All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*Argentina RAE on 11710.8
Radio Nacional, General Pacheco, 11710.8, 0015-0030, 24 Dec, football ball match report for Argentina vs. Chile or so it seemed. SINPO 35432 but still a little bit worse than Brazil's 11765 observed at the same time. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX topnews Dec 24)
Audioclip: Radio Nacional Argentina via RAE
15345 KHz 20.30. Very good signal from the frequency of RAE (relay to Radio Nacional 870 KHz).
Audioclip available at:
http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/6177883.html
(Francesco/playdx2003)
Australian logs9690 Nippon no Kaze via Darwin 1509-1539* Dec 21. Presumed with talks in Korean. Long closing routine at 1525, including usual e-mail address info@rachi.go.jp and website http://www.rachi.go.jp/ Carrier off at 1530:10 UT. Good signal. (John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer Dec 21)
12010 Radio Australia via Darwin, at 2240 UT on Dec 16. Listed English & beamed toward SE Asia. Lady announcer with music bumpers. Fair at best, but difficult to understand the talking.(Jerry Strawman-IA-USA, DXplorer Dec 21)
Bulgaria to begin new local station Jan 1
A new local station is starting on January the 1st, 2009. It is Radio Vidin (a city in NoWe Bulgaria). It is not clearl which waves/freqs will be in use. Info acc to the info of news of BNRadio on Dec 23rd. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 24)
Canada's CFRX back on
From the engineer himself: "CFRX is back on at 1000 watts and sounds great near field The transmitter having recently been repaired and retested at the Armstrong factory in Syracuse NY is running full out and very well. We will be getting an on site type approval of the transmitter by Industry Canada very soon."
China
Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, 0026-0040, 24 Dec, Mandarin, annoucements, light songs, TS at 0030 UT, more talks, presumably a newscast. SINPO 35433.(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX topnews Dec 24)
Costa Rican QSL
Radio Nacional de Espana Relay Station (5965 kHz) verified my reception report in Spanish with $2.00 by a PFC QSL card in Spanish after 39 days via express mail. QSL signer was Sr. S. Esquiol. The mailing address was:
Radio Nacional de Espana, Centro Emisor de Onda Corta, 500 Oeste Pali,
Cariari, Cariari de Pococi, Limon, Costa Rica.
(Takahito Akabayashi-JPN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)
Ethiopia station news update
6889.92 Radio Fana, at 2035-2059* UT on Dec 18, Amharic talk. Local music. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. \\ 6110 kHz - good level but poor overall signal due to co-channel QRM. (Brian Alexander-PA-USA, DXplorer Dec 18)
9556.04v Radio Ethiopia, 0703-0711, Dec 21, slightly off nom. 9560 kHz. On 9556.04 kHz at tune-in. Drifting up to 9556.32 kHz by 0710 UT. Vernacular talk. Local tribal music. Fair. Very weak on \\ 7165 kHz. (Brian Alexander-PA-USA, hcdx Dec 21)
An Amharic-speaker has translated the announcement that is being repeated on the new 6090 kHz station. It says the tests are from Amhara Regional State radio. The following schedule is announced: 0300-0600, 0900-1100 and 1400-1700 UT. I have confirmed these times to be correct. It is announcing three frequencies: 6090, 7264 (sic) and 9740. I have only heard 6090, which has good signal strength.
I've also heard the email address of
5990v/7110/9704 Radio Ethiopia National Service.
7165/9560v Radio Ethiopia External Service (and anti-Eritrea clandestines).
6110/6890 Radio Fana (also heard on 1080 MW).
5950/5980 V. of Tigray Revolution (5980 is only heard for the early morning transmission, closing at 0530 UT).
Note: 5950 is much stronger than 5980, but has telephone-quality audio, supporting the theory that 5980 is from Mekele (where the studio is) but 5950 kHz is from Addis Ababa.
6030 R. Oromia (also heard on 1035 MW).
6090 The new Amhara State radio.
There are also unidentified Ethiopian MW stations on 684 and 1044 kHz. These are not in \\ with the National Service on 594/828/855/873/972 kHz. (Chris Greenway-KEN, - listening in Siaya District, western Kenya; BrDXC-UK and DXplorer Dec 23)
Germany: clandestinr station update
New schedule for two clannies to Ethiopia I'm not able to identify further (since I simply have lost track on all the organizations bombarding this region with shortwave broadcasts):
Something dubbed "Ethiopians for democracy" on Wed, Fri and Sun (perhaps aka. "Voice of Ethiopian Unity"?) and a certain "ELF" on Wed, both 1700- 1758 UT via Nauen (running 125 kW) on 11835 kHz.
Voice of Oromo Liberation (if it's them) Thu, Tue, Sun 1600-1700 UT via Juelich has been moved to 11760 kHz as of Dec 4.
Greenland heard on again on 3815
2105-2214* Dec 16+17, KNR, Tasiilaq (USB only) Greenlandic / Danish Greenlandic ann, songs, 2200 jingle, news in Danish (pres), song at close - back on ordinary schedule! 14232 - 12231 deep fades and CWQRM. The latest news in Danish can also be heard at www.knr.gl/index.php?id=1855. (Anker Petersen-DEN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 18)
Romanian frequency changes
Radio Romania International:
0630-0656 NF 15560 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to AUS, x15135#English
2030-2056 NF 6155 TIG 100 kW / 282 deg to SER, x5970 Serbian
#to avoid China Radio International in Spanish
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23)
(BC-DX 892/Top News)
