[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-051; World of Radio 1405

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-051 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/dxld8051.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1405 / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA +non ABC/CBC / AUSTRALIA VMC / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / CANADA +non RCI/Republica / CANADA non BVBN / CHINA / COSTA RICA / CROATIA +non / CUBA +non / ECUADOR DRM / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ETHIOPIA / FRANCE non / GABON / GERMANY non / GUATEMALA / INDIA / INDONESIA / JAPAN non / KOREA NORTH non / LAOS / LATVIA / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO / MOZAMBIQUE / MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND +non / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA TCS / OKLAHOMA KCSC / OKLAHOMA +non HPPR / PAPUA NEW GUINEA +non / PERU +non / SAINT HELENA / SPAIN +non / SURINAME / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / TURKEY +non / UK BBCWS+ / UK BBC Radiophonic / USA RFE+ / USA WHRI / USA WBCQ / USA WRMI/WOR / USA RCA **M** / USA WINU / VATICAN +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / UNIDENTIFIED 3985 / UNIDENTIFIED 7220 / UNIDENTIFIED 11640 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / RADIO PHILATELY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / 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 1405 SUMMARY:

*R. Taiwan International asks listeners whether to continue on SW to 
 North America (via WYFR 5950, 9680)
*R. Nikkei, 6055, Japan, has bilingual with English show Saturdays 
 0830-0900
*Clandestines to North Korea via Darwin heard on 11775, 11690
*What`s the unID on 3370 heard in California at 1339, 1430? Trans-
 Pacific, mixing product?
*Monitoring Myanmar in Europe on 5985.8, 7185.1
*Papua New Guinea on 3290, nominally R. Central, carries Karai Radio 
 service
*Radio New Ireland, 3905, sends own QSL card to Japan
*Wantok Radio Light, PNG, after a month heard again in NZ at 0914 on 
 7324.96
*Mediawatch on RNZI, Sat 2110-2134 on 15720, Sun 1012-1036 on 7145
*RNZI abruptly moved from 6095 to 6170 April 16 for analog at 1300-
 1550; DRM supposed to be off during this period, but heard on 7145
*WMLK, Pennsylvania has been off the air since February on 9265; 
 internet stream http://wmlkradio.net doesn`t work either. Second 
 transmitter never on the air yet but thinking of modifying it for DRM
*Strong signal with music on 4800 at 0845, 1000 believed to be XERTA 
 reactivated
*Mexican National DX Meeting this year will be August 14-17 at Gómez 
 Palacio, Durango
*Salvdoran station on 1080, Radio CRET, heard in Guatemala on harmonic 
 2159.92 at 0230 [WRTH 2008 had it inactive]
*Mysterious ELCOR transmitter test from Guápiles, Costa Rica, 5954.134 
 variable, moved to earlier time, heard in Florida, CR at 2130-2156
*Radio Progreso, Cuba, heard 1032-1055 on 6005(?) before RHC opened on 
 6000
*Monitoring on PEI near Sackville indicates R. República on 6100 at 
 0200 is from same site as 6135 at 2200, 6155 at 0000, i.e. UK; it 
 overlaps with RCI 6100 at 0200-0204
*World of Radio 1405, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 or woradio at 
 yahoo.com – consult http://ww.worldofradio.org for much more info
*Thanks this week for financial support from Dario Monferini, Italy
*Get your DX news while driving, Saturdays at 1730 UT when World of 
 Radio via WRN is on Sirius channel 140  --- unless pre-empted by 
 stupid ballgames
*Two different programs from Bonaire on 6165 and 6195 at 0400-0430 and 
 0500-0530 produce spurs on 6135, 6225
*R. Apintie, Suriname, 4990, widely reported this week at 0930, 0620, 
 0450, sometimes in Dutch or English
*R. Nueva Atlántida, Iquitos, Perú, reactivated on 4790, first 
 reported by Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, April 18 at 2258 to 0230 
 sign-off; but clashes with the other Peruvian, R. Visión, Chiclayo, 
 around 4790.2. Atlántida slightly on the low side around 4789.6, also 
 at 1003
*One of the two Brazilians on 4905 heard IDing as Nossa Radio until 
 0258 sign-off; a slogan or name change?
*R. Cultura, São Paulo, 9615, instead distorted on 9579 variable, at 
 1840
*Brazilian pirate, radio livre on 7695, Sat & Sun 0300 with 50 watts, 
 called Cidade Oldies, which means City Velhinhos
*R. Gazeta, São Paulo, confirmed in RGS active on 5955 and 15325 at 
 1900; also heard in Belgium on 15325
*Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, also has been hearing LRA36, 
 Antarctica, since April 14, reactivated on 15476 between 1900 and 
 2100 M-F; had been off since at least January 1
*First batch of 100 QSL cards for R. Saint Helena Day, 2007, 
 dispatched April 12
*Benin 1566 schedule in WOR 1403 was one hour off as TWR website 
 showed wrong timezone; really opens at 0300 and 1700; also heard from 
 1835 to 2215 in Italy, mixing with India and South Korea
*Big story last week, reactivated R. Africa, Equatorial Guinea on 
 15190, lasted only 7 days; gone again after April 17
*Botswana publication expects Zimbabwe to attack VOA relay station to 
 cut off communications with Washington
*Schedule of BBC Darfur Salaam service in Arabic via Cyprus
*Radio Netherlands changes 67% of frequencies in English to South Asia 
 at 1400-1557, new 5830 and 9885, the latter better in Georgia than 
 9890
*Radio 700, 1 kW private station in Krekel, Germany, testing 6005, and 
 heard OK in UK; but will have lots of co- and adjacent-channel 
 interference at various hours
*Radio Prague`s 2130 English to North America heard well on 11600
*R. Slovakia International`s A-08 English schedule
*Croatia closes down all MW transmitters except 1134 and 594=DRM
*24-hour SW schedule from inside Croatia
*Israel Radio finally starts streaming its classical music station, http://www.iba.org.il/kolhamusica/
*Islamists propose replacing GMT/UTC, a colonial relic, with Mecca 
 time, since Mecca is the center of the world with zero geomagnetic 
 declination (at the moment); if so, should be mean solar time, since 
 standard time was not invented until 1888. That would be a lot more 
 fun to convert around the world
*Eagerly-awaited EiBi shortwave schedules for A-08 season are now 
 available, via http://www.eibispace.de
*Domestic Broadcasting Survey 2008 now for sale by DSWCI; details and 
 sample pages at http://www.dswci.org/dbs
*European Mediumwave Guide contest closes April 30, nice prizes, hard 
 questions: see http://www.emwg-contest.org
*Propagation outlook from Boulder issued April 22: A and K indices 
 peaking at 20 and 5 May 2, as solar flux declines from 75 to 70 ###

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1405
Sat 0800 WRMI   9955
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0230 WWCR3  5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1  3215 
Sun 0800 WRMI   9955
Sun 1515 WRMI   9955
Mon 0300 WBCQ   9330-CLSB [irregular, time varies]
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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