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

CHINA/ALBANIA Switch error in Radio Netherlands Studio. If I remember
correctly, in the pre-satellite days Bonaire relayed news/current affairs
from an off-air pickup; the rest of the programming was shipped from
Hilversum on tape and played back from the relay site.
(David R. Alpert, dxld June 12)
A particular mystery were the Radio Beijing relays via Albania. I have
been told that it has been never really figured out what the audio source
was.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 12)
Re Radio Beijing relays via Albania.
As Olle Alm from Sweden, the China specialist on many WRTH issues
explained often in the past:
During VIETNAM war time SZG Shijiazhuang powerful 600 kW site in China was
used as on-air feeder of Radio Peking in English, and relayed at Albania
relay on 7120 and 9780 towards North America at 0100-0200 and 0300-0400
UT. Spanish was also relayed 7120 and 9507/9500 kHz at 2300, 0000 and 0200
UT.
CHN Shijiazhuang 2 x 500/600 kW, 6 x 100/70 kW
3 big antenna arrays in G.E., 2 x foreign service, 1 x domestic service
38 13 10.58 N 114 06 16.95 E
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 12)
CZECH REP/PORTUGAL Radio Prag sendet am Mittwoch, dem 16.06., auf KW nur
um 1630 UT auf 11700 kHz aus Sines Portugal. Die heimischen Anlagen in
Litomysl werden an diesem Tag gewartet. So im deutschen Programm am
Dienstag verlautbart.
(Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX June 15)
0600-1600 UT. Off-air due to transmitter maintenance on:
[3rd Wednesday each month]
21 Apr; 19 May; 16 June; 21 July; 18 Aug; 15 Sept; 20 Oct 2010
(R. Prague printed sked via Arthur Ward, World DX Club, re-typed by
Alan Roe, Teddington UK, dxld 27 March)
Sei's gedankt sind die zwei Sender und die Antennen in guter Verfassung,
audiomaessig klingt es immer noch gut, im Vergleich was man sich sonst
noch aus Pakistan oder Cairo anhoert ...
Die Bruesseler Gesetze verlangen bestimmt den Schutz der Mitarbeiter auch
bei der Wartungsarbeit in der CR ...
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15)
ETHIOPIA 6030 Radio Oromiya, at *0321-0330 UT on June 7. Another Monday
with no Cuban jamming or R. Marti here; usual repetitive xylophone-like
IS; unusable after distinctive IS.
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