WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

currently running its HF centre, CEOC-Centro Emissor de Onda Curta, at a
semi-automatic /automatic operation.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, dxld Feb 13)
17680 Noted Radio Diff Portugal and Voz Cristiana mixing it up, both with
good signals here in Clewiston, Florida. Radio Diff Portugal presenting
mellow vocal Portuguese Jazz while Cristina playing Spanish Rap mx. What a
mixture! Cristiana gives ID followed by promos at 1959.
(Chuck Bolland-USA, dxld Feb 11)
RUSSIA New additional txions of WYFR on short waves from Feb 10:
1200-1300 on 7495 IRK 250 kW 180 deg in Vietnamese (tent.)
1300-1400 on 7495 IRK 250 kW 180 deg in Tagalog (tent.)
(R BUL Observer, Ivo Ivanov and Angel Datzinov, via wwdxc BC-DX Feb 14)
4795 Buryatskoe R. on Feb 10 at 1010-1025 UT. 33433 Buriat and Russian,
ID at 1010 UT. Talk, Local program from 1010. Thanks for tip from Kenji
Takasaki-JPN.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Feb 17)
7200 R. Sakha on Feb 10 at 0910-0922 UT. 43443 Yakut and Russian, 0910 IS,
ID, Music. Talk.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Feb 17)
9485 V. of Eritrea on Feb 11 at *1600-1610 UT. 35433-35333 Tigrigna, 1600
UT sign on with IS, ID, drum's mx. Talk and Eritrean pops mx, // Sat only.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Feb 17)
Voice of Eritrea is new station in Tigrigna, eff from Febr 4:
1600-1700 on 9485 MSK Taldom 200 kW 190 deg to EaAf, Sat only.
(R BUL Observer #403 Feb 14, 2006 via wwdxc BC-DX)
[Russia/Armenia] on MW 1377 kHz, 1430-1458 UT disco, ID "Radio Yunost" (R
Teenage) in Ru - site Yekaterinburg(1), at 1458 UT without procedure was
boomed from Armenia with VoRUS progr "Radio Channel of Commonwealth" -
Kanal Sadruzhestva) in Ru.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 4)
St. Petersburg 828/1188/1440.
Enclosed an excerpt from RUS-DX with full details for the already
discussed changes at St. Petersburg: 828 (Radio Liberty) and 1440 (RFI)
went dark on January 1st due to expired licences. Radio Liberty referred
listeners to FM 71.24 and seems to have done with it. RFI is now at times
relayed on 1188, previously used by Deutsche Welle exclusively. Wonder who
took the initiative for this arrangement; RFI, DW or perhaps RTRS (the tx
operator)?
Anyway neither involved station gave the circumstances special publicity,
at least I did not note any nx releases etc. This is quite different to
the big fuss about 693 in Moscow (nobody seems to care for BBC and RFI in
Moscow anymore since the DW txions on 693 are restored, by the way).
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Feb 12)
Sankt-Peterburg since January, 1, 2006 relayings "Radio Freedom" on 828
kHz are stopped and the International French radio on 1440 kHz. RFI now
divides Frequency 1188 kHz with "the German wave". Transfers on freq 1188
kHz (Saint Petersburg, 10 kW) go under the following schedule (UTC).
0300-0430 DW Russian 0430-0500 RFI Russian 0500-0600 DW Russian
0600-0700 DW German 0700-0800 DW Russian 0800-1000 DW German
1000-1200 RFI French 1200-1430 DW German 1430-1500 RFI Russian
1500-1900 DW Russian 1900-2000 RFI Russian 2000-2100 DW Russian
2100-2300 DW German