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SHORTWAVE

NEWS FROM

ALL OVER

DX LISTENERS in

western

North

America have

long felt frustrated

by their

inability to hear

one of

the

nearest radio

countries

-Turks

Caicos

Islands (in the

Bahamas

chain).

VSI Radio's afternoon show on

4.788 MHz

-in

a band

requiring

dark-

ness between transmitter

and

receiver

-usually

ends

not later than

0030. (All

times are GMT.) But

now,

Marlin

Field

Michigan reports

morning program

around

1130,

when

propagation is

possible

to the

farthest

shores of the

Pacific. Whether 750

watts

will cut through the ORM

another

matter.

Radio

Swan

Honduras

started

out on

6.185

MHz,

but Jack Jones

who

discovered them, reports

a switch

6.000 MHz

-obviously

strengthen

their tenuous ties to the original

Radio

Swan, which used that channel. Radio

Swan may be

just

the

vanguard

growing

SW activity

that country.

Visiting Honduras,

Scott

Reeves

learned

that a

leading Honduran pres-

idential

candidate was planning

add

6.145 MHz

his Radio

Ceiba out-

let

early this year, and put

his

other

stations on

SW too.

Jones

reports

another

Honduran

4.870 MHz.

Colombia -watcher

Adam

Gaffin of

Brooklyn,

N.Y.,

says the Colombian

government

cracking down

what

was once one of the

most free-

wheeling broadcasting scenes in

Latin America.

the 60 -meter

band

becomes a bit

tamer, it may

be be-

cause

Colombian stations have been

forbidden to

criticize government or

church officials.

Mexico,

Colombia

and Venezuela

have

all staked out channels on the

19 -meter

band, but only

Venezuela

has shown

signs of

a truly interna-

tional

approach, with an occasional

Arabic program at

1300

-1400, and En-

glish

2200 -2300

Radio Nacional,

15.400 MHz.

Colombia relays its

offi-

cial

domestic

program

15.336 MHz;

and

Radio Mexico's

English pro

MARCH 1976

By Glenn

Hauser

gramming on

15.384

MHz has been

limited to

appeals

for reception

re-

ports.

John

Fischer,

Jr., of

New

York

theorizes they do this

from time to

time to prove

their

funding

agency

that they

have an

audience

abroad.

Meanwhile,

reception reports pile

up,

unanswered, as a contact

of John

Tuchscherer's

found

when

visited

the station.

Brazil

has

big

plans

for international

broadcasting.

Eight

250 -kW transmit-

ters

are

being built

strategic

loca-

tions, and

Brazilian

commercial

sta-

tions

expect

have to turn over some

of their

frequencies to

Radio

Nacional-

Brasilia. So far,

RNB has

only one on

the air at

11.780

MHz

(with

15.245

and

9.605

MHz

alternates)

with an

English

hour

2100.

Among

the

feature programs are:

Mon. Sci-

ence

on the

March; Tue.,

Travelling

Through Brazil;

Wed., The Versatile

Guitar; Thurs., Strange &

Curious

As-

pects of

Brazil;

Fri., People

Events;

Saturday Special; Sun.,

Retrospective

-per

a schedule sent

David

Snyder

Brooklyn.

New Zealand also

contemplating

going

big time with

250

instead

7.5

-but,

even so,

Radio New Zea-

land

surprisingly

well

heard

their

beam

toward

Hawaii

and

Alaska at

0500

-0745

on 9.540 and

11.780 MHz.

Check

for the

Mailbag

program,

Fri-

days at 0615.

Times

change

to an hour

later in March.

Belgium

has

announced

plans to

cease

broadcasting

the

western

hemisphere after

the first week

March. Although the 20- minute Eng-

lish program was just a

token

suc-

cessor

to their

1958's World's Fair

Radio,

and

was

hard

receive in the

interior, Jackie

Marshall's

friendly

voice will be

missed. But

we've

already

gained

new English

broadcast

North America, from the Voice

Greece -also

tough to

hear,

but try

for

15 minutes

1215, 1515,

0015 or 0215

9.520

MHz.

Those who

prefer

English-

language

programs

must

sometimes

make do

with language

lessons from stations

not

otherwise

broadcasting

English -such as

Algeria, which

has

"Brush Up Your English" Wednesdays

around

1420 GMT

17.825,

11.910

and 9.510

MHz

-all

frequencies likely

vary

greatly.

For

Spanish

from

Al-

giers,

tune

to the

clandestine "Voz

la Resistencia Chilena" program

2300 -2400

7.1431

MHz.

North

Korean clandestine "Voice of

the Revolutionary

Party for Reunificà-

tion" ambitiously

has

begun

English

broadcasts at 0530

-0600 and

2300-

2330

4.5515 MHz,

as monitored by

Kouji

Yamada in Tokyo,

but

not likely

to be heard here.

Realizing that

1230-

1250 is

ideal hour to reach North

America, VRPR has

Thursday

prog-

ram for "our compatriots

the US ",

also on

4.115 MHz

-in

Korean.

Tirana's tirades make it

a station

most

Americans

avoid

with a passion.

But Kim Andrew

Elliott of

Minneapolis

has found

a way to

enjoy

listening to

Radio Tirana! He recommends

the

musical portions

the incomprehen-

sible

Albanian -language

program at

0030 -0100

6.200,

7.300

or 9.790

MHz

-especially Tosk

music, raspy

cappella

chanting, not to be confused

with

conventionally Balkan Geg

music.

DX- Program aficionados

find

Soviet

-bloc

versions rather dull. Un-

licensed

SWL'ing and

DX'ing is

sus-

pect,

programs from the USSR,

Bulgaria and

Romania take the

amateur

angle -which

is licensed and

permitted.

But Radio Budapest exer-

cises

more freedom,

reading

lists of

DX loggings, including even evangeli-

cal

stations.

Though

admitting

its

main

aim

political,

Radio

Kiev

en-

courages

listener

feedback

pro-

grams, and

hopes to expand

to daily

English broadcasts, says

Mike Barrac-

lough

of England who paid

them a

vis-

it.

Try

for the

Kiev DX program

the

second

Monday

each month (fol-

lowing

Tuesday

GMT). Radio

Tash-

kent,

Uzbek SSR, is reported to

have

begun a

ham -type DX

program

the

second Sunday of

the month

1215 -currently

6.025, 9.540, 9.600

and

11.925 MHz.

Another DX program you're likely to

miss if you

aren't careful

is from

Deutsche

Welle. Strangely, their

one

English

segment

broadcast

during

its

German

transmissions, in

consecu-

tive translation.

Check the second

Saturday of the month at

2350

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