[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-024; World of Radio 1396

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-024 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/dxld8024.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1396 / ANGOLA / AUSTRALIA 1931 / BAHRAIN / BENIN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CHAD
/ CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA +non / CYPRUS TURKISH NORTHERN /
CZECHIA non / DUCIE ISLAND ham / EUROPE Pirates / FALKLAND ISLANDS / GABON /
GEORGIA / GERMANY +non / GUATEMALA / GUIANA FRENCH / HAWAII / HONG KONG non /
INDIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM NASA / IRAN +non / ISRAEL / KOREA NORTH non /
KOSOVO / KURDISTAN non? / LATVIA / LIBERIA non / LITHUANIA / MADAGASCAR / MALI
/ MAURITANIA / MEXICO +non / MOLDOVA / MONACO non / MONGOLIA non / MYANMAR /
NEPAL / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA HF Beacon / OMAN / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
ROMANIA / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SURINAME / TIBET / TUNISIA / TURKMENISTAN /
UKRAINE / UK non BBCWS / USA +non WRMI/WOR / USA WBCQ / USA WBCQ/WRNO/KTBN/KTMI
A08 / USA WHRA / USA WHX672 / USA ham W5RIO/WT5O / USA NPR/AA / USA KBGG / USA
WSNL / USA WNTP / USA WBIX / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA
/ ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 5883 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / 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

 SUMMARY OF WORLD OF RADIO 1396, February 19

*Bad news first. DXer John Sgrulletta has died
*Well-known voice in Oklahoma has died, Dave Stanton, announcer at 
 OETA and KCSC
*1710 kHz lacking full power stations but on most dials, attracts 
 pirates, and Part 15 low-power stations; some discovered in Oklahoma, 
 Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Illinois, Connecticut, also webcast
*Dr Demento, on fewer stations, suppresses webcasts, but shows on 
 subscription for $2 each; explained at http://www.drdemento.com
*CNN in USA replaces its only International hour, Your World Today at 
 1700 UT, with even more US political gab
*World of Radio at new time of Thursday 2300 on WRMI, 9955,  
 intermittently jammed; Cuban exile programs on other days at same 
 time [no jamming heard on Feb 21 check]
*WWRB starts requiring ``patriot`` programs to pay six months in 
 advance to escrow account, take insurance on WWRB`s behalf
*New York Radio, VOLMET flight weather, heard again after hiatus on SW 
 including 3485, 6604-USB
*RCI tries to muzzle 28-year staff member Wojtek Gwiazda, who is union 
 activist challenging its changed mandate from International to 
 Internal, by suspending him for three days, and threatening further 
 reprisals; see http://www.geocities.com/rciaction/
*RCI still plays harmonica album as fill when feed is lost, such as
 from Korea at 0615 on 6045
*Radio Verdad, Guatemala, 4052.5, celebrating its 8th anniversary Feb 
 25, offering special QSL. See our original reports of it from Y2K at 
 http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8023.txt
*Radio El Salvador International, 5992, existed briefly in late 1983, 
 in English; academic history of broadcasting in El Salvador does not 
 mention it, and not much about Radio Venceremos or Farabundo Martí; 
 nor mentions latest SW station Radio Imperial on 17835v
*La Voz de tu Conciencia, Colombia, 6010 heard with DX program at 0030 
 UT Sunday; to be regular from March at various times on this and 
 Marfil Estéreo 5910
*Latest ID for the Bolivian on 4451 is Radio Santa Ana de Yacuma
*Radio Netherlands, Spanish at 0200-0400 via Portugal abruptly changes 
 9895 to 9430 to avoid interference from Iran
*DW changes theme music in English and other languages but not German
*DW heard testing in German at 1530 on 15905, from Sri Lanka?
*Thanks this week for financial support from Tim Hendel, Alabama, with 
 a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
*The Pori, Finland, SW transmitter site has succumbed to money from 
 Brother Scare, on 9595, 6060
*No shortwave from world`s newest country, Kosovo, and megawatt MW 
 1413 is ``under construxion``, but webcasts via 
 http://www.rtklive.com/
*Radio Tirana in neighboring Albania is covering Kosovo, of course, 
 such as English to North America at 1530-1600 on 13640 [Serbia: 0100 
 and 0200 on 7115]
*Mauritania back on 4845 after missing a few weeks [but then missing 
 again]
*Valuable historical audio archives from independence onward at Radio 
 Chad lost in recent looting frenzy
*Radio Mustaqbal resumed SW broadcasts, in Somali to Ogaden of 
 Ethiopia, on very complex schedule as in DXLD 8-022: 15510 and 15485 
 from South Africa, UAE, certain days of week at odd times
*Radio Wadi el Nil, Nile Valley Radio, from Cairo, on 9250 until 2259
*One of V. of Turkey`s new programs, The Women of the Sultans, 
 concludes Sunday broadcasts
*Collision in Europe on 7540 at 1600, both V. of Mesopotamia and R. 
 Pridnestrovye, from Ukraine and/or Moldova, or mixture in a single 
 transmitter?
*Iran launches Islamic radio service in English, report sorely lacking 
 in detail. On SW?
*Monitoring in Tashkent finds only one MW frequency still on the air, 
 756
*Radio Aap ki Dunya, VOA Urdu service for Pakistan, gains many 
 listeners thanks to Musharraf`s restrixions on Pakistani media 
*All India Radio frequencies monitored to be missing: 4960, 4990, 
 5985, 6150; and Kohima silent on 4850, 6065, except for important 
 occasions
*Bangladesh Betar, 7250, widely reported in eastern North America for 
 English at 1230-1300, but poor audio; also back on at 1315 in Nepali. 
 4750 audible in Hong Kong at 1130
*Firedrake on 9000 points to another Sound of Hope frequency
*KBS World Radio plans German broadcasts to Europe in March, via 
 Luxembourg MW 1440
*Wai Radio, Sarawak, 7270, now also webcasts via 
 http://www.radiokitai.com/portal/
*Wantok Radio Light, PNG, 7325, heard relaying NBC news at 0900
*New website for newcomers to shortwave listening: http://SWLing.com
*Propagation outlook from Boulder, Feb. 19 ###

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1396
Sat 0900 WRMI   9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0330 WWCR3  5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1  3215 
Sun 0900 WRMI   9955
Sun 1615 WRMI   7385
Mon 0400 WBCQ   9330-CLSB [irregular]
Mon 0515 WBCQ   7415 [time varies]
Tue 1200 WRMI   9955
Tue 1630 WRMI   7385
Wed 1230 WRMI   9955

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Regards, Glenn Hauser


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