BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

JAPAN [and non] 648 AFN Okinawa to return to air - Camp Foster,
Okinawa (February 15, 2008) - American Forces Network's Surf 648-AM will
be back on the air Feb. 18 after being off the air for about a year. The
AM station will restore news, talk and sports-talk programming to the AFN
airwaves on Okinawa and will offer an alternative to FM radio's music-
based format.AFN's new AM antenna is in the final stages of testing, and,
pending any delays due to bad weather, will launch Feb. 18 at 6 a.m. with
NPR. The AM antenna, located at Camp Kinser, was damaged during routine
maintenance in January 2007.
(via Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, dxld via ARC MV-Eko Feb 18)
Report of NHK foreign relays in A-08. DXers should look out for NHK QSL's
of Ekala, Gabon and French Guiana site for very last time during March
2008. But NHK will have a lot relay broadcasts via TDF/TDF-oldDTK on
powerful Issoudun and Wertachtal, like Russian, Persian, Bengali. And also
Sackville-CAN and Bonaire Antilles relays instead of French Guiana again.
Also still on U.K., SNG, ASC, and UAE VTC-Merlin relays.
(Gordon Brown-UK, NWDXC Feb 29)
KOREA D.P.R./USA [non] Mr. Ohtake of JSWC obtained the following
information from RFA directly. RFA is to begin its Korean service on MW
for the first time from Mar 2nd. 1350 kHz 1500-1900, 2100-2200 UT.
(Shinya Hasegawa-JPN)
This TX site where I think is Mongolia.
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC-HQ Feb 18)
Distance Ulanbataar MNG to KRE is about 1100 km !
I guess Vladivostok Tavrichanka-RUS - nominal on 1377 kHz - but to be
retuned 27 kHz down to 1350 kHz during local night time - a decade ago
75/150 kW, is in use during that slot. 1350 which is an nearly empty
channel in northern Korea. Is 140 kms distance from KRE border and 650 kms
to Pyongyang capital.
[or Razdolnoye-RUS site 155 kms from border] (wb)
KUWAIT 15110 Radio Kuwait in English on 15110 seems three hours on air
in our mornings at 0500-0800 UT. R Kuwait noted today Febr 27th, took over
of FM 99.7 MHz local radio station. Weak signal at 0515 UT, but gets
increasingly stronger S=6 at 0535 UT, and at 0555 UT similar strong as
adjacent Samara-RUS in Tatar on 15105 kHz approx. S=8-9 signal. Before
Kuwait got stronger I used small 2.6 kHz filter or used even Eton E1 SYNC
function in USB mode. Kuwait's transmission is aimed in direction of
100degr towards Indian subcontinent, and remaining backward side lobe into
Europe [315degr] is not as strong as the Kuwait 15495 kHz Arabic channel.
At 0540 UT noted on fair level, English political commentary. S=8 at 0546
UT, shortly after nice lively melodic pop music singer till 0600 UT. After
a piece of soul music at 0600 UT started at 06.01:30 UT with nx in
English. Items: Invasion of Turkish Army in Northern Iraq, Butto's dead,
Iranian Non-Atomic program, Kenya uproar, BIH Banja Luka uproar on Kosovo
independence separation, USA Clinton-Obama. Weather forecast for Kuwait:
increasingly rain the whole day, 12 to 23 cC temperature. At 0604 UT S=9,
ID local FM 99.7 MHz station, popmusic.
Underneath of Kuwait signal I noted another tiny Chinese language station
actually, but couldn't find any registration entry nowhere at this time of
the day.
Adjacent: at 0525 UT 15100 Islambad-PAK S=5-6, 15105 Samara-RUS in Tatar?
S=7-8, 15120 CRI Beijing 500 kW powerhouse in Chinese.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 27)