BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

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(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 23)
RE: Yakutsk 100 kW 7230 or 7345 kHz ?
Hello Wolfgang, Thanks for this information. 6150 is blocked by Cuba at
0600/0700+UTC but I still don't hear either 7200 or 7230 kHz around that
same time period. I wonder if their transmitters are using reduced power
as 7200 kHz in particular used to produce a good signal on many days, and
7345 kHz less strongly.
(Noel R. Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 23)
END OF 64-YEAR-OLD JAPANESE PROGRAMME FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST.
A Japanese announcer and his wife had their last recording on Monday of a
long-running programme to be discontinued this week from the Japaneselanguage
service of the Voice of Russia. The roughly 40-minute "Siberia
Galaxy Station," produced for Saturdays by the broadcaster's Khabarovsk
bureau as part of the two-hour daily Japanese-language broadcast, dates
back to 1946, but will have its last airing time next Saturday night,
Japan time.
Kazuya Okada, 49, has been the only Japanese announcer at the bureau, and
his programme, which introduces Russian culture and the voices of its
listeners, has attracted many devotees over time, with about 150 letters
and e-mail messages arriving from all over Japan every month. Financial
difficulties and reorganization have forced the program's termination.
"I've come all the way thanks to my listeners," Mr Okada, who is from the
city of Saitama, outside Tokyo, said after the recording. "With the last
recording over, I have a sense of fulfillment, satisfaction."
The bureau's Japanese-language broadcast was launched by Radio Moscow, the
Voice of Russia's predecessor, in 1946. It was a propaganda service during
the Soviet era, but since April 1996, after the collapse of the Soviet
Union, the bureau has aired the programme independently made by the
Okadas.
The programme will end with its 222nd edition aired on Saturday during the
Japanese-language service on mediumwave and shortwave frequencies from 9
pm to 11 pm Japan time, which itself will continue, with all its content
produced at the broadcaster's head office in Moscow thereafter. The Okadas
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