All times UTCAustralia
HCA erecting new antennas and transmitter house till April 2009, see report on HCJB Australia Newsletter. Dec 2008 issue is now available for dowload from this link:
www.hcjb.org.au/docs/131_Aus_Dec08.pdf
(Alokesh Gupta-IN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 26)
Bahrain
9745USB Radio Bahrain at 1852 UT. Middle Eastern vocal, brief announcement in Arabic by woman, then enthusiastic man and woman swapping mic in what sounded like ads. Into another vocal at 1855 UT with local instruments featuring heavy drums. Seemed pips at 1900 UT followed by talk, but too fady and noisy to read. This one seems to operate on an extremely irregular sked, to say the least. (Bob Hill-MA-USA, DXplorer Nov 25)
Bulgaria
Regarding warbling transmitter unit at Padarsko. The problem was so quickled solved. Please check frequencies:
15700 1100-1500
7200 1600-1700
7400 1730-1900
2000-2300
0000-0400
0530-0600
0630-0800 UTC.
(Ivo Ivanov-BUL, Nov 26)
Ecuador
HCJB now uses 15280 kHz to Europe in the DRM Mode with 4 kW and a Rhombic Antenna. Time 1100-1300 UTC. Bitrate is only 14.78 kBit, but audio is very good for that low bitrate. For proper decoding a SNR of 10- 12 dB is needed.
Program lineup includes
Musica del Ecuador at 1100-1130. News programming in Spanish 1130-1200. Low German 1200-1230. German 1230-1300 UT.
Poland/Germany
Polskie Radio, English service. Thursday Multimedia entry missed on website, but is really on air, checked Nov 27.
Thursday 1330 UT Polish R "Multimedia": 7325nau 9450wer Satellite is really on air! under different headline ?
www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/ramowka/?id=10
see also Fri 0830 UT via satellite. First airing Wed 1825 UT shortwave / 2055 UT satellite.
Sweden
GRIMETON RADIO / SAQ TRANSMISSION.
There will be a transmission with the Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz on Dec 6, 2008 at 1045 UTC. The reason for the extra transmission is the opening of a new "Alexanderson Institute" at Campus Learning Centre in Varberg, the near by city.
We do not require any QSL-reports this time and will not verify.
Regards. SM6NM/Lars
P.S. We still intend to continue with our annual transmission on Christmas Eve (morning), Dec 24, at 08:00 UTC with tuning up from 07:30 UTC. D.S. (Lars Kalland-SWE; via Mike Terry-UK, BrDXC-UK Nov 29)
(Source: WWDXC Top News/BC-DX #889 via wb, Germany)
