Shortwave News on DVD

Digital Reprint of all Editions ever published from 1957-2015

The "Danish Short Wave Club International" (DSWCI) was founded in November 1956 and is one of the most traditional and by far the most international club for radio enthusiasts worldwide. Since January 1957 the club publishes the regular magazine "Shortwave News" which for decades now is a unique source of information due to a most international network of correspondents and monitors worldwide.

From 1957 to 2000 "Shortwave News" was published a monthly basis, and after that every sixth week. In 1957 and 1958 the magazine was published in Danish and from 1957 to 1969 two different editions were distributed: "Shortwave News" in English and "Kortbolge Nyt" in Danish. Since January1970 the magazine is exclusively in English language.

The DSWCI decided its last Annual General Meeting in 2015 to close the club at the end of 2016. But it was agreed that everything ever published from the DSWCI should also be available for future generations of radio enthusiasts:

A unique blend of accurate news, reports and background information which was only possible with the great support of countless people during thepast almost six decades.

During the last years we got access to every edition of "Shortwave News" and"Kortbolge Nyt" ever published. The magazines were scanned, digitized and processed with an OCR software. The work is finished and therefore we now can offer a DVD with almost 60 years of radio-history and club-history
of the DSWCI.

DSWCI and ADDX in Germany offer this DVD to anyone interested:

Price: 49 Euro! (incl. shipment worldwide via Airmail)

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(Michael Schmitz-D)

AS long as the DSWCI website exists, you may also download from
"Shortwave News SWN DVD" 17 sample editions of SWN from 1957 to 2002
years free of charge.
(Rolf Wernli-SUI, dswci DXW Dec 23)

New Domestic Broadcast Survey Released

The 53 years old DSWCI which counts experienced DX-ers in 33 countries all over the world as members, has just issued the 12th Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey, edited by Anker Petersen. This survey is divided into three parts:

Part 1: The 38th edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestines.

Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience.

Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear.

This new Survey is based upon many official sources and DX-bulletins. A10 schedules are included when available.

In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period May 2009 – March 2010, if each of the 900 station frequencies is on the air. ACTIVE stations are marked with an A (”Regular”), B (”Irregular”) or C (”Sporadic”) in the list. D means ”Likely inactive”.

A unique feature is the right column called ”Last log”. It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2010 when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3.

Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.

Three sample extracts from the DBS-12 are shown the next page. Reviews can be found on http://www.dswci.org/

All buyers of DBS-12 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as "Tropical Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar data from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 are available at www.dswci.org/tbm to anybody.

The 28 pages A-4 size DBS-12 is available by e-mail as pdf-format (about 365 KB). A limited number is also available printed on paper. Since the clandestines are not included any longer above 5700 kHz, the prices have been reduced.

It is sold by the treasurer:

DSWCI,
c/o Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK 3500 Vaerloese, DENMARK

E-Mail edition: DKK 35,00 or USD 7.00 or EUR 5,00 or GBP 4,00 or SEK 50,00 or IRC 4.

Printed edition: DKK 65,00 or USD 12.00 or EUR 9,00 or GBP 8,00 or SEK 90,00 or IRC 7.

Payment by cash notes are accepted whereas checks and postal money orders are not accepted.

DSWCI Bank is Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, DK-1092 Copenhagen K.

BIC/SWIFT : DABADKKK. IBAN: DK 44 3000 4001 528459.

Danish buyers please use: Reg. 3001- konto 4001528459.

If you have EURO as national currency, you are advised to pay to our representative in Germany, Andreas Schmid.

If you want to pay via PAYPAL, please unconditionally contact Andreas Schmid for information.

Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany.

Account 2912472076 at Citibank BLZ: 30020900. BIC: CIPRDEDD. IBAN: DE24300209002912472076 .
(Anker Petersen)

look for a review in the future from Monitoring Times.

Gayle Van Horn

Trends in Tropical Bands broadcasting 2008

Special thanks to Anker Petersen, editor of DSWC International newsletter DX Window, for sharing the following feature with the Shortwave Central blog readers.
Gayle VanHorn

Trends in Tropical Bands broadcasting 2008
by Anker Petersen
Since 1973 the Danish Shortwave Club International has published an annual publication which first covered the frequency range of 2.200 to 5.800 kHz and was called the "Tropical Bands Survey". But since 1999 I expanded it as editor to cover all Domestic broadcasting stations on shortwave from 2.200 kHz till 30 MHz. That is now called the Domestic Broadcasting Survey - the DBS- and it is popular worldwide among hard-core DX-ers. Our latest edition was published in April 2008.

The task for the editor of the DBS is, throughout the year until the next publication, to check the bands himself and follow the loggings from our members and other DX-ers around the world. For each station in the list, a note is taken of the months when it has been heard. If a station has not been heard by any DX-er during the past 12 months, it is deleted. By this measure, the DBS contains only the active domestic broadcasting stations.

With this systematic registration of broadcasting stations on the Tropical Bands each year, it is possible to make some statistics on how many frequencies were active in each region of the world and compare these numbers.

I have selected the Tropical Bands Surveys published with 12 years intervals in 1973, 1985 and 1997, and the Domestic Broadcasting Surveys from 2003 and 2008. For each of these five years I have then counted the number of active Domestic Broadcasting stations between 2.200 and 5.800 kHz. International broadcasters, Clandestine and Pirate stations are not included in these statistics.


Active domestic transmitters on 2200 – 5800 kHz

Region 1973 1985 1997 2003 2008

Central Africa 102 76 40 26 17
Southern Africa 57 39 33 9 8
Middle East 9 4 1 0 0

Indian Subcontinent 62 45 45 36 31
South East Asia 40 29 21 7 4
Indonesia 171 105 65 19 14

China, Taiwan, Mongolia 119 110 75 44 32
CIS (former USSR) 61 59 47 21 5
Far East 38 28 28 17 9

Papua New Guinea 17 20 20 20 16
Australia and other Pacific 10 4 13 7 12

Central America, Mexico 21 23 24 17 6
Caribbean 29 3 3 4 2
Northwestern South America 98 41 19 5 3

Ecuador 47 33 22 13 8
Peru 78 69 78 53 33
Bolivia 35 42 25 15 18

Brazil 107 87 67 50 40
Southern South America 5 2 1 0 0

Total 1106 819 627 363 258

We are approaching the end of the Era of Domestic broadcasting on the Tropical Bands for two main reasons: The technical standard of a large part of the transmitters in the tropical countries is poor and they cannot be repaired for economical reasons. In more developed countries the domestic shortwave transmitters are being replaced by FM- and Internet-networks. The trend above is clear: The falling trend continues and has become more steep during the past year.

The average number of closed domestic stations per year during 1997-2003 was 44 whereas it was only 14 during 2003-2007. But a total of 49 have left the bands during the past 12 months! If that pessimistic trend continues, the end of domestic broadcasting on the Tropical Bands may appear already in year 2014! A more realistic closure is around 2021.

Countries like Brazil, Peru, China, India, Bolivia and Papua New Guinea are still dominating the Tropical Bands.

Stations on the Tropical Bands which have closed down in 2006-2007, including International stations and Clandestines.

kHz kW Station Country Last log

2371 - Minsk utility station (USB) Belarus APR06
2390 0,5 R Huayacocotla, Veracruz Mexico JAN06
2460 1 Super R Alvorada, R. Branco, AC Brazil SEP07
2490 1,6 R 8 de Setembro,Descalvado, S. Paulo Brazil APR06
3215 10 RRI Manado, CN Indonesia FEB07
3220 - KCBS, Hamhung, Bangsong North Korea JAN07
3231,8 10 RRI Bukittinggi, SW Indonesia JAN06
3270 100 WWRB, Manchester, Tennessee USA APR06
3306 - ZBC, Guineafowl, Gweru Zimbabwe JUN06
3344,6 0,5 R Ayopaya, Independencia, Cochabm. Bolivia FEB06
3375 10 R Western Highlands, Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea JAN06
3385 1 R Guarujá Paulista, Guarujá, SP Brazil SEP07
3815 0,2 Kalaalit Nunaata R, via Tasiilaq(USB) Greenland MAR07
3930 - R Voice of Komala, via No. Iraq Clandestine APR06
3955 100 Voice of Russia, Vladivostok Russia JAN06
3960,1 10 RRI Palu, Tondo, CC Indonesia JAN06
3970 - Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, No. Iraq Clandestine FEB07
3980 100 R Liberty, via Biblis Germany MAR06
3985 250 VOIRI, Ahwaz Iran MAR06
4030 - Voice of the Struggle of Iranian Kurdistan Clandestine JAN07
4394,5 - Onda Cero R (USB), Madrid-Spurious Spain DEC07
4620,5 - R Espacial, Otuzco, La Libertad Peru JAN07
4728,2 - R Aripalca, Aripalca, Nor Chichas Bolivia FEB07
4760 100 R Liberty via Yangiyul Tajikistan FEB06
4761,7 - R Guanay, Guanay, La Paz Bolivia FEB06
4839,9 15 Heilongjiang PBS, Shangzhi, Heilongjiang China PPPPP
4855 - Minsk utility station (USB) Belarus JAN06
4874,6 10 RRI Sorong, PP Indonesia MAR07
4875 100 R Hara, via Dusheti Georgia FEB06
4890 250 R France International, Moyabi Gabon JAN06
4890 40 NBC, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea JUL07
4890,1 - R Macedonia, Arequipa Peru JAN06
4890,4 1 R Chota, Chota, Cajamarca Peru JAN07
4900 50 AIR Guwahati A, Assam India MAR07
4915 50 GBC, Accra Ghana NOV06
4925 0,5 R Difusora, Taubaté, SP Brazil JAN07
4960 50 AIR Ranchi, Jharkhand India MAR07
4995 100 R Liberty via Yangiyul Tajikistan FEB06
5010 1 HRMI, La Voz de Misiones Int. Honduras APR07
5015 1 R Pioneira, Teresina, PI Brazil FEB07
5026 10 R Uganda, Kampala Uganda MAR07
5035 100 R Centrafricaine, Bangui-Bimbo Central African Republic JAN06
5035 500 WEWN, Vandiver, Alabama USA MAY06
5040 - Hrvatski R, Deanovec, Spurious Croatia JUL07
5135 1 R Amazonas, Pt. Ayacucho, Orinoco Venezuela APR07
5323,7 - La Voz del Alta, Acobamba Peru FEB07
5420 50 Voice of Minorities, Beijing China FEB07
5500 - Voice of Peace & Democracy of Eritrea Clandestine JAN06
5500 10 Voice of the Tigray Revolution Ethiopia DEC06
5699,8 - R Triple SH, San Ignacio, Cajamarca Peru FEB06
5699,8 0,15 R Frecuencia, San Ignacio, Cajamarca Peru JAN07
(Anker Petersen, Denmark)

Nostalgic look at DX Window

Denmark
9520 History. First. From Nov 1967 till Dec 1969 the DX-Window was broadcast 113 times in English by "Radio Denmark Shortwave" each Sunday on 9520 kHz. Producer of the 20 minute programme was the famous Christian Flagstad with Torre Ekblom, Kaj Bredahl Jorgensen and yours truly as regular contributors. The secretary of the English Section, Mrs Susanne Jackson, often assisted us in reading our tips. She issued more than 3,000 QSLs on these programmes! Unfortunately R Denmark ceased its broadcasting in foreign languages by the end of 1969. A Memory Card was issued and requested by 197 DX-listeners.

Second. From Oct 1987 till Sep 1994, the DX-Window continued as a printed newsletter, edited monthly or every second week with a total of 151 editions by the late German member, Bernhard Gruendl, and two Dutch members Hans van den Boogert and Wian Stienstra.

Third. From Feb 1996 til May 1999, Finn Krone and several other members as co-editors around the world on shift introduced the DX-Window as a free newsletter by e-mail, distributed by Claus Pedersen. A total of 168 editions were issued.

Fourth. When I retired in May 2001, the digital "DX-Window" was revived with edition no. 169 as a fortnightly newsletter issued to DSWCI-members at the same time as SWN changed from being published each month to every sixth week. This edition No. 350 is distributed to 168 DSWCI-members by e-mail. In addition several members read it in the Member Area at where our Swiss webmaster Rolf Wernli uploads it every time. Furthermore a summary of its content is used in DX-Mirror inShortwave News, edited by our Russian member Dmitry Mezin.
(Anker Petersen-DEN, dswci DXW May 14)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX # 861 via wb, Germany)

For more information on DX Window and the Danish Shortwave Club International, please refer to: http://www.dswci.org/

A Closer Look at DX Window

The DX-Window is a bi-weekly electronic newsletter made for members of the Danish Shortwave Club International. Its content is mainly based upon loggings and other information from our own members, but in a few cases extraordinary news from other DX-ers are included. Thus we depend on YOUR contributions which should be sent to the editor. Please use our format and add your last name in brackets after each item. All times are UTC and frequencies in kilohertz.

The DX-Window primarily deals with news and loggings of rare shortwave broadcasting stations, particularly domestic services. It must be news compared to our latest Domestic Broadcasting Survey. The editor is free to ”cut hard” and bring only the hottest items, he receives. Ordinary loggings mentioned in the latest edition of the DX-Window will normally not be mentioned next time. Because of that, please check the latest two editions when you are DX-ing!

Reproduction of single items from the DX-Window is allowed, provided that due credit is given to the contributor and to the DX-Window.

The DX-Window is distributed in three versions:

A) By e-mail as an attachment in rtf-format with all original graphics, or
B) as a large e-mail in .txt-format where the graphics may be missing, but with no attachment.
C) Can be downloaded from our website http://www.dswci.org/members/index.html .
You can get your copy changed to another version at any time, or unsubscribe, just by telling the distributor.

Loggings or schedules of regularly heard stations should NOT be sent to the DX Window. Such loggings can be sent to the SW tips editor Klaus-Dieter Scholz at logs@directbox.com . Schedules are welcomed by the editor of World News, Noel R. Green at http://www.dswci.org/members/contact/contact_noel.html

To learn more about the Danish Shortwave Club International, visit:

http://www.dswci.org/

Danish SW Club International updates website

From Rolf Wernli, come news of the recent website update from the Danish Shortwave Club International.

The homepage of DSWCI is located at: http://www.dswci.org/news

direct link:
http://www.dswci.org/news/2008/0802/emwg_contest.html
(Source: Rolf Wernli webmaster@dswci.org

50th Anniversary bulletin available

Rolf Wernli webmaster@dswci.org webmaster for the Danish Shortwave Club International (DSWCI) informs us that a copy of their 50th Anniversary issue bulletin of Shortwave News is available for a free download from the club's website at: http://www.dscwi.org/news/2007/0712/try.html (non memebers only). If you are looking for a truly international club with a good PDF bulletin and a bi-weekly electronic tip sheet similar to the is also available for viewing.
(NASWA Notes, via NASWA Journal, Feb. 2008)

Blog Logs - Clandestines

5975, Sudan Radio Service, via Dhabbaya, 0303-0308, Jan 14, English news programme, ID: "you are listening SRS", strong, SINPO 44444. (Bobrowiec)

6280, Xi Wang Zhi Sheng (Sound of Hope), via Taiwan (t), 2200-2202, Jan 18, Chinese talk, SINPO 22542. (Romero)

7280, Sudan Radio Service, via Dhabbaya, 0411-0423, Jan 09, Arabic talks, many mentions of “Sudan”, African type music, more talks, SINPO 44444. (Bobrowiec)

9525, Cotton Tree News, Freetown, via Ascension, 0735-0742, Jan 22, talk in African Vernacular, SINPO 45444. (Romero)

7510, Free North Korea Radio, now via Yerevan, Armenia (300 kW 065 degrees), 2000-2030 in Korean to North Korea, ex via Novosibirsk, Russia. Broker: VT Communications. (Ivanov via BC-DX and Gupta Feb 04)

15260, Hmong Lao Radio, via Taiwan (100 kW, 250 degrees), Th/Su 0100-0200 in Hmong to Asia. Broker: TDP. Ex We/Fr via VT Communications. (Ivanov via BC-DX and Gupta, Jan 28)

15260, Hmong World Christian Radio, via Taiwan (100 kW, 250 degrees), Sa 0100-0200 in Hmong to Asia. Broker TDP. Ex Mo/We/Fr via VT Communications. (Ivanov via BC-DX and Gupta, Jan 28)

6300, National Raido of Sahara Arab Dem. Rep., Rabouni, 2238-2305, Jan 24, Arabic ann alternating interesting Arab music type (some with long instrumental pieces alternating singer), 2301 talks with music. 23433. (Bobrowiec)

9630, North Korea Reform Radio, via Taiwan (100 kW, 002 degrees), new station from Dec 24, 1200-1230 in Korean. (Ivanov, via BC-DX and Gupta, Jan 09)

9955, La Rosa de Tokio, via WRMI, 2315-2330, 14 Jan, Spanish mainly about broadcasts from the former communist countries, fair. (Korinek). Jeff White of WRMI told me in Lugano that this broadcast is directed towards Latin America, so it is very difficult to hear in Europe. (Petersen)

9825, Miraya FM, Juba, Sudan, via Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia, 1508-1756, Jan 22 and 24, news in English and ID. After the news there was programming in what they call simple Arabic, ann schedule, mentioned "Sudan", local music, 23222. (Bobrowiec, and Johnson via DX Tuner Sweden)

7510, Open Radio for North Korea, now via Yerevan (300 kW, 065 degrees), daily 2100-2200 in Korean to North Korea, ex 1100-1200 on 9930 via KWHR, Hawaii. Broker: VT Communications. (Ivanov via BC-DX and Gupta Feb 04)

4450, Pyongyang Branch of the National Democatic Front, 1130-1145, Jan 25, nationalistic type singing, signal was at a fair level. (Bolland)

9950, Radio Free Chosun, via Yerevan (300 kW, 065 degrees), 1200-1300 in Korean to North Korea, ex via Novosibirsk. Broker: VT Communications. (Ivanov, via BC-DX and Gupta Feb 04)

5815, Radio Racja, via Sitkunai, 1648-1655, Jan 27, Belarusian talk and listeners comments, music, SINPO 33343. (Romero)

11610, Radio Voice of the People via Meyerton, 1744-1755*, Jan 06, reports about the agricultural disaster in Zimbabwe, drum music and other news features about Zimbabwe in English. Plenty of IDs and gave postal and e-mail addresses at sign off. Fair. (D'Angelo)

15265, Radio do Solh, via UK, 1346-1500*, Jan 10 and 14, Vernacular news, talks and music, enters another month and another year still playing exactly the same music every day at the same time, including the sticking CD. The final tune before 1500* is growing on me. Yes, it is not only the same music, but obviously a recording of the same entire transmission, including defects, replayed day after day. (Hauser and Korinek)

15340/15400/15530/17660, Radio Mustaqbal, all cancelled from Jan 02. (Ivanov via BC-DX and Gupta, Jan 09)

5985, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (JSR), via Yamata, Japan, *1400-1430*, Fr Feb 01, in English, piano IS, request for information about abductees, gives e-mail address, mailing address and three phone numbers (depending on where one is calling from), program "News on North Korea Issues", reading news items from Associated Press, NHK, etc., this must have been a repeat of an earlier program as the items were all dated from Jan 14-19, IDs "This is Shiokaze SeaBreeze from Tokyo, Japan", the very last ID give at 1429:30 was "This is JSR, Shiokaze Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan", piano IS till off, fair. (Howard)

4880, SW Radio Africa, Meyerton, 1704-1845, Sa and Su Jan 26 and 27, English to Zimbabwe, talks about the country's issues, SINPO 53433, QRM from Zimbabwean jammer and number station; usually somewhat better. No music jammer noted Mo Jan 28. (Bernardini, Gonçalves, Gupta and Liangas)

3912, Voice of the People, via Goyang, South Korea, 1915, Jan 11, Korean audible in USB, but jammed from North Korea in LSB with the German programme from Voice of Korea, Pyongyang, // 6285 and 9325. (Schulze)

9940, CMI-Voice of the Wilderness (p), via Taiwan, 1335-1342, January 20, Korean talk, 25542. (Slaen)

17860, West African Democracy Radio, via Skelton, 1030-1040, Jan 20, French interview about a film festival in Senegal with collaboration of the televisión brasileña, played segments of melodic Brazilian music, SINPO 55555. (Romero)
(DX Window #342 & 343/DSWCI via Anker Petersen)