Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

As of March 9 a second transmitter, a 100 kW Continental 418, was being
installed at WTWW per George McLintoch. It may not be ready to go on the
air for four to six months and they are also looking at purchasing more
transmitters.
On March 11 they moved from 5755 to 5080 as a nighttime frequency,
scheduled 0000-1200. Day frequency is 9480, during the testing period they
have been relaying Pastor Pete Peters, who also has 24 hour airtime on
WWCR. Moved back to 5755 March 23. Programming scheduled to officially
begin April 1.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld via WDXC Contact)
WTJC on odd 9369.90 kHz at 0610 UT, S=6 sermon by man.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 29)
Starting today WTWW has shifted to 9479 kHz! George McClintock tells me
the FCC has OK'd it. The reason is an unexpected interference problem very
near the transmitter site. The school system of Smith County has a remote
receiver on a mountaintop which happens to use 151.680 MHz, and the
sixteenth harmonic of WTWW 9480 kHz has been interfering. WTWW harmonic is
properly more than 80 dB suppressed, but in this circumstance it is not
enough. Until a new harmonic filter can be installed, by shifting to 9479
kHz WTWW moves the harmonic far enough off to 151.664 MHz.
The 'tone' is a heterodyne of 1 kHz which now results from other stations
still on 9480.0 kHz, no longer YFR via Germany, but CRI via Albania at
1800-2000 UT in French. Voice of Russia might also be using it after that
time, and China at other times. It is certainly audible, not subaudible.
This is not 'crossmodulation' either.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld March 31)
As I write, I'm monitoring WTWW Lebanon-TN. 0n 9480 kHz crossmodding with
Crosstalk and SAH sounding like a Tone Test at the same time on this
frequency as of 1848 UT on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Seems like there is
a problem either WYFR relay is blending in or WTWW is putting voice with
Tone hee on this channel. Can you confirm this strange anomaly?
(Noble-TN-USA, dxld March 31)
UZBEKISTAN Last minute change of CVC Voice Asia in Hindi to India:
1100-1400 NF 9660 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg, ex 9655 kHz.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 29)
VANUATU As of Wednesday, February 24th, here is what we accomplished at
Radio Vanuatu. 5055 is on at about 3,500 watts, and 3945 is on at 7,000
watts. But, due to the unstable A.C. power infrastructure, I had to design
the protection circuits to be very sensitive. The systems will "fold-back"
the transmitters to 2,000 watts if it senses any kind of spike or surge in
the A.C. power feeds. It may take the staff at Radio Vanuatu a few days to
respond and clear the "fault mode" power cutback.
The antennas for each frequency are two fan dipoles, in phase, side by
side. They are broadside north by northwest, by south-south east. The 7260
frequency won't be used until next January or February, depending on how
the cycle progresses. I'm also curious on how the audio sounds. This new
design I focused on trying to have great audio quality. It would be nice
to get critical reports on how the audio compares with the "big guns".
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