Monday, June 14, 2010

Shortwave Blog "Bytes"

All times UTC (NF - new frequency)

Australia and Malaysia order DRM transmitters
Broadcast Australia and RTM Malaysia order Continental Electronics DRM Transmitters

Broadcast Australia has asked DRM member company Continental Electronics to supply two new DRM-ready 100 kilowatt transmitters for two of its short-wave stations. The purchase represents the first step in Broadcast Australia’s plan to enhance its digital short-wave (HF) broadcast capabilities throughout its network of transmitters. The state-of-the-art Continental
Model 418G-DRM transmitters will enable Broadcast Australia to transmit programming in analogue AM and digital (DRM) modes from both stations, Tenant Creek and Shepparton. Both transmitters are expected to be on the air and fully operational by late summer.

Radio-Television Malaysia (RTM) has chosen the same Continental model for its new short-wave transmitters. The three 100 kilowatt DRM-ready HF transmitters from Continental, along with other associated equipment, are to be installed in the RTM transmitting station at Kajang, and will enable RTM transmissions in digital DRM format as well as conventional analogue AM.
RTM’s new transmitters are expected to be on the air and fully operational before the end of the year. (DRM Newsletter, June 2010)

Read the DRM Newsletter June 2010 issue here :
http://www.drm.org/old/index.php?id=367
(Alokesh Gupta, India)

Austria
VT Communications changes:
Polish Radio External Service in English from May 6:
1700-1800 NF 9770#MOS 300W / non-dir to NoEu, ex 9655* (Bc-DX 967)

# co-ch China Radio International in Cantonese to EaAf
* to avoid VOIROI/IRIB in Swahili to EaAf from 1730
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17)

BBC schedule update via Ascension Island, Cyprus, U.K., Uzbekistan
English World Service
0600-0700 NF 15105 RMP 500 kW / 168 deg to NEAf, ex 9410 ASC
0900-1100 NF 15285 SNG 100 kW / 025 deg to SEAs, addit. freq.
1800-1900 NF 5875 CYP 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs, ex 9485 CYP

Hausa
1930-2000 NF 11985 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf, ex 11955 ASC

Indonesian Sun-Thu UTC (Mon-Fri Local)
2200-2300 NF 9860 SNG 100 kW / 090 deg to SEAs, ex 7275 DHA (Bc-DX 967)

Belarus monitoring
6010, 6040, 6070, 7235, and 7280 kHz have been on the air throughout the day since these transmissions were reactivated. They appear to be more or less 24 hrs, but the period 2300-0200 UT is hard to confirm.6190 kHz can be heard here at BLR sunrise when Germany is still in darkness.

6080, 6115, and 7265 kHz only heard evenings (from appr. 1500 UT) with sign off at 2100 UT or even earlier. On May 26 I heard 6010, 6070 kHz identifying "Radyo Brest" at 1530 UT.(Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 27/BC-DX 967)

Bonaire story
This was the text of a brochure which I wrote in 1989 following a visit to the station. The show is just on line at http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=622794
(Jonathan Marks/BCB-TX)

China Radio relay via Cerrik, Albania
Summer A-10 update
2000-2157 on 5960 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English
1600-1757 on 5970 CER 150 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in German
1800-1957 on 5970 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in French
0000-0157 on 6020*CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English
0200-0257 on 6020*CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese
1800-1957 on 6055 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French
2200-2257 on 6175 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Portuguese
2300-2357 on 6175 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Spanish
2000-2157 on 6185 CER 150 kW / 193 deg to EaAf in Arabic
2200-2357 on 7210 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Spanish
1100-1157 on 7220 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Bulgarian
2000-2157 on 7235 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic
0900-0957 on 7285 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Romanian
2000-2157 on 7285 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English
1200-1257 on 7345 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Serbian
1500-1557 on 7345 CER 150 kW / non-dir to N/ME in Turkish
1600-1757 on 7380 CER 150 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in German
0900-0957 on 9440 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Romanian
1800-1957 on 9480 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in French
0500-0657 on 9515 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic
1600-1757 on 9555 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic
1500-1557 on 9565 CER 150 kW / non-dir to N/ME in Turkish
0000-0157 on 9570*CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English
0200-0257 on 9570*CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese
0500-0657 on 9590 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic
1800-1957 on 11695 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French
0500-0657 on 11710 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in English
1600-1757 on 11725 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic
0500-0657 on 11775 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic
0700-0857 on 11785 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in Chinese
1400-1557 on 11920 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French
1100-1257 on 13650 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English
1400-1557 on 13670 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French
0700-0857 on 13710 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English
* 2x150 kW in parallel
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17/BC-DX 967)

DRM link
http://www.drm.org/old/index.php?id=367
(DRMNA)

Frequency change of Radio Free Chosun
Korean
2000-2100 NF 7505 TAC 200 kW / 065 deg to KRE , ex 7515
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 1/BC-DX 967)

Georgia on 9535
[Abkhazia] Abkhaz Radio irregulary is heard 0700-0730 vary on 9535 kHz and 1700-1720 on MW 1350 kHz (May 20-June 2).(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 2/BC-DX 967)

Kalingrad
Google Earth imagery. Some high resolution place. Another GE
image update.

54 54 29.39 N 21 42 14.14 E

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=54.908163&lon=21.703929&z=15&l=5&m=b
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=54+54+29.39+N+
+21+42+14.14+E&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=19.808511,57.084961&ie=UTF8&ll
=54.908149,21.70392&spn=0.035379,0.111494&t=h&z=14

New two foto images of Bolshakovo transmitter site on GE Panoramio,
contributed by Pavel Michailowitsch.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/origi
nal/27533443.jpg

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/origi
nal/33557054.jpg

this picture of Peer Axel Kruse, Flensburg-Germany is older of Sept 2007.
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/origi
nal/4648429.jpg
wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 8/BC-DX 967)

Kuwait
Summer A-10 of Radio Kuwait in Arabic:
0200-0900 on 5960^KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME
0500-0930 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Holy Qura'n service
0800-1000 on 7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to WeAs Farsi, ex 0600-0800
0930-1745 on 11630#KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Holy Qura'n service
1005-1505 on 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu
1100-1600 on 9750*KBD 300 kW / 275 deg to NEAf
1600-2100 on 6050&KBD 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME
1650-2000 on 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm
1750-2100 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic or/and English

^ till 0500 co-ch R.Japan NHK World in Japanese
# till 1600 strong co-ch by CNR 1/8 Minority sce
* from 1300 totally blocked by VOR in DRM mode
& 1700-1900 totally blocked by RL in Belorussian
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17)

21540 Radio Kuwait in Arabic with more than fair signal of S=9+15dB at
1200 UT June 6. Co-channel REE Noblejas in Sp on weekends was very weak
UNDERNEATH, and latter hardly readable.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 6/BC-DX 967)

New program from Radio Miami International
Germany (Gambia non) From: "Radio Miami International"
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010
Subject: Re: UNID via Media & Broadcast 15225, RMI provided ?

Hi Wolfgang.
This new program for the Gambia began on May 22. It's 15 minutes per week, and the program is in various local languages as well as English segments.

The organization which sponsors and produces the program is the Save the
Gambia Democracy Project. Their website is

All the best.
Jeff
WRMI Radio Miami International
175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4
Miami, Florida 33172 USA
Tel 305-559-WRMI (9764)
Fax 305-559-8186
(Jeff White RMI, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 6)

Radio Mashaal
Pashto, extended from July 15
0700-0800 12130 IRA, 15670 KWT, 15715 WER, 15740 UDO
0800-0900 12130 IRA, 15360 UDO, 15670 KWT, 15715 WER
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 4/BC-DX 967)

Voice of America
New schedule for Voice of America in Georgian from June 28:
1530-1600 11945 IRA 250 kW 324 deg
15460 LAM 100 kW 092 deg, deleted
1600-1630 9850 LAM 100 kW 092 deg
15460 WER 250 kW 090 deg, deleted
1600-1700 9435 LAM 100 kW 092 deg
13745 WER 250 kW 090 deg, retimed
1700-1800 7425 BIB 100 kW 088 deg
11940 BIB 100 kW 085 deg, unchange
(BC-DX 967)

You Tube Radio Wars
Radio Wars Between North and South Korea
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service, 8 minute report, includes interview with Open Radio For North Korea, a North Korean defector, a look at jamming and a report on activists sending helium balloons with money, leaflets, DVD's and radio's over the border:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ug6bnhjy7o

The English service of the Voice of Korea, the DPRK's international broadcasting service, broadcasts a statement in response to a South Korean investigation into the sinking of the warship Cheonan. In the statement, the DPRK threatens "all out war" if the south retaliates. 3560kHz monitored at 1500UTC on May 20 in Tokyo. 5 minutes 44:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc8XZIq2B6U
(Mike Barraclough/worlddxclub)

WYFR in English
from May 3via Ascension Island and South Africa
1600-1700 on 6010 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf, additional txion
1900-2000 on 7270 MEY 250 kW / 342 deg to CeAf, additional txion
2000-2100 on 11690 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg to WeAf, additional txion
2000-2100 NF 12055 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAf, ex 15195
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17/Bc-DX 967)

ASCENSION ISL/CYPRUS/SINGAPORE/U.K./UZBEKISTAN

Frequency changes of BBC:
English WS
0600-0700 NF 15105 RMP 500 kW / 168 deg to NEAf, ex 9410 ASC
0900-1100 NF 15285 SNG 100 kW / 025 deg to SEAs, addit. freq.
1800-1900 NF 5875 CYP 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs, ex 9485 CYP

Hausa
1930-2000 NF 11985 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf, ex 11955 ASC

Indonesian Sun-Thu UTC (Mon-Fri Local)
2200-2300 NF 9860 SNG 100 kW / 090 deg to SEAs, ex 7275 DHA