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(VOA press release, dxld July 17)
Media Network update: Wolfgang Bueschel reports that the frequencies in
the VOA press release are wrong. At 1630 UTC he heard VOA Somali on 11530
and 15675 kHz.
(Andy Sennitt-HOL, RNW MN July 17)
Really VoA in Somali language on 11530 + 15675 at 1600-1800 UT,
MW at 1600-1630 UT only: MW Djibouti 1431 kHz, 600 kW non-dir.
at 1630-0400 UT R SAWA in Arabic 600 kW 325 degr towards Sudan, SouthEGY.
VANUATU The two new Radio Vanuatu transmitters [1125/1179] are both
confirmed as being 10 kW units according to RNZI Technical Manager Adrian
Sainsbury who was in Vila and Santo lately and has seen them both! He also
adds that a joint NZAID, AUSAID and EU Aid program will deliver new SW
transmitters to Vanuatu as it's been decided that a full SW service should
be reintroduced as soon as possible. The existing SW aerial system is in
good condition, as is the aerial system for MW in both Vila and Santo. The
new head of VTBC in Vila is the ex Radio Australia head - Jean-Gabriel
Manguy. His job is to oversee the installation of all the new
transmitters, studio upgrades etc.
(David Ricquish, July NZ DX Times via dxld July 19)
ZIMBABWE 4828, at 0130 UT on July 15, ZBC (pres), generally poor under
CODAR with non-stop Afro dance mx prgm. Listened closely for anmts but
seemed to segue from one lengthy song to another and signal never improved
enough for ID. I checked 3396 kHz and that one was surprisingly strong
with different prgm.
(John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer July 15)
Tropical Bands Monitor.
Owners of our Domestic Broadcasting Survey No. 9, please note that
was updated on July 05 with the June loggings as an extra service to their
purchase. At any DX-er can download a complete
monitoring view of stations heard broadcasting on tropical bands during
2005 and 2006.
Trends in tropical bands broadcasting 2007
by Anker Petersen
Since 1973 the Danish Shortwave Club International has published an annual
publication which first covered the frequency range of 2.200 to 5.800 kHz
and was called the "Tropical Bands Survey". But since 1999 I expanded it
as editor to cover all Domestic broadcasting stations on shortwave from
2.2 till 30 MHz. That is now called the Domestic Broadcasting Survey - the
DBS- and it is popular worldwide among hard-core DX-ers. Our latest
edition was published in May 2007. (Please see the independent reviews of
it at:
. Wernli)
The task for the editor of the DBS is, throughout the year until the next
publication, to check the bands himself and follow the loggings from our
members and other DX-ers around the world. For each station in the list, a
note is taken of the months when it has been heard. If a station has not
been heard by any DX-er during the past 12 months, it is deleted. By this