WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Udo Krueger-D, wwdxc BC-DX June 14)
RUSSIA 9765, R. Tikhiy Okean (R. Station Pacific Ocean), June 14, *0835-
0900*, chimes IS, RS prgrm'ing (nx, interviews, etc.), RS folk songs, many
IDs, 0859 sign-off annt/phone number/website. Has consistently be fair-
good, but conditions for the // 12065 vary a lot from day to day, from
very poor all the way up to good.
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer June 15)
I checked it out tonight: 7320 carries Family Radio in German from 1900,
starting with a few words in Polish, apparently the preceeding programme
wrapping up, fed via the same circuit to the Tashkent tx site. The carrier
on 7320 was already on shortly after 1830.
Actually this German programme is scheduled for Samara 7370. Obviously
they changed the freq to 7320, just like they did with Spanish during the
same hour (7440 -> 7340, as discussed in detail here). Samara also
transmits VOR German until 1800 on 12010, probably even using the same tx
than for 7320 from 1900. This way it certainly could easily happen that
VOR German appears on 7320 during tune-up.
VOR German itself is in the 1800-1900 hour on 7310 and 7330. The latter
one is Bolshakovo (Kaliningrad area) as pointed out while the site for
7310 has been reported as Moscow. The audio on 7310 is distorted and
sharply gated, as it uses to be typical for VOR German via this site,
leaving only the question which site it actually is; Lesnoy/Shchelkovo,
Kurovskaya/Avsyunino or Taldom?
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld June 16)
VoRUS German bcast a religious segment at 1845-1900 UT, for a decade now.
BUT frequ should read 7330 via KLG Kaliningrad, not 7320. Punching error?
HFCC shows VoRUS St. Petersburg outlet on 7320
7320 1800-2000 27,28S,37 S.P 500kW 215deg RUS VOR GFC
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX June 15)
Starting June 17, 2006 WRN starts broadcasting in Moscow, Russia on 738
kHz (0200-2000 UT, 5 kW tx in Kurkino, the NW outskirts of Moscow). WRN
program schedule includes live and pre-recorded relays of the Russian-
lanugage broadcasts from UN Radio, YLE Radio, Radio Prague, RRI, Radio
Georgia, Radio Polonia, RCI, RSI, CRI and KBS.
The new sce from WRN will be competing with R.Liberty, BBC, VoA, DW and
RFI that have had their own freqs on Moscow's AM dial for over a decade.
(Sergei Sosedkin-USA, dxld June 16)
The Russian International Radio Russkoye Mezhdunarodnoye Radio is active
for several programms in Russian:
0200-0300 on 7250 for Central and Western Europe (// 7125 which bc all
night long) from Yerevan.
1400-1800 on 13855 for North Africa and Middle East from Moscow
2000-2100 on 7155 for Middle East from Wertachtal
Other new fqs in comparison with summer 05 audible here 0400-0458 on 7250
English from Vatican site Santa Maria Galeria for North America (one hour
longer than before)
1200-1300 on 15405 Urdu from Novosibirsk
1400-1500 on 9640 Korean from Novosibirsk
1400-1500 on 11635 Farsi from Kichinau
1500-1530 on 15605 Hindi from Moscow