Written by Charles Gbollie
Saturday, 22 May 2010
The Management of Star Radio has announced the re-activation of its shortwave service in the Country.
The entity’s Station Manager James Morlu d disclosed the institution has begun test transmitting on its shortwave service.
Mr. Morlu did not state the length of coverage of the new shortwave service, but said it creates a medium to interact with more listeners.
Accoridng to him, the frequency of the shorwave is 4.025 MHz and can be caught within the 75-meters band.
He believes as the country strives towards its recovery process, it was prudent to have a viable information dissemination channel like the shortwave.
Mr. Morlu assured Star Radio will continue to institute programs reflective of the cultural diversity of the country.
The Star Radio Station Manager spoke when the UN Refugee Agency, the UNCHR symbolically transferred assets to several of its partners in Liberia including Star Radio.
(STAR Radio/Alokesh Gupta via Facebook)
no mention yet of broadcast hours, but I will post them as they become available.
Gayle Van Horn
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Domestic Broadcast Survey 12th Edition Review
Danish Shortwave Club International, has recently released the 12th edition of Domestic Broadcast Survey. For the active and dedicated hobbyist it is a welcome annual publication from the excepts that monitor the bands from thirty-three countries.
The 12th edition, edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen, is divided into four parts. Part 1 covers all active broadcasting stations on 2300-5700 kHz, including clandestine stations. Part 2 includes domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience. Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported during the past five years , but may appear, are listed in Part 3.
This edition is based upon official sources and radio hobby DX bulletins. When available prior to publication, A10 broadcast schedules are included. DXers across the globe actively monitor throughout May 2009 - March 2010, to comprise current broadcasting observations. Active stations are listed with an A (Regular), B (Irregular) or C (Sporadic) and D as Likely Inactive stations. All listings are in an easy to follow format, sorted by frequency, kW, country, station and operating schedules. Parallel frequencies and operating format.
To assist the radio listener, the right column list the Last Log, noting the last month and year the station was logged before the DBS publication deadline. To avoid inactive stations in the DBS, most frequencies that have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted or are listed in Part 3.
All buyers will receive a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as Tropical Bands Monitor on the club’s website at www.dswci.org
DBS-12 is available by email in a PDF format (about 365 kB). A limited number are available in printed form. Remittence may be addresses to: DSWCI, 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 at: Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany.
Account 2912472076 at Citibank BLZ: 30020900. BIC: CIPRDEDD. IBAN: DE24300209002912472076.
The Domestic Broadcasting Survey-12, continues to represent one of the best sources to assist the active radio hobbyist. Thanks to Anker Petersen and the dedicated monitors for another accurate reference aid. To learn more about Danish Shortwave Club International and view a sample DBS-12 page refer to their website at www.dswci.org
Review by Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Monitoring Times, June 2010
The 12th edition, edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen, is divided into four parts. Part 1 covers all active broadcasting stations on 2300-5700 kHz, including clandestine stations. Part 2 includes domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience. Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported during the past five years , but may appear, are listed in Part 3.
This edition is based upon official sources and radio hobby DX bulletins. When available prior to publication, A10 broadcast schedules are included. DXers across the globe actively monitor throughout May 2009 - March 2010, to comprise current broadcasting observations. Active stations are listed with an A (Regular), B (Irregular) or C (Sporadic) and D as Likely Inactive stations. All listings are in an easy to follow format, sorted by frequency, kW, country, station and operating schedules. Parallel frequencies and operating format.
To assist the radio listener, the right column list the Last Log, noting the last month and year the station was logged before the DBS publication deadline. To avoid inactive stations in the DBS, most frequencies that have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted or are listed in Part 3.
All buyers will receive a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as Tropical Bands Monitor on the club’s website at www.dswci.org
DBS-12 is available by email in a PDF format (about 365 kB). A limited number are available in printed form. Remittence may be addresses to: DSWCI, 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 at: Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany.
Account 2912472076 at Citibank BLZ: 30020900. BIC: CIPRDEDD. IBAN: DE24300209002912472076.
The Domestic Broadcasting Survey-12, continues to represent one of the best sources to assist the active radio hobbyist. Thanks to Anker Petersen and the dedicated monitors for another accurate reference aid. To learn more about Danish Shortwave Club International and view a sample DBS-12 page refer to their website at www.dswci.org
Review by Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Monitoring Times, June 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Family Radio A10 summer schedules
Transmitter sites via USA, Armenia, Ascension Island, French Guiana, Germany, Kasakhstan, Lesotho, Madagascar, Moldova, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
Family Radio - A-10 schedule
Effective to: 31 October 2010 - # = new services
Effective to: 31 October 2010 - # = new services
All times UTC
Amharic to Ethiopia#
1600-1700 15750WER
1700-1800 9790UAE
Arabic to Near East, Middle East, and No Africa, Sahara
0500-0600 9385
0500-0600 9355
0700-0800 11530
1600-1645 15785
1600-1700 13645WER
1700-1800 13840WER
1700-1800 11885WER, 13700SKN
1800-1900 11955WER, 13720SKN
1900-2000 9590WER, 17750
2000-2045 21525
2000-2200 6115NAU
2100-2145 17845
2200-2300 7420WER
Assamese to India#
1400-1500 15450ARM
Bengali to Bangladesh & India#
UTC kHz
1300-1500 15255WER
Burmese to Myanmar in South East Asia
1100-1200 6220HUW
1200-1300 11570HUW
1300-1400 7565 or 11520A-A
1800-1900 1503FAN
Cambodian / Khmer to Cambodia
1200-1300 17515UAE
Chinese to North America
0500-0600 5985
0600-0700 5985
1300-1400 13695
1500-1600 11865
Chinese to East and South East Asia
0000-0200 1503FAN, 1557KOU
0200-0300 1557KOU
0500-0800 1503FAN
0800-1000 1503FAN, 1557KOU
1000-1400 1557KOU
1700-1900 1557KOU
2000-2100 1359FAN
2200-2400 1557FAN
Chinese to China and Taiwan
0900-1000 11565TAI
0900-1100 9545TAI, 9945YUN
1000-1100 9920TAI
1100-1200 9460P.K.
1100-1300 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1100-1600 6240BAJ 9280YUN
1200-1300 11535YUN
1300-1400 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
2100-2400 9280YUN
2200-2400 6230BAJ
2300-2400 9540TAI
Czech to The Czech Republic
1800-1900 9505RMP
English to Canada & Mexico
0000-0100 5950, 6985, 9505, 15440
0100-0200 6985, 9505, 15440
0200-0300 6985, 9505, 11835
0300-0400 6985, 9505
0400-0500 6875, 6985, 9505, 9680
0500-0600 6875, 6980
0600-0700 9680
0700-0800 5950, 5985, 6875
0800-0900 5950, 5985, 6875
0900-1000 5985, 6875, 9755
1000-1100 5950, 5985, 6875, 9755
1100-1200 5950, 5985, 9755
1200-1300 5950, 5985, 17795
1300-1400 11830, 11865, 11910, 17795
1400-1500 11830, 11910, 13695, 17795
1500-1600 11830, 11910, 17795
1600-1700 11830, 11865, 13695, 17795
1700-1800 13690, 17795
1800-2000 13615, 13690, 17795
2000-2200 13615, 17795
2100-2200 13690
2200-2400 5950, 11740, 15440
English to Central and South America and The Caribbean
0000-0100 7360, 7520
0200-0300 5985, 6100, 9385
0300-0400 11740, 15255
0600-0700 5850, 11580
0700-0800 9505
1100-1200 7730, 9550, 9625
1200-1300 17555
1500-1600 15770
1600-1700 6085
1900-2000 6085
2000-2100 17725
2300-2400 15255
English to Europe and Middle East
0600-0700 7520
0700-0800 7520
1600-1800 18980, 21455
1800-1900 18980
1900-2000 18930, 18980
2000-2100 17750
2000-2200 7430MDA, 18980
English to Africa
0600-0700 11530
0700-0900 9340
1600-1700 21525
1700-1800 17545
1800-1900 6180MEY, 7395MDG, 9770UAE, 17845
1900-2000 3230MEY, 7395MDG, 9775UAE, 17845
1900-2100 6020MDG, 9610WER
2000-2100 15195ASC, 17845
2100-2200 7425WER, 12055ASC, 17845
2200-2300 15770
English to Southern Africa
0300-0500 1197MAS
1600-1900 1197MAS
2000-2300 1197MAS
English to India
1300-1500 11560HUW
1400-1500 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1500-1600 6280TAC, 11605UAE, 15520UAE
1600-1700 11850UAE
English to Southeast Asia
0900-1100 9465PAO
1300-1400 11520PAO
1300-1500 13820A-A, 11560HUW
1400-1500 9365UZB, 9615IRK
1400-1500 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1700-2000 1359FAN
2000-2200 1503FAN
English to East and South East Asia
1400-1700 1557KOU
1700-2000 1359FAN
1900-2200 1557KOU
English to Korea/Japan/Asia
1000-1100 9450IRK
1100-1200 15560KAZ
Farsi to Middle East
1600-1700 11670NAU
1700-1800 11850WER
French
Francais Vers L'Europe et L'Afrique
0500-0600 11530, 11580
0600-0700 9340, 9355
0800-0900 11530
1700-1800 6225MEY, 17885
1800-1900 18930, 21525
1830-1930 17585
1900-2000 11840WER, 21455, 21525
2000-2100 7540A-A, 9595WER
2100-2200 7290WER
2200-2300 9355
Francais Vers Le Canada
1200-1300 13695
1600-1700 11855
2300-2400 6985
Francais Vers Les Antilles
0000-0100 15255
1000-1100 9625, 11970
1300-1400 11970
2100-2200 17725
German
Deutsch nach Europa und Nord-Afrika
0500-0600 7730
0700-0800 11580
1700-1800 17750
1800-1900 7320ARM, 21455
1900-2000 7320SAM
2000-2100 15695
Gujarati to India
1500-1600 13830WER
Hausa Zuwa Afrika
1800-1900 13790NAU
1900-2000 9685UAE
Hindi to India
1400-1500 15520UAE, 15670WER
1500-1600 15670WER
1600-1700 6280TWN, 11680WER
Hungarian to Hungary, Magyar Nyelven
1800-1900 3975WER
Igbo N'Afrika
1800-1900 11875ASC new time
Indonesian
Bahasa Indonesia to South East Asia
0000-0100 11865PAO
1100-1200 11550TAI
1200-1300 11520PAO
1200-1400 9615IRK
1200-1500 918Bandung, 963 Jakarta 105.2
1400-1500 1359FAN
2300-2400 1359FAN
Italian In Europa E Nordafrika
0600-0700 9985
1700-1800 21670
1800-1900 17750
1900-2000 6010MDA
Japanese to Japan
1000-1100 7245K/A
Kannada to Karnataka
1300-1400 17735UAE
1500-1600 15715WER
Kinyarwanda/Birundi to Africa#
1800-1900 9495MEY
Korean to Korea
0800-0900 11895TAI
1100-1200 9460P.K.
1200-1300 5970K-A
Malagasy to Africa#
1600-1700 6225MEY
Malayalam to India
1400-1500 15690WER
Marathi to India
1400-1500 9595UAE
1500-1600 11655ARM
Nepali to Nepal
1400-1500 7215IRK
Oriya to India#
1400-1500 13635WER
Oromo to Africa#
1600-1700 15160NAU
Philippine
Tagalog to Southeast Asia
1000-1100 1359FAN
1100-1200 11520PAO
1200-1300 1359FAN, 13820A-A
1200-1300 13850VLD
1300-1400 1359FAN
2220-2300 1359FAN
Cebuano alang sa Pilipinas, to in South East Asia
1100-1200 1359FAN
1200-1300 9465IRK
Ilocano para Iti Pilipinas, to Philippines in South East Asia
1100-1200 9900VLD
1200-1300 1359FAN
Polish to Poland Europe - Jezyk Polski W Europie
0700-0800 7730
1800-1900 9615SAM
2000-2100 18930
Portuguese Para Europa
0700-0800 9985
2100-2145 15695
Portuguese Para Brasil
0000-0100 11550, 11580, 15190, 17725
0100-0200 7520, 11530, 11550
0200-0300 11550
0300-0400 7730
0800-0900 9605, 9625, 11770
0900-1000 6175, 9605, 9625, 11770
1000-1100 6175, 9605, 11770
1200-1300 9625
1300-1400 17555
1400-1500 15770
1500-1600 18980
1700-2000 17725
2200-2300 7360GUF, 15190, 17725
2300-2400 7360GUF, 7520, 15190
Portuguese Para A Africa Ocidental
0400-0500 11530
1700-1800 21525
1900-2000 3955MEY, 6100MEY
2100-2200 15770
Punjabi to India & Pakistan
1400-1500 9405ARM
1500-1600 11505ERV
1600-1700 9735ARM
Romanian To Romania
0600-0700 7730
1800-1900 9895WER
2000-2100 15600
Russian to Russia
0400-0500 9355
1200-1300 11855TJK
1500-1600 9955
1600-1700 9955, 18930
1700-1800 9565NAU, 18930
1800-1900 9565NAU
1900-2000 15600
Family Radio can be heard in English in Moscow on Radio Center 1503 kHz from 1100pm-1230am, 0430pm-0600pm local time.
Serbian To Serbia - Srpski za Srbiju
1900-2000 3975WER
Sindhi to Pakistan
1400-1500 15715WER
1500-1600 12130MDA
Somali to Africa#
1700-1800 15255RMP
Spanish
Espanol Para Europa
0500-0600 9985
0700-0800 9355
1600-1700 21670
1800-1900 9635WER, 21670
2100-2200 15600
Espanol Para America del Sur y El Caribe
0000-0100 5930, 5985, 6915, 11530
0100-0200 5985, 7570, 11580, 15255, 17725
0200-0300 11530, 11580, 15255
0300-0400 5985, 9985, 11580
0400-0500 5985, 7730, 9985, 15255
0500-0600 5850
0700-1000 5850
0800-1000 9550, 11855, 11970
1000-1100 6085, 9550, 11855
1100-1200 6085, 9355, 11855, 11970
1200-1300 6085, 11970, 13800, 15770
1300-1400 6085, 13800, 15770
1400-1600 6085, 11970, 13800, 17555
1400-1500 18980
1700-1900 6085
2000-2300 5985
2100-2300 6915
2200-2300 7520, 9935, 15255
2300-2400 5985, 6915, 9935, 11530
Espanol Para Mexico, America Central Y Canada
0000-0200 11835, 11855
0100-0200 5950
0200-0300 11740
0300-0400 9385, 9680, 9715
0400-0500 9715, 11740
0500-0600 7520, 9505, 9715
0600-0700 6875, 9505, 9715
0700-0800 9680, 9715
0800-0900 9505, 9715
0900-1000 5950, 9505, 9715
1000-1200 9715
1100-1200 6875, 9805
1200-1400 7730, 9605, 15130
1400-1500 11670, 11865, 15130
1500-1600 11670, 13695, 15130
1600-1700 15130
1700-1800 13615, 15130
1800-2000 15130
2000-2100 13690
2000-2400 11855, 15130
Swahili - Kiswahili Kwa Afrika
1600-1700 9590MDG
1700-1800 15750WER
1900-2000 5930MEY
Tamil to India
1400-1500 17715UAE
1500-1600 13790NAU
Telugu to India
1300-1400 17715UAE
Thai to Thailand in South East Asia
1200-1300 15490NVS
1900-2000 1503FAN
Turkish to Turkey
1700-1900 15760WOF
FM Radio Muejde 89.6 MHz, Istanbul Turkey, times in Yerel Saat
0400-0500 Arabic, 0500-0600 En, 0600-0800 Turkish
1500-1600 Ge, 1700-1800 En, 1800-2000 Turkish
2000-2200 En, 2200-2300 Fr
Urdu to Pakistan & India
1400-1600 12065ARM
1600-1700 11505ERV
Uzbek to Uzbekistan#
1400-1500 13730WER
Vietnamese to South East Asia
0000-0100 11630PAO
1000-1100 9455TAI
1200-1300 7460PAO, 11895IRK
1300-1400 7260TAI, 9960TAI
1400-1500 1359FAN
1600-1700 1359FAN
1700-1800 1503FAN
2100-2200 1359FAN
2300-2400 1503FAN
Yoruba to Africa
1900-2000 11855ASC
(YFR, via ADDX Andreas Volk-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 23)
(BC-DX Top News 964)
1600-1700 15750WER
1700-1800 9790UAE
Arabic to Near East, Middle East, and No Africa, Sahara
0500-0600 9385
0500-0600 9355
0700-0800 11530
1600-1645 15785
1600-1700 13645WER
1700-1800 13840WER
1700-1800 11885WER, 13700SKN
1800-1900 11955WER, 13720SKN
1900-2000 9590WER, 17750
2000-2045 21525
2000-2200 6115NAU
2100-2145 17845
2200-2300 7420WER
Assamese to India#
1400-1500 15450ARM
Bengali to Bangladesh & India#
UTC kHz
1300-1500 15255WER
Burmese to Myanmar in South East Asia
1100-1200 6220HUW
1200-1300 11570HUW
1300-1400 7565 or 11520A-A
1800-1900 1503FAN
Cambodian / Khmer to Cambodia
1200-1300 17515UAE
Chinese to North America
0500-0600 5985
0600-0700 5985
1300-1400 13695
1500-1600 11865
Chinese to East and South East Asia
0000-0200 1503FAN, 1557KOU
0200-0300 1557KOU
0500-0800 1503FAN
0800-1000 1503FAN, 1557KOU
1000-1400 1557KOU
1700-1900 1557KOU
2000-2100 1359FAN
2200-2400 1557FAN
Chinese to China and Taiwan
0900-1000 11565TAI
0900-1100 9545TAI, 9945YUN
1000-1100 9920TAI
1100-1200 9460P.K.
1100-1300 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1100-1600 6240BAJ 9280YUN
1200-1300 11535YUN
1300-1400 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
2100-2400 9280YUN
2200-2400 6230BAJ
2300-2400 9540TAI
Czech to The Czech Republic
1800-1900 9505RMP
English to Canada & Mexico
0000-0100 5950, 6985, 9505, 15440
0100-0200 6985, 9505, 15440
0200-0300 6985, 9505, 11835
0300-0400 6985, 9505
0400-0500 6875, 6985, 9505, 9680
0500-0600 6875, 6980
0600-0700 9680
0700-0800 5950, 5985, 6875
0800-0900 5950, 5985, 6875
0900-1000 5985, 6875, 9755
1000-1100 5950, 5985, 6875, 9755
1100-1200 5950, 5985, 9755
1200-1300 5950, 5985, 17795
1300-1400 11830, 11865, 11910, 17795
1400-1500 11830, 11910, 13695, 17795
1500-1600 11830, 11910, 17795
1600-1700 11830, 11865, 13695, 17795
1700-1800 13690, 17795
1800-2000 13615, 13690, 17795
2000-2200 13615, 17795
2100-2200 13690
2200-2400 5950, 11740, 15440
English to Central and South America and The Caribbean
0000-0100 7360, 7520
0200-0300 5985, 6100, 9385
0300-0400 11740, 15255
0600-0700 5850, 11580
0700-0800 9505
1100-1200 7730, 9550, 9625
1200-1300 17555
1500-1600 15770
1600-1700 6085
1900-2000 6085
2000-2100 17725
2300-2400 15255
English to Europe and Middle East
0600-0700 7520
0700-0800 7520
1600-1800 18980, 21455
1800-1900 18980
1900-2000 18930, 18980
2000-2100 17750
2000-2200 7430MDA, 18980
English to Africa
0600-0700 11530
0700-0900 9340
1600-1700 21525
1700-1800 17545
1800-1900 6180MEY, 7395MDG, 9770UAE, 17845
1900-2000 3230MEY, 7395MDG, 9775UAE, 17845
1900-2100 6020MDG, 9610WER
2000-2100 15195ASC, 17845
2100-2200 7425WER, 12055ASC, 17845
2200-2300 15770
English to Southern Africa
0300-0500 1197MAS
1600-1900 1197MAS
2000-2300 1197MAS
English to India
1300-1500 11560HUW
1400-1500 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1500-1600 6280TAC, 11605UAE, 15520UAE
1600-1700 11850UAE
English to Southeast Asia
0900-1100 9465PAO
1300-1400 11520PAO
1300-1500 13820A-A, 11560HUW
1400-1500 9365UZB, 9615IRK
1400-1500 9865P.K, 11725P.K.
1700-2000 1359FAN
2000-2200 1503FAN
English to East and South East Asia
1400-1700 1557KOU
1700-2000 1359FAN
1900-2200 1557KOU
English to Korea/Japan/Asia
1000-1100 9450IRK
1100-1200 15560KAZ
Farsi to Middle East
1600-1700 11670NAU
1700-1800 11850WER
French
Francais Vers L'Europe et L'Afrique
0500-0600 11530, 11580
0600-0700 9340, 9355
0800-0900 11530
1700-1800 6225MEY, 17885
1800-1900 18930, 21525
1830-1930 17585
1900-2000 11840WER, 21455, 21525
2000-2100 7540A-A, 9595WER
2100-2200 7290WER
2200-2300 9355
Francais Vers Le Canada
1200-1300 13695
1600-1700 11855
2300-2400 6985
Francais Vers Les Antilles
0000-0100 15255
1000-1100 9625, 11970
1300-1400 11970
2100-2200 17725
German
Deutsch nach Europa und Nord-Afrika
0500-0600 7730
0700-0800 11580
1700-1800 17750
1800-1900 7320ARM, 21455
1900-2000 7320SAM
2000-2100 15695
Gujarati to India
1500-1600 13830WER
Hausa Zuwa Afrika
1800-1900 13790NAU
1900-2000 9685UAE
Hindi to India
1400-1500 15520UAE, 15670WER
1500-1600 15670WER
1600-1700 6280TWN, 11680WER
Hungarian to Hungary, Magyar Nyelven
1800-1900 3975WER
Igbo N'Afrika
1800-1900 11875ASC new time
Indonesian
Bahasa Indonesia to South East Asia
0000-0100 11865PAO
1100-1200 11550TAI
1200-1300 11520PAO
1200-1400 9615IRK
1200-1500 918Bandung, 963 Jakarta 105.2
1400-1500 1359FAN
2300-2400 1359FAN
Italian In Europa E Nordafrika
0600-0700 9985
1700-1800 21670
1800-1900 17750
1900-2000 6010MDA
Japanese to Japan
1000-1100 7245K/A
Kannada to Karnataka
1300-1400 17735UAE
1500-1600 15715WER
Kinyarwanda/Birundi to Africa#
1800-1900 9495MEY
Korean to Korea
0800-0900 11895TAI
1100-1200 9460P.K.
1200-1300 5970K-A
Malagasy to Africa#
1600-1700 6225MEY
Malayalam to India
1400-1500 15690WER
Marathi to India
1400-1500 9595UAE
1500-1600 11655ARM
Nepali to Nepal
1400-1500 7215IRK
Oriya to India#
1400-1500 13635WER
Oromo to Africa#
1600-1700 15160NAU
Philippine
Tagalog to Southeast Asia
1000-1100 1359FAN
1100-1200 11520PAO
1200-1300 1359FAN, 13820A-A
1200-1300 13850VLD
1300-1400 1359FAN
2220-2300 1359FAN
Cebuano alang sa Pilipinas, to in South East Asia
1100-1200 1359FAN
1200-1300 9465IRK
Ilocano para Iti Pilipinas, to Philippines in South East Asia
1100-1200 9900VLD
1200-1300 1359FAN
Polish to Poland Europe - Jezyk Polski W Europie
0700-0800 7730
1800-1900 9615SAM
2000-2100 18930
Portuguese Para Europa
0700-0800 9985
2100-2145 15695
Portuguese Para Brasil
0000-0100 11550, 11580, 15190, 17725
0100-0200 7520, 11530, 11550
0200-0300 11550
0300-0400 7730
0800-0900 9605, 9625, 11770
0900-1000 6175, 9605, 9625, 11770
1000-1100 6175, 9605, 11770
1200-1300 9625
1300-1400 17555
1400-1500 15770
1500-1600 18980
1700-2000 17725
2200-2300 7360GUF, 15190, 17725
2300-2400 7360GUF, 7520, 15190
Portuguese Para A Africa Ocidental
0400-0500 11530
1700-1800 21525
1900-2000 3955MEY, 6100MEY
2100-2200 15770
Punjabi to India & Pakistan
1400-1500 9405ARM
1500-1600 11505ERV
1600-1700 9735ARM
Romanian To Romania
0600-0700 7730
1800-1900 9895WER
2000-2100 15600
Russian to Russia
0400-0500 9355
1200-1300 11855TJK
1500-1600 9955
1600-1700 9955, 18930
1700-1800 9565NAU, 18930
1800-1900 9565NAU
1900-2000 15600
Family Radio can be heard in English in Moscow on Radio Center 1503 kHz from 1100pm-1230am, 0430pm-0600pm local time.
Serbian To Serbia - Srpski za Srbiju
1900-2000 3975WER
Sindhi to Pakistan
1400-1500 15715WER
1500-1600 12130MDA
Somali to Africa#
1700-1800 15255RMP
Spanish
Espanol Para Europa
0500-0600 9985
0700-0800 9355
1600-1700 21670
1800-1900 9635WER, 21670
2100-2200 15600
Espanol Para America del Sur y El Caribe
0000-0100 5930, 5985, 6915, 11530
0100-0200 5985, 7570, 11580, 15255, 17725
0200-0300 11530, 11580, 15255
0300-0400 5985, 9985, 11580
0400-0500 5985, 7730, 9985, 15255
0500-0600 5850
0700-1000 5850
0800-1000 9550, 11855, 11970
1000-1100 6085, 9550, 11855
1100-1200 6085, 9355, 11855, 11970
1200-1300 6085, 11970, 13800, 15770
1300-1400 6085, 13800, 15770
1400-1600 6085, 11970, 13800, 17555
1400-1500 18980
1700-1900 6085
2000-2300 5985
2100-2300 6915
2200-2300 7520, 9935, 15255
2300-2400 5985, 6915, 9935, 11530
Espanol Para Mexico, America Central Y Canada
0000-0200 11835, 11855
0100-0200 5950
0200-0300 11740
0300-0400 9385, 9680, 9715
0400-0500 9715, 11740
0500-0600 7520, 9505, 9715
0600-0700 6875, 9505, 9715
0700-0800 9680, 9715
0800-0900 9505, 9715
0900-1000 5950, 9505, 9715
1000-1200 9715
1100-1200 6875, 9805
1200-1400 7730, 9605, 15130
1400-1500 11670, 11865, 15130
1500-1600 11670, 13695, 15130
1600-1700 15130
1700-1800 13615, 15130
1800-2000 15130
2000-2100 13690
2000-2400 11855, 15130
Swahili - Kiswahili Kwa Afrika
1600-1700 9590MDG
1700-1800 15750WER
1900-2000 5930MEY
Tamil to India
1400-1500 17715UAE
1500-1600 13790NAU
Telugu to India
1300-1400 17715UAE
Thai to Thailand in South East Asia
1200-1300 15490NVS
1900-2000 1503FAN
Turkish to Turkey
1700-1900 15760WOF
FM Radio Muejde 89.6 MHz, Istanbul Turkey, times in Yerel Saat
0400-0500 Arabic, 0500-0600 En, 0600-0800 Turkish
1500-1600 Ge, 1700-1800 En, 1800-2000 Turkish
2000-2200 En, 2200-2300 Fr
Urdu to Pakistan & India
1400-1600 12065ARM
1600-1700 11505ERV
Uzbek to Uzbekistan#
1400-1500 13730WER
Vietnamese to South East Asia
0000-0100 11630PAO
1000-1100 9455TAI
1200-1300 7460PAO, 11895IRK
1300-1400 7260TAI, 9960TAI
1400-1500 1359FAN
1600-1700 1359FAN
1700-1800 1503FAN
2100-2200 1359FAN
2300-2400 1503FAN
Yoruba to Africa
1900-2000 11855ASC
(YFR, via ADDX Andreas Volk-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 23)
(BC-DX Top News 964)
Radio Moldova International launches contest
Radio Moldova International launches contest Discover the Republic of Moldova. This contest is aimed to encourage the listeners from abroad to listen to the RMI station, motivate them find more information about the Republic of Moldova, familiarize them with the national values, promote in such a way the interest and the image of the Republic of Moldova in the world. The current year topic is Tourism in Moldova.
While participating in our contest, you will have the possibility to find out the most picturesque places and legends linked to Moldova. The winner of the contest will have the possibility to visit them, or the Grand Prix of the contest is a trip to Moldova. Only listeners of the RMI station
from abroad are eligible to participate. This contest will take place in 15 stages during the period of 17 May to 12 July 2010 with each stage consisting of 3 questions.
The first refers to the general knowledge of the participants about Moldova. The second one is related to the tourist attractions of Moldova talked about over the year and the third one is from the stories aired in between the stages. The questions will be broadcast in Monday and Thursday programs and placed on the site
The answers will be sent by email within a week after they are announced, at the following address moldovainternational@gmail.com (or) moldova-international@mail.md
They will be scored from 0 to 3 points, depending on correctness. The winners will be nominated, according to the points gained during those 15 stages. The Regulations of the Contest "Discover the Republic of Moldova" is on the following site at: http://www.trm.md/
We invite you to participate in this contest, test your knowledge, find new things and you will discover an unknown Moldova. (Station Direct modified slightly by RAD). No longer on shortwave but clearly designed for "international listeners" presumably via Internet.
(RAD via DXplorer May 11)
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/BC DX Top News 964)
While participating in our contest, you will have the possibility to find out the most picturesque places and legends linked to Moldova. The winner of the contest will have the possibility to visit them, or the Grand Prix of the contest is a trip to Moldova. Only listeners of the RMI station
from abroad are eligible to participate. This contest will take place in 15 stages during the period of 17 May to 12 July 2010 with each stage consisting of 3 questions.
The first refers to the general knowledge of the participants about Moldova. The second one is related to the tourist attractions of Moldova talked about over the year and the third one is from the stories aired in between the stages. The questions will be broadcast in Monday and Thursday programs and placed on the site
The answers will be sent by email within a week after they are announced, at the following address moldovainternational@gmail.com (or) moldova-international@mail.md
They will be scored from 0 to 3 points, depending on correctness. The winners will be nominated, according to the points gained during those 15 stages. The Regulations of the Contest "Discover the Republic of Moldova" is on the following site at: http://www.trm.md/
We invite you to participate in this contest, test your knowledge, find new things and you will discover an unknown Moldova. (Station Direct modified slightly by RAD). No longer on shortwave but clearly designed for "international listeners" presumably via Internet.
(RAD via DXplorer May 11)
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/BC DX Top News 964)
Xingjiang PBS A10 summer schedule
China
Xingjiang PBS A-10 summer sked. Xingjiang PBS began the summer schedule at 1100 UTC on May 13.
Uighur
2300-1800 (off the air Tues. & Thurs. 0800-1100)
6120 2300-0300, 1200-1800
9560 0300-1200
7205 2300-0230, 1400-1800
13670 0230-1400
7275 2300-1800
Chinese
2300-1800 (off the air Tues. & Thurs. 0800-1100)
5960 2300-1800
7260 2300-1800
7310 2300-0300, 1400-1800
9600 0300-1400
11770 2300-1800
Kazakh
2330-1800 (off the air Tues. & Thurs. 0800-1100)
6015 2330-0300, 1151-1800
9470 0300-1150
7340 2330-1800
Kyrgyz
0330-0530, 1030(Tues. Thurs)
11975 0330-0530, 1030-1230
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC HQ May 14/BC-DX Top News 964)
Shortwave Blog "Bytes"
All times UTC // parallel frequency
Armenia on 9890
Gavar Armenia, only 2200-0200, English news at 0000, May 15. Signal S=9+45dB powerhouse like 500 kW Wertachtal or Rampisham signal level.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/BC-DX Top News 964)
Aussie DX Report 203 available for download
Episode No. 203 of the Australian DX Report audio news magazine about shortwave broadcasting includes field monitoring research in the 7 and 13 MHz bands.
There are also other features, news and information about shortwave broadcasting, propagation, a solar activity report, monitoring notes, and extracts from schedules of the new A10 season.
It's 15 mins duration, and may be accessed from the Australian Internet Radio Service website, at http://airm.edxp.org/ You may download/listen to/save the episodes as MP3 files on your laptop/desktop, set up a Podcast, or receive/save them on your Mobile Phone or other portable internet-enabled digital device.
You may also subscribe via the site's RSS/Atom feed - full details are at the site. Links to the episodes are also available on my Facebook service within a few minutes of their release.
Armenia on 9890
Gavar Armenia, only 2200-0200, English news at 0000, May 15. Signal S=9+45dB powerhouse like 500 kW Wertachtal or Rampisham signal level.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/BC-DX Top News 964)
Aussie DX Report 203 available for download
Episode No. 203 of the Australian DX Report audio news magazine about shortwave broadcasting includes field monitoring research in the 7 and 13 MHz bands.
There are also other features, news and information about shortwave broadcasting, propagation, a solar activity report, monitoring notes, and extracts from schedules of the new A10 season.
It's 15 mins duration, and may be accessed from the Australian Internet Radio Service website, at http://airm.edxp.org/ You may download/listen to/save the episodes as MP3 files on your laptop/desktop, set up a Podcast, or receive/save them on your Mobile Phone or other portable internet-enabled digital device.
You may also subscribe via the site's RSS/Atom feed - full details are at the site. Links to the episodes are also available on my Facebook service within a few minutes of their release.
Episodes are also available on-air, over WWCR Nashville, 0200-0215 on Sundays, on 4840, and on Mondays 1145-1200 on 15825, and via WWCR's streaming audio (live) at http://wwcr.com/
Good listening to the Australian DX Report Episode No. 202, and enjoy the musical interludes!(Bob Padula, Melbourne, Australia)
Belarus observationsThe reactivated 7265 kHz noted signing on sometime between 1445 and 1455 UT on May 14. 6080 and 6115 kHz were also reactivated at about the same time as 7265 kHz, and sign on one or two minutes before 1500 UT, at this time (starting 1500 UT) with the Stalica programme in parallell with 7235 kHz. 6010/6070 and 6040/7280 kHz have regional programs at 1500 UT, at least on workdays. 7360/7390 kHz have a different program. (Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15)
Re BLR: This morning I made a quick check at 0340 UT. Not even a carrier on 7265 kHz, but 6190 was discernible with no delay compared to 7235 kHz, so appears to be co-sited. (Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 16)
Many thanks Olle, re-7265 kHz:
BELARUS 2nd px outlet. When I woke up this night very early:
Noted this Belarus Radio 7265 kHz transmission with different program and excellent ID, surprisingly fine signal of S=7-8 strength at 0330-0400 UT this morning May 15th, when compared to different [1st?] progr relay on 6010, 6040, 6070(hit neighbour DWL 6075 strongly), 7235, 7280 - latter the most powerful signal in 0300-0400 UT slot.
Seemingly schedule in A-10 season at 0300-0900 UT and 1500-2100 UT.
7265 missed on May 16th again. In 0300-0800 UT slot noted 6010 6040 6070 7235, and best on 7280 kHz. 6040 and 7280 still on air at 0852 UT. Nothing on 6115 kHz anymore. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/16)
China monitoring
Voice of Shangri La on 6035 kHz. I've been monitoring this with fair to poor reception (via Global Tuners Hong Kong receiver) from as early as 0945 UT on May 15 and as late as 1305 UT on May 14, with programming in Mandarin and Vietnamese. Some TOH ID's are in Vietnamese and English rather than Mandarin and English.
According to Yunnan PBS website (ynradio.net)this is primarily an external service and broadcasts for five hours a day, three hours in Vietnamese and two in Mandarin, using 50 kW on this sole frequency (from my observations, transmission time seems to be 0900-1400 UT).
There's also an FM service of the same name, on 99.0 MHz in Kunming and other FM frequencies (listed on the site) elsewhere, it's one of the seven live audio streams available on their website. However, this appears to be an entirely separate operation presented solely in Mandarin, and it was not observed in \\ with the shortwave frequency.
There are audio clips of IDs for both these and seven other Yunnan PBS services available on the Interval Signals Online website - interval signals.net (Dave Kernick-UK, BrDXC-UK, May 15/BC DX Top News 964)
Cyprus CYP
CYP vv CYP at 0505 UT May 16. OH Radar system from Limassol on wideband 17638 to 17662kHz hit BBCWS 17640 kHz to EaAF via Zyyi this morning. Radar S=9 but annoying vibrate rattle pulse signal, BBCWS back lobe S=9+10dB here in southern Germany.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 16/BC DX Top News 964)
Guinea
Good listening to the Australian DX Report Episode No. 202, and enjoy the musical interludes!(Bob Padula, Melbourne, Australia)
Belarus observationsThe reactivated 7265 kHz noted signing on sometime between 1445 and 1455 UT on May 14. 6080 and 6115 kHz were also reactivated at about the same time as 7265 kHz, and sign on one or two minutes before 1500 UT, at this time (starting 1500 UT) with the Stalica programme in parallell with 7235 kHz. 6010/6070 and 6040/7280 kHz have regional programs at 1500 UT, at least on workdays. 7360/7390 kHz have a different program. (Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15)Re BLR: This morning I made a quick check at 0340 UT. Not even a carrier on 7265 kHz, but 6190 was discernible with no delay compared to 7235 kHz, so appears to be co-sited. (Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 16)
Many thanks Olle, re-7265 kHz:
BELARUS 2nd px outlet. When I woke up this night very early:
Noted this Belarus Radio 7265 kHz transmission with different program and excellent ID, surprisingly fine signal of S=7-8 strength at 0330-0400 UT this morning May 15th, when compared to different [1st?] progr relay on 6010, 6040, 6070(hit neighbour DWL 6075 strongly), 7235, 7280 - latter the most powerful signal in 0300-0400 UT slot.
Seemingly schedule in A-10 season at 0300-0900 UT and 1500-2100 UT.
7265 missed on May 16th again. In 0300-0800 UT slot noted 6010 6040 6070 7235, and best on 7280 kHz. 6040 and 7280 still on air at 0852 UT. Nothing on 6115 kHz anymore. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15/16)
China monitoringVoice of Shangri La on 6035 kHz. I've been monitoring this with fair to poor reception (via Global Tuners Hong Kong receiver) from as early as 0945 UT on May 15 and as late as 1305 UT on May 14, with programming in Mandarin and Vietnamese. Some TOH ID's are in Vietnamese and English rather than Mandarin and English.
According to Yunnan PBS website (ynradio.net)this is primarily an external service and broadcasts for five hours a day, three hours in Vietnamese and two in Mandarin, using 50 kW on this sole frequency (from my observations, transmission time seems to be 0900-1400 UT).
There's also an FM service of the same name, on 99.0 MHz in Kunming and other FM frequencies (listed on the site) elsewhere, it's one of the seven live audio streams available on their website. However, this appears to be an entirely separate operation presented solely in Mandarin, and it was not observed in \\ with the shortwave frequency.
There are audio clips of IDs for both these and seven other Yunnan PBS services available on the Interval Signals Online website - interval signals.net (Dave Kernick-UK, BrDXC-UK, May 15/BC DX Top News 964)
Cyprus CYP
CYP vv CYP at 0505 UT May 16. OH Radar system from Limassol on wideband 17638 to 17662kHz hit BBCWS 17640 kHz to EaAF via Zyyi this morning. Radar S=9 but annoying vibrate rattle pulse signal, BBCWS back lobe S=9+10dB here in southern Germany.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 16/BC DX Top News 964)
Guinea4900 Radio Familia, Conacry, NEW STATION, 2305-0005 UT on May 03 / 04, Fulah (?) talks, ID: "Familia" between local songs, weak to fair signal. Heard still at 0005 UT but found an empty channel when returned back at 0027 UT.
4899.96[.97] UNID station with African-like music, mostly nonstop, then female's talk 2326-cca 2340 UT, music, no change on top-of-the-hour, then at 0002 - something like a jingle with "... One ..." ?; no signal at 0027 at frequency check. (Karel Honzik-CZE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)
One source in West Africa told me that Familia FM (105.3 MHz) in Guinea is broadcasting on shortwave 4900 kHz. Website information, as; "The technology is cutting edge and doesn't even have a patent yet because to do so would make it public and they don't want to do that yet but it's very cool. I don't know much about it but they've been able to cut the number of watts needed and still hit a radius of about 700 miles with their shortwave signal.
It means that all of Guinea is able to receive the moral and spiritual teachings broadcast everyday on Familia."
If Familia FM is indeed on 4900 kHz, I think it's unauthorized transmitter and no wonder if they keep low profile. Anyway, it's worth checking if there's Familia ID on 4900 kHz.
[later] Now on Familia FM website also appeared confirmation:
Nouvelle Station Bientot ecoutez la radio Familia en ondes courtes sur 4.900 MHz dans tous le pays ... i.e. New Station - you'll soon be able to listen to Familia Radio on shortwave 4.900 MHz throughout the country ... ((Jari Savolainen-FIN, May 14/BC-DX Top News 964)
Japan adjust frequency
After successful test, Radio Japan Bengali service will replace its existing frequency 6155 kHz to new 11965 kHz from Sunday, 23rd May 2010. Broadcasting time 1300-1345 UTC.(Swopan Chakroborty, Kolkata, India/HCDX)
Malaysia monitoring
7295, RTM via FM, (presumed) 1030-1045. Male/female announcers with English program comments, followed by popular music. Information on musical artist being interspersed bettween tunes. Signal noted as fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7270, RTM via FM, (presumed) 1039-1050. Poor signal observed with noise. Noted with music and program comments by a male announcer (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4899.96[.97] UNID station with African-like music, mostly nonstop, then female's talk 2326-cca 2340 UT, music, no change on top-of-the-hour, then at 0002 - something like a jingle with "... One ..." ?; no signal at 0027 at frequency check. (Karel Honzik-CZE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)
One source in West Africa told me that Familia FM (105.3 MHz) in Guinea is broadcasting on shortwave 4900 kHz. Website information, as; "The technology is cutting edge and doesn't even have a patent yet because to do so would make it public and they don't want to do that yet but it's very cool. I don't know much about it but they've been able to cut the number of watts needed and still hit a radius of about 700 miles with their shortwave signal.
It means that all of Guinea is able to receive the moral and spiritual teachings broadcast everyday on Familia."
If Familia FM is indeed on 4900 kHz, I think it's unauthorized transmitter and no wonder if they keep low profile. Anyway, it's worth checking if there's Familia ID on 4900 kHz.
[later] Now on Familia FM website also appeared confirmation:
Nouvelle Station Bientot ecoutez la radio Familia en ondes courtes sur 4.900 MHz dans tous le pays ... i.e. New Station - you'll soon be able to listen to Familia Radio on shortwave 4.900 MHz throughout the country ... ((Jari Savolainen-FIN, May 14/BC-DX Top News 964)
Japan adjust frequency
After successful test, Radio Japan Bengali service will replace its existing frequency 6155 kHz to new 11965 kHz from Sunday, 23rd May 2010. Broadcasting time 1300-1345 UTC.(Swopan Chakroborty, Kolkata, India/HCDX)
Malaysia monitoring
7295, RTM via FM, (presumed) 1030-1045. Male/female announcers with English program comments, followed by popular music. Information on musical artist being interspersed bettween tunes. Signal noted as fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7270, RTM via FM, (presumed) 1039-1050. Poor signal observed with noise. Noted with music and program comments by a male announcer (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins
Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2010 May 18 1721 UTC
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
:Issued: 2010 May 18 1721 UTC
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
10 - 16 May 2010
10 - 16 May 2010
Solar activity was very low. A few low-level B-class events were observed early in the week. The solar disk was void of sunspots throughout the period.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels throughout the period.
The geomagnetic field was predominantly quiet throughout the period, with the exception of some isolated unsettled periods and a single isolated active period at high latitudes on 11-12 May.
Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
19 May - 14 June 2010
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal background levels for most of the period. However, increases to high levels are possible on 31 May - 06 June and 11-12 June in response to recurrent high speed streams.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet for 19 May, and is expected to increase to mostly unsettled levels for 20-22 May in response to a favorably positioned coronal hole. Quiet levels are expected for 23-28 May. An increase to active levels is expected for 29-30 May in response to a recurrent high speed stream. Activity should decline to mostly unsettled levels for 31 May. Quiet levels are expected to predominate from 01-10 June. Quiet to unsettled
levels are possible on 08-09 June in response to another recurrent high speed stream, and quiet levels should return from 10-14 June.
Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2010 May 18 1721 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html
# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2010 May 18
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2010 May 19 72 6 2
2010 May 20 72 13 3
2010 May 21 74 13 3
2010 May 22 76 10 3
2010 May 23 78 5 2
2010 May 24 80 5 2
2010 May 25 80 5 2
2010 May 26 80 5 2
2010 May 27 80 5 2
2010 May 28 80 5 2
2010 May 29 80 25 5
2010 May 30 80 20 4
2010 May 31 80 10 3
2010 Jun 01 80 5 2
2010 Jun 02 80 5 2
2010 Jun 03 80 5 2
2010 Jun 04 80 5 2
2010 Jun 05 78 5 2
2010 Jun 06 76 5 2
2010 Jun 07 75 5 2
2010 Jun 08 70 5 2
2010 Jun 09 70 5 2
2010 Jun 10 70 5 2
2010 Jun 11 70 5 2
2010 Jun 12 70 5 2
2010 Jun 13 70 5 2
2010 Jun 14 70 5 2
(NOAA)
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels throughout the period.
The geomagnetic field was predominantly quiet throughout the period, with the exception of some isolated unsettled periods and a single isolated active period at high latitudes on 11-12 May.
Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
19 May - 14 June 2010
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal background levels for most of the period. However, increases to high levels are possible on 31 May - 06 June and 11-12 June in response to recurrent high speed streams.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet for 19 May, and is expected to increase to mostly unsettled levels for 20-22 May in response to a favorably positioned coronal hole. Quiet levels are expected for 23-28 May. An increase to active levels is expected for 29-30 May in response to a recurrent high speed stream. Activity should decline to mostly unsettled levels for 31 May. Quiet levels are expected to predominate from 01-10 June. Quiet to unsettled
levels are possible on 08-09 June in response to another recurrent high speed stream, and quiet levels should return from 10-14 June.
Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2010 May 18 1721 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html
# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table# Issued 2010 May 18
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2010 May 19 72 6 2
2010 May 20 72 13 3
2010 May 21 74 13 3
2010 May 22 76 10 3
2010 May 23 78 5 2
2010 May 24 80 5 2
2010 May 25 80 5 2
2010 May 26 80 5 2
2010 May 27 80 5 2
2010 May 28 80 5 2
2010 May 29 80 25 5
2010 May 30 80 20 4
2010 May 31 80 10 3
2010 Jun 01 80 5 2
2010 Jun 02 80 5 2
2010 Jun 03 80 5 2
2010 Jun 04 80 5 2
2010 Jun 05 78 5 2
2010 Jun 06 76 5 2
2010 Jun 07 75 5 2
2010 Jun 08 70 5 2
2010 Jun 09 70 5 2
2010 Jun 10 70 5 2
2010 Jun 11 70 5 2
2010 Jun 12 70 5 2
2010 Jun 13 70 5 2
2010 Jun 14 70 5 2
(NOAA)
a nostalgic look at early shortwave stations in the Philippines
Thus far here in Wavescan, we have presented three programs on the radio story in the Philippines; their early Morse Code wireless stations, their early mediumwave stations, and the story of RCA Manila on shortwave. In our program today, we continue in the Philippine story with this information about their early commercial shortwave stations.
We go back to the beginning, in the year 1930, and that was when RCA Manila began a relay on shortwave from mediumwave station KZRM. This was the beginning of radio program broadcasting on shortwave in the Philippines. The station was owned by the large departmental store Erlanger & Galinger, and the last two letters of the callsign KZRM stood for Radio Manila.
This shortwave relay service was closed eighteen months later, though it was re-opened again three years later again, still as a service from one of the RCA communication transmitters located at their large radio station nine miles out from Manila. However, in the year 1937, a 1 kW transmitter was installed for the specific usage of mediumwave station KZRM as a shortwave relay unit. This transmitter carried the KZRM programming on any of five different frequencies up into the year 1942.
The shortwave lead that was taken by mediumwave KZRM was followed up soon afterwards by several other mediumwave broadcasting stations in the Philippines. In 1938, two new radio stations made their appearance on the international shortwave bands and these were KZIB & KZRF.
Shortwave station KZIB was owned by Mr I. Beck, hence the callsign KZIB, and the studios were located in the Crystal Arcade in Manila. This station, with its 1 kW transmitter, was first noted in Australia in July 1938. Programming was sometimes taken from the mediumwave station KZRD, and the two channels in use were 6040 & 9500 kHz.
The other shortwave station that was inaugurated in 1938 was KZRF, which was actually a sister station to the well known KZRM mentioned just a little earlier here in this program. The studios for station KZRF, with the callsign indicating Radio Filipino, were located in the Insular Life Insurance Building, and it was owned by what was then known as the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation. They operated on 6140 kHz with 1 kW and the program relay was from mediumwave KZEG.
During the following year 1939, five more shortwave stations were inaugurated, three as fixed land stations and two as mobile stations.
Station KZEH was heard in the United States on 9585 kHz, but its appearance on shortwave was very short lived. Station KZHS lasted no longer, and it was heard in Australia on 9580 kHz. Perhaps the two shortwave stations KZEH & KZHS were in reality, just the one station.
The new 1939 station KZRH fared much better. They installed their studios on the seventh floor of the Heacock Building with the transmitters on the roof. This station was inaugurated in July 1939 with 1 kW on any of three different shortwave channels. The callsign KZRH identified their slogan, Radio Heacock. On their second anniversary, they made a special broadcast with the Italian passenger liner, Benemato, which carried the Philippine callsign KZSN.
The new 1939 station KZRH fared much better. They installed their studios on the seventh floor of the Heacock Building with the transmitters on the roof. This station was inaugurated in July 1939 with 1 kW on any of three different shortwave channels. The callsign KZRH identified their slogan, Radio Heacock. On their second anniversary, they made a special broadcast with the Italian passenger liner, Benemato, which carried the Philippine callsign KZSN.
The two mobile stations under the callsign KZRB and rated at 1 kW were owned by the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, with which the afore mentioned KZRF & KZRM were affiliated. Station KZRB was noted in early November in Australia on 11850 kHz.
The two mobile stations were established for the purpose of relaying programs from an outside broadcast back to the studios of the parent stations. If the full details were known, perhaps we could guess that the main mobile unit was licensed as KZRB, standing for Radio Broadcast, and the other unit was licensed with the sequential callsign KZRA.
Finally, two more shortwave stations were added to the Philippine radio scene; KZRC Cebu in 1940, and a government defense station in Manila, KZND in 1941.
Station KZRC was the only pre-war shortwave station located in a regional city in the Philippines; Cebu City on Cebu Island. It was first heard in Australia in March 1940 on 6100 kHz, a channel previously in use from the parent Manila station KZRH. Station KZRC, Radio Cebu, both shortwave & mediumwave, were inaugurated simultaneously, with 1 kW on each channel, and the studios were located in the Heacock Building in the southern city of Cebu.
It should also be stated that radio station KZRC in Cebu remained on the air as the last independent Philippine radio station right up until June 1942, until taken over by the Japanese occupation forces.
It should also be stated that radio station KZRC in Cebu remained on the air as the last independent Philippine radio station right up until June 1942, until taken over by the Japanese occupation forces.
The last shortwave station to be inaugurated before the Japanese invasion was operated by the Department of National Defense in Manila under the callsign KZND. This was a low powered station of just 600 watts and it operated at first on 8790 kHz with subsequent test broadcasts on 9515 kHz. This station was on the air only during the last half of the year 1941.
QSL cards and letters were issued by several of these exotic shortwave stations located in the Philippines. Cards from KZRM with the large red callsign letters were often reported by international radio monitors in the Pacific Rim. Stations KZRF & KZRH also issued QSL cards, and KZND verified by letter. The provincial station KZRC in Cebu issued a particularly attractive QSL card, printed in pink & black.
QSL cards and letters were issued by several of these exotic shortwave stations located in the Philippines. Cards from KZRM with the large red callsign letters were often reported by international radio monitors in the Pacific Rim. Stations KZRF & KZRH also issued QSL cards, and KZND verified by letter. The provincial station KZRC in Cebu issued a particularly attractive QSL card, printed in pink & black.
It becomes evident that the increased activity with the bevy of new shortwave stations in the Philippines at the end of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s was in direct response to the bristling of political events on the part of the major powers across the Pacific. At the end of the year 1941, there were nine shortwave broadcast transmitters on the air in the Philippines. These were all rated at 1 kW, except for KZND at 600 watts, and one of the KZRH transmitters that was rated at 10 kW.
In the interests of the historical events of the era, we list in alphabetic order, all of the shortwave broadcasting stations that were on the air in the Philippines at the end of the year 1941:-
* Manila KZIB 1 kW Mr. I. Beck
KZND .6 National Defense
KZRA (?) 1 Radio Broadcast, station A (?), mobile
KZRB 1 Radio Broadcast (?), mobile
KZRF 1 Radio Filipinas
KZRH 1 @ 1 kW & 1 @ 10 kW Radio Heacock
KZRM 1 Radio Manila
* Cebu KZRC 1 Radio Cebu
(AWR/Wavescan NWS64 via Adrian Peterson)
* Manila KZIB 1 kW Mr. I. Beck
KZND .6 National Defense
KZRA (?) 1 Radio Broadcast, station A (?), mobile
KZRB 1 Radio Broadcast (?), mobile
KZRF 1 Radio Filipinas
KZRH 1 @ 1 kW & 1 @ 10 kW Radio Heacock
KZRM 1 Radio Manila
* Cebu KZRC 1 Radio Cebu
(AWR/Wavescan NWS64 via Adrian Peterson)
Engineers Install Additional Shortwave Stations in Central African Republic
Imagine living in a country where you can't access the Internet, watch television, read newspapers or even receive mail. Except in Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), that's what life is like for most of the country's 4.5 million residents. Their lifeline to the rest of the world? Radio. People in C.AR., a country about the size of Texas, depend on radio broadcasts to keep informed. Almost every village has a radio, and some have more than one. The sets are affordable, costing as little as US$6, usually coming from countries such as Nigeria and Niger. The radios typically have FM, shortwave and medium-wave bands.
Until 2005 there were only six private FM stations and one governmental shortwave station in this country where villagers have a life expectancy of just 44 years. It was then that Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a partner of HCJB Global, was granted permission to open the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station, Radio ICDI.
In early 2006 the ministry acquired an eight-acre tract of land on the plateau above the town of Boali. A road to the transmitter site was built, and electricity was installed. Equipment was transported in large shipping containers, and eventually one of the 20-foot-long metal containers was converted into a studio and transmitter building.A year later a team from
HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., spent three weeks at the broadcast site, installed the first shortwave radio station. They also put in two satellite downlinks that provided access to the Internet and made it possible to receive French-language Christian programming from Trans World Radio, another HCJB Global partner.
Last month HCJB Global engineers returned to C.A.R. to put in two additional regional shortwave radio stations in Boali, similar to the station installed in 2007. One of the new stations will help extend the broadcast hours of the existing ICDI station into the nighttime. Each station only works well during a portion of each day because of how shortwave signals travel through
the atmosphere.
The new ICDI radio stations will provide more programming opportunities for broadcasting the gospel across C.A.R. in Sango (the country's trade language), French and various tribal dialects. Additional hours will also increase the opportunity to air more community development programs on AIDS prevention, orphan care, well-water repair programs and many other relevant humanitarian topics.
Curt Bender, manager of broadcast services at HCJB Global in Elkhart, said, "I want to give the Lord recognition for sustaining our team through two difficult installations in the past three years and to praise Him for the success."
For more information visit http://www.icdinternational.org/
(HCJB Global,Jean Muehlfelt via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)
Until 2005 there were only six private FM stations and one governmental shortwave station in this country where villagers have a life expectancy of just 44 years. It was then that Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a partner of HCJB Global, was granted permission to open the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station, Radio ICDI.
In early 2006 the ministry acquired an eight-acre tract of land on the plateau above the town of Boali. A road to the transmitter site was built, and electricity was installed. Equipment was transported in large shipping containers, and eventually one of the 20-foot-long metal containers was converted into a studio and transmitter building.A year later a team from
HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., spent three weeks at the broadcast site, installed the first shortwave radio station. They also put in two satellite downlinks that provided access to the Internet and made it possible to receive French-language Christian programming from Trans World Radio, another HCJB Global partner.
Last month HCJB Global engineers returned to C.A.R. to put in two additional regional shortwave radio stations in Boali, similar to the station installed in 2007. One of the new stations will help extend the broadcast hours of the existing ICDI station into the nighttime. Each station only works well during a portion of each day because of how shortwave signals travel through
the atmosphere.
The new ICDI radio stations will provide more programming opportunities for broadcasting the gospel across C.A.R. in Sango (the country's trade language), French and various tribal dialects. Additional hours will also increase the opportunity to air more community development programs on AIDS prevention, orphan care, well-water repair programs and many other relevant humanitarian topics.
Curt Bender, manager of broadcast services at HCJB Global in Elkhart, said, "I want to give the Lord recognition for sustaining our team through two difficult installations in the past three years and to praise Him for the success."
For more information visit http://www.icdinternational.org/
(HCJB Global,Jean Muehlfelt via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Radio Australia A10 English summer schedule
Effective to: 30 October 2010
broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated
Radio Australia
English
All times UTC target areas: as (Asia) pa (Pacific)
0000-0100 9660pa 12080pa 13690pa 15230pa 15415as 17750as 17715pa 17795pa
0100-0200 9660pa 12080pa 13690pa 15230pa 15415as 17750as 17715pa 17795pa
0200-0300 9660pa 12080pa 13690pa 15230pa 15415as 15515pa 17750as 21725pa
0300-0400 9660pa 12080pa 13690pa 15230pa 15415as 15515pa 17750as 21725pa
0400-0500 9660pa 12080pa 13690pa 15230pa 15415as 15515pa 17750as 21725pa
0500-0600 9660pa 12080pa 13630as 15160pa 15230pa 15415as 17750as
0600-0630 Sat/Sun 15290as
0600-0700 9660pa 12080pa 13630as 13690pa 15160pa 15230pa 17750as
0700-0800 9475as 9660pa 9710pa 11945pa 12080pa
0800-0900 5995pa 9475as 9580pa 9590pa 9710pa 11945pa 12080pa 13630as
0900-1000 9475as 9580pa 9590pa 11945pa
1000-1100 9475as 9580pa 9590pa 11945pa
1100-1200 5995pa 6020pa 9475as 9580pa 9590pa 9965as 11945pa
1100-1200 DRM 12080pa
1200-1300 6020pa 9475as 9580pa 9965as 11945pa
1200-1300 DRM 5995pa
1300-1400 6020pa 9580pa 9590pa
1300-1400 DRM 5995pa
1400-1500 6080pa 7240pa 9590pa
1430-1500 9475as 11660as
1500-1600 5995pa 6080pa 7240pa 9475as 9590pa 11660as
1600-1700 5995pa 6080pa 7240pa 9465as 9710pa 11660as
1700-1800 5995pa 6080pa 9475as 9510pa 9710pa 11880pa
1800-1900 6080pa 7240pa 9475as 9510pa 9710pa 11880pa
1900-2000 6080pa 7240pa 9500as 9510pa 9710pa 11810pa
2000-2100 6080pa 11650pa 11660pa 11880pa
2000-2100 Sat/Sun 6080pa 7240pa 12080pa
2100-2200 9500as 9660pa 11650pa 11660pa 11695as 12080pa 13630pa 15515pa
2200-2300 9660pa 11695as 11875as 12080pa 13630pa 15230pa 15240as 15415as 15515pa 15560pa
2300-2330 11695as 15240as 17795pa
2300-0000 9660pa 11875as 12080pa 13690pa 15560pa 17750as
(WRTH 05 update)
Monday, May 17, 2010
New VOA programs target English audience
Washington, D.C., May 17, 2010 – Voice of America has unveiled a dynamic new lineup of interactive radio programs and Web features aimed at expanding its English-speaking audience around the world.
Three new radio programs, Daybreak Asia, Crossroads Asia, and Middle East Monitor, focus on key developments in each region, with in-depth features, more newsmaker interviews and dynamic interaction with listeners, viewers and website visitors. Another program, International Edition, provides lively, fast-paced world news coverage, and American Café brings you stories about life in the United States.
Listen to VOA programs and explore the new Web features at http://www.voanews.com/ .
VOA English Programs Director John Stevenson describes the new programs as, “for and about the people in the regions, providing the story behind the story, with more background and analysis, increased use of graphics on our website and more social networking with sites like Facebook.”
VOA English has an estimated global weekly radio audience of more than 11 million people. VOA newscasts and programs are available on a host of platforms, including our website, via podcasting, social networking sites, radio and television affiliate stations around the world, and now on VOA’s upgraded mobile phone site http://english.voa.mobi/ .
Other languages are also available by going to http://www1.voanews.com/english/mobile/ and selecting from the list.
(VOA)
Three new radio programs, Daybreak Asia, Crossroads Asia, and Middle East Monitor, focus on key developments in each region, with in-depth features, more newsmaker interviews and dynamic interaction with listeners, viewers and website visitors. Another program, International Edition, provides lively, fast-paced world news coverage, and American Café brings you stories about life in the United States.
Listen to VOA programs and explore the new Web features at http://www.voanews.com/ .
VOA English Programs Director John Stevenson describes the new programs as, “for and about the people in the regions, providing the story behind the story, with more background and analysis, increased use of graphics on our website and more social networking with sites like Facebook.”
VOA English has an estimated global weekly radio audience of more than 11 million people. VOA newscasts and programs are available on a host of platforms, including our website, via podcasting, social networking sites, radio and television affiliate stations around the world, and now on VOA’s upgraded mobile phone site http://english.voa.mobi/ .
Other languages are also available by going to http://www1.voanews.com/english/mobile/ and selecting from the list.
(VOA)
Friday, May 14, 2010
Radio City relay set for Saturday broadcast
This Saturday the 15th of May 2010 Radio City will return to the airwaves via Nexus (ex. IRRS) with 150 kW on 9515 kHz.
The time slot is 08.00 - 09.00 UTC
Our contact address is still citymorecars@yahoo.ca
Best regards,
Radio City - the Station of the Cars
(Tom Taylor)
Blog Logs - South America
All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on/ sign-off*Argentina
6060, Radio Argentina, 0956-1005. Interval signal here at 0956 repeating over and over the same eight notes. On the hour, five time ticks followed by music. After some Spanish comments, a female talks in Japanese at 1007. Signal poor and fading in and out (Chuck Bolland, FL)
15345.13, Radio Nacional, 2320-2335. Spanish programming with possible futebol coverage. Very weak. Much stronger on // 6059.99. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Bolivia
3309.98, Radio Mosoj Chaski Cochabamba, 0941. Spanish. Brief announcer between local music selections. Signal poor. (Scott Barbour-NH)
3310.0, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 0110-0124. Quechua ann and Andean songs. Best heard in USB, poor under powerful utility transmitter. (Petersen and Timofeyev). Also heard at 0950-1007, signal fair with rustic morning program, yippy vocals. Starting to break up by 1007. Noted here many mornings and, sadly, often the only station audible at this hour on 90m along with presumed Brazil on 3375. (Herkimer in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)
4699.96, Radio San Miguel Riberalta, 0928. Spanish. Announcer talk between ballads. Poor signal quality. (Scott Barbour-NH)
4699.96, Radio San Miguel Riberalta, 0002-0018. Spanish. Male announcer over lite music. Ballads and more talk over lite music throughout. Signal poor-fair (Scott Barbour, NH)
4716.75, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 2354-0010. Spanish. Although the station is still on after the top of the hour, it does not maintain its previous level. Its quality continous to decline from a poor to threshold (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5952.47, Radio Pio XII, Siglo Veinte, 2305-0020. Spanish, mostly talks including one interview, march music, dialogue in uboth sides and RTTY interference. (Bell, Bernardini and Timofeyev/DX Window 401)
6134.80,Radio Santa Cruz, 1003-1015. Male/female duo in possibly a Spanish language lesson. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 0100-0112.* Spanish pops/ballads. Ads. ID announcements at 0108. Abrupt sign off during Bolivian music. Fair signal(Brian Alexander, PA)
6155.328, Radio Fides, 1018-1030. Very threshold signal, noted announcer's Spanish
comments. Hetrodyne observed from a second station on 6155 KHz making the copy difficult (Chuck Bolland, FL).
Brazil
4875, Radio Difusora Roriama Boa Vista, 0308-0330. English/Portuguese. Contemporary English religous music. Fire & brimstone preacher in Portuguese, announcer over music with Santa Maria's. Station ID announcement at 0329 into ballad. Signal fair-good. (Scott Barbour-NH)
4875.52, Radio Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, 0945-1030 and 2330-0404.* Portuguese program Falando de Deus to station as, "através do programa da Radio Roraima." Religious music, Bible texts and phone-in, Signal S-3. (D’Angelo, Aragão and Wilkner). Back after one year’s absence. (DX Window 401)
4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, PA, 0355-0630. Portuguese, music, announcements and Brazilian songs. Announcement; "Clube da Madrugada, Bom dia para você". SINPO 35343. (Beryozkin and Méndez/DX Window 401)
4915, Radio Difusora, Macapá, AP, 0601-0610. Brazilian songs, ID at 0603as: "Radiodifusora Macapá, 630 AM, a radio da Amazonia, 24 horas no ar." SINPO 34433 (Méndez/DX Window 401)
4985, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, GO, 0538. Easy pop ballad and acoustic guitar, best Brazilian on the band at that time. (Bell/DX Window 401)
5045, Radio Cultura de Pará, Belem, PA, 0026 and 0540-0625. Nice jazz songs, Brazilian songs and talk. Light interferene noted from Radio Habana Cuba on 5040, SINPO 23222. (Bernardini and Méndez/DX Window 401)
5939.97, Radio Guaruja Paulista, Guaruja, SP, 2129-2133. Portuguese talks, fair with fading and local noise. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)
5939.95, Radio Voz Missionária, Florianópolis, 2335-2350. Preacher in Portuguese. Religious music. Poor in noisy conditions. Weaker on // 9665.09, 11749.88. (Brian Alexander, PA)
6009.95, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 2350-0010. Brazilian ballads. ID at 2358. Portuguese announcements. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
9505, Radio Record, São Paulo, SP, 1945-1953 and 2204-2209. Advertising-like short talks in Portuguese with musical pauses, talks with listeners by phone on "amor" subject, signal poor-fair. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401
9565.23, Super Radio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, PR, 2045. Portuguese talk, fair with heterodyne // 11765 almost good with some fading. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401)
9818.74, Radio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, SP, 0555-0710. Religious program in Portuguese, SINPO 24322. (Méndez). Also heard at 2215-2220 and 0402, Portuguese talk with short musical pause, poor with CNR on 9820.0, but fair at 0402. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)
11735.92, Radio Transmundial, Santa Maria, 2000-2010.* Presumed with Portuguese talk by man and woman. Abrupt sign off. Poor in noisy conditions(Brian Alexander, PA)
11855.05, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, SP, 0903-0910. Transmission from Sunday Mass in Portuguese, SINPO 24432. (Méndez). Also heard at 2113-2118, Portuguese talks, Brazilian song, fair with fading and local noise // 9629.94 poor-fair. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401)
Guyana
3290, Presumed GBC Georgetown, 0926-0940. English. Continuos ballads and presumed religous music. Conditions noisy and quickly unusable due to locl New Haphshire sunrise (Scott Barbour-NH)
3289.98, Voice of Guyana, 0620-073.2+ Tentative logging with English talk. BBC news programming. “BBC World Service” ID at 0700 and at 0732. Poor in noisy conditions.
Guyana has been heard in the past broadcasting BBC and VOA programming (Brian Alexander, PA).
Peru
3329.55, Ondas Del Huallaga, 0955-1005. Spanish comments noted during the entire period, over background music. On the hour it seems like a female joined in. Signal was poor and best heard in LSB due to the presence of CHU. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
3329.56, Radio Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 0236-0241. Spanish talk, Andean-like music, poor with CHU on 3330. (Timofeyev). Also heard at 1030 with usual Spanish talk, off seemingly for the two previous days. (Wilkner/DX Window 401)
4746.93, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1028-1035. Uual Peruvian Huaynos type music at tune in. At 1034 music stops for a moment and canned promos and ID's heard. Signal was fair to poor during the period. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4789.90, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0404-0415. Spanish public sermon with prayer with numerous repetitions “Gloria, Gloria, Gloria”, “Señor”, etc., SINPO 35343. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)
4835.45, Radio Maranon, 1015-1030. Spanish comments from announcers between music. Signal was fair to poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
6019.28, Radio Victoria, Lima, 2318 and 0404. v Spanish talks, fragment of some song, poor, but quite good at 0404. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer). Also heard at 0955-1030 Spanish comments by the "weeping preacher". (Bolland/DSX Window 401)
Suriname
4990.0, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0321-0351. Pop songs, talks with periodic interference from Russian utility stations and splashes from Radio Brasil Central on 4985, 25332. (Beryozkin and Timofeyev). Also heard at 0903-1000, Dutch comments, 0954 canned promos, poor signal (Bolland/DX WIndow 401)
UK Rocks the World slated for Sunday broadcast
Dear Listener,
UK Rocks The World will be back on the air on Sunday 16th May at 15:00 UTC.
Frequency: 15.760 MHz
Target Area: North America (but reception reports worldwide gratefully received)
Please tune in and record MP3's of your reception.
We look forward to receiving your feedback.
ENJOY!!!
Regards
The UK Rocks The World Team
(Tom Taylor, UK)
UK Rocks The World will be back on the air on Sunday 16th May at 15:00 UTC.
Frequency: 15.760 MHz
Target Area: North America (but reception reports worldwide gratefully received)
Please tune in and record MP3's of your reception.
We look forward to receiving your feedback.
ENJOY!!!
Regards
The UK Rocks The World Team
(Tom Taylor, UK)
Radio Netherlands Program Preview, May 15-21
Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands Worldwide's English Service - a list of the new programmes coming up on Radio Netherlands Worldwide this week, beginning on Saturday.
SATURDAY 15 MAY
*** The State We're In ***
Love by numbers: Robyn and Jesus live together in Colorado, but they also have other emotional and sexual relationships. They are, in fact, polyamorous. As they tell Jonathan Groubert, they feel this arrangement has deepened their sense of intimacy, but it's not without jealousy.
What the wedding musician sees: When it comes to wedding ceremonies, Penelope Bergen has seen it all. She's played in a string quartet at dozens of weddings, and enjoyed the unique position to observe the different ways people choose to tie the knot.
Wedding photos without Mao: When Mao ruled China, extravagant weddings and beautiful pictures were impossible - even dangerous. As Karen Meirik reports, some older Chinese couples are making up for lost time and taking the wedding pictures they always wanted.
The art of attraction: Kezia Noble doesn't believe in chemistry, romance or mystery when it comes to attracting the fairer sex. As she tells host Jonathan Groubert, for a fee, she can train almost any man to become a master of seduction.
Age is no barrier: The State We're In producer Chris Chambers was 31 when he interviewed the nonagenarian, self-styled 'Queen of Romance' Barbara Cartland. He wasn't relishing the meeting at her country estate. It turned into an afternoon he will never forget.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Network Europe Week ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe. If you missed any editions of Network Europe satisfy your needs with this digest of the programme's top stories.`
This week:
· It's been an historic week in the UK, where the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government for the first time -but some Lib Dem supporters are concerned about the deal.
· EU finance ministers made history this week, setting up an emergency fund worth a staggering 500 billion euros to save the euro.
· A look at the human side of the Greek financial crisis.
· Slovenians debate abolishing their armed forces.
· As the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, we look at low-budget movie-making.
· Looking to dump your mate? Our webmaster has found a website that does the dirty work for you.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America
SUNDAY 16 MAY
*** Radio Books ***
'It Exists' - by Annelies Verbeke
Flemish writer Annelies Verbeke won the Debut Prize for her first novel in 2004. She often writes about underdogs. Her contribution for Radio Books is a tragic-comic tale of a supermarket cashier daydreaming of passion and romance as customers come and go.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
18.30 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.30 North America
14.40 Europe
*** Network Europe Extra ***
Arts and Culture brought to you each Sunday from Europe's widest partnership of international broadcasters.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
1530 South Asia 11835, 15745
MONDAY 17 MAY
*** Classic Dox ***
'The Master's Menagerie' (Orig. Broadcast May 2000)
During the Dutch Golden Age, painters depicted domestic and exotic animals in all styles and genres. The director of the Amsterdam zoo and various art experts guide producer David Swatling through the Dutch animal kingdom of the 17th century as painted by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and many others.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe
*** European Jazz Stage/World Music ***
Three big bands on stage this week, all from the Netherlands. Swing it out with Benjamin Herman's New Cool Collective, enjoy the arrangements of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and be swayed by the Big Band of the Metropole Orchestra. All of that, on European Jazz Stage with guest host Hans Mantel.
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
A variety of genres, with Debussy's 'danced legend' Khamma, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, and Holliger's Six Lieder. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Heinz Holiger, with soloists Louis Lortie, piano, and soprano Monique Krüs. The concert is hosted by Hans Haffmans.
*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***
Love by numbers: Robyn and Jesus live together in Colorado, but they also have other emotional and sexual relationships. They are, in fact, polyamorous. As they tell Jonathan Groubert, they feel this arrangement has deepened their sense of intimacy, but it's not without jealousy.
What the wedding musician sees: When it comes to wedding ceremonies, Penelope Bergen has seen it all. She's played in a string quartet at dozens of weddings, and enjoyed the unique position to observe the different ways people choose to tie the knot.
Wedding photos without Mao: When Mao ruled China, extravagant weddings and beautiful pictures were impossible - even dangerous. As Karen Meirik reports, some older Chinese couples are making up for lost time and taking the wedding pictures they always wanted.
TUESDAY 18 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Commonwealth Story ***
A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
'The Colour of Rain' - by Terri-Anne Green from Australia. A tender and moving story of drought and childhood innocence.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. On the programme are symphonies by Schumann and Brahms. Your host is Hans Haffmans.
*** Classic Dox ***
'Buffalo Nation' (Orig. Broadcast January 2005)
Romantic images of the Old West feature majestic buffalo thundering across the Great Plains in the company of Indians on horseback. In the battle for control of the Plains, the buffalo was almost wiped out. Producer Martha Hawley explores how ranchers are working to restore the herds as Native American traditional culture is being revived.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
1530 South Asia 11835, 15745
MONDAY 17 MAY
*** Classic Dox ***
'The Master's Menagerie' (Orig. Broadcast May 2000)
During the Dutch Golden Age, painters depicted domestic and exotic animals in all styles and genres. The director of the Amsterdam zoo and various art experts guide producer David Swatling through the Dutch animal kingdom of the 17th century as painted by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and many others.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe
*** European Jazz Stage/World Music ***
Three big bands on stage this week, all from the Netherlands. Swing it out with Benjamin Herman's New Cool Collective, enjoy the arrangements of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and be swayed by the Big Band of the Metropole Orchestra. All of that, on European Jazz Stage with guest host Hans Mantel.
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
A variety of genres, with Debussy's 'danced legend' Khamma, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, and Holliger's Six Lieder. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Heinz Holiger, with soloists Louis Lortie, piano, and soprano Monique Krüs. The concert is hosted by Hans Haffmans.
*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***
Love by numbers: Robyn and Jesus live together in Colorado, but they also have other emotional and sexual relationships. They are, in fact, polyamorous. As they tell Jonathan Groubert, they feel this arrangement has deepened their sense of intimacy, but it's not without jealousy.
What the wedding musician sees: When it comes to wedding ceremonies, Penelope Bergen has seen it all. She's played in a string quartet at dozens of weddings, and enjoyed the unique position to observe the different ways people choose to tie the knot.
Wedding photos without Mao: When Mao ruled China, extravagant weddings and beautiful pictures were impossible - even dangerous. As Karen Meirik reports, some older Chinese couples are making up for lost time and taking the wedding pictures they always wanted.
TUESDAY 18 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Commonwealth Story ***
A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
'The Colour of Rain' - by Terri-Anne Green from Australia. A tender and moving story of drought and childhood innocence.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. On the programme are symphonies by Schumann and Brahms. Your host is Hans Haffmans.
*** Classic Dox ***
'Buffalo Nation' (Orig. Broadcast January 2005)
Romantic images of the Old West feature majestic buffalo thundering across the Great Plains in the company of Indians on horseback. In the battle for control of the Plains, the buffalo was almost wiped out. Producer Martha Hawley explores how ranchers are working to restore the herds as Native American traditional culture is being revived.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
WEDNESDAY 19 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Reloaded ***
Weekly highlights presented by Mindy Ran
*** Classic Dox ***
'The Winged Muse' (Orig. Broadcast June 2004)
The regal, enchanting swan has inspired so much memorable poetry, music and imagery that one might almost forget that this beautiful, long-necked creature also has a private life off-stage in Nature. Producer Marijke van der Meer portrays both aspects of the life of a swan: as a bird and as a work of art.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
THURSDAY 20 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** The State We're In - South Asia edition ***
We all need to eat - but we also need to eat healthy. And with mass-produced, factory-made foods becoming a way of life even in rural India, it's a growing concern for all of us. Join Chhavi on The State We're In - India edition for a look at the people's response to mass- produced food in China, Ivory Coast and Australia.
*** Earth Beat - South Asia edition ***
This week we're looking at several interlinked pieces of a large puzzle - getting back to basics. Join your host Chhavi as we hear from kids in a Canadian school as well as former prisoners in Nigeria's slums who have started farming their own vegetables to sell; we hear from a man in rural India who promotes decent toilets as the best way for women's emancipation and, finally, we look at the honeybee, a great measure of the health of a garden.
*** South Asia Wired ***
Listen to South Asia Wired for the full story behind the news from the region.
*** Classic Dox ***
'A Boat Trip through Borneo' (Orig. Broadcast May 2005) The wildlife habitat of Borneo has been sited as one of the most endangered places on earth. The World Wildlife Fund leads a campaign called "Heart of Borneo" to try and stop various threats like the illegal pet-trade in orangutans. Producer Anne Blair Gould meets orphan orangutan babies and a wild male
orangutan named Beethoven.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
FRIDAY 21 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Bridges with Africa ***
We're giving the microphone to Diaspora groups in Europe and are linking up with stations in Africa. The show goes beyond the clichés of starving children and war-ridden countries and seeks to bring you genuine voices from a vibrant continent.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Earth Beat ***
Natural nappies - they're safe for baby, AND cheap... AND good... but don't tell anyone they're eco-friendly! "First of all: health, second of all: health, third: health. The ecological argument is the last one to be considered - still - when I talk about diapers." Marketing cloth diapers in Poland in the next edition of Earth Beat.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
*** Classic Dox ***
'In the Shark's Domain' (Orig. Broadcast October 2001) No matter how safe we feel, we are always at the mercy of a predator. We could be swimming at our favourite beach and suddenly a shark mistakes us for lunch. We could be living in a small town and be shot by a man who hears God's voice telling him to do it. Producer Dheera Sujan draws unsettling parallels between
sharks and serial killers.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC
(R Netherlands)
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
WEDNESDAY 19 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Reloaded ***
Weekly highlights presented by Mindy Ran
*** Classic Dox ***
'The Winged Muse' (Orig. Broadcast June 2004)
The regal, enchanting swan has inspired so much memorable poetry, music and imagery that one might almost forget that this beautiful, long-necked creature also has a private life off-stage in Nature. Producer Marijke van der Meer portrays both aspects of the life of a swan: as a bird and as a work of art.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
THURSDAY 20 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** The State We're In - South Asia edition ***
We all need to eat - but we also need to eat healthy. And with mass-produced, factory-made foods becoming a way of life even in rural India, it's a growing concern for all of us. Join Chhavi on The State We're In - India edition for a look at the people's response to mass- produced food in China, Ivory Coast and Australia.
*** Earth Beat - South Asia edition ***
This week we're looking at several interlinked pieces of a large puzzle - getting back to basics. Join your host Chhavi as we hear from kids in a Canadian school as well as former prisoners in Nigeria's slums who have started farming their own vegetables to sell; we hear from a man in rural India who promotes decent toilets as the best way for women's emancipation and, finally, we look at the honeybee, a great measure of the health of a garden.
*** South Asia Wired ***
Listen to South Asia Wired for the full story behind the news from the region.
*** Classic Dox ***
'A Boat Trip through Borneo' (Orig. Broadcast May 2005) The wildlife habitat of Borneo has been sited as one of the most endangered places on earth. The World Wildlife Fund leads a campaign called "Heart of Borneo" to try and stop various threats like the illegal pet-trade in orangutans. Producer Anne Blair Gould meets orphan orangutan babies and a wild male
orangutan named Beethoven.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
FRIDAY 21 MAY
*** Network Europe ***
A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters
A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Bridges with Africa ***
We're giving the microphone to Diaspora groups in Europe and are linking up with stations in Africa. The show goes beyond the clichés of starving children and war-ridden countries and seeks to bring you genuine voices from a vibrant continent.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Earth Beat ***
Natural nappies - they're safe for baby, AND cheap... AND good... but don't tell anyone they're eco-friendly! "First of all: health, second of all: health, third: health. The ecological argument is the last one to be considered - still - when I talk about diapers." Marketing cloth diapers in Poland in the next edition of Earth Beat.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
*** Classic Dox ***
'In the Shark's Domain' (Orig. Broadcast October 2001) No matter how safe we feel, we are always at the mercy of a predator. We could be swimming at our favourite beach and suddenly a shark mistakes us for lunch. We could be living in a small town and be shot by a man who hears God's voice telling him to do it. Producer Dheera Sujan draws unsettling parallels between
sharks and serial killers.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC
(R Netherlands)
chasing pirate radio on shortwave
thanks to the folks from Free Radio Weekly for sharing last weeks newsletter. Enjoy todays selection, and see what you can hear this weekend.
All times UTC *sign-on /sign-off*
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6924.7v AM. 2323. Another huge signal from the Captain, started off S8 then soon up to S9+10. Playing lots of oldie blues numbers. Station ID and email address. Slowly drifting downward. (Elvis, TN)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6924.6 AM, 0016-0052.* Program of jazz, blues, and vocals hosted by Captain Morgan with several IDs and e-mail address as captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com , but IDs and address were generally lost in the noise until around 0048 and 0052. Poor to fair signal quality (D’Angelo-PA)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6924.6 AM 2320, SINPO 35323. Audio slightly muffled, ID even more so. but clearly Capt Morgan cutting through the static crashs (Ragnar)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6925.5 USB, 0125. Mistress Evilena talking about various topics. Signal S7, co-channel with 6925 AM playing music. Evilena off around 0130, and immediately heard the Twilight Zone theme and blues songs, 6924.8 AM, signal S9/S15 with noted thunderstorm noise. Captain Morgan ID at 0134. Best I've heard Captain Morgan here in many months. Crosstown Traffic, and Tzone theme again at 0138. Extended music and comedy set. Off at 0238. (Will, MD)
CYOT
6950.4 AM 0049, SINPO 45333. Some kind of wonderful, five minute mystery, All Summer Long. Coyote Radio ID at 0123 (Ragnar)
Derby Shortwave
6930 USB, 0034. Derby Shortwave is one the air! Bugle call, Old Kentucky Home song, ID and email. Signal fair to good. (Elvis, TN)
Derby Shortwave
6930 USB 0030-0048, SINPO 35343. Station on with Old Kentucky Home song. Kentucky Derby horse race. (Ragnar)
Northwoods Radio
6935 USB, 0139-0152. Music program with ID mentioning, “broadcasting freedom from the Great Lakes.” Song, My Best Friend’s Girlfriend followed. Signal fair (D’Angelo-PA)
Outhouse Radio
6925 USB, 0138, SIO 433. Some odd propagation effects but very strong signal. Bad Boys tune. Signals slightly drifting. Station ID at 0143, into rap music (Fansome, PA)
Radio Cinco de Mayo
6925 USB, 0124, SINPO 35333. Announcer with faux Mexican accent to ID. Mexican music. Signal down to the noise floor at 0142 (Ragnar)
Wind Up Radio
6952.10 USB, Parody of Georgia Satellites tune, Keep Your Hands to Yourself. Very strong signal with good conditions, S9/S15. Occasionally, an equally strong utility fires up on 6955 and causes a squeal. Wind Up Radio station identification at 0103. Friendly Little Cat tune at 0104. Low fidelty audio. Goodbyes and sign off at 0119. (Will, MD)
Wolverine Radio
6950 USB, 0234. On the air with outstanding S9+10 signal into Barenaked Ladies Testing 1,2,3 then into Cream songs. (Elvis, TN)
(FRW 743 via Bill Finn)
All times UTC *sign-on /sign-off*
Captain Morgan Shortwave 6924.7v AM. 2323. Another huge signal from the Captain, started off S8 then soon up to S9+10. Playing lots of oldie blues numbers. Station ID and email address. Slowly drifting downward. (Elvis, TN)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6924.6 AM, 0016-0052.* Program of jazz, blues, and vocals hosted by Captain Morgan with several IDs and e-mail address as captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com , but IDs and address were generally lost in the noise until around 0048 and 0052. Poor to fair signal quality (D’Angelo-PA)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6924.6 AM 2320, SINPO 35323. Audio slightly muffled, ID even more so. but clearly Capt Morgan cutting through the static crashs (Ragnar)
Captain Morgan Shortwave
6925.5 USB, 0125. Mistress Evilena talking about various topics. Signal S7, co-channel with 6925 AM playing music. Evilena off around 0130, and immediately heard the Twilight Zone theme and blues songs, 6924.8 AM, signal S9/S15 with noted thunderstorm noise. Captain Morgan ID at 0134. Best I've heard Captain Morgan here in many months. Crosstown Traffic, and Tzone theme again at 0138. Extended music and comedy set. Off at 0238. (Will, MD)
CYOT
6950.4 AM 0049, SINPO 45333. Some kind of wonderful, five minute mystery, All Summer Long. Coyote Radio ID at 0123 (Ragnar)
Derby Shortwave 6930 USB, 0034. Derby Shortwave is one the air! Bugle call, Old Kentucky Home song, ID and email. Signal fair to good. (Elvis, TN)
Derby Shortwave
6930 USB 0030-0048, SINPO 35343. Station on with Old Kentucky Home song. Kentucky Derby horse race. (Ragnar)
Northwoods Radio
6935 USB, 0139-0152. Music program with ID mentioning, “broadcasting freedom from the Great Lakes.” Song, My Best Friend’s Girlfriend followed. Signal fair (D’Angelo-PA)
Outhouse Radio
6925 USB, 0138, SIO 433. Some odd propagation effects but very strong signal. Bad Boys tune. Signals slightly drifting. Station ID at 0143, into rap music (Fansome, PA)
Radio Cinco de Mayo
6925 USB, 0124, SINPO 35333. Announcer with faux Mexican accent to ID. Mexican music. Signal down to the noise floor at 0142 (Ragnar)
Wind Up Radio
6952.10 USB, Parody of Georgia Satellites tune, Keep Your Hands to Yourself. Very strong signal with good conditions, S9/S15. Occasionally, an equally strong utility fires up on 6955 and causes a squeal. Wind Up Radio station identification at 0103. Friendly Little Cat tune at 0104. Low fidelty audio. Goodbyes and sign off at 0119. (Will, MD)
Wolverine Radio
6950 USB, 0234. On the air with outstanding S9+10 signal into Barenaked Ladies Testing 1,2,3 then into Cream songs. (Elvis, TN)
(FRW 743 via Bill Finn)
Shortwave Blog "Bytes"
All times UTC
Clandestine activity
6135, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, via Yamata, 1421-1429.* A tearful story in Japanese, usual piano background music, (ex 5910). Had first tuned in to 5910 to hear a massive jamming noise there, but no Shiokaze, so I scanned the 49m band and found them up here. Believe it is the first time they have used this frequency; fair to good reception; in the clear and too soon for the North Korea jamming to have found them. (Ron Howard, CA/DX Window 401)
11500, Radio Dabanga, via Talata-Volonondry, prior to 1700. Broadcasting to Sudan. Arabic songs through top-of-the-hour, then man singing repeated IDs “Radio Dabanga, Radio Dabanga, Radio Dabanga”. Possible news followed in Sudanese with brief ann interspersed with even briefer music. Fair. (Harold Sellers, Canada/DX Window 401)
15410, Radio Y’Abaganda, via Issoudun, France. Ugandan clandestine, 1709. Repeating no service telephone announcement, tones and “we are sorry, you have reached...”, pause and then programming kicked in with two men in Swahili. This broadcast is on the air Saturday only, 1700-1800. Poor signal. (Harold Sellers, Canada/DX Window 401)
Clandestine, Voice of Tibet (VOT) radio service slammed the Chinese authorities on Thursday for jamming condolence messages from exiled Tibetans over the deadly earthquake in northwest China. The Oslo-based VOT said it had been including messages of support, solidarity and grief since Monday with its shortwave transmissions -- which are regularly jammed -- in both Tibetan and Mandarin.
After all broadcasts were blocked for two days, VOT decided to isolate the condolences from its regular Tibetan news and current affairs and send them in a separate daily transmission. "We informed the Chinese authorities of this and asked them to allow the transmissions, but again on Wednesday these special broadcasts were jammed," said VOT's editor-in-chief Karmna Yeshi, based in Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India. "All we wanted was to give a platform for Tibetans and other sympathisers to convey their messages to the victims of the earthquake, rescue workers and aid agencies," Yeshi said. "Unfortunately, our appeal to allow this on humanitarian grounds was ignored by the Chinese," he added.
Last week's 6.9-magnitude quake, which killed nearly 2,200 people, hit a remote region of the Tibetan plateau in northwestern China. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, had appealed to the government in Beijing to let him into China for the first time in 51 years to visit the quake zone in the region of Qinghai, where he was born. So far, Beijing has declined to respond directly to the request.
The condolences transmitted by VOT included messages from the Dalai Lama, other senior lamas, Tibet support groups and individual Tibetan exiles. VOT's director in Oslo, Oystein Alme, said the Chinese jamming was a "grave violation" of basic human rights. "There are on and off buttons also on Chinese radios. Why are the Chinese authorities so afraid they can not even allow the Tibetans to hear condolence messages from the outside world?" Alme said in a statement. VOT has been airing daily programmes in both Tibetan and Chinese on short wave to Tibet and China as well as India, Bhutan and Nepal since 1996. (Hindustan Times via Slaen, May 01/DX Window 401)
Germany cutbacks again
6085 co-channel. Rumours these days, Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich Ismaning will cease shortwave transmission 6085 kHz in DRM for ever, due of budget cuts. (BCDX 963/Top News)
Guam
12105. One of the KSDA Guam transmitters is bad in audio since few weeks now. Buzzy audio noted again from KSDA Guam in Chinese service at 1105 UT May 8th, S=3 weak. But at same time KSDA Indonesian and Sudanese progr is correct in audio on 15540 kHz in 11-12 UT slot.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)
Frequency change of KTWR Agat in Korean from May 2:
1400-1500 new freq 11750 TWR 100 kW 335 deg, ex15425
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 1)
(BCDX 963/Top News)
HCJB transmitter news
Web-blog of Dan Anderson mentions another transmitter will be installed by HCJB engineers as a gift for Radio Centrafrique at Bangui-Bimbo site. Frequency not yet announced but probably 5035 kHz. The website also has photos of antenna installation at both sites. Please note that these two transmitters are low power, rated only as 1kW. (Jari Savolainen-FIN, DXplorer May 8) (BCDX 963/Top News)
Indonesian monitoring
3995, RRI Kendari, 1251-1300, Apr 27, dialogue in Bahasa Indonesia, ann and songs, 1300 Song of the Coconut Islands interval signal, followed by news. Poor signal quality (Sellers). Also heard at 1450-1515. Bahasa Indonesian talk about internet, Indonesian music, interval signals at 1459'37, then news from Jakarta with some reports by phone (not //3325 at the same time) - poor with local noise and splashes from China National Radio 3990, 35443. (Beryozkin, and Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)
9526, Voice of Indonesia, Cimanggis, 1240-1352. Bahasa Indonesian talks. English announcements and Indonesian vocals, 1338 “Let us Speak Bahasa Indonesia”, “a program to guide you to speak Bahasa Indonesia.” SINPO 54544. (Beryozkin and Sellers/DX Window 401)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1002-1050. Local type music. It sounded like a novelty tune in Indonesian, with laughing and humor, phone-in. Signal was very good this morning. (Chuck Bolland, FL/DX WIndow 401)
Morocco back on frequency
RTM via Nador-MRC site missed these days, but is back on 15341 kHz 09-14 UT May 8th.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)(BCDX 963/Top News)
New DRM website
DRM Consortium has launched an upgraded new website with better features and special members' area for more interactivity, have a look at: www.drm.org (Alokesh Gupta, India/DX Window 401)
Russian monitoring
5930, Radio Rossii, 1020-1030. Male/female in conversation until 1024. Nice to hear Radio Rossii still audible via Petropavlovs, at this time. Music began at 1025. Checked 5940 and heard a parallel signal there with music and talk. Both signals were poor this morning (5/13)(Chuck Bolland, FL)
15340, Voice of Russia (Serpukhov), 1643-1656. Russian. Piano music followed by talk by woman announcer. Slow pop music at 1659. Conversation from male/female announcers at 1652. Very poor signal with fading, barely above noise level. (Jim Evans, TN)
5940, Radio Rossii, Arman, 0950-1015. Russian comments, fair // 5930, 7200, 7230 and 7320(Bolland, Howard/DX Window 401)
7140, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2104-2111. Russian news of Radio Rossii and weather report, 2109 medical advertising, fair with amateur radio interference, noted on // 7200 and 7230 both with strong signals. SINPO 23442. (Beryozkin and Timofeyev/DX Window 401)
7200, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2105-2111. Russian, news of Radio Rossii until 2110, ads from 2110. Interference from Radio France Internaitonale on 7205. SINPO 34433. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)
7230, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2105-2111. Russian news of Radio Rossii until 2110, advs from 2110, sideband splashes from China Radio International on 7225 and 7235. SINPO 32442. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)
9690, Radio Tatarstan, *0610-0700.* Open carrier from 0600, 0610 start of program with interval signal, station ID and bulletin of news seemingly in Russian, very strong signal. Was hoping for Voice of Nigeria (active on 15120 this morning)(Kuhl/DX Window 401)
South Korea
6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 (presumed), via Hwasong, 1217-1224. I have noted a number of times recently, that the heavy jamming has been absent here. Heard well above a light jamming noise with Korean program till 1224 when heavy jamming covered them. Also noted at 1442-1451, Apr 11, with only light jamming till the heavy jamming intermittently started at 1451 (Ron Howard, CA/DX Window 401)
Clandestine activity
6135, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, via Yamata, 1421-1429.* A tearful story in Japanese, usual piano background music, (ex 5910). Had first tuned in to 5910 to hear a massive jamming noise there, but no Shiokaze, so I scanned the 49m band and found them up here. Believe it is the first time they have used this frequency; fair to good reception; in the clear and too soon for the North Korea jamming to have found them. (Ron Howard, CA/DX Window 401)
11500, Radio Dabanga, via Talata-Volonondry, prior to 1700. Broadcasting to Sudan. Arabic songs through top-of-the-hour, then man singing repeated IDs “Radio Dabanga, Radio Dabanga, Radio Dabanga”. Possible news followed in Sudanese with brief ann interspersed with even briefer music. Fair. (Harold Sellers, Canada/DX Window 401)15410, Radio Y’Abaganda, via Issoudun, France. Ugandan clandestine, 1709. Repeating no service telephone announcement, tones and “we are sorry, you have reached...”, pause and then programming kicked in with two men in Swahili. This broadcast is on the air Saturday only, 1700-1800. Poor signal. (Harold Sellers, Canada/DX Window 401)
Clandestine, Voice of Tibet (VOT) radio service slammed the Chinese authorities on Thursday for jamming condolence messages from exiled Tibetans over the deadly earthquake in northwest China. The Oslo-based VOT said it had been including messages of support, solidarity and grief since Monday with its shortwave transmissions -- which are regularly jammed -- in both Tibetan and Mandarin.After all broadcasts were blocked for two days, VOT decided to isolate the condolences from its regular Tibetan news and current affairs and send them in a separate daily transmission. "We informed the Chinese authorities of this and asked them to allow the transmissions, but again on Wednesday these special broadcasts were jammed," said VOT's editor-in-chief Karmna Yeshi, based in Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India. "All we wanted was to give a platform for Tibetans and other sympathisers to convey their messages to the victims of the earthquake, rescue workers and aid agencies," Yeshi said. "Unfortunately, our appeal to allow this on humanitarian grounds was ignored by the Chinese," he added.
Last week's 6.9-magnitude quake, which killed nearly 2,200 people, hit a remote region of the Tibetan plateau in northwestern China. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, had appealed to the government in Beijing to let him into China for the first time in 51 years to visit the quake zone in the region of Qinghai, where he was born. So far, Beijing has declined to respond directly to the request.
The condolences transmitted by VOT included messages from the Dalai Lama, other senior lamas, Tibet support groups and individual Tibetan exiles. VOT's director in Oslo, Oystein Alme, said the Chinese jamming was a "grave violation" of basic human rights. "There are on and off buttons also on Chinese radios. Why are the Chinese authorities so afraid they can not even allow the Tibetans to hear condolence messages from the outside world?" Alme said in a statement. VOT has been airing daily programmes in both Tibetan and Chinese on short wave to Tibet and China as well as India, Bhutan and Nepal since 1996. (Hindustan Times via Slaen, May 01/DX Window 401)
Germany cutbacks again
6085 co-channel. Rumours these days, Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich Ismaning will cease shortwave transmission 6085 kHz in DRM for ever, due of budget cuts. (BCDX 963/Top News)
Guam
12105. One of the KSDA Guam transmitters is bad in audio since few weeks now. Buzzy audio noted again from KSDA Guam in Chinese service at 1105 UT May 8th, S=3 weak. But at same time KSDA Indonesian and Sudanese progr is correct in audio on 15540 kHz in 11-12 UT slot.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)
Frequency change of KTWR Agat in Korean from May 2:
1400-1500 new freq 11750 TWR 100 kW 335 deg, ex15425
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 1)
(BCDX 963/Top News)
HCJB transmitter news
Web-blog of Dan Anderson mentions another transmitter will be installed by HCJB engineers as a gift for Radio Centrafrique at Bangui-Bimbo site. Frequency not yet announced but probably 5035 kHz. The website also has photos of antenna installation at both sites. Please note that these two transmitters are low power, rated only as 1kW. (Jari Savolainen-FIN, DXplorer May 8) (BCDX 963/Top News)
Indonesian monitoring3995, RRI Kendari, 1251-1300, Apr 27, dialogue in Bahasa Indonesia, ann and songs, 1300 Song of the Coconut Islands interval signal, followed by news. Poor signal quality (Sellers). Also heard at 1450-1515. Bahasa Indonesian talk about internet, Indonesian music, interval signals at 1459'37, then news from Jakarta with some reports by phone (not //3325 at the same time) - poor with local noise and splashes from China National Radio 3990, 35443. (Beryozkin, and Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)
9526, Voice of Indonesia, Cimanggis, 1240-1352. Bahasa Indonesian talks. English announcements and Indonesian vocals, 1338 “Let us Speak Bahasa Indonesia”, “a program to guide you to speak Bahasa Indonesia.” SINPO 54544. (Beryozkin and Sellers/DX Window 401)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1002-1050. Local type music. It sounded like a novelty tune in Indonesian, with laughing and humor, phone-in. Signal was very good this morning. (Chuck Bolland, FL/DX WIndow 401)
Morocco back on frequency
RTM via Nador-MRC site missed these days, but is back on 15341 kHz 09-14 UT May 8th.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8)(BCDX 963/Top News)
New DRM website
DRM Consortium has launched an upgraded new website with better features and special members' area for more interactivity, have a look at: www.drm.org (Alokesh Gupta, India/DX Window 401)
Russian monitoring5930, Radio Rossii, 1020-1030. Male/female in conversation until 1024. Nice to hear Radio Rossii still audible via Petropavlovs, at this time. Music began at 1025. Checked 5940 and heard a parallel signal there with music and talk. Both signals were poor this morning (5/13)(Chuck Bolland, FL)
15340, Voice of Russia (Serpukhov), 1643-1656. Russian. Piano music followed by talk by woman announcer. Slow pop music at 1659. Conversation from male/female announcers at 1652. Very poor signal with fading, barely above noise level. (Jim Evans, TN)
5940, Radio Rossii, Arman, 0950-1015. Russian comments, fair // 5930, 7200, 7230 and 7320(Bolland, Howard/DX Window 401)
7140, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2104-2111. Russian news of Radio Rossii and weather report, 2109 medical advertising, fair with amateur radio interference, noted on // 7200 and 7230 both with strong signals. SINPO 23442. (Beryozkin and Timofeyev/DX Window 401)
7200, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2105-2111. Russian, news of Radio Rossii until 2110, ads from 2110. Interference from Radio France Internaitonale on 7205. SINPO 34433. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)
7230, Radio Rossii, Yakutsk, 2105-2111. Russian news of Radio Rossii until 2110, advs from 2110, sideband splashes from China Radio International on 7225 and 7235. SINPO 32442. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)
9690, Radio Tatarstan, *0610-0700.* Open carrier from 0600, 0610 start of program with interval signal, station ID and bulletin of news seemingly in Russian, very strong signal. Was hoping for Voice of Nigeria (active on 15120 this morning)(Kuhl/DX Window 401)
South Korea
6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 (presumed), via Hwasong, 1217-1224. I have noted a number of times recently, that the heavy jamming has been absent here. Heard well above a light jamming noise with Korean program till 1224 when heavy jamming covered them. Also noted at 1442-1451, Apr 11, with only light jamming till the heavy jamming intermittently started at 1451 (Ron Howard, CA/DX Window 401)
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Details of AWR Annual DX Contest
Annual DX Contest - 2010 “Station Profiles”It’s that time of the year again! Yes, we’re talking about our big annual DX contest here in “Wavescan”. The title for our big 2010 DX contest is “Station Profiles”, and here are the details for all five parts in this year’s contest
A. Five Station Profiles:
Make a list of five different radio stations for which you would like to have a “Station Profile” presented on air in a coming edition of “Wavescan”. You may suggest five different radio stations, or the radio stations in five different cities, or in five different countries, or any combinations of these designations. These radio stations may still be on the air, or they may now be silent. You may choose only shortwave broadcasting stations, or shortwave communication stations that have been used also for broadcasting.
B. Five Paragraphs:
You are invited to write just one short paragraph about each of the five stations you have chosen in the above list, and state why you have chosen that particular station.
C. Five Photocopies:
You are invited to search your QSL collection, and where possible, provide a photocopy of a QSL from each of the five radio stations in your above list. These photocopies should be in color if possible, but black & white is also acceptable. If you do not have a QSL from any of the stations you select, then you should indicate the reason why you do not have a QSL; such as for example, the station is now silent, or you are unable to hear the station in your part of the world, or they do not verify reception reports, etc.
D. Three Reception Reports:
You are invited to send in at least three reception reports on any transmission from Adventist World Radio on any station, shortwave, mediumwave and FM.
E. Three Radio Cards:
Where possible, you are invited to include three radio cards for the Indianapolis Heritage Collection with your contest entry. These cards may be old or new, and they may be QSL cards, reception report cards, or picture cards of radio stations, etc. (Not valid for this contest are amateur cards nor CB cards.)
Other Contest Details:
Well, there you have it, the details for our “Wavescan 2010 Station Profiles DX Contest”. This contest will run through the month of July 2010, and all contest entries should be postmarked at your local post office anywhere in the world on any date up to the end of the month of July, and they should be received at the AWR post office address in Indianapolis no later than the end of the month of August 2010.
Return postage in the form of currency notes in an international currency, or mint postage stamps, or IRC coupons would be welcome. Where possible, a self addressed return envelope, business size or half quarto size, would also be welcome.
The awards for this year’s contest will be similar to all previous contests. There will be a special award for the world winner, one of the Jerry Berg radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2011 for each continental winner. In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs and radio curios for many participants. There will be special awards for listeners in Africa responding to this year’s contest.
You can remember that all reception reports will be verified with a specially endorsed AWR QSL card. Please remember that it will take a period of many months to process all of the reception reports, but each will in due course be verified. In addition, and over a period of time, it is our intent to present in our Wavescan DX program, many, and perhaps all, of the “Station Profiles” as submitted in this year’s DX contest.
When we present each of these specific “Station Profiles” in our “Wavescan” program, we will also call on-air the listener who made the suggestion. When the listener hears his name in the program, he can send in a reception report and receive a specially endorsed QSL card.
The only address for the AWR Station Profile DX Contest is:-
Station Profile DX Contest
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
(AWR/Adrian Peterson)
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