WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Ron Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer Jan 15)
GEORGIA "Apsua Radio" or "Abkhaz Radio" was heard broadcasting on Sunday
from 1200-1245 UT on 9495 kHz with a program in Russian. It was announced
that the station also broadcasts On 31 and 222 meters. The correspondence
with the station is unsure, so it is recommended to send your reports via
Russia to:
Abkhaz Radio, Aydghylara Street 34, 384900 Soxum, via Russian Federation.
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, R. Bulgaria DX Jan 13)
GERMANY 873 AFN Frankfurt, at 2315-0030 UT on Jan 7/8 direct comment
from football match "Washington" vs "?" on 873 Germany // 4319.4 USB
(Diego Garcia?).
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 13)
5910, TNT Radio (via DTK Juelich). A follow up message sent to
was replied by
Juergen van Landeghem.
He says that they have not answered the previous mails due to technical
problems with the internet connection. He informs too that they are going
to stop the SW b/cs, to continue only as an internet radio on
(Fernandez-ESP, dswci DXW Jan 15)
The tx site for the 0900 txion in French on 12025 must not be disclosed.
We had better not to, I read in an email just in from Geneva, Switzerland.
Mind you, we are broadcasting for Moslems in North Africa, the email
explains.
The belated answer - I wrote to them over a week ago - refers to a website
which I had checked already and discarded for being out of date,
The email for the North African sce of the AWR is
and their pmail is La Voix de l'Esperance, Case Postale 503, 1211 Geneve
12.
They do not seem to have a QSL-card of their own.
Certainly things have changed a bit of late, haven't they?
(Henrik Klemetz-SWE, dxld Jan 16)
12025 via DTK Juelich 100 kW 200 degr 0800-0900 UT.
If these Christian infidels were not always trying to convert the heathen
Moslems to a no less wacky but still Abrahamic variant, they would not
have to fear the tx site being attacked. (gh, dxld Jan 16)
Additional unregistered freqs for Deutsche Welle in German:
0900-1000 on 7115 (45554) and 1300-1400 on 9715 (55444)
(R BUL Observer, Ivo Ivanov and Angel Datzinov, via wwdxc BC-DX Jan 17)
GERMANY [non] Rather surprised to hear the German national anthem on
11565, Jan 13 at 1536 wait a min, that's the melody but the lyrix are in
English, and not a word about Germany. It's now a Christian hymn on WYFR!
How would we feel about the Star Spangled Banner being turned into a
German drinking song?? Next time I'm in a church for an at least semi-
secular concert, will have to search for enlightenment about this in the
back pages of a hymnal.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Jan 15)
Glenn, I'm amazed you have only just discovered this. I was brought up as