BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

SARAWAK [non]. New on shortwave: Radio Free Sarawak. Radio Free Sarawak
started broadcasting today, on the following schedule:
1st transmission: 2230-2330 UTC on 7590 kHz
2nd transmission: 1000-1100 UTC on 15680 kHz
Per Free Malaysia Today website
via Radio Netherlands Media Network
via Dave Kernick-UK, dxld Nov 15)
Radio Free Sarawak goes on the air.
Radio Free Sarawak, aimed as an alternative voice for Sarawakians, went on
air this morning. In an e-mail to Free Malaysia Today, the Bruno Manser
Foundation, said that the new alternative radio station will have two
daily broadcasts on shortwave, presumably in Iban and Bahasa Malaysia. "It
aims at Sarawak's rural communities who lack access to independent media,"
stated the e-mail.
It is an open secret that the media in Sarawak are strictly controlled by
the state government under Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and logging
companies who own and control all major media outlets in the state.
The transmission details of Radio Free Sarawak are as follows:
* 1st transmission: 0630-0730 local time (2230-2330 UT) on 7590 kHz
* 2nd transmission: 1800-1900 local time (1000-1100 UT) on 15680 kHz
The e-mail had also attached a message from the producers of Radio Free
Sarawak. Below is the message:
"Please send the details to all your Sarawak friends so that they know the
existence of the radio-which will become an alternative news source to the
Sarawakians, especially to those who stay in the interior. The folks in
the interior have been fed with a monotonous one-sided views from the
ruling parties - if at all they can receive the TV and radio
transmissions. So they need another avenue - and Radio Free Sarawak
intends to fill in this gap."
Source:
Andy Sennitt comments: If anyone knows the transmitter site(s) being used,
please advise us. There is nothing in the current HFCC database that
appears to match the above schedule. On this page
the power of 7590 kHz is listed as "100 or 200 kW", and this page
says "the
broadcast is being transmitted out of London", but this probably refers to
the production facility rather than the transmitting site.
(Nov 15, by Andy Sennitt, RNW MN blog via dxld)
Second link also says "15869". Radio Free Sarawak received from *2232 UT
on Nov. 15 by many Japanese DXers on 7590 kHz.
by Hiro in Akita
It was confirmed in Nov. 14 at *2230 by hiroshi.
in Japanese.
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