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2300-0400 on 9810 RMP 500 kW 285 deg to Cuba Spanish (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 8) See also under Mariana Isls. Cornerstone Ministries International/Voice of Wilderness 1300-1400 9850 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean 9965 (x9850kHz) Open Radio for North Korea 1400-1430 7550 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean 1400-1500 (Add.1430-1500) 2100-2200 7510 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean Radio Australia 1600-1630 9965 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SEAs Burmese Chinese (not Burmese) Suaab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7510 TAI 100 kW 250 deg to SEAs Hmong not heard from Febr 1st. (Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC HQ Feb 8) AUSTRALIA/SINGAPORE Radio Australia Shepparton 2008. (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsite Feb 8) Re: CVC Closing Darwin: Hi Glenn, Sorry, I am pretty busy right now so I've not had much time to answer your questions. We're past the weekend and Darwin is now closed so too late on the last question. As to the others: GH: Whose decision was it to dismantle the Darwin facility rather than repurpose it? One would have thought that Radio Australia would be glad to have it back for its own full use. Since CVC was leasing it, whose property is it now, on the air or not? AF: CVC's lease expires at the end of June so we have to vacate the site by then. You would have to ask Radio Australia directly about their intentions. GH: Are some of the transmitters, antennas destined for other sites? AF: CVC is the owner of all the technical equipment on site, so yes, this is variously being sold, redeployed, scrapped. Do you plan to mark the final transmission(s) in any particular way, special programming or announcements, and if so, exactly when; specially endorsed QSLs? AF: the time has passed, but I don't know the answer in any case! Hope that helps, sorry again for the delay. (Andrew Flynn, CVC HQ UK, Feb 4, WoR, dxld) RADIO AUSTRALIA USING NEW RELAY SITES AFTER DARWIN CLOSES. Mike Bird writes: The Cox Peninsula, Darwin HF transmitter station in Australia was closed on 31 January 2010. CVC, a Christian broadcasting company who leased the transmission equipment since 1999 after the then Howard government closed the site in 1997, had decided to drop HF file:///Z|/DOKUMENTATION-BULLETINS/WWDXD-BCDX/2010/BCDX951.TXT[11.06.2012 10:39:51]

oadcasting to Asia. The original lease to use the site included a get out clause after 10 years. The land the transmitter complex is built on has since been claimed by a local Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. In the past few days the technicians have started decommissioning the equipment and lowering the antennas. This has meant Radio Australia (RA) has had to find alternative HF transmitting relays to service Asia. VT based in the UK have so far found two sites that can provide relay transmissions for RA to broadcast to Asia at Medorm (HBN) Palau in the Pacific Ocean and Dhabbaya (DHA) in the United Arab Emirates. The schedule is as follows (all times UT): 0000-0030 Indonesian to West & central Indonesia on HBN 15225 0100-0130 Burmese to Burma on HBN 15655 0400-0430 Indonesian to West & central Indonesia on HBN 15780 0500-0530 Indonesian to West & central Indonesia on HBN 15590 1300-1430 Chinese to SE China & SE Asia in general on HBN 9890 1600-1630 Burmese to Burma on HBN 9965 2200-2400 English to SE Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam) on HBN 12040 2200-2330 Indonesian to West & central Indonesia on DHA 5935 2300-2330 Burmese to Burma on DHA 5955 Discussions are currently taking place between RA, VT and the Singapore government about the possible use of the Kranji relay facility to further bolster RA's transmissions to Asia. (Mike Bird-AUS, Febr 6th, by Andy Sennitt-HOL, RNW MN via WoR, dxld Feb 11) Comments on "R. Australia using new relay sites after Darwin closes" 3. #3 Glenn Hauser on Feb 8th So the Singapore government has veto power over what VT relays from Kranji? Why would they veto Radio Australia? 4. #4 Andy Sennitt on Feb 8th The word 'veto' does not appear in the above story, neither is it implied. But presumably the media law in Singapore requires the government's approval for relays of foreign broadcasters. There's nothing unusual in that. 5. #5 Kai Ludwig on Feb 8th Indeed. Here in Germany an approval from the Foreign Office is necessary to transmit foreign broadcasters on shortwave. However, in the case of the ABC this approval would be just a formality. Thus it is indeed interesting that the ABC needs to "discuss" the possibilities of using transmitters in Singapore with the authorities there. This wording suggests that the matter is a bit more complicated, and this sheds an interesting light on aspects of media politics. And in regard to the Darwin/Cox transmitter site I understand the situation to be such that 1/ closing it down and dismantling it is unavoidable, due to the station grounds being claimed by the previous or just legitimate owners (a problem file:///Z|/DOKUMENTATION-BULLETINS/WWDXD-BCDX/2010/BCDX951.TXT[11.06.2012 10:39:51]

2300-0400 on 9810 RMP 500 kW 285 deg to Cuba Spanish<br />

(R BULGARIA <strong>DX</strong> MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc <strong>BC</strong>-<strong>DX</strong> <strong>TopNews</strong> Feb 8)<br />

See also under Mariana Isls.<br />

Cornerstone Ministries International/Voice of Wilderness<br />

1300-1400 9850 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean 9965 (x9850kHz)<br />

Open Radio for North Korea<br />

1400-1430 7550 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean 1400-1500 (Add.1430-1500)<br />

2100-2200 7510 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean<br />

Radio Australia<br />

1600-1630 9965 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SEAs Burmese Chinese (not Burmese)<br />

Suaab Xaa Moo Zoo<br />

2230-2300 7510 TAI 100 kW 250 deg to SEAs Hmong not heard from Febr 1st.<br />

(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, N<strong>DX</strong>C HQ Feb 8)<br />

AUSTRALIA/SINGAPORE Radio Australia Shepparton 2008.<br />

<br />

(Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsite Feb 8)<br />

Re: CVC Closing Darwin: Hi Glenn, Sorry, I am pretty busy right now so<br />

I've not had much time to answer your questions. We're past the weekend<br />

and Darwin is now closed so too late on the last question. As to the<br />

others:<br />

GH: Whose decision was it to dismantle the Darwin facility rather than<br />

repurpose it? One would have thought that Radio Australia would be glad to<br />

have it back for its own full use. Since CVC was leasing it, whose<br />

property is it now, on the air or not?<br />

AF: CVC's lease expires at the end of June so we have to vacate the site<br />

by then. You would have to ask Radio Australia directly about their<br />

intentions.<br />

GH: Are some of the transmitters, antennas destined for other sites?<br />

AF: CVC is the owner of all the technical equipment on site, so yes, this<br />

is variously being sold, redeployed, scrapped.<br />

Do you plan to mark the final transmission(s) in any particular way,<br />

special programming or announcements, and if so, exactly when; specially<br />

endorsed QSLs?<br />

AF: the time has passed, but I don't know the answer in any case!<br />

Hope that helps, sorry again for the delay.<br />

(Andrew Flynn, CVC HQ UK, Feb 4, WoR, dxld)<br />

RADIO AUSTRALIA USING NEW RELAY SITES AFTER DARWIN CLOSES.<br />

Mike Bird writes: The Cox Peninsula, Darwin HF transmitter station in<br />

Australia was closed on 31 January 2010. CVC, a Christian broadcasting<br />

company who leased the transmission equipment since 1999 after the then<br />

Howard government closed the site in 1997, had decided to drop HF<br />

file:///Z|/DOKUMENTATION-BULLETINS/WW<strong>DX</strong>D-<strong>BC</strong><strong>DX</strong>/2010/<strong>BC</strong><strong>DX</strong>951.TXT[11.06.2012 10:39:51]

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