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Radio Yugoslavia

Back On The Air!

by Gerry L. Dexter
 

How’d you like to be parked in this lounge chair, refreshment at your side and portable shortwave in your lap? This was one of HCJB’s 2002 QSL card series. (Tnx: Ray Paradis, ME)

We’ll start off the New Year with some good news. Someone has robbed a piggy bank and come up with the funds necessary to get Radio Yugoslavia back on the air. Even better, the broadcasts are coming from the station’s own site at Bijeljina. We don’t have an operational schedule at this point, but a few people have noted the station on its old 6100 channel late in the North American afternoons. Here’s their full shortwave schedule:
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1430–1458 in Arabic on 11800!
1500–1528 in Russian on 11870
1530–1543 in Hungarian on 6100
1545–1558 in Greek on 6100
1600–1628 in French on 9620
1630–1658 in German on 9620
1700–1713 in Albanian on 6100
1715–1728 in Bulgarian on 6100
1730–1758 in Italian on 9620
1800–1828 in Russian on 6100
1830–1858 in English on 6100
1900–1928 in Spanish on 7200
1930–1958 in Serbian on 6100 (Sun–Fri)
1930–2028 in Serbian on 6100 (Sat)
2000–2028 in German on 6100 (Sun–Fri)
2030–2058 in French on 6100
2100–2128 in English on 6100
2130–2158 Serbian on 7230 (Sun–Fri)
2130–2228 in Serbian on 7230 (Sat)
2200–2228 in English on 7230 (Sun–Fri)
2230–2258 in Chinese on 9580
2300–2328 in Spanish on 9680
2330–2358 in Serbian on 9580 (not Sun)
2330–0028 in Serbian on 9580 (Sun)
0000–0028 in English on 9580 (Mon–Sat)
0030–0058 in Serbian on 9580 (Belgrade 1 Home Service)
0430–0458 in English on 9580.

News From Liberia and HCJB-Australia

The “not-the-one-in-the-Philippines” Radio Veritas has taken to the air from Liberia and is making it to the shacks of at least a few U.S. listeners. They are using 10 kilowatts on 5470 from 1700 to 2300, which should allow most of us a reasonable opportunity to hear it near the later hour, at least at this time of year, although this frequency may be replaced by the traffic-heavy 6090. Another frequency, 3450, is active from 0600 to 1700. This new religious station broadcasts largely in English.
 

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