WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

SW HS Noted as follows:
5034 v Quetta 0045-0410 (Fri 0345) 1200-1800
5080v Islamabad 0200-0400 1300-1800
6065 Islamabad 0430-0515 0530-0615
7150.3 Quetta 0600-1145
The following not heard:
5055 0045-0215 1230-1400 1420-1428 1615-1700
5860 0600-1115
5925 0800-1200
7220 Peshawar 1100-1400
Azad Kashmir Radio:
4790 0045-0215 1445-1815
4790 0230-0428 1335-1430
7265 0900-1215
Voice of Jammu Kashmir Freedom: 5990.5 0245-0415
7230 0745-0848
5102v 1300-1430
External Service: 7495 (ex7445) 0045-0200 Assami, Bengali, 0215-0300
Hindi.
(Jose Jacob-IND in Himalayas, VU2JOS, DXIndia via wwdxc BC-DX Oct 4)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3290 R. Central 1100 end of tlk by M and brief anmnt
by W. ID and TC by M " ?? R. Central ??, the time is 9 o'clock", then
usual NBC native mx signature and into NBC EG nx by M. Ended nx w/NBC nx
ID and TC. 1104 island mx ad w/M at end. 1105 lively island mx. 1110 deep-
voiced M w/song anmnt. More of the same mx pgm past 1140. Good signal when
peaking around 1105 and best PNG on the band.
(Dave Valko-USA, hcdx Sept 30)
RAMADAN On Sept 28 I noticed that the FM band is having a severe
problem, the new semi-gov FM stations Nile FM on 100.6 and Nile FM on
104.2 MHz are not working. also the General Program on 107.4 MHz as well
not audible !!
Sounds like the TX of these stations - located in Mokatam "tentative " -
is having some problems.
As we are having the month of Ramadan nowadays and the most listened to
Arabic station on FM band in Cairo is a commercial network and signed a
lot of commercials contracts with different parties q!the managed to get
the authorization to move to a workable freq. of 98.8 MHz which used to
carry the Musical program. Now the mxal program is not audible in Cairo !!
(Tarek Zeidan-EGY, wwdxc BC-DX Sept 29)
[muslim fundamentalists prohibit music broadcasts during Ramadan? wb.]
RUSSIA 738 Moscow, KBS Korean relay daily at 2030-2100 LT.
Seit dem 18. Sept 2006 strahlt KBS World Radio sein russisches Programm
auch auf der Moskauer Mittelwelle 738 kHz aus. Es kommt im Rahmen des von
World Radio Network betreuten Programmstroms russischsprachiger
Auslandssendungen taeglich 20.30-21.00 Uhr Ortszeit.
In der halben Stunde - die Kurzwellensendungen dauern 60 Minuten - kommen
Nachrichten und Beitraege ueber Kultur und Gesellschaft Koreas.
(Andreas Niederdeppe-D, via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener ntt Sept 18)
6245 R. Zamaneh 2057 tlk by W in pres. Farsi w/ments of Iran, Saddam, and
IDs. Audio cut at end of sentence and then signal gone at 2101*. Very
strong and clear. S/off varies quite a bit sometimes going past 2200. When
its on late, there is a nice canned ID (in unison by group of people)
along w/synth Rock mx always at 2144 UTC.