--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEY00000 Date: 10/26/96 From: PETER WHITE Time: 09:26am \/To: HOWARD WILSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Scanners & p.c's -=> Quoting Howard Wilson to Grebo Guru <=- >I want to know if it's possible to get a scanner card for a p.c. >A mate of mine had a radio card that could be tuned and fully operated >from the supplied software and wondered if this would be possible on a >wider frequency range. HW> AOR make good scanners with no gaps from a few MHz to well over 1.3GHz HW> Why don't you pop into Tandy some time as they stock many scanners. Do'nt go to Tandy, AFAIK they only do 2 scanners with no gaps. A better idea would be to look through a magazine like Short Wave Magazine, there is bound to be 1 or 2 suppliers not to far from you. Regards Pete ... A feature is a bug with seniority. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- WM v3.11/94-0020 * Origin: IT7 Support BBS +44-114-259-6514 V34+ 24 Hours (2:250/411) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEY00001 Date: 10/26/96 From: DAN DOUGLAS Time: 1:49 am \/To: *** ALL **** (Read 4 times) Subj: **** HELP **** Ok , so my Radio goes from about these .. AM 530 - 1700 kHz FM 88 - 108. MHz What's the diff between AM / FM. HOw come FM seems to be a much stronger signal , and can go in Stereo (AM Cannot) , but then why can I get AM stations from like OHIO and places far away at nightime? SO there are other transmissions outside the regular 530-1700 kHz. So therefor there could be a transmission at 10 kHz ? Does the number of kHz affect signal quality , what is the higest Hz ssible. If you're able to get to 1700 kHz and start again at 88MHz , there must be an imbetween . since it's all in Hz's. and therefor why wouldn't AM get stereo , since it's also Hz. And why is AM effected and goes all screwy when I turn on my computer and FM doesn't , it must be the Hz level I guess? How does it all work? SO where can I pick up a radio that will pick up these frequencies. ? And what's the cost? What kind of transmissions will you recieve? Anyways I'm going on too long here , hope someone can help me out? ANd what is Ham Radio? --- DLG Pro v1.0/PDQMail v2.60 * Origin: Far Point Station (1:225/364) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEY00002 Date: 10/26/96 From: DAN DOUGLAS Time: 2:02 am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Someone could post on FAQ Does someone have an FAQ on this they could Post? --- DLG Pro v1.0 * Origin: Far Point Station (1:225/364) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEY00003 Date: 10/26/96 From: IAN WISEMAN Time: 05:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Electronics Sale Nov 28th * Crossposted from: 12 GRAND COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS JUNK SALE ====================================== The Lincoln and District Amateur Radio Society will be holding a junk sale on November 28th 1996. The location of the sale will be : - The Post Office Club, Dunkirk Road Off Burton Road Lincoln The sale starts at 7:30pm and tables can be booked for a small charge (1 UKP) and there is an entrance fee of 25 pence for visitors. Traders already attending include a Satellite Surplus Equipment company and local Amateur Radio Repeater and Packet Radio support groups. For further information or to book a table please get in touch with Paul G4RVM (Ladars Secretary) on Packet at the GB7DTX BBS or via Internet : paul@theshack.demon.co.uk or telephone (01522) 537751 If you require directions to the venue please netmail me at the BBS address below. We hope to see you there........ Ian. (G1LSK) ... Name:޺۳ݳݳ Rank:޺۳ݳ Serial No:޺۳ --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Most Wanted BBS +44 (0)1522 887627 (24 hours a day) * (2:2503/509) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEY00004 Date: 10/27/96 From: RAY JUDD Time: 04:16pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: help Tf50 TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEZ00000 Date: 10/28/96 From: IAN KOENIG Time: 01:18pm \/To: HOWARD WILSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Scanners & p.c's * Reply to msg originally in Shortwave radio and scanners I think that you were the cahp who was asking about a scanner card for a pc...? The only one out there that i know of is one called softwave i belive?, it covers 0-147 mhz all mode and is sold by martin lynch of londn (get the shortwave listeners magazine it's in there although it is a tad prcey at about 400 quid ukp. ... This tagline is made just for Howard Wilson ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/M 100 * Origin: USR Tech Support BBS - 01734 692200 (2:252/222) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEZ00001 Date: 10/29/96 From: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN Time: 06:19am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Shortwave antennas What is everyone using for shortwave antennas? Are they all horizontal mount? Has anyone used a vertical mount antenna? Has anyone tried a folded unipole? --- COUNTERPoint 2.3 * Origin: MacRefuge * 612-426-6687 * (1:282/24@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEZ00002 Date: 10/26/96 From: MARTIJN RENEMAN Time: 10:04pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: bcdx BC-DX 265 25 Oct 1996 ________________________________________________________________________ ARMENIA 9965 kHz R. AR Intercontinental at 1828 UTC, ending religious program in German and giving mailing address of Postfach 540407, Hamburg. Man followed with English ID and address in Yerevan (same as in WRTH). Big signal, though whiskery audio. Closed at 1815 next day. 11615U kHz V. of Armenia at 2007 UTC ID by woman in French //9965; same less-than-perfect audio on both. Interesting that the 25 mb freq is in USB mode. (Bob Hill, Oct 18) CHAD 7120 kHz RN Chad OM in Vernacular w ID at 1527 UTC. (Liangas, Oct12) R Diff Nationale Chadienne at 1600 UTC. Male speaker in vernacular followed by drums and timepips, at 1601 int sig with balafon, then by French male speaker with: Ici Ndjamena, Radio Diffusion Nationale Chadienne, and freq. announcement mentioning kHz and MHz and s/off at 1602 UTC. (Rooy via DXW, Oct 19) ECUADOR (c.f. BC-DX #260) Retiming in English sce, HCJB World Radio W96A Broadcast Schedule October 27, 1997 - March 29, 1997 Language Time (UTC) Freq Target Power Azimuth ------------------------------------------------------- ENGLISH 0000-0359 9745 E.N.America 100 347 0000-0500 21455 EUR/SoPAC 0.25 35/225 !0400-0700 9745 W.N.America 100 322 0500-0700 21455 EUR/SoPAC 0.25 35/225 [ex 0500-0659 9445 Europe 100 35] !0700-0859 5860! Europe 250 38 0700-1058 9445 S.Pacific 100 228 0700-1100 21455 EUR/SoPAC 0.25 35/225 1100-1600 21455 EUR/SoPAC 0.25 35/225 12005 Caribbean 30 043 12025 N/S America 100 348/157 1900-2158 11960 Europe 100 042 1900-2200 21455 EUR/SoPAC 0.25 35/225 (David M. Lewis, HCJB, Oct 21) GERMANY Foreign Minister Kinkel stops 'Radio For Civil Rights'. After an intervention of the German Foreign Office, Burmese Opposition Radio station wasn't permitted to hire airtime on facilities of the German Telekom in Juelich. The Foreign Office forbade this business for the German Telekom with Burmese Opposition Radio 'Democratic Voice Of Burma'. The broadcaster wanted to use transmitting installations of the Telekom at Juelich for its daily one hour service, to improve reception quality in Burma target. After information of an employee of the Kurzwellensender [sw tx] Juelich, the contract decision was cancelled just before the contract was signed. The Foreign Office then has however expressed an unmistakable recommendation. This one has really matched a ban. (shortened, German Green movement 'Daily Newspaper'[Tageszeitung] via Juergen Lohuis, Oct 23) AWR Europe winter schedule W96 via Juelich 5900 Juelich 0400-0500 Bu Eu 5900 Juelich 0500-0600 Ro Eu 5900 Juelich 0600-0630 Hu Eu 6015 Juelich 1900-2000 Ro Eu 6015 Juelich 2000-2030 Hu Eu 7110 Juelich 1700-1800 Bu Eu 7230 Juelich 0800-0900 It Eu Sat/Sun 9835 Juelich 2000-2030 Fr Af 9835 Juelich 2030-2130 En Af 9835 Juelich 2130-2200 Dy Af in Fr until Jan 97 (AWR via Michiel Schaay, Oct 23) GUAM AWR Guam winter schedule W96: 7395 Agat GUM 1400-1430 Sl As 7395 Agat GUM 1430-1500 En As 7395 Agat GUM 1500-1530 Tm As 7395 Agat GUM 1530-1600 Kn As 7400 Agat GUM 1600-1700 En As 7455 Agat GUM 1000-1100 En As 7455 Agat GUM 1100-1130 Ca As 7455 Agat GUM 1130-1200 Sj As 7455 Agat GUM 1200-1500 Mn As 7455 Agat GUM 1500-1600 Hi As 7455 Agat GUM 1730-1800 En As 7455 Agat GUM 2100-2300 Mn As 9370 Agat GUM 1000-1200 Mn As 9370 Agat GUM 1300-1330 Bg As 9370 Agat GUM 1330-1400 Np As in En until Jan 97 9370 Agat GUM 1400-1430 Bm As 9370 Agat GUM 1430-1500 Ci As 9370 Agat GUM 1500-1530 Pu As 9370 Agat GUM 1530-1600 Mm As 9370 Agat GUM 2200-2300 Mn As 9370 Agat GUM 2300-2330 Ca As 9370 Agat GUM 2330-0000 Sj As 9495 Agat GUM 2000-2100 Kr As 9495 Agat GUM 2100-2130 Ja As 9495 Agat GUM 2130-2200 En As 9515 Agat GUM 1200-1300 Vn As 9530 Agat GUM 1000-1030 Ru As 9530 Agat GUM 1030-1100 En As 9650 Agat GUM 1200-1300 Kr As 9650 Agat GUM 1300-1330 Ja As 9650 Agat GUM 1330-1400 En As 11980 Agat GUM 1000-1030 Mz As 11980 Agat GUM 1030-1100 HK As 11980 Agat GUM 1100-1200 Mn As 11980 Agat GUM 1200-1300 Vn As 11980 Agat GUM 1300-1500 Mn As 11980 Agat GUM 1500-1530 Tl As 11980 Agat GUM 1530-1600 Mr As 11980 Agat GUM 2300-0000 Mn As 13720 Agat GUM 0200-0400 Mn As Sunday 13720 Agat GUM 1100-1130 In As 13720 Agat GUM 1130-1200 Jv As 13720 Agat GUM 1200-1230 Tg As 13720 Agat GUM 1230-1300 En As 13720 Agat GUM 2200-2230 In As 13720 Agat GUM 2230-2300 Jv As 15225 Agat GUM 0000-0200 Mn As 15225 Agat GUM 0200-0400 Mn As Sunday 15225 Agat GUM 2300-0000 Mn As 15610 Agat GUM 2300-0000 En As 17645 Agat GUM 0000-0030 Bm As 17645 Agat GUM 0030-0100 Ci As 17645 Agat GUM 0100-0130 Bg As in En until Jan 97 17645 Agat GUM 0130-0200 Np As in En until Jan 97 GUINEA v7125.6 kHz RTV Guineene, Conakry, 0635 UTC Afropopmusic with male songs, at 0636 French male announcement followed 0637 UTC by afropopmusic with male songs. 0641 male talk with mentioning of Conakry, 0643 traditional balafon mx. (Rooy via DXW, Oct 18) INDIA 3245 kHz AIR, Lucknow at 2130 UTC. Probably this one Oct 9 and 10 with subcontinental vocals and occasional announcements by woman; very poor till 2230 UTC, when either closed down or became totally unreadable. According to a report from Rooy in DXW, AIR Lucknow was on past normal s/off time (1741* per India Broadbase) these two days with a special election program for the formation of a new government in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (Bob Hill, Oct 18) INDONESIA 11785 kHz RRI, Jakarta at 1557 UTC Indo talk, then "SCI" two-and-a-half times at 1559 UTC; followed with RRI ID, then cut off in mid-sentence at 1600. Fairly strong but with severe flutter. I think this is one of the new transmitters that recently went into service. First readable Indo I've heard in about three weeks! (Bob Hill, Oct 19) ITALY AWR Europe winter schedule W96 via Forli, Italy: 7230 Forli 0900-1000 Ge Eu 7230 Forli 1100-1200 It Eu 7230 Forli 1200-1300 Ge Eu 7270 Forli 0630-0700 Fr Af 7270 Forli 0700-0800 Ar Af 9665 Forli 1300-1330 Fr Eu 9665 Forli 1330-1430 Ar Eu 13765 Forli 1000-1100-Ar Af JAPAN (c.f. BC-DX #264) Printed schedule of NHK Radio Japan in English shows 13650 kHz at 0100-0200 UTC, but Media RoundUp announced 17685 kHz instead. 12005 kHz at 1700-1800 UTC is via Moyabi, Gabon, instead of Woofferton-UK. 30 mins progr to Americas 0500-0530 on 9835, 12000 kHz, and via Montsinery-GUF 11895 kHz. (RJ schedule) Radio Japan's German service with frequency change for Gabon outlet. Complete new schedule: 0600-0630 11760 Yamata-Japan, new 12030 Moyabi- Gabon (ex 11785). 1100-1130 9600, 11710 both Woofferton-UK. NOT Skelton-UK, as widely (including from NHK itself) false listed! (Winfried Soroe; and Dieter Leupold, via Kai Ludwig, Oct 23) KOREA Radio Korea Int. Seoul English sce changes: 0800-0900 UTC single 13670 kHz to EUR. Addit PAC/AUS/NZL sce on new 9570 kHz. Other five 1 h bcs remain unchanged. RCI Sackville relay now on winter time 1130-1200 UTC 9650 (x11715) kHz. Skelton-UK relay to EUR retimed to 1930-2000 UTC 3970 kHz. (RKI, Oct 20) KBS Radio Korea Int. from Oct 27 with three broadcasts in German. Absolutely not understandable the use of 15575 kHz at 2000 UTC: Wide above the MUV, will not audible here in EUR. 1800-1900 6480, 7275 2000-2100 7550, 15575 2130-2230 3970 via Skelton-UK (Dieter Leupold) MAURITANIA v7245.2 kHz R Mauretanie, Nouakchott 0750 UTC. I was waiting for this one because only on Fri they start at 0800, and the rest of the week 1200 UTC, so when the carrier s/on at 0750, the signal on the s meter was S 9 - but there was as usual almost no modulation. Around 0758 UTC I heard in the background their interval signal on a Mauretanian guitar, and only some male talk, so it would be very difficult to pick up good details here. (Rooy via DXW, Oct 18) NIGER 7155 kHz La Voix du Sahel Niamey at 0550 UTC. Frensh male talk with news with male reporters followed by interval signal at 0554 with sereendu (local flute) and local guitar, then fulani music with sereendu and handdrums with childrens' choirsongs, //5020 kHz where better signal (on 7155 undermodulated). (Rooy via DXW, Oct 18) PHILIPPINES Since Sept 29, Radio Pilipinas is observed on 15270 kHz 0230-0330 UTC, via VOA transmitters. And announcing 15120 and 11885 kHz. Last channel clashes with co-channel RRI. Replaces long-standing 17760 17865, and 21580 kHz. The 0330-0400 UTC service is unchanged on 13770, 15330 and 17730 kHz. VOA Chinese sce has cancelled the 1500-1600 and 2300-0000 releases to avoid duplication with RFA, and has added 1000- 1100 15250 12040 11895 11825 6110 kHz. Also, VOA Chinese is at 0200-0300 on 17765 15195 15160(new) 11925, plus others untraced. (Robert Jones, via EDXP Oct 16) SLOVAKIA Late change for schedule of Radio Slovakia Int. W96, from October 27, '96 til March 30, '97. UTC Target Language KHz --------- --------- -------- ------------------- 0830-0900 Australia English 11990, 17485, 21705 0900-0930 Australia Slovak 11990, 17485, 21705 (Michiel Schaay, Oct 23) AWR schedule via R-S in W96: 5905 Rimavska Sobota 0300-0330 Sm Af in En until Feb 97 5905 Rimavska Sobota 0330-0400 Sw Af 5905 Rimavska Sobota 0500-0600 En Eu 5940 Rimavska Sobota 0800-0900 Ge Eu 5940 Rimavska Sobota 0900-0930 Cz Eu Sunday -1000 5940 Rimavska Sobota 1430-1500 Cz Eu Sunday 1400- 5940 Rimavska Sobota 1500-1600 Ge Eu 5940 Rimavska Sobota 2000-2100 Kr As 6055 Rimavska Sobota 2100-2200 En Eu 7105 Rimavska Sobota 0100-0130 Np As 7105 Rimavska Sobota 0130-0200 Pu As 7265 Rimavska Sobota 1500-1600 Hi As alt freq 9465 7265 Rimavska Sobota 1600-1700 Ur As 7265 Rimavska Sobota 1700-1730 En Me 7265 Rimavska Sobota 1730-1800 Fa Me 7265 Rimavska Sobota 1800-2000 ArAfMe 7315 Rimavska Sobota 0100-0130 Np As alt freq 7105 7315 Rimavska Sobota 0130-0200 Pu As alt freq 7105 7315 Rimavska Sobota 0200-0300 Hi As alt freq 9450 7540 Rimavska Sobota 1600-1800 Ar Me 9440 Rimavska Sobota 2100-2200 Ar Af 9440 Rimavska Sobota 2200-2230 Fr Af 9450 Rimavska Sobota 0200-0300 Hi As 9450 Rimavska Sobota 0400-0430 En As 9450 Rimavska Sobota 0430-0500 Fa Me 9465 Rimavska Sobota 1400-1430 Np As in En until Jan 97 9465 Rimavska Sobota 1430-1500 Pu As 9465 Rimavska Sobota 1500-1600 Hi As alt frequency 9465 Rimavska Sobota 2000-2030 Fr Af 9465 Rimavska Sobota 2030-2130 En Af 9465 Rimavska Sobota 2130-2200 Fr Af 9475 Rimavska Sobota 1600-1630 Sm Af in En until Feb 97 9475 Rimavska Sobota 1630-1700 Sw Af 9475 Rimavska Sobota 1700-1730 En Af 9475 Rimavska Sobota 1730-1800 My Af 9645 Rimavska Sobota 0400-0430 En Af 11600 Rimavska Sobota 0430-0500 My Af 11600 Rimavska Sobota 1300-1400 Dr As Sunday 11610 Rimavska Sobota 0500-0700 Ar AfMe 11655 Rimavska Sobota 0600-0630 En Af 11655 Rimavska Sobota 0630-0700 Fr Af 13715 Rimavska Sobota 0800-0900 Ar Af 13715 Rimavska Sobota 0900-0930 Fr Af SOUTH AFRICA Radio Oranje's SW transmissions will cease on Sunday 27th Oct 1996 at 2300 SAST. The licence granted to the new owners of R. Oranje by the IBA excludes shortwave. (Colin Miller-CAN, Oct 23) RADIO ORANJE (domestic service) 0000-0435 3230 100 275 North West Cape Eng/Afrikaans 0440-0650 5965 100 275 North West Cape Eng/Afrikaans 0655-1650 7270 100 275 North West Cape Eng/Afrikaans 1530-2400 3230 100 275 North West Cape Eng/Afrikaans ST. HELENA RSHD mailing list informs that during the Oct 27 bc only, and one hour previous, 1800-2300 UTC, it will be possible to E-mail Tony Leo at the station with greetings, reception reports: (Glenn Hauser-USA, Oct 23) THAILAND The new schedule from the BBC World Service shows that the new relay base in Thailand has been completed and will operate to the following schedule (transmissions in Asian languages not listed) 5965 2100-2200 2300-2400 5990 1300-1615 6065 0900-0915 1100-1400 9580 0900-0915 1100-1400 2300-0030 11955 0330-0500 15280 0000-0030 0100-0300 0330-0500 0900-0915 But there is some mistake because the BBC states that initially there will be only two 250 kW txs and yet their schedule shows that at times more than two frequencies are to be in use. The Hong Kong station is closing (and may have closed by the time you read this) and the two 250 kW txs there are to be dismantled and the site totally cleared before handover of Hong Kong to China. Those txs will be re-erected on the Thailand site by "middle of 1997" according to the BBC. (VK3BCY@VK3KSD. #MEL.VIC.AUS.OC/Morrison in Ham Packet Radio via Martin Elbe) USA WHRI late change for W96 season until April 6th, 1997: Angel 2: 0300-1000 UTC Mon-Sat, 0200-1000 UTC Sun, both 5760 kHz. World Harvest Radio has been and still is developing a webb site on the internet. It is now up and ready for you to use. It does still contain some errors which we will correct soon. For example it says we "cover 50% of the world". Actually we cover 90% of the world. So bear with us and we will get it correct and updated soon. Also and more importantly World Harvest Radio has been awarded the National Religious Broadcasting award for "Best Use of a Webb Page!" The address is http://www.whri.com or http://www.kwhr.com Both addresses go to the same webb page. (Joe Brashier, WHRI Sales/programming, Oct 22) WWCR replaced 5065 by 5070 kHz from Oct 9th. Glenn Hauser's 'World of radio' now Mons 0030 UTC on 5070 kHz. 'Ham Radio & More' on Mons at 0300 UTC is gone. Still Mons at 0900 UTC on 3210 kHz. (GH WoR, Oct 17) As of Oct 14, WRNO was still using 7355 kHz in the daytime instead of 15420 kHz. This gives us a chance to hear several musical and Louisiana- oriented shows generally scheduled only in the local afternoons; see their webpage for details, such as La Voix de la Louisiane, Mon 2130 UTC -- but with hum, modulation leaves a lot to be desired, and the program actually carried at this time on Oct 14 was an ancient Jazz 30 with Matthew Bell. (Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma, Oct 23) Radio FREE ASIA. Already the schedule I sent you for Radio Free Asia is badly out of date. Here is the official W96 version with effect from Oct 27: UTC kHz site kW degr 1500-1600 5865 Almaty, Kazakhstan 200 109 6240 Kamo, Armenia 100 065 7495 Dushanbe, TJK 500 087 7530 Dushanbe, TJK 500 071 9455 KHBI Saipan 100 310 2300-2400 5855 Almaty, Kazakhstan 200 109 6240 Kamo, Armenia 100 065 7495 Dushanbe, TJK 500 109 7530 Dushanbe, TJK 500 087 13800 KHBI Saipan 100 310 (Sennitt/WRTVH and Sondergaard, via DXW, Oct 20) WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE -- as of October 23, 1996 from Glenn Hauser. Seen all this before? Not really. Not only numbers, but text is constantly being revised to present the latest available information. This edition in particular updates all the times reflecting winter/non- DST. Updated weekly or as needed. Please publicize at least the WWCR and RFPI portion, and delete any outdated times from your lists. All times and days UTC. W.O.R. is a listener-supported, public-service program about communications around the world, especially, but not limited to, Shortwave Broadcasting. Look for separately distributed rundowns of topics in each half-hour edition, or on our website, URL below; also usually in RFPI Weekly Updates, previews by E-mail or in newsgroups. *On WWCR Nashville, 1300 WWCR Ave., Nashville, TN 37218 USA; http://www.wwcr.com E-mail: Central Time: Thu 2130 15685 Sat 1230 7435 Sun 1000 3210 Sun 2000 12160 Mon 0030 5070 (LSB may be suppressed on this frequency) Mon 2130 15685 Tue 1330 15685 Wed 1230 15685 WWCR times subject to change without notice. Until the end of DST Oct. 27 all remaining times are one UTC hour earlier on the same frequencies. *On Radio for Peace International, Box 88, Santa Ana, Costa Rica; or P.O. Box 20728, Portland, OR 97294, USA: http://www.clark.net/pub/cwilkins/rfpi Fri 2000 15050-usb Sun 2300 15050-usb, 7385 Sat 0400 7385, 6205-usb Mon 0700 7385, 6205-usb Sat 1100 7385, 6205-usb Tue 1900 15050-usb Sat 1800 15050-usb Wed 0300 7385, 6205-usb Sun 0200 7385, 6205-usb Wed 1000 7385, 6205-usb Sun 0900 7385, 6205-usb (RFPI times may vary slightly; no DST shift, which means in areas going off DST we seem to be one hour earlier local time). RFPI is working on a new tx for higher power AM daytime on 15050 kHz. Weekly E-mail program previews are available upon request to RFPI. Ask about becoming a Friend of RFPI. Friends receive the quarterly VISTA. (GH, WoR, Oct 23) On Oct 17 I took a look at the new R. Free Asia website, http://www.rfa.org You get a mission statement asserting that it is not a US government station [proof: 'org'], that it is totally objective and will not criticize any government [then, why bother?]. And a map of China and neighboring countries with spots to click on each language service. It's still under construction so for Mandarin, only got message in English explaining software necessary to access Mandarin text. Apparently there will be a lot of text and audio in all its languages, not relying on SW alone for penetration. Promised schedule of bcs but not yet included either, not even the times, let alone secret frequencies. (Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma) Monitor Radio International has lost two well-known voices, as Lisa Dale has left Letterbox for a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Rod MacLeish returns to print journalism at the Monitor. (Jim Moats, World of Radio) On the Oct. 19 Sabbath service, 1300-1700 UTC on WVHA 15745 kHz, Prophecy Countdown announced they must have $200K to their finance company by Oct 31 to get their payments current, or the financier will begin foreclosure proceedings. 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GRTX Martijn R. PE1NQR Member of the Benelux DX-club --- TimEd.01+_GEcho.11+ * Origin: RONO-BBS +31-50-5290813-5290384=28K8 5275978=ISDN. (2:282/504)