Items from World News
EDITED BY NOEL R. GREEN
CROATIA/GERMANY Hrvatska Radio/Voice of Croatia in Croatian/English/Spanish
from Sep.7:
0600-1000 NF 11610 JUL 100 kW 2700 to AUS x 11690 /13820
NRG & DX Mix
News-BUL Sept.12
BELARUS The station website has now been updated and it shows the following
new external services..
Belarusian 1600-1800 daily on 7105(from 1720) 7390 7440
German 1800-1900 daily on 7105 7390 7440
English 1900-2100 daily on 7105 7390 & 7440
Belarusian 2100-2300 daily on 7105 7390 7440 Ed : NRG
GERMANY Information from reliable sources indicates that Deutsche Welle will be on air via the Wertachtal transmitters for the last time on New Year's Eve. Programmes in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Mazedonian, Polish, Serbian and Turkish (including Romanes from RBB) will be entirely taken off short wave at this date (Polish is already on air only via Sines
anymore).
Deutsche Welle will continue to use Nauen, at least for the time being (remember that their contract with VT includes an option to substantially increase the airtime beyond the initial 90 frequency hours). Some Wertachtal transmissions will move to Nauen, the remainder will go to the VT facilities in the UK, including 6075. (Ed : to Skelton & Wooferton from Jan.1st) ..it seems they will not pull the plug altogether for now, but cut it back to a few hours for the East Coast only in B06: 1000-1200 via Sackville on 6040, 0000-0200 via Sines on 9545 and via Kigali on 9655, that's all that will be left to North America. And it appears that Deutsche Welle will no longer use Bonaire at all. Kai Ludwig-D
(Source: Hans Johnson/Noel R. Green/Cumbre DX)