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Don

Jensen

OWING

Guiana...Guinea -Not

sound

-alikes,

but similar

enough

to cause

confusion

GUIANA- ACTUALLY

THERE ARE

three of them -is in

South America,

while

Guinea -all

three of them -is in

Africa.

Add New

Guinea, half a

world

away, and it complicates

the situation

still more.

SWLs, of course, because of

their tuning

interests are more

attuned

to such geographical

trivia than non -

shortwave

types.

But its

more than a "name

game"

that we're

playing here.

Among the

GuianaGuinea countries are some in-

teresting listening targets for

shortwave

DXers.

Take

the Guiana trio, for in-

stance,

located high on

the "shoulder"

of South America,

tucked in

there

the Atlantic

coast between Venezuela

and Brazil.

There is

French Guiana, technically a

part of France;

Surinam, an indepen-

dent nation

formerly

called Dutch

Guiana; and Guyana, a post- indepen-

dence spelling

for the former

colony,

British

Guiana.

Easily,

the easiest to hear

of the

Guianas is French

Guiana, thanks to

high

-powered shortwave

-relay transmit-

ter facility operated

by Radio

France

International

(RFI). When

you listen

RFI's

English programming

at, say,

0330

UTC, on 6055 or

9800 kHz, the

strong

signals you here

are coming from

500 -kilowatt

transmitters

at Montsin-

ery, in French

Guiana.

The other

shortwave

outlet in

that

French

territory

is Radiodifusion

Fran -

caise

d'Outre -Mer

Guyana, or simply

RFO, which

broadcasts

from the city of

Gayenne. That station's

transmitter

out-

puts a mere 4

kilowatts, so

it is not an

easy

catch, but try 3385

kHz during the

very-early

morning

hours, say 0900

UTC

so.

The other

Guianas are iffy proposi-

tions. Surinam's Radio

Apintie, in the

capital of Parimaribo, sometimes

shows

up, mornings or

evenings, on

5005 kHz, but that frequency is often

noisy one.

Further, there are

questions

about

whether

the station's

operations

This exotic scene

of an

Indian temple,

Qubt

Minar. is

from

a QSL card sent

All

India

Radio (AIR)

in Delhi.

are all that regular.

And the

Guyana

Broadcasting

Corporation's

shortwave

station

at Georgetown, Guyana, on

5950 kHz isn't reported by listeners

too

often,

either.

For

Guinea,

have to leap

the At-

lantic.

On the

west-

African mainland

the Republic

of Guinea. Its

govern-

ment- operated

shortwave voice,

Con-

akry, is Radiodiffusion

National's Voix

de la

Revolution. Look for

it at about

0600

UTC on

4900

kHz, and at other

times on

7125, 9650, or 15,310 kHz.

Given that

country's colonial heritage,

isn't surprising that much

of the pro-

gramming is

in French.

On the other hand,

the linguistic

background

of the Democratic Re-

public of Equatorial

Guinea

Spanish.

It's a curious country,

consisting of the

mainland

portion, formerly

Spanish

Guinea,

and the offshore island that was

earlier known as

Fernando Po.

Radio Nacional

Guinea

Ec-

uatorial

has a mainland

station

at the

city of

Bata, operating

on 5000 kHz.

is heard

in North

America with not

too

much difficulty,

either at sign -on

short-

ly after 0500

UTC, or

at around 2100

UTC.

Even

easier to log

is the station's

international

service

at Malabo,

which

is in

English,

around 2100

UTC; the

broadcasts

consist mostly

of recorded

religious programs

by several U.S. -ra-

dio preachers. The

frequency is

9553

kHz.

Portugal

also controled

part of Af-

rican

Guinea during

its colonial days,

but Guinea -Bissau

has been indepen-

dent for several

decades

now. In the

past, Radiodffusao Nacional

operated

on shortwave in the

-meter

band, but

that station has

been inactive

for quite

some time.

New

Guinea, naturally, is

an entirely

different bit

of business.

It is the largest

island in the world,

located north

Australia.

The island

is split,

these

days, between

the nation

of Papua New

Guinea

and

the

Indonesian

territory of

Irian

Jaya.

Papua

New

Guinea has a series

shortwave

transmitters

throughout

its

farflung territory,

most of which

can,

under favorable

conditions,

be heard in

many

parts of

the U.S. and

Canada. But

for starters,

the most commonly

heard

seems

to be

the

NBC

station -which

stands

for National

Broadcasting

Com-

mission

of Papua New

Guinea -at Port

Moresby,

on 4890 kHz.

Try to listen

for

that one

at between

about 1000 and 1400

UTC, or at about

dawn

where

you

live.

Finally,

Indonesia's

national net-

work,

Radio

Republik Indonesia

has

several shortwave

stations in Irian

Jayas,

'CREDITS: Robert

Ross,

Ont;

Richard

Edkman,

CA; Cedric Marshall,

Ont.; Gordon

Edwards,

OH;

Richard

Lemke, Alberta,

Can-

ada;

Steve

Wallace,

CA; Michael Bryant,

GA;

North American

Association,

45 Wild-

flower Rd.,

Levittown, PA 19057;

Ontario DX

Association,

Box 161

Station

A, Willowdale,

Ontario,

Canada

M2N

5S8

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