Re: [A-DX] 7540 khz Voice of Mesopotamia

[Patrick Robic <patrick.robic@xxxxxx>]

Felix Name auf Wunsch gelöscht schrieb:
> Laut <http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/bib09.txt> via Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
> (wieso wird der Standort im WRTH eigentlich mit "SMF" abgekürzt?)

aus DXLD 3-170:

> ** UKRAINE [and non]. Re: Thanks for the reminder; well, why do the 
> Ukrainians and Bulgarians keep using ``SMF``?? I was explaining what 
> the letters stand for (gh)
>
> Well, this is a long story. I think there is nothing to say against 
> the use of the code "SMF", my point was that it should not be 
> "translated" with "Simferopol" (but "Kopani" resp. "Mykolaiv"). 
> Observer is using "SMF" because "SMF" is the code that the HFCC 
> frequency list shows. I am not sure what you mean with "the 
> Ukrainians". As far as I can recall, Radio Ukraine International (e.g. 
> in the person of Alexander Egorov) does not use the term "Simferopol" 
> in its schedules but "Mykolaiv".
>
> The site Kopani is located 300 kilometers NW of Simferopol, some 10 
> kilometers SE of Mykolaiv, which I think does make a difference for 
> DXers that would like to look it up on the map.
>
> The code "SMF" was registered with the HFCC/ITU during Soviet times 
> when the transmitter locations were top secret and the Soviet 
> authorities tried their best to disguise them. The code was not 
> changed by the Ukrainian authorities after the country's independence. 
> RUI itself does not have own transmitters, it leases them from RRT, 
> the national Ukrainian transmitter network operator, and it is not RUI 
> that is coordinating SW frequencies at the HFCC conferences, but RRT. 
> Apparently, RRT does not see a reason to change the code.
>
> In fact, only few administrations bother to update the codes that are 
> in the HFCC reference table "Global HF Transmitter Sites" (esp. if it 
> comes to deleting dismantled sites). One that did was India which some 
> few years ago replaced its "British" place names with the new official 
> Indian orthography. 
>
> As for HF sites in the successor states of the former USSR: since the 
> mid-1990s the WRTH is listing the correct names and exact coördinates 
> that are based on the actual transmitter location rather than 
> "external registrations" with he HFCC or ITU. The site Kopani was 
> first published already almost 10 years ago in WRTH1994. Later these 
> details were published also on the Transmitter Documentation Project 
> website (based on the same sources as WRTH): see 
> http://www.tdp.info/ukr.html for UKR and also other ex-USSR states 
> (though the ex-USSR section was not much updated in recent years, more 
> details have been established or confirmed since then). (Bernd 
> Trutenau, Lithuania, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 
>   



73,
Patrick
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