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 #37 Date: 11 Feb 1995 20:41:27 +0200 Organization: Finnish University and Research Network Lines: 243 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: sfnet Message-ID: <9502111645.AA11790@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: 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, 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, dx-kuuntelijat@ Cc: 100135.54@CompuServe.COM (Andrea Lowendel) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Length: 12321 ++0òâÂÿÓô¨M8üÿù‡ÿÄTropical Tuning _________________________________________________________________ FEBRUARY 11, 1995 NUMBER 37 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 _________________________________________________________________ Radiodifusora Nacional de Colombia. Broadcasting from Bogotá on 4955 kHz. I heard this station the first time on January 30th at 2200 UTC, broadcasting Llanera music and Vallenatos with an slogan like La Voz de la Cultura. They gave a collect call free telephone number for reception reports in Bogota: 222-0907. _________________________________________________________________ Re: New Tropical Stn _________________________________________________________________ FROM: Don Moore DATE: Feb-7-95 3:30pm < Seems to me the station that is reported the most on 3.360 is Voz del Upano in Ecuator. Actually I think La Voz de Nahuala in Guatemala is much more common on 3360. FROM: THOMAS ROACH DATE: Feb-8-95 4:40pm My original post is a shining "example" of inattention, sloppy typing, or dyslexia. The station I heard was on 3306.0. I repeat 3306.0 kHz. I finally heard a ID I could be certain of and that indicated the station is in Zimbabwe. Once I discovered it was in Zimbabwe I looked in Monitoring Times, and the specifically mentioned this station in Glenn Hauser's column in the Feb '95 issue. It hasn't been on the air all that long. _________________________________________________________________ RADIO THAILAND!!! _________________________________________________________________ FROM: JOE HEAFNER DATE: Feb-7-95 1:07am Greetings. The time is 01:04UTC and I'm located in Hickory, NC. Right now, I'm listening to Radio Thailand on 11905kHz in Thai. I just caught the tail end of the hour-long English broadcast to E.N.Am and I'm not believing how strong and clear the signal is! I gave it a SINPO of 54345. I'm using a Radio Shack DX-440 with their amplified antenna and one of their roll-up antennas clipped to the DX-440's whip antenna. This is the first time I've been able to discern the Thai language! If anyone else out there is monitoring this broadcast, let's compare notes!! FROM: DON MOORE DATE: Feb-8-95 3:35pm This must be a broadcast via the VOA's transmitter site in Udorn, Thailand. The transmitters are 500 kW. They were using a 15 MHz frequency a few months ago at this time. It was really fun to hear something so strong from that area of the world! _________________________________________________________________ LOGGINGS _________________________________________________________________ FROM: CHUCK RIPPEL DATE: Feb-9-95 4:31pm Thanks for the great info again! Here are some items from S. Virginia, Cornland. Loggings Report: COSTA RICA 6.005.8 R. Reloj @ 0250 with SS pops then into ID by OM & :50 mentions Reloj & Costa Rica. 2/6 RIPPEL, VA YEMEN, DEM. REP (Aden) 7.190 Dem. Rep. of Yemen Radio @ 0255 w/ AA mx. ID @ 0300 by OM and into nx by 2nd OM w/ mentions of Isreal. 2/6 RIPPEL, SUDAN 9.200 R. Omdurman @ 0325 Long chants by OM then into call to prayer. This was fairly obvious as they almost seemed to go live as the microphone was picking up not only the Musim but also city noises. 2/6 RIPPEL, IRAN 9.022 VOIRS @ 0310 in seeming Farsi with music sounding almost sub-continental. 2/6 RIPPEL, VA SOMALIA 6.870 R. Mogadishu @ *0330 with dead air till 0330 then directly into Q'Ran chants till 0348 then tlx in AA by OM. Note: transmission was in AM, not USB. Maybe they have a bit more electric power and can re-insert the carrier back in the transmission. Been looking for this one to show up here for quite a while. 02/06 RIPPEL, VA ERITREA 4.999.5 V. of the Broad Masses (presumed) here @ 0415 w/ long talks by YL then into unrecognizable mx. Talks by OM in lang 0445 till 0500. Identified definate parallel on 7.020 next evening. 2/7 RIPPEL, VA. ALGERIA 0.153 Rdiff. Algerienne, Bechar @ 0015 yes, the Bryant LW bug bit and I found this one at fair levels w/ AA style MX. 2/5 RIPPEL, VA EQ. GUINEA (Malabo) 6.250.40 R. Nac de Guinea Ecutorial @*0457 with anthem then directly into Afro-Pops. No sign of any anncrs at all during the 20 minutes I listened. 2/7 RIPPEL, VA NIGER 5.020 L.V. du Sahel in FF @ 0530 with afro-pops and anncr w/ mentions of Niamey by OM in FF. 2/5 RIPPEL, VA Also, we are hearing what I am about 99% sure is a latin on 5.453.9 from about 0100 - 0200. Most likely a Bolivian or Peruvian as it's gone before the usual 0400 s/o of the other latins. FROM: NICHOLAS RIAN GRACE DATE: Feb-9-95 10:31pm Ed Rausch, among others has been hearing Ondas Quevedenas (Ecuador) reactivated here during the evenings. _________________________________________________________________ RE: R SUPER DE IBAGUE _________________________________________________________________ FROM: DON MOORE DATE: Feb-9-95 5:14pm Wolf Harranth wrote: < Colombia: Radio Ecos del Cobeima on 4.785 changed ist name to Radio Super de Ibagui. There is a small change in their address, too: Parque Murillo Toro No 3-29, Piso 3, A.A. 1187 Ibagui, Tolima. Actually it is not a name change, but rather a sort of frequency switch and creation of a new station. The SW and MW frequencies of Ecos del Combeima became the new station Radio Super de Ibague. Ecos del Combeima took over the MW frequency of La Voz del Nevado, which apparently has ceased to exist. These are all co-owned stations in the Super network. I had heard the Radio Super de Ibague IDs on 4785 back in December. Then while MW DXing in western Venezuela in late Dec/early January, I heard and IDed Radio Super de Ibague on Combiema's listed MW frequency (1020, I think) and Combeima on Nevado's listed MW frequency (1110, I think). Kind of sad to see the La Voz del Nevado station name disappear. Nevado is the word for a snowcapped mountain, of which there are a lot in this part of Colombia. Too many picturesque local station names are disappearing in Colombia as networks give the stations a generic network ID. BTW, I just got my '95 WRTH a few days ago and checked and these changes are already there. I had taken the 1994 WRTH on my trip with me and found a number of name and other changes in my listening. However, I'm now comparing my MW log with the 1995 WRTH and most of the changes I noted are already in the 1995 WRTH. I think that shows just what a great job the WRTH does in keeping info up to date! (Take a bow, Andy ...). Of course, there still are a few changes not in the 1995 WRTH which I'll be e-mailing Andy next week once I finish comparing my log with the 1995 WRTH. I'll also post them here. _________________________________________________________________ RE: NEW VOICE OF VIETNAM FREQ? _________________________________________________________________ FROM: MARIE LAMB DATE: Feb-10-95 8:11pm Charles Albertson (chucko@eskimo.com) wrote: On Radio New Zealand International's mailbag program last night, Arthur Cushen reported Voice of Vietnam on 5940 kHz to North America at 0500 UTC, probably from a Russian transmitter in Siberia or the Far East. Anyone heard it yet? Yes, I have, several times. One time, there was some interference from 5935, but when I tried again a couple of nights later, it sounded much better. However, since I am in Eastern North America and I hear it reasonably well at 0500 without flutter, I doubt that it's in the Far East, since it is pretty well impossible to hear something on 5940 from the Far East at 0500 where I live. Somewhere else in Russia, maybe?--it is a huge country! _________________________________________________________________ BRIEFS OF NRC - VOL 62-19 _________________________________________________________________ FROM: JIM RENFREW DATE: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 07:32:09 -0500 1170 COLOMBIA Medellin, R. Nutibara HJKW, DEC 7 0530 - (tent.), well on top of WWVA at times with SS mostly news, numerous Colombia mentions, as well as several Medellin mentions. Could have sworn I heard the "Eco" slogan which is the slogan listen in my 1987 WRTH, but my 1994 ed lists this slogan. Anyone have a scoop on this one? [Coniglio-NY] (More likely, you got RCN, Barranquilla, which is widely heard. It's a national network, so they very well might mention Medellin - Jim) STATION NEWS ANTIGUA: Have you had any recent reports for Caribbean Radio Lighthouse, Antigua, on 1165. I haven't heard this one in a long time. Do you know if they're still on the air? [Funkenhauser-ON] (I don't recall seeing any recent reports - Jim) _________________________________________________________________ JIHAD DX NO. EIGHTEEN FEBRUARY 5TH _________________________________________________________________ FROM: HANS JOHNSON DATE: 05 Feb 95 13:19:48 EST "Firstest with the Mostest" NOTICE I returned from my Big Island vacation and found a pile of material waiting so we will do a double Jihad this week-I will also send out Jihad No. Nineteen this Thursday. Mahalo HJ Jihad Dx is a weekly soft-copy only DX newsletter. It is freely sent to all who contribute by 2300 UTC Thursdays. Contributors: Fred Kohlbrenner, Dan Ferguson, Mathias Kropf, Manuel Rodriguez, Ben Krepp, Al Quaglieri, Dave Valko, Hans Johnson CHILE- 6.090, looking for OA R. Luz Universal, recently reported here on DXPL only found Radio Esperanza (Berg FT via Fred Kohlbrenner) CLANDESTINE IRAN Voice of the Iranian Revolution 3888v, 6420v 1430-1530 in Farsi. (MEKHONOSHIN via Mathias Kropf) IRAN Voice of Human Rights and Freedom for Iran is: 0230-0425 9380 1630-1825 9270 11470, 0600-0645 15150 1545-1625 9255. Address is: Manouchehr Ganji, 18 bis, rue Violet, 75017 Paris, France. (ibid.) COLOMBIA 4955, R. Nacional de Colombia, 2315-2335, Tlk by live M w/ments of Colombia, pre-recorded speech by M, occas. lively instru. HJ songs, 2331 complete ID w/"internacional" 4955 freq and Santa Fe de Bogota de Colombia QTH, then into pgm "America que ? Ano". Good signal and hrd in the mornings as well. Believe I had this at various times over the weekend too but thought it was the ZY. (Dave Valko 1/31) ECUADOR. 3260, Estereo Carrizal-Calceta, 1102 sign w/SS ID, into anthem, then another Ecuadorian patriotic song, TC, ballads till 1125 fade. (Chris Lobdell) 4900, R. LV de Saquisili, verie letter in 14 YEARS from Eddy Roger Velastegui Mena! Sked says from 1130-2230 UTC. This may reactivate per HCJB. They used to sign on around 1105. (ibid.) 4919.9, R. Quito, 1130, Canned ID/promo at t/in "...R.Quito, La Voz de la Capital", and into lcl HC nx by M and W. Very strong. Glad to see this one back on. (Valko 1/30) ETHIOPIA 9560, V.O. Peace/R. Amahoro, "Thanks for writing"-type letter, FR "Activities" and "Broadcasting Feedback" rpts, and stkr in 27 dys. V/s: Tatien Musabyimana, and Guy Theunis. (Dave Valko) MEXICO. 10388 v, XERMX/R. Mexico, Heard around 0100 per tip from S. Carolina DXer Dave Gasque. Terrible distorted audio, FMing carrier. Finally heard a "Radio Mexico Internacional presento...' ID by YL at 0232. Could not find any of the freqs listed in the WRTH to // it to. What was this??? (Chris Lobdell 1-29) PAPUA NEW GUINEA Radio Gulf 3245 per the NBC this station has been off since last October 14th. The NBC is trying to get funds to keep these stations on. (Hans Johnson 2-4) PERU 4633.5v, R. Soledad??, 1/28, 0406*, Hrd instru. OA NA, and off. Fairly strong. Wish I would've tuned in earlier!! 1/30, Tlk by live M and W anncrs w/occas. OA mx. No ID hrd. Freq is always quite variable between 4633-4. At one point, the freq jumped up about 600 hz. I wouldn't be surprised if they disappeared soon. (Dave Valko) TANZANIA 5050.06, R.T., *0327-0331, IS, W w/opening ID "This is the External Service of Radio Tanzania, Dar es Salaam. Good morning everyone", followed by instru. NA, anmnts by W again. Decent signal w/heavy QRM. (Dave Valko 1/25)