ARLA/CLUSTER : DX material.

[Carlos L.R. de A.Gonçalves]

Dear Wolfgang,

More items to come, but not until the 10~11th July.   Meanwhile...

NEW ZEALAND
I've been awaiting the regular R.NZi schedule (4 Jun~2 Sep), but they kept 
the temporary one which was supposed to run 11~25 Jun, which is what I could 
observe earlier today and now as I write (1809, 27Jun), so something really 
wrong is going one at the unmanned Rangitaiki site.   Meanwhile, 13730 & 
15720 evenings have been mediocre; 7145 mornings is only of some use well 
before 1200 to "emerge" again late afternoon but as a useless signal.
(Carlos Gonçalves - POR)

PORTUGAL
This is actually no DX.    The RDPi - and surely many other stns - simply 
cannot air live match reports during the World Cup on HF or MF, just on 
VHF-FM, apparently due to FIFA restrictions aiming at keeping all such 
reports within one's borders.   However, they're making extensive use of 
their special b/casts slots to provide comments on the match; in the middle 
of last week for instance, they simply adapted the regular schedule and the 
special b/casts one to the time at which the game was on, meaning one of two 
freqs. that were supposed to be used later were already on the air.   At 
that particular day, even the special b/casts times were pulled being 
because of the time difference POR-D.   I've read "somewhere", Portuguese 
fans won't have to worry any longer after next Sat. or Sunday (I'm not sure 
for I don't care a bit about f/ball): I wonder what the usual snobs will say 
if the same what happened here in Portugal back in 2004 during the Euro 2004 
(home team vs. UK) is duplicated...   So far at least and for the delight of 
all fans concerned, "Portucale victor est."  Ah well, there's a Latin saying 
that goes like "panem et circenses" which I think ajusts to all this 
paranoia.
(Carlos Gonçalves - POR)

73,
Carlos.