WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

6205 1930-2030 27,28 KAM 500 304
7205 1930-2030 27,28 SIR 500 313
7235 0130-0230 7-10,27 SIR 500 328
7370 1530-1630 41,49,50,54 KAM 500 110
9495 0130-0230 7-10 KAM 500 336
9635 1530-1630 41,49,50,54 SIR 500 105
9800 1930-2030 52,53,57 SIR 500 211
9925 1930-2030 52,53,57 KAM 500 205
15600 1030-1130 41 KAM 500 100
17660 1030-1130 41 KAM 500 109
and two marked 'presumed' reserve channels:
11650 1530-1630 41,49,50,54 KAM 500 100 ENGLISH-p
11860 1930-2030 27,28 SIR 500 313 ENGLISH-p
(on request by Dave Kenny-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 2)
JAPAN/RUSSIA According to Asian Broadcasting Institute, "Shiokaze"
broadcast by "Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese - Probably
Related to North Korea" announced on March 24 that they are planning to
extend English and Korean programs from April 10.
Korean every Monday 14:00-14:30 Nx, 14:30-15:00 Reading of the detailed
data of the kidnapped persons. 19:00-19:30, Repeat of 14:30-15:00.
English every Tuesday 14:00-14:30 Nx, 14:30-15:00 Reading of the detailed
data of the kidnapped persons. 19:00-19:30 Repeat of 14:30-15:00.
Other days Japanese 14:00-14:30 Reading of the letters from victims -
families.
14:30-15:00 Reading of the detailed data of the kidnapped persons.
19:00-19:30 Repeat of 14:30-15:00.
Frequency 5890 kHz.
They have received reception reports from Korea, China (7 cities), Laos,
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Portugal, Sweden, Finland,
Holland, and Russia, but not yet directly from the kidnapped persons in
North Korea.
(Takahito Akabayashi-JPN, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 26)
KATANGA QSL of Radio Katanga and other treasurey found - enjoy on superb
website of Finn Krone-DEN. Great.
(wb, Apr 29)
LIBYA [non] Voice of Hope.
Today (Friday) V of Hope switched on the carrier around 1140 on 17685.
After a couple of test tones the carrier was open until the programme
started just before 1200. At 1300 the freq was changed to 17690. This is
the normal procedure. Although the freq choice varies from day to day, the
shift at 1300 is always 5 kHz up or down. The exact change-over time is
usually one or two mins past 1300 and the shift is completed in a matter
of seconds.
The long period of open carrier provides the Libyan (?) monitors with
plenty of time to alert the jamming stations of the freq to set. Today,
however, monitoring was hampered by a co-channel station on 17685, so the
jammers opened on default freqs 17670 and 17680. At 1204 17670 went off
and reappeared on 17685 after a min (very slow switching). After the 1300
freq shift it may take up to 10 minutes before the jammers are aligned.
The propagation of the two Voice of Africa jammers is very well correlated
with the propagation of RFI on 17620 (Issoudun, today noted opening at
1159). Most days all three signals are propagating poorly, sometimes there