WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

9920 kHz English sce 1845-1859 UT, SINPO 54555, high audio presence,
BBC 9915 is N O T a problem here in Germany !
I believe your RT switching room personal is drunken again, anyway ! Mixed
up the audio on the opposite channel at schedule start. But later changed
to the right audio feed channel, at 1905 UT was back on right schedule
again.
6225 kHz Started wrong French sce, later switched to Italian when checked
at 1905, scheduled 1901-1928 UT, SINPO 45554, little flutter fading.
9920 kHz Started wrong Italian sce, but later switched to French lang sce,
scheduled 1901-1928 UT, SINPO 54555, steady signal, high audio presence,
fine audio quality from the Tirana broadcast studio.
7465 kHz German sce, tx signed-on at 1929 UT, ID at 1930 UT, SINPO 45554,
little fading. "Only 23 cC temperature in Tirana capital at noon."
7465 kHz English sce, ID at 2000 UT, SINPO 45554, little fading. Fine folk
mx performed til end of program at 2029 UT.
1458 kHz Serbian program, SINPO 53443, due of co-channel station at
London, U.K. But I guess Fllaka signal quality is much better in nearby
former-Yugoslavia.
6205 kHz Albanian night program, SINPO 44444, but deep fading. And audio
quality is weak - compared to 9920 kHz French sce -, microphone quality
seems like a 'watering can'. Check the feeder line !
9920 kHz is the best and steady signal channel here in Stuttgart, Germany,
also audio feeder-wise.
6225 and 7465 kHz channels - I guess in my rating estimation - had some
flutter fading.
Both French and English sces had fine Balkan folk mx program today, -
GREAT.
(73 Wolfgang from Stuttgart Germany, May 5)
ANTARCTICA 15476 LRA 36, not heard on Apr 18 or 19, but on Apr 25 at
1930-1955* (disappeared!), Spanish talk by a woman, Argentine (?) pop
songs, heard best in USB, testing; 25121.
(Manuel Mendez-ESP, Anker Petersen-DEN, dswci DXW May 3)
ASCENSION ISL [to Liberia] 9525, Star R. 0734-0759*, Apr 19, many many
greetings and messages in the program segment called "Star Contact" hosted
by W in English. 0739 outro with program name, e-mail address. 0740-0759
feature called "Program Talk" on educating low income earners. M host
interviewed/questioned at least 4 'experts' in the education field. 0759
instrumental mx briefly then W with ID ending the program. Signal off at
0800 UT.
(Dave Valko-PA-USA, dswci DXW May 3)
Star Radio Liberia, 11965 kHz. QSL card in 65 days via Hirondelle
Foundation, Rue Traversiere 3, CH-1018 Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Vladimir Rozhkov-RUS, RUSdxsignal May 9) see also under South Africa.
ASCENSION ISL/U.K. 17585 [ASC 250kW 65deg] Darfur Salaam is more time
in the air!!! 1710-1730 UT, May 07, Arabic, long talk by male, short mx at
1716, ann. by male and different (an very nice songs) between 1717-1730
UTC, identification at 1730 and s/off, 45444 // 15515 kHz [WOF 300kW
126deg] with 14431.
(Arnaldo Slaen-ARG, wwdxc BC-DX May 7)