BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

mailing, perhaps to relatives overseas. Good to very good signal. Brief
music, many mentions of 'tok tok', and Radio Vanuatu ID and time check at
0750 UT. I noted 3945 kHz in // with a fair signal at 0915 UT.
(Guy Atkins-WA-USA, DXplorer Nov 18)
7260 R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. Nov 19 at 0704-0716 UT, male in English talks
outside "government..police..program"; 25322. 0750-0800 UT Pacific music,
male in uncertain language "R. Vanuatu", back music with English Pop and
romantic genres. // 3945 kHz, 25322.
3945 R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. Nov 19 at 0800-0809 UT, romantic music, male
and female in uncertain language. 25222.
(Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec-BRA, dxld Nov 19)
VATICAN STATE [and non] 1530 kHz Vatican Radio at Santa Maria di
Galeria?
A few days ago the German service of Radio Vatican started to apologize on
air for their 1920 UT broadcast no longer being available on 1530 kHz. No
further details or reasons have been given, also no one of the Radio
Vatican webpages appear to have been updated so far.
The schedule information on the German service pages is inconsistent
enough to make me feel that one should not weigh their words too well and
not conclude that the other way round 1530 kHz is still on air in the
morning. So it should be checked out from better located places if still
at all and, if so, at which times 1530 kHz is in use now.
As well-known faces Radio Vatican for more than a decade now heavy
pressure to close the Santa Maria di Galeria site. Some people believe
that the true rationale behind this are attempts to use the station
grounds as valuable building site.
Radio Vatican says that since 2001 they make sure to not exceed the
Italian limit of 6 V/m for the fieldstrength in inhabited areas. This
requires excluding a few shortwave antennas from further use, but most of
all reducing the power of 1530 kHz from 600 to ca. 100 kW. This loss of
almost eight decibels sank 1530 kHz here in Central Europe into the mush
of co-channel interference. As compensation used Radio Vatican from
September 2001 the Roumoules transmitter on 1467 kHz, but left it again
after five years because the airtime there was too expensive. Since then
terrestrial reception of Radio Vatican in Germany is limited to shortwave.
The 1530 kHz antenna system in detail:
1611 kHz antenna and transmitters for both 1611 (a new Thomson M2W, 50 kW)
and 1530 (a Brown Boveri 600 kW, last generation of tube transmitters,
should be the same model than Sottens-765 and Pori-963 still use, too):
Many historical photos of Radio Vatican, including the delivery of
equipment for Santa Maria di Galeria (and check out also the videos and
the museum collection):
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Nov 7)
VIETNAM 9839.88 Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi, at 1207-1214 UT on Nov 11,
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