WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

eplace to get rid of all the unnecessary 00s after the times which all
start on the hour. This would have been obvious if the columns had lined
up. Here are the corrected entries:
00 Chinese 13650 238 15100 238 4405 SEAs
01 French 13650 238 15100 238 4405 SEAs
02 English 13650 238 15100 238 4405 SEAs
03 Chinese 13650 238 15100 238 4405 SEAs
18 French 7100 271 11910 271 SAf
19 English 7100 271 11910 271 SAf
20 Korean (KCBS) 7100 271 11910 271 SAf
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Nov 17)
LIBYA Have you already noted that after quite some years the online
edition of TDP has been updated again? Just in last year Thomson sold two
TSW2500 transmitters to Libya, see
I think it is a not too wild guess that these two transmitters are now on
air during the mornings on 15235 and 15415, noted also here today with
rather faint signals (15415 being a bit stronger than 15235), so
apparently aiming at Africa. Seems they do not consider shortwave as
relevant medium in Europe anymore. What is the programming on these
transmitters, probably the main Arabic service (// 828/1125/1449 to
mention the high power mediumwave outlets) since Voice of Africa is
supposed to be not on air in the morning (WRTH 2005 specifies the break as
0400-1000)?
I guess no any maintenance of the Sabratha transmitters took place since
they closed them down, so they are no longer in operational condition,
although two were installed as late as 1995. Probably they now changed
their minds and had to purchase new transmitters to go on air again, or
just purchased them instead of efforts to rescue and restore the old
equipment.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 18)
Another frequency for LJBC Voice of Africa in Arabic via Sabratha:
0700-1130 on 15235#SAB 500 kW / 260 deg to WeAf
// 15415*SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to CeAf
# co-ch VOIROI Albanian till 0727
* co-ch Radio Australia English
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Nov 23)
MADAGASCAR [Sudan non] Radio Nile. By the way, has anyone heard Radio
Nile (New Sudanese Council of Churches) since the start of B06? There is
an HFCC entry for Madagascar at 0400-0457 UT on 12060 and 13725 kHz, but
its no longer mentioned on the Radio Netherlands frequency schedule.
(Dave Kenny-UK, dxld Nov 19)
Radio Nile is currently off the air. It stopped broadcasting several weeks
before the end of A06, apparently due to financial difficulties. The HFCC
registration was made some time before we knew that the station would not
be broadcasting. Whether this is a temporary or permanent situation isn't
clear.
(Andy Sennitt-HOL, RNW, dxld Nov 20)
5010 R. Nasionaly Malagasy, Ambohidrano, at 1855-1909 UT, Malagasy,
talks, seemingly a radioplay; 34332 but, unlike what's typical, the signal
was improving.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 23)
MADAGASCAR/TAJIKISTAN [TIBET non] Winter B-06 schedule for Voice of
Tibet in Tibetan and Chinese: