DX RE MIX NEWS # 827

December 17, 2013  OMAN   Frequency change (or wrong frequency) of Radio Sultanate of Oman: 1400-1500 NF 15355 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, ex 15140 on Dec.17 1500-2200 NF 15355 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic,  ex 15140 on Dec.17  PHILIPPINES    Winter B-13 SW schedule of FEBC Manila: 0000-0015 on  9795 IBA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmu 0000-0030 on  9405 BOC 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs Chinese 0000-0100 on 12055 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to SEAs Lahu/Wa 0000-0100 on 12070 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Chinese 0000-0100 on 15600 BOC 100 kW / 293 deg to SEAs Chin-Asho/Khumi-Karen 0000-0130 on 15435 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to EaAs Shan/Tai-Lu/Maitei/Chin 0100-0130 on 15560 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Javanese 0800-0830 on 15320 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Madurese Mon-Wed 0800-0830 on 15320 BOC 100 kW / 185 deg to SEAs Sasak Thu-Sun 0800-0900 on 15525 BOC 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs Chinese 0830-0900 on 15450 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Hu/Mongolian 0900-1000 on 15580 BOC 100 kW / 185 deg to SEAs Makassarese/Buginese 0930-1000 on 15450 BOC 100 kW / 245 deg to SEAs Minangkabau 0900-1400 on  9400 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Chinese 0900-1600 on  9430 BOC 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs Chinese 1000-1030 on 15640 BOC 100 kW / 308 deg to SEAs Southern Bai 1030-1100 on 12095 BOC 100 kW / 293 deg to SEAs Tai-Lu 1000-1100 on 15580 BOC 100 kW / 215 deg to SEAs Sunda/Sasak 1100-1200 on  9795 IBA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1100-1200 on  9855 BOC 100 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1100-1300 on 12095 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to SEAs Hmong/Lao/Njua/Mien 1115-1200 on 15330 BOC 100 kW / 278 deg to SEAs Karen/Mon/Jingpho 1200-1300 on  7410 BOC 100 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Khmer 1200-1330 on  9920 IBA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Rade/Jarai/Roglai/Sedang/Koho 1200-1400 on 12020 BOC 100 kW / 293 deg to SEAs Rawang/Akha/Naga/Chin-Daai 1300-1330 on 11825 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1400 on 12095 BOC 100 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Hmong/Khmu 1330-1400 on  9465 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to CeAs Chinese-Yunnan 1400-1430 on 11750 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to SEAs Lahu 1400-1430 on 15620 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Javanese 1400-1600 on  9345 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Chinese 1430-1500 on  9940 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Uyghur 1500-1600 on  9465 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian Mon-Sat 1500-1600 on  9465 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian/Ukrainan Sun 2230-2400 on  9405 BOC 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs Chinese 2300-2330 on  9365 BOC 100 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iu Mien 2300-2330 on 12095 BOC 100 kW / 293 deg to SEAs Hmong(9545) 2300-2400 on  9795 BOC 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Mon/Lao 2300-2400 on 12070 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Chinese 2330-2400 on 12055 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to SEAs Palaung/Pale/Tai-Lu 2330-2400 on 15600 BOC 100 kW / 293 deg to SEAs Burmese  PHILIPPINES    Winter B-13 of R.Pilipinas Philippines Broadcasting Service: 0200-0330 on 15640 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to N&ME Tagalog/English 0200-0330 on 17700 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to N&ME Tagalog/English 0200-0330 on 17820 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to N&ME Tagalog/English 1730-1930 on  9825 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to N&ME English/Tagalog 1730-1930 on 11890 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to N&ME English/Tagalog 1730-1930 on 15190 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to N&ME English/Tagalog  PHILIPPINES    Winter B-13 SW schedule of Radio Veritas Asia 0000-0027 on 11855 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0000-0027 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Karen 0000-0027 on 15460 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0030-0057 on 11855 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Tamil 0030-0057 on 15265 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bengali 0030-0057 on 15280 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Hindi 0100-0127 on 15280 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Urdu 0100-0127 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu 0100-0127 on 17860 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Urdu 0130-0157 on 15255 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Zomi-Chin 0130-0227 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1000-1027 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Khmer 1000-1157 on 11945 PUG 250 kW / 000 deg to EaAs Mandarin 1030-1127 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1130-1157 on 15450 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Burmese 1200-1227 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Hmong 1200-1227 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Karen 1230-1257 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Kachin 1300-1327 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1330-1357 on  9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Sinhala 1330-1357 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Hindi 1400-1427 on  9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Tamil 1400-1427 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bengali 1430-1457 on 11750 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu 1430-1457 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Zomi-Chin 1430-1457 on 15330 SMG 250 kW / 089 deg to SoAs Urdu 1500-1557 on 15320 SMG 250 kW / 107 deg to N/ME Tagalog, registered 1630-1657 2100-2257 on  6115 PUG 250 kW / 350 deg to EaAs Mandarin 2300-2327 on 15355 PUG 250 kW / 000 deg to CeAs Tagalog 2330-2357 on  9645 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Kachin 2330-2357 on  9670 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 2330-2357 on  9720 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Burmese  TAIWAN(non)   PCJ Radio International Special Happy Station Show: 1330-1430 on  5995 NAU transmitter site to WeEu English Dec.22/29 1330-1430 on  9335 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English Dec.22/29 1330-1430 on 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm English Dec.22/29  TIBET(non)    Updated B-13 shortwave schedule for Voice of Tibet: 1200-1215 NF 15542 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15543 1215-1230 NF 15548 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15537 1230-1245 on 15588 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1245-1300 on 15582 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1300-1315 on  9317 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1300-1315 on 15582 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1315-1345 NF  9322 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex  9323 1315-1345 NF 15577 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15582 1345-1400 NF  9322 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex  9323 1345-1400 on 11517 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1400-1415 NF 11522 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11523 1400-1415 on 15520 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1415-1430 NF 11522 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11523 1415-1430 on 15515 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change Changes between frequencies vary from 3 to 5 minutes

Via Ivo, 

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Wavescan NWS251

 

 

* Theme - 00:00

            "Birthday Serenade" - Willi Glahe

 

* Opening Announcement - 00:16

            Welcome to "Wavescan", international DX program from Adventist World Radio

            Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI

            Program outline

                        1. Shower Radio on Shortwave: The Northern Territory Shortwave Service in Australia

                        2. International DX News

                        3. HFCC 2013: Issoudun Report

                        4. Bangladesh DX Report

 

* Shower Radio on Shortwave: - 00:55

     The Northern Territory Shortwave Service in Australia

            These days, in many countries around the world, it is possible to buy a small radio receiver that can be taken into the shower cubicle, and while you are taking your morning shower, you can listen to the radio; perhaps your favorite music, or maybe the bulletin of latest news.  Perhaps in some ways, there is a similarity between the popular morning shower and our radio topic for today here in Wavescan.  It is Shower Radio on Shortwave: the story of the Northern Territory Shortwave Service in Australia.

            The Northern Territory in Australia is a sparsely populated wide open territory, mainly desert, which is administered like a state within the Commonwealth of Australia.  The territory encompasses half a million square miles with a population of only a quarter million.  The capital city is Darwin, and the main tourist attractions are Ayers Rock in the red center, and the nearby Olgas Rocks.

            The story about shortwave radio broadcasting in the Northern Territory can be traced back to the year 1928.  In May of that year, mediumwave station 5CL in Adelaide, a commercial station as it was in those days, applied for a shortwave license for the purpose of relaying their programming to the widely scattered listeners in the outback areas of South Australia and the Northern Territory.  For a period of time, the Northern Territory had been administered by the government in Adelaide, South Australia.

            The 5CL license application requested 5 kW in the shortwave bands around 70 or 80 meters.  However, the licensing authorities refused to issue a shortwave license for this purpose.  Thus it was that during the next year, 5CL began to send some of its programming by landline to Melbourne where it was picked up by 3LO and re-broadcast to the Northern Territory on shortwave from VK3ME, the AWA transmitter at suburban Braybrook.  

            Ten years later, consideration was again given for coverage of the Northern Territory on shortwave, and again mediumwave 5CL in Adelaide, by this time operating as a government ABC radio station, was intended to be the program source.  However, with international tensions beginning to mount in a prelude to World War 2 over there in Europe,  the project was shelved. 

            The next occasion for preliminary planning for a territory shortwave service took place in the early 1970s, and initially, a total of six shortwave transmitters were envisaged.  Preliminary target date was 1971, and location, for at least three of these transmitters, was Radio Australia at Cox Peninsula near Darwin.

            Three shortwave transmitters at 100 kW were obtained from Harris Gates in the United States, and these were taken into storage at the quite new ABC mediumwave facility at Pimpala, down the coast from Adelaide in South Australia.  However, at Christmas 1974, Cyclone Tracy destroyed much of Darwin city and damaged the nearby Radio Australia transmitter base. 

            Once more shortwave coverage for the Northern Territory was again postponed, and one of the transmitters at Pimpala was diverted to a temporary new relay station for Radio Australia at Carnarvon on the coast in Western Australia where it was activated on February 15, 1976 under the line callsign VLL.  (The two remaining transmitters at Pimpala were diverted for installation at Radio Australia Shepparton in Victoria.)

            Give another ten years and planning began on the fourth attempt at a shortwave service for the Northern Territory.  In preliminary preparation, a 15 minute daily news bulletin was broadcast from the 500 watt communication transmitter VJY in Darwin.  This news bulletin was a relay from 8DR ABC Darwin on mediumwave, it was on the air twice daily, and the VJY transmitter was located at the Radio Australia receiver base near Cox Peninsula.    

            In this new project for shortwave coverage of the Northern Territory, three Continental transmitters model 418D-2 at 100 kW were obtained and they were installed each at a different location.  Each transmitter was intended for unattended operation at a power level of 50 kW, on one shortwave channel during the day and another at night. 

            The antenna system at each station was a v-shaped net style log periodic supported from two masts.  The antenna beam is vertical incidence, almost straight up, with a scattered downward reflection from the ionosphere into surrounding territorial areas.     

            The first of these three new Home Service shortwave stations was taken into service at Roe Creek near Alice Springs on February 20, 1986.  Transmitter VL8A, located just off Stuart Highway on the south east side a little south of the small Alice Springs airport, took a program relay from the studios of mediumwave 8AL at Alice Springs.

            The next station VL8K was inaugurated on April 3, 1986 and the transmitter was co-sited with the 50 watt mediumwave station 8KN.  This double transmitter facility, mediumwave and shortwave, was installed just off Stuart Highway on the south east side, seven miles north west of Katherine.   

            The third shortwave transmitter was inaugurated a few days later, and it was co-sited with the 1 kW mediumwave station 8TC, just off the south side of Stuart Highway, five miles south east of Tennant Creek.

            After nearly 20 years of on air service in the hot desert climate, all three of these Home Service shortwave transmitters were deemed too unreliable and replacements were needed.  Each was switched off in rotation for a month or six weeks, and during this time Radio Australia Shepparton provided an interim fill-in service, beginning on October 10, 2005.  The 100 kW transmitter was noted on 11880 kHz during the day and 6080 kHz at night.  

            The replacement transmitters, model 418G, were again provided by Continental, 100 kW units operating at 50 kW.  All three were activated during the time period running from April to August 2006.

Interestingly, an additional similar unit was installed at Tennant Creek for operation in the digital DRM mode in mid 2011.

            Currently, all three of the shortwave stations in the Northern Territory Regional Shower Service are on the air 24 hours daily, and they are heard seasonally in many different countries around the world.

 

* Program Announcement - 07:53

            Allen Graham

 

* International DX News - 08:42

            Voice of Russia reorganization, closing shortwave

            Czechia closing longwave 270 kHz 650 kW Feb 28, 2014

            New World Radio TV Handbook

            New International Shortwave Broadcast Guide

 

* HFCC 2103 Report - 15:47

            Issoudun Transmitter Base in France

 

* Bangladesh DX Report - 22:04

            Henry Umaday

 

* Music of the World - 26:50

            Bahamas: Oh Sweet Home, instrumental & vocal

 

 

* Closing Announcement - 27:30

            Thanks for listening to "Wavescan", international DX program from Adventist World Radio

            Researched and written in Indianapolis

            Next week:-

                        1. Tribute to Family Radio Shortwave - 7: The Wartime Years and Beyond

                        2. A Polynesian Christmas from Radio New Zealand International

                        3. Australian DX Report

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* Music Outrun - 28:22

 

* Program Ends - 28:55