[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-048; World of Radio 1404

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-048 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/dxld8048.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1404 / AGALEGA ISLAND ham / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRIA / BANGLADESH / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BURMA non / CANADA CFRX / CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA CRI / CANADA non RCI / CHAD / CHINA +non / COSTA RICA +non / CUBA / CZECHIA +non A08 / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / EL SALVADOR / EQUATORIAL GUINEA +non / ETHIOPIA / FALKLAND ISLANDS +non / GABON / GERMANY +non / GERMANY EAST / GREECE / GUAM / GUATEMALA / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM non WRN/WHRV / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM WOR/Sirius / IRAN / JAPAN / JORDAN / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN / LAKSHADWEEP / LATVIA +non / LIBYA non / LITHUANIA +non / MALAYSIA / MEXICO +non / MOROCCO / NETHERLANDS +non / NETHERLANDS ANTILLES / NEW ZEALAND +non A08 DRM+ / NORTH AMERICA TCS / OKLAHOMA KOSU / OKLAHOMA +non Panhandle+ / OKLAHOMA +non Vida Chenoweth / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA / SAINT HELENA / SERBIA non / SINGAPORE / SINT MAARTEN / SLOVAKIA
 A08 / SOMALIA / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA non / SURINAME / SWEDEN / SYRIA / TIBET +non / TURKEY +non / UKRAINE / UK non BBCWS / UK BBC / USA non VOA / USA RFE/RL / USA BBG/VOA / USA WWCR / USA WMLK / USA WTJC / USA KTMI / USA KAIJ / USA WEWN / USA WRMI / USA WRCR/WJCC / USA Florida pirate / USA WSUA / USA KFUO / USA KRTS / USA KUNM+/KOLT/KPVL / USA NMN/NMG / VATICAN +non / VENEZUELA / WESTERN SAHARA non / UNIDENTIFIED 3200 / UNIDENTIFIED 4789 / UNIDENTIFIED 4905 / UNIDENTIFIED 6312 / UNIDENTIFIED 9744 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / RADIO PHILATELY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION

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have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn

 WORLD OF RADIO 1404 SUMMARY:
 
*XEXQ, San Luis Potosí, México, reactivated on 6045 after a couple 
 months; very weak with classical music; best times to try for it
*XETRA, 690, Tijuana, reported to change calls to XEWW, formerly the 
 SW calls of XEW in Mexico City
*Cuba not only jams Radio Martí, but also harmless musical shows from 
 Voice of America; R. Habana Cuba deserves to be jammed as payback 
*RHC collides with VOA at 0500-0700 UT on 6180, both in English; VOA 
 doubles power, so who will cry uncle first?
*NBC Radio, St. Vincent, moves again, to 700, ex-710, ex-705 kHz
*Venezuela names its new SW transmitter site under construction --- 
 what else? After Simón Bolívar; long term project planning 30  
 `antennas`, whatever that means
*Venezuelan TV axes The Simpsons as bad for kids, replaces with 
 Baywatch [bad for adults?]
*Chuck Bolland`s harmonic on 3200.13 recording analyzed: sounds to us 
 like Radio Minuto, to others like Radio María (Guatemala), or Radio 
 Ilusión (Ecuador)
*HCJB Quichua service on 3220 heard at incredible strength in Florida 
 at 1000, despite being aimed straight up to minimize distant 
 propagation
*Radio Universitaria, Cobija,  Bolivia unheard lately on 4732, but 
 Radio Tacana, 4741.48 widely reported
*Radio Nacional Argentina, heard on feeder frequencies 5835 or 5840 
 early UT Sundays
*Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Antarctica, reactivated, heard 
 in Europe on 15476 between 1900 and 2100; had been off all year
*Radio Africa, Bata, Equatorial Guinea, reactivated April 11 on 15190 
 after a long silence, only with American preachers, from 1700 past 
 2230; good signal in North America altho supposedly aimed at South 
 Africa. Does not ID between programs and final ID never mentions 
 Equatorial Guinea, but an address in Ghana [lasted only 7 days]
*The other SW transmitter at Bata, domestic service, had also just 
 been reactivated [and I left out the frequency: 5005]
*IRIN Radio has new broadcast via South Africa in Somali, 1730-1745 on 
 9665; also heard in Europe but some days of week Spain is also on 
 then, with imaginary German broadcast actually in Spanish
*Hargeysa, Somaliland, hard to ID for certain, but believed to be on 
 7120.37 around 1500-1700; Chad also on low side of frequency until 
 1600, and CNR-8 China in the way on 7120.0
*The media magazine you monitor with your mind, World of Radio 1404, 
 woradio at yahoo.com --- much more at http://www.worldofradio.org
*Thanks for financial support from Donna Kay Ring in Maryland who sent 
 a check in the mail to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
*V. of Tigray Revolution, 6170, sometimes opens an hour early at 0256 
 instead of 0355
*Sines, Portugal site has new clients such as Sudan Radio Service, 
 17690, 1500-1600 daily, also 1600-1700 M-F, mostly in Arabic, English 
 IDs
*English from V. of Africa, Libya, 1400-1600 on 17725 ex-17600, // 
 21695
*Sicilian pirate heard on 4895 relaying FM stations there, April 6 
 between 1750 and 1825
*BBCWS` last remnant of SW to the western half of the world, Spanish 
 at 1200-1300 via Furman 9410 and Montsinéry 11860, fills last half of 
 program with music, sometimes pop, sometimes classical
*Deutsche Welle reduces German service on SW this season; journalists` 
 union discourages move toward Internet only, and expects more 
 languages to go
*New tribute site to the late Radio Berlin International, actually a 
 blog, http://radioberlininternational.blog.co.uk/ attracts those who 
 liked the station, nostalgic for the good old DDR [or add www.]
*Both English broadcasts from Lithuania to North America are blocked 
 by Firedrake jamming, since they both have Tibetan scheduled at same 
 time from VOA, RFA
*One English program remains from V. of Greece, Greek in Style, music, 
 Sunday 2305-2405 on 7475, 9420
*RFE/RL denigrates shortwave as ``outmoded`` while it is forced to 
 resume it for Armenia; Kim Andrew Elliott comments
*Radio Jordan remains absent from 11690 where it used to be in French 
 and English; if you hear French at 1600 now on 11690, it`s China
*Arabic on 10000 turns out to be reactivated spur from Jordan on 9830
*Iran`s A-08 schedule for relays via Lithuania; also R. Racja for 
 Belarus
*All India Radio, Khampur site near Delhi heard on 6065 instead of 
 6165 at 1230-1600
*Lao National Radio had English lessons two Saturdays in a row on 
 6130, but not the next week;
*External service English still heard in Japan until 1400 on 7145. And 
 has added online audio: http://www.lnr.org.la
*Info from Asia that China bought two Continental SW transmitters from 
 USA, then made hundreds of copies, accounting for China all over the 
 SW bands, notably jamming such as Firedrake, which was heard in 
 Europe on 27 frequencies at once
*Radyo Pilipinas A-08 schedule at 0200-0330, 1730-1930 in English, 
 Tagalog
*Electric bill for IBB Tinian SW transmitters adds up to $1921.50 an 
 hour
*New WZFN on 1100 is not from east of the Mississippi, but for North 
 Dakota from east of Fargo in western Minnesota; heard testing with 50 
 kW day, much less at night; official sunrise/sunset in April 1145 and 
 0115 UT
*Propagation outlook from Boulder, April 15: A & K indices peaking at 
 25 and 6 April 24; 20 and 4 on May 2; solar flux peaking at 80, April 
 21-28 ###

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1404
Mon 0300 WBCQ   9330-CLSB [irregular]
Mon 0415 WBCQ   7415 [time varies]
Tue 1100 WRMI   9955
Tue 1530 WRMI   9955
Wed 1130 WRMI   9955
Wed 2300 WBCQ  17495-CUSB

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Regards, Glenn Hauser


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