WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

war in Iraq. As for two of the 250-kW Kavala transmitters, they will
probably end up in Asia, too. The other ten 250-kW txs will probably be
sold to the highest bidder, private or govt, to make a few bucks for the
Voice of America. I assume that Voice of Greece will now be busy working
to put some of those four Gloria txs into sce to resume the external
service to Australia, Asia, South America, etc., that was formerly on the
two Kavala txs. In the meantime, you will be forced to put reduced sce to
those areas on one of the three Avlis transmitters.
Have you worked up a new Transmission Schedule to get some sort of service
to the above areas? I will be here on Tuesday, May 16, to give you hourly
reports from 1300-1900 UT on 12105 and 15630 kHz. I am assuming that ERT-3
will be on Avlis 1 on 9935 and 7450, Avlis 2 on 15630/285, and Avlis 3 on
12105/323. Will you be carrying the Foreign Language programs on 15630 as
a replacement for 7430 Kavala?
(John Babbis-MD-USA to Babis Charalampopoulos-GRC ERA, dxld May 13)
Dear John, No No, trial concerns the tx that transmits 15630 where it will
transmit on freq 12105 kHz.
(Babis Charalampopoulos-GRC ERA to John Babbis-MD-USA, ibid.)
Dear Friend Babis: I think that I have it now. On the Tuesday, May 16
test, you will be using the Avlis 2 tx which is now on 15630 to test on
12105/285. Avlis 3 will stay as it is on 9420/323. Right now, I am tuned
in to 15630 which was at SINPO 45344 at 1200 UT, but has been fading in
and out since then and at 1245 UT it is barely audible. Regards, (John
Babbis-MD-USA to Babis Charalampopoulos-GRC ERA, ibid.)
HONDURAS [and non] Honduras to adopt summer time. DST reigns in Central
America. Possibly a chance for DXers here.
The govt of Honduras approved a decree by which the country's official
time will be moved forward by 60 mins, that is, implementing a summer time
or daylight time regime, as in other countries.
This means the day here now begins an hour early. The local time is then
UT -5 and not UT minus six anymore, since midnight of Saturday May the 6th
to Sunday May the 7th, 2006. At 0000 local time we moved our watches
forward one hour. The govt said "indefinitely", but I would bet this
schedule will be on at least until September 30th.
Also Guatemala and Nicaragua have adopted this measure. So "keep an ear
out" for Central American stations (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) now to
begin broadcasting one hour early, possibly increasing your chance of
getting them in the local morning hours (from 10 to 11 UT) while we are
entering the grey line.
(Elmer D. Escoto, Controller, Liberty de Honduras, S.A., Choloma, Cortes,
HONDURAS, dxld May 9, mwdx)
We already reported that Guatemala went on UT -5hrs on April 30.
Rechecking
we see indeed that Nicaragua and El Salvador are doing it too!
30 Apr 2006 - 0600 DST starts: 0000 -> 0100 (Guatemala)
30 Apr 2006 - 0800 DST starts: 0200 -> 0300 (Nicaragua)
7 May 2006 - 0600 DST starts: 0000 -> 0100 (Honduras)
21 May 2006 - 0600 DST starts: 0000 -> 0100 (El Salvador)
Apparently not Costa Rica, Belize, still UT -6 hrs, despite being eastward
of UT -5 hrs countries; and Panama is already UT -5 hrs yearound.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld via mwdx May 10)