WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

freq.: 171 khz
callsign: RW-444
model: Buran-M
power: 1200 Kw.
antenna: ARRT
operation time: 0300-2100 UT.
The v/s is Mr. Valery Bulakh, Chief Executive of "Television and Radio
Transmitter Centre of Krasnodar Territory". Address used:
Territorial Centre for Broadcasting and Radio Communications-4,
p. Oktyabrjskiy, Tbilisskiy rayon, 352341, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia.
Sent CD no r/p. Received three big calendars with views of tx centre too.
(Mauricio Molano Sanchez-ESP, hcdx May 4)
Radio Mayak cut LW/MW airtime. The RUS-DX newsletter sent out today
contains a transcript of an interview with somebody from Radio Mayak in
VOR's Klub-DX programme. Beware of machine translation, especially
"announcement" must read "transmission" instead. Gist: Radio Mayak cut
airtime on all LW and MW txs to only nine hours a day, effective April
1st. Strategy is to phase out LW/MW entirely in favour of FM.
Can't find any mention of this considerable cut on their website; the freq
charts at were last updated in
2003 and still show full 19 hours schedules.
is especially outdated; I am not
aware of Radio Mayak still using 1143 (only VOR here anymore). Only 549
via tx RV-129 at Kaliningrad (that's the old Reichssender Koenigsberg
site) should still carry Mayak, alongside the FM txs RCh-200 at
Kaliningrad on 67.58 and RCh-318 at Veselovka on 67.46. Note that powers
for FM are always tx output, so these 4 kW rigs produce an ERP well above
10 kW.
First reports about MW txs of Radio Mayak being on air only for nine hours
appeared already in 2005, cf.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 30)
SOUTH AFRICA Freqs changes for Adventist World Radio:
1800-1830 English NF 9610 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg to EaAf, x9600
2000-2030 French NF 9655 MEY 500 kW / 350 deg to CeAf, x9735
2000-2030 French NF 9715 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAf, x9390
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX May 4)
4990 at 1905-2205 UT, seit 24.4., x9620, fuer Suedafrika: Portugiesisch.
[via Meyerton-AFS]
(Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX May 4)
Freq change of CVC International from Apr. 24:
1905-2205 NF 4990 MEY 100 kW non-dir Ce&SoAf in Portuguese, x9620.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX April 28)
Das hoert sich interessant an. Die Sendung hoerte sich aber wirklich so im
Stile der Brasilianischen Kollegen an ... Aber unmoeglich ist ja nichts.
(Dirk Nees-D, A-DX May 4)
Kann natuerlich sein, dass dort ein Programm von Voz Crista (via Chile
fuer Brasilien) uebernommen wurde, ist ja alles mehr oder weniger ein
Verein.
(Thorsten Hallmann-D, A-DX May 5)
TAIWAN 7380 Little Saigon Radio via Taiwan. Apr 28 at 1500(S/on)-
1530(S/off). SINPO 43443. QRM from a station on 7375 kHz. S/on with chorus