Clandestine Radio Watch 036
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CLANDESTINE RADIO WATCH
November 11, 1999
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Radio Kudirat has closed down
Que Huong Radio from HWA to VTN
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Radio Kudirat has closed down
from Chris Greenway-BBCM Nov 10 for CRW
Radio Kudirat, the pro-democracy station which had broadcast to
Nigeria from shortwave transmitters in South Africa since 1996,
appears to have closed.
It has not been heard since the end of October.
Nigerian political activist and Nobel prize-winner Prof Wole
Soyinka is reported as saying in a statement issued in the United
States on 1st November that Radio Kudirat would be relocating "home".
Whilst the station used Sentech's shortwave transmitters in South
Africa, it is believed to have prepared its programmes at studios
in London.
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Que Huong Radio from HWA to VTN
from : Cumbre DX Special November 8, 1999
Contributors Hans Johnson AZ, Adrian Peterson IN
CLANDESTINE from HAWAII to VIETNAM 9930 Que Huong Radio Nov 8
1530-1630 New radio station broadcasting in Vietnamese, Monday to
Saturday 1530-1630 UTC. News, music, forum promoting freedom and
human rights. Address: Que Huong Radio, 2670 S. White Road, Suite
165, San Jose, CA 95148, U.S.A. E-mail: qhradio@aol.com Web:
http://www.quehuongmedia.com . Reception reports welcome.
(Maes via British DX Club)
Via KWHR, which Maes didn't mention.My Vietnamese friends tell me
that Que Houng means "The Country."They add that the backer of
this station has been on Vietnamese AM radio in the San Francisco
Bay Area asking for donations.Looks like what I call the "Nigeria
effect"is happening in the Vietnamese Bay Area community, by where
one exile group starts shortwave broadcasts, largely for prestige
purposes, and then other groups copycat the first group in order to
jump on the bandwagon.This is the second Vietnamese program to come
on the air in the last few months.The Que Houng website has a nice
South Vietnamese flag fluttering on it, so I think I have a pretty
good idea of the slant of their programs. (Johnson)
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COLOMBIA
Radio Patria Libre
Organization: ELN
Languages: Spanish
Address: Colombia Popular, c/o Tommy Weissbeckerhaus,
Wilhelmstr.9, 10963 Berlin, Germany
ID : Sistema Radial Radio Patria Libre (Gaviria)
1123-11426261,6 kHz (Moore-USA via NU 1550)
Voz de la Resistencia, Comando Occidente (?)
Organization: FARC - Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia
Languages: Spanish
Address : previously published E-mails seem to be wrong
Identification : Voz de la Resistencia de Comando
Conjunto de Occidente (Gaviria)
2220- 6261,2 kHz(Novello-USA via NU 1551)
CUBA
R Marti Oct 31 1999 - Mar 25 2000
0000 0400 GB 11775 184 0000 0400 GB7365 164
0300 0400 GA7405 205 0400 0700 GB 11775 184 exc Sun
0400 0700 GB9805 184 exc Sun 0400 1000 GA7405 205 exc Sun
0400 0700 GA6030 200 exc Sun 0700 1000 DL7365 100 exc Sun
0700 1000 DL6030 100 exc Sun 0700 1000 DL5980 100 exc Sun
1000 1500 GA9565 190 1000 1300 DL6060 116
1000 1200 DL6030 100 1000 1300 DL5980 100
1200 1400 GA7405 200 1300 1700 GA 13820 174
1300 0000 GA 11930 205 1400 1700 DL 11815 100
1500 2200 DL 21600 100 1700 0300 DL 13820 100
1700 2200 GA9825 190 2200 2400 DL 15330 100
2200 0400 GA6030 200
(Glenn Hauser, OK, SW DXR Nov 4 via BCDX 437)
ETHIOPIA
Rainbow Radio(GRA)
Organization: GRAPECA / RAGPEHA
Address: P.O.Box 140104, 53056 Bonn, Germany
Language: Amharic
Identification:
(Amharic) Kestedamena rediyo ye selamena yewendimamach dimtse
0100-01596155 kHz day 7(GRA) GNW VOD
0100-01596155 kHz day 1GNWGRA VOD
1000-10595995 kHz day 1(GRA) GNW
1000-10595995 kHz day 7GNWGRA
1600-1629 15105 kHz day 1UNLGRA GNW
1600-1659 15105 kHz day 6(GRA) GNW UNL
1600-1659 15105 kHz day 7GNWGRA UNL
(DTK Juelich via BCDX 437)
Voice of Oromo Liberation
Organization: Oromo Liberation Front
Languages: Amharic
Address : SBO, P.O.Box 510610, 13366 Berlin, Germany
Identification: (Amharic) Kun Sagalee Bilisumma Oromoo
1700-1759 15105 kHz day 1,5,6
1700-1759 15105 kHz day 7 (DTK Juelich via BCDX 437)
IRAN
Voice of Mojahed / Voice of the Crusader
Organization: Mojahedin e-Khalq
Address: Heibatollahi, Postfach 502107, 50981 Koeln, Germany
Website: www.iran-e-azad.org/english/index.html
Web address: www.iran.mojahedin.org(by Fathi)
Language: Farsi
Identification: (Farsi) Sedaye Mojahed
*0220-0630* v9350, v7450, v7050 and seven more freqs
*1420-1900* v9350, v7450, v7050 and seven more freqs
(R.Pankov-BUL Oct 22 via BCDX 437)
IRAQ
Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan
Organization: Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
Address : KDP Press Office, PO Box 4912, London SE15 4EW, UK
E-mail : 101564.3336@compuserve.comkdpeurope@aol.com
Languages: Kurdish
Identification: (Kurdish) Aira dangi Kurdistana Iraqiyah
Kurdish : Dendzi Kurdestana Iraqa (Fransson)
(Arabic)Huna Iraqi Kurdistan
Arabic: Sawt-o Kurdistani Iraq (Pankov)
*0355-0650* 4085
*1435-1630* 4085
*1710-2010* 4085(R.Pankov-BUL Oct 22 via BCDX 437)
KOREA NORTH
Voice of the People
Organization: Korean Workers' Union
Language: Korean
Identification: Yoginun Pyongyang-eso ponaedurinun
inminuisoribang-imnida
1210-3881 kHz (Howell Nov 3 via CDX 267)
KURDISTAN
Voice of the People of Kurdistan
Organization: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Contact Address : UK: 44-181-642-4518 Fax: 44-181-64-4514
PUK Canada e-mail: pukcnda@mail.globalserve.net
Website : www.aha.ru/~said/dang.htm
Languages: Kurdish, Arabic
Identification: (Kurdish) Aira dangi Gelli Kurdistana
Kurdish : Dendzi Gelli Kurdistana (Pankow)
(Arabic) "Iza'at Sout Shab Kurdistan, Sawt
al-Itehad al-Watani al-Kurdistani" (Radio VO People of
Kurdistan, Vo The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan).(Fathi)
*0335-0715*v4065 & v6885
*1435-1810*v4065 & v6885
*1940-2040*v4065 & v6885(R.Pankov-BUL Oct 22 via BCDX 437)
MYANMAR
Democratic Voice of Burma
Organization: activitsts for NCGUB
Address: P.O.Box 6720, Skt. Olavs Plass, N-0130 Oslo, Norway
Website: www.communique.no/dvb/
E-mail: dvb@sn.no
Language: Burmese and portions of Shan/Karen/Kayan
Identification : (Burmese): Democratic Myanmar a-Than
1245-1345 17535 kHz (DTK Juelich via BCDX 437)
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SUDAN
CLANDESTINE from ERITREA to SUDAN (Tentative) 8000 National
Democratic Alliance-Voice of Sudan 0402-0500. (43333) Abrupt fade
up while checking freq. Sudanese style music played on a Krar
instrument. No sign of an Arabic newscast which should have been
0400-0420, nor any parallels noted or alternative frequency usage
on 9000, 10000, 12000 kHz. Sudanese music continued throughout the
hour, albeit any announcer's segment, including 0500. Anyone have a
clue? (Van Horn Nov 3 via CDX 267)
UNID
Last night (22 August), while checking for pirates, I heard African
style tribal music on 6950 in usb mode. Not audible in am mode. Thats
the second time recently. The time was between 0400 and 0425. Its not
very strong. Anybody else hearing this?
I got the African mx again tonight. 6950 usb, 25 August, 0407 to 0409
utc then I started getting interference from American pirate Radio
Metallica Worldwide on 6955 am.
6950 was not there just before the hour when I had checked on it.
Then when I checked at at 0407 6950 was coming in SINPO 25442 until
wiped out by RMWW on 6955 with SINPO 45433.
I am hearing African tribal mx with Arabic-like influences. This time
on 6920usb. On 1 November 1999 from 0405 (SINPO 35443) to 0423 fade out.
And on 31 Octomber 1999 from 0448 (SINPO 35442)to 0512 fading out
again. No announcements heard. Just one song stops and another starts
immediately. Help ID this.
(C.P.Crawford-USA Oct 31 for CRW)
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CHINA
Full data QSL card from Vo Tibet with a personal handwritten letter
for a report of 25/9/99 signed by project mgr O Alme. This card came
after several follow up thru email. (Chakroborty via CDX 267)
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Radio Marti with some new freqs
R Marti has some new freqs 21600 during many hrs, incl 1500, 1600
and later, Oct 31. Super signal here and no jamming yet. Also Nov 1
at 1222 on 5980 instead of 5985. No jamming heard, but Cuban commie
bubbles still on long abandonded 5890, and on 6030, vacant of Marti
after 1200, but enough to ruin any chances of Calgary.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 1)
21600 R Marti, 1520-1535, presume a fairly new freq (the old, not
updated spring/summer online schedule lists 21500 as 1700-1800 via
Delano). Unjammed and xlnt, // 11815 (jammed), 11930 (unjammed) and
13820 (jammed). (Krueger-FL, Nov 4)
Found R Marti on another new freq, 6060 Nov 3 at 1207 //5980; 6060
was once a Havana channel. Both extremely strong here as usual making
me wonder how efficiently the power is being focussed on Cuba !Also
weak and fading //signal on 12040, which is 5980 plus 6060, so I
suspect it was a propagated tx mixing product; nothing on 12120, and
11960 blocked by another stn, which would have been the respective
second harmonics.
So I finally looked up RM's complete new schedule, still not updated
on the main VOA site, but at the IBB/his site. Note that all of these
are now Delano, not Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, SW DXR Nov 4 via
BCDX 437)
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Clandestine from PAK (pres.) to JAMMU KASHMIR (IND territory)
Voice of Jammu Kashmir Freedom on 5101.21. *1300-1430* I conjecture
that in former "V.O.Kashmir Freedom" on 4100. chant Koran, Kashmir
talks and Revolutionary songs. IDed "In Sedai Furiyati Jammu Kashmir
..." in Kashmiri (p). Opening and Ending song "al-Lah akbar".
Signal-
strength is strong, and no-interference.
(Satoshi Hasebe-JPN, Cumbre Oct 21 via BCDX 435)
Voice of Kashmir Freedom nothing heard when checking their listed
frequencies of 5300 and 6300 at 1545.
(Watson Oct 23 in CDX 266)
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SW b/cing in Korea
For an excellent article on SW b/cing in Korea, including also
clandestines and number stns, read Rich D'Angelo's "DX Target:
Korea--A Peninsula Filled With Drama," in the November 1999 NASWA
Journal ("Shortwave Center," pp. 13-20).(J.Berg via NU 1551)
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Anyone still hearing Radio Kudirat ?
11560 Radio Kudirat checked for this one several times during 1900
via Bob Arnold's remote receiver in New York. Nothing heard. Anyone
still hearing this one? (Johnson Nov in CDX 267)
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UK Political Activists Use Clandestine Radio
Following is an abridged version of an article entitled "Anarchy
Ahoy!" published in the British weekly magazine "The Big Issue", No
357, October 18-24 1999.
Anarchy Ahoy!By Greg Lowe and Gibby Zobel
"We were all very turned on by the idea of intelligent pirate radio -
something other than wall-to-wall jungle," says El Patrone, of
Brighton's Radio 4A (Note:the "A" stands for "Anarchy".)
Although the seminal work "Radio Is My Bomb", published by Hooligan
press, is out of print, the technical skills of radio hams are being
used by disaffected activists more than ever before.
"It makes an excellent party," says Mr Patrone."It's not one person
behind a mic like most radio stations, but a houseful of designers,
musicians, graphic artists, performers, producers, engineers, bill
posters and correspondents all enjoying a few beers and a new
challenge."
The last broadcast - from within sight of the local police station -
had small children on the mic and comedey DJing while a merry throng
had a barbecue by the transmitter.People come, do their shifts and
more arrive once they've been checked via the video camera on the
door.
Aping their BBC cousins, the programming on the station includes File
on 4A, Desert Island Discs and What the Papers Say.The content
switches from the investigative (the ongoing secret war with Iraq),
the sublime (Women's Hour, brought to you by HAG - The Hellraising
Anarchist Girls) to the ridiculous "The Archers At War" (Note:a
parody on a famous soap opera about the British countryside).
According to its manifesto, Radio 4A aims to:"raise questions and
provide information in a politically controlled world, undermining
the power of the controllers - while not taking ourselves too
seriously."It adds that pirate radio is "something to listen to
because the silence is deafening".
"The most effective means of bringing about change are the least
accessible, because their usefulness has been corrupted by big
business.So by taking control of our media we can produce our own
propaganda.We put a tool for conviviality into the hands of anybody
who shows an interest," says El Patrone, emphasising the station's
difference from the usual music-only fare of other illegal
broadcasters.
An autonomous ring of political pirate stations has grown up all over
the country recently, co-ordinated by London-based Interference FM
(IFM).They pump out weekly broadcasts in London, Bristol,
Manchester, Leeds and Brighton.
"IFM has developed from a band of disillusined pirates and others
working for social change," says Chris Winton from IFM London."It
aims to replace commerical radio.There are no community stations -
commercial radio is simply for advertisers to sell their wares."
IFM has provided support for various grassroots political struggles
over the past few years.It helped the Hunt Saboteurs' Broadcasting
Corporation disrupt the 1998 Countryside March in London, provided
the only proactive radio coverage of the J18 Carnival Against
Capitalism in the City earlier this year, and in August IFM covered
the Exodus Colletive's festival on their farm in Luton.
"Pirate radio is about local groups and communities finding their
voice and making it heard.But the majority of pirates never move
beyond playing music," says Doug Savage of IFM.
Policing ther airwaves is the job of the Radiocommunications Agency
(RCA), an executive agency of the Department of Trade & Industry
(DTI). Last year it carried out 944 raids on pirate stations,
resulting in 52 convictions and generated £27,400 in fines and costs.
"Pirate stations normally broadcast on frequencies that interfere
with properly authorised broadcasts," says RCA spokesman Peter
Manditch. "If we discover a pirate station we seek to have it closed
down."
In smaller cities this process takes time but in London, home to the
DTI, subversive commentary is swiftly dealt with.
"London is crawling with pirates.Yet the J18 coverage lasted just
four-and-a-half hours before the rig was smashed up.It was entirely
due to the radical nature of the broadcast," says Peter Panatone (of
the J18 station).
The cost of licences and the RCA's repressive policing compound the
politics of radio."The main aim of the regulation is revenue
generation - chunks of the spectrum are sold off to the highest
bidder," explains 'Marconi', who maintains the Irrational website,
providing information on pirate stations. "The notion that the ether
is a commodity owned by the state is highly objectionable."
(via C.Drake Nov 9 for CRW)
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Thanks to the following contributors : Al Quaglieri, Charles Drake,
Charles P. Crawford, Chris Greenway
Source Abbreviations:
ACH: Anti-Castro Historiography-USA
A-DX : A-DX-mailing list-Austria (ex ADXB-OE ml)
BBCM : BBC Monitoring-UK
BCDX : Broadcast DX-Germany
CDX: Cumbre DX-USA
ConDig : Conexion Digital-Argentina
CRW: Clandestine Radio Watch
GAT: Gatflash-Italy
SWDXR: Hauser's SW DX Report-USA
HCDX : Hard-Core-DX-mailing list
KWWH : Kurier mit wwh-Germany
NU : Numero Uno-USA
PDX: Play DX-Italy
TFW: The Four Winds Online-Italy
WDXC : World DX Club 'Contact'-UK
BBCM items are Copyright BBCM 1999.
DIRECT items are Copyright Hans Johnson 1999.
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