BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

(wb, mwdx Dec 30)
PORTUGAL RDPi spurs.
I spoke to the RDPi HF site chief, Dipl. Engineer Luis Abrantes, and he
explained the spurs were caused by one of the old reserve 100 kW units,
and when they noted the malfunction, the tx was changed in the middle of
the b/cast.
They've got four 100 kW Continental txs that are kept as reserves and put
to work regularly during the time when the Sao Gabriel site is manned,
i.e. not just Mon-Fri as I may have reported, but Sat/Sun included, albeit
0900-1700 only though. That clearly means some of the supposedly 300 kW
power levels may, at some point, be just 100 or even a bit less depending
on the state of the txs mainly because what one's pickig up is a signal
from the good old Continental units.
So the recent problems with fq change on the Africa/144degr beam after
1700 arise because no one is there to switch a reserve tx thus "bypassing"
the still ongoing automation fault (tx memory & software) which is partly
due to Thales itself and a bit of customs bureaucracy on both countries,
i.e. Portugal and Switzerland. The other playing part in this dragged
process stands with the RTP top bosses, i.e. administration, much to the
despair of RDPi and its HF site.
The 2000-2400 extra b/cast on 11825 Afr 144degr for instance is simply off
for months on end due to what I reported, an obvious demonstration that HF
is no longer considered as important for the RTP-Radio e Televisao de
Portugal administration as it was in the recent past when the radio branch
(RDP) & the tv (RTP) branch were completely separated.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, dxld Dec 30)
ROMANIA Radio Bucharest on Ceaucescu's overthrow.
On December 25, 1989 Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife were executed by
firing squad. Shortwave listeners followed the events in Romania at that
time via Radio Bucharest.
A 4 minute recording of Radio Bucharest on December 23 1989 can be
downloaded here, also one of WNYW 1972 on the same webpage, lots of other
recordings and memorabilia on the site:
The two 28k Real player links on this 1999 BBC report, including a 1
minute Radio Bucharest English report on Ceaucescu being overthrown, are
still active. The John Simpson and Alexandra Razvan reports are not:
(Mike Barraclough-UK, BrDXC-UK dxld Dec 26)
And people in Romania did on their TV screens...
Some examples:
20 Dec 1989, Ceausescu speaks on TV about the events in Timisioara. (On
the sidebar you should get a link to a long version in even poorer
quality.)
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