THE LISTENING POST

~ Wantok Radio Light in Papua New Guinea has changed its location. The station has moved from Port Moresby to Mt. Hagen in the Western Highland province. The reason is said to be ongoing vandalism at the former site, as well as technical problems that were causing intermittent interruptions to its service. Wantok Radio uses 7325 kHz, and can occasionally be heard in early mornings in the U.S. It’s kind of an odd business, as the station is already shown in the “2020 World Radio TV Handbook” (WRTH) as being in Mt. Hagen.

~ Radio Guinea (RTG), Conakry, 9650 kHz is off the air (hopefully it’s just a temporary thing). Later … I guess it was just temporary since RTG now reported to be back on the air after an absence of several months.

~ Last reported last month, Hope Radio, the successor to World Harvest Radio, is now on the air via Palau on 9965 and 15680 kHz, both in English running 100 kilowatts from 0800-0900 UTC. Operations on the 9930-kHz frequency will begin shortly.

~ There is some rather confusing word about proposed new shortwave stations in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and even in Peru that would be designed to serve locals with Christian programming. Fuerzo de Paz and ethnicradio.org are working together on those projects in all four countries.

~ Brazil’s Radio Inconfidencia has reconstituted itself on 15190 kHz (again!). The rebirth was noted in Spain at the 1000 UTC hour, there was even an English station ID at 1029 UTC.

~ All India Radio’s entertainment channel, Vividh Bharati, (9830 kHz via Aligarh) has been taken off the air. Competition from Sri Lanka’s SLBC is blamed.

~ It seems more and more likely that Lao National Radio (6130 kHz) is off the air. Perhaps for good?

~World Harvest Radio is about to disappear on shortwave completely. Allan Weiner (WBCQ) has taken over the three transmitters (2-500 kilowatts, 1-100 kilowatts) in South Carolina. I’m unsure about the status of World Harvest’s broadcast and TV outlets in South Bend, Indiana. (BTW, WBCQ is looking for a fulltime engineer. –GLD)

Listener Logs

Remember, your shortwave broadcast station logs are always welcome. But please ensure to double or triple space between the logs, list each according to the station’s home country and include your last name and state abbreviation after each. Also needed are copies of QSLs, station schedules, brochures, pennants, station