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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1518, June 24-30, 2010 Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415 Thu 2100 WRMI 9955 Fri 0030 WRMI 9955 Fri 0330 WWRB 3185 Fri 1430 WRMI 9955 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9515 [second, fourth, fifth Saturdays, maybe] Sat 1630 WWCR2 12160 Sat 1800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 Sat 1900 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 4840 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1330 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Sun 1900 WRMI 9955 Sun 2330 WWCR4 9980 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415 Tue 2230 WRMI 9955 Wed 0030 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/ http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/08:00:00UTC/English/541 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org WORLD OF RADIO 1518 headlines: *DX news from Antarctica, Honduras, Mexico *Program tips from Cuba, Madagascar, Spain *Off frequencies from Bolivia, Cuba, Guatemala, Morocco *Jamming reduced? From China, Cuba, North Korea; temporarily *Reactivations from India, Virginia, Venezuela *New frequencies for Kashmir, South Korea *Future plans from Mexico, Zambia, USA`s BBG ** ALBANIA. 13755, R. Tirana, June 19 at 1425 open carrier; 1429 IS, 1430 sign-on in English, and yes, still giving outdated B-09 schedule with exact dates it was effective. Now all times and all frequencies are wrong. Hello? Wake up? Is no one paying attention? I first noticed this on June 10 and informed them, tho it may have been going on long before then. Poor reception, degrading to very poor, with splash from overpowering China via Cuba 13740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Generally poor reception, especially from Europe, June 21 led me to expect to strain to hear R. Tirana English at 1430 on 13755; but instead, good signal S9+12 at 1428 tune-in to worn-out IS recording; they never back-time it, so it`s interrupted at 1430 for sign-on music and announcements. There was slight QRM from 13760 North Korea, and 13740 CRI via CUBA splash. I am pleased finally to hear the current A-10 English schedule announced after at least a sesquiweek of reciting the expired B-09 schedule. To celebrate, I will quote the now correct schedule dated 28 March to 30 October 2010: ``1845-1900 to UK on 13640, 7520 2000-2030 on 7465 To USA [what about Canada? CIRAF 9 is an official target, Maritimes]: 1430-1500 13755 2000-2030 13640 0030-0045 9860 0145-0200 7425 0230-0300 7425 0330-0400 7425 Monday-Saturday, and to North America, Monday-Sunday``. There, Canada gets included. But Monday-Sunday does not mean 7 days a week! It means the first broadcast is on Monday at 1430 and the last one UT Sunday until 0400, really taking a full day off. 1432 program summary and into news; first item about a deal with Croatia so visas not required of Albanians during holidays starting July 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. At midsummer, 11 MHz with lots of signals from Europe in the nightmiddle, such as Arabic on 11775 at 0609 June 23, kept talking about Israel. Presumably CRI via Albania as scheduled. Jordan is also registered here, but don`t recall any reports of it axually using this frequency. Bulgaria in Spanish was also in on 11800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, RN San Gabriel. June 14, 1329-1341 Latin folk music, male and female canned ID, back music. 44534 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brasil, June 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476.0, LRA36 (presumed), 1448-1504*, June 18. Above threshold level today! In Spanish with EZL pop songs in Spanish; audio seemed to end at 1504, but carrier still on at tune out of 1514 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1305-1412, 18 Jun'10, Castilian, talks, music, pops; 14441, adjacent QRM; gone at recheck at 1512, but then it seems they're currently listed to s/off at 1500. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476.0, LRA36 (presumed), 1432-1500*, June 22 (Tuesday). Another day of above threshold level reception! In Spanish; LA pop songs in Spanish; 1457 rock & roll song in English; ToH seemed to be ID; transmitter off at 1502 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. Look out for BBCWS special broadcast to Antarctica --- Last year BBCWS had a special midwinter shortwave broadcast to Antarctica on Sunday 21 June 2009 at 2130 UT. It's apparently on every year; I've googled around, but can find no reference to this year's broadcast. So, one to search for. Last year it was on 5950 and 7295 via Rampisham and 7360 via Ascension. [2009 source was Travellin' South blog : http://alloutput.com/blog/ -- gh] (Alan Roe (Teddington, UK), dxldyg via DX WORLD OF RADIO 1518, LISTENING DIGEST) BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/06/100621_antarctic_midwinter_special_2010.shtml The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 - 22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies: 5950 kHz (49 metre band) 7295 kHz (41 metre band) 7360 kHz (41 metre band) First broadcast 21st June 2010 (can also listen to the programme via this link) (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, June 21, ibid.) 4 Comments on “BBC Antarctic midwinter broadcast available online” 1. #1 Chris Greenway on Jun 23rd, 2010 at 11:55 Thanks for the link to the broadcast. That web page provides further links to the broadcasts in 2008 and 2009. The wording on both of them implies that these annual transmissions have been going for some years, though I think last year’s was the first time they were noticed by the hobbyist community. Or can anyone remember hearing them (of hearing of them) any further back? 2. #2 Andy Sennitt on Jun 23rd, 2010 at 12:07 As far as I know, the hobbyists learned about it up from this Weblog: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbcws-to-conduct-special-midwinter-broadcast-to-antarctica though I notice that the individual responsible for the Travellin’ South blog that drew it to my attention has returned to the UK. I also note that the frequencies in 2010 are the same as in 2009, so they presumably will be on the air again on 21 June 2011. Don’t say you haven’t been given advance notice :-) 3. #3 Kai Ludwig on Jun 23rd, 2010 at 13:57 Chris, these transmissions started at some point before 2000. I suspect that “some point” could be a matter of decades. Perhaps a BBC WS insider knows when they did it for the first time? At least on 21 June 2000 the programme went out on the already established slot 2130-2200 UT, via Skelton on 7325 kHz and via Rampisham on 9915 plus 11680 kHz 4. #4 Chris Greenway on Jun 23rd, 2010 at 18:19 Many thanks, Andy and Kai. Fascinating to learn that these transmissions have been under way for years without “our” knowledge. It’s in my diary for next year! (Media Network blog comments via DXLD) Heard here on all three frequencies, with 7360 being the best by far (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, 2133 UT June 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) Powerhouse like local radio from Rampisham: today June 21 at 2130 UT in southwestern Germany: 5950 S=9+40dB 7295 S=9+20dB 7360 20% audio underneath of R Belarus Minsk which is S=9+20dB, - but understandable BBC program content from Ascension. Midwinter greetings from 2131 UT, with many phone-ins from all over GB and IRL. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Strong signals heard here on 5950 (best) and 7295. Audible on 7360 mixing with Belarus. Thanks to Alan P for confirming the frequencies (Alan Roe (Teddington, UK), ibid.) Didn't even try the other two (7295 and 5950), since 7360 was fine (Rampisham or Ascension?). Brought back happy memories of BBC Calling the Falklands. Tnx Alan Pennington for alert and very 73 de (Anne Fanelli in plenty-o'-sunshine Elma NY, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid.) I did not even try for any of them, assuming those frequencies would be buried in summer noise level by the time they got here. But fun to listen to show ondemand; world`s smallest SW audience? Says there are only 45 BAS personnel wintering over; sure seemed like more than 45 greetings were included. Also some music requests, except they were cut off after a few sex, to squeeze everything into a semihour. Whilst 30 minutes might be appropriate for the special SW broadcast, why not expand the audio file to include full play of music requests? BTW, audio autolaunches when you click on that page, how rude! Interrupts whatever else you are already listening to. How self- centered are some websites, presuming you could not possibly be hearing something else, perhaps live, and not to be changed until one chooses to do so (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Algunas novedades de la amplitud modulada CIUDAD AUTONOMA DE BUENOS AIRES --- 1710, Radio AM 1710 tiene muy pocos programas en el aire. La mayor parte del tiempo irradia música de diferentes estilos. Lo curioso es que el `pasado sábado fue escuchada con un programa musical originado en alguna emisora de frecuencia modulada del Paraguay y que era bajado "online" por la emisora porteña. Se trataba de un espacio dedicado al regaetton y otros ritmos de moda por el sur de Sudamérica (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES --- 1650, Radio Antares, Manzanares-Pilar parece estar definitivamente fuera del aire luego de varias ocasiones en las cuales fue reportada inactiva. La escucha se intentó desde distintos puntos de la Ruta Provincial 28, que une Gral. Rodríguez con Pilar (reciente y excelentemente pavimentada) y desde la propia ciudad de Pilar (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, June 21, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, R. Nacional, General Pacheco, 2135-2154, 19 Jun'10, Castilian, phone-in program on several subjects being discussed; \\ 15344.88 very good; 54433, QRM de B. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, R. Nacional, 0214-0233*, June 20. Doing fairly well mixing with Cuba; IDs; promo for fútbol; played the World Cup “Africa” jingle that I have heard before via Madagascar; LA ballads. Did not hear any of their other frequencies (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. 11780, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasil, 17 junio 2010, 1201- , 333, portugués; aunque no lo crean, fue la única emisora que estaba transmitiendo el jogo, Argentina e Coreia do Sul em Ondas Curtas... RAE?, Feeder argentinas? 11705, Radio Nacional de Venezuela, via Cuba, 17 junio 2010, 1203- , 433, identificación luego con la programación a seguir; intervencion del Banco Federal para defender a sus ahorristas. 73 de (Yimber Gaviría, Colombia, http://yimber.blogspot.com/ noticisdx yg via DXLD) ?? Perhaps RNV prevented you from hearing the following: (gh) 11710, Radio Nacional, General Pacheco, 1245-1305, 17-06, transmisión partido de fútbol del mundial de Sudáfrica entre Argentina y Corea del Sur, locutor, "Argentina gana a Corea del Sur 2 a 1, juega el Kun Aguero". 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASIA [non]. RADIO FREE ASIA ISSUES SECOND QSL CARD IN SERIES JULY 2010 --- Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces the release of the second card in the QSL series celebrating musical instruments of Asia. This card shows a traditional Burmese harp, also known as the saung or the saung gauk. It is an arched harp that usually has 13 to 16 strings that are traditionally made from silk though nylon strings are now more prevalent. The harp is played while sitting on the floor and holding it in one’s lap; the strings are plucked with the right hand while the musician uses their left hand to dampen the strings which improve note clarity and help produce staccato notes. This card will be used to confirm all valid reception reports from July 1 to August 31, 2010. RFA’s second QSL in Asian musical instrument series [illustration] Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA currently broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin, the Wu dialect, Vietnamese, Tibetan (Uke, Amdo, and Kham), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance, and fairness in its editorial content. As a ‘surrogate’ broadcaster, RFA provides news and commentary specific to each of its target countries, acting as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages and dialects, and most of its broadcasts comprise news of specific local interest. More information about Radio Free Asia, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is available at http://www.rfa.org RFA encourages listeners to submit reception reports. Reception reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by mailing a QSL card to the listener. RFA welcomes all reception report submissions at http://www.techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX’ers, but also from its general listening audience. Reception reports are also accepted by email at qsl @ rfa.org and for anyone without Internet access, reception reports can be mailed to: Reception Reports Radio Free Asia 2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300 Washington DC 20036 United States of America. Upon request, RFA will also send a copy of the current broadcast schedule and a station sticker (via Hector Frias J., CE3FZL, DXLD) Quite a beautiful instrument (gh) ** AUSTRALIA. 2310, VL8A Alice Springs NT, 1020 weak with audio, 17 June. 2485, VL8K Katherine NT, 1025 fair to good audio 17 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2485, ABC/NT (Katherine), 1205 with sports program that concluded at 1212, going to "Red Hot" by Billy Lee Riley and music program. Checked //s, found good signal from Tennant (2325), only fair at best from Roe (2310). 6/17. 73 and good listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-140-X ; longwire between house and top of Saguaro, ABDX via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Azerbaijan & Armenia. The radio station broadcasting programs for reconciliation between Azerbaijan and Armenia – Voice of Justice, was received in Sofia on June 2 from 0525 to 0553 hours on 9677.4 kHz in the Azeri and Russian languages, announcing the following address: Voice of Justice, Tigranmetz Street 23 A, Stepanakert, Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Probably on the envelope you have to add also “via Armenia.” Source: (Rumen Pankov, BNR Radio Bulgaria: DX program June 18, 2009 http://bit.ly/b6rDV1 via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** BELGIUM [and non]. AFN to end terrestrial TV signal in Belgium / Germany The US Army’s 5th Signal Command, which is responsible for the terrestrial TV transmitters that broadcast AFN, plans to turn off the terrestrial signal in Belgium and Germany starting next month. The change will affect only those who receive the broadcast via a TV antenna. Viewers who own AFN decoders will not notice any change. The terrestrial transmitters will be shut down in phases. AFN plans to warn viewers by airing commercials two weeks before the transmitters are cut off in those communities. “If you’re seeing the commercial, it’s going away,” said AFN-Europe’s commander, Colonel William Bigelow. “If you’re not seeing it, don’t worry about it.” People who receive the terrestrial signal are able to view only one channel, AFN Prime Atlantic. AFN officials said most people who receive the terrestrial signal are expats, retirees or local nationals, and AFN officials have no way to track how many people will be affected by the change. The end to terrestrial TV transmission will save nearly $800,000 a year, according to 5th Signal Command spokesman Lawrence Torres III. The lone exception to the change is Schweinfurt, Germany, where many troops live in government-leased housing without the built-in cable service that other garrisons provide. “We’re developing a plan to provide them a service,” said Major Paul Haverstick, AFN-Europe operations officer. With the change, Americans living off post will have to get a decoder and satellite if they still want AFN programming. Americans saw the first military TV broadcasts at Ramstein in 1957 through low-powered terrestrial transmitters, and terrestrial TV was the sole method used by AFN until 1997, when the network provided additional channels through cable and satellite. “We’re moving away from that old technology … it’s probably been a long time coming,” Colonel Bigelow said. (Source: Stars and Stripes) (June 23rd, 2010 - 13:30 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 2155-2204, 17-06, locutor, comentarios. Muy débil. 14421 (Méndez) 4865, Radio Logos, Santa Cruz, 2204-2210, 17-06, locutor, comentario religioso, español. Muy débil, sólo audible en LSB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.2, R. Santa Ana, Stª Ana del Yacuma, 2216-2229, 17 Jun'10, Castilian, talks, seemingly some religious propaganda program; 25331. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4795.858 [tentative], Radio Lipez, Uyuni, 1040 noted return to frequency after a week or more off, 17 June [Wilkner] see also Malku below 5952.49, Pio XII, Siglo Veinte, 1050 to 1100 with yl en espanol, now knocked out by jamming in Cuban radio wars. 17 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e. R. República via COSTA RICA 5954.16v --- but is that really on the air in the morning??? (gh, DXLD) Amigos, neste instante Radio Malku [sic], desde Uyuni, Bolivia com um bom sinal e excelente px musical andina. 4795.96 LSB, 21/06 2252, R. Malku, Uyuni, OM/YL talks quéchua e SS, px w/ mx andina, 35333, MMP, Kenwood R-5000, LW 15 metros (Marcio Martins Pontes, Registro - SP Membro DXCB, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Must be same station as R. Lípez, logged above, on almost same split frequency. R. Mallku, as it was usually spelt, changed name in the meantime to R. Lípez, so did he axually hear Malku mentioned? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Asunto: Unid Bolivian 5765a FMing: at 1010 on May 31, 2010 with Andean music, then news or announcements in Spanish unreadable but found better readability around 5759 to 5762, only on signal peaks. QRK3. Undoubtedly Bolivian mentioning "Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos", "Buenos Dias, Bolivia" and "estado boliviano", among other c[l]ues. Spur of 6035 Panamericana?. An mp3 recording with selection of most usable audio has been uploaded to http://www.goear.com/listen/fa13132/Bolivia-UNID-5765a--Horacio-Nigro-Uruguay The UNID reported here belongs in fact to Radio Panamericana, La Paz, Bolivia. Heard with TC by man: "La hora en Panamericana...horas, 37 minutos! Clear at 1030 June 18. And yes the fundamental is 6105, (not 6035) (Horacio A. Nigro, Kenwood R600 + randomwire, Montevideo, Uruguay, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4845.2, R. Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Manaus AM, 2135-2203, 18 Jun'10, Brazillian song program Momento Sertanejo, blood donation info, religious propaganda at 2200; 45433, i.e. MAURITANIA 4845 off, and this one was off during daytime on 7245, like today too 19 Jun'10. 4915, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 2139-2151, 17 Jun'10, sermon in some religious propaganda program; 43432, QRM de B, viz. R. Difusora, Macapá AP; \\ 11830 (new) off at this time; better on 18 Jun'10, 2130. 4935.2, R. Capixaba, Vitória ES, 2137-2154, 18 Jun'10, whaling preacher (surely David Miranda) shouting IPDA propaganda, A Voz do Brasil at 2200; 25332. 11830, R. Daqui, Anhangüera GO, 1902-1927, 17 Jun'10, advertisements, references (frequent) to Jornal Daqui, talks, infos; 34433, adjacent QRM. Today, 19 Jun'10, they s/off at 2059. 11830 ditto, 1303-1328, 18 Jun'10, songs, talks, ads; 25443. QRM for some time at 1400, then clear at 1530. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11829.97, 2020-2103* 14.06, R Daqui, Goiânia, GO. Portuguese ann, sertenjatas, 2034 ID: "Rádio Daqui", 2100 frequency ann, abrupt in the middle of a song, 35433. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6080, BRASIL: R. Daqui, Goiania-GO, 20 Jun 1420. Música com Benito de Paula, OM: Jingle ‘Você está em 1230 kHz, Radio Daqui... só sucesso’ (1230 kHz é a freqüência de ondas médias da emissora). Radio Novas de Paz, Curitiba, fora do ar. 25332. Rx: Sangean ATS 909. Ant.: Loop blindada VS + Amplif de RF VS + Fone Tecsun E-805 (Rudolf Grimm, PY2-81502 SWL Labre, DX Clube do Brasil Member, São Bernardo, SP, BRASIL, http://radioways.blogspot.com http://www.ondascurtas.com http://www.labre-sp.org.br radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 9564.5, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 2115- 2127, 17-06, portugués, religioso, predicaciones. 24322. (Méndez) 9587.1, ???, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 2145-2157, 17-06, portugués, religioso: "A Voz da Libertaçao", "Estado de São Paulo, reunión às 9 de manha". En paralelo con 9564.5. Extraña frecuencia de esta emisora, ¿debido a algún problema técnico?. 23332 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You may as well assume the 9587.1 signal comes from the 9585 station, which was reported last October to have been taken over by the SRDA pentecostal gospel-huxter steamroller gang (gh, DXLD) Viz.: BRASIL – Com a compra das freqüências do Sistema Globo de Rádio, a Super Rádio Deus é Amor, de Curitiba (PR), aumentou sensivelmente sua penetração nas ondas curtas. Na faixa de 31 metros, a programação evangélica da Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor pode ser ouvida em canais próximos: 9565 e 9585 kHz. O último canal era da Rádio Globo paulista. (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 18 via DXLD 9-077 via 10-25) ** BRAZIL. EBC 980 --- Hoje à noite sintonizei Nacional am 980 kHz com bom sinal; porém com forte ruido; será que eles voltaram a utilizar o velho emissor potente? A emissora práticamente não era ouvida aqui em minha casa há semanas. OBS: sintonias feitas com rádio gravador portátil, e antena telescopica, em Pompeu MG, (Durval, June 17, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Olá Durval e amigos, Há um mês eu soube que o transmissor noturno da Rádio Nacional AM, 980 kHz, estava sendo reformado e voltaria com 250 kW (de dia são 50 kW). Mas não posso dizer que isso seja a realidade, pois aqui seguidamente obtenho informações contraditórias. Paralelo a isso, ainda segue o processo de compra de NOVOS transmissores. Abraços (Lucio Haeser, Brasília, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid.) Durval, Em 980 kHz está em operação o que já foi o mais potente transmissor de ondas médias nas Américas. Quando havia manutenção, operava com 600 kWatts de potência. Na era "Sarney" começou o desmonte da infra estrutura do estado, e com isso, o sucateamento de nossas estradas, empresas públicas etc e em particular o parque transmissor do governo federal. Hoje se esse canal em 980 kHz operar com 50 kWatts já é um milagre. Aqui no Rio chega sempre o sinal, mesmo fraco, até porque trata-se de clear channel. Já os transmissores de ondas curtas, que outrora entregavam 250 Kwatts de potência, sofreram alguns remendos no sistema de refrigeração e válvulas e hoje deve atingir no máximo 50 kWatts também. Vamos ver se esses famigerados novos transmissores chegam mesmo. Se for igual a novela dos caças FX vamos ficar a ver navios por muito tempo (Sarmento Campos, June 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid.) Radio Nacional da Amazônia tem e-mail para receber informes de recepção. O e-mail é centraldoouvinte @ ebc.com.br (Lúcio Haeser, Brasília, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Frequency change of R. Bulgaria in Spanish to SoEu from June 28: 0600-0630 NF 15200 PLD 170 kW / 260 deg, x 15800 to avoid R. Cairo in Arabic (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** CANADA. Updated summer A-10 schedule of Radio Canada International: Arabic 0200-0300 on 5920 HBY 350 kW / 125 deg 0200-0300 on 5950 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg 0300-0400 on 7230 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg 1105-1205 on 7325 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1900-2000 on 15180 RMP 500 kW / 115 deg 1900-2000 on 15235 SAC 250 kW / 073 deg 1905-2005 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg Chinese 0000-0100 on 9690 KIM 100 kW / 225 deg 0000-0100 on 11895 KIM 100 kW / 290 deg 0105-0205 on 6100 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1305-1405 on 7325 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1500-1600 on 6110 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg 1500-1600 on 11805 YAM 250 kW / 240 deg 2105-2205 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 2200-2300 on 9525 KIM 100 kW / 225 deg 2200-2300 on 9870 KIM 100 kW / 305 deg English 0000-0100 on 11700 KUN 150 kW / 177 deg 1500-1600 on 11675 KUN 500 kW / 283 deg 1500-1600 on 15125 URU 500 kW / 212 deg 1505-1705 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1505-1705 on 9800*SAC 070 kW / 268 deg 1800-1900 on 9530 KAS 100 kW / 239 deg 1800-1900 on 11765 SKN 300 kW / 160 deg 1800-1900 on 17735 SAC 250 kW / 105 deg 1800-1900 on 17810 SKN 250 kW / 175 deg 2000-2100 on 15235 SAC 250 kW / 073 deg 2000-2100 on 17735 SAC 250 kW / 105 deg 2100-2200 on 9800*SAC 070 kW / 268 deg 2305-0105 on 6100 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg French 1705-1905 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1705-1905 on 9800*SAC 070 kW / 268 deg 1900-2000 on 11765 KAS 100 kW / 239 deg 1900-2000 on 13730 SMG 250 kW / 195 deg 1900-2000 on 15320 SKN 300 kW / 175 deg 1900-2000 on 17735 SAC 250 kW / 105 deg 2005-2105 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 2100-2200 on 9525 SMG 100 kW / 184 deg 2100-2200 on 15235 SAC 250 kW / 073 deg 2100-2200 on 15330 SAC 250 kW / 105 deg 2100-2200 on 17735 SAC 250 kW / 105 deg 2300-2330 on 9525 KIM 100 kW / 225 deg Portuguese Fri-Sun 2100-2200 on 15455 SAC 250 kW / 163 deg 2100-2300 on 17860 SAC 250 kW / 163 deg 2300-2330 on 13710 SAC 250 kW / 163 deg Russian 1405-1505 on 9515 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1500-1530 on 11935 HBY 350 kW / 085 deg 1500-1530 on 15325 WOF 250 kW / 064 deg 1600-1630 on 11700 HBY 350 kW / 085 deg 1600-1630 on 15325 RMP 500 kW / 061 deg Spanish 0000-0100 on 13725 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg 0100-0200 on 11990 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg 0205-0305 on 6100 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1205-1305 on 7325 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 2200-0200 on 11990 SAC 250 kW / 176 deg 2200-2400 on 15455 SAC 250 kW / 176 deg 2205-2305 on 6100 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg * DRM mode (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. CBC 9625 extremely poor 19 June 2010 at 0029 UT. DRM noise from REE 9630 still rendering AM and USB useless, AND adjacent interference from REE analog on 9620 is very heavy. In LSB with a 1800 Hz filter and passband tuning I'm able to remove some of the adjacent botherment and sharpen the CBC audio, but the copy is so poor I may as well call this Spanish Firedrake until REE finds some new frequencies (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Es TV DX UT June 18: at 0015 on 4, soccer in and out, seems northeastward; 0033 CBC logo detected at center screen. Most likely CBLT-4 North Bay Ont 100 kW; also possible: CBOT Ottawa. If not really NE but N, CBWT-2 Lac du Bonnet MB. At 0310 UT on 2, Canadian news from NE; could not make out network. But at 0315 Tb big logo on screen which means Thunder Bay, i.e. CKPR. Es activity continued as late as 0524 at least on channel 2. Next afternoon, still UT June 18, after Mexican DX from S and SE: 2340, ch 3, French from north. Surely CBWFT Winnipeg MB. 2340, ch 6, ads during CBC programming in English; surely CBWT Winnipeg. Also has 20 kHz CCI, lots of narrow beat bars, so it is offset plus or minus; W9WI says it`s minus. UT June 19: 0007, ch 4 from NE in English 1444, ch 4 and 5 same English ad grafix, northerly 1446, ch 3, Happy Father`s Day, and South Asian music, northeast. Did not check suspected CKVR Barrie Ont., schedule on Zap2it before June 19 was deleted; but following Saturday June 26 shows ``Rangla Punjab`` in Punjabi at 10:00-10:30 am EDT, which is only half an hour off, with ``Caribbean Showtime`` following. 1447, ch 2 with how-to show on painting a temple; mix with World Cup field at halftime, Australia vs Ghana, so the latter is CBC. 1442, ch 2, YL narration from Bangkok, travelog? Double audio a few words apart so two stations on same network but different routing. Next Saturday at 10:30 am EDT, CKCO has a travelog from Vietnam, Stratusphere [sic]. It`s CTV as is CHBX Sault Ste Marie, so that and CKCO-TV-2 Wiarton fit for this. 1453, ch 5, Sapporo ad in FIFA coverage, so CBC. Probably CBLT-5 Sault Ste. Marie rather than CBLT Toronto itself, considering what else I am getting. 1454, ch 6, American Standard ad sold at a store whose phone is 905- 629-4822. That chex for Mississauga, but ch 6 is not in Toronto proper. At 1456, plug Global.ca website. There are two Globals on 6 in Ontario, CIII-TV-6, 50 kW in Ottawa, which seems to be a satellite of CIII-TV, 100 kW in Paris, which is between Hamilton, London and Kitchener, a drop-in, I believe, accounting for the out-of-the way location. Ottawa is a bit far from here, tho not impossible; I believe I rarely if ever got TV from there previously. So likely Paris. 1503, ch 5, with soccer field again, CBC as above. 1503, ch 2, preacher about Jesus. CKCO Wiarton has ``It is Written`` scheduled (note: this was Saturday, not Sunday morning). GLENN HAUSER`S TV AND FM DX, SUMMER 2010, FROM ENID OK Earlier TV and FM DX logs this summer have been mixed in with my SW logs, but there have been so many lately than I am separating them. Researching and compiling these logs has taken more time than the axual DX sessions, most of June 21, which fortunately was a dead day for VHF DX; welcome summer! This is so time-consuming that I am beginning to recall why I burned out on FM and TV DX some years ago, but have invested in new TV antenna, etc., to take advantage of the last years of analog TV in North America, with USA mostly clear of QRM. And FM DX comes along with it during strong openings. International VHF DX is still attractive, and if lucky one can also DX some interesting US stations rather than cookie-cutter commercial clones. FM, TV DX starting June 18 all here: http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt ALL TIMES AND DATES ARE UT!! (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or see also in this DXLD, MEXICO, OKLAHOMA, USA ** CHINA. 9380, Firedrake, 1030-1050 June 18, Noted a steady stream of Chinese instrumental music. Signal was fair (Chuck Bolland, NRD545 26.37N 081.05W, Clewiston FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake June 18: 11500, good at 1257; none lower 14700, fair at 1259 14970, fair at 1259 None others up to 17 MHz by 1300 Firedrake June 19: 11500, good with het until the latter went off at 1331 13100, fair-good at 1338; fair at 1427 13700, JBA or imagination-level at 1347 None others 8-19 MHz. Firedrake June 20: quite a harvest, after a few days of slim pickins: 9000, fair at 1238, gone at 1327. This one not heard in a longtime 11100, good at 1245, fair-good at 1327 at 1347 13100, fair at 1250, 1324 and 1345 14700, good at 1251, 1323, 1345 14970, very good at 1251, gone at 1323 15140, fair at 1252, gone after 1330 15850, very good at 1253, poor at 1321. Unusual channel; presumably because Sound of Hope decided to use it today. Not in Aoki 16100, good at 1255, fair at 1321, good at 1343 None higher found up to 20 MHz by 1256 or later Firedrake June 21: 9000, JBA at 1343 14700, VP at 1354 after hearing 14980. Extreme disparity between these two signals on nearby frequencies, due to?? Radically different transmitter sites/propagation paths, powers, azimuths? Were // synchro 14700 still audible at 1408, 1414 after 14980 quit, 1434 14960, fair at 1434. Maybe it shifted from 14980 at 1413? Unchecked 14980, VG at 1354, also 1405-1413* abrupt cutoff as I listened None others audible up to 19 MHz by 1358 or later CNR1 jamming: 15530, June 21 at 1356 with motorboating noise added but victim inaudible. VG // 15285 CNR1 jammer without motorboating. 1400 3-pips, full timesignal truncated? Both that and the noise cut off the air at exactly the same time, so emanating from single transmitter. Unheard here before, but Aoki is right on what is happening: 15530*VOICE OF TIBET 1330-1400 1234567 Chinese 100 131 Tashkent UZB 06909E 4113N VOTi a10 Jun. 15- [and non]. Firedrake June 22: none found above 8 MHz until: 13080, fair at 1328, but gone at 1341 14400, good at 1329 // 13080; gone at 1343 but 14700 instead; back on 14400, poor at 1428 when the others had disappeared 14700, poor-fair at 1347 and 1359, 1400 to open carrier; gone at 1428 16100, good at 1332 // 14400, and 1343, 1359, 1400 to open carrier; gone at 1428 15540, CNR1 jamming with motorboating noise added, June 22 at 1338, // 15265 CNR1 jammer without the noise. Same deal as on 15530 24 hours earlier, vs V. of Tibet via Uzbekistan, which must have shifted to 15540 today. The 22 June Aoki, stamped 1500 UT, still has it on 15530. 15285, at 1429 June 22, major CNR1 jammer went off, uncovering BBC Chinese via Singapore, with mention of bbcchinese.com but there was still a weaker jammer way underneath. Wonder what happened? 17560, at 1426 June 22 in Chinese with vuvuzelas, so live from South Africa as some game was in progress, or halftime. Weaker than adjacent WYFR 17555, but 17560 gone at 1432 recheck. At 1430 V. of Tibet is finished with 17560 via Madagascar, so turn off the jammer. Tough luck for any poor listener who was expecting World Cup coverage to keep going on 17560; how rude! Firedrake June 23; poor propagation, hi local noise level. 13000, JBA or imagination-level at 1330 13970, poor at 1328 14700, fair at 1330 14970, fair at 1331, weaker than 14700 None others found 8-19 MHz between 1320 and 1336 Firedrake June 24: All these were // 9000, poor-fair at 1205 10500, good at 1217, none others to 19 MHz by 1235; poor at 1440 13970, poor at 1437 14700, fair at 1436 15140, poor at 1430, as I was looking for Oman`s English news! 15140 FD previously heard but not this late vs Oman. Other ChiCom jamming with CNR1: 17705, at 1233 S Asian music mixing with Chinese, i.e. AIR Mandarin service via Bengaluru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN. New jammers in CUBA: q.v. ** CHINA [and non]. 9650, CRI`s China Drive via Sackville, June 22 at 1318 had heavy QRM and lo het from RNW in Dutch via Tinang which collides during this semihour only. SE Asian reception not very good but this from PHILIPPINES stronger than usual, and the two are far enough apart to cause a low audible het. I would guess Sackville more likely to be off-frequency, but at 1349 without PHT QRM, and BFO on, I found CRI 9650 to match whatever was on 13650, Kuwait or CRI/Urumqi, while 11650 was a tad higher in frequency, presumably KFBS. But this is all comparative, as I can`t measure each one precisely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. QSL: SPAIN: China Radio International - English relay via Noblejas 9690 in 22 days for English report by mail to CRI. Also nice personalized note on an identical postcard; "I Want to go to Sichuan" contest flyer; reception report form; program sked; cool little tissue paper kitty cat thingies, and CRI's magazine "The Messenger" on EXPO 2010 in Shanghai (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. La Voz de la Resistencia --- Por Eric Sanson La radio La Voz de la Resistencia de las guerrillas colombianas de las Farc es el tema del programa Planeta de hoy. Nuestro corresponsal en Ecuador, Eric Sanson, escuchó la radio de la guerrilla colombiana y realizó un reportaje acerca de la misión y el alcance de ese medio de difusión. ESCUCHAR http://telechargement.rfi.fr.edgesuite.net/rfi/espagnol/audio/modules/actu/201006/PLANETA_RFI_18_6_10_FARC.mp3 Fuente: Radio Francia Internacional - Planeta RFI http://www.espanol.rfi.fr/americas/20100618-colombia-la-voz-de-la-resistencia (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. 5954.20, 0240-0250 18.06, ELCOR, Guápiles (tentative) carrier without modulation 2433- QRM 5950 (2 stations) and 5960. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) No more República? What about jamming? (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. Glenn: Just a quick note, it looks like the Cuban D.I. (the old V2 agency) headed by General Rodríguez has put his whole agency (about 15,000) on active status following the arrest of five Cuban operatives in Florida today by the Homeland Security Agency. The numbers lady in back in business on 5882.5 kHz, AM mode in Spanish at 0700Z. This frequency is not an active frequency. Transmitter is recognizable by the slight buzz in the carrier and five group numbers. Best signal came from the 120 degree pointing EWE antenna. R. Havana Cuba on 5970 at 0500Z mentioned this event on their international news broadcast in English. RHC said they were arrested for being al-qaida terrorists. RHC pointed out that these agents were helping the US by finding al-qaida terrorists cells. Nothing on the internet or US news agencies. This may be something to monitor as this may escalate. Flash - the numbers lady ended her number groups with a statement "TONIGHT" several times at 0740Z, now dead carrier only (Art Hernández, NV, 0744 UT June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later:] Glenn: Follow up on last email. Once again I was scanning the lower 49 meter band and found a dead carrier on 5898.5, same signal strength (S9+20) and buzz in carrier from same direction as the numbers lady on 5882.5 eariler. At 0757Z the Cuban numbers lady came on saying "atención atención 83721 55761 51201" repeated until 0800Z when she went to five group [non]random numbers in Spanish. Again at end of message she says "TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT", several times. At 0839Z, then to dead carrier. Carrier off at 0843Z. facts: atención = calling for all stations attention 83721 55761 51201 = cell agent head or embassy that message is for [non] random numbers groups = message text Checked the "SPOOKS" UDXF group site for anything and nobody is reporting it. This is hot stuff. Your old friend, (Art Hernandez, NV, 0852 UT June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I guess there's a mix-up with dates. The "Cuban Five" were arrested on September 12th, 1998. Homeland Security wasn't even around back then. I'm not sure if there was any spike of SW number-station activity. Five men were sentenced in Miami in December of 2001. Since then RHC has devoted a sizable chunk of its programming to their plight. RHC often promotes this site: http://www.freethefive.org/ (Sergei S., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Art, I didn`t hear any of this, but I am afraid Sergei S. may be right. You know, RHC constantly pounds the issue of The Five, in every broadcast, so it sounds like it is just breaking news (Glenn to Art via DXLD) Glenn: Yes, I knew about the "Cuban Five" but RHC said that these "five Cubans was arrested yesterday for being al qaida operatives by the Home Land Security". RHC also mentioned that these Cubans were trying to "help the US track down al qaida cell groups". Sergei does bring up some old facts but it does not match what RHC said. RHC did not mention the "conviction" (June 8, 2001) of these five either. It is not matching all the way around. Monitoring will tell the truth soon enough. All I can report is what I heard. Your old friend, (Art Hernandez, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [later:] Glenn: Well time did tell, I monitored RHC again this morning and they did mention the Cuban Five, but not one word was mentioned about a recent arrest of Cubans by Home Land Security. I tip my hat to Mr. Sergei. But on the interesting side of the "atención numbers" station, they never came up at all this morning. So yesterday there was some unusual numbers traffic but for unknown reasons. It looks like Havana reads your postings. Maybe now they will fix their problems with the RHC transmissions/schedules that you have pointed out and when then do, you can thank General Rodríguez and his DI agency. Your old friend, (Art Hernandez, June 19, ibid.) ** CUBA [and non]. Note: 5025, Radio Rebelde is off the air this morning June 20. Don't know if this is a scheduled break due to being Sunday, or they are having transmitter problems? Unfortunately, Quillabamba, the Peruvian that is on 5025 is also off the air. SIBC on 5020 is still audible at 1020 and easily heard with Rebelde off (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, WinRadio G305e/pd, 26.37N 081.05w, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC anomalies June 18: at 0607, English not only on 6060, 6010 and 5970 but also on 6000 which normally goes off much earlier. Spanish on 5040, 6120, 6150 as usual. June 19 at 1432 very strong 13780 announced these frequencies in the usual Soviet-style disorder: 15120, 15360, 15380, 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 12030, 6110. Most of them were on but certainly not 13680, also disaudiblizing the 13880 leapfrog it produces in cooperation with 13780. I believe I had noticed them before 1400. Into music show ``Cancionero Iberoamericano`` (Ibero-American Songbook), one of my favorites, opening with a montage of musical styles, then a song by a Bonaire folksinger named Winkler, sorta Portuguese but probably in Papiamentu. 1438 on to a Chilean group. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the music mix, but that`s OK. We get more from RHC about Bonaire than we do from any station transmitting from there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I think you said on World of Radio 1517 I listened to this morning that the weekend edition of DXers Unlimited was heard on Saturday, whereas the last weekend edition I heard on Monday 14th June at 0314-0323 UT and 0414-0423 (as posted on DXLD yg). So one day later than it used to air (although the dates on the script on the DXers Unlimited blog site mistakenly said 12-13 June.) The programme schedule on RHC's English site also shows it on Sundays at 2312 UT so presumably a permanent change, not a one-off. Hopefully can check this weekend. The midweek edition still on its usual day Tuesday / Wednesday - shown at 2341 UT on the RHC website programme schedule and heard here 0338-0349 Wednesday last week (16 June). 73 (Alan Pennington, England, June 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alan Pennington points out that contrary to what I said on WOR 1517, he heard DXers Unlimited on UT Monday June 14 at 0314 and 0414, each lasting only 9 minutes, instead of previous repeats on UT Sundays. The RHC English program schedule now shows it on Sundays. (And Arnie also said last week he would still be after news headlines on the half hours; really? And his June ``19`` script says it`s 12 minutes.) On June 19, to confirm DXUL is no longer on Saturday, I tuned in at 2029 for the first English broadcast at 2030 on 11760, but it was already underway ending news; announcer said ``more news headlines on the half hour`` --- but this WAS the half-hour. On to stamps show, and at 2044-2049 Breakthru, Arnie talking about Cuba producing its own potato seeds for short winter planting season. 2049, ``last news headlines for June 19``; 2054 ``ending today`s broadcast`` then music fill ``Llegó la música cubana`` until hourtop when went into French instead of another semihour of English. The full schedule presented in Spanish http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm has been changed to show English on 11760 at 20-21 instead of 2030- 2130. French had been at 2000-2030 and 2130-2200, but now it`s a full hour straight at 21-22, according to this. Is it 60 different minutes or half an hour repeated? If the former, that could be why English has been shifted. I have not sifted thru the entire language schedule to detect any other changes without notice. I wanted to see if the English webpage http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/index.htm had caught up with this, but instead of it we see the Spanish homepage without the grafix. And still the same at 1500 UT. The French page http://www.radiohc.cu/frances/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm still shows the 2000/2130 split. The Portuguese page with that language`s sked is even more outdated, still claiming to be on long- abandoned 11800. 9112, in bandscan for Firedrake, encountered huge S9+22 signal from RHC in Spanish, June 20 at 1235, ending ``Así es mi Tierra``, starting ``Cuba Campesina`` music show I always enjoy. At 1336 the DX program ``En Contacto`` was underway, first RHC self-congratulating itself on some award involving a classic RCA mike, then Pedro Sedano`s monthly, apparently on third Sunday, DX report including items about Star Radio and Radio Fly; 1347 Rubén Guillermo Margenet with ``efemérides`` summary of radio-related anniversaries including something to do with Marconi, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. But what`s RHC doing on 9112? Wires crossed and put RHC audio on one of the out-of-band spy numbers frequencies which are just as powerful, 250 kW-range, as many intentional RHC frequencies? Maybe, but 9112 not found in quick search of UDXF forum and ENIGMA. At outset, 9112 was // and synchro with 9600, 6110, 6150, 6180, and at 1245 found to be an echo apart from // 12030. The most obviously missing scheduled frequency: 11760, so perhaps somehow that transmitter wound up on 9112, hardly a case of finger-slipping on the keypad. At 1323 when 11760 was still missing, found 9112 to be: // and synchro 13680, 13780, 13880, 15360 during mailbag, and // but an echo apart from 12030, 11730, 15380. At 1340, also // and synchro 15120. 1352, 9112 still on. Not checked again until 1535 when as expected 9112 was off, perhaps never to be heard again. ** CUBA. Surprise2, RHC Spanish on 9112 kHz, which was inbooming the morning of June 20 as in previous report, is missing June 21 around 1345, but 11760 is back. The RHC English webpage http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm is finally accessible June 21, and tho autodated currently, still displays long gone English schedule, such as 13790 which was replaced by 5040 months ago, ditto 6140 with 5970, in usual confusing format: ``Río de Janeiro 13790 22 23–24 UTC América del Norte 6140 / 6000 / 6060 31 / 49 05–07/01– 05/ 05-07 UTC San Francisco 6010 49 05-07 UTC`` Don`t you believe it! And it simply ignores the 2030-2100, now 2000- 2100 broadcast on 11760, which it seems has always been marginal, on the verge of deletion? A dress rehearsal? There is another link, to DXers Unlimited, http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_unlimited/unlimited.htm but the latest script is from 28-29 November 2009! Arnie does slightly better by posting some of them occasionally on his blog, but why not on the RHC site itself? Because it`s AFU! OTOH, the link to English programming http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_programacion/programacion.htm appears to be the new one-hour-only schedule with exact times at 2300- 2400, as if that were the first broadcast, repeated over and over. It shows DXer`s [sic] Unlimited Sundays at 2312, Tuesdays at 2341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dxers Unlimited weekend edition to be on the air from next weekend on Sundays and Mondays UTC days, at around 10 minutes past the hour, due to RHC programming changes now in progress. The mid week edition will continue to be on the air Tuesday and Sunday [sic, must mean Wednesday] UTC days just after the half hour news bulletin. Keep in mind that RHC English programs are now on a one hour format that is repeated all over the broadcast schedule. Source: Dxers Unlimited mid week edition 22-23 June 2010 http://bit.ly/9EX6he (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) No, the switch to Sunday was already last weekend (gh) Hi Glenn, I have been hearing RHC on 5040 kHz with good signal here in Rio de Janeiro, the first time I got it was during the dx program, by the way, with info about contests and new frequencies. Signal good. My question is, what´s the point with this frequency, propagation issues afecting higher frequencies? Regards (Sarmento Campos, condiglist yg via DXLD) Sarmento, Arnie Coro`s explanation was that 5040 is for better close- in coverage of the Caribbean and Cuba itself, much like R. Rebelde on 5025, with the same kind of high-angle antenna. It replaced 13790 at least for the English broadcast at 2300, and 13790 would certainly have a much larger skip zone, altho it should be propagating OK in our summer. However, as we all know, both 5025 and 5040 are not restricted at all to ``near-vertical incidence skywave`` but reach far beyond as long as there is darkness. They do hold up during the daytime at shorter ranges. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA [and non]. 13820, R. Martí, June 23 at 1350 with discussion of influential Mexican authors. Remarkably, no jamming audible, or maybe traces, despite huge signals from RHC on 13680 and 13780. But at 1400 the jamming noise ramped up. Cannot believe the DentroCubans would axually relent depending on program content (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, you are certainly correct! Cuban jamming was very unusual on June 23. R. Martí heard completely in the clear on 6030 from about 0317 to about 0400, after which the jamming did start up. Have never heard R. Martí so clear/strong before. Had hoped to catch the *0321 of Radio Oromiya, as conditions seemed perfect to be able to hear them, but alas no hint of their sign on and I continued listening till after 0400, but did not hear them at all. Wonder what happened to them in Cuba? (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA: Radio Martí 6030 at 0300+ in Spanish without jamming, as noted by Glenn and Ron at the same time. Couldn't hear Oromiya or any other HOA stn last night (Cameron, MI-23 June). Nice to tune in after being unable to for awhile! 73/ (Liz, JRC NRD-525 with inverted-V antenna Southeastern Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Just what we need, more Firedrake Last week I spent some time in Shanghai and Beijing. While I was in Beijing, I went to visit some old friends in the technical department at China Radio International. I should mention that during my time at CRI, I had a very close relationship with the technical staff. After arriving at CRI and entering using my old staff pass which had not expired, I first went to see who from the English service is left. This is because of the turnover of staff in the last few years. I came across a few people that I knew. But when I made my way to the 3rd floor, it was like nothing had changed. After sitting around in the hallway enjoying a few cigarettes, we headed to a restaurant near CRI for lunch that lasted until dinner time. During this time they called Li Zhou Qui, who was the head of the distribution department before he retired in 2009. Then one said to me, Keith you were in Cuba right? I said yes. Then he started telling me about how the Chinese have leased some land outside of Havana to build a relay station. This was not really a surprise to me, because a few months ago China had sent some officials and technical equipment to Cuba. He then referred to this station as a way for Cuba to earn a few millions year, but it was going to be a challenge to the island`s poor electric grid. As this "new relay station" is not intended for broadcasts, but rather as a way to create more interference than anything. Now I should point out that within CRI, the only group who listens or even knows anything about SW is the technical staff. Most of which have been working at CRI since the early 1980s. The average age of the staff in master control and the distribution department is between 50 and 65. They are also regular SWL's who enjoy listening to the VOA, BBC and other stations their masters or " ʪ«ÁT«K", which means "animal excrement" call "enemies of the state". Within CRI they are very vocal about jamming. The only reason nothing happens to them for speaking their minds is because they have been at CRI for so long and also because they are senior members of the CRI CPC Committee. This is not that unusual in China. The ones who are more willing to speak openly about the problems in the system tend to be the older generation, born before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and the 1989 student uprising. They didn't know the time frame for this relay to go online. All they know is, a few senior members of the Ministry Of Communications have been in Havana since October last year (Keith Perron, Taiwan, June 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It would certainly be an escalation if the ChiCom were to start jamming from Cuba, US broadcasts which have nothing to do with China - -- and there are no USG SW broadcasts in Chinese from US territory, so no point in jamming them from faraway Cuba. The DentroCubans, themselves, of course, would be glad to have even more jamming of broadcasts from outside to them, but why would Cuba be earning money from China for doing that? That really doesn`t make sense. I bet this does turn out to be more relaying of CRI, doing a better job of it than the Cubans have been with decrepit old transmitters, pre-emptable for R. Rebelde (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DEUTSCHES REICH. GERMAN RADIO JINGLES DURING WWII [1 Attachment] I listen to Radio Beograd (Belgrade) on FM every Saturday morning, to hear a show called "A Time Mosaic". Yesterday they played a short recording of German Radio from 1941. Since I'm a collector of radio jingles, I'm very interested if someone knows a website with recordings of German Radio from WWII - especially with jingles and music? Thanks in advance (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GERMANY EAST ** DJIBOUTI [non]. Re 10-24: UNID, 17880, TDP - La Voix de Djibouti, on June 03 at *1201-1216 UT. 25332-35333 Arabic, 1201 UT sign on with Quran, ID and opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium June 11 via DXLD) Sound reminds me rather via Issoudun or Wertachtal outlet. Need more opening procedure check on Thursdays (Wolfgang Bueschel, BC-DX June 17 via DXLD) Herbert from Austria checked the start procedure yesterday Jun 17: only few seconds before 1200 UT tx switch on. The Russian need warm-up period of 12 to 6 minutes before, Wertachtal 20-30 seconds, so I guess Issoudun is in use probably (Wolfgang Büschel, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. Kashgar coming thru transpolarly with CRI: 17490 English, 17650 Chinese at 1235 June 24, aimed at Europe, fairly good with some flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA ECUATORIAL. 6250, Radio Nacional, Malabo, 0513- 0540, 18-06, locutor, español, noticias y comentarios, canciones africanas. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LITSENING DIGEST) OK, but are you aware of the R. Japón spur via Bonaire until 0527* on 6250 I have outpointed several times? Malabo is seldom on before 0530 (gh, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 2115-2135, June 20, English religious talk. “Radio Africa” ID announcement at 2133 along with email address and address in Ghana. Gospel music followed. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, R. Fana, Geja Dera (or Geja Jawe?), 1738-1822, 19 Jun'10, Vernacular, talks, some HoA music; 34443, adjacent QRM; \\ 7210 (ex-6890). 7165, R. Ethiopia-External Service, Geja Jawe, 1035-1051, 18 Jun'10, vernacular, talks; 25432; \\ 9560 very poor. 7210, R. Fana, Geja Dera (or G. Jawe?), 1740-1800 (when choked by stronger adjacent QRM), 19 Jun'10, cf. \\ 6110 above; 34443, adjacent QRM. 9704.2, R. Ethiopia, Geja Dera, 1132-fade/out 1155, 19 Jun'10, vernacular, talks, some music; fade/in around 1300; 25432. No trace whatsoever of adjacent Niger 9705. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15350, 19/6 1800, R. Bilal - Washington, Amarico ID e Corano, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Mercoledì 2 giugno 2010: *1556 - 15195 kHz, MELEKET ETHIOPIA R. - Samara (Russia), Amarico, 4 minuti di mx etiope e annunci YL, poi nxs OM. Segnale sufficiente-buono, Solo mercoledì. Solito jamming rumore bianco. Martedì 15 giugno 2010: *1600 - 11975 kHz, VOICE OF OROMIYAA LIBERATION FRONT, Wertachtal (Germania), Oromo, annunci YL e mx HoA. Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente. Solo martedì e domenica. Jamming s/on 1558 (Luca Botto Fiora, SITO RICEVENTE, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21 Rapallo (Genova), Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 9805, June 20 at 0611 good with Hausa music, resembling HOA music, from RFI, 170 degrees from Issoudun. 11615, RFI in English, comprehensive news, Wednesday June 23 at 0610, good signal. 170 degrees from Issoudun, 0600-0630. If on the air weekends, presumably defaults to French. Lucked into a day when they are not striking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GAMBIA [non]. Save the Gambia imminent --- A reminder to try for this weekly broadcast Saturday 1815-1830 on 15225, as in latest DXLD (Glenn Hauser, earlier June 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I googled Save the Gambia Democracy Project, and found audio announcement in English, saying the new station is called "Baati Rewmi" or "Voice of the Country": From: http://www.jollofnews.com/media/jukebox/Save_The_Gambia.mp3 Size: 763 KB (780,631 bytes) (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid.) Gambia target broadcast - 19 June 2010 - 15225 kHz - 1815 UT --- Good reception again from the presumed target broadcast to Gambia in support of the "Save The Gambia Democracy Project". This is described on http://www.savethegambia.org as "Baati Rewmi Radio" ("Voice of the Nation"). Heard at sign-on 1815 on 15225, then continuous talk in West African sounding language. Like last week, no apparent ID or mention of Gambia heard. Off at 1830 (Tony Rogers, Birmingham, UK, AOR 7030+ / LW, BDXC- UK yg via DXLD) No English today as far as I can tell. Started with short string music tune, then male with local language till 1829. Same music piece and off. Only English words I noted were "program" and "education" mentioned a few times (Jari Savolainen, Finland, June 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Like DrAgan and Jari I heard part of the broadcast today on 15225 today at 1815. I could only listen to the first few minutes but seemed to be "Radio Baati Rewmi" by man announcer. Not 100% certain about him actually saying 'radio'. I should have run the tape, but I was getting ready to head out the door at the time (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, ibid.) I guess the man says "assalamaleikum" (or similar in that particular language) before word "Baati" (Jari Savolainen, ibid.) Baati Rewmi entire show recording [1 Attachment] Dear DXers, since my PC was turned on, I decided to use GlobalTuners to record Baati Rewmi from short wave. In attachment you can hear 100619sat 1813-1830z 15225kHz NAU125kW221deg.mp3 recording, size is 3.7 MB. That is Save the Gambia Democracy Project "Baati Rewmi" (Voice of the Country) via Nauen, Germany 125 kW, 221 degrees. It slightly suffered from VOA Amharic on 15230 kHz via Kuwait 250 kW, 046 degrees (back beam is 226 degrees). Program started with announcement in local language. You can hear words "Baati Rewmi" just before a short music break. Program has no English segments. Entire show is very boring, same OM talking all the time. I used the following GlobalTuners receiver: Location: Diano Marina, Imperia, Italy Receiver: Yaesu FRG-8800 Antenna: long wire [18.13z] * dl_dx: 15,225MHz, LSB, NARROW [18.14z] * dl_dx: 15,225MHz, AM, NARROW [18.14z] * dl_dx: 15,225MHz, AM, WIDE [18.17z] * dl_dx: 15,225MHz, AM, NARROW [18.17z] * dl_dx: 15,225MHz, AM, WIDE 73 (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, ibid.) ** GERMANY. Re INTERNATIONAL, CNN drops AP: ``I didn't realize that the Associated Press is "a nonprofit cooperative." The status of dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) is similar, with its about 190 shareholders being publishing houses and broadcasting organizations, although dpa is no longer a cooperative but now a GmbH instead. Here in Germany dpa has almost a monopoly, and this circumstance is problematical since the non-local parts of some regional newspapers consist to more than two thirds of dpa content. The situation is a bit too close for comfort to a Gleichschaltung, especially since dpa reports have a notorious trend to muddy conflicts and downplay problems. At present dpa moves into the Berlin demises of Axel-Springer-Verlag, which prompted the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel newspaper to cancel all its subscriptions of dpa services, something that obviously constituted breaching a taboo. Well, these are interesting times (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Ref. DW Customer Service request to monitor 9785 Chinese transmission via Kimjae, South Korea. June 21, 2010 2317-2330 talk by Yl and OM, IS and ID on 2321 2324 2328 and 2330 (including Chinese @ dw-world.de). (Tony Ashar, West Java - Indonesia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle: Amharic 1400-1500 NF 15460 KIG 250 kW / non-dir, ex 9865 NF 15540*TRM 250 kW / 270 deg, ex 11755 // 9880 KIG, 11965 TRM * co-ch Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia in Somali 1430-1500 Mon/Fri Chinese 2300-2400 NF 9550 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg, ex 9785 add 9785 KIM 250 kW / 275 deg // 9865 SNG, 9900 NOV, 11830 P.K (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** GERMANY EAST [and non]. Old Radio Berlin International programs --- Just recently I decided to take a few boxes I had in storage for almost 15 years, open them up and find out what was inside. I came across a series of programs done for the German Service of Radio Berlin International hosted by the popular East German singer/actor Manfred Krug. The series features popular "beat music" from the GDR. The label on the tapes has the production dates of between February 17th, 1967 to September 13th, 1967. I also came across studio tapes of Moscow Mailbag with Joe Adamov. This summer during my vacation I will spend the time to digitize the programs and upload them online for downloading (Keith Perron, Taiwan, June 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wow! I would also like to see a photo of the tape boxes, in particular their labels. This of course applies to the Radio Moscow tapes, too. It is perhaps worth to mention that Manfred Krug left the GDR in 1977, as one of the artists no longer liked for criticizing the expelling of singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Even earlier the DEFA movie "Spur der Steine", starring Manfred Krug, had been banned because it was a too good reflection of reality in the GDR. The ban has only been lifted in autumn 1989 and a second, "real" premiere took place on 23 Nov 1989, with Manfred Krug and Egon Krenz being present: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-1123-035,_Berlin,_Wiederauff%C3%BChrung_%22Spur_der_Steine%22,_Manfred_Krug%22.jpg A snippet from a TV appearance in 1977, shortly before leaving the GDR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPfhHmB8-E And an earlier one from 1969, with some remarks in which he defended light music against general criticism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gN7ygT3LQ8 Photos of Manfred Krug in his GDR years: 1962, jazz concert in Berlin: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-90734-0001,_Jazz-Optimisten_-_Jamboree%22.jpg 1963, jazz concert at Humboldt university in Berlin: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0327-0011-001,_Berlin,_Jazzaben,_Manfred_Krug_und_die_Jazzoptimisten.jpg 1963, evening of lyric poetry at Kosmos cinema, Berlin: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0411-0001-001,_2._Lyrikabend_in_Berlin.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0411-0001-003,_2._Lyrikabend_in_Berlin.jpg 1963, set photos from DEFA movie "Beschreibung eines Sommers": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0114-0003-003,_DEFA-Film_%22Beschreibung_eines_Sommers%22,_Bodenstein,_Krug%22.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0114-0008-001,_DEFA-Film_%22Beschreibung_eines_Sommers%22,_Bodenstein,_Krug%22.jpg 1964, outdoor concert at Berlin-Pankow: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-C0531-0006-003,_Berlin-Pankow,_Manfred_Krug_und_die_Jazzoptimisten.jpg 1964, appearance on outdoor movie festival at Berlin-Grünau: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-C0726-0006-001,_Berlin,_Er%C3%B6ffnung_Sommerfilmtage,_Manfred_Krug_und_die_Jazzoptimisten.jpg 1965, "Lyrik-Jazz-Prosa" event in Berlin which became famous for various sketches, later also published as LP record: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B1101-0010-001,_Erfolgreiche_Premier_von_%22Lyrik-Jazz-Prosa%22.jpg 1967, set photo from 70 mm DEFA movie "Hauptmann von der Mühle": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-F0812-0006-001,_Freyburg,_Dreh_DEFA-Film_%22Hauptmann_Florian_von_der_M%C3%BChle%22.jpg 1968, receiving a decoration from Walter Ulbricht and Willi Stoph: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-G1003-0040-001,_Hohe_staatliche_Auszeichnungen_verliehen.jpg 1968, set photos from "Wege übers Land" TV series: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-G0926-0022-001,_Berlin,_%22Wege_%C3%BCbers_Land%22,_Szenefoto%22.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-G0924-0033-001,_Berlin,_%22Wege_%C3%BCbers_Land%22,_Szenefoto%22.jpg 1970, jazz concert with Etta Cameron at Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J0325-0017-001,_Manfred_Krug_und_Etta_Cameron.jpg 1970, set photo from DEFA movie "Netzwerk": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J0824-0007-001,_DEFA-Film_%22Netzwerk%22,_Manfred_Krug%22.jpg 1971, jazz concert at Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K0324-0020-001,_Berlin,_Klaus-Lenz-Band,_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1971, see translation of inscription below photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K0414-0034-001,_Berlin,_Klaus-Lenz-Band,_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1971, set photo from TV drama "Die Verschworenen": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K0911-030,_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1971, TV production in Prague: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K0610-0002-031,_CSSR,_Ballonfahrt_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1972, unspecified: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L0221-0333,_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1974, record release: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N0912-031,_Berlin,_Autogrammstunde_mit_Manfred_Krug.jpg 1976, Friedrichstadtpalast show; original ADN inscription adds "ban notice: Hagen, Nina, left republic 28 Dec 1976": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0409-0012,_Berlin,_Friedrichstadt-Palast,_%22Guten_Abend%22.jpg Radio related videos: Domestic radio from East Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN9ff1ikJDM Features DT64, on the engineering side Radio DDR and Berliner Rundfunk were after 1985 basically identical, using studios in the same complex (different building than Radio Berlin International and Stimme der DDR). Rostock radiohouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdrgJ7I3j4w&feature=related In the pre-1990 days the cart players and Neumann (west) mics were not there yet. But the announcer's room in the last seconds is still an original installation, dating way back before 1980 (note the old-style wind screens on the Gefell mics). Basically this was regional radio, but the holidaymakers service during summer (Ferienwelle) went also out on mediumwave, and a special greetings programme for seafarers had been put on air via Berlin on transmitters with international coverage, including but presumably not limited to the 750 kW longwave outlet (Kai Ludwig, eastern Germany, ibid.) Deleted (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, ibid.) That's a shame. In the rest of the former "socialist camp" most of TV and movie production from the bygone era seem to be treated as a public domain (which makes a lot of sense to me). For now Russia-based video sites are providing a more reliable platform for GDR videos. Here's a beautiful opening of GDR's TV in 1988 (Note that the website might force you to watch a 15- to 30-sec. commercial first!): http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=d6f3a9b38a2f4125aa294d4d525184b3 Is it Jose Manuel Barroso at 3:09? DFF opening 1990: http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=100ae098eb4a4f81936cadb0337437b2 DFF closing 1990: http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=9ed2e1f99a4e47edad8bfb89898cd1fb GDR's short cartoons: http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=63706ae105e74ba2a5ed5dda9ef4a831 A full episode of legendary Sandmann cartoon: http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=6a85a0382b24402b927f87a61197e88b And last but not least ARD's report about East German TV DXers :) http://myvi.ru/ru/videodetail.aspx?video=2b1c35f02af64df8a8e530bb16184715 (Sergei S., ibid.) Just to give you an update. I ran one of the tapes this morning. The tape I ran through suffers from TAPE STICKING. I only ran it for 1 min and then stopped. Right after I sent an email to a friend who has a tape archive service here in Taipei. This weekend I'm bringing the tapes by so he can bake them and remove mold that has appeared on a few of them. He also has a scanner big enough to scan the boxes on both sides. I decided that when I upload them that to listen you need to click on the box. The Radio Moscow tapes are in better condition as they used a higher tape grade from ORWO. The only problem with these ones is the reels are warped. And now of the reels want to fit on the spindles and others are way to lose. From Radio Moscow I have: 17 Moscow Mailbags from 1986 6 Soviet Viewpoint from 1986 6 Science And Technology in the USSR from 1985 and 86 5 Jazz Show 1987 10 Russian Classical Music 1984, 86, 87 23 Radio Moscow Presents Tchaikovsky 1 hour each (stereo) from 1985 (Keith Perron, June 23, ibid.) > > Deleted... "Due to violation of terms of service", whatever this may mean. On earlier occasions the notice went "due to a copyright claim by DRA". This time it was a recording of a pre-1990 broadcast, so the story coulds be different. Still up appears to be "Portrait per Telefon mit Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler", one of the rare interviews from before 1989. I'm only aware of two other ones, of which one is not worth to be mentioned at all, just some announcer reading formal questions to "comrade Schnitzler". I think I should add one more note: Schwarzer Kanal was the only GDR TV programme with political commentary at all. All the Aktuelle Kamera newscast did in this field was reading out commentary from the ADN news agency. Lots of their material were just such scripts delivered to them for unaltered broadcast, with the most infamous moments being long read-outs of name lists over a minutes long shot of handshaking ("... Günther Dohlus, Werner Axen, Werner Krolikowski, weitere Persönlichkeiten ..."). > That's a shame. In the rest of the former "socialist camp" most > of TV and movie production from the bygone era seem to be treated > as a public domain (which makes a lot of sense to me). A sweeping public domain status would have the problem that everybody could make an own profit from this material. But still many people think that hunting any snippet of video (in some cases even video stills) that appear online is out of any proportions, and one can't help but suspect political reasons. These reasons can be easily explained with a slogan with which a left politician gained much success: "My biography started already before 1989." Another example to further explain the point: Angela Merkel was a secretary of the youth organization FDJ. > For now Russia-based video sites are providing a more reliable > platform for GDR videos. And have already been used to bump a myth: http://www.tvddr.de/recherche-fragen/dasgeheimedepechemodekonzertderspiegel The myth was a Depeche Mode concert in 1988, described as secret one. This bad Russian site was helpful for savely providing a TV interview, which already due to its sheer existance provides evidence for this gig not being secret at all. It even mentions that GDR TV wanted to broadcast the concert, i.e. record it with an OB truck, but could not reach an agreement with Depeche Mode's management about this. In the case of Bruce Springsteen a broadcast on GDR TV could be achieved, but only of rather short excerpts, and I vaguely heard that it was kind of an "I get your first born son" agreement, with the production probably being done by some US network. Many other concerts have been recorded by GDR TV itself, and in some cases the agreement was of a kind that the bands itself could distribute these productions in the western world (Purple Schulz at Palast der Republik is an example). (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 11645, June 23 at 0612 with Greek music, weaker than adjacent TWR South Africa 11640. This is supposed to be the English hour of the R. Filia service, including BBCWS relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: I don't know how these changes will affect the Voice of Greece's schedule now at 0500-1000 UT on 11645 UT. John Babbis (Effective June 21, 2010) Greece Time UT 07.00-07.30 0400-0430 Albanian 07.30-08.00 0430-0500 Serbo-Croatian 08.00-08.30 0500-0530 French - Link to RFI 08.30-09.00 0530-0600 Spanish 09.00-09.30 0600-0630 German [I was hearing Greek music during this semihour; used to be English including BBCWS relay -- gh] 09.30-10.00 0630-0700 Russian 10.00-11.00 0700-0800 "In Rhythm" and "Information Without Discrimination" With Maria Koutsimpiri and Christos Pagonis 11.00-12.00 0800-0900 "Road Taken, Road Left" With Agnes Stroumbouli (Every Friday "International Immigration Agency") [I assume the above two are really in Greek --- gh] 12.00-12.30 0900-0930 English 12.30-13.00 0930-1000 Turkish 13.00-13.30 1000-1030 Bulgarian 13.30-14.00 1030-1100 Polish 14.00-14.30 1100-1130 Romanian 14.30-15.00 1130-1200 Arabic (via John Babbis, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4780, Radio Cultural Coatán, may be testing 1100v for last week, weak signal here (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ante los informes que apuntan a una reactivación de Radio Cultural Coatán, en su frecuencia de antaño de 4780 kHz, he enviado un e-mail a dicha emisora preguntado por dicha reactivación y esta es la respuesta del director de la misma, que parece confirmar la definitiva desaparición de esta emisora en la onda corta. "AHORA YA NO SE TRANSMITE PORQUE EL TRANSMISOR ESTÁ DESTROZADO. POR ESA RAZON QUE YA NO TRABAJA. POR OTRO LADO LOS RADIORECEPTORES QUE TIENEN 60 METROS CASI YA NO EXISTEN, POR ESO YA NO PENSAMOS EN REPARAR. ATTE, DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, DIRECTOR" e-mail de Radio Cultural Coatán: radiocoatan @ live.com (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, June 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So whatever in Spanish Bob is hearing on 4780 is not Guatemala. It does not work out to be a harmonic of any possible even MW frequency. So a mixing product? Can anyone come up with a single major station with frequencies 4780 kHz apart at this time? Or maybe really some other heretofore unknown LA fundamental? It`s a bit late for Bolivia or Ecuador, and anyway those are reported between 4781 and 4782. Could also be a complex local MW mixing product. Bob should look for // on MW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) How recent is that letter from the director? I haven't listened yet but all indicators point to SOMETHING in GUATEMALA on 4780! I will try listening tonite :) (Steven Wiseblood/AB5GP, TX, June 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) He does not have a date on it, but I think it is quite recent, just sent on to us today (Glenn, ibid.) ** GUYANA. 3290, GBC, 0900 and 0300 favourable times to listen here (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3290, GBC Georgetown, 0800-0810, June 22, English. NA at tune/in; M announcer with s/on announcements & ID; ballad into religious / inspirational message; music at 0810; weak but clear (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 3250, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis, 1150 with weak signal, nothing at 0000, 17 June. Reduced schedule ? [Wilkner] 3340, HRMI, Radio Misiones Internacionales, Comayagüela, 1050 per [DM- Naples] log. Powerful signal should be heard easily. 16 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3340, Radio Misiones, ID by YL at 1020. Vocal music, bothered by occasional bursts of possible mil scrambling traffic. Lost signal, back after 1100 but gone by 1200 6/17. 73 and good listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-140-X ; longwire between house and top of Saguaro, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) 3340, HONDURAS. Radio Misiones Intl (HRMI) (Comayagüela) (presumed), 0301-0315, 6/18/2010, Spanish. Slow ballad style music (possibly contemporary religious). Short announcements by man between selections. More talk than music at 0312. Weak signal with noise and fading. First log of anything on 3340 this year. Quick check at same time tonight (6/19 UT) found only a carrier (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, IC-R75, RX-340, Random Wire (90'), ALA100M Loop (20'), WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3340, presumed HRMI Comayagüela, 0437-0443, June 18, Spanish. Ballads & announcer over mx; poor & v. noisy conditions (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3340, Voz de Misiones Internacionales, Comayagüela, 0447-0526, 18-06, locutor, comentario religioso, canciones. Muy débil. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND. WILL ICELAND BECOME THE WORLD'S "INFORMATION HAVEN"? Deutsche Welle, 17 June 2010, Stephanie Siek: Icelandic "legislators passed a law that they hope will protect the freedom of the press around the world. The law, passed unanimously during Icelandic parliament's last session for the year, provides more protection for journalists and their sources than any other such law in the world, say its creators. Icelandic parliament member Birgitta Jonsdottir, who helped write the legislation, said the goal was to create an information haven - much like other countries which have turned themselves into tax havens. ... The law protects anonymous sources who communicate with journalists, places strict limits on pre-publication censorship, and provides immunity for telecommunications and internet providers who merely act as conduits for the publication of news and information. Icelandic courts and institutions would also not be required to enforce rulings by foreign courts which violate Icelandic law. Any entity that bases some part of their operation in Iceland - even if only a data server - are all protected under the law." (via kimandrewelliott.com 21 June via DXLD) ** INDIA. Maybe this has been reported here already but on 19 June at 1540 noted AIR Kurseong again active on 4895. Was in parallel with 4920 AIR Chennai until 1546, then with different programming. Due to high local noise level, didn't catch the local ID, but guess it's Kurseong back (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, June 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, indeed today evening I have notice AIR kurseong is back on 4895 kHz, with strong signal. Signed off at normal 23:11 IST or 1741 UTC with announcement of next transmission via MW and SW next Morning at 0055 UTC all at normal frequencies (1440 & 4895 kHz). -- Thanks & Regards, (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Siliguri – 734001, Dist. Darjeeling, West Bengal, INDIA, June 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid. Thanks for logging AIR Kurseoung from Finland. Just wondering if you might have logged any of the other regional stations like AIR Leh, AIR Srinagar, AIR Shimla on 4760, 4950 and 4965 kHz respectively. (``Paul``, India, ibid.) Paul, as it's around midsummer here, it's not the best time to hear the Asian tropical band stations at the moment. Shame to me, I haven't been paying much attention to which AIR stations are active. I recall some time ago there still was two AIR stations on 4760 (Pt Blair and Leh). Can't say now how the situation is with Srinagar and Shimla. Anyway, 4990 Itanagar has been rare here, maybe irregular/low power and 5050 Aizawl is not a regular at my qth. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) Hi Jari! Thanks for the reply back. Actually, since you reported one station in that band, which was off air for quite sometime, I thought to ask you about all those others. Felt like, you had been researching on that band, for some reason. Well, you are very right, 4760 is still having Port Blair [8.5 KW] & Leh[10 KW]; But, unfortunately, even from my location, which is roughly 150 Km north west of Kolkata, those two are almost never heard using a portable receiver, except occasional presence of Port Blair during the twilight hours rarely. Recently one friend from your country logged one such rare frequency in the tropical band, though it was one of those external services frequency. As for me, I am very interested in these regional broadcasts of AIR, and of late I have logged in some, and couldn't catch a few, about which I always inquire if someone else might have heard them recently. And those frequencies are :- 4850[Kohima], 4880[Lucknow], 4950, 6110[Sri Nagar], 4990 & 6150[Itanagar], 6000[Leh], 5050[Aizawl], apart from the ones mentioned in my previous mail. So, if ever you come across any of these, or any AIR stations in these band, feel free to send in a mail, like you did for Kurseong. Thanking you again (Paul, India, ibid.) ** INDIA. 4840, 0005-0015 22.06, AIR Mumbai. Hindi ann, Indian songs 55444 AP-DNK New 4895.00, 1635-1700* 22.06, AIR Kurseong. Vernacular ann, Indian songs, 1659 closing ann. Back on the air after four months repair! 25332 However not heard at 0055-0110 22.06! AP-DNK 4920, *0013-0020 22.06, AIR Chennai. AIR IS, Hindi ann: "Vande Mataram" and national song Vande Mataram was played, ID, ann, drums and sitar; 45444, Lhasa still off on 4920! AP-DNK Best 73, (Anker Petersen, in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Latest info received shows that the frequencies listed as Panaji below, viz. 9810 & 15185, are actually from Delhi. Any inconvenience caused is regretted. -Jose Jacob Recent AIR External Service changes To: "dx_india" Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 7:07 PM The following are the recent changes noted to AIR External Services. 11620 Aligarh 0015-0430 (Ex 0100-0430) 7410 Bangalore 1745-1945 English (W.NW Africa) (Ex 7550) 7550 Delhi 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi 2045-2230 English (Europe) (Ex 7400, 7410) 9940 Delhi 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi 2045-2230 English (Europe) (Irregular) 15075 Delhi 1615-1730 Hindi(Back on air) 9810 Panaji 0130-0230 Nepali (Back on air) 15185 Panaji 0315-0415 Hindi, 0415-0430 Gujarati, 0430-0530 Hindi (Back on air) (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, dx_india via DXLD) 7410 1730-2030 37,46 BGL 500 280 7410 1730-2230 27,28 BGL 500 320 9810 0115-0230 41N,42S ALG 250 65 11620 0045-0430 41N DEL 250 334 15075 1600-1730 48SW,53W ALG 250 245 15185 0300-0530 48SW,53W PAN 250 205 (via Wolfgang Büschel, June 22, to and via Jose Jacob, dx_india yg via DXLD) Dear Wolfgang, Thanks for the info. What you sent may be the registrations but in actual some changes are there. 73 (Jose Jacob, ibid.) ** INDIA. Archived newspaper article on SPT Bangalore from 1988 [SPT = super power transmitter? 500 kW] Interesting news report from the archives of Deccan Herald newspaper "AIR SUPER-POWER STATION COMING UP NEAR CITY" Deccan Herald, 31 / 08 / 1988. By Staff Reporter http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/essays.nsf/%28docid%29/6FB02DA733CB634EE5256C46006EBC98 Some interesting quotes from the article * "...Designed and built by Asea Brown Boveri of Switzerland,.." * "…The aerial system consisting of nine multiband aerial curtains are being installed by Marconi and Co of UK…" * "…The Electronic Corporation of India of Hyderabad has been entrusted with the erection of the nine gigantic pylons (the tallest tower measuring 97 metres) and the aerials…" * "…While the "European beam" (centred on Moscow) will cover Europe and parts of America, the "North African beam" will serve most part of Africa. In its reverse direction, the beam will land in Australia…" * "…With the Dodballapur complex's "skip area" being 100 kin [km?], Bangaloreans will not be able to catch the waves on their sets…" (Ashok Satpathy, June 22, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526-, June 18 at 1255 and 1311, just barely detectable carrier in high noise level, weak propagation. Not at all on June 19. 9525.9, VOI back to good strength plus good modulation, June 20 at 1330 with ID, P O Box 1157, Jakarta, or english @ voi.co.id and then segment with frequent musical interludes about dragon fruit, a cure- all. 9526-, VOI in stark contrast to yesterday, just barely detectable carrier June 21 at 1347, not 9525. Further confirmed to be on the air at 1412 by producing het against weak but audible CRI Russian on 9525.0. 9526-, another day of JBA carrier instead of good signal as happens some days, Tuesday June 22 at 1321, so we miss another Exotic Indonesia excursion to Banjarmasin, Kalimantan. Is this all due to propagation variations, or are there other factors, such as power and azimuth changes? 9526-, VOI confirmed on the air June 23 at 1344 only by barely detecting its carrier on this unique frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. CNN DROPS AP SERVICE TO FOCUS ON INTERNAL NEWSGATHERING --- By Sarah Rabil - Jun 21, 2010 Time Warner Inc.'s CNN, the 24-hour cable news network, stopped using the Associated Press service and materials to focus on its internal newsgathering efforts. Starting today, CNN's newsgathering will be the primary source of content across all platforms and services, CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton said today in an internal memo to staff. The memo was confirmed by CNN spokesman Nigel Pritchard. "We are taking an important next step in the content- ownership process we began in 2007 to more fully leverage CNN's global newsgathering investments," Walton wrote. The move lets CNN invest more into its own operation and helps it differentiate from competition, Walton said. CNN started the efforts to own all of its content in 2007, and created a wire service offering articles and videos. The cable channel also struck a deal with Thomson Reuters Corp.'s wire service to supplement breaking news coverage, according to the memo. CNN is returning to Reuters after dropping the service in August 2007, following a price increase. New York-based AP, a nonprofit cooperative that supplies articles, photos and videos from around the world to paying members, confirmed it was unable to reach a deal with CNN. "It is unfortunate that CNN's viewers will no longer have access to the breaking news and worldwide reporting resources of the Associated Press, the gold standard in journalism," the AP said in an e-mailed statement. Falling Ratings CNN has been coping with declining ratings in prime time following the 2008 U.S. presidential election and amid competition with News Corp.'s Fox News Channel. CNN has also discussed partnerships with other news outlets, Time Warner Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said on the company's May 5 earnings conference call. New York-based Time Warner doesn't break out CNN's financial performance. As part of the new model, CNN is expanding the "CNN Wires" team and creating positions on desks and in bureaus to get information on TV more quickly, Walton said. It's also starting "CNN Share," which will create an alert system for breaking news and compile editorial content and share it across the website, mobile and TV. Time Warner fell 42 cents to $32.54 at 3:53 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares had gained 13 percent this year before today. Source: bloomberg.com (via Sergei S., June 21, dxldyg via DXLD) I guess CNN.com will be affected the most; I didn't realize that the Associated Press is "a nonprofit cooperative." (Sergei S., ibid.) It should be pointed out that yes it's true CNN USA's ratings have fallen, but CNN International ratings have not. Except for a handful of hours a day, 90% of CNN International's programming mostly comes from London, Hong Kong, Dubai and Atlanta (Keith Perron, Taiwan, ibid.) CNN Int. runs its own Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/CNNInternational If nothing changed it should be inaccessible from the US. I wonder if it works in Canada. Note that CNN Int. doesn't get nearly as many viewers on Youtube as RT does at http://www.youtube.com/russiatoday (Sergei S., ibid.) True. But don't forget CNN International has 10 times the distribution channels than RT. So I would suspect those who access the RT youtube channel do so because they have no other way to view the service. Also the CNN International website is also has more program content than RT (Keith Perron, ibid.) Sergei, It doesn't (Jon Pukila, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, ibid.) That`s really too bad. CNN International is much better than CNN USA. It's to bad Canada carries CNN USA. Mind you it, does not surprise me. And I suspect what the reasons could be (Keith Perron, Taiwan, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. DX Tropical 18 June --- 4045 usb, Bel Ami, 1200 to 1220, long talk on loop current with Gulf of Mexico motor/sailing vessels. Warning of position of oil which is now threatening friends in Pensacola, FL. Seems a primary frequency for logging ships in port in the Caribbean, Gulf and at sea. 17 June http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10309001.stm http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/noaa_gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_25.html (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 15785, Galei Tzahal, 0130-0140, June 20, US and Euro-pop music. Hebrew announcements. Poor to fair. Much better on // 6973 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ISRAEL [and non]. 6985, Mossad, 1939 June 17 is jammed! with bubble jammer (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 17690, R. Japon, 1232 June 24 news mostly about Japanese politix but also Australian, good signal, 1238 ID. This is via MADAGASCAR, 305 degrees USward. Your station for classic rock! NHK Warudo, June 24 at 1441 on 11655 via Sackville, VG signal playing José Feliciano trax including ``Light My Fire``, ``Sunny``, ``Che Sarà`` --- yes, in Italian; 1455 ``confidential`` toned YL back-announcement in Japanese, fill rest of hour with Bobby Vinton`s ``Mr Lonely`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. QSL: NHK World Radio Japan, 17810 f/d, TX site = Yamata, Japan, two full data QSL Cards in 41 days for report in English by mail, cards mailed separately by Airmail from Shibuya, no envelopes; full color sked and info + postcard by separate mail (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. 4950.00, 0035-0045 22.06, R Kashmir, Srinagar. Kashmiri talk and songs without music 23333 Heterodyne from 4949.78, so best in USB. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. INDIA, Frequency changes for Voice of Kashmir (Sedayee Kashmir) in Kashmiri 0230-0330 NF 4870 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs, ex 6100 0730-0830 NF 6100 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs, ex 9890 1430-1530 NF 4870 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs, ex 6100 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 15, distribution delayed a week, via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, *1400- 1430*. It’s hard to figure what’s up with the jamming here by N. Korea! Back in late April, shortly after Shiokaze moved here from ex: 5910, there was heavy jamming for several days in a row, so clearly N. Korea knew they changed frequency, but for a long time now I have heard none at all. Has N. Korea really given up on blocking Shiokaze? Was there a need for them to pull the jamming away from here to use against some other higher priority station(s)? All of which makes little sense to me and certainly is not very consistent. Tuesday (June 15) in rarely heard Chinese (rather stilted); Wednesday (June 16) in English with personal data on the Japanese abductees; Friday (June 18) in English again with the usual format of “Today’s News Flash” and “Today’s News on North Korean Issues”; usually with fair reception, but recently have heard some QRM from Madagascar on 6134.9v (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH KOREA [non]. Frequency change of Radio Free Chosun in Korean: 1500-1600 NF 11560*DB 100 kW / 070 deg to North Korea, ex 7475 *co-channel WYFR Family Radio in Hindi via Taiwan, HUW 100 kW / 285 deg to SoAs. For this transmission were registered alternative frequencies 11565, 13845 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. UnID on 9620 kHz till 2057z [1 Attachment] Dear Dxers, while listening to SW radio via GlobalTuners receiver in Imperia, Italy on June 19 at 2052z on 9620 kHz, I heard music and then YL in Arabic, and then again music, and then at 2057z tx was switched off. The music and the accent sounded like Korean, but when checked aoki, eibi, bcl, df schedules, there is nothing in Arabic on 9620 kHz at this time segment. I further checked KBS World Radio website, and there is no Arabic xmission at 2000-2100z at all! In attachment you can hear above mentioned. 73 (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [later:] I've checked 9620 kHz at 2000z on June 20 and it is KBS World Radio in Arabic! 73 (Dragan Lekic, June 21, ibid.) Someone at VT-group played with the feederline? WRN at this time KBS in Arabic. Arabic registered at 1900-2000 15365 (Rampisham) Middle East/Africa ??? But could also be triangle exchange business, ??? VT- group provider / KBS / DWL. Due of DWL Chinese via Kimje-KOR 9785 relay now at 2300-2400 UT, compensated by KBS Arabic 9620 ??? (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Yes, apparently indeed it is a result of exchange. I looked at IBB Monitoring website, and found these audio samples http://africa.ibbmonitor.com/RMS_Data/Sounds/2010_06_19/ARAB/KWR/CAIR/1006192008@CAIR_9620KWRARAB.MP4 http://africa.ibbmonitor.com/RMS_Data/Sounds/2010_06_19/ARAB/KWR/CAIR/1006192037@CAIR_9620KWRARAB.MP4 which area labeled KWR ARAB, and that is KbsWorldRadio in ARABic. The site given is "DW", so apparently we still do not know which site exactly is it. 73 (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, ibid.) Probably either Sines, Kigali or Trincomalee, considering the cut-off at 2057, also considering that using own transmission capacity appears to be more likely for DW's new airtime exchange with KBS. Perhaps someone has a contact who could be asked in the meantime, until this transmission will show up in listings anyway? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Hello Group, according to the web site of the Arabic section of KBS, they started using 9620 kHz starting the 15th of June replacing the old frequency of 15365 kHz, the transmitter site is the ex DW relay station in Sines, Portugal. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg, Denmark, June 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, ibid.) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 13m barely open from REE SPAIN, June 20 at 1351 on 21570 in clear, and weaker // 21540 with SAH of about 6 Hz from the numbskulls at Radio Kuwait who have started colliding with REE until 1500 despite scads of open channels on this band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. 4025, Star Radio. June, 14 2040-2052 male talks (unable to identify the language) alternating short music; 25322. June, 15 2054- 2108 male in vernacular alternating tribal music, 2100 male in English “Liberia..social view..Liberia democracy..on Star radio..political party”, abrupt lower level audio, African music, 2108 carrier off; 34433. June, 19 0706-0716 male and female in English, African music. Unreadable, 25432 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4025-, presumed Star Radio carrier again strong enough to be detectable above noise level, June 20 at 0607, and as usual slightly lower compared to Rebelde on 5025 on the FRG-7 by tuning down exactly 1 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4024.99, Star Radio, 0620-0640, June 20, very weak with talk. Presumed. Too weak to pull out any further details (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 4025-, weak carrier detectable from presumed Star Radio, June 22 at 0624, and as usual slightly low compared to Cuba 5025. 4025-, June 23 at 0620, weak carrier detectable slightly low compared to 5025 Rebelde, presumably Star Radio. Brian Alexander, PA, measured it 72 hours earlier on 4024.99, which fits nicely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010 (carrier+USB), R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano, 1900- 1930, 17 Jun'10, Malagasy, talks, seeming some match report, music, French used too; 35343. Also good yesterday, 18 Jun'10. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7105 (USB + carrier mode), RTV Malagasy, June 21 continued with extensive daily World Cup coverage; randomly from 1310 to 1500*; segments with commentary about the match, coverage of the action on the field, many on-air phone calls, back to play by play coverage; ads and frequent promos with jingle for football Madagascar. Interesting contrast to the CNR-1 coverage which is mostly chit- chatting between announcers and seems like very little actual coverage of the play by play action on the field. CNR-1 has the ever present background of the vuvuzela horn blowing, whereas the Madagascar coverage does not have the buzz. June 22, 1335-1400: Hi-Li music and pop songs; 1400-1450: ToH usual canned cheering-gooooal-football Madagascar promo; into non-stop coverage of a World Cup match; 1450-1500*: ads and Hi-Li music. Mostly fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 6174.4v, Radio Suara Islam, 1406, June 21. Holding up very well against a strong CNR-1 on 6175.0; reciting from the Qu’ran; // 6049.6v (poor-fair) (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. NEW X-BAND STATION IN MEXICO (AND ANOTHER NEW AM) While looking for TV information, I found a COFETEL press release noting the authorization of a new expanded-band station on 1670 in Cd. Anáhuac in Nuevo León (not too horribly far from Monterrey in northeastern Mexico). The station was authorized last November to the Universidad Anáhuac. Also authorized was a station on 1280 in Nayarit. (also, nine FM stations and three DTVs) Another news release notes the progress of the country's voluntary plan to move AM stations to FM. In Region I (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Yucatán), *every* authorized AM station requested an FM frequency. I don't *think* the deadline has yet expired for applying in the other five regions. Under the plan, AM stations receiving an FM frequency must begin FM operation within a year. They are required to leave the AM station on the air for a year after the FM launches, simulcasting the FM (similar to Canadian practice but with a much longer simulcast period). In cases where populations receive only AM signals, COFETEL may require the AM simulcast to continue for an indefinite period, beyond one year (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, june 16, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, México D. F., 0509-0610, 18-06, transmisión de noticias de la sección española de Radio Francia Internacional, hasta las 0533, luego programa de Radio Educación, con música clásica. A las 0556 identificación: "Radio Educación, 85 años, Radio Educación, para todos los públicos". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. ``Is Televisa the same as XEW-2 Net?`` Some here might not know. All news and sports coverage on Televisa networks display the Televisa logo. There is no such thing as XEW or Canal de las Estrellas news. Regardless of network (XEW/Estrellas, XHGC-5/Canal Cinco, Galavisión), news and sports is branded Televisa. Most of the independent Televisa stations do the same (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, Mexico TV DX Tips http://www.tvdxtips.com 21 June, WTFDA via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Until and unless I get something definitely not Mexico, my Spanish unidentified TVDX logs will be included here. So far no luck, as Mexico always seems to be in, blocking any double-hop openings from further, and Yucatán is directly in the way to Central America and NW South America. Direxion notes are only approximate as the antenna is fairly broad- lobed, especially at low-VHF. There are often openings from more than one direxion at once. I videotaped some of the stronger signals capable of breaking thru the blue screen and/or the audio muting, and eventually should take some still photos to post. June 18, all times and dates UT! Much of the time I am multi-tasking, and only occasionally will something locally identifiable emerge. 1630, ch 2-6, tune-in, lots of Spanish mixing it up, S to SE 1632, ch 3, tv3 bug in UR, which is XHP Puebla, YL with birthday, quinceañera greetings. 1640, ch 5, Veracruz get-out-the-vote PSA from IFE (Instituto Federal Electoral), loud audio; video mix with else. XHAJ Las Lajas. 1642, ch 3, Flintstones from Net-5 bug UR, XHGC, the cartoon net; mix else. 1830, ch 2-6 full of Spanish, some very strong. 1840, ch 6, Hungary vs Argentina World Cup live, presumably net-2 Televisa [I then switch to FM DXing; see separate logs] 1945, ch 3-4-5, dubbed movie // from net-5; then 5 mixing with WC 2030, ch 5, local ads including Pollo Loco, Los Muebles de Monterrey. But there is no ch 5 in Monterrey, and only a lowpower elsewhere in NL relaying XET-6. Maybe chain furniture store name elsewhere? Not per Google. Maybe the word I heard was not muebles [furniture]. 2033, ch 5, ``aquí in Veracruz`` spoken. Maybe same station as above 2144 on ch 2 from S: Jello ad in English; 2158 Access Hollywood closing credits, 2159 Cricket ad, another ad with 956 Area Code = RGV of TX. ID slide started tv2 ---- but could not make out rest of it. But it is certainly XHRIO, Matamoros, Tamaulipas which funxions as the Fox affiliate in English down there, and remains in analog. UT June 19: 2235, ch 2-6 open with lots of Spanish stations. 2235, ch 6, Azteca 13, documentary seems, peaks southwest. 2236, ch 5, music show. 2240, ch 4, novela on net-5 2253, ch 6, YL announcer on camera, about Mexico 2010. Yes, that`s the country and that`s the year, so? 2336, ch 2-6, still lots of stations mixing. UT June 20: 0001, ch 6, Visión America; jazz concert, from the Aguascalientes Jazz Festival. Bug at UL has three folding diamonds horizontally in different colors, then ID seen as Aguascalientes-tv. Local singers, ranchera YL in black cowboy hat; 0005 CCI from a novela. W9WI shows ch 6 in Ags as XHCGA-TV, 10.52 kW with the Once network (national educational), but Cantú does not mention Once, so it is apparently now an independent educational outlet, and his list shows the diamonds logo I saw: http://mexicoradiotv.com/listagua.htm 0013, ch 3 and 5 same novela from net-5, with hoofbeats SFX. 5 has heavy same-offset CCI. 0215, ch 4, movie from Azteca-7; // channel 2 but with different bug in UL, unreadable. 0301, ch 5, PAN political ad for Raúl López, who wants to be Presidente Municipal, Mexicali. Is that = mayor? XHAQ. Then Azteca 13 bug UR and soccer discussion, VG snow-free for a bit. 0303, ch 6, opening credits for ``House``, in English, then ad in English for Pristiq; 0305 promo newscast tonight at 10. Both these match listings for XETV Tijuana. But also included government PSA in Spanish for ``Tu Voto, 4 de julio`` by agency initialed TjE [Tribunal de Justicia Electoral]. So even tho it funxions as an English station for San Diego, XETV still has to air Mexican government PSAs in Spanish. There are lots of these on Mexican TV from many different agencies, electoral matters being topical now. I believe Mexican broadcasters are required by law to carry a certain amount of government PSAs as a condition of license. You hardly ever see USG PSAs on American TV any more. If ad time is unsold, it`s more likely to be filled by station promos. 0303, ch 3, heavy same-offset CCI --- almost, with 4 or 5 wide horizontal bars. Both XHBC Mexicali and XHQ Culiacán, Sinaloa are zero-offset per W9WI, tho I`ve yet to get an ID from XHQ this summer. XHBC has an animated ID with large lettering on full screen, 3XHBC, then MGM Lion opening movie. XHBC also has continuous bug in LR which says XHBC and below it in fine print, Tu Canal. 0312, ch 3 with political PSA, Tu Voto from TjE, ``para bajacalifornianos``. 0330, MUF is dropping, while DX Sherlock shows 2 meters open from OK to the NW. I keep an eye on ch 8 and 10 for possible hiband skip. Maybe something on 7 would also make it thru if close to right angle from OKC QRM? I do notice DTV meter showing signal on ch 6 while aimed NW, presumably my closest lo-VHF DTV, KBSD Dodge City KS, yet to be IDed definitely. Still UT June 20, here we go again with another opening in afternoon: 2152, ch 4, adstring in Spanish peaks SW; 2153 for vitaminas, dolor de cabeza; IFE PSA [federal government electoral institute]; 2157 ad for candidate Zamora for Presidente Municipal. Unfortunately that is a common name and googling finds several such incumbents in Mexico. 2159, ch 6, Crestomania bug in UL, program promo; unfamiliar complex bug in UR. Hoped Googling Crestomania would help, but not. Ideas? 2205, ch 6, symphonic concert with shots of orchestra, pianist at 2217; 2224, IFE Aguascalientes PSA, and program is ``Escenarios`` featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes. Altho Hot Springs is a minor city in Mexican terms, it`s as big as Albuquerque. Long intro to music by host, 2227 starts Liszt`s Faust Symphony. Again at peaks can see tricolor diamonds logo bug in UL, green-yellow-red from left to right. XHCGA. It`s great to be reminded of high culture in Mexico, vs all the bad news we get from there on mainstream media. WORLD OF RADIO 1518, 2239, ch 5 with net-7. As video rolls, looks like there is lettering in the VBI (vertical blanking interval), but no way to make it stable. 2302, ch 6 with graphic about sexual advice; still Ags? 2302, ch 5, movie from net-5. 2347, after a break for FM DXing AZ: ch 5 with net-13 news via BCN. 2348, ch 4, World Cup, Televisa promo and game, must be playback now, net-2. 2348, ch 5, unfamiliar bug in UR; looks like tiny white letters ID just went by in UL; Iniciativo Mexicano PSA; 2350 ad for Mayonesa Hellman`s, which has been a major advertiser in Mexico for sesquidecades, unlike USA. 4 de julio election PSA, mentions Baja California so it`s XHAQ Mexicali; Banco Azteca ad (are the network and the bank under same ownership? That`s handy); At 2357 I can make out the bug in UL, which is for that bank, as same also seen briefly full screen. It`s sort of heart-shaped, or is it flame-shaped? Then Azteca- 13 promo and back to reality show, ``La Nueva Era --– Extranormal --- en la casa de los perros, Guadalajara``. 2354, ch 3, heavy almost zero-beat CCI XHBC/XHQ as happens too often 2358, ch 6, credit roll including Chris Rock, exec producer; 2359 plug ``Simpsons`` at 6 on San Diego 6, i.e. XETV; then from 0000 June 21, ``That 70`s Show``. UT June 21: 0000, ch 5, XHAQ`s paranormal show continues with no hourtop break. 0002, ch 3, audio mentions Canal 3, Mexicali; CCI. 0059, after another break for FM DXing, ch 6, Kaminsky Consruxion ad, San Diego 6, CW bug, ``The Simpsons`` (syndicated, not current Fox eps) as promised. 0100, ch 3, XHBC, ``tu canal te invita``, show opening in color, animation, featuring jaguars in Yucatán. Televisa produxion. 0103, ch 4, Azteca 13 hosts mention animal kingdom, open animated movie ``Bichos --- una aventura en miniatura``, i.e. Ants. Most likely from target area is XHHSS, Hermosillo, Sonora, 100 kW Sporadic E on VHF is finally back after a 2-day respite: I leave TV on channel 2 most of the time waiting for openings. 0014 UT June 23, channel 2 fades up with southerly Spanish, Banco Azteca --- may we assume they never advertise on Televisa? Is ad break in dubbed Los Simpson which resumed at 0017; Homer doesn`t sound like Homer, sorry; could Hank Azaria learn Spanish? TV Guide says it`s the Azteca-7 network. There are six possibilities, Campeche and Tampico most likely here. More interesting is CCI on 2 for several minutes from black screen, silent audio. Who could that be? It`s 10 kHz offset from Simpsons. Then I am getting commercials in English. Maybe it was XHRIO. From the Dxinfocentre maps, XHCAM and XHRIO are both offset plus, so that doesn`t fit. XHTAU Tampico and XHDRG Durango are zero, so could be either of those, if black was XHRIO. Yes, this is iffy, but who`s counting? 0026 on channel 4, net-5 bug UR, lucha libre? Also WW logo to be seen such as on interview mike, one W atop the other. Thought it pertains to W network, as in XEW, radio too, or is it for Wrestling? Weak opening fading in and out; at 0054 saw the WW on mike again, interviewing a bunch of guys in a ring [= square], but not wearing masks. Net-5 on 4 has a number of possibilities, including XHD Tampico. 0034 on ch 2, Primer Impacto, which is the Televisa tabloid newsmagazine we also get on Univisión. TV Guide online is giving me trouble, refusing to load local or international listings. Maybe because the advertising isn`t loading first? Geez. 0041 on ch 2, preacher in Spanish, with phone number, ``llámenos al`` starting with (81), which is the country code for Japan, so it must have been something within Mexico, or somewhere closer. Minor Es opening June 23 at 2220 UT: monitoring ch 2, something finally infades, from southwest, looks like Azteca-13 bug UR, novela; soon outfades. 2232, on 2, car ad with 70% (discount?) 2303, meteor scatter split-second burst while aimed toward Mexico; also one or two in the previous semihour. June 24, tune in 1745 UT to a bigger opening, starting with Veracruz: 1745, on 2, talk show, four people in a living-room set; CDT digital clock in LR; 1747 IFE PSA. 1747, on 5, // channel 2 with IFE PSA, but about 2 seconds behind it, then both have a PSA for IeV = Instituto Electoral Veracruzano. 2 is XHFM in Veracruz city, while 5 must be XHAJ, the mountaintop relay at Las Lajas, the only full-power 5 in the state, but which W9WI says is on the XHGC-5 net, while XHFM is Televisa independent. Well, they are // now. Oglethorpe shows them as both teleVer. Briefly at 1748, 5 splits from 2 for a different ad or PSA mentioning Poza Rica, then back to // but two seconds apart. 1748, on 2, ID as teleVer on full screen, promo for World Cup game starting in next hour, back to talk show. Bug in UR has some complex design with teleVer in fine print at the bottom of it. So far there has been little if any CCI on 2 but some starts by 1757. 1757, on 4, recipe for picositos. 1807, full-screen ID as rtv, lower case with the r and v connected to the cross of the t, and then live audio ID as ``radio y televisión de Veracruz``. So it`s XHGV Las Lajas, as per the tvdxtips logo page linked below; run by the state government per W9WI. 1822, WC Holland vs Cameroon coverage has started, hearing vuvuzelas on both 2 and 3 but different announcers (not merely out of synch); therefore 3 is non-Mexican, as surely only Televisa has the rights to it in Mexico. 1824 national anthem just before game starts, with mandatory closeups of each player side by side. In next semihour the Televisa WC coverage on 2 is // 5 and others fading in and out. 1850, on 6, video only, ad/or promo for a 94.5 FM. I doubt I can relate this to anything later. 1851, on 4, promo for a 6 am show on ``cuatro TV`` this likely XHTV Mexico DF as at http://www.tvdxtips.com/mexlogos.html --- CCI novela 1856, on 4, bug LR says Vale, with the V extended like a check mark; bug UR looks like a globe with white letters TV askew on the bottom of it; during sitcom. Don`t see such a bug at mexlogos. At 1900 I think a specific white letter ID super appeared at UL, but too weak and too quick to copy. By 1925, opening has weakened to ch 2 and 3, including novela on 3. 1939, on 4, novela, Azteca 13 bug UR; there are 5 full-power possibilities and 4 lower ones. 1957, on 2, heavy CCI from SW, World Cup et al.; mixed with tennis, Wimbledon but maybe only update/clips. 2001, on 2, tabloid news headlines including about Belina; audio CCI from much louder/overmodulated station. 2006, on 2, Galavisión bug in UR, and NX logo, and ene-equis mentioned --- that`s the name of the tabloid show from XEQ-9 network. Turns out this is one which can be pinned down, as there are only two net-9s on 2, XHAGU in Aguascalientes, which is in the right direxion, and Hermosillo which is not, at the moment. 2010, on 2, net-2 with World Cup overtaking NX 2035, on 3, now big signal from almost west, VG snow-free and steady much of the time, TuCanal, Mexicali; upper right has logo I saw before, but on 4, so what does it signify? The globe(?) with TV askew at the bottom of it. Also logos for MX promotion. 2040, on 5, now big clear signal here too, from Mexicali`s XHAQ. Resumed videotaping this at 2047 during perfect reception. PSA for Mi México, 200 años celebration. TV Azteca Baja California local ID includes shots of their building. Don`t ever see call letters, tho. 2053, on 5, BC weather plus San Diego forecast, but now losing audio as MUF falls. 2057, on 3, XHBC: I switch to taping this, ads for York, Mexicali, Francisco somebody for Presidente Municipal, 2058 back for wrapup of dubbed ``Planet`s Funniest Animals`` show. 2059, XHBC animated ID with rotating letters and number, 2100 Notivisa, local newscast with the blue N logo; now some CCI and fading to mar. Keeps PDT clock in LR. 2100, on 2 before and after some game show, promo for Canal de las Estrellas, XEW-2 net; 2102 ad for foot remedy Silka Medic 2103, on 3, phone report from Tijuana in Notivisa, still of reporter 2105, on 5, TV Azteca promo, so still XHAQ 2106, on 3, Mexicali weather, near perfect reception. Both weatherwoman and anchorwoman wear glasses! Soccer ad. This held up for a good 20 minutes with lots of local news stories and features; at 2122 one about the Cucapá Indians. 2127 everything drops out. A few minutes later I look at DX Sherlock and the map is crammed with 6m multiple-hop Es between eastern North America and Europe; a few almost reaching OK, but nothing much on ch 2 here aimed NE (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, that is some highly interesting TV DX Mexico. As for that channel 4 with the unIDed logo, a couple of DXers have reported an unknown logo on channel 4. I haven't seen it yet, but I saw a *local* newscast last week that I couldn't ID. If you get an ID, let me know. Those TV Azteca local IDs can be very interesting. I wish I could get the one on XHAQ-5 on tape. My current favorite is the "TV Azteca Colima" I taped in May from XHCOL-3. You can see a photo from the Colima ID here: http://tvdxexpo.com/mexicotvdx/colima.html (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, Mexico TV DX Tips http://www.tvdxtips.com June 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. FM DX: unlike my TVDX done with external antenna and rotor, FM DX is on portable DX-398, usually with AC, and easily manoeuverable whip antenna only. The TV antenna altho also covering FM has an amplifier with FM trap engaged, but still not enough to get rid of QRFM on certain channels in certain direxions. There are only a few relatively open FM channels here available for DX, so I make the best of them. Primary reference is the 2010 Emisoras de FM by Jim Thomas. UT June 18: 1846 on 96.5, the frequency radio happened to be tuned to previously, turned on initially outside with battery power, and there is DX, FM expected to be open, as TV had been up to channel 6. Romantic music in stereo; 1847 concert promo in Loreto, Zacatecas, ``celebración de 96.5, sus primeros 20 años de existencia``. 1850 cuide-los-bosques PSA. After several other logs, again at 1913 VG signal but lo-fi YL report by IP. 1914 TC for 2:14 by studio announcer, much better fidelity, talking about Zacatecas, something going on at a santuario para creyentes. 1915 promo EstéreoZER, primeros 20 años; CCI from romantic music. Emisoras de FM shows: XHZER Estéreo ZER, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, 100000 watts, variety. 900+ mile range. 1853 on 95.3, stereo, Euzkadi General Tire ad. The Basques must have been pioneers in the tire business. Ad gave several phone numbers far too fast for anyone to copy or remember. Then something selling for 4.99 pesos per kilo, father`s day gifts. 1855, plug Sala de Fiesta Sufi(?), a 19 de junio concert. 1856 ID as ``La Candela --- la más Grande``. This is the same Mérida, Yucatán station we hear relayed on SW 6104.8v (but not lately). Not new on FM here, but nice to hear again so clearly. XEMH-FM, 5000 watts per EFM. Other Mérida FMs are likely in too, under 1200 miles: 1856, on 97.7, Spanish adstring including a zapatería. 1924, ``ésta es la información internacional``, headlines by YL, ``noticias-radio``, huracán promo, SIPSE-noticias, 19 de junio día del papá ad. 1924 adstring including lottery, 1925 cerveza, 1926 PSA ``el robo de energía es un delito``, and finally back to news, now with anchor ``Antonio García, en Sipse, Noticias Radio, continuamos``. SIPSE runs XHY-TV canal 2 in Mérida, and here is Sr. García himself: http://www.sipse.com/television/canal2/sipsenoticias SIPSE = Servicios Informativos y Publicitarios del Sureste. Story about a federal government military convoy arriving in Yucatán along the Quintana Roo border, camiones del ejército mexicano. Allegedly to assist the public in hurricane preparedness, but had the impression another purpose had something to do with corruption in Q.R. 1931, still news about Yucatán; 1959 recheck still audible, but skip is shortening to Matamoros area with another 97.7, as below. EFM says Mérida 97.7 is XHGL, Kiss FM, CHR/English, 80000 watts --- but they have a news format, at least when I heard them! Could be a one-hour break in the music. 1858, on 99.3, stereo, Spanish, ``Exa-FM``; 1900 ad with phone 9-42- 95-95 which gets a google hit for something in Mérida; 1901 ad for a 3D movie. 1902 ad for Galerías Mérida. EFM says XHMRA, 98500 watts, Exa FM, format chr/SS-EE. 1908, on 92.7, RDS static display shows UASCALIE --- obviously the middle of AGUASCALIENTES, which is also a hotspot for TVDX on channel 6. Sports news about Celtics de Boston. [When I started this DX session I checked 92.7, one of the lowest available frequencies, and was hearing Spanish, but Wichita can fakeout, revealed by a 316- area code mention]. Quite a lot of ACI still from KOMA OKC 92.5. But the RDS hit is all I need to identify this per EFM as: XHRTA, 65000 watts, Aguascalientes FM, variety format. 950 mile range. WORLD OF RADIO 1518, 2000 on 92.7, is it USA or MEXICO, simulcasting Reynosa 102.5? see USA [Re my previous report of a 92.7 relaying XHRR 102.5 Reynosa, Tamaulipas, ``La Ley`` [see USA]. It is in fact KESO, a fine example of international coöperation. Steven Wiseblood in Harlingen, for whom these are locals confirms: ``92.7 is definitely transmitting from Port Isabel, relaying 102.5 Reynosa; funny thing is, they have no ads for Port Isabel or South Padre Island, all the content is geared to McAllen-Edinburg-Hidalgo. I have absolutely no idea why a Port Isabel station is being used to relay the Reynosa station, and also why is there no local content for Port Isabel or South Padre Island. I have confirmed, however, that the 92.7 transmitter is within 2 miles of downtown Port Isabel, near the ship channel. Sometimes I secretly wish for the Fairness Doctrine so that a station like this will at least have to have a few hours of local content a day, but it is being used now as nothing more than a relay for 102.5 Reynosa, "La Ley"`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1518] 2020 on 97.7, another station has taken over from Mérida: Coca Cola ad, static RDS says LOS 40; per EFM that would be XHRW, 29190 watts in Tampico, Tamaulipas. Los 40 Principales (Top 40) is a national group, or net; I thought it was same as next station until researched: 2020 on 97.7, adstring for Impacto Matamoros; Bancómer, Mundial, restaurante; CCI in Spanish from Tampico or maybe still Mérida. 2022 political ad for Rodolfo Torres, gobernador de Tamaulipas. 2045 ad for Soriana department stores, and something in Brownsville; 2046 losing out to fringe signal from KICM, Healdton OK, presumably the one with ad for Sherman-Texhoma Hyundai at the OK/TX border. 97.7 Matamoros is XEEW, only 2860 watts per EFM. 700-mile range to the RGV (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 19 JUNE 2010, times in CST [CDT?] 1600, 90.7 XHLDC, Sonora, Magdalena De Kino; "Fiesta Mexicana" música Mexicana, norteña, full ID "con 10mil watts de potencia" 1604, 90.7 XHMOE, BCN, Mexicali, "Los 40 Principales" rock/pop Phoenix and Tucson FM's in to 94 MHz (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen, TEXAS, 26:12N, 97:45W, Roadmaster VRCD400-SDU AM/FM$ car stereo, Winegard 8-element FM YAGI HD6055P at 22 feet, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO [and non]. Saturday for a week I went to the town of Barneveld. Here are the headoffices of Transworld Radio. I had a most pleasant chat with the technical manager Odin van Woerdekom. He offered me to arrange that I could pay a visit to their transmitter site in Monaco to film and take pictures inside the transmitter site. This transmitter site was built by Adolf Hitler in WW-II. And they use transmitters they got for free from Thomson; they gave them the transmitters they build for President Soekarno (Indonesia), who did not pay. I’ve asked Odin and it is no problem to take 3 or 4 members of this community with me. Of course the cost we must pay ourselves. Return Plane ticket Amsterdam – Nice costs € 369,00 If anyone is interested. Please let me know. At this moment don’t know when I will be going. Also visits to Guam and Bonaire could be arranged. Regards (Jan Oosterveen, June 21, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Of course, this refers to the TWR head office in the Netherlands. The international HQ is in Cary, North Carolina. In 1974 it was my pleasure to visit the TWR site in Swaziland, about 40 km east of Manzini (see previous posts on Swaziland). This was the dedication of the site. Back then they had four 25 kW transmitters in operation, which have since then been upgraded to 100 kW (Colin Miller, Ont., ibid.) ** MOROCCO. 711, RTM-"R", Laâyoune (or whatever spelling El Aiún may have), 1336-..., 21 Jun'10, Arabic/channel 1 relay, phone-ins, discussion; 35454. It seems R. Marocaine is decreasing the number of active MF transmitters; these were the only ones audible during a midday obs.: Azilal 207 [LF], Tahadart 540, Oujda 595 (not 594 as listed on the WRTH 2010, p. 279) (today, 21/6 on 595 once again though, but this just happens on occasions), Sébaa-Aioun 612, Laâyoune 711v, Agadir 936 and Sébaa Aioun 1044. So Sébaa Aioun 702, Rabat 819, Oujda 828, Beni Makada 1053, Casablanca 1080 & 1188, Marrakech (check above page of the WRTH'10) are not to be heard, and they would be at this distance, day or night, but then as I seem to remember 702, 828 1053 & 1188 are not noted for quite a long, long time (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 7200.0, Myanma Radio, June 18. Instead of signing off at 1330 as they normally would, they continued on past tune out of 1425. Started with indigenous theme music and into the Minorities and Distance Learning Services lectures; consisted of a series of 15 minute lessons (math, English with a native speaker of English, etc.); poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Nederland Wereldomroep via additional frequencies today, the 19th, for World Cup football The Netherlands v Japan. Heard at 1230 UT+ 7235, ISS 65deg peaking to fair to good strength 9455, BON 320 there was a signal on this frequency but too weak to ID - not even the trumpets 9595, WER 300 30dB over 9 and very loud on that beam 9620, NAU 11 10dB over 9 and good for those in the lands of the midnight sun 13700, WER 120 a fair to good signal co-channel with much weaker unid 15755, BON 80 audible, but only a weak signal (I missed GUF on this frequency til 1229) 21485, MDC 45 no trace of anything here 21590, ISS 150 trace of a weak signal here which I think was RNW Thanks to Wolfgang Bueschel and Top News for the information (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re RNW World Cup Oranje Team. Yes, today June 19 same special transmissions on air, like on June 14. but you missed additional 5955 NAU 500 210 S=9+50dB 9895 NAU 500 230 S=9+10dB vy73 (Wolfy, ibid.) Ran across Dutch on strange frequencies June 19, which must mean its`s RNW with special transmissions of silly ballgames of interest only to a few Dutchpersons and never direct from Holland; while they can`t afford to devote even one daily hour of English to North America, altho they would only need to play back already-produced English for elsewhere. 9455, June 19 at 1323, heard Wereldomroep mentioned, poor and into music; 1325 back to talk. I suspect the game was starting its second half. Not enough signal under CRI Sackville 9650 to tell if same was // via regular Tinang 1300 relay. 15755, June 19 at 1348 YL singing jazzy song in English, but 1350 into Dutch talk, poor-fair. Not // 9455 as far as I could tell, or at least not synchronized, as both were getting quite weak. By 1423 and 1427 nothing audible on 15755. I guess the game was over by then? But: 13700 at 1426, sports in Dutch, barely audible vs adjacent WYFR 13695. As of June 14, Media Network blog showed, i.a.: # 1000-1500 UTC: 9895 and 13700 kHz to SW Europe # 1100-1500 UTC: 13700 kHz to Greece and Turkey # 1100-1400 UTC: 15755 kHz to Atlantic and West Africa # 1100-1400 UTC: 9455 kHz to Caribbean and Florida We are then referred to http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/rnw-frequency-schedule-summer-2010 for further details, but 9455 and 15755 are not on it! 13700 was Wertachtal at this particular time. BC-DX had a schedule showing 9455 and 15755 both as Bonaire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 24 June, Holland Oranje vv Cameroon team 24 June, 03 July, 06 July, 10 July, 11 July 5950 1800-2200 18,27,2 WER 500 210 Nld RNW 24 June, 28 June, 03 July, 06 July, 07 July, 10 July, 11 July 9895 1800-2200 27S,28S NAU 500 230 Nld D RNW 24 June, 03 July, 06 July, 07 July, 10 July, 11 July 11670 1800-2200 28S,38, WER 500 120 Nld D RNW 24 June, 03 July, 06 July, 07 July, 10 July, 11 July 15310 1800-2157 8S,11 BON 250 320 Nld HOL RNW 24 June 17535 1800-2200 46,47W BON 250 80 Nld HOL RNW ... and Tour de France - RNW Frequenties schedule NOS Radio Tour de France program in Dutch http://sites.rnw.nl/pdf/TourdeFrance2010.pdf Frequency search engine http://resources.rnw.nl/fzm (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The search engine is interesting, I had not known about; apparently it works only for Dutch language transmissions (gh, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Re 10-24: To tell the big secret: The two new transmitters that replaced the old Philips rigs are Thomsons (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 7440, as I tuned across June 22 at 0619 surprised to hear English, DU accent. But as I tuned back down to be sure of frequency it had vanished in only a few sex. 7440 is an RNZI frequency elsewhen so suspected it was thence by mistake. Quickly tuned up to 11725, where they are supposed to be at this hour, and it was missing but cut on at *0620! with same programming in progress discussing Aussie players of some SBG. Then checked DRM noise and it was on correct 11670-11675-11680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 15120, VON is scheduled in English at 05-06, and I have heard it previously but now it`s blocked by the China radio war. June 20 at 0548 I am hearing heavy CCI between two stations in Chinese, but if VON is there, it is buried. The two are R Free Asia via TINIAN, and of course CNR1 jamming. This is likely to be a problem in other worldparts too. Will VON ever wake up and start coördinating frequencies, introduce flexiblity where needed, or doggedly stick to the same ones they have always used? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. QSL: Voice of Nigeria, 15120, p/d card *but no data filled in* in 73 days for English report + $2 by mail to both Lagos and Abuja; by mail, but original mailing address unknown. Also stickers, in an envelope with both the Lagos and Abuja addresses on it (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Voice of Chaos, 0010-0025, June 20, ID, email address. Pop music by Tom Jones, Led Zeppelin and others. Short editorial about the nuclear arms race. Very good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Exploring what DTV I can get from various direxions with tropo enhancement. C-490 antenna 15.5 feet above ground barely clearing rooftop and somewhat blocked by higher house to the east; plus amplifier and rotor. UT June 19: 0446, RF 31, and also labeled 31-1, Univisión HD, allowing cropping, etc., unlike my other venues for that net, with novela. PSIP says ``Univisi``, meaning a 7-character limit, and evades whether to put an acute on the o, which the corp. generally does not? Since I was pointed west at first looking for KUOK Woodward, I at first thought I might have KEYU Borger TX, 67.5 kW, and ``Univisi`` is certainly no real ID. But it peaked from north, so this is UNI for Wichita, KDCU Derby KS, 1000 kW. What about my local KXOK-LD on ch 31??? No sign of it compared to KDCU. KXOK reception is quite irregular, and suspect its operation is too. It has been only 40 watts, using a heart-shaped direxional pattern with me in a deep null, but what counts is the cable headend two blox away at the peak; yet they still need a yagi aimed at KXOK! CP is for 3.7 kW ERP to be non-direxional covering most of Garfield County instead of half of Enid city, but unseems in use yet. As for KUOK, RF 35, Woodward OK, Univisión which is relayed back on LP in OKC, I get surprisingly little from it, 85 miles due west. Its 1000 kW does have a pattern somewhat favoring OKC, and reducing signal in Enid direxion to 70%, but that should still be plenty. Late-evening tropo enhancement has been occurring by 0400 UT [= 2130 LMT]. On June 19 at 0458, both Wichita and Tulsa were up, and they both have channel 45s --- could easily separate them depending on antenna aiming roughly 90 degrees apart. KSNW Wichita remaps to 3, and KOTV Tulsa remaps to 6. Other Tulsa UHFs included on RF 42, Untamed Sports (network? Program?) as in UR bug, while in the LL I can now make out a tiny continuous ID in white letters as KMYT-DT-41.2 Tulsa, OK UT June 20, tropo is up again late. At 0459, Wichita/Hutchinson still has this confusing situation: RF 12 is 33-1 KSCW-DT; while RF 19 is 12-1 KWCH-DT plus weather on 12-2. At 0536, confirmed that KOED Tulsa is on RF 11; PSIPs show KOEDDT1 and KOEDDT2, which is unlike KETA OKC RF 13, which shows OETA-HD and OKLA respectively. There appears to be no rhyme or reason or consistency among stations, not just OETA, in the way their IDs display, or even whether they include legal call letters. OETA Ch 38 translator in Ponca IDs the same way as KETA. I notice that 13 and 11 are synchronized, while 38 LEADS the others by a couple of syllables, even tho it is supposedly further downstream as a relay. Digital processing delays can confuse matters further, but even if satellite-fed, its signals are getting out ahead of the primary station(s). At 1359, local 31, KXOK-LD is back with RTV network // NTSC 32. It`s still so weak that I can`t get it at any antenna direxion, and strangely, I get it best when aimed toward North Enid rather than downtown, tho per FCC TV Query, 32, 31 licensed, and 31 CP for power increase are all supposedly at same site on the Broadway Tower building in city centre. Something fishy here! June 21 at 1450 after most tropo has burned off I check KXOK RF 31 again, which remaps to 31-1 instead of 32! Once again signal peaks from N Enid, not C Enid, but it`s still not strong enough to avoid breaking up. Aimed N, I am not getting 31 Univisión from Derby KS now. Retro TV Network with Ironside, and from 1500 Marcus Welby, MD, but a big hum on audio, both NTSC and ATSC. Animated ID at 1459 claims its channels are ``32 and 18`` --- no mention of 31! 18 was the cable channel for it until a couple weeks ago changed to C15. Someone please tell KXOK! BTW, Suddenlink transmits this channel in DTV as stereo even tho the original source is not; and same for others like MSNBC, why? At midday June 21, I happened to have the antenna aimed toward Wichita, so tuned to RF 45 for KSNW. ``No signal`` says the converter, sometimes with really no bar, sometimes a bit of orange. But every so often, the signal pops in for a few seconds, at least video and freezing for a bit, e.g. 1855 UT. I soon realize this correlates with Vance AFB training jets flying overhead (we are right under their flight path all day and sometimes into the night) as I hear the jet roar within a minute of these airplane bounces. Altho I still think airplane scatter from Vance training flights affects reception of KSNW-45 Wichita, around 1700 UT June 22 the DTV signal is popping in a few times per minute for a few seconds each, whether or not I hear the jet engines, so I think the signal is now ``on the verge`` with brief fluxuations up to decode level just caused by atmospheric turbulence, near 100-degree temps. Then I tried some of the other Wichita market UHF stations. Some of them had no signal, some had a little signal, but none would pop in like KSNW. Most are also lower-powered. Makes me wonder if I had much higher tower, much higher gain, greater capture area, whether this or other Wichitans would be constantly DTV received, but somehow doubt it in 200-km range. The one I really want is our nearest PBS alternative to OETA, KPTS-8, and I`ve yet to get any decode from it this summer, as it`s always too weak, even when Wichita U`s are pounding in late at night (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Have not reported on the anomalous stations lately, so as of the afternoon of June 21: 1120, KEOR Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa is still off the air. 1580, KOKB Blackwell is still on the air with overmodulation distortion, sportstalk // 1020 KOKP Perry. 97.7, ``WECS`` part 15 Enid is still on the air, but instead of kids we have a teacher speaking coherently in a 1-minute loop, no made-up call ID from her, but just ``Voice of Emmanuel Christian School``. Range remains a few blox on caradio, no problem for DX beyond that, and I got several from Mexico, USA on 97.7. 99.9, GCN Pirate in Enid is still active. Local hash/mixing products can overwhelm it depending on antenna orientation with DX-398. Better on caradio, but there are dead zones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. New FM stations granted: OK Loyal (S.W. of Hennessey) *89.3 10000 h,v; 53 , d-a, 47% power 240º, New Life Mission, 24 km (Bruce Elving, MN, June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) O no, not another ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. While DXing for Es from far beyond, AZ, CA and NW Mexico, UT Monday June 21 at 0019 I come upon an interesting show on 99.5, fadey signal which might have been Es, but it stays in at average level, so it`s just the turbulent atmosphere on a hot summer afternoon. Interview about John Ford`s Western films, and Ben Johnson, who died in Pawhuska [OK, Osage country]. 0023 sad song ``The Campfire Has Gone Out`` by Don Edwards. 0029 show ID as ``The Cowboy Corner``, ad for NationalCowboyMuseum.org in OKC, feedyards in Hereford TX, a town on US 60 like Enid, but stinx a lot more. Brits please note: pronounced Her-ferd. Anyhow, Googling on the program name finds it on some 160 stations, originates in east Texas, but damned if I can find an affiliate list, let alone a website of its own. Interviewer/host was named Red, i.e. Red Steagall, also with lots of hits on him. But this must have been via KXBL 99.5 Henryetta OK, which has a country format, 7-8 pm CDT Sundays like on some other stations. Given the topic, I at first guessed it might have been ``Chronicles of the Old West``, as on KGGF 690, Sunsounds of Arizona, but evidently it`s the competition. Worth locating on some other station with better reception or webcast (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. FM DX (EDT): 6-19 Es: 88.9 KNGM OK Guymon 2300 Weekend 22 show //KJIL, computer voice ID's "KJIL Copeland, KJRL Herington, KJOV Woodward, KNGM Emporia" Emporia? OOPS! (Apparently this is an old canned ID from when 91.9 Emporia was KNGM) 1117mi #1873 (Michael Procop, Bedford, Ohio (Cleveland), Yamaha T-80 tuner (modified IF filters), Onkyo T-4310R tuner w/ RDS, 6 Element FM Antenna, Phase Box (home brew), non directional FM antenna for phase, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. KGOU SIGNAL CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN SOON This is shaping up to be an eventful summer at KGOU: our signal expansion projects in Woodward, Ada and Chickasha Signal Expansion Update have been in the planning stages for awhile, but the time has come to begin construction! The 250-watt translator signal in Chickasha will be built first, with our contractor scheduled to begin connecting all the broadcast components soon. Over the course of the summer and early fall, construction will begin on a 23,000-watt station in Woodward that will bring KGOU to a large area in northwest Oklahoma, and a 2000-watt station (to replace our current translator) in Ada. It's a busy, but very exciting, time at KGOU. Read more about these projects in our New Horizons pages http://www.kgou.org/expand_campaign.php Woodward: http://www.kgou.org/expand_woodward.php Woodward coverage map: http://www.kgou.org/images/Woodward_coverage.pdf (KGOU newsletter June 24 via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Frequency changes of Radio Pakistan: Hindi 1045-1145 NF 9340 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg, ex 9345*// 11570v Gujarati 1145-1215 NF 9340 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg, ex 9345*// 11570v Sinhala/Tamil 1230-1330 NF 15540vISL 100 kW / 147 deg, not 15650 // 11880 * to avoid Voice of Korea in Korean/Chinese (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** PERU. 4835.42, Radio Marañón, Jaen, reported under Jamming. 16 June [Wilkner] [Reported by whom? What jamming?? Time? gh] 5059.344, La Voz de las Huarinjas, Huancabamba seemingly at 1050 en espanol, om 17 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. New 4974.79, 2210-0025 and 0240-0400 fade out 19+20.06 Pacifico R, Lima (presumed), Spanish religious talks and hymns. Shift from 9675 already at 2200? When best: 25232 AP-DNK Best 73, (Anker Petersen, in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) They only have one transmitter? Have the two not been heard simultaneously? (gh) ** PERU. QSL: Radio Victoria, 6019v, e-mail letter in Spanish, *no data* for report in Spanish + $3 in about three weeks, from Sr. Carlos Cabrera Torres at newest address (Radio Victoria, via Iglesia Pentecostal Dios es Amor, Av. Arica 248, Breña, Lima, Lima 05, Perú), thanking me for listening and becoming a friend of the station; f/up to e-mail has yielded no further results, but snailmail letter to prior address was returned undelivered (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. QSL: Radyo Pilipinas, 15285 f/d card (8.5" x 3.25") in approx 40 days for report in EE by mail + $2; sked & station sticker (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Summer A-10 of Radio Veritas Asia Bengali 0030–0057 on 11945 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 1400–1427 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Burmese 1130–1157 on 15450 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 2330–2357 on 9720 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Filipino 1500–1557 on 15350 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to N/ME 2300-2327 on 9720 PUG 250 kW / 331 deg to CeAs Hindi 0030–0057 on 11710 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 1330–1357 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Hmong 1200–1227 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Kachin 1230–1257 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 2330–2357 on 9645 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Karen 0000–0027 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 1200–1227 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Mandarin 1000–1157 on 9615 PUG 250 kW / 355 deg to EaAs 2100–2257 on 6115 PUG 250 kW / 350 deg to EaAs Russian 0130–0227 on 17830 PUG 250 kW / 000 deg to FE 1500–1557 on 9570 PUG 250 kW / 331 deg to CeAs Sinhala 0000–0027 on 9865 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 0000–0027 on 11730 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 1330–1357 on 9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Tamil 0030–0057 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 1400–1427 on 9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu 0100–0127 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs 1430–1457 on 9515 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Urdu 0100–0127 on 15280 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs 0100–0127 on 17860 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs 1430–1457 on 15435 SMG 250 kW / 070 deg to SoAs Vietnamese 0130–0227 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 1030–1127 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 1300–1327 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs 2330–2357 on 9670 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Zomi-Chin 0130-0157 on 15520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 15, distribution delayed a week, via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Summer A-10 schedule of RDP Inter / Radio Portugal: West Europe Mon-Fri 0500-0755 on 7240 LIS 300 kW / 045 deg 0645-0800 on 11850 SIN 250 kW / 055 deg 0800-1200 on 12020 LIS 300 kW / 045 deg 1600-1900 on 11905 LIS 300 kW / 045 deg West Europe Sat/Sun 0700-1355 on 12020 LIS 300 kW / 045 deg 0830-1000 on 11995 SIN 080 kW / 052 deg DRM mode 1400-1900 on 11905 LIS 300 kW / 045 deg Middle East/India Mon-Fri 1300-1500 on 21810 LIS 100 kW / 082 deg Sao Tome/Principe/Angola/Mocambique Mon-Fri 1000-1200 on 15180 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg 1600-1900 on 15170 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg Sao Tome/Principe/Angola/Mocambique Sat/Sun 0700-0955 on 15160 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg 1000-1355 on 15180 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg 1400-1555 on 15470 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg 1600-2000 on 15170 LIS 300 kW / 144 deg USA/Canada Mon-Fri 2300-0200 on 9715 LIS 300 kW / 300 deg USA/Canada Sat/Sun 1200-2000 on 15560 LIS 300 kW / 300 deg Venezuela Mon-Fri 2300-0200 on 11630 LIS 100 kW / 261 deg Brasil/Cabo Verde/Guine Bissau Mon-Fri 1000-1200 on 15575 LIS 300 kW / 226 deg 1300-1900 on 21655 LIS 300 kW / 226 deg 2300-0200 on 11940 LIS 300 kW / 226 deg Brasil/Cabo Verde/Guine Bissau Sat/Sun 0700-0955 on 12000 LIS 300 kW / 226 deg 1000-2000 on 21655 LIS 300 kW / 226 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. QSL: Voice of Russia, 9840 f/d card, TX = Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskiy, in 40 days for report by mail in English, sent *postage- free* to their business address in the Netherlands (on VoR website). With nice personal letter from Elena Osipova, Letters Dept. The QSL itself is 7.75" x 3.5" and is part of series of architectural commemoratives (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re 10-24: Radio Yunost has been relaunched in April 2008 and is since called Yu FM, a play upon words with the Cyrillic character transliterated in English as "yu" and phonetically identical to the English word "you". In Russian "FM" refers explicitely to the 87.5...108 MHz band. With the relaunch VGTRK wanted to put Yu FM on such a frequency in Moscow, and they had to revert to leasing such a frequency, 94.0, from Aleksander Lebedev as of October 2008. But on 9 Nov 2009 Lebedev kicked VGTRK's Yu FM off 94.0 without any prior warning and replaced it by an own new station, Pioner FM. This left Yu FM only with the OIRT band frequency 68.84 MHz plus longwave 153 kHz, resulting in its market share in Moscow dropping from 1.3 to 0.5 percent. A bit of history: Radio Yunost started in 1962 as a programme, and on some occasions it struck DXers with big surprise when it turned out that an OIRT band transmission with rock music was in fact a signal from the USSR. Radio Yunost became a radio station of its own only in late 1991, as part of the reorganizations after the failed August coup (basically the elimination of Gosteleradio). Now the terrible machine translation of the AM-off piece refers to mediumwave only. This leaves the question if the mentioned 153 kHz transmitter*) has been switched off, too. But at least on Victorcity the frequency is indeed marked "molchit" = "silent" now. *) http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic18920.html (The antennas in the background appear to be rather shortwave systems with a parabolic reflector. The Krasne site in the Ukraine appears to have at least one such system, too.) At present Yu FM has no website. http://www.you-fm.ru redirects to radiounost.ru where the home page just says "under construction". The old, pre-relaunch webpages can still be accessed by entering with a deeplink, such as http://www.radiounost.ru/region.html?rid=214 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. QSL: Channel Africa, 7230 f/d verification *letter* in 47 days for report in English by mail + $2 and e-mail f/up, on SENTECH letterhead, signed by Sikander Hoosen, HF Coverage Planning, Ops & Maint (Bruce Jensen, CA, QSL Cards received, March - Mid June 2010, June 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15110, REE at 2210 Saturday June 19, program ID as Mundofonías, as I suspected, amid cuts from album called ``Russian Gypsy [sic] Music``; then some Grappelli-like fiddling. Very enjoyable on usual super signal direct from Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also KUWAIT; CANADA ** SRI LANKA. 15745, SLBC, 0100-0217, June 20, English programming with preview of upcoming programs at 0100. ID. Inspirational talk at 0101. TCs. “Sunday Morning Show” at 0105 with lite pop music. Birthday greetings. La Macarena song. News at 0200-0212. Local choral music at 0215 and religious talk. Fair signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 11905, SLBC Colombo, 0046-0115, June 21, listed Hindi. Continuous, Hindi-style ballads with brief, W announcer between selections; positive ID announcement in English at 0114; poor-weak at tune/in; steadily improving to fair by tune/out (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SLBC ENGLISH TO ASIA TO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON THE WEB The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) is planning to stream its international English service to Asia on its website. A note says ‘Asia English (live on the web soonly)’. (June 23rd, 2010 - 12:30 UTC, by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 15710, 19/6 1635, Miraya FM - Khartoum, Arabo, dichiarazioni di Maradona, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. 1179, Radio Sweden International, Solvesborg, prepared card from a December 10, 2009 reception. My first request was rejected for the reason that Radio Sweden no longer responds to QSL requests. I got a particular staffer's name, Gunala Adolfsson, from a Swedish DXer, Bengt Ericson (thanks, Bengt!) and wrote direct to get this one. However it does not appear that Ms. Adolfsson signed the card, looks more like Ulla Ungelleaih, though it is hard to decipher. This is MW country verified #54, out of 71 heard (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY, June 20, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Summer A-10 schedule of Radio Sweden. From Oct. 31 R. Sweden stops broadcasting on the SW,MW & FM bands. Programs will be only on the Internet Arabic 1730-1800 on 13600 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg Mon-Fri Assyrian 1600-1630 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg Thu/Fri English 0130-0200 on 6010 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg 0230-0300 on 6010 SAC 250 kW / 268 deg 0230-0300 on 9510 MDC 250 kW / 050 deg 1330-1400 on 15735 HBY 500 kW / 055 deg 1430-1500 on 13820 HBY 500 kW / 085 deg 1530-1600 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg 1700-1730 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg 2030-2100 on 9495 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg 2130-2200 on 7460 MDC 250 kW / 280 deg Farsi 1600-1630 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg Mon-Wed Kurdish 1630-1700 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg Mon-Fri Romany 1900-1930 on 6130 HBY 350 kW / 125 deg Mon-Fri Russian 1300-1330 on 12075 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg 1430-1500 on 11870 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg 1630-1700 on 9630 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg 1830-1900 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg 1930-2000 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 085 deg Swedish 0100-0130 on 6010 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg 0200-0230 on 6010 SAC 250 kW / 268 deg 0200-0230 on 9510 MDC 250 kW / 050 deg 0400-0500 on 9490 HBY 350 kW / 120 deg Mon-Fri 0500-0600 on 6065 HBY 350 kW / 190 deg Mon-Fri 0600-0700 on 9490 HBY 350 kW / 190 deg Mon-Fri 1200-1230 on 15735 HBY 500 kW / 040 deg 1300-1330 on 15735 HBY 500 kW / 055 deg 1400-1430 on 13820 HBY 500 kW / 085 deg 1400-1430 on 15735 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg 1500-1530 on 13590 HBY 500 kW / 100 deg 1500-1530 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg 1545-1600 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg Mon-Fri 1600-1615 on 6065 HBY 350 kW / 190 deg 1700-1730 on 13600 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg 1800-1830 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg 1800-1830 on 13710 HBY 500 kW / 235 deg 1900-1930 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg 2000-2030 on 9495 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg 2100-2130 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg 2100-2130 on 7460 MDC 250 kW / 280 deg Radio Canada International relay from Sweden: Arabic 0200-0300 on 5920 HBY 350 kW / 125 deg Russian 1500-1530 on 11935 HBY 350 kW / 085 deg 1600-1630 on 11700 HBY 350 kW / 085 deg Radio Netherlands Worldwide relay from Sweden, all in Dutch: 0700-0800 on 9895 HBY 500 kW / 220 deg 0800-1000 on 5955 HBY 350 kW / 190 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 15, distribution delayed a week, via DXLD) ** SYRIA. 12085, R. Damascus, June 19 at 2116 with the whine louder than the modulation, which also seems to be cutting on only at peaks, music, 2124 talk, unreadable to even be sure it was scheduled English during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9774, Fu Hsing BS (tentative), 1253-1300*, June 20. In Chinese; traditional Chinese instrumental music; poor with adjacent QRM; best in LSB; unable to confirm if // 9410, due to heavy QRM from 2 stations there. Am IDing this based on language, unique frequency and sign off time (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. RADIO TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL MONITORS FOR 2010 Swopan Chakroborty (India) Richard Chen (Trinidad and Tobago) Dr. T. Elampooranan (India) Ashik Eqbal Tokon (Bangladesh) Alokesh Gupta (India) Gregory Jackson (USA) Larry Jenkins (USA) Mukesh Kumar (India) Helmut & Linda Matt (Germany) T. C. Patterson (Philippines) Don Rhodes (Australia) Clifford Riffel (South Africa) Ted Schuerzinger (USA) Michael Stevenson (Australia) Aaron Tiu (Philippines) Lennart Wennberg (Sweden) (Abid Hussain Sajid, DW Monitor (in Pakistan), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. official monitors with responsibilities, paychex? Perqs? Or just the honor of it all? (gh, DXLD) ** TANZANIA. 1377, R. Free Africa, Mwanza, best reception ever, 2133- 2212, 20 Jun'10, Swahili, international music, ID at 2200, African pops at 2204; 44443 at best of course, QRM de F well down at the bottom of the pit during many minutes. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 15450, have not heard VOT`s 1230 English broadcast for some time, and June 24 no signal at 1228 when IS should have been playing, so assumed not propagating; but at 1240 fair signal, going from news to Review of the Turkish Press; next check at 1310, as it`s Thursday, Live from Turkey was underway but in music break; later chat about a survey of housewives failed to spark my interest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. 15410, 19/6 1700, R. Y'Abaganda - Luganda talk OM buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it via DXLD) So they finally got the feed problem fixed? Roberto Pavanello: QSL Clandestina --- Ciao! Radio Y'Abaganda, 15410 kHz, Conferma con Email : info @ ababaka.com con lettera Email allegata + electronic card allegate via Email: ababaka.com @ gmail.com in 4 giorni. V/s: Alex Kalazani Kigongo. Saluti, Roberto Pavanello Messaggio: Dear Mr. Roberto Pavanello, Thanks for your letter.Your reception report is correct. We can confirm that on 19 /06/2010, at 1700 UT and on 15410 KHz, you listened to Radiyo YAbaganda, via Issoudun, France. Sorry for the delayed response, but things tend to get super hectic over here. The Radio is called Baganda Radio, you can get more information about who we are from our website http://www.Ababaka.com Our short wave broadcast is fed directly from our internet radio live show every Saturday at 1700 and for one hour. The language spoken in our programme is Luganda of the Baganda people. We are about 8-10 million strong, inside a country called Uganda in East Africa. Once again we apologize for taking this long to write back. Please find attached our station cards. Regards, Alex Kalazani Kigongo For http://www.Ababaka.com Admin. Team (via Dario Monferini, June 23, playdx yg via DXLD) Illustrations of station logos attached. One has slogans, "self- determination democracy" and "independence is not necessarily freedom." But the other suggests the programmers are savvy enough to realize that people tune in for entertainment, not political lectures. Its slogan is "Baganda Radio for commonsensical fun!" Kigongo writes in a very Americanized way and I suspected a U.S. location for this operation; however, in apologizing for the delay in responding, Kigongo says "... things tend to get super hectic over here." (Don Jensen-WI-USA, DXplorer June 23 via BC-DX June 24 via DXLD) ** U K. BBCWS solstice special to ANTARCTICA: q.v. The Antarctic page has a link to the BBCWS frequency guide page, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/index.shtml and guess what, among many regions of the world, the Caribbean, nor anything in the Western Hemisphere is listed! What about the 9410 English at 1215-1259 M-F via WHRI 9410? It started after the Haitian earthquake thru quirky circumstances, filling in part of the hour after what had been Spanish only, and then temporarily partly in Creole. Or was it never put on this listing, being too insignificant to bother with? (Glenn Hauser, OK, June 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Interview with the BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson LISTEN TO "OVER TO YOU" 06/20/2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0083kfg or DOWNLOAD podcast [podcast available 7 days only]: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/overtoyou/overtoyou_20100620-0001a.mp3 Size: 8.1 MB -- The BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson, talks to Rajan Datar about the BBC’s role in the modern world, and his priorities for the future. Discussions between the BBC and the British government will soon set the level of future funding for the World Service – so will cuts be necessary? And if so, where might they be made? Among other things, Rajan asks Mark Thompson about the relative importance of radio and television, whether he feels if radio has a future, and whether listeners will still be able to hear the World Service on short wave in the future. And the programme also reflects the complaints from some listeners, that there's too much World Cup coverage on our airwaves. -- 73 (via Dragan Lekic, Serbia, June 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 17640, BBCWS, June 19 at 1440 not much vuvuzela, now filtered down? British and African-accented commentators on Australia vs Ghana game, 1-1. Via Ascension, fair. Did it ever occur to BBC that on Saturday evenings/afternoons/mornings someone in the world might want regular programming instead of stupid ballgames? They do it all the time, WC or not. BBCWS blowing away normal programming for sillyballgame play-by-play, June 22 at 1426 on 17640. Speaking of blowing away, the vuvuzelas certainly have not been filtered out here; weaker signal on // 17840, both ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. New British Budget and BBC World Service --- Far too early for any specifics, but I would think that the new UK government spending plan announced today will greatly impact the BBC World Service. We've been reading all the speculation for weeks, now the actual cuts will be set in motion. Any posters who can pass along any news regarding the BBC's plans would be greatly appreciated (Steve Luce, Houston, TX, June 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. LOUISIANANS HAVE THEIR SAY ON BBC WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY. AND FEWER OREGONIANS WILL (updated). WWL TV (New Orleans), 4 June 2010, Meg Farris: "Local seafood promoters say the Louisiana seafood brand is hurting around the country. They say it took two years to come back after Hurricane Katrina, but with the perception from the oil leak, it could take longer. So they took the message that the seafood is still safe to a worldwide audience Friday with an hour of live, talk radio, broadcast around the world from the University of New Orleans, to an estimated 190 million listeners. BBC World Service gathered a panel of local people in front of a live audience to talk about their perspective on the oil leak. ... Listeners called from Nigeria, England, and Alaska, where a man who called the show said 21 years after the Valdez spill, areas of seafood production are still not back. ... BP representatives were invited to be on the panel but BBC says they declined." Refers to BBC WS World Have Your Say on 4 June. Audio available here. BBC World Service: "BBC World Service reporter Robyn Bresnahan is spending two weeks at New Orleans station WWNO. She'll be hearing how the BP oil spill is affecting people's lives." BBCWS World Have Your Say blog, 4 June 2010, Ros Atkins: "We got some sad news from Oregon a few days ago. As you may have seen on facebook and twitter yesterday, OPB [Oregon Public Broadcasting] has decided to drop WHYS from its schedule from the end of June. ... Needless to say it's a real shame as we've a fantastic connection with the station and many of you who listen in Oregon. (We get more comment from Oregon than any other US state and more than any country bar Nigeria.) But clearly for a significant number of listeners our 'tone' and 'production' are not to their liking and we have to respect the station's decision." OPB Facebook, 3 June 2010, John B.: "With a limited number of hours, we are constantly looking to bring the very best to our listeners. After nearly three years that we’ve broadcast WHYS, production and audio quality issues continue to be problematic. And we’ve heard from listener feedback that the tone of the show is inconsistent with that of our other programs. World Have Your Say is an ambitious concept. We’ve enjoyed working closely with Ros Atkins and the WHYS production team and we wish them the best." Many listener comments at the OPB Facebook wall. See also comments about OPB morning talk shows at The Portland Mercury, 14 January 2010. Update: The Oregonian, 21 June 2010, Kristi Turnquist: "The BBC World Service radio show, 'World Have Your Say' is leaving the Oregon Public Broadcasting schedule as of July 1. Depending on your attitude, this will either prompt a sigh of disappointment, or a hearty shout of 'It's about time!'" See also many comments, including this from adoregon: "I hated the urgent/conflict/crisis tone they always used and the implication that other news sources are un-trustworty or conspiratorial but talking to a few people around the world is a good way at getting at the truth. But I did like hearing broader perspective from all over - I think it could be a good show with some changes." (Posted: 22 Jun 2010, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** U S A. TUESDAY'S 63 SENATE CONFIRMATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE THE EIGHT BBG NOMINEES. Washington Post, 22 June 2010, Al Kamen: "The Senate on Tuesday confirmed 63 Obama administration nominees, many of whom had languished for months awaiting final approval after the resolution of a dispute over the National Labor Relations Board." With a link to all the conformations. – The eight persons nominated for seats on the Broadcasting Board of Governors are not included. Are there issues, apart from the NLRB nominee, still to be resolved? Senator Coburn received answers to the questions he put to the BBG nominees. (See previous post.) If this means anything the Senate Executive Calendar (pdf), as of today, still shows Senator Coburn's "notice of intent to object to proceeding" for six of the BBG nominees, i.e. all except Perino and Meehan (Posted: 23 Jun 2010, kimandrewelliott.com via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ** U S A. 9955, WRMI ID at 0600 June 18 cutting off previous program, then to R. Prague in English. Fair with no jamming audible. Logs this good of WRMI are getting to be a rarity even in the nightmiddle. 9955 not audible Saturday June 19 at 1915, but webcast was playing Japanese music fill instead of scheduled WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Apparently a computer problem, rebooted 9955, WRMI confirmed with first airing of WORLD OF RADIO #1518, Thursday June 24 at 1512, but JBA; no jamming as far as I could tell. Next 9955 airings Thu 2100; UT Fri 0030 [confirmed], 1430. WBCQ first airing Thu 1900, confirmed by webcast only as inaudible here on 7415; WWRB 3185 UT Fri 0330 [confirmed but started a few minutes early]; WWCR 15825 Fri 2029 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWRB Tidbits --- Greetings: We just purchased another Cessna CE-550 Citation : The addition of this airplane will greatly expand our aviation operations and capabilities. The aircraft is now at the modification center for various airframe and avionics upgrades. Our Four Course Radio Range Video has been featured in the June 2010 issue of AOPA Pilots magazine, page 30. The article is about our historical look at the 1928 to 1960's low frequency Four Course Radio Range. To see our Video Go to the web site at http://www.wwrb.org --- in the station news section (opening page) click the YOUTUBE link to view our video. We plan on adding more 'range videos such as an actual Radio Range instrument approach to the WWRB transmitter facility: Starting with inbound tracking to the Radio Range station, from Knoxville, TN 'Range station passage, the 'cone of silence' 'Z' marker audio and visual indications, intercepting and tracking a range leg outbound, the procedure, turn intercepting the inbound leg, the let down and runway in sight; just like in the 1940's --- using a pair of EARS! No glass cockpit, needles, pointers, VOR, ILS or GPS. Coooool! (Dave Frantz, WWRB, June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 10-24: WRNO transmitting in foreign language at 0330 UT 6/20/10: Not sure of the language but I do know it's WRNO. Never heard them transmit in anything but English before. Strong signal as usual for WRNO (gpsblake, 0345 UT Sunday June 20, ODXA yg via DXLD) 7506.20, WRNO, 0255, June 20 (Sunday). End of program in English; says to stay tuned for Johnny in Arabic; 0256 Christian program in Arabic. I first heard Arabic here on a Thursday (June 10) (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15550-USB, haven`t heard WJHR in the mornings for weeks, but June 23 at 1403 there it is with one and only preacher, fair signal at peaks. Possibly it`s on most of the time, but only audible when sporadic-E boosts, certainly the case now as WWCR 15825 and 13845 are inbooming, plus CB 27 MHz from Georgia, etc., altho not making it to VHF. It seems WJHR missed being included in the WRTH 2010. Let this be a lesson: if you are starting a new SW station, get it on the air by Oct or Nov rather than Dec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Additional transmissions of WYFR Family Radio via VTC: 1500-1600 on 17580 ASC 250 kW / 115 deg to SoAf English 2100-2200 on 9715 DHA 250 kW / 330 deg to WeEu English (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 15, distribution delayed a week, via DXLD) Additional transmissions of WYFR Family Radio via VTC: 1500-1600 on 17580 ASC 250 kW / 115 deg to SoAf English 1800-2000 on 9830 RMP 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs English 2100-2300 on 9715 DHA 250 kW / 330 deg to WeEu English, x 2100-2200 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, June 22 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Re DXLD 10-23, DW via ``WSHB`` --- Glenn, Please apologize for some missing words in my previous message which was sent via my poor gadget. Actually I agree with your comment on NASWA dxer's qsl [time warping?], so I tried to give more details as follows: Dear Sir, 1. Ref. WRTH 2005: WORLD HARVEST RADIO (WHRA/WHRI/KWHR/WSHB)(Rlg) - World Harvest Radio is a shortwave radio network owned by LeSEA Broadcasting, Inc. It includes the stations WHRI & WHRA (see above), KWHR (see Hawaii), and since 2004 WSHB (see above). 2. I have an f/d QSL card from DWCSD: Date 16.12.2009 Time 2200-0000 Frequency 15640 Station Cypress Creek for report to info@dw-world.de. 3. Ref. DW-RADIO SW/MW/FM schedule dd. March 10, 2010: German service to Central & South America 1000-1200 9425 and 2200-0000 17820 all from CYPRESS CREEK. Thank you for all information you gave in your DXLD and best 73, (Tony Ashar, West Java, Indonesia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WHKT 1650 is back --- WHKT Portsmouth, VA. Not Disney any more after being silent. Now talk with simulcast of WPMH Claremont, VA. IDs as "WPMH and WHKT Portsmouth. This is conservative talk radio 'Freedom 16-50'" 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, VA, via MWC yg et al., via DXLD) On January 25, 2010, Disney announced that it was selling the station to Hampton Roads area religious broadcaster Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting for $350,000. Disney took WHKT, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22; the station had previously carried the company's Radio Disney network. The sale was listed as "consummated" by the FCC as of May 5, 2010 (MWN Editor, ibid.) Just what we need, the 50 zillionth right wing talk station or sports talk station, etc. I can't wait to hear of a station coming on the air with something different like full service or music, a jazz format, bluegrass / americana or anything other than talk. I will cheer for a year when it finally happens (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) Interesting you should mention bluegrass. There was a promo for the "Ramblin Ralph Bluegrass Special" Saturdays at 11 AM. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, ibid.) Yep, they've been having a few issues down there. An old time friend of mine who I worked with for a while at WGAI-AM 560, now does a talk show from 1 til 5 am eastern, weekdays called "Into The Night with Brian Holland". Brian has been giving me some info on what`s going on down there. At any rate, the simulcast between WPMH 670 Claremont VA and WHKT 1650 Chesapeake VA will be coming to an end soon. 670 is going all religious at some point as both stations are owned by Salem. Currently though you can listen to the simulcast online at http://www.670wpmh.com We had something interesting occur on "Into The Night" last week. One of the callers was calling from New Zealand, listening to 1650 WHKT. There is nothing like having a live reception report while doing a live talk show! (Bob Carter - KC4QLP - WQJK414, Mid-Atlantic- Engineering-Service of Utica NY / Elizabeth City NC, June 19, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) Yep, last I checked in May this year, the website hadn't been updated so it was a little confusing. Even the online web stream wasn't labeled correctly, but the program content corresponded with the 1650 on-air show. Brian Holland's show barely audible on 1650 here in Texas around end of May during late night interview with Hampton Roads radio personality Pat Murphy (W A Jenkins, MWDX yg via DXLD) ** U S A. KVTI 90.9 TACOMA, WA FLIPS FROM POP TO CLASSICAL (!) Press release: http://www.cptc.edu/kvti/ Don't know if this will interest anyone outside the Seattle/Tacoma area, but KVTI 90.9 FM, licensed to Clover Park Technical College, has flipped formats (as of Monday, 6/21) from Top 40 dance/pop to NPR news/classical music. Callsign remains unchanged, but the station will now share programming with Northwest Public Radio, managed by Washington State University, which operates several other non- commercial FM and TV stations around the state. Best regards, (Keith Beesley, Seattle WA, June 22, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ** U S A. New NM stations prompt three deletions NEW FM STATIONS GRANTED NM Clayton *91.3 45000 watts h & v, 116 m, Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University, 46 km primary coverage radius. See also "Deletions." NM Raton *89.9 380 watts h,v; -86 m, Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University, 5 km estimated coverage radius. See also "Deletions." NM Romeroville (next to Las Vegas NM) *90.3 50000 h,v; -41 m, Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University, 17 km estimated coverage radius. See also "Deletions." DELETIONS NM Clayton K217CM *91.3 NM Las Vegas K212EF *90.3 NM Raton K211CE *90.1 (Bruce Elving, MN, June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brucey, FCC FM Query shows ERP for 91.3 CP Clayton is 4.5 kW, not 45. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/eng_fm.pl?Facility_id=174429 I see NMHU also have transmitters coming in T or C, Silver City: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=18273 It looks like NMHU is planning a statewide network, at least those two are far beyond the Las Vegas area. Clayton already has public radio from KENW translators, e.g. This long FCC document includes news about several FM stations winning approval for New Mexico Highlands University around the state. I wonder if this will be an outgrowth of the longtime student station at Las Vegas, KEDP 91.1, or totally new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. SOME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO RADIO STATIONS HAVE A NEW OWNER By: Joe Bartels, Eyewitness News 4 - 06/15/2010 Roswell Radio Inc. once operated KBCQ 97.1 FM, KSFX 100.5 FM, and KMOU 104.7 FM in Roswell and other stations in Tucumcari, but on Tuesday Ingalls Holdings LLC bought Roswell Radio's assets at a foreclosure auction. The new owner says the radio stations will continue to broadcast with no drastic programming changes scheduled as of yet. Trisha Ingall was the long time part-owner of Roswell Radio from 1986 to 2003. Her former partner filed for bankruptcy and Ingalls holdings purchased Roswell Radio for more than $340,000. The deal will also affect the ownership with Quay Broadcasting in Tucumcari. Source: KOB.com - Southeast radio stations sold in auction http://bit.ly/aUqPJe (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** U S A. FM DX: June 18 after getting Yucatán, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, see MEXICO, skip shortened to Tejas = Baja Oclajoma. 1911 on 97.5, live World Cup commentary, Algeria vs England, in English by two OMs, one with British accent, one American. I dreamt of skip area moving on to Belize, which is 1400-1500 miles from here and never DXed on FM; or even Jamaica beyond the one-hop limit. Vuvuzelas also audible, fades in and out, but easily topping semi-local in Alva OK. Also at 2009 in the ``final 6 minutes``. I queried this one right away on several DX lists. Tnx to these identifiers, tho I would have settled for Belize or Jamaica: ``There is KFNC in Beaumont, TX, on 97.5 - "The Ticket" - that is an ESPN Radio outlet. They will occasionally carry the World Cup games, especially when either the USA or Mexico are playing. 73, Steve N5WBI Ponder, Houston, TX`` amfmtvdx at qth.net ``Glenn, that could have been KFNC-FM Beaumont TX which operates as a rimshot to the Houston market. Website http://www.975theticket.com/ indicates that the station carries the WC games. (BTW: Not all ESPN Radio affiliates broadcast the entire ESPN Radio lineup. My local affiliate in Little Rock (KABZ 103.7) carries local sports-talk weekdays and preempts the ESPN shows (including WC games) on weekend mornings for infomercials/brokered programing) -- (Fritze H Prentice Jr, KC5KBV, Star City, AR``, WTFDA Beaumont is under 500 miles from Enid, indicating a very strong opening. And it`s in exactly the same direxion as Mérida. COL is really Mont Belvieu [sic], which is closer to Houston than Beaumont. 2000 on 92.7, Spanish, Chevy ad, on Bryan Road en Mission [pronounced as in English], Spanish ad for ``Alamo Dance Hall`` en Álamo. Both towns are in the RGV near McAllen (not San Antonio!). I thought this would be easy to ID, but the closest US station is KESO, 38 kW licensed to South Padre Island, but really from Port Isabel; 60 dBu coverage area does not go beyond Harlingen per http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM1190723.html and areas being advertised, such as Mission are more than twice as far, but I suppose this has to be it. Or could this be a Mexican? None anywhere near the area listed in EFM or FM Atlas. Ahá --- at 2002 on 92.7 ID in passing as ``en 102.5 y 92.7, Es La Ley``. At first I took this to be part of a PSA, but EFM shows that is the name of the 102.5 station in Reynosa, XHRR, which must now have a new repeater somewhere on 92.7. Time to consult our third source, Fred Cantú`s directory. Under Tamaulipas http://mexicoradiotv.com/listtama.htm he has no 92.7 listings, but the 102.5 station logo also shows 92.7. Linked from it, http://www.myspace.com/laleyfm ``la que manda en el valle`` where it pretends to be a bilingual McAllen TX station, even tho we know 102.5 is transmitting from Reynosa, Tamaulipas! But which side of the border is 92.7, or have they taken over KESO SPI to expand their coverage toward the Gulf? Lotsa luck finding out from myspace. Does anyone know? [Yes! See MEXICO [non] above] 2006 on 97.3, ``Cruisin` 97-3 The Dog`` ID in passing. That should be unique somewhere when researched; who needs calls? Then fades up strong enough to energize RDS, which corrects my spelling: THE DAWG. Yes, Google knows it`s KMDL Lafayette LA. FM Atlas refines COL to Kaplan and also shows that slogan once we find the entry in the frequency list. Less than 600 miles. 2016 on 97.5, CCI to World Cup station, ad for Kroger/Fry`s; 2017 contest line 560-KFTX so this is that Kingsville-Corpus Christi station, further confirmed by ad for tractors, phone 767-2223, which Google pins on Diamond B Tractors & Equipment in Robstown, also in the CC area. 600+ mile range. 2024 on 95.1, ads in English with Es fading overriding OK and KS stations, ads for Father`s Day shopping and JC Penny in Parkdale Mall. Also ad for Ace Credit Services with 500 Texas locations. Refers to ``KNS``, a partial callsign? Guess not. Parkdale Mall Googles to Beaumont TX, ergo KYKR as in FM Atlas. Less than 500 miles. UT June 19, mobile on the caradio: 0028 on 99.7, ad for Virginia College, in Charleston [sic, heard several times]. So is this in Virginia, or really West Virginia, where there is of course a Charleston? Neither! Google locates the college by this name in South Charleston, South Carolina! Therefore the station is? No 99.7 in Charleston itself, but must be regionally advertising. The closest is WXST Hollywood SC - Savannah GA, per FM Atlas. Guess what? Hollywood is just outside Charleston. Clinched. Kilomile range. UT June 20, TV from NW Mexico clogging channels 2-6, so I shift to FM for a while, DX-398 portable at home, but only ID stations north of the border: 2312, on 97.7 interviewing Newt Gingrich, Es fading, turns out to be NPR ATC. Disgraced former SOTH, who cares what he thinx? Puts the lie to rightwingnuts` belief that NPR is biased left, anyway. Certainly a strange place for a non-commercial station so should be easy to track down later even if I get no ID. And I never did, but it was // 91.5 which turned out to be KJZZ Phoenix. // but not necessarily synchronized as I only had one receiver at hand. 2324 interview Sinead re Irish priests sex scandal. By 2331, 97.7 is weakening vis-à-vis KJZZ. I thought it might be a KJZZ relay or even translator but AZ listings do not bear that out. By 2339 when KJZZ was in local break, 97.7 was gone. However, this must have been KQVO in Calexico CA, 6 kW, which is axually a satellite --- oops, ``sister station``, of KPBS San Diego, check for ATC at this hour on Sundays; tho per website they do break away for some local programming, especially stupid local ballgames. Neighboring Mexicali XHBC-3 was pounding in before and after, becoming quite common here. Kilomile range. 2317 on 88.3, Mexican music breaking thru the local Harold Camping doomsday translator if I angle the antenna just right. One of the 22.5 kW sharetimers in Phoenix most likely, KNAI Radio Campesina rather than KPHF with gospel format per FMA. Also 2331 with Tex-Mex music still battling Camping. 2319 on 90.3, preacher in English could be my close but weak gospel huxter KHEV (as in Heaven) Fairview OK, but tnx to the RDS the ID is KFLR 90.3, i.e. Phoenix AZ. 2319, on 91.5, headline news in English amid NPR ATC, some CCI probably from KS, but mostly overcomes ACI from semi-local KOSU 91.7 and its IBOC. 2324 interview Sinead O`Connor // 97.7 as above. 2338 NPR funding credits. 2339 finally KJZZ Phoenix ID and local credits, headlines. 800+ mile range. 2327, on 90.7 rock music in Spanish, stereo, this track skewed to the right, mostly bass line on left: probably phony stereo; 2329 in break YL says one word, slogan ID? ``alterlatino`` which is a play on words, not likely in your dixionary; next cut is balanced OK. Hoped I could find such a slogan on 90.7. Googling connects it to KPFK Los Ángeles, but current sked does not have such a show at this time: 4-6 pm Sunday, ``Melting Pot``, apparently a recent change; but that could still embrace alterlatino as a genre, methinx. Is less fitting for the two AZ stations on 90.7. Could be Mexico? Tho there are 90.7 stations in Sonora and one in BCN, LOS 40 in Mexicali, word does not match any listing for Mexico in EFM. And top 40 is contrary to alterlatino; it also smax conceptually of US rather than Mexican usage. KPFK around 1140 miles to Mt Wilson, super- power Pacifica station, and heard many times before (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. TVDX UT June 19: 0009, ch 3 RF, getting DTV signal while antenna is ENE, first time for me by Es. Most likely is WBRA Roanoke VA, which I have been shooting for a long time. But not strong enough now to decode or display ID. I was about to head out for Enid`s Chautauqua so left the DTV converter running on ch 3. When I returned I found: 15-1 WBRA-HD PSID displayed, which occurred sometime between 0020 and 0157, but signal bar still there at 0157 altho did not see live video. I did photo the PSIP ID before retuning. If I were counting stations, this should do it, as my equipment, set up by me, DXed it with such proof, even if I never heard nor saw any video or audio modulation myself. WBRA is near the ideal distance from here for Es DX on 60-66 MHz, 980 miles. But only about 75% of its 7.5 kW ERP is coming our way due to a peculiar direxional pattern. That doesn`t amount to much, 5.625 kW compared to standard analog power of 100 kW. But it has applied to move to ch 26, planning to get off VHF, unsatisfactory for local reception, so eventually this will no longer be a sporadic-E target (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Your info on WBRA is very outdated. They withdrew their petition to relocate to 26 and are now at 9.8 kW omni. The latter fact has been true since last September (Trip Ericson, www.rabbitears.info WTFDA via DXLD) O yes, I was reading the top entry at FCC TV Query instead of the bottom one (gh) ** VATICAN [non]. Quick check of VR 9830 via CANADA, June 18 at 1204 - -- still in Spanish instead of scheduled English, about equal level with the RTTY QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. Radio Joel 2:28 FM con emisiones de prueba en los 6980 kHz. Monday, June 21, 2010 10:40 PM 21 de junio de 2010 El colega venezolano residente en Cabimas, Antonio Contin, reporta las emisiones de Radio Joel 2:28 emitiendo desde Santa Cruz de Mara, Estado Zulia en la frecuencia de 6980v kHz. A las 06:00 PM Hora Local (2230 UT) la captó con SINPO 33333 con el Himno Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y posteriormente el Himno del Estado Zulia + música + comentarios bíblicos y programación religiosa. Después de las 07:00 PM Hora local la señal desmejoró debido a las condiciones de propagación. Al parecer la emisora estará emitiendo de 2200 a las 0400 UT, pero es muy probable que hagan pruebas de 6:00 – 7:00 PM Hora local (1030 a 1130 UT [must mean AM, otherwise 2230-2330 UT - gh]) y están interesados en recibir informes de recepción pues están probando y ajustando un pequeño transmisor de construcción casera de baja potencia, siendo la única emisora que opera actualmente en la onda corta desde territorio venezolano (Santiago San Gil González, Jorge García Rangel, Freddy Gamboa Rivas, C.DX.A - INTERNACIONAL, June 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nota aparecida en el Blog "Diexismo Venezolano en Diciembre de 2008 Tentativamente el Domingo 21 de Diciembre de 2008, Radio Joel 2.28 FM "la misteriosa radio venezolana de onda corta" estará realizando una transmisión de prueba en los 6981.5 kHz a partir de las 11/00 horas Tiempo Universal Coordinado (UTC), 06:30 AM hora legal de Venezuela. Agradecen los informes de recepción, los cuales pueden ser enviados vía correo electrónico a joel228fm @ hotmail.com o a su dirección postal, Sector La Lucha Kilómetro 27, Carretera Vía El Moján, Santa Cruz de Mara, Estado Zulia, Venezuela. Pueden llamar por el telefono (0262)-4938437 o también a través de mensajes de texto y llamadas por el teléfono celular 0416-8233146 0416-8233146 Los informes deberán ser enviados al Pastor Neizar Ríos y serán confirmados con Carta de Verificación. Bueno a mañanear este domingo! (Santiago San Gil González, Editor de Blog, ibid.) ** VENEZUELA. Yahoo maps, MS Virtual Earth, Google Earth imagery. Some high resolution place. VE Update - Google Earth V.5 historical image. 100%ig location of new Radio Nacional VEN shortwave location site at 08 53 13.87 N 67 21 46.44 W Forest clearance visible in northerly direction to setup the antenna field. see complex of buildings, very same design. Forget faulty entry in ITU list, centered at Caracas 183 kilometers north. ;20-JUN-2008: add: CLZ Calabozo, VEN, 10N30 066W52 (Wolfgang Büschel, June 22, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 24 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 9635, VOV-1, 1302, June 21. Poor reception under CVC in Spanish; // to other East Sea Broadcasting Service on 7435 (fair). Also // 5975 (fair) and 11720 (fair-good); in Vietnamese with speeches and marching music. I note that 11720 often has a brief period with no audio towards the BoH. 9530 not on the air 21st nor 22nd (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. ZNBC WILL BE OFF SHORTWAVE FOR AT LEAST FIVE MONTHS Miriam Mtonga, Public Relations Manager for the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), says that the Corporation is in the process of procuring the replacement parts for the shortwave transmitter[s] which broke down earlier this year rendering no service to most parts of the country. She said the tender process of procuring the replacement parts has been concluded and a contract has been signed with the supplier for the purchase of the parts at a cost of US$130, 000. “Delivery of this will take about five months and during this time we regret that Radio One and Two will remain off air in the affected areas of the country,” Ms Mtonga said. And the ZNBC Public Relations Manager said ZNBC with the support of government, has embarked on a rural FM Project to install FM radio transmitters in some districts to supplement the shortwave transmitters (Source: Lusaka Times). (June 23rd, 2010 - 9:03 UTC, by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Guinea-fowl, 2148-2157, 17 Jun'10, Vernacular, African songs; 35331, occasional utility QRM. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3255, 2355 to 0000 17 June, per Florida tip (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Republica de Florida, ;), Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro DL - NRD 535D - R 7, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, June 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. When I check 4025 for carrier from Liberia, I also check 6025 with BFO on, compared to 5025 Cuba, and June 23 at 0620 there was a very weak signal slightly on the low side matching 4025-, and some JBA music. If R. Amanecer, Dominican Republic, were running late again, I would expect more of a signal from them, and anyhow has been measured about 50 Hz on high side. Enugu, Nigeria, is supposedly inactive, and propagation rules out Iran or Malaysia. Bolivia? Does R. Illimani/Patria Nueva ever stay on all night? It could also be a spur, tho by now most of the bigger signals on 49m have finished. Bonaire is sleeping. Cuba? Unlikely since all their frequencies end in -0. For sure it`s not the imaginary KTMI in Oregon, which some lists display on 6025 from registrations as if it axually existed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On June 23 I was listening to R. Amanecer at 0248 and distinctly heard another station off set (about 6024.95) underneath them, playing EZL songs, while R. Amanecer had just straight talk. Clearly was a different station, so some likelihood was R. Illimani/Patria Nueva. After I was finished with R. Martí on 6030 after 0400, I returned here only to find that BOTH R. Amanecer and my UNID had signed off, with no trace of any other station around 6025. So your UNID was not R. Amanecer running late and it must have started sometime after 0400 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UN-ID Two-way communications on 19m band --- 22 June, 1923 UT, 15151.5 kHz USB, I am listening to what sounds like a two-way communications in what is likely Arabic; only intelligible in USB. This is a surprise in the 19m band. One party much louder and clearer than the other (Bruce Fisher (Massachusetts, USA) (Palstar R30CC, 100 foot random wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, do you have any recording of this conversation ? maybe we can get something interesting out of it ;) (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg, Denmark, ibid.) That frequency sounds familiar, so I search the DXLD archive: DX Listening Digest 9-077 October 21 Wed, 10/21/09 UNIDENTIFIED. 15151, intruder, 2-way Spanish USB at 1458 Oct 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)... DX Listening Digest 6-158 October 24 Tue, 10/24/06 UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5 USB inside the SWBC band, Spanish 2-way conversation Oct 23 1519 until 1523. One of them had so much background noise (engine?) that the vox stayed on when he paused. QRM to 15150, presumably Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, unfortunately I don't have a recording of this. Interesting to see that Glenn Hauser found some other examples of two-way communications on this same frequency in the past (Bruce Fisher, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15305 kHz, June 24, 2225 UT, Arabic --- A very strong signal with "Arabic" music and Arabic speaking; wasn't able to listen for any time for an ID. Interestingly, neither the aoki or eibi databases have any listings at all for this particular frequency! (Bruce Fisher, Massachusetts, USA, Palstar R30CC; 100 ft. random wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Many thanks to Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, for another contribution for summer solstice 2010, by check in the p-mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) Just thought you'd like to know Michael Mayer sent you [a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com] Thanks for all that you provide to the SW world. I`ve followed your DX info for a few years now and lately hve been downloading the weekly podcast, burning it to a CD and listening with a notepad nearby when I take an uninterrupted drive for more than half an hour. Although my system is meager, I enjoy the pursuit of DXSW listening. Enclosed is a check. Keep up the great work! (Rob Holman, Flat Rock MI) Glenn: I put a message on my 'worldstation' yahoo group to promote your program. I hope some of my customers will contribute to your efforts. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldstation/ About me: I am Bob Griffin, the author of WorldStationTM. Web site is http://www.dxtra.com WS 4.3 features the most advanced database capability ever offered to the SWL, with real-time support for EiBI and Aoki listings and one-click updating, To see movies of of the program type in "dxtra" on YouTube. Message in group: His site is an invaluable source of information on the latest goings on in radio with a particular emphasis on shortwave. He streams the audio report or you can read the text transcript. As I understand it, Glen[n]'s work was subsidized by Monitoring Times magazine for many years, but that has ceased. He is looking for contributions to continue his work. I just sent him $50 from my PayPal account (Bob Griffin) All the above acknowledged on WORLD OF RADIO 1518 (gh) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ MACRONS re 10-25, NEW ZEALAND: ```Soon program announced as ``Waiata``, which is about Maori music, so could not possibly have been Hawaiian. BTW, to be just right, put a macron over the a of Maori. If you can find one.`` Will this work? a- Select Character Map, select Tahoma and scan down (probably elsewhere on the font options, too). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe not; in Terry`s original mail, the a correctly had a macron (straight horizontal line) over it, but when copied to MS Word for editing it comes out as an a followed by a hyphen, however you may see it ultimately (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION Stage --- The TimeLine Theatre's take on The Farnsworth Invention proves “bracing throughout,” said John Beer in Time Out Chicago. posted on June 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM TimeLine Theatre, Chicago, (773) 281-8463 *** Aaron Sorkin’s “pseudo-documentary yarn” about the invention of television unfolds like “a spectacularly uneven prizefight,” said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune. In one corner is Philo T. Farnsworth, a scrappy inventor somewhere out in remotest Idaho, imagining the mechanics of what would become the quintessential American medium. In the opposite corner is Farnsworth’s far more powerful opponent, David Sarnoff, chairman of the behemoth Radio Corporation of America, who sees the potential of this burgeoning technology and schemes to control it. West Wing creator Sorkin is often criticized for writing “smug and artificial” dialogue, but here his “impossibly articulate” characters couldn’t seem more natural. Credit director Nick Bowling for that, said Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal. Bowling sharpens the contrast between Sarnoff’s “hail- fellow-well-met manipulativeness” and Farnsworth’s innocent earnestness. He also smartly “scrapes off the slickness” from Sorkin’s script --- a slickness that was, infuriatingly, emphasized in the original, 2007 Broadway production—and adds a “surging physical vitality” that the original staging lacked. Indeed, if The Farnsworth Invention is any indication, in the competition to be America’s pre- eminent theater city, “the Windy City appears to be blowing the Big Apple out of its once-secure spot at the top.” The Chicago production owes its success to two very fine local actors, said John Beer in Time Out Chicago. P.J. Powers “dominates as the gruff Sarnoff,” precisely capturing that character’s “mix of steely authority and insecurity.” As the David to Powers’ Goliath, Rob Fagin “captures Farnsworth’s dreamy brilliance and fatal naïveté, his family and the larger world no match for the fascination of his lab.” Bowling, meanwhile, handily orchestrates the play’s enormous cast of supporting characters, shuffling them in and out of laboratories and boardrooms to effectively convey the bustling spirit of the ’30s. Sorkin’s script still has its problems, but TimeLine’s take on The Farnsworth Invention proves “bracing throughout.” (The Week, June 18 via DXLD) Extended to July 24 http://www.timelinetheatre.com/farnsworth_invention/index.htm (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LAS TRANSMISIONES COLATERALES DURANTE PROGRAMAS RADIALES Autor: Rumen Pankov e Ivo Ivanov --- Espacio diexista 20.06.10 A finales de mayo Radio Miraya que emitía con transmisor situado en Eslovaquia comenzó a ser captada en dos frecuencias nuevas, las de 9480 y 10000 kilohercios, a pesar de encontrarse empleando sólo una registrada oficialmente, la de 9740. Varios días después aquel error técnico quedaba rectificado. La deficiencia se debió a un desperfecto en el campo de las antenas y las transmisiones colaterales se habían producido con sendas desviaciones de 260 kilohercios, una con signo más y la otra con signo menos. Muy a menudo se puede comprobar la transmisión colateral que se produce en posprogramas de Radio Vaticano. Los programas originales se transmiten en 7335 y 7250 kilohercios pero son captados también en 7165 kilohercios, con desviación de 85 kilohercios con signos más y menos. En otros períodos de las 24 horas se escuchan programas de esa emisora en 7140 kilohercios y se relacionan con las frecuencias de 7250 y 7360 kilohercios. Los ejemplos anteriores, entre otros muchos ponen de manifiesto que a raíz del manejo incorrecto de las instalaciones radiales pueden surgir dificultades ante la radiodifusión internacional. Las razones son de carácter técnico, por ejemplo, discordancia entre antenas situadas muy cerca una de la otra, deficiencias en ellas o en los transmisores, fenómenos naturales, experimentos de innovaciones, etc. No en último lugar, la razón puede residir en el receptor del oyente. En ocasiones, las transmisiones colaterales y complementarias se hacen en forma intencionada. El caso más notorio en la historia de la radiodifusión se produjo el 5 de noviembre de 1961 cuando la emisora “La Voz de América” efectuó una transmisión radial emitiendo un mismo programa simultáneamente en 52 frecuencias. Fue una transmisión experimental con el fin de comprobar si los países de Europa del Este eran capaces de hacer jamming a un número tan importante de frecuencias. Uno de los ejemplos de mayor originalidad en este terreno es la emisora “La Voz de Vietnam” que utilizaba la frecuencia de 13740 kilohercios, pero en un momento determinado se comenzó a captar, con paso de 10 kilohercios, en un total de 10 frecuencias. Los casos más frecuentes de transmisiones colaterales tienen que ver con las llamadas frecuencias armónicas. Así una emisora es captaba en su frecuencia básica pero también en frecuencias que son el doble, el triple, etc. de esta frecuencia. Aquí en Bulgaria, se pueden captar las frecuencias armónicas, repetitivas, de numerosas emisoras griegas que casi han invadido la banda tropical de 90 metros de onda corta, de 3200 a 3400 kilohercios. En ocasiones los oyentes se pueden confundir al manejar un receptor de conversión única de la frecuencia intermedia. Esta última es diferente para los diferentes tipos de receptores. Por ejemplo, los aparatos de bulbos utilizaban la de 468 kilohercios, y los de transistores, la de 465 kilohercios. En estos aparatos determinada emisora es captada en su frecuencia básica e, igualmente, en otro punto del dial, en una frecuencia espejo. La frecuencia espejo se obtiene tras restar de la básica, la frecuencia espejo multiplicada por dos. Conviene destacar a estas alturas que en las ondas ultracortas las frecuencias intermedias son del orden de 10,5 megahercios. Por esta razón, el oyente debe escoger un receptor que cuente con la llamada doble conversión de la frecuencia y optar por dos frecuencias intermedias especialmente seleccionadas. Respecto a las frecuencias espejo, hay que decir que en los receptores de radio modernos, de prestaciones mejoradas, aparecen raramente tales frecuencias. Los oyentes suelen informar sobre transmisiones radiales colaterales y sobre frecuencias armónicas en las páginas de publicaciones diexistas impresas o en Internet. Versión en español de Mijail Mijailov Fuente: BNR Radio Bulgaria: http://bit.ly/aPowBg (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) Explanation of spurs, images, harmonics. I don`t know about Bulgaria, but around here typical IFs are 450 or 455 kHz, 10.7 MHz for FM (gh, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also OKLAHOMA [non]; USA: WBRA log ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SENATORS TO FCC: GET THAT WHITE SPACE THING GOING --- NOW http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/06/senators-to-fcc-get-that-white-space-thing-going-now.ars (via Jacob Norlund, June 19, WTFDA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Re 10-24: CANADA DAB In Saxonia it was up til last year the official plan, stipulated by law, to replace FM and AM by DAB no later than 31 Dec 2009. ATOMROFL See also http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2004-09/nrcbatavia/100-02252-med.html (the CBC's 740/860 kHz site near Toronto, meanwhile being upgraded with new Nautel transmitters) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In all the years that stations have been broadcasting in DAB in Canada, I never met anyone who had a DAB receiver and never saw DAB receivers for sale. It has been DOA for years (Greg Shoom, ODXA yg via DXLD) Re: DAB in Canada: DOA? I was known as the other listener to DAB in Toronto by the Jazz station, the other person was the station engineer. I am not suprised DAB is dead in Canada, as reported the transmissions were unreliable, the commercial stations often had poor audio, sometimes even just one audio channel being transmitted, in latter days the jazz station had hum on it for at least 15 months. Q107 actually sounded reasonable most ot the time but why have 680 news on DAB ? Transmitters would auto shut down in the summer due to poor ventilation and the antennas would ice up in the winter causing erratic operation. CBC were non-responsive to any complaints or enquiries regarding DAB. Its a real shame as CBC used very high bit rates and when working sounded superb, particularly the French Espace channel. The choice of L band was also a bad idea as it made reception even more unpredictable and unreliable. I seem to remember Radio Shack tried selling a pocket DAB radio which was a crazy idea considering the low field strengths and the unpredictable nature of L band reception on the move. Arcam also tried selling a hifi tuner without success in Toronto. There was also another portable planned by a Canadian company; this was called Zoopad but never came to market. Another development in Canada was the NAD hifi DAB tuner developed mostly in Canada and sold in Asia and Europe. This was a L band and Band 3 (most of the world uses Band 3) receiver. Still being sold today after 5 years on the market but as far as I know never sold in Canada. There was a DAB lecture once at a ODXA meeting. 73 (Steve, G7MDM, now listening to a choice of 25 DAB stations in the wilds of Lincolnshire UK, non of them unfortunately having the audio quality that CBC was capable of, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Local frequency Es heard on adjacents! Presumed KRPT 92.5 Devine TX with Astros BB heard on 92.3 6/18 PM. This is the only affiliate anywhere near this frequency; also, presumed KZPS 92.5 Dallas-Ft. Worth heard on 92.7 with ads for SouthWest Ford in Weatherford & Greenville, & The Chisholm Restaurant (buffet) in Cleburne. Does anyone know why these things happen? I was using the Tecsun PL- 310 which claims adjacent channel selectivity of 60dB (DSP). I can only wonder if the wrong frequency receptions are caused by the receiver having DSP? Or the stations using IBOC? Could capture ratio put audio outside the selectivity rating? Could Es itself pick up a signal at transmitter, then after going thru Es cloud, possible thunderstorms or tornado, get thrown back to earth 200 kHz from local & the distant stations frequency? I have worked on unIDs for others & sometimes just gave up. But when I spent more time on them I noticed they were a good match for something listed on an adjacent. I wonder if it could be something like a mixing product where 92.5 program mixes with IBOC on 92.4 & 92.6 to produce the off frequency signals on 92.3 & 92.7? Could there be any type of equipment problem at a station that could cause this? I've never noted the wrong frequency reception occurring when not adjacent to a strong local. Decades ago I heard a 93.7 Es (where I have a local) appearing on 93.5 but that was a less selective tuner & I just blamed/credited capture ratio being different when slightly mistuned. Any further thoughts? Thanks & 73, (George Sherman, MN, WTFDA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CANADA; NEW ZEALAND; PORTUGAL ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ 9th Lorena DX Camp I know from talking to members at the Winter SWL Festival, that many are intertested in learning more about DXpeditions. Perhaps there will be something on next year`s FEST program to address those interests. However, in the meantime our good friend from Brazil, Pedro M. C. de Castro, has sent a link to share some photos, audio samples, videos and logs of the 9th Lorena DX Camp: http://www.dxcb.blog.br organized by the DX Club do Brasil. The event took place on 3-5 June 2010 at the Valle Hotel in Lorena (which is Pedro`s home town) with sixteen participants. The hotel is located outside the urban area and features a big backyard, where longwire antennas can be set up in a much lower noise level than at home. The club is busy planning its 10th DX camp scheduled for next year. There are numerous audio clips, photos and videos to enjoy which gives you a feel for how our friends in Brazil enjoy the radio listening hobby. 73, (Rich D`Angelo, June 18, NASWA yg via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ NRC/WTFDA Rochester 2010 - Registration is now open!! We're just over two months away from the start of the big NRC/WTFDA Rochester convention, and your hosts are excited to be able to announce more details of the big event! *BANQUET LOCATION ANNOUNCED: We've picked a great spot for our banquet: Mario's Italian Restaurant and Steakhouse, just 10 minutes away from the convention hotel. Mario's is one of Rochester's finest restaurants, and we're excited to have them hosting us for dinner on Saturday night, August 28. Our menu will include: Tomato, cucumber & red onion salad with white balsamic & fresh basil Penne with vodka sauce Chicken french (a Rochester specialty!) Sliced angus top round with rosemary-garlic au jus & roasted red peppers Greens & beans You can read more about Mario's at http://www.mariosviaabruzzi.com *BANQUET SPEAKER ANNOUNCED: Our keynote speaker at the convention will be Bob Smith, host of WXXI radio's "1370 Connection" talk show. Bob has been with WXXI for two decades now, but he's also worked in commercial radio in the newsrooms of WHEN in Syracuse and WKBW and WBEN in Buffalo. He'll share stories from all facets of his career when we hear from him Saturday night before returning to the hotel for the business meeting and auction. You can read more about Bob at http://www.wxxi.org/talk1370/profile.html *CLUB MEMBERS TO APPEAR ON WXXI: In addition to speaking at the banquet, Bob will host several NRC/WTFDA members on his show at 1 PM, Friday, August 27 for a conversation about DXing and the state of radio today. (Who'd like to be a guest?) While several of us are on the air with Bob, the rest of us will be touring the WXXI facility and watching the live show from the next studio over. *REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Your registration fee of $55 includes not one but TWO dinners - the big banquet at Mario's on Saturday night *and* the cookout dinner Friday night at Jim Renfrew's home. It also includes snacks all weekend in the convention room (which will be open from Friday morning until Sunday afternoon) and your convention program and materials. Registrations are due by AUGUST 1. Please make your check ($55 per person) out to "National Radio Club" and send it to Greg Coniglio, 11825 Genesee Street, Alden, NY 14004. On-line registration will be open shortly at http://www.nrcdxas.org Hotel reservations are due by JULY 26. The host hotel is the Brookwood Inn in Bushnell's Basin, just east of Rochester, and rooms are $65/night for up to four people per room. Breakfast and parking are included, and there's a free shuttle from the Greater Rochester International Airport. (The shuttle can also pick you up at the Rochester Amtrak/Greyhound station, with advance notice.) Reserve your room now by calling 585-248-9000 or 800-396-1194, and be sure to let them know you're with the NATIONAL RADIO CLUB. *AUCTION ITEMS WANTED! We're looking for donations for the big auction Saturday night, with proceeds benefiting the NRC and WTFDA. Send your donations to Greg Coniglio, 11825 Genesee Street, Alden, NY 14004, or bring them with you to Rochester! *SPEAKERS WANTED! Are you an expert DXer? Want to share your expertise with fellow club members? Contact Jim Renfrew at jrenfrew @ rochester.rr.com to sign up for a slot in our "Saturday Morning DX Seminar"! *BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! We'll also have a full day of station tours on Friday, August 27 --- which means you'll probably want to get to town by Thursday evening. If you're here in time for dinner, we'll have an informal dinner Thursday night, and a Rochester Red Wings baseball game, if there's interest. On Saturday afternoon, we've arranged a tour of the Antique Wireless Association museum in Bloomfield, just 15 minutes from the convention hotel. And Sunday morning, it's the world-famous Quiz before we go our separate ways. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us - and we're looking forward to seeing you here in Rochester August 26-29! Your WTFDA/NRC 2010 convention team... Scott and Lisa Fybush Jerry Bond Greg Coniglio Rick Lucas Jim Renfrew (Scott Fybush, June 19, WTFDA via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ The Day the (AM) Music Died Pop Matters By Jay Somerset 3 May 2010 It's Monday, about four minutes before noon, 10 May 1982. Huddling together amid stacks of cassettes and vinyl records, Top 40 disc jockeys Ron Lundy and Dan Ingram are about to drop the needle for the last time on WABC AM, in New York City. Like most of the AM dial, WABC is forgoing contemporary hit music for talk radio, a significant makeover for the station that ruled New York airwaves for most of the '60s and '70s. "This is the beginning, not the end", says Lundy, his voice rising, choking back tears. It's his first on-air fib in 17 years at the station . . . (See http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/124955-am-gold-82/P1 for full article) (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS +++++++++++++++++++++++ Last Friday, on a "night of sciences" event, the Dresden university had the nerve to present this as such an interesting new development. How convenient, this made the list from where I had to choose considerably shorter (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Sporadic E propagation FM DX in Siliguri, INDIA I am very happy with my Redsun RP2100 and present Sporadic E openings in my place Siliguri, West Bengal, INDIA. 21 June 2010 LOGS from (AM IST / 0230 UT Onwards) Many stations booming on the band, unidentified, approximate possible are written, INDIAn ones are properly identified, Chinese CNR, City Economic Radio and Sichuan Radio was heard with ID, few THAILAND stations also gave ID. The videos will be soon on my You tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/dxinginfo 93.75 THAILAND J Channel Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 93.9 INDIA AIR Vividh Bharati Vadodara=Baroda (guj) 96.0 THAILAND Sport Radio Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 97.75 THAILAND Manager Radio Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 98.3 INDIA Radio Mirchi Jaipur/Vadodara mix 103.1 INDIA AIR West Satara (Maharastra) 103.5 INDIA AIR Vividh Bharati Bhopal (mpd) 104.8 INDIA Meow FM Mumbai ? /Jodhpur ? 105.6 CHINA CNR 1 Changde (hn) with AIR Gyanvani… 87.5 THAILAND Satanii Witayu Ratsaphaa Bangkok/Rama VI Rd (bmp) 87.6 CHINA City Economic Radio Fuzhou (fj) 87.8 CHINA CNR 7 Huaxia zhi Sheng Shenzhen/Wutong Shan (gd) 87.9 BURMA Mandalay City FM Yangon=Rangoon (ygn) 88.9 BURMA Padamya FM Sagaing (sag) 88.9 CHINA Xinjiang RGD Uighur Ürümqi=Wulumuqi 89.8 BURMA Cherry FM Taunggyi (shn) 89.8 CHINA Sichuan Economic Radio Luzhou (sc) 91.1 INDIA Radio City Jaipur 100.4 INDIA AIR North Bareilly (UP) 89.6 VTN Ha^.u Giang Radio Ca^`n Tho+ (cnt) 91 THA Sor. Wor. Phor. FM91 Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 1190 Miles or 1915 KM aerial distance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtIr4ldDGk 93.2 VTN Thi. Xã Vi~nh Long Radio Vi~nh Long (vlg) 1615 Miles or 2600 KM aerial distance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFcTNXsX0I0 94.8 CHN Sichuan Economic Radio Yibin (sc) 1009 Miles or 1625 KM aerial distance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQyNsywCujs 95.3 MALAYSIA Unknown Malaysian? 95.5 THAILAND Virgin Hitz Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 93.8h VTN Ba.c Liêu Radio Vi~nh Lo+.i (bli) – shifted to 93.85 due to local Red FM 93.5… 97.0 CHINA Nice reception of unknown Chinese station 98.75 THAILAND Thor. Phor. Song Nakhon Phanom (npn) 100.8 INDIA AIR Vividh Bharati 100.8 NEPAL Radio Mithila Janakpur (jan) 103.1 AIR South Madikeri (Kodagu District) (Karnataka) 104 CHINA City Economic Radio Guiyang/Broadcast Tower (gz) 104 THAILAND Or. Sor. Bangkok=Krung Thep (bmp) 104.8 INDIA Meow FM 106.5 THAILAND Radio THAILAND Sungai Kolok (nwt) Courtesy: Station frequency help: http://fmscan.org/sfm.php?m=s&ex=0 Distance Calculator help: http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm Identifying Chinese Stations are very difficult as I don’t know Chinese, and regarding other languages and Chinese dialects I can only differentiate THAILAND this language is from this province, this is due to last 15-20 years listening experience. Hence many Chinese stations are guessed on the basis of other stations received within same propagation condition, Sporadic E Single Hop, strength while receiving, antenna direction when best reception achieved. Any feedbacks are welcome. Thanks & Regards, (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Postal Address: C/O Kishalaya, Book stall (Opposite. Siliguri Girls High School) College Road, Siliguri – 734001 Dist. Darjeeling, West Bengal INDIA ------------------ E-mail: dxinginfo.com @ gmail.com Skype: dxinginfo DX LISTENING DIGEST) SCIENTISTS FIND A BIG DROP IN THE STRENGTH OF SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS Tuesday, June 22, 2010; HE06 Although sunspots are making a belated comeback after the protracted solar minimum, the signs are that all is not well. For decades, William Livingston at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson has been measuring the strength of the magnetic fields that puncture the sun's surface and cause the spots to develop. Last year, he and colleague Matt Penn pointed out that the average strength of sunspot magnetic fields has been sliding dramatically since 1995. If the trend continues, in just five years the field will have slipped below the threshold needed for sunspots to form. How likely is this to happen? Michael Lockwood, a professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading in England, has scoured historical data for similar periods of solar inactivity, signs of which show up as increases in the occurrence of certain isotopes in ice cores and tree rings. He found 24 such instances in the last few thousand years. On two of those occasions, sunspots all but disappeared for decades. Lockwood puts the chance of this happening now at just 8 percent. On only one occasion did the sunspot number bounce back to record levels. In the majority of cases, the sun continued producing spots albeit at significantly depressed levels. It seems that the sunspot bonanza of the last century is over. -- Stuart Clark (Washington Post via Mike Cooper, World of Radio 1518, DXLD) The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to unsettled levels, with minor and major storms at high latitudes. On 14 June, the geomagnetic field was at quiet levels, with isolated unsettled levels at high latitudes. Activity increased to quiet to active levels, with minor and major storm levels occurring on 15-16 June. Activity decreased on 17 June, with quiet to unsettled levels and an isolated major storm period at high latitudes between 17/06-09 UTC. The disturbances during 15-17 June were associated with a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS). During this period, solar wind data from the ACE spacecraft indicated elevated wind speeds at 602 km/s at 16/0825 UTC, with increased IMF total field intensity of 12 nT at 15/1228 UTC, with intervals of southward IMF Bz to -9 nT at 16/0126 UTC, and increased density to 22 p/cc at 15/0742 UTC. The geomagnetic field decreased to quiet levels for the remainder of the period, 18-20 June. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 23 JUNE - 19 JULY 2010 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels for most of the forecast period due to recurrent high speed streams with the exception of 23-25 June and 11-13 July when the background is expected to decrease to normal levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at predominantly quiet levels during 23-24 June. Quiet to unsettled levels, with isolated active levels at mid-latitudes and isolated minor storm levels at high latitudes, are expected during 25 June - 01 July, due to a recurrent CH HSS. Activity is expected to decrease to predominantly quiet levels from 02-11 June. Activity is expected to increase to quiet to unsettled levels, with isolated active levels, on 12 -14 July, due to another recurrent CH HSS. Predominantly quiet levels are expected for the remainder of the forecast period, 15-19 July. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2010 Jun 22 2151 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2010 Jun 22 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2010 Jun 23 72 5 2 2010 Jun 24 75 5 2 2010 Jun 25 75 5 2 2010 Jun 26 75 15 3 2010 Jun 27 75 12 3 2010 Jun 28 75 10 3 2010 Jun 29 75 8 3 2010 Jun 30 75 8 3 2010 Jul 01 72 8 3 2010 Jul 02 72 5 2 2010 Jul 03 72 5 2 2010 Jul 04 72 5 2 2010 Jul 05 72 5 2 2010 Jul 06 72 5 2 2010 Jul 07 72 5 2 2010 Jul 08 72 5 2 2010 Jul 09 72 5 2 2010 Jul 10 72 5 2 2010 Jul 11 72 5 2 2010 Jul 12 72 8 3 2010 Jul 13 70 10 3 2010 Jul 14 70 8 3 2010 Jul 15 70 5 2 2010 Jul 16 70 5 2 2010 Jul 17 70 5 2 2010 Jul 18 70 5 2 2010 Jul 19 70 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1518, DXLD) ###