WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

MYANMAR 9730.08 R. Myanmar, Yangon. Summer Asian mode, no ID heard but
confident is this, Burmese songs 0305, annouoncement 0310, then more mx.
No sign of North Korea, co-channel. Have tried for this over many years
without success. Came up again 0404, same format, very rare here, Jan 22.
(Craig Seager-NSW-AUS, ArDXC Nx via wwdxc and dxld also)
NEW ZEALAND 3935 ZLXA, Radio Reading Service rcvd f/d cards for May 15
2005 and Dec 31 2005 receptions and sched folder in 16d for letter report,
CD recordings and $1. QSL signer Brian Stokoe. Oh, that all stations were
as complete, accurate and prompt as ZLXA!
Also nice letter saying CD's would be passed to station manager and
verifying that I had correctly computed local time for Dec reception.
December and January are Summer Time in NZ (local time is UTC + 13 in
their summer, +12 otherwise). Also indicated that NZ uses the term UTC
rather than GMT, which I still tend to use in my reports. Brian is a DXer
himself, which explains the superb QSL responses from this station!
(Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Jan 30)
PAKISTAN Freqs changes for Radio Pakistan:
1330-1530 Urdu WS NF 9375, x9385 to avoid VoAmerica in Korean till 1500
UT.
1600-1615 English NF 9375, x9385
(R BUL Observer, Ivo Ivanov and Angel Datzinov, via wwdxc BC-DX Jan 31)
4835 R. Pakistan, 1 Jan. Quite a rare frequency. Didn't hear it since 29
Nov, when broadcast end was noted at 1545. On 1 Jan tuned in at 1355, and
listened until sign-off at 1401. The same closing mx heard both times. And
I guess the same mx was reported on 5102 kHz (needs checking).
(open_dx - Vladimir Kovalenko-RUS, RUS DXsignal Jan 29)
4835 kHz - yes, Pakistan appears to be quite regular there. On 2 Jan I
again noted its temporary sign-off at 14.01, while the next broadcast
appeared at 1513 (interval signal) and lasted till 1545.
(open_dx - Vladimir Kovalenko-RUS, ibid.)
There is nothing "unusual" about the txion on 4835. At the risk of
repeating previous information these txions come from the Islamabad
(Rewat) station and from tx API-3 100 kW.
At 1330-1400 the txion is in Turki at 270 degrees and at 1515-1545 the
txion is in Dari via 260degrs and obviously towards Afghanistan. There is
no // freq for either sce, and there is no connection with the txion on
5102 that I'm aware of.
(Noel R. Green-UK, dxld Jan 29)
PERU I was in Huanuco in early January of 2006. However, I did not note
this new SWr Radio Sinai. Radio Siani broadcasts on 90.1 MHz FM.
Another nx is Radio Luz y Sonido was inactive both on 1500 kHz mediumwave
and 3234.9 kHz SW. While in Huanuco, the station was only on FM 105.7 MHz.
Unfortunately Radio Tingo Maria was already closed down. I heard this nx
while in Tingo Maria after 20 years of my visit!
(Takayuki Nozaki-JPN Editor of RELAMPAGO DX, DXplorer Feb 3)
RUSSIA 5890 on Jan 31 at 1430- UT. Shiokaze (Sea Breeze) via Irkutsk. In
English on Tuesdays since this week, thanks to Ohtake tip. IDing as "This
is Shiokaze - Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan". After presentation went to
reading the names of the missing persons year by year acc. to the list on
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, DXplorer Jan 31)