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Also Galbeni MW site 1179 kHz 200 kW. Low resolution.
(wb, Dec 11)
Last Saturday (Dec 09) in "DX Mailbag" of R Romania Intl (RRI) I've heard
a very intersting news about Romanian SW transmitters. The host announced
that RRI will install in Romania in the near future a new more powerful SW
transmitter(s)!
(Dragan Lekic, Subotica-Serbia, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 12)
RUSSIA 3955 R Rossii, Ulan Ude, at 1311 UT on Nov 19, rather new
channel. No local b/cing too late for this near Baikal lake region.
Splashed by Xinjiang PBS on 3950, 33443.
(Mezin & Kulinchenko-Russia, dswci DX-W)
3955, Buryatskaya GTRK, Ulan Ude, at 0045-0125 UT on Nov 30, RS/Buryat nx,
orch. mx, time signal, SINPO 34343.
(Anker Petersen-DEN via Dario Monferini, PlayDX via dxld Dec 11)
Some changes for Voice of Russia in DRM mode:
0700-0800 on 12060 MSK 035 kW / 240 deg in Russian RIR, additional
0800-1000 on 12060 MSK 035 kW / 240 deg in English WS, additional
1100-1300 on 12060 MSK 035 kW / 240 deg in German, cancelled
1300-1400 on 12060 MSK 035 kW / 240 deg in English WS, cancelled
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Dec 12)
11900 Tensae Ethiopia V. of Unity, Dec 13 *1500-1508 34332 Amharic, 1500
sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Theme song, Talk.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Dec 15) via Armavir-RUS.
SAUDI ARABIA 9555 at 2000 UT ID in Arabic 'Sout Majles altaawon' "Voice
of cooperation council - a special station for the Gulf cooperation
council". I think the 27th meeting for the leaders of the GCC will be held
in Saudi Arabia on Dec 9, news, followed by songs about the Gulf, followed
by a program called Gulf decisions, followed by another ID and another
song, a program called 'Our Gulf', OM/YL hosting the show talking about
the gulf region projects.
(Tarek Zeidan-EGY SU1TZ, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 8)
The General Prgm of Saudi Arabian radio will this evening launch its
special prgm for the 27th summit of the GCC which opens in Riyadh on
Saturday. The prgm will be broadcast daily at 1830-2100 and parts of it
will also be carried by the other GCC radio stns marking the event,
Abdurrahman Al- Haza'a, Asst. Undersecr. of Radio Affairs in the Saudi
information ministry, told reporters. [The other GCC member countries are
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE.] The prgm will rpt on the
leaders' meetings and other GCC-related topics, in addition to a one-hour
live b/c at 2000-2100 entitled "Khalijuna Wahid" ("One Gulf") that
includes a nx brief of the meetings' agenda, he added. Al-Haza'a said the
Saudi radio will air live the opening session of the summit in addition to
the final press conference.
(Kuwait News Agency, Dec 6 via Andy Sennitt-RNMN via dxld)
BSKSA there from before 1800. The apparent transition to GCC prgm at 1830
did not jump out at me, but there have been many "Sout Majles al-taawon"
IDs since 1830, per Zeidan's rpt. Signal improved a lot after 1830, now
(1905) quite good.
(Jerry Berg-MA-USA, DXplorer Dec 11)
SOUTH AFRICA 11690 R. Okapi via Meyerton, on Dec 09 at 0420-0430 UT.
33433 French, Talk, SJ at 0423 UT.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Dec 15)
SYRIA 783 sounds like Syria Radio is working 24hrs/7d now , I picked
them up around 0145 UT on Dec 5 783 kHz with a long political review about