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:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
:: from Radio Sweden ::
:: Number 2110--Sept. 4, 1990 ::
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Shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by Ingemar Sandberg.
Electronic Edition edited by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2110
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SWEDEN--If you have access to EuroSport on cable or off the Astra or Eutelsat
I-F4 satellites, you can now find the entire Radio Sweden European schedule.
You'll need a television set equiped for Tele-Text, and you'll find our
schedule on Tele-Text page 496. That page actually consists of four pictures
that alternate, and you'll also find there the Radio Sweden European
schedules in Swedish, French, German, and Spanish.
Our medium wave transmitter on 1179 kHz is off the air for the time being.
We're waiting for spare parts to arrive.
HELSINKI SUMMIT--This Sunday Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev
will meet in the Finnish capital Helsinki. We'll be covering the summit in
all of our Radio Sweden programs Sunday.
Our colleagues at Radio Finland will be providing even more coverage, a non-
stop service in English beginning at 04:00 hrs Friday and running until 22:00
hrs Monday. The service will feature live coverage of any summit events open
to the press, along with music interviews, and commentary. Between 21:00 and
03:00 hrs UTC taped recaps will be run, the rest of the programming will be
live.
The service will be round the clock on 103.7 MHz FM in Helsinki, and medium
wave 558 kHz. It will be carried on shortwave in regular scheduled Radio
Finland programs in English. And during the North American service at 12:00
to 15:00 hrs, these special English programs will replace Finnish and Swedish
as well. In fact, the head of Radio Finland, Juhani Niinistroe, tells us that
they may preempt any of the their regular frequencies in Finnish for this
special English service.
Some years ago Radio Finland stopped issuing QSL cards. But a special card in
honor of the summit will be provided in limited numbers.
SATELLITE-TV--Last week saw the launch of another Ariane rocket from French
Guiana. Two satellites have been carried into orbit. One is Skynet 4C, a
long-planned addition to the British Defence Minstry's satellite program.
The other satellite is the first in the new generation from Eutelsat,
Eutelsat II-F1, which is to be placed at 13 degrees East. That's the current
position of Eutelsat I-F4, which is to moved to 4 degrees East.
The new satellite has 16 channels in two beams. One is a wide beam to cover
all of Europe and the Canary Islands. The other is a high gain beam is
specifically for direct to home satellite broadcasters. Many channels
currently transmitting from other Eutelsat satellites are likely to move to
the new satellite, and there should be some new stations as well. British
Telecom has leased six transponders on Eutelsat II and promises at least
three will feature English-language programming.
Other channels likely to broadcast from the new satellite include Super
Channel, Galavision, Sat 1, and Nordic Channel. Eastern European countries
such as Romania and Poland have joined Eutelsat, which now serves 28
countries. ("What Satellite" and "Paa TV")
RAF IN THE GULF--We've reported on the US Air Forces frequencies used in
connection with the operation in the Middle East. Britain's Royal Air Force
can be heard on 11204 and 11234 kHz, in upper side band. (Hugh Stegman
CompuServe)
USA--We reported a couple of weeks ago how the Voice of America has increased
broadcasts in Arabic to the Gulf. Starting Wednesday this week the VOA will
be on the air 24 hours a day to the region. Arabic is increasing from just
under 10 to 13 hours a day. English programming to the MIddle East is
increasing to 21 hours a day.
The VOA is creating a Middle Eastern network, with the help of transmitters
loaned by Radio Free Europe. These transmitters, in Portugal, will be used
for VOA programs to Eastern Europe, freeing VOA transmitters in Germany and
Greece for the broadcasts to the Middle East.
Among the new transmissions, the special VOA Europe service is also being
relayed. Those signals, usually found only on satellite, FM, and medium wave,
will be at 03:00 to 03:30 hrs on 1260, 6095, 15160, 15225, 17810, and 17865
kHz. And 08:00 to 10:00 hrs on 11740, 15160, 15195, 21535, and 21615 kHz.
Iraq is jamming the Voice of America transmissions, just as it jammed Iran
during the Gulf War. (VOA)
BANGLADESH--Radio Bangladesh is now using 13615 and 11705 kHz for Arabic at
16:00-16:30 and Bengali at 16:30-18:00, both to the Middle East. (Alok
Dasgupta, India). There are many Bangladeshis stranded in Iraq and Kuwait.
CANARY ISLANDS--Radio Exterior de Espana is heard with programs from Santa
Cruz de Tenerife on 21555 kHz until 22:55. From 23:00 programs from Madrid
are relayed.. (Leo Jung, West Germany)
COLOMBIA--The following stations have been heard announcing the Radio Cadena
Nacional network: La Voz del Rio Arauca on 4895 kHz, La Voz de Guaviare en
San Jose de Guaviare on 6035 and Radio Cadena Nacional, Bogota on 6160 kHz
with 770 kHz in parallel.
Radio Super on Bogota has reactivated 6065 kHz, observed at 22:45
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)
CONGO--Updating SCDX-2099 and 2102, Radiodiffusion-Television Congolaise has
a new 100 kilowatt transmitter equipped with an omnidirectional antenna
system. In the near future two 300 kilowatt transmitters are to be installed.
(BBC Monitoring)
ICELAND--The recent shortwave schedule of Rikisutvarpid reads:
12:15-12:45 hrs on 17493, 15770, 13830 and 11418 kHz; 14:10-14:40 hrs on
17440, 15770 and 13885 kHz; 18:55-19:30 hrs on 15770, 13855, 11418 and 3295
kHz; and 19:35-20:10 and 23:00-23:35 hrs 17440, 15770 and 13855 kHz. (Andre
Tatter, West Germany)
INDIA--All India Radio has increased its services in Sindhi and Baluchi for
Pakistan. The Sindhi service is at 12:30-15:00 and Baluchi at 15:00-16:00 on
1071 kHz (1000 kilowatt transmitter in Rajkot) and on short wave 6170 and
11620 kHz. Consequently the programs in Dari and Pashtu at 13:30-15:45 are on
short wave only: 11960 and 7140 kHz. The morning service in Dari and Pashtu
can be heard on 7225, 9630 and 11910 kHz. The latter frequency being a move
from 6045 kHz. The Sinhala service at 13:00-15:00 is now on 9700 and 15020
kHz. (Alok Dasgupta)
ISRAEL--Israel is now back on standard time. Therefore the English broadcasts
of Kol Israel are at: 00:00, 01:00 and 02:00, 05:00, 11:00, 18:00, 20:00
22:30 and 23:00. (Steven Willers, Switzerland Al Quaglieri, USA via
Compuserve; and Wojciech Zaremba, Poland)
Kol Israel's schedule says there's a new trial shortwave relay of the audio
from Israeli television news in Hebrew. It's supposed to be sent to North
America and Western Europe at 19:00 to 19:55 hrs on 15640 kHz. But only the
regular Kol Israel broadcast in Russian has been heard then. (BBC Monitoring)
ITALY--A new private medium wave station "Radio Studio X" operates on 1584
kHz with 700 watts. Power is to be increased to 10 kW. (Valerio di Stefano,
Italy)
NEPAL--Radio Nepal has recently been heard on the new frequency of
648 kHz in parallel with 684 and 792 kHz during the three daily transmissions
starting at 00:15, 07:15 and 11:45. (Alok Dasgupta)
PAKISTAN--Recent frequency changes in Radio Pakistan's external service in
Urdu: 00:45-02:30 on 17640 and 21730 kHz (sometimes 21735); 07:15--11:00 on
17565 and 21520 kHz. (Alok Dasgupta)
PHILIPPINES--The Far East Broadcasting Company will start a new Bengali
service on September 7th. Transmissions will be during weekends at 14:30 on
15100 kHz. The English schedule of the FEBC now reads: 00:00-
-02:30. (Saturdays and Sundays until 02:00). on 15490 kHz; 09:00-11:00 on
9800 and 11845 kHz; 13:00-16:00 on 11850 kHz. (Alok Dasgupta)
Radio Veritas continues to search for better channels in the morning and
evening. Bengali at 01:00 and Hindi at 01:30 are on new 15400 kHz; Urdu at
02:00 is on 21560 kHz and the evening services in Telugu, Sinhala and Tamil
at 13:00-14:25 are on 9520. (Alok Dasgupta)
SEYCHELLES--FEBA is in French at 09:12-09:30 hrs on 15430 kHz. On Saturdays
and Sundays the transmission lasts until 10:00. French is also at 18:33-18:51
(Friday-Monday until 19:06) on 9565 kHz. English programs are on 11865 kHz
(Wednesday-Saturday also 9590 and 15330 kHz) beginning at 14:58. (FEBA)
SRI LANKA--Updating SCDX-2106, the new World service of the SLBC also
announces 9720 kHz besides 15120. (Henning Sandte, West Germany)
USSR--A new station "Echo of Moscow" was inaugurated on August 22nd.
It uses 1206 kHz at 15:00-17:00, next year possibly extended to 24 hour
service. Among its founders are the Moscow Soviet, the Radio Association
attached to the USSR Ministry of Communications, the magazine "Ogonyek" and
the Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism. (BBC Monitoring)
PUBLICATIONS--"Asia on Medium Waves" is a comprehensive list of all Asian
medium wave stations heard in Finland, Norway and Sweden between
November 1978 and June 1990. The 36 page publication lists more than 870
stations in frequency and medium wave season order. The publication also
includes lists of stations logged from Pakistan, India, Thailand, The
Philippines, Korea and Japan. You can order by sending FIM 10 or 3 IRC's to
Tampere DX-Club, Jorma Mantyla, P O Box 212, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland.
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Sweden Calling DXers is the world's oldest radio program for shortwave
listeners. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features,
and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. RS broadcasts to North America:
15:30 hrs on 17880 and 21500 kHz
02:30 hrs on 11705 and 15295 kHz
To Europe, Africa, and the Middle East:
15:30 hrs on 21655 kHz (East Africa and Middle East)
17:00 hrs on 1179, 6065, and 9615 kHz
21:00 hrs on 1179, 9655 and 11705 kHz
23:00 hrs on 1179 kHz
22:30 hrs on 1179 kHz
And to Asia and the Pacific:
11:30 hrs on 17740, 21570, and 21610 kHz
14:00 hrs on 17740 and 21610 kHz
01:00 hrs on 15405 and 17860 kHz
The Radio Sweden schedule to Europe in Swedish, English, German, French, and
Spanish can be found on EuroSport (on cable and on the Astra and Eutelsat I-
F4 satellites) Tele-Text page 496.
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Reports can also be sent to:
Radio Sweden
S-105 10 Stockholm
Sweden
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