DX Listening Digest 8-013 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8013.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1393 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALGERIA / ANGOLA / ARGENTINA / BELGIUM non B07 / BENIN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA CHLN / CANADA DRM / CHINA / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / FRANCE +non / GAMBIA / GERMANY +non / GUATEMALA non / HAWAII +non / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM WRN/RFI/CRI / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM WRN/KBCS / IRAN +non / IRELAND +non / ISRAEL / ITALY / JAPAN / KOREA NORTH +non / LAOS non / LATVIA / MACEDONIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MONACO / NETHERLANDS +non DRM+ / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA SuddenLink / OMAN / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PORTUGAL / QATAR / RUSSIA / SOUTH AMERICA Cochiguaz / SRI LANKA / TAIWAN +non / TIBET / TURKEY / UKRAINE / USA non Sawa/Deewa / USA VOA/Public Diplomacy / USA WLOF/KAIJ / USA WWRB / USA KVOD/KCFR/KFDN / USA WNNX / USA KOOP / USA KATV / USA BusRadio / USA CC / USA KHA926/NASA / USA WCNZ/WMYR / USA WWVB / VATICAN ham / VENEZUELA +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED non 1044 / UNIDENTIFIED 4450 / UNIDENTIFIED 4600 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 6275 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / TINY TRAP / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1393 **flexible times Thu 0700 WRMI 9955** Thu 1530 WRMI 7385 Fri 0030 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0730 WRMI 9955** Fri 1200 WRMI 9955** Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 Fri 2330 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160 Sat 2230 WRMI 9955 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1200 WRMI 9955 Sun 1615 WRMI 7385 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1130 WRMI 9955** Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 0830 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO 1393 SUMMARY: *Mystery transmitter on 5954.1 is a 40 kW ELCOR testing in Guápiles, Cantón de Pococí, eastern Costa Rica *R. Coatán, Guatemala, 4780 detectable as late as 1438 in Pennsylvania; audible as late as 1420 in Oklahoma *R. Educación, Mexico City, heard again in daytime on a Monday around 1600-1700 on 6185 *Mexican domestic nets are shaking up; 1590 in Mexico City turns religious, Luz 15-90 instead of Radio Tráfico *Cuban jamming on 5980 starts before, ends well after times R. Martí is on frequency *Cuban `swisher` jamming around 1170-1190 switches back and forth to carrier on 1181 *On some days, Venezuela via Cuba, 11680 at 1500 mixes poor English with good Spanish *Conozca el Ecuador program from HCJB, with folk music, heard Monday 2230-2300 on 12000 *unID on 4450 seems Bolivian; years ago reported as R. Frontera, Cobija [later: Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal says it as R. Eco, Reyes] *R. Parinacota, Putre, Chile, 6010, in Quechua, DXed nearby in Argentina *Radio Sawa, US Arabic service heard back on shortwave 9370, apparently by mistake instead of R. Deewa, as R. Aap ki Dunya, VOA Urdu service goes off SW *Clandestine/pirate R. Arctica, 6275.5, heard again Saturday at 2112- 2127; next day until 2055, a ``Radio Africa`` may also be this *CFRX, Toronto, 6070, antenna tower was knocked down by bobcat; expected back on air shortly *CBA, Moncton NB, 1070 to close MW April 5, but could be extended; station already IDs as FM 106.1 *Thanks this week for financial support go to Phil Erickson *Littoral AM, France, reported to have revived 1593 kHz but now in DRM; Germany also DRM on 1593 *R. Romania International heard in English until 1855 on 4790: 9640 over 7215 leapfrog mixing product *Svitle Radio Emmanuil, Ukraine via Germany 9885 at 1400-1800, a topic on January`s RUI DX program *Algeria using R. Qur`an service to combat terrorism, with Islam-based arguments against it. That could explain why HFCC files this SW service under USA *Monitoring Nigerian MW from Uganda, only 756 kHz was audible *Cairo and Equatorial Guinea colliding at times on 6250 *R. Candip, Congo DR, 5066.329, heard in Sweden until 1630 *R. Kahuzi, Congo DR, 6210, heard in Sweden 1725-1800 *RNA, Angola, 4950, all-night, widely reported in North America *R. Madagascar, 5010, also well-heard on air late or all-night *V. of Turkey, Romanian at 1000-1030 heard on 10560 instead of 9560 *VOT has started podcasting some programs; English page at http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/podcasting.aspx?dil=12 *Syria has started experimental webcasting with domestic youth program, Saout al-Shabbab, mms://63.243.163.195/radio1 *R. Jordan`s French and English service on 11690 until 1730 has been missing, but sole SW transmitter is still heard on 9830 in Arabic around 1930 *V. of Kurdistan, English at 1600-1700 on 6335, has been mistaken for V. of Turkey with unclear ID; has also QSLed quickly by E-mail *V. of Communist Party of Iran at 1705 on 3880.6, 4365.9; also on 4285 at 0450. Another related clandestine, V. of Iranian Revolution on 4365.75 from 1426 *No R. Tashkent in English, from Uzbekistan, but VOLMET heard in English at 1440 on 4663-SSB *Azad Kasmir Radio Trarkhel, transmitted from Rawalpindi, heard on 7265 at 1150-1215 *Bangladesh Betar, 7250, heard in Ontario, English at 1230 *Myanmar has new service on MW 594, also on SW 5986 at least at 0000- 0130, believed to be Padauk Myay for youth *Lineup of Hmong Laotian clandestines at 0100-0200 on 15260 via Taiwan depends on day of week [add another: Haiv Hmoob Radio 0100-0130 Tue *Radio St. Gabriel, Papua New Guinea, 4960, audible in California 0925-1300 *Wantok Radio Light, PNG, 7325, weakly audible in California after 1030 *ARDS, Northern Territory, Australia, planned to reactivate 5050 by end of January *Propagation outlook ### Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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