WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

Iris' Stimme zu hoeren, wenn sie so begeistert erzaehlt!
Aus Quito gruesst Euch herzlich, Euer Horst Rosiak-EQA, June 16)
HCJB-News im DX-Programm vom 17.6.06 wurde das Thema Antennenabbau bei
HCJB von Horst Rosiak wie folgt kommentiert:
Derzeit gibt es offiziell noch keinen Stop das Flughafenneubaus.Daher auch
keinen Anlass den Antennenabbau einzustellen.
Bis jetzt wurde die Europa-Antenne abgebaut, bis bzw. im Januar 2007 wird
die steuerbare Antenne ueber die derzeit die deutschen Programme
ausgestrahlt werden abgebaut.
Vorbehaltlich dass sich neue Investoren finden bzw. bereits ausgehandelte
Vertraege ratifiziert werden, wird der neue Flughafen in Quito 2009 in
Betrieb gehen.
Es bleibt also abzuwarten wie sich die Lage in Ecuador weiter entwickelt.
Man wird uns aus Quito auf dem laufenden halten.
(Walter Ivenz-AUT, wwdxc BC-DX June 19)
This is an interesting photo. It reminds me of a bow tie UHF TV antenna
from the days before yagis became popular.
Did you see this steerable antenna personally? And can you explain the
construction? I'm having trouble understanding how it operates. I wonder
if it was designed for short range use. The antenna doesn't look like
something that would be particularly effective for low angle radiation
because the dipoles are only about 8 meters above ground.
I can't make out all of the construction details about how it steers. It
looks to me that a reflector screen is between the camera and the dipoles
(assuming the cones are the actual dipole radiators). The screen appears
to be supported by the short tripod masts shown in the foreground. But the
screen doesn't look steerable.
(Jerry Lenamon-TX-USA, dxld June 18)
This picture originates from HCJB German sce. I was not able to still find
it on their website (they relaunched it since I saved the photo), so I
posted it into the yg. I also found no description of this antenna's
design so far, but at least they preferred it for transmissions aiming at
the whole of America; two azimuths shown for a single freq should reliably
indicate that they run it with this antenna. Some others of the now
removed Pifo site pictures can be found at
This page also contains photos of the Algerian longwave txs (it almost
hurts to see the three-mast arrays for 153 and 198 kHz in the desert about
the poorest place for longwave stations!) as well as the Kigali and the
defunct Antigua stations.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX June 18)
ETHIOPIA 9704.2 R. Ethiopia, at 0324-0347 on Jun 13, HoA instr. mx alt.
with a woman ancr talking in Amharic lang., man ancr with ID at 0330 UT
followed by nx. Fair to good.
(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, wwdxc BC-DX June 18)
GERMANY EMR (European Music Radio) will be on air via Juelich on Sunday
(June 18), 1200-1300 on 6045. Apparently they arranged (this) txion(s) via
T-Systems facilities because Ulbroka 9290 kHz is no longer available at
present.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 16)
Voice of Oromia Independence launches weekly broadcast today.