Saturday, December 18, 2010

Shortwave schedule updates

This week we've seen three issues of DX Mix News released involving a number of frequency changes. The following schedule updates, reflect the last issue for the year. My special thanks to the contributors that have provided the newsletters throughout the year. Our blog readers and Monitoring Times readers appreciate your assistance.
Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager-Monitoring Times

All times UTC

Germany
Some MBR changes:
WYFR Family Radio from Dec 6 / 9:
1900-2200 new freq 9925 WER 500 kW 180 deg to WeCeAF in English, x9480
1800-2000 new freq 12140 WER 500 kW 165 deg to SoAF in Solano/Zulu, x11820

Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (Radio Sadaye Zindagi) from Dec 13:
1600-1630 11830!WER 250 kW 090 deg to WeAS in Dari,x11955*, re-11895
! co-ch BBC in English
* to avoid BBC in Uzbek
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)

Guam
Frequency change of KTWR Agana in Vietnamese from Dec 19:
1100-1130 new freq 11750 TWR 100 kW 285 deg to SoEaAS, x11840
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)

Palau/ Malaysia (Clandestine)
Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay:
1000-1100 NF 15420 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS, x15680

Palau / Australia
Radio Australia
in Burmese again via T8HN Angel 4:
0100-0130 new freq 17585 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS, x11780 SNG
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)

Philippines
HRT Voice of Croatia
in Croatian / English now air:
0700-1100 17860 PHT 250 kW 150 deg to AUS, exSNG 100 kW 135 deg
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)

Rwanda
Additional frequency of Deutsche Welle in Dari from Dec 8:
1330-1400 15275 KIG 250 kW ??? deg to WeAs, co-ch DW Hausa also KIG!!!
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)

Uzbekistan (Clandestine)
Frequency change of Radio Free Chosun in Korean:
1500-1600 new freq 5760 TAC 100 kW 065 deg to NoKOR, x6225, re-ex7530
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)
(DX Mix News # 657 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)