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Once again, I’ve barely touched the MW dial since the last issue of IDXD. I am from the old school, I guess, believing that there isn’t much DX in the summer. So where does this page-busting edition come from that you see below? All of those twelve month DX’ers who keep things interesting, that’s who! A highlight this month is the report of Jean Burnell which includes new loggings of stations in South Africa!

Please, follow the format you see below. If you put commas and hyphens in the wrong places, it takes me a lot of time to correct it!

153 ALGERIA ENRS, Bechar, JUN 17 0225 - strong, Arabic soap opera? Then shouting /over and under Germany. Good signal [Stromsted-MA] JUL 27 0215 Another Arabic drama? S9+15 Fair signal -Germany under. [Stromsted-MA] JUL 7 0238 - initially a blank carrier with Germany under, then Arabic talk and strings at a low audio level on a good carrier. [Connelly*Y-MA]

153 GERMANY DeutschlandRadio, Donebach, JUN 17 0227 -Classical piano. Fair. Over/under Algeria. [Stromsted-MA] JUL 7 0238 - classical music; under Algeria. [Connelly*Y-MA]

162 FRANCE RFI Alouis, JUL 7 0235 - French business talk with a price in dollars; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 02 0125 - Catchy male FF vocal, several female FF air personalities with review. S9+15 /fair // 1375 (St Pierre) S9+20 good with modest WMUR slop. [Stromsted-MA]

171 MOROCCO R. Mediterranee Inter., Nador, JUL 7 0237 - pop male Arabic vocal, flutes; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 27 0208 - Arabic music, modern with female AA vocal. Good S9+20 signal. [Stromsted-MA]

177 GERMANY Zehlendorf, JUL 27 0207 - Western country music-S9 Poor signal [Stromsted-MA]

180 TURKEY (presumed) Polatli (Ankara), AUG 02 0215 - weak-in & out of noise. Slow instrumental beat with bells?- S-9 peak modulation level low, SSB upper side band-183 weak-no interference. [Stromsted-MA]

183 GERMANY Europe 1, JUL 7 0240 - French talk about "Grand Bretagne" and "tourisme"; excellent. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 26 0250- female FF lyrics, slow French chanson. Fair [Stromsted-MA] JUL 27 0208 - Football scores-Toulouse etc.. Fair S9+15. [Stromsted-MA]

189 ICELAND Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar, JUL 27 0202 - Lecture? Male Icelandic voice, S9+10. Fair signal. 0230 - male EE vocal -"As we lay on the bed etc.." and female EE vocal " I would like to stay alone..." American, strong signal S9+25. 0225 American Western song male EE. Loud, 9+20. [Stromsted-MA]

198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC WS synchros, JUL 7 0241 - English teletalk; mixed with second station and "DIW" beacon. [Connelly*Y-MA]

207 MOROCCO RTM, Azilal, JUL 7 0242 - man in Arabic; poor with "QI" beacon interference. [Connelly*Y-MA]

216 FRANCE TWR Monaco, Roumoules, JUN 17 0235 French music with male FF announcer, strong S9+20. [Stromsted-MA] JUL 7 0243 - French talk and music; fair with "CLB" beacon. [Connelly*Y-MA]

225 POLAND Polskie Radio Konstantynow, JUL 26 0200 - News in Polish male and female newscasters, weak-S9+USB Beacon interfernece. [Stromsted-MA]

234 LUXEMBOURG RTL Jungslingester, JUL 7 0244 - rock music; poor to fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 26 0205 - male French news, S9+10 fair. [Stromsted-MA]

252 IRELAND New Atlantic Clarkestown, JUN 17 0240 - American Rock music, S9+20, good. JUL 26 0210 - Rock, weak signal S9, "SKR" Beacon interference. [Stromsted-MA]

270 CZECH REPUBLIC Cesky Rozlas, JUL 26 0211- USB, male Czech announcer, news then western popular music, weak S9. YQA beacon interference. [Stromsted-MA]

531 MADEIRA RDP, Porto Santo, JUL 13 0052 - bits of Portuguese talk by man; slightly over Spain, Algeria, and het from RVC-530. [Connelly*rw-MA]

549 ALGERIA Les Trembles, JUL 13 0051 - Arabic talk by man with guitar and violin interludes; loud. [Connelly*rw-MA] JUL 29 0140 - Good; music // 153. [Conti-MA]

549 GERMANY JUN 25 0151 - // 1422 with classical music; slightly over Algeria. [Connelly*E-MA]

558 SPAIN RNE5 synchros, JUL 13 0050 - // 774 with folk music, then woman in Spanish; poor over a second station believed to be Portugal; through tough WGAN slop. [Connelly*rw-MA]

567 IRELAND RTE, Tullamore, JUN15 0216 - Country/Western-Willie Nelson tune. Jesse Winchester anthology "I think I see a wagon..along one side of rusted barbed wire fence, Mississippi on my mind"- ballad- "I know you don’t love me anymore", male EE disc jockey, S9+30 big signal! Minor slop. JUN 17 0300 - News "In Derry, 5 masked men in an assault...", weather: Wind NW Gusty. S9+25 loud. [Stromsted-MA] JUN 25 0155 - good with English talk, then weird electronic psychedelic music like something from a college or pirate station ... not the usual mellow pops, Irish folk, or old C&W that RTE usually plays. [Connelly*E-MA]

567 SPAIN RNE5 synchros, JUL 13 0049 - // 774 with Spanish female folk vocal and guitar; only fair, but well over Ireland. [Connelly*rw-MA]

576 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN RNE5 synchros, JUL 13 0048 - woman in Spanish // 774; poor, in slop. [Connelly*rw-MA]

585 SPAIN RNE1, Madrid, JUN 25 0054 - piano and saxophone jazz // stronger 738. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0047 - Spanish teletalk; fair through WEZE/VOCM slop. [Connelly*rw-MA]

594 PORTUGAL R. Renascenca, Muge, JUL 13 0053 - man in Portuguese, into teletalk show; to fair peak. [Connelly*rw-MA]

603 SPAIN RNE5, Sevilla / Palencia, JUL 13 0045 - fast talk in Spanish by a woman; mixed with a second station (likely Madeira) with apparent Portuguese talk. [Connelly*rw-MA]

612 IRELAND Athlone, JUN 25 0058 - pop music; mixing with Morocco. [Connelly*E-MA]

612 MOROCCO Sebaa-Aioun, JUN 25 0058 - Arabic talk; over/under Ireland. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0044 - Arabic public speech in an echoey room; excellent, way over Spain and Ireland. [Connelly*rw-MA] JUL 29 0145 - Fair; string music with Arabic vocal // 11920. [Conti-MA]

621 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN RNE1 synchros, JUL 13 0043 - Spanish discussion // 855; fair through WZON splash. [Connelly*rw-MA]

639 SPAIN RNE1, La Coruna, JUL 13 0043 - // 855 with woman in Spanish; good, getting by CBN/YVQO-640. [Connelly*rw-MA]

648 SPAIN RNE1, Badajoz et al., JUL 13 0055 - // 774 with entertainment-related Spanish talk; fair, over others. [Connelly*rw-MA]

657 SPAIN RNE5, Madrid, JUL 13 0042 - song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega, then R. Nacional de Espana ID; huge, equal in strength to WFAN-660. [Connelly*rw-MA]

657 SOUTH AFRICA R. Pulpit, Meyerton, JUL 17 0124-0142 and 0156 - program of operatic arias, male announcer I think in English at 0134 during a fade-down; signal peaked at SIO 332 but generally under the RNE synchros. I was initially very unsure of the identity of this one. The usual source of opera, Italy, is not on at this time (plus no other Italians were audible), and the Radio Pulpit web-site says that they sign off at around midnight local time. I E-mailed Sentech and received this prompt response from Kathy Otto: "The station advertises its broadcast hours as 0400 to midnight (0200-2200 UTC). However on Friday nights/Saturdays mornings and Sunday nights/Monday mornings there is no break in transmission and they have a musical and chat programme on the air." Cool! [Burnell-NF]

666 PORTUGAL (t) RDP, Lisboa, JUN 25 0131 - bouncy music, possible Portuguese talk. [Connelly*E-MA]

675 NETHERLANDS R. 10, Lopik, JUN 25 0130 - soul oldie "Solid as a Rock"; good to excellent. [Connelly*E-MA] AUG 02 0135 - A Beach Boys selection followed by some rock tunes. S9+15 at peak then faded away [Stromsted-MA]

684 SPAIN RNE1, Sevilla, JUN 25 0046 - tropical style music (piano and flute jazz); good with WRKO phased. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 25 0305 - Spanish news, male and feamel anchors

alternating, S9+35 like local signal! "Radio Nacional de Espana" [Stromsted-MA]

693 SPAIN RNE1 synchros, JUL 13 0039 - // 855 with fast Spanish talk by woman; good / dominant. [Connelly*rw-MA]

693 UNITED KINGDOM BBC, Droitwich et al., JUN 25 0129 - interview with US-accented man about health and the environment. [Connelly*E-MA]

711.04 WESTERN SAHARA Laayoune, JUN 25 0042 - Arabic moaning vocal; in slop. [Connelly*E-MA]

729 SPAIN RNE1 synchros, JUL 13 0034 - // 738 with bits of Spanish talk by woman; badly hacked by WJTO/CKAC. [Connelly*rw-MA]

729 SOUTH AFRICA Punt Gesels R., Cape Town, JUL 17 0024 - Pop music weakly heard behind the RNE station, but it was unequivocally parallel 1332; without the parallel this would not have been identifiable! SIO 221. [Burnell-NF]

738 SPAIN RNE1, Barcelona, JUN 25 0041 - US oldies, then Spanish talk by man; through CHCM slop. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0032 - end of '50s type song, then two women chatting in Spanish; loud, easily getting by CHCM/WJIB. [Connelly*rw-MA]

765 SWITZERLAND RSR, Sottens, JUL 13 0117 - French version of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind"; poor. [Connelly*rw-MA]

774 SPAIN RNE1 synchros, JUL 13 0026 - man & woman laughing and joking; excellent, apparent Arabic music station under. [Connelly*rw-MA]

783 SPAIN COPE, Barcelona, JUL 13 0108 - // 837 with teletalk; fair. [Connelly*rw-MA]

801 SPAIN RNE1 synchros, JUL 13 0107 - // 774 with acoustic guitar, then soft-spoken man in Spanish; fair. [Connelly*rw-MA]

810 SPAIN SER R. Madrid, Madrid, JUL 13 0110 - // 873 with Spanish talk, light music; over WGY, no sign of CJVA or Latin Americans. Surprisingly loud ! [Connelly*rw-MA]

819 EGYPT Egyptian R., Batra, JUL 13 0105 - shrill Arabic male Koranic vocal; loud, way over Morocco. [Connelly*rw-MA]

819 MOROCCO RTM, Rabat, JUN 25 0103 - man in Arabic; over Spain/Egypt. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0105 - // 612 with male Arabic vocal; under Egypt Koran. [Connelly*rw-MA]

836 AZORES RDP, Pico da Barrosa, JUN 25 0104 - Portuguese news; at weak audio level on fair carrier. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0023 - progressive rock instrumental with classical influences; light audio but fat signal stronger than 837. [Connelly*rw-MA]

837 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN COPE synchros, JUL 13 0019 - Spanish teletalk by man & woman, // stronger 882. [Connelly*rw-MA]

846 ITALY Rome, JUL 13 0104 - news by man in Italian; fair signal through WEEI splash. What power is this running now ? [Connelly*rw-MA]

855 SPAIN RNE1, Murcia et al., JUN 25 0106 - Spanish news by man & woman; jumpy fades. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0021 - sports-related Spanish talk by man & woman; HUGE ! [Connelly*rw-MA] JUL25 0300 - beeps, later Frank Sinatra singing, female announcer. [Stromsted-MA]

864 EGYPT Santah, JUL 13 0106 - Koranic vocal sounded parallel (or at least very similar) to that on Egypt-819. In jumble with Spain/other. [Connelly*rw-MA]

873 SPAIN SER synchros, JUL 13 0020 - // 1044 with woman in Spanish; good. [Connelly*rw-MA]

882 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN COPE synchros, JUL 13 0019 - // 837 with Spanish teletalk; loud. [Connelly*rw-MA]

891 ALGERIA Algiers, JUN 25 0108 - female Arabic vocal, strings; through WBPS slop. Het noted as early as 2330 UTC. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 13 0017 - Arabic vocal and flute at light audio on monster carrier. There were hints of second audio (Portugal ?) under. WBPS-890 was phase-nulled to nearly nothing. [Connelly*rw-MA]

909 UNITED KINGDOM BBC, Moorside Edge et al., JUN 25 0111 - bits of English talk; in bad WABI slop. Over several others (one Arabic, another either Spanish or Portuguese). [Connelly*E-MA]

909 MOROCCO RTM, Safi, JUL 17 0000 - Moroccan anthem by male chorus; SIO 444. [Burnell-NF]

918 SPAIN R. Intercontinental, Madrid, JUL 13 0016 - bits of Spanish teletalk; in CJCH slop with WHJJ phased. [Connelly*rw-MA]

954 SPAIN R. España, Madrid, JUL 13 0015 - Spanish talk, then romantic female vocal; excellent right after local WROL-950 sunset power cut. [Connelly*rw-MA]

999 SPAIN COPE, Madrid, JUL 13 0007 - fast emotional Spanish talk by man & woman; through CKBW slop. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1044 SPAIN SER synchros, JUN 25 0119 - woman in Spanish; to fair peak. [Connelly*E-MA]

1053 UNITED KINGDOM Talk Sport synchros, JUN 25 0121 - English advertising with phone numbers; over presumed Spain. [Connelly*E-MA]

1089 UNITED KINGDOM Talk Sport synchros, JUN 25 0133 - telephone interview; fair to good through YVSZ slop. [Connelly*E-MA]

1098 SLOVAKIA Slovensky Rozhlas, Nitra, JUN 25 0133 - Slavic talk; excellent. [Connelly*E-MA]

` 1098 SPAIN RNE synchros JUL 29 0050 - Excellent; woman in Spanish and music // 1107. [Conti-MA]

1107 SPAIN RNE 1 Synchros, .JUL26 0115 - male EE vocal western with deep voice followed by fast rock tune male vocal "You make me feel this way" loud S9+20, SS announcerr. JUL 27 0145 - Dreamy romantic Spanish music with male vocal -deep voiced // 684 Sevilla. [Stromsted-MA]

1116 SPAIN SER synchros JUL 29 0052 - Good; telephone talk, slight synchro echo detected. [Conti-MA]

1134 CROATIA HR, Zadar, JUN 25 0135 - Balkan folk music mixing with Spain. There was more slop from the Venezuelan on 1140 than from easily nulled (!) WBBR-1130. [Connelly*E-MA]

1134 SPAIN COPE synchros, JUN 25 0135 - Spanish talk; over/under Croatia. [Connelly*E-MA]

1152 SPAIN RNE synchros JUL 29 0055 - Good; telephone talk in Spanish. [Conti-MA]

1179 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN SER synchros, JUL 13 0009 - woman with Spanish teletalk show; very good, much stronger than the feeble cluster of stations on 1180. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1206 unID JUL 29 0100 - Weak talk; France or Israel likely. [Conti-MA]

1215 SPAIN COPE synchros JUL 29 0105 - Good with talk in Spanish, no sign of Virgin Radio. [Conti-MA] JUL 13 0004 - man with Spanish news; fair. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1215 UNITED KINGDOM Virgin R. synchros, JUN 25 0137 - '80s hit "Alive & Kicking" by Simple Minds; very good, over Spain. [Connelly*E-MA]

1242 ENGLAND Virgin R., synchronized low-power transmitters, JUL 4 0027 - ID's, ads, promo for the Virgin R. web-site, rock music; SIO 333 [Burnell-NF].

1296 SPAIN COPE, Valencia, JUL 13 0120 - // 837 with somewhat echoey Spanish talk by man; poor. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1332 SOUTH AFRICA Punt Gesels R., Midrand, JUL 17 0003-0031 and 0117-0120 - Africaans chat, hosted by woman, one pop song noted at 0021 (used this music to parallel 729), this may have been the intro for an interview of a pop singer; signal peaked at 0008 and at 0118 at SIO 353. [Burnell-NF]

1341 NORTHERN IRELAND BBC R. Ulster, Lisnagarvey, JUN 25 0138 - English talk, possibly a drama; poor with CJLS/WNBH/WMID-1340 slop. [Connelly*E-MA]

1359 SPAIN RNE Arganda JUL 14 0425 - Weak audio but strong het against "The bay's best music mix" CKBC 1360. [Conti-NH]

1377 TANZANIA R. Free Africa, Mwaza, JUL 17 0040-0103 and 0157-0208 - Program of pop tunes and rap, no African music noted. I initially thought this was R. Cidade from Swaziland, but no such luck A woman announcer (in Swahili, I think) came on at 0201 and IDed three times; peaked at SIO 322 around 0200, but with lots of splatter from St. Pierre on 1375. [Burnell-NF]

1413 SPAIN RNE5 synchros, JUN 24 2348 - operatic Spanish vocal; poor, just starting to fade up. [Connelly*E-MA]

1422 GERMANY DeutschlandRadio, Heusweiler, JUN 25 0140 - classical music; fair, some slop from C&W music on CKDY-1420. [Connelly*E-MA] AUG 02 0036 - Light operatic piece with male GG vocal, weak S9. [Stromsted-MA]

1449 ENGLAND BBC R. Peterborough, Peterborough, JUL 4 0010 - faded up over Scotland with telephone chat, // R. 5 on 909; SIO 322. This is the first time I've heard this 150-watt station…too bad it wasn't carrying local programming at the time [Burnell-NF].

1449 SCOTLAND BBC R. 4, Redmoss, JUL 4 0007 - BBC World Service program about art; SIO 322 [Burnell-NF].

1503 POLAND Norea R. Stargard, AUG 02 0111- Presumed with classical piano interlude peaked S9+10 fair signal. [Stromsted-MA]

1513 UNID, AUG 02 0055 - Peculiar music-sounded oriental? Briefly S9+15 signal had QSB flutter. [Stromsted-MA]

1521 unID JUN 24 2315 - het here long before sunset, either from Saudi Arabia or Spain. [Connelly*E-MA]

1521 SPAIN SER Castellon JUL 29 0003 - Good; man and woman in Spanish, the first strong signal of the evening with local sunset approaching. [Conti-MA]

1548 KUWAIT VOA Kuwait City JUL 29 0120 - Weak with man and woman in English // 7115. [Conti-MA] AUG 02 0028-0110 - "VOA special coverage of the Republican convention (via CBS feed) on LSB @ S9+15 good signal. Some splash from 1540 signals. [Stromsted-MA]

1550 ALGERIA RASD Clandestine, Tindouf, JUN 25 0001 - female Arabic vocal with drums and flutes; just over the remnants of the phase-nulled CT/NY/PA domestic jumble. [Connelly*E-MA]

1557 CROATIA R. Osijek, Osijek, JUL 3 2335 - woman with weather report, then played pops with few announcements, seemed like the national program (although I didn't check for // 1134); SIO 322 and rapidly lost dominance to the two Brits [Burnell-NF].

1557 ENGLAND BBC R. Lancashire, Oxcliffe, JUL 03 2340 - 60's tune then promo for BBC web-site, telephone call-in about price of "petrol;" SIO 322 [Burnell-NF].

1557 ENGLAND Capital Gold, Southampton, JUL 03 2351 - contest with phone caller, played his 80's tune request, clear ID over the BBC; SIO 322 [Burnell-NF].

1566 ENGLAND County Sound, Guildford, JUL 03 2315 - mellow oldies and jingle ID's; SIO 342 [Burnell-NF].

1575 SPAIN SER synchros, JUN 24 2340 - teletalk starting to fade up. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 29 0010 - Good; telephone talk // 1521. [Conti-MA]

1583.6 CEUTA RadiOle, Ceuta JUL 29 0008 - Good; music and het against SER Spain on 1584. [Conti-MA] JUN 24 2341 - group vocal; over het from SER-1584 synchros. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 12 2343 - early fade-in. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1584 SPAIN SER synchros, JUL 12 2352 - Spanish talk; poor, hetted by stronger Ceuta-1583.6. [Connelly*rw-MA] JUL 14 0410 - Talk in Spanish, difficult with interference from local WSMN 1590. [Conti-NH] AUG 02 0158 - announcer-deep voice man, S9+10 with heavy splatter from nearby Nashua station at 1590. [Stromsted-MA]

1602 SPAIN JUN 24 2345 - EI Vitoria evenly mixed with SER stations. More interesting was an unID third station (... is Ascension Island still here ?). A low growl was present. [Connelly*E-MA]

Jean speaks: "I set up some wires at a pebble beach a couple of km from the DX Inn in Cappahayden. Conditions to the south were not great. Initially, I chased a couple of Brazilians on 1440 and 1390 that I think were "new," but ID's were not noted. Signals from further south were extremely poor. For instance, the Argentinian on 1630 was essentially inaudible. I checked 1566…as I suspected, Asas de Atlantico was inaudible, and I checked on both wires. The only thing really comprehensible on this frequency was County Sound, ex. 1476 kHz, from England. The big-gun western Europeans were doing fairly well at the upper end of the band, so I sat on a few promising frequencies, and a "new" one was flushed out on 1449 kHz."

Mark speaks: "On the early evening of 12 JUL 2000, I decided to revisit a local DXpedition site in a national wildlife reservation that has not been used for awhile because of instances of park rangers chasing people out after the posted sunset closing time. The site - the parking area at the eastern end of Stackyard Road near Nelson Island in Rowley, MA - is in the middle of a huge coastal salt-marsh behind Plum Island, a narrow barrier beach. This location (GC= 70.829 W / 42.745 N) has been used for some legendary receptions over the years by members of the Boston Area DXers. Loggings include India-1566 and numerous rare Middle East stations, Greeks, etc. For a map of the site, go to http://www.geocities.com/wa1ion_mark/rowley.gif". Though the site has room for near-Beverage length antennas, I stuck to the active whip / broadband loop cardioid array clamped to the car's roof-racks, as I figured I might have to leave the site in a hurry if law officers or a car load of beer-blasted carousing teenagers suddenly appeared. I arrived on site at 7.35 p.m. local (2345 UTC) with a plan of staying no more than 2 hours. Sunset time was about 8.20 p.m. (0020 UTC). Not too many others showed up at the site: basically bird watchers in a few cars and on one motorcycle. Luckily, neither law enforcers nor hell-raisers were encountered right up to 9.30 p.m. EDT / 0130 UTC when I left for home. The biggest problem I encountered during the outing: insects. "Greenheads" (large biting flies common in salt-marshes) and "no-see-'ems" (irritating little gnats) dive-bombed me any time I was out of the car for more than a few seconds. After all, it's mid-July."

Jean speaks again: "The recent excitement about a big aurora prompted me head for a wilderness DX site in search of unusual signals on Sunday night. I hauled out a 350-m wire towards South Africa at a spot about a 25-minute drive from home. Until about 0130 UTC (17 July) there were essentially no European signals audible except for Spaniards and Portuguese. I heard Safi, Morocco sign-off at 0000 UTC (Boel's list says s/off is at 0100, but maybe this was unusual) without any BBC QRM, just splatter from 910. In spite of moderate to heavy QRN, I spent all my time looking for rare ones. I managed to nab the two Punt Gesels Radio outlets (Africaans talk radio), and it is essentially certain that I had Radio Pulpit (logged tentatively during the last NF DXpedition) on 657 kHz. I was pleased!"

Bruce speaks: "Mark Connelly and I met up with the vacationing Ben Dangerfield for an evening of DX from the Granite Pier site in Rockport, Massachusetts. (The last time I saw Ben was when we met at the 1996 Newfoundland DXpedition.) The DX was "the usual" for Mark and me, but for Ben it was interesting to check out our car DX setups in action and hear all the transatlantic activity. Although Spaniards dominated (I only took notes on a few), it was still a good demonstration of what's possible for midsummer DX from a coastal site. A brief scan back at Ben's ocean view hotel in Gloucester, Massachusetts produced much of the same stuff. Just before packing up for the night, Mark capped off the evening with VOA Sao Tome on 1530. Perhaps the only disappointment was the lack of any Caribbean and Latin American DX. Just as well, Ben was pleased to hear all the strong Canadian Maritime and down-east Maine signals."

526 BAHAMAS ZLS, Stella Maris, JUL 4 0116 - "ZLS" code beacon; copyable in 1.8 kHz filter position, lower sideband through tough RVC-530 slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

530 TURKS & CAICOS R. Vision Cristiana, JUL 2 0344 - Radio Vision Cristiana ID // NY-1330; very good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

535 GRENADA GBC, St. George's, JUN 25 0150 - calypso style music with lots of percussion; to fair peak. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 2 0215 - R&B group vocal with a blend of Motown and Caribbean influences; very good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

540.3 unID JUL 7 0444 - low het against the 540 mess (WQTM/WLUX/2 Latins). [Connelly*Y-MA]

550 VENEZUELA Mundial, YVKE, Caracas, JUN 25 0147 - Spanish political speech about the future of Venezuela; strong, over RI/VT domestics. Parallel 880 had the speech delayed about a half second from 550. [Connelly*E-MA]

555 ST. KITTS & NEVIS ZIZ, Basseterre, JUN 25 0056 - tinny electric organ, high-energy drumming, and Caribbean English vocal; good. [Connelly*E-MA]

570 CUBA R. Reloj, JUN 25 0248 - Reloj news and time program; huge, crushing WMCA. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 19 0545 - Man with news, clock, code IDs, etc. under WMCA. [Conti-NH]

580 PUERTO RICO WKAQ, San Juan, JUL 7 0442 - Puerto Rico news with local events discussion; through phased WTAG. [Connelly*Y-MA]

600 CUBA R. Rebelde, CMKV, Urbano Noris, JUN 25 0918 - dominant with mellow Spanish vocal // 620, 710. [Connelly*Y-MA]

600 VENEZUELA R. Sucre, YVQB, Cumana, JUN 24 0053 - fast Spanish talk with local Venezuelan mentions; eventually losing out to C&W music from CKCL-NS. [Connelly*E-MA]

620 CUBA R. Rebelde, Colón / Moa, JUN 25 0918 - under WZON groundwave: light vocal // 600, 710. [Connelly*Y-MA]

630 CUBA R. Progreso, JUL 4 0110 - // 640 with mellow Spanish vocal; under WPRO, over WSKN/CFCY. [Connelly*Y-MA]

630 PUERTO RICO WSKN, San Juan, JUN 25 0051 - baseball coverage in Spanish, mention "segunda base", ads with prices in dollars; loud, annihilating WPRO/CFCY. [Connelly*E-MA]

640 CUBA R. Progreso, Guanabacoa / Las Tunas, JUN 25 0246 - slogan "La Onda de la Alegria", then song "Rhythm Divine" by Enrique Iglesias; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

640 VENEZUELA Union R., YVQO, Puerto La Cruz, JUN 25 0050 - Union Radio ID; over CBN and others with a fat het from Spain-639 also present. [Connelly*E-MA]

650 COLOMBIA RCN Antena Dos, HJKH, Bogotá, JUL 6 0718 - ID "Antena Dos, Colombia", then a folk-style vocal with accordion; good / dominant, best South American signal at the time. [Connelly*Y-MA]

650 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC R, Universal, HIAT, Santo Domingo, JUN 25 0050 - R. Universal ID; well over Venezuela and Colombia. [Connelly*E-MA]

670 CUBA R. Rebelde, CMQ, Arroyo Arenas, JUN 25 0243 - folk music // 710; mixed with YVLL. [Connelly*Y-MA]

670 VENEZUELA R. Rumbos, YVLL, Caracas, JUN 25 0059 - Rumbos ID, doorbells; good / dominant. [Connelly*E-MA]

680 VENEZUELA (t) R. Continente, YVQR, Cumana, JUN 25 0048 - more likely this than WAPA: many Venezuela mentions in Spanish talk; under phased WRKO. [Connelly*E-MA]

690 ANGUILLA Caribbean Beacon, The Valley, JUL 7 0431 - discussion of various Bible translations, particularly the King James; good with Montreal phased. Program was // 6090. [Connelly*Y-MA]

690 BRAZIL R. Dragao do Mar, ZYH587, Fortaleza, JUN 25 0044 - Portuguese talk, seemingly religious, over English-language station (either Anguilla or WOKV-FL). [Connelly*E-MA]

700 BRAZIL ZYK686, Sao Paulo, JUL 13 0037 - most likely this with Portuguese talk; fair, alone on channel before YV fade-up. [Connelly*rw-MA]

700 COLOMBIA R. Net, HJCX, Calí, JUL 7 0433 - several Bogotá news items; over others. [Connelly*Y-MA]

700 VENEZUELA R. Sur, YVPQ, Puerto Ordaz, JUL 7 0123 - Venezuela and Radio Sur mentions; poor, barely over presumed Jamaica/Brazil/YVMH/HJCX/WLW melange. [Connelly*Y-MA]

705 ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES Kingstown, JUL 13 0115 - sounded like old standards format (Sinatra, etc.); poor. [Connelly*rw-MA]

710 CUBA R. Rebelde synchros, JUN 25 0243 - uptempo folk music // 670 & others. Signal was over/under WOR. JUL 2 0113 - // 600 with phone call about "americanos"; under WOR. [Connelly*Y-MA]

720 VENEZUELA R. Oriente, YVQE, Porlamar, JUL 7 0109 - folk music with steel drums and Spanish vocal, then talk with Oriente and Venezuela mentions; to fair peak, mixed with CHTN. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 13 0035 - live political rally with shouts of "Vamos por Venezuela" and "Viva Venezuela Libre!", then patriotic songs including the Venezuelan National Anthem were sung, and Radio Oriente ID followed. HUGE signal, like a local, totally blowing away CHTN. [Connelly*rw-MA]

750 VENEZUELA RCR, YVKS, Caracas, JUN 25 0100 - coverage of a Venezuelan sports team; slightly over CBGY and a Brazilian. [Connelly*E-MA]

750 MEXICO, Tempoal, Veracruz XETI 7/13 0424 Loud with Spanish hits, "7-50 AM, Radio Fiesta". [Hall-TX]

760 BRAZIL R. Record, ZYH888, Fortaleza, JUN 25 0040 - Portuguese religious sermon; loud ! [Connelly*E-MA]

760 COLOMBIA RCN, HJAJ, Barranquilla, JUN 25 0241 - man in Spanish about a musical performance in Bogota; atop Cuban Reloj and WJR. JUL 2 0209 - (measured frequency 759.92) ID "RCN, La Radio de Colombia"; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

760 CUBA R. Reloj, Las Mercedes & Guanabacoa, JUN 25 0913 - Reloj news, ticks, code "RR"; dominant. JUL 2 0336 - Reloj program over HJAJ/WJR. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 18 0805 - News, clock, code IDs, etc. under WJR. [Conti-NH]

770 COLOMBIA RCN, HJJX, Bogotá, JUN 25 0031 - RCN ID; over other with WABC phased. [Connelly*E-MA]

780 VENEZUELA R. Coro, YVMN, Coro, JUN 25 0101 - reverberated Spanish talk, Radio Coro ID; huge, way over ZBVI/CFDR. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 7 0105 - R. Coro ID, mentions of Falcon province; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 18 0800 - Jingle ID and salsa music under WBBM. [Conti-NH]

800 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES Trans-World Radio, PJB, Bonaire, JUN 25 0103 - Spanish Christian music; burying WCCM and Canadians. [Connelly*E-MA]

820 VENEZUELA R. Guayana, YVSH, Upata, JUN 25 0038 - Upata mentions; slightly over a mix of 2 or 3 others (certainly WNYC and R. Guadalupana, maybe Apintie in there too). [Connelly*E-MA]

830 ST. KITTS & NEVIS TBN, Basseterre, JUN 25 0024 - talk about the forgiveness of sins; good, over phased WCRN. [Connelly*E-MA]

830 MEXICO, Mexico DF XELA, JUL 14 0502 Good with classical music, Mexican national anthem, ID "XELA, Buena musica desde la Ciudad de Mexico". [Hall-TX]

840 BRAZIL R. Bandeirantes, ZYK687, Sao Paulo, JUL 13 0112 - Portuguese talk; in pile-up with Spanish-language stations. [Connelly*rw-MA]

840 CUBA CMHW, Santa Clara, JUL 4 0128 - 1977 hit "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer, then a woman in Spanish read poetry to a folk guitar accompaniment, then a man mentioned Cuba, Santa Clara, and sounds in the night; loud, alone on channel. [Connelly*Y-MA]

859.57 unID JUL 7 0409 - het, bits of vocal noted after HILR sign-off. [Connelly*Y-MA]

860 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC R. Clarin, HILR, Santo Domingo, JUL 7 0405 - "Radio Clarin" ID, "La Voz en el Camino" and "la mas potente" slogans, then anthem going to sign-off; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

860 VENEZUELA R. Enlace 860, YVYE, Valle de la Pascua, JUN 25 0033 - Spanish ad for appliance store with color TV's, two "Valle de la Pascua" mentions; excellent / dominant. [Connelly*E-MA]

880 VENEZUELA Mundial, YVYM, Puerto Ordaz, JUN 25 0147 - political speech (// 550) about Venezuela's future; dominant with WCBS in deep cardioid phase null. [Connelly*E-MA]

880 CUBA R.Progreso, Pinar del Rio JUL 18 0757 - Fair; nostalgia // 890, under WCBS. [Conti-NH]

890 CUBA R. Progreso, CMDZ, Santiago de Cuba, JUN 25 0300 - // 640 with classically-trained style male Spanish vocal; mixed with WBPS's Spanish show. JUL 4 0108 - // 640, 690 with Progreso mention, mellow vocal; atop WBPS. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 18 0745 - Fair; "Radio Progreso, onda de la alegria" ID and nostalgia // 640, over WLS and WBPS. [Conti-NH]

895 ST. KITTS & NEVIS VON, Bath Village, JUN 25 0109 - drumming and Caribbean-Afropop style vocal with a bit of doo-wop '50s influence; huge signal. [Connelly*E-MA]

900 CUBA R. Progreso, JUL 4 0129 - // 640, 890 with light pop vocal; over CKTS ("CJAD"), others. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 18 0750 - Fair; nostalgia // 890. [Conti-NH]

900 MEXICO XEW Mexico, DF, .JUL 13 0216 - Male announcer followed by a string of canned adverts. Strong S9+20. Slight trace of Chicago station (under). [Stromsted-MA]

930 CUBA R.Reloj JUL 18 0755 - News, syncopated clock, RR code IDs, etc. under WBEN. [Conti-NH]

939 unID JUN 25 0112 - het. [Connelly*E-MA]

940 CUBA R. Reloj, JUL 7 0412 - Reloj program over other Latin American; Montreal nulled. [Connelly*Y-MA]

940 PUERTO RICO WIPR, San Juan, JUL 2 0209 - Estados Unidos and local Puerto Rican mentions; dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

960 CUBA R.Reloj, Guantanamo JUL 18 0755 - Good; man and woman with news and time checks // 930. [Conti-NH]

1020 VENEZUELA Mundial Margarita, YVRS, La Asunción, JUN 25 0115 - big band, bongos, and male group vocal; huge, equal strength to adjacent WBZ-1030 Boston! [Connelly*E-MA]

1020 VENEZUELA R. Calendario, YVMX, Maracaibo, JUL 7 0418 - reverberated Radio Calendario ID, merengue music; fair over KDKA. Usual YVRS was off at the time. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1020 BRAZIL R. CBN (ZYH247), Maceió, JUL 23 0324-0331 - PP interviews and weather in conjunction with the "Weather Channel," many "CBN" slogans; SIO 343. [Burnell-NF]

1039.6 VENEZUELA La Voz de Carabobo, YVLB, Valencia, JUN 25 0118 - sports mentioning Carabobo, Caracas; excellent, creaming the 1040 jumble. [Connelly*E-MA]

1050.3 unID JUL 7 0420 - bits of Spanish vocal, het on WEVD. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1060 CUBA CMDX, Baracoa, JUL 4 0104 - Cuban folk music with guitar, over KYW and het from something on 1060.3.[Connelly*Y-MA]

1060.3 unID JUL 6 0104 - seemed to be Spanish talk; poor with slop from Cuba-1060. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1080 VENEZUELA R. Barcelona, YVQJ, Barcelona, JUN 24 2354 - Latin American music, Barcelona ID; over/under WTIC. [Connelly*E-MA]

1090 VENEZUELA Union R., YVSZ, Caracas, JUN 25 0132 - Spanish political talk // 640; loud. [Connelly*E-MA]

1100 ANTIGUA R. ZDK, St. John's, JUN 25 0019 - Caribbean English talk with reverb; over nulled WHLI-NY daytimer. [Connelly*E-MA]

1110 VENEZUELA R. Carupano, YVQT, Carupano, JUN 25 0017 - Venezuela and Carupano mentions; good with WPMZ-RI Spanish daytimer phased. [Connelly*E-MA]

1139.6 unID JUN 25 0013 - bits of high-energy Latin American music; losing to Porlamar on 1140.0. [Connelly*E-MA]

1140 VENEZUELA La Voz del Caribe, Porlamar, JUN 25 0015 - fast Spanish talk, coverage of outdoor event with crowd noises, Venezuelan anthem sung in echoey stadium, announcer said music was "himno nacional de la Republica Venezuela", then Porlamar was mentioned; loud, way over CBI and growl from unID on 1139.6. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 2 0200 - "Porlamar, La Voz de la Caribe" jingle in a folk style; excellent. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1170 COLOMBIA CARACOL, HJNW, Cartagena, JUL 2 0342 - Colombia mentions, '40s style Spanish vocal with big-band accompaniment; good / dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1200 VENEZUELA YVOZ, Caracas, JUN 25 0010 - Spanish talk and Caracas mentions / adverts; mixed with WKOX (also in Spanish). [Connelly*E-MA]

1340 MEXICO, UNID, JUL 13 1100, JUL 14 1100 - Noted a Mexican national anthem here both mornings, but the station soon started fading in & out. Strongly suspect XEMT Matamoros. [Hall-TX]

1375.02 ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON RFO, JUN 24 2310 - Judy Garland or similar old-time female vocal, then French talk by man; up to about S7 more than an hour before sunset. Daytime groundwave strength at this outer Cape Cod site is about S5 with minor slop from WDEA-ME-1370 and WMYF-NH-1380. [Connelly*E-MA] JUL 2 0345 - French disco; local-like. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1450 MEXICO, UNID, JUL 3 0656 - UNID station giving ID for XECU La Rancherita, Los Mochis, SIN. Mentioned 10 kW. I can't imagine XECU has moved to 1450 with 10kW, so I'm assuming the station was merely mentioned on a network feed. [Hall-CA]

1490 MEXICO, Matamoros , JUL 14 0430 - Good with "La música Mexicana, Radio Mexicana." [Hall-TX]

1500 VENEZUELA YVRZ, Cumana, JUN 25 0006 - old-fashioned C&W style Spanish vocal (like Mexican ranchera), then Radio Dos Mil ID; good, surprisingly loud over WFIF/WTOP on pre-sunset reception. [Connelly*E-MA]

1520 BRAZIL R. Salinas (ZYJ610), Macao, JUL 3 2359 - PP talk, no real ID but said was from Macao, just music at 0000; SIO 333 [Burnell-NF].

1620 unID JUL 12 2350 - Haitian French Creole talk; fading up from weak to almost local quality. [Connelly*rw-MA]

1620 unID R.Soleil Internationale JUL 10 0100 - "Ici Radio Soleil... 1620 AM" and French Caribbean music, weak in WHLY null. JUL 13 0100 - Talk in French under New York City NOAA weather radio relay. JUL 17 0130 - "Ici Radio Soleil Internationale" ID, romantic music, over NYC NOAA weather station with WHLY just starting to fade in, all this over an unID Spanish station. Internet research in an attempt to identify this station produced the following info. According to e-mail from Radio Soleil D'Haiti broadcasting on WSKQ New York 97.9 FM SCA, it's not them. In an e-mail from

WRRA US Virgin Islands, "DJ Wonder" says the station is staying on 1290. WRRA will not be going to 1620. Meanwhile Ron Gitschier on tour of duty in the Caribbean reports no French Caribbean broadcasts heard on 1620. Perhaps this is another French-language Part 15 station in Boston, or did 1640 in Boston move to 1620? [Conti-NH] The 1640 Creole/French speaker is alive and well. At home in Auburndale (Newton) their signal is fair all day long about equal to Logan Airport-1650. On 1620 I get nothing at all. So, I believe that the 1620 station is NOT located in Metro Boston. [DeLorenzo-MA] I noted 1620 with Haitian French at fair level on daytime groundwave as I drove on Route 3 through several south shore communities (Weymouth, Hingham, etc.) en route to Cape Cod. I heard advertisements for several companies in Brockton, MA. The signal was unusable from Plymouth southward. On the return trip, I decided to take Route 24 right through Brockton to see if the signal got loud anywhere. Sure enough, the signal peaked to local level near the Route 24 / Route 123 junction in Brockton, so that's where this thing is located. I may call one of the advertisers to see if they can give me the name, phone number, or e-mail of someone at the station. The signal held up at reasonable strength right up to the northern end of Route 24 at Route 128 in the Canton area. Then, as I drove west on Route 128 towards I-95 and Route 109 in Westwood, a second signal with nostalgic Spanish pop music appeared and eventually overtook the Brockton Haitian. This second station never got strong though. It disappeared into WUNR-1600 splash near WUNR's Oak Park (southern end of Newton) 2-tower transmitter site in the Charles River marshes. When I got up to Waltham, out of the 1600 splash zone, I could only hear ignition noise on 1620 all the way home to Billerica. The 1620 Spanish was not a spur or mix from any of the metro-Boston Hispanic broadcasters (890, 1150, 1200, 1330, 1600, etc.): I checked them all for a parallel. The reason I wasn't able to hear the 1620 pirates when I was in the Cambridge / Boston area a few days ago was because the car radio's wimpy broadband front end was yielding a WEZE-590 + WBZ-1030 mix spur instead. [Connelly-MA]

ARGENTINA: For those DX’ers outside Argentina who are interested in X-band stations we have an update per 15/07/00: 1610 R. CULTURA, Domingo Purita 2247 (1824 Lanus) - inactive !!.

1610 R. CANTICO NUEVO, Av. Oliver 1134 (1842 Monte Grande). 1620 R. TROPICANA, Av. San Juan 2461 (1232 Capital Federal). 1640 R. BOLIVIA, Av. Coronel Roca 1467 (1437 Capital Federal).

1650 AM RESTAURACIÓN, Debussy 2948 (1686 Hurlingham). 1660 R. UNIDAD, Molina 830 (1847 Rafael Calzada). 1670 BBC AMERICA LATINA (Capital Federal). 1680 AM GETRO, Av. San Martin 4280 (1824 Lanus oeste). [Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Argentina via Medium Wave Circle E-mail]

BELGIUM: 1125, 1233 - According to RTBF teletext, the transmitter location of Radio Traffic on 1233 is Rocourt (part of Liège) with a power of 200 Watts (so not 2.5 kW as stated in my Euro MW Guide). The location of the 1125 kHz is Houdeng (near La Louvière) with 20 kW (that is correct in my list). [Herman Boel via MWC e-mail news 28.06.00 via ARC MV-eko]

BELARUS: 171 Radio Odin, Sasnovy (Moscow relay) has been off the air since May 15th. [Olle Alm, ARC MV-eko e-mail] I do not hear Mayak on 1566 kHz anymore. During the 1 week long DX Camp I have not heard this station at all, although it was regular here before. Instead I could hear (on 1566 kHz) a fair signal of Radio B2-92 (from Yugoslavia?). [Karel Honzik, Czech Republic, Medium Wave Circle e-mail]

GAMBIA: 648 During my recent holidays on Gran Canaria I heard R. Gambia on 648 kHz. Strongest signal there from Africa on the mediumwave band. Programme is mainly in Gambian local languages - difficult to report. They have news in English at 07.00 UTC and at 22.00 UTC. When I was on Teneriffe 2 years ago there was no trace of Gambia on 648 kHz. Do they have a new transmitter?

[Erik Kugland via HCDX 1297 in ARC MV-eki e-mail] I refer you to this item carried in BBC Monitoring "World Media" publication in May 1999: The following item was monitored on Gambia Radio and Television Services [on 648 kHz] 1800 gmt news bulletin on 19th April 1999. "Due to improvement works being carried out on its border transmitter station, GRTS Radio will cease to broadcast programmes on its usual 648 kilohertz mediumwave frequency for a two-month period, starting on Friday this week. The interruption is to allow the installation of a new, more powerful antenna system, which when completed will ensure that GRTS Radio is heard audibly throughout the country on the 648 kilohertz frequency, as well as in most parts of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Conakry." [Dave Kernick via HCDX 1297 via ARC M-eko e-mail]

GERMANY: "Just noted that the Schwerin transmitter on 576 kHz is back on the air. Testing with non-stop pop music. This station is one out of the planned Mega Radio net. Principally Mega Radio wants to reactivate all the old German MW channels, which were switched off during the last 10 years. If this project should really materialise, german MW DXers can look for another hobby. [Martin Elbe in Medium Wave Circle e-mail]

IRAN: 1205.68 I have some more info regarding the UNID Farsi speaking station which I and some other DXers heard here. I sent an audio file to Dave Kenny (BBC Monitoring). Dave writes: "Hello Karel, Thanks for the recording. I have played it to two of our most experienced Persian monitors and they confirm that it is definitely Farsi (or what we call Persian). It appears to be an Iranian local station, possibly Mashhad (a new relay transmitter perhaps?). The recording has the start of a news bulletins which begins with an item about President Kathami visiting somewhere - so it seems to be an official Iranian radio, not an opposition or clandestine broadcast." I heard this station always after midnight UTC. Recently the station has been logged in Finland signing off at 1800 UTC. [Karel Honzik via MWC e-mail news 06.07.00 in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

IRELAND: Possible 93 frequencies on offer for new commercial MW and FM stations. In an unprecedented development, the IRTC has published a comprehensive list of frequencies available for use in the Republic of Ireland. Up to 19 mediumwave frequencies are available while 74 FM frequencies could be used for new and existing services should the commission decide to allocate them. This follows the commission's recent invitation for 'submissions of interest' for new Dublin services as well as new regional and additional county and town services for the rest of Ireland. The potential for these available assignments is huge. Two high-powered 10 kW MW as well as one medium-powered FM assignment are available in Dublin area alone. Four high-powered MW allocations of 100 kW each exist in Meath, Waterford, Wexford and Donegal. One 50 kW allocation is available in Westport and a number of 2 and 1 kW channels are also unused around the republic. The purpose of the document is to assist respondents in developing various proposals ranging from a single transmitter coverage area to larger multi-county/regional services using a number of county, relay and town assignments. All of the published frequencies have been agreed internationally in compliance with the Geneva 1975 and 1984 broadcasting conferences. [via BCDX-UK in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

KAZAKHSTAN: Internews Kazakhstan has reported from a press conference where the BBC presented its new frequencies in Kazakhstan after reaching an agreement with Kazteleradio: 1098 Almaty (2.5h Kazakh, Russian, English), 1188 Saryagash* (5.5h Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian, English), 1197 Astana (1.5h Kazakh, Russian), 1440 Qyzylorda (2h Kazakh, Russian), *) This is a small town south of Shymkent, at the border with Uzbekistan, the same station as Abay in the WRTH, Abay being located about 20km SW of Saryagash). [BT in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

LEBANON: 945 Voice of Hope is no more. Due to the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, the station went off the air on Saturday, May 20th. The station continues to operate on FM and has studios in Metulla, Israel, but the shortwave and AM transmitters have been crated up. [Hans Johnson AZ, Cumbre DX Special May 24, 2000, via Bueschel in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

LIBYA: 711 and 1251 both remain intensely distorted signals. 1251 is a massive signal after dark, but it is a real struggle understanding the English news at 2040, which is followed by French. Audio down to 10-20 % intelligible on a clear S=9 +++ signal ! Voice of Africa news in English & French on 711 and 1251 at around 0140, 0340, 1140, 1740, 2040, and 2340. [Steve Whitt in Mallorca, BDXC via BC-DX in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

MACEDONIA: The Macedonian R foreign service announced a new ID "Radio Biljana". They said today at 1730 that soon will be transmissions in other languages (presumed when the new MW transmitter on 810 will be ready with 1000 or more kW after the built-up from DW). Present schedule is including: 810 0630-0700 & 1430-1700 relay of DW in Balkan langs, 810 & 1242 1800-2000 "R Biljana": 1800 Bulg, 1830 Gr, 1900 Alb, 1930 Se. [Rumen Pankov, May 30, in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

NORWAY: According to a report in issue 433 of 'The Radio Magazine' the government of Norway is offering a licence to operate on 216 kHz (the former NRK channel) at a maximum of 1.2 megaWatts. In order to qualify for consideration, applicants must have "a head office in Norway", be able to show their programming plans and be able to afford the costs involved. [Ray Woodward in Medium Wave Circle e-mail with information from the British DX Club (BDXC-UK)]

POLAND: A large scale, noncommercial local radio project on MW is currently on the way. Under the name "Twoje Radio" ("Your Radio") 100W MW transmitters are to be installed in Polish communities, 50 stations have so far been applied for, about 8 will start in the first stage around September. The frequencies to be used will be a.o. 531, 963, 1062, 1485 and 1602 kHz. The local studios will daily broadcast two hours of local information (0730-0830 & 1730-1830 LT), and also relay the regional programmes of Polskie Radio at certain times. The network is developped and coordinated by Polskie Fale Srednie SA in Chróscina (Opole voivodship), in cooperation with the regional broadcasting stations of Polskie Radio. NB. As the company assured me, the recent tests on 1080 kHz are **not** related to this project. [Bernd Trutenau, Vilnius, Lithuania, Medium Wave Circle e-mail]

RUSSIA: Another superpower LW transmitter has silenced: Taldom 261 (north of Moscow) was switched off on 11 July. The transmitter was listed with 2500kW and was covering about 70% of the European part of Russia with the R.Rossii programme. Radio Rossii decided no longer to finance the relay. [MIDXB #172, Bernd Trutenau, Vilnius, Lithuania, in Medium Wave Circle e-mail]

SPAIN: The new owner of the SER network is TELEFONICA, a large organisation involved in media and telephone services in Spain. More information from: www.telefonica.es. They now own SER + Onda Cero + Europa FM + Cadena Cien + Cadena Dial + Los 40 Principales. So this may explain what is going on in Barcelona, a new building for SER Barcelona, studio moved to Onda Cero building in the Ramblas.... some sort of concentrations. [Dario Monferini 23.06.00 in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

YUGOSLAVIA (KOSOVO): 549 Radio Kosova is the public broadcaster set up in the province since the NATO action there, broadcasting on mediumwave 549 kHz and VHF/FM. Recordings of the identification announcements for their 1st and 2nd Programmes can be found on the intervalsignals.com website at: http://www.intervalsignals.com [Dave Kernick via HCDX 1325 in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

1377 I have got an e-mail from KFOR, OpInfo@heerefuehrungskommando.de via Joachim Seuling, Major in Kosovo. He tells that Radio Andernach has a program on Radio Prizren (1377 kHz) 3 hours every day from 2000-2300 and that it is aimed for German KFOR soldiers in Kosovo. It is broadcast live from a studio in Prizren. The rest of the 24 hours Radio Prizren is on 1377 kHz with its own programming. Of course and unfortunately he could not confirm my reception of Radio Prizren. There is no postal service in Kosovo, so all letters to KFOR go via "Feldpostsystem". [Björn Fransson in ARC MV-eko e-mail]

1586 AZORES Vila de Porto, MAY 27 0203-0247 - Old instrumental, orchestral numbers, some old American, woman announcer, splash from KMIK 1590. [Trelford-JAM] I'm positive that there is something wrong with this [Trelford’s 1586 report in last IDXD]. Even if "1586" is a typo for "1566," the Clube Asas do Atlantico station at Vila de Porto has been inactive for some time. [Burnell-NF]

"I received a QSL letter from an Isidro Betancourt Silva, who is the director general of Radio Reloj. The QSL was for the 950 kHz transmitter at Habana. The 2000 edition of the WRTH doesn’t list a transmitter at Habana, it only lists Sancti Spiritus. Do you please know the call letters of the aforementioned Habana transmitter?" [DeLeurere-WV] (As far as I know there is only the one station in Sancti Spiritus. It may be that the signer was thinking that Habana originates the signal. Call letters are rarely heard on Cuban stations. The only I’ve heard were CMKS and CMHW. - Jim)

@Jean Burnell, St. Johns NF; DXing from Cappahayden, NF, Drake R8A with a 300 m wire pointed at Northern Europe and 300 m wire pointed at Brazil <jburnell@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>

@Mark Connelly - WA1ION - Billerica MA; DX’ing from Rowley MA ["rw"], from Eastham MA ["E"], from Yarmouth MA ["Y"]; Drake R8A, Palstar R30, APW-1 active whip, two BBL-1 broadband loops, pennant antenna, Superphaser-1 phasing unit < MarkWA1ION@excite.com>

@Bruce Conti, Nashua NH; Lowe HF-225 Europa, MWDX-5, 30-m wire, 30-m east sloping wire, noise-reduced via 4:1 xfmrs and buried coax. Also DX’ing from Rockport MA; Drake R8B, DCP-2 with RL-1 remote-control Quantum loop and RW-1 remote control whip. <BACONTI@aol.com>

@Marc DeLorenzo, Auburndale MA.

@Tim Hall, Chula Vista CA (also DX’ing from Houston TX); ICF2010, Kiwa loop, Kiwa Pocket Loop. <http://www.inetworld.net/halls>

@Erik Stromsted W1ZBT, Pepperell MA; Yaesu 1000MP, 500 meter terminated Beverage aimed NE (toward Europe). Also using a Palomar preselector. <microadv@net1plus.com>

EURO MW GUIDE - Review by Russ Edmunds

Recently, via the NRC Listserv, I’ve become aware of Herman Boel’s "Euro MW Guide". This excellent reference source is available via the internet free, at http://come.to/dxing. It is easily viewable with the Adobe Acrobat reader, which is also available on the web from www.adobe.com and other sources. The Guide is updated on the web periodically. The edition I have downloaded was dated May 20,2000.

As I’ve been away from TA DX’ing for a time, I had no idea that such a comprehensive resource was available. It is divided into four parts: Part 1 is Information and notes; Part 2 is the by-frequency listing; Part 3 is the by-country listing and Part 4 is a listing of discontinued operations from 1/1/00. The frequency listing includes the country, station name, location, power, and details of schedule and languages as information is available. Stations which are currently known to be silent are also noted here, whether temporary or of longer duration. The country listing lists the program, the frequencies on which it is heard, mail address, the Internet website address ( if available ) and verie signer ( also if available ).

The Euro MW Guide is actually greater than just Europe in scope, as it includes many stations in Northern Africa, Western Asia and the Middle East as well. The information contained is derived from numerous European contributors and clubs, and shold be considered as the definitive resource for this.