Bulgaria: DX Program June 3, 2011

On the program: 
- Radios – in private collections and museums 
- Radio calendar 
- Broadcast tips 
- DX Mix News by Ivo Ivanov 

There are hundreds of collections worldwide, related to the radio - microphones, recording systems, QSL cards, TV and radio sets etc. 

The 2001 edition of the Guinness book wrote about Swedish radio listener Goeran Arad, who had gathered at that time 10,060 radio sets. In 2005 M. Prakash from India had 625 radio sets of different kind. The best collections, of course, can be found in the museums that are divided in two groups: common technical museums and specialized museums for radio and television. Thus for instance the radio station and the tower that broadcast the news on the German invasion on September 1st 1939, situated in Gliwice, Poland, were turned into a museum. There are many museums in Russia, named after the Russian scientist Popov. In Europe there are also lots of "radio museums", for instance in Christiansfeld in Denmark, where visitors can see over 400 radio sets, or in Furth, Germany, where the collection is dedicated to short waves and radio receivers. One of the most interesting museums of that kind is situated in a small Austrian village, called Feichtlgut. 
Mr. Franz Hatinger receives visitors and explains in details the functions and usage of Tomas Edison's phonograph, ending with modern radio sets with extravagant design. 
The most interesting radio museum, without any doubts, is situated in the Vatican State. The Vatican Radio Museum was unveiled on May 16 1995 at the 100th anniversary of the radio and in the memory of Guglielmo Marconi. It is situated in the same building some 2 km away from the Vatican, where the first local radio broadcast took place, under Marconi's guidance. The transmitter was a spark-gap one and it was included into the exposition, along with another one, with coherer. By the way, all the appliances exposed work – the clay phonographs from the 1877 lab of Edison, the loop antenna with 10 sides /currently used with 4 sides for short and medium waves reception/, etc. A total of 180 appliances can be found in the museum in perfect condition. For instance, the rubber microphone that Pope Pius XI used on February 12 1931 to unveil the Vatican Radio, is also exhibited at the museum. There is a great interest towards the first type recorder from the Webster Chicago brand, manufactured in the USA in 1935, as the recordings were made on a reeled metal wire. 
There are lots of other radio museums around the globe. In Bulgaria, a special department of the Technical Museum exhibits different radio devices and sets. 

Radio calendar 

The Telefunken Company was established on May 27 1903, while on May 29 1926 Radio Suomi from Finland started broadcasting. On May 30 1924 Marconi established the first radio connection between Europe and Australia. First radio broadcasts started in Japan on June 1 1926, in Singapore in 1936 and in Ghana in 1961. 

Broadcast tips 

JORDAN : rarely received on short waves Radio Jordan was heard with a broadcast in Arabicic at 11.00 h on 15290 KHz. 
CHINA & ALBANIA: China Radio International with a programme in English was received after 12.00 h on 13650 KHz from a transmitter in Albania and on 13645 , 13790 and 17490 KHZ from Chinese transmitters, situated in Cashi & Urumqui . 
CROATIA: Croatian Radio or Voice of Croatia was heard with a programme in English after 02.05 h on 3985 KHz. 
TUNISIA: Radio Tunisia with a program in Arabic was heard at an unusually early hour at 02.30 h on 9725 KHz. 
ERITREA: The Eritrean Radio was heard at 02.55 h, before the start of its regular broadcasting on 7175 KHz with an interval signal and identifications in different local languages. 
USA: A program that is broadcast only on Saturday on 9840 KHz from 03.00 to 04.00 h, was heard on May 28 on World Harvest Radio from 03.00 h in English and at 03.30 h in Russian. 

Compiled by Rumen Pankov 


DX MIX  
All hours in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), all frequencies in kilohertz (kHz). 

Saudi Arabia: Today I start the summer schedule of Broadcasting Service of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (BSKSA) via transmitters in Riyadh 500 kW: 
- First Main Program in Arabic in the following two directions: in azimuth 295 degrees for Northeastern Africa and in azimuth 310 degrees for West Europe.

0600-0855 h on 17730 / 295 degrees and 17740 / 310 degrees 
0900-1155 h on 15490 / 310 degrees and 17805 / 295 degrees 
1200-1455 h on 17705 / 310 degrees and 21505 / 295 degrees 
1500-1755 h on 15225 / 295 degrees and 15435 / 310 degrees,

Call of Islam programme 1500-1700 h 
1800-2255 h on 9555 / 295 degrees and 9870 / 310 degrees 

- Holy Qura'n programme in Arabic 
0300-0555 h on 15170 / 355 degrees for West Asia 
0300-0755 h on 17895 / 40 degrees for Central Asia 
0600-0855 h on 15380, 0900-1155 h on 11935 and 1200-1355 h on 15380 / 310 degrees for the Middle East 
0900-1155 h on 17570 / 070 degrees for South Asia 
0900-1155 h on 17615 and 1200-1355 h on 17625 / 100 degrees for Southeast Asia 
1200-1455 h on 17895, 1500-1755 h on 13710 and 1800-2255 h on 11915 / 295 degrees for Northeast Africa 
1300-1555 h on 17615 / 190 degrees for Central Africa 
1600-1755 h on 15205 and 1800-2255 h on 11820 / 320 degrees for West Europe 
1600-1755 h on 17560 and 1800-2255 h on 11930 / 270 degrees for West and central Africa 

-broadcasts in other languages External Service 
0400-0655 h on 15285 / 190 degrees for Central Africa in Swahili 
0800-0955 h on 17785 and 1400-1755 h on 17660 / 270 degrees for West Africa in French 
0900-1155 h on 21670 / 100 degrees for Southeast Asia in Indonesian 
0930-1225 h on 15250 / 250 degrees for West and Central Africa in English 
1200-1455 h on 13775 / 70 degrees for South Asia in Urdu 
1200-1455 h on 15120 / 70 degrees for South Asia in Bengali 
1500-1755 h on 7240 / 40 degrees for West Asia in Farsi 
1500-1755 h on 9885 / 40 degrees for Central Asia in Turkmen, Uzbek и Tajik 
1800-2055 h on 9675 / 340 degrees for the Middle East in Turkish 

-second programme in Arabic via a transmitter in Jeddah 50 kW / omnidirectional antenna 
0300-0555 h and 1700-2155 h on 9580, 0600-1655 h on 11855 for the Middle East 

Kuwait: I continue with the summer schedule of Radio Kuwait via transmitters in Kabd: 
-Basic programme in Arabic at: 
0200-0900 h on 5960, 250 kW / omnidirectional antenna for the Middle East, with interference from Radio Japan NHK in Japanese until 0500 
1000-1500 h on 21540, 500 kW / 310 degrees for West Europe, with strong interference from Radio Exterior de Espana in Spanish 
1100-1600 h on 9750, 300 kW / 275 degrees for Northeast Africa, with interference from Radio Japan NHK in Japanese, and after 1300 h from Voice of Russia too in a DRM mode 
1600-2200 h on 6080, 500 kW/omnidirectional antenna for the Middle East, with interference from Radio Minsk in Belorussian, and after 1700 h from the Voice of America in English too 
1700-2000 h on 13650 and 2000-2400 h on 17550, 500 kW / 350 degrees for North America 

-Holy Qura'n programme in Arabic via Kabd 250 kW 
0500-0900 h on 15515 / 59 degrees for South Asia, with interference from the BBC on house 0630-0700 h 
0930-1600 h on 11630 / 230 degrees for Central Africa, with interference from China National Radio in Kazakh and Chinese 

-broadcasts in other languages via Kabd 500 kW 
0800-1000 h on 7250 / omnidirectional antenna for West Asia in Persian (Farsi) 
1800-2100 h on 15540 / 310 degrees for West Europe in English  

Author: Ivo Ivanov, Frequency Manager of Radio Bulgaria 

SOURCE:  DX Program June 3, 2011 http://bit.ly/iomYvz
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