BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Better and hour later. 24 Dec.
(Liz Cameron-MI-USA, dxld Dec 24)
MONGOLIA 4830 Mongoliin R, Altay, 2222-2230, 21 Dec, Mongolian, talks,
tunes; 24341, CW QRM.
4895 Mongoliin R, Murun, at 2218-2232 UT on 21 Dec, Mongolian, talks,
tunes; 25342; parallel to 4830 kHz Altay.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)
MYANMAR 5985.86 R. Myanmar on Dec 17 at 1429-1447 UT. 33433 English,
Music, ID at 1429 and 1434 UT.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Dec 21)
5040.61 R. Myanmar, at 1152-1206 UT on Dec 24, vernacular. Female
announcer b/w "wailing" vocal ballads and flutes. Wind instruments at 1200
UT, OM until music returns at 1205. Poor under band noise and het
presumably from 5039v-R.Libertad.
(Scott R. Barbour-NH-USA, DXplorer Dec 27)
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES Welcome to the sunny Caribbean island of Bonaire, a
tiny speck of land just north of the Venezuelan coast, known for its
diving, its wildlife and for the signal it sends forth on 800 kHz. Yes,
this is Trans World Radio, otherwise known as PJB. Or, more correctly,
this was Trans World Radio as it appeared in the spring of 1996, when the
five towers shown above (and yes, they're straight in real life; what you
see above is a montage of two photos) were still sending out 500 kW, the
highest-powered medium-wave signal in the Americas ...
The shortwave transmitters were already gone when I visited Bonaire in
1996 - just a big empty room that was being reworked as a power plant.
There's a pretty good international market in used high-power
transmitters. The Brown-Boveri 500 kW MW unit I saw at TWR had been
purchased used from somewhere in Africa (I want to say Bophuthatswana, but
I could be wrong), and could easily have gone back there or to somewhere
in the Middle East or Asia. It was in pretty good shape, and not that old,
as I recall.
(Scott Fybush, ABDX via dxld Dec 22)
I don't know what they are running. Perhaps 50 or 100 kilowatts.
Set language to English, country all targets, time as local or UT, then
leave the program name at all programs & set the sort any way you like.
800 kHz is there along with a 1230 frequency. I don't know what power 1230
is but it's for Bermuda. Yes I still have QSL's for both AM and shortwave
from TWR Bonaire & one or two for shortwave from Guam.
(Robert M. Bratcher-TX-USA, via dxld Dec 22)
Re: TWR Bonaire transmitter.
>"The Brown-Boveri 500 kW MW unit I saw at TWR had been purchased used
from somewhere in Africa (I want to say Bophuthatswana, but I could be
wrong), and could easily have gone back there or to somewhere in the
Middle East or Asia." <
According to Hansjoerg Biener this was the former 604 kHz transmitter of
Capital Radio in Transkei:
The replacement is a Nautel NA100 (thus 100 kW), the antenna is described
as four mast system.