WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

mosquito net, the greater the level of protection for the whole community.
They come in a range of sizes single, double, and extra large, and are
available at the grocer or your local store. Get more information from
your provincial health office; buying treated mosquito nets is the best
investment you can make to protect your family from malaria. Malaria can
be treated and cured. Sleep under a treated mosquito net every night, and
together we can beat malaria.' (Wow...more than a million cases each year
in PNG alone? Why are a few cases of bird flu getting all the Western
press? Third world issues always take a back seat, it seems.)
(Guy Atkins-WA, DXplorer June 13)
PERU 6520.5 R. Paucartambo, Paucartambo, obs'ed 2221-2229, 2 Jun,
Spanish/Quechua, talks, Indian songs; 24331, adjt. uty. QRM and too noisy
a signal.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX June 9)
PHILIPPINES 15510 R. Pilipinas,*0200-0214 Jun 6, EG, IS, man with s/on
anmts, nx re Filipino education system and economic growth bill, PBS promo
for "Philippine History" prgm and anmt, "You are listening to PBS Nx top
stories" at 0211; more nx re Filipino politics and agriculture. Poor/weak,
using LSB mode pulled out enough usable audio.
(Scott Barbour-NH-USA, DXplorer June 11)
15190 at 1853 UT noted PBS Tinang in Tagalog, ID and address given. Sinpo
23222.
(wb df5sx, on whitsuntide holiday on Mallorca Isl Spain, wwdxc BC-DX June
7/8)
FEBC English heard June 2 from 1005 tune in to 1030 off on 15325;
programme was Leading the Way from the RadioLife mission, good strength on
clear channel.
(Mike Barraclough-UK, WDXC Contact June)
PORTUGAL Radio Renascenca uses HARRIS txs at least at the sites of
Seixal 963 kHz (near Lisbon) 10 kW (reserve 1 kW) and at Muge 594 kHz 100
kW (reserve 2x10 kW) + HF 100 kW.
The normal output at Muge is said to be in the 60-80 kW range only while,
and sometimes just one stand by unit is used. The MW tower is 265 m high,
mounted on a predominantely sandy soil, pretty much like the one at the
former RFE/RL site at Gloria do Ribatejo some km to the south.
For some days' time, the 100 kW unit at Muge was radiating two images on
738 & 450 kHz, then it was taken off sce for some reason, but one of
activated 10 kW stand by units, currently at just 8 kW, is also radiating
images, viz. some 24 kHz on either side of the fundamental QRG.
The (smaller) Seixal tower is mounted on a place so close to River Tagus,
that the path from the tx hut gets flooded during the high tide, which
greatly explains why the thus enhanced signal on 963 kHz is so good far
beyond its intended coverage area, like for instance the Algarve province
west coast.
Seixal is nearly 14 km away from my place here in the capital, but I still
manage to DX on 963, even if only E, FIN and TUN were the only countries
logged so far.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX June 9)
RUSSIA Frequncy change for WYFR Family Radio in Spanish:
1900-2000 NF 7340 MSK 250 kW / 264 deg to SoEu, ex 7440
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX June 10)
ST. HELENA Donations from the DSWCI and members of the JPN SW Club were
handed over to Mr. Robert Kipp at the DSWCI Jubilee celebration and more