WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Drita Cico-ALB, wwdxc BC-DX July 14)
Lately, the reception condition of Radio Tirana's English for Europe
remains the same.At 1845 UTC 7465 kHz is SINPO 45444, but reception on
9920 is worse - SINPO 43443. There is adjacent interference from BBC
Cyprus on 9915 and Iran (much weaker) on 9925 kHz.
Reception would be greatly improved if the freq was changed to 9940 kHz
(also for the French at 1900 UTC). There will be adjacent interference
from Iran on 9935 kHz, but Iran is beamed towards South Europe
(Spain/Portugal) and is only moderate strength here. 9945 kHz is clear. (A
Ukrainian tx is listed with HFCC for 9945, but in fact operates only on
7490 kHz.) Listeners should get a good reception by adjusting their
receivers slightly to 9942 which will remove the Iran signal.
What do you think about this? Maybe the other monitors could check and
comment.
Another problem - the sound level from the studio. The opening annts are
fine, but when the nx programme begins, the sound reduces to about 20% and
it is not so easy to hear. This is the case for the last 4 days of
listening. Please could you speak to the studio technicians and ask them
to try and correct this problem?
(Alan Holder-UK, BrDXC-UK July 20)
I wanted to report that I heard Radio Tirana last evening, 24 July 2006,
on 7450 kHz, from 0143 to 0203 UT. At 0145 sign-on, a female announcer
listed program times and freqs in English for North America, but not 7450
kHz. Signal came in at S9 +20dB, which was deceptive in that the
readability was fair at best. Seems like the signal was being muted or
absorbed, reducing the readability. However, a definite improvement over
7455 kHz. I forwarded my comments on reception conditions to Mrs. Drita
Cico, Head of RTV Monitoring Center.
(Ed Insinger-NJ-USA, dxld July 26)
ANGOLA 4950, R Nacional, Mulenvos, 0115-0125, Jul 25, Portuguese
comments, a lot of flutter. The Signal does not improve at all during the
period and remains as threshold.
(Chuck Bolland-FL-USA, dswci DXW July 27)
ARGENTINA Google Earth Imagery. RAE Buenos Aires-ARG.
I asked Gabriel Ivan Barrera at Buenos Aires for help. He advised me: "The
name of the site, and also the name of site town is General Pacheco, is
near to around 25 kms northwest of the Buenos Aires city, very near to
Pilar city."
TX location is at General Pacheco, which is narrowed at ITU list to BUE
Buenos Aires ARG 34S36 058W22 which is totally wrong, this wrong location
is near the coast line on the harbour, more easterly.
So it was a little bit difficult to find out the RAE site, due of many
housing areas and the Ford / VW factories etc. etc.
So, I guess that is it: I see some MW masts, and some curtains, log-
periodics at 58 38 33 W - 34 32 58 S
6060 30kW 0degr zero means non-dir or true north ?
9690 50 50degr
11710 100 335, 348 degr
15345 100 35degr
Other MW towers on the image I see near
58 36 58 W - 34 32 29 S