BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

23 15 11.75 N 77 28 55.61 E
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 21)
INDONESIA 9525.89 Voice of Indonesia at 1302-1315 UT on May 23. English
news in progress, followed by commentary and features at 1313 UT. VG
signal.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer May 25)
IRAQ/IRAN "Dengi Kurdistana Iran" was observed on May 12th s/on at 0140
UT with patriotic songs in Kurdish, instrumental marches from 0150 UT, the
National Anthem of Kurdistan from 0159 UT and nx in Kurdish from 0203 UT.
The jammers began at 0204 UT. The other station in 60 m.b. in range around
4878 kHz (their main freq) was not on the air 0130-0230 UT.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17)
ISRAEL 5105 USB Galei Zahal at 2040 UT May 17, daily reception in the
evening and until morning // 6973 6821 15785 kHz. Strong signal.
(Karel Honzik-CZE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 23)
KUWAIT 17550 surprised to hear some ME music here at the late hour of
2240 UT May 16, soon followed by Arabic including ID for Kuwait. Good but
with deep fades from S9+10 peaks. Mostly talk afterwards; at 2300 recheck
still in but much weaker with flutter, 2301 ID again and music, program
theme followed by more talk. Last check as 2326 UT could still detect the
carrier.
17550 is another new frequency, scheduled 2000-2400 UT at 350 degrees for
western and central USA, e.g. OK! A daring idea, considering it's the
nightmiddle from the originator, but obviously somewhat successful and
should get even better with a little help from the sunspots and as
Solstice approaches making the transpolar path mostly lit.
17550 is missing from Aoki and WRTH Update, but it was in dxld and EiBi
has it. The first semihour should clash with VOA French via Bonaire
eastward, which I happened to tune across earlier and did not notice any
co-channel.
15540 May 17 at 2058 UT just in time to hear R. Kuwait signing off in
English still claiming to be on 11990! 2059 UT brief NA by military band,
finished in time for accurate 5+1 timesignal to 2100 UT as checked against
WWV. (One has to do that since so many other SW services broadcast
inaccurate timesignals and think nothing of it.) And into news theme,
Arabic news for a minute or so // 17550, the Arabic-only frequency for C&W
NAm, then 15540 cut off while 17550 kHz continued. By 2211, however, the
latter had faded to quite weak and fluttery between S3 and S9.
15540 R. Kuwait, May 18 at 2058 just caught sign-off announcement for
"11990", timesignal 2100 UT and a bit of Arabic news before cutoff. Poor
signal today, while 17750 kHz Arabic to NAm was JBA and still so at
2134 UT.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA May 20)
LIBERIA Star Radio re-activates its SW service on 4025 kHz.
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