BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Well, after so much time, lots of research, enquiries
and searching I have finally located the NBC Lae MW/SW transmitter site.
The transmitter site is located westerly of Lae at a village named
'Bubia'. One MW tower can be seen at
06 40 33.71 S 146 54 26.51 E in high resolution on GE.
Unfortunately at least half of the site is still in low resolution and
thus the 2nd MW tower & SW antenna is not showing, but they are close by.
I am not sure which MW tower is which in terms of the 675 & 810 kHz
frequencies (Karai & Kundu services).
The NBC website (which has recently been updated slightly, (changed might
be a better word)), still does not reflect the additional Lae MW frequency
that's been on air for a few years now.
The SW service of Radio Morobe is still off air and given that the Kundu
service is broadcast to the province now on MW & FM, the re- activation of
the SW service is probably not going to happen. I have similar thoughts
about so many other NBC Kundu service SW stations. Lack of provincial
funds, corruption & with a growing number of private groups commencing FM
radio operations with FM transmitter plantings within PNG, makes the
reactivation of many Kundu SW stations in my opinion unlikely. Especially
with the slow growth of NBC FM stations. An exception would be if nations
such as Japan provide much more financial aid to the NBC. Without Japan's
aid over the past 25+ years the NBC network would probably be a shambles,
perhaps some would say that's been that way for a long time. Off on
another tangent some have said that PNG should never had been granted
independence from Australia, due to PNG government mismanagement.
Many SW Kundu stations listed within the 2007 edition of the WRTH have not
been on air for many years, probably time to either delete some entries or
list stations/frequencies inactive from a particular date, if not already
done so for the 2008 edition.
A little history on the Lae SW/MW NBC transmitter site. The old P&T
antennae would have been in the low res section of the Lae site. The site
was originally P&T for their HF trunk circuits and HF Outstations base. It
was originally located right in Lae town but was moved out about 1970 or
so.
(Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsites yg via dxld Dec 20)
RUSSIA SRS needs more research.
Moscow / RUS 9840 1500-1700 200 kW SRS - Sudan Radio Service
But heard on 7330 kHz instead on Jan 1st in 1650-1659 UT. Clear ID at 1658
UT, S=9+30 dB powerhouse today, no transmission break in between from 1659
till 1700 UT usual Voice of Russia chimes, into La Voix de Russie ID at
1700 UT. 9840 didn't checked before yet.
[later on Jan 2nd: still on 9840 kHz powerhouse, wb.]
7195 VoRussia Moscow in French, unclean distorted clash audio feed noted
at 1710 UT, but unlike much well audio on // 6130 kHz channel at same time
span.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1)
9840 SRS - Sudan Radio Service is still on 9840 kHz channel, not on 7330
kHz, as reported yesterday Jan 1st, when heard this service on 7330 kHz
instead. Maybe the tx at Moscow switches at 1700 UT to VoRUS French
service very early around 1650 UT ...
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 2)
Voice of Russia will add two dialects of Kurdish. "The Russian government