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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Shortwave frequency updates

All times UTC

Voice of America
via Botswana and Sao Tome
Hausa service
0700-0730 new freq 11985 SAO 100 kW non-dir, x11785 to avoid China Radio Intl in English
0700-0730 new freq 13775 BOT 100 kW 010 deg, x17490 to avoid China Radio Intl in English
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Feb 19/ DX Mix News #508 2 Feb. 08

Amharic
1800-1900 new freq 9530 UDO 250 kW 276 deg, x11575

Finland
Additional transmissions for Brother Stair TOM in English from Feb.19:
1500-1700 9595 POR 250 kW 160 deg to SoEaEu/ME
1900-2100 6060#POR 250 kW 220 deg to SoEu/NoAf,
# co-ch VOR in Aracic till 2000 and RFA in Korean
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Feb 19) Also more six hours service of IBB via Pori-FIN planned in A-08, 250 kW, towards NE/ME tinderbox. (wb)

Thailand
Frequency changes for Radio Thailand:
1130-1145 new freq 6030 UDO 250 kW 030 deg, x6040 in Lao
1145-1200 new freq 6030 UDO 250 kW 284 deg, x6040 in Burmese.

United Kingdom
U.K. KBS World Radio in Arabic to NoAF:
1900-2000 new freq 5935*SKN 300 kW 180 deg, x7180 RMP to avoid CRI in French *strong co-ch Polish Radio External Service in Russian & Ukrainian via DTK.

BBC
Vietnamese Mon-Fri:
2300-2330 new freq 6080 SNG 250 kW 013 deg, x6100 to avoid CRI in Portuguese
(Source: R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Feb 19/ DX Mix News #508 2 Feb. 08 via wb, Germany & Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)