JEMBATAN DX NO.141 November 4, 2002
edited by Juichi Yamada
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Contribution on this issue is:
Gabriel Ivan Barrera, ARGENTINA
Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND
Lim Kwet Hian, INDONESIA
BCDX, GERMANY
DXplorer, U.S.A.
DX Window, DENMARK
SWBC, U.S.A.
Juichi Yamada, JAPAN
Many Thanks!
*: Sign on or sign off.
+: Fade in or fade out.
All times in UTC.
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CHINA
729, Jiangxi RGD(presumed), The programme continued past full hour without
ID. 1325 UTC.
(Oct 23, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
1107, Xinjiang RGD, Kazakh programme. 1351 UTC.
(Oct 19, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
1521, CRI, Urumqi. Started a Russian programme at 1300 UTC.
(Oct 23, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
4920.0, Xixan P.B.S., Talk and local music program in Tibetan. Fair.
//4905.0kHz.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
6045.0, Nei Menggu P.B.S., Chinese program. 1300 female talk. //4000.0kHz &
4620.0kHz Fair.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
6115.0, V.O.Strait, Local pops and interveiw at 1346, At 1400 time pips, ID,
then talk by female. Fair.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
CLANDESTINE
12070, Hmong Lao Radio, (ID name according to CRW118 Extra B), 0051 test
tones, and began its transmissions
at 0100 s/on with flute music & ID's by lady announcer, then at 0101 began
talks by male announcer in Hmong.
Strong signal in Buenos Aires, SINPO: 45444. Continuous talks by same
announcer. At 0112 talks lady
announcer in English with apparently Englisg lessons. At 0117 continue the
lessons iN English - Hmong. 0117
Talks announcer in Hmong.
(Nov 1, 2002, Gabriel Ivan Barrera, ARGENTINA via DXplorer)
6600.0, V.O.the People, Good sihnal but jamming was interhered. Heard at
1230 with radio drama and male talk
at 1245. Korean language.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
GUAM
5765.0(USB), AFRTS, News program. Good signal.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
HONG KONG
3940USB, R. TV Hong Kong, Hainan Yacht Race Special Weather Forecast
Transmission. Opened with VOA
News Flash at 2130, off at 2131, signature song "Blue Peter" at 2133 and
then Weather Forecast, that was
repeated several times until transmission was over 2144 UTC.
(Oct 20, 21 & 22, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
INDONESIA
3325, RRI Palangkaraya, S/on at 2156 UTC, Jakarta News at 2200 with Rayuan
Pulau Kelapa. Back to local
programme at 2219 UTC. In afternoon had a long local news ending at 1442,
when immediately signed off.
(Oct 20&21, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
3345, RRI Ternate, Ended the transmission with Love Ambon at 1500 UTC.
(Oct 21, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
3976, RRI Pontianak, S/on at 2155 UTC, News from Jakarta at 2200 UTC with
usual Rayuan Pulau Kelapa.
(Oct 20, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
KOREA(NORTH)
6400, Pyongyang Pangsong, Kanggye, Typical child-choir music and accentuated
speeches. Also on 3250 & 3320
with a significantly poorer reception.
(Oct 22, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
MONGOLIA
4850, Khekh Tenger prgm, At 0002 Oct 23, start of their b/c with fqy,
addresses, etc., then news in RS to 0012,
mx bridge, Mongolian at 0013. On Oct 24-25 and later, AIR totally blocked
this fqy. RS nx starting the day
is a curious thing.
(Kovalenko-Russia via DXplorer)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
3905, R New Ireland, Signed on at 1952 and blocked away a weak Indonesian on
the frequency, presumably RRI
Merauke. (Oct 22, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
PHILIPPINES
1143, VOA, Poro, Signed off at 1231 UTC.
(Oct 23, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
TAIWAN
15550.0, AWR, Vietanmese program at 1401 with talk, religious music and talk
again from 1418. Fair.
(Nov 2, 2002, Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
THAILAND
15460, R. Thailand, 0320-0329, Oct 30, talks male & female announcers,
comments on Bali attacks and Thailand
security, at 0328 good bye, then "gongs" & ID noted w/problems with the
recording, heard very slowly the 'gong'
& words. SINPO: 35433.
(Oct 30, 2002, Gabriel Ivan Barrera, ARGENTINA)
VIETNAM
5035, V.O.Vietnam, Hmong language service, ID at 2230 exactly according the
WRTH Vietnamese ID transcription. Programme consisted of extremely ethnic
folk singing with monotonous melodies that lasted for more than 15 minutes
per
song. Really exotic listening!
(Oct 23, 2002, Jari Lehtinen, FINLAND)
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AUSTRALIA
Voice Intl: Domain name has changed to VOICE.com.au, so second part of our
E-mail addresses have also
changed from @vil.com.au to @VOICE.com.au
We have also changed street address from 2 Avian St. The new address is:
Voice Intl Ltd., Killick St., Kunda
Park, QLD 4556, Australia.
(Oct 26, 2002, Harjot Singh Brar-IND, GRDXC via BCDX No.598)
As at Oct 30, the Australian Communications Authority has no record of any
licence being issued for 2368.5kHz.
Very rigid guidelines are imposed for any Australian applicant wishing to
operate in the HF bands, (2300-26100
kHz) to ensure compiance with recently enabled Federal legislation
concerning content.
The Dept of Defence is authorised to operate on 2376.0 kHz, Australia-wide,
Land Mobile, Ambulatory (Initial),
callsign AXA210.
(Oct 30, 2002, Bob Padula-AUS, WoR via BCDX No.598)
2368.5, Station X: Queensland-based Station X says it has been allocated a
SW fqy by the Australian
Communications Authority. The allocation is for 2368.5 kHz with a power of
1 kw. According to the stn's web
site <http://www.stationx.com.au/> 95% of SW radios can receive this fqy.
Station X also has plans to open a
number of xmtrs in the extended MW band: Gold Coast North 1692, Gold Coast
South 1665, Adelaide 1692,
and Melbourne 1656. Station X originally operated on FM as an "aspirant
community b/cer," but closed down in
Nov 2001 after failing to gain a permanent community b/cing licence. The
stn re-opened as a commercial
webcaster in June 2002, and says it will begin b/cing over the air as soon
as possible. Negotiations are under
way with Gold Coast City Council for permission to build 40 m. high xmsn
towers.
(RNMN via DXplorer)
CHINA
CNR-5, CNR-6 irregular on SW. The CNR sces to Taiwan, CNR-5 and CNR-6, have
been operating irregularly
at least on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday the operating hours of most txs
were much reduced and on Friday
at least 11000, 11100 and 15880 did not go on the air at all. Maybe these
txs are now in turn for
modernization. They are part of the major domestic (including Taiwan) sce
site near Bejing with 16 x 50 kW.
These txs are used for CNR-2, CNR-5, CNR-6 and CNR-8.
(Oct 25, 2002, Olle Alm-SWE via BC-DX No.598)
Xingjiang reactivated its freqs of 4500, 4980 and 5060 kHz. Heard on 29 Oct
until s-off at 1800 UTC.
(Karel Honzik-CZE, Hard-Core DX via BCDX No.598)
The En Service of China R International is inviting applications for
monitors. Currently we need monitors from
the US, CAN, AUS, NZL and Europe. Monitors' tasks include sending us
frequent RRs on the various freqs
we use in particular regions, writing feedback on our progrs, and making
suggestions to improve the qualities of
CRI's reception and progrs.
Any of our listeners living in the above-mentioned regions interested in
this job are welcome to apply by e-mail.
Please include your name, sex, age, occupation, physical address and any
other supplementary information. If you
are recruited, we will send you a monitoring card.
All recruited monitors will receive special presents from us at the end of
each year, as a token of our
appreciation for their work.
Our e-mail address is: <crieng@cri.com.cn> The English Service, China R
International
(Oct 29, 2002, via Konstantin Gusev-RUS via Sergei Sosedkin-USA via DXLD via
BCDX No.598)
CLANDESTINE
Station Confirmed as Hmong Lao. The United Lao Movement for Democracy progr,
CRW can now confirm, is
called Hmong Lao Radio. First monitored in Aug 2002, information on the stn
has been scarce at best. Laotian
sources contacted through the Internet quickly identified the lang as Hmong,
which CRW reported on Oct 18, and
contact was made with the Minnesota-based ULMD. The representative, however,
declined to provide information
on the stn. With the organization's silence and refusal among the Laotian
sources to "get involved," the last resort
was to turn to an online Hmong-English phonetic dictionary, which CRW used
to translate an announced address
and provide a tentative stn ID for our readers.
The ULMD, we can report, is now willing to go on the record.
ULMD Chairman Shoua Cha told CRW by telephone earlier this week the stn was
launched in May 2002 and
bcs "educational progrs, entertainment, sports and world nx to Hmong people
who cannot read or write" around
the world. The target audience is not primarily for listeners in Laos, he
said, but also for Hmong speakers in
Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Europe and NoAmerica. "It is a project... to
educate and get our message out to
the world."
Few stns bc in the Hmong lang, which according to Cha, who has testified
before U.S. Congress, is regrettable.
"We have urged the U.S. govt to add Hmong to the Voice of America and R Free
Asia."
Although Hmong Lao R is an "educational (and) non-profit project," the progr
does feature political and pro-
democratic commentary. "Yes," he said, "we have politicians on from time to
time to promote freedom."
"We would like to have feedback and (receive) suggestions from our
listeners," he said. The address, correctly
reported by CRW, is P.O.Box 2426, St. Paul, MN 55106, USA.
It is likely that the organization will not understand "reception reports"
and the interest of non-Hmong speaking
listeners so radio listeners are advised to take care in writing to the stn.
The ULMD also plans to unveil a Web site soon where the stn's audio will be
posted.
Hmong Lao Radio progrs are recorded in Minnesota and bc via commercial txs
in Tashkent-UZB 0100-0200 Fris
only on 12070.
(Oct 31, 2002, CRW, Nick Grace-USA via BCDX No.598)
GUAM
Adventist World Radio announces the inauguration of a new shortwave
transmitter on the island of Guam. This
new unit replaces the former unit that was previously identified as KSDA3.
It was back in the month of March in the year 1987 that the first
transmitter at the new AWR shortwave station
on the island of Guam was commissioned. Later in the same year, the second
transmitter was installed and
placed into regular service. Seven years later again, transmitter number 3
was installed, and the fourth in the
following year, 1995.
The two original transmitters, KSDA1 & KSDA2, are now sixteen years old and
the second pair of transmitters,
KSDA3 & KSDA4, are now seven years old. All four transmitters are rated at
100kW; the first pair was
constructed by Thomson CSF in France and the second pair by Continental in
the United States.
Last year, AWR embarked on a modernisation program at our flagship station
KSDA on the island of Guam.
This project includes the replacement of all four transmitters, the
installation of a matrix switching system so
that any transmitter can be connected to any antenna, and the re-siting of
the diesel generator system. The two
Continentals have been sold, and one has already been removed from the site.
The sale of the two original
Thomson transmitters at station KSDA is pending.
During all of these radio events on Guam, there was another shortwave
station under construction in South
Africa. This station was located at Langefontein on the west coast of South
Africa, one hour from Cape Town.
This transmitter base was planned for a full capacity of nine shortwave
transmitters at 100 kW, though only eight
were installed.
At the same time, another shortwave station was also planned for
installation elsewhere in South Africa with a
full complement of four transmitters at 100 kW. The transmitters were
purchased but the project was never
implemented.
This large shortwave station at Langefontein was set up by the military in
the previous era of government to
cover South Africa, and when South Africa became a democracy in 1994, the
Defense Force no longer had
need for this site and it was moth-balled. Construction of the Langefontein
station began in 1989, and the
project was completed in 1992.
All of the eight transmitters were installed at Langefontein and they were
tested into a dummy load. These
transmitters were commissioned and they were run periodically into this
dummy load, though they were never
put on air through the regular antenna system. Consequently, the filament
hours on all of these transmitters was
very low.
Recently, the government of South Africa contracted with Sentech (Pty) Ltd
to dismantle the shortwave station at
Langefontein. Sentech is the common carrier for broadcasting in South
Africa and it cares for all transmission
facilities and the delivery of programming to each transmitter site.
Arrangements were made for AWR to procure four of the installed transmitters
from Langefontein. AWR also
purchased one of the yet unused transmitters which was intended for
installation at Sentech's shortwave station at
Meyerton near Johannesburg. It was still contained in its original crates.
All five of these transmitters are ABB-
Thomcast units from Switzerland and each is rated at 100 kW.
The first of these new transmitters from Sentech in South Africa is now on
the air at Adventist World Radio on
Guam. Originally this unit was designated as Langefontein No 2 and it is
now on the air as KSDA3. It was
placed into regular service at 1000 UTC on September 26.
The next ABB transmitter from Langefontein to be placed into service at AWR
Guam has already been installed
and it will replace transmitter KSDA4. It is currently being tested and
commissioned, and the changeover date is
expected to be around mid-December.
The entire modernization project is expected to be completed later next
year. Four new transmitters will be on
the air in regular service and the fifth will be a hot-standby replacement
for use through the antenna switching
matrix if a problem occurs in any of the other units.
Reception reports on the new KSDA3 are welcome and you can ask for a special
endorsement on your QSL card
confirming the usage of this new transmitter.
(AWR via Adrian Peterson via SWBC)
The official schedule of KSDA(AWR), Agat, Guam:
0000-0200 Mandarin 17880, 17635
1000-1030 English 11900, 11705
1030-1100 English 11900
1000-1100 Mandarin 15430, 15260
1030-1100 Filipino 11705
1100-1200 Mandarin 15725, 11900, 11660
1100-1130 Indonesian 15260
1130-1200 Javanese 15260
1200-1300 Mandarin 15725, 15225, 11660
1200-1300 Korean 9780
1300-1400 Mandarin 15725
1300-1330 Japanese 11755, 11980
1300-1330 Bangla 15660
1330-1400 English15660, 11755
1330-1400 Khmer 11850
1400-1500 Mandarin 15725, 11800
1400-1500 Burmese 11940
1430-1500 Kren 15660
2000-2100 English 7160, 11700, 11700
2000-2100 Korean 9385
2100-2200 Mandarin 11720, 11750
2100-2130 Japanese 11960, 11980
2130-2200 English 11960, 11980
2200-0000 Mandarin 11655, 17880
2200-2230 Indonesian 15320, 11850
2230-2300 Javanese 15320, 11850
2300-0000 Vietnamese 15320
2300-2300 Chin
2330-0000 Karen 11850
(Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
INDONESIA
Indomesia List: On <http://www.dswci.org> under "Latest news" you can find
an updated list of domestic Indonesian SW
stns. It contains stns rptd hrd by DXers in 2002 until now.
(Anker Peterson-Denmark via DXplorer)
3231.9 RRI Bukittinggi, evening sign-off is 1600
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
3325 RRI Palangkaraya, 2200-0200, 0800-1600.
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
3976.1 RRI Pontianak, 2200-0030/0040v, 0955v-1515/1600v.
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
4003.2 RRI Padang, apparently inactive in recent months.
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
7234v RRI Palu was heard earlier in 2002, but may now be inactive.
Approximate schedule 2355-0800.
(Alan Davies via DX Windoe No.207)
9552.3 RRI Makassar, 2355v-0815v .
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
9680 RRI Jakarta, inactive.
(Alan Davies via DX Window No.207)
RRI Jakarta on 15125kHz became inactive from November.
(Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
SOLOMON ISLANDS
SIBC back on 5019.95.Solomon Isls noted at 1009 this night with discussion
in En of financial problems , back to usual
good signal.
(Oct 30, 2002, David Norrie-NZL, hcdx via BCDX No.598)
TAIWAN
The official schedule of AWR from Taiwan transmitter:
0100-0200 Vietnamese 15445 Saturday Only
1400-1500 Vietnamese 15550
2300-0000 Vietnamese 15445
(Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
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CHINA
11500, V.of Russia relay via Xian-CHN, full-data card and pers.letter in 36
weeks, v/s Mrs. Tanya Stukova (Letters Dept).
(Oct 29, 2002, Vashek Korinek-AFS, DXplorer via BCDX No.598)
CLANDESTINE
Falun Dafa Radio address: Mr. Chenxi Lou, 2626 W. Ball Rd. Apt J2, Anaheim,
CA 92804-5097 I'd just received their qsl
card 2 weeks ago and the above was their address on the envelope.
(Lim Kwet Hian, INDONESIA)
PHILIPPINES
FEBC: full data "Monkey-Eating Eagle" card with personal letter and
schedules in 50days. V/s Jan Bayliss, International
Broadcasting Audience Relations.
(Juichi Yamada, JAPAN)
THE END OF JEMBATAN DX. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
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