From news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!europa.aero.org!xberri Mon Jul 19 13:04:54 EET DST 1993 Article: 21329 of rec.radio.shortwave Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!europa.aero.org!xberri From: xberri@europa.aero.org (Jason E. Berri) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Radio World 930626 Date: 17 Jul 1993 10:35 -0800 Organization: The Aerospace Corporation Lines: 141 Distribution: world Message-ID: <17JUL199310352968@europa.aero.org> Reply-To: xberri@arecibo.aero.org NNTP-Posting-Host: europa.aero.org News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Here's another file from DXA-BBS : +32 3 825 36 13 * * FIDOnet 2:292/878 * * * * HAMnet 12:290/301 * * DX-ANTWERP, P.O.Box 16, B-2660 HOBOKEN BELGIUM * * DXA-PHONE : +32 3 830 48 93 * * DXA-FAX : +32 3 825 31 04 * * * * With kind cooperation of Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal * * P.O. Box 26, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hello and welcome to Radio World. Shortwave information has been piling up on my desk for two weeks. Time to go back to the loggings and tips of Eugene Gebruers in Antwerp. We start in Russia, where Radio Galaxy, Galaktika in Russian, a commercial station in Moscow, has, for some time now, reduced its English-language programmes from 3 to 1 hour a day. Now from 2100 to 2200 UTC. The programme is transmitted on shortwave, on a frequency of 11880 kHz. Radio Galaxy, signing on in English at 2100 UTC on 11880 kHz. That was on Monday 14 June. Reception is good, as you could hear, and stays of very fair quality until the end of the English-language broadcast at 22 UTC: Eugene Gebruers has a problem, something has been bugging him for quite a while now. That something is an unidentified transmission on 1278 kHz mediumwave. Each day, except sundays, and without any announcement, a mysterious station broadcasts music, and only music, all possible genres, from 2005 to 21105 UTC, sometimes starting earlier. Who can that be? Eugene wonders. Seen from his QTH at Antwerp, the signal, with a SINPO strength of 4, seems to come from the south-east. In that direction there's Radio France Alsace, Strasbourg on 1278 kHz, but they are not likely to play non-stop music... Ireland: monitoring that 1278 kHz, Eugene one night heard Radio 2 FM of the Irish Republic on that frequency, one of two possible 10 kW relays, either in Cork or in Dublin. It's rare that one can hear the 10 kW transmitters so clearly here in Belgium. Radio 2 FM of the Irish Republic at 2246 on the 14th. USA: After WRNO stopped rebroadcasting Glen Hauser's World of Radio, and the disruption of DX Daily, there's now fortunately two new rebroadcasts of Glen's programme, so he announced himself one is via WHRI in Indiana on Saturdays at 0530 UTC on 7315 and 9495 kHz, and one via WWCR Tenessee, also on Saturdays at 0930 UTC on 7435 kHz. There are people who love the programmes in Latin of Radio Finland. The only other Latin on the airwaves is in the transmissions of Holy Mass by Vatican Radio. Daily from 0530 to 0555 UTC on 9645, 6245 and 15210 kHz. These are the best three frequencies in Antwerp, but in other parts of the world you might also try 11740, 7250 and MW 1530 kHz. South Africa: Eugene has been checking whether any of the programmes of Channel Africa or Canal Afrique can be heard with any degree of intelligibility in northwestern Europe. He monitored all 12 broadcasts in English and French between 0400 and 2000 UTC. His findings are as follows: from 0600 to 0700 h Canal Afrique can be heard and sometimes understood on 15200 kHz, but has to share the frequency with a station broadcasting a programme in Arabic. Reception is problematic in these circumstances, evidently... Then there's English from 1600 to 1700 UTC on 15220 kHz, but regularly heavily disturbed by a strong transmitter on an adjacent channel. The best transmission for us here, is the one in English from 1700 to 1800 UTC on 11750 kHz. Mind you, that doesn't mean reception quality is good! Morocco : Good reception these days of RTM Rabat in French from 2100 to 0400 UTC on 11920 kHz. News is at 2300 UTC, or, as on that Friday night, June 18, a few minutes later, as the preceding radio play went a bit overtime: Morocco on 11920 kHz. The 11 megaherz band is producing excellent results these days until well into the night. Armenia: Radio Yerevan is broadcasting news in French and English from 2130 until 2158 UTC. This you might know. New is that the French-language service recently said 11945 kHz had been replaced with 11960 kHz. The English-language service did not. In reality the transmission is only heard on one frequency at that time, and that's 9450 kHz. For the later transmissions, to North America from 2230 to 2258 UTC, first in Spanish, then in English, the frequency of 11945 kHz is in use like before, in parallel with 15385 kHz. Nothing changed there. Radio Yerevan on Sat 19 June on 9450 kHz. Lithuania: a change of frequency at Radio Vilnius: for the broadcast in English , Monday to Friday from 2300 to 2330 UTC to North America, Radio Vilnius has replaced 11750 kHz by 12040 kHz; 11.750 was disturbed by the BBC. At 23 UTC Radio Vilnius says they are broadcasting to Europe in English from 1900 to 1930 UTC on 9710 and 9675 kHz, and on a couple of mediumwave frequencies. Eugene confirms reception on 9710 kHz. Also daily from 2130 to 2200 UTC on the same shortwave frequencies. Luxemburg: The French-language programme of RTL is broadcast on longwave 234 kHz and on shortwave 6090 kHz. For quite some time now the transmission on 6090 kHz is disrupted at 1700 UTC. This gives us an opportunity to hear the Ukraine on 6090 kHz in English and German. Iraq: here to end is the almost obligatory chapter about Radio Iraq International, that most unreliable of shortwave stations, and I don't mean the content of the programmes, that's another story. No, the times and the frequencies change all the time. Here's the schedule as monitored by Eugene on Monday the 21st of June. Don't blame us if it has changed again since then, but on the 21st the situation was as follows: Arabic from 2000 to 2045 UTC, English from 2045 to 2058 and Arabic again from 2100 to 2200 UTC, all three transmissions on 11810 and the badly jammed 13680 kHz. Then, Arabic from 2200 to 2230 and English from 2230 to 2254 UTC - here there's a brief disruption and then another programme in English, with lots of music from 2310 to 2349 UTC, German from 2349 to 2352 and French from 2352 to 2355 UTC. Sign-off at 2356 UTC. All this on one frequency: 11810 kHz. From 2204 there's a programme in Arabic on 17940 kHz, a frequency that replaces 13680 kHz, but this programme is not the same as the one at 2200 UTC on 11810 kHz Here are the times and frequencies for Radioworld on RVI : sat & mon 0630 UTC to EU/AUS on 1512, 5910 & 9925 kHz sat & mon 0900 UTC to EU on 1512, 5910, 9905 & 13675 kHz sat & mon 1300 UTC to SEAS/NAM/EU on 1512, 15540 & 17540 kHz sat 1800 UTC to EU/AF on 1512, 5910 & 15540 kHz sat 2100 UTC to EU on 1512 & 9905 kHz sat 2330 UTC to NAM/SAM on 9930 & 13655 kHz For people who also can understand Dutch, try also 'Golfgids', which carries information about frequencychanges at RVI and listeningtips. It can be heard in the following timeslots : sat 0600-0630 UTC to AUS/EU on 1512, 5910 & 9925 kHz sat 1100-1130 UTC to EU/AF on 1512, 9905, 13675 & 17515 kHz sat 1200-1230 UTC to NAM/SEAS on 1512, 15540 & 17540 kHz sun 2000-2030 UTC to EU/AF on 1512, 5910, 13685 & 15540 kHz sun 2200-2300 UTC to NAM/SAM/EU on 1512, 9930 & 13655 kHz -- Jason Berri [berri@aero.org or berri@arecibo.aero.org] [SPEEDX Membership Chairman and keeper of the vmsserv swl archive] [located on arecibo.aero.org. Send email for more information. ]