BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Sept 3)
BELARUS Belarus Radio in Spanish and French.
The radio station Belarus will start broadcasts in French and Spanish on
1 Sept 2010, bringing the total number of foreign languages available to
seven, BelTA learned from Belarus Interior Minister Vladimir Naum
Galperovich, Senior Director for the Central Office for Overseas
Broadcasts of Belarusian Radio.
The radio station Belarus also broadcasts in Russian, Belarusian, Polish,
English, and German.
The radio station Belarus' broadcasts are available on short and medium
waves, FM waves in more than 20 European countries as well as online
broadcasts, including ten hours of webcasts in English.
With the broadcasts now available in Spanish and French, Naum Galperovich
expects the number of listeners to rise. The radio station Belarus also
signs agreements with foreign radio broadcasters to increase the number of
listeners.
In particular, Belarus' broadcasts were made available in Germany as of 1
January 2010 via the radio station Radio-700 and in Bialystok as of 1 July
via the Polish Orthodox radio station Ortodoksja. Belarusian news is sent
to the European portal of the European Broadcasting Union. The EBU's top
ten includes Belarusian news, said Naum Galperovich.
In the future the radio station Belarus plans to establish and enhance
ties with radio broadcasting authorities of other countries. Negotiations
with China Radio International are in progress, too.
{Belarusian Telegraph Agency}
(via Arnaldo Slaen-ARG, DXplorer Sept 18)
BELIZE Belize antennas were not rhombics but phased H polarized dipoles.
There is an illustration in the TCI catalogue as they made them although
they were actually designed by Carl Smith. Each was supported by 8 towers
not poles. They were pointed in a southerly direction for skywave
propagation into central American countries which were of concern to the
U.S. government of the time. And they were on 1530 and 1580 kHz.
(Ben Dawson-WA-USA, Hatfield & Dawson, dxld Sept 10)
BJELORUSSIA 279 BR, Sasnovy, 2103-2121, 09 Sep'10, Bielorussian, news
until 2110, weather (tent) rpt., pops; 35332. Evening reception of this
one has been adverse for many, many weeks. And there is the already usual
heterodyne with 280.2 (usually 280) - Turkmenistan off ch. and *always*
running an empty carrier?
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 12)
CANADA/AUSTRALIA Cox/Darwin summary. I think all the Collins
transmitters at Sackville-CAN are long gone, replaced in two phases,
1992-94, and 1999. Thought the first replacements were ABB units, with
the second wave being either ABB or Thales, or perhaps Thomson; not sure
due to murky timeline with corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Don't believe everything you see on transmitter.be or tdp.info as much of
it is either out of date or simply wrong.
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