WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

1900-1957 Czech NF 9760 XIA 500kW 317deg, ex 7150
1900-1957 Romanian NF 6090 BEI 500kW 322deg,x6145 to avoid KBS Fr
1900-1957 Russian NF 7245 XIA 500kW 317deg, ex 6100
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Aug 15)
5240, People's Broadcasting Station, Tibet, Lhasa, 2344-2355 Noted serene
type mx with comments every few mins by a man. Language listed as Tibetan.
Checked a couple of // freqs and found that 4905 KHz was // but very
threshold. 5240 was at poor level.
(Chuck Bolland-FL-USA, hcdx Aug 14)
CUBA/USA [to CUBA] Air Marti is up now! Reactivated tonight, and at new
time. Up at 2300 GMT, 530 kHz of course. Blasting in, near local level as
I type. Presume via the EC-130J, per Al Stern's "Baton 53" log on 338.00
MHz as they were flying down earlier today.
(Terry L Krueger-FL-USA, dxld Aug 12)
CUBA 6180 on Aug 16 at 1000-1057 UT. Venezuela: Radio Nacional de
Venezuela. sign on with ID and postal address in Caracas; Poor modulation
until 1021; possible Cuban relay as suggested by Glenn Hauser in HCDX.
Talk by man in Spanish to 1030 then ID and mx program to sign off at 1057.
Frequent IDs as Canal Internacional.
(Joe Kay-CAN VA3EOJ, hcdx Aug 16)
I don't have absolute proof this 6180 txion is via Habana, but it's
obvious all the others are and have always been. I would be very surprised
if it is not. I would also be very surprised if Habana or Caracas would
confirm the fact. I do recall that Habana once used this frequency, FWIW,
which is not much. OTOH it would be interesting if RNV has finally managed
to get going a SW transmitter of its own. Does this clash with Amazonia or
are they gone by 1000? Note Joe's first report of this, Aug 13, was an
hour later until 1200* do they run two hours in a row, one or the other,
or no telling?
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld hcdx Aug 17)
CZECH REP Google Earth Imagery. Still puzzles me up:
CZE Uherske Hradiste LW 270 kHz, 600 kW. Low resolution.
??? 2 masts 1990 meters apart, in 25/205 degr, at
49 01 48 N 17 26 20 E or near Topolna ?
49 10 N 17 30 E registered at EBU.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX July 24)
DIGITAL From ABU website
DRM Chairman: Market to decide survival of digital system
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, August 14th:
With so many digital distribution systems available these days, the market
will eventually decide which systems are economically viable and which
will survive, Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Chairman, Peter Senger, told
broadcasters today.
Speaking at the ABU Digital Radio Convention, Mr Senger, who is also the
DRM Director of DW-Germany, said budget limitations made it very difficult
for broadcasters to use every new system and decide later which ones to
keep.
He said systems such as Eureka-147 DAB, DRM, HD Radio and DVB-H all had
their respective advantages, and their usage should not be uniform among
broadcasters across the Asia-Pacific region.