BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

August 15, 1945; and of V-P day announcement on Sept 2nd, 1945 via Radio
Tokyo:
Radio Tokyo's shortwaves died on January 3rd, 2003.
55 years German language presenter on Radio Tokyo JZK, and later NHK Radio
Japan.
KUWAIT 13620D Radio Kuwait on Sept 17 at 1257 UT. Arabic music, ID at
1300 UT, news brief, music at 1303 UT, into apparent radio drama with SFX
of sheep bleating in background. S/N 14-17 dB for 11 kbps stream, 99%
intelligible, only a few dropouts.
(Ralph Brandi-NJ-USA, DXplorer Sept 23)
MADAGASCAR 9765 Radio Voice of the People, at 0425-0458* UT on Sept 23,
Tune-in to vernacular talk. English IDs. Brief breaks of Afro-pop music.
English at 0440 with program about human rights in Zimbabwe. Closing ID
announcements with schedule, address, and web site address a 0457 UT.
Good. Strong, but slight QRM from weak music loop jammer.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, DXplorer Sept 24)
MALAYSIA [SARAWAK] 7130.0, Sarawak FM via RTM, at 1318-1355 UT on Sept
23, YL DJ with EZL pop songs, in vernacular (language and format sounded
same as heard on Asyik FM), only one ID heard for Sarawak FM' and did not
note any of their usual singing station jingles, almost fair reception,
QRM (Taiwan on 7129.87 kHz, CNR-1 [// 5030] in Chinese on 7130.0 and CNR-
2/CBR [// 6155] with 'English Evening' on 7130.0), but even with all this
QRM Sarawak FM held up fairly well. 1355 covered by open carrier.
Heard // 5030 kHz, under strong CNR-1. Wish to again thank Dan Sheedy for
the alert that this was being heard so well. Nice surprise to be able to
enjoy this station that I rarely hear.
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, JPNpremium Sept 29)
MALTA Had it been reported at the time that the Malta station of
Deutsche Welle had lost one of their mediumwave masts in an incident and
continued to operate on 1557 in a two-mast configuration afterwards? I'm
only aware of previously published photos showing the system still intact,
but here's how the station finally looked (see also page 2 and photos of
the original system on page 1):
For an illustrated article about the Malta station see June 1977 edition
of the German wwh magazine, available (at present as last item) at
It features the antenna facilities in detail (no translations necessary I
think) as well as the separated reception site (used both Juelich /
Wertachtal transmissions as well as special SSB feeds, not-timely
programming had been send to Malta on tape, complete continuation suites,
identical to installations at Cologne, were available to combine off-air
pickup and tape playout for own DW programming as well as to play out
third party programming). Unfortunately no pictures of the actual
transmitters there.
Note also the press release from Westdeutscher Rundfunk, apologizing for
one night mistakenly airing Radio DDR 1 via the Langenberg mediumwave
transmitter (off-air from the Inselsberg site after the co-channel local
FM outlet, which was meant to be relayed, had signed off) and ensuring
that all necessary measures have been taken to let such a terrible
incidence never happen again. It must have driven the bosses entirely
nuts, judging from the reactions of a loose reference to this story which
is still a sore point for those who were involved nack then, three decades
ago.