World of Radio

According to the Vatican Radio website, the mass will be broadcast on SW starting at 20:20 UTC with different language commentaries as follows: Portuguese for Africa on 13765 kHz French for Africa on 6080 kHz English for Africa on 7275 kHz Chinese for Asia on 6185 kHz (Richard Langley via dxld yg)

** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, December 17-23: This week, our special guest is Cuban rock artist and producer David Blanco. We will listen to tracks from some of his albums plus an epic 18 minute jam from Anima Mundi, this year’s Cubadisco winner in Rock. Four opportunities to listen on shortwave: 1. For Eastern …

** BRAZIL. 9664.404, Dec 15 at 0714, Voz Missionária with whistling, ID? Has been fairly stable lately around this off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7415, Dec 15 at 1537, Firedragon jamming is S9 vs inaudible target, RFA Chinese via Tinian at 15-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Dec 15 at 0707, R. …

** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, Wed Dec 13 at 1356, Slovakia in Spanish via WRMI with considerable Cuban pulse jamming, but by 1400 it has abated, but not off, as `FG Radio` is starting its long-awaited new episode; the entire program, without any Beatles breaks, is a phone interview with author Gary Powers, Jr., “Letters from a Soviet Prison“, his multi-year …

** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Dec 13 at 0511, WRMI with the R. Biafra guy in English, very poor but recognizable, so confirmed still on this 0500-0530 broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 7850-CUSB, Dec 13 at 0035, no signal from CHU, while 3330-CUSB is nominal; is 7850 off or MUF drop? Anyhow it`s reaudible at 0354 check, …

** TAIWAN [non]. How to hear Media Network Plus online? The radio4all archive under that name stopped last July. Now Charlie Harlich has found out from Keith Perron that if you go here: http://radio4all.net/index.php/search/ and enter PCJ in the search field, NOT Media Network, you get a ~6-hour collexion of PCJ programs each week, including MN+. The latest one as …

** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Dec 11 at 0525, JBA carrier from WRMI, vs slightly stronger 11580, and slightly stronger than that 11520 WEWN. Presumably with R. Biafra as scheduled. 7240, Dec 11 at 0526, I check the other R. Biafra relay frequency, via FRANCE, and hear it the best yet, in fact for the first time with definite audio: it`s …

** ANGUILLA. 6090, Dec 10 at 0205, Caribbean Beacon is gone again even from night frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Dec 10 at 0549, JBA carrier from WRMI, not enough to tell whether with Radio Biafra. Zero signal on // 7240 via France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 680, Dec 10 …

** TIBET [and non]. Glenn: I don’t have a date for this subcommittee hearing, but I believe it to be very recent. -mc House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Issues Testimony From Radio Free Asia The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific issued the following testimony by Tenzin Tethong, director of the Tibetan Service at Radio Free Asia, at …

** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 9 at 1511, no signal from CB. Without continuous longer monitoring, we`ll not know whether it cut on and off briefly & unpredictably (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Dec 8 during the 19-20 hour, no signal from WRMI with R. Biafra. From now on I`ll not bother to reconfirm absence, unless/until …

** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 7 at 2054, no signal from CB. Ditto Dec 8 at 1513 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Dec 7 at 1902, no signal from WRMI with R. Biafra (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NIGERIA [non] ** BRAZIL. 11780, Dec 7 at 2054, RNA fair in Brazuguese, while …

** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 6 at 2035 check, no signal from PMS or DGS on TUN via CB. But at 2041 recheck, PMS is on at S9+10/20. I force myself to keep listening to this know-it-all, and sure `nuff, cuts off abruptly again at 2045:50*; 2102 recheck, back on again. And so it goes. Seems they have a lot more …