WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

9560.4 V. of Democratic Alliance via R.Ethiopia Apr 13 at 1527-1536 33442-
32442 Tigrigna and Alfa?, Ethiopian pops mx, 1530 IS, ID.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Apr 23)
FRANCE [MONACO non] 218 kHz RMC INFO REDUCED POWER !!!!!!! Ciao!
su segnalazione di Gino De Nobili (zona Viterbo) ho constatato che RMC
INFO su 218 kHz onde lunghe non si sentiva da 2 giorni ho interpellato
l'amico Christian Ghibaudo di Nizza (a pochi Km dal TX di RMC INFO) ed
anche lui ha constatato che il segnale era molto debole a Nizza. Una
telefonata fatta al servizio tecnico del centro di Roumoules ha avuto la
conferma che la potenza attualmente e ridotta al minimo problemi tecnici
???? A Parigi nella sede di RMC INFO addirittura non ne sanno nulla !!!!!!
(Dario Monferini-I, dxld Apr 18) Really on 216 kHz !!
Bonsoir, Je viens d'appeler le centre de Roumoules. Il me dise que
l'emetteur fonctionne, mais maintenant avec une puissance plus faible (pas
dit combien de kW). Ici a Nice, la reception est assez faible. A suivre
les prochains jours. J'ai aussi telephone a RMC a Paris, ils n'etaient pas
au courant.
(Christian Ghibaudo-F, via Dario Monferini-I, dxld Apr 18)
GAMBIA 648 GRTS, Bonto, nicely audible again, at 2221-2234 UT on 21
Apr, English, talks on Kenyan politics and its links with religion; 53433,
co-ch QRM de E+G.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 23)
GEORGIA 9494.76 R. Abkhazia: I hrd a stn with pretty poor rcpn closing
down at 1122 Apr 20 with a few notes from "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My
Head." Lang. sounded like RS. I guess I hrd Radio Rep. Abkhazia from
Georgia.
(Huuskonen-FIN, hcdx Apr 20)
Yesterday I hrd this very same stn on exactly the same fqy at 1405 UT,
rcpn was a lot better, lang. was not certainly RS but rather Georgian or
Abkhaz. Nothing hrd today, so it's up to propagation.
(Huuskonen, dxing.info via dxld, Apr 21)
GERMANY Postings at say
that DRM on 6140 (ex. 1100-1300 and 1600-1900) has been moved from Juelich
to Wertachtal and cut back to 1700-1800 only. Vague mentions of the AM sce
on 6140 "being weak as always" before 1400. Schedule for AM on 6140 used
to be 0600-1000 and 1300-1600, it appears that monitoring will have to
reveal whether this is still the case. 6140 is an old test freq of
Deutsche Welle, first used as such during the eighties from Elmshorn near
Hamburg, an utility site no longer used for broadcasting since the
fifties. Back then it was a test for SSB broadcasting (however, reportedly
at times they run the freq in AM instead) in the responsibility of the
postal office, Deutsche Welle made a bureaucratic fuss about it by stating
in letters that they will QSL it but without noting down any engineering
details. After 1990 this freq was on air from Nauen, using the same 100 kW
Funkwerk Koepenick tx than RNW for its noon broadcast in English. 6140
finally went to Juelich when the 100 kW tx at Nauen closed down around
2000.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 23)
DW cuts of recent Balkan sces.
According to my information, only some freqs should be dropped, that is
a..b..c..: 7190 cancelled (5910 remains)
d..: 9770 cancelled (7190 remains)
e..: 11915 cancelled (9770 remains)
f..: 9770 cancelled (7170 remains)
g..: 7170 cancelled (9770 remains)