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DX LISTENING DIGEST 2002 ARCHIVE
NOTE: Since this file is getting almost too big to manage, we are closing it at this point, containing all DXLDs for the first three months of 2002, now renamed dxldta02.html Its original name, dxldtd02.html now applies to the current to-date file, starting with 2-052, April 1, 2002. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ALSO NOTE: INDIVIDUAL DXLDS, JANUARY-JUNE 2002: On our own website we no longer have individual issues before July 1, 2002, just these massive quarterly archives. Individual issues are, however, still available at DXing.com, indexed here: http://www.dxing.com/dxrold.htm -- and 2001 archive is also there ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-051, March 31, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. 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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO #1124: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.html NEXT AIRINGS ON WWCR: Mon 0100, 0600 on 3210; Wed 1030 on 9475 NEXT AIRINGS ON RFPI: Sun 1830, Mon 0030, 0630, 1230 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB CONTINENT OF MEDIA 02-02 is now available: (STREAM) http://www.DXing.com/com/com0202.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.DXing.com/com/com0202.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0202.html ON RFPI: Fri 1900, Sat 0100, 0700, 1300, 1730, 2330, Sun 0530, 1130, Tue 2000, Wed 0200, 0800, 1400 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 8700 (USB). Information R Feeder to Command Solo was still audible until about Mar 15 in the early morning and late afternoon with the usual programmes in Pashto and Dari (Groppazzi, Italy, and Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) 8700 USB. Unidentified station after Commando Solo is reported to have arrived back in the States. Mar 24, 1530 (fade in)- past 2310. Playing typical Afghani music. I didn`t listen continuously, but no announcements were heard. Signal strength less than previously (Noel Green, England, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) The Command Solo aircraft reportedly have left Afghanistan, but the feeder which I believe is at a U.S. Base in Saudi Arabia may still be in use (Ed. Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ALASKA. ALASCA. HAARP -Escutei os sinais em 5800 kHz dias 26 (0740 UT), dia 27 (0845 h), dia 28 (0840 às 0900 e 0930 às 1000). Uai (mineiro tem que falar assim), estou escutando-os também hoje dia 29 de março em 3200 kHz e em 5800 khz às 0700 h. Pude perceber que os sinais em 5800 iniciam-se aos 30 minutos de cada hora e se extendem até aos 60 min da hora. De 30 aos 45 min os sinais são por 1'30" consecutivos com uma pausa de 30 seg. De 45 aos 60 min da hora, os sinais são continuos. Obs: Em 3200 kHz as transmissões comecam aos 0 min da hora e vão até aos 30 min (Nilson Couto, Betim - MG, Radioescutas via @tividade DX via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. March 29, 15425.55, LRA-36, 2105-2215, Latin American romantic type ballad music, with only occasional announcements in Spanish. I did hear announcements at 2123 and 2135. CD recording skipped at 2137. Signal was weak to begin with, but increased to fair level around 2144. Audio started dropping out at 2153. Definite ID announcement at 2200. I don't speak SS, but these are some of the words from my ID recording that I understand: "Transmite LRA ?? (pres 36)... Radio ? Arcángel?..." Then freq in kHz. was given "para todo ? " Played clip for Glenn Hauser who was fairly sure about station ID and 100% sure about ending slogan "para todo el mundo." This is a difficult one for us in N America to hear due to the frequency being too low for efficient mid-day propagation from Antarctica; however, the station was on later then usual, and I think there was a slight geomagnetic disturbance at the time, which pushed the MUF down. Signal was of fair strength and quite listenable at peak, but with rapid flutter, which would also suggest a degree of geo-magnetic disturbance (David Hodgson, TN, hard-core-dx via DXLD) Interesting observations, David. I have yet to hear them in Victoria between the usual 1800 and 2100 time frame. They were relatively well heard, however, during that test transmission a few years back for North America. Again that was a later transmission. Seems to be the same propagation characteristic as Radio St Helena. Consistently, the signal would be poor to non-existent, for the first hour, and then gradually increase, often to good to very good levels before starting to gradually fade during the last hour. Maybe they'll be on late again this Monday? (Walt Volodya Salmaniw, BC, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.5. LRA36, R Nacional, Base Esperanza, Mar 14 and 20, 2100, Spanish. Heard also on 14402.5 in USB. This may have been a switching error as the latter frequency is assigned to Base Esperanza, Base General Belgrano II and Base General San Martín for radiotelephone traffic (Maarten van Delft, Netherlands, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. A nice QSL letter was received Mar 14 from Army station LTA. Address: Batallón de Comunicaciones 602, Ejército Argentino, Azopardo 250, piso 18, 1328 Buenos Aires. They are responsible for the relays of various broadcasting stations on 15820 (Maarten van Delft, Netherlands, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 11423.15 LSB, R Bosques (presumed), 0237, Mar 30, Signal was weaker then usual, I suppose related to the elevated solar wind speed (600 kM/s). L Am pop and ballads, with announcements on the quarter hour, which is what I've observed in the past. I couldn't get enough signal to pick out individual words, so no ID this time. Switch to AM on 11423.95 at 0330. This operator is known to switch modes of modulation in the same transmission period. I caught only a few traces of AM audio on the peaks. Will try again over the next few weeks if solar/geo-magnetic conditions quiet down (David Hodgson, TN, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH AMERICA ** AUSTRALIA. New frequency for R. Australia, 2330 UT Mar 30 in English, is 15230, no longer on 15240. Remember when 15230 was a frequency of VLH/VLR Melbourne? (Chris Hambly, Victoria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes. But no surprise, RA website still shows 15240, undated and apparently not updated, and always totally inadequate in not showing exact times, just morning/daytime/evening! http://www.abc.net.au/ra/hear/swguide.htm (Glenn Hauser, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Voice International, Darwin now running Australia- produced programming, with English 1000-1100 on 13685 to China, and Indonesian heard on 15365 at 1026 with "Suara Internasional" ID in between DJ banter and pops. Also heard Mandarin on 13775 at good level at 1030, so now seem to be running at full steam (Matt Francis, Canberra, 31 March, ARDXC via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. The schedule of R Gaúcha, Porto Alegre differs from publication to publication, so your DBS-editor asked Samuel for help. He phoned Claudia Landell at Rádio Gaúcha who said that it now is on the air as follows: ZYE 850, 6020, 0900-0400 ZYE 851, 11915, 0900-0300 More information about Rádio Gaúcha: http://www.clicRBS.com.br (Samuel Cássio, Brazil, Mar 18, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030, R TV Burkina, Mar 15, 16, 23, 24, 26, 1846- 0002*, French, songs, a communiqué regarding an EC foreign language interpreters request, a 2 minute newscast 1900, then Vernacular and French 1931 for an obituary; also heard later, 2250 radioplay in French. 2315, upbeat musical programme, talk by man, occasional mentions of Ouagadougou, sounded very professional. Very strong, like Mauritania, but with better audio. However, ended programme at 2359 and followed with a couple of minutes of their very interesting IS (with what sounds like birds in the background), same IS as on the Dave Kernick IS website, then off with no ID or NA. 55444 (Berg, D'Angelo, Gonçalves, Green and Petersen, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) 7230 R TV Burkina, Mar 11 and 14, 0824-1040 fade out, (signed off 0902 on Monday Mar 11), French/ Vernacular, traditional tunes and tribal songs. 25332 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC Radio 1 went into special (prepared in advance) programming at 1805 UT on the death of Britain's Queen Mother (Mike Cooper, GA, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UK! You mean Canada`s Queen Mother? ** CANADA. CBC Radio One previews for Monday, April 1: TOO FOOLISH FOR WORDS: Easter Monday on CBC Radio One, join host Russell Bowers for Too Foolish for Words, a salute to five centuries of spoken English. From the lyrical to the downright ludicrous, there are about two million words in the English language (don't you wonder who counted?), and the average adult uses only about a thousand. Learn a few more on Too Foolish for Words, Monday at noon (12:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. RICHARDSON'S ROUNDUP: Today on the Roundup....happy Poetry Month! Hear the poetry winners of the 2002 Canadian Literary Awards. As well, can we build an entire person out of Canadian place names? You've been calling and writing with your anatomical nominations. Join guest host Sheryl McKay on the Roundup at 2:06 (2:36 NT) on CBC Radio One. YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME: It's never too early to start thinking about summer getaways. Easter Monday, join host Theresa Blackburn for Your Home Away From Home, a two hour foretaste of your summer escape - from the little orange pup tent to the cottage by the lake and everything in between. Great stories and even greater music: Your Home Away From Home, Easter Monday at 4 p.m. (4:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. IDEAS: Tonight on Ideas...Regarding the Mexican Pet. You know the story about the Mexican Pet? How about the choking Doberman? You've surely heard The Hook. Even savvy urban folk fall prey to urban folktales. A panel hosted by Paul Kennedy, tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. (CBC Hotsheet via DXLD) ** CHECHNYA [non]. MOSCOW TO KEEP AN EYE ON RADIO LIBERTY'S CHECHEN SERVICE | Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 March: Moscow is so far making no pessimistic forecasts towards the launch by Radio Liberty of broadcasts in Chechen, but pledges to closely monitor the subject matter of the radio station's programmes. Presidential aide Sergey Yastrzhembskiy told Interfax on Saturday [30 March]: "We won't hold any position on the issue in advance but will be judging by deeds." Yastrzhembskiy emphasized that the decision to unveil Radio Liberty broadcasting in Chechen "carries a certain risk". "The North Caucasus is a very sensitive region for Russia and Chechnya is a painful point," the presidential aide said. In this connection, he said: "We will be closely monitoring the subject matter of programmes and the newsmakers' composition, and only then draw conclusions." Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 1643 gmt 30 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ???? Did we miss something? Last we heard, the RL Chechen service had been postponed indefinitely; are they now going ahead with it?? Or is the above story mere posturing (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. Wavelength on CRI: The April 5th edition will feature an interview with Radio Pekin's first English announcer Wei Lin. She worked at CRI for more than 50 years. Wavelength airs at 0040 UT [Fridays] on CRI's domestic service and can be heard by listening to the live feed on our web site at http://www.cri.com.cn/english (Wave- Length, China Radio International, Beijing, China; Attention: Lu Feng and Keith Perron, e-mail: wavelengthcri@yahoo.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Ouvida a Voice of Strait nos 6115 kHz em 23 de Março às 0937 com noticiário em inglês, boa recepção (Samuel Cássio, São Carlos SP, @tividade DX via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5957.6, Caracol, Mar 15, strong just after 1000 with extensive international and Colombian news, advertisements, mentions of Caracol, signal slowly drifting downward. Not there on Mar 17 (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 6233/6260v: The main transmitter of La Voz de la Resistencia which was located in the rural zone of Vista Hermosa in the Meta department, Amazon Basin, 200 km southeast of Bogotá, was destroyed with several charges of dynamite by the Colombian antidrugs police on Mar 19. It was the main radiostation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). It was powered by solar energy and had a 23 metres antenna. The FARC will, however, be able to broadcast from similar transmitters in other regions dominated by this guerilla organization (Héctor Arboleda via Monferini, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) This could be a retaliation for the closure by FARC guerillas on Feb 28 of Government controlled radiostation Onda Zero in the southern Colombian town of Acevedo, Huila Department, when some 10 fighters from FARC threatened to blow up the station and then made off with a transmitter, antennas, and other equipment (Ed. Anker Petersen, ibid.) There was nothing in previous press reports we had about this being the SW transmitter, but mentioned only MW 660. Is it unwarranted to assume they were at same site? (gh, DXLD) ** C I S. NDXC`s Foreign relays on SW through facilities in the CIS is partially updated; I think only the entries in blue refer to A-02: http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/relay.htm (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO, DEM. REP. 9550.0, R Okapi, Kinshasa; In South Africa nice and strong signal. Is coming through with a fair signal at 0900, so possibly on 24 hours/day? Was off the air Mar 20 and 21 (Vashek Korinek, RSA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** CROATIA [non]. A-02 Schedule for Croatian Radio Starting March 31st 2002 you can listen Croatian Radio on these frequencies: (NB - mostly in Croatian) Europe 6165 0400-2300 Europe 7365 0400-0900 Europe 9830 0400-1700 Europe 13830 0900-2300 South America 9925 2300-0100 North America (East) 9925 0100-0300 North America (West) 9925 0300-0500 New Zealand 9470 0500-0700 Australia 13820 0700-0900 Copied from the Croatian Radio website. (via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECH REPUBLIC [and non]. PRAGUE: 31 March 2002 - 26 October 2002 Re-worked from R. Prague website today. CZECH 0830-0857 11600 S.W.Europe 21745 E.Africa/Mi.East 0930-0957 21745 S.Asia/W.Africa 1100-1127 11615 N.Europe 21745 S.Asia 1230-1257 6055 C.Europe 7345 W.Europe 1330-1357 13580 N.Europe 21745 S.Asia 1530-1557 5930 W.Europe 21745 E.Africa 1730-1757 5930 E.Europe/Asia/Australia 21745 C.Africa 1930-1957 5930 W.Europe 11600 S.E.Asia/Australia 2100-2127 11600 S.E.Asia/Australia 15545 W.Africa 2330-2357 11615 N.America 13580 S.America 0130-0157 6200 N.America 7345 S.America 0230-0257 7345 N.America 9870 FRENCH 0600-0627 5930 W.Europe 7345 S.W.Europe 0800-0827 9880 W.Europe 11600 S.W.Europe 1630-1657 5930 W.Europe 21745 C.Africa 1830-1857 5930 W.Europe 13580 W.Africa/S.W.Europe 2200-2227 11600 N.America 15545 GERMAN 0630-0657 5930 W.Europe 7345 Europe 1000-1027 6055 C.Europe 9880 W.Europe 1200-1229 6055 C.Europe 7345 W.Europe 1500-1527 5930 W.Europe 1630-1657 *5990 W.Europe ENGLISH 0700-0727 9880 N.W.Europe 11600 0900-0929 21745 S.Asia/W.Africa 1030-1057 9880 N.Europe 11615 N.W.Europe 1300-1329 13580 N.Europe 21745 S.Asia 1600-1627 5930 N.W.Europe 21745 E.Africa 1700-1727 5930 N.W.Europe 21745 C.Africa 2000-2027 5930 N.W.Europe 11600 S.E.Asia/Australia 2130-2157 11600 S.andE.Asia/Australia 15545 W.Africa 2230-2257 11600 N.America 15545 0000-0027 7345 N.America 11615 0100-0127 6200 N.America 7345 0300-0327 7345 N.America **7385 9870 0330-0357 11600 Mi.East/S.W.Asia 15620 SPANISH 0730-0757 9880 S.W.Europe 11600 1400-1427 11990 S.W.Europe 13580 1800-1827 5930 S.W.Europe 13580 1900-1927 5930 S.W.Europe 13580 2030-2057 5930 S.W.Europe 11600 2300-2327 11615 S.America 13580 0030-0057 7345 C.America 11615 S.America 0200-0227 6200 C.America 7345 S.America **7385 N.W. of SouthAmerica RUSSIAN 0400-0427 684 St.Peterburg 9865 E.Europe 11600 E.Europe/S.W.Asia 1130-1157 6055 E.Europe *15675 21745 E.Europe/S.W.Asia 1430-1457 *9430 E.Europe 11625 13580 E.Europe/S.W.Asia 1530-1557 *7235 E.Europe Transmitters at Litomysl l16E10 49N48 *Relayed via Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia 20E00 48N23 **Relayed via WRMI Miami, Florida 80W22 25N54 (Alan Roe, UK, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English and Spanish portions also via (Ramón Vázquez Dourado, Spain) ** DENMARK [non]. 7490, R Denmark via Sveio, Norway, Mar 22, 1830- 1855*. The last programme produced by the Shortwave Section at Radio Denmark, edited by Karl Erik Jeppesen and with closing remarks by technicial adviser Erik Køie. 55555 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) By this ended 53½ years of own editorial production especially for Danes abroad. From Mar 23 nearly all items will be repeats from the main newscasts in the Domestic Service of Danmarks Radio. The next ``Stil ind`` (Tune in) with Erik Køie will be broadcast Saturday Mar 30 in each Danish broadcast from 1230 to 1730 after the news. Tune in and send him a report! (Cf. DX-Window no. 190) (Ed. Anker Petersen, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 5009.8, R Cristal, March 23, 1050 Spanish talk about the Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, ID "Radio Cristal ...Santo Domingo", good (Ron Howard, CA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) Also heard in Denmark Mar 24, 0130-0246* with surprisingly good signal like a local station! ID as ``Esta es Rádio Cristal`` and a lot of fiery bachata dancerhythms. Artist Francisco Vez had problems in singing ``Polititica – Polititaca``, because the tempo was so fast that he nearly stumbled over the words! The closing announcement mentioned that it was a program from R Pueblo broadcast over HIMI R Cristal in Santo Domingo, followed by the National Hymn of the Dominican Republic. 44444 ! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING HCJB WORLD RADIO LIVE STREAMING On March 31, 2002, HCJB World Radio will terminate its multi-lingual Live Internet Audio Stream. We will be concentrating our efforts to provide on-demand archived audio of our programs which will better serve listeners who tune in via the Internet. We thank all of you who participated in our survey and who listened to our Live Stream at one time or other. Live Streaming may return at a later date in a different format, including special events. We welcome your comments. (HCJB Website March 31 via DXLD) Live stream still running at 0100 UT Sun March 31, but it was not DXPL; instead, some religious drama in Spanish, tho English was still appearing on the schedule. So I was forced to turn on a SW radio and confirmed new 11960, the hummy frequency for DXPL. Then at 0212 we checked 21470, the new service to India, and found it audible, tho poorly, with the mailbag show. In fact, HCJB website shows 0200-0330 as the new block to India, but times along the side are still 2330-0100!! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm wondering if anyone in India can hear HCJB's new retimed broadcast to India, 02-0330 on 21470? I've heard that the beam through Europe to India could make for interesting reception possibilities... so if you're able to hear it, share your thoughts with the group. DX Party Line should be heard on UT-Saturdays at 0200 on the above frequency, that's Friday night in North America (Joe Hanlon in Philadelphia, USA, dx_india via DXLD) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS [and non]. Hola! Te invito a leer (y también a escuchar y ver) el especial que hemos realizado sobre los 20 años de la guerra de las Malvinas o Falklands. Puedes ingresar a través de http://www.bbcmundo.com o directamente pulsando en http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/especiales/0203malvinas/ Si te gusta, recomiéndalo! Cordiales saludos, (Roberto Belo | BBC WS New Media, 701NE Bush House, The Strand, London, WC2B 4PH, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 755 72864 | Fax: +44 (0) 20 7836 4332 E-mail: roberto.belo@b... [truncated by yahoogroups] Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice | http://www.bbcmundo.com (via Horacio Nigro, Conexión Digital via DXLD) Lots of stuff to read, but here is the page with audio links, including the ``Marcha de las Malvinas``: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/newsid_1881000/1881019.stm (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. ``142nd DW Radio World DX Meeting`` with Uwe and Wolfram was heard as scheduled via webcast at 2335+ UT Sat March 30. They are still plumping for a weekly 10-minute show and have had lots of positive response from listeners. Had some DX tips from Roland Schulze, Philippines, including a Laos/Vietnam/Thailand broadcast pileup on 7145. But it will be another month until the next one. Closing with ``76 = Lord Bless You`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTNEING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 7265, SWR3, Rohrdorf and // 6030, Mühlacker, Mar 19, until 1100 heard with the usual good reception 45555, but at retune 1205- 1250 both transmitters were at low power (QSA2) and some adjustment tuning took place on 7265. Both stations were back to normal at 1315. I wondered what the reason was and wrote Wolfgang an e-mail (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) I phoned the transmitter site at Rohrdorf at Tel 49 7575 916-0. The guy was not willing to tell me much of the service. BUT they had as always put the regular SWR-3 program on air, using the RESERVE unit [Made by RIZ Zagreb Croatia] this day, not the regular SIEMENS Austria unit (ex R Bremen 50 kW unit, moved to SWR Rohrdorf in 1996/1997). Both transmitters handle 10 kW of power in an effective corner dipole antenna. But an old Rhode and Schwarz vertical 'creel' type antenna is still available for maintenance purpose, of broad band type, not very effective these days (Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** GREECE. ERA-5 Athens really OOB 17905 kHz in the UTE band. \\ 15630 at 0830 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s All Greek to Me (music announced in English) timeshift confirmed, in progress at 1818 UT Sunday March 31 on 17705 via Delano (gh, DXLD) ** HONG KONG. I have been listening two early mornings now and have not heard a thing here from Hong Kong on 3940 at 0945 (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, March 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. I'm very happy to inform you that on Mar 18 Mr Béla Szomraky phoned me from Budapest reporting about the new schedule of Radio Budapest. It's a remarkable success of our EDXC Conference in Budapest to notice that Italian, French and Spanish newscast are included in the new schedule with all existing languages. The Italian programme on Mar 31, 2002 will include a greeting from the EDXC Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General to all listeners. The EDXC portal at http://edxc.multimania.com will report about all frequencies. Someone told me the EDXC was unuseful. Hungary showed the contrary! (Luigi Cobisi, Firenze, EDXC Secretary General, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ICELAND. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [non]. 3903 USB. AFN off, possibly due to the unexpected DXers' enquiries, but, then, may be not so, as a very similar clean, strong QSA is being noted on USB, though airing a mere tone signal instead of relaying AFN. I tried it Mar 15 around 2300, and that's what I could hear (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) Also noted here (Anker Petersen, Denmark, ibid.) Dear friends, I just received a highly appreciated black and white QSL-card directly from AFRTS in Keflavik poststamped by Icelandic Mail on 27 MAR 2002. As far as I know, no one else has received it so far ! It verifies my report of 3903 kHz on 2nd March 2002 heard at 0525- 0605. With the report, I attached an IRC and my businesscard, and the reply arrived after 26 days in a handwritten envelope from Sig Jonsson, Naval Media Center, 235 Keflavíkurflugvöllur, Iceland - nearly the same address which is in WRTH2002 page 232 which I used for the report. The card is signed by the same person, probably with the full first name Sigdur which is Icelandic. In Danish it would have been Sigurd. On the rear side of the card is printed: Official Business. Department of the Navy Officer in Charge U. S. Navy Broadcasting Service Detachment EIGHT Box 25, Naval Station FPO New York 09571 Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. The following changes of AIR SW schedule has been monitored from today 31 March 2002 up to 1400 UT. HOME SERVICE 9575 replaces 9565 at 1330-1740 EXTERNAL SERVICE Add 5990 0100-0200 Sindhi to Pakistan. Add 7250 Panaji (?) Nepali 0130-0230 to Nepal. 9575 replaces 9565 1215-1330 Tibetan Add 11715 Nepali 0130-0230 to Nepal. 11775 Panaji replaces 11695 1215-1330 Tibetan, 1330-1430 Nepali. Add 11835 Panaji (?) Hindi 0315-0415 E.Africa 13685 replaces 13700 1000-1100 English to Australia (Jose Jacob, dx_india March 31 via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. IBC-TAMIL -- LONDAN A02-SCHDULE WITH EFFECT FROM 31-3- 02 EVENING UTC 0000-0100 17495 KHZ; MORNING UTC 1230-1330 11570 KHZ (D. PRABAKARAN, LECTUERER, N.L. POLYTECHNIC, METTUPALAYAM-641301, TAMILNADU, INDIA dx_india via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. The French-language WRN feed is now available on Telstar 5 digital, next to WRN1 and WRN2. No reference to this on WRN Web site (Mike Cooper, Mar 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sunday March 31, WRN1 to NAm was still running on standard time (as it should, but not made clear), so at 1400 UT had Prague, not WORLD OF RADIO. However, at 1500, fill music and ``technical difficulties`` for half an hour, when WOR could have been inserted, but it already ran this weekend on Sat at 1500. Next week, it is supposed to be on Sundays at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** IRAN. TEHRAN CUTS INTERNET ACCESS. Just days before the two-week Norouz (New Year) holiday, the Telecommunications Company of Iran (which is part of the Ministry of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone) cut the phone lines of scores of Internet service providers. Mohammad-Amir Forughi, a Tehran-based expert on the Internet, told RFE/RL's Persian Service that the ISPs would not be able to question the legality of this action because the courts will not be in session during the holiday period. When a number of Internet cafes were closed in May 2001 there was speculation that it was because young Iranians were using Internet cafes (also known as "coffee-nets") to make cheap international telephone calls, which deprives PTT of revenues. In August 2001, Iran's Supreme Cultural Revolution Council decided that the government would control Internet access and it made the Telecommunications Company and Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting the main Internet distribution centers. A December article in "Aftab-i Yazd" expressed regret that President Mohammad Khatami had signed the act restricting Internet usage by people under the age of 18. The act also restricts public access to some political websites, according to the article. The article asked if the next step would be the banning of radios, since Khatami was silent on the banning of satellite reception equipment. In addition to using the Internet for international calls, some people in Iran use Internet chat rooms to communicate in real time with their counterparts in other countries. Contributors to a Persian-language "weblog" (http://www.hoder.com/i/) agreed that the major newspapers -- "Iran" and "Kayhan" -- had published reports about the interruption of telephone service for ISPs. They offered conflicting views on the impact of this. "Ehsan," for example, said he would not be able to send his message if the reports were true, and "Sina" said that he had used several ISPs successfully. "Alireza" and others confirmed the report about the phone cuts but said it was being unevenly enforced. "Omid" said that so far there is no problem, but "God forbid if this happens." ("RFE/RL Iran Report," 25 March, via RFE/RL Media Matters March 29 via DXLD) ** IRAN. Glenn, Today terrible jamming noted against clandestine Voice of Iran station, in Persian. Scheduled 1630-1730 Daily on 15690 via Issoudun, France, \\ 17525. (reported to be via France on 3rd winter channel 12065, on 8-Jan-2002). On 15690 strong super-wide Bubble jamming, unbelievable 116 kHz wide, from 15631 to 15747 kHz affected. Seldom wide appearance in international broadcasting bands. On 17525 kHz channel only a small two-time motocycle type noise jamming observed. 73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, March 30, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 7480: On this frequency at *1759-1830* of March 17th and 18th I only heard Radio Payam-e-Doost with strong signal, clear identifications, web site address http://www.bahairadio.org and mail address with a Box in Virginia, USA. So, it's quite different from what I read on DX-Window 189 and 190. Unfortunately I wasn't able to turn on the radio before 1750 (Alessandro Groppazzi, Trieste, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) I checked up on this and I hear daily R. Barabari at *1659-1730* and R Payam-e Doost daily at *1800-1830*, both in Farsi, so the information that R. Barabari had prolonged its broadcasts until 1830 obviously was wrong. To me, it sounded like the same, powerful transmitter is used for both broadcasts, but is it located in Grigoropol` (Moldavia), Jerusalem (Israel) or Sitkunai (Lithuania)? All three have been mentioned recently (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** IRAQ [non]. 11660, Voice of Islamic Revolution of Iraq (from VOIRI, Iran), Mar 26, 0355-0526*, Arabic political talks about Iraq, Arab songs, ID's at 0400 and 0525, closed with a patriotic song about Iraq. 45344. Heard in parallel on 7100 with 32332. 9790 was covered by RFI QRM (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel until 1 July. Moshe phoned and stated that it will be necessary for new funds to be found in July in order for them to continue the broadcasts. Cheers (George Poppin, San Francisco, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. RAI, Italy March 31-Oct. 27, 2002 English schedule: 0055- 0115 N. America 9675, 11800; 0445-0500 Africa 7235, 9875; 1935-1955 Europe 5970, 9745; 2025-2045 Africa 9670, 11880; 2205-2230 Japan 11900, 15625. (from a RAI pamphlet e-mailed from Roberto Scaglione via Daniel Sampson, Prime Time Shortwave, http://www.triwest.net/~dsampson/shortwave/ DXLD) ** ITALY. A list of Italian broadcasting on short and mediumwave is on http://www.bclnews.it -- it is today updated every hour. I need to know about Italian broadcasting on MW in USA. Many thanks (Roberto Scaglione http://www.bclnews.it Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** LAOS. 4658.57, Lao National Radio (LNR), Houa Phan, Mar 04, 1157- 1230* in Laotian, at 1200-1229 relay of // 6130 from Vientiane. Local ID at s-off. Suffers co-channel QRM by a Chinese speaking station on 4658.8, also // 6130 suffers by co-channel Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet. LNR had some transmitter power problems, and also covered sometime by the Chinese signal. Chinese station // on nearby weak 6110 signal too. On Feb 19, China was on 4660 and 6130, and LNR Houa Phan was on 4660.8. At 1232* both 60 mb stations signed off (Roland Schulze, Philippines, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** LATVIA. UPDATE ON LATVIAN RADIO CHANGES Excerpt from report by Voice of Russia "DX Club" web site on 12 March Off to Latvia now. In front of me is a letter from Roland Straumal from Cesis district of this Baltic capital [Riga] (I quote):"... [ellipsis as published] Significant changes have recently taken place in local broadcasting. The first programme of Latvian radio in Lielauce in Dobele District is broadcast on 99.6 MHz and reception is good. Unfortunately, as of 4 January Latvian radio no longer broadcasts on mediumwave. It stopped broadcasting on 945 kHz despite the fact that the director-general of Latvian radio promised back in 2001 to continue mediumwave broadcasting for another four years at least. Incidentally, since the start of this year the first programme of Latvian radio is called Latvijas Radio Viens (which means Latvian radio -1). Since the beginning of January, Latvijas Radio-2 has been broadcasting from a new studio. What's more, its programmes are broadcast round the clock via transmitters in Cesvaine, Daugavpils and Rezekne. The second programme of Latvian radio - the Doma Square channel - is called Latvijas Radio Cetri Doma Laukums (Latvian radio-4 Doma Square) since 1 January. It broadcasts 24 hours a day but only via transmitters in Riga, Daugavpils and Rezekne, for the time being. The third programme of Latvian radio, Kfasika, since 1 January is called Latvijas Radio Tris Kfasika. It also operates 24 hours a day, but only in Riga, on 103.7 MHz. A new Riga transmitter has started to operate to relay plenary sittings of the Latvian parliament on 96.2 MHz. These programmes used to be broadcast on 945 kHz MW. [Passage omitted: in November last year Amadeus classical music radio stopped broadcasting]. A new radio station has appeared in Riga on 103.2 MHz, Radio Nova. It replaced Radio KNZ, a student radio station, which was warned by the national council for television and radio broadcasting after the replacement of its owner that its programmes did not correspond to its broadcasting plans - there were no news or information programmes. Source: Voice of Russia web site, Moscow, in Russian 12 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 6100, "Voice of Liberia" (so announced), 0630 Mar 19 with African music, mention of "Ambassadors of Music," upbeat anmts, greetings to lstnrs, ID 0641, TC, 0645 speech by female Reverend of United Methodist Church, African music again 0650, seemingly more brief religious speeches. TC 0656, music, ads 0657, TC 0700, more music, 0702 "Good morning from Monrovia, the news read by . . ." Signal a little fluttery, but not too bad overall (Jerry Berg, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. PRO-RAVALOMANANA RADIO STATION RAIDED | Excerpt from report by Malagasy independent newspaper L'Express de Madagascar on 25 March It was a very eventful weekend in Andapa [northern Madagascar], one of the districts of Sava, Antsiranana Province, where 10 individuals wearing military fatigues arrived in a Land-Rover on Friday [22 March] evening from Sambava [a port town in northeastern Madagascar that supports President Ratsiraka]. Early on Saturday morning, members of this commando unit raided a tiny pro-Ravalomanana [who has also declared himself to be president] private radio station where they took three people hostage before thoroughly thrashing them, according to witnesses on the ground. The group is then said to have left with its "prisoners" for Sambava at about 1000 [local time]. Faced with this situation, several high-ranking leaders of the local KMMR [Marc Ravalomanana's Support Committee] took precautions and hid themselves in the surrounding countryside. Fear amongst local residents must surely have climbed up a few notches when death threats were pasted, to be seen by all during the night of Saturday-Sunday, on doors of homes belonging to some Arema [ruling Association for the Rebirth of Madagascar party] leaders, including Senator Julien Rakoto, in what seemed to be a retaliatory action. In fact, for several weeks now, no effort towards any rapprochement or dialogue between the two warring camps [pro-Ravalomanana and pro- Ratsiraka camps] has taken place. Faced with this escalation of violence, which looked like it was headed for the worst, Senator Jean- Max Rakotomamonjy, representing Antsiranana Province (on a Leader Fanilo [Malagasy for "Torch"] party ticket), and a former Andapa mayor - under the same Leader Fanilo banner - yesterday morning took the initiative to invite local leaders and representatives of both camps to a meeting at his home. The meeting, which took place in the evening, at last saw the attendance of the Andapa deputy prefect, accompanied by his two deputies, the commandant of the local gendarmerie branch, the town police station's commandant, as well as prominent political leaders representing the two camps. Following a heated debate earlier on - the authorities present saying they had not been informed of the arrival of any commando unit - Senator Jean-Max Rakotomamonjy managed to make the participants see sense and a "non-aggression pact" was signed. According to the agreement, Arema leaders, who include Senator Julien Rakoto and the provincial council deputy chairman, Norbert Randroso, personally pledged, if necessary, to meet the Antsiranana provincial governor, as representatives of Sambava, and negotiate the release of the three "prisoners" who are KMMR members... Source: L'Express de Madagascar, Antananarivo, in French 25 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** MALI. ORTM Bamako appeared around 0805 UT on odd v9633.98 ... 9633.96, Vernacular news, also on \\ 11960.00 even (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAMIBIA. The only night frequency at the moment is 3270 (presumed 1700-0500) and the day one 6060 (presumed 0500-1700). Both frequencies (the same transmitter, I suppose) are quite undermodulated and the signals are much weaker than I would normally expect here. Could be that the last SW transmitter is on its way out? (Vashek Korinek, RSA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Hi Glenn, Please note that the English transmission to Europe and North America starting at 1030 UT ends at 1225, not 1125. Mea culpa. I will correct it ASAP (Andy Sennitt, RN, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. 45,650 MHz VHF, La Voix du Sahel, Niamey, Mar 20, 0900-1400, regularly heard in FM-modulation on this unusual frequency. This is a so-called STL (Studio-Transmitter Link), i.e. carrying the signal from the studios in Niamey to the transmitting centre outside the city. Worldwide low-band VHF reception is possible as a result of the present sunspot maximum (Maarten van Delft, Netherlands, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) Other Europeans frequently receiving it are equally convinced it is a semi-harmonic unintentionally radiated of 91.3 MHz (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Change in Okla. City frequencies: Greetings Glenn, WWLS 104.9 moves to 105.3 --- why, I don`t know; I can`t see the power is going to change any unless they like the Kingfisher transmitter being away from the OKC area to reach into the northern part of Oklahoma. I see on 1000000watts.com that the mile radius is 27.5 miles; I would appreciate your input on this. they have started announcing of the change today Saturday; I have not heard if 105.3 staff is moving to any place new (Bill Eckart, Mustang, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Can you tell me on what dates and times you will be broadcasting last year`s OK MOZART festival this spring?? Regards, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, to KCSC) Mr. Hauser: We'll be airing OK Mozart on Saturdays at 9:00 p.m. this year [0200-0400 UT Sundays]. The first broadcast will be April 13, and there are seven programs in the series this year. Thanks for listening, (Kent Anderson, KCSC-FM, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still don`t know about other usual outlets, KWGS Tulsa, and KOSU Stillwater; last year KCCU Lawton waited until May-June and then ran them consecutive days at 9 am. KCSC scheduling fits nicely into a gap between NY Philharmonic [non] Live broadcasts (gh, DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Terrible audio of R Pakistan Islamabad observed on 21465.00 EVEN !! at 0800 UT onwards, \\ EVEN 17520.00, lower strength, but better audio, what ever that mean... (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALESTINIAN MEDIA: GAZA TV CARRIES REPEATS, RAMALLAH RADIO OFF THE AIR Palestinian Satellite Channel Television in Arabic (Gaza), official television station of the Palestinian National Authority, has been observed since 2230 gmt on 29 March 2002 to carry a repeat of the programmes broadcast the previous night, focusing on the military situation in the Palestinian territories. Broadcast programmes consisted of newscasts, patriotic songs, phone calls from Palestinians praising the leadership of President Yasir Arafat, and demonstrations staged in Gaza in support of Arafat. Newscasts were carried at 0100 gmt in Arabic and O300 gmt on 30 March in English. An announcement urging Ramallah and Al-Birah citizens to donate blood for the wounded was repeated at 0242 gmt on 30 March. Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine in Arabic (Ramallah), official radio station of the Palestinian [National] Authority led by Yasir Arafat, is still off the air on its only FM frequency of 90.7 MHz. Wafa in Arabic, official news agency of the Palestinian National Authority, continues to carry reports on its web site, updating the situation in the PNA territories. Source: Voice of Palestine, Ramallah, in Arabic 29 and 30 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** PERU. 3375, R San Antonio de Padua de Callalli verified with a no data e-mail reply to 18 DX'ers from v/s Hno Rolando del Carpio Montalvo, Director. The reply took 23 days in response to a postal report with US$1.00 return postage. The v/s mentions the station is on the air 1000-1330 and 2200-0130. Rolando indicated a postal reply would be coming soon. His e-mail address is: san_antinio14@hotmail.com He gave the station's postal address as: Hno Rolando del Carpio Montalvo, Director, Radio San Antonio de Padua de Callalli, Apartado Postal 1817, Arequipa, Perú. I'm quite pleased with this one (Rich D'Angelo, PA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** PERU. 6956.73, R LV del Campesino, 0215, Mar 30, Andean folk music. As always, nice to hear this one. "Happy Birthday" theme music and station ID given @ 0215, through the static crashes. Then I guess Birthday greetings were made over the air by announcer (David Hodgson, TN, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Sign on and sign off times is a variable affair with some of the smaller Peruvians. If nonstop music is heard beyond "regular" schedule, it's probably that someone has paid for a couple of hours of "background music" for a private event, a birthday party, a wedding anniversary, or whatever. The next morning, such a station will typically sign on much later than usual, if at all (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, via Dxplorer, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Por sua vez, Isabel Saraiva (isabelsaraiva@r...), do Departamento de Intercâmbio e Contacto, informa que a RDP transmite, todas as segundas-feiras, o programa "DX Internet", dentro do Correio do Ouvinte. Vai ao ar por volta de 0025 UTC, em 13660 e 15295 kHz, freqüências especialmente destinadas ao Brasil (Célio Romais, @tividade DX Mar 28 via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. A RDP INTERNACIONAL E AS ONDAS CURTAS No dia 22 de março passado tivemos a oportunidade de estar presente ao evento promovido em S.Paulo, pela RDP Internacional, com a finalidade de informar o público brasileiro, sobre a entrada em junho de seu novo transmissor de 300 kW dirigido ao Brasil e a Europa, que melhorará signficamente o serviço em OC dessa emissora. Tivemos a oportunidade de entrevistar para o Encontro Dx o sr. Jaime Marques diretor da emissora, que gentilmente nos recebeu na Casa de Portugal. O sr Jaime informou que a emissora aposta muito ainda nas ondas curtas e por isso a RDP fez um grande investimento em transmissores e na modernização das antenas. No evento ele informou que o Brasil tem uma grande participação nas emissões da RDP e por isso a emissora fez esse evento em S.P e no RJ, as duas maiores cidades do Brasil. Informou ainda que a RDP Int. pode voltar a emitir em outros idiomas num futuro próximo. Lamentavelmente os únicos dexistas/radioescutas conhecidos no evento eramos nós, apesar da RDP Internacional ter enviado a convites para os que escrevem a emissora. Além do sr Jaime Marques esteve presente outras vozes da RDP como a locutora Elisa Portugal o presidente do Instituto Camões e diretores da Casa de Portugal. O show foi muito bonito, com a presença de 3 cantores e 3 cantoras que vieram especialmente para o evento que na verdade foi uma amostra do show que a RDP apresenta anualmente em uma grande cidade portuguesa que leva o nome de Festa das Comunidades Portuguesas. Estamos remetendo para o site do SRDXC uma hora desse show , e acreditamos que nossos amigos da Paraíba possam disponibiliza-los para os interessados. O Encontro DX apesar de já gravado para até o mês de abril, irá fazer o possível para colocar ainda em abril a entrevista do sr Jaime Marques no AR e um trecho do evento (que inclui as palavras das autoridades e parte musical). Acreditamos que os colegas que ouvem emissoras internacionais deveriam ter uma maior presença no evento da RDP Internacional, pois seu diretor falou muito bem dos ouvintes que escrevem para os programas e da importância das ondas curtas. Sabemos que ouvir a RDP Internacional não é dexismo, mas o apoio as grandes broadcasting é importante, pois ajuda a formar adeptos para o nosso hobby. Afinal a maioria dos "cobras" começam ouvindo as grandes broadcasting (Cassiano A. Macedo e José Moura, Mar 30, radioescutas via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. RRI English March 31 - October 26, 2002 North America 0200-0300 9 510 11 940 Japan 0200-0300 11 810 15 105 New Zealand 0200-0300 15 180 17 815 North America 0400-0500 9 510 11 940 India 0400-0500 17 735 21 480 North America 0600-0700 9 635 11 940 Western Europe 0637-0656 7 105 9 625 9 550 11 775 North-East Africa 0700-0800 21 530 Western Europe 1400-1500 15 250 17 735 Western Europe 1700-1800 15 380 17 805 Northern Europe 1700-1800 11 740 15 365 Western Europe 2100-2200 9 510 11 940 Northern Europe 2100-2200 9 725 11 740 Western Europe 2300-2400 9 570 11 775 North America 2300-2400 11 740 15 105 (RRI website March 31 via gh, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. A bad co-channel clash on 15270 kHz at 0800-0827 UT, two stations performing on same level, Romania is there 8-9 UT, and the other ... Romania in Romanian 0800-0900 on 15270 15370 17790 17860, and maybe also on a 5th channel too. Same Sunday special only program at 0900- 1000 on 15180 15250 17745 17790 17840 21490 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Estimados amigos: Les comunicamos que al entrar en el horario de verano por estas latitudes, a partir del 31 de marzo y hasta el 26 de octubre de este año, "La Voz de Rusia" tendrá el siguiente esquema para sus emisiones en español: Hacia España: 2030-2100 UT 11630 y 7440 kcs. Nota: Desde el 01.09.02 se agrega la frecuencia de 9480 kcs. Hacia Centroamérica: 0000-0100 UT 11750, 9830 y 9665 (hasta 01.09.02) kcs. Nota: Desde 01.09.02 en este primer horario se agrega la frecuencia de 7180 kcs. 0100-0200 UT 9830 kcs. Hacia Sudamérica: 0000-0100 UT 12060, 12010 (hasta 01.09.02), 11510, 9965, 9860, 9830, 9480, 9450 (hasta 01.09.02) y 7330 kcs. 0100-0200 UT 12010, 11510, 9965, 9945, 9860, 9830, 9450 y 7330 kcs. Nota: desde 01.09.02, se agregan 9890 y 9470 kcs. en ambos bloques horarios. Agradeciendo su atención, les saluda muy cordialmente (Francisco Rodríguez "Frecuencia RM" LA VOZ DE RUSIA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. PUNISHMENTS FOR SPEAKING BAD RUSSIAN ON THE WAY? A special government council on the Russian language is preparing a draft law that may include fines for incorrect use of the mother tongue, gazeta.ru reported on 27 March. Education Minister Vladimir Filippov said the bill will be modeled on similar legislation in France. He said the council has asked a group of academics to contact media executives and editors to inform them about correct Russian usage. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 27 March via RFE/RL Media Matters March 29 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 11840-USB, R Sakhalin: From continued monitoring it now appears that their own program is 0900-1000 daily except Sunday; they break away from R Rossii (// 13705) at 0900 and pick it up again at 1000. Program is usually music and telephone talk. Finally got positive ID on Mar 22 (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) Now shift all that one UT hour earlier for DST, right? (gh, DXLD) ** SIKKIM. INDIA. 3390, AIR Gangtok, Mar 12, 1430-1500, English program with pops. Today the theme was "Old is Gold" with songs from Elvis, etc. English ID at 1430 announcing MW and SW (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** SOUTH AMERICA. PIRATE Radio Cochiguaz 11440 KHz USB March 31 0010 UTC relay of German pirate Radio Metropolis. SINPO 24332.Had transmitter problems, will try to return at 0400 (e-mail from operator) (Wade Smith, New Brunswick) Hi Glen, Radio Metropolis (Pirate??) copied here in NF... 31/03/02 - 0049 UT - 11440 KHz USB - Location given as somewhere in the Andes - music and then man gave station ID and reception report address (Europe) in phonetic alphabet. Signal was low but very clear with no IF. SIO 344 Regards, (Vernon Matheson - VO1VM RX - Kenwood TS450 ANT - Gap Vertical and 500' longwire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear friends of Cochiguaz, Our signal was put on 11440U kHz as usual. But, between 0028-0041 and also after 0114 the transmission was interrupted for a technical problem with our transmitter, but, fortunately now, after 0200 the problem was resolved. We will return as usual at 0400 31/3 with our programme relaying to Radio Metropolis with our usual power. Meantime, we inform you that our signal was heard in USA and Canada by recent reports received. FFFR, (Cachito, Radio Cochiguaz ,11440U khz http://www.geocities.com/rcochiguaz hard- core-dx via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. We gave up trying to second-guess what RUI will do as DST starts; English at 0100 should have moved to 0000 UT March 31, but instead we heard German at 0000; but English was not at 0100 either; instead, Ukrainian on the webcast, and also on 12040 ex-7375, which at least we were able to confirm at 0116; no big signal here for a megawatt, with adjacent 12045 stronger. So English apparently got elbowed out. What would happen at 0400/0300 UT? By 0300 the shift had been made and English was airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Expect major programming changes to BBCWS in the coming days following the death of the Queen Mother. BBC1 television has suspended normal programmes. 73, (Andy Sennitt, RN, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, at the risk of having a few tomatoes tossed my way, this appears to be a little "over the top". I mean it's nearly a six hour radio vigil at this point. Before anyone jumps on me, I realize fully the respect and love this woman commands--and deservedly so. But she was 101 years old and had been in declining health for some time. It's hardly a shock and not a "tragedy" in the hardest sense of the word. The WS has gone out of its way NOT to cover the UK in any signficant way over the recent past, and now it suspends regular programming to "analyze" the death of a 101 year old woman. I agree that some special programming is warranted, but this seems out of all proportion. One man's opinion...your mileage may vary (John Figliozzi, swprograms Mar 30 via DXLD) I remember getting a tour of Bush House (from a friend of mine that worked there about 10 years ago) and we were talking to the continuity announcer who was on duty that day. He was showing me the huge black binders underneath the control desk which were bio and background info on the major members of the Royal Family (including the Queen Mother.) He said that the informal mantra amongst the on-air folks in regards to a Royal death was "please, dear god, not on MY shift!" 73 (Maryanne Kehoe, GA, swprograms via DXLD) Yes, there was a long debate at the 100th (and before) of how much the BBC should do about this royal death and for how long. Many would just like to take notice and throw her in the bin, but the powers are of that era and class so it goes on, at Easter too. We may see a proper backlash by Monday. The Anti-royal Guardian news paper has some good articles about the prospects for coverage of Queen Mother's death and reactions. Try, for example, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4234038,00.html Crown imperious As the professional royal mourners prepare, is anybody paying attention any more? by Nick Cohen The Observer (London) Sunday August 5, 2001 (Daniel Say, BRITISH Columbia, swprograms via DXLD) I flicked through the channels last night - BBC2, BBC4, BBC5, BBC6, BBC WS and BBCWS Extra were all carrying the same programme. Why? BBCTV and BBC5 didn't feel able to cover the Lottery draw. Why? With all the years that they have been planning this the coverage was pathetic. There was nothing to suggest why she should be regarded as significant - her achievements seem to be that she pioneered the supposedly touchy feely Royal Family that we have now (and isn't that where their problems started?), and she was a big supporter of National Hunt racing. And this being the BBC we only got half the story. No mention of the King and Queen's wholehearted support for the disastrous policy of appeasement. And as for the wartime walkabouts and the remark that she could "look the East End in the eye" - well that would only be true if the whole East End had also decamped to Windsor and safety every night. The domestic coverage (I only listened to WS for about 20 minutes) also featured the usual suspects wheeled out on every Royal occasion - Dickie Arbiter, Ronald Allison (who ARE they?) and Stevas (less visible since his job as cheerleader for Charles's marriage become redundant). The impression given, rightly or wrongly, is that only a very few elderly people actually care about the Windsors. Perhaps that is true. Now it may well be the case that the Queen Mum was a wonderful person fully deserving of being mourned, but from the BBC's partial and fawning coverage, who can tell? (Nicholas Mead, UK, ibid.) ** U K. Re "I kept hearing this headline on BBC news. ``Placed in administration`` means nothing to me as a North American. Is that an euphemism? Going bust is the cause or effect? I guess like we would say, being in the hands of a receiver running it (gh, DXLD)" Glenn-- It's the Brit version of "in bankruptcy," but I don't know enough about their system to know if it's the equivalent of Chapter 7 (liquidation) or Chapter 11 (continuing to operate under the control of the court). Regards, (Chuck Albertson, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. COMEDIAN BARRY TOOK DIES Sunday, 31 March, 2002, 11:07 GMT 12:07 UK Took helped write radio comedy Round the Horne Comedian and scriptwriter Barry Took has died aged 73. Took, who helped create classic radio comedy Round the Horne, had been suffering from cancer and died in his sleep at a nursing home in London. Took was behind a number of TV and radio shows He was a successful TV and radio presenter, hosting Points of View and panel games including The News Quiz. He died in the early hours of Easter Sunday, according to his youngest daughter, Elinor Holbrook. Took, also responsible for bringing the Monty Python team to the BBC, recently said: "There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old." He will be remembered with fondness for his sense of humour, Mrs Holbrook, 33, said. He was always funny, he had a great sense of humour "He was taken ill in December last year. I was with him yesterday and he wasn't too good at all," she said. He died at 0550 BST, she said, remembering her father by saying: "He was always funny, he had a great sense of humour." Took started his career as a stand-up comedian, but soon formed a writing partnership with Marty Feldman, who he had met while performing at a variety show at the old York Empire. The pair were the main writers on Round the Horne, the 1960s radio show that continued the comedy tradition started by The Goons. It starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. Took also wrote a number of other radio shows, later moving to television with comedies including Bootsie and Snudge, which starred Alfie Bass and Clive Dunn. He became the voice of viewers when presenting TV's Points of View, and chaired BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. In it, he kept the panel in order and the show proved such a success that it provided the basis for TV's Have I Got News For You? Took is survived by three other children - Mrs Holbrook's half-brothers Barry, 50, and David, 40, and her half-sister Susan, 46. ©2002 BBC News Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1903000/1903696.stm Glenn, I recall listening to "Round The Horne" on BBC WS back in the late '60s. 73, (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA will use 19000 kHz for an Uzbek program at 1230-1300 beginning 3/31. First VOA use of the band. df k4voa (Dan Ferguson, DC, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Site??? ** U S A. WEBCASTS' INNOCENT AGE COULD COME TO A QUICK END From: http://www.cleveland.com/ 03/29/02 Fed up and feeling himself getting old in a young industry, Chuck Benjamin left the computer business at age 50 to devote full time to his longtime avocation of music. He wound up with a foot in both fields. These days, it gives him an unusual understanding of how ruthless both can be. Tuesday nights at 7:30, Benjamin broadcasts "The Innocent Age" on WELW AM/1330 in Willoughby. Drawing from his collection of every record on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1955, he specializes in music that listeners missed, or haven't heard in decades. He interviews artists, giving special attention to those the business forgot, and he takes requests. "I don't want to let the memories die," he said. "I think, as a society, we lost romanticism in the 1980s. I think it has survived in music, but you have to look hard to find it. All I want to do is help people go back to another time, when they didn't have a care in the world." By night, "The Innocent Age" reaches a comparative handful of eastern suburban communities. But because WELW simulcasts on the Internet, at welw.com, Benjamin has heard from listeners as far away as Australia. That's not unusual. Growing numbers of listeners find that "Internet radio" offers more than 10,000 outlets, from Net-only operations to simulcasts of over-the-air stations, and that it delivers an astounding variety of choices filling every conceivable niche - including those abandoned by corporate-controlled conventional radio. Benjamin, who also is the host of a weekly computer show on WELW, saw his future in radio on the Internet. But the future could end in a few weeks. Unless Congress gets involved and acts quickly, Internet radio will be killed in its infancy. The public interest - already reeling from a merger frenzy that has left control of entertainment and news in a very few corporate hands - will take another kick in the teeth. Here's why: In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, supposedly to update copyright law for e-commerce. A goal was to protect recording artists from the threat of "perfect digital copies" of their work trading for free on the Net. To make up for their lost income, the DMCA required Webcasters to pay royalties to record companies, in addition to royalties they pay songwriters. (Broadcast stations, in contrast, only pay royalties to songwriters. Congress decided about 75 years ago that performers and labels weren't entitled to royalties because of the promotional value of radio airplay.) A basic problem is that Internet radio - unlike Napster or various file-swapping operations - doesn't provide "perfect digital copies." Webcasts, like radio broadcasts, tend to serve more as a promotional spur for CD sales - often helped by direct links on Internet radio sites. "It's not close to good, let alone perfect," Benjamin said. "Most of them sound a little on the tinny side. You're limited by bandwidth." A bigger problem is that fee negotiations broke down between big record companies and loose-knit Webcasters. So a panel convened by the U.S. Copyright Office came up with a recommendation that Internet-only Webcasters pay labels 14 cents per song per listener for what they play. Simulcasting broadcasters would pay 7 cents per song per listener. Noncommercial simulcasters, like public or college stations, would pay 2 cents per song per listener. Over a year, a Webcaster averaging 100 listeners a day would owe $500,000. But the panel also recommended making the fees retroactive to 1998, and added record-keeping requirements that are a burden in themselves. It will be a real killing for record labels if the recommendations take effect as scheduled on May 20. Internet radio will die before even turning a profit. Webcasters, working through sites such as SaveInternetRadio.com, radiocrow.com and wcsb.org are urging listeners to write Congress. "I don't mind paying a fee, as long as it's realistic," Benjamin said. "But it's not like the artists would see a nickel of this anyway. It's just the big record companies. It's just plain blatant greed." © 2002 The Plain Dealer. Used with permission (via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U S A. DUELING ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS ON CBS, NBC Continuing TV's current nostalgia craze --- and apparently hoping to take a little air out of similar festivities on NBC--CBS has scheduled the two-hour special "CBS ... 50 Years From Television City" for April 27, the first Saturday during the next ratings sweeps. NBC's three- hour 75th anniversary special, which will range from the network's beginnings in radio to the present day, is scheduled for May 5. The CBS program will be hosted by Carol Burnett, whose special during November drew blockbuster ratings. Among the other blasts from the past scheduled for sweeps, which begin April 25, NBC has an "L.A. Law" reunion movie, a Bob Hope special, a 10th anniversary special for "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and a reunion of cast members from "The Cosby Show." NBC also will support its programming with a book, "Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC," to be issued in mid-April. ABC, meanwhile, will trot out a "Laverne and Shirley" special and an "American Bandstand" 50th anniversary show. ABC has canceled the critically acclaimed drama "Once and Again," announcing that the final episode will air April 15. Now in its third season, the low-rated program has bounced around the network schedule and been the subject of an Internet lobbying campaign (LA Times via Brock Whaley, March 30, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY'S REGIONAL ANALYSIS GOES ONLINE. Regional Analysis proudly presents our new website: http://www.regionalanalysis.org Log on for an in-depth look at all of RFE/RL's broadcast regions, read "RFE/RL Newsline" and 15 weekly analytical reports, and follow our briefings and roundtable discussions with policymakers and scholars (RFE/RL Media Matters March 29 via DXLD) ** VANUATU. At the end of November 2001 I visited the headquarters of Radio Vanuatu while on holiday in Port Vila. The transmitter site is on Emten Lagoon about 5 kilometres south east of Port Vila. The site houses a transmitter building containing two short wave and one medium wave transmitter and their associated antennas. The programmes are broadcast on short wave from a 10kW two channel Energy Onix Broadcast Transmitter Model HF-10K-2 tuned to 4960 and 7260. The signal is fed via coaxial cable to dipole antennas directed north and south to the islands in the group. 7260 is principally used from 1900 until 0600 hours, switching to 4960 at 0600 until the end of the transmission at 1115 (Sundays 1000). If one of the channels develops a fault, as happened while I was there, the other frequency acts as the standby. There is a standby transmitter tuned to 3945 kilohertz, but this is currently out of service because of shortage of spare parts to make it operational, and the date for its return to service is unknown (George Brown, Scotland, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 5975, ZBC, Mar 13 and 15, 2030-2300, booming in with African Music, 2055 ID and news in Shona or Ndebele by man at 2100 (Korinek, RSA and Vaghjee, Mauritius, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) 6045, ZBC, Mar 15, 2200-2300, Shona and Ndebele (Korinek, ibid.) 6175, ZBC, Mar 15, 2200-2300, heard only that day. IDs as ``National Radio``. (Korinek) New frequency ? (Ed Anker Petersen, ibid.) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. 7120, Voice of the People, via Talata, Madagascar, Mar 23, *0330-0430. Brief instrumental music and English ID. Signal surprisingly about even with co-channel RFE-RL in Armenian, but audio a little low. Following the results of the presidential election, station intends to continue this extra transmission which started early March., but with difficulty. As hoped, RFE-RL went off at 0357, but Voice of the People was much weakened by then and at 0400 got lost in the spillover between VOA 7115 and Voice of Russia 7125, both strong. I did hear a quick VoP ID (:33) and mention of Zimbabwe (:36) in the 0330 mix. Heard again Mar 24 when RFE-RL was much weaker due to poor propagation, but this time Voice of the People went right into introduction music and "Good morning and welcome to the program 'Let's Talk' . . ," without any real ID. Weakened quickly this night. (Jerry Berg, MA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6715 USB, mystery station (cf. DX-Window no. 189, 190). The Korean speaking religious station was operating Wednesday Mar 13 at 2112 and Sunday Mar 17 at 1940 (on air already) until sudden off 2018. This is a strange one (Green, UK and Groppazzi, Italy, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) On Friday Mar 15 I checked this frequency at about 2130 and there was nothing at all. At recheck at 2205 it was booming in. Perhaps it signs on around 2200 on Fridays? (Vashek Korinek, RSA, DSWCI DX Window Mar 27 via DXLD) 6715, UNID Korean Religious Station, 2302-2336* Mar 29, first time hearing what others have been reporting. Generally poor signal with talks and religious vocals with broadcast terminated during a piano instrumental (Rich D'Angelo, PA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Some A-02 observations. Hi Everyone, just came across an UNID Persian language station on 7300 kHz at 0930 UT. Not DW sce 9- 930. Will check it further. Music and freq selection looks like Bulgaria, but latest schedule sent out by Ivo doesn't fit such a Persian service from Sofia (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-050, March 29, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. 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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO #1124: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.html NEXT AIRINGS ON WWCR: Sat 0600, Sun 0330 on 5070; Sun 0730, Mon 0100, 0600 on 3210; Wed 1030 on 9475 FIRST AIRINGS ON RFPI: Fri 1930, Sat 0130, 0730, 1330, 1800, 2400 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB AIRINGS ON WORLD RADIO NETWORK: Sat 0900 to rest of world; 1500 to NAm CONTINENT OF MEDIA 02-02 is now available: (STREAM) http://www.DXing.com/com/com0202.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.DXing.com/com/com0202.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0202.html ON RFPI: Fri 1900, Sat 0100, 0700, 1300, 1730, 2330, Sun 0530, 1130, Tue 2000, Wed 0200, 0800, 1400 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE ANTICIPATED FROM APRIL 7, 2002 Those who need this info in advance may now find it along with the current schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 8700 Information Radio, Diego García [sic], March 23 1535, 24222, Unidentified Male talk and local music, very weak signal rather than before. It seemed same program style as a month ago (Kazunori Watanabe, Tokyo, Japan Premium via DXLD) Here in Japan, there is nothing on 8700 today at 1355 now. But I heard it on 23 March 1535-1715. It seemed same program syle as a month ago (Kazunori Watanabe, Tokyo, Japan, March 28, hard-core-dx via DXLD) I listened to 8700 for some time early this morning (Thursday) around 0100. The programme consisted of the usual fare, modern Afghan pops and the occasional message in a local language. The only difference from the previous activity on this frequency was that the signal now consisted of USB plus CARRIER. This transmission actually was listenable in the AM mode. Reception was weak, in part due to a racket maker on the lower side (8702 silent at that time). At 1715 today (Thursday) there is a weak carrier on 8700, but the digital ute on 8702 is obliterating any possible audio. Today it's almost spring-like in Härnösand with 15 degrees above, but much of the winter snow remains, and can be expected to stay for another two or three weeks. The hours of daylight now are from 5 am to 7 pm, local time. Best 73's for now (Olle Alm, Sweden, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. I just found a picture which apparently shows the transmitter hall at Cërrik: http://www.transmitter.be/chi-gd5056.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 7217, New frequency? National Radio, Luanda, Good Reception at 2100 March 27 with program in English (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, hard-core-dx via DXLD) Yes, first heard here on 15/3 with French at 2000, measured at 7216.8 on that day. Seems to replace 7245 (Craig Seager, Bathurst, Australia, ibid.) ** ANTARCTICA. Friday, March 29, on 15475.55, station with LA ballads, announcements at 2120, 2140, and ID at 2200, LRA36? On later than usual; went off around 2215 (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listening to his ID tape over the phone, I was almost convinced I heard ``LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel Gabriel....`` and definitely concluding as the music faded up, ``...para todo el mundo.`` (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ANTIGUA. DEUTSCHE WELLE 3RD HARMONIC ON 10 METER AMATEUR BAND Glen[n], I was casually tuning the 10 Meter amateur band at approximately 7 PM CST 3/27/2002 (0100 3/28/2002 UT) on 29 MHz looking for amateur AM activity and was surprised to hear the musical tones of Deutsche Welle on 29.100 MHz. I monitored the programming until 7:45 PM. This apparent 3rd harmonic of 9.7 MHz (Antigua) mirrored the programming thereon. Signal levels were s9+. The receiving equipment here is a Yaesu FT1000MP and a Collins 51J-4. Antennas are a Cushcraft R7 amateur vertical (base at 15') and a 60' wire (at 15') with an antenna tuner. Signal levels were comparable on both setups on both frequencies. As a reality check, I contacted John Kaufmann by land line, K9KEU who lives about 20 miles to the south of me (Willowbrook, IL) and he verified reception of the 29.1 MHz DW signal (Frank J. Mercurio, Schaumburg, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, 3rd harmonics from 9 MHz broadcast stations fall all over the 10m hamband; if more hams tuned in AM, they might be encountered more often (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. DST ends in SE Australia this weekend, and some program changes affect R. Australia. Grandstand, sporting coverage, will run at 0200-0800 on Sat and Sun [certain frequencies only, I believe --- gh]; Australia All Over gets reduced by an hour local Sunday mornings, UT Sat 2000-2145. There is an additional half-hour version of Bush Telegraph, M-F at 1130. And in the local mornings and evenings, news on the half hour is being added at many times (John Westland, RA Feedback March 30, notes by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BENIN. R. Benin, 7210.27, March 23 2230-2303* French talk, YL announcer, phone talk, variety of Afro-pops, French and US pops. S/off with NA, Fair. And March 24 *0556-0615+, s/on with local drums. NA at 0557 and vernacular talk followed. 0600 French ID, talk. Variety of local pops, US and French pops. Good. This on UT Sunday. I believe s/on is around 0500 on weekdays (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 4820, R. Botswana, 3/24 0255 Cowbell and mooing IS for 5 minutes followed by man in language. Haven't checked for this one in a while. One of my favorite IS (Dave Tomasko, Downers Grove, IL, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ** CAMEROON [non]. See MADAGASCAR ** CANADA. Thanks for the heads-up re the strike at CBC's French network. It's giving me the chance to hear some nice French vocal music without interruption via CJBC on 860. They even skipped the ID at 0400 UT, but they're doing quite well on a naked CC Radio here in Minneapolis. At about 0413, March 28, (i.e. Thursday evening local), they played an ID which began simply: Ici Radio Canada. The twist is that "Canada" was pronounced as in English, as if to make a point. Then, in good French, they continued, "La premiere chaîne vous propose une selection de musique..." etc., etc. (Max G. Swanson, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Glenn, This from today's Toronto Sun: http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/dunford_mar28.html March 28, 2002 IT JUST AIN'T JAZZ --- WHY RADIO VET TED O'REILLY QUIT By GARY DUNFORD -- Toronto Sun T.O's EXIT: "Who do you listen to for jazz in Toronto if not Ted O'Reilly" asks musicman Rob McConnell. An odd and public question, since he asked it on-air yesterday of O'Reilly himself. The radio vet wrapped his amazing, 37-year-run at CJRT -- re-branded as JAZZFM91 -- with yesterday's show. The station says O'Reilly retired. Ted says he quit. What's the difference? "The difference is, I don't want to work there any more," he says. "It's 37 years next Monday, and for about 35 of those years I loved working there. There was a community of purpose, a place that was dedicated to really good stuff -- and now it's another commercial radio station. It sounds like CHFI; it sounds like EZ-Rock." That's not a harsh judgment. To a listener, the broader sweep of JAZZFM91's increasingly formatted playlist is jazz without edge. Hummable. Upbeat. All-day audio wallpaper. Call letters out of music. Call letters into music. Cups. Contests. Promotions. "It's mainly the music," O'Reilly says of his exit. "The new program director accused me of playing music with too much improvising in it. That's bad when you're at a jazz station. They want music that people will turn on and leave on, in the background. They don't want anybody getting excited or angry." No surprises. ' Manipulation In short, JAZZFM91 aims to do for jazz what Classical96 does for the classics. Manipulate a music genre to offer a safe, attractive, one- stop for people in full flight from charted pop, rap and crap du jour. Offer melodies you know. Guitars. Standards. Diva vocalists. Keyboards. Lifestyle earfood. As the station actually calls it, Dinner Jazz. "Jazz is supposed to be a personal music and they're de-personalizing it," O'Reilly says. "They'll say this is what jazz is today. I don't think that's true. There's no reason why you can't play Louis Armstrong or Jellyroll Morton beside John Coltrane." Unless you're afraid they'll put distinctive thumbprints on the clean, portion-controlled plates of carefully selected dinner music entrees. "I'm tired of the uphill flight to keep what I think is good jazz on the air," O'Reilly says. "When you go to the absolute softest side of jazz music and take only that, then toss in other artists who aspire to be jazz artists, is it truly jazz?" Does Sting get airplay because he once hired Branford Marsalis? Does Frank Sinatra make the cut because he's kinda like jazz? As a teen O'Reilly was hooked by Miles Davis and big band swing. After graduating from Ryerson, he had radio gigs in Kitchener and Brampton, then joined CJRT in 1965. The station had 150 jazz LPs. Today it has 15,000, plus 12,000 CDs. It's the music library he says he'll miss most. In 37 years, Ted produced and recorded 250 concerts for broadcast, interviewed Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Mingus. He's produced albums for jazz labels, written for magazines, been the go-to guy for local musicians seeking promotion and support. He admits jazz is his religion, his calling. "They play jazz by the pound," says O'Reilly, whose concerts-for- broadcast and pointed interviews with players defined his run. "Put that piece in the computer, let the computer check the repetition factor ... the aim is daytime listening at the office." Bigger slice Indeed, JAZZFM91's determination to cut itself a bigger slice of Toronto's radio pie is raising eyebrows in broadcast circles. The "membership-supported" station runs pledge drives but also sells commercial advertising. Increases in listenership come at the ratings and ad expense of commercial rivals. Licensed to serve a minority taste, it aims at the majority. "I'm surprised Ted Rogers hasn't asked why he can't issue charitable tax receipts too," one wag jokes. Oddly, during JAZZ91 pledge drives, the titles most often requested by listeners are distinctive jazz classics, often by "dead guys" and farthest in spirit from the tuneful wash of the "soft jazz" that fills new release schedules. "I have resigned, but not retired," O'Reilly told listeners last night after spinning his favourite, 12-minute version of Jeepers Creepers, unlikely to be playlisted again. "'Til I speak with you again sometime, somewhere ... think nice thoughts." If you say so, Ted. But as one of those listeners with a JAZZFM91 charitable receipt in hand, I ain't thinkin' them this morning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (© 2002 Gary Dunford, Toronto Sun, via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) Glenn, I recall listening to Ted's nightly "Jazz Scene" program from 10PM-1AM on CJRT-FM, back in the '70s & '80s. His voice was just perfect for that time of night! 73, Ivan http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1017270068308&call_page=TS_Letters&call_pageid=968332189003&call_pagepath=News/Letters (Ivan Grishin, DXLD) Mention of Ted O'Reilly in the middle of this jazz column. It sounds similar to what happened to Rukeyser, but not as extreme. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1017183667944&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News (Ivan Grishin, DXLD) ** CHINA. Voice of Strait. According to the reply from the station, the transmitting schedule is as follows: News and Politics Channel: 6115 kHz 2225-1700 UT (Wed 1000-1700) Literary and Life Channel: 7280 kHz 2225-1700 UT (Wed 1000-1700) Amoy Language Channel: 4940 kHz 2225-1700 UT (Wed 1000-1700) (via Ogino, Cumbre DX March 28 via DXLD) See recent report of 6115 with some English ** CHINA [non]. CLANDESTINE? from TAIWAN to CHINA. 15388 and 13750: New Star Broadcasting Station Channels 2 and 5 respectively. Heard at 1010 and 1110 March 29. Numbers transmission at TOH. After the transmission, there is a short pause before music start up and message in plain Mandarin by YL announcer, "We thank you for listening to our program. To enable the latest news to be delivered to you, the sponsoring organisation has requested us to solicit entries on the manufacturing of mpeg systems. Fees will be given for articles used. Submit your articles to w2798@hotmail.com or by post to P. O. Box 12587, Taipei. Thank you for listening." Some popular theme music follows. There is of course, no mention of what the sponsoring organisation is (Richard Lam, Singapore, Cumbre DX via DXLD) First time I have ever seen any kind of contact information for this one. (Cumbre Ed.) ** COSTA RICA. RFPI missing from 7445 around 0730 (Chris Hambly, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also missing earlier UT March 29 but 21815- USB audible past 0200. Hope it is just down for the long delayed antenna hoisting; 7445-USB back at 0307 UT check March 30 (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. Glenn: concerning Fidel Castro's prodigal daughter's radio broadcasts from Miami. Ms. Alina Fernández is hosting a show titled Simplemente, Alina! on WQBA 1140 AM, 11.00 pm to 1.00 am EST [what days, local M-F?? currently 0400-0600 UT, soon 0300-0500]. Actually, she is not mentioned in a station's on-line schedule yet. - Her show is only 6 weeks old. So I had to call WQBA to find out her time slot. WQBA has both RealAudio and a webcam. But getting a live audio feed takes some extra clicks and a short registration. To listen, go to http://www.netmio.com/radio/wqba/listen/ and then push "power" button on a radio receiver image. To watch, go to http://www.netmio.com/radio/wqba/webcams/webcam43_en.html (Sergei Sosedkin, IL, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TALK RADIO IN MIAMI HAS A NEW VOICE: CASTRO'S DAUGHTER Marina Jiménez, National Post, March 27 Miami's hottest new radio talk show host is a perfect match for the city's large and vociferous Cuban community, routinely criticizing the Communist regime and the ageing dictator at its helm. But Alina Fernández isn't just another embittered Cuban exile. She is the daughter of Fidel Castro, a relationship that has brought her neither power nor fortune, and one she never mentions on air. Listeners just know. Simplemente, Alina!, broadcast Monday through Friday on WQBA-AM, is run on a shoe-string and though it can be heard in Cuba she doubts her father has ever listened to it. "I don't think so. He doesn't have so much time to waste," she laughs in a throaty voice during an interview from her home in Miami's Little Havana. Ms. Fernández, 46, escaped from Cuba eight years ago disguised as a Spanish tourist and later wrote a book about being the daughter of Mr. Castro. She sees her six-week-old show as an effort to re-establish the institutional memory of her generation. Full article at: http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020327/462641.html (via Sergei Sosedkin, IL, DXLD) ** DUCIE ISLAND. Ducie Island DXpedition is a wrap: The inaugural VP6DI DXpedition to the newest DXCC entity has come to an end. A 2.5- square-mile atoll, Ducie was approved for DXCC credit last November, but it took three trips, many months of planning and a big budget to make this operation a reality. The DXpedition was sponsored by the Pitcairn Island Amateur Radio Association. The VP9DI team was on the air for just over nine days, logging something on the order of 40,000 contacts. The crew was reported heading for Henderson Island (OC-056), anticipating arrival March 27. Team members will operate for approximately 24 hours using their individual call signs. Look for VP6BK/JA1BK, VP6XX/JF1IST, VP6AJ/K9AJ, VP6VT/K5VT, VP6TC, VP6DB, and VP6MW. According to the pilot stations, QSLs for Henderson Island and /mm QSOs go to the individual operators. VP6DI HF QSLs go via VE3HO, and 6-meter QSLs go to JA1BK. On-line log is available at http://www.big.or.jp/~ham/VP6DI but not all contacts have been posted. More information is available on PIARA`s DXpedition to Ducie March 2002 Web site (The Daily DX via ARRL March 27 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** FRANCE. Radio France Int'l schedule from March 30 to Africa. 0400-0430 M-F 11910, 11995; 0500-0530 M-F 11685, 15155, 17800; 0600-0630 M-F 11710, 17800, 21620; 0700-0800 M-F 15605; 1200-1230 15540ga, 25820; 1400-1500 11610, 17620; 1600-1700 11995ga, 12015ga, 17605; 1600-1730 11615, 15605 (RFI website via Daniel Sampson, WI, Prime Time Shortwave, http://www.triwest.net/~dsampson/shortwave/) ** HAWAII. My NZDXT item referring to the transmitter actually being atop Mt Haleakala was a misreading of the original item. The same storm which produced snow atop Mt Haleakala also brought high winds which resulted in an outage which knocked KNUI-AM off air for a week. Reception in the Pacific NW since clearly indicates KNUI is now back to full power, and indeed, is putting out an enhanced signal (David Ricquish, Wellington, New Zealand, March 28, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** HONG KONG. Don't forget about the special broadcasts for the yacht race. 3940 at 0945 and 2345 (Hans Johnson, Mar 28, Cumbre DX via DXLD) How could we forget? It`s on the WOR MONITORING REMINDERS calendar... ** HUNGARY: Updated A-02 Schedule for Radio Budapest eff. March 31: Croatian to Eu 0400-0413 Daily 6025 2000-2013 Daily 6025 English to Eu 1900-1928 Daily 6025 7130 2100-2128 Daily 3975 6025 English to NoAm 0100-0128 Daily 9560 0230-0258 Daily 9570 German to Eu 1200-1258 Sun 6025 7220 1400-1458 Sun 6025 9850 1700-1758 Sun 5970 6025 1730-1758 Mon-Sat 3975 6025 1930-1958 Mon-Sat 3975 6025 French to Eu 0430-0443 Daily 6025 7165 2015-2028 Daily 6025 7235* (*) ex 9755 Hungarian to Eu 0500-1058 Sun 6025 (relay HS-1 Kossuth R) 0500-1558 Mon-Sat 6025 (relay HS-1 Kossuth R) 1100-1158 Sun 6025 1300-1358 Sun 6025 1800-1858 Daily 3975 6025 2200-2258 Daily 6025 Hungarian to NoAm 0000-0058 Daily 9800 0130-0228 Daily 9570 2000-2058 Daily 17690 Hungarian to SoAm 2200-2258 Daily 11755* 15455 (*) ex 9730 2300-2358 Sun 11755* 15455 (*) ex 9730 Hungarian to AUS 1100-1158 Sun 21560 2100-2158 Daily 15195 Italian to Eu 0445-0458 Daily 6025 7165 2030-2043 Daily 6025 11755* (*) ex 6170 2130-2143 Daily 6025 11885 Russian to Eu 0300-0328 Daily 3975 6025 1530-1558 Sun 6025 9575 1700-1728 Mon-Sat 6025 9575 1930-1958 Sun 6025 9575 Romanian to Eu 0345-0358 Daily 6025 1500-1513 Sun 6025 1615-1628 Daily 6025 Serbian to Eu 1645-1658 Daily 6025 Slovak to Eu 0415-0428 Daily 6025 1630-1643 Daily 6025 Spanish to Eu/SoAm 2045-2058 Daily 6025 6145 2145-2158 Daily 6025 11885 Ukrainian to Eu 0330-0343 Daily 3975 6025 1600-1613 Daily 6025 9575 (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 29, via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. AIR band scan 17OO-1725 UT in Finland Hi Glenn. I checked this evening ALL INDIA RADIO frequencies (+others) audible here in Turku, former capital of Finland. Here´s the list of the frequencies I heard: -5040 kHz JEYPORE -5010 No trace of THIRU... or Garoua, it was MADAGASCAR. -5005 R NEPAL -4980 UNID (Chinese?) -4965 CHRISTIAN VOICE with ID in EE 1715 UT -4950 SRINAGAR (?) -4940 GUWAHATI formerly known as GAUHATI -4920 + 4910 + 4895 + 4860 + 4840 + 4800 + 4790 (really UNID) 4775 kHz AIR IMPHAL. I checked my QSL-list. In the seventies I used to listen to Asian MW-stations while living in eastern Finland. I listened to AIR IMPHAL on 920 kHz on Sept. 30th 1973, they replied in a month with letter. -4760 kHz very poor. Best of 73´s and a HAPPY EASTER! (Jouko Huuskonen, Turku, FINLAND, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. World Radio Network posted new schedules today for WRN1 and WRN2, available digitally on Telstar 5 Ku satellite. On the English-language WRN1, World Of Radio shifts from Saturday at 10 am Eastern to Sunday at the same time, in the slot formerly held by VOA's Communications World. Wales Radio International takes over the Saturday morning slot formerly held by WOR. In other changes, Radio Netherlands becomes available for 3 hours a day -- for an hour each at midnight, 8am and 6pm Eastern -- replacing RTE in the first two slots and Russia/RTE in the third slot. Radio Polonia at 1 pm is cut from one hour to 30 minutes, with Channel Africa (M-F), Network Africa (Sat) and Wales Radio International (Sun) airing at 1:30 pm. On the multi-language WRN2, RTE's hourlong broadcast in Irish at 8 am disappears from the schedule, and there are minor time changes for YLE Radio Finland. By the way, WRN Web site indicates the "WRN Boutique" has been closed for renovation since last August (Mike Cooper, Mar 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. WRN AVAILABLE IN SOUTH AMERICA VIA TELSTAR 12 From 1st April 2002, WRN begins broadcasting a trial service to South America from the Telstar 12 satellite. This developments means WRN is now a truly global broadcast network covering most of the Earth's surface twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The footprint for Telstar 12 (see right) covers all of Central and South America with receive dish sizes between 60 to 100cm. The service will not be marketed to the partial footprint that covers the US and Canada - the service is not intended for this region. [eastern half of NAm] During the trial period from April 1st to December 31st 2002, we will initially be broadcasting a relay of our English and multi-lingual Africa Asia network as there is no customised feed as yet available to the satellite uplink site. Satellite Coordinates: Telstar 12 at 15.0 W, Transponder 35 (BVN TV) 11.974 Ghz Vertical Polarisation, Symbol Rate 3,400 Msym/s FEC 3/4, DVB MPEG2 NEW DESIGN, NEW NAVIGATION, NEW WRN WEBSITE! WRN is redesigning and relaunching its website and has commissioned Tornado Productions http://www.tornado.tv to undertake this work. Watch out for future announcements! (WRN press release via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. MARS --- NASA officials on March 27 released the first of what could be a daily flow of images of the Red Planet, snapped by a camera aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The USD 300 million Odyssey was launched in April and arrived in orbit in October. It will eventually serve as a communications relay satellite for missions slated to land on Mars beginning in 2003. (AP) See: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey (SCDX/MediaScan March 28 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non]. Titanic special event reminder: Special event station GB90MGY will be on the air April 13-15 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. The call sign suffix recalls the ``MGY`` call sign the Titanic used on her fateful maiden voyage in 1912. The station will be active on all HF bands 80 through 10 meters--CW only--from 1030 UTC April 13 until 0647 UTC April 15-- the precise time in the UK that the Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with a loss of more than 1500 lives. Members of the sponsoring Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group will operate GB90MGY from a replica of the Titanic`s wireless room. For more information, contact the Michael Shortland, G0EFO, Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group, msa-consult@dial.pipex.com or visit The Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group Web site http://www.gdrs.net/titanic The station will be set up in Godalming, Surrey, the birthplace of Titanic radio operator Jack Phillips, who stayed at his post sending out distress calls to alert other ships and saving more than 700 lives before he went down with the ship (The Daily DX via ARRL March 27 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** IRELAND. 9389.95, Laser Hot Hits, 0630 3/28, Several "Laser" IDs, by male DJ in passing. // 6220, but as expected, much clearer. Postal address, phone # and e-mail address given around 0635. Fair copy. I've read recently that they are using new transmitters, but not 100% sure this is not someone else relaying them. This is the first time I've heard them on this frequency. Fade out around 0700-0800 (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. MARCONI BLOCKED JEWS FROM IL DUCE'S ACADEMY Inventor of the radio helped in Italy's anti-Semitic campaign Rory Carroll in Rome, Guardian, Tuesday March 19, 2002 Guglielmo Marconi, the father of radio and Italy's scientific hero of the 20th century, has been outed as a fascist hatchetman for Benito Mussolini's anti-Semitic policies. Documents unearthed in Rome have exposed Marconi as a clandestine but willing enforcer of the dictator's campaign against Jews years before the persecution came into the open... http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4376828,00.html (via Bill Westenhaver, QE, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. UZBEKISTAN: Summer A-02 Schedule for Voice of Mesopotamiya in Kurdish: 0500-1100 NF 15675 TAC 100 kW / 256 deg, ex 15415 1100-1300 on 11530 TAC 100 kW / 256 deg, ex 1100-1700 73 from (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 29, via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Glenn, The station on 5010.0 closing just after 1900 is Madagascar, heard tonight (28 March) very clearly in parallel with much weaker 3287.6. After the national anthem they play the usual and distinctive Madagascar interval signal which has been around for years and years. Here in Nairobi, 5010 is COMPLETELY CLEAR once Madagascar has signed off. I am very sceptical of these reports of Cameroon on that frequency. I think Cameroon has now left shortwave for good (Chris Greenway, Nairobi, Kenya, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. A-02 Schedule for R. Netherlands R. Netherlands sked 31 March to 27 October 2002 Retyped from website Dutch 0130-0225 AM 6010sa 11730fl 15315bo 0330-0425 NAM/AF 6165bo 9590bo 9845ma 15560ma 0500-0557 EU 1512wo 7125fl 0500-0757 EU 9895fl 0500-1700 EU 5955fl 9895fl 0559-0757 EU 11935fl 0700-0800 NZ/AU 9820bo 11655bo 0759-1700 EU 13700fl 13700fl 0930-1015 Surinam (mo-sa) 6020bo 1030-1125 AS/AU 13820ma 17575ma 21480ma 1228-1325 17495 1330-1425 AS/AU 9890pe 12065ta 13695kh 17580ma 21480ma 1630-1725 AF 6020ma 11655ma 1730-1825 EU/ME 9895fl 13700fl 15560fl 2030-2125 AF/EU15835ka 6015ma 6020fl 7120ma 9895fl 9895fl 11655fl 15315bo 17605bo 21590bo 2130-2225 AM 6020bo 9895fl 13700fl 15155bo 15315fl 2330-0025 AS 7280ma 9590si 17590kh Dutch (DRM tests) [more below...] 0530-0625 EU 11655bo 0630-0800 EU 15245bo 2030-2125 EU 15565bo English 0430-0530 NAM 6165bo 9590bo 0930-1130 AS/AU 9790bo 12065pe 13710ir 1030-1125 EU/NAM 5965sa 6045ju 9860we 1430-1625 AS/NAM 9890ma 11835ma 12075ta 15220sa 1730-2025 AF 6020ma 7120ma 11655fl 1830-2025 AF 9895fl 13700fl 2030-2230 EU 1512wo 2330-0125 NAM 6165bo 9845bo Indonesian 1130-1325 Indonesia 11690si 17580ma 21480ma 2130-2325 Indonesia 6120si 7285ma 9590ma Spanish 0130-0325 CAM 6165bo 9845bo 1100-1125 SAM 15450bo 1130-1157 SAM 6165bo 9715bo 1200-1225 CAM 6165bo 9715bo 2230-0125 SAM 9895fl 11720bo 15315bo Transmitters: bo = Bonaire fl = Flevo ir = Irkutsk ju = Juelich ka = Kaliningrad kh = Khabrovsk ma = Madagascar pe = Petropavlovsk Kamchatski sa = Sackville si = Singapore ta = Tashkent we = Wertachtal wo = Wolvertem (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Special DRM Demonstration for NAB During the Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, our Bonaire relay station will be broadcasting a demonstration of the Digital Radio Mondiale system, beamed towards Las Vegas. The broadcasts start on Friday 5 April 2002 and end on Friday 12 April 2002. Bonaire will operate at 2330-0255 UTC on 15525 kHz with a DRM power of 10 kW. Content will be: 2330-0125 RNW English, and 0125-0255 RNW Spanish (Media Network newsletter March 29 via John Norfolk, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND: RNZI Frequency Schedule from March 31 to May 5, 2002: 1650-1750 Mon-Fri 6095 / 035 deg to NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 1751-1850 Mon-Fri 11725 / 035 deg to NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 1851-2050 Daily 15160 / 000 deg to All Pacific, also audible in Eur 2051-0458 Daily 17675 / 000 deg to All Pacific, also audible in WNAm 0459-0758 Daily 15340 / 000 deg to All Pacific, also audible in Eur 0759-1105 Daily 11675 / 000 deg to All Pacific 1106-1310 Daily 11675 / 325 deg to NW Pacific, Bougainville, E Timor, Asia 1311-1650 Occ`l 6095 / 000 deg to All Pacific (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 29, via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Re Defence Forces Broadcasts: The Armed Forces Canteen Council is a non-profit organization which operates facilities at military bases, the profits from which are used for a wide variety of activities. In this case, they include funding SW broadcasts via RNZI. It's similar to the Australian Army Amenities Service which funded a network of 22 radio stations in Australia, the Pacific, SE Asia and Japan during WWII. They had more mothers knitting and holding raffles so could afford more stations than NZers <grin> (David Ricquish, Wellington, NZ, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC QUOTA FOR RADIO 26.03.2002 4.00pm Regulating for New Zealand music quotas on radio is still an option if a voluntary code falters, Broadcasting Minister Marian Hobbs says. The code, launched today, will see radio stations playing on average 20 per cent New Zealand music by 2006. New Zealand music is applied to all music performed by artists normally registered as New Zealanders, including people performing in Australia and other countries... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1291784&msg=emaillink (via Bill Westenhaver, QC, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Hi Glenn, Stumbled upon something which might be of interest to utility monitors: As of 1 May, the Meteorological Service of New Zealand is making changes to its weather radio facsimile services. They've been transmitting heretofore simultaneously on four frequencies, but due to needed transmitter maintenance, they'll be using only one frequency at a time from 1 May. Info, including links to PDF versions of the old/new skeds, may be found at: http://www.metservice.co.nz/forecasts/radiofax_changes.asp 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QB, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Progress(?) report on KXOK-TV 32, Enid`s ownly local TV station: some 10 pm newscasts have been missing without explanation, so the auction just keeps going. Good Morning Enid, however, at 7 am Friday had some news: we thought it looked different, and the reason is that they are currently originating from temporary studios next to the transmitter atop the Broadway Tower, as they still aren`t ready to move into Oakwood Mall. And Scott revealed that KXOK-FM started March 28 at 5:30 pm, on 104.7. Indeed it was on when we checked around 7:15 pm (all times CST) March 29, playing a cut from ``Tommy``. They plan to broadcast an Oklahoma Crude stupid ballgame live this weekend, but format if any is not yet clear. Close-in, it seems to have no trouble overriding KIXR Ponca City on same frequency, but I haven`t yet determined whether it is still officially LP, ex-KUAL. One of the few other locally produced TV shows so far is Doctor Fear, hosting monster movies at midnight early Saturday. He made a guest appearance on the morning show, reading a statement in (pig?) Latin (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. R. Sultanate of Oman, 15355, March 16 0300-0358* in English. Kor`an in Arabic with English translations and commentary on the recited verses. US pop music by Lionel Richie and others. Ad for contest to win a Toyota Corolla. Chimes and news at 0330-0342. Phone talk. Abruptly off at 0358. Fair-good. Barely audible one week later on March 24 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. Re R. América on SW 7300: But not all is ready. According to Tony Jones, obtaining a license in Paraguay is very bureaucratic and takes very long time (Nicolás Éramo, Argentina, Cumbre DX March 28 via DXLD) ** SAMOA AMERICAN. WDJD near Pago Pago, American Samoa is now conducting tests on 585 with 5kW power. Official sign-on date is April 13. I've asked the acting station manager, Vickie Haleck for precise dates and times for tests as well as an address for DX reports. The station is DX friendly, wants reports. Programs are 70% English/30% Samoan, ID slogan is 'for you and your family, 585 AM WDJD'. Check the April 2002 New Zealand DX Times for an exclusive front page article on WDJD, only the third MW station in 50 years in American Samoa (David Ricquish, Talkback, NZ DX Times / http://www.radiodx.com hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. The shortwave parallel frequencies for the 1521 Saudi Arabian are 9555 and 9870 kHz. I hear both the medium wave and shortwave stations best around local sunset. It is often the first TA signal to fade in because of its huge (2 megawatt) power and a transmitter site next to the Red Sea with a straight overwater trajectory towards us. At seashore sites in New England and eastern Canada, 1521 can come in 2 to 3 hours before sunset. 1 p.m. EST is my earliest reception (from Cape Cod) and 2:30 p.m. EST is about as early as I've noted them here in Billerica (about 15-20 miles inland from Ipswich, Marblehead, etc.) Sign-off is at 2300 UT (6 p.m. EST). Spain is usually what you hear on 1521 in Saudi Arabia's absence. Sometimes Czech, British, and even Chinese stations have been heard on this channel. When Saudi-1521 signs on again at 0300 UT (10 p.m. EST), there's more slop from WWKB-1520 than during the sunset receptions. If you're lucky (translate: super propagation + Beverage + beach), you can get some medium wave parallels to 1521, among these: 594, 648, 900, 1440. The 1512 Saudi station is not parallel to 1521. This one's usually good around 0200 UT (9 p.m. EST) if you aren't next to a 1510 pest like WWZN (Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA, USA, NRC-AM March 27 via DXLD) ** SOMALIA. There's some new Somali activity on 6750.25. It's in the Rahanwein language, so I need to check it out further. Regards, (Chris Greenway, Nairobi, Kenya, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA. Here`s another website with lots of testimonials about the alleged sins, to put it mildly, of Brother R. G. Stair: http://prophecy.sinfree.net/stair/stair.html If all of this is true, or for that matter, any of it, why hasn`t he been arrested and prosecuted? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. RADIO SWEDEN -- Coming up on Radio Sweden: Thursday: "The S-Files" celebrates Stockholm's 750 years Friday: Good Friday special -- Stockholmers and THEIR Stockholm Saturday: Fringe and mainstream forms of expression -- graffiti and circus Sunday: In "Sounds Nordic", the top 100 ABBA songs and celebrity wannabe Emma Robinson Monday: Easter Monday special "The Ice Brothel" Contrary to our reports on the air and on the web, our new shortwave frequency schedule actually goes into effect on Sunday March 31 (and not April Fool's Day), along with everyone else, when Western Europe switches to Daylight Saving/Summer time (George Wood, SCDX/MediaScan March 28 via DXLD) Who says SCDX has to be on Tuesdays? (gh) ** THAILAND. 8742.98, Thai Meteo Station 1220 playing interval signal. Very weak, best in USB. Still in at 1618 Mar 28 same level (Joe Talbot, Alberta, Cumbre DX via DXLD) I believe the last log of this was back in 1999 (- Cumbre Ed.) I think we had some last year if someone want to search DXLD (gh, DXLD) ** TUNISIA. Amateur station 3V8BB, Mike. 28494 USB 1540 - 1615 UT March 28, Good signal in Oregon. Working West Coast/Stateside/world. Said to QSL via YT1AD (Bill Flynn, Cave Junxion, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. I keep checking, and checking; UT Sun Mar 24 at 0100, there it was back on 7375, RUI in English to NAm! S 4/5. It was also there on 7375 at 0400 (Bob Thomas, CT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Glenn, I noticed a new "Real Audio Shedule" [sic] tag on the left side of the RUI web page. I thought that it would provide times of programs and languages used, but all they had was a general list of programs available in Ukrainian, English, German and Romanian. Perhaps it's still under construxion. [Later that same day:] I noticed that left-side tag on the RUI website now reads New Broadcasting Shedule [sic], and it brings up the new A-02 schedule (Ivan Grishin, Ont., March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. ITV Digital goes bust * A High Court judge agrees that ITV Digital, the crisis-hit UK broadcaster, can be placed in administration. Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/business/newsid_1896000/1896732.stm (via Ricky Leong, Canada, DXLD) I kept hearing this headline on BBC news. ``Placed in administration`` means nothing to me as a North American. Is that an euphemism? Going bust is the cause or effect? I guess like we would say, being in the hands of a receiver running it (gh, DXLD) ** U K. 'THE SILENT KEY' RADIO PRODUCER WANTS FEEDBACK From RSGB: David Ellis, the writer and producer of the BBC radio feature 'The Silent Key' http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speech/silentkey/sk18.shtml that featured amateur radio, is keen to receive feedback on the programme. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the 23rd of February and is now accessible on BBC on-line with both sound (realplay) and visuals. David Ellis, producer, Silent Key, writes about the programme: 'Erik Davis, cultural commentator, freelance writer for 'Wired' and 'The Village Voice' contextualised the more spectral, invisible dimensions of radio/cyber spaces whilst chipping away at the utilitarian shell of technology (or in the case of radio, the 'furniture', the knobs, dials, and accumulated junk) and it was this aspect of his book 'Techgnosis' that inspired many of the ideas within The Silent Key. Davis's 'electromagnetic imaginary' becomes a 'sonic imaginary'. During our early recorded conversations (extracts of which are used) we speculated on what Davis described as 'an archaeology of signals' and the 'collecting mentality' as represented by the 66 postcards that initiated the search for Arthur Trigell a.k.a. A Silent Key or dead radio ham. The cards became the pointers to a life lived, perhaps lost, though not unrecorded. Behind these cards existed a shadow story, as yet undetermined, of radio itself and of experiments conducted in wooden huts, spare rooms beyond geo-political and class borders. (At one point during my search I consulted a graphologist in an attempt to identify the 'hobbyist's underloop'). Composer and previous collaborator on various performance-based work Richard Kilgour ('The Titanic Signals', 'K.2 The Mountain', `Ezekiels Tounge', Iain Sinclairs 'London Essay') introduced me in 1999 to electronic engineer David Donnard who "knew someone, in the know", someone who might consider acting as my guide into the Ham fraternity, into what has been called 'the true art of radio'. The someone was Prem Holdaway, a North London-based radio enthusiast, formerly a teacher of electronics and badminton coach, and currently an active ham. Inducted into the esoterica/techno-jargon of the 'knob culture' Holdaway led me to Doreen Barnes an Essex-based morse operator who is one of the key voices heard throughout the 45 minute piece. The poignancy of Doreen and her husband Dennis's life (Dennis is now a Silent Key) led me to what radio aficionados recognise as the "pivotal year of 1957", and specifically October 1957, as this was the year when the first orbital satellite 'Sputnik' began transmitting signals from space. (According to Doreen they were "akin to the sound of a baby hedgehog"). Of equal importance, though more terrestrial in its impact, was what became known as 'TOMMOROW'S MUSIC', or the sound of Joe Meek, the maverick early 60's record producer and innovator of 'tape-splicing, cranked-up echo effects and sound montaged British pop. Filtering his 'homebrew' habits (as a radio experimentalist in the 50's he constructed a T.V in the woods) into his recordings, he revved up the post-war pop charts with 'Telstar' and 'Jonny Remember me'. Some of these homebrew habits (or simulation of them) were consciously used whilst in the studio with sound engineer/producer Neale Gardner during the editing/mixing of SK. SK was always about detour, digression and delay. It took as its model a previous semi-improvised performed lecture called 'K.2-the mountain' which was my attempt to trace the origins of the Y.M.C.A which I had discovered had been founded by my great, great grandfather George Williams, a pig farmer turned haberdasherer who worked in London. Of George Williams I learnt next to nothing. Of K2 and the outdoor movement? Lots. The search for Arthur Trigell, the Silent Key of the title, or G3JAF, became the point of departure in this investigation into the lesser known history of radio and, with it, the murky spiritualism of 19th century table rappers, the analog circuitry g'd upped to receive disembodied voices from the past, Lithuania nationalism, Slavic hymns, rogue frequencies, thrummings, spheric utteraces, whistlers. The Silent Key is an assemblage (sound montage) of broadcast clichés, composed music, clicks, dictaphonics, and interviews etc. It's also about making radio without a handbook.' (via Mike Terry, DXLD) ?? (gh, DXLD) ** U K [non]. RUSSIA: Effective April 6 Radio Ezra in English will be on air at new time: new 2330-2400 Sat NF 17665 P.K 100 kW / 060 deg to NAm, ex 0900-0930 Sun on 12110 VLD 100 kW / 140 deg to Pacific [but the old broadcast ended some months ago, not just now --gh] (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 29, via DXLD) ** U S A. Stories about VOA: The Committee to Protect Journalists annual report, "Attacks on the Press in 2001," mentions VOA's reassignment of Spozhmai Maiwandi, chief of the VOA Pashto Service. http://www.cpj.org/ The CPJ report and its mention of VOA was reported by RFE/RL: http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/03/26032002091809.asp Freelance journalist Frank Smyth comments on the Spozhmai Maiwandi matter: Not many Americans have heard of Spozhmai Maiwandi, but many Afghanis have. A native of the Central Asian nation, she ran the Pashto service of the Voice of America for over a decade. VOA is the paid broadcast arm of the U.S. government, but Ms. Maiwandi is a journalist, and she aired more than just American propaganda. She reported the news, and, in a broadcast shortly after September 11, included the remarks of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. That raised hackles in the Bush administration, and she quickly became a target. Soon, under Bush-appointed director Robert Reilly, VOA turned on Ms. Maiwandi. First she found insulting notes slipped under her door by anonymous coworkers, she said, producing a note that simply read: "This is no longer your office. Move your big [expletive removed] out of here." Then she was fired from the Pashto service, although in an Orwellian twist Reilly claims he gave her a promotion. "You are being given a temporary promotion," VOA's department of human resources wrote to Ms. Maiwandi. "This action is not a reassignment from your current position. Your position of record remains Chief of the Pashto Service," the note added, even though she would no longer run the service. Unfortunately the VOA case is only one of many examples in which Bush officials have manipulated the press... http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5294 (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. VOA Pronunciation Guide: The Voice of America now has a searchable index on-line --- complete with audio. (It beats scouring the Beeb site, and listening to a whole story...) http://www.voa.gov/pronunciations/ (Tom Popyk, CAJ List via Ricky Leong, QU, DXLD) ** U S A. Another story of great men with feet of clay, like the recent reports of Marconi's anti-semitism [see ITALY] KEN RUSSELL FILM CASTS EDISON IN A POOR LIGHT by Chris Hastings (Filed: 24/03/2002) THE family of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, has attacked a new film by Ken Russell that portrays him as a ruthless sadist intent on destroying his closest rival. Mr Russell's new film biography of Nikola Tesla, who was one of Edison's greatest adversaries, will also undermine the scientist's claim to be the father of electricity and provide a very different picture of one of America's revered heroes... http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/24/wedis24.xml 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I heard that you had an 80th anniversary documentary about WLW. Wonder if and when this will be in your audio vault? Or rebroadcast with advance notice. Regards, Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO to WVXU via DXLD) Dear Glenn, Thanks for your e-mail. The documentary will be publicly released as a 2-CD set with a 70 page booklet in early summer. I'd suggest that you keep checking out the web site for specific information about its availability. If we do another rebroadcast, we'll also put that on the web plus there will be a fair amount of on- air promotion. Thanks again for writing (Dr. Jim King, WVXU, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VETERAN RADIO STARS TO DISCUSS ALABAMA`S OLDEST STATION From: http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2002/03/25/daily19.html 19:03 EST Tuesday The two familiar names noted mostly for their local television careers will participate in the 80th birthday celebration of Alabama's first radio station, WSY, which later became WAPI. The station is still going strong as NewsTalk 1070-AM, owned now by Citadel Broadcasting. The celebration will be held April 1, sponsored by the Birmingham- based Alabama Historical Radio Society (http://www.bham.net/ahrs) and Alabama Power Co., which started WSY to communicate with linemen repairing power lines. The discussion will be held in the main auditorium of the Alabama Power building on Sixth Avenue North downtown. The festivities include a 6 p.m. panel discussion with longtime radio industry personnel, including Lucas, known in the 1960's as "Weathergirl Rosemary" on WAPI-TV (now NBC13 WVTM). Lucas paired with longtime talk show host Dave Campbell on WAPI for the Saturday Football Cavalcade pre-game show in the fall during the 1960s and 70s. Another former WAPI announcer, Sterling Brewer, went on to fame as the host of "Live Studio Wrestling" on WBMG-TV (now CBS42 WIAT). Former station manager and announcer Everett Holley also will sit on the panel. "We're proud Alabama Power launched the first radio station in Alabama," says company president and CEO Charles McCrary. A museum exhibit of radio history, with antique radios owned by private collectors, will be on display April 1 through May 31 in the Alabama Power archives department (via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) ** U S A. I found a link to LDS Radio Network, run by the Mormons. The network has two "streams". "LDS Radio" features religious talk and music, while "LDS Instrumental" provides non-interrupted, non- religious (AFAICT) music. I enjoyed LDS Instrumental the morning of March 27, but it went silent around 1700 (Perhaps the soothing music put the operator to sleep!) It's still not heard past 2230. LDS Instrumental http://www.ldsradio.com/instrumental.asx LDS Radio http://www.ldsradio.com/ldsradio.asx (Ivan Grishin, Ont., March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, The links to LDS Instrumental and Radio are down right now, so I assume they are now working to correct the problem with LDS Instrumental. (Grishin, 1516 UT March 27) LDS Instrumental is back as of 1700 today. But now that I listen again, I notice that it is playing mostly instrumental and choral religious music, something they didn't do yesterday. Maybe it's because today is Maundy Thursday? 73, (Ivan Grishin, Ont., March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11490, WHRI Noblesville IN; 2119-2127+, 24-Mar; World Harvest Radio toe-tappin' Gospel music and religious program. 2x harmonic audible at noise level //5745 fundamental at S50!. (Harold Frodge, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ** U S A. When Elephants Dance: Here's an excellent article about the state of the war on copyrights in the US, and how it may impact internet radio. Quite amusing in places, and well worth the read even though it is lengthy. http://www.farces.com/stories/storyReader$414 (Ray Robinson in L.A., Radio Caroline Mailing List via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U S A. SAVING INTERNET RADIO From Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News Tech columnist: "Media conglomerates are in a merger frenzy. Telecommunications monopolies are creating a cozy cartel, dividing up access to the online world. The entertainment industry is pushing for Draconian controls on the use and dissemination of digital information... "The offenses against the public interest have been piling up, one after the other...The most recent outrage...is the music companies' scheme to control Internet radio or murder it if they can't. Net radio provides the variety and value that broadcast radio, so dominated today by a few behemoths, has almost utterly lost. Now it's going to disappear, if the greedy souls who dominate commercial music have their way -- just one more whack at the public interest to preserve the untenable business models of well-connected corporations. "I'd been hoping that Congress would come to its senses one of these days, and mitigate the damage it has done with laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [in .pdf form]. As prescient critics warned, the law has been abused by the entertainment crowd and its craven allies in the technology business to threaten scholars, curb free speech and even incite outrageous prosecutions. "I'd been hoping that lawmakers would see the danger of market concentration in telecommunications and media. No luck there, either. I'd been hoping that the courts might intervene. But courts are more political than we learn in our third-grade civics classes. Federal judges are nominated and confirmed by politicians who only occasionally peek out of the pockets of the special interests. Again and again, with few exceptions, judges are upholding laws that trample on tradition and rights. "There's no simple, all-encompassing solution to this dismal situation. Fighting for the public interest will involve work on a variety of fronts. It's essential, for example, that we put pressure on Congress and keep it there... "Here's my message to the record industry and its allies: I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won't be your customer." Read Gillmor's entire editorial in the San Jose Mercury News http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2922052.htm (via RAIN via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) ** U S A. Here's yet another Salon.com piece on Clear Channel Communications. 73- Bill Westenhaver WASHINGTON TUNES IN, By Eric Boehlert Critics accuse Clear Channel of shady radio deals and nasty concert business. Now the government is starting to pay attention... http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/27/beltway/index.html (via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) ** U S A. A NEWSLINE FOLLOW-UP: A POLITICALLY DISORGANIZED 11 METER CLASS D SERVICE A few weeks ago we reported that the FCC has refused to hear an appeal by an Illinois CB operator convicted of Disorderly Conduct for interfering with a neighbors home entertainment electronics. In the days since that report first aired, it caused quite a stir on several Internet discussion groups. Everyone wants to know how a service that once boasted 3 out of every 5 Americans with radios in their cars could wind up where the local sheriff or policeman could take an operator off the air. After a bit of research, the answer seemed pretty clear. In one word: Politics. Here is Amateur Radio Newsline`s South East Bureau Chief David Black, KB4KCH, with part 1 of a multi part look at the strange political side of 11 meter CB. When it comes to having political representation, most communication groups are in good shape. Hams have the American Radio Relay League looking after their political well being. Broadcasters have the powerful National Association of Broadcasters. Cellular telephone companies have the CTIA. Even the General Mobile Radio Service, which shares frequencies with the Family Radio Service, has representation amid the Personal Radio Steering Group. So, what form of communications lacks representation? That would be 11 meter, Class D Citizens Band radio. What does CB have? This: (Sound from 11 meter CB) Give CB a listen, and you hear lots of people using a service without any structure or formalized representation. Some might even call it anarchy. (More sound from 11 meters) Ironically, CB`s lack of political power--as well as its inability to defend against bureaucratic attack--is not due to shortage of people using the airwaves. Many believe that next to cellular telephones, the second largest selling piece of 2-way radio equipment in the 20th century has been the CB radio. During the gas crisis in the 1970s, many cars sported some sort of 11 meter whip and a cheap CB radio under the dash. Low cost 11 meter radios by the millions were manufactured, imported and sold. The industry had hobby magazines and several newspaper style newsletters devoted to CB radio. CB operators outnumbered hams by at least 20 to one. And they outnumber GMRS users by 1000 to one. But CB was not able to defend itself from outside pressures either back then or today. Why? Part of the reason goes back to CB`ers themselves in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of them were not really interested in the service. It was just a utility. A way to help learn where to find the cheapest gasoline or avoid speed traps. The CB radio service lacked any real monetary commitment. Without that, there was no political commitment. And when fuel prices began to ease, many but not all 11 meter operators pulled their radios out of their cars--and put them in the attic. Then there were the few others, the die hard CB hobbyists. They treated CB channels 1 through 40 as a sort of ham radio-like hobby. Some operated illegally, but would take the chance just to make a DX contact. But they never organized. Why? Different CB groups formed over the years. Many called themselves political messiahs of 11 meters. But many turned out to be bogus. During the late 1970`s and early 1980`s, CB radio scam artists were busy, trying to separate the 11 meter radio operator from his hard earned cash. As group after group appeared and then vanished, it became apparent to most using CB that trusting anyone was too expensive. Now, more than 25 years later, trust in any CB political organization seems little more than a remote possibility. And what about the legal CB operators? Those dedicated to public service? That part of the story, next week. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I`m David Black, KB4KCH. Next week David tells us about the only successful CB organization and the reason that it survived when the rest went away. (ARNewsline(tm)) THAT FINAL ITEM: AN APRIL 1ST CB DXPEDITION TO THE ISLE DU CONEY Earlier in this week`s newscast we reported that 11 meter CB has no political clout. What it does have is a bunch of people who just want to have fun. Now, a group of them is planning what they call a People`s Radio DXpedition from an exotic island location. Roving reporter Pierre Pullinmyleg is here with the details: AUDIO ONLY, NO TEXT. Download MP3 audio at http://www.arnewsline.org Hopefully, Pierre will be back a year from now to pull your leg once again. (The April Fools Day File) (Amateur Radio Newsline March 29 via John Norfolk, DXLD) ** U S A. SHORTWAVE: ARNEWSLINE VISITS AN SWL-FEST From CB to shortwave listening. Ham radio operators are not the only radio hobbyists who hold conventions. So do Short Wave Listeners and one of the most successful gatherings is Winterfest. Amateur Radio Newsline`s Steve Coletti took his tape recorder and visited this years gathering. He has this report: AUDIO ONLY - NO TEXT. Download MP3 audio at http://www.arnewsline.org by clicking on the newscast number. It may not be the size of the Dayton Hamvention or Huntsville Hamfest, but to Short Wave Listeners, Winterfest is truly the best (ARNewsline(tm) via John Norfolk, DXLD) ** U S A. Chatter from I, Liz, the Teletype Blonde: I finally gave in and bought a utility decoder-a Universal M-7000. I bought it used (all 7000s are used) just in case I didn't like it. As it turned out, I love this gadget. I have spent hours decoding Morse Code, teletype, and fax. I have yet to learn many other things. 6994: WC2XPF, an experimental RTTY station in Auburn, WA. Listed as NEWSMAX in Klingenfuss guide but that didn't appear in my printout. 50Bd/170Hz shift, reversed polarity. My prize logging possession. Will QSL (Liz Cameron, MI, 25 Mar, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) Time? ** U S A. March 28, 2002 SENATOR: $39M NEEDED FOR PLANE RADIOS WASHINGTON (AP) - F-15 fighter jets flying combat air patrols over the United States as part of homeland defense must have radios that can communicate directly with any commercial airliner deemed suspicious, Sen. Charles Grassley says. Because of different frequencies used by F-15s and commercial airlines' radios, communication now is accomplished by relay through ground controllers, he said in a letter to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel. "A few short seconds and a miscommunication could lead to a tragic situation," Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote the subcommittee chairman, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and the top Republican, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. His office released the March 20 letter on Thursday. Grassley asked that $39 million - the cost estimated by the Air Force - be included in an upcoming spending bill to equip 583 of the F-15s with such radios. Airlines communicate on the Very High Frequency, or VHF, band, while the F-15s communicate on the Ultra High Frequency, or UHF, band, and do not carry the VHF radios needed to talk to the civilian aircraft, Grassley wrote. "We need to find a way to ensure that these two planes can talk to one another," Grassley said in a statement Thursday. "Funding to make certain that no commercial airliners are diverted, or tragically, terminated, should be of utmost importance for homeland security." The F-15s have been assigned to intercept commercial airliners that are identified or suspected of being under terrorist control. "If hostile intent is determined, the interceptor acting through its chain of command, may be ordered to direct the airliner to an available airfield or, in the extreme case, to terminate the airliner's flight," Grassley noted. Lacking the ability to contact the airliner directly, "communications are accomplished in an indirect way, by relay through ground controllers," Grassley wrote. "This can be cumbersome, time consuming, and subject to error." There was no immediate reaction to the letter from Inouye or Stevens. (from lasvegassun.com via Sergei Sosedkin, March 29, DXLD) About time ** U S A [non]. Hi! Believe me, there is no AFRTS USB transmissions from Sigonella nor Diego García on those often mentioned frequencies. Not since last summer or so, least at the moment. That´s the sad truth. Frequencies for Florida, Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii transmitters seem right to the spot and active. Puerto Rico and Guam are heard best here in Southern Finland. Happy Easter from Helo (Kari Helpaltio, Finland, hard-core-dx via DXLD) re AFRTS, a strange QSL came by mail, obviously to my report of them last month of the Guam transmitter on 13362U. Guam was the only one I had not reported earlier by ordinary mail, but here was a mail QSL from them that I had heard Diego García on 4319 which I had not. Not this time. That was a year ago, and I received their QSL. Let's face it, the AFRTS QSL dept. has computorized QSL-ing, and you can't blame them for not answering reports, but this time it got screwed up. I just wonder when all naval units will have their satellite receivers fixed up and this episode of AFRTS on SW ends. But so far it has been real fun. Anybody with a QSL from erratic Iceland on 3903U ? That would indeed be a good one for the history buffs in 50 years or so. 73 and enjoy the holiday ! (Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden, ibid.) What holiday? ** U S A [non]. AWR Combined schedule for 30 March 2002 to 27 October 2002 Retyped from the AWR website. Afar 1700-1730 AF 17665ab Amharic 0300-0330 AF 11975ab 1700-1730 AF 15520ab Arabic 0400-0500 ME 15470mo 0500-0600 AF 15470mo 0600-0700 AF 11610ju 15470mo 1700-1800 ME 15460mo 1800-1900 AF/ME 17555mo 1900-2000 AF 15175mo 15485ju Bangla 1300-1330 AS 15320ab 1330-1400 AS 15385ag Bulgarian 0400-0500 EU 9570ju 1700-1800 EU 15235ju Burmese 1400-1500 AS 11930ag Chin 0000-0030 AS 11770ag 1400-1430 AS 15380ag Dyula 0730-0800 AF 17780mo 2000-2030 AF 15355mo English 0030-0100 AS 6035ab 6055ab 0200-0230 ME 9820mo 0330-0400 AS 11775ab 0400-0430 AF 7235me 0430-0500 AF 11975me 0500-0530 AF 5960me 6015me 0530-0630 AF 15105me 0700-0730 EU/AF 7230mo 0830-0930 AF 17780mo 1000-1030 AS 11930ag 1000-1100 AS 11560ag 1300-1330 AS 15385ag 17740ab 1330-1400 AS 11705ag 11980ag 15320ab 1630-1700 ME 9385ag 9600ab 11850ag 15450ag 1800-1830 AF 5970me 6095me 1800-1900 AF 7170me 1930-2000 EU 7130ri 2000-2100 AF 9745me 2100-2200 AF 15355mo 2130-2200 AS 11850ag 11980ag Farsi 0230-0300 ME 6145ab 0330-0400 ME 11665mo 1630-1700 ME 15410mo French 0430-0500 AF 9845me 0700-0730 AF 11610ju 0800-0830 AF 17780mo 2000-2030 AF 7170me 9780me 15485ju 2030-2100 AF 15355mo Fulfulde 1900-1930 AF 11640me German 0730-0800 EU 7230mo 1500-1530 EU 7165mo Hausa 0600-0630 AF 15345me 1930-2000 AF 9745me Hindi 0000-0030 AS 6035ab 6055ab 1530-1600 AS 11890ag 13705ab 15195ag Igbo 0530-0600 AF 15345me 1930-2000 AF 11640me Indonesian 1100-1130 AS 15205ag 2200-2230 AS 11850ag 15320ag Italian 0900-1000 EU sa-su 11880ju Japanese 1300-1330 AS 11705ag 11980ag 2100-2130 AS 11850ag 11980ag Javanese 1130-1200 AS 15205ag 2230-2300 AS 11850ag 15320ag Kannada 1430-1500 AS 17860AB 1530-1600 AS 15575ag Karen 0030-0100 AS 11770ag 1430-1500 AS 15380ag Korean 1200-1300 AS 9720ag 2000-2100 AS 9740ag 11960ag Malagasy 0230-0330 AF 3215ta 1530-1630 AF 3215ta Malayalam 1530-1600 AS 11850ag 17630ab Mandarin 0000-0200 AS 12120ag 15370ag 17635ag 1000-1100 AS 15510ag 1000-1500 AS 15615ag 1100-1200 AS 11560ag 11975ag 1100-1300 AS 17835ab 1200-1300 AS 11775ag 15150ag 1400-1500 AS 11880ag 2100-2200 AS 15265ag 2200-2400 AS 12120ag 17635ag 2300-2400 AS 12010ag Marathi 1600-1630 AS 9600ab Masaai 1730-1800 AF 12130me Nepali 1500-1530 AS 11890ag 17630ab Oromifa 0300-0330 AF 11710mo 1730-1800 AF 17665ab Punjabi 1500-1530 AS 13705ab 15195ag Romanian 1600-1700 EU 13720ju Russian 0300-0330 AS 11775ab 1330-1400 AS 17740ab Sinhala 1430-1500 AS 17630ab Somali 0330-0400 AF 11955ab 1630-1700 AF 17665ab Swahili 0400-0430 AF 11975me 1700-1730 AF 12130me Tagalog 1030-1100 AS 11930ag 1600-1630 ME 9385ag 15450ag Tamil 1330-1400 AS 17860ab 1500-1530 AS 11850ag Telugu 1400-1430 AS 17860ab 1500-1530 AS 15575ag Tigrinya 0300-0330 AF 11945ab 1730-1800 AF 15520ab Urdu 0230-0300 AS 9820mo 1400-1500 AS 15320ab 1600-1630 AS 11850ag Vietnamese 0100-0200 AS 15445tn 1400-1500 AS 15490tn 2300-2400 AS 15320ag Yoruba 0500-0530 AF 15105me 2030-2100 AF 7170me Transmitters: ab = Abu Dhabi, UAE ag = Agat, Guam ju = Juelich, Germany me = Meyerton, South Africa mo = Moosbrunn, Austria ri = Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia ta = Talata, Madagascar tn = Taiwan (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YUGOSLAVIA [non]. YUG(SER)/BIH: The Radio Yugoslavia website includes at http://www.radioyu.org/schedule.htm a programme schedule valid from April 8, 2002 at 1430 UT. Is this a target date for a revival of transmissions from Bijeljina? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looks about the same as before, including English to NAm both on 9580, 0000-0030 East except Sunday, 0430-0500 West daily. The date suspiciously coincides with DST start in NAm, maybe automatic imaginary schedule? (gh, DXLD) R. Yugoslavia English schedule 1430 UT April 8 to 1330 UT October 27, 2002. 0000-0030 except Sunday, N America ce 9580; 0430-0500 N America w 9580; 1830-1900 Europe w 6100; 2100-2130 Europe w 6100; 2200-2230 Australia 7230. Something I just noticed about the Radio Yugoslavia schedule is that the broadcasts to Australia moved from 1330 to 2200 UT (R. Yugoslavia website via Daniel Sampson, Prime Time Shortwave, http://www.triwest.net/~dsampson/shortwave/ ) ** ZIMBABWE. Your readers may recall this Reuters quote from DXLD 2- 034 ``The only way that Robert Mugabe can win this election is if he steals it." So now here's one from the well-whaddya-know file, Glenn. Those ZBC webcasts that went away just a week before the country's (insert your own adjective here) presidential election? Hey guess what, a week after the election they came back. How about that. New addresses however. ZBC 2, a.k.a. Radio Zimbabwe, w/ African and South African pop and announcers speaking Shona and Ndebele is now at http://66.8.38.108/zbc2-fm.asx Radio Three, a.k.a 3FM, mixing Zimbabwean pop with US rap and soul in English "catering to the youths" according to the website, is now at http://66.8.38.108/zbc3-fm.asx 3FM continues to do a 5 minute hourly newscast 24/7 that always has a Mugabe story as the lead. Still, both webcasts are a solid source for new African releases if that is your cup of tea. Lively music and stooge journalists: your best entertainment value. Please pardon my non-objective, dripping sarcasm. It is only temporary; DXLD deserves better! (Tom Roche, Atlanta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6715: I tried Friday night Mar 22 from around 1700 past 2000 but it was not on air. However, when I retuned again around 2310 it WAS on air. At least, I think it was this - all I was hearing was a general hub-bub of noise similar to what you hear from a concert hall before the conductor appears. The signal was USB only and pushing the S meter up to 7. It would seem, therefore, that transmission is late on Fridays and earlier on Sundays??? I suspect this is something similar to the Irish CBers (Noel Green, England, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 6715 U, active again at 2245 tune in Fri Mar 29, but prohibitive amount of lightning static (David Hodgson, Nashville TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROPAGATION NOTES When the next solar minimum will be? According to a recent NOAA Preliminary Report and Forecast of Geophysical Data, their prediction shows it to be some time between September 2006 and April 2007. Still a ways off, and right now we are enjoying the peak of the current cycle. You can read these NOAA reports at: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/weekly/ and the one showing the latest solar cycle projection is the March 5 issue. You can also see historic charts of this and previous solar cycles on WM7D's web site at: http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/index.epl (Bill Smith, TX, Cumbre DX March 28 via DXLD) ### ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-049, March 27, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. 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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO #1124 available early UT March 28: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1124.html FIRST AIRINGS ON WBCQ: UT Thu 0030 and 0600 on 7415 FIRST AIRINGS ON WWCR: Thu 2130 on 15685, Sat 0600 on 5070 FIRST AIRINGS ON RFPI: Fri 1930, Sat 0130, 0730, 1330, 1800, 2400 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB CONTINENT OF MEDIA 02-02 is now available: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0202.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0202.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0202.html [available soon] ALSO FROM DXing.com: http://www.dxing.com FIRST AIRINGS ON RFPI: Fri 1900, Sat 0100, 0700, 1300, 1730, 2330 on some of: 7445-USB, 15039, 21815-USB DX PROGRAMS new revision by John Norfolk: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL Glenn: I appreciate the posting. Thanks for the link to the latest issue. I have just returned to the hobby and am amazed at the resources that have come into play. I plan on checking-out your website later today. Thanks again, (Dave Lines, Spring City, PA) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Glenn: Gordon Adam, former head of BBC Pasto Service, writes about international broadcasting to Afghanistan in the Sunday Herald of Scotland.... http://www.sundayherald.com/23148 (via Kim Elliott, DC, DXLD) ** ALASKA. Amigos, convido-os a visitarem a página http://www.grimm.med.br/radioescuta.htm onde logo na abertura colocamos a imagem (frente e verso) do QSL da emissora HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program - Gakona) que o nosso grande amigo Marcelo Toníolo dos Anjos captou em 5800 KHz e ao reportar esta freqüência obteve este QSL raro, diga-se de passagem. Também convidamo-los a visitarem os demais segmentos da referida página (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo, SP, @tividade DX via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. Tirana at 0245 doesn`t seem to show up on UT Sundays already. Been that way for a few weeks. Continues to be late by 5+ minutes on both 6115 and 7160 at 0245. Or may show up on time on one and not the other, weekdays. March 21 0330, no show 6110 [sic] but OK on 7160, ditto at 0245 (Bob Thomas, CT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. OBSERVER #173 / 26-03-2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OBSERVER is an edition of RADIO BULGARIA compiled by Ivo Ivanov & Angel Datzinov Items here may be reproduced if it is mentioned "OBSERVER-BUL". All times in UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BULGARIA: Summer A-02 schedule of RADIO BULGARIA - March 31 to October 27, 2002: ADDR: 4, Dragan Tsankov Blvd., 1040 Sofia and P. O. Box 900, 1000 Sofia. Tel.:+359 2 9336 733; fax.:+359 2 650 560 Website: http://www.nationalradio.bg Programme Director: Angel Nedyalkov e-mail: nedyalkov@nationalradio.bg Frequency Manager: Ivo Ivanov e-mail: rbul1@nationalradio.bg MW: Petrich (G.C: 23.18E/41.42N): 747 kHz 500 kW/non-dir Vidin (G.C: 22.40E/43.49N): 1224 kHz 500 kW/205 deg SW: P=Plovdiv/Padarsko (G.C: 24.42E/42.10N): 2 x 500 kW, 3 x 250 kW S=Sofia/Kostinbrod (G.C: 23.13E/42.49N): 2 x 100 kW, 2 x 050 kW ====================================================================== ALBANIAN / e-mail: albanian@nationalradio.bg 0530-0530 Mon-Fri Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 0600-0700 Sat/Sun Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 1545-1630 -daily- Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 1900-1945 -daily- Balkans 5900 P250/248, 1224, 747 ====================================================================== BULGARIAN / e-mail: bulgarian@nationalradio.bg 0000-0100 -daily- North America 9400 P500/306, 11700*P500/306 0000-0100 -daily- South America 9500 P250/245, 11600 P250/258 0430-0500 Mon-Fri Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 0430-0500 Mon-Fri East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9500 S100/030 0430-0500 Mon-Fri West Europe 9400 P500/306, 12000*P500/306 0400-0500 Sat/Sun Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 0400-0500 Sat/Sun East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9500 S100/030 0400-0500 Sat/Sun West Europe 9400 P500/306, 12000*P500/306 1000-1030 -daily- East Europe 11700 S100/030, 15200 S100/030 1000-1030 -daily- West Europe 12000 P500/295, 13600 P250/306 1200-1400 -daily- Balkans 1224 1200-1400 -daily- West Europe 12000 P500/295, 15700*P500/306 1500-1600 -daily- Middle East 13600*P500/126 1500-1600 -daily- South Africa 17500 P500/185 1500-1700 -daily- East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9900 S100/030 1800-1900 -daily- Balkans 5900 P250/248, 1224, 747 1800-2000 -daily- Middle East 7400 P250/140 1800-2000 -daily- West Europe 7500 P250/306 ====================================================================== ENGLISH / e-mail: english@nationalradio.bg 0200-0300 -daily- North America 9400 P500/306, 11700*P500/306 1100-1200 -daily- West Europe 15700*P500/306, 17500 P250/292 1900-2000 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11900*P500/306 2100-2200 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11900*P500/306 2300-2400 -daily- North America 9400 P500/306, 11700*P500/306 ====================================================================== FRENCH / e-mail: french@nationalradio.bg 0100-0200 -daily- North America 9400 P500/306, 11700*P500/306 0600-0700 -daily- West Europe 12000 P500/295, 13600*P500/306 1700-1800 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11800*P500/306 2000-2100 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11900*P500/306 ====================================================================== GERMAN / e-mail: german@nationalradio.bg 0500-0545 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 12000*P500/306 1000-1100 -daily- West Europe 15700*P500/306, 17500 P250/292 1615-1700 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11800*P500/306 1800-1845 -daily- West Europe 9400 P500/306, 11800*P500/306 ====================================================================== GREEK / e-mail: greek@nationalradio.bg 0400-0430 Mon-Fri Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 0500-0600 Sat/Sin Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 1630-1715 -daily- Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224, 747 1945-2030 -daily- Balkans 5900 P250/248, 1224, 747 ====================================================================== RUSSIAN / e-mail: russian@nationalradio.bg 0300-0400 -daily- East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9500 S100/030 0300-0400 -daily- East Europe 11900 P250/045, 1224 1400-1500 -daily- East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9900 S100/030 1224 1400-1500 -daily- Central Asia 13800 P250/045 1700-1800 -daily- East Europe 7500 S100/030, 9900 S100/030 2300-2400 -daily- Central Asia 12100 P250/045 ====================================================================== SERBIAN / e-mail: serbian@nationalradio.bg 0530-0600 Mon-Fri Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 0700-0800 Sat/Sun Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 1500-1545 -daily- Balkans 7300 P250/248, 1224 2030-2115 -daily- Balkans 5900 P250/248, 1224, 747 ====================================================================== SPANISH / e-mail: spanish@nationalradio.bg 0100-0200 -daily- South America 9500 P250/245, 11600 P250/258 0100-0200 -daily- Central America 9700 P250/295 1600-1700 -daily- South Europe 15700 P250/260, 17500 P250/258 2100-2200 -daily- South Europe 11800 P250/258, 13800 P250/260 2300-2400 -daily- South America 9500 P250/245, 11600 P250/258 ====================================================================== TURKISH / e-mail: turkish@nationalradio.bg 0430-0500 Mon-Fri Middle East 6000 P250/115, 7400 P250/140 0500-0600 Sat/Sun Middle East 6000 P250/115, 7400 P250/140 1715-1800 -daily- Middle East 7400 P250/140, 1224, 747 ====================================================================== (*) effective July 1, 2002 DX-MIX program in Russian will be on air: 1445-1500 Saturday on 13800, 9900, 7500, 1224 1745-1800 Saturday on 9900, 7500 2345-2400 Saturday on 12100 0345-0400 Sunday on 11900, 9500, 7500, 1224 Radio Varna with program "Hello Sea"/"Zdravey more" in Bulgarian will be on air 2100-2400 Sun and 0000-0300 Mon on 9800 Varna 100 kW / non- dir. 73 from (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 26 via DXLD) ** CAMEROON. Some days in January/February I heard football reports on 5010 kHz. Cameroon team participated in all of them. It was Africa Cup, hosted by Mali. Last broadcast I heard was on 10 February, final game: Cameroon vs. Senegal. Judging from this, I can conclude that broadcasts came from Cameroon, rather than Madagaskar (Vladimir Rozhkov, Kansk, Russia, via Kvadrat, via Signal March 27 via DXLD) Indeed, Africans regularly transmit reports from large football events. Let's check stations from that continent during the World Cup 2002, maybe we will hear come reactivated frequencies then. I recall that in 1996, the fantastic final Nigeria-Brazil was broadcast live by Nigerian transmitter on 4990 kHz, which was silent long before (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia, Signal via DXLD) ** CANADA. Further to the discussion earlier, here's what happened on the afternoon show, the tail end of which I caught coming out of school. It was called (wait for it...) The Afternoon Edition, hosted by Kenny King. The news was read by Patricia Pleszczynska, whose voice I recognized from the weather forecasts this past weekend (Ricky Leong, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kenny King is Senior Sales Manager (Québec and Ottawa) for English TV, with offices both in Montréal and Ottawa. The idea of playing music he (presumably) liked reminded me of what I've done occasionally on CKUT, when I've been called in on short notice to host the morning show. Pleszczynska, as I mentioned in the last message, is head of English Radio in Québec. One person here told me that he heard Jean Larin reading news on French radio yesterday morning, and that he and another of the RCI bosses were on air on the weekend. 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QU, DX LISTENING DIGEST) "UNION SUPPORT STRONG AT CBC" http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id=897A75FB-7044-41AC-8A98-03F622B96697 More on the strike here. It will be interesting to see what the Labour Relations Board has to say. 73- (Bill Westenhaver, March 27, DXLD) You might be interested in this special issue on the SCRC strike. Particularly, you should check out the link for the "Blog-Out," the weblog on the strike by one of the striking journalists. 73- (Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) TSF NUMERIQUE N 1162 [1] CONFLIT DE TRAVAIL À RADIO-CANADA, ET «BLOGUE-OUT», PORTRAITS D'UN CONFLIT DE TRAVAIL Un conflit de travail opposant les 1 200 membres du Syndicat des Communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC - journalistes, recherchistes, assistants de réalisation et de production, animateurs et lecteurs de nouvelles) à leur employeur perturbe sérieusement la programmation de la chaîne d'État, tant à la radio qu'à la télévision. Situation confuse : les syndiqués avaient déclenché une grève de 24 heures, mais se sont vus refuser l'entrée des locaux de la société d'État au terme de leur arrêt de travail; le SCRC a porté plainte devant le Conseil canadien des relations industrielles (CCRI); la direction affirme qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un lock-out, mais bien d'une grève générale illimitée. Assemblée générale du syndicat, ce mardi 26 mars, et audience devant le CCRI. La chroniqueure médias du quotidien La Presse brosse un triste portrait de l'information qui «reste à voir» à la télé : «Il n'y a plus de téléjournaux avec présentateurs et météo et analyses à Radio- Canada depuis vendredi. Mais après avoir annoncé un congé de nouvelles pour le week-end à la Première Chaîne, Radio-Canada s'est ravisée et a diffusé simultanément sur ses deux chaînes un bulletin où des voix généralement inconnues - sauf celle du patron des nouvelles Jean Pelletier - nous racontent l'actualité. Le style n'y est pas, mais la plupart des nouvelles y sont.» Pour ce qui est des informations à la radio... Répercussions sur le Web : le SCRC nous propose une revue de presse quotidienne sur le conflit tel que traité par les médias, et publie également son journal syndical, «Le Petit canard», qui d'éditions spéciales «négo» est passé aux éditions spéciales «grève» puis aux éditions «lock-out». Mais la perspective originale est celle de «Blogue-Out : portraits d'un conflit», un blogue mis en ligne par Jean-Hugues Roy, l'ex- animateur de l'émission sur les nouvelles technologies «Branché» qui a joint les rangs de la salle des nouvelles depuis le retrait de l'émission de la grille horaire. L'avis est de mise : «Ce blogue est une initiative personnelle de Jean-Hugues Roy et ne représente ni l'avis de Radio-Canada, ni l'avis du Syndicat des communications de R.-C.» Et pourquoi un blogue sur le conflit? On sait que la précarité des emplois des contractuels, surnuméraires, temporaires et autres est un des points en litige. Roy explique : «J'ai eu une idée la nuit dernière, celle qui porte conseil. Chaque jour que le lock-out se poursuivra, je ferai le portrait d'un-e collègue qui travaille dans la précarité. Ça mettra un visage sur une abstraction.» Mais le techno-branché et adepte de la photo numérique ne se limite pas aux images et y va également de commentaires bien sentis de l'intérieur, comme celui-ci : «Les cellulaires fournis par RC ne fonctionnent plus depuis vendredi avant-midi. Un moindre mal si on travaille à Montréal. Mais les copains de Sans Frontières qui sont en Israël et dans les Territoires sont soudain incomunicado... En zone de guerre, un cellulaire peut vous sauver la vie.» On aime les blogues de journalistes, on déplore qu'il y en ait si peu en français, mais souhaitons à Blogue-Out une courte vie. On se souvient trop, pour l'avoir vécue, de la grève de huit mois des journalistes, du 30 octobre 1980 au 30 juin 1981. Syndicat des Communications de Radio-Canada http://www.scrc.qc.ca/ Cyberpresse : Radio-Canada en conflit : ce qu'il reste à voir http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/chroniqueurs/lcousineau/lcou_102030080862.html SCRC : Le Petit Canard http://www.scrc.qc.ca/sections.php?submit=sections§ion=5 Blogue-Out : portraits d'un conflit http://radcan.blogspot.com/ Radio-Canada : Sans frontières http://radio-canada.ca/actualite/sansfrontieres/ UNION DES ECOUTEURS FRANCAIS Radiodiffusions, utilitaires, radio-écouteurs, radioamateurs, techniques... Courriel: uef@nerim.fr uef@u-e-f.net Web: http://www.u-e-f.net La radio des radios : http://www.radio-uef.org U.E.F.: B.P.31, 92242 MALAKOFF Cedex, FRANCE. (via Bill Westenhaver, QU, March 27, DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC PLANS TO CHOP THIS MORNING http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020326/452419.html A disappointing story, especially the disappearance of "The House!" 73- (Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) March 26, 2002 Also facing axe: The House: 'They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz' --- by Chris Cobb, Ottawa Citizen The CBC is set to scrap high-profile programs This Morning and The House as part of an overhaul of its national Radio One service. This Morning, a radio institution that reaches 1.43 million listeners daily, began in the early 1970s as Peter Gzowski's This Country in the Morning and is currently hosted by Shelagh Rogers. The House, a weekly Parliamentary digest now in its 25th year, is a favourite with hundreds of thousands of political junkies across the country, 600,000 of whom tune in each week. Both shows are among the highest-rated programs on CBC Radio. Axing The House is sure to cause a stir among federal politicians. Jim Abbott, the British Columbia MP who is Canadian Alliance heritage critic, argued that The House offers an important service to Canadians. "It's an hour-long program that no private broadcaster could afford to do," he said yesterday. "It makes politicians more accountable and exposes to Canadians more of the detail of what's going on in Ottawa. And it has great listenership. So why are they playing with it? "It's exactly the sort of programming the publicly funded broadcaster should be doing." Anthony Germain, who recently replaced veteran broadcaster Jason Moscovitz as host of The House, confirmed the show is coming to an end, but refused to discuss the decision. "I'm just very disappointed that a show with such a loyal audience is being taken off the air," he said. The Radio One makeover, scheduled for September, is the first major overhaul of CBC radio in 30 years. It will affect local and national programming in the weekday-morning prime-time hours from 6 a.m. to noon, and it will mean major changes throughout the day on Saturday. Network management figures the makeover is necessary if the CBC is to better reflect Canada, attract younger listeners and widen its appeal among minority groups. Alex Frame, CBC vice-president of radio, yesterday refused to discuss specific programs until the changes are announced in late April. "This country has gone through significant changes," he said. "If you look at Vancouver, it would be hard to call it a northern European city now -- or Toronto, the same thing. "When you listen to CBC Radio in Vancouver or Toronto, does it sound like the city in which you are living? Ottawa is a very different city than it was 15 years ago. Are we reflecting those changes?" Whatever happens to The House, added Mr. Frame, CBC Radio will not reduce its political coverage. And he denied CBC Radio will deliberately target a younger audience, but said if the make-over is successful, the number of listeners in the 35 to 49 age group is likely to increase. During the past 10 years, the percentage of CBC Radio's audience older than 50 has increased to 69% from 53%. "We don't intend to pander to any demographic," he said. "We don't have to worry about our share of audience. We have a hell of a share." It also appears the popular science show Quirks & Quarks will shift from its current noontime slot to fill the morning hour left by The House -- 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. -- and Saturday afternoon will be all live programming. Other shows, such as The Sunday Edition and the venerable weekday evening As It Happens, are likely to stay in their current spots. Changes to the Saturday schedule have been partly forced upon CBC management because Arthur Black is retiring from his long-running morning show Basic Black, and Nora Young, host of the afternoon pop culture show Definitely Not the Opera, wants to work on other projects. Replacement shows are being developed but so far, CBC management has given no details to staff. One CBC employee, who asked not to be named, said management wants more "buzz" around its radio service. "They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz," said the employee. "They want a radio service that has people talking around the water cooler." CBC management believes national political coverage on CBC Radio has become too Ottawa-centred and more stories should emanate from elsewhere in the country. In a little-noticed shift last week, Tony Burman, the CBC-TV news chief, was appointed editor-in-chief for news and current affairs of both TV and radio. This is the first time one person has held both jobs and is a signal that some joining of radio and TV news resources is imminent. Senior CBC executives have taken the unusual step of producing briefing notes for middle managers so they could be consistent in answering employee questions about Mr. Burman's new job. "The announcement is likely to cause a stir internally, particularly among the radio news and current affairs staff," the briefing document says. The document gives managers a series of questions that staff might possibly ask, along with the answers to each question. (National Post March 26 via Bill Westenhaver, Ivan Grishin, DXLD) ** CANADA. Here's a piece about the funeral for Johnny Lombardi in Toronto. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1017097420579&call_page=TS_GTA&call_pageid=968350130169&call_pagepath=GTA/News 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QB, DXLD) Lombardi 'made people happy' http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/toronto/story.html?f=/stories/20020326/452654.html Here more on Johnny Lombardi's funeral [CHIN-1540]. 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QC; Sergei Sosedkin, IL, DXLD) ** CANADA. Received the following press release in my e-mail box from Star Ray TV --- the pirate/community (depending on your point of view) TV station that's been broadcasting in the east end of Toronto on UHF Channel 15 for the last number of years. 73 de Bob VE3SRE Star Ray TV, 186 Main Street, Toronto, ON M4E 1W2 Tel: (416) 693-7400 Email: srtv@s... [truncated] Website: http://www.srtv.on.ca March 26, 2002 Press Release For immediate release, Toronto: STAR RAY TV GOES TO PARLIAMENT Jan Pachul, has been fighting the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for years over a licence to operate a low power community television station in the east end of Toronto. Earlier this month, Pachul, general manager and owner of Star Ray TV was invited to appear before Parliament's Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. The Committee is studying the state of the Canadian broadcasting system, as a pioneer of community television Pachul was pleased to have the opportunity to speak publicly about his frustrations with the CRTC - to the people who can recommend the changes needed to grant his community, and others like it, the right to broadcast the kind of local programming that is not available from any other source. Pachul called for the disbanding of CRTC, referring to it as a "corrupt, wasteful, useless bureaucratic" organization. He makes the argument that a broadcasting system where five corporations own a majority of broadcasting properties nationwide is the result of the CRTC's biased policies in favour of a handful of industry élites. The CRTC denied Pachul's licence application for a new, innovative, community television station when five major broadcast organizations objected, even though the public was in total support of the station. Pachul maintains that the majority of commissioners fabricated reasons to turn down his application. "Yes, they came up with reasons right out of thin air that had absolutely no validity, " he says. Pachul believes that freedom of speech should include equal access to broadcasting frequencies for everyone, not just for a few wealthy corporate insiders. Pachul takes issue with the majority of CRTC commissioners being lawyers or consultants and questions their qualifications to judge what stations and programming Canadians can watch. He says, "A couch potato that watches 40 hours of TV a week would be more qualified and preferable as a CRTC commissioner than a lawyer." He proposes a broadcasting system that is competitive and responsive to new players in broadcasting. "Why is the CRTC dictating programming formats and protecting existing formats from any competition?" he asks. "The tasks needed to regulate broadcasting such as spectrum management and competition law are already done by Industry Canada. So what is the CRTC accomplishing?" It would appear that their agenda is to maintain the same kind of bureaucratic control that has made sure that only a select few players will continue to rule the airwaves, which do after all belong to all of us. The Heritage Committee meeting will be broadcast on CPAC this Thursday, March 28th at 8:00 a.m. Please tune in to watch these vital developments. Jan Pachul's complete speech can be found at http://www.srtv.on.ca/speech.html For more information, please contact Jan Pachul directly at 416.693.7400, srtv@s... [truncated], or visit the Star Ray WWW site at http://www.srtv.on.ca (via Bob Chandler, ODXA via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6115 \\ MW 666, Voice of Strait, Friday and Sunday in English 0900-1000 (Roland Schulze, Philippines, BC-DX Mar 22 via DXLD) ?? What kind of program in English? (gh, DXLD) ** CONGO DR. Okapi? Seems to have some problems already: not on air last night nor this morning (Vashek Korinek, RSA, DXplorer Mar 21 via BC-DX via DXLD) Any reports from Okapi 9550 since Sunday? Here in Salzburg I can only listen to Cuba and the CRI transmitter in Kunming after 2200 UT, but nothing from our African giraffe. The frequency is free here in CEu after 2000 UT (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, OE2CRM, DXplorer Mar 20 via BC-DX via DXLD) 9550 R Okapi, at 0241 opera, English ID "Radio Okapi broadcasting from Kinshasa. Time now for..." sound effects, more English, address given for Hirondelle Foundation, says broadcasts on SW on 9550 and mentions "2 hours UTC", 0257 instrumental IS. This seems to be on a weekend schedule. Poor, QRM/Cuba in Spanish (Peter Monterey [sic], CA, DXplorer Mar 24 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** CUBA. I now do 99%+ of my international listening on the NET or local FM, but stories like this are reasons International Broadcasters should think multiple times about dropping shortwave (Larry Nebron, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ============================================================ From Wired News, available online at: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,51270,00.html CUBA BANS PC SALES TO PUBLIC By Julia Scheeres, 2:00 a.m. March 25, 2002 PST The Cuban government has quietly banned the sale of computers and computer accessories to the public, except in cases where the items are "indispensable" and the purchase is authorized by the Ministry of Internal Commerce. News of the ban was first reported by CubaNet, an anti-Castro site based in Miami. According to the organization's correspondent in Havana, the merchandise -- which had been sold freely in the capital since mid-2001-- was yanked off store shelves in January. See also: - [links presumably in WIRED original] Cuba Not So Libre With the Net - Faint Voices Rise From Cuba - Fidel Won't Like This Website - Cuba Hears Call for Wireless - Everybody's got issues in Politics The computer departments of the retail stores were divided into two zones: a well-stocked area for government buyers, and a smaller area where the public could buy diskettes, CDs and other such items. A store employee told the correspondent she was forbidden from discussing the move, which was also referred to briefly in a newsletter published by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. Early attempts to confirm the information independently were unsuccessful. Dozens of messages to Cuban retailers and government officials in Cuba went unanswered. Cuba's spokesman in Wáshington, Luís Fernández, was consistently evasive. "If we didn't have an embargo, there could be computers for everybody," Fernández replied when asked this question: Are computer sales to the public banned in Cuba? Several weeks later, a government employee in Cuba sent Wired News, through a Web-based e-mail account, a copy of a resolution mandating the ban. In an interview using an instant-messaging service, the source -- who asked to remain anonymous -- criticized the decree and said it had generated a great deal of controversy within government circles after it was unilaterally mandated by the Minister of Internal Commerce, Bárbara Castillo. According to Article 19, Chapter II, Section 3 of the ministry's Resolution No. 383/2001: "The sale of computers, offset printer equipment, mimeographs, photocopiers, and any other mass printing medium, as well as their parts, pieces and accessories, is prohibited to associations, foundations, civic and nonprofit societies, and natural born citizens. In cases where the acquisition of this equipment or parts, pieces and accessories is indispensable, the authorization of the Ministry of Internal Commerce must be solicited." The source's decision to send the information was especially daring in light of a gag law that mandates a 3- to 10-year prison term for anyone who collaborates with "enemy news media." Because government officials refused to comment on the ban, the reason for the move is a matter of speculation. The rise of independent journalists in Cuba, who published articles on the Internet criticizing the Castro regime, may have something to do with it. The correspondents, who risk jail time for their "subversive" reports, send their stories by fax, e-mail or phone dictation to supporters in Miami. "We believe our website had something to do with it," said Manrique Iriarte Sr., who helps run the website for the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, which launched a few weeks before the ban was passed in late December. The economists' site offers a sharp contrast to the rosy Marxist dream proffered by Castro, including news of opposition arrests and detailed reports on the decrepit state of the island economy. The site is blocked in Cuba. Iriarte said he visited several Havana stores in January where employees told him computer equipment was only available for "accredited state entities." The move didn't surprise Cuba-watchers in the United States. "This just reflects a further restriction on communications with the outside world," said Eugene Pons, of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami. The government already requires Cubans who can afford Internet accounts -- which cost $260 a month, while the average Cuban salary is $240 a year -- to register with National Center for Automated Data Exchange (CENAI), Pons said. For those who do manage to log on, the Internet experience is limited: The government-controlled ISPs block links to certain foreign media, anti-Castro sites and pornography. The government has also admitted to monitoring e-mail. To circumvent such spying, residents use Web-based e-mail accounts and chat services to make their communication harder to trace. Indeed, the Cuban source used a Web-based account to reply to a message sent to the person's government account. "If I disappear from cyberspace one day, it's because they found out I was talking to you," the source said. Related Wired Links: Cuba Zine: Viva La Revolución July 26, 2001 Our RAM in Havana June 7, 2001 Silicon Island: A Cuban Fantasy? June 6, 2001 Cuba Picks Euro Cell Standard May 2, 2001 Feds Say Fidel Is Hacker Threat Feb. 9, 2001 Copyright (C) 1994-2002 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. (via Larry Nebron, DXLD) ** CUBA. Re Castro`s Rebellious Daughter... This ran in local paper with photo, and the mic logo said WQBA 1140. Isn't this the daughter who began life in the back seat of Fidel's car? (if you consider began life to be 9 months before birth) (Bob Foxworth, FL, NRC-AM via DXLD) Sure, she`s admittedly his, er, love child (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT. Cairo remains terrible in English to North America at 2300 on 9900, with R. Nederland Spanish QRM from 9895. Hit or miss for #2 tx at 0200 on 9475. Usually 9480 Moscow QRM to LAm in Spanish (Bob Thomas, CT, March 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS. Saw the item in DXLD 2-048 about the British Ham who received transmissions about the invasion. I dug up an old magazine format publication I had titled "The Falklands Story" by John Beattie of the Daily Star, copyright 1982, Express newspapers Ltd. "And for two weeks after the invasion, the islanders' only link with Britain was through the efforts of a brave radio ham, known then only as "Bob", who managed to transmit valuable information and intelligence about the invaders. Later he was identified as 28-year- old Bob MacLeod - one of the 112 islanders held under armed guard for 38 days in Goose Green recreation hall before being freed by British forces." So some of the story was known in 1982 (Larry Russell, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. SWL Winterfest on Radio Finland There will likely be a report from SWL Winterfest on Radio Finland's "Capital Weekend" show this coming weekend (Sat. and Sunday March 30- 31st). Capital Weekend airs on Saturdays at 1 pm Finnish time (1100 UT) on Capital FM (97.5 in Helsinki), as well as on 13755 and 17820 kHz SW. The broadcast can be heard again on Sundays at 7.30 am (530 am UT) on Capital FM, some FM stations elsewhere in Finland, as well as on Radio Finland's satellites. The broadcast is also rerun on Sundays at 11 pm (2100 UT) on Capital FM, as well as on 9720 and 11985 kHz SW. 73 (Mika Makelainen, http://www.makelainen.com/dx hard-core-dx via John Figliozzi, swprograms via DXLD) But, but, the different A-02 schedule begins in the middle of this; see previous info here (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. A printed Summer Schedule from Transmission Management, DW, headed Alaska/Canada makes some interesting selections in times, sites and frequencies, supposedly for this region, including English via Kigali: 0900-0945 21560, 1100-1145 21665, 1900-1945 11805, 2100-2145 9875, 15135 (via Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, CANADA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY/USA [non]. Voice of Hope via Biblis Actually this Voice of Hope / High Adventure Ministries transmission via Biblis is already in progress; on the Feb 22 visit Wolfgang learned that Biblis just started to air something for Deutsche Telekom (something = HAM programming) 1700-1900 on 9815 and that the IBB headquarters is in negotiations with DTAG about a future cooperation. I must add that the 80 degree azimuth is part of the original arrangement for Jülich itself, the respective line in the original Excel file reads as follows: 9495 1700 1900 29,30 110 80 217 1234567 310302 271002 VOH 100 KW aus Biblis This means that if Jülich would handle this slot then they would use antenna #110 with a beam heading of 80 degrees. The current Biblis operation has slightly different azimuths with a break/switch at 1800: 9815 1700-1800 VOA DTK1 VAR BIB 02 088 9815 1800-1900 VOA DTK1 VAR BIB 07 063 Indeed the Jülich transmitters are quite busy during these hours, so some transmissions were already "outsourced" to Wertachtal and Nauen, and now also the IBB started to do some work for DTAG with its otherwise underused facilities in Germany. But hey, why not let DTAG broker idle capacity (if there is any) on IBB facilities outside Germany, too? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. CRU Corrected on Deutsche Telekom. Re: ``Actually, - Deutsche Welle does not own transmitters itself`` [in Germany!, but Deutsche Welle is shareholder together with Merlin on Antigua; at Sines, Portugal, Kigali, Rwanda, and Trincomalee, Sri Lanka --- wb] The German external service has always relied on transmission facilities of the Deutsche Bundespost or, today, Deutsche Telekom. - There are several transmitter sites in Germany used for international short wave broadcasting. Since the unification of Germany Deutsche Welle transmissions have also been broadcast from facilities on East German soil. Today they use 500 kW-transmitters in Southern and Eastern Germany. - Because of this, the 100-kW-transmitters at the Juelich site have become redundant and Deutsche Telekom in the mid-90s started selling airtime to keep the station alive. According to Telekom staff actually in the business of selling the airtime say, selling the time just helps saving the jobs at the station. - The Juelich station has about ten 100-kW-transmitters. The number of 28 may relate to antennas. Finally, - Sentech which operates the short wave transmitter site at Meyerton, South Africa, is also selling airtime. So, I would suppose, that they are also in the race (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, World Conference on Religion and Peace, Mar 4, via BC-DX via DXLD) ** HAWAII. Re: ``Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Wow! What a headline. And, it's true. KNUI Kahului 900 has its transmitter atop Mt. Haleakala and a freak wind and snowstorm on January 19 blew the station off-air. It's since returned, using about 1.66 kW instead of the normal 5 kW but should power up again real soon. (Melvin Ah Ching`s Hawaiian Radio and TV Guide via March NZ DX Times via DXLD)`` Glenn - I don't think KNUI is on Mt. Haleakala. Mt. Haleakala is 10,000 feet above sea level. I visited Maui last fall and stayed about a mile from what I believe is KNUI's transmitter site (with KAOI-1110 diplexing off it). I have taken helicopter tours of Mt. Haleakala twice and there's nothing resembling an AM tower up there. 73, (Dennis Gibson, CA, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Of course, that makes sense and the story doesn`t. How about an FM transmitter up there? BTW... (gh, DXLD) 900 HAWAII KNUI Kahului, Mar 23 1405 - Excellent signal of SE Asian folk-pop tunes, and male announcer in Tagalog or minority lang. S- 9+20db level on Western Beverage (Guy ATKINS, Grayland Dxpedition, WA, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** HUNGARY. Glenn: In DXLD 2046 I caught a news item in Spanish about re-inauguration of Spanish, Italian and French broadcasts from R. Budapest (starting from March 31 '02). There was only Spanish schedule given. Here's the schedule for French and Italian that was announced in today's English broadcast. The new broadcasts were described as "news bulletins." French 0430-0445 6025, 7165 2015-2030 6025, 7235 Italian 2030-2045 6025, 11755 2130-2145 6025, 11885 According to Alexandr Yegorov's news item in Russian DX_Bistro, R. Budapest is planning to cut its daily Ukrainian broadcasts from 30 to 15 min. in order to fund new language services. It is possible that other broadcasts will be shortened as well. Surprisingly, the official site of R. Budapest promotes the "new" summer schedule valid from March 25, 2001 (Sergei Sosedkin, IL, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More on R. Budapest: The Hungarian international broadcaster will be restructured and become part of the first national program (Kossuth Radio). The Hungarian language service will mainly take over rebroadcasts from the national channel. While broadcasts in German, English and Russian remain unchanged, the foreign language services will be reduced from 30 to 15 minutes. On the other hand Radio Budapest will start broadcasts in French, Spanish and Italian. These 15 minutes programs consist of news and music. Csaba Banky (Radio Budapest, German service via Vasily Gulyaev in DX-Bistro via Sergei Sosedkin, March 27, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 909, RRI Sorong, Mar 24 1315 - Nostalgia music selections ('Greensleeves' etc.); male and female announcers in Indonesian; signal in and out of noise. Lagu romantik music 1339; mentions of 'dari Jakarta' 1344. More lagu romantik 1350; phone interview 1355; music over TOH to announcer talk 1403. Woman announcer with mention of Jakarta and Sorong 1405. This catch was the highlight of the DXpedition for most participants; Indonesia is a very rare logging on MW from the Pacific NW (Guy ATKINS, Grayland Dxpedition, WA, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. USA: VOLKSWAGEN SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH XM AND SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO | Excerpt from press release from XM Satellite Radio on 25 March Washington DC, 25 March: Volkswagen of America, Inc., which also encompasses Audi of America, today announced it has signed distribution agreements with Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, to offer Volkswagen and Audi customers in the United States a choice of satellite radio services in the coming years. XM and Sirius are each broadcasting a satellite radio service, offering 100 channels of digital audio entertainment coast to coast for a low monthly fee. Specific vehicle installation plans and timing will be announced separately by Volkswagen and Audi in the future. "We are thrilled to add Volkswagen and Audi to the list of automakers that have embraced satellite radio," said Joseph P. Clayton, President and CEO of Sirius and Hugh Panero, President and CEO of XM, in a joint statement. [puff alert] XM is transforming radio, an industry that has seen little technological change since FM, almost 40 years ago. XM's programming lineup features 100 coast-to-coast digital channels: 71 music channels, more than 30 of them commercial-free, from hip hop to opera, classical to country, bluegrass to blues; and 29 channels of sports, talk, children's and entertainment. XM also brings to the car, for the first time on radio, the same diverse selection of 24-hour news sources available in the home on cable and DirecTV. General Motors in November rolled out factory-installed Delphi-Delco XM radios in Cadillac DeVille and Seville models, and will expand to a total of 23 Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Olds and Pontiac models this year. Isuzu dealers will begin to offer XM radios to customers in April. XM radios are available at major electronics retailers nationwide including Best Buy, Circuit City, Tweeter, Ultimate Electronics, participating RadioShack Dealers and Franchisees, Crutchfield, Good Guys, CarToys, Audio Express and Sound Advice; and at independent retailers. Leading manufacturers such as Sony, Alpine and Pioneer offer a broad array of XM radios that easily enable any existing car stereo system. XM's strategic investors include America's leading car, radio and satellite TV companies - General Motors, American Honda Motor Co. Inc., Clear Channel Communications and DirecTV. For more information, please visit XM's web site: http://www.xmradio.com Media Contacts: Tony Fouladpour Volkswagen of America, Inc. 248-754- 5064 tony.fouladpour@vw.com Mindy Kramer Sirius Satellite Radio 212- 584-5138 mkramer@siriusradio.com Charles Robbins XM Satellite Radio 202-380-4316 charles.robbins@xmradio.com Jennifer Cortez Audi of America, Inc. 248- 754-4729 jennifer.cortez@audi.com Source: XM Satellite Radio press release, Washington, in English 25 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** IRAN. While many international broadcasters are depending more on rebroadcasting to reach their audiences, Iran is increasing its use of brute force radio transmitters to send signals across national boundaries. The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran reports that IRIB - Iran's Voice and Vision broadcasting organization, in cooperation with an Iranian university, has built a one-megawatt radio broadcast transmitter. The report does not say what frequency this will use, or even if it's medium wave or SW. It does say that this is only the world's sixth one million watt radio broadcast transmitter (Baber Shehzad, NL of Pakistani Dxers, via WWDXC BC-DX Mar 19 via DXLD) ** IRAQ/KURDISTAN [non]. Voice of Iraqi People can be received after 1800 on 3900 in Arabic. ID: Huna sawt ash shaab al Iraqi. This station is different from mentioned in Kvadrat one known as Republic of Iraq Radio, Voice of Iraqi People and using 1053, 4785 and 9563. Another station signing off after 1700 is Radio Station Freedom, Voice of the Communist Party of Iraqi Kurdistan. ID in Kurdish is: Era Ezgay Azadiya, Dengi hizbi Shuyul Kurdistani Iraqa. Voice of the Iraqi Communist Workers Party, 01.55 on 4000 in Arabic. ID: Sawt al hizb al Shuyul al Ummali al Iraqi. (Vladimir Rozhkov, Kansk, Russia, via Kvadrat) Kvadrat editor's comment: according to ClandestineRadio.com, Voice of the Iraqi Communist Workers Party have been inactive since August 1999 (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia, Signal March 27 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. On today's Jerusalem Post front page (print edition) it does confirm that Israel changes the clock forward one hour at 1 AM this Friday morning (Thurs night/Fri morning). (Doni Rosenzweig, Israel, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. Glenn, Moshe [Oren, Bezeq] phoned me last night and advised me that KI will continue with their broadcasts until ONE JULY. At that time they will have to find additional finances to continue with their broadcasts. He gave me a schedule to monitor for the WCNA which included English, Hebrew and Persian. Hang in there (George Poppin, San Francisco, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel update: at least 3 more months. Today's Jerusalem Post mentions that the shortwave broadcasts will continue for at least the next three months. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/26/News/News.45871.html SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS STAY - FOR NOW --- By Gil Hoffman JERUSALEM (March 26) - After receiving countless letters from angry Diaspora Jews, the Israel Broadcasting Authority decided yesterday not to eliminate its shortwave broadcasts. The broadcasts are heard in 11 languages by hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. The IBA decided to maintain the broadcasts for at least the next three months, while it seeks funding from the Jewish Agency, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, and organizations dealing with the Diaspora. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Tzipi Livni, the minister in charge of public relations in the Prime Minister's Office, pushed to save the broadcasts at Sunday's cabinet meeting. Livni expressed outrage that at a time when the country needs to deepen its connection with the Diaspora and improve its public relations, such an important tool is being eliminated to save a little money. Minister-without-Portfolio Ra'anan Cohen, in charge of enforcing the IBA's mandate to broadcast internationally, said he was compelled to reverse the decision by the tremendous outcry from readers of The Jerusalem Post throughout the world. "These broadcasts represent the only living connection between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora," Cohen said. "The Diaspora is one of the most important targets of the IBA, and reaching such an audience justifies its very existence." The IBA board had decided to replace the shortwave broadcasts with transmission via the Internet and satellite, starting April 1. A large percentage of those protesting the decision were listeners in countries without widespread access to advanced technologies, like Romania, Georgia, and Russia. The IBA broadcasts daily in English, Russian, French, Yiddish, Ladino, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, Georgian, Bukharian, and Mugrabi (via Daniel Rosenzweig, Israel, March 26, and via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Two pieces from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz concerning a flap over programme content on Reshet Bet, particularly cancellation of some talk programming. ** ISRAEL. OPPOSITION MOUNTS TO PLANNED CHANGES AT RESHET BET Cancellation of current events discussions marks the `death of democracy,' charge critics. By Uri Ayalon Israel Radio's Reshet Bet broadcasts were stopped again yesterday during the scheduled time slot of "Behetzi Hayom" (from noon to 2 P.M.) in protest over the firing of the program's regular editor, Nili Amir. This time, the 1 P.M. news was also not broadcast. It was the first time workers had refused to broadcast a news program since the large-scale strike action at the Israel Broadcasting Authority in 1987. During the two-hour work stoppage yesterday, workers met to discuss the dismissal of Amir, the reduction in overtime pay, and the intentions of Amnon Nadav, the director of the radio, to change the broadcast format on Reshet Bet, canceling all of the "personal" current event programs, such as "Inyan Aher" and "Hakol Diburim," which make up the main part of Reshet Bet's programming schedule and are presented by a regular host. This last decision, approved on Sunday by the radio council of the IBA plenum, has aroused considerable opposition both within and outside the IBA. Nahman Shai, the IBA chairman, asked the authority's acting director-general, Yosef Barel, not to take any steps to implement the decision before it is discussed by the IBA plenum. Those opposed to canceling the "personal" programs are arguing that the Prime Minister's Bureau is behind these plans in an attempt to quash critical discussion of the events of the day and replace them with news broadcasts that leave no room for a range of opinions.... http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=145526&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=145526 And an editorial: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=145529&contrassID=2&subContrassID=3&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=145529 (via Bill Westenhaver, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. HJC REJECTS LEGALIZATION OF ARUTZ 7 RADIO STATION Glenn, Another view of the story from: http://new.globes.co.il Shmuel Dekalo, 26.03.2002 17:13 The High Court of Justice (HJC) today rejected the Telecommunications Law amendment making the Arutz 7 radio station legal. The HJC ruled that the amendment violated freedom of occupation and was therefore null and void. The ruling was written by Judge Theodor Or, with the concurrence of judges Aharon Barak, Shlomo Levin, Mishael Cheshin, Tova Strasberg-Cohen, Dalia Dorner, Dorit Beinish, Itzhak Englard and Eliezer Rivlin. The HJC was petitioned by MK Haim Oron (Meretz), MK Eitan Cable (Labor), MK Avraham Poraz (Shinui) and regional radio stations. In February 1997, the Knesset approved an amendment to the Telecommunications Law that legalized Arutz 7. The relevant clause said that whoever set up or operated a public radio station in Israel for five consecutive years before January 1999 and continued operating it after the said date would be considered as having been granted a license under the Telecommunications Law. Or ruled that the amendment effectively granted a license for operating a radio station without a tender. All the petitions filed with the court challenged the legality of such a consequence. At the beginning of his analysis of the implications of the amendment, Or said it violated the freedom of occupation and did not come within the exemptions allowed for by the basic law. Needless to say, Or says, that granting a license and a concession to radio stations operating without a license is improper. It offers a prize to offenders, thereby gravely undermining the rule of law, in addition to undermining the freedom of occupation of potential competitors, without advancing any social objective. Published by Israel's Business Arena on 26 March, 2002 (via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) HIGH COURT NULLIFIES PIRATE RADIO LAW PASSED BY KNESSET By Dan Izenberg The High Court of Justice today nullified a law passed by the Knesset retroactively legitimizing pirate radio stations that had been operating for five consecutive years. Click here to read more: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/26/LatestNews/LatestNews.45891.html (via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) Here`s a fuller story about this: HIGH COURT OVERTURNS KNESSET LAW LEGITIMIZING ARUTZ 7, PIRATE STATIONS By Dan Izenberg JERUSALEM (March 27) - The High Court of Justice yesterday nullified a law retroactively legitimizing pirate radio stations, including Arutz 7, that had been operating for five consecutive years. Click here to read more: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/27/News/News.45960.html (via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) Ha'aretz story re the court decision against the legalization of pirate radio stations: COURT RULES ARUTZ 7 BROADCASTING IS ILLEGAL By Moshe Reinfeld A nine-justice panel of the High Court of Justice yesterday ruled unanimously that the amendment to the Bezeq Law that enabled Arutz 7, the right-wing pirate radio station, to broadcast, is illegal since it violates the Basic Law on Freedom of Occupation. The decision prompted cries of outrage by right-wing MKs, and the National Religious Party called for a special Knesset session during Pesach recess to pass a law to circumvent yesterday's decision.... http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=146010&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 73- (via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) ** JAPAN. --- Notice from NHK WORLD --- NHK World Radio Japan's frequencies will be were changed at April 1st, 2002. [sic] http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ [go there only if you want an exercise in tedium and frustration] Welcome to NHK WORLD e-GUIDE Greetings everyone. We are proud to bring to all of our subscribers the first issue of NHK WORLD e-GUIDE, a new program information service provided by NHK WORLD.This inaugural issue focuses on the new programs starting in April. The next issue will be out on March 29. Every Friday from then on, this magazine will tell you all you need to know about the following week's programs. NHK World Radio Japan - In English - ((((((((((((((( Japan Music Treasure Box ))))))))))))))) Wednesday, 12:25 - 12:59 p.m. (JST), etc. [UT +9] This program introduces the alluring world of Japanese sounds. It features popular Japanese children's and other songs, with commentaries on history, customs and traditions. The beautiful moving words and melodies reveal scenery, livelihoods and traditions that shift with the each passing season. ((((((((((((((( Pop Joins the World ))))))))))))))) Saturday, 15:10 - 15:59 (JST), etc. Pop music is very popular in many parts of the world and in many communities of various ethnic groups. It conveys messages on such themes as love, hope, dreams, life, society and peace around the world. Pop Joins the World focuses on popular songs from the global music scenes, with brief profiles of the singers and history, culture and folk tradition, of the regions of origin. This program aims to spread through music people's earnest hope for world peace in the 21st century. ===We welcome your comments on programs and programming== * NHK WORLD TV worldtv@intl.nhk.or.jp * NHK World Radio Japan info@intl.nhk.or.jp ================================================== * The program information and broadcast times presented in NHK WORLD e-GUIDE may be changed without notice. * For inquiries about subscription (free) and delivery of NHK WORLD e-GUIDE: pr02@intl.nhk.or.jp (via Wolfgang Büschel, Jon Standingbear, DXLD) ** JAPAN. Radio Tampa to reduce broadcast times. The Japanese commercial SW broadcaster has announced plans to substantially reduce its Second Network broadcast times. From Apr 1, this network will be on the air ONLY on Saturdays and Sundays local days in Japan - the weekday services will be abolished. New (UT) schedule will be 2300- 0900 3945 and 6115, 2300-0800 9760 (Koji Yamada, Japan, BC-DX Mar 23 via DXLD) ** KENYA. 23-Mar-02 at 1122 UT, 4935 Kenya BC Corp, 14231, Unbelievable catch, tentative, English service, YL and OM with international sports news, poor signal but enough to catch snippets; Nairobi, Kenya, 10/100kW (Bruce Jensen, San Lorenzo CA, Icom R75, Alpha Delta DX-Ultra and 65' random wire phased through MFJ-1026, ShortWaveRadio yahoogroup via DXLD) I agree, it`s unbelievable (gh) ** LIBERIA. 6100, "Voice of Liberia" (so announced), 0630 Mar 19 with. 6100? I listen yesterday around 2230 UT on 5100 to the same Voice of Liberia with international pop music, s-off at 2300 UT (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, DXplorer Mar 24 via BC-DX via DXLD) It's the same station as on 5100. I'm not sure exactly what time they come on 6100; the frequency is blocked by DW until (I think) 0600. Seldom reported, it seems, but the signal is generally decent enough. Frequency is listed in PWBR and shown on their website http://www.afric-network.fr/afric/liberia/liberia.html (which does not, however, show 5100). (Jerry Berg, MA, DXplorer Mar 24 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA/UKRAINE/RUSSIA. On March 20, the Lithuanian R and TV Commission awarded a new private company - R Baltic Waves International - with a 5-year broadcasting licence for the following AM channels: 630 kHz 200 kW ERP = 24.4 dBkW (~250 kW) ND Viesintos (to be moved to Vilnius region) - for daytime operations. 1386 kHz 1000 kW ERP = 32.1 dBkW (~1600 kW) ND Sitkunai (or new site in Kaunas region) - for nighttime operations. The transmitter operator is the Lithuanian R and TV Transmitting Center. RBWI plans tests on 1386 kHz with 150 kW. The Lithuanian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has contacted the respective Russian authority to take away the harmful interference on 1386 kHz, which is emitted from the Bolshakovo radio center, Kaliningradskaya oblast (1200 kW, 275 deg). (Radio Baltic Waves International press release, 22.3.2002 via Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, BC-DX via DXLD) Comment by BT: 1386 kHz was assigned to a 1000 kW (with a maximum ERP of 31.2 dbW, ie. 1600kW) transmitter in Kaunas (USSR) in the Geneva MW/LW Plan 1975. When the USSR was dissolved, the ITU re-registered all transmitters to the successor states, according to the geographical coordinates given in the Geneva Plan. Thus, 1386 kHz was registered as "Kaunas, Lithuania", it is now a "Lithuanian frequency". Soviet or later Russian authorities never registered the site "Bolshakovo" or "Kaliningrad", which means that the operation of Bolshakovo or any transmitter in the Kaliningrad oblast on 1386 kHz is seen by the ITU as a violation of international telecommunications agreements. This concerns quite a number of frequencies in the successor states of the former USSR. For example, 1467 kHz which is used by a 150 kW transmitter at the radio centre in Maiac, Moldova (Pridnestrovye) was originally registered for a 300 kW in Kyiv in the Geneva Plan. It was never registered for a Moldovan site by Soviet or Moldovan authorities. Hence, the ITU registered it as a "Ukrainian frequency" after the end of the USSR. As late as in 1999, Ukrainian authorities have re-confirmed this registration for a transmitter in Kyiv at the ITU (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, BC-DX Mar 22 via DXLD) Was soll man denn davon halten, dass den Litauern das jetzt, nach ueber zehn Jahren, auf einmal einfaellt? Gibt es wirklich konkrete Plaene (Stichwort Finanzierung) zum Bau eines Grosssenders oder ist das ein reines Politikum? Zur Legitimitaet der Sendungen aus Bolschakowo: Was ist mit 1215 kHz? Soweit ich das ersehen kann ist die Frequenz im Genfer Wellenplan nicht koordiniert, jedenfalls nicht fuer Leistungen, die auch nur in der Naehe der aktuell gefahrenen 1200 kW liegen (von den frueher eingesetzten 2000 kW ganz abgesehen). Auch deshalb kann ich mir eine freiwillige Raeumung von 1386 kHz nicht recht vorstellen, da man sicher selbst die Kohle von devisenzahlenden Nutzern der Frequenz einfahren moechte, auf die man bei RBW ja abzielen duerfte (Kai Ludwig, Deutschland, BC-DX Mar 25 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010, Radio Madagascar 1848-1901* March 26, English and then French pop song, announcements by man in presumed Malagasy, anthem, interval signal as on Dave Kernick`s site and off. Fair on clear channel (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 26, Madagascar 5010 closed down at 1902. Seems they are back on normal schedule. But no positive id even this time. Sign-off march/anthem and interval signal were the same I reported March 17. No trace of the parallel 90 mb outlet. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non?] I listened 1725-1800z to 5010.0 on March 26 and at 1800z the signal became unreadable through possible atmospherics. Although the music was coming through OK, talk was somewhat muffled between. Grey line was over Cameroon at that time and I thought I heard Douala mentioned. Really not sure, will monitor some more. 73 (Piet Pijpers, The Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Piet. I based my logging this as Madagascar to what I heard March 17. The parallel 3287.5 on 17th gave me some trust this being what I logged. And March 26 the closing ceremonies were almost identical. But, I did listen to this only some 15 minutes, so I can't say what was on this frequency at the time you were listening :-). Let's keep on monitoring. Thanks for the message 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CAMEROON ** MONTENEGRO. INFORMATION SECRETARY FAVOURS RETAINING RADIO YUGOSLAVIA | Text of report in English by Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug Belgrade, 25 March: Radio Yugoslavia is the only shortwave media of great importance for the world public and the diaspora and it should be preserved in the redefined state union of Serbia and Montenegro, said Monday [25 March] Montenegrin Information Secretary Bozidar Jaredic. In a statement for Radio Yugoslavia, Jaredic pointed out that the programmes of that electronic media, in 12 languages, reach every part of the globe, which is important for the affirmation of the positions of Montenegro and the establishment of new relations with Serbia, as well as for the affirmation of the reformist policy of Montenegro and of its potentials. Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 1629 gmt 25 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. I've got the A-02 schedule online at http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/scheduleao2.html I will be off tomorrow, but if you (or any of your correspondents) notices anything amiss, please let me know and I'll try to fix it on Friday (Andy Sennitt, 1749 UT March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FEARS CUTS | Text of report by Radio New Zealand International on 25 March The chairman of the board of New Zealand's public broadcaster says it may have to reduce the services of Radio New Zealand International further. The output by RNZI was halved four years ago because the then government, led by Jenny Shipley, cut funding while considering outright closure, and this year the government refused to cover the extra costs incurred to pay sharply higher electricity bills. The head of the RNZ board, Brian Corban, told a parliamentary select committee in Wellington that although the shortwave service is important, at the moment his efforts to reverse the cuts have not been successful. [Corban] At the moment we are down to absolutely skeletal broadcasting. We're having to look at contemplating cutting further. Source: Radio New Zealand International, Wellington, in English 2100 gmt 25 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) Geez, what more can they cut? Very little of its own production left, and one transmitter less than 24 hours a day (gh, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 27/03/02 Frequency Schedule from 31 March - 05 May 2002 UTC kHz TARGET 1650-1750 6095 NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 1751-1850 11725 NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 1851-2050 15160 All Pacific [also heard in Europe] 2051-0458 17675 All Pacific [also heard West Coast USA] 0459-0658 15340 All Pacific [also heard in Europe] 0659-1105 11675 All Pacific 1106-1305 11675 NW Pacific, Bougainville, East Timor, Asia 1306-1649 6095 Usual Closedown is 1305 UT - this frequency is for occasional over-night broadcasts to the Pacific for Sports commentaries or Cyclone Warnings Adrian Sainsbury, Technical Manager, Radio New Zealand International P O Box 123, Wellington, Tel: +64 4 474 1430, Fax: +64 4 474 1433 Mobile: +64 (0) 25 504 578 Web: http://www.rnzi.com (27 Mar 2002) (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. From RNZI web-site Updated: 18 March, 2002 From Saturday March 23rd Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) launches a new line-up of weekend programmes especially for New Zealand's Defence Forces serving overseas. The programmes are funded by the Armed Forces Canteen Council and the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). The programmes will be produced and presented by Radio New Zealand broadcaster Katrina Batten. They'll include news and features from home, sports, entertainment and news from the NZDF. The two hour programmes will be broadcast to the Asia/Pacific region on Saturday and Sunday at 1105 UT (23.00 NZST). An hour will be repeated on Saturday at 1905 UT for listeners in Europe and for the Pacific at 0705 NZST Sunday . Forces Radio will be available as down- loadable audio file on the RNZI web site at http://www.rnzi.com The new programmes will compliment existing weekday re-broadcasts of Radio New Zealand's National Radio network which are aimed at service personnel serving in the Asia/Pacific area. Katrina Batten has worked in a number of roles in the radio industry over 15 years. She began her career as a Studio Operator for Radio New Zealand working in Wellington and in commercial radio in New Plymouth. After a stint overseas, including some radio work in London, she returned and qualified as a journalist. This led to reporting work, various roles for RNZI and the production of National Radio's current affairs programme Late Edition. The introduction of digital production equipment at Radio New Zealand led Katrina into the training field and eventually back to her first love ? sound engineering. However, she has continued to present National Radio's overnight programme from time to time and is now looking forward to taking up this new role. She says "the programmes are an opportunity for all NZDF personnel to keep up with what's happening at home. Along with news of what's happening in NZ, we'll also include lots of lighter news, plus some music and fun. All contributions, including messages from home to personnel overseas, are welcome". Katrina can be contacted at kbatten@radionz.co.nz or through RNZI at fax 64 4 474 1433 or phone 64 474 1437 (via Paul Ormandy, Host of The South Pacific DX Report http://radiodx.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) What's the Armed Forces Canteen Council? Sounds like a bunch of mothers of Defence Force personnel have got together in the tuck shop and have decided to fund broadcasts to their loved ones through raffles. <grin> (David Onley, Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, ARDXC via DXLD). ** NIGERIA. See CAMEROON ** OKLAHOMA. KOSU screws up again. In NPR ATC, Tue Mar 26 at 2149 UT, automation made a one-minute promotional break, ignoring the fact that the Yiddish Radio Project series was running, supposed to override the usual break. There is nothing more off-putting than a station not paying attention to its own output. No doubt all affiliates were warned beforehand about this change in the usual format, but NPR does so at its peril. Apparently KOSU runs the cutaways by timer rather than inaudible cues from the network, which no doubt were suppressed in this instance (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. BANDSCAN 3/23/02 1054 UT 2410 R. Enga not heard 3205 R. Sandaun strong with US pops 3/23 3220 R. Morobe faint-tentative 3/23 3235 R. West New Britain strong with PNG pop mx countdown 3245 R. Gulf good; old bluegrass tunes; ID @ 1100 "R. Gulf, Voice of the Seagull" 3260 R. Madang strong; childrens stories in Tok Pisin 3275 R. Southern Highlands strong in Tok Pisin 3290 R. Central not heard 3305 R. Western poor signal, but definitely them in Tok Pisin. Seemed to have transmitter problems with signal cutting in and out. At 1123, rapid increase in signal strength, old US R&B tune. 3315 R. Manus not heard 3325 R. Bougainville probably them, behind RRI Palangkaraya 3325 R. East Sepik not heard 3345 R. Northern not heard 3355 R. Simbu not heard 3365 R. Milne Bay not heard 3375 R. Western Highlands not heard 3385 R. East New Britain not heard 3395 R. Eastern Highlands not heard- ute only 3905 R. New Ireland strong in Tok Pisin 4890 NBC Port Moresby excellent with US pops ------------------------ (Guy Atkins, DXing at Grayland, WA, AOR AR7030 with mods/JPS NIR- 12/ERGO software; 900-1200 ft. SW, W, and NW Beverage antennas with "Cat-a-Lac" terminations, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. Amigos! Visité a Radio América el viernes pasado. Lastimosamente no pude ver las nuevas instalaciones en el nuevo QTH ya que estaba un poco alejada del QTH actual. Hablé mucho con el Sr. Mur que es una persona muy cordial y amable quien me explicó mucho sobre los detalles ya conocidas aquí en la lista, sobre la antena y direcciones etc. También demostró tener mucho conocimiento de las demás emisoras paraguayas, especial aquellas que anteriormente han servido en la onda corta. Explicó que el transmisor de onda corta es totalmente transistorizada y opera con bajo voltaje, lo que hace posible inclusive hacerlo funcionar a baterías. También me presentó al Presidente de la institución el Pastor José A Holowaty, o mejor dicho que sin el permiso de éste, no me podía mostrar nada. El Pastor me mostró los 2 estudios, entretanto equipado con dos consolas Gates Harris que anteriormente había estado, según entendí, en la KGEI. El Pastor no era así tan abierto como lo es el Sr. Mur, además no tenia mucho interés en que vea las instalaciones nuevas, casi al contrario. Representa una "línea" evangélica muy conservadora, no reconociendo prácticamente a nadie de las demás denominaciones, ya las considera como iglesias que se han "desviado" del camino. No permite las músicas con ritmos modernos; por tal motivo difunden mucho la música clásica. El Sr. Mur al final me propuso venir otro día para ir a mirar en el nuevo QTH. El nuevo QTH está en Villeta en la misma región donde anteriormente estaba la radio. Ahí ya se ha instalado la nueva antena para la onda media del tipo 5/8 (la actual es de ¼ y por ende bajito, 50m.). También se esta instalando un nuevo transmisor de 1 kW para esta banda. Tanto para la onda media como para la de onda corta se espera hacer emisiones de prueba dentro de más o menos dos semanas. Cuando tenga algo más información, les comunicaré. 73 de (Levi Iversen, Paraguay, March 27, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** PERU. 4750.1, RADIO SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO. Sondor. 0218-0231* Marzo 24. Presentando música vernacular, luego con el cierre de emisión así: ``...Amables oyentes, Radiodifusora San Francisco Solano, la voz de la parroquia San Miguel Sondor y Sondorillo, finaliza sus transmisiones correspondientes al día de hoy. Les agradecemos la gentileza de escucharnos, nos despedimos hasta el día de mañana cuando estaremos reanudando nuestras cotidianas transmisiones. Buenas noches... Paz y Bien....`` 5557.8, RADIO COMERCIAL. Lajas. 2350-0230 Marzo 24. Nuevo nombre, ex Radio Lajas. A pesar que Malm en SWB vía DXLD la reporta operando en 6642.72, escuché esta emisora que sucede en la frecuencia a Radio Lajas, pero continúa siendo del Sr. Alfonso Medina Burga; presentando música tropical y tecnocumbias y con largos bloques de comerciales incluyendo Funeraria Nuevo Jerusalén, Centro Dental Chayotopa, Centro Naturista Las Plantas Curan cuando Dios quiere, en el programa Atardecer Tropical. ``...a través de la gigante y entretenida programación de Radio Comercial Lajas...`` Entre los locutores estuvo Julio Apolinar Díaz quien aparece reseñado el un reporte de Henrik Klemetz en Dateline Bogotá 1996 sobre la emisora Radio Lajas. Mencionan dirección en Jr. Rosendo Mendivil 585. 5855v, RADIO AMERICANA. Nueva Cajamarca. 2301-0115 Marzo 23. Presentando el Programa ``El Perú y su Folclor``. Luego un bloque de anuncios de Caja Rural San Martín, Restaurante Brisas del Mar, Botica San Lucas. ``...tu radio, mi radio, nuestra radio...Americana...`` ``...diferente, diferente a las demás así es tu Radio Americana....`` La primera noticia sobre esta emisora a través de Malm en SWB vía DXLD quien la reportó en 5854.6v: en mi opinión esta emisora trabaja con los equipos de la Radio Nueva Cajamarca, que operaba en este mismo rango de frecuencias hace algunos meses, ya que presenta el mismo sonido y la misma variación en la frecuencia ya que cuando inicia transmisión arranca en los 5849.2; luego recorre el dial hasta los 5858, presentando desajustes en el audio. Además presenta luego de las 0100 el programa Nochecitas Vernaculares, el cual tiene el mismo nombre de un programa de la desaparecida Radio Nueva Cajamarca. Notada con cierre a las 0202* y apertura a las *1100 (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. New 9582.3 PBS [Malolos?] again active. Noted at 0035- 0912* UT. In Tagalog. Transmission break at 0250-0252 UT. Ex 9618.4 kHz. 35543. Active March 7th and 8th, inactive 9th and 10th (Roland Schulze, Philippines, BC-DX Mar 13 via DXLD) Only Mon-Fri sce??? (wb) As I recall, the power and location listed in WRTH '02 were based on data in a QSL letter received from the station a few years ago, which seemed plausible. I doubt that it can be from an IBB transmitter, given the weak signal, variable frequency and intermittent operation. Personally I last heard it in Dec 2001 listening in Bali, where it was audible in the late afternoon LT. The only other locations where I've heard it are within the Philippines and in Sabah/Sarawak Malaysia. I haven't had a chance to check lately. My guess is that the IBB story could have arisen from confusion between this relay of PBS domestic services, and the PBS's external service Radyo Pilipinas which is transmitted via the IBB SW facilities in the Philippines (Alan Davies, Indonesia, BC-DX Mar 23 via DXLD) Further investigation has turned up a scan of the QSL letter and data card on Hans van den Boogert's website at http://members.tripod.com/DXlogbook/logs-1998-dur2-qsl.html according to which it's a 250 watt transitter "Modified BC-610 US army signals corps" at Marulas, Valenzuela, Metro Manila (Alan Davies, Surabaya, Indonesia, DXplorer Mar 24 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Radio Portugal A02 Radiodifusão Portuguesa (RDP) Internacional Broadcast schedule A02 (all programmes in Portuguese) From Monday to Friday: Europe 0500-0755 9815, 9840 0645-0800 11850 0800-1200 12020, 11960 1600-1900 15445+, 15125, 17650 1900-2300 13720-s M.East-India 0100-1500 21810 1000-1200 21830 Africa 1600-1900 17680 1900-2300 11945-s 0500-0700 15585 North America 1200-2300 17575-s 2300-0200 9715,11655 Venezuela 1900-2300 21540-s 2300-0200 13700 1000-1200 21655 Brazil-C.Verde-Guinea 1600-1900 21655 1900-2300 21800-s Brazil 2300-0200 13660, 15295 On Saturday and Sunday: Europe 0700-1345 12020, 13640 0830-1000 11995 1400-2000 13770 1400-2000 15555+ 1900-2300 13720-s 0000-1655 21830 Africa 1700-2000 17680 1900-2300 11945-s North America 1200-2000 17575+ Venezuela 1200-2000 17615 1900-2300 21540-s 0700-2000 21655 Brazil-C.Verde-Guinea 2000-2300 21800-s -s: Only for Special transmissions +: Possibility to extend until 23.00 ------------------------------------ (via Ramón Vázquez Dourado, Spain, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** QATAR. A71MA is active on 20m around 0420 UT (Bob Thomas, CT, March 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIERRA LEONE. Hello everywhere, there can be heard still something original on short wave! Who would have thought that the local radio station of a rather poor African country, which is hit by a civil war, transmits a 30 minutes advertising block? This happened yesterday night on SLBS Freetown on 3316 kHz. The station came in with unusually strong signal (SINPO partly 44334!). There could be heard several commercials like advertisement for the "Ladies Night" of a local disco, for a song festival at Victoria park, which seems to be a public place in Freetown, as well as - very surprising - a commercial spot for Holsten beer! Holsten is a well known brewery in northern Germany. As a German I enjoyed this commerical very much and on that reason I decided to record it and to prepare an audio clip (236 KB). On the clip one can listen to the national anthem of Sierra Leone, too. Things like that you cannot hear every day from Africa. If anyone has interest, please let me know in a personal mail. Anyway I have to correct now my former conception of Africa. Loggings in detail: SIERRA LEONE 3316 SLBS Freetown, 24th of March 02, 2255-0003, English and local language, religious program until 2305 followed by commercial spots, modern African music, national anthem, sign off at 0003. SINPO partly 44334 (Michael Schnitzer - michael_schnitzer@web.de hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 6765.32, Bangkok Meteorological Radio, at 1320. Weather by M then 1338 IS, followed by M in local dialect. Terrible ute just above restricted filter on the WJ8712P to just 1.10 wide. Repeated IS, followed by English ID at 1345. Then local weather in English, followed by IS then weather in Thai (Don Nelson, WA, DXplorer Mar 18 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** U K. I suppose you heard my e-mail to WriteOn read on Friday. They still haven't figured out the problem, since I just discovered that the 30 March - 5 April week is up on the BBC schedules web site, but the later weeks are still unavailable in the Americas stream. Also, much of Friday 5 April is still blank, the way the previous week was for a month or so now! They have complete skeds for that week for Africa and East Asia, but later weeks have incomplete little grids without full data. And people expect the web to take the place of real paper documents! Sigh... (Will Martin, MO, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``Difficulty entering the information into the database`` was the excuse. Greenfield Collexion cancellation was also objected to by Will. Harriet Greene, commissioning editor: ``...WS refreshes its output from time to time, to make sure it is offering relevant programmes with wide appeal... a reduction in overall amount of serious music, but... Concert Hall will start taking suggestions from listeners.`` That means, no, it is not being replaced by a similar programme, there will be an overall reduxion in classical music, and it is *not* relevant. Typical weaseling instead of giving a direct, honest answer. I just heard the final Greenfield Collexion via 2NUR at 1705 UT March 27. Greenfield was typically upbeat as he said goodbye, and played his opening theme all the way through, to conclude. Announcer then plugged Concert Hall which is open to requests now for one week a month. A lot of good that will do. Note that the usual repeat Sunday 2330 on Am/Eu streams will not happen, as by March 31 the new schedule will be in effect. Your last, best chance to hear it will be UT Thursday 0405 (gh, DXLD) ** UNITED KINGDOM. TOUGHER EXPECTATIONS FOR THE BBC Public Service Broadcasters who enjoy great privilege should expect tough regulation, says Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. Speaking to broadcasting (TV and Radio) executives, at the Westminster Media Forum in London, earlier this week, Tessa Jowell announced: * The draft Communications Bill will contain proposals to ensure that the BBC will be more heavily regulated than any other broadcaster, with a new hierarchy of obligations for public service broadcasters * The review of BBC News 24 will go ahead and will be lead by Richard Lambert, former editor of the Financial Times, who will report to the Secretary of State by the end of June 2002. * A decision on BBC3 will be taken when further work is done on the market impact of a new channel Spelling out her belief that the BBC's goal should be winning new audiences instead of chasing ratings, Tessa said: "High share for good programmes is not a problem, but ratings are not the sole test for the BBC. A new service funded by a universal fee needs to reach as many people as possible. The BBC will ultimately be judged on quality, innovation, the ability to challenge, the desire to take risks and the ability to make the market, not follow it. It should not fail on these and use ratings as the excuse." "Public service broadcasting has a special place in the British psyche. Public service broadcasting is not a Heritage phrase. It is not the costume drama of broadcasting. It has been a vital part of our past, but I'm going to ensure it is a vital part of the digital future. Public service broadcasting is a straightforward contract: the state offers certain privileges to some channels, and in return each channel provides something of worth beyond that which the market alone would provide." "But being a public service broadcaster is not a licence to compete, unfettered, with all those commercial services which have to fight in the marketplace without any protection from the state. The BBC is loved by viewers and listeners worldwide, but of all the public service broadcasters, the BBC is the most privileged and for that reason it should be regulated more stringently. That is why I am announcing that a new hierarchy of public service obligations will be included in the Bill. Quite simply, the more public privileges the broadcaster receives, the tougher it will be regulated." Tessa Jowell also dispelled myths that the BBC will not be regulated by Ofcom. "Much of what the BBC does will be policed by Ofcom," she said. "But the BBC will also continue to keep their unique system of regulation by the Governors. Not because their burden should be light, but because it should be the heaviest." (The Radio Newsletter, 19/03 via Mike Barraclough, Letchworth, UK) ** U K. DANCERS REPLACE BBC ONE GLOBE http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1895000/1895151.stm (via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH FOR BBC The BBC is dumping the globe, the symbol of its heritage as the world's pre-eminent broadcaster, in favour of a new series of ``multicultural`` logos http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-249049,00.html (via G. Pollard, DXLD) ** U K [non]. Subject: RADIO EZRA - NEW SERIES Dear Friends and colleagues in DX-ing. Radio Ezra is due to commence a third series consisting of thirteen half hour weekly broadcasts beginning on Saturday 6th April 2002 between 2330 and 0000 UT. The frequency will be 17665 kHz and the target zone is Western North America. The transmitter location is Russia. I will be producing a limited number of QSL cards for the series and would be most grateful for any reception reports. Please enclose an International Reply Coupon or $1 to cover return postage. Radio Ezra used to carry the broadcasts for the Water Into Wine Ministry project but I have recently canceled this project and the station now has its own new website which features plenty of information about the station's recording studio, equipment, transmitter details and broadcast schedule. Check it out! Best wishes John D. Hill (Station Owner) ***************************************************** Radio Ezra, PO Box 16, Stockton on Tees, TS18 3GN, United Kingdom Fax: +44 1642 887546 http://www.radioezra.com "my glory will I not give to another" ISAIAH 42:8 ***************************************************** (Hill, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020326-77709460.htm BUSH OPPOSES BILL TO RESTRUCTURE VOA By Ben Barber, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Bush administration and Congress are at odds over a proposed restructuring of the Voice of America and other aspects of U.S. public diplomacy intended to improve the way the United States delivers its message to the world. Rep. Henry J. Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said passage of the Freedom Promotion Act, which he sponsored, was crucial to countering hostile views of America such as those broadcast by the Qatari television station Al Jazeera. But the measure has been set aside because of opposition from the Bush administration. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher cited fears the legislation would reduce the "flexibility" of the president to run foreign policy and determine America's message to the world. Mr. Hyde, Illinois Republican, has proposed far more than reorganizing the nation's public broadcast services, which include Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti and a new service broadcasting to the Middle East. His bill would enhance the authority of the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a position created after the U.S. Information Agency was absorbed into the State Department in 1998. "If we are to be successful in our broader foreign-policy goals, America's effort to engage the peoples of the world must assume a more prominent place in the planning and execution of our foreign policy," Mr. Hyde said. "The task of countering misinformation and propaganda regarding the United States is a never-ending one, but we must go about this task more aggressively and more systematically, rather than simply reacting to crises as they occur." His bill would strengthen the power of Undersecretary of State Charlotte Beers, create a fund of $495 million for public diplomacy and mandate numerous other training and exchange programs. Mr. Hyde also has called for spending $7 million to create a satellite television broadcast system aimed at counting hostile views of America widely seen in the Muslim world. Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the ranking Democrat on Mr. Hyde's committee, said, "If we are to prevent future terrorist attacks, we must launch a concerted campaign to win over people across the globe who are subjected to anti-American misinformation and hate. "Unfortunately, we have been outgunned, outmanned and outmaneuvered in the information war for too long." Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the bill would create an International Broadcasting Agency with a powerful director to replace or oversee the eight-member bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors. The board, created as a "fire wall" to prevent U.S. government interference in U.S. foreign broadcasts over the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, became independent in 1999. The BBG also oversees Radio Free Asia, Radio and TV Martí, Radio Afghanistan and the Middle East Radio Network (MERN), which has been broadcasting only since last week. BBG communications coordinator Joan Mower objected that the replacement of the independent broadcast governors in the Hyde bill "would destroy the fire wall [between the broadcasters and the U.S. government] that the BBG was created for." But Hyde spokesman Sam Stratman said the BBG members "are a part-time board, micromanaging the [broadcasting] agency. The bill proposes a single person appointed by the president for a five-year term." Both the Clinton and Bush administrations tried at different times to halt VOA broadcasts of interviews with Chinese dissidents or Osama bin Ladin. Broadcasters called such efforts political interference in their mission to provide an objective news service (via Kim Elliott, DXLD) ** U S A. US-BACKED RADIO SAWA LAUNCHES --- 26 March 2002 The new Middle East Radio Network, a US Government-sponsored Arabic language broadcasting service aimed at young people, had a low-key launch on 22 March. The service uses the on-air identification 'Radio Sawa' (Together), and is initially available on FM in Amman and the West Bank on 98.1 MHz and in Kuwait City on 95.7 MHz. Agreements have been signed to broadcast in Qatar and Bahrain, and negotiations are being held to obtain mediumwave and FM frequencies in other Middle East countries. The service will also broadcast digitally on the Nilesat, Arabsat and Eutelsat Hotbird satellites. Programming initially consists of music and promotional announcements, with a news service due to begin in a few weeks' time. MERN is expected to be fully operational by late summer 2002. The Broadcasting Board of Governors received approx $35 million from Congress to fund MERN in fiscal year 2002, a figure that includes $16.4 million for one-time capital costs for transmitters. Station's Web site is at http://www.ibb.gov/radiosawa/ (© Radio Netherlands Media Network via DXLD) The Radio Sawa web site at http://www.radiosawa.com states that: "Radio Sawa is a service of US international broadcasting, which is operated and funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an agency of the US government. The BBG serves as a firewall to protect the professional independence and integrity of the broadcasters. One of the guiding principles of Radio Sawa is that the long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly in Arabic with the peoples of the Middle East by radio. Radio Sawa seeks to win the attention and respect of listeners. In reporting the news, Radio Sawa is committed to being accurate, objective and comprehensive." (BBC Monitoring Mar 27 via DXLD) ** U S A. This is the guy touted to be following in the 'Shep' tradition (Chet Copeland, NYC, DXLD) KSTP-AM'S MISCHKE BEGINS NATIONAL SYNDICATION MONDAY Kristin Tillotson, Star Tribune March 22 "I would hate to be the person trying to sell my radio show," said T.D. (Tommy) Mischke, KSTP-AM's evening star, with typical self- effacement. "People ask me to explain it, and I can't." Starting Monday, the live "Mischke" show will be available nationally through a syndication deal cut between the independent distributor Jones Radio Network and St. Paul-based Hubbard Broadcasting, owner of KSTP (1500 AM). Amy Bolton, general manager for Jones, wouldn't say how many stations have signed up yet, but she claims strong interest in radio markets from Milwaukee to San Diego. Mischke, whose radio career began as a "frequent caller" to someone else's show, has garnered strong Arbitron ratings for nine years in what is traditionally a tough slot: 8 to 10 p.m. Not bad for a guy who said he plans each show by "getting up in the morning and thinking about how to fill two empty hours that night. I can't really narrow it down beyond that. "I can tell you what I'm not -- a conservative political talk-show host," he said. "It's a pretty homogenized world out there right now. I'm gonna throw a curve ball at these folks, and [Jones] must feel listeners are ready for something different." Bolton confirmed: "There's a lot of Rush Limbaugh wannabes out there," she said. "Even Bill O'Reilly is more of the same. Mischke pays homage to the days when radio was pure entertainment. He's destination listening, not just somebody mouthing off in front of a mike." This is the first national syndication deal that Hubbard has struck outside its own family of stations, said program director Joe O'Brien: "We decided it was a good match, as much for their marketing expertise as anything else." Mischke, who began talks with Jones about a year and a half ago, said that with no advance promotion he expects a slow start and hopes things pick up in the summer. He called the network's promise that they wouldn't pressure him to change a thing "critical to my decision. They don't want me to broaden my frame of reference." Bolton said: "I liken it to the movie 'Fargo.' It's a cult hit; either you like it or you don't." Mischke said he doesn't know "whether that means people will be laughing with me or at me, but I do think there's a certain Midwestern sweetness, a less jaded personality, that I don't mind maintaining." (via Chet Copeland, DXLD) ** U S A. Glenn, You have mentioned that Dr. Dean Edell is one of your favourite programs. I found his webpage, which also lists where his show can be found. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/drdean.cfm 73, (Ivan Grishin, Ont. March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) One state at a time ** U S A. I am hearing a pirate daily on 1710 khz. I've caught them between 0600 and 0730 ELT 1100-1230 UT]. Over-modulated bad cassette machine quality audio of male preachers in Yiddish? Hebrew? and English combined with various types of Israeli music. No transmissions on Saturday morning as per their holy day. It has deep fades as if it is on SRS. The TIS stations from NYC don't show this propagation. Is this possibly one of the Boston pirates? No ID has been heard yet - or any indication about location. Thanks in advance for your comments, (Karl Zuk N2KZ about 45 miles north of NYC, IRCA via DXLD) Karl, That's Lubavicher Radio broadcasting from Crown Heights. Many of us in the NYC area have heard it. I sent an email to their website a few months back asking for a verie and never received a reply. Hope this helps! (Dave Hochfelder, New Brunswick, NJ, ibid.) I've possibly have heard this one here in Coastal North Carolina before. It was something I thought was Spanish, but who knows, all I know is I couldn`t understand the program content. The signal here was in the noise level and could only be received by putting the radio on lower side band. The navigation beacons and the static was neck and neck with their signal here as well (Bob Carter, Operations/Engineering, WGAI, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. From Eric Houg: There will be a Crazy College Easter show this Friday at 10 PM [EST] on WHYY [also webcast]. http://www.whyy.org/91FM/womenhistspecials.html (via Joel Rubin, swprograms via DXLD) ** U S A. Hopefully no April's fools; the CP for 50/1.4 kW in Nebraska will be on as KKSC from April 1. This per info from the CE of Waitt Radio (KKAR, KOZN, KOIL etc). They will run directional patterns both day and night - alas, I'm afraid the night pattern won't favour Scandinavia. From the world's Northernmost DX-er (Bjarne Mjelde, N- 9980 Berlevag, Norway, N.Lat 71, E.Long 29, Receivers: AOR AR7030+, K+D KWZ-30, Palstar R30, MWDX yahoogroup via DXLD) That should impact on 1020 Perry OK, or does it deserve protexion? (gh, Enid) ** U S A. From CBS Marketwatch.com 6:07 PM ET Mar 25, 2002 RUKEYSER DISMISSED ON `WALL STREET WEEK' OWINGS MILLS, Md. (CBS.MW) - Louis Rukeyser was sacked from "Wall Street Week" on Friday, removed three months earlier than expected after the financial television pioneer discussed his contract dispute with the show's owner on camera. Maryland Public Television, which announced last week it would begin a new show later this year without Rukeyser, said it will air alternative programming before revising "Wall Street Week' next fall with a host from Fortune Magazine, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. Rukeyser went on his show Friday and told viewers his version of what had happened to force him off the air, and promised that he would return on another station with his popular show. MPT resented his behavior, and that was that. Meanwhile, a CNBC spokeswoman said that the cable financial news network is speaking with Rukeyeser about possible joining its team. CNBC is a General Electric property. Michael Holland, a New York money manager and a panelist on the final program Friday, said Rukeyser was "resolute and confident" before the program and "relieved, joyful and anticipatory afterward" when he and Rukeyser had dinner at a steak house in Baltimore. For Rukeyser, it was a sad end to a brilliant 32-year-career at the helm of America's most durable and venerable business-news TV show. But Holland summed up the 69-year-old Rukeyser's mood as "life will be fine," and Rukeyser himself said last week that he has had several offers for a new home for his show. For Rukeyser, a move to a rival network would be the ultimate vindication. And CNBC would benefit because it is trying to establish its business-news network in primetime. Further, Rukeyser's demographics - he is a favorite with seasoned investors - would work well on CNBC. The network is anxious to broaden its programming and appeal to a wider group of viewers. CNBC has gone so far as to begin airing the Senior PGA golf tournaments on the weekends. Rukeyser has achieved pop culture status in his time on the air. With his easily identifiable silver hair, refined air and twinkling smile, he has become a fixture (via Ivan Grishin, Ont., DXLD) ** U S A. MARYLAND PUBLIC TV TO FIRE RUKEYSER By JAIME HERNANDEZ, Associated Press Writer, March 25, 7:39 AM EST BALTIMORE -- Maryland Public Television is firing Louis Rukeyser from its popular finance and investment program, saying the longtime host used the show to discuss a contract dispute and promote his new program. Robert J. Shuman, MPT's president and CEO, said Sunday night that "Wall $treet With Louis Rukeyser" aired for the last time Friday. Rukeyser, the show's host for all of its 32 years, said last week that he was leaving the program as it was being revamped by MPT. Alternate shows will be used until the station launches its new "Wall $treet Week with Fortune" next fall, he said. "We were surprised and saddened that he chose to use the show as a medium to air contract disputes and promote his new show," Shuman said. "The purpose of the show is anything but that. The qualities of this show aren't attached to one single person." Shuman said he has not spoken to Rukeyser since last week but that he was being informed of the station's decision to fire him. Rukeyser's contract with MPT ends June 30.-- Shuman declined to discuss details of the contract. Rukeyser, who gives a commentary at the opening of each show, started Friday's program by criticizing MPT for the new show's format. He also thanked viewers for their "amazing outpouring of support" after the station announced last week that he would no longer be the show's host. "Another weekly program with me as host and commentator will be on television," he said. "I want to assure all our loyal viewers ... that Louis Rukeyser will still be very much around." Rukeyser told the audience that the "woods are full of smart television executives who are wonderfully excited at the prospect of producing the new Louis Rukeyser program." He also asked viewers to write to their local public television stations and demand that they air his new show. Rukeyser said Sunday that he was still considering offers from several public and commercial television outlets and would decide which one to go with in a week or two. MPT, which normally retransmits the latest "Wall $treet With Louis Rukeyser" on Sundays, didn't do so this weekend because of Rukeyser's comments, Shuman said. The station also didn't post its usual transcript of Rukeyser's latest opening statement on its Web site. "All I can tell you is that many, many viewers are telling me how angry they are not to be able to find this commentary," Rukeyser said. The station entered a partnership with Fortune magazine to produce a new version of the show. Rukeyser, 69, was offered a senior commentator role on the new program but declined, saying he didn't want to have anything further to do with MPT. MPT officials said the shake-up was necessary because the show's audience and expectations had changed, and they felt Fortune was a powerful partner. One of the new program's co-hosts will be a Fortune editor. His show, which has received widespread acclaim and boosted viewership of public television around the country, claims to plug into every businessman in America. Though he did not have any ownership rights over the show, he said he did have co-production rights. Wall $treet With Louis Rukeyser: http://www.pbs.org/mpt/rukeyser/ Copyright (c) 2002, The Associated Press Link to the article: http://www.sunspot.net/sns-ap-wall-street-rukeyser0325mar25.story Visit http://www.sunspot.net (via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) Later: -------------------- RUKEYSER SAYS HE CAN'T BE FIRED -------------------- By Associated Press March 25, 2002, 11:04 PM EST OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Louis Rukeyser, who was fired from his namesake show by Maryland Public Television, said he didn't work for the company to begin with. "MPT cannot 'fire' me because I am not now, and never have been, its employee," Rukeyser said in a statement, noting their contract to produce the show expires in June. MPT, which announced last week that it was reformatting the program, "Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, fired the host Sunday because he used his weekly introduction on Friday's show to promote his new program. MPT president and chief executive Robert J. Shuman didn't immediately return an Associated Press phone call seeking comment Monday. Rukeyser, who gives a commentary at the opening of each show, started Friday's program by criticizing MPT for the new show's format. He also thanked viewers for their "amazing outpouring of support" after the station announced last week that he would no longer be the show's host. "Another weekly program with me as host and commentator will be on television," he said. "I want to assure all our loyal viewers ... that Louis Rukeyser will still be very much around." Rukeyser told the audience that the "woods are full of smart television executives who are wonderfully excited at the prospect of producing the new Louis Rukeyser program." He also asked viewers to write to their local public television stations and demand that they air his new show. On Monday, Rukeyser said the two sides would split after the contract ends June 30, 2002, but his production company was "ready, as always, to live up to its end of the deal." Copyright (c) 2002, The Associated Press Link to the article: http://www.sunspot.net/sns-ap-wall-street-rukeyser0326mar25.story (via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) ONE IN A CROWD As PBS chops away at its distinguishing elements, its fans wonder if it will start looking - and programming - like everybody else. David Folkenflik March 27, 2002 The mission used to be indispensability. From its birth 33 years ago, PBS sought to create and distribute programs that Americans couldn't find anywhere else on the television dial. Big Bird, Julia Child, Monty Python, Evelyn Waugh and Ken Burns all cut memorable figures on the country's cultural landscape, the subjects of praise and parody, thanks to PBS. Now, the aim is relevance. In the past week, Louis Rukeyser's ouster from Maryland Public Television's Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser has directed a spotlight on public broadcasters as they scramble to compete with cable outlets and their commercial cousins.... Copyright (c) 2002, The Baltimore Sun -- Link to the article: http://www.sunspot.net/bal-to.tvradio27mar27.story (via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) ** U S A. From: http://saveinternetradio.org America's fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the U.S. Copyright Office accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") recommendation concerning Internet radio royalty rates and record-keeping requirements. Congress passed a law in October, 1998, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which established that webcasters must pay "performance rights" fees to record labels for the music they play. That law instructed the Copyright Office to set the appropriate rate. However, the CARP's recommended rates are currently more than 100% of most Webcasters' gross revenues! The Copyright Office is required by Congress to decide whether to accept, reject or modify the rates and terms set forth in the report by May 21, 2002. If they accept the CARP panel's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio as an industry, as the decision will bankrupt all but the three or four largest webcasters. The purpose of this website The purpose of this website is to help concerned individuals have a voice in trying to encourage the U.S. Copyright Office to "set aside" the CARP recommendation - or, alternatively, Congress to amend the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) - in time to prevent the industry from being effectively shut down. WHAT YOU CAN DO: Send a letter to your Congressman and Senators! Explore the wonders of Internet radio (while it still exists): Guides to Internet radio stations include RadioJump!, Radio Crow, and VirtualTuner.com. Also see the menu at left, a little bit lower on this page, for links to about 20 webcasters and our "Webcasters (partial list)" page here. Good background material: http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html The current Copyright Office response to e-mails from concerned citizens: Subj: Re: Please don't kill the Internet! Date: 3/7/02 3:19:16 PM US Eastern Standard Time From: copyinfo@loc.gov (Copyright Information) To: GTORadio@aol.com We are responding to your recent communication regarding the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") report delivered on February 20, 2002. That report recommends rates and terms for the statutory license for eligible nonsubscription services to perform sound recordings publicly by means of digital audio transmissions ("webcasting") under 17 U.S.C. §114 and to make ephemeral recordings of sound recordings for use of sound recordings under the statutory license set forth in 17 U.S.C. §112. The proposed rates and terms for webcasters operating under a statutory license announced on February 20, 2002, are the recommendations made by a panel of three independent arbitrators. The Panel made its recommendations after a six-month hearing. During this period, webcasters, broadcasters and copyright owners offered evidence for what the appropriate rates and terms should be for the public performance of a sound recording over the Internet. At the conclusion of this process, the Panel submitted its recommendations and a report explaining its rationale for the recommendations to the Copyright Office. The public version of the panel's report has been posted to the Copyright Office website. The panel's recommendations are now being reviewed. Under the law, only parties to the proceeding may request that the panel's recommendations be modified or set aside. These comments will be carefully considered during the review process. There is, however, no provision in the law for comments from the general public. A final determination as to the rates and terms will be made when the review process is completed. =========== "I read the summary which says that artists need to be compensated because permanent digital copies are involved. What this idea totally ignores is that the sound quality of 95% of streams because of bandwidth limitation is far inferior to the original CD and is in no real sense a competitive copy that anyone would want to listen to other than as a broadcast stream. They are out to get what they can. If they were genuinely concerned about competition with CD sales, they would have limited the levy to streams exceeding 64kbps which can reasonably compete with CD sound quality and they would have billed over the air FM stations because they can be input to a computer sound card to generate a much better quality digital file than almost all current streams available." -- Tony Carlson, Berkeley, CA (in Save-Our-Streams message board) ============ Another perspective on the size of the royalties: A Webcaster with one listener (e.g., himself) listening all the time would have to pay $.0014 x 15 x 24 x 365 = $184 in royalties per year. (This assumes 15 songs per hour.) Invite some family and friends to listen, get your average audience size up to 100 listeners, and you have an annual royalty payment of $18,400! If you've been doing this for three years, your retroactive bill is going to be $55,200 (all via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) RAIN today: Arbitron asks for 5-year hold on webcasting fees Dear Mike, Arbitron is speaking out in support of broadcasters and webcasters hoping to show Congress that the CARP royalties will mean the death of Internet radio. Yesterday, the company announced it has sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee requesting a five-year moratorium on CARP webcasting fees. Today's issue of "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" is devoted to the entire text of Arbitron's letter to Congress. There's also Kurt Hanson's RAIN Analysis of the letter. You can read both on the RAIN homepage at http://www.kurthanson.com Sincerely, Paul Maloney Editor RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter P.S. We have several other stories "in the hopper" right now concerning webcasters' efforts to save their industry. Please feel free to check back with RAIN later today, or our "Save Internet Radio" site anytime at http://saveinternetradio.org Thanks! (via Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U S A. Dan Gillmor: Bleak future looms if you don`t take a stand IF THE FEW CONTROL THE ALL... "Media conglomerates are in a merger frenzy. Telecommunications monopolies are creating a cozy cartel, dividing up access to the online world. The entertainment industry is pushing for Draconian controls on the use and dissemination of digital information. If you're not infuriated by these related trends, you should at least be worried." San Jose Mercury News 03/26/02 Full story: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2922052.htm (VIA WWW.ARTSJOURNAL.COM/ via Chet Copeland, DXLD) ** U S A. Airplane crash into tower... http://www.wral.com/news/1304816/detail.html (via Fred Vobbe, NRC FMTV via DXLD) ** U S A. Radio station WWRB is well heard here in Ireland at 0000 GMT on both 6890 and 5085. Best heard in USB with religious varients. 73 (Ciaran Mc Carthy, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. MOTHER ANGELICA CONTINUES IMPROVING, SENDS EASTER GREETINGS Irondale, AL, Mar 22 (EWTN) — ``Please tell everyone that I'm getting better. Thank you for your prayers. God bless you,`` said Mother Angelica as she offered an Easter greeting to her ``family`` around the world while she continues to recover from a stroke she suffered at her monastery in Hanceville, AL on Christmas Eve. The stroke, which hospitalized Mother Angelica for nearly a month, left her with a partial paralysis on her right side and speech impairment. Since returning to her monastery, Mother has continued to undergo more than five hours of physical and speech therapy each week. Sister Mary Catherine, Mother Vicar of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, said Mother is improving each and every day. ``She now has the full use of her right arm and her speech is improving almost as quickly. Mother is sleeping well, eating well and she has regained most of the weight she lost while she was in the hospital,`` she continued. ``Mother looks good!`` Mother Vicar said in addition to her daily prayers, Mother Angelica uses a walker to go from her room to the chapel to spend an hour a day in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Her nuns visit with Mother individually or in small groups each evening and it's not unusual to hear laughter coming from her room as Mother jokes with them. ``Mother says she considers herself blessed to be allowed to go through this time of trial,`` Sister Mary Catherine said. ``But she is anxious to fully recover and get back with her 'family'.`` Meanwhile, as Easter approaches, the Spiritual Bouquet for Mother Angelica that is posted on EWTN's website http://www.ewtn.com continues to receive prayer intentions from around the world for Mother's complete recovery. According to the Network, to date, nearly one half-million Our Fathers have been pledged and 266 thousand Rosaries, 43 thousand Novenas, 69 thousand Holy Hours and 142 thousand Masses have been offered. A spokesperson for EWTN said the Network has also received nearly 25,000 letters and cards and thousands of emails and telephone calls from well-wishers. (Catholic Radio Update March 25 via DXLD) ** U S A. FCC INTERNATIONAL BUREAU REORGANIZATION The reorganization of the FCC is effective today. FCC International HF Broadcast stations are now regulated by the Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division of the International Bureau. All weblinks to FCC HF broadcast pages must now be changed to contain the letters sand instead of pnd. Example: the FCC HF Broadcasting Page was at http://www.fcc.gov/ib/pnd/neg/hf_web/hf.html it is now at http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/hf.html Many links on this page still need updating. Changing pnd to sand in other links seems to work (Donald Wilson, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. V. of Hope via Biblis: see GERMANY ** U S A. Glenn, Below is an updated schedule for AFN, if case this is of interest. I managed to pick up two new frequencies for the freq section for May, always pleased to do that. Thanks (Gayle Van Horn, MONITORING TIMES) Navy Media Center in Washington Update to the current schedules for the US Navy AFN broadcast on their website and NPR. They indicate that the NPR broadcast schedule isn't correct and made a correction to the schedule for the Guam broadcast. Below is the new accurate schedule for AFN shortwave transmissions. Switchover from night to day, etc is based on local time at the transmitter site. Location Band Daytime Nightime Key West, FL Upper Sideband 12689.5 kHz 12689.5 kHz RR, Puerto Rico Upper Sideband 6458.5 kHz 6458.5 kHz Sigonella, Sicily Upper Sideband 4993 kHz 10940.5 kHz Guam (Barrigada) Upper Sideband 13362.0 kHz 5765.0 kHz Diego Garcia Upper Sideband 12579 kHz 4319 kHz Hawaii Upper Sideband 10320 kHz 6350 kHz The QSL@mediacen.navy.mil email address is still good for reception reports to get their QSL letter for the AFN broadcast (via Gayle Van Horn, MT, DXLD) ** URUGUAY. Según noticia aparecida hoy en el diario local EL TELÉGRAFO, a partir de mañana miércoles 27 de marzo a la hora 21 local, la emisora CASINO FM 96.3 de Paysandú, Uruguay, comenzará a emitir toda su programación "on line" por internet. La dirección es http://www.paysandu.com/casinofm Saludos (HORACIO E. COLACCE, NUEVO PAYSANDU. URUGUAY, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** YEMEN. Republic of Yemen Radio with a test transmission on 909: I picked them up around 2230 UT, an Arabic song followed by this announcement by a YL: Yemeni Radio with testing transmission from HUDAYDAH. Radio Yemen would like to hear from the listeners worldwide who are picking up this test transmission, here's the address: Radio Yemen - testing transmission, P. O. Box 3263, San'a - Yemen phone 00 967 33 111 93 or 00 967 33 111 92 Fax 00 967 32 197 01 e mail: radionet@y.net.ye [not 100% sure of the e mail address] (Tarek Zeidan, Egypt, SU1TZ, BC-DX Mar 24 via DXLD) Known e-mail address: yradio@y.net.ye Yemen R, YEM (wb) Nice that Tarek Zeidan got down all the details. The e-mail is wrong; it should be yradio@y.net.ye but they announce radio.@y.net.ye ! It is strong, stronger than Iraq at night, must be in the 100-300 kW range. (Mauno Ritola, Finland, to Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, BC-DX Mar 26 via DXLD) The wavelength announced is "330" meters (pronounced something like "tälät miya tälätiina metran") which corresponds to 909 kHz. Also, the last number before the "kiloherz" was "tessa" which is nine, so it must be 909 kHz announced. At what time did you hear this? (Mika Makelainen, RealDX yahoogroups via DXLD) They are fairly strong all evening from about 1900 until 0100 sign- off. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, RealDX yahoogroup via DXLD) ** YUGOSLAVIA [non]. See MONTENEGRO ** ZAMBIA. 4965, 1541-1610, R. Christian Voice, Mar 23, Christian pops to trumpet fanfare 1559, local QRM buzz over top-of-hour (bad timing!), and into man and woman talking in English. 'He's The One For Me' song 1603. 'Christian Voice... the right call, every day of the year' ID at 1608. Poor, but periods of fair-good level approaching Zambia SS, and a full TWO hours past local SR. Only audible on SW Beverage antenna (longpath). Still in at 1620 with Christian drama, and signal was going through odd propagational peaks every 20 seconds or so (Guy Atkins, Grayland WA DXpedition, hard-core-dx via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Strange stuff on 10 MHz just behind WWV. ``The Whistler`` and two guys with Spanish phrases with accents. One likes to do a drawn-out ``hola.`` First heard 0310 UT March 22. They played for a few minutes, then went off. A few WORs back, I think you mentioned someone brought up hearing ``The Whistler`` on HF (Bob Thomas, CT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-048, March 25, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. 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I listen to WOR every week on WWCR 5070 on Saturday night 0330 UT [Sunday] (Petro Giannakopoulos, GA) Also see IRELAND ** AFGHANISTAN. 'SERIOUSLY FLAWED' DRAFT MEDIA LAW A proposed media law currently being drafted in Afghanistan contains "serious flaws" which, if enacted, would have a harmful effect on freedom of expression, warns the International Press Institute (IPI). In a letter to the head of Afghanistan's interim government, Hamid Karzai, the group says the draft Law of the Press needs a "radical re- assessment." Only Afghan citizens are permitted to print publications, a restriction that would weaken the local media, IPI argues. A proposed ban on foreign investment in Afghan media could leave local outlets too weak to withstand potential government pressure, IPI says. The draft law also requires private media owners to obtain government permission to operate, but there are no stated criteria for granting or denying such permission. In addition, there is no provision for private ownership of such companies. The draft law also grants the government control over the distribution of foreign publications. (International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House, http://www.freemedia.at 19 March via RFE/RL Media Matters via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. The station on 8700 USB is audible here March 24 as late as 1930. Last three days the signal has been very weak compared to what it used to be. Today soon after 1810 I had severe QRM and lost the signal for a long time. I wonder if it is now USB plus some carrier, also somewhat audible in AM mode. Or the QRM ute may produce the carrier. My Icom is very poor with AM. Information Radio or someone else taking its place? The format sounds similar it was weeks back. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.R. was never reported on that late, nominally until 1730, but often closed by 1500, I recall (gh, DXLD) And still there at 2300. Maybe 24h/day now? At one point they had a two minute loss of audio and the carrier disappeared for that period too. So some kind of reduced carrier USB (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SITE(?) 8700 USB, Presumed Information Radio still heard here today, 1645 local music, 1715 announcements by lady in vernacular mentioning Afghanistan, Pakistan and Al Quaeda, back to music, 1730 more announcements by man but my local noise level had increased so copy difficult, back to music 1735 and still on 1742 tune out. Barely audible at tune in, had faded up by tune out but still weak though easy copy when local noise level low. Just prior to the 1714 bulletin what I assume was another station came on the frequency with a man making two or three brief announcements in unknown language and then saying Over (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth, UK, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Northern Italy (Bologna) March 25 on 8700U is audible with strong signal but with QRM, music only. 73, (Lucio Ardito, swl I4-883, JN54rn, Racal 1792 + dipole, 1829 UT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN. Look for Mark, VK4KMT, to join the YA5T team. He is expected to fly to Dubai on March 25th and then into YA-land in about 5 days. His mode of preference is SSB, so this will help the guys waiting for SSB action (KB8NW/OPDX March 25/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 29810 LSB, Feeder, 2220 Mar 23, Fair at tune in, but rose to exceptional level by 2252, and remained quite good till signal went off at 2330. // 15820 LSB, but much stronger. Program consisted of a football match commentary. Game was between Argentina and Venezuela. I did hear one ID given around 2249, which sounded like "Radio Chaco Re?", but not sure since I don't speak the language (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15820, Radio Rivadavia, Buenos Aires. 2040-2050 March 23. LSB mode. Sports programme. Results of second division argentine fútbol championship. ID: "Somos Rivadavia". Ann.: "Rivadavia Noticias en Perú", Advs: "Viaje con el Nuevo Rápido a Santiago del Estero". 44444 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentine, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. KEITH GLOVER KEITH GLOVER KEITH GLOVER KEITH GLOVER --- contrary to information on page 269 of the 2002 edition of `Passport to World Band Radio`, former Radio Australia personality Keith Glover has not died, but is living in retirement in Melbourne. Although he and his wife Gwendoline have both had health problems in recent years, Keith's distinctive voice can still be heard from time to time in charitable activities around Melbourne. Keith made several trips to NZ to meet with SWLs and DXers and was guest auctioneer at the 1975 DX Convention in Christchurch (March New Zealand DX Times via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. ABC Radio 70 years old: This year the ABC celebrates the 70th anniversary of broadcasting to the nation. In 1932, under the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company which at that time ran eight metropolitan and four regional radio stations, became the public broadcaster - the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The changeover from private to public broadcaster took place at 8pm on 1 July that year. The 12 stations operated by the new-born ABC were 2FC and 2BL in Sydney; 3AR and 3LO in Melbourne; 4QG in Brisbane; 5CL in Adelaide; 6WF in Perth; 7ZL in Hobart and the relay stations 2NC in Newcastle; 2CO at Corowa, 4RK in Rockhampton and 5CK at Crystal Brook. On 1 July, in celebration of the anniversary, the ABC will launch its seventh radio network, DIG, an internet only radio station. The all- music service is designed for the 30-50 age bracket and will particularly feature contemporary Australian music. Plans are currently underway to reunite the remaining ABC radio stations that originally joined to create a special anniversary program. All Divisions and Networks will contribute to the 70th anniversary celebrations through special programming and participation in local events (AMT Australian Radio News, March via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. Radio Austria International A'02 (English only extracted from printed folder) 0130-0200 -9870, 17860 - Daily -To North America 0532-0600 -6155, 13730 - Daily -To Eu/ME/Af 1130-1200 -6155, 13730 - Daily -To Eu/ME/Af 1130-1200 -21780 - Daily -To Asia/Australia 1330-1400 -6155, 13730 - Daily -To Eu/ME/Af 1530-1600 -9870, 17860 - Daily -To North America 1605-1700 -1476 (MyMusic)- Sun -To Eu/ME/Af 1830-1900 -6155, 5945 - Daily -To Eu/ME/Af 1900-1930 -1476 - Daily -To Eu/ME/Af 2130-2200 -6155, 5945 - Sun-Fri-To Eu/ME/Af Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, 25/3/02, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note the 1530 broadcast; surely NAm is not the target on 9870; and 17860 would be Sackville, ex-17865, ex-1630; earlier version claimed the entire hour 1500-1600 would be in German. It seems this English broadcast, the only one reliably heard in C and WNAm, is always an afterthought (gh, DXLD) {looking at this again later, it has the same problem as last season, layout confusing. 17860 is surely not meant to be at 0130, any more than 9870 at 1530; et al.? -gh} ** BOLIVIA. 5964.87[73], Radio Nacional Huanuni, 1010-1015, several ments de Bolivia, seeming transmitter jump from .87 to .73 at 1017. On 5927.10, R. Dif. Minería, 1000-1035 (Bob Wilkner, Margate, FL, March 25, R75, NRD535D, with on the grass 10 meter "longwire", DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURKINA FASO. 4815, March 19 at 1900 "Radio Burkina - la radio numéro un" with Burkina Inter Actualités. They spoke about the role of the mass-medias regarding the coming elections in the country. Seems to have difficulties making up their minds re the SW frequency. O=3 (Christer Brunström, SW Bulletin via Thomas Nilsson, DXLD) 5030 kHz, 2157-2400 sign off. Fair to good reception March 24 with live coverage of "Semaine Nationale de la Culture" continuing after news, lots of live music, commentary in French and local language. I did a search and this event is apparently under way until March 30. (Wade Smith, New Brunswick, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. No end in sight to 1-day CBC walkout CHARLIE FIDELMAN, Montreal Gazette, Saturday, March 23, 2002 The 24-hour walkout at CBC is now a blackout with no light at the end of the tunnel as each side calls on the other to make the next move. Striking CBC workers won't be allowed back in until "we sit down and get a new agreement" or protocol in the labour dispute is reached, CBC spokesman Marc Sévigny said. "We're not taking the onus of the lockout. Our position is that it's a strike. They walked out. By law, the link between the worker and the employer is broken. There's no such thing as a 24-hour strike," Sévigny said. On Wednesday, the union representing 1,300 journalists and production staff - the Syndicat des Communications de Radio-Canada - announced the 24-hour walkout in protest against stalled labour negotiations. 'It's No Picnic' The action canceled most English and French local radio and TV programs, including Daybreak, hosted by Dave Bronstetter, Newswatch with Dennis Trudeau and Radio-Canada's Téléjournal anchored by Stephan Bureau. It was to end at midnight. The next step, Sévigny said, should be "a sign from the union that they really want to sit down and talk. Except that now it's going to be a new agreement." The walkout was announced after CBC tabled its final offer on Wednesday. Union officials called it an ultimatum, not an offer. They didn't present it to the membership because it was practically identical to the offer rejected on Saturday, when 89 per cent voted in favour of strike action, union president Michel Couturier said. Key issues include raises, pay equity and job security, he said. "We had a mandate to go out for 24 hours and we exercised it," he said at a press conference in the basement of St. Pierre Apôtre Church, facing the picket line around the CBC building on René Lévesque Blvd. E. Agreement Unlikely It's not likely an agreement would have been reached by midnight last night given that talks have lagged since last June, he said. "We're ready to talk. We've been ready since June," he said, adding that the ball is now in the CBC's court. A party mood prevailed on the picket line with many young protesters jumping up and down to keep warm. Cars driving by the pickets honked their horns in support. "It's like a day off, but with a lot of stress," said Nancy Wood, host of CBC's two-hour Radio Noon. Many fear a repeat performance of of the 1980 strike that dragged out for eight months. "This is my first strike, but that's what a lot of us are afraid of," Wood said. "You don't make a lot of money at the CBC, so it's pretty scary." © Copyright 2002 Montreal Gazette (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. Evidently there's a labor dispute of indeterminate duration between SCRC and the CBC affecting CBC operations in Quebec and SRC operations throughout Canada. "Vinyl Cafe" is being aired on RCI in place of the regular Sunday evening fare to the USA between 0200-0300 UT (Mon.) There was a brief announcement of the dispute near the beginning of the transmission (after the news). The RCI web site only has a "temporarily suspended" note on the Maple Leaf Mailbag page. CBC Montreal's web site does give notice that there will be no new content there for the duration of the labor dispute (John Figliozzi, NY, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. I don't know how this happened, but Radio One management cared enough for Quebec to give us an original replacement program called Morning Edition instead of Daybreak. The host is Bill Herald (or Held, it is really still too early for me today!). The newsreader is Janet Irwin (Erwin?). Here's how the show has been carved up until now: World Report, intro, Quebec weather, Commentary, syndicated report on the Canadian composer of Lord of the Rings, Quebec weather, regoional news, BB King (It's Early in the Morning), interview on a 400-year-old law that prevents charities from performing advocacy work, Quebec news headlines at 8:46, Academy Awards, music from Shrek, Quebec weather. Gee, sounds sort of like... NPR's Morning Edition. (Who'd have thunk?) I have no idea where it's from (given the audio quality, it's either from here or Toronto; if it came from anywhere else, it would sound like a low bitrate Internet stream). A lot of the interval music is familiar to me, then again maybe all CBC local shows use the same music. Funny enough, there still seems to be fill music on Radio-Canada. Looks like either: a) CBC Radio One is more organized to replace striking workers or b) managers at Radio-Canada have much more moral fortitude. Will the suits put this much effort to replace RCI programs? Of course, Daybreak was at one time one of CBC Radio One's most highly rated local morning shows, right? Wonder what they'll do at lunch and for drive-home (Ricky Leong, QB, 1410 UT March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ricky et al! Yeah, I was listening to the "Morning Edition" on Radio One 88.5, and noticed that they were trying to stick in as many of the regular features as possible. That included the network Business Report show at 5:45 AM, Bob Johnston's "Day in History" feature at 6:25, and a sports report from the national studio just before 7 AM. (They were trying to contact the usual finance guy from London, Jeremy Stretch (sp?) from RBC Capital Management, just after 6:50 AM, but that fell through.) I noted down the names of Bill Gerrold (sp?) and Janet Irwin, and decided to look them up in the CBC national phonebook. Guess what? Both are management personnel, and neither is from anywhere near Montréal. Janet Irwin is Executive Producer of English Radio in Fredricton, NB; Bill Gerald is Regional Director of Radio, English Radio News and Current Affairs, in Regina, SK. I have no idea where either of these people were broadcasting from, but there's always the possibility that they were brought to Montréal, and are at the Maison de Radio-Canada. Janet Irwin was doing news headlines on the noontime show. At the beginning, Patricia Pleszczynska, Director of English Radio in Québec, came on to tell us that the first hour (noon to 1 PM) would be the Ontario regional noon programme, and that the second hour would be a documentary about the singer/musician Lorraine Klassen. Don't know what they'll do about the afternoon show. The morning programme, by the way, was also being fed to Moncton, but I didn't hear any mention of Moncton for the noon show. Again, don't know what will happen from 4 to 6 PM. 73- (Bill Westernhaver, QC, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. RADIO CHANGES CAUSING STATIC AMONG LISTENERS BUT CBC REVAMP IS MERELY A REJIG Sid Adilman ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST, Toronto Star, March 23 Shock waves are reverberating around the executive offices of CBC Radio. CBC Radio One program director Adrian Mills, CBC Radio vice-president Alex Frame and key staff are masterminding what they call the first major revamp of the national network's programming in 30 years. Changes will be made as of September, but not everyone likes what they've been hearing about them so far. Many outraged listeners are calling the revamp an undeserved slap on the ears for their loyalty. Mills and Frame have said one reason for the program changes is that CBC Radio One should appeal to "younger listeners." This has alarmed listeners, most of whom are 55 and older. They take those two words to mean a radical switch to a steady stream of hip-hop music, or worse. The response has been angry letters and e-mails to Mills and newspaper columnists. Inside CBC, there is fury, too.... http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1016665303931&call_page=TS_News_Columnist s&call_pageid=970599109774&call_pagepath=Columnists (via Ivan Grishin, Mike Cooper, Sergei Sosedkin, DXLD) ** CHINA (non). Very interesting for me fact is CRI relays its Spanish transmissions at 0100 and 0300 via Brasília on 9665. I received 0100 transmission on March 17 with SINPO=23541. Parallel frequency was 11650 (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia via Signal for DX LISTENING DIGEST) I still have my doubts this is really the site. Could some of our Brazilian readers absolutely confirm this? (gh, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. Besides Sunday 1800, UT Mon 0000, 0600, 1200 on RFPI, James Bean`s Spiritual Awakening broadcast/webcast schedule: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiritualawakening/message/1490 and discussion group itself: http://www.egroups.com/group/spiritualawakening (RFPI Weekly Update via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. CASTRO'S REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER LEADS VITRIOLIC RADIO ATTACK FROM MIAMI As Cuba's communist regime enters its twilight years, a family feud is fuelling democratic hopes --- Cuba after Castro: Observer special Ed Vulliamy in Havana, Sunday March 24, 2002, The Observer A savage new voice of opposition to Fidel Castro's regime is being beamed into Havana from a Miami radio station. The owner of that voice is Fidel's daughter. Over the past month Alina Fernández Revuelta has become the latest talk-show host to hit the cacophonous airwaves in Cuba's fin-de- communist epoch. 'Buenas noches, amigos' - good evening, friends - she kicks off the show, entitled Simplemente Alina - Simply Alina. The programme makes no mention of who she is - 'people just know,' she says. Of all the dissidents hovering over Castro's final years, Fernández may be among the most damaging. 'I do not refer to Mr Castro as my father,' says Fernández. 'I do not love him, I am his exile.' Fernández's opposition to her father's regime is the stuff of heated family drama. It is also the story of the child who came to hate her father and everything that he represented, and defected to ally herself with his bitterest enemies, a group that has for years plotted in Miami for his downfall. Disgusted with Cuban politics as a young woman, Fernández joined the opposition, only to find herself persecuted by her father's government. She defected to the US in 1993, travelling on a false Spanish passport and heavily disguised via Madrid, before introducing herself to the Cuban exile opposition - literally, across a table in its unofficial headquarters, the Versailles restaurant in Miami's Little Havana. In 1997 Fernández published a memoir describing visits by her father engulfed in 'stinking' cigar smoke and his omnipotent presence in her early life. She recalls one box-wrapped gift of a doll for her to play with: of himself, with full beard, military fatigues, red star epaulettes, cap and boots. The emergence of the soft-spoken Fernández as the new star of Cuba's exile radio comes hot on the heels of the revelation last year that Castro had another love-child, Francisca Pupo, also living in Miami. Fernández was also born illegitimately, the fruit of a summer fling between Castro and a Havana socialite, Natalya Revuelta, while both were married. She communicates only by letter with her mother and is harshly denounced by her aunt - Castro's sister, Juanita Castro, who also lives in Miami. 'I would like to be in touch with family members' in Havana, Fernández says, 'but I just can't do it, I'm the enemy. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is.' In the dynastic politics of Cuba, the personal is political. When Castro dies, his brother Raúl, Defence Minister, is slated to take over. Fernández is of a younger generation, and at 46 is unhappy with the way her father and his relations have kept power. She is 'doing whatever I can to spread the reality of life in Cuba'. Last week Fernández - whose show began six weeks ago - led a debate on how Mexico handed back to the authorities a bus-load of asylum-seekers who poured into its Havana embassy. 'We cannot forget what happens to Cubans who have been returned to the regime,' she said. Another show gathered together survivors of the infamous Mariel boatlift in 1980 of 125,000 refugees, her guests recounting their ordeals at home and at sea. She has even invited members of the hated right-wing Cuban American National Federation on to her programme. Her hope for change, she says, lies in 'democracy, not charismatic leaders, because some dynamic leaders become dictators', she says. 'Gandhi was a good leader. Nehru was a good leader. But Fidel has ruined his own country. My generation has been the victim of the manipulation of Cuban history.' The station's programming director, Chuny Montaner, said: 'She has a soft approach, but that doesn't mean she's soft at all.' A recent interview shows Fernández to be a nervous, complex woman, prone to biting her nails. Other accounts detail four marriages and a battle with anorexia (via Mike Terry, UK; Sergei Sosedkin, IL, DXLD) Full story at: http://observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,672977,00.html Time, station, frequency, of her program; webcast??? (gh, DXLD) ** DUCIE ISLAND. Pilot stations Stu/WA2MOE, Yoshi/JE2EHP and Jay/AF2C have been keeping the DX community well informed over the past week on the activity and status of VP6DI. As this was being typed, reports indicate that the team is tired but in good spirits. Over the past weekend there has been some activity on 80/40/17 meters. On 160 they make no promises. The operator N9TK (VP6DI) reported that the vertical antenna intended for use on 160 and 80 is giving the operators trouble. They are trying to repair it. Also, there is word that there is something wrong with the RTTY equipment. The VP6DI team is scheduled to cease operation on March 27th and leave the island that evening (their time). They intend to arrive on Henderson Island (OC-056) on March 28th. This is a rare IOTA. They will only stay for one day and depart Henderson on March 29th. On March 30th, they will arrive at Pitcairn (long enough to eat lunch). On April 1st, they are expected to arrive back in Gambier, and all should be back home by April 3rd. Remember, QSL Manager is Garth Hamilton, VE3HO, for all HF operations only. QSL Manager for all 6 meter QSOs is Kan, JA1BK. A log search is or will be available at: http://www.big.or.jp/~ham/dx.html (KB8NW/OPDX March 25/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. HCJB WORLD RADIO A02 BROADCAST SCHEDULE final (31 March 2002 - 26 October 2002; Revised 7 March 2002) excerpt: ENGLISH --- all daily 0100 0400 9745 100 351 N. Amer. (E) 0100 0330 11960 50 330 N. America 0100 0600 21455 30 35/225 Eur./S. Pac. 0200 0330 21470 100 40 India 0330 0400 11960 100 330 N. America 0400 0600 11960 100 327 N. America 0400 0600 9745 100 324 N Amer. (W) 0600 0800 11680 250 36 Europe 0630 1430 21455 30 35/225 Eur./S. Pac. 0700 1100 11755 100 228 S. Pacific 1100 1430 12005 50 43 Caribbean 1100 1430 15115 250 352/128 N/S America 2000 2200 17660 100 41 Europe 2030 2200 21455 30 35/225 Eur./S. Pac. (Doug Weber, HCJB via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS [and non]. Unsung Hero of the SW CLYDEBANK RADIO HAM HELPED TO WIN BACK THE FALKLANDS Sun 24 Mar 2002, STEPHEN FRASER, Scotsman ARMED with a shortwave radio in a room in his Clydebank home, he was Britain's secret weapon in the Falklands war. Les Hamilton was the amateur radio operator who told the British government the islands had been invaded and the only person in Britain to be in regular radio contact with islanders during the Argentinian occupation. He was the vital link through which details of enemy troop movements and the success of RAF bombing raids were fed back to the Ministry of Defence. The information he provided was considered so important to the success of the war that within minutes his information was relayed to the task force in the South Atlantic. Yet until now Hamilton's role has been a closely guarded secret, known only by senior British politicians, military intelligence officers and a select band of amateur radio enthusiasts. Full story at: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=322342002 (via Sergei Sosedkin, DXLD) Are his callsign, and those of hams in the Falklands further in the story, ever mentioned? Of course not! (gh, DXLD) ** FRANCE. Dear Glenn: This may not be earth-shattering news but I heard after 0500 Radio France International broadcasting to East Africa on 13610. Since I'm a shortwave deprived North American where the BBC doesn't broadcast to us, and the Voice of America can barely be heard on shortwave in NA, any reputable news source on shortwave is welcome (Charlie Harlich, Mar 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Here the A02 Jülich schedule, marked as draft, so last- minute changes are possible. Note the regular use of IBB Biblis for High Adventure Ministries. [see USA non for remarks...] For Wertachtal only the FEBC 250 kW transmission and 6140 from 1555 are shown while Nauen does no longer appear in this schedule at all, but probably the transmissions to be transferred to these sites are just not determined yet. Deutsche Welle daily 0600-1555 6140 120 (1555-1900 WER 130 deg.) RNW, booked by Deutsche Welle daily 1027-1225 6045 ND RTBF daily 0257-0459 9495 160 Sat, Sun 0427-0459 daily 0500-0712 17580 160 Sat -0959, Sun -0806 daily 0957-1206 21565 160 Sat 1000-1117, Sun 1057-1117 daily 1457-1716 17570 160 Sat 1557-1716 VRT/RVi daily 0457-0656 13685 115 daily 0657-0726 5985 265 daily 1729-1856 13710 120 Sat 1757-1956 5910 ND Hrvatska Radio daily 2300-0059 9925 230 daily 0100-0259 9925 300 daily 0300-0459 9925 325 daily 0500-0659 9470 230 daily 0700-0859 13820 270 Swiss Radio International daily 0555-0800 15445 160 17685 200 daily 1625-1815 15220 115 17735 115 daily 1825-2130 15220 160 17580 200 Democratic Voice of Burma daily 1455-1530 17805 70 daily 2330-0030 9490 80 Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo Wed, Sat, Sun 1700-1759 15750 125 Tigrean International Solidarity for Justice and Democracy Wed, Sat 1600-1629 15530 125 Rádio Ecclésia daily 0500-0559 15545 160 daily 1800-1859 13810 160 Sat 1800-2130 United Methodist Church daily 0400-0559 11645 145 13810 160 daily 1700-1859 13820 145 15265 160 Trans World Radio Mon-Fri 0655-0820 6045 ND Sat 0645-0750 6045 ND Sun 0645-0820 6045 ND daily 1230-1245 9490 130 Sat 1600-1645 7135 115 9690 120 Adventist World Radio daily 0400-0500 9570 115 daily 0600-0730 11610 200 Sat, Sun 0900-1000 11880 145 daily 1600-1659 13720 115 daily 1700-1759 15235 115 daily 1900-2030 15485 200 IBRA-Radio daily 1645-1715 13840 80 daily 1900-1930 13710 190 daily 2000-2100 9655 115 daily 2230-2330 9405 190 Evangeliumsradio Hamburg Sun 0858-1000 6045 ND Wed 1730-1759 6015 ND Universelles Leben (Radio Santec) Sun 0100-0129 9435 90 Sun 1600-1629 15670 175 Tue, Wed, Thu 1630-1659 6015 ND Sun 1800-1829 15750 145 Sun 1900-1915 15565 115 Christian Science (prgr. in German) Sun 0900-0959 5985 115 Family Radio (WYFR) daily 1600-1800 13855 145 daily 1700-1900 9695 60 daily 1800-1900 15775 160 daily 1900-2000 9495 115 daily 1900-2200 13855 200 Voice of Hope / High Adventure Ministries daily 0700-0800 5975 290 daily 0700-1200 21590 115 daily 1200-2100 15715 115 daily 1330-1430 15775 70 daily 1330-1635 17550 90 daily 1600-1700 13810 145 daily 2000-2100 6175 ND --- via IBB Biblis: --- daily 1700-1900 9495 80 ************* Remnants Hope Ministry Sat 0800-0900 13810 250 Sat, Sun 1200-1300 6110 295 Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie Thu 1830-1859 15750 145 The Overcomer Ministries daily 1200-1459 5975 290 daily 1300-1559 13810 115 Sun 1500-1555 6015 290 Sun 1555-1800 6015 ND FEBC via Wertachtal (250 kW) Thu, Fri 1800-1830 11895 120 LRT / Radio Vilnius -- backup arrangement daily 0000-0100 9855 295 SRI -- backup arrangements for Sottens daily 0555-0800 21750 160 daily 0825-1030 21770 160 daily 1625-1815 21720 145 daily 1825-2130 13645 140 daily 2155-2400 9885 240 DRM test arrangements daily 0600-2000 5850 290 daily 0900-1700 6110 60 (via Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Today is Greece Independence Day - March 25th. Not sure what VOG will have on to celebrate this day on SW (Petro Giannakopoulos, GA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. Meanwhile, in Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, local NPR outlet KIFO 1380 KIFO 1380 KIFO 1380 KIFO 1380 KIFO 1380 has been sold to Utah based Legacy Communications and NPR uses the sales proceeds to expand FM coverage in the islands. Legacy then plans to move KIFO to 1370 1370 1370 1370 1370 so a Washington state station can redirect its signal on 1380 and avoid interference to and from Hawaii. What would Alan Roycroft say! Now, this Legacy outfit has a bit of a track record according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper. They also own 1170 1170 1170 1170 1170 the old KOHO KOHO KOHO KOHO KOHO which used to broadcast in Japanese. In the last two years, it's gone from KOHO to KBUG, to KBNZ to KZEZ, back to KBNZ and then to KENT KENT KENT KENT KENT in January 2002, and now it's gone altogether. Silent that is. (Gee, and I missed all those call changes too!) The plan is: KENT 1170 KENT 1170 KENT 1170 KENT 1170 KENT 1170 moves to join the KIFO tower, which sheds KLHT 1040 to its own new tower (because it can't run 10 kW from this location as the local FCC monitoring station is between the tower and downtown) and the double harmonic interference of 690 on 1380 disappears with KIFO's move to 1370. This reads like a QSL from Alan Roycroft, but shows that Al must still be putting some spanners in the works! Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Snowstorm knocks AM station off-air in Hawaii! Wow! What a headline. And, it's true. KNUI Kahului 900 KNUI Kahului 900 KNUI Kahului 900 KNUI Kahului 900 KNUI Kahului 900 has its transmitter atop Mt. Haleakala and a freak wind and snowstorm on January 19 blew the station off-air. It's since returned, using about 1.66 kW instead of the normal 5 kW but should power up again real soon (Melvin Ah Ching`s Hawaiian Radio and TV Guide via March NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** HUNGARY. As announced over "DX Blockbuster", from A 02 the same shall be shortened due to introduction of a new co produced programme. A new DX programme "DX Corner" will be aired with latest DX news every Friday. 73's (Swopan Chakroborty, Kolkata, India, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. SAVAK: A NEW PRETEXT FOR MEDIA REPRESSION IN IRAN? By Bill Samii Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi warned in a 6 March speech that people linked to SAVAK (the previous regime's intelligence and security organization) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency have been active in cultural and artistic centers. He went on to say that "the enemy" has "infiltrated the press and cultural and artistic institutions," state radio reported. This appears to be the most recent excuse for the Iranian government's closure of publications -- about 60 in the last two years, excluding student publications -- and its imprisonment of around 20 journalists over the same timeframe. Nor is the alleged SAVAK link relevant in all the current press-related trials. Often the complainants are hard-line institutions such as state radio and television (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, the Senate-like Guardians Council, and so on. Furthermore, some of the difficulties faced by the provincial press are often due to various practical problems linked to more mundane issues. Hashemi-Shahrudi's claims about SAVAK are linked with the current trial of 73-year-old journalist Siamak Purzand. The closed and unannounced trial of Purzand began in early March, "Iran Daily" reported on 9 March, and during the proceedings he allegedly confessed to having a relationship with SAVAK. Purzand was jailed in November, and the conservative "Jam" weekly subsequently claimed that he received millions of dollars from the American Iranian Council and then distributed some of that money among the reformist newspapers. The reformist "Noruz" daily on 6 January questioned how "Jam" knew all this when no official organization has acknowledged Purzand's arrest. The authorities have no reason to hold Purzand, Hanny Megally of Human Rights Watch said in mid-March, adding that "the judicial authorities are making a mockery of rule of law in Iran." In a 15 March statement from Paris, Reporters san Frontiers condemned Purzand's trial and expressed concern about possible psychological pressure on Purzand to confess. Indeed, Purzand had left telephone messages on his wife's answering machine in Los Angeles, begging her and their daughters not to make any comments about the trial and not do interviews with foreign radios. Purzand's wife, lawyer and human rights activist Mehrangiz Kar, said in an interview with RFE/RL's Persian Service that her husband has been brainwashed in prison. In some notable cases, those standing trial are parliamentarians. Such trials are meant to silence them and intimidate other members of parliament. The Tehran Public Court summoned "Hambastegi" publisher and parliamentarian Qolam Heidar Ebrahimbay-Salami to face complaints filed by the Hajj and Pilgrimage Association and the East Azerbaijan Water and Sewage Company, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on 11 March. He already faces 18 complaints filed by the Guardians Council, the Isfahan Ansar-i Hizbullah (a hard-line pressure group), the Islamic Open University, and the prosecutor-general. Another case involving a reformist member of the parliament is that of Mohsen Mirdamadi, the publisher of "Noruz." On 4 March, he was found guilty on 22 separate charges, including libel, attempting to incite the public, violating election regulations, insulting state officials, and publishing lies. The charges against him were filed by the state broadcasting organization, the Basij Resistance Force (which is part of the Revolutionary Guards), and the Elections Supervisory Board. Jailed journalist Emadedin Baqi, who already is being held in Evin Prison, was brought before the court on 19 February because of a complaint filed against him by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, "Noruz" reported on 21 February. Baqi objected because neither he nor his lawyer had received prior notification, so the hearing was postponed. Baqi will have a week-long home leave starting 18 March if he posts a 100 million-rial (about $57,143 at the official rate) surety bond, IRNA reported. Imprisoned journalist Akbar Ganji will have a home leave too if he puts up 600 million rials. The appeals court confirmed the closure of "Asr-i Ma," the weekly put out by the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization (MIRO). Managing Editor Mohammad Salamati's 26-month jail sentence was reduced to 17 months, "Noruz" reported on 6 March. The original sentence was handed down on 15 December. On 17 March, furthermore, Minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance Ahmad Masjid-Jamei announced that the judiciary chief agreed to suspend the verdict pending further appeals, IRNA reported. The sentences of publisher Shahla Lahiji and writer and former editor Mehrangiz Kar (she is married to imprisoned journalist Purzand) were reduced to six months' imprisonment, calculated as time served, and a 500,000 rial (about $285 at the official rate) fine, the Writers in Prison Committee of International Pen reported on 27 February. They originally were tried for their participation in an April 2000 conference in Berlin and in January 2001 were sentenced to four years' imprisonment. They had remained free pending the appeal, and Kar is in the U.S. for medical treatment. The Association of Iranian Journalists, meanwhile, on 4 March called on judiciary chief Hashemi-Shahrudi to lift the ban on "Guzarish-i Film" monthly and "Cinema-yi Jahan" weekly, which were shut down in January. According to IRNA, Shahrudi has directed Tehran Justice Department chief Abbas Ali Alizadeh to lift the ban two separate times to no effect. It is not just the reformists who stand trial after complaints by hard-line individuals and institutions. "Kayhan" is a hard-line daily linked with the supreme leader's office, and in early-March Managing Editor Hussein Shariatmadari was questioned by press court judge Said Mortazavi and then freed on 300 million rials (about $171,430) bail. According to an 11 March report in the apparently irritated "Kayhan," the complainants were "the ministries of Science, Interior, Islamic Culture and Guidance, and Oil; as well as the managing director of Steel Parts Company; Mohsen Kadivar; Ahmad Hakimipur; Latif Safari; Mehrangiz Kar; Pak Party; a number of those who had lit candles at Mohseni Square for those who were killed in 11 September in America; someone convicted for abduction, rape, corruption and prostitution; and the prosecutor-general." In contrast to Hashemi-Shahrudi's claims about the enemy's infiltration of the press, some Iranian officials have spoken out on the harmful effect of the press bans and the trials of journalists. Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mohsen Armin warned, "We cannot chant slogans in support of unity and then start arresting people and closing down newspapers," according to the 13 March "Bonyan." And the Council of Former Parliamentary Deputies on 3 March issued a statement calling for the lifting of the press bans and the release of political prisoners, IRNA reported. Such a step would reinforce national solidarity and block the efforts of the U.S. and other Iranian enemies, the former parliamentarians said. Provincial journalists face legal harassment and provincial publications face the possibility of having their licenses suspended, too, but the provincial press also is affected by greater practical obstacles than the Tehran-based media. A 21 January editorial in Yazd Province's "Sarv-i Abarkuh" said that its biggest problem is the "enormous cost of printing." Sales are inadequate to meet costs so there is a dependency on advertising revenue. Depending on advertising sales is not practical "in a small town where small businesses have difficulty meeting their own expenses," and state subsidies are too small. Another problem, according to "Sarv-i Abarkuh," is the dearth of professionally trained journalists, typesetters, administrators, and office equipment. The publication also must pay to receive Islamic Republic News Agency articles (Bill Samii is editor of "RFE/RL Iran Report" http://www.rferl.org/iran-report/ (via RFE/RL Media Matters via DXLD) ** IRAQ [and non]. Editorial Analysis: BROADCASTS FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE International attention has now extended to include Iraq as well as Afghanistan. The state of Iraqi broadcasting and the level of media beamed in that politically isolated state could play a part in the war of words that is so often heard before, during and after military action. Audience research data from Iraq is non-existent, which makes it difficult to assess the impact of any individual programme, broadcaster or nation. Since 1991, broadcasts from Iraq have been almost inaudible outside its borders. Considerable damage was done to Iraq's once impressive broadcast installations. Domestic radio and TV is the most accessible in the parts of Iraq controlled by Saddam Husayn. BBC Monitoring has heard Baghdad radio's main service in Arabic on six mediumwave and two shortwave frequencies. The station also announces five different regional FM frequencies. In December 1998 two Arabic sources said Baghdad radio was using mobile transmitters and these may well have been FM. Other domestic services heard recently have been Voice of Youth run by Saddam's son Udayy and Holy Koran Radio. Services that have not been heard recently are Voice of the Masses, the domestic and Persian and Kurdish services from Baghdad and the infamous Mother of Battles Radio. Of the domestic TV services, only the Iraq Satellite Channel is seen on a number of satellites, although the main domestic TV service and to a lesser extent, Udayy's channel Youth TV, are available terrestrially. The radio and TV bands in Iraq are therefore open to incoming signals. Given the erratic operation of some Iraqi broadcasts, there is little evidence of an infrastructure that could jam incoming radio or TV services to any great effect. So what else is available to the Iraqi citizen? Anyone who possess a shortwave and mediumwave radio will have access to a wide range of general Arabic-language services from the Middle East as well as the UK, USA, Russia and France, amongst others. These include US-funded Radio Free Iraq, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from studios in Prague. It is probably the most audible in technical terms and may reach a sizable audience. There are several clandestine radio efforts too, which may take a small listening share: Voice of the Iraqi People in Arabic which is the radio of the Iraqi Communist Party; Al-Mustaqbal Radio in Arabic/Kurdish from the Iraqi National Accord, Voice of the Iraqi Republic from Baghdad/Voice of the Iraqi People and the latest, Radio Mesopotamia/Radio of the Two Rivers, which for four hours a day seems to be aimed at younger people. There is likely to be an upsurge in clandestine media activity if the political and military temperature continues to rise. Another such station, with INC and US backing, could be established on a mountain straddling the Iraq-Iran border in an area controlled by the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party. It could easily reach Baghdad on FM - and just as easily be blocked by relatively small local jamming stations. US psyops Commando Solo flights, delivering radio broadcasts from aircraft have also been used in recent conflicts, most recently, and probably with some effect, in Afghanistan. If Iraq comes under direct military threat and they want news, most Iraqis still don't have access to satellite TV, although some older analogue receivers may be available to some viewers. In September 2001 the London-based Iraqi National Congress (INC), a US-funded umbrella organization of groups opposed to President Saddam Husayn, launched Hurriyah or Liberty TV - aimed at Iraq. It broadcasts on a westerly trans-Atlantic satellite in a digital format unlikely to be available to many Iraqi viewers. Observers have questioned whether the opposition will be able to have a significant impact on Iraq's political structure through a satellite channel. Even if no single source has an overwhelming effect in Iraq, some media, including the pan-Arab TV channels do get through and London and Washington have less direct control of their message. The war against terror is not yet over and the war on the airwaves to influence hearts and minds is continuing too (© BBC Monitoring March 22 via DXLD) ** IRELAND. Glenn[n], thanks for all the work you put into DXLD. It's a prime source for my 'hit list'. Regarding recent postings of Irish church relays, last night (24th March) saw 2 received down on this side of the world by myself and Craig Seager. Frequencies were 27285 and 27155 both in NBFM as others have noted. Times were from 1120 tune-in till 1205 f/out with fair strengths on peaks. So, if they make it here they will make it to other places on this side of the world! Best Regards, (John Schache, Bathurst, Australia, DX LISTDNING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/24/LatestNews/LatestNews.45771.html CABINET NIXES ALL IBA SHORTWAVE PROGRAMMING By Gil Hoffman, March, 24 2002 Shortwave radio broadcasts in eleven languages heard by hundreds of thousands of people around the world will end a week from today after the cabinet approved the Israel Broadcasting Authority budget this morning. Minister-Without-Portfolio Ra'anan Cohen pledged last month not to let the budget pass unless the shortwave broadcasts were returned to the budget, but his office said today that "the pressure was too great" and he caved in. Cohen is the minister in charge of enforcing IBA regulations, which require that the IBA broadcast to the Diaspora. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this morning that the Broadcasting Authority and Israel Television Channel 1 sometimes, "Serve the interests of Israel's bitterest enemies." To read more, http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/24/LatestNews/LatestNews.45760.html IBA officials said they believe broadcasting on the Internet and via satellite satisfies the regulation, even though the Internet is not available in many parts of the world. When founder Yosef Barel was named interim IBA director-general last week, foreign-language news staffers hoped the would cancel a decision to cut shortwave radio broadcasts in 11 languages heard daily by hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. But that hope ended earlier last week when Israel Radio director Amnon Nadav wrote a letter to Bezeq, which had carried the broadcasts, asking the company to stop transmitting them as of April 1. The letter said the broadcasts would instead be available via satellite and on the Internet, in five to seven languages. "Hardly anyone receives shortwave radio anymore, and if they do, they receive poor quality reception," Barel told The Jerusalem Post. "Now the broadcasts will have much better quality at a much lower cost." The decision came despite hundreds of letters from angry Diaspora Jews. The cut is intended to save the IBA NIS 6 million at a time when it is making cutbacks wherever possible due to a multimillion shekel debt. IBA staffers are especially concerned about ending the broadcasts in languages of countries where Internet and satellite are not readily available. Among the letters protesting the decision are many from listeners in Georgia, Lithuania, and Romania. "These broadcasts are an important lifeline for the many living in Britain who wish to be kept up to date with impartial news and to hear interviews with government ministers not subject to editing by news outlets such as BBC, CNN, and Sky, which have tended to give very different perspectives of recent events in Israel," wrote Neville Nagler, director-general of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Israel Radio spokeswoman Carmela Yisraeli wrote Nagler and others last month that the proposal to cut the broadcast had been reconsidered. However, her use of the words "in the meantime" meant the battle was far from over. Barel said a decision to move IBA English News to Channel 33 has been delayed from April 1 to "the end of April," blaming the delay on his predecessor, Ron Galinka. The IBA began laying the infrastructure last month for Channel 33 to be available to those who lack cable and satellite systems. The channel is to become a Middle East satellite network broadcasting Arabic news and IBA English News. The channel will feature two half- hour English newscasts nightly (via Daniel Rosenzqeig, NY, 1321 UT March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just got word that they have postponed the implementation till May 1, for further deliberations (Daniel Rosenzweig, 1510 UT March 24, DX LISTENING DIGERST) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel update - israelradio.org closing as part of cutbacks. I don't have any updates regarding the 1 month extension... but this was posted on http://www.israelradio.org today: "The Israel Broadcasting Authority has announced that overseas broadcasting will end on March 31, 2002. A statement says that the IBA will cease shortwave broadcasting and instead organize the placing of some programming on the internet and satellite but it has not given a timescale or any details of this activity. This site will no longer be able to operate as will all rebroadcasts on other networks and radio stations outside of Israel. A new web site of `Friends of Israel Radio` will soon be operating." --------- (via Daniel Rosenzweig, 2244 UT March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've been told that the rescheduling the cutbacks to May 1, came from Bar-el. (That's what I was originally told, but I had no idea who Bar- el was!) Bar-el is the interim Director General, the man who was previously nominated (Galinka) was not ratified and left. As Bar-el is new, he hasn't been briefed on this matter, so he couldn't take a position. Officially, at this point, though, the date is still March 31 (Daniel Rosenzweig, 1200 UT March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Ed, P5/4L4FN, showed up over the weekend on 15 meters SSB (21225 kHz after 2230z). Really no new detail to report this week. (KB8NW/OPDX March 25/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Atención! REPUBLICA DE COREA: Respondiendo a muchas críticas y reclamos de oyentes de España por las dificultades en la recepción de sus emisiones y después de largas luchas e insistencias por parte del Servicio Español, Radio Corea Internacional cambia su esquema a partir del 31 de marzo de 2002. A través del programa Antena de la Amistad del 24/3/02, Sonia Cho y Ramiro Trost anunciaron las novedades al respecto: "Creo que son noticias importantes para la onda corta, veremos como andan esas frecuencias", dijo Ramiro en su reciente mensaje electrónico. Este es el nuevo esquema de transmisión de KBS en español: (las horas son UT y novedades van en negritas [perdidas en txt]) 1000 a 1100 7550 Europa 9580 América del Sur 11715 América del Sur (vía Sackville) 1600 a 1700 6150 Europa 2000 a 2100 7275 Europa 9870 Oriente Medio y África 15575 Europa 0100 a 0200 15575 América del Norte 0700 a 0800 13670 Europa En conclusión, se eliminan la emisión de las 1800-1900 (9515//9870 kHz) para Oriente Medio y Africa y la frecuencia de 11810 en la emisión correspondiente a las 0100-0200 dirigida a América del Sur. Se agregan dos emisiones más hacia Europa: 1600-1700 y 0700-0800 y una frecuencia: 15575 en la habitual emisión de las 2000-2100. De esta forma, Radio Corea Internacional pasa de su anterior esquema de cuatro horas al nuevo esquema de cinco horas diarias de transmisión en idioma español. ¿Se reactiva nuestro idioma en la onda corta?. Saludos cordiales de... (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Argentina, Mar 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Viernes, 15 de marzo 9:20 PM PRESENTAN LIBRO SOBRE LA RADIO PÚBLICA EN MEXICO (CNI EN LÍNEA) Tras la presentación del libro "Dimensiones de la radio pública en México", en el Palacio de Bellas Artes, el autor Luís Ernesto Pi Orozco señaló que la radio pública en México es una opción buena y necesaria frente a la oferta comercial. El ex director de Radio Educación explicó que resulta de vital importancia la existencia de opciones que divulguen la literatura, ciencia, arte, derechos humanos, ópera y todo aquello que sea importante para la sociedad, y que no promueven las estaciones privadas. Por su parte, el periodista Jorge Meléndez Preciado subrayó que el volumen "Dimensiones de la radio pública en México" contiene reflexiones de fondo, experiencia y cuidado en no aceptar ideas. Meléndez Preciado indicó que la televisión ha perdido puntos de rating por su actual programación, algo que le da a la radio un lugar importante, por lo tanto es necesario apoyarle con mayor presupuesto. Durante la presentación, el autor comentó que en su libro se "divulga la realidad de la radio pública, tratando de contribuir a una apreciación crítica desde un punto de vista objetivo", con lo cual busca hacer recapacitar al lector sobre la importancia de la radio en México (Héctor Garcia Bojorge, México, Conexión Digital Mar 24 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS "Alfa Lima International", 15070, 300 watts! "Skull" card on blue paper + info sheet with all QSL details filled in. Signer: Alfred. In 17 days by post for S.A.E. (used) and $1 (Bill Flynn, Cave Junxion OR, 3/24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. Here's the Radio Netherlands program guide again, this time for the shortwave transmissions only, rearranged in strict UT time and day order, and any inconsistencies hopefully removed: RADIO NETHERLANDS PROGRAMME GUIDE MARCH 31-OCTOBER 26TH 2002 0930-1125 As/FE/Pac 9790 12065 13710 1030-1225 Eur 6040 9860; NAm 5965 1430-1625 As/FE/Pac 9890 11835 12075; NAm 15220 1730-1830 Af 6020 7120 11655 1830-2025 Af 6020 7120 9895 13700 17605 21590 2330-0125 NAm 6165 9845 0430-0530 NAm 6165 9590 Sunday 0000-0030 Music 52-15 0030-0100 Roughly Speaking 0100-0105 News 0105-0125 Europe Unzipped 0430-0435 News 0435-0455 Europe Unzipped 0455-0500 Insight 0500-0530 Roughly Speaking 0930-0938 News 0938-0955 Sincerely Yours 0955-1000 Week Ahead 1000-1030 Dutch Horizons 1030-1035 Eur/NAm: News 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: Aural Tapestry 1035-1055 Eur/NAm: Wide Angle 1055-1100 Eur/NAm: Week Ahead 1100-1108 As/FE/Pac: News 1100-1130 Aural Tapestry 1108-1125 As/FE/Pac: Wide Angle 1130-1200 Dutch Horizons 1200-1205 News 1205-1225 Sincerely Yours 1430-1438 News 1438-1455 Sincerely Yours 1455-1500 Week Ahead 1500-1530 Dutch Horizons 1530-1600 Aural Tapestry 1600-1608 News 1608-1625 Wide Angle 1730-1735 News 1735-1755 Sincerely Yours 1755-1800 Week Ahead 1800-1830 Dutch Horizons 1830-1835 News 1835-1900 Wide Angle 1900-1930 Aural Tapestry 1930-2000 Dutch Horizons 2000-2005 News 2005-2025 Sincerely Yours 2330-2335 News 2335-2355 Sincerely Yours 2355-2400 Week Ahead Monday 0000-0030 Dutch Horizons 0030-0100 Aural Tapestry 0100-0105 News 0105-0125 Wide Angle 0430-0435 News 0435-0455 Sincerely Yours 0455-0500 Week Ahead 0500-0530 Dutch Horizons 0930-1000 Newsline 1000-1030 Research File 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: EuroQuest 1030-1100 Eur/NAm: Newsline 1100-1125 As/FE/Pac: Newsline 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: EuroQuest 1130-1200 Research File 1200-1225 Newsline 1430-1500 Newsline 1500-1530 Research File 1530-1600 EuroQuest 1600-1625 Newsline 1730-1800 Newsline 1800-1830 Research File 1830-1900 Newsline 1900-1930 EuroQuest 1930-2000 Research File 2000-2025 Newsline 2330-2400 Newsline Tuesday [original sked said 1130-1325 for Europe for Tuesday but I'm sure that's a misprint for 1030-1225] 0000-0030 Research File 0030-0100 Euroquest 0100-0125 Newsline 0430-0500 Newsline 0500-0530 Research File 0930-1000 Newsline 1000-1030 Music 52-15 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: A Good Life 1030-1100 Eur/NAm: Newsline 1100-1125 As/FE/Pac: Newsline 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: A Good Life 1130-1200 Music 52-15 1200-1225 Newsline 1430-1500 Newsline 1500-1530 Music 52-15 1530-1600 A Good Life 1600-1625 Newsline 1730-1800 Newsline 1800-1830 Music 52-15 1830-1900 Newsline 1900-1930 A Good Life 1930-2000 Music 52-15 2000-2025 Newsline 2330-2400 Newsline Wednesday 0000-0030 Music 52-15 0030-0100 A Good Life 0100-0125 Newsline 0430-0500 Newsline 0500-0530 Music 52-15 0930-1000 Newsline 1000-1030 Weekly Documentary 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: Dutch Horizons 1030-1100 Eur/NAm: Newsline 1100-1125 As/FE/Pac: Newsline 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: Dutch Horizons 1130-1200 The Weekly Documentary 1200-1225 Newsline 1430-1500 Newsline 1500-1530 The Weekly Documentary 1530-1600 Dutch Horizons 1600-1625 Newsline 1730-1800 Newsline 1800-1830 The Weekly Documentary 1830-1900 Newsline 1900-1930 Dutch Horizons 1930-2000 The Weekly Documentary 2000-2025 Newsline 2330-2400 Newsline Thursday 0000-0030 The Weekly Documentary 0030-0100 Dutch Horizons 0100-0125 Newsline 0430-0500 Newsline 0500-0530 The Weekly Documentary 0930-1000 Newsline 1000-1030 Aural Tapestry 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: Research File 1030-1100 Eur/NAm: Newsline 1100-1125 As/FE/Pac: Newsline 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: Research File 1130-1200 Aural Tapestry 1200-1225 Newsline 1430-1500 Newsline 1500-1530 Aural Tapestry 1530-1600 Research File 1600-1625 Newsline 1730-1800 Newsline 1800-1830 Aural Tapestry 1830-1900 Newsline 1900-1930 The Research File 1930-2000 Aural Tapestry 2000-2025 Newsline 2330-2400 Newsline Friday 0000-0030 Aural Tapestry 0030-0100 Research File 0100-0125 Newsline 0430-0500 Newsline 0500-0530 Aural Tapestry 0930-1000 Newsline 1000-1030 A Good Life 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: The Weekly Documentary 1030-1100 Eur/NAm: Newsline 1100-1125 As/FE/Pac: Newsline 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: The Weekly Documentary 1130-1200 A Good Life 1200-1225 Newsline 1430-1500 Newsline 1500-1530 A Good Life 1530-1600 The Weekly Documentary 1600-1625 Newsline 1730-1800 Newsline 1800-1830 A Good Life 1830-1900 Newsline 1900-1930 The Weekly Documentary 1930-2000 A Good Life 2000-2025 Newsline 2330-2400 Newsline Saturday 0000-0030 A Good Life 0030-0100 The Weekly Documentary 0100-0125 Newsline 0430-0500 Newsline 0500-0530 A Good Life 0930-0936 News 0936-0955 Europe Unzipped 0955-1000 Insight 1000-1030 Music 52-15 1030-1035 Eur/NAm: News 1030-1100 As/FE/Pac: Roughly Speaking 1035-1055 Eur/NAm: Europe Unzipped 1055-1100 Eur/NAm: Insight 1100-1106 As/FE/Pac: News 1100-1130 Eur/NAm: Roughly Speaking 1106-1125 As/FE/Pac: Europe Unzipped 1130-1200 Music 52-15 1200-1205 News 1205-1225 Europe Unzipped 1430-1436 News 1436-1455 Europe Unzipped 1455-1500 Insight 1500-1530 Music 52-15 1530-1600 Roughly Speaking 1600-1606 News 1606-1625 Europe Unzipped 1730-1735 News 1735-1755 Europe Unzipped 1755-1800 Insight 1800-1830 Music 52-15 1830-1835 News 1835-1900 Europe Unzipped 1900-1930 Roughly Speaking 1930-2000 Music 52-15 2000-2005 News 2005-2025 Europe Unzipped 2330-2335 News 2335-2335 Europe Unzipped 2355-2400 Insight (c) 2002 (Radio Netherlands web site; rearranged by John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI frequency schedule From 31 March-5 May: (as announced on 25 Mar Mailbox RA file) 1650-1750 6095 1750-1850 11725 1850-2050 15160 2050-0500 17675 0500-0700 15340 0700-1100 11675 E. Timor, EAsia, NW Pac- 1105-1305 11675 Special overnight when necessary 6095 Forces for NZ Forces overseas: 11-13 Sat; 19-20 Sat: For forces in Bosnia. The forces broadcasts are also on on Sunday (Joel Rubin, swprograms Mar 25 via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. See SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** NIGERIA. VON TO COMMENCE IGBO, YORUBA SERVICES SOON This Day (Lagos), March 25, 2002, by Kunle Akogun, Lagos In its sustained efforts to widen its listenership both locally and internationally, Voice of Nigeria (VON) plans to commence broadcasting in Igbo, Yoruba and German languages before the end of June this year. This is in addition to its existing six-language broadcasts in English, French, Hausa, Fufudi [sic], Kiswahili and Arabic. VON's Director General Mr Taiwo Allimi, who disclosed this, said the organisation was fully prepared for the three additional language services, having already re-engineered three of its super power transmitters. He told select media representatives at an interactive session in Lagos that to enhance the viability of the nine-language services, two other transmitters are currently being re-engineered, adding "with time, five transmitters will be running, one of which will be on stand-by during maintenance and another will be dedicated solely for languages' broadcasts". Allimi also hinted that before the end of May, VON will have developed its own website to project the best of Nigeria's cultural heritage. The Director General who was appointed about three years ago, said VON was almost moribund by the time he took over, adding "our mandate was to revive the organisation and make it the most effective and enduring instrument that will continue to expose the value of democracy and the developments in the country to the outside world." He said towards this, he had been able to put a lot of structures on the ground. For instance, Allimi said, he realised early enough that if VON is to cover Nigeria effectively to the outside world, it would not do to sit down in Lagos and Abuja alone, adding "this was why we started to open zonal offices in Gombe, Calabar, Sokoto and Ekiti." He said the same goes for the coverage of Africa to the world, pointing out that "we can't sit down in Nigeria and say we are covering Africa, and we have opened a bureau in South Africa." The VON boss said global broadcasting must promote world peace, development, universal understanding and world friendship. He said with this in mind, VON would not cover any conflict from the perspective of conflict alone but also from the perspective of efforts geared towards finding solution to the conflict. He acknowledged the support of president Olusegun Obasanjo and Minister of Information and National Orientation, Prof. Jerry Gana as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to VON since he took over and pledged to sustain the new VON's status of the "sole broadcaster of Nigerian viewpoints by radio to the outside world". (from allafrica.com via Sergei Sosedkin, DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. 680, ZP11, R. Caritas, main transmitter was destroyed in January 2002 in a fire caused by a transit accident. They suffered 500 million Guaraníes in damages or approximately 100.000 US dollars. They are now back on the air using a reserve transmitter working with 1 kW. Now and then they are leaving the air (Dom Mur via Editor ARC: Thord Knutsson via Tore Larsson, DXLD) ** PERU. 6347.2, Radio Unión, Lima. 0835-0900 March 21. Romantic music in Spanish. Ann.: "Te invitamos a tu programa, de lunes a viernes, de 4 a 5 de la tarde... Universitaria". ID as: "Radio Unión S.A., en sus tres frecuencias: 880 kilociclos, 6115 kilociclos, en onda corta y ... en FM estéreo, con estudios en Avenida Central 1217, Piso 12, San Isidro...". Audio very distorsionated. 34433. On March 22, I heard Radio Unión on 6348 at same hour with 34433 too (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentine, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS: Re DXLD 2-047: Hi Glenn, The story referred to the murder of a NZ career diplomat (Bridget Nicholls) in Honiara. She had been in Honiara a short while and was knifed to death in her garage within a patrolled area. Another NZer was killed a short time ago and all NZers have been told to be prepared for emergency evacuation. No- one has been arrested for her murder yet (Paul Ormandy, Host of The South Pacific DX Report, Mar 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Can anyone shed light on my mystery? Fundamentalist American preacher Brother Stair`s programme THE OVERCOMER is being rebroadcast on 88.4 FM somewhere in the Canterbury province [of NEW ZEALAND]. SWLs will be familiar with Brother Stair from his broadcasts carried on Deutsche Telekom shortwave transmitters. The FM relay was audible widely - from about 90 km north of Christchurch (north of Waipawa) to Ashburton in the south (80 km south of Christchurch). Even in Christchurch, where 88.4 is dominated by guardband station Pulse FM; I could sometimes hear Brother Stair in elevated locations like the hills above Sumner. Such widespread coverage could mean multiple transmitter locations, or an antenna in a very elevated location. Does anyone have ideas on this? The only suggestion to date is that it could be related to a religious commune in the Waipawa area (Bryan Clark, March NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SPRATLY ISLAND. Reports indicate that the Vietnam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) plan to be on from here during April. They will use the callsign XV9TH, however, specific dates are unknown. More details are forthcoming (KB8NW/OPDX March 25/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** TAIWAN / FRANCE. L'émission de Radio Taipei Internationale à destination de l'Afrique de l'ouest, via un émetteur d'Issoudun, sera diffusée entre 2200 et 2300 TU sur 12060 kHz. La transmission est prévue pour fin mars (NDR : probablement le 31, avec le début de la nouvelle saison). Il n'a pas été possible d'obtenir dans l'immédiat un horaire plus tôt dans la soirée (Radio Taipei Internationale - 16 mars -- les informations sont issues de http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jm.aubier via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. CBS-R. Taipei Int'l European broadcasts from 2200 to 2300 UT can be heard on 15600 and 11565 starting March 31st. These are relayed via WYFR. All other frequencies will remain the same (CBS-R. Taipei Int'l website via Daniel Sampson, Arcadia, WI, Prime Time Shortwave via DXLD) http://www.triwest.net/~dsampson/shortwave/ ** TURKEY. This is the English broadcast schedule of the Voice of Turkey that will be effective from 31 March to 27 October 2002: Europe: 0300 - 0400 (*) 11655 0300 - 0400 (*) 9650 1230 - 1330 17830 1830 - 1930 9785 2200 - 2300 12000 2200 - 2300 11960 North America: 0300 - 0400 (*) 11655 0300 - 0400 (*) 9650 2200 - 2300 11960 2200 - 2300 12000 Australia: 1230 - 1330 17615 2030 - 2130 9525 Asia: 0300 - 0400 7270 1230 - 1330 17615 2030 - 2130 9525 Africa: 0300 - 0400 7270 (*): The transmission frequency of the English Programme between 0300- 0400 UT will be changed from 11655 kHz to 9650 kHz on 02 September 2002 (via Ramón Vázquez Dourado, Spain, DXLD) We have already had this but in different versions, and I missed 7270 (gh, DXLD) ** U K. BBC World Service - A02 - English Service March 31 - October 27, 2002 [gh excerpts from a complete schedule, some strange new transmissions] 0200-0230 m-f 9510 eu 9820 am 1100-1530 12105 sa 1115-2130 m-f 11675 eu, am (via Gayle Van Horn, Monitoring Times, DXLD) ** U S A. BRIDGE SHOULD BE NAMED FOR FESSENDEN Hatteras, NC "Island Breeze", March 2002 Letters to the Editor On Christmas eve, 1906, wireless telegraph operators aboard ships off Norfolk, Virginia, and in the Caribbean, instead of dots and dashes, heard in their headsets Christmas music, then someone speaking, then a violin playing. Unheard of! What it was, was radio. It was the first radio broadcast ever. From Brant Rock, Mass., using methods he had patented and equipment he had designed while experimenting on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, R.A. Fessenden accomplished this remarkable feat. Earlier, in 1900 at Cobb Island, Md., Fessenden, while experimenting with wireless telephony, for the first time sent and received intelligible speech by electromagnetic waves over a distance of one mile. Then, in 1902, 100 years ago, R.A. Fessenden sent the first musical notes ever relayed by radio waves from Buxton, Cape Hatteras, some 48 miles north to Roanoke Island. A new, five-mile-long bridge almost completed, from Manns Harbor to Roanoke Island needs a name. This bridge crosses the path of the musical notes first sent north to Roanoke Island from Buxton by Fessenden. Much later North Carolina's most famous entertainer, Andy Griffith, used this "thing" called radio to promote his classic monologue, "What it was, was football." To help promote the naming of this new bridge The R.A. Fessenden Memorial Bridge, people should send their recommendations to the Dare County Commissioners, P.O. Box 1000, Manteo, NC 27954. Lee Browning, Buxton, NC (via Jay Novello, NC, DXLD) ** U S A. From DXLD 1-080, May 31, 2001: Dear Glenn, enclosed are three pictures of a shortwave transmitter site south of Ft. Worth, TX on I-35W. In all my research I have not been able to find out what SW station this belongs to. A telephone call to KAIJ about this site to their main engineer proved to me this was not theirs, as their engineer told me their SW transmitter site is north of Dallas (Richard Swanson, San Antonio, May 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have been on that highway not too long ago, and did not notice the towers, but judging from the photos, would be hard to miss now, immediately adjacent to the Interstate. A mileage sign next to them shows they are on the east side, 4 miles S of Burleson, 14 mi S of Ft Worth. At least seven towers have wires strung between them, meeting at least at two center points (multiple dipoles?) Perhaps someone will recognize this configuration, or this site. It`s certainly not a SW broadcasting station, but some military or commercial user (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST 1-080) Guys, These towers are actually a failed amusement ride. The inventor of the ride is from Australia. This was the first attempt to start it in the US. A miniature scale airplane hangs between the towers from the cables strung between them. The patron then is allowed to operate the aircraft which operates in a circle about the hanging cable. The local residents deemed it to be too loud and successfully petitioned the local city council to shut them down early last year (Clay Ratliff, March 24, 2002, via DXing.com for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RADIO STATION WILL TEST INCREASED POWER LEVELS From http://www.columbian.com [Vancouver, WA, near Portland OR] Saturday, March 23, 2002 By SCOTT HEWITT, Columbian staff writer Radio station KVAN will test increased broadcast power levels next week, and people who notice new or aggravated interference problems are invited to call the station at 360-514-9601. But calling doesn't necessarily mean anything will get fixed. The station has one interference-fighting engineer going door-to-door in east Vancouver, near the station's four broadcast towers; even if there's a flood of calls he will likely get to just a handful before the testing is over. The rest of any complaints related to the raised power level will be addressed after power goes up for good, according to KVAN general manager Mark Ail. That long-sought power boost now seems unlikely to happen until late this year. KVAN, 1550 AM, got an initial green light from the Federal Communications Commission to boost its broadcast power from 10,000 to 50,000 watts years ago. Getting all the engineering done and tested has been a painstakingly slow process. That testing will widen the swath of land potentially affected by interference from the four radio towers at Northeast 34th Street and 155th Avenue, Ail said. "Our expectation is that ... new people will experience interference," he said. Ail said he doesn't know whether the problem will intensify for those already experiencing it, or return to those who've had it fixed. Here's what Ail said will happen next week: During daytime business hours on two or three days -- which days still aren't certain and could be affected by variables like weather -- KVAN will power its towers up to 50,000 watts. "We'll raise power up and take some readings and bring it back down," said Ail. That will be followed, in two or three weeks, by further technical adjustments and eventually more testing. There could be several rounds of testing before consulting engineers sign off on the project, Ail said. After that, it could be anywhere between 45 and 120 more days before the FCC gives its final approval to the power boost. Neighbors in east Vancouver are worried that the power boost will aggravate a host of radio-interference problems they already experience -- mostly with KVAN. For years neighbors have complained about radio sound and static on phone and TV reception, computers that can't get or stay online, and even toasters, microwave ovens and garage door openers that kick on and off by themselves. Because interference problems often originate with inexpensive equipment and appliances that aren't well shielded against radio signals, the FCC doesn't require broadcasters to fix interference problems. KVAN has been taking complaints and working its way down the list of complainants for years. On Friday, Ail said that KVAN has received 469 complaints to date and continues to work on 18 of them. All the others, he said, have been resolved to the complainant's satisfaction. Affected neighbors contacted Friday had varying opinions. Jim Hamilton, president of the Parkside Neighborhood Association, said his interference problems were solved when he bought a better telephone and that he hasn't heard any new complaints lately. But Gus Potter, a vice chair of the Parkway East Neighborhood Association, said she doesn't believe neighbors are "all that satisfied or happy" with the interference situation in the area. Residents have noticed that interference decreases in rainy, wet weather and increases when it's dry, she said, so any slowing of complaints is temporary only. Potter said radio sound used to come from her TV and her burglar alarm, but KVAN's traveling engineer solved the problem. RADIO INTERFERENCE? Call Mark Ail at KVAN: 360-514-9601 (via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) ** U S A. A little DXLD item about the 1710 station was quoted on the NRC list and led to this heated thread: (gh) It's interesting to note that the illegal left wing pirate operation Lubavicher/Chassidic Radio on 1710 kc remains on the air unscathed by the FCC, while at the same time the FCC has closed down every right wing pirate operation on MW and SW! Must be political correctness! 73, (Thomas Giella, KN4LF, NRC-AM via DXLD) I've been able to log the pirate based largely on the music and some clearly Jewish references, but I've been unable to follow the talk on the station due to its very weak signal and imperfect modulation. However, I can't for a minute believe Lubavitcher or Chassidic Jews to be anywhere even remotely left-of-centre. We've attached these two labels (L and C) to the station, and if this is a leftie outfit, our labels and understanding of this pirate must be way off the mark. That said, I have been waiting to see what the FCC would do. I am curious, and not keeping track of the tiny handful of FCC busts -- which right- wing (or other) pirates have been busted in, say, the last year? (Saul Chernos (who could have been a rabbi but lacked faith, discipline and a whole lot more), ibid.) Thomas, I believe Lubavitcher Radio is a purely religious organization broadcasting entirely in Yiddish. The NYC guys would know better, but I've not heard any of any left wing political propaganda from this station (Chuck Hutton, ibid.) Test # 1 - are they interfering with anybody else ? On 1710 ? Not likely. Test # 2 - are they overtly political in content and/or overly critical of the government? Not that I've noticed from others' loggings - I've yet to hear the station here. Test # 3 - is there any prior history of illegal/unlicensed broadcasting activity by the operators ? Not that anyone has yet discovered. Having answered these questions, to me at least, answers why the FCC hasn't and perhaps won't act (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) As a general rule, FCC busts are triggered either by complaints of interference or complaints from competing stations. I suppose with the station on 1710 it's not interfering with anybody, and since I'm not aware of any commercial Jewish religious stations in NYC there really isn't anybody to complain. They'll probably bust it eventually but I suspect the high-powered commercial pirates in Florida are a higher priority (Doug Smith, ibid.) Hmmm. I take it you're comparing the continued operation of Lubavicher Radio to the FCC ordered shutdown of McIntyre's station in the 1970s. Let's look at this more closely. Politics has nothing to do with it. Until recently, when the FCC stopped enforcing anything, they shut down many pirates, all across the political spectrum. Most pirate operators, in fact, would probably classify themselves as libertarian or anarchist, depending on whether they consider themselves right or left. Furthermore, in what specific respects is the Lubavicher station "left wing?" It's not exactly advocating gay rights, tree-hugging, or a worker's revolution; it's just a religious station. And how would you know if it is advocating those things? I doubt that you can hear it for yourself in Florida, or if you can that you listen regularly. So please explain your basis for asserting that it's a "left-wing" station. Rest assured that there is no left-wing "conspiracy so immense" to infiltrate the FCC. There are not 57 card -carrying members of the Communist Party, taking orders from the Kremlin, running the FCC. As a member of the left-wing-east-coast-academic-intelligentsia, I can assure you that we don't secretly control the government. Honest... If anything, the FCC is openly controlled by the large media corporations. This is called "regulatory capture," the process by which a regulatory agency, originally established to safeguard the public interest, becomes a tool of the industry it's supposed to oversee. The FCC is aiding and abetting an ongoing process of concentration in the media, a concentration tending toward monopoly. This process started during the Clinton administration, and the current FCC commissioners are more than happy to continue it. Witness the spectacular growth of Clear Channel, and the erosion of local programming on the dial. A destructive effect of this concentration of capital is concentration of control over the production and distribution of information and entertainment. The trend toward monopoly goes hand in hand with a trend toward mediocrity and uniformity. Indeed, the FCC seems intent on blocking access to the airwaves by anyone except the giant media corporations. Witness the death of low-power FM, which would have opened up a small portion of the spectrum to community-based organizations of all political stripes, from "left-wing" community groups to "right-wing" religious organizations. The spectrum is a public resource and of right ought to belong to the people, not a handful of corporations. A primary function of the FCC should be to ensure that there is room on the airwaves for a diverse range of entertainment and opinions, all across the political spectrum. Then we wouldn't need pirates (David Hochfelder, NJ, ibid.) My comments on Lubavicher/Chassidic Radio were not intended to be political, just an observation. However I have received directly and via the NRC e-list, emails that are political so here is my "last" two cents on the subject. The Jews invented Communism and have in the past and continue to at this time use the morally bankrupt system to destroy this country. The FCC track record for many years has been to silence mainly right wing radio stations only. What few left wingers like the recent Berkley FM pirate that the FCC has pursued, have received protection from leftist federal judges. the 1st amendment is reserved nowadays only for the left, period! (Thomas Giella, FL, ibid.) Now how can you call that non-political?????? Your message comes across as a total right wing political diatribe. If you have the willingness to say the rest of what you said, be honest about this part too. By the way, I object totally to your allegation of Jewish conspiracies. That stuff has no place on this list as it is totally out of the subject area. It has no place elsewhere either, as it nothing more than negative, hate based xenophobia (Chuck Hutton, ibid.) Well, I have been trying to find a moderate talk show on commercial radio here in the Dallas-Fort Worth market since Jim Bohannon was shut out here. Neither NPR nor an occasional peanut-powered pirate can compete for the minds of those who can be entertainingly frightened into believing that all our woes are part of some all-powerful conspiracy on either the left or right or some mysterious extraterrestrial power that's manipulating sunspots and earthquake- producing faults. Deregulation that began in the Reagan years has made it virtually impossible for a family business to start up in any retail field, including broadcasting. Such seemingly liberal ideas as OSHA and minimum wage laws do not hurt the big businesses who can afford the fines for hiring illegals or the bribes to keep the regulators away. For the regulators, who have to show some results to justify their budgets, it's much easier to clamp down on a mom-and-pop store than it is on a major manufacturer with political clout. I can't find a good classical music station between 88.1 and 91.9 anymore, where the spectrum sounds like wall-to-wall preachers who tell us that God is for big business and against balanced government. The knee-jerk political correctness we get from the left is currently being swamped by the rhetoric designed to lead us back to the days when whatever markets there were were cornered by the robber barons. (That sounds like a political campaign oratory, doesn't it, where one side takes its dire prediction of the results of an action and claims that the dire result is advocated by the proponents of the action.) Meanwhile, the trash that we see on our TV sitcoms, our violent cop shows, the outrageous dialogue from the fake wrestlers and the Jerry Springers and Rosie O'Donnells plus what we hear on the radio from Howard Stern and his many imitators are controlled by good-old, unregulated, maximum-profit, bottom line free enterprisers. It's a sort of a marriage of the worst of liberalism ... freedom to sin ... and the worst of conservatism ... big profit no matter what. As one who was able to visit East and West Berlin in 1957 - before the wall went up - where a vivacious, free population spurred in part by Marshall Plan stimulation and the capitalist, free enterprise model provided a stark contrast to the dull, drab, listless, society controlled by iron-fisted foreign military power, I lost my fear of the threat of communism. My only surprise was that it took so long for the human spirit in eastern Europe to rise up and remove the insult to freedom the Russians imposed. Ugh, that's more than I really wanted to say ... and my apologies to those on the list for prolonging this kind of editorial comment (John Callarman, Krum TX, ibid.) I really feel compelled to reply. Disclaimer: I'm not Jewish or a communist, so I have no axe to grind, except to oppose such erroneous and offensive remarks. The First Amendment gives someone the right to say stupid things in public, but this list is not the proper forum to advocate female infanticide, devil worship, anti-semitism, or any other extreme political viewpoint. Let's get things back to radio. If anyone wants to reply to this, have at me off-list. Thomas Giella once again wrote: ``The Jews invented Communism and have in the past and continue to at this time use the morally bankrupt system to destroy this country.`` 1. It's bigoted. Period. It`s like saying that Italians invented organized crime or the Irish invented political corruption. 2. It's very close to the Nazi justification for the Final Solution. Furthermore, if memory serves, Thomas Giella posted remarks to this site a few months ago saying that the United States could do with less Communist ideology and more Fascist ideology. At the time I'd assumed that he didn't mean Fascist racial ideology or militarism. Now I'm not so sure. 3. It's wrong. Communism as an economic philosophy has diverse origins, ranging from late 18th and early 19th century French writers to good ol' American protestants who launched communal experiments before the Civil War. So Marx was a Jew. But Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Castro weren't. Equating a political philosophy with an ethnic group is just plain wrong. 4. It's baseless. It's absurd to assert that Jews and/or Communists are currently gnawing away at the vitals of the republic. Where's the evidence? Jewish control of the media or banking system? Perhaps the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? In fact, Thomas, you represent a far more serious threat to the republic, particularly to the values of tolerance, diversity, and level-headed political debate that have made this country great for over two centuries. Extremism in the defense of bigotry IS a vice (to paraphrase Sen. Goldwater, a Jew!). (David Hochfelder, ibid.) Tom, it's guys like you who give the left their best ammunition to make conservatives look like idiots. Unfortunately, those of us on the right have to deal with people like yourself claiming to be on our team and making us all appear foolish (Rick Shaftan, ibid.). ...I blame it all on the Illuminati and the Trilateral Commission. I can say this with confidence because my tinfoil baseball cap liner, diet of "Garlique" and conscientious use of Gold Bond Medicated Foot Powder have kept me free of these atheistic prevert attempts to mess with our Precious Bodily Fluids! Guys, if there existed so competent a group of conspiracies as people suggest, we'd all have been carrying those "666" RF ID tags for decades by now and V. I. Lenin's body would be on display in the Mausoleum in Times Square. Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by greed and stupidity. The nearest thing we seem to have to a Dark Empire right now is Clear Channel - and they're busy choking after biting off more than they could swallow.... Sheesh (Jack D. Ripper aka Lee Reynolds, ibid.) The "Clear Channel is in financial trouble" comment is all over the listener based boards as well. It is not true. They have very low debt, and excellent analyst opinions. If there is a debt crunch, look for IBM and GE to go out of business first as they have a greater debt to equity ration than Clear Channel (which bought most of its properties via merger or equity offerings, not debt). (David Gleason, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. Glenn: WLW did have a two hour documentary broadcast for its 80th anniversary on March 23, 2002. This was from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST. Here is their 80th anniversary newspaper article. http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/17/tem_wlw_700_turns_80.html (Artie Bigley, OH, March 24, DF LISTENING DIGEST) Wish we had known about it (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. THE COUNTRY MUSIC COUNTRY RADIO IGNORES March 24, 2002 By NEIL STRAUSS The roots-music soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" won album of the year at the Grammy Awards last month. Will country radio start playing traditional country music now? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/arts/music/24STRA.html?ex=1018009525&ei=1&en=d985ea0c1eb36376 (Via Ricky Leong, Mike Terry, DXLD) ** U S A. There is a very good article about voicetracking in Denver's Westword this week. It is on line at http://westword.com/issues/2002-03-21/message.html/1/index.html (Patrick Griffith, Westminster, CO, USA, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. CARL MCINTIRE - FUNDAMENTALIST RADIO EVANGELIST From: http://www.miami.com Posted on Sun, Mar. 24, 2002 Los Angeles Times Service The Rev. Carl McIntire, a firebrand fundamentalist radio evangelist who railed against communism, liberalism, racial integration, sex education, evolution and water fluoridation from his broadcast pulpit for four decades, has died. He was 95. McIntire died of natural causes Tuesday in Voorhees, N.J. From 1938 to 1998, McIntire served as pastor of Collingswood Bible Presbyterian Church in Collingswood, N.J. From 1948 until his death, he served as president of the International Council of Christian Churches, a group of fundamentalist denominations. During the peak of his popularity in the 1960s, McIntire's daily half- hour 20th Century Reformation Hour radio program was carried on more than 600 stations in the United States and Canada. McIntire's belief that every word of the Bible was inspired by God and his ultraconservative political views earned him a loyal radio following. But McIntire, who called himself ''the servant of the Lord in a very Holy Cause,'' had a flair for making his views heard off the air as well. In 1971, he led 14,000, mostly middle-age demonstrators down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., demanding a U.S. victory in Vietnam and promising, ``We are going to keep this country from falling to the communists.'' McIntire also picketed meetings of religious groups, including the World Council of Churches, where he protested appearances by religious leaders from behind the Iron Curtain, who he said were KGB agents. In the late 1960s, McIntire faced criticism of his own when his radio broadcasts got him into trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. Civic and religious groups were complaining that the station on which McIntire broadcast his program served as an outlet for what one clergyman called ''highly racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Roman Catholic'' sentiments (via Mike Terry, DXLD) Didn't he once run or was rumoured to be starting an offshore radio station in the US? (Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Yes he ran one, Radio Free America. He owned WXUR-AM and WXUR-FM in Media Pennsylvania which were closed down by the FCC, they said he had failed to keep proper logs but the station was getting complaints also that they were violating the Fairness Doctrine which at the time stated that all sides of an issue should be aired. They closed on 5th July 1973 and he announced he would start Radio Free America. The MV Columbus anchored off Cape May in the last week of August and following some tests started regular broadcasts 19th September at 12:23 pm while sailing back and forth between Cape May and Avalon on 1160. I have a tape of the first broadcast recorded in Philadelphia and reception is not too good, after a hymn McIntyre opens by complaining about his licences being revoked, I will put some extracts on Tapecircle. By 4.00 pm they received complaints of interference from WHLW 1170 in Lakewood, New Jersey, though there were reports that this station had decided two weeks before RFA came on air that they would file a complaint and, in fact, the interference was only on the fringes of their area and was not severe. RFA closed at 10:14 pm. The next day a judge in Camden, New Jersey issued an order restraining RFA from making any further transmissions until 1st October when it would be decided whether it would be made permanent. The FCC filed complaints of interference from WHLW and from KSL 1160 Salt Lake City, 1160 was a clear channel frequency; the only other American stations on 1160 were local daytime only stations. As the Columbus had American registration McIntyre was liable to a one year jail sentence or a $10,000 fine for operating a radio station on board a US vessel under the 1934 Communications Act. A low power test on 1608, which McIntyre said RFA would use if they ever returned to the air, was made on 23rd September, whilst the ship was still in port! However RFA was not allowed to return, the legal cases dragged on and in March 1974 the order forbidding the station to broadcast was made permanent. The station had a 10 kW RCA transmitter, run at 5 kW, and an end fed inverted V supported by a 100 foot mast (Mike Barraclough, UK, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U S A. On 14275-USB, from around 2042 UT March 25, intermittent music QRM to Glenn Baxter`s K1MAN, IARN transmission. Mostly oldies; very strong here, up to 20 over 9; went off at least for a while at 2100 allowing IARN to be heard again (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also audible here, then into QSOs about the jamming (gh, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. As above under GERMANY: Voice of Hope / High Adventure Ministries --- via IBB Biblis: --- daily 1700-1900 9495 80 !!! I believe this may be a first, a US government facility being used to broadcast private gospel huxters, a clear violation of separation of church and state. Apparently this is being done since Deutsche Telekom is the intermediary, perhaps overflow Jülich cannot handle?? Of course, private US SW stations have carried US government broadcasts under certain circumstances, e.g. KNLS with Radio Free Asia (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** USA. DX-ing with Cumbre Saturday 1230 edition on 9930 was finally cancelled and changed to sermon program which has been heard for the last two weeks (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia via Signal for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hawai`i ** UZBEKISTAN. UZBEK WEBSITE LAUNCHED RFE/RL's new Uzbek-language website, http://www.ozodlik.org was launched on 20 March. The Ozodlik.org site, designed by the RFE/RL Internet team, is based on traditional Uzbek designs and is updated daily with news, reports, and features. Nine weekly feature programs cover press reviews, women's issues, science and technology, ecology, religion, music, and crime and society. Three feature programs are available as audio pieces and the remaining are text articles in Cyrillic Uzbek. An instruction page for reading Uzbek texts with Cyrillic fonts is also included. Ozodlik.org uses the Cyrillic alphabet so that RFE/RL's Uzbek content is easily accessible. In future, there are plans to also offer Latin-based texts. All broadcasts from RFE/RL's Uzbek service are streamed live on the Internet, recorded, and made available as on-demand files. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is the first international broadcaster with an Uzbek audio and text website. (RFE/RL Internet Team and RFE/RL Uzbek Service, 21 March via RFE/RL Media Matters via DXLD) THE INTERNET IN UZBEKISTAN. Although Uzbekistan was branded an "Enemy of the Internet" by Reporters without Borders (RSF) three years ago, the country has recently experienced noticeable growth in Internet availability. Six years ago, the country only had a single U.S.-funded Internet service provider (ISP), Pertka –- which mostly provides e- mail services for students. Today, there are dozens of ISPs. However, the cost of Internet usage remains extremely high relative to average earnings and so usage is mostly restricted to e-mail. Recently, the Uzbek government adopted a special program on Internet services development which promises to make the Internet available, in the technical sense, to 150,000 rural users by 2004. There are disparate reports on the current number of Internet users in Uzbekistan. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) estimates that there are about 7000, but Uzbek officials believe the total is around 200,000. Another measure of the growth of Uzbekistan's Internet can be seen in the Yahoo!-compiled directory which today lists 220 recommended sites, whereas five years ago it was limited to 25. Most of these links from the Yahoo Uzbekistan directory are in English, but a number of news sites have content in Russian and English. Only about 10 sites have Uzbek-language content, including those of the two opposition parties ERK (Mohammad Solih) and BIRLIK (Abdurakim Polatov), which are based outside the country. Another level of challenge for Uzbek websites is choosing which alphabet to use. In the early 1990s, Uzbek orthography was officially changed from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. However, not many Uzbeks over the age of 30 can read the Latin alphabet, and so the transition hasn't been completely adopted. In 2000, Microsoft introduced an Uzbek font in the Cyrillic alphabet, thereby supporting continued online reliance on Cyrillic. Some very official sites –- most notably that of the Uzbekistan Presidential Press Center -- are available only in Russian or English but not in Uzbek (RFE/RL Internet Team and RFE/RL Uzbek Service, 21 March, via RFE/RL Media Matters via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 12019.86, VoV 1130-1230 with Asian music, then 1230 "Welcome to the Voice of Vietnam" and into news items in English, good signal (Bob Wilkner, R75, NRD 535D, Margate, FL, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. Dear Glenn - The Zimbabwe audio is again available from http://www.zbc.co.zw in Windows Media format. 73, (Erik Køie, Copenhagen, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5796, 14 March at 0325 with music; I stayed here as it was tango non-stop on the record player or in the CD, but it was nothing real and elegant from La Plata, but instead more like heavy dance shoving on a mosquito rich evening in Finnish Karelen. Only Q 2 (Johan Berglund, SW Bulletin, via Thomas Nilsson, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6715 Korean religious. March 24 at 1844 sign-on with two-three words by male, then he started singing. Boy, that man loves to sing, sounds he took couple of "one more times" at the end. At 1903 a short prayer. Then the usual stuff. Checking around 2000 show goes on, but rechecking at 2011 they were gone. The ute was off this Sunday. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KEEPING A-02 SECRET Glenn, In view of your comments, I just checked the HFCC site an it says 'A02 Operational Schedule will be available here around 2 April 2002.' http://www.hfcc.org/data/index.html (Andy Sennitt, RNW, March 25, DX LISENING DIGEST) CALENDARIO RADIOFÓNICO, por Ruben Guillermo Margenet, MES DE ABRIL 1 1925 Comenzó sus transmisiones Radio Dinamarca 1 1930 CX6 SODRE (ex CWOA Radio Oficial), Montevideo-Uruguay 1 1937 SABC, Sudáfrica (3320 Khz) 1 1938 Radio Santa Fé, Bogotá-Colombia (4965 Khz) 1 1939 Golpe de estado del Gral. Franco en España. 1 1949 CBN, Newfoundland, Canadá (640 Khz) 1 1958 Radio Greenland (650/710 Khz) 1 1959 Radio Pio XII, Siglo XX-Bolivia (5952 Khz) 1 1973 Voice of Free Korea pasa a llamarse Radio Korea, Seúl 1 1982 Primer programa "Actualidad DX", RAE-Argentina (realización de Gabriel Iván Barrera) 1 1982 Radio Swaziland (6165 Khz) 1 1986 Se crea ADU Asociación DXman Uruguay, Montevideo 1 1992 Primer programa de TV de DW vía Satélite hacia el mundo 1 1994 Ultimo programa en portugués a través de VOA, USA 1 1999 Cierre de R. Minería, Santiago-Chile por problemas económicos 1 Día del Operador de Audio en Colombia. 2 1872 Muere Samuel Morse 2 1923 WOW, Nebraska (590 Khz) 2 1925 WIBA, Wisconsin (1310 Khz) 2 1962 Tropas argentinas recuperan las Islas Malvinas 2 1974 Picadilly Radio, UK (1152 Khz) 2 1992 CBC R. Canadá Int. inaugura transmisor en Sackville 3 1953 Radio América, Venezuela (890 Khz) 3 1954 Primer programa en idioma extranjero de DW (5 minutos en español, inglés, francés y portugués) 3 1958 KIRL, Missouri (1460 Khz) 3 1990 KBS comienza a emitir vía Sackville-Canadá 4 1937 R. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (1450 Khz) 4 1983 Country Sound Radio, UK (1476 Khz) 4 1986 Radio San Nicolás, Perú (5471 Khz) 4 1989 GEM AM, UK (945 Khz) 4 1989 Xtra AM, UK (1152 Khz) 5 1922 KKOB, New Mexico (770 Khz) 5 1922 KMBZ, Kansas City (980 Khz) 5 1922 WBAA, Indiana (920 Khz) 5 1922 WRTH, Saint Louis (1430 Khz) 5 1924 LR11 Radio Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 5 1967 R. Cristal Internacional "570 AM", Sto. Domingo, Rep. Dominicana 5 1992 Autogolpe de estado en Perú. Alberto Fujimori 6 1947 WHOI Salinas, Puerto Rico (1210 Khz) 6 1965 Primer satélite de Comunicaciones. Early Bird (Intelsat 1), USA 6 1966 XERUY Mérida, México (1120 Khz) 6 1984 RGS Radio Grupo Sur - Fundación, Montevideo-Uruguay 6 1990 KCBC, UK (1584 Khz) 7 Día del Cartero en Argentina y otros países 7 1922 WJPC, Chicago (950 Khz) 7 1982 LRA60 Radio Nacional Islas Malvinas-Argentina 8 1928 HIX, República Dominicana 8 1964 Radio Alvorada de Londrina, Brasil (4865 Khz) 8 1989 North Sound Two Radio, UK (1035 Khz) 8 1996 Radio 1521, Irlanda del Norte (1521 Khz) 9 1944 Radio Victoria, Lima-Perú 9 1969 Radio Anguila (1505 Khz) 10 1922 WBBR [sic], New York (1130 Khz) 10 1924 WHO, Iowa (1040 Khz) 10 1945 LU5 Radio Neuquén, Argentina (580 Khz) 10 1954 RAI Radio Audizioni Italiana - Aniversario, Italia 10 1981 Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla 11 1936 Radio Cusco, Perú (6203.7 Khz) 11 1949 SIRA Servicio Internacional Radio Argentina, Buenos Aires 11 1957 Radio Garoua, Camerún (5010 Khz) 11 1969 Radio Veritas, Filipinas 11 1980 Great Yorkshire Gold, UK (1035 Khz) 12 1922 KBBT, Oregon (970 Khz) 12 1923 Primer emisión en Colombia de Estación Internacional de Morato 12 1924 WLS, Illinois (890 Khz) 12 1949 Ondas Azuayas, Ecuador (4980 Khz) 12 1954 Rock around the clock. Bill Halley & The cornets, USA (Primer gran éxito del Rock'n Roll) 12 1961 Regreso a la Tierra del Vostok 1, URSS (Yuri A. Gagarin) 12 1962 RCN Caquetá, Colombia (1440 Khz) 12 1999 Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba-Bolivia (3310 Khz) 14 Día de las Américas 14 1912 Hundimiento del Titanic (SOS recibido en N. York por David Sarnoff) 14 1942 Radio América, Lima-Perú (6010 Khz) 14 1972 La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos-Perú 14 1980 Radio Quepos, Puerto de Quepos-Panamá 14 1997 Radioemisora Carabineros, Chile (820 Khz) 14 2000 Radio Altair, emisora virtual de la Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia sólo emite por Internet: http://altair.udea.edu.co 15 1921 WSPD, Ohio (1370 Khz) 15 1947 Radio Berlín Internacional, ex Rep. Democrática de Alemania 15 1947 RNW Radio Nederland Wereldomroep - Aniversario, Holanda 15 1967 Se funda en México el grupo radial "MVS", dueña de 67 emisoras entre ellas: Pulsar y Radio Activo. 15 1981 Radio Nacional, San José de Costa Rica (590 Khz) 15 1994 R. Internacional Honduras en onda corta (4930 Khz) 16 1922 KFI, California (640 Khz) 16 1948 Azad Kashmir Radio, Pakistán (4790 Khz) 16 1995 Isle of Wright Radio, Irlanda del Norte (828 Khz) 17 1922 KNBR, San Francisco (680 Khz) 17 1925 CJVI, British Columbia, Canadá (900 Khz) 17 1958 Radio Tarma, Perú (4775 Khz) 17 1960 KICY, Alaska (850 Khz) 18 1926 Polskie Radio, Polonia (6135 Khz) 18 1934 CHSJ, New Brunswick, Canadá (700 Khz) 18 1970 LT20 Radio Junín, Prov. de Buenos Aires-Argentina (1470 Khz) 19 1976 BBC Radio Aberdeen, UK (990 Khz) 20 1922 CFUN, British Columbia, Canadá (1410 Khz) 20 1923 Primer emisión de radio en Brasil: R. Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro 20 Día Internacional de Guglielmo Marconi, ONU 21 1922 KSL, Utah (1160 Khz) 21 1980 Radio Satélite, Cajamarca-Perú (6724.3 Khz) 22 1928 Radio Clube do Pará, Brasil (4885 Khz) 22 1932 La Voz del Trópico, República Dominicana (790 Khz) 22 1947 WTOB, North Carolina (1380 Khz) 22 1980 Radio Metropolitana, La Paz-Bolivia (6195 Khz) 23 1934 La Voz de Carabobo, Valencia-Venezuela 23 1959 LS5 Radio Rivadavia, Buenos Aires-Argentina (630 Khz) 23 1961 Canal 4 Montecarlo - Aniversario, Uruguay 23 Día del idioma castellano 24 1938 LV4 Radio San Rafaél, Mendoza-Argentina (620 Khz) 24 1976 LR9 Radio América, Buenos Aires-Argentina (1190 Khz) 24 1997 CB82 Radioemisora Carabineros de Chile (820 Khz), Santiago- Chile 25 1922 WSOY, Illinois (1340 Khz) 25 1948 LV15 Radio Villa Mercedes, San LUis-Argentina (640 Khz) 25 1948 CMBF Radio Musical Nacional, La Habana-Cuba 25 1874 Guglielmo Marconi - Aniversario nacimiento, Bolonia-Italia 26 1922 WBAP, Texas (820 Khz) 26 1986 Explota reactor N 4 en Central Atómica de Chernobyl-Ucrania 27 1958 LU13 Radio Necochea, Prov. de Buenos Aires-Argentina (960 Khz) 27 1791 Samuel Morse - Nacimiento, USA 27 1926 Primera emisión de prueba de Radio Ayre, Caracas-Venezuela 27 1932 CX30 Radio Nacional, Montevideo-Uruguay 27 1950 Radio Intercontinental, España (918 Khz) 27 1958 Radio Carmelo, Uruguay (1460 Khz) 28 1922 WOI, Ames (640 Khz) 28 1948 WSAR, North Carolina (1480 Khz) 28 1954 Radio Clube de Paranaense en onda corta, Brasil (11935 Khz) 29 1922 WTVN, Ohio (610 Khz) 29 1922 WBAX, Wilkes-Barre (1240 Khz) 29 1924 DW Deutsche Welle, Alemania (6075 Khz) 29 1971 BBC Radio Derby, UK (1116 Khz) 29 1974 Radio Padilla, Bolivia (3476 Khz) 30 1949 CKRD, Alberta, Canadá (700 Khz) 30 1950 WRDZ, Ohio (1260 Khz) 30 1957 Radio Guaiba, Porto Alegre-Brasil (720//6000//11785 Khz) 30 1963 Radio Guatapurí, Colombia (740 Khz) 30 1991 Radio RSA - Cierre de servicios, Johannesbourg-Sudáfrica. (hoy emite como Channel Africa y sigue perteneciendo a SABC) 30 1993 Virgin Radio, UK (1215 Khz) Las fuentes de esta información son: Roberto Scaglione (BCL Sicilia News)-Italia; Radioactividades-Uruguay, Héctor Arboleda-Colombia y Rubén Guillermo Margenet-Argentina (Conexión Digital 3/24 via DXLD)### ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-047, March 23, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits HTML version of this issue will be posted afterwards at http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldtd02.html For restrixions and searchable 2002 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.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 #1123: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.html NEXT AIRINGS ON RFPI: Sun 0000, 0600, 1200, 1830?, 2430? on some of: 7445-AM/USB, 15039, 21815-USB NEXT AIRINGS ON WWCR: Sun 0330 on 5070; Sun 0730, Mon 0100, 0600 on 3210, Wed 1030 on 9475 ** AFGHANISTAN. MISSION CONCLUDED FOR US PSYOPS AFGHAN BROADCASTS | Text of report in English by Radio Netherlands "Media Network" web site on 21 March Commando Solo: Mission Accomplished, 21 March 2001: The fleet of EC- 130E Commando Solo aircraft that were used for US psychological warfare operations in Afghanistan returned to their base in Pennsylvania this week after almost six months of continuous operation. The 40-year-old aircraft flew over 300 missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Their shortwave frequency of 8700 kHz was heard by listeners around the world. The six specially equipped aircraft will now be upgraded to permit them to relay material from satellite. In Afghanistan, as in previous missions, most of the material was pre-recorded, with the occasional live broadcast by a native speaker if circumstances required it. For more details of the operation, see this page in our Afghanistan media dossier: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/afghanistan.html [BBC Monitoring confirms that the US psyops Information Radio broadcasts, which had been observed on mediumwave 864 kHz and shortwave 8700 kHz since 14 October 2001, are no longer heard.] Source: Radio Netherlands "Media Network" web site, Hilversum, in English 21 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) Aha that explains it why I haven't heard them lately (Robin L. Harwood, Tasmania, Mar 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Re reports of Commando Solos are back home. March 22 at 1435 on 8700U same kind of programming as last several months. Rather weak signal, maybe poor conditions. If this is still Information Radio, it must be (and has been?) land based. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 8700, Information Radio, 14 Mar, 1518-1535, SINPO 35343, sometimes decreased to 25332. Most of the time music was played. Two short info messages sounded, each lasted less than two minutes. One of messages was in Pushtu, another one in Dari. USB mode (Dmitri Mezin, Kazan, Russia, Signal via DXLD) ** ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS. See INDIA ** ARGENTINA? 13363.50 LSB: The mystery station heard on this frequency occasionally could be an Argentine Armed Forces outlet, more common on 15820 LSB. Relays material from various Argentinian radio stations. On Thursday morning from 0605 UTC onwards I heard a Spanish language Night Show with a female presenter. Lot of talk/phone-in stuff, plus music by Duran2, Eric Clapton and others. Also B.A. weather and news after 0630 UTC. Varied and enjoyable. Sad to note strong QRM on AFRTS frq 6,458,50 night and day. That´s new. Annoying utility stuff similar to that heard on 13362.00 USB during daytime. Oh, boy! Best 73`s, Helo (Kari Helopaltio, Finland, March 21, hard- core-dx via DXLD) Very likely it is Argentine. That frequency is listed for them in Domestic Broadcasting Survey (Denmark). Other listed frequencies are 8098, 15820, 20276, 29810. Possibly there are also other frequencies used by them. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) ** AUSTRIA. A-02 schedule for AWR via Moosbrunn: 7165 MOS 300 kW/non-dir 1600-1630 German to Eu 7230 MOS 300 kW/non-dir 0700-0800 German/English to Eu 9820 MOS 500 kW/090 deg 0200-0300 English/Urdu to SoAs 11665 MOS 500 kW/100 deg 0330-0400 Persian to ME 11710 MOS 500 kW/145 deg 0300-0330 Oromo to EaAf 15175 MOS 500 kW/190 deg 1900-2000 Arabic to NoAf 15355 MOS 500 kW/215 deg 2000-2100 Dyula/French to NoWeAf 15355 MOS 500 kW/215 deg 2100-2200 English to NoWeAf 15410 MOS 500 kW/100 deg 1630-1700 Persian to ME 15460 MOS 500 kW/145 deg 1700-1800 Arabic to EaAf/ME 15470 MOS 500 kW/115 deg 0400-0500 Arabic to ME 15470 MOS 500 kW/145 deg 0500-0600 Arabic to EaAf/ME 15470 MOS 500 kW/190 deg 0600-0700 Arabic to NoAf 17555 MOS 500 kW/115 deg 1800-1900 Arabic to ME 17780 MOS 500 kW/215 deg 0730-0830 Dyula/French to NoWeAf 17780 MOS 500 kW/215 deg 0830-0930 English to NoWeAf (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. At last, I managed to catch the Voice of Azerbaijan on MW frequency 1296 kHz. I've become convinced in the possibility of such a reception after I've got the signal of Radio Liberty relay via Baku (it was on 13 March after 1900). "What a pity, why did I not tune in earlier, Voice of Azerbaijan has a Russian service at 1830", so I thought. Well, the evening of 16 March brought some success. I listened to Russian broadcast at 1830-1853. It was weak, periods of deep fading occured every 4...5 minutes, but nevertheless, I've pick up some definitive items and wrote a report. A number of political reports and news about Caspian states co-operation were aired that day (Dmitri Mezin, Kazan, Russia, Signal March 21 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. RADIO COSMOS - Cochabamba MW 770 7130 Mar/17 1730 -1745 s.off 6036 Mar/17 1745 -1830 s.off 3405 Mar/20 0135 Testes de Transmissão ? (Rogildo F. Aragão, Cochabamba, Bolivia, @tividade DX Mar 22 via DXLD) Added 3405 to earlier report ** BRAZIL. Esquema das transmissões da Rádio Gaúcha, Porto Alegre-RS em ondas curtas: ZYE 850 / 49 m: 6020 kHz 0900 - 0400 ZYE 851 / 25 m: 11915 kHz 0900 - 0300 http://www.clicRBS.com.br atendimento@c... [truncated by yahoogroups] (Claudia Landell, Rádio Gaúcha, @tividade DX Mar 22 via DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. MADAGASCAR(non): A-02 schedule for Democratic Voice of Burma via RNW/Madagascar: 17495 MDC 050 kW/055 deg 1430-1530 Burmese to SEAs (ex 17490/17805) 11715 MDC 200 kW/055 deg 2330-0030 Burmese to SEAs (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** CANADA. Just listened to the Première Chaîne of Radio-Canada at midnight EST. The newsreader read a quick scripter about the failed negotiations between the U.S. and Canada over softwood lumber, then went straight to a script about the failed negotiations between the union (SCRC) and CBC management. Fill music began 12:01 a.m. A cultural programme began at 12:05 a.m. This note appears after the weather on the RCI website: "Dear subscribers: I'm the editor who does this task during the week. But I won't be doing it on Friday because I'll be on a one-day labour strike. I enjoy the task and appreciate the idea of having readers. All this to say that the Cyberjournal-web bulletin may fall by the wayside once or twice in coming weeks because of strikes or lockouts. Please be patient, at least for a while; things may straighten themselves out. We want very much to bring you this service, the only daily Canadian news bulletin on the Internet, unless I' m mistaken. Thanks for reading us." (Ricky Leong, QU, March 22, DXLD) "CBC SET TO LOCK OUT STRIKERS, UNION SAYS" http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id=06E73346-EA44-4463-AF7D-D1A1FAE68763 This does affect RCI, with our on-air people, production assistants and newsroom staff being on strike. You certainly will be noticing the strike when you tune into RCI! 73- (Bill Westenhaver, QU, March 22, and via Ricky Leong, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: CBC SET TO LOCK OUT STRIKERS, UNION SAYS by Charlie Fidelman, Montreal Gazette, Friday, March 22, 2002 A labour dispute at the CBC is threatening to develop into more than a short 24-hour blackout. While one side is on strike, the other is threatening a lockout. Striking employees set up picket lines at the CBC's René Lévesque Blvd. broadcast office as of midnight, throwing English and French local radio and television programs off the air. But the strike action won't darken television screens completely or shut down radio because management will be taking over the newsroom. "It won't be a black screen," CBC spokesman Marc Sévigny said of television programming. "We will be in replacement mode." News programs and information shows with well-known hosts on the CBC and RDI, the French all-news channel, "will be replaced with something," he said. "Most managers aren't comfortable in front of a camera or microphone." There will be Saturday hockey - the visuals only - without the usual commentary. There will be some news programming and short news bulletins. Mostly, there will be music. "Obviously we cannot maintain the same service in the news section, but we will do our best," Sévigny said. Shows already in the can or produced elsewhere are not expected to be affected. Employees and support staff at the CBC's French-language news service in Quebec and New Brunswick have been threatening strike action since negotiations with management broke off Tuesday evening. Yesterday, the union representing 1,300 staff - the Syndicat des Communications de Radio-Canada - announced a 24-hour walkout as of midnight. But CBC officials say they will not accept the walkout. Workers shouldn't expect to come waltzing back to work the following day, Sévigny warned. "From our point of view it's a strike, not a 24-hour walkout. And before they can come back, we need a new agreement - a protocol." Does that mean that without such an deal on the table, workers can expect to be locked out? "These are your words," Sévigny replied. "The union knows the risks." Union representatives have accused the CBC of intimidation tactics. "The CBC is a fascist firm," union spokesman Daniel Roney said. "And you can quote me saying that." The company has "run a campaign of terror, threatening workers that they'll 'stay outside for months.' " "But for us, it's only a 24-hour strike," he said. If CBC proceeds with a lockout, it will find itself with a serious public relations problem, he added. Frustrated with negotiations that stalled since last June, workers voted 89 per cent in favour of a strike on Saturday. "Conciliation didn't work," said union president Michel Couturier. Negotiations broke down Wednesday, Couturier said, when the CBC tabled its final offer. Key issues include pay equity and freelance or part- time employment status. The union wants Radio-Canada to hire half of all employees on regular duty who are now designated as temporary staff. "It's really too bad for listeners, which is why we're only going out for 24 hours," he said. "We want to send a message to CBC: "Come back to the table and talk." A strike could affect employees in Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Moncton, Chicoutimi, Sept-îles and and Trois-Rivières. The last major CBC labour dispute that ended in a strike/lockout was in 1980-81. "It was a very long strike - about eight months," Sévigny recalled. © Copyright 2002 Montreal Gazette (via Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) RCI relay of SRC-AM at 1700 UT on Friday, Mar 22, consisted of fill music and announcements (in French) about strike (Mike Cooper, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was just reading some stuff on the SCRC (SRC union's) web site. Their members will insist on returning to work tonight at midnight... Meanwhile, CBC management says one-day strikes don't exist, and the worker can't come back in. (Ricky Leong, early UT Sat Mar 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. We had a report from southern US of RFPI putting a spur on 21295 LSB. This was a very small one, about half a watt, but of concern. It turns out this happens only when both SSB transmitters are on at the same time, 21815 and 7445. So now we will avoid that happening. Plan in future to run AM again on 7445; now it is running almost full power on SSB, but that pushes the limit of the DC blocking capacitor. We have a donated DC blocking capacitor about to be tested. Hope to finish tuning the new antenna for 7445 in a week or two so it can be mounted atop the 200 foot tower, and then full power can be run on AM, gaining about 6 dB over present level. This should benefit most more distant listeners in Eu, SPac, NNam. We have a bartering situation: antenna worker who doesn`t mind climbing high tower, in exchange for James doing some high voltage repair work for him on ground. The antenna is a simple dipole with corner reflector made of many wires behind it. Thanks to a Canadian donating a nice computer, RFPI`s webcast is reliable, at 2200-1400 UT weekdays, 24 hours on weekends (RFPI Mailbag with James Latham and Joe Bernard, first airing 2000 UT March 22, notes by gh for DXLD) The night before, RFPI asked me to check out the 21295 spur. Could not hear it here around 0030 UT, but isn`t that the DXpedition frequency, currently very active with Ducie Island, so everybody must be monitoring it. I then figured out how 7445 and 21815 would put a spur on 21295: 3 x 7445 = 22335; 22335 is the same separation from 21815, 520 kHz, as 21815 is from 21295 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. DEFENSE ANALYST PLEADS GUILTY TO SPYING FOR CUBA By Neely Tucker, Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 20, 2002; Page A01 Colaboración Armando F. Mastrapa III, New York, E.U. La Nueva Cuba Marzo 20, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Defense Intelligence Agency's senior analyst for Cuban issues pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Washington to being a spy for Fidel Castro's government, admitting that for 16 years she used her highly classified position to steal top-secret information and pass it along to a nation the State Department lists as supporting international terrorism. Working with shortwave radios, encrypted transmissions and a pay phone outside the National Zoo, Ana Belen Montes gave the Cuban government the names of four U.S. "covert intelligence officers" working in Cuba. She also told Cuban officials about a "special access program related to the national defense of the United States" and disclosed that the U.S. government had tracked down the location of various Cuban military installations, federal prosecutors said yesterday. Montes, 45, apparently was motivated not by money -- her defense attorney and federal prosecutors said yesterday she worked for no more than "nominal" expense reimbursements -- but by her moral outrage at U.S. policy toward the impoverished island nation. "She engaged in these activities because of her belief that U.S. policy does not afford Cubans respect, tolerance and understanding," said Plato Cacheris, her attorney. "She was motivated by her desire to help the Cuban people and did not receive any compensation." Montes pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit espionage, a crime that could carry the death penalty. But federal prosecutors agreed to a 25-year term if she tells the FBI and other investigators all the details she knows about Cuban intelligence activities, according to the plea agreement. Judge Ricardo M. Urbina set a September sentencing date, meaning Montes has six months to be debriefed by investigators. That debriefing may prove to be a cache of counterintelligence information, as the indictment revealed yesterday said that Montes spied for the Cuban government at least from the time she joined the DIA in 1985 until her arrest Sept. 21 last year. "Montes used her position as an intelligence officer and, subsequently, a senior intelligence analyst . . . to gather writings, documents, materials and information, classified for reasons of national security, for unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to the government of Cuba," said Ronald Walutes, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, reading from the indictment. "Those statements are true and accurate," Montes said when Urbina asked her whether the charges were correct. Luís M. Fernández, spokesman for the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington, declined to comment. Montes, a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent, was a well-known if quiet figure in Washington's Cuba-watching community. She was a fixture at Georgetown University's Caribbean Project, an unofficial study group composed of academics, policy analysts and activists with an interest in Cuba. "I don't think I ever heard her voice an opinion" about U.S. policy, said Wayne Smith, a study group member who is a former chief of the U.S. interests section in Havana. "During coffee breaks, when everyone else would stand up and talk, she usually stayed at her desk." It was unclear yesterday how much damage was done by Montes' spying. The four agents she identified to the Cuban government are "alive and safe," according to U.S. Attorney Roscoe C. Howard Jr. Government officers who attended yesterday's hearing declined to say if they knew whether Cuba passed along the information to hostile countries or organizations. Montes has a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She moved from the Justice Department to the DIA, the 7,000-member U.S. agency that produces military intelligence about foreign countries, in 1985. She lived alone in an apartment in the 3000 block of Macomb Street NW, worked at Bolling Air Force Base and went undetected until the fall of 2000. Acting on classified information, FBI agents began tracking her movements. They obtained court permission to enter her apartment and copy computer data. Agents found that Montes communicated with Cuba by high-frequency, encrypted transmissions that she picked up on a shortwave radio. She sent information back by using pay phones in Northwest Washington and Bethesda to transmit similar encoded information to an electronic pager number. "This was a classic case of espionage and counterespionage," said Van A. Harp, head of the FBI's Washington field office. Copyright © 1997-2002 - LA NUEVA CUBA NOSTROMO PUBLISHING CORP. All Rights Reserved. 73's (via Oscar, and Sergei Sosedkin, DXLD) U.S. INTELLIGENCE ANALYST ADMITS SPYING FOR CUBA AT LEAST 16 YEARS DEFENSE DEPT. EMPLOYEE REVEALED IDENTITIES OF FOUR UNDERCOVER AGENTS Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun, Marzo 20, 2002 WASHINGTON - A U.S. intelligence analyst who revealed the identities of four undercover agents to Cuba pleaded guilty yesterday to espionage. She could spend 25 years in federal prison. Ana Belen Montes, 45, was spying for Cuba from the time she started work at the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1985 until her arrest Sept. 21, prosecutors say. By that time, she was a senior intelligence analyst and had used short-wave radio and coded pager messages to give Cuba U.S. secrets so sensitive they could not be fully described in court documents. "Yes, those statements are true and accurate," Montes told U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina after the charges were read. When Urbina asked whether one reason she had agreed to plead guilty was "the fact that you committed the crime," she said, "Yes." Roscoe Howard Jr., U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said law enforcement officials did not know whether any of the information Montes transmitted to Cuba was shared with other countries. However, the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington heightened the need to "get her off the streets," and influenced the timing of her arrest, he said. Howard added that, to the government's knowledge, Montes received only nominal payments for expenses. He would not speculate on her motivation. A U.S. official familiar with the case, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Montes was believed to have been recruited by Cuban intelligence when she worked in the Freedom of Information office at the Justice Department, between 1979 and 1985, and was asked to seek work at an agency that would provide more useful information to Cuba. The four undercover agents whose identities she revealed, Howard said, are safe. According to court papers, Montes communicated with the Cuban Intelligence Agency through encrypted messages and received her instructions over short-wave radio. The instructions were issued in numerical code, which she translated into Spanish text with a computer program provided by Cuba. From public pay phones, she then used a prepaid calling card to send coded numeric messages to a pager owned by Cuban intelligence. Those messages, prosecutors said, typically were codes for "I received message" or "danger." The FBI secretly searched Montes' residence under a court order May 25 and uncovered information about several Defense Department issues, including a 1996 war games exercise conducted by the U.S. Atlantic Command, authorities said. A message from her Cuban contact said, "Practically everything that takes place [during the exercise] will be of intelligence value. Let's see if it deals with contingency plans and specific targets in Cuba." The DIA, based at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, provides analyses of foreign countries' military capabilities and troop strengths for Pentagon planners. Copyright © 1997-2002 - LA NUEVA CUBA NOSTROMO PUBLISHING CORP. All Rights Reserved. 73'S (via OSCAR, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. Radio HCJB will cancel its live streaming in the near future; only on-demand RA and MP3 will remain; see this posting from the German A-DX list: ------ From: "Markus Weidner" weidner@gsm-news.de To: a-dx@elitas.com inter-net-radio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [A-DX] HCJB streicht Livestream Der ecuadorianische Missionssender Radio HCJB http://www.andenstimme.org plant, den Internet-Livestream seines Programms in naher Zukunft einzustellen. Das wurde heute in der deutschsprachigen Sendung "Land und Leute in Südamerika" bekannt gegeben. Die deutschsprachigen und plattdeutschen Programme für Europa stehen aber weiterhin on demand in Real Audio und MP3 zur Verfügung (Markus Weidner, Biebergemünd, via Kai Ludwig, Germany, DXLD) But they don`t specifically say English or other language streaming will be cancelled, just Germans... (gh, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 2960.21, Radio Atlántida, Alausí (2 x 1480 harmonic) 1011- 1031 Mar 21, Talk about natural products and medicines. 1015 ID in passing "...por Radio Atlántida...", 1031 Andean flute instrumental. Very briefly // 5920.42 (4 x 1480) where ID was actually heard. Fair to poor signal (Mark Mohrmann, VT, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 25926 NBFM, Comité Departemental du tourisme de la Charente-Maritime (the local tourism office for departement Charente- Maritime, in La Rochelle). 2123 March 21. This 1 watt French tourist information service continues to be heard fairly regularly in the southern USA. Last fall, I counted as many as 10-20 carriers all jammed together between 25924-8 kHz. The problem then was all those FM signals tended to cancel each other out, so even though signal strength was at times good, audio was quite difficult to produce. Today I noted there was only 1 carrier present, which means that the FM audio is much easier to hear. The French government has allocated 5 frequencies in which these 1 watt transmitters may operate. They are: 25845, 25880, 25925, 26000 and 26035 kHz. There maybe a number of signals on each frequencies. At his time I am only hearing one signal on 25926. For more info on this TIS: http://www.csa.fr http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12561001.tif http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12562001.tif http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12563001.tif The best time to DX this one in SE NAm is around 2000-2130 when the first point of refraction through the F layer of the ionosphere is experiencing dusk. I am observing the peak time rapidly getting later and later as the days lengthen here in the northern hemisphere (David Hodgson, TN, IC R-75, 5.5 meter dipole fed with 300 ohm twin line into an antenna tuner, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4760 AIR Leh, 1439, Leh under dominant Pt Blair, with music while M and W are talking on Pt Blair. Music more middle eastern for Leh (sung with chanting) while Pt Blair has movie style subcontinental music. Air Leh becomes dominant after 1440 and continues with Woman announcer. 5040, AIR Jeypore, 1414 Mar 18, Subcontinental music followed by usual program of Hindi News and EE news after Bottom of Hour. Strongest signal of the Indians during the mornings at Grayland, with S9+20 levels. 5050 AIR-Aizwal, 1456 Mar 18, Man in barely understandable proper Queen's English under dominating Chinese. AIR at 5050.01 and Chinese at 5049.97. Very difficult to hear these days as the Chinese dominates (Don Nelson, WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) See also SIKKIM ** INDONESIA. 2960.02, RPDT Mangarrai, 1115 Mar 17, Lagu Lagu Romantik program with M at lower levels than music. Into church program at 1137 with Christian music. Mangarrai was at absolutely armchair levels for three days. ID at Top of Hour after SCI and into Jakarta News feed. Nearby Ngada was also heard but with relatively low levels of audio that made listening difficult (Don Nelson, Grayland WA DXpedition, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. Glenn, The Voice of Indonesia's webcast was not heard at 0800 March 22, but was on in English at 0820 when I checked again. After that, technical problems caused the webcast to occasionally drop out for a few seconds at a time. (Ivan Grishin, Ont., March 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Hello opera lovers, I have posted the new schedules for Opera on the Internet for the next two weeks. They can be found at: http://www.angelfire.com/or3/opnetradio/thiswk.htm http://www.angelfire.com/or3/opnetradio/nextwk.htm The Collector`s Guide to Opera Recordings and Videos: http://www.geocities.com/ehub035 = http://www.operacast.com (Geoffrey S. Riggs, rec.music.classical.recordings March 23, via John Norfolk, DXLD) I`ll include these links somewhere on MONITORING REMINDERS page (gh) ** ITALY. Hi Glenn, IRRS Milan in the 41 mb is not always heard on 7120 kHz here in Finland. Their transmitting power 8.5 kW is relatively low and 41 mb is really crowded in this part of the world. So there`s always heavy QRM. That`s why I like to use LSB or USB. By the way I heard IRRS yesterday evening around 22 UT on 3985 kHz. This channel should be far better for you American DX-ers, I suppose! Best of 73´s (Jouko Huuskonen, Finland, March 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. The latest information on NHK WORLD by e-mail Dear Viewer and Listener of NHK WORLD, Thank you for your patronage of NHK WORLD. This notice is being sent to everyone who has e-mailed NHK in the past. We are writing to tell you about the impending launch of our ``NHK WORLD e-GUIDE,`` to provide viewers and listeners with the very latest program schedules and information. It will be sent out by e-mail in Japanese and English versions every Friday. We will send the Japanese version to everyone who has e-mailed us in Japanese, and the English version to those who have e-mailed us in English or other languages. If you don`t want to receive the service, please cancel it from the NHK home page: http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ NHK hopes that the ``NHK WORLD e-GUIDE`` will bring you even closer to NHK WORLD. NHK International Planning and Broadcasting Department (via Joe Hanlon, PA, DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. There's only one change between the winter schedule and the summer schedule. The 0030 UT broadcast, which was on 7325 kHz, will be on 11690 kHz as of 31 March. The full schedule, then, is: To North America: 2330-2400 UT on 9875 kHz 0030-0100 UT on 11690 kHz To Europe 1900-1930 UT on 666 kHz MW 0930-1000 UT (the next day) on 9710 kHz. This last program is a repeat of the previous evening's broadcast. Let Vladas Dobilas, host of "Mailbag", and the rest of the Radio Vilnius staff know what you think of their programs: Snail mail: Radio Vilnius, Konarskio 49, Vilnius, Lithuania email: radiov-@lrt.lt -- (Ted Schuerzinger, swprograms via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 4990 [Radio Malagasy]: This station backed by Marc Ravalomanana has moved to 4985. Poor reception around 1900 while 9685 is still there (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, 20 March 2002, hard-core- dx via DXLD) There may have been others since our last reference to Weekend Edition, and another excellent report on the Mad. Situation from Julie McCarthy was on NPR Morning Edition, Fri Mar 22, at 1443 UT. Ondemand after 1700, via http://www.npr.org/programs/morning specifically: NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that a disputed presidential election in Madagascar is playing out in the island nation's economy. One side is setting up an oil blockade that's also cutting off supplies of raw materials and ruining the tourist trade. Fifty-thousand people could be left out of work. (5:12) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020322.me.07.ram Mentions i.a. that gasoline shipments into the capital are blockaded. Would this impact RN`s Talata relay? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. On the meaning of Mexican slogan ``La Consentida``, DX Listening Digest #2-046 and NRC-AM list. In English you cannot see from one single word, for instance the adjective ``powerful``, if it is meant for a person or an inanimate object, and less so if it is referring to a woman or a man. Contrary to what is the case in English, Spanish words, nouns and adjectives, have feminine or masculine gender, and so you can understand from a casual adjective if it is meant to be an attachment to a feminine or a masculine noun. That is why ``la poderosa``, the powerful one, with the typical –a ending for feminine words, should refer to something feminine, either a human being, or a radio station (``emisora`` ends in -a and is a feminine word), or both at a time. Such ambiguities are very common in Spanish speaking countries. On page 23 in my book ``Latin America by Radio`` (Helsinki, 1987), there is a list of Mexican slogans, all of which have been deliberately chosen to provide a catchy ambiguous meaning, for instance the following: La Tigresa, La Doña Norteña, La Tremenda, La Favorita, La Super Sabrosa, La Costeñita, La Campeona, La Reina del Mar, La Rancherita Contenta, La Pantera, La Chica, La Divertida, La Consentida, La Jarocha, La Correcaminos, La Pirata del Caribe, La Super Fiera, La Chica alegre del cuadrante, La Cotorra de tu radio. Take whichever Latin America country, and you will find more of this. Let me take just one single example, the Bolivian Radio Pío XII, owned by a Catholic order and much involved in dealing with human rights issues of their primary listenership, which is the indigenous mining population of the Bolivian Altiplano. The slogan to be heard on the air, and seen on their pennants, says ``Tu Compañera permanente``, ``Your permanent /female/ companion``. When a Spanish speaking ham operator is talking to another ham, he will sometimes refer to his XYL as ``la primerísima``, which of course implies that there might in fact be some other women in his life, a mistress, ``una consentida``. Having consented to an intimate relationship with a married man, she expects him to take care of some of her material needs, too, spoiling her with presents of all kinds. Trying to clarify the little understood slogan ``La Consentida``, may I add the following. In many Latin American countries, having an extramarital affair is not necessarily looked upon as totally negative by third parties, unless, of course, you are the married man and the victim of your wife`s escapades. For better, or for worse, this is the way it is in countries where `macho` values are accepted. And so slogans such as ``La Consentida``, ``the favorite /woman/``, ``the mistress``, carry a clearly sexual connotation. The same goes for many other less obvious slogans such as ``Qué buena``, even if written as ``Ké Buena``, which is just one out of hundreds of more elaborate compliments a Spanish language speaking male would use when describing a sexually attractive female. If the same characteristic, ``buena`` in this case, is applicable to ``música``, ``emisora`` etc. then there is an added bonus to the slogan, depending, of course, on the intended target audience. ``Su emisora predilecta``, your favorite station, is a slogan commonly used by Ecos del Torbes, in Venezuela. This slogan is plain, and the object is clearly stated. It refers to ``emisora`` with no other connotations implied. And their audience is probably rather adult than adolescent (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Mar 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 9705, Radio Mexico International Thanks White tip. 1400 Mar 20, back here and weeks of distortion on 9310v. Good signal with programming in Spanish, better than // 11770 (Hans Johnson, FL, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Yes, I have not found the spur lately either (gh, Mar 23, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Frequency Changes On Sunday 31 March Radio Netherlands, along with other international broadcasters, makes its seasonal shortwave frequency changes. Most of our English broadcasts remain at the same times, but those beamed to Europe move one hour earlier UTC, that is 1030-1225 and 2030-2230 UTC. Details of the summer frequencies and programming can be found on the pages of our English language section at http://www.rnw.nl/en/html/tuning_in.html The complete technical schedule for all languages (plus relays of other broadcasters) will go online in the course of next week. Our Programme Distribution Department is still making final changes. New Radio Netherlands QSL Cards Radio Netherlands has launched a series of eight new QSL cards showing different scenes from a typical Dutch morning. We've put a preview of them on the Web site. Picture no. 4 was taken by Internet Producer Willemien Groot. The other pictures were taken by our Technical Webmaster Martien Sleutjes. Note that size limitations on this page don't do justice to the quality of the printed cards, which is outstanding. We anticipate that this series will be very popular, so get writing those reception reports! http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/qslcards.html (Media Network Newsletter Mar 22 via John Norfolk, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Radio Netherlands programme guide March 31-October 26th 2002 North America and Canada [sic] 1130-1325 UTC 5965 kHz [sic -- see below] 1430-1625 UTC 15220 kHz 2330-0125 UTC 6165 and 9845 kHz 0430-0530 UTC 6165 and 9590 kHz Details for World Radio Network 0400-0500 UTC, 1200-1300 UTC, 2200-2300 UTC How to Hear WRN - North America Via direct-to-home satellite WRN1 & 2 may be received throughout North America WRN1 is broadcast on Telstar 5, 970ø West, Transponder 27, 12177 GHz, Vertical Polarisation, 23,000 Msym/s, FEC 2/3, DVB MPEG2 and choose Audio Channel WRN1 (English) or WRN2 (Multilingual) More details on the WRN website [for some reason, times below begin at 1030 while above schedule says transmissions begin at 1130, which is correct?] [1130 in winter, 1030 in summer --gh] Sunday [into UT Monday] 1030 News 1035 Wide Angle 1055 Week Ahead 1100 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1130 Dutch Horizons 1200 News 1205 Sincerely Yours 1225 Week Ahead (WRN only) 1230 Dutch Horizons (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 News 1438 Sincerely Yours 1455 Week Ahead 1500 Dutch Horizons 1530 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1600 News 1608 Wide Angle 1625 Ends 2200 News 2205 Wide Angle 2225 Week Ahead 2230 Dutch Horizons 2300 Sign off 2330 News 2335 Sincerely Yours 2355 Week Ahead 0000 Dutch Horizons 0030 Aural Tapestry new series) 0100 News 0105 Wide Angle 0125 Ends 0400 Dutch Horizons (WRN only) 0430 News 0435 Sincerely Yours 0455 Week Ahead 0500 Dutch Horizons 0530 Ends Monday [into UT Tuesday] 1030 Newsline 1100 EuroQuest 1130 Research File 1200 Newsline 1225 Press Review (WRN only) 1230 Research File (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 Newsline 1500 Research File 1530 Euroquest 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends 2200 Newsline 2230 Research File 2300 Sign off 2330 Newsline 0000 Research File 0030 Euroquest 0100 Newsline 0125 Ends 0400 Research File (WRN only) 0430 Newsline 0500 Research File 0530 Ends Tuesday [into UT Wednesday] 1030 Newsline 1100 A Good Life 1130 Music 52-15 1200 Newsline 1225 Press Review (WRN only) 1230 Music 52-15 (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 Newsline 1500 Music 52-15 1530 A Good Life 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends 2200 Newsline 2230 Music 52-15 2300 Sign off 2330 Newsline 0000 Music 52-15 0030 A Good Life 0100 Newsline 0125 Ends 0400 Music 52-15 (WRN only) 0430 Newsline 0500 Music 52-15 0530 Ends Wednesday [into UT Thursday] 1030 Newsline 1100 Dutch Horizons 1130 The Weekly Documentary 1200 Newsline 1225 Press Review (WRN only) 1230 Weekly Documentary (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 Newsline 1500 The Weekly Documentary 1530 Dutch Horizons 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends 2200 Newsline 2230 The Weekly Documentary 2300 Sign off 2330 Newsline 0000 The Weekly Documentary 0030 Dutch Horizons 0100 Newsline 0125 Ends 0400 Weekly Documentary (WRN only) 0430 Newsline 0500 The Weekly Documentary 0530 Ends Thursday [into UT Friday] 1030 Newsline 1100 Research File 1130 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1200 Newsline 1225 Press Review (WRN only) 1230 Aural Tapestry (WRN only)) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 Newsline 1500 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1530 Research File 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends 2200 Newsline 2230 Aural Tapestry (new series) 2300 Sign off 2330 Newsline 0000 Aural Tapestry (new series) 0030 Research File 0100 Newsline 0125 Ends 0400 Aural Tapestry (WRN only) 0430 Newsline 0500 Aural Tapestry (new series) 0530 Ends Friday [into UT Saturday] 1030 Newsline 1100 The Weekly Documentary 1130 A Good Life (new series) 1200 Newsline 1225 Press Review (WRN only) 1230 A Good Life (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 Newsline 1500 A Good Life 1530 The Weekly Documentary 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends 2200 Newsline 2230 A Good Life 2300 Sign off 2330 Newsline 0000 A Good Life 0030 The Weekly Documentary 0100 Newsline 0125 Ends 0400 A Good Life (WRN only) 0430 Newsline 0500 A Good Life 0530 Ends Saturday [into UT Sunday] 1030 News 1035 Europe Unzipped 1055 Insight 1100 Roughly Speaking 1130 Music 52-15 1200 News 1205 Europe Unzipped 1225 Insight (WRN only) 1230 Roughly Speaking (WRN only) 1300 Sign off (WRN) 1430 News 1436 Europe Unzipped 1455 Insight 1500 Music 52-15 1530 Roughly Speaking 1600 News 1606 Europe Unzipped 1625 Ends 2200 News 2205 Europe Unzipped 2225 Insight 2230 Roughly Speaking 2300 Sign off 2330 News 2335 Europe Unzipped 2355 Insight 0000 Music 52-15 0030 Roughly Speaking 0100 News 0105 Europe Unzipped 0125 Ends 0400 Roughly Speaking (WRN only) 0430 News 0435 Europe Unzipped 0455 Insight 0500 Roughly Speaking 0530 Ends Europe summer 2002 1030-1225 UTC 6045 and 9860 kHz 2130-2330 UTC 1512 kHz mediumwave (AM) Astra 1G digital satellite 0930 (Sun only), 1130, 1230, 1430, 1530, 1830, 1930, 2030, 2130, 2330, 0030 Details for World Radio Network: 1300-1400 UTC How to Hear WRN - Europe: Via direct-to-home satellite In the United Kingdom and Ireland, WRN EuroMax English is broadcast on SKYdigital channel 872 on Astra 2 at 28 degrees East For the rest of Europe WRN EuroMax English can be heard on Eutelsat Hotbird 5, 13 degrees East, Transponder 94, 12597 GHz, Vertical, Symbol Rate 27500 Mbaud, FEC 3/4, MPEG2 DVB Audio Stream Select WRN EuroMax English from audio menu. More details on the WRN website Sunday 1030 News 1035 Wide Angle 1055 Week Ahead 1100 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1130 Dutch Horizons 1200 News 1205 Sincerely Yours 1225 Ends 1300 News (WRN only) 1305 Sincerely Yours (WRN only) 1325 Week Ahead (WRN only) 1330 Dutch Horizons (WRN only) 1400 Sign off (WRN) 2030 News 2035 Sincerely Yours 2055 Week Ahead 2100 Dutch Horizons 2130 Aural Tapestry (new series) 2200 News 2205 Wide Angle 2225 Week Ahead 2230 Ends Monday 1030 Newsline 1100 EuroQuest 1130 Research File 1200 Newsline 1225 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 Research File (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 Newsline 2100 Research File 2130 Euroquest 2200 Newsline 2230 Ends Tuesday 1130 Newsline 1200 A Good LIfe (new series) 1230 Music 52-15 1300 Newsline 1325 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 Music 52-15 (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 Newsline 2100 A Good LIfe (new series) 2130 Music 52-15 2200 Newsline 2230 Ends Wednesday 1030 Newsline 1100 Dutch Horizons 1130 The Weekly Documentary 1200 Newsline 1225 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 Weekly Documentary (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 Newsline 2100 The Weekly Documentary 2130 Dutch Horizons 2200 Newsline 2230 Ends Thursday 1030 Newsline 1100 Research File 1130 Aual Tapestry (new series) 1200 Newsline 1225 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 Aural Tapestry (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 Newsline 2100 Aural Tapestry (new series) 2130 Research File 2200 Newsline 2230 Ends Friday 1030 Newsline 1100 The Weekly Documentary 1130 A Good Life (new series) 1200 Newsline 1225 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 A Good Life (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 Newsline 2100 Roughly Speaking 2130 The Weekly Documentary 2200 Newsline 2230 Ends Saturday 1030 News 1035 Europe Unzipped 1055 Insight 1100 Roughly Speaking 1130 Music 52-15 (new series) 1200 News 1205 Europe Unzipped 1225 Ends 1300 Newsline (WRN only) 1330 Roughly Speaking (WRN only) 1400 Ends (WRN) 2030 News 2035 Europe Unzipped 2055 Insight 2100 Music 52-15 (new series) 2130 Roughly Speaking 2200 News 2205 Europe Unzipped 2225 Insight 2230 Ends Africa summer 2002 1730-1830 UTC 6020, 7120 and 11655 kHz 1830-2025 UTC 6020, 7120, 9895, 13700, 17605 and 21590 kHz Intelsat 707 satellite: 0930, 1030, 1430, 1530, 1730, 1830, 1930, 0030, and 0430 Sunday 1730 News 1735 Sincerely Yours 1755 Week Ahead 1800 Dutch Horizons 1830 News 1835 Wide Angle 1900 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1930 Dutch Horizons 2000 News 2005 Sincerely Yours 2025 Ends Monday 1730 Newsline 1800 Research File 1830 Newsline 1900 EuroQuest 1930 Research File 2000 Newsline 2025 Ends Tuesday 1730 Newsline 1800 Music 52-15 1830 Newsline 1900 A Good Life 1930 Music 52-15 2000 Newsline 2025 Ends Wednesday 1730 Newsline 1800 The Weekly Documentary 1830 Newsline 1900 Dutch Horizons 1930 The Weekly Documentary 2000 Newsline 2025 Ends Thursday 1730 Newsline 1800 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1830 Newsline 1900 The Research File 1930 Aural Tapestry (new series) 2000 Newsline 2025 Ends Friday 1730 Newsline 1800 A Good Life 1830 Newsline 1900 The Weekly Documentary 1930 A Good Life 2000 Newsline 2025 Ends Saturday 1730 News 1735 Europe Unzipped 1755 Insight 1800 Music 52-15 1830 News 1835 Europe Unzipped 1900 Roughly Speaking 1930 Music 52-15 2000 News 2005 Europe Unzipped 2025 Ends Asia/Far East summer 2002 0930-1130 UTC 9790, 12065 and 13710 kHz 1430-1625 UTC 9890, 11835 and 12075 kHz AsiaSat 2 satellite: 0930, 1030, 1430, 1530, 1730, 1830, 1930, 0030, and 0430 Sunday 0930 News 0938 Sincerely Yours 0955 Week Ahead 1000 Dutch Horizons 1030 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1100 News 1108 Wide Angle 1125 Ends 1430 News 1438 Sincerely Yours 1455 Week Ahead 1500 Dutch Horizons 1530 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1600 News 1608 Wide Angle 1625 Ends Monday 0930 Newsline 1000 Research File 1030 EuroQuest 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends 1430 Newsline 1500 Research File 1530 Euroquest 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends Tuesday 0930 Newsline 1000 Music 52-15 1030 A Good Life 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends 1430 Newsline 1500 Music 52-15 1530 A Good Life 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends Wednesday 0930 Newsline 1000 Weekly Documentary 1030 Dutch Horizons 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends 1430 Newsline 1500 The Weekly Documentary 1530 Dutch Horizons 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends Thursday 0930 Newsline 1000 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1030 Research File 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends 1430 Newsline 1500 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1530 Research File 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends Friday 0930 Newsline 1000 A Good Life 1030 Weekly Documentary 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends 1430 Newsline 1500 A Good Life 1530 The Weekly Documentary 1600 Newsline 1625 Ends Saturday 0930 News 0936 Europe Unzipped 0955 Insight 1000 Music 52-15 1030 Roughly Speaking 1100 News 1106 Europe Unzipped 1125 Ends 1430 News 1436 Europe Unzipped 1455 Insight 1500 Music 52-15 1530 Roughly Speaking 1600 News 1606 Europe Unzipped 1625 Ends Pacific summer 2002 0930-1130 UTC: 9790, 12065 and 13710 kHz AsiaSat 2 satellite: 0930, 1030, 1430, 1530, 1730, 1830, 1930, 0030, and 0430 Sunday 0930 News 0938 Sincerely Yours 0955 Week Ahead 1000 Dutch Horizons 1030 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1100 News 1108 Wide Angle 1125 Ends Monday 0930 Newsline 1000 Research File 1030 EuroQuest 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends Tuesday 0930 Newsline 1000 Music 52-15 1030 A Good Life 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends Wednesday 0930 Newsline 1000 Weekly Documentary 1030 Dutch Horizons 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends Thursday 0930 Newsline 1000 Aural Tapestry (new series) 1030 Research File 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends Friday 0930 Newsline 1000 A Good Life 1030 Weekly Documentary 1100 Newsline 1125 Ends Saturday 0930 News 0936 Europe Unzipped 0955 Insight 1000 Music 52-15 1030 Roughly Speaking 1100 News 1106 Europe Unzipped 1125 Ends (Radio Netherlands web site via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND (non). Further to comments re our most famous composer Douglas Lilburn in the March 15 and 21 editions of DXLD, check out the link at http://www.southwest.org.nz/ Best 73, (Bryan Clark, Auckland, New Zealand, March 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Spepcifically, http://www.southwest.org.nz/dl/htm/index.htm ** NIGERIA [non]. U K(non): A-02 schedule for Salama Radio via Woofferton: 15250 WOF 250 kW/170 deg 1900-2000 Arabic to WAf (ex 15475 for A-01 season) (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, 0947 Mar 18, Usual female announcer in Tok Pisin. Discussion on local survey results, time check at 0948 and ID for Radio New Ireland. Into CW music. ID at TOH and into local news in EE by M. Weather report for islands by M in EE " take precaution while going out to sea during bad weather. Weather warnings have been repeatedly ignored", says emergency office. Asked the people "to listen to avoid bad accidents. This has been the news in English". Then into Tok Pisin news by M (Don Nelson, Grayland WA DXpedition via Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU. New on 5032 (former frequency 6011): Radio LTC (Leoncio Torres Callao) from Juliaca/Perú. ID: "en transmisión Radio LTC" (Andy Schmid,- Pennant Museum (via RAF) , Mar 22, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** PERU. Continua muito díficil acompanhar a Rádio Unión, Lima. Esta emissora apresenta uma variação excepcional de sua freqüência em onda curta; oficialmente é listada em 6115 kHz, mas desde alguns meses é reporta em diversas freqüências fora da banda de 49 metros. Rogildo Fontenelle Aragão, de Cochabamba, Bolívia nos envia mais estes informes da Rádio Unión : 6348 0150 22/03 R.U nión, Lima ID "La mejor opición, Unión la radio" 0311 22/03 R. Unión, Lima ID YL "Unión, la radio" 1055 22/03 R. Unión, Lima ID "Unión la radio, la mas potente del Perú" 6297v 2314 22/03 R. Unión, Lima ID "...en la más potente del Perú, Radio Unión, El mundo del automovil". Má modulação e freqüência variando (@tividade DX Mar 22 via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. 3390, AIR Gangtok, 1313 Mar 18, M with long speech in local dialect. Excellent on SW Beverage at Grayland, with stunning subcontinental music program. F announcer. Subcontinental music continues with dawn enhancement giving a stunning S7 signal level, and staying up for over 90 minutes at listenable levels. After 1430, program format changes from subcont. to Western music from the 1970's. One ID mentioning Gangtok heard (Don Nelson, WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) see also INDIA ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.19, 1005, Mar 18 Man speaking to local government body, giving condolences to the government of New Zealand and the family of the deceased Deputy Prime Minister for the violence done by the people of Solomon Islands last Friday (local people apparently killed him). Parliament in mourning today. Local announcer in Tok Pisin dialect. Mention of 'Big Fella ...' (Tok Pisin for important person). ID and end of program at 1033, into music program. Ad for Computing Services company. Ad for advertising spots. Timecheck by M, into Church program. SIBS is unusually strong this season (Don Nelson, Grayland WA DXpedition, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. RADIO HARGEYSA LAUNCHES NEW AMHARIC SERVICE | Text of report by Somaliland's Radio Hargeysa on 21 March The spokesman of Somaliland's Ministry of Information and National Guidance has said that today, 21 March 2002, witnessed the launch of a new service in Radio Hargeysa. The service will broadcast in the official Ethiopian language, Amharic. The spokesman said the new service would be among the services of [word indistinct] languages which had been existing in Radio Hargeysa. The Amharic service will broadcast for 15 minutes daily. The spokesman further said the objective of launching the new Amharic service was to strengthen the brotherly and neighbourly relations between the two countries. Source: Radio Hargeysa in Somali 1700 gmt 21 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Horario A02 de R. Exterior de España en español a partir del 31 de marzo del 2002: Europa: 0500-0700 9710 0500-0900 12035 0900-1700 15585 1700-2300 7275 1700-2100 9665 (sábado) 1700-2000 9665 (domingo) Oriente Medio: 0500-0700 17665 0900-1700 21610 Africa: 0900-1400 21540 1700-1900 17755 (lunes-viernes) 1400-2000 17755 (domingo) 2200-2300 7270 Guinea Ecuatorial: 1400-1700 17755 1500-1700 15385 (lunes-sábado) Norte de Africa e Islas Canarias: 2300-0200 11680 2300-0500 9620 Norteamérica: 1300-1500 17595 (lunes-viernes) 0200-0500 6055 1900-2300 15110 2300-0500 9540 1000-1300 21700 (lunes-viernes) Sur de Norteamérica: 0200-0600 6025 1200-1500 15170 (domingos) 1100-1400 15170 (lunes-viernes) 1600-2300 17850 (sábado) 1500-2300 17850 (domingo) Sudamérica: 0800-1700 21570 (lunes-viernes) 1000-1700 21570 (sábado-domingo) 1700-1900 17715 1500-1800 21700 (lunes-viernes) 1200-2100 21700 (sábado) 1200-2000 21700 (domingo) 2300-0200 11780 2300-0500 15170, 9620 Norte de Sudamérica: 0000-0400 6020 1000-1300 11815 (lunes-viernes) 1600-2300 11815 (sábado) 1200-2300 11815 (domingo) Centroamérica: 1000-1300 21700 (lunes-viernes) 1500-1800 21700 (lunes-viernes) 1200-2100 21700 (sábado) 1200-2000 21700 (domingo) 2300-0500 9540, 15160 0200-0600 3350 1100-1400 9765 (lunes-viernes) 1600-2300 9765 (sábado) 1200-2300 9765 (domingo) Australia: 0700-0900 21610, 17770 Japón: 1000-1200 9660 Filipinas: 1200-1400 11910 ------------------------ (Ramón Vázquez Dourado, España, March 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. This is the English broadcast schedule of the Spanish Foreign Radio that will be effective from 31 March to 27 October 2002: North America: 0000-0200 6055 kHz -az 290º 0500-0556 6055 kHz -az 290º Europe: 2000-2100 9690 kHz -az 38º (monday-friday) 2205-2300 9690 kHz -az 38º (saturday-sunday) Africa: 2200-2300 9595 kHz -az 170º (saturday-sunday) ------------------------------ (Ramón Vázquez Dourado, Spain, March 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. MADAGASCAR(non): A-02 schedule for Tamil Broadcasting Corp. via RNW/Madagascar: 17495 MDC 050 kW/055 deg 1230-1325 Tamil to SAs (ex 21590 via DTK/JUL) (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. U K(non): A-02 schedule for Millennium Voice via Wooferton: 21550 WOF 250 kW/140 deg 1330-1430 Arabic to CAf (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** THAILAND. Radio Thailand Network 3 now operates 24h on 918 kHz in Bangkok. The format has changed slightly, with more live presentation, and at the top of most hours a 5-minute BBC WS news bulletin is relayed followed by a short bulletin of news about Thailand. A segment in French is now broadcast daily at 1430-1500, all other times appear to be in English (Alan Davies 2.3.2002, MV-Eko Info-Desk, March, Arctic Radio Club via Editor Olle Alm, DXLD) ** THAILAND. Vox populi: Next time you're in Kanchanaburi, check out Thailand's very first community radio station. Civil service mandarins say it's illegal. Residents can't get enough of its bright 'n' breezy format. Stay tuned Story by VASANA CHINVARAKORN Picture by YINGYONG UN-ANONGRAK There's a buzz of excitement in this most atypical of studios _ the very first community radio station that Kanchanaburi folk can claim as their own. Everything here goes out live. There are no pre-recorded slots. Regular call-ins keep presenters on the spot. And spontaneity is the name of the game for the hosts themselves are often doing this for the first time.... Andy gave me this link but I could never get anything but a 404: http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/Outlook/21Mar2002_out31.html Finding it instead via the Post homepage, the current funxioning URL for this rather long story actually turned out to be: http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/210302_Outlook/21Mar2002_out31.html and there is an accompanying story about this at: http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/210302_Outlook/21Mar2002_out32.html (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Glenn, Voice of Turkey's English service from March 30th 0300-0400 : 11655 (Europe and North America) 7270 (Asia and Africa) (11655 will be changed to 9650 on September 2nd) 1230-1300 : 17830 (Europe) 17615 (Australia & Asia) 1830-1930 : 9785 (Europe) 2030-2130 : 9525 (Australia and Asia) 2200-2300 : 12000, 11960 (Europe and North America) Regards (Jean-Michel AUBIER, France, March 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Hi Glenn, I note there is some confusion about whether or not Radio Ukraine is on shortwave at present: Yes, they are. Kopani 1000 kW is indeed silent but the 100 kW transmitters at Brovary are on air, and I think Kharkov is on regular service, too. Regarding the observed delay: Probably the RealAudio encoding/streaming indeed took 6 minutes in this particular case. When listening to the German programme tonight at 2100 the stream was 35 seconds behind shortwave (usual 5905) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, actually last night I heard R. Ukraine Int. back on its North American frequency of 7375 kHz. If I'm not mistaken they are using it from midnight to 6 UT. Reception between 0100 and 0500 was ranging from excellent to very good. Those who enjoy Ukrainian music should take advantage of both SW and Internet broadcasts now. For it's only a matter of time before RUI disappears from both outlets due to unpaid bills (Sergei Sosedkin, IL, Mar 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On 22 March, 1000 kW transmitter in Mykolaiv was switched on again on 7375 kHz after 2-month interruption. Meanwhile the Concern RRT is considering the using of Lviv's 1000 transmitter again for RUI's transmissions (Alexander Yegorov, Ukraine, 22 Mar, WWDXC via DXLD) Radio Ukraine International Tentative Summer Broadcasting A02 Schedule (effective from 31 March 2002) Freq Time UT Transmitter site Azimuth Target Area 5905 1600-0100 Kyiv 254 S.-W. Europe 6020 1600-2300 Kyiv ND C. Europe 7150 0200-0600 Mykolaiv 4 N.-E. Europe 7150 1600-2100 Mykolaiv 4 N.-E. Europe 7320 2300-0300 Kharkiv 55 Russia 7410 0400-0800 Kharkiv 277 W. Europe 9620 0400-0900 Kyiv 254 S.-W. Europe 9640 0000-0400 Kyiv 74 Russia, N. Kazakhstan 9640 1400-1800 Kyiv 74 Russia 9950 2000-2400 Kyiv 307 N.-W. Europe 11705 0500-1100 Kyiv 264 W. Europe 11705 1900-2300 Kyiv 264 W. Europe 11840 0400-1300 Kyiv 93 Russia, W. Kazakhstan 11950 1700-2300 Kharkiv 290 W. Europe 12040 2300-0400 Mykolaiv 314 N. America [1000 kW] 12045 1100-1700 Kharkiv 55 Russia 13590 0600-1600 Kharkiv 290 W. Europe 15520 0800-1400 Kyiv 307 N.-W. Europe Transmission schedules in various languages are as follows: GERMAN (one hour long): at 1700 5905, 6020, 11950 at 2000 5905, 6020, 9950, 11950 at 2300 5905, 7320, 9950 ENGLISH (one hour long): at 2100 5905, 6020, 9950, 11705, 11950 at 0000 5905, 7320, 12040 at 0300 7150, 12040 at 1100 11840, 15520 UKRAINIAN programmes are transmitted on all frequencies and at all times are as shown above except at the time reserved for German and English programmes. ROMANIAN (30 minutes long): at 1700, 1930 and 2100 on 657 kHz MW (Chernivtsi, 25 kW) Notes: 1. The output of all SW transmitters is 100 kW, except on 12040 kHz where the power is 1000 kW. 2. The Schedule is subject to changes. Regds, (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Mar 22, DXLD) Like I said in MONITORING REMINDERS, time varies for DX program on RUI. Good thing I brought up webcast early Sat Mar 23 because this week it started at 2218, ``The Whole World on the Radio Dial``. The presenter Alex Yegorov started off plugging the new webcast; explained what `DX` means (and I do not accept the X = unknown in this case now gaining currency -gh); English speaking staff at RUI cannot QSL MW and LW DX reports; FM DX in Finland; a reception report from Jonathan Murphy; another from 83-year-old Tom, WD3JJK/qrp, USA on a crystal set, which had QRM from three other stations (surprise). Must have been the 7375 megawatt. Lasted until 2232, then Hello from Kyiv (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. U S A(non): A-02 schedule for AWR via Al-Dhabbaya: 6025 DHA 500 kW/100 deg 0000-0100 Hindi English 6055 DHA 500 kW/100 deg 0000-0100 Hindi/English 6145 DHA 500 kW/045 deg 0230-0300 Dari 9600 DHA 500 kW/090 deg 1600-1700 Marathi/English 11775 DHA 500 kW/045 deg 0300-0400 Russian/English 11945 DHA 500 kW/225 deg 0300-0330 Tigrina 11955 DHA 500 kW/205 deg 0330-0400 Somali 11975 DHA 500 kW/230 deg 0300-0330 Amharic 13705 DHA 500 kW/075 deg 1500-1600 Punjabi/Hindi 15320 DHA 500 kW/085 deg 1300-1330 Bangla 15320 DHA 500 kW/060 deg 1330-1400 English 15320 DHA 500 kW/060 deg 1400-1500 Urdu 15520 DHA 500 kW/225 deg 1700-1800 Amharic/Tigrina 17630 DHA 500 kW/120 deg 1430-1500 Sinhala 17630 DHA 500 kW/075 deg 1500-1530 Nepali 17630 DHA 500 kW/105 deg 1530-1600 Malayalam 17665 DHA 500 kW/225 deg 1630-1800 Somali/Afar/Oromo 17710 DHA 500 kW/100 deg 1400-1430 Hindi 17740 DHA 500 kW/045 deg 1300-1400 English/Russian 17835 DHA 500 kW/060 deg 1100-1300 Mandarin Ch 17860 DHA 500 kW/105 deg 1330-1500 Tamil/Telugu/Kannada 73 from (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** U S A. VOA LAUNCHES NEW MIDDLE EAST RADIO NETWORK | Text of press release from the US International Broadcasting Bureau on 21 March Washington, DC, 21 March 2002: The Middle East Radio Network (MERN), a unique, US government-sponsored Arabic language broadcasting service, goes on the air across the region Friday, 22 March 2002, in the initial phase of a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week service. "Now, listeners across the Middle East will have an opportunity to get their news, information and entertainment in a whole new format," said Norman J. Pattiz, a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The BBG oversees all US, non-military, international broadcasting and spearheaded creation of the service. "They'll also be able to learn the truth about America and what it stands for," Pattiz said. When it debuts first on FM radio stations in Amman, Jordan and Kuwait City, Kuwait, MERN will be called Radio Sawa, which means "together" in Arabic. MERN, a pilot project of the Voice of America, will also be available to millions of listeners through the digital radio satellite channels of Nilesat, Arabsat and Eutelsat HotBird. Marc Nathanson, chairman of the BBG, said MERN is an example of how the board "is focused on making sure that US international broadcasting does the best job possible reaching people whose sources of news are often biased and anti-American." Pattiz, head of the BBG's Middle East committee and a driving force behind MERN, called Friday's startup "Phase One". He added: "We'll be rolling this out in phases, starting with music and news promotions." News programmes will begin airing a few weeks after the launch. MERN, aimed at Arab listeners under age 30, will broadcast news, analysis, interviews, opinion pieces, roundtables, sports, weather, music and features on a variety of political and social issues in five regional Arabic dialects targeted to Jordan and the Palestinian areas, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan and the Gulf states. MERN is expected to be fully operational by late summer 2002. President George W. Bush praised MERN at a 25 February 2002 ceremony celebrating VOA's 60th anniversary. "The Voice of America's new Middle East Radio Network will offer music, reliable news, and information in Arabic, and an opportunity to better understand American principles and American actions," Bush said. The president cited Pattiz, who is the chairman of the Westwood One radio network, for his "perseverance and dedication" to the MERN project. MERN will be distributed by medium wave (AM) and FM, the most popular bands in the Middle East, as well as by satellite and the Internet. Besides Jordan and Kuwait, the US government has signed rebroadcast agreements on FM frequencies in Doha, Qatar; Manama, Bahrain; and Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Negotiations are under way in several other countries to obtain frequencies. MERN staff, journalists, producers, and technicians will be based in Washington, DC and in Dubai, using a state-of-the-art broadcasting facility. Mouafac Harb, a leading journalist in the Arab world, has been hired as MERN's news director. A former Washington bureau chief for the London-based newspaper, Al Hayat, Harb also worked for Newsweek magazine. Earlier, Harb was general manager of radio and television at the National Broadcasting Network of Lebanon. Harb, who will run the news division, said MERN was committed to producing "objective, fair and balanced" news. The BBG received from Congress approximately 35m dollars for MERN in fiscal year 2002, including 16.4m dollars for one-time capital costs for transmitters. "Broadcasting services such as MERN are the best high-yield, low-cost weapon in our arsenal. They are the most cost-effective way of reaching the outside world," said Tom Korologos, a BBG member. [Contact: Joan Mower Phone: +1 202 260 0167; E-mail: jmower@ibb.gov] Source: US International Broadcasting Bureau press release, Washington, in English 21 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** U S A. This weekend on the last "Special Program in the Time Slot Formerly Occupied by Communications World": Relatively little is known about the Voice of America from the end of World War II through the 1950s. This weekend's half hour is devoted to a conversation with Barry Zorthian, who worked in VOA newsroom and management positions at VOA from 1947 to 1960. Also an excerpt from a VOA tenth anniversary special (1952), reflecting the political rhetoric of that time. All the best, (Kim Andrew Elliott, Analyst, Office of Research, International Broadcasting Bureau/Voice of America, swprograms via DXLD) Should still be available ondemand via WRN at least ** U S A. Lubavicher/Chassidic Radio, Brooklyn NY?; 1710 AM, 3/21 0040-0210*?, Relaying call-in program on Jewish topics. 0115 song/chant and disappeared 0117-21. Back with commentary by Male without calls. Poor w/fair peaks; LSB and notch help with utilities but very tough copy. This log blessed by Rabbi Wolfish (Harold Frodge, MI, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) ** U S A. CARL MCINTIRE, 95, FIREBRAND PASTOR By Kristin E. Holmes, Inquirer Staff Writer Posted on Thu, Mar. 21, 2002 The Rev. Carl McIntire, 95, the fiery anticommunist preacher in South Jersey whose multimillion-dollar ministry eroded amid battles with government agencies and theological disagreements with fellow Christian leaders, died Tuesday at Virtua-West Jersey Hospital Voorhees. At the height of Mr. McIntire's popularity in the mid-1960s, his broadcasts could be heard daily on more than 600 stations. The pastor's conservative message of fundamental Christianity and conservative politics amassed legions of followers whose donations helped him build an international ministry. But Mr. McIntire's mission was marked by battles with the Federal Communications Commission, local municipalities, and fellow Christians. He and his followers pitted themselves against dirty books and movies, racetracks and labor unions, sex education, gay rights, evolution, socialized medicine, dancing, smoking, drinking and fluoride in water. "I think you'd have to say that he was the most consistent fundamentalist of the 20th century," said the Rev. Martin Marty, a University of Chicago religion scholar and Lutheran pastor. "Whatever he decided was the truth he followed to the very end, no matter how few friends or colleagues were left." Curtis Bashaw, Mr. McIntire's grandson, put it differently: "He was willing to lose the physical and temporal things because of his beliefs." Those beliefs had been cultivated during a childhood spent on American Indian reservations in Oklahoma, where his mother and grandmother were missionaries. His first theological fisticuffs came when he, as a student, departed the Princeton Theological Seminary with scholar J. Gresham Machen over what the professor called the seminary's "trend toward socialism and modernism." Machen and his followers then organized Westminster Seminary in Glenside. Mr. McIntire graduated from the school in 1931 and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Not long after being named pastor of a 1,200-member Presbyterian church in Collingswood, Mr. McIntire supported Machen again when his mentor concluded that the denomination's overseas ministry was too liberal. Ultimately, the pair's schism with the denomination grew so severe that they were defrocked by the church. Most of Mr. McIntire's congregation withdrew from the denomination and formed the Presbyterian Church of America, still in Collingswood. In 1948, Mr. McIntire lost a court battle to hold on to his church building, and his congregation marched from it to a tent erected on a nearby apple orchard. Soon, the Presbyterian Church of America was also troubled by internal debate, with Mr. McIntire again finding it too left-leaning. He left to start yet another denomination, the Bible Presbyterian Church. The denomination grew steadily. Mr. McIntire established its base in Cape May, where he purchased the Christian Admiral hotel and turned it into a retreat center. His media arm encompassed radio stations and a publishing division. He traveled among right-wing elites, hosting Irish Protestant leader Ian Paisley and visiting Ferdinand Marcos' Philippine palace. But Mr. McIntire's ministry would change swiftly after he took on the FCC in 1970. The agency revoked the license of the minister's radio stations, contending that he failed to uphold the Fairness Doctrine by programming overwhelmingly conservative shows. Mr. McIntire refused to provide a more balanced mix of shows, and his stations were taken off the air in 1973. He attempted to circumvent the order by broadcasting from a "pirate" television station aboard a converted World War II minesweeper anchored in international waters off Cape May. But an injunction delivered by a Coast Guard vessel silenced the station. Over time, debts forced Mr. McIntire to sell his retreat in Cape May and other properties. He retired as a Bible Presbyterian Church pastor three years ago, after more than six decades. His weekly show on Camden's WTMR-AM has consisted of rebroadcasts of sermons. At the time of his death, Mr. McIntire was president of the International Council of Christian Churches, a conservative body he founded in 1948, with much of its membership overseas. In 1992, Fairy D. Davis McIntire, the minister's wife of 61 years, died. In 1995, he married his longtime secretary, Alice Goff. In addition to his wife, Mr. McIntire is survived by a son, Thomas; daughters, Celeste McIntire Bashaw and Marianna Clark; and 13 grandchildren. Burial will be at Harleigh Cemetery, Camden. The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/obituaries/2904540.htm (c) 2001 Philadelphia Inquirer and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved (via Ivan Grishin, DXLD) Another version: CARL MCINTIRE DIES AT AGE 95; CONSERVATIVE RADIO PREACHER http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5652-2002Mar22.html (via Tom McNiff, Burke, Virginia, DXLD) ** U S A. WWCR A02 Summer Schedule (Copied/pasted from WWCR website) Transmitter #1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees FREQ TIME (CT) TIME (UTC) DATES 9.475 4:00AM- 5:00AM 1000-1100 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 15.685 5:00AM- 4:00PM 1100-2200 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 9.475 4:00PM- 6:00PM 2200-0000 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 3.210 6:00PM- 4:00AM 0000-1000 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 9.475 4:00AM- 5:00AM 0900-1000 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 15.685 5:00AM- 5:00PM 1000-2200 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 9.475 5:00PM- 7:00PM 2200-0000 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 3.210 7:00PM- 4:00AM 0000-0900 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 9.475 4:00AM- 5:00AM 0900-1000 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 15.685 5:00AM- 5:00PM 1000-2200 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 9.475 5:00PM- 8:00PM 2200-0100 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 3.210 8:00PM- 4:00AM 0100-0900 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 9.475 4:00AM- 5:00AM 0900-1000 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 15.685 5:00AM- 5:00PM 1000-2200 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 9.475 5:00PM- 7:00PM 2200-0000 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 3.210 7:00PM- 4:00AM 0000-0900 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 Transmitter #2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees FREQ TIME (CT) TIME (UTC) DATES 13.845 7:00AM- 7:00PM 1300-0100 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 5.935 7:00PM- 7:00AM 0100-1300 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 13.845 7:00AM- 8:00PM 1200-0100 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 5.935 8:00PM- 7:00AM 0100-1200 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 13.845 7:00AM- 9:00PM 1200-0200 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 5.935 9:00PM- 7:00AM 0200-1200 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 13.845 7:00AM- 8:00PM 1200-0100 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 5.935 8:00PM- 7:00AM 0100-1200 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 Transmitter #3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees FREQ TIME (CT) TIME (UTC) DATES 12.160 7:00AM- 5:00PM 1300-2300 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 5.070 5:00PM- 7:00AM 2300-1300 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 12.160 7:00AM- 6:00PM 1200-2300 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 5.070 6:00PM- 7:00AM 2300-1200 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 12.160 7:00AM- 7:00PM 1200-0000 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 5.070 7:00PM- 7:00AM 0000-1200 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 12.160 7:00AM- 6:00PM 1200-2300 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 5.070 6:00PM- 7:00AM 2300-1200 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees FREQ TIME (CT) TIME (UTC) DATES 9.475 8:00AM- 4:00PM 1400-2200 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 7.435 4:00PM-11:00PM 2200-0500 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 7.560 11:00PM- 8:00AM 0500-1400 31 Mar 02-06 Apr 02 9.475 8:00AM- 5:00PM 1300-2200 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 7.435 5:00PM-11:00PM 2200-0400 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 7.560 11:00PM- 8:00AM 0400-1300 07 Apr 02-31 May 02 9.475 8:00AM- 5:00PM 1300-2200 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 7.435 5:00PM-11:00PM 2200-0400 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 7.560 11:00PM- 8:00AM 0400-1300 01 Jun 02-31 Aug 02 9.475 8:00AM- 5:00PM 1300-2200 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 7.435 5:00PM-11:00PM 2200-0400 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 7.560 11:00PM- 8:00AM 0400-1300 01 Sep 02-26 Oct 02 (via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FW: PERMIT TO LISTEN TO SHORTWAVE IN MICHIGAN? ----- Original Message ----- From: "SOAP" SOAP@Simple-Object-Access-Protocol.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,alt.law-enforcement Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:29 AM Subject: Permit to listen to shortwave in Michigan? FCC HF BROADCASTING PAGE High Frequency Broadcasting (HF) also known as Shortwave Broadcasting is a radio service licensed by the FCC to operate between 5,950 kHz and 26,100 kHz. This is an international broadcast service where transmissions are intended to be received by the general public in foreign countries. The rules applicable to this service are located in Part 73 Subpart F of the FCC Rules. http://www.fcc.gov/ib/pnd/neg/hf_web/hf.html TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES Subpart F--International Broadcast Stations Sec. 73.701 Definitions. The following definitions apply to terminology employed in this subpart: (a) International broadcasting stations. A broadcasting station employing frequencies allocated to the broadcasting service between 5,950 and 26,100 kHz, the transmissions of which are intended to be received directly by the general public in foreign countries. (A station may be authorized more than one transmitter.) There are both government and non-government international broadcasting stations; only the latter are licensed by the Commission and are subject to the rules of this subpart. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr.cgi?TITLE=47&PART=73&SECTION=701&YEAR=2001&TYPE=TEXT Does any police department in Michigan broadcast on shortwave frequencies? If not, why is the Michigan State Police concerned enough about shortwave broadcasts to require a permit to listen to shortwave broadcasts in a motor vehicle? There is no doubt that shortwave broadcasts are meant to be received by the general public. Shortwave is a form of broadcasting, just like AM/FM radio and Television, The rules for broadcasting (AM/FM/TV and Shortwave) are in Part 73 of the FCC rules Suppose you are a motorist driving on a highway in Michigan, you are pulled over for a minor moving violation, the officer asks "what radio station are you listening to?" You tell the officer that you are listening to WCMU from the Central Michigan University. http://www.cmuradio.cmich.edu/ The officer asks "do you have a permit to listen to WCMU?" You explain "Citizens don't need a permit to listen to the radio!" If the citizens of Michigan are free to listen at AM/FM radio without a permit, why do we need a permit to listen to shortwave broadcasting stations. The Michigan permit application makes several reference to a shortwave receiving set, then it makes several references to police frequencies. What is the intended goal of this permit? Shortwave radio and police radio are separate issues. The current text of this "short wave permit" has unintended consequences. Most people refer to broadcasters such as the BBC when they talk about shortwave. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ Police departments can be assigned 10 frequencies in the shortwave band under Part 90 of the FCC rules. Frequencies listed in kHz: 2366, 2382, 2390, 2406, 2430, 2442, 2450, 2458, 2482 and 2490 If I wanted to listen to police dispatches, I would use a police scanner that tunes to the VHF/UHF/800MHz frequencies listed in Part 90. I wouldn't bother with shortwave. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr.cgi?TITLE=47&PART=90&SECTION=20&YEAR=2001&TYPE=TEXT Michigan State Police MCL 750.508 Application for short wave permit in a vehicle to monitor police frequencies. I hereby make application to equip a vehicle with a short wave receiving set capable of receiving police frequencies. http://www.mpscs.com/com-022.pdf (.pdf file) (via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) No doubt the cited 120mb frequencies for police use were abandoned sesquidecades ago, but the outdated regulation may still be on the books (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. From Radio World Newspaper - http://www.rwonline.com/ AM IN-BAND, ON-CHANNEL DIGITAL RADIO SYSTEM (IBOC) DAYTIME ONLY - FOR NOW The working group of engineers evaluating the AM IBOC system of Ibiquity Digital Corp. reportedly plan to recommend that the AM system be used in this country (US) - during the day only. http://www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=1358 (via Brian Smith, ODXA Mar 22 via DXLD) Viz.: AM IBOC DAYTIME ONLY - FOR NOW The working group of engineers evaluating the AM IBOC system of Ibiquity Digital Corp. reportedly plan to recommend that the AM system be used in this country - during the day only. Members of the DAB Subcommittee of the National Radio Systems Committee have concerns about potential interference to first adjacent channels and on the skywaves transmitted by clear channel stations during nighttime operation if AM IBOC were used. "With the data we had, we could not endorse AM IBOC at night. There's too much potential for interference. There were real concerns brought on by the way AM propagates at night," said a committee member. He believed Ibiquity planned further tests for the AM system and stressed that during daytime hours IBOC AM will be a "tremendous" improvement. Most listeners could not tell IBOC AM audio apart from FM analog in tests, he said. The DAB Subcommittee plans to vote on the report at its meeting at NAB2002. At that point, it would be delivered to the FCC (Radio World online Mar 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. Upcoming specials on KCRW Santa Mónica, The Home of the Homeless: UT Wed March 27 0300-0400 Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New UT Wed March 27 2230-2300 Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday, April Fool Special [and on many other NPR stations] UT Wed March 27 2300-2400 One People, Many Voices -- Passover special (Info@KCRW March 23 via DXLD) ** U S A. W$W has long been one of my favorite PBS shows. It put Owings Mills, MD on the map. I had thought the show was essentially his [Louis Rukeyser`s] creation, from concept through production. I saw this year-old article which may have some relevance: http://www.current.org/pbs/pbs0108.html. The current dust-up can be viewed here (long URL) http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/dj/?story=/news/stories/dj/20020321/on20020321000554.htm&column=P0DFP Looks like the decision was MPT's, and complaints should be sent there. The story was first broken here: http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/tv/bal-te.to.rukeyser22mar22.story?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dheadlines The MPT website offers a comments link and also offers a discussion board at their website http://www.mpt.org/about/contact.cfm MPT, Fortune appear set to oust Rukeyser http://www.sunspot.net/bal-to.wall21mar21.story (Richard Cuff, Mar 22, swprograms via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. AWR A-02 via AUSTRIA and UAE are filed here under those respective countries, q.v. (gh) ** VIETNAM [non]. AUSTRIA(non): Voice of Vietnam via Moosbrunn A-02: 9725 MOS 100 kW/320 deg 1800-2000 English/Vietnamese/Vietnamese/ French to Eu (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. CANADA(non): A-02 schedule for Voice of Vietnam via Sackville: 6175 SAC 250 kW/212 deg 0100-0300 English/Vietnamese/Vietnamese/English to NAm 6175 SAC 250 kW/268 deg 0300-0500 Spanish/Vietnamese/Vietnamese/English to CAm (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. U K(non): A-02 schedule for Voice of Vietnam via Skelton: 9715 SKN 250 kW/150 deg 2000-2130 Russian/Vietnamese/Vietnamese to Eu (Ivo and Angel! Observer, Bulgaria, March 22 via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 7460, radio of S.A.D.R, 16 Mar, 2030-2101, SINPO 44333, in Arabic. Hard to say the exact station name: ID starts with "Idhaatu wataniya..." and ends with "...shaabi sahrawi". Probably this ID contains the Sahara state name. Songs, talks, news at 2059 (Dmitri Mezin, Kazan, Russia, Signal via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. ZBC seem to have opened another SW frequency, heard on 6175 in our mornings (Chris Hambly, Australia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [and non]. We have a short-wave radio broadcast to Zimbabwe. Now the Zimbabwe govt. have set up a station next to ours and thereby causing a heterodyne whistle. Can you tell me where I can get some good advice on how to combat this problem? Many thanks for your help Richard - Webmaster SW Radio Africa 6145 kHz on the 49m band http://www.swradioafrica.com (via Ed Janusz, via Sheldon Harvey, March 22, DXLD) VOICE OF THE PEOPLE One new transmission that I inadvertently failed to mention is a morning broadcast of Voice of the People via Madagascar which started in early March at 0330-0430 UTC on 7120 kHz. Following the result of the presidential election in Zimbabwe, Voice of the People has indicated that it intends to continue this extra transmission. The station has also opened a Web site at http://www.voxpop.co.zw/ Note that it opens with a Flash presentation that will take a while to load. If you don't have Flash or don't want to wait for it to load, point your browser at http://www.voxpop.co.zw/website/weare.html (Media Network Newsletter Mar 22 via John Norfolk, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6715-USB, Mystery Christian program in Korean continues to be heard on Fridays and Sundays. Audible in Europe between 1859v- 2018v [Sun] and on ECNA 2200v-2330v [Fri]. Reception seems to indicate a site in Europe. Kim made a few comments on the latest file I sent him: There is preaching ... Get out of here, Satan!... I pray, amen at revival service (Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX thanks Green and Savolainen, via DXLD) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KEEPING A-02 SECRET Early UT March 23, I went to the websites of major international broadcasters whose A-02 schedules have not yet appeared in DXLD (and some which have), and with only a couple exceptions no one had yet posted the A-02 schedules, tho by now they must be pretty firm. It seems stations see no need to post info until the last minute. Their loss, as some of us are in a position to give them some accurate publicity in monthly publications, or even slightly in advance of going into effect (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-046, March 21, 2002 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. 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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO #1123: (STREAM) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.ram (DOWNLOAD) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.rm (SUMMARY) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1123.html FIRST AIRINGS ON RFPI: Fri 1930, Sat 0130, 0730, 1330, 1800, 2400 on some of: 7445-AM/USB, 15039, 21815-USB NEXT AIRINGS ON WWCR: Sat 0600, Sun 0330 on 5070; Sun 0730, Mon 0100, 0600 on 3210 AIRINGS ON WORLD RADIO NETWORK: Sat 0900 rest of world, 1500 NAm DX PROGRAMS has been updated again by John Norfolk: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS I wanted to thank you for all the work that you do putting the digest together. I've recently returned to the world of shortwave listening. I have a 9 year old boy and he is finding great interest in it. I bought a DX 398 and we are having a good time. I was surprised to see all the NPR stuff in your digest, maybe it was just coincidence but the March 18th digest was the first i saw and it had 5 or so mentions of NPR. I've been there for 13 years and came to NPR as a lover of radio. I look forward to listening and checking out some of the stations in the digest. All the best (Bob Boilen, director, All Things Considered) Mr. Hauser - I must admit I sold my SWR years ago, and now regret it. Although I'm involved in broadcasting still, I miss the fun of SWR. Honestly, until I stumbled on your website tonight, I thought that there really wasn't much happening on the SW bands. I guess I was wrong! Looks like I need to turn off the computer and fire up the old radio more often. Thanks for the fun times when I was younger...and THANKS for still being around to help me revive an old hobby! (Doug Krile, Corporate Director of News and Public Relations, Equity Broadcasting Corporation, Little Rock, AR) ** AFGHANISTAN. Commando Solo update: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020320/ap_on_re_as/guard_broadcasters_1 PENGATON [SIC] RADIO LEAVES AFGHANISTAN Wed Mar 20, 6:46 AM ET By MARC LEVY, Associated Press Writer MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) - One of Afghanistan's most popular radio stations for the past few months has gone off the air. The 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard arrived home Tuesday after six months of flying day and night around Afghanistan, broadcasting messages and music to Afghans as part of the Pentagon's psychological warfare against the Taliban. "They've pretty much been on the air in the Middle East for the last several months, nonstop," said Col. Jim Lillis, the squad's vice commander, one of a couple hundred people on the guard's home tarmac at Harrisburg International Airport as the crews disembarked. Some of the crew members flew home in the same planes they flew in Operation Enduring Freedom: 40-year-old C-130s equipped with thousands of pounds of broadcasting equipment. The unit flew over 300 missions, each lasting nine hours. Its motto: "Never seen, always heard." The 10,000-watt broadcasts tried to get a wide range of messages across to Afghans who had hidden radios from the repressive Taliban. Listeners were told how to approach food drops, warned to stay indoors or away from U.S. soldiers during fighting, and assured that it was terrorists, not them, who were under attack. "We know they had radios stashed away," said Senior Master Sgt. Michael Kovach, a 46-year-old flight supervisor who has been with the unit since 1986. Some of the broadcasts were aimed squarely at the Taliban. "Attention Taliban! You are condemned. Did you know that?" one said. And another: "Our forces are armed with state-of-the-art military equipment. What are you using, obsolete and ineffective weaponry?" Afghan music was included because past missions had shown that music was a big draw to listeners. One of the songs broadcast was an old Afghan anthem that had been banned by the Taliban, Kovach said. The U.S. military's only unit of its kind, the 193rd has flown over most of the planet, from Panama to Kuwait. It has six of the specially equipped C-130s, which are capable of transmitting television broadcasts. Eventually, all will be able to relay live satellite feeds. While the radio messages, delivered in local languages, are usually broadcast from recordings, crews occasionally bring aboard a native speaker to do a live broadcast. Unit members say they were told by a number of sources in the military that the broadcasts were widely heard on the ground. Inside the planes, two huge banks of broadcast equipment mounted to steel supports loom over six swiveling seats at the controls. It seems a dreary place to spend nine hours at a time, but the unit members see their mission as a humanitarian one. "It's doing a good cause without going in and throwing things down people's throats," said Lt. Dawn Junk, a pilot. "You can do more with less." (via yahoonews via Artie Bigley, via Mike Cooper, via Sergei Sosedkin, DXLD) Now the question is: when did 8700-USB cease operation, or has it? If still heard past March 18, it`s obviously not on these planes. Now they`re back, perhaps they can fill us in on the previously classified details. The yahoo story has a head-on photo of the craft (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SITE(S)? 8700U Psyops Broadcast. After not hearing them for a few days, I thought they might be gone. Did some searching and confirmed it. This one is over (Hans Johnson, Mar 21) GUARDS RETURN HOME, Published March 19 2002 DAUPHIN CO. -- Some local Pennsylvania Air National Guard members are back home after serving six months overseas. The sixteen men and women are part of the guard's 193rd Special Operation Wing, and they were an important part of Operation Enduring Freedom. It's the moment Ralph Hall has been waiting for since September 28th. "We just heard last night that they were coming home." His son and grandson are members of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard 193rd Special Operation Wing. The wing was among the first guardsmen activated after the September 11th terrorist attacks, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. "Our role was very big," says Alan Kaylor. "What we have is a flying broadcasting television and radio station we broadcast to the people on the ground." For many of the family members that were left behind when their loved ones were called to duty say Tuesday's return was both happy and sad. "In a way it is kind of exciting because they are serving their country. I have a lot of pride over that." Ralph says that pride was always coupled with a feeling of anxiety. "There's a lot of fear and concern because they are not out of harms way. It's good to have them back." For the members of the 193rd, it is now time to get back into the old routine and catch up with family and friends. "I just can't wait to get home," say Kristen Kaylor," and have him back again." The group broadcast Afghani music interspersed with messages urging Afghans to help out the Taliban, so their country could be returned to them (WPMT TV Harrisburg, via Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. BALKH RADIO ANNOUNCES NEW BROADCAST TIME | Text of report by Afghan Balkh radio on 21 March An announcement by the Balkh Province radio and television: The Balkh Province radio and television informs all compatriots that the Balkh radio new broadcasting time will be 1800 to 2100 local time [1330 to 1630 gmt] as of tomorrow 2 of Hamal, 1381 [22 March 2002]. Source: Balkh Radio, Mazar-e Sharif, in Pashto 1330 gmt 21 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) That`s the one on 1584 kHz, I recall (gh, DXLD) ** ALASKA. HAARP: O projeto baseia-se na "injeção" de sinais eletromagnéticos na ionosfera e estudar como se comporta a área afetada por essa irradiação. Essa "injeção de sinais" na ionosfera está ocorrendo desde o dia 15 de Março e acontecerá até o dia 28 de Março. As frequencias de operação são 3200, 3300 e 5800 kHz, iniciando às 0400 UTC até às 1400 UTC. Conseguí ouví-los no dia 18 em 5800 kHz e hoje, dia 20, em 3200 kHz. O sinal não se parece com nada com que já se ouviu antes nas Ondas Curtas. Quase se assemelha a uma música, variando-se a tonalidade e o oscilamento; às vezes assemelha-se ao som gerado por alarmes de automóveis. Enviei no dia 18 um email para askhaarp@i... [truncated by yahoogroups] com um informe de recepção e um arquivo de Real Audio mostrando que os captei. Após algumas horas recebí um email de resposta agradecendo o envio de meu informe de recepção e dizendo que estavam providenciando o meu cartão QSL. Recebí o QSL full data hoje (após 2 dias) e digo....MAS QUE QSL.....lindíssimo mostrando o parque de antenas e transmissores do projeto e com todos os dados da recepção anotados no verso. V/S: Ed Ele me pediu que enviasse um QSL a ele e acabei enviando um QSL artesanal feito com um cartão postal de Long Island. Para maiores detalhes sobre o projeto HAARP visitem o site: http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/ O endereço para correspondência é: HAARP Gakona Facility, PO Box 271, Gakona, Alaska 99586, USA Tentem ouví-los no Brasil e enviem um informe de recepção. Vale a pena ter esse QSL em sua coleção (Marcelo Toníolo, Greenvale, NY (USA), JRC NRD 345, Dipolo 25 metros + MFJ959B, radioescutas via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. Radio LRA36, Base Esperanza, 15475.50 kHz, 1935-1940 Mar 19, Italian music: Eros Ramazzotti!, ID, very good signal but distorted modulation, SIO 352 (Daniele Canonica, Switzerland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Re LOL E-mail address truncated: Glenn, their e-mail is: onba@hidro.gov.ar 73 HAN, (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM. Hola Amigos de la Lista! Seguidamente, una información que quizás pueda interesar sobre una emisora pirata belga que suele escucharse regularmente por aqui en Argentina, y por ende, quizás en otras latitudes de nuestro continente. RADIO BORDERHUNTER, 15795 khz, probablemente viernes 22/3 *2300v+ sábado 23/3 *2300-0130v. domingo 24/3 *0900+ 25700 khz, sábado 23/3 *1800+ QTH: Ostra Porten 29; 44254 Ytterby, Suecia. E-mail: borderhunter@h... [truncated by yahoogroups] 73's GIB (Gabriel Iván Barerra, Argentina, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Re Coari, 5035: Glenn, Esta emissora está ativa; eu realmente só posso ouvi-la quando R. Aparecida fica off entre 2200 e 2300 UT. Normalmente só aos domingos posso fazer esta escuta, não sei se R. Aparecida tem estado fora do ar todos os dias entre 2200 e 2300 UT, vou consultar o pessoal. Um abraço (Samuel Cassio, Brazil, March 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. http://www.radios.com.br es un muy interesante sitio en el que se publica una relación de las emisoras brasileñas en AM, por orden alfabético de ciudades: http://www.radios.com.br/rela_am1.htm y en OC, por orden de frecuencia: http://www.radios.com.br/rela_ot1.htm (Gerson Luiz Carvalho, Brasil, Noticias DX Mar 19 via DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030, Radiodiffusion Nationale Du Burkina, 0611, Mar 19, Nice West African pop MX, with FF speaking M anncr. Strong signal, measured here at S9 with +10db peaks using 1/4 wave vertical. Thanks to Joe Talbot up in Red Deer, Alberta for helping me with the language (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s back on 4815, instead of 5030, around 1915 UT March 19 (Chris Hambly, Victoria, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DX LISTNEING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CHIN'S JOHNNY LOMBARDI DEAD AT 86 Well-known Toronto personality was in frail health By Caroline Grech, Toronto Star Staff Reporter CHIN Radio founder Johnny Lombardi has died after a short illness. He was 86. Giovanni Scarola, news director of CHIN television, confirmed early this morning that Lombardi died in hospital last night. "It was not a long-term illness, but his condition was frail lately," Scarola said. "He was a news pioneer," Scarola said. "When he built the station in 1966 it was a novelty. The only consolation is that he at least got to see the expansion of the station. He was there when Ottawa approved a licence for a second station last year." "He was the guy that introduced multiculturalism to Toronto," Mayor Mel Lastman told radio station CFRB this morning. "He came up with a multicultural radio and promoted it and showed people they've got to be proud of what they are and who they are." Lastman also said Lombardi was a "great big part" of the city, helping to make it what it is. Lombardi was well known for his annual Toronto CHIN picnics featuring Miss CHIN bikini contestants. The Second World War veteran and son of Italian immigrants received many accolades in his life, including the Order of Canada. Johnny Lombardi Way was named after the popular broadcaster in the Little Italy district of Toronto. He was born in Toronto. Lombardi had a lifelong love for music and learned to play the trumpet as a young man. In his 20s, he formed the Benny Palmer Orchestra. Playing lead trumpet, Lombardi's Big Band sound was heard in dance halls across southern Ontario. In 1966, his dream to own a community ethnic radio station came true with CHIN Radio, which now serves over 30 cultural communities. CHIN broadcasts in over 30 languages, to more than 30 cultural communities in Toronto and southern Ontario. CHIN's goal was to "contribute to multiculturalism by providing a forum for understanding and tolerance between people across every national, racial, and religious origin," according to CHIN's Website. In 1974, CHIN expanded into television. CHIN broadcasts 10 hours of programming each weekend on CityTV. Funeral arrangements will be announced later today. With files from Canadian Press (via Mike Brooker, March 19, NRC-AM via DXLD) TORONTO MOURNS BELOVED 'MAYOR OF LITTLE ITALY' http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?f=/stories/20020320/389906.html CHIN is, of course, on 1540 kHz. 73- (Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) ** CANADA. from http://www3.cbc.ca/sections/newsitem_redux.asp?ID=2217 TONY BURMAN NAMED EDITOR IN CHIEF CBC RADIO AND CBC TELEVISION NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS Tony Burman has been appointed Editor in Chief for CBC News and Current Affairs for CBC Television and CBC Radio, effective immediately. As Editor in Chief, Tony will serve as CBC's chief journalist in interpreting CBC journalistic policy across all English media platforms - radio, television and Internet, as well as provide journalistic leadership around major events, elections and political conventions, as well as other special journalistic projects. "Collaboration and cooperation is increasing significantly among CBC's English media services, including CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC Newsworld and CBC New Media," said Alex Frame, vice-president, CBC Radio. "As all parts of the CBC work more closely together as a team, we increase the value of our services to Canadians and further our objectives and mandate as Canada's national public broadcaster. Tony's pre-eminent position as a leader of journalistic policy, coupled with his unprecedented success recent years throughout national, regional and Newsworld news operations, makes him the ideal candidate to provide leadership to this initiative." "By having a single Editor in Chief for all of our platforms, we ensure continuity and consistency in the interpretation of our journalistic policy, and in the continued development of exceptional journalistic programming that spans all of our media lines," added Harold Redekopp, executive vice-president, CBC Television. "Under Tony's leadership, we will better align our resources, people and planning while respecting the integrity of all of our services - ensuring that each medium is able to express itself to the fullest. The goal is dual: to enhance the impact of the country's largest journalistic organization in a highly complex and fragmented media environment; and to continue to ensure that CBC exemplifies best practices in the management of a highly efficient and effective organization." For the past two years, Tony Burman has been executive director and chief journalist of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld, responsible for leading and managing all of CBC Television's news and current affairs programming. Prior to this appointment, Burman was head of CBC Newsworld for two years, where he renewed the Newsworld program schedule and refocused the network on its news roots. One of Canada's most widely-experienced journalists, Burman has held a variety of senior programming and management roles at the CBC, and has produced many award-winning news and documentary programs for both CBC Television and CBC Radio (via Ricky Leong, March 20, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. NY Daily News 3/21 WHERE THEY'VE GONE: AN 'SCTV' GUIDE Cast members' careers have stretched from H'wood to 'Oklahoma! By LANCE GOULD, Daily News Feature Writer If "SCTV" had parodied "Oklahoma!", it probably would have been renamed "Okinawa!", starred Billie Jean King and Julio Iglesias and featured cameos from Bob Hope, Merv Griffin and Jerry Lewis. As it is, the production of "Oklahoma!" opening tonight at the Gershwin Theater stars Andrea Martin, an "SCTV" veteran, and she'll be playing it relatively straight. Martin is just one of the alums of the cult Canadian sketch-comedy show who suddenly seem to be everywhere. "This is an opportunity to develop somebody with depth, and sketch comedy doesn't allow you to do that," says Martin about playing Aunt Eller in the musical. "It's not three minutes, as sketch comedy is. It's three hours. And the focus of this is not to get a laugh after each line - it's to tell the story." Martin, who was nominated for a Tony in the musical "Candide" and won the Best Featured Actress award in 1993 for her role in the Broadway musical "My Favorite Year," is best known for her work on "SCTV," particularly as Edith Prickley, the over-the-top manager of the fictional "SCTV" television station. But she wants to put Prickley's leopard-skin pillbox hat and horn-rimmed glasses well behind her. She stopped taking roles in sitcoms, hired the acting coach who helped Hilary Swank and Helen Hunt win Oscars, and focused on changing her image. Many of her "SCTV" castmates also have been undergoing career transformations. With the monster success of "American Pie," Eugene Levy has developed from a journeyman comic character actor into a star. His new TV series, "Greg the Bunny" (which starts Wednesday on Fox), is generating a media buzz. Levy also is at work on his third improv collaboration with Christopher Guest - a lampoon of folk singers. Martin Short morphs into his obese alter ego, Jiminy Glick, every Saturday in Comedy Central's "Prime Time Glick," a critical hit that began its second season last month with guest Tom Hanks. Harold Ramis has become one of the premier comedy directors in Hollywood. Ramis, who co-wrote "Animal House," also wrote and directed the Robert De Niro-Billy Crystal hit "Analyze This." The sequel, "Analyze That," starts shooting in New York in two weeks. Catherine O'Hara has co-starred in Levy's improv movies with Guest - she was the well-traveled Cookie Guggelman Fleck in "Best in Show" - and recently did a cameo with Ramis in "Orange County." Of the show's other regulars, Joe Flaherty played dads in the short- lived but critically hailed TV shows "Freaks and Geeks" and "Go Fish," and Dave Thomas was in last year's slapstick romp "Rat Race." Rick Moranis, who had a successful film career, has unofficially retired from show business. (John Candy, arguably "SCTV's" biggest star, died in 1994.) With the resurgence of many of its players' careers, interest in "SCTV" (which ran from 1976 to 1984) has risen. A long-rumored DVD project is in the works for late fall. And NBC aired old "SCTV" episodes after "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" for about a year until "Last Call With Carson Daly" started in January. When it was on the air, "SCTV" was in the shadow of its NBC stablemate "Saturday Night Live." SNL, because of its live broadcast, had an immediacy that hurt "SCTV" by comparison. "On 'SCTV'," says Short, the only regular to make the jump to SNL, "you'd write for six weeks, perform for six weeks and edit for six weeks. On 'SNL', you can be a star on Saturday night, go to the [post-show] party and enjoy your accolades - and if you don't have an idea on Sunday night, you feel like a total failure. It was more of a roller coaster." More demure than SNL, "SCTV" rarely touched on topics like sex or drugs, and it took place in the fictional town of Melonville, almost as far culturally from New York as Kabul. Still, the show was subtly dark and could offer devastating showbiz satires. "SCTV's" parody of the play "Evita!", called "Indira," featured Martin as the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and Flaherty as her adviser, yodeling country singer Slim Whitman. "We didn't have a lot of network interference," recalls Levy. "When they did have complaints, we would listen to them, nod and say 'Good point,' and then when they'd leave, we would go back to what we were doing. If they threatened to pull the plug on the show, we said, 'Let them do it.' We were young and kinda stupid." "SCTV," which was nominated for 13 writing Emmys (winning twice), is being recognized in Canada. The cast will get spots on Toronto's Walk of Fame in May, joining Wayne Gretzky, Gordon Lightfoot and other pillars of Canadian culture. "We became disproportionately large in Canada because of our notoriety," says Thomas. "We're sort of like old legends in Canada now." Adds Martin, "It truly was just to make each other laugh and have a vehicle to express ourselves. It really was just that, honestly. We had no aspirations at all that anything was going to happen." Original Publication Date: 3/21/02 (via Tom Roche, DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. Las emisoras radiales del departamento de Santander que transmitan publicidad del candidato presidencial Álvaro Uribe Vélez serán declaradas objetivos de guerra, anunció hoy el Eln. (El Tiempo, Bogotá, 20 de marzo 2002) Si las elecciones presidenciales colombianas se celebraran hoy, y no el próximo 26 de mayo, Álvaro Uribe las ganaría por abrumadora mayoría y sin necesidad de una segunda fecha de votación. Eln se refiere al Ejército de Liberación Nacional, la segunda organización guerrillera del país, y Santander es una región al nororiente de la capital Bogotá. Su capital es Bucaramanga (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. ELN THREATENS NORTE DE SANTANDER RADIOS THAT AIR PUBLICITY FOR URIBE | Text of report by Mexican news agency Notimex Bogota, 19 March: The rebel Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) has today declared all radio stations in Norte de Santander Department which broadcast publicity for presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe Velez to be military targets. "We declare to be a military target any person or element that tends to support the presidential candidacy of Alvaro Uribe and, as a result, from now on the regional radio stations are prohibited from transmitting messages which refer to that campaign," the ELN warned. According to officials from that area, the authorship of the letter is attributed to the "Armando Cacua Guerrero" front of the ELN and it was sent to radio stations in Ocana municipality, 600 km northeast of Bogota. Uribe, the favourite according to the opinion polls to win the presidential elections to be held on 26 May, has strongly criticized the peace process and has promised, should he be elected, to strengthen the security forces for his presidency. Recent opinion polls put multi-party candidate Uribe in first place with 60 per cent, followed by Horacio Serpa (Liberal) with 24 per cent and former foreign minister and independent candidate Noemi Sanin with 5 per cent. According to the ELN, the second biggest active guerrilla group in the country [after the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)], Uribe Velez's campaign "is oriented to generate more violence and war in Colombia, which spoils all intentions of finding a political way out" from 40 years of armed internal conflict. The ELN is pressing ahead with negotiations with President Andres Pastrana's administration in Havana (Cuba) in order to agree on a bilateral truce for six months, which would imply a reduction in the conflict in Colombia. The cease-fire, which could be extended, would be the first step to consolidate a peace process with the ELN, in the next government, which should take office on 7 August. Source: Notimex news agency, Mexico City, in Spanish 0102 gmt 20 Mar 02 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. Policía "silenció" emisora de las FARC BOGOTA.--- La policía antinarcóticos destruyó la "Voz de la resistencia", emisora clandestina de las FARC que tenía cubrimiento en los 42 mil kilómetros de la liquidada zona de distensión. Los equipos de transmisión de la frecuencia 660 en AM fueron localizados por la policía a 25 kilómetros del municipio de Vistahermosa, en el Meta, en plena selva de los llanos orientales. Los equipos destruidos por las autoridades fueron una torre de 23 metros, un panel solar de energía, micrófonos, una consola y una repetidora ,así como una unidad solar (CARACOL via Henrik Klemetz) DESCUBREN EMISORA DE LAS FARC Marzo 21 de 2002, Reuters Bogotá http://www.elpais.com.co/historico/mar212002/NAL/A221N3.html Una potente emisora por medio de la cual las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Farc, difundían música y mensajes revolucionarios, fue descubierta y bombardeada por la Policía Antidrogas en Vistahermosa, en el Meta. Mediante la estación, las Farc transmitían ilegalmente en amplitud modulada, frecuencia modulada y onda corta en la antigua Zona de Distensión. El director de la Policía Antinarcóticos, general Gustavo Socha, precisó que la emisora se descubrió dentro de las operaciones que se realizan para fumigar quince mil hectáreas de coca descubiertas en el antiguo enclave rebelde. Fueron destruidas una antena de 23 metros de altura, un panel solar, micrófonos, una consola, entre otros elementos (El País, Bogota, Mar 21 via Henrik Klemetz, DXLD) SE APAGÓ 'LA VOZ DE LA RESISTENCIA' Bogotá (Redacción Judicial de El Espectador, edición 21 de marzo de 2002). La central de la radioemisora clandestina de las Farc, 'La Voz de la Resistencia', fue descubierta ayer por agentes de la Policía Antinarcóticos en el municipio La Macarena, una de las cinco localidades de la antigua zona de distensión. El Director General de la institución, general Gustavo Socha Salamanca, precisó que la central de la radioemisora contaba con paneles solares, modernos equipos de transmisión y potentes antenas. ``Allí se estaban lanzando consignas, transmitiendo todas estas canciones, especialmente los vallenatos que llevan toda una serie de mensajes de los insurgentes``, afirmó Socha. Según el jefe policial, guerrilleros de las Farc coordinaban ``actividades de narcotráfico y atentados terroristas`` desde la central de comunicaciones de la radioemisora (via Henrik Klemetz, DXLD) ** CONGO. Brazzaville coming in well at 1945 UT March 19 on 5985 in French (Chris Hambly, Victoria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. (KINSHASA) 9550, Radio Okapi. In an e-veri, Dominique Jaccard at Hirondelle's main office confirmed my reception as reported in Cumbre DX Special 390.2. This for an audio file sent to the info@hirondelle.org address. She confirms that this one is indeed coming from Kinshasa with just 10 kW [so much for my relay theory :)] Ms. Jaccard adds that they had some problems with the electrical supply at first but that they are now on 24 hours (via Hans Johnson, FL, Mar 18, Cumbre DX Special via DXLD) Glenn, 9550, not Hirondelle but Fidel's Voice. Heard a French language station at 0120 UT, but was RHC's French service instead, booming into Europe with S=9 +50 dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Mar 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Havana certainly dominates 9550 here too (gh, OK, DXLD) 9550.0, R Okapi first noted here yesterday Mar 15 (but have not listened for a couple of days prior to that) 2200-2330 in USB although also listenable in AM (nothing in LSB). Nice and strong signal. Mainly local pops with ID jingles and canned anmts, no other spoken word. Is coming through with a fair signal now (0900 UT), so possibly on 24 hrs/day? (Vashek Korinek, RSA, DXplorer Mar 16 via BC-DX via DXLD) Possibly the new Congo-Kinshasa coming through weakly here at 2001 UT with distinctly Congolese-sounding mx on the clear though weak on AM synch USB side with 353D and 7030+ through the SEIII. Best on DX- Ultra antenna (Tony Ward, Canada, VE3NO, ComputerViz; NYAA StarFest on-line, Mar 16 via BC-DX via DXLD) Tnx to above info from Vashek Korinek. Tony Ward heard this one from 2123 UT, weak signal but building. Improved a bit at 2137, and got a quick preliminary "Okapi" ID at 2138, a definite one at 2146. All soul-type vocals or African vocals, with occasional quick IDs between some songs. Signal rose and fell, as did the co-channel signal from Cuba which did not sound too healthy itself. Spillover from 9555 was also a problem. Still there at 2250 as I type this, with another ID and nominally dominant on the fqy; crisp audio helps it stand out (Jerry Berg, MA, DXplorer, Mar 16 via BCDX via DXLD) ** CUBA. Chicago Sun Times columnist Robert Novak says the head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana has distributed "cheap shortwave radios" in Cuba: http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak25.html (via Kim Elliott, DC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. There was a discussion here a while back about the power output for the Radio Martí AM transmitter on 1180. A story in the current issue of Radio World confirms that they are 100 kW day and 50 kW night. The story is primarily about the recent $1.5M renovation and conversion to digital which is just being completed at their Miami studios (Patrick Griffith, Westminster, CO, USA, March 20, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DXLD) ** CUBA. Glenn, I've just received this from the Spooks group. Might be interesting to check it out. Can't do it here as it's the middle of the night! (Roger Tidy, GMT) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Kelderman" 123jimbo@bellsouth.net To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 03:53 Subject: [Spooks] RHC Hello all, Don't know if this was already noted, but I heard Radio Havana Cuba on 12165 March 10 at 0300 UT. Audio was decent. Note the frequency, our good friend V2a. The frequency is not listed on their web page either as a new Spring frequency. Would have reported earlier but computer crashed. Nathan Spooks mailing list Spooks@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations (via Roger Tidy, UK, DXLD) ** FRANCE. The La Rochelle TIS station on 25926 is being heard as late as 2130 UT; now there seems to be only one carrier instead of several. Do not hear anything on the five other frequencies previously reported (David Hodgson, TN, March 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hear his amazing 1- watt tape on WOR 1123 ** GERMANY. Berlin Nalepastraße : Do you wonder how the old headquarter of GDR radio may look today? I just found some quite distressing pictures: http://www.geocities.com/dasteil/rundfunk.htm On this occasion I also found a mention of the computer programs GDR radio used to broadcast. The simple home computers from GDR manufacturing used ordinary compact cassettes to store data. GDR radio copied such cassettes to 15 inch per second reel-to-reel tapes which were played over the air, just through the console like actual audio records. Listeners only had to record these noises on cassette to get a copy of the program. Quite bizarre, but it worked, as long as undisturbed FM reception was ensured: http://www.osterburg.org/stefan/computer.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. I had DW`s English stream on in the background and was somewhat startled to hear starting at 1501 UT Tue March 19, when I somehow expected news, a program on Deutsche Welle (pronounced as an English W) called ``Family Planning and Islam: The Gambian Approach``, apparently a co-produxion. There is a Gambia-Germany Family Planning Program in Banjul. Whew, we are fortunate that Germany is keeping down the Islamic population of Africa`s tiniest country (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. A-02 ERA-5 ERT Athens ERT S.A.: THE VOICE OF GREECE A02 SHORT WAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE Effective from 31/03/02 to 27/10/02 (00:00) UTC Service Area GMT/UTC Frequencies Languages EUROPE 0000-0350 5865 7475 Gr 0400-0600 9420 15630 Gr 0600-0650 9420 15630 Gr, Eng 0700-0800 17905 15630 Gr, Eng 0800-1000 17905 15630 Gr, Eng 1100-1200 17905 Gr 1200-1250 12105 17905 Gr 1300-1400 9420 15630 Gr 1400-1500 9420 15630 Gr 1500-1700 9420 15630 Gr 1700-1800 9420 15630 Gr 1800-1900 9420 15630 Gr 1900-2000 9420 15630 Gr 2000-2100 9420 15630 Gr 2100-2200 9375 Gr 2200-2300 9375 Gr 2300-2400 7475 9375 Gr Foreign Language Transmissions 1200-1330 15650 Gr Ar 1330-1657 12105 D Rus E R Tr Bg Sc 1700-1800 12105 AI F 1800-1900 12105 BI Eng MW 0900-1800 792 Gr Ar D Rus E R Tr 2100-2230 792 Gr 2300-2400 792 Gr TASKEND 1200-1300 15650 Gr M.EAST, INDIAN OCEAN 0000-0350 15630 Gr 0400-0600 21530 17520 Gr 0600-0700 21530 17520 Gr 0700-0800 21530 17520 Gr 1200-1430 15650 Gr Ar MW 1000-1500 1260 Gr Ar D 2200-2230 1260 Gr ATLANTIC OCEAN 0000-0400 7475 9420 Gr 0400-0600 9420 15630 Gr 0600-0700 15630 9420 Gr 0700-1000 15630 17905 Gr 1100-1300 17905 Gr 1300-2050 15630 Gr 2100-2400 9375 Gr AFRICA 0000-0357 9420 Gr 2300-2400 12110 Gr JAPAN, PACIFIC OCEAN 0600-0800 15190 Gr AUSTRALIA 0000-0350 15630 Gr 0400-0800 17520 21530 Gr 0600-0800 15190 Gr 1200-1330 15650 Gr Ar 2100-2257 9420 12110 Gr 2300-2400 15650 Gr NORTH AMERICA 0000-0350 7475 Gr 1200-1500 9590 Gr 1600-2200 17705 Gr SOUTH AMERICA, PANAMA ZONE & SW AFRICA 0000-0357 9420 Gr 2000-2200 17565 Gr 2300-2400 12110 Gr (1) Gr=Greek, Eng= English, Al= Albanian, Ar=Arabian, Bg= Bulgarian, F=French, E= Spanish, I=Italian Pl=Polish, P=Portuguese, R=Romanian, Rus= Russian, S= Swedish, Sc= Serbocroatian, Tr=Turkish LIVE AUDIO URL: http://www.ert.gr Reports via e-mail: era5@ert.gr. Technical information: bcharalabopoulos@ert.gr ERT S.A. MACEDONIA STATION EUROPE 1100-1550 11595 EUROPE 1600-2250 9935 ERA 5 'THE VOICE OF GREECE' Messogion 432,15342, Ag. Paraskevi Attikis, Tel +301 6066308, 6066297, Fax +301 6066309 Macedonia Radio Station: Angelaki Str 2, 54621 Tel: +3031244979, Fax: +3031 236370 General Direction of E.RA (Engineering Div.): Messogeion 432, 15342, Ag. Paraskevi Attikis. Tel 301 606 6257, Fax +301 606 6243 (ERA-5 Greece, via WWDXC Germany, Mar 20 via DXLD) Note strange new frequency 17905, in the aero band carefully avoided by most broadcasters; will it really happen? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DXLD) ** HUNGARY. Hola; Es con mucha ilusión que te pongo la siguiente información llegada desde unos minudos por parte de Radio Budapest. El nuevo 'schedule' en vigor del 31 de marzo 2002 de Radio Budapest incluye después 10 años de silencio emisiones en italiano, francés y español juntas a los otros idiomas. Es un éxito de la Conferencia EDXC del año pasado que esperaba hace unos meses. Espero que muchos oyentes de habla castellana puedan sintonizar a Radio Budapest en los siguientes horarios (español, 31.03-27.10.2002): 2045-2100 UT 6025 6145 2145-2200 UT 6025 11885 La emisión española inicia al término del informativo en italiano. Hay también algo de personal en esta emisión. Paolo y yo hemos participado a dos emisiones extraordinarias de Radio Buadpest en italiano em 1997 y 1999 y por fin llegamos a cumplir el sueño de una renovada emisión en idiomas latinos desde Hungría. 73's desde Florencia, (Luigi Cobisi, Secretario General del EDXC, Noticias DX March 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DXLD) Otras informaciones en el portal: http://edxc.multimania.com Radio Budapest, A-02 (31/03/2002 - 26/10/2002) English 0100-0130 9560 NAm English 0230-0300 9570 NAm English 1900-1930 6025 7130 Eur English 2100-2130 3975 6025 Eur (via Andreas Volk via WB, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DXLD) ** INDIA. (01/03/2002) India is another vast nation adopting the Eureka 147 system as the future of radio. The public broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) started regular experimental DAB transmission in New Delhi in April 1997. In a major initiative, AIR plans to launch regular DAB services in the country by the end of this year. Although the government has already given in-principle the go-ahead to AIR for initiating action on DAB, the project is subject to approval of the Tenth Plan, which is in the process of being finalised. To begin with, the DAB service, which is meant for all four metro cities (Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai), will only be available in Delhi. Six stereo channels are being planned for the Capital. The remaining three metros will receive DAB only in the second phase. The current challenge for India therefore is to bring receiver prices down to a realistic level for the price-sensitive Indian consumer. For that, AIR is in talks with UK-based manufacturers of DAB sets, one of which is expected to tie up with radio manufacturers in India for making DAB-enabled sets in the country. It is expected that sets manufactured in India will cost much less than the imported ones. (source unknown via Ardic DX Club via dx_india March 20 via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. Glenn, I'm listening to RRI Indonesia online with English at 2030. Probably started at 2000. Some real "hurtin' music" right now! (Ivan Grishin, Ont., March 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1123, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also check for English webcast hours at 0100, 0800 as on SW (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, I only checked one time around 0100 this week (I think it was UT Tuesday) and they were not in English (sounded like Indonesian) but I'll make a point to check again. If you listened just before 1300 when they "sign-off", you will hear what I assume is the Indonesian national anthem, but they really do need a new tape of it, the one I heard this morning was just awful. They also keep the link up when they are off the air 1300-1730, but nothing is heard, other than some occasional test tones. Later: VOI is in English 0100 tonight [UT Mar 22]. Another example of a difficult accent to listen to. I had to pay close attention to the female newscaster. But it's still fun to listen, having very seldom heard them on SW. 73, (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. I would regret the failure of XM and/or Sirius. They provide vehicles for programming and formats that would not be viable on local radio stations. An audience of 0.1% in any Metro area is not worth bothering with, but 0.1% percent of the entire country could sustain a radio channel. The satellite radio services might have to look at (probably already have looked at) alternate business plans. One would be to drop the subscription fee altogether. The channels would be supported by advertising. Commercial radio is necessarily awful, especially if the amount of time devoted to ads is [not] kept within reasonable limits. At first, the numbers of XM and Sirius users would not attract advertisers. But, if the number of people signing up for satellite radio increases because it's free, the higher numbers will bring down the price of receivers and attract even more users. Another business plan is to make money by selling channel access to radio stations (or "radio stations") and program makers. Of course, when the program makers pay for access, rather than the satellites companies paying for the programming, much of the content will be very poor quality and perhaps even objectionable. But it might keep the satellite companies in business. The satellite radio companies could also function like a nationwide satellite SCA service. Each channel would be a pay radio channel. If you want old time radio 24 hours a day and are willing to pay for it, this service could provide it. Ditto Polka. Ditto computer talk. Ditto UFOs. Etc. Speaking for ke and not for voa/ibb/bbg/usg (Kim Andrew Elliott, DC, March 20, swprograms via DXLD) ** IRAN. CLOCKS TO MOVE FORWARD BY AN HOUR FROM MIDNIGHT 21 MARCH | Text of report by Iranian radio on 19 March The country's summer time will begin from 2400 on 1 Farvardin [2030 gmt 21 March], as the clocks are moved forward by one hour. In view of this change of time, the news on the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran [radio] will be broadcast at 2100 from Friday 2 Farvardin [1630 gmt 22 March]. Source: Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, in Persian 1630 gmt 19 Mar 02 (via BBCM via WOR 1123, DXLD) But this traditionally has little if any effect on foreign language broadcasts (gh, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. See LITHUANIA ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel cuts. Some new info: On March 20 the IBA Director of Finance sent a letter to Bezeq (countersigned by Director of Radio - Amnon Nadav) instructing them to cease shortwave transmission of Reshet Hei on March 31. Bezeq intends to interpret this literally but in the IBA there is confusion about what is Reshet Hei. For instance the IBA does not intend to include Persian but it is on Reshet hei (the confusion arises because administratively, salaries etc, it is with Reshet Dalet). English is on Reshet Alef and the IBA thinks this will be included. The matter comes up in the Knesset next week and the IBA is trying to force the issue. -- I've been told that this information will be in tomorrow's Jerusalem Post -- which would be available on the Internet this evening Eastern Time. I'll try to send the link when it comes in (Daniel Rosenzweig, March 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAMAICA. Hot off the press, here's what I did and didn't hear via saltwater daytime groundwave. No Jamaicans heard on: 560, 620, 750, 850, 1090. Jamaicans are broadcasting over 550, 580, 700, 720, 770. Quite some time ago I was asked by someone on the list about if 770 was in use in Jamaica. It is. I made a mini feature of this on tape. I don't ever recall logging any Jamaicans during the day offshore from W. Palm Beach and vicinity (Ron Gitschier, m/m, March 20, NRC-AM via DXLD) Re: ``From W Fla, a couple of Mexican stations can be heard during the day. Several years ago I could hear Jamaica-700 during the day from Jupiter, in very northernmost Palm Beach County, and of course ZNS on 3 frequencies, but when I was last there Jamaica was not heard.`` I was unclear in this posting. In 1992, my first visit to my (now -ex) mother in law in Jupiter, FL, I could 'easily' hear Jamaica 700 all day long, in summer conditions. Recent rechecks from the same area show no sign of their signal during the day. However I did not mean to imply the station was silent. In fact 700 and 720 are the only two Jamaican signals I hear regularly from Tampa, however only at night. The 700 daytime signal then was quite weak, of course, about s-1 and I had to go to Carlin Park (low noise level) to hear it. I have no idea what changed in this situation. I'll try to get back someday with a better receiver and loop and re-check it. It should be there at some low level (Bob Foxworth, FL, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. 7590, Tomorrow`s News Today at *1959-2010, 35333, English, 1959 s-on with Opening music. ID. News. Thanks for tip from Iwao Nagatani via Japan Premium No. 201 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium Mar 5) Obviously via Sitkunai, Lithuania (Wolfgang Büschel) Sitkunai operational schedule A02 season: 0000-0100 11690 310 100 RV Daily Lith.(30')/English(30') 0800-0900 9710 79 50 FBN Sat English 0900-1000 9710 259 100 RV Daily Lith.(30')/English(30') 1300-1400 9710 259 100 UL Sun German 2000-2030 7590 259 100 TNT Mo-Fri English 2300-2400 9875 310 100 RV Daily Lith.(30')/English(30') RV - R Vilnius (Foreign Service of Lithuanian Public Radio) FBN - Fundamental Bcing Network [no longer occasional tests? --gh] UL - Universelles Leben TNT - Tomorrow's News Today (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, BC-DX Mar 15) BC-DX has received information from a good source that R Barabari [IRAN clandestine] 7480 after a number of test transmissions is currently being relayed via Sitkunai, Lithuania (Wolfgang Büschel, BC- DX via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Those considering a reception report to this Mexican [on 660 heard during WFAN downtime], or any other by that name, may want to start with spelling it right. LA CONSENTIDA. I`ve always thought it a strange name for a radio station; perhaps David Gleason would explain what it means/connotes. Another tip: Spanish words, with the exception of occasional proper names, do not have double-S. So it`s Radio Progreso, not Progresso. 73, (Glenn Hauser, NRC-AM via DXLD) Literally, "the spoiled one" In Spanish, it means, sort of, a station that indulges or spoils or satisfies you. It is not a term that has a true English direct translation. Another good reminder would be that most Latin American stations don't use or care about their call letters. And "Progresso" with two "s" is an Italian soup brand (David Gleason, CA, ibid.) I wonder then if the "no, no, no, no, no!" after the slogan might be similar to the English phrases "Allow me!" or "Sit down! I'll take care of that!" or "Your money's no good here" or the like? (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, ibid.) I think that it means a girlfriend or favorite girl (Kevin Redding, Mesa, Arizona, ibid.) Means "the Spoiled one" as in one who is "mimada" or showered with attention. No direct translation; idiomatic expression (Gleason, ibid.) Dave, I can't disagree with your translation, but interestingly all the people I work with say that it`s a favorite girlfriend. Where I work, we build jet engines and turbine engine parts. Almost everyone there is from northern Mexico. Almost 100% have told me that the translation is close to "favorite girlfriend." I would say that most come from Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Zacatecas. I guess it`s another case of Spanish being different from place to place. Perhaps it depends on the context in which the term is used (Kevin Redding, Mesa, Arizona, ibid.) It sounds to me as if the girlfriend of favorite girl can easily become the spoiled one. Both definitions, thus, make sense, heh heh! (Qal R. Mann, Qo Median, Krum TX, ibid.) As Kevin rightly said, usage is very geography dependent; his definition is also within the general meaning... Most fun I had was trying to explain to a non-Hispanic GM that "Qué Buena" was not a catcall (Gleason, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. Burmese Military Station: I checked 6570, after reading Adrian's report and I found that the station which was so strong a few months back is very weak now, BUT it is there. On my 40 mb two element yagi which is beaming towards Japan, I can hear it 1330-1600 with Burmese programming. On my long wire antennas it is barely audible, thanks also to the hash on the band. Best reception for me is when we have electricity cuts!! (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, 4S7VK, DXplorer Mar 12 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Glenn, Sounds Historical on RNZI is now 0806-1000 Sundays all on 11675. 73, (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Here's a link to an obituary in the Daily Telegraph of the NZ composer Douglas Lilburn (cf DXLD 2-043): http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/06/22/db04.xml I first discovered Lilburn back in the mid-late Eighties, when I ran across an LP of New Zealand contemporary music which included his Aotearoa overture. It's a very nice piece, and would have some themes which would do nicely as linking music on RNZI broadcasts. Unfortunately, I've run across virtually nothing else by Lilburn in subsequent years, especially in the CD era. And here's a link to the Lilburn obituary in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4221766,00.html 73- (Bill Westenhaver, DXLD) ** NIGERIA. The Voice of Nigeria has commissioned new studios... http://allafrica.com/stories/200203200057.html And the VON director and houseguests were robbed...
