WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

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(Zacharias Liangas-GRC, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 23)
[Spratly Islands archipelago is a DISPUTED area between China, Vietnam,
Malaysia, and ?Brunei-Borneo, wb.]
WARC WRC 2007.
Geoff Spells of VT-Merlin reported on the status for the WRC 07 meetings.
Some important notes he mentioned:
This month (March) is the last opportunity to make any substantial changes
to the documents (i.e. Revised HF broadcasting statistics.) The process
will be completed in September.
Many people think that SW radio is dead. This is not the case. Transmitter
hours had fallen since A03, that is until A05 and it continued to go up
again. In the 4 -10 MHz, the B season is quite a bit more congested. There
is no detection of a major downward trend. Less than 50% of the 7 MHz band
is without collision.
The amount of spectrum required is the addition of 250-800 kHz in total to
HF broadcasting sce from 4-10 MHz.
Oldrich Cip mentioned that we need to discuss how we can get this
information to our organizations and start lobbying our administrations as
soon as possible, (Many administrations aren't aware of any or how many
broadcasters are operating from their territory.)
Sharad Sadhu mentioned that the ABU has also prepared these documents from
cooperating broadcasters in the Asia region.
The resolution recommended is to use 7350-7650 kHz.
European BC corporations are working to allocate additional spectrum to
broadcasters. They are looking at the potential of using non-used maritime
mobile spectrum allocation (8 MHz range.)
Jan Willem Drexhage put some monitoring spectograms on the screen that
clearly showed the congestion in the broadcast bands as measured in
Europe. This document has been sent as an input to the ITU Working Party
meetings WP6E, WP8A, 8B and 9C for the discussion on agenda item 1.13. The
documents for WRC07 meetings and the ITU Monitoring spectograms are
available to HFCC members.
(March NASB NEWSLETTER via wwdxc BC-DX Mar 20)
YEMEN Long time algo Mr Wolfgang Bueschel made the conclusion that there
are two txs on 9780 kHz. Today I can say Wolfy was absolutely right! Here
are the observations made on March 18th:
1900 UTC 9780 Nx in Arabic (not in English!) - the sound is with rumbling.
There are two txs of Yemen.
2001 UTC 9780 The rumbling stops, the nx in Arabic seem to be only on tx
with 9779.8 kHz.
2002 UTC 6005 DLF + Yemen Nx in Ar // 9780! Here is without rumbling. So
the conclusion is:
presumed -- one tx is in Sanaa on approx 9779.8 kHz (as it was in the
70s), another tx is in Aden on exact 9780.0 and later on 6005.0.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 22)
ZIMBABWE On 22 March around 1800 UT noted afropops on 6613 kHz. There is
Russian mixing product on 6612 here at that time, so no chance to check if
there was anything else. Recheck at 1958 on 6613 shows the usual Zimbabwe
song, drums, at 2000 "It's ten o'clock", ID and nx in local lang. 6612 was
empty at that moment. If this is a harmonic, the basic freq should now be