BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Heute sendet TWR aus Monte Carlo in insgesamt 16 Sprachen. Deutsch wurde
Ende Oktober 2007 nach mehr als 45 Jahren ueber Kurzwelle eingestellt, da
der ERF inzwischen ueber andere Verbreitungswege wie Satellit, Kabel,
Mittelwelle und Internet verfuegt.
(ERF/Lothar Ruehl 11.10.2010; ntt Oct 30)
MONGOLIA/RUSSIA [to KOREA D.P.R. see RFA under USA] 648 / 1350 I see
an interesting item on BDXC-UK Communication magazine Nov 2010, page 36
under KOREA/RUSSIA.
Radio Free Asia (in Korean to DPR Korea) at 1500-1900 UT is now on 648 kHz
via Razdolnoye, Russian Far East relay site, replacing {mostly}
Choibalsan, in Eastern Mongolia.
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, Sept 30, update to BrDXC-UK Guide to External
Services on Mediumwave; in BrDXC-UK "Communication" Nov 2010)
In past seasons the Russians allowed only VOA to use the Razdolnoye,
Russian Far East relay site for VOA services, not relayed Radio Free Asia
programs from that place.
Checked the VOA and RFA schedules in Korean language revealed the
following usage of Far East mediumwave station for US Korean external
services.
648, Razdolnoye-RUS relay, 1500-2300 UT. RFA 1500-1900 UT, VOA still 1900-
2100 UT, RFA 2100-2200 UT ... and 2200-2300 UT Unknown VOA sce to China
mainland, either RFA Cantonese, or VOA Mandarin Chinese. Someone with
skill of Chinese language should listen to MP4 files from remote
monitoring at Taipei, Taiwan.
1350, Choibalsan MW relay, in Eastern Mongolia is only used on a single
hour in the Korean early morning, at 2100-2200 UT for Radio Free Asia in
Korean language. Supposedly Soviet made tx of 1986year, 500 kW at 8 masts
directional SV4+4 antenna rather towards Beijing area at 150 degrees. Only
side lobe towards N Korea.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 3)
MOROCCO 15340.0 RTM, Oct 29 at 1341 UT with Arabic music, hum, no HCJB
audible, but back on this frequency again. After we found them on 15340
instead of 15341 last week, Mike Barraclough in UK had measured Morocco
off-frequency again, Oct 26 at 1452 on 15341.2. Where next?
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Nov 4)
15341.15 very odd heterodyne signal this morning at 0920 UT Oct 31. S=8-9
signal. Most probably RTM via Nador-MRC relay, program content in Arabic
and French interspersed. Odd signal against co-channel CRI Xian Chinese
broadcast on even 15340.00 kHz.
15341.15v, still terrible heterodyne from RTM Nador site relay in
Arabic/French at 1320 UT Oct 31.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31)
MYANMAR 5985.8 Myanma R, Yangon, Yegu, at 2344-0009 UT on Oct 13, 28
and 30, female speaker in vernacular, local version of US pop song, fair.
(Bell and Bernardini, dswci DXW Nov 3)
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