Happy New Year to our blog readers

As the year 2007 winds down, and we take a look back ... time to thank all our worldwide blog readers for a successful year on the web.

Shortwave Central, Btown Monitoring Post and Milcom Monitoring have had amazing website visitor statistics ... thanks to our readers.

We thank you for visiting, as well as your kind comments and observations. You the reader have made our three blogs a tremendous success.

Happy New Year and make it the best in 2008 !!

Gayle & Larry Van Horn
Teak Publishing
Brasstown, North Carolina

Blog Logs - pirate stations

All times UTC
* sign-on sign-off *

Grass Cutter/Sunshine Radio (presumed); 2008/U, 2344, 20-Dec; Only hint of audio; presumed per FRN posting. (Frodge-MI/Free Radio Weekly #620)

The Crystal Ship 6875 AM 1702-1717 12/22/07 SIO=444. The Poet with various anti-war material. A speech by Nixon about peace in Vietnam, and some anti-war folk rock music. Good signal and clear IDs despite the fact that I tuned in mid-program. Hrd no address announced, but they use Belfast and are good verifiers.

FRS Holland 6220 via Mystery Radio on 0800 with S& max and 355(2-4)3 with a music stop . An IS with a pitched audio from instrument . Man saying you wanna be free including a countdown , and saying international program . At 0815 ' we wish you a merry Christmas'
rock song , an email address on 0838 , 99 flashback , song from Queen Show must go on' , about Michael Jackson , ...TEN spelled by letter , R NY International, and several pirate radios mentioned. (Z. Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece/Cumbre DX)

9290 via Latvia & EMR , Radio Caroline Eiffel with rock songs on 00925 with twist songs / R&R songs SINPO 35434 (Z. Liangas 30th Thessaloniki, Greece/Cumbre DX)

6925 Radio Jamba International. 1658*. 12/30/07. I just caught the sign off announcement of “Happy New Year from the Bowling League.” Too bad, it was a flamethrower signal. VG. (J Wood, TN).

6220.6 (Euro). Mystery Radio, 0643, Dec 30. Quick ID between songs in much QRN. Still there at 0750 re-check; no sign of FRS at 0800, by which time Mystery Radio was almost gone. (J. Berg, MA/NASWA Flash Sheet # 309)

6420,6 Laser Hot Hits, 27/12, 0228. songs, English, poor/fair. (Bernardini, Milano, Italy/NASWA Flash Sheet #309)

6925USB WTCR, 1530-1540, Dec 29. In USB with S/on at 15:29 with usual 20th century movie mx.Old fashion XMAS song. Then other songs that were about XMAS.15:40 ID by a computer generated sounding voice. Signal was good with some QSB or fading.
(Wilson, KY/NASWA Flash Sheet #309)

39 Dover Street January schedule

Happy New Year to you. Here are details of the January 2008 broadcasts from 39 Dover Street, via IRRS Shortwave.

7285 kHz (41 meter band), Fridays at 19.45 UTC, (GMT), 20:45 CET

9510 kHz (31 meter band), Sundays at 12:30 UTC, (GMT), 13:30 CET

Internet only, Saturdays at 22:00 UTC, (GMT), 23:00
CET www.nexus.org/mp3

or preview and repeat at http://www.doverstreet.org/

A series of programmes featuring Contemporary Folk Music, from across the Nordic Countries.

The first went out last weekend, but the feature goes on until the end of the month. After that, I'll revert to Poetry and Short Stories for February.

By the way, submissions to the programme are always welcome, especially if they can be e-mailed as mp3 or other audio files, to doverstreet@tiscali.co.uk

Large files should be broken up and sent as a series of e-mail attatchments, if possible. Submissions of CDs, or audio cassettes, as well as written submissions, can be sent snail mail to the address on the web site.

39 Dover Street is an International Arts Programme

Thanks,
Stephen John Jones

SIRIUS Satellite Radio will Ring in the New Year with live broadcasts

Live performances for New Year's Eve 2008 will include Velvet Revolver, 3 Doors Down, Patti Smith, The English Beat, Chubby Checker, Southside Johnny and many others, SIRIUS will also broadcast classic New Year's Eve concert recordings from Bruce Springsteen

SIRIUS Satellite Radio
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 — SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced today that it will celebrate the New Year with 13 exclusive live concert broadcasts from locations across the US featuring some of the world's biggest artists.

Read more on the lineup at:
http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/300985.html

Australian DX Report # 79 available for download

The latest edition (No. 79 - January 1, 2008) of the AUSTRALIAN DX REPORT Podcast.

This is the SPECIAL 2008 NEW YEAR EDITION!

Produced by Bob Padula for the Electronic DX Press Radio Monitoring Association, this weekly internet news magazine is at
http://livehouse.com.au/bob

It runs to 15 mins, containing lots of professionally researched and sourced shortwave updated schedules, news, and monitoring data, unavailable in the public domain. It includes a special Spectrum Occupancy and Propagation Report, and some nice New Year music.

Regards from Melbourne, Australia!

Bob Padula

Streams again for 2008 on January 1

The Big 89 of 1969 was originally broadcast on January 1, 1970, by WLS in Chicago. It was first presented here over the 2001-2002 New Year's Holiday. It was a marvelous and memorable exhibit.

It broke all records. It was a remarkable chance to return to that day and time. Since then, we
have repeated this special four times, on January 1 and 3, 2004, January 1, 2007, and now, January 1, 2008.

As for this historic aircheck: On the first day of 1970, no Chicago radio station out-rated John Rook's WLS. The station was number one in all Pulse and Arbitron books with a total audience of 4.2 million listeners each week. This one-of-a-kind recording begins just after 1PM with Art Roberts warming up for the Countdown. At 2PM, Larry Lujack enumerates from 89 through 32. At 6:10PM, Chuck Buell picks it up at #31 and takes it home to Hit #1. (An additional half-hour of Chuck follows the countdown).

Read more from the Reel Radio Golden Gift at:
http://www.reelradio.com/gifts/wls010170.html

Czech pirate Radio Bila Hora annual New Years Eve programming

Our European blog readers, or those using a DX Tuner, should look for annual Czech pirate, Radio Bila Hora on shortwave 3334 kHz on December 31, 2007, around 1600 UTC.
The stations Czech language website, contains photos, reception report copies and a text on the station's history. Radio Bila Hora broadcast always on the last day of the year.

The broadcast was aired last year on Sunday, December 31, 2006, at 1600-1657 UTC.

New Years Eve 2006 Log
Hear something on 3334 Khz at 1615 UTC. Long talk in unknown language and some local pop-music. Do not know whether it is the announced Radio Bila Hora, sounds rather like a legal station. Reception is quite good with SINPO 34333. Radio Bila Hora can be contacted via email-address bila_hora@centrum.cz according to Karel Honzik on Hardcore-DX. Is heard in Sweden with SINPO 44433 at 1650 Utc. A listener from Poland confirms it is czech language. At 1654 Utc clear ID, another ID at 1657 Utc, so its Radio Bila Hora for sure.
http://www.achimbrueckner.de/freeradio/php/wordpress/?m=200612

Station website: http://rbh.czechian.net/
Email: bila hora@centrum.cz
(Source: World QSL Book/Teak Publishing)
Photo: Radio Bila Hora QSL

Snap Crackle Pop by radio on New Years morning

From Roy Forbes:

Greetings, Snap Crackle Pop fans,
I'm thrilled to announce - the tradition continues. Paul Grant and I will hit the airwaves one more time with a New Years morning edition of Snap Crackle Pop. Tune in to CBC Radio One on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 from six to eight-thirty AM for two and a half hours of tantalizingly entertaining radio. We'll be spinning all three speeds - 33, 45 and 78 rpm.

We'll start the first hour with some John Coltrane, moving along with a few lively morning tunes, a couple 'end of the party' numbers, finishing up with a short feature on songwriter Johnny Mercer.

As always, the second hour will be nothin' but a Shellac Shack Shuffle - all 78s between 7 and 8 AM (7:30 and 8:30 AM in Newfoundland). You'll hear some fine jazz, blues, rock and roll, C&W and more during that rapidly rotating hour.

The last half hour positively rocks as Paul and I re-visit my days as a high-school sock-hop 45 spinner. We're talkin' Paul Revere & The Raiders, Country Joe & The Fish, Moby Grape, Wes Dakus & The Rebels etc - all from original 45s.

All in all, it's gonna be a heckuva lot of fun as Paul Grant and I celebrate the coming of a brand new year.

And, folks- thanks, always, for your excellent and entertaining e-mails, both to me and to the CBC. Your solid support is a big part of why Paul and I have kept on doing this Snap Crackle Poppin' thing since September 1996. Keep the letters comin' and we'll keep on doing the shows. And, please - feel free to forward this note to anyone on your own mailing list who might like to have a listen to SCP.

Cheers and a big loud HAPPY NEW YEAR from Paul Grant and from me,
Roy Forbes

PS. If you'd like a weekly fix of tunes from my 'slightly cluttered basement' you can tune in every Monday evening (six PM, Mountain Time) to Roy's Record Room on the CKUA radio network - via your AM or FM radio if you're in Alberta, via your computer at www.CKUA.com if you're anywhere else in the world. I've put together some special shows for the Christmas Eve and New Years Eve editions of RRR.

Here's a link to the RRR section of the CKUA website for more info.

http://www.ckua.com/programs/roysrecordroom/index.html

And, feel free to let me know if you'd like to be on the RRR e-mail list.

PPS. If you're at all partial to Mince Meat Tarts, click here

http://www.royforbes.ca/tart.html

PPPS. If you want to keep in touch with what I'm up to, check

http://www.royforbes.ca/dates.html
(Source: Fred Waterer via ODXA)

January 2008 - Specials from DX Stamp Service

Dear DXer,
Countries on Back Order: Italy, Croatia and Slovak Republic.

Back in Stock: Morocco. Also, Spain arrived today, so I'll be filling back orders!

Countries dropped: Cape Verde and S. Korea. After numerous attempts my letters have gone unanswered. If I have these on back order for you, I'll be refunding your $$ with your next order. Sorry for the very long and fruitless wait on these two.

New countries on the Euro:
Malta, non-euro valued stamps valid until Jan 31, 2008. We have euro values in stock
Cyprus, non-euro valued stamps valid until Dec. 31, 2007. We have euro values in stock. Estonia, non-euro valued stamps valid thru Dec. 31, 2008.

New prices:
Serbia now $1.80
Sweden now $1.90
Slovenia now $1.70

New postal rates noted so far for 2008:
Canada 96c
Czech Rep 18kc
Denmark 8,75

Thanks one and all for your orders during this year. Always appreciated. Hope the stamps and envelopes have helped in getting those QSLs, which in turn, added some nice awards to the wall.
best of dx and
QSL success in 2008,
73, bill

JANUARY 2008 DX STAMP SPECIALS

2 Finland-$2.40 3 UK-$3.60

JANUARY 2008 DX SUPPLY SPECIALS

200/200 European Air Mailers & Returns $35

300/300 Stateside Mailers & Returns $23

QSL Album Pages 5 Packs of 20 pages ea. - $22

Shipping charges extra on supply specials

UPS Shipping Rates for Supplies

Orders under $16.00 add $6.50, Orders from $16.00 to $40.00 add $7.50, Orders from $41.00 to $100.00 add $10.00, Orders from $101.00 to $150.00 add $15.00, orders over $150.00 add 10%. When ordering supplies AND stamps, use supply total to figure shipping costs. Stamps “ride free” when you order supplies. Shipments to a PO Box, Canada, AK, HI, PR, APO, etc. ship at a greater cost via the Post Office.
(Bill Plum)

Mint postage stamps of foreign countries can be purchased from Bill Plum's Airmail Postage and DX Supplies, 12 Glenn Road, Flemington, NJ 08822 USA.

Include a self-addressed-envelope for his current price list or request a price list via email at plumdx@msn.com. The prices represent Airmail rate to North America. Prices are subject to change without notice. No mimimum order via check, money order or credit card, but credit card orders under $ 15.00 will incur a $ 2.00 extra charge. Visa, MC, AMEX are accepted. Please include billing and shipping address for AMEX. Bill also has an email newsletter service of monthly specials, and email orders are welcomed!

Don't forget the DX supplies include European Airmail envelopes (European Air Return and European Air Mailer). These envelopes are perfectly acceptable for mailing to ALL parts of the world, not just to Europe. Their size insures you that a 4"x6" DX QLSs will not come back to you folded which could happen if you used small U.S. sized airmail envelopes. Bill's European Air Return fits into a European Air Mailer without folding. These two envelopes and up to 5 QSL cards weigh less than one ounce. The European Air Return and 2 QSLs weigh less than 10 grams. All envelopes are sealed in plastic for protection. Envelopes are packed 100 per size per package. The 5-/50 Combo comes in one package.

Eyeball cards, stateside QSLing nesting envelopes, QSL Card Albums and pages are also sold. Great service ... at a great price
(Gayle VH)

CHWO 740 - QSL Offer

Hello again, just a reminder for the first of two dates on this special QSL. The next reminder will be just prior to January 8th. Good luck to all.

CHWO-AM 740 Toronto, which has been family run since 1956, has been sold (pending CRTC approval) and no doubt some changes will be coming. We have heard that the general format will not change for now but that's about it. The new owner may not want to continue having someone issuing QSL cards on their behalf. I will certainly do my best to convince them in hopes this will continue.

Last year they celebrated their 50th birthday since the station first started up on November 17th, 1956 on 1250 kHz and the 6th anniversary since moving onto 740 kHz back on January 8th, 2001. It has been in the same family all this time and NEVER changed format.

So............I think its time to celebrate both achievements with a special QSL card AND certificate that is open to everyone. This card and certificate will capture both the old and new of CHWO in pictures and information.

But there is a catch. You have to send in two reports.

Here is the criteria:

1/ You must send in two separate, correct reports: November 17th, 2007 and January 8th, 2008

2/ You must hear the station between 0000 & 2359 (EST) on those dates. (+5 Hours UTC)

3/ The usually information will be required for the report:

(a)Program material (at least 10 minutes of specific program material heard: e.g., name of announcer, commercials heard, news items, song title and artist, etc. You can also make a short recording of the station and send it as an MP3 provided it contains some of the specific program material noted earlier);

(b)Signal/sound report (a general overview of how well you heard the signal at your location and the sound quality of the program.);

(c)Mention of the type of equipment and antenna you were using to hear the signal is helpful information as well.

4/ You can send the reports in after each date or together after January 8, but I must have both for the special QSL.

5/ If you plan to go after the special QSL, mark your reports as 'Special QSL.' A report for November 17th but not followed up by one on January 8th will receive a regular QSL only (unless you already have received one in the past.) I will post repeat announcements prior to each date.

Email your reports to am740@rogers.com or mail to:

ODXA - CHWO SPECIAL QSL
155 Main St.N., Apt. 313,
Newmarket, Ontario,
L3Y 8C2 Canada

Thank you all for your support in this endeavour and the future of QSL from CHWO, AM 740, Toronto.

Feel free to pass this notice along and good luck to all.

Brian Smith - am740@rogers.com
AM 740 - http://www.am740.ca/
Reception Reports - http://www.odxa.on.ca/chwo.html
Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AM740/

Bring in 2008 by radio

December 31, 2007
Early in the morning of December 31st (here in Eastern North America) places like New Zealand and Australia are already ringing in the New Year. Through shortwave radio and/or the internet, you can join them. Take the tour. It’s a blast.
Happy New Year Around the World in 24 Hours
by Fred Waterer
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/Around-in-24-hrs.pdf

Out-Takes
To salute the end of another year, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy salvages material that got left on the editing room floor. He presents excerpts from the lively question-and-answer sessions that followed each of the 2007 Massey Lectures by Alberto Manguel, The City of Words, recorded in Halifax, Victoria, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto

Russ Horton’s Mr. Aircheck Radio is the place to go for air checks from days gone by. On New Year’s Eve 2006 he played New Year countdowns from WOR in 1970 and CKLW in 1973. http://www.live365.com/stations/doggone01

Big Fry’s New Years Rockin Eve on LG73…tune in around 10 pm Eastern Dec 31, at http://www.lg73.com/ or hook up with LG73 via iTunes


Tuesday, January 1

Ideas Levee 2008
In our almost-annual tradition of being “at home” for visitors on New Year’s Day, Paul Kennedy previews IDEAS episodes upcoming this winter through informal chats with their creators. He’ll be covering a lot of ground - everything from cyber libraries to antique wedding dresses!



New Year’s Day
Another annual tradition is the New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna, traditionally heard via Radio Austria International, BBC Radio 3 and PBS in the US. Try around 1015 UTC. In past years, it has been televised on PBS in the afternoon.

New Years Greetings from Radio Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Orthodox Christmas takes place in January (the 6th). Some of the stations from Orthodox countries will celebrate Christmas with “us” in December, then do it all again in January. The Orthodox hymns from Russia, Kiev, Bulgaria, Serbia and others are breathtakingly beautiful.

http://www.fauxcharity.com/
http://www.shaketheglobe.com/
http://www.northpoledancing.com/
http://www.savethesnowman.com/
http://www.greetingsfromthenorth.com/
http://www.reindeerarmwrestling.com/
http://www.dontshootyoureyeout.com/
(Source: Doghousecharlie http://www.doghousecharlie.com/christmas-programming/ )

Radio Japan New Years Eve Hitparade

NHK's New Years Eve program Hitparade, will air on shortwave December 31, 2007; 1020- 1445 UTC on 9750 and 11815, targeted to the Asian continent.

It is posted in Japanese at:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/japanese/info_j.html

Shortwave radio is for Asia only this year. I guess most people watch it (well, those who do) on NHK World Premium on satellite and cable TV these days. TV schedule is the same time, plus re-run from 2215 (Dec 31) to 0445 (Jan 1) UTC.
(Source: Sonny Ashimori via wb, Germany)

New Clandestine log - Radio Arctica

CLANDESTINE
While looking for Europirates over the Christmas holiday, I was hearing a station IDing as Radio Arctica.

First heard on Christmas Day on 6200 from 1227-1240 using a Web receiver in the UK. Checked on my own receiver and was getting a signal there at 1244. The next day, 26 Dec., heard it at home again on 6204.87 at 0731. Later at 0915, heard it on the UK Web receiver. So apparently it can be heard both in Europe and N.A. The programming defines it as more of a Clandestine than a pirate. They claim the transmitter is near the Arctic Circle. Uses both Englis and Russian. Very interesting anti-exploitation of the Arctic programming. Web site is
http://www.radioarctica.net.tc/ E-mail is radioarctica@yahoo.com
(Source: D Valko, PA via Cumbre DX)

Hello FRS Friends,

A lst reminder informing you that FRS-Holland will be on air tomorrow Sun Dec. 30th 6220 08.00-12.00 UTC on and in addition on 5815 10.00-14.00 and 20.00-24.00 UTC. Tune in for much radio fun on a Sunday....

All the best, FRS Team

a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

e-mail: frs.holland@hccnet.nl
e-mail: frs@frsholland.nl

Dear FRS Friends,
Season's Greetings from all of us at FRS-Holland. We wish all of you a merry Christmas. May 2008 become a healthy, successful and radioactive year for all of you.

Thanks for your support in the past year. Next Sunday December 30th, FRS-Holland will take to the airwaves with another 4 hour seasonal broadcast. We will be on 6220 kHz 08.00-12.00 UTC. In addition we are on 5815 kHz 10.00-14.00 UTC ánd 20.00-24.00 UTC.

Programs will be presented by Jan van Dijk, Mike Anderson & Peter Verbruggen. Mike Anderson will present his debute show DX-Welle in German. Jan van Dijk will be doing the German Service plus an extra 30 min. 2007 review. Peter V. presents an extra long FRS Magazine flashing back to December 1991 and news from the world of radio in a new edition of FRS goes DX. Ingredients: great music from the past 4 decades, radio news, 2007 review, listener's letters from november, a listeners competition, the 'Phrase that Pays', New Year Greetings and much, much more....
FRSH on a Sunday means fun & enjoyment....

All the best,

Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the entire FRS Crew being Bobby Speed, Mike Anderson, Jan van Dijk, PV & Paul Graham
(Tom Taylor)

Sunday relays on 9290 kHz

Relays this weekend via 9290KHz

December 30th

Radio Caroline Eifel 09.00 - 10.00UTC
Latvia Today 10.00 -11.00UTC

Good listening, and a Happy New Year
Tom Taylor

How Internet Radio Works

From the CBC website today...

How it works: internet radio
Broadcasts now reach far beyond the airwaves
December 27, 2007
By Ian Harvey
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/how-it-works/internet-radio.html


If the pundits were right, radio would be long dead by now.

Television was supposed to be the harbinger of death when it arrived in living rooms back in the late 1940s. But radio survives, and some would argue prospers today despite the obvious impact of television and, more recently, the internet.

And it's on the internet where radio is reinventing itself again, reaching out beyond the limitation of signal strength and geography. It's finding global audiences eager for eclectic and niche programming that is often an antithesis to canned commercial radio with its rigid format and cloned menu.

Some spicy Miami salsa? Roots reggae? Estonian politics? A homesick Newfoundlander working away in the oilsands seeking a sound byte of home from CBC St. John's? It's only a click away.

In fact, there are more than 10,000 internet radio stations streaming today. Most are free and some are completely commercial-free ‹ though you'll be reminded a couple of times an hour to make a donation, as in the case of Radio Paradise, an eclectic mix of music run from northern California by the husband and wife team of Bill and Rebecca Goldsmith.

"A lot of people in internet radio are refugees from commercial radio who see this as an alternative and feel passionate about the music," said Bill Goldsmith. "The commercial radio industry has operated as an arm of the record industry for the last 10 years, inflicting a lowest common denominator style of programming which is fine for 80 to 90 per cent of the
audience but poisonous to the other 10 per cent. That's not what I got into radio for and why I left."

And that's the lure of internet radio: programming and personalities that in most cases are unique and the antithesis of commercial, formatted radio. You just never know what you're going to hear.

In many ways, internet radio is a return to the roots of the medium, said David Marsden, a 40-year veteran of the airwaves who was a legend in the 1970s at CHUM-FM in Toronto before founding alternative station CFNY-FM in Brampton, Ontario.
"The DJ had the freedom to play music, introduce artists," said Marsden, who was involved in the startup of Iceberg Radio, the premier Canadian web broadcaster with more than 100 channels, in the late 1990s and still programs on it while also hosting his own eclectic show on 94.6 FM The Rock in Oshawa, Ont.

"I still do that and the reaction you get from people is amazing, especially young people who have never really heard radio."

Some broadcasters, like the CBC, simultaneously stream their live-to-air programming over the web. Other stations are entirely internet-based. For listeners, it's a way to circumvent the geographical limitations of a radio signal.

The hardware

Internet radio broadcasting, also called webcasting, was one of the early successes of the net, streaming music in MP3 format over broadband connections to PCs. But as cool as it sounds to listen to unique music or talk shows from around the world, the shine wears off pretty quickly when you're stuck in front of a computer monitor or at least within earshot of the speakers.

And that's where media adaptors come in. Simply described, they're small devices that connect your home stereo system to the internet and your PC and cost between $150 and $300. There are also versions that are self-contained radios in the traditional sense, with built-in speakers and a wireless connection to your home's wireless WiFi network or wired router, tapping
directly into your broadband connection (no computer needed).

Popular models include the Roku Lab Soundbridge (rokulabs.com), the HomePad macsense.com) and other products from computer peripheral makers like Netgear, SMC, Logitech and DLink. Self-contained internet radios vary in size and design by maker, but share some common attributes such as an LCD screen with one or two lines of text so you can set them up using a remote control.

Once installed, it's a matter of taste and preference. The players connect via Windows Media Connect, iTunes, Real Player or Rhapsody. For internet radio, you have the option of using a preinstalled station list or making up a personal list of stations that intrigue you. Usually this is
done on your PC through your web browser. Each manufacturer has different setups, but essentially it involves entering a specific IP address just like you would enter a website URL on your browser in order to access the internet radio hardware over your network. Instead of www.cbc.ca, however, you would enter a series of numbers such as "192.168.0.100" and that would bring you to the device's configuration page on your network.

From there, you enter the web addresses of internet radio stations in a similar way to how you program the presets on a car audio system. There are a number of websites that list the addresses for internet radio stations.

A handy feature of internet radios is that most allow you to access collections of digital music stored on your home computer over your home network.

Slow growth, uncertain future

Still, while the hardware is getting better all the time, not everyone has rushed to internet radio and audiences remain relatively small compared to those of traditional broadcast stations.

As a result, the internet radio industry generally generates little in the way of profit as yet. Although internet radio has been around for more than a decade, the medium is still nascent and fragile and many fear the current battle over royalty fees in Canada and the United States will kill off the concept before it establishes strong roots.

On the one side is the record industry, which fears being caught again in a downloading squeeze that has savaged its profit margins; on the other are the pioneers of the technology who say they want a chance to grow their industry on a level playing field with traditional analogue and the more recent addition of satellite radio.

"They [the record industry] still think of streaming as downloading, which of course it isn't," said Marsden. "But it is the future and hopefully the record industry isn't going to kill it."
(Harold Sellers via ODXA)

Voice of Russia - Russian service

Voice of Russia

Effective to 29 March 2008

All times UTC

Russian service
01.03.08 02.03.08 Tx location (kW) direction notes
0200-0300 17840 17840 Irkutsk 100 Asia
0200-0300 17695 17695 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 200 Asia
0200-0300 15765 15765 Vladivostok 100 Asia
0200-0300 15735 15735 Komsomolsk-na-Amure 250 Asia (DRM)
0200-0300 15455 15455 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
0200-0300 15530 15530 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 200 Asia
0200-0300 13580 13580 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
0200-0300 12090 12090 Irkutsk 500 Asia
0200-0300 9550 9550 Ussuriysk 500 Asia
0300-0400 17840 17840 Irkutsk 100 Asia
0300-0400 17695 17695 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 200 Asia
0300-0400 15765 15765 Vladivostok 100 Asia
0300-0400 15735 15735 Komsomolsk-na-Amure 250 Asia (DRM)
0300-0400 15455 15455 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
0300-0400 15530 15530 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 200 Asia
0300-0400 13580 13580 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
0300-0400 12090 12090 Irkutsk 500 Asia
0300-0400 9550 9550 Ussuriysk 500 Asia
1300-1400 11630 15460 Moscow 250 Asia
1300-1400 12025 12025 Moscow 500 Asia
1300-1400 9800 9800 Irkutsk 500 Asia
1300-1400 7260 7260 Ussuriysk 500 Asia
1300-1400 6170 6170 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
1300-1400 1143 1143 Dushanbe 150 Asia
1400-1500 11630 15460 Moscow 250 Asia
1400-1500 12055 12055 Moscow 500 Asia
1400-1500 11500 11500 Dushanbe 1000 Asia
1400-1500 9885 9885 Dushanbe 100 Asia
1400-1500 9800 9800 Irkutsk 500 Asia
1400-1500 7110 7110 Samara 250 Asia
1400-1500 6180 6180 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 250 Asia
1400-1500 6170 6170 Khabarovsk 100 Asia
1400-1500 5940 5940 Novosibirsk 100 Asia
1400-1500 1251 1251 Dushanbe 500 Asia
1600-1700 9885 9885 Dushanbe 100 Asia
1600-1700 7110 7110 Samara 250 Asia
1600-1700 1251 1251 Dushanbe 500 Asia
2000-2100 5940 5940 Samara 250 Belorussia
2100-2200 6105 6105 Moscow 200 (DRM)
0200-0300 1314 1314 Yerevan 1000 Caucasus (CIS countries)
0300-0400 1314 1314 Yerevan 1000 Caucasus (CIS countries)2000-2100 7285 7285 Kaliningrad 120 Caucasus (CIS countries)
2100-2200 7285 7285 Kaliningrad 120 Caucasus (CIS countries)
0200-0300 1503 1503 Dushanbe 500 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
0200-0300 972 972 Dushanbe 1000 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
0200-0300 648 648 Dushanbe 1000 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
0300-0400 972 972 Dushanbe 1000 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
1300-1400 11630 15460 Moscow 250 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
1300-1400 12025 12025 Moscow 500 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
1300-1400 1143 1143 Dushanbe 150 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
1400-1500 11630 15460 Moscow 250 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
1400-1500 1143 1143 Dushanbe 150 Middle Asia (CIS countries)
2000-2100 7290 7290 Moscow 200 Baltic States
2000-2100 5940 5940 Samara 250 Baltic States
2000-2100 1215 1215 Kaliningrad 1200 Baltic States
2100-2200 7170 7170 Moscow 250 Baltic States
2100-2200 1215 1215 Kaliningrad 1200 Baltic States
2100-2200 7170 7170 Moscow 250 Europe
2100-2200 6105 6105 Moscow 200 Europe (DRM)
2100-2200 1215 1215 Kaliningrad 1200 Europe
2100-2200 999 999 Chisinau 500 Europe
0200-0300 936 936 L'vov 1000 Europe
0200-0300 603 603 Germany 20 Europe
0300-0400 936 936 L'vov 1000 Europe
1300-1400 11615 11615 Moscow 200 Europe (DRM)
1300-1400 1548 1548 Chisinau 500 Europe
1300-1400 999 999 Chisinau 500 Europe
1300-1400 936 936 L'vov 1000 Europe
1400-1500 11615 11615 Moscow 200 Europe (DRM)
1400-1500 5905 5905 Moscow 250 Europe (DRM)
1400-1500 558 558 London (UK) 100 Europe
1800-1900 7290 7290 Moscow 200 Europe
1800-1900 1575 1575 Germany 100 Europe
1800-1900 1431 1431 Germany 250 Europe
1800-1900 693 693 Germany 250 Europe
1800-1900 630 630 Germany 100 Europe
1800-1900 603 603 Germany 20 Europe
2000-2100 7290 7290 Moscow 200 Europe
2000-2100 7230 7230 Moscow 500 Europe
2000-2100 1215 1215 Moscow 1200 Europe
2000-2100 612 612 Moscow 20 Mos
0200-0300 7260 7260 Moscow 500 South America
0200-0300 6195 6195 S-Petersburg 800 South America
0300-0400 7260 7260 Moscow 500 South America
0300-0400 7170 7170 Moscow 1000 South America
Last update: 19.11.2007
(Vadim Alexeew-RUS, Voice of Russia-Russian World Service, DX px editor, Dec 23)(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX # 840 via wb, Germany)

Russia and Countries of CIS relay schedules

Foreign Relays via Shortwave Transmitters of Russia and Countries of the CIS

Effective to 29 March 2008

All times UTC

via Moscow, Russia
6000 1900-2000 250 YFR
7165 1930-2000 200 CRI addit.
7170 2200-2300 250 CRI
7175 1930-2000 200 CRI delete
7200 1830-1930 500 CRI
7335 1600-1630(Mon-Fri) 250 BBC
7335 1600-1700(Sat-Sun) 250 BBC
7345 1630-1700 250 FEB
9840 1500-1700 200 SRS
11895 0800-0900 250 RNW

via St. Peterburg, Russia
5960 1800-1900 400 VRT
7130 1600-1700 400 CRI
7130 1800-1830 400 CRI
13685 0700-0800 400 VRT

via Samara, Russia
5900 1330-1400 250 VAT
5900 1400-1600 250 YFR
5935 1800-1830 250 IBR
5970 1400-1500 250 YFR
6020 1400-1500 250 YFR
7215 2030-2130 500 CRI
7220 0230-0300 250 FEB
7240 1900-2000 250 YFR
7315 1600-1645(Mon-Wed) 250 TWR
7315 1600-1630(Thur/Fri) 250 TWR
7345 1800-2000 250 YFR
9445 1600-1700(Mon) 250 EOC
9445 1600-1630(Tue,Sat) 250 XOR
9445 1600-1700(Wed, Fri, Sun) 250 DEM
9445 1600-1700(Thur) 250 EPF
11655 0400-0500(Mon-Thur) 250 FEB
11655 0400-0530(Fri-Sun) 250 FEB
[11655 not in Dec 21, 2007; to zones
38 Libya, Egypt
39 Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Arabian Pen.
47 Central Africa]

via Krasnodar, Russia
5910 1730-1930 200 DWL
5940 1730-1800 250 RPR
5955 1600-1800 500 RNW
6040 2100-2300 500 RNW
6070 1600-1700 300 YFR
7120 0000-0200 250 DWL
7175 1400-1600 300 YER
7250 1530-1700 200 IBR [rather FEBA 1430-1600?, wb.]
7300 1900-2100 250 YFR
7335 1700-1730(Mon-Fri) 100 VOD
9435 1330-1500(Sun) 300 BBC
11655 1300-1500 200 BBC
11900 1500-1600 250 VOU
11935 0700-0800 500 RNW
11995 0300-0330 200 FEB
12065 0500-0530(Mon, Wed) 200 BVB
12065 0500-0545 (Fri) 200 BVB
13780 0400-0600 250 DWL
15390 1400-1430(Tue, Thur, Sat) 200 SIR
15525 0600-0630(Mon-Fri) 500 SIR

via Novosibirsk, Russia
5900 1300-1330 200 DWL
5900 2200-2400 200 DWL
5925 1730-1930 250 DWL
5950 1300-1545 250 TWR
5985 1230-1315 100 VAT
7110 0100-0130 250 FEB
7150 1000-1100 250 YFR
7150 1400-1500 250 FEB
7210 1900-2000 250 YFR
7295 1300-1500 200 VOA
7295 1600-1700 250 YFR
7300 2315-2400 250 VAT
7325 1200-1230 250 IBR
7350* 0015-0145 250 TWR
7350 2200-2300 200 RFI
9450 1200-1300 250 YFR
9885 0200-0300 250 FEB
12070 0200-0330 250 VAT
* alternative 9445

via Irkutsk, Russia
5900 0930-1030 500 RFI
6115 1100-1500 100 YFR
7175 1200-1400 250 YFR
7210 1500-1700 250 RFA
7265 1000-1200 250 DWL
7320 1230-1600 250 TWR
7340 1400-1600 250 YFR
9460 0900-1200 250 YFR
9485 1200-1500 500 YFR
11980 0300-0700 500 RFA
12065 1000-1100 250 RNW
15510 0230-0300 250 BBC

via Chita, Russia
5920 1400-1600 250 YFR
6140 1345-1400 500 VAT
7115* 1300-1330(Tue,Thur,Sat) 250 DEG
9850 0100-0200 250 DWL
* alternative 7125, 7195

via Vladivostok, Russia
7315 2200-2300 500 RFI
7330 1300-1530 300 BBC
15565 2330-0030 250 RFA

via Khabarovsk, Russia
5950 1130-1230(Mon/Fri) 100 BVB
5950 1130-1245(Tue/Wed/Thur) 100 BVB
5985 1045-1130(Sat) 100 BVB
5985 1030-1145(Sun) 100 BVB
9600* 2200-2245 100 VAT
9795 1000-1100 100 RNW
13785 0000-0045 100 VAT
* 28/10/2007 - 01/12/07 and 03/02/08 - 29/03/2008

via Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Russia
6005 1200-1300 250 YFR

via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
5900 1200-1300 200 IBR
5910 1000-1200 250 DWL
5910 1300-1400 250 RNW
6040 1000-1100 250 RNW
5995* 1100-1500 250 YFR
9600# 2200-2245 250 VAT
11830 2300-2350 250 DWL
15595 0000-0100 250 DWL
* alternative 7165
# 02/12/07 - 02/02/08

via Almaty, Kazakastan
5875 2200-2400 500 DWL
7460 1630-1700(Tue/Fri) 200 VOO
7490 1800-1900 200 YFR
7535 1300-1500 500 YFR
7560 1200-1400 200 YFR
7560 1400-1500 500 YFR
9310 1300-1400 200 YFR
11510 1100-1200 200 YFR
12150 1100-1300 500 YFR
15430 1000-1200 500 DWL

via Gavar, Armenia
5940 0100-0130 100 FEB
9380 1330-1400 500 DWL addit.
9415 1415-1530 300 DVB
15515 0400-0700 100 CVC
15735 1300-1600 100 CVC

Grigoriopol, Moldova
via 6240 2000-2200 300 YFR
7305 0600-0700 500 RNW
7460 0230-0315 500 RPD
7480 1800-1845 500 RPD
7490 1900-2000 300 YFR addit.
7540 1500-2100 500 MEZ
9355 1400-1500 300 YFR
11530 0500-1500 500 MEZ
13700 0800-0900 500 RNW
17665* 1200-1400 250 SAM [Sawt al Amal has been off for months, in dxld]
* + - 20 kHz

via Nikolaev, Ukraine
6225 1730-1830 200 RIN
6245 1700-2200 300 ZMN [off air for months as discussed, in dxld]
7485 1600-1800 250 YFR
9380 1400-1500 500 DWL addit.

via Tashkent, Uzbekistan
5820 1800-1900 200 YFR
6260 0000-0400 100 CVC
6260 1400-2000 100 CVC
7365 1400-1500 100 FEB
7370 1500-1530 100 FEB
7375 0015-0100 100 FEB
7435 1700-1900 200 YFR
7485 1400-1500 (Thur, Fri) 100 BVB [but Dushanbe registered, wb.]
7505 1400-1600 200 YFR
9310 1430-1600 100 VAT
9345 1400-1600 100 RNW
9480 0100-0300 100 CVC
9500 1100-1400 100 CVC
13630 0400-1100 100 CVC

via Orzu, Tajikistan
7540 2300-2400 500 RFA

via Yangiyul, Tajikistan
5830 1900-1930 200 RPR
5865 1400-1700 100 YFR
6225 1400-1500 200 YFR addit.
7370 0100-0130 200 BBC
7430 1330-1530 200 BBC
7475 1400-1500 100 YFR
7480 0100-0200 200 RFA
7515 1600-1700 200 RFA
7550 1500-1600 200 RFA
11540 1100-1400 200 RFA
15580* 1200-1300(Mon/Sat) 100 QUE
17515 0600-0700 200 RFA
16mb# 1100-1400 100 VOT
41mb# 1400-1600 100 VOT
* + - 20 kHz
# [not explained, but means widely variable due to jamming;
7465; 17550, 17555, 17560, 17565; dxld; /wb.]

Radio Stations:
BBC - British Broadcasting Corp.
BVB - Bible Voice Broadcasting Network
CRI - China Radio Int.
CVC - CVC Int.
DEG - Degar Voice
DEM - Andenet Le-Democrzcy
DVB - Democratic Voice of Burma
DWL - Deutsche Welle
EOC - Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
EPF - Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front
FEB - FEBA Radio
IBR - IBRA Radio
MEZ - Voice of Mesopotamia
QUE - Que Huong Radio
RFA - Radio Free Asia
RFI - Radio France Internationale
RIN - Radio International
RNW - Radio Nederland Wereldompoep
RPD - Radio Payam-e Doost
RPR - Radio Prague
SAM - Sawt al-Amal / VO Hope
SIR - Southern Sudan Interactive
SRS - Sudan Radio Service
TWR - Trans World Radio
VAT - Radio Vaticana
VOA - Voice of America
VOD - Voice of Delina
VOO - Voice of Orthodoxy
VOT - Voice of Tibet
VOU - VO Unity
VRT - Radio Vlaanderen Int.
XOR - Radio Xoriyo Ogadena
YFR - WYFR Family Radio
ZMN - Radio Zamaneh
(Nikolai Rudnev, Belgorodskaya obl., RUS-DX, Dec 23;
updated by wb.)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX # 840 via wb, Germany)

Blog Logs - Peru

4746.8, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, 1045-1102 and 2234-2325, Dec 17, Peruvian vocal selection before excited man announcer with Spanish talk with echoing ID: "Huanta", TC and name of performer, results of competition, 35333 with some CODAR QRM. (D'Angelo/FCDX, Cody, Gonçalves and Grimm, Ibiuna-SP)

4747.8 Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, 2234-2251, 21 Dec, Spanish, Indian pops, echoing ID; SINPO 35342.(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

4775 Radio Tarma, Tarma, 2304-2316, 17 Dec, Spanish, prgr "Antena Deportiva" "a traves de las potentes [500 watt!] ondas de Radio Tarma"; SINPO 33342, utility QRM. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

4790.1 Radio Vision, Chiclayo, 2338-2346, 18 Dec, Spanish, advertisements, announcements, songs, time checks and muffled audio; SINPO 33342, CODAR QRM. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

4834.90, Radio Marañon, Jaén, 0040-0119, Dec 21, Spanish comments and music, 0108 a canned ID using echo effect. At the beginning, the signal as fair, but dropped to poor by shutoff time. (Bolland)

4855, Radio La Hora, Cusco, 2322, Dec 18, Spanish talks, avisos, ".. pueblo peruano..", local news, 35433. (Grimm, Ibiuna-SP

4955, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 1110-1120, Dec 24, clean Huaynos music, Spanish comments with mentions of "Peru". This frequency is clear of QRM, notably the CODAR signal, consequently copy is good. (Bolland)

4974.8 Radio del Pacifico (?), Lima, 2358-..., 18 Dec, Brazilian Portuguese, religious program. SINPO 23341.(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

4990.8, Radio Manantial, Huancayo, around 1155, Dec 24, "transmite Manantial Radio . . ." relaying 960 MW, giving URL: http://www.galeon.com/manatial . Web page has e-mail address as: manantialradio960am@hotmail.com . (Canyote in ConexionDigital via Berg). Website gives frequency as 4985. (Berg)

5120 Radio Ondas del Suroriente, Cusco, 2347-..., 18 Dec, Spanish, announcements, Indian songs; SINPO 14331.(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

5460, La Voz de Bolivar, Bolivar (t), 0142, Dec 19, musica andina (flute, accompanied by other instruments), romantic songs, then fast talks in Spanish, 25542. (Grimm, Ibiuna-SP)

5470.73, Radio San Nicholas, 1110-1130, Dec 15, music. Not very strong since it is already full daylight in Peru, but signal is still fading in to a fair level here in South Central Florida. Signal fair, but practically gone by 1128. (Bolland)

5486.6 Radio Reyna de la Selva (?), Chachapoyas, 2355-..., 18 Dec, barely heard talks, possibly in Castilian; SINPO 15321.(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

6019.5 Radio Victoria, Lima, 2319-..., 21 Dec, Spanish, talks; SINPO 13341, adajacent station interference. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

6193.37, Radio Cusco, Cusco, 1032-1054, Dec 14 and 24, Spanish comments for a few moments. Comments were definitely Peurvian in character and nuance, canned promos probably for future programs, signal best 1035. (Bolland)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX #840 via wb, Germany & DX Window # 340 via Anker Petersen)

Voice of Russia relay transmitter schedules

Effective to 29 March 2008

All times UTC

Voice of Russia. Relays via SW transmitters

via Moscow, Russia
5900 0000-0300 500
5905 DRM 1400-1600 035
5985 1500-2000 250
6000 1630-1800 250
6105 DRM 2000-2300 035
6130 1600-2100 250
6145 1600-2300 250 change
7105 1600-1630 250
7105 1800-2100 250
7115 1800-2100 250
7135 1300-1600 250
7155 1700-1900 250 addit.
7170 0000-0400 500
7195 1700-2100 250
7230 1600-2100 500
7260 0200-0400 500
7270 1500-1900 250
7290 1800-2200 250
7305 1800-2000 250
7320 1600-1900 250
7330 0000-0300 500
7330 1700-2200 250
9470 1500-1800 500
11615 DRM 0700-1500 035
11630* 1200-1500 250
11635 DRM 0700-0900 035
12025 1200-1600 500
12055 1300-1530 500
12100 1300-1500 250 addit.
15150 1300-1500 250
15460# 1200-1500 250
* 28/10/2007 - 01/03/2008
# 02/03/2008 - 29/03/2008

via St. Petersburg, Russia
5910 1500-1700 200
5920 1600-2100 200
5935 1500-1800 400
5940 2100-2230 200
6000 1800-1900 200 addit.
6030 1930-2200 200 change
6045 1700-2000 200
6065 1800-2000 400
6195 0100-0300 500
7130 1700-1800 400
7340 1600-1800 200
9850 1500-1600 400 addit.

via Kaliningrad, Russia
5950 1800-2200 160
5975 1630-1900 160
7285 1500-2200 160
9720 1000-1100 160

via Samara, Russia
5920 0000-0200 250 addit.
5920 2100-2200 250
5940 1500-1700 250
5940 1800-2100 250
6000 1800-1900 200
6000 2000-2230 200
6020 1500-1700 250
6030 1800-1930 250 addit.
6175 1700-1800 250 addit.
6185 1300-1700 200
7110 1400-1700 250
7155 1900-2000 250
7290 1600-1800 250
9900 1300-1500 250

via Krasnodar, Russia
5925 1500-1700 100
5945 0100-0300 500
6005 1500-1800 100
6055 1800-1900 500
6140 1800-2000 100
6175 1800-2000 100
7150 0200-0600 500
7170 2000-2200 500
7300 1700-1900 250
7300 2100-2200 250
9830 1300-1500 500 addit.
11975 1300-1500 250
15540 1000-1100 250

via Novosibirsk, Russia
5940 1200-1500 200
5945 1400-1800 500
5975 1900-2000 500 addit.
6100 1600-1700 500 addit.
7155 1500-1700 250 addit.
7280 1300-1600 500 change
7305 1200-1400 200
7305 1400-1700 500
7310 1800-2100 100 change
7340 2000-2200 200
9865 1200-1300 500

via Irkutsk, Russia
5920 1000-1400 100
5995 1500-1900 100
6095 1000-1100 100
6095 1200-1300 100
6125 1700-1900 250
6170 1900-2100 250
7235 1700-1900 100
9800 1300-1500 500
11870 0200-0600 100
12090 0200-0600 500
15455 0200-0600 100
17805 0600-0900 250
17840 0200-0600 100 addit.

via Chita, Russia
6140 1100-1300 500 change
7295 1700-1900 500
7335 1800-2000 500
7350 1200-1600 500
15195 0800-1000 500
15470 0200-0600 250
17695 0200-0500 250

via Vladivostok, Russia
5930 1100-1500 100
5955 2000-2200 500
6005 0800-1000 100
6155 0700-0900 100
7260 1300-1700 500
7330 0700-0900 500
9535 0730-1000 100 addit.
9550 0200-1000 500 addit.
9635 0700-0900 250 addit.
9855 0400-0600 250
12010 0200-0600 250
12040 0200-0600 250
13860 0800-1000 500 addit.
15760 0200-0700 100 ?delete?
15765 0200-0700 100 addit.
17695 0200-0600 250 addit.

via Khabarovsk, Russia
5950 0700-1000 100
6170 1200-1500 100
7145 1100-1500 100 addit.
7155 1100-1500 120
7220 1100-1500 100
9550 0200-1000 100
13580 0200-1000 100 change
13660 0800-1000 100
15455 0200-0600 120 addit.
15520 0200-0600 100

via Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Russia
6005 1300-1500 250
13735 0200-0500 250
15735 DRM 0200-0600 090

via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
6180 1200-1500 250
7125 1700-1900 250
9840 0400-0600 250
12030 0200-0600 250
15530 0200-0600 100 addit.
15560 0200-0500 250
17695 0500-0600 200

via Gavar, Armenia
6235 1800-2000 100
7250 0200-0400 500
11510 1700-2000 500

via Grororiopol, Moldova
6240 0100-0500 500
7125 0000-0600 500

via Orzu, Tajikistan
7560 0000-0300 500
9945 0200-0300 500
11500 1200-1500 500
17495 0800-1000 500

via Yangiyul, Tajikistan
4965 1300-1500 100
4965 1600-1700 100
4975 1300-1500 100
4975 1600-1700 100
5830 1800-1900 200
7510 1500-1700 200
7510 1700-2000 100
9885 1300-1530 100
9885 1600-1700 100

via Xian, China
9660 1500-1600 100

via S. Maria di Galeria, Vatican State
7350 0200-0600 250

via Wertachtal, Germany
6155 0200-0500 250
6175 2300-2400 125
13755 1500-1600 100
(Nikolai Rudnev, Belgorodskaya obl., RUS-DX, Dec 23)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX # 840 via wb, Germany)

Radio Netherlands Worldwide program preview Dec. 29, 2007 - Jan 4, 2008

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 29 DECEMBER
*** The State We're In ***
In this week's The State We're In Christmas special we bring you highlights from this past year.

We celebrate the festive season by taking part in some time-honoured family traditions - even if they involve freezing walks in the woods and dangerously sharp implements.

And we hear how European perceptions of beauty transformed one African woman's life into a freak show.

And a kidnapped aid worker reveals how he kept himself together when he was imprisoned by mentally flipping through the family photo album.

Some of our best stories from the past year in this week's The State We're In Christmas special.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1004 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1204 (Eastern N America 11675)
1804 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
2004 (West Africa 11655)

Note that on Saturday we also run repeats of:

Reloaded on SW: 1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
Curious Orange: 1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
Earthbeat and Stories of the Twntieth Century: 1900 and 1930 respectively (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120, Eastern N America 15525, Central N America 15315)

SUNDAY 30 DECEMBER
*** Stories of the Twentieth Century ***
To start this series: World War I - All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque.

*** Reloaded ***

Here's your chance to catch up with some of the highlights from recent programmes; the best, the most interesting or newsworthy, or sometimes the funniest, chosen by our producers and presented by Mindy Ran.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120, Eastern N America 15525, Central N America 15315)
2000 (West Africa 11655)

Repeated: Saturday 1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120, Eastern N America 15525, Central N America 15315)

MONDAY 31 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
2030 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 11655, 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)

*** Curious Orange ***
This week on Curious Orange we take a look in our crystal balls for 2008 - or at least, we ask some experts to do it for us. And we get their predictions on everything from politics and international law to the environment and military actions in Afghanistan.

Sounds pretty heavy, so we'll lighten it up with a good dose of our favourite Dutch music.

That's this week on Curious Orange.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0030 (Eastern N America 6165)
0130 (Central N America 6165)
0530 (Western N America 6165)
1030 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1230 (Eastern N America 11675)
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1830 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1830 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120, Eastern N America 15525, Central N America 15315)
2000 (West Africa 11655)

Repeated:
Wednesday
1500 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
Saturday
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)

TUESDAY 1 JANUARY
*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
2030 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 11655, 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)

*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***

In this week's The State We're In - Midweek Edition we bring you highlights from this past year.

We celebrate the festive season by taking part in some time-honoured family traditions - even if they involve freezing walks in the woods and dangerously sharp implements.

One fairytale figure voices her protest at being permanently labelled as the ugly sister.

And we hear how European perceptions of beauty transformed one African woman's life into a freak show.

That's all on this week's The State We're In - Midweek Edition.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0030 (Eastern N America 6165)
0130 (Central N America 6165)
0530 (Western N America 6165)
1030 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1230 (Eastern N America 11675)
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1830 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
2000 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

WEDNESDAY 2 JANUARY
*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
2030 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 11655, 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)

*** Radio Books ***

Geert van Istendael - 'Three Poets or the Permanence of Poetry'

This week's Radio Books is the story of two friends who share a passion for poetry. Their lives however take very different courses, as does this surprising and powerful short story written by one of Belgium's most celebrated poets and essayists, Geert van Istendael. It's called 'The Three Poets or The Permanence of Poetry'. The third poet in the title only makes an appearance in the latter part of this story but it's certainly worth the wait and takes this tale, quite literally, out of this world.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0030 (Eastern N America 6165)
0130 (Central N America 6165)
0530 (Western N America 6165)
1030 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1230 (Eastern N America 11675)
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1830 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
2000 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

Repeated:
Friday 1500 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

THURSDAY 3 JANUARY
*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
2030 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 11655, 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)

*** Earthbeat ***

In this edition of Earthbeat, Dheera Sujan visits the famous International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam and emerges with stories of three very different films. But they all have a connecting thread - responsibility.
Corporate responsibility, consumer responsibility and personal responsibility - celluloid stories on Earthbeat this week.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0030 (Eastern N America 6165)
0130 (Central N America 6165)
0530 (Western N America 6165)
1030 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1230 (Eastern N America 11675)
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1830 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
2000 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

Repeated:
Monday
1500 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
Saturday
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

FRIDAY 4 JANUARY
*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0500 (Western N America 6165)
1000 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1200 (Eastern N America 11675)
1400 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1530 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1800 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
1930 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
2030 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 11655, 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
0000 (Eastern N America 6165)
0100 (Central N America 6165)

*** Network Europe ***

A Pan European team links up across the continent each week to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

The programme is a unique example of European co-operation, produced by the continent's leading international broadcasters, it reflects the diversity of European society and voices. Each week we drop in on specialists around Europe and catch up with our extensive network of correspondents for their unique take on the events shaping the week.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
0030 (Eastern N America 6165)
0130 (Central N America 6165)
0530 (Western N America 6165)
1030 (East/Southeast Asia 12065, East Asia 9795, Far East 6040)
1230 (Eastern N America 11675)
1430 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1830 (Southern Africa 6020, East/Central Africa 11655, 12050)
2000 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)

Repeated:
Monday
1500 (South Asia 9345, 12080, 15595)
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
Saturday
1900 (East Africa 11805, 12050, West Africa 17810, Central/Southern Africa 7120)
(R Netherlands)

Logging observations of Chad on shortwave

CHAD 4905 (reactivated) Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, Grevia, 1729-1914, 20 Dec, Arabic, announcements, talks, local tunes, Vernacular, tribal tunes; French 1859, news, program "Espace Jeune"; 54444; I was unable to monitor its s/on time, but estimate it as being 1600, and 4905 is ex-6165 evenings only for the latter is used during the day.

6165 RD. Natle. Tchadienne, Grevia, 1328-..., 19 Dec, French, news; 25332, QRM de HRV later on only. Check my 22 Dec obs.

6165 RD. Natle. Tchadienne, Grevia, 1113-1400, 22 Dec, Vernacular, talks, ... , French at 1340 when signal rated 25342,..., tribal songs at 1450; 13441, QRM de HRV whose signal is usually felt well after 1400. As from 20 Dec, this fq. was replaced by 4905 for the evening period starting at approx. 1600. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)

Yes Chad received here in Sri Lanka too, but only in the evening slot, initially mixing badly with CNR. Thanks for the tip. I have ben rather slow with my DXing due to too much work. But one by one the antennas are getting refurbished and will come back with a lot of interest, not that I have ever been off the band. How can I when I earn a living being in front of a radio.

One comment, someone said probably Chad is down here due to interference on 6 KHz. Well the reason is, I am sure, that evening and morning 6 MHz is not serving a wider area due to propagation in an area between the ground wave and the first sky wave coverage area. With the sun spots so low for local shortwave coverage the angle of return has to be wider as the frequency goes up. Right now here in the tropics in Sri Lanka which is almost similar latitude to Chad, till about 8 a.m. in the morning and after 7 p.m. it is hard to have any coverage in an area about 200kms from the txsite on 6, 7 MHz. So as hams we have to come down to the next band 75metres.
With a lot of people depending on SW in Chad the 4904.5 is a logical move. (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, DXplorer Dec 24)

4905 RN Tchadienne Dec 25 w/ armchair lvl signals from 0509 tune to 0645 end recording peaked at S5 from 0530 to 0630 with quick improvement from 0509 and slower degradation after 0630. Interesting pgming.nice Christmas program in French from 0605-0632, opening with an inst/vocal tune, devotions by men and a woman, many mentions of "Noel" and short choir vocals from a church.ended with "Joyeaux Noel, Amen" at 0630 and an inst/vocal tune (same as at 0605) to 0632.seemed surprising coming from a largely Muslim country. Local indigenous vocal at 0634-0636. Several telephone call-ins heard around 0600 and after 0636. SINPO 4/5-5-4-4-4 w/ some buzzing QRN from local electrical pole. Best I have heard Chad here on any frequency. (Bruce Churchill-USA, DXplorer Dec 26)

6165 replaced by 4904.97 kHz at 0430-0730 and 1600-2230 UT. 6165 or 7120 on Sat/Sun 0730-1000, daily 1000-1600 UTC.

History - Schedule of Oct 1999:
CHAD RNT Bamako also IDs as Radio Tschad bcs on 6165 between 0430-0730, 0730-1000 Sat/Sun, and 1000-2230. 7120 may be used on occasions between 0700-1600 instead of 6165. 4904.5 is also an alternative. (BBC_M in BrDXC Communication magazine Oct, 1999)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX #840 via wb, Germany)

Correspondence may be directed to:
Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne
Boite Postal 892
N'Djamena
Chad
(Source: World QSL Book/Teak Publishing)

Final broadcast for Finland's 558 kHz

FINLAND
The last medium wave transmitter of YLE, Helsinki 558 kHz, will sign off on December 31st. The station gave a short announcement about this at 1045 UT today. I'm not sure but they will probably give these local announcements during December daily, so now it's the last moment to observe Helsinki 558 if you wish to catch a local insert from this station. At the end of this local announcement the station plays a short
piece of YLE's interval tune. In all other times they relay Radio Peili or Radio Finland. (Vesa-Jussi Rinkinen-FIN, hcdx Dec 21)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX #840 via wb, Germany)

2007 Clandestine Activity Survey

Press Release

During the year 2007 the activity of political clandestine stations broadcasting on shortwave has increased by 4.8 % to 1321 Weekly Broadcasting Hours (WBHs). This is way below the record 2384 WBHs measured in 1990, but still up from the all-time low of 1116 WBHs in 1999.

Activity of clandestine stations broadcasting to target areas on the Asian continent has increased by 7.9 % to 939 WBHs and activity to target areas on the American continent has also increased by 11.4 % to 215 WBHs. On the other hand, activity to target areas on the African continent has dropped by 15.2 % to now 167 WBHs.

The three most active target areas worldwide are China with 240 WBHs (+40 when compared with last year), Cuba with 215 WBHs (+22) and North Korea with 196 WBHs (+14).

The number of different target areas active worldwide has dropped sharply from 24 in the previous year to only 18 at the end of 2007. While no new target areas have emerged during the past 12 months, the following target areas that were still active one year ago are now thought to be inactive: Maledives, Libya, Sudan, Uganda, Gambia and Cameroon.
(Mathias Kropf-D, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 23)
(Source: WWDXC Top News-BC DX #840 via wb, Germany)

Radiodifusao em Angola web info

Angola
Radiodifusao em Angola

http://www.geocities.com/dpmonteiro/index.html>

It is in Portuguese (the site), but just the names of the stations will get your DX juices flowing Radio Clube de Benguela, Radio Clube da Huila, Radio Diamang, Radio Clube de Cabina. This site is devoted to the history of radio in Angola and contains brief histories of the stations, photos of stations, QSLs, radio personalities and station memorabilia. Those who remember the days of Angolan shortwave radio will enjoy this.

(via Jerry Berg-USA, DXplorer Dec 23/WWDXC Top News-BC DX #840, wb, Germany)

Benazir Bhutto Remarks to Voice of America Reporter

Press Release
VOA reporter Sayed Hassan was among a group of journalists who spoke with Benazir Bhutto just hours before her assassination Islamabad, Pakistan, December 27, 2007 - Voice of America (VOA) reporter Sayed Hassan was among a group of journalists who spoke with Benazir Bhutto just hours before her assassination. The comments came after Ms. Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and before she went on to her final campaign rally. Ms. Bhutto gave a lengthy answer in English to a VOA question about terrorism and Afghan-Pakistan relations.

The transcript of Benazir Bhutto's remarks:

"I explained to President Karzai that the Pakistan People's Party hoped to win the elections and form the government and we look forward to working very closely with Afghanistan. We too believe it is essential for us both of our countries and indeed the large Muslim world to work to protect the interests of the Islamic civilization by eliminating extremism and terrorism. I touched upon the need to of - I asked him about madrassas (Islamic schools) in Afghanistan and I said we discussed about madrassas and they have only the traditional madrassas. You know there are two types of madrassas. One is the traditional madrassas, which teaches Islamic teachings and which are very good and which are very noble and on the other hand there are these training institutes that brainwash young children and turn them into warriors and fighters for no cause- for creating anarchy and chaos but they pose as madrassas which they're not. So I asked him, he said 'we don't have that problem in Afghanistan', I said well we have that problem in Afghanistan.

"And we discussed about trade in the region. Trade had gone up really high in 2006. It's come down now and I suggested that might be due to the fact that there is destabilization going on the frontier province. We've had the incident in Swat with Alpuri, the bomb blasts on Eid ul Azha, as I was in Charsadda yesterday's bomb blasts were in Peshawar. So the destabilization is now by the extremists, is not now relegated to the tribal areas of Pakistan but they have descended into not only the settled areas of frontier province they have descended into Peshawar. So there is an absolute need for both our countries to cooperate closely on terrorism related issues and also on issues of how we can enhance the quality of life of our people by improving economic ties.

"I was pleased to read in the newspapers today that Pakistan and Afghanistan are forming a committee for intelligence sharing. I think this is a good and positive move and I mentioned to the Afghan president that we in the PPP were desirous of seeking good relations with Afghanistan as well as with India. I mentioned that while we were trying to control the extremists and the militants they had turned their guns inward but I said it was still very necessary for us to dismantle these groups; because while some of them may have been formed in a noble cause, for example, some may have taken up the cause of fighting the occupation of Afghanistan or others might have taken up the cause of Kashmir but nonetheless once such people were trained they could always turn their guns on other objects and therefore it was important in the PPP's view that we should seek peaceful means of conflict resolution so that our people did not suffer, our countries did not suffer and our Islamic civilization did not suffer."
(Source: Voice of America Voice of America. Audio and video available at http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-27-voa52.cfm )

HOT SPOT DXING - Pakistani Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto Assassinated - following events by shortwave radio

With news this morning of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the following compilations will assist those following events by shortwave radio, as well as loggings and previously posted information.

Additional news story: Former premier Benazir Bhutto assassinated in Pakistan. (via Glenn Beck)
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071227143327.ehma07ne.html

Radio Pakistan
http://www.radio.gov.pk/ includes multilingual live streaming audio
English news noted via live audio at 1600-1610 UTC (1100 AM EST), followed by a news commentary on the assassination.

English service targeted to Europe
All times UTC

0730-0800 15100eu 17835eu
0800-0830 15100eu 17835eu
1600-1615 6230eu 7520eu 11570eu

Multilingual services: Freq Band Hours(UTC) Target Area

Far East
Chinese 9380 32 1200-1230 41,42,43,44,45
Chinese 11570 26 1200-1230 41,42,43,44,45

South East Asia
Urdu 11580 26 0045-0215 41,44,45,49,50,51,54,55,59
Urdu 15485 19 0045-0215 41,44,45,49,50,51,54,55,59

South Asia
Assami 7445 40 0045-0115 41
Bangla-1 7445 40 0115-0200 41
Bangla-2 7445 40 1200-1245 41
Nepali 7445 40 1245-1315 41
Hindi-1 7445 40 0215-0300 41
Hindi-2 7445 40 1100-1145 41
Gujrati 9350 32 0400-0430 41
Tamil-1 15620 19 0315-0345 41
Tamil-2 15620 19 0945-1015 41
Sinhali 15620 19 1015-1045 41

Middle East, Iran, Africa
Turkish 6240 48 1630-1700 38,39
Irani 5050 59 1715-1800 40
Arabic 6280 48 1815-1900 37-39
Urdu 11570 26 0500-0700 40
Urdu 15100 20 0500-0700 38,39,46,47
Urdu 11570 26 1330-1530 37-39
Urdu 7520 40 1330-1530 38,39,46,47
English 6240 48 1600-1615 37-39
English 7520 40 1600-1615 38,39,46,47
Urdu 4835 62 1915-0045 40

East/South East Africa
English 11570 26 1600-1615 48s,52,53,57

West Europe
English 15100 19 0730-0830 17,18SE,27-29
English 17835 17 0730-0830 17,18SE,27-29
Urdu 15100 19 0830-1104 17,18SE,27-29
Urdu 17835 17 0830-1104 17,18SE,27-29
Urdu 7530 40 1700-1900 17,18SE,27-29
Urdu 9380 32 1700-1900 17,18SE,27-29

CIS & Russia
Turki 5050 59 1330-1400 39NE,40
Dari 5050 59 1515-1545 39NE,40
Russian 9395 32 1415-1445 29,30E
Pushto 6235 48 0500-0545 39E,40
(Iftikhar Hussain Malik, Engineering Manager, Frequency Management Cell,
PBC, 303 Peshwar Road, Rawalpindi, Oct 24, via BC-DX via DXLD)

Pakistani security forces have retaken a strategic mountain from pro-Taliban militants in the restive Swat valley in northwest Pakistan and shut down an illegal radio station used by their radical head as a propaganda machine. The radio station, a vital part of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah's campaign advocating 'jehad' and the imposition of Shariat or Islamic law, has not been heard since Monday, local residents said on Tuesday. Recorded messages from Fazlullah, also known as "Mullah Radio," were broadcast by the station and he was not physically present there. The government of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) said troops conducting operations against Fazlullah's men had secured the area between Kanju town and Najia Top, the highest peak in Swat district. It is believed the radio station was operating in this area. Militants were fleeing from Imamdheri, Fazlullah's headquarters, as well as Kuza Banda, Bara Banda and Ningolai, all strongholds of the rebels, said state-run PTV. The militant leader functioning as "Governor" in Matta town was killed in an operation by the security forces, it said. Fazlullah's radio station had continued broadcasting even after the federal government rushed thousands of troops to Swat in late October to quell the activities of the cleric and his Shaheen Commando Force. Though several TV channels were blacked out by the government after President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency earlier this month, the radio station could be heard across Swat. (Via Nov 28 at http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200711271551.htm , via Kumar)

4835, R Pakistan, Islamabad, 0315-0335, Dec 05, English discussion, short music, poor modulation, 34322. (Petersen)
(Source: DX Window # 339/Dec. 12, 07 via Anker Petersen)

Pakistani paramilitary troops were deployed inside state-run television and radio stations in Islamabad on Saturday, Nov 03, witnesses said. A senior security official told Reuters that the government had decided to impose emergency rule, and approval would be sought from cabinet later, after which there were expectations that President Pervez Musharraf would address the nation. (http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL19667120071103 via Liangas)
(Source: DX Window # 337/Nov. 14, 07 via Anker Petersen)

Former Pakistani Premier, Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, returned on Oct 18 to Pakistan after eight years into exile abroad, in order to run for new Premier at the next Parliamentary election in January. Pakistan and the rest of the world was very shocked at the young suicide man who blasted a handgrenade and a large bomb in the middle of a crowd greeting her on the streets of Karachi. Press reports claim that 136 were killed and about 300 wounded by this "welcome home" assassination attempt. Mrs. Bhutto was not hurt.
(Source: DX Window #336/ Oct. 30, 07 via Anker Petersen)

Additional news may be covered from the following stations in English
All times UTC

Bangladesh, Bangla Betar
English service targeted to Asia
All times UTC
1530-1600 4750as
1745-1800 7185as
1800-1900 7185as

4750 and 693 MW (1000 kW) etc., Bangladesh Betar, used to be heard well here in Hyderabad before, but is not heard after the cyclone hit Bangladesh on Nov 16 when all power in Dhaka was off the air for 36 hours. But the Shortwave transmitter is noted back on air on 4750 the next day. (Jacob). 1415-1600*, Nov 17, Bengali talks and songs around 1415, 1530 news in English about the cyclone! QRM Qinghai PBS (QSA 3), 43433 deteriorating 23232. (Petersen)
7250, Bangladesh Betar, 1227-1237, NOV 24, IS and music. The high frequency of the flutes came though. (Valko)
(Source: DX Window #338/Nov 28, 07 via Anker Petersen)

4750, Bangladesh Betar, Khabirpur, 1430-1600*, Nov 08, Bengali ann, folksongs, 1500 English ID, talk, folksongs, 1530 English news about Bangladesh, Japan, Pakistan and India, 1536 ID: "This is Bangladesh Betar giving you the news", 1545 political comment, Bengali song, ID at sign off, 33333, QRM co-channel Qinghai PBS and weaker Voice of China. (Petersen)
(Source: DX Window #337/Nov 14, 07 via Anker Petersen)

All India Radio
English service
All times UTC

Here`s the English portion only, GOS except at 1530-1545:

1000-1100 13710(B) 17510(Kh) 17895(A) Australia/NZ (ex 13695)
1000-1100 15020(A) 15235(B) 17800(B) NE Asia (ex 15410)
1000-1100 1053(T) 7270(Ch) 15260(Ki) 17860(Ki) Sri Lanka
1330-1500 9690(B) 11620(Kh) 13710(B) E SE Asia
1530-1545 7255(A) 9820(P) 9910(Kh) SAARC countries
1745-1945 11935(M) 15075(Kh) 17670(Kh) E. Africa
1745-1945 7410(Kh) 9950(Kh) 11620(B) UK & W. Europe
1745-1945 9445(B) 13605(B) 15155(A) W. NW Africa
2045-2230 9910(A) 11620(B) 11715(P) Australia, NZ
2045-2230 7410(Kh) 9445(B) 9950(Kh) 11620(B) UK & W. Europe
2245-0045 9705(P) 11620(Kh) 13605(B) E & SE Asia
2245-0045 9950(A) 11645(Kh) 13605(B) NE Asia

Some frequencies are used by Home Services at other times.
Transmitter Sites used for External Services [not all for English]
No. Code Location kW kHz
A Aligarh 4 x 250 SW
B Bengaluru (Bangalore) 6 x 500 SW
C Chinsurah (Kolkata / Calcutta) 1 x 500 594 1134
Ch Chennai (Madras) 1 x 100 7270 7360
G Gorakhpur 1 x 50 3945 7250
Gu Guwahati 1 x 50 7420
J Jalandhar 1 x 300 702
Kh Khampur (Delhi) 7 x 250 SW
Ki Kingsway (Delhi) 3 x 50, 2 x 100 SW
M Mumbai (Bombay) 1 x 100 7195 11935
P Panaji 2 x 250 SW
T Tuticorin 1 x 200 1053
Prepared by Jose Jacob, India. Email: vu2jos@gmail.com (via Dan Sampson, ptsw)

Recent Logs of India
4760, AIR Leh, 0235-0305 fade out, Dec 14, Hindi talk // 4840, 0235-0300 English news from Delhi: "All India Radio - Now the news" while Mumbai continued with music, 0300 Leh local programme in Ladakhi of songs, 35333. (Petersen)

4820.8, AIR Kolkata (P), 1334, Dec 12, talks in Hindi. S6 max, QRM with co-channel Xizang. (Liangas)

4840, AIR Mumbai, *2355-0130, Dec 16 and 19, musical opening to 0000, station ID, Hindi vocals, Vernacular talks, reading story, film song, 45344. (D'Angelo/FCDX and Petersen)

4860, AIR Delhi, 0202-0216, Dec 18, Hindi talk. Poor to fair. (D'Angelo/FCDX). Also 1331, Dec 12. (Liangas)

4875, AIR location?, Dec 22, 1455-1545, Indian music, 1514 Hindi news; 1530 English AIR ID and news, 34433. In the background I heard sometimes Qur'an singing and Arabic talks. (Van Arnhem). An AIR station drifting ? (Ed)

4895, AIR Kurseong, 1329, Dec 12, fast talks, seem news, 33233. Mongolian station under. (Liangas)

4910, AIR Jaipur, 0125-0225, Dec 19, Hindi news (// 4950), Bollywood songs and Sanskrit chat, 45333. (Petersen)

4940, AIR Guwahati, 1429, Dec 12, Hindi songs, 34433. (Liangas)

4950, R Kashmir, Srinagar, 0125-0135, Dec 19, Sanskrit news, 0130 own programme in Vernacular, local songs 35333. (Petersen)

4965, AIR Shimla, 0140-0150, Dec 25, Slow Indian songs, best in most narrow bandwidth, but stronger than Voice Africa, Lusaka; usual Noise QRM in USB, 33333. (Petersen)

5040, AIR Jeypore, 0117-0131, Dec 18, group Hindi vocal selection, quite poor. (D'Angelo/FCDX)

9470, AIR National Channel, 1320-0043, Dec 13, is noted back (parallel to 9425). (Jacob)

9870, AIR Vividh Bharati, 1404-1440, Dec 12, Hindi film music to discussion, ID 1430, drama, fair. (D'Angelo)

AIR special service to Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrims in Urdu is noted as follows: 0530-0600 11730(Khampur Delhi), 15770(Aligarh) and 17845(Khampur Delhi). (Jacob)
(DX Window # 340/Dec 26, 07 via Anker Petersen)

Voice of America
English

English to Africa
0300-0400 UTC 909 1530 4930 6080 9885 15580
0400-0430 UTC 909 1530 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580
0430-0500 UTC 909 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580
0500-0600 UTC 909 4930 5855 6080 9885 15580
0600-0700 UTC 909 1530 6080 9885 15580
1400-1600 UTC 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895
1600-1700 UTC 909 1530 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895
1700-1800 UTC 6080 13710 15580
1700-1800 UTC 909 17895 Saturday & Sunday only
1800-1830 UTC 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895
1800-1830 UTC 909 4930 Saturday & Sunday only
1830-1900 UTC 909 4930 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895
1900-2000 UTC 909 4930 4940 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895
2000-2030 UTC 909 1530 4930 4940 6080 11975 13710
2030-2100 UTC 909 1530 4930 6080 11975 13710
2030-2100 UTC 4940 Saturday & Sunday only
2100-2200 UTC 1530 6080 15580

English to Zimbabwe
1730-1800 UTC 909 4930 12080 15775 Monday-Friday only
1720-1740 UTC 909 4930 12080 15775 Saturday & Sunday only

English to Afghanistan
0000-0030 UTC 1296 7405
2030-2130 UTC 1296 7595
2130-2400 UTC 1296 7405

English to Far East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania
0100-0200 UTC 7200 9865 11705
1100-1130 UTC 1575 Saturday & Sunday only
1130-1200 UTC 1575
1200-1300 UTC 1170 9640 9760 11705 11730 15190
1300-1400 UTC 9640 9760 11705
1400-1500 UTC 7125 9760 11885 12150
1500-1600 UTC 7125 9520 11510 12150 13735
2200-2300 UTC 5910 7120 7220 7425 9490 11725
2230-2400 UTC 1575 Friday & Saturday only
2300-2400 UTC 5910 7120 7220 9490 11725 15185

English-Special
0000-0030 UTC 1575 1593
0030-0100 UTC 1575 1593 7200 7405 9620 11695 11705 11805 12005 15185 15205
0130-0200 UTC 1593 5960 7405 Tuesday-Saturday only
1430-1500 UTC 6105 7225 9715 15130
1500-1530 UTC 6105 7175 9760 15460
1530-1600 UTC 6105 7175 9760 15460
1600-1700 UTC 13600 13615 15445
1600-1700 UTC 1170 Monday-Friday only
1830-1900 UTC 6105 6150 7220 9650
1900-1930 UTC 9785 12020
1930-2000 UTC 6105 6150 7220 9650 9785 12020
2230-2300 UTC 7230 9780 15445
2300-2330 UTC 1593 6180 7205 15150
2330-2400 UTC 1593 6180 7205 11655 13640 15150
José Miguel Romero/HCDX & VOA website
http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ _

Voice of America
Bangla Service
Bangla
0130-0200 UTC 11500 15205
1600-1700 UTC 7280 11500

French to Africa
0530-0600 UTC 1530 4960 6015 7265 9480 9505 Monday-Friday only
0600-0630 UTC 4960 6015 7265 9480 9505 Monday-Friday only
1830-2000 UTC 1530 9815 12080 13735 15225 17580
2000-2030 UTC 9780 9815 12080 13735 15220
2030-2100 UTC 9780 9815 11775 12080 15225 Saturday & Sunday only
2100-2130 UTC 5985 9680 9780 9815 Monday-Friday only

Hindi
1600-1700 UTC 6060 9760

Pashto (Radio Ashna)
0030-0130 UTC 1296 7595 9335
1430-1500 UTC 1296 9335 11575 11840
1530-1630 UTC 1296 9335 11575 11840
1730-1800 UTC 1296 9335 9445 9770
1830-1930 UTC 1296 5750 7595

Pashto (Deewa Radio)
1300-1500 UTC 9390 9565 11510
1500-1700 UTC 7455 11525 11865
1700-1800 UTC 5835 7455 11865
1800-1900 UTC 5835 7455 9310

Portuguese to Africa
0430-0500 UTC 1530 9480 9675
1000-1030 UTC 17740 21590 Saturday & Sunday only
1700-1730 UTC 1530 11775 15545
1730-1800 UTC 1530 9565 9805 11775
1800-1830 UTC 1530 7290 9805 Monday-Friday only

Spanish
0030-0200 UTC 5890 5940 9885
1100-1230 UTC 9535 9885 11840

Urdu (Radio Aap ki Dunyaa)
0000-0100 UTC 972 1539
0100-0200 UTC 972 1539 7145 9740
1400-1500 UTC 972 1539 9510 11705
1500-1700 UTC 972 1539
1700-1800 UTC 972 1539 7260 11500
1800-2400 UTC 972 1539
José Miguel Romero/HCDX & VOA website
http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_e.cfm

Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/
Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/
BBC World Service-Radio Schedules (includes multilingual services)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/worldservice/psims/ScheduleSDT.cgi
Bangla Betar http://www.betar.org.bd/
All India Radio http://allindiaradio.org/
Voice of America News http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm