[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-107; World of Radio 1427

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-107 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/dxld8107.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1427 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / ASCENSION / AUSTRALIA VL8 / BAHAMAS / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / CANADA CBCR1 / CANADA CKZU/CKZN/CFRX / CANADA non BVB / CANADA CJLO / CANADA CFUN/CKST / CANADA Northern Peaks / CHAD +non / CHINA / CONGO DR non / CUBA +non / DEUTSCHES REICH / DJIBOUTI +non / ECUADOR / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA non / FRANCE / GERMANY / GUATEMALA / HAWAII / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM USSR / IRAN +non / ISRAEL / JAPAN non / KOREA NORTH +non / LAOS / LATVIA / LIBYA / LITHUANIA / MALAYSIA / MALI / MEXICO / MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PRIDNESTROVYE +non / ROMANIA / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SIKKIM / SINGAPORE / SPAIN / SUDAN non / TURKEY / UK non BBCWS / USA VOA / USA WBCQ/RNI / USA +non Alamo / USA WTOP / USA WPRR / USA KRVA/KUSH / USA KBUY / USA WZFG / USA KCPW / USA KFI/KNX/KTNN / USA WVKO / USA Ray Baurenhuber /
 VENEZUELA non / UNIDENTIFIED 3170 / UNIDENTIFIED 4781 / UNIDENTIFIED 4870 / UNIDENTIFIED 4945 / UNIDENTIFIED 5876/4790 / UNIDENTIFIED 6068/6070 / UNIDENTIFIED 6150 / UNIDENTIFIED 6768 / UNIDENTIFIED 7520 / PUBLICATIONS / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION

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 WORLD OF RADIO 1427 SUMMARY:

*Radio Netherlands cancels English on shortwave to North America at 
 end of October; replaced by Spanish. Listeners referred to satellite, 
 internet or `partner stations`. We can try to hear the African 
 service via Bonaire at 2000 on 17810; see discussion in DX Listening 
 Digests 8-104, 8-106 via http://www.worldofradio.org
*Radio Canada Internal announces it will cancel English [and French] 
 to Europe
*Brain of Britain quiz missing from BBC WS for years, but new season 
 starting on BBC Radio 4
*World of Radio via Slovakia, Friday 1930 on 7290 to Europe, audible 
 in Pennsylvania
*Radio Sweden suddenly switches relays via Canada from 15240 to 11640
*Radio Ukraine International makes frequency changes for autumn; still 
 7440 to North America. Also new QSLs available
*Radio PMR, Pridnestrovye, changed 12135 to 7370 for Europe; still 
 6040 to North America
*Radio Exterior, Spain, resumes QSLing after listener pressure
*Radio Africa, Equatorial Guinea, missing from 15190 since Sept 19 
 [but back on Sept 25]; domestic services on 5005, 6250 also missing 
 [but 5005 back too Sept 25]
*unID Ethiopian clandestine mentioned last week, 1600-1700 Sun/Tue/Thu 
 on 15670 via Germany is Voice of Oromia Liberation Front
*Another Ethiopian clandestine, Ginbo 7 Dimts Radio, now jammed on
 17655, same white noise as against DW Amharic
*Ramadan ends Sept. 30; precesses earlier each year and by 2016 will 
 coincide with longest days of year at summer solstice, extending 
 mandatory fasting. Maybe that`s why there are so few Moslems in the 
 Arctic
*All India Radio, Imphal, reactivated sporadically on 4775
*RRI, Manokwari, Indonesia, back on 3987.05 after long absence
*unID Indonesian on 3578.73 heard in Colorado; two different stations 
 listed
*Australian English teaching show carried by RRI 9680, Wed & Fri 0805, 
 changed name to Kang Guru Radio English to Kang Guru Indonesia
*V. of Indonesia, 11784.83v besides English hour at 1300, after Malay 
 hour at 1400 started English again at 1500, turned off transmitter at 
 1502
*World of Radio 1427, woradio at yahoo.com
*Thanks for equinoxial financial support from Gerald T. Pollard, North 
 Carolina, who sent a check in the mail to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, 
 Enid OK 73702
*Radio New Zealand International issues 60th anniversary QSL card for 
 P-mail reports only with US$2 return postage, starting September 27
*RNZI 60th anniversary special program in two parts on Mailbox last 
 weekend of Sept, full 40-minute version at special times, Sunday 1205 
 on 9655, 1710 on 7145 and others
*Vanuatu is back on the air on 7260 with low-power ham rig, awaiting 
 delivery of new 10 kW transmitter; beware of Algeria via UK at 04-06
*Palau heard testing on 9945 between 1430 and 1530 with KWHR IDs, 
 Merlin music, Sound of Hope; new callsign announced is T8WH, for 
 World Harvest; WHR programming also on 9905, 9930, 9955 at various 
 times
*VOA quietly canceling several languages at end of September, 
 including Hindi despite listener campaign to keep it. Last broadcast 
 should be Sept 30 at 1600-1700 on 7430, 9320
*Dan Lewis program on WBCQ, 7415, UT Monday Sept 29 at 0100-0300 
 remembers Isaac Blonder, Tom Kneitel, interviews Benn Kobb
*WRNO since hurricane not at full power or modulation and off 
 frequency 7505.1
*Washington DC talk radio stations rebrand themselves: McCain 570 
 WTNT, Obama 1260 WWRC
*Radio Chapingo, Texcoco, Mexico, 1610, which had been 1400-0200 UT 
 only and difficult to DX, now reported to add 0200-1400 with 
 continuous music
*Radio Habana Cuba makes mistakes every day; perhaps the worst, two 
 languages at once on 6000 and 6140, English and Portuguese one night, 
 English and Spanish another night
*RHC online transmission schedule finally updated; we enumerate all 
 the errors in it confirmed by our own monitoring
*Radio Martí, Marathon, Florida Keys, 1180, has new 100 kW transmitter 
 in operation, so modulation should be denser against jamming
*Radio Panamericana, Bolivia, heard on new 5970 ex-6105, in the 
 mornings; Costa Rica blocks here
*Radio Kausachun Coca, Bolivia, new on 6075, heard as early as 0850 
 but not on weekends
*Radio Frontera, Cobija, Bolivia, 4450, off the air for political 
 reasons
*Radio Nove de Julho, São Paulo, 9820, well heard in Brasil, but 
 difficult in North America; best chance perhaps around 0000-0130; 
 watch out for Portugal on 9820 until 2300, and Cuba around 2200-2400 
 except weekends
*Radio Baluarte, 6214.62, on Argentina/Brazil border active again, 
 heard at 1012 mixing Portuguese, Spanish 
*Propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder, Sept 23; new sunspot appeared 
 and solar flux forecast to start fluxuating up to 70! ###

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1427
Sun 0230 WWCR3  5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1  3215 
Sun 0800 WRMI   9955
Sun 1515 WRMI   9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ   7415 [temporary, confirmed Sept 15]
Tue 1100 WRMI   9955
Tue 1530 WRMI   9955
Wed 0530 WRMI   9955
Wed 1130 WRMI   9955

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Regards, Glenn Hauser


      

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