio San Miguel, Bolivia and their problems
*Radio Cultura FM, São Paulo, not carrying Metropolitan Opera this 
 season
*Argentina suddenly changes to DST of UT -2 as of Dec 30
*RAE, external SW service languages thus shifted one UT hour earlier; 
 [English at 17 on 15345, 01 on 11710]
*Israel confirmed still on the air in 2008, such as English at 1030 on 
 13855, 15760; 9390 on the air longer than registered
*Bangladesh Betar is replacing 1000 kW MW transmitter with new solid-
 state unit; also plans to replace 250 kW SW transmitter
*Radio Japan`s New Year Eve show on only two SW frequencies, but live 
 for a change marking 2008 at 1500 UT
*The Crystal Ship, North American pirate, frequency preferences on 
 6700, 6875, 3430, 5385
*WIMA, 1150, Lima OH, special MW DX test, Sat Jan 5 at 0700-0730 UT; 
 details at http://www.dxtests.info
*WBT, 1110, Charlotte NC, has a new `Time Machine` show Saturday 
 nights
*WAMC Albany NY applies to usurp another public radio station`s 
 frequency in northern New York, then backs off
*Community station in Bend, OR, faced with two competitors for its 
 frequency
*KUWR, Laramie WY, adds two more frequencies, one jazz, one classical

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1389  **flexible times
Fri 0730 WRMI   9955**
Fri 1200 WRMI   9955**
Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 [not expected 7465]
Fri 2330 WBCQ   5110-CLSB [NEW from Dec 21]
Sat 0900 WRMI   9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sat 2230 WRMI   9955
Sun 0330 WWCR3  5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1  3215 
Sun 0900 WRMI   9955
Sun 1200 WRMI   9955 [new]
Sun 1615 WRMI   7385
Mon 0400 WBCQ   9330-CLSB [irregular]
Mon 0515 WBCQ   7415 [time varies]
Mon 0930 WRMI   9955**
Tue 1130 WRMI   9955**
Tue 1630 WRMI   7385
Wed 0830 WRMI   9955**

WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE:
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 [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL]
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org

Regards, Glenn Hauser


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