[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-032; World of Radio 1398

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-032 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/dxld8032.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1398 / ALASKA A08 / ANGOLA / AUSTRALIA HCJB / BELGIUM / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL /
CANADA CBCR2 / CANADA CBI / CHINA +non / CLIPPERTON ham / COSTA RICA / DUCIE
+non ham / FINLAND / GERMANY / GUAM A08 / GUATEMALA / JAPAN +non A08 / KYRGYZIA
/ LATVIA +non / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO / NETHERLANDS / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA
+non OK/MO+ / PALAU +non / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / ROMANIA / SAN MARINO +non /
THAILAND / UKRAINE A08 / UK BBCWS / USA WWCR / USA WHRI / ZAMBIA / UNIDENTIFIED
5954 / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / LANGUAGE LESSONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY /
DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM /
PROPAGATION

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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 1398 SUMMARY:
*DST begins March 9, and World of Radio times from US stations shift  
 one UT hour earlier [except ACB Radio webcasts], including SW: WWCR: 
 Thu 2030 15825, Sat 1630 12160, Sun 0230 5070, 0630 3215. WBCQ: Thu 
 2330 7415, Fri 2230 5110, Mon 0300 9330, Mon 0415 7415. For WRMI see 
 grid in ET at http://www.wrmi.net
*Wall Street Journal reports on study showing DST wastes energy rather  
 than saves it http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120406767043794825.html
*Citadel group fires lots of broadcasters including John Gambling at 
 WABC; entire news staff of WLS. Blame CEO Farid Suleman, says Robert 
 Feder
*KM2XVL on air from Huntsville TX, 1220 kHz, 170 watts day, 11 watts 
 night, nondirexional; experimental license, but for what? Prison?
*WSPY, Geneva IL, heard on 4440 = 3 x 1480
*RFE/RL president wants to expand `surrogate` broadcasting to Africa, 
 the one area US is successfully covering with a single service, VOA, 
 says Kim Elliott
*VOA adds morning show in Amharic, M-F 0300-0330 on 7220, 9730, 13605; 
 jammed too?
*Article on the history of the Delano station; connexions with Dr 
 Brinkley`s XER, and the first atomic bomb explosion: 
 http://radioworld.com/pages/s.0106/t.11328.html
*Special DRM transmissions for the SWL Winter Fest, March 5-8, from 
 Ecuador, Guiana French, Vatican
*Radio Habana on unlisted new 11680 in Spanish at least during the 
 0000 UT hour, ex-11875
*Pastor Melissa Scott starts $5 million fundraiser for Caribbean 
 Beacon, Anguilla, needing repairs; may dispose of Costa Rican relay
*Timesignals heard on 5100 are spurs from YVTO, Venezuela, 5000
*Latin American on 5014.3 is the rarely active Radio Altura, Perú
*Argentina`s Japanese service at 0900-1100 on 11710 is aimed at 
 Washington, not Tokyo; but almost antipodal. Rated as very difficult 
 to hear in Japan [soon reverting to 1000-1200]
*The media magazine you monitor with your mind, World of Radio 1398
*Thanks this week for financial support from Rod Scribner, KA1RFD, in 
 memory of Rocky, with a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 
 73702
*BBCWS downgrading its Spanish service, cancelling programs, and only 
 keeping online news from April; hard to understand this attitude 
 toward Spanish, a major world language. Comments to chief of LA 
 service, julia.zapata @ bbc.co.uk Is it still on at 11-12 on 6095, 
 13760?
*Bush House staff have mistaken impression that all the US affiliates 
 relay BBCWS 24/7 rather than only overnight or a few hours a day; 
 could account for hurry to abolish SW
*BBC heard on 7260 March 1 only between 0000 and 0100 with 30-second 
 loop claiming it is a satellite channel with no programming available
*Radio France International changed English frequencies March 2, 
 including at 1600-1700 to 15605 better than 11615
*VRT Belgium to close all MW frequencies except 927
*KBS World Radio, South Korea, now in German via Luxembourg 1440 at 
 1730-1800
*Poland`s Multimedia show hints cryptically shortwave may close there 
 too
*KBC Radio via Lithuania on new 6055 adjusted half an hour later to 
 avoid interference, 2200-2300
*Romania now in DRM via Norway 1800-1830 on 6155-6160-6165; interferes 
 with Austria 6155
*Voice of Turkey heard via longpath in Oklahoma at 1457 on 6175
*Family Radio via Samara, Russia heard via longpath in Oklahoma at 
 1400 on 6020
*Israel Radio announces SW will be terminated at end of March; then 
 listen via new website. Maybe it will really happen this time?
*NHK will end relays via Sri Lanka, Gabon, French Guiana at end of 
 March but still on lots of other relays
*Haiku segment on World Interactive, monthly on Saturdays, said its 
 last appearance was March 1
*Yet another clandestine for North Korea, Voice of Freedom, starting 
 March 8; could be at 14-15 on 9970 via Armenia, tested in February
*Radio Free Asia and VOA Korean services add MW 1350 kHz from secret 
 site, but all the evidence points to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 1800 km 
 from Pyongyang; also on MW 648 from much closer FE Russia
*V. of Mongolia schedule may show English at 1530 on 12085, but 
 nothing there when monitored in Europe, New Zealand
*Music test on 11995 from CVC Darwin, Australia site at 1430, for JCI, 
 Japan Center for Intercultural Communications; more clandestine 
 coming for Korea?
*Weak signal heard in Texas on 7325 at 1330 may be Wantok Radio Light, 
 Papua New Guinea, supposedly closing at 1300, rather than listed 
 India, believed inactive. But from March 9, RCI Sackville moves from 
 7310 to 7325 at 1105-1405
*Barry Seeber, host of former communications program Talkback on Radio 
 Australia, has died of cancer at 65
*Ham DXpedition to Clipperton Island, TX5C, March 7-17; details at 
 http://www.clipperton2008.org
*Propagation outlook from Boulder, March 4: solar flux stuck at 70; A 
 & K indices peaking at 25 and 6 March 27

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1398
Mon 0415 WBCQ   7415 [time varies]
Tue 1100 WRMI   9955
Tue 1530 WRMI   7385
Wed 1130 WRMI   9955

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Regards, Glenn Hauser


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