BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

the signal was pretty good.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer also via dswci DXW Oct 5)
Aoki list shows: 7460 R.TAIWAN INT. dakaixin lingsuoc
1100-1157 UT Chinese 300kW 352deg Taipei-TWN CBSC
TAJIKISTAN 4765.07 Tajik Radio, Yangiyul, at 0200-0217 UT on Sept 21,
news in Tajik, local songs, 34333.
(Kyriakos Dritsas-GRC, dswci DXW Oct 6)
TAJIKISTAN/UZBEKISTAN Some changes of WYFR Family Radio via TRW:
1200-1300 11855 DB 100 kW 024 deg to CeAs in Russian, cancelled
1200-1300 13630 TAC 200 kW 131 deg to SEAs in English, cancelled
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 6)
UGANDA 4750.01 Dunamis Broadcasting, Mukono, Kampala (pres), at 1725-
1750 UT on Sept 23, vernacular talk and music - deteriorating from: 25222.
(Anker Petersen-DEN, dswci DXW Oct 6)
UNID 6019.28 Unidentified stn S=7-8 signal, ahead of CRI Sackville in
En on 6020.00 even, at 0413 UT Oct 5. Maybe from LatinAM ?
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 5)
UK 5790 BBC Skelton 300kW in Arabic tremendous S=9+50dB signal at 0345
UT til cl-down 03.59:40 UT Oct 5. 26 kHz Broadband splatter signal at 110
degrees main lobe, from 5777 to 5803 kHz. After 5 seconds 03.59:45 UT
appeared again on 5790 kHz in 140 degr. The // Skelton outlet on 5905 kHz
had much cleaner signal at 140 degrees.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 5)
VENEZUELA In the 1980s I wrote my thesis about the Spanish dialect
spoken in the Carabobo province in Venezuela and had the opportunity to
travel the country for some months to do some field work. I also visited
San Cristobal and met with Gregorio Gonzalez Lovera, who was not only the
founder and owner of Ecos del Torbes, Radio Tachira and two other
stations, but also one of the three radio pioneers of the country, the
only one still alive when I visited him.
Ecos del Torbes' monster signal: on my Sony ICF 2001D, their signal
occupied a range of 50-60 kHz in San Cristobal (i.e. 4950-5010 kHz) and
I think the power of their boosted transmitter was at least 20-50 kW. But
even more impressed I was by the dedication and love some technicians had
with their low power transmitters.
Alfredo Poppert, a native German living in Valencia, the capital of
Carabobo province, was really proud of keeping LV de Carabobo's 1 kW
transmitter on the air using a 40-year-old Continental transmitter with
four tubes and just a few meters of wire as a dipole. Their signal could
be heard regularly here in Europe in those days.
Another story was my visit to R. Yaracuy. The gerente was proud that his
station's signal could be heard worldwide and he showed me two huge
baskets full of letters form listeners from overseas. Not a single one of
those reception reports had been answered, but nothing was thrown away.
The "verie signer" in those days was someone working at the local post
office who had nothing to do with the station [i.e. extracting the return
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