Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!lgw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: mrodrigu@conicit.ve (Manuel Rodriguez T. (Hosp. Militar)) Newsgroups: sfnet.harrastus.dx-kuuntelu Subject: Tropical Tuning #34 Date: 15 Jan 1995 17:08:19 +0200 Organization: Finnish University and Research Network Lines: 257 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: sfnet Message-ID: <9501151501.AA00537@dino.conicit.ve> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: dx-kuuntelijat@nic.funet.fi, PAYRAS@sara.cc.utu.fi, jeo@nesterc.neste.fi, andy.sennitt@almac.co.uk, DURHAM%TRANSY.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu, RMCVICAR@mhs.hcjb.com.ec, kmacharg@mhs.hcjb.com.ec, 101042.1210@compuserve.com, 71163.1735@compuserve.com, gst@gagme.wwa.com, Larry.Nebron@pcgfx.com, diego@pinos.com, 72700.31@compuserve.com, 70760.3540@compuserve.com, JimRenfrew@aol.com, jann.larsson@swedx.ct.se, anders_hultqvist@online.Idg.se Cc: patrick.mcdonald@f605.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au, moore@acc.mcrest.edu, 71311.2677@compuserve.com, 73737.3453@compuserve.com, 76635.615@compuserve.com, rko@cs.tut.fi, 73042.3644@compuserve.com, 76477.1665@compuserve.com, avolk@BLABEL.PPP.INFORMATIK.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE, jkearman@arrl.org, hermod.pedersen@swedx.ct.se, 0003382983@mcimail.com, swl-l@cuvmb.bitnet, rec-radio-info@stat.com, zap@hacktic.nl, nieuw@nioz.nl, tijoma@uta.fi, r.dangelo3@genie.geis.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Length: 13053 Tropical Tuning _________________________________________________________________ JANUARY 12, 1995 NUMBER 34 Editor: Manuel Rodriguez Lanza e-mails: mrodrigu@conicit.ve manuel.a.rodriguez@spacecom.uunet.ve Address: P.O.Box 65657, Caracas 1066-A, Venezuela. Tel: +58 (14) 258359 (cellular) _________________________________________________________________ Notes from Editor _________________________________________________________________ VENEZUELA- In the actual part of the economic and finances crisis, many radiostations (around 50) are in hands of the goverment. The lasts are the stations beloging to Latinoamericana-Progreso Group (Mr. Orlando Castro), this stations are the complete Mundial Network, Sistema Super Radio Network, Radio Informativa Network, the ex-La Voz de Venezuela Network stations, Radio Inolvidable on AM, and others in FM like Radiorama network. The Finance Emergency Bureau recently said that this stations will be sell separately, but nobody knows if this will be by networks or by stations. Many stations are reducing its power in daytime and more on nights after the incrementation of the electricity rates on January 1st. Almost 30% on Metropolitan Areas and 25% on rurals, up the electric energy. This affects directly the sickness of the radiostations crisis. Radio Ideal Address Recently I visited Radio Ideal and they are in the same place: Starting Soublette Avenue in a block very hide, the station has a very little sign in the door with a ring. I talked with an announcer Mr. Gustavo Lombardi about the letters received from foreign countries and he told me that the secretary Mrs. Gutierrez is in charge. This station is very strsnge inside because they have poor illumination, some red bulbs, and pornos pictures. Who knows what they think?. Director: Mr. Eduardo Graterol. _________________________________________________________________ BRIEFS OF PLAY DX-816 & 817 _________________________________________________________________ FROM: DARIO MONFERINI Date: December 1994 Last News from Argentina 1420 kHz LRH 362 R. Tupa Mbae (in guarani language means "god things"), QTH: Calle Felix de Azara 1648, 3300 Posadas, Prov. de Misiones. Tel: 54-752-20203, Fax: 54-752-39249, Pwr: 1 kW, Sch: 0800-0300 UTC Dir: Preb. Jorge Luis Lagazio. 670 kHz LT4 Radiodifusora Misiones "La Radio del Noreste Argentino". QTH: Bolivar 1867, 3300 Posadas, Prov. de Misiones. Tel: 54-752-36747/30500/33500, Fax: 54-752-30664. Pwr: 25 kW, Sch: 0800-0300 UTC. Dir: Dr. Pedro Warenycia. Dxer H.Klemetz, Colombia, informs: BOLIVIA: R.Metropolitana 6196,1 announces new international programm from Jan. 23 at 0100 UTC & 0900 UTC (sunday). However it will be remembered that this years's programm never come out. (instead, at the given times, the station relayed its FM channel, 88,5 Mhz). The station still verify with 3-Page QSL Letter, New Pennant & postcards of La Paz. ECUADOR: New station on SW = ESTEREO CARRIZAL 3260 kHz, 400 W. QTH: Consorcio Radiofonico Carrizal, Avenida Estudiantil, Quinta Velasquez, Calceta (Manabi). This is a new station, not a reactivation of La Voz del Rio Carrizal. Signal poor to fair at 0100 hours UTC. PERU: An UNID station heard with Fming signal on 4250 kHz until 0150 hours announcing "Radio Universo". La Voz de Naranjos, also announcing Radiodifusora Comercial La Voz de Naranjos, at Naranjos (Rioja), has adjusted frequency, now is on 4300,0 kHz. Lat Logs, Fernando Viloria, Valencia, Venezuela: 3260 Radio Estereo Carrizal, Calceta, 24/11, 0310-0347(sign off), 34232 Tropical dancing mx, Slogan: "En el aire Radio Estereo Carrizal, voz e imagen de Calceta en sus hogares". ... 0347: "Amigos oyentes hemos culminado una jornada mas de labores radiofonicas, nos esforzamos por entregarles una programacion que esperamos haya sido de ... sus expectaciones, al despedirnos agradecemos su grata compaņis y esperamos contar con su sintonia el dia de maņana cuando sean las 6 horas, le deseamos a todos felices sueņos y un alegre despertar. Ha transmitido en la banda internacional de 91 metros, Radio Estereo Carrizal desde la ciudad de Calceta,...Provincia de Manabi, Republica del Ecuador", then National Anthem. _________________________________________________________________ TROPICAL BAND LOGGINGS _________________________________________________________________ FROM: MICHIEL SCHAAY DATE: Dec-27-94 1:06pm In a message of to All (), you wrote: WM> 1203-1220 4900 Chinese. unID. Vocals accompanied by flute, WM> string ensemble; announcements in Chinese. Heard about 4 songs, similar to WM> Chinese pop over R. Chi Int. WRTH showed inactive, winter-only on this WM> freq, for r. Haixia 2 service to TWN; unable to copy any // freqs WM> however. UTC + 8 would give Fuzhou, China dark with my sunrise. Voice WM> indistinguishable by 1217; music deteriorating 1220. Around 13.00 UTC we get the first very faint signals from this station, here in Holland. We get it from the other direction though. When the stations fades out at your location, it fades in at mine .... :-> _________________________________________________________________ INDONESIA 5030,4 KHZ? _________________________________________________________________ FROM: MICHIEL SCHAAY DATE: Dec-28-94 10:35am In a message of to All (), you wrote: AS> Why is this station "mysterious" ? I am beginning to think you must not AS> have seen my earlier posting in which I mentioned that this is almost AS> certainly RRI Sibolga which we list on 5030 in the 1995 edition of WRTH AS> . Right. I've also mentioned this in two seperate postings here, but got no reaction whatsoever. I do wonder if I am getting through .... in one of my postings I asked Wian to confirm reception of the message and I only got a reply from Hermod. So far, I find rec.radio.shortwave highly overrated as compared to the good old fido-game. I was glad to see you back in the shortwave echo ! _________________________________________________________________ TWR SWAZILAND FREQUENCY _________________________________________________________________ FROM: JOHN BARNARD DATE: Dec-29-94 8:08pm I have come across a TWR frequency that isn't listed in the 1995 Passport. The following information may help anyone who hasn't QSLed Swaziland yet. Broadcast time is between 0350-0500 UTC on 7150 kHz. Carrier can be heard quite well at 0350 then at 0355 the TWR interval signal is played and station ids can be heard. Programming in vernacular can be heard until 0430 at which point English programming commences. Signal is quite strong but starts to fade by 0420 or so. Signal is still audible and intelligible even at 0500. Reception was made on R390A, HQ-180C and SP-600 connected to various random wire antennas. _________________________________________________________________ Briefs of MediaScan/SCDX 2215 _________________________________________________________________ FROM: GEORGE WOOD DATE: Jan-4-95 10:54am ASIAN MEDIA NEWS: INDIA--India's Doordarshan is set to launch via satellite to the world this year. Doordarshan International is now (or about to) broadcasting to Asia via Asiasat. In June broadcasts to Europe and North America are to being via PAS- 4 (which is not in orbit yet). In the meantime, PanAmSat has offered a transponder on the trans-Atlantic PAS-1. ("Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams) _________________________________________________________________ LOGGINGS _________________________________________________________________ FROM: HERMOD PEDERSEN DATE: Jan-7-95 12:47pm Some loggings from Huar d, southern Sweden, a small village famous for Katja of Sweden (who has moved on...), the murder and the small bar below the local bank. Receiver: NRD525 Antenna: beverage, 700 meters, directed west 2310 4.1 1600 ABC, Alice Springs, with Beyond Midnight, with lots of oldies, Q3-4 2325 4.1 1600 ABC, Tennant Creek, best of these three, Q4 2485 4.1 1600 ABC, Katerine came through weakest, Q2 3213 4.1 0200 UNID French speaking, Q2, I think I heard a Radio Canada ID, but... maybe a feeder? 3255 3.1 0300- BBC Lesotho s/on, Q3 3324,9 4.1 0310 Radio Liberal, Q3 3340 3.1 -0404 Radio Altura - "una emisora al servicio del pais" with birthday greetings, Q3 3396 4.1 0300- Zimbabwe s/on with nat.ant, Q3 4419 2,4.1 -0401 Radio Frecuencia Lider, with huaynos, Q1-2 4508,7 4.1 0010 Radio San Joaquin, Q3 4510,2 3.1 0050 Radio Paucartambo, Q1-2 4552,3 4.1 0020 Radio Difusora Tropico with long news px, Q1-3 4632v 3.1 0220 OID so far... At first sure it was Radio Radio Guayaramerin, but frequent Peruvian news made me wonder. Got some Radio Panamericana IDs before c/d 04.15 - and there is one R.P. in Lima on MV, but... Also got som comercial for Banco Internacional de Lima, so it seems that it is some Peruvian, though I do have heard some strange co-transmissions before. Enormous and constant frequency drift between 4631,7 - 4632,5 (which gave some curios side effects, as when they were about to say something interesting, the station went away in one direction or the other, so I had to try to hang on, preferably in the right direction) Q1-2 4649 30.12 0005 Radio Santa Ana with lots of mensajes in program El Mensajero, Q2 4924,2 3.1 0120 Radio San Miguel, with exerpts from "la historia de la biblia" amongst lots of music, Q2 4904,8 3.1 0110 Radio La Oroya, Q1-2 4965,8 30.12 -0104 Radio San Miguel, Cusco, with 30 min extra trans- mission from a local fiesta after official c/d 0035; which gave two nat.anthems, Q1-2 4995,8 3.1 0140 Radio Andina, comercial farmacia, huaynos, Q2 5010,3 29.12 -0259 ERPE with magnificent s/off, Q2 5019,8 4.1 0255 Ecos del Atrato, Q2 5024,9 3.1 0150 Radio Quillabamba with sports px, "fighting" with Radio Rebelde, Q2 5025 3.1 0150 Radio Rebelde with telephone px, Q3 lots of pop music, such as Stand by me, Q2 5034,9 3.1 -0200 OID c/d with nat.anthem, probably Peru (I use to mix those nat.ant, as a few of them are quite similar...) 5049,8 3.1 -0205 Radio Jesus del Gran Poder, c/d with Gloria a ti, the nat.anthem 5620,9 3,4.1 -0245 Radio Ilucan, with several personal messages, so called comunicados. Closes without nat.anthem, use to play some appropriate song instead, such as Do'nde estara'?, Q3 DATE: Dec-27-94 1:06pm _________________________________________________________________ BRAZILIAN STATION WANT QSL _________________________________________________________________ FROM: EGIAROLL & TOM DATE: Dec-26-94 2:35pm A Brazilian station named "Radio Nova Visao", wants reports about their transmissions. Earlier name was "Transamerica", and because of duplicate name they stopped transmissions for about one year. Now they are transmiting for about 3 mouths, from Santa Maria (30 S, 54 W) at RGS, Brazil. Call sign: ZYE857 on 5965 Khz (lower power) ZYE858 on 11705 Khz (higher power) They did not yet informed the operating power. Transmiting schedule: Mon to Fry from 1100 to 2100 UTC Sat, Sun from 1100 to 2300 UTC Studios located in Sao Paulo city: Radio Nova Visao Rua do Manifesto, 1373 04209-001 Sao Paulo Brazil _________________________________________________________________ RFPI BROADCAST SCHEDULE JANUARY-MARCH 1995 _________________________________________________________________ FROM: ROBERT HOUSTON DATE: Dec-26-94 9:11pm CURRENT FREQUENCIES: 7385 (AM) (41 METERS) 2100-0800 15030 (AM) (19 METERS) 1400-0000 9400 (USB) (31 METERS) 24 HOURS 17905 (USB) (16 METERS) 1700-0000 12150 (USB) (25 METERS) 0000-1300 _________________________________________________________________ PANAJI, INDIA ON AIR _________________________________________________________________ FROM: ANDY SENNITT DATE: Jan-10-95 12:11pm DX Grapevine, the magazine of the Universal DX League based in India, reports that one of the new External Service transmitters at Panaji is now on the air with Hindi at 0325-0415 on 11855, and Arabic at 0430-0530 on 11730. The exact location is the village of Bambolim, just across the hill (Altino> from Panaji. This was the old transmitter site of Emissora Goa during the Portugese era. Goa has not been on shortwave ever since 1969 when it was liberated [sic} from Portuguese rule. Š