From MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu Mon Aug 9 18:55:24 1993 Received: from geraldine.mcrest.edu by cs.tut.fi with SMTP id AA28360 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 9 Aug 1993 18:55:16 +0300 Received: from charon.mcrest.edu by geraldine.mcrest.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA06253; Mon, 9 Aug 1993 10:52:51 -0500 Received: From TMU/WORKQUEUE by charon.mcrest.edu via Charon-4.0-VROOM with IPX id 100.930809104644.480; 09 Aug 93 10:47:18 +600 Message-Id: To: xx159@yfn.ysu.edu, acourt@ncc.uky.edu, gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, rko@cs.tut.fi, marshall@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, Elizabeth.Milewicz@sociol.utas.edu.au, al911@yfn.ysu.edu From: "Don Moore" Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Date: 9 Aug 93 10:46:33 CST Subject: DX Humor - More Listeners' Trashbag Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4). Status: OR LISTENERS' TRASHBAG Edited by Sven Gonzalez LT NOTES In a letter just received from the BBC MS, she informs us that she has recently gotten married and should henceforth be known as the BBC MRS. (Glad you liked the lime-green VOA nightie. Hope the honeymoon in the Falklands is everything you want it to be. - sg) Many listeners have complained since Radio Uganda banned burping and passing gas on the air. I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I've decided to fill that much needed gap in shortwave programming. Beginning next month, I will sneeze and let the telephone ring on my weekly "World of Jammers" program. (sg) NON-UGANDAN DX NEWS MEXICO: La Hora Mas o Menos 9500-9800v with time checks on the hour, more or less. Daily except Sundays, holidays, and after the chief engineer has tied one on, from 0930-2230, more or less. (Hollister) New station, El Ano Exacto, will broadcast on 13690 on December 31 only from 2359-2401. (Rumbley) PERU: Radio magnate Juan Valdez has announced the formation of a new broadcasting network named for himself, the "Cadena Juan del Peru". Member stations include Radio Juan Cavelica, Radio Juan Cayo, and Radio Juan Tadosmil. (Dan Muir) RWANDA: According to station manager Jean-Claude Duvalmobutu, RTV Rwandaise will become RRTTY Rwandaise starting September 1. Duvalmobutu says the station cannot afford the TV realy transmitters to cover Rwanda's hilly terrain, and RTTY is more easily picked up on regular SW sets. Programming will include transcripts of "Dallas" and "Meet the Press". Locally-originated programming will commence following delivery of a keyboard. (BBCMRS) ZAMBIA: "We would like to clarify our earlier declaration that all our programs will be oval-shaped. Please note that our newscasts remain triangular." (letter from Radio Zambia, direct) UNIMPORTANT DX NEWS BENIN: This country is considering a name change to "Benign", to "show that we're really a bunch of nice guys." (Sweden Calling Computer Hackers #6529 via sg) CANADA: One night last week when I tuned in CBC's "As It Happens" program all I heard was dead air. I decided to find out why, so I called CBC HQ in Toronto. They said nothing was happening. (Andre Carbonneau, PQ). That's been happening a lot lately. (sg) ECUADOR: Several members of the International Association of Satanic DXers broke into HCJB's main transmitter building on August 7. Their intention was to sacrifice a virgin by frying her in the RF of the 500 kW transmitter's main power tube. Engineer John McCoy, however, heard the noise and went to investigate. He scared them away by making a cross of two rolled-up reception reports. The girl escaped in the confusion. ("Bahamas Daily Whoppie Cushion" via Jack Mann). Not so unusual. They tried to do the same thing at a local AM station during their convention in Tulsa last year. (sg) PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: Radio Western Lowlands and Radio Southern Lowlands are now inactive following recent flashfloods (Tedium Network) PERU: Radio Inferior heard at 0330 on 5357 w/ apologies for weak transmitter (Bill Rumbley). I believe their interval signal is the first six notes from Pedro Morazo's "Huayno in A Major". (sg) SANDI ARABIA: Despite reports to the contrary, BSKSA insists that DXers who send the station incorrect reception reports will NOT have their hands cut off (Bill Kyle). TANZANIA: R Tanzania reported on July 17 that Director of Broadcasting John Wakati warned RT journalists that being creative does not mean bragging about their sexual exploits on the air (BBCMRS). GRANNIES CLANNIES THE VOICE OF THE NEAR MARTYRS: 6980 *0400-0415 w/ commentary on the importance of living comfortably in a friendly country and working at a clandestine radio station as part of the revolutionary struggle (Carson Humboldt). VOICE OF THE FREE OMANI BIOCHEMISTS: Noted on 11595 at 1945-2011* w/ talk on the role of proteins in the people's revolutionary struggle (Jack Mann). Sure of ID? This time and frequency listed at Radio Liberated Biochemists of Oman, per BBCMRS (sg). LA VOZ DEL KID: New anti-Castro clannie apparently connected to former pirate "Kids Playing Radio" (BBCMRS). DX PEEK-A-BOO IDENTIFIED: According to a letter from our Peruvian correspondent, Mary Bas-Culotte, the station recently logged by a few North American DCers on 5064.7 and tentatively presumed to be a new Peruvian, Radio Canera, is actually a new Colombian, Radio Incontinente. The station gives local IDs infrequently, prefering to use the network ID, "CANERA", which is the new short name of the familiar Cadena Neumatica Radial. Radio Incontinente does indeed use the slogan "La Voz de los que tienen dinero." (via sg). PUBLICATIONS: Just received first issue of the new publication "The International DX Inquirer", published by "The International Inquirer", owners of shortwave station WLIQ ("For people with low IQs, like me!"). Front page headlines as follows: "ELVIS ALIVE!!!! Spotted cleaning the johns at WRNO!!" "Yet ANOTHER sex scandal at Radio Cairo!!" "In exclusive interview, VOA's Philomena Jury reveals, 'I want to have Joe Adamov's baby.'" Needless to say, great reading! (sg) ************************************************************** The above items were excerpted from the 1989 edition of BLANDX, the annual DX humor magazine. Contributions are currently being accepted for the 1993 edition of BLANDX. This file and other DX humor files from BLANDX posted to rec.radio.shortwave may be reposted electronically in their entirety and without changes anywhere provided a message is sent to me informing me where it is being posted to and by whom. Anyone wishing to use this material in a publication should contact me first, although permission will normally be freely given. ************************************************************ * * Don Moore * What were once vices * MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu * are now * 11434 140th St. * good DXing habits. * Davenport, IA * * 52804-9538 USA * BLANDX 1990 * * * ************************************************************