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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1527 HEADLINES: *Wrong frequencies from China via Albania, Madagascar, Uganda, Germany via UK *Ramadan expansions from Chad, Djibouti, Indonesia *Eritrea vs Ethiopia *Madagascar via Miami *More news from Australia, Canada, China, India, Iran, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Modesto, Vanuatu *Qur`an from Michigan *Propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1527, August 25-31, 2010 Wed 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415 Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415 Thu 2100 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 1600 WWCR2 12160 [ex-1630] Sat 1730 WRMI 9955 Sat 1800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 Sun 0230 WWCR3 4840 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Sun 1730 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415 Tue 2230 WRMI 9955 Wed 0030 WRMI 9955 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/09:00:00UTC/English/541 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org ** ALBANIA. 8790, 16-18 UT CRI Cerrik Albania relay intermodulation, German service program (fundamental 5970/7380) --- Patrick Robic in eastern Austria reports CRI German intermodulation on 8790 kHz, but never heard here in Germany when checked on Aug 20 and 21. ALBANIA CRI Deutsch auf 8790 kHz - Intermodulation. Hatten wir das schon mal? CRI um 1640 UT in Deutsch auf 8790 kHz. Was sagen Wolfgangs Rechenkuenste dazu (Patrick Robic-AUT, A-DX Aug 20) CRI Relay Sender stehen in Cerrik Albanien, 16-18 UT. Deutsch 5970 und 7380 kHz Arabisch 9555 und 11725 kHz 2 x 7380 minus 5970 = 8790 kHz 2 x 5970 minus 7380 = 4560 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 20 via harmonics yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. August 19th 2010 - AIR Port Blair, 2354 UT, 4760 kHz, Signature Tune, signing on announcement by YL in Hindi & also frequency announcement, etc. SINPO 35433. 73 & 55 (Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK), Abhayapuri, Assam, India, dx_india yg via DXLD) See also KASHMIR ** ANGOLA. 4949.47, R. Nacional Angola, Mulenvos. News bulletin in Portuguese, 2228, 26/7 (Phil Ireland, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) Still going OK 2340. Hi- life music, fade/out 2355 – almost 10 am local! 26/7 (Craig Seager, ibid.) 4949.9, R Nacional, 8-18 0040, phone call & jabbering. Best in years (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, Manitowoc WI, NRD-515 & Eavesdropper, NASWA yg via DXLD) 4950, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos. August 18, 2251-2308 Goldfinger film musical theme, male on music, instrumental pop music, 2300 time pips, female announcements, male “Ministério da Saúde.. campanha contra mortandade infantil”, outside male “fortalecendo a zona de comércio livre..”, female outside. Weak het, 34333 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4950, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos. August 21, 2314-2325 sports news about european soccer by male in Portuguese, news “comunidade européia”, Salsa music, ads about a program of R. N.A. “todos os domingos, a partir das 21 horas, Encontro de Domingo”, African music. 33333 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. This could be a good evening for hearing something else on 6090: at 0052 UT past 0100 Aug 21, no Anguilla; instead, DGS still on day frequency 11775, in huge collision with DentroCuban Jamming Command and Radio Martí, making SAH of about 5 Hz too. Rather self-defeating; but then, he`s dead. // 5935 via WWCR, shortly with PMS instead; she`s alive. Still same clash at 0146. After 0300, RM and (most of?) the jamming are gone from 11775, and Caribbean Beacon is still on 11775 at 0312 with DGS; rather weak and now the problem is Brasília, still going on 11780. CB was back on 6090 around 0515 Aug 22 with TUN, having been stuck on the day frequency 11775 the night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36, very poor but detectable signal, Aug 18 at 1312 with YL in Spanish; 1345 some music. Likewise Aug 19 at 1327 music, het from 15480; 1421 music again, and now weaker than 15480, White Russian from Poland via Woofferton UK. 15476, LRA36 detectable Friday Aug 20, VP at 1325 with YL in Spanish, weaker than hettor 15480. 15476, LRA36 reconfirmed on air Monday Aug 23, 1320 carrier weaker than music on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASIA [non]. RADIO FREE ASIA ISSUES 14TH ANNIVERSARY QSL CARD http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2010/08/radio-free-asia-issues-14th-anniversary.html (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, 19 Aug, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, R. Symban, Leppington NSW. Good with Greek music and announcements at 1025 on 14/7 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic, Australia, JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) Excellent for Greek 1926 on 8/7 (Gavin Hellyer, Ararat Vic, Australia, FRG-8800/R-2000/DX440, Longwires/Inverted V, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) Uptempo Middle Eastern music 0835, strong 26/7 (Phil Ireland, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) Very good signal here through local daylight hours, Greek music 0345. Transmitter supposedly re-sited recently, 10/7 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, Icom R75, Racal RA6790/GM, Racal RA17, Aug Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) 2368.5, Radio Symban 1050 to 1105 audio with music, 11 August, only time logged (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.482, 11.8 2000, OID men med största sannolikhet Radio Symban med grekisk musik och sparsamt med prat. Gick som bäst vid 2015 med knappt QSA 2. Övriga ”aussies” i 120 mb var ganska starka denna kväll. Fade out strax efter 2030. SA 2368.482, 11.8 2000 UnID but most likely Radio Symban with Greek music and sparse talk. Strongest at 2015 but with hardly QSA2. The other "Aussies" in the 120 mb were rather strong this evening. Fade out just after 2030 (Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 22, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Had some recent dealings with Craig Allen (Sydney), who holds broadcast licenses for both 2355 & 3210, and whilst he hasn’t ruled out operating on these frequencies in future, my take on it would be that there is nothing on the near horizon. He still has the SW transmitter, and the original intention was to employ DRM technology. He did give me a nifty Galcom solar powered fixed frequency radio (for 3210) and suggested that I should fire it up from time to time just in case (Craig Seager, Aug Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3309.98, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba regular reception 0930 and 0000. 3390.06, Radio Emisoras Camargo, Camargo noted occasionally with weak signal at 2345 to 0010, 18 August. 4409.8, Radio Eco, Reyes, 0000 to 0012, OM with slow announcements "servicio de ?" 13 August. 4451.2, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2340 to 2350, weak signal music, 17 August. 4700, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 1005-1020, "La Espananza de ?" into music. Good signal 20 August. 4716.19, Radio Yura, Yura, 1023 impressive rustic Peruvian vocal music, time checks seem slow, 20 August. 4795.87, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, 1033 program of music with OM DJ, mentions de Bolivia 20 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Aug 21, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Radio Fides is active on 6155.36 kHz NOW! at 1040 (Chuck Bolland, FL, Aug 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3375.34, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0930 sign on with music, OM, good signal 19 August. 4805, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus. 1000 noted with weaker signal than normal 19 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 15700, Sunday Aug 22 at 1307 Zamfir-like pan-flute, 1310 switch to Swingle Singers or clone accompanying brief R. Bulgaria ID, on to Bulgarian song. Distorted, somewhat overmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Some may have read on other news boards that CJUL Cornwall ON has been closed. Check here http://www.am1220.ca [i.e., moving to FM -- gh] I can confirm this as I went by Cornwall on Aug 21. They are running a tape loop with JJ Johnston, Manager and Lorne Wiebe News Director explaining the reason etc. Runs about 4 minutes. I wish I could pull that in here in Peterborough but CHSC is blocking it [This station too has to leave the air by the end of the month as their licence was pulled by the CRTC]. a (Andy Reid, Ont., Aug 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Application by CHHA-1610 Toronto ON to increase night power DENIED by CRTC --- The application by CHHA-1610 to change its daytime power from 10 kW and it night power from 1 kW to 6.25 kW U has been denied by the CRTC. They were late in filing annual reports with the CRTC, a mortal sin in their opinion:) I believe that CHHA at present only uses 1 kW daytime. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-594.htm CHHA Toronto – Technical change: The Commission denies an application by San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre to change the authorized contours of the Type B community radio station CHHA Toronto. Introduction 1. The Commission received an application by San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre (San Lorenzo) relating to the Type B community radio programming undertaking CHHA Toronto. Specifically, the licensee proposed to change the station’s authorized contours by decreasing the daytime transmitter power from 10,000 watts to 6,250 watts and by increasing the night time transmitter power from 1,000 watts to 6,250 watts. 4. The Commission notes that the licensee may have failed to comply with section 9(2) of the Radio Regulations, 1986 (the Regulations) in regard to the requirement to file annual returns for the broadcast years 2005 through 2007. After examining the present application in light of the applicable regulations and policies, the Commission considers that the only issue to be addressed in its determinations is the licensee’s apparent non-compliance with its regulatory requirements. 5. As set out in the Regulations, licensees are required to file their annual return for a given broadcast year by 30 November of that same broadcast year. The Commission notes that the licensee submitted the annual returns for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 broadcast years on 27 February 2006, 27 February 2007 and 19 February 2008, respectively. The Commission further notes that the station’s annual returns for other broadcast years were submitted prior to the 30 November deadline. 6. The Commission generally denies licence amendments requested by licensees that are in non-compliance with their regulatory requirements. It is the Commission’s view that the same practice should be applied to applications for technical changes that do not constitute licence amendments. Given CHHA’s non-compliance with section 9(2) of the Regulations, the Commission does not consider that a departure from this practice is warranted in this case. Conclusion 7. Accordingly, the Commission denies the application by San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre to change the authorized contours of the radio programming undertaking CHHA Toronto by decreasing the daytime transmitter power from 10,000 watts to 6,250 watts and by increasing the night time transmitter power from 1,000 watts to 6,250 watts. 73, (via Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Glenn, Woke up just in time to hear that an armed elderly man was arrested this morning at the CBC Calgary building after a five-hour long standoff. The man was apparently holed up in the vestibule of the building for several hours. His grievance was with a former employer and he wanted help from CBC to share his story. The incident caused CBC Calgary to suspend local programming for part of the morning. Programming was apparently being piped in from Saskatchewan. They did manage to resume local programming between 8 and 9 a.m. Oddly enough, private competitor CFCN (CTV) has the best online account of this story. http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100822/CGY_Standoff_gunman_100822/20100822/?hub=CalgaryHome 73, (Ricky Leong, Calgary, Aug 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, the defective transmitter dedicated to Sackville`s lowest priority, CBCNQ, Aug 19 at 0503 in CBC news, distorted on fundamental and putting out worse spurs circa 9600 and 9650. Fortunately sign-off was imminent, but did not check for prolonged transmission with tones as often happens (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6165, RNT, *0427-0459, August 20, sign on with Balafon IS. National Anthem at 0429. Opening French announcements at 0430. Afro-pop music at 0433. Weak but readable. Covered by Radio Nederland sign on at 0459. 6165, RNT, *0430-0459, August 21, abrupt sign on tonight with French talk. Local Afro-pop music after 0431. Local tribal music. Covered by Radio Nederland sign on at 0459. Poor to fair. 6165, RNT, 2220-2301*, August 21, African hi-life music. Afro-pop music. French announcements. Sign off with National Anthem. Fair. In the past sign off was usually at 2230 [on Saturdays; so longer for Ramadan?] 6165, RNT, 2220-2230*, August 22, Afro-pop music. French announcements. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor to fair in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, HCDX and dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 14400, Firedrake. Absolutely massive, usual traditional music 2245, // 14700, 14980, 27/7. 14980, Firedrake. Traditional music 2249, huge 27/7. 15970 Firedrake. Large signal, talks in Chinese underneath, possibly SOH?, 2253 27/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** CHINA. Firedrake August 18: 8400, JBA at 1252 14700, fair at 1334 with flutter. No others found up to 18 MHz. Firedrake August 19: none at all found, 1330-1339 from 18 down to 8 MHz; however, CNR1 jammers were quite strong on 15 and 11 MHz. Firedrake August 20: 8400 and up, none found from 1310 except: 14700, JBA at 1317 Firedrake Aug 21: 8400, poor at 1250 None others heard up to 18 MHz before 1300 or after 1308, but search less thorough than usual as I was concentrating on the 1580 Spanish unID. Firedrake Aug 22: nothing found on initial upward scan after 1305, until I got to 16100; then I checked again from 19 MHz down to 8. 16100, good at 1319, S9+10 peaks with flutter; still past 1331, 1352 10500, good at 1323 // 16100; 1324 usual ``ramshorn`` passage; 1352 8400, very poor at 1326, // 10500 and 16100; not heard earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Aug 23: None found 17-8 MHz from 1322 until: 10500, good at 1325; none others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 13740, CRIEnglish via CUBA, Aug 21 at 1407 is interviewing Tavi (sp?) from Radio 86 in Estonia about a singing festival there and Estonian music in general. Radio 86 is their `partner` (front?) station in Nordic area thru which CRI broadcasts via 963 kHz Pori, Finland, starting last year. http://www.radio86.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Phony form reception report received by gh, allegedly from a 34-year-old teacher; he should be ashamed of the example he is setting: note that he neglects to mention the frequency or the times, or even the name of the program/station, and imagines I play music and provide news of my country; unedited sic: Dear Sir; I am very interested in following events and the general way of life in your country.You may know that radio and TV stations in this part of the world do not concentrate on news items from your country very often and only a limited range of records featuring folk music from your country can be obtained here.For this reason,I listen to the MW (SW) band on my? radio receiver , to follow developments directly and to enjoy the unique style of music. I was recently fortunate to tune in to? Radio your desk and although I realise that your programmes are not intended for an international(... language) audience , I hope? nevertheless that you may be interested in knowing that your programmes can be heard many thousands of kilometers away. On the July 12, 2010 I sent you details of how well you are received at this location. However,since it is now some while ago since I sent the report, I presume my letter has been lost in the post. Therefore I am again enclosing the details of reception on that day To give you an example, I have made a note of the details? of a recent broadcast. Name:ZhangTa o address : 09 Electronic Chemicals Class ,Guanghua Vocational School, Baoying County,Yangzhou City ,Jiangsu Province, CHINA post code :225800 Date of Birth:14.3.1976. Sex:MALE oc cupation:Teacher receiver:Kaid e Time(time of beijing china) 27.07.2010: Signal Strength:EX CELLENCE Interference:NIL Nois e:NIL Propagation:NIL Overall Merit: EX CELLENCE . 11.08.2010: Signa l Strength:GOOD Interference:SLIGHT Nois e:SLIGHT Propagation:SLIGHT Overall Merit:GOOD. 12.08.2010: Signa l Strength:FAIR Int erference:MODER ATE Nois e:MODER ATE Propagation:MODER ATE Overall Merit:FAIR. 13.08.2010: Signal Strength:POOR Interference:SEVERE Nois e:SEVERE Propagation:SEVERE Overall Merit:POOR. 16.08.2010: Signa l Strength:VERY POOR Inte rference: EXTREME Nois e:EXTREME Propagation:EXTREME Overall Merit:VERY POOR. Comments &Suggestions:1: Timely reply to the letter the audience. 2: Get a QSL 3; Get a program schedule The signal quality as received here in Baoying county was naturally rather weak,but nevertheless I was able to follow some what you said. The signal quality was very fair, and I was able to enjoy what was said in the programme. I also found the music you played to be enjoyable. Because your signal varies in strength during different times of the year, it is not always good.But I hope to find the time to listen again,mainly because you provide me with a unique source of music and information. I should be very grateful if you could confirm in writing that I received Radio... judging from the details I have enclosed. I would also appreciate a station pennant/sticker/stamp if you have one please,and more details about the programmes you broadcast. I am also enclosing a few postcards/stamps from this part of the world which may be of interest , to give you an idea of the countryside around here. And I hope that your signal will remain audible in this part of the world so I can follow events in your country.Thank you for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Name:ZhangTa o. address : 09 Electronic Chemicals Class ,Guanghua Vocational School, Baoying County,Yangzhou City ,Jiangsu Province, CHINA post code :225800 I hope you find my reception report to be of some use. If the details are correct please verify with a QSL verification card. A sticker would also be appreciated, if these are available. And I hope that your signal will remain audible in this part of the world so I can follow events in your country.Thank you for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Name:ZhangTa o. address : 09 Electronic Chemicals Class ,Guanghua Vocational School, Baoying County,Yangzhou City ,Jiangsu Province, CHINA post code :225800 (via gh, DXLD) Presumably he's really looking for the sticker, à la Bellabarba. Who knows (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very interesting, Glenn. I'm the trustee of an amateur club station (W2WSS -- the callsign of a good friend of mine who is now, alas, a Silent Key) and recently received a QSL from Jin Yong (BG4WAZ, also in Jiangsu) for a 20-meter SSB contact. Pete (the original W2WSS) would've found that most amusing since he was an enthusiastic and accomplished QRP DXer and operated CW almost exclusively, and I doubt very much that anyone was bootlegging his (our) call. Callsigns often get garbled on SSB but who knows, there may be some tscotschke- collectors in that part of the country :-). Enjoy the rest of summer and very 73 de (Anne Fanelli WI2G in Elma NY, ibid.) These are the people that ruin it for all the honest listeners. I'm sure it gives a station, with limited budget, a very bad impression. Especially in these times when not many stations even QSL anymore. Or, the station simply sends QSL, etc without actually verifying the report. Shame on the station as now all their confirmations are suspect. At least the "listener" wasn't asking for porn as someone from Africa, I believe Gabon, did many years ago. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, ibid.) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954, 0139 Aug 21, carrier is still on this off-frequency, but cannot make out any modulation vs WYFR on 5950, apparent jamming on hi side. Presumably the ELCOR test-transmission from Guápiles, Costa Rica, but are they still carrying Radio República? That had been running since 2300 on 9490 via Sackville, with heavy jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9525, Aug 19 at 0455-0500 RHC only running its IS, but why if this frequency is about to close down, anyway; or is it? 0501 into programming starting with music. Only poor signal; probably just overrunning. Maybe that`s why 6010 was missing when I checked 49m at 0510, while the other English frequencies were up: 5970 good, 6060 poor, 6150 open carrier, then under-modulation cutting on and off. But at 0511, 6010 carrier started cutting on and off; finally at 0512, seemed to stay on plus modulation. Spanish on 6120, 5040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. Djibouti on 4780 kHz has extended its schedule by one hour, most likely because of the ongoing Ramadan. Today (20 August 2010) they aired a closing announcement and their national anthem at 2200 UTC, fell silent at 2202, tx close-down at 2202:30. I have to listen in LSB due to strong UTE noise; but then reception is not too bad (SINPO 34333; I=1 if not in LSB). 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig, Germany, JRC NRD525 with PA0RDT MiniWhip antenna, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, HD2IOA, accurate time signals announced every 10 seconds, Aug 19 at 0514. Weak, but evading QRhaM at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.95, Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, Loma Loja, 1040 17 August; 1000 noted with weak signal 19 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, RNGE, Sunday Aug 22 at 0536 singing, 0544 announcement, choral or gospel music. Fair signal but undermodulated; ute beeper on hi side. 6250 is quite irregular, usually missing lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA / ETHIOPIA. It seems right now at 1640-1648 UT, V of the Broad Masses Asmara-Selae Daro is on new 9710 kHz \\ 7140 and 7165 kHz {hopping around 7.1 to 7.2 MHz range channels, wb.} (Mikhail Timofeyev, Russia, DXplorer Aug 16 via BCDX 18 Aug via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) Yes, they have been doing that to deter the Ethiopians from jamming their broadcast, bugging close to Ethiopian frequencies. The Chinese have a massive jamming machine set up in Ethiopia (Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK, DXplorer Aug 16, ibid.) At least 4 transmitters for jamming purpose from Ethiopia, like against VOA, DWL Amharic, and various opposition broadcaster in Amharic, Oromo and Tigre language from abroad (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9710.03, NF, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, *0355-0410, August 20, sign on with IS. Talk at 0400. Some local Horn of Africa music. Fair to good. // 7175 - poor with noise jammer (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX Listening Digest) ** ETHIOPIA. 7210, Radio Fana, 0340-0350, August 21, local Afro-pop music. Amharic talk. Fair. // 6110 - weak under Cuba (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, HCDX and dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. via France, 13830, Voice of Oromo Liberation, 1745-1800*, August 22, presumed with talk in listed Oromo. Some local music. Sign off with choral anthem. Poor with QRM from noise jammer. Sun/Wed only (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 15350, Radio Bilal, *1800-1815, August 22, sign on with local chants and opening announcements with “Radio Bilal” ID. Amharic talk. Local tribal chants. Fair to good (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX Listening Digest) ** FIJI [and non]. PIRATE RADIO TRIES TO BEAT REPRESSION IN PARADISE Fiji's democratic opposition hopes to evade military leader's draconian censorship --- By Roger Maynard Sunday, 22 August 2010 This is a story about repression in what many people would think of as some kind of paradise. In a move inspired by pirate radio stations of the 1960s, political activists in the South Pacific are planning to position a Dutch- registered merchant vessel in international waters off the coast of Fiji to defy censors in the military dictatorship. Opponents of the coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, hope to have the station broadcasting news and interviews by the end of next month in an effort to circumvent draconian media laws imposed on the island state's press, radio and television. Since taking power in a military coup in December 2006, Fiji's strongman has slowly eaten away at the country's democratic freedoms, installing newsroom censors and cracking down on foreign media ownership. Newspapers and radio stations now have to be 90 per cent locally owned, a stipulation that will almost certainly see the closure of the 140-year-old Fiji Times. The popular title, which has been owned by News Limited since 1987, has been emasculated since the censors moved in to demand the removal of any anti-government stories. . . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/pirate-radio-tries-to-beat-repression-in-paradise-2058866.html (The Independent on Sunday via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD) Will be on the ``AM band`` + contrary comments. Wouldn`t ``clandestine`` be more apt than ``pirate``?? (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. A-10 Media Broadcast (ex DTK T-Systems). 1 of 4: Adventist World Radio (AWR): 0400-0430 6065 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily EaEu Bulgarian 1600-1630 7340 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily EaEu Bulgarian 0900-1000 9790 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg Sun SoEu Italian 0700-0800 11980 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Arabic 0800-0830 11980 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Kabyle 0800-0900 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf French/Tachelhit 1900-2000 9765 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Arabic/Tachelhit 2000-2030 9765 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf French 1730-1800 11915 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Kabyle 1900-2000 15260 NAU 125 kW / 215 deg Daily NoAf Arabic 1900-1930 15205 NAU 125 kW / 215 deg Daily CeAf Fulfulde 1930-2000 15205 WER 250 kW / 165 deg Daily CeAf Ibo 2000-2100 11755 WER 250 kW / 180 deg Daily CeAf French/Youruba 0300-0330 6065 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Tigrigna 0330-0400 9815 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Amharic 0300-0330 9505 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Oromo 1730-1800 15155 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Oromo 1630-1700 17575 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Somali 0400-0430 9845 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Daily N/ME Arabic 1700-1730 9445 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Daily N/ME Arabic 1200-1300 15435 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs English/Bangla 1500-1600 15160 ISS 250 kW / 080 deg Daily SoAs Nepali/Hindi 1500-1530 15255 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs Punjabi 1530-1600 15255 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily SoAs English 1300-1330 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Mon-Fri EaAs Chinese 1300-1330 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Sat/Sun EaAs Uighur 1330-1500 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Daily EaAs Chinese Radio Netherlands 0500-0555 9895 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Daily SEEu Dutch 0600-0655 9895 NAU 500 kW / 190 deg Daily SoEu Dutch 0600-0755 5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Daily WCEu Dutch 0700-0755 6035 NAU 500 kW / 186 deg Daily CeEu Dutch 0700-0755 9740 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily NoEu Dutch 0800-0855 6035 NAU 500 kW / 186 deg Sat, Aug.28 CeEu Dutch 0800-0855 9740 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat, Aug.28 NoEu Dutch 0800-0955 6120 WER 250 kW / 255 deg Mon-Fri SoEu Dutch 0800-0955 9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Sat/Sun SoEu Dutch 1000-1155 13700 WER 250 kW / 240 deg Daily SEEu Dutch 1000-1155 5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Mon-Sat WCEu Dutch 1000-1155 9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Mon-Sat SEEu Dutch 1000-1655 5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Sun WCEu Dutch 1000-1655 9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Sun SEEu Dutch 1500-1555 13700 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Daily SEEu Dutch 1500-1655 5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Mon-Sat WCEu Dutch 1500-1655 9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Mon-Sat SEEu Dutch 1500-1655 13700 WER 500 kW / 240 deg Daily SEEu Dutch 1700-1725 15710 WER 500 kW / 180 deg Daily CeAf Dutch 1700-1725 15720 NAU 500 kW / 155 deg Daily EaAf Dutch 1800-1955 15535 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Daily EaAf English 2000-2155 6125 NAU 500 kW / 225 deg Daily SEEu Dutch 2100-2125 9815 NAU 250 kW / 320 deg Daily NoEu Dutch Trans World Radio (TWR): 0645-0820 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sun NoEu English 0715-0750 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sat NoEu English 0700-0750 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Mon-Fri NoEu English 1400-1430 7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Mon EaEu Belarussian 1400-1430 7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Tue-Fri EaEu Russian 1400-1500 7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Sat/Sun EaEu Russian 1530-1600 9440 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Sat EaEu Romanian 1530-1600 9440 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Fri CeAs Armenian Hamburger Lokalradio 0900-1000 6045 WER 100 kW / non-dir 1st Sun CeEu German Mecklenburg Verpommern Baltic Radio: 0900-1000 6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 1st Sun CeEu German European Music Radio: 0900-1000 6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 3rd Sun CeEu Music Radio Gloria International: 0900-1000 6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 4th Sun CeEu Music Christliche Wissenschaft/Christian Science 0900-1000 6055 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun CeEu German, deleted 1800-1900 9585 WER 125 kW / 075 deg Sat EaEu Russian Evangelische Missions Gemeiden: 1030-1100 6055 WER 125 kW / non-dir Sat/Sun CeEu German 1100-1130 13710 NAU 250 kW / 020 deg Sat FE Russian 1500-1530 11695 WER 250 kW / 060 deg Sat EaEu Russian Missionswerke Arche Stimme des Trostes 1100-1115 5945 WER 250 kW / non-dir Sun CeEu German Radio Traumland: 1300-1400 5945 WER 100 kW / non-dir Sun CeEu German Pan American Broadcasting (PAB): 1400-1415 15205 ISS 100 kW / 083 deg Sun SoAs English 1415-1430 15205 ISS 100 kW / 083 deg Daily SoAs English 1430-1445 15205 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sun SoAs English 1600-1630 13830 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun WeAs English 1930-2015 6175 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sun NoAf English 1930-2030 6175 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sat NoAf English Brother Stair/The Overcomer Ministries (TOM): 1300-1500 6110 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily WeEu >>>> not active 1500-1600 6110 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg Daily WeEu >>>> not active 1400-1500 13810 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Daily N/ME English,x 14-16 1500-1600 17485 WER 100 kW / 160 deg Daily CeAf English 1800-1900 9895 WER 500 kW / non-dir Daily N/ME English,x 18-20 1900-2000 7425 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily N/ME >>>> not active 1900-2100 6155 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily WeEu English (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 20 August via DXLD) Summer A-10 of Media Broadcast (ex DTK T-Systems). Part 2 of 4: Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN): 0700-0815 5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat WeEu English 0700-0730 5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sun WeEu English 1800-1830 6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Tue EaEu Russian 1800-1845 6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Fri EaEu Russian 1800-1815 6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Thu EaEu Ukrainian 1800-1845 6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Sat EaEu English 1800-1900 6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Sun EaEu English 1800-1830 9435 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg Sun SoEu Spanish 0900-1000 17535 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Fri NoAf Arabic 2000-2115 9485 WER 125 kW / 210 deg Wed WCAf French 2045-2115 9485 WER 125 kW / 210 deg Thu-Tue WCAf French 1930-1945 11830 NAU 100 kW / 187 deg Sat WeAf French 1945-2000 11830 NAU 100 kW / 187 deg Sat WeAf Adja 1830-1845 11830 WER 100 kW / 180 deg Sun CeAf Swahili 1630-1730 13720 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Daily CEAf Nuer/Dinka 1730-1745 13720 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Fri CEAf Fur 0430-0500 9735 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Tue/Thu EaAf Arabic 0500-0515 9735 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Fri EaAf Arabic 1600-1630 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Thu EaAf Oromo 1630-1700 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Fri EaAf Amharic 1700-1730 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri EaAf Tigrinya 1730-1800 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri EaAf Amharic 1600-1700 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Tue EaAf Amharic 1600-1800 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Wed EaAf Amharic 1630-1800 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Thu/Sat/Sun EaAf Amharic 1600-1630 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri/Sun EaAf Oromo 1800-1830 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri-Sun EaAf Somali 1830-1900 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri N/ME English 1800-1900 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sat N/ME English 1800-1815 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg 1st Sun N/ME English 1815-1845 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sun N/ME English 1700-1800 9645 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Sat N/ME English 1730-1800 9645 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Sun N/ME English 1615-1700 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Mon N/ME Arabic 1545-1700 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Wed N/ME Arabic 1615-1630 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Fri N/ME Arabic 1730-1800 11860 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Daily N/ME Arabic 1700-1720 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Mo/Tu/Th/Fr N/ME Arabic 1700-1735 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Wed N/ME Arabic 1545-1600 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Mon/Wed N/ME English 1545-1620 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue N/ME English 1700-1715 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue N/ME English 1715-1800 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue N/ME Hebrew 1545-1645 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Thu N/ME English 1545-1615 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Fri N/ME English 1545-1730 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Sat N/ME English 1530-1815 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Sun N/ME English 1800-1830 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Mon/Wed/Fri WeAs Persian 1800-1900 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Tue/Thu WeAs Persian 1830-1900 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sun WeAs Persian 1800-1815 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sat WeAs Persian 1530-1545 11955 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg Sun WeAs Persian 1530-1730 12140 WER 125 kW / 105 deg Daily WeAs Persian 0030-0100 7405 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Mon-Thu SoAs Hindi 0030-0100 7405 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Fri-Sun SoAs English 1530-1600 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Wed/Fri SoAs Urdu 1530-1600 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Thu SoAs English 1515-1545 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Sat SoAs English 1500-1515 13740 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun SoAs English 1430-1500 15265 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sat SoAs English 1415-1500 15265 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sun SoAs English Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel 1330-1345 15160 NAU 250 KW / 082 deg Mon-Sat SEAs Burmese 1330-1345 15160 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Sun SEAs Burmese 1830-1900 9655 WER 500 kW / 180 deg Daily WCAf Fulani Voice of Oromia Liberation Front: 1600-1630 11975 WER 500 kW / 135 deg Sun/Tue/Thu EaAf Oromo Radiyo Y'Abadanga Ababaka 1700-1800 15410 ISS 250 kW / 140 deg Sat EaAf Swahili Radio Oromiyaa Liberation 1730-1800 13830 NAU 100 kW / 140 deg Fri EaAf Oromo/Amharic Ethiopia Adera Dimtse Radio, cancelled from Aug.7 1700-1800 13820 NAU 500 kW / 140 deg Sat EaAf Amharic Ethiopian Liberation Front-Voice of Democratic Eritrea 1700-1730 13820 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg Thu EaAf Tigrinya 1730-1800 13820 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg Thu EaAf Arabic Ethiopians for Democracy-Voice of Ethiopian Unity: 1700-1800 13820 NAU 250 kW / 145 deg Sun/Wed EaAf Amharic Voice of Oromo Liberation (Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo): 1700-1800 13830 ISS 100 kW / 126 deg Sun/Wed EaAf Oromo Save the Gambia Democracy Project(STGDP)Baati Rewmi Radio/Voice of the Country 1815-1830 15225 NAU 125 kW / 221 deg Sat WeAf Fula/Wolof/English Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie: 1830-1845 15675 NAU 125 kW / 170 deg Tue/Thu SoAf French (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Aug 23 via DXLD) ** GREECE. 9420, no signal, not even a carrier detectable from VOG, Aug 20 at 0522, tho BBC 9410 and CVC 9430 were in well; so ERT was off? But at 1328, 15630 on as usual, fair signal with heated discussion in Greek rather than music, one side on the phone; 1401 brief music and back to talk. 9420, VOG VG Aug 22 around 0530 amid multi-hour Sunday morning Greek Orthodox singing service; good signal vs zero signal 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290, GBC, 0830 under thunderstorm, religion by 0940, 17 August; 0910 vocalist soprano, 19 August; 0923 pop rock and Caribbean music, greeting sent to several individuals, 0940 "Lord Jesus Christ ... in Jesus Name" 20 August. In the past used to broadcast funeral announcements and "call names" which are no longer heard (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 3250, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis, fading in 1100 to 1130 on 20 August, best at 0000 17 and 19 August. Standard español OM with religion (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 3945, AIR Gorakhpur (tentative). August 16, 2257-2312 violin and piano music, 2301 carrier off by some seconds returning with male announcements, male reciting, 2304 carrier off again returning at 2306 with choral music alternating male speech. 35333 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Dear DX-friends, 4895, AIR Kurseong, 1650-1700*, Aug 18, typical film songs in Hindi with comments in Nepali (presumed), 1659 closing ann in Nepali, 35333. Reactivated. I have not heard it since July. By the way, I passed the station in jeep in April 2010 when it also was off the air! Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** INDIA. 5040, 20 AUG, 0028 UT, AIR Kolkata in Hindi with music. Modulator shot. Beautiful carrier, but modulation distorted and unable to provide enough power to completely modulate the signal. Strong carrier, no QRM, but moderate fading (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m Longwire / Randomwire, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Daytime 41 mb frequencies heard here [in Thailand]: 7230, AIR Kurseong; Aug 12 at 0730 UT English news; 0735 short instrumental tune into announcement; Tibetan chant by male group, 0802 chant by female group to 0830 into announcement; 0859 tentative ID "Akashvani Kurseong", 0900 news, 0909 live report from Jammu-Kashmir, presumably about floods; Aug 20, 0630-0635 English news. 7280, AIR Guwahati; Aug 12 at 0730 English news, Aug 20 at 0630 English news, tentatively \\ 7230. 7315, AIR Shillong; Aug 10 at 0715 English program, weak but clear, to 0845+. 7380, AIR Chennai; Aug 10 at 0845 English program (Gerhard Werdin, Bang Saen, Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 22 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3324.996, 20.8 1940, RRI Palang Karaya med västerländsk musik. QSA 3. JE. 3324.996, 20.8 1940, RRI Palang Karaya with western music. QSA 3. JE 3324.998, 12.8 2029, RRI Palangkaraya med tidssignal och prat. Tidigare sign on pga Ramadan?? Hördes från kl 20. QSA 2. SA 3324.998, 12.8 2029, RRI Palangkaraya with time signal and talk. Early sign on due to Ramadan?? Heard from 20 o’clock. QSA 2. SA (Jan Edh, and Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, respectively, SW Bulletin Aug 22, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3344.964, 20.8 1945, RRI Ternate. Stark (QSA 4). JE (Jan Edh, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 22, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4790, RRI Fak Fak, 1827 20/8/10, Om chanting then yl talk weak. Here is a recording as I say weak (and noisy); early eve is usually pretty bad on the lower bands for qrm) http://www.box.net/shared/xnvilp9151 (Mark Davies, Anglesey UK, Aug 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mark and Chuck, Mark - That is not a bad recording for reception on the Isle of Anglesey. Also note there is a very nice recording of the RRI Fak Fak ID at Atsunori Ishida’s blog http://n-1.at.webry.info/ Of course while at the blog, take a look at his daily monitoring of all the Indonesian stations that are currently active and being heard: http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/ An indispensible reference guide that Glenn and I use on a regular basis. Chuck - Mark is located off the north-west coast of Wales. A very scenic place, as I can tell from the interesting material that Mark recently mailed to me. Thanks Mark! (Ron Howard, California, USA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Mark, That's quite remarkable reception of Fak Fak - I would not be surprised to learn that it is one of the first in western Europe. Possibly those further north in Scandinavia have heard it, but maybe no one further south. I did try myself, but the noise level was just too high - though I did hear 4925 with Koran at a little after 1900UT, and could recognise Indonesian despite the noise. I think I could recognise Indonesian on 4790, so not an extended transmission from Rawalpindi. Now keep your ears on 4605 and see if Serui becomes audible. It's on the same island as Fak Fak, but slightly further to the east, so around the same time - if it is on air early during Ramadan. This shows that darkness is not necessary to hear some 60m signals. I would guess grey line at our end, and the last reflection point being on it. 73 from (Noel Green, UK, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, ibid.) Unfortunately I can't receive RRI-Serui after Aug. 10 at all. Probably I think that it is QRT. cf. http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/ (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Congrats to RRI heard here in Europe these days, on high noise level. For all others, listen to "Song of the Coconut Islands" http://www.intervalsignals.net/files/ins-rri_pro3_130904.m3u http://www.intervalsignals.net/files/ins-z-rri_national_c2000.m3u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DM8ln9CSo8 http://www.youtube.com/user/peacemakerjapan#p/u/50/c0x--95xydo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJj9WELGSE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBmjOpPAxs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxq0j-ldgE&feature=related vy73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thanks for the links, Wolfy. In fact we are discussing about two different songs, seen also in the headers of some of your links. - Rayuan Pulau Kelapa (Song of the Coconut Islands) which is or at least earlier was played by regional RRI stations just before Jakarta news. One example of the song is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODqFv4b7TUA - Pulau Ambon (Love Ambon) which is usually played by some RRI regionals at s/off. One example of this song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFFWAllnbc Third song (I don't remember the name, maybe Bagimu Negri)) was an anthem-like song, played after the Jakarta news. Sorry, I haven't been following the regional RRI stations too much lately :-). 73, (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, Aug 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Hi Glenn, 4925, RRI Jambi, 19/8/10. Chanting starting at 1903 lasting for about 5 minutes with gaps in between, then intro and into what seems like a "phone in". Here is a link to the start of my recording, I`ve cut the chanting. http://www.box.net/shared/yi2122j2ou The intro differs from other recordings of it elsewhere; I thought there was birdsong? (Mark Davies, Anglesey, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Start of Ramadan was quite disappointing, no additional stations heard and only some of the ones reported earlier heard in period Aug 12-15. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya; fade/in 1100 heard throughout s/off at 1600, the most reliable of them all; also heard local morning at 2200. 3345, RRI Ternate; not positively heard again. 3976, RRI Pontianak; only once positively heard Aug 12, at 1215-1445, heavy QRM from approximately 3980 kHz which sound like a flock of WWII-Bombers. 3987, RRI Manokwari; not positively heard. 3995, RRI Kendari; heard in period 1100-1445; also local morning 2200; on Aug 13 at 1100 blocked by Chinese station with TS & ID "... guangbo dientai", no splash from 3990 kHz, because different voice, only this date. 4606, RRI Serui; not heard again neither 1100-1500 period nor local morning 2200. [WORLD OF RADIO 1527] 4750, RRI Makassar; blocked by Bangladesh Betar 1100-1500, but clearly Aug 13 at 2200. 4790, RRI Fak-Fak; not heard again neither 1100-1500 period nor local morning 2200. 4870, RRI Wamena; as reported by others, but never heard here (Gerhard Werdin, Bang Saen, Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 22 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4604.93, RRI Serui has been silent for at least the last 12 days around the 1200 time frame. Drat. They were the best low-band Indo most mornings (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Aug 22, Drake R-8, 60-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 7289.83, RRI-Nabire. Very good with Jakarta news 0803 tune/in, re-tune 0825 to Middle East sounding music, traced until past 0900 on 26/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Aug 18 at 1322 ``Indonesian Wonder`` segment about ``burning the barge(?)``, i.e. paper replicas, some festival in Riau, which is a province in central Sumatera; 1326 ``Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia``, hard to follow as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.96, V of Indonesia, 1300-1310 Aug 19. Out of Japanese and into English with ID, program lineup, and news. ID as "Voice of Indonesia, the Sound of Dignity". Strong signal (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 60-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI had been chugging along just fine for the past week, English at 13-14, but Friday Aug 20 the VG signal with some hum bore no English, just Indonesian (or Malay?), at several chex, 1306, 1323, 1345, but no hindrance to the music at the latter time. Despite het from CRI Russian 9525.0 from *1357, VOI stayed on past 1400 this time, still music at 1411. Atsunori Ishida`s almost daily monitoring of this from Japan at http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/ does not yet include Aug 20, but he did find some other anomalies in language rotation recently: on Aug 15 there was additional English at 11 and 12 instead of Chinese and Japanese; Aug 13, extra Chinese at 1101 switched to English at 1120; Aug 9 at 1203 extra Chinese instead of Japanese. [Later: he did not catch the non-English on Aug 20] `9525` nominally changes from 135 to a 10 degree azimuth at 11, and to 290 degrees at 16. 10 degrees carries on transiting the Arctic to cross Detroit, while Enid is about 30 degrees from Cimanggis but at 15 megameters, signal spreads out quite a bit by the time it gets here. I wonder if it`s even better in Michigan, plus NW and SE from there. Or is Aoki correct, that all 9525 transmissions are at 30 degrees, right on Enid? That would also cross Japan, rather more likely bearing for Japanese and ESL audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. DX MIXTURE --- On August 14th [Saturday] were observed the following DX programmes in time slot 1800-1900: 1800-1830 a wonderful "World of Radio" on 7290 kHz. [via SLOVAKIA] 1820-1850 a good "Amigos de la Onda Corta" of REE on 17755 kHz and on 7275 kHz where KBS in English also talking about DX listeners. 1845-1902 V of Turkey in English only with a survey of listeners reports, but pretentiously named "DX Corner", similar as in the boxer "corner" on 9785 kHz; 1845-1900 on 7290 kHz our friend Alan Graham in captivity of Bob Padula presenting an unpretending a short 41 m.b. scan and very well known HF turn over of info coming from Bulgaria. Radio NZI in English on 13 Aug at 2035 UT on 11725 kHz only with utility countdown of news in their so called DX in the Mailbox, ending with a survey of only five E-mails from Spain and USA only (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 16) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. FIRST COMMUNICATION SATELLITE: A GIANT SPACE BALLOON 50 YEARS AGO SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi SPACE.com Contributor 18 August 2010 http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/echo-1-worlds-first-communications-satellite-100818.html People on Earth may take for granted today's high-tech world of cell phones, GPS and the satellites high above the planet that make instantaneous communication possible. But it all began 50 years ago with one giant space balloon. Echo 1, the world's first communications satellite capable of relaying signals to other points on Earth, soared 1,000 miles (1,609 km) above the planet after its Aug. 12, 1960 launch, yet relied on humanity's oldest flight technology - ballooning. Launched by NASA, Echo 1 was a giant metallic balloon 100 feet (30 meters) across. The world's first inflatable satellite - or "satelloon," as they were informally known - helped lay the foundation of today's satellite communications. "Instantaneous global telecommunications fundamentally altered our lives, and this was the beginning of it," said former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, a senior curator in the space division at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. A true communications satellite: The idea behind a communications satellite is simple: Send data up into space and beam it back down to another spot on the globe. Echo 1 accomplished this by essentially serving as an enormous mirror 10 stories tall that could be used to bounce communications signals off of. While, Echo 1 was not the first satellite to broadcast a message from space (a recorded Christmas greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower was transmitted in December 1958 during the Project SCORE satellite test), it was the first to facilitate two-way, live communications. Echo 1 was made of a 31,416 square-foot (2,918 square-meter) sheet of Mylar plastic film only 12.7 microns thick, or roughly one-tenth the width of a human hair. That sheet was covered smoothly with 4 pounds (1.8 kg) of reflective aluminum coating. Altogether, with inflating chemicals and two radio tracking beacons powered by five storage batteries and 70 solar cells, the balloon weighed just 132 pounds (59.8 kg). The satellite now commonly known as Echo 1 was actually formally named Echo 1A. The original Echo 1 was destroyed after a failure in the rocket designed to launch the giant ball into space, which scientists had dubbed Shotput. More than a giant space balloon: Among Echo 1's many contributions was the first live voice communication via satellite, delivered by none other than President Eisenhower himself. In the radio message, Eisenhower said, "This is one more significant step in the United States' program of space research and exploration being carried forward for peaceful purposes. The satellite balloon, which has reflected these words, may be used freely by any nation for similar experiments in its own interest." The first coast-to-coast telephone call using a satellite was also made with Echo 1, from one researcher to another as a test, as was the first image transmitted via satellite: a portrait of Eisenhower. The giant, silvery balloon was large enough to see with the naked eye over most of the Earth, proving brighter than most stars, and was used to help broadcast radio transmissions across continents. "Amateur ham radio operators played around with it by bouncing signals off," Launius told SPACE.com Incidentally, to communicate with Echo 1, Bell labs created a 50-foot (15-meter), horn-shaped antenna. Later, while calibrating the antenna, radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected cosmic microwave background radiation, the first solid evidence of the Big Bang, for which they won the Nobel Prize. The satellite also proved useful in calculations of atmospheric density and solar pressure. The spacecraft proved remarkably durable, surviving a meteor shower. Still, it proved susceptible to sunlight, which could shove it around, enough to push it back into Earth's atmosphere. It burned up on re- entry on May 24, 1968. Although NASA sent up a second Echo satellite for more experiments, it ultimately chose satellites that could actively transmit data, rather than passively reflect signals. Still, inflatable spacecraft are now making a comeback. The Las Vegas-based company Bigelow Aerospace is developing private inflatable space habitats with the goal of launching the first private space station in 2014. The firm has already launched two prototype modules into space. "Echo 1 was an intriguing experiment," Launius said (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9495, Aug 21 at 0206, speaker in American accent fooled me at first, a VOA service? Hardly: VIRI likes to put such accents on the air from dissidents; some propaganda about US intelligence, with poor studio miking, or boomy room, plus music bed to make it that much harder to follow thru the ionosphere. 0211 ID as ``Voice of Justice, Live from Tehran``, so these poor announcers really have to work from 5 to 6 am local?? ``Coming up next: The Collapse of Global Imperialism``, quoting someone from the New School in New York. At least we still have regional imperialism. This and other logs 0200-0300+ on indoor longwire due to T-storm nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 5860 20 AUG, 0118 UT, SRI LANKA, Radio Farda, caught in mid-music playing Uriah Heep's Lady in Black. Immediately into Middle Eastern music after ID. Now *that* is bizarre! That's about the last music I ever expected to hear on Farda! Surprisingly poor signals, no QRM, but heavy fluttery propagation (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m Longwire / Randomwire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17695, Aug 22 at 1357, R. Farda ID, fair signal and back to Iranian music; via Lampertheim, GERMANY until 1430, then Biblis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. 9750, poor Sunday Aug 22 at 1350 going from Wagner, to Japanese announcement, to Mozart, then found almost // 11655 VG via Sackville, while 9750 is 290 degrees from Yamata, with fast SAH. Three other stations are registered at same time: Malaysia, Kuwait, Moscow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JORDAN. JORDANIA: Radio Jordan (JRTV) anuncia este completo esquema de emisiones en idioma árabe: HORA UTC KHZ 0500-0715 11960 1030-1130 15290 1745-2015 9830 QTH: JRTV, Radio Jordania, P.O.Box 909, Amman, Jordania. Web: www.jrtv.com/radio (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Sin Fronteras, Argentina, Conexion Digital Aug 22 via DXLD) Above is a `domain parking` site with nothing useful in it beyond the JRTV logo. Couldn`t they do better? ``Announces`` in what sense? Did you axually find this schedule there? It matches the WRTH May update, with inactive frequency removed: RADIO JORDAN (Gov) kHz: 9830, 11810, 11960, 15290 Summer Schedule 2010 Arabic Days Area kHz 0345-0715 daily ME,As 11810aka‡ 0500-0715 daily Eu 11960aka 1030-1130 daily Eu,NAf 15290aka 1030-1300 daily ME,As 11810aka‡ 1745-2015 daily Eu 9830aka Key: ‡ Inactive at time of publication. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. AIR LEH 1053 MW NOTED BACK ON AIR 18 Aug 2010 - AIR Leh was noted back on MW freq 1053 kHz during check at 1404 UT, long message by Amir Khan to come forward in reconstruction of Leh & contribute to Prime Minister`s Relief Fund. 1409 commercials, 1410 News in Udru by OM. Three days back when I checked, Bangladesh Betar, Rangpur was heard on this frequency. Here's an audio file at 1410 (ID followed by news in Urdu, static crashes due to bad weather) http://tinyurl.com/2c2pu6p (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Aug 18, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) 19 Aug 2010 - AIR Leh 4760 noted back on their usual sign on at 0130 UTC, opening anncts foll by Ladakhi songs (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) See also ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS ** KURDISTAN. IRAQ/IRAN. A new order in the broadcasts of Voice of Kurdistan's broadcasts mentioned during 08-14 August as follows: 0140 UT songs, 0201 UT Hymn, 0204 UT Nx etc and close/down at 0234 UT on 3931 kHz; 0258 UT carrier, 0259 UT ID, 0301 UT same Hymn as above and news on 4891 kHz. Each day the freqs are vary up to +/- 2-3 kHz, plus jammer of IRN type (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 3960, Star Radio. August, 21 0646-0707 male and female talks in English, outside talks, many mentions of “Liberia”, short African music, female announcements “this message is of the minister..” male eloquent speech, back male talks. 25322. 73's (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. V. of Africa still active on the original A10 and B09 frequency, 17725, poor with YL in English at 1418 Aug 19; // 21695 not propagating, nor anything else on 13m. BTW: when solar flux had a hard time exceeding 70 earlier this year, we dreamt of it exceeding 80 and the improved reception that would ensue. Now it does, but reception is as poor as ever if not worse overall (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 6134.91, R. Malagasy, Antananarivo. Surprisingly early, vocal group, rather distinctive, 1240. French announcements 1245, then music again. More announcements. 1247, ID as “RNM” 1248, and again at 1252. Adverts, “Radio Madagascar” ID 1254. Quite OK signal, first time I’ve heard this outlet, and no sign of 7105, 30/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) 7105, RTV Malagasy, Antananarivo. Upbeat Afro music 1415, announcements. In French, into vocalist 1422. Quite a decent signal, 9/7 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, Icom R75, Racal RA6790/GM, Racal RA17, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Aug 19th at 1744 noted unID Afro-sounding station on 4910 USB. I guess it's Madagascar off nominal by some mistake. Nothing heard on 5010 at that time (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Jari, Have heard the same station here only once, around the same time you logged them, on 14 August. However, it was in AM mode, not USB. Quite possibly Madagascar, however, the music sounded more "southern African" to my ears. 73s (David Sharp, NSW Australia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yep, it's Madagascar. Going on past 1900. Still there at 1913 when writing this. Recheck at 1947; no signal here (Jari, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, ibid.) 4910 USB, Radio Madagasikara, 0350-0400, August 20, local African music. Talk in local language. Weak but readable. Nothing heard on 5010. New frequency or punch-up error. Thanks to Jari Savolainen tip (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX Listening Digest) 5010, R. Madagasikara, Antananarivo. August 21, 0305-0315 Malagasy (listed) male and female talks, “Madagascar” alternating short instrumental, choral music. 35333 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Jari, 4910 seem to be the mistransmission of 5010 kHz. Only in Aug. 19, I can't receive it Aug. 20 and 21. Thank you for information. http://bcl2isid2over60.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/files/100820_040000_4910E2Uqd.mp3 by Show in Nagoya at 1900UT on Aug. 19 (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I rechecked PERSEUS data on 4910 kHz at about 1800 UT for few days. Not a signal for Aug. 14, 15 and 16. I was able to receive broadcast seem to be Madagascar in AM and LSB (not USB) on Aug. 17 and 18. http://bcl2isid2over60.sakura.ne.jp/dl/sound/100819_030800_4910E2Lqd.mp3 at 1810 UT on Aug. 18. de Show (S. Hasegawa, Aug 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR [non]. SPANISH PROGRAMMING INTO CUBA will be beginning in the next few weeks. Until we are able to turn on the signal in Madagascar, we will be purchasing 30 minutes of time each week from Radio Miami to provide a very strong signal into that part of the world. We are looking for a sponsor for this $120 per month broadcast opportunity. LATIN AMERICA: "What's Going On?" August 2010 One Dollar A Minute! That is the cost of reaching Cuba with the message of Christ. The radio station, WRMI is designed to send a clear signal to saturate the Caribbean, especially Cuba. This signal also reaches as far as Mexico, Central America and parts of South America. WRMI has distributed hundreds of fix-tuned, solar-powered shortwave receivers, like the one pictured here, in Cuba and other parts of Latin America. This receiver only picks up the WRMI frequency of 9955 kHz. Recently, Jeff White, Director of WRMI, invited me to visit the shortwave station to discuss the possibility of broadcasting our Christ-centered Spanish programs. Jeff’s proposal is to put our programming on the air every Monday night for 60 minutes for just $60.00. Has God blessed you with $60.00 a week that would change the lives and eternal destiny of souls in Cuba and Latin America? WRMI will also put us on the air for 30 minutes at $30.00 a week RADIO • GOOD NEWS • TELEVISION - CHRIST’S MESSAGE MEETING THE MASSES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Television: 23 Countries and across the United States Con La Biblia Abierta / With The Open Bible Enlace: Thursdays 3:30 PM CDT USA: Dish Network 9413: Mondays 9:00 PM EST Mega TV 22 South Florida: Mondays 8:30 AM EST Radio: WWRB: Mondays 9:00 PM-12:00 AM EST [Mon 0100-0400 UT] Reaching Cuba and South America via shortwave 5050 Streaming Online: http://wwrb.org Mondays 9:00 PM-12:00 AM EST Future, in 2011: KNLS World Christian Broadcasting begins transmitting from Madagascar, covering Latin America! (World Christian Broadcasting website as of Aug 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** MAURITANIA. 4845, 20 AUG, 0058 UT, Radio Mauritanie in Arabic talk, staying on past supposed 0100 sign-off. Some Arabic prayer and French announcements after 0100 with male announcer. Probably on Ramadan schedule. Reasonably strong signal for this late in the morning, but modulation very low. QRM from CW ute on 4844 (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m Longwire / Randomwire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4845, something there Aug 21 at 0141, presumably ORTM on extended 24h? Ramadan schedule, but too much WWCR from 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. La señal de XEOI Radio Mil en 6010 KHz hoy 20 de agosto de 2010 señales bastante variables en 2 receptores Radio Shack a las 1210 UT en uno analógico modelo 12-472 y a las 1220 UT en uno digital 20- 125 en Mérida, Yucatán. Demasiadas QRM y QRN. Envío archivos de audio. http://rapidshare.com/files/414070354/SW6010KHZ-20AGO2010-1210UTC.WAV http://rapidshare.com/files/414070525/SW6010KHZ-20AGO2010-1220UTC.WAV Atte: (Ing. Civ. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., Yucatán, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, at 0134 Aug 21, no Portuguese, just Spanish, so XEPPM, apparently remote report about Huapango, M&W conversing in the open, but audio cutting off and on, mostly off. There have been reports of RNA back on 6185, but not now, it seems, tho certainly there on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Myanmar Radio has three different programs in period 1000- 1300+ plus the Defence Forces station on 5770 kHz, all heard in period Aug 13-20: 5770, Defence Forces BC; heard 0630-0730+ and 1230-1430. 5915, Myanmar Radio; the weakest of all QRGs, probably not 50 kW; heard 0915-1315, mostly music, but always different from other QRGs. 5985, Myanmar Radio; s/on tentatively 0930 heard to 1500+, no English at 1400, 1430 or 1500! 7200, Myanmar Radio; s/on 1005-1008 after close-down of 9730 kHz, observed daily, to approx. 1300. 9730, Myanmar Radio; Aug 19 at 0308 English news read by female voice to 0314 "That is the end of International news" into English & Burmese pop music. Aug 20 at 0700, "This is Myanmar Radio with our second English transmission", giving metres rather than kHz; local news about election preparation, 0704 international news, 0705 weather, 0707 slogans by female voice about peace & stability, 0708 "This is Myanmar Radio presenting you lovely music", into English pops, 0730 end of transmission announcement; daily Burmese program to 0958, when close- down announcement by female voice giving metres and kHz, silent carrier to 1005 when switching to 7200 kHz (Gerhard Werdin, Bang Saen, Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 22 via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 6089.86, FRCN - Kaduna, 0400-0435, August 21, talk in listed Hausa. Qur`an. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. Anguilla [q.v.] 6090 off the air allowing this station to be heard (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, HCDX and dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. I caught the program "Time For Highlife" on the Voice of Nigeria today (Saturday) starting at 1830 UT. 15120 kHz was coming in pretty well in central Pennsylvania USA. Good music, enjoy it when you can (Scott Walker, New Cumberland PA, Aug 21, Swprograms mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) Thanks for the heads-up! FYI Voice of Nigeria also offers a live webcast... Check out http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/ and look for the "live broadcast" link in the upper left (Richard Cuff, ibid.) 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 1803-1820+, August 22, tune-in to English news. Gave program schedule at 1805. Afro-pop music. Off the air at 1815-1819. Back at 1819 with talk about the Sudanese people. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX Listening Digest) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 USB, Wolverine Radio from tune-in at 0305 until tune-out at about 0340 UT Aug 22.. Non-stop hits songs from the 60's on, mainly about rainy nights and storms. M with reverb ID "Wolverine Radio" only twice during listening period. Signal strong, despite loud atmospheric noise (Eton E1XM, Mike Bryant, Louisville, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1050 on caradio with a low het rumble, surely between the two OK stations, as much closer than any others on daytime groundwave; someone is significantly off-frequency. Dominant station had soul music, Aug 17 at 2013 UT. Trouble is, new NRC AM Log 2010-2011, just received Aug 18, shows both are UC:AC (Urban contemporary/American contemporary) music formats: KKRX Lawton, U3 250 watts, and KGTO Tulsa U1 1000 watts. Of course, with a direxional receiver each could be nulled, but not on the caradio whip. More likely Tulsa, a bit closer and stronger, non direxional, while Lawton is direxional to the SW. 1240, previously noted with KFH Wichita KS and KADS Elk City OK both on ESPN and echoing, but Aug 17 at 2015 UT on caradio, KADS is way over KFH, and giving the WWLS phone number: ``Sports Animal`` network originator relayed by a few other OK stations, but surely none abroad; on website http://www.thesportsanimal.com/ I see nothing about affiliates; even searching on keywords KADS and Elk goes nowhere (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB, Blackwell didn`t wait until the weekend to drop modulation and resume open carrier: Friday Aug 20 at 1525, 2000 and 2350 UT chex. I hope others in neighboring states will monitor 1580 Saturday 1300-1400+ UT for the Spanish sportstalk unID I have been getting for weeks on 1580, only on Saturdays at this time (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNIDENTIFIED 1580 ** OKLAHOMA. KWTV, CBS affiliate in OKC, is about to make up its mind about whether to keep channel 9 or 39; it`s been running both for many months. Formerly, PSIP ID was 9-1 for RF9 and 9-2 for RF39, but first noted August 17, that has changed: RF9: now displays as DTV 9-3 OldKWTV RF39: now displays as DTV 9-1 News9 But on my previously configured DTV converter, which had both saved, if I directly enter 9-1 I get News9 but I am really tuned to RF39. If I directly enter 9-2 I get News9 and I am also really tuned to RF39. If I directly enter 9-3 I get OldKWTV and am really tuned to RF9. Previously there was no 9-3 option. Why set it up that way? There are not really three separate channels/programs. As I found out when researching the KOSU CP to move to the KWTV tower, their ch 39 antenna is on the top, and the ch 9 is further down, another clue that they are going for UHF as a keeper. All these different ``9``s have always had identical programming; never any secondary channels. There is no obvious link to DTV or reception problems on the http://www.news9.com website, so I had to search, leading to this: http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12892534 ``Please Rescan by Aug. 30 Posted: Jul 29, 2010 2:47 PM AST [sic] Updated: Aug 03, 2010 3:15 PM AST [sic] Since the DTV switch, some TVs have had problems with our signal. We apologize. We value all of our viewers and have been working hard to make sure everyone can get the best signal possible... and now we need your help. If you are watching NEWS 9 on a TV using an antenna or a converter box, it's very important that you rescan your channel line-up one more time before August 30th or you'll lose CBS and NEWS 9. RESCAN: Step - by - Step 1. Disconnect the antenna from the television/converter box 2. Rescan channels (with no antenna attached, you will likely get no channels) 3. Turn off the television/converter box and unplug from power source 4. After 5 minutes, plug the television/converter box back in and reconnect the antenna 5. Rescan for channels 6. And you are DONE! If you run into any problems, we are here to help. Send us an e-mail: Give us a call: 405-841-9199`` They still are not saying exactly what they are really doing! But obviously they are turning off one of their transmitters August 30. In the comments appended, a rather rude ``Echo Charlie`` explains to a confused viewer, who can blame her? that RF 9 will be turned off, keeping RF 39 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) During the noon soap opera August 19, spotted KWTV running a crawler across top of screen about testing whether you need to rescan: if your screen goes black briefly, by Aug 30, otherwise lose KWTV. I was getting this on Suddenlink analog cable, and missed any blackness if it would have reached me there. By the time I got RF 39 tuned in on the antenna the test was over. No doubt they will do it again, but I may miss it, since except for Sunday Morning and Face the Nation, there is absolutely nothing worth watching on CBS daytime, or CBS primetime (unless including 60 Minutes, but that`s all reruns in the summer, altho they cleverly mix and match the segments, so they can say it is ``new`` on online guides --- and the intros are `new` since they slip in ``as we first reported last November``), and I only still was tuned to KWTV because of the preceding local noon news9 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) This evening (Wed, Aug 18) with signals ranging from WCCO-32 in the Twin Cities to KTEN-26 in Ada, OK. Other cities included Sioux City, Mason City, Des Moines and Ames, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Wichita, Great Bend and Bunker Hill (KS). One UNID was "news9" on channel 39. Glenn solved that one with his recent post so KWTV-39 it is. I couldn't find anything on VHF with the exception of channels 11 and 13 here in Topeka. Not even KQTV-7 showed up from nearby St. Joseph. I sure thought I would see something on VHF (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, WTFDA via DXLD) VHF doesn't work as well for digital TV as UHF. I get 2 Little Rock stations (KETS PBS, and KTHV CBS) that use VHF-HI and those stations are always plagued with dropouts anytime there is a storm system between the transmitter and my receiving location, or when there is a storm in my vicinity. The UHF stations (KATV, KARK, KLRT, KARZ) in contrast don't have this issue as severe. (yes, DTV has its reception "issues" with needing a certain threshold of signal-strength to decode but stations on VHF are often underpowered to start with and add the electrical QRM and the result is far from ideal in real world conditions) -- -- (Fritze H Prentice, Jr, KC5KBV, Star City, AR, EM43aw, ibid.) Thanks to Glenn for alerting me that KWTV in OKC would be leaving channel 9 and broadcasting only on channel 39. I saw them on 39 last night ("news9") and left the Zenith box on channel 9 when I left on my morning bicycle ride. When I returned three hours later "oldKWTV" had been there. With only a few days remaining on channel 9 I probably would not have seen them on digital VHF without Glenn's comments. (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas Aug 19, ibid.) ** PAKISTAN. 11510, R. Pakistan, Islamabad. Weak reception of Koran chants and presumed Chinese explanations. A strange combination! Heard 1210, 28/6. 15100, R. Pakistan, Islamabad. Directly into English from Urdu with news at 1100. Good signal but very muffled audio on 22/7 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW, Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Dipole, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1 Comment on “NBC Papua New Guinea replacing MW/SW with FM” [March 1, 2010] #1 Nigel Holmes [Radio Australia] on Aug 18th, 2010 at 21:03 NBC did away with its hf/mf ages ago by not paying the power bills or undertaking system maintenance (Media Network blog comment via DXLD) ?? Several NBC SW stations are still on the air, if you check any decent SW DX log report (gh, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, Radio East Sepik, Wewak, at 1153 with Classic Oldies music, 1200 mention of NBC and man with news, sounding like it was in English. At 1235 host taking phone calls, speaking in Tok Pisin and English. Poor, Aug. 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening before dawn, lakeside, in my car with an Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3334.952, 20.8 1930, Radio East Sepik, Wewak med lite blandning ”söderhav” och västerländsk. Dålig modulation. QSA 3. JE 3334.952, 20.8 1930, Radio East Sepik, Wewak with a mix of "South Sea" and western music. Poor modulation. QSA 3. JE 3334.965, 11.8 2002, Radio East Sepik, Wewak med nyheter. Enda PNG som hördes i 90 mb. 2 SA 3334.965, 11.8 2002, Radio East Sepik, Wewak with news. The only PNG heard in the 90 m band. 2 SA (Jan Edh and Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, respectively, SW Bulletin Aug 22, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3329.53, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1030 music to 1040 fading out 17 August. 4746.94, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 1001 hyper YL with rustic vocal, great signal 19 August. 4826.665, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, impressive signal 0920, traditional Peruvian music, 19 August. 4835.409, Radio Marañón, Jaen, YL en español, 1010 with narrow filter lsb, 13 August. [because of WWCR 4840, I assume --- gh] 4857.4, Radio La Hora, Cusco while a regular at 2330, beginning to be heard by 1120 in Florida, 17, 19 and 20 August. 4950, Radio Madre de Dios, 1040 on 17 August. 1030 carrier sign on, weak audio 19 August. 5039.21, Radio Libertad, Junín noted signing on as late as 1130 on 11 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro-DL - NRD 535D - Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters, 60 meter band dipole ~ Noise Reducing Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5024.9, 20.8 0000, R Quillabamba, very close to R Rebelde but approx. same signal strength, fair to good. Program type similar to Rebelde’s this hour (Arne Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 22 via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 7225, VOA Korean via Tinang, Aug 21 at 1245 was putting out wide spurs from modulation spikes, covering approx. 7275- 7295, 7155-7175, and 7095-7120, i.e. centered plus/minus 60 and 120 kHz; altho could not hear them around 7345, perhaps masked by other signals in the area. This transmitter is on the air 1200-1400, 250 kW, 21 degrees, same azimuth as a number of other broadcasts carrying on well to NAm, such as 9760 English at 12/15; and // Korean on 11935 at 13-15. 7225, VOA Korean via Tinang, Aug 22 at 1252 check, minus the spurs heard 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. DRM: 3995, DW, Sines. Snippets only, SNR to 14.1dB, English programming, 0619 on 28/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL [and non]. 21810, Aug 20 at 1337, very poor signal but OSOB, with what sounded like ``praise music``, i.e. one-note pitch shifts back and forth, language uncertain, English or Spanish? Gone or faded out by 1355 check. I vaguely recalled that one of the US gospel- huxters formerly used this frequency, WHRI? So trying it again? No, only one station is currently scheduled, RDPI eastward M-F at 13-15, so I suppose that was it, with misleading music. By 1356, there were JBA signals on 21570, 21610, i.e. copeninsular SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 9665, VOR English via Pridnestrovye, poor Aug 21 at 0205 with het, probably from off-frequency Brasilian rather than North Korean at this hour. 7440 via Ukraine not any better. 15425 via DVR not propagating. Meanwhile, VOR Spanish on 9735 is loud and clear, since this favored service gets to use the Guiana French relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks to a tip of Christian Milling in Austrian NETradio - see URL link site http://95.81.162.158:8000/ English - open with your media player http://95.81.162.158:8000/angliyskiy.m3u French http://95.81.162.158:8000/frantsuzsky.m3u German http://95.81.162.158:8000/germany.m3u Spanish http://95.81.162.158:8000/ispansky.m3u Italian, doesn't work at present http://95.81.162.158:8000/italiansky_5.m3u Russian to Caucasus http://95.81.162.158:8000/kavkaz.m3u Chinese http://95.81.162.158:8000/kitayskiy.m3u supposedly VOR - RUSSKOE MEZHDUNARODNOE RADIO http://95.81.162.158:8000/mrr.m3u Brazilian http://95.81.162.158:8000/brazilian.m3u Portuguese http://95.81.162.158:8000/portugalsky.m3u Japanese doesn't work at present http://95.81.162.158:8000/yaponsky.m3u Also links to Arabic, Azeri, Dari-Pashto, Hindi, Kurdish, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Vietnamese services available. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. R. St. Helena QSL. Many St. H. QSL cards arrived these days worldwide. QSL finally received today for the disappointing Nov 14, 2009 Radio St. Helena Day broadcast. The card is similar to the 2008 design (showing ZD7RSD callsign) but with update for 2009 and a different thumbnail photos at the bottom right. With my report I sent an mp3 clip of the s/on and first 5 minutes of programming before it all went downhill. V/s G. G. Walters, card #163. Card is dated July 22nd and dispatched from St. Helena on August 3rd. Let's hope the upcoming Oct 9 RSH Day program is a success! (John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer Aug 16 via BCDX Aug 16 via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 // 17625, Aug 20 at 1331 in Qur`an, slightly better on the latter and also // weaker 17895, but not // 17705, separate Arabic program which was best of all but only fair. But at 1359 past 1400, 17615 continued with Qur`an while 17625 was gone. This all fits for BSKSA 500 kW Riyadh scheduling. One transmitter on 17615 at 100 degrees switches from 17615 to 17625 at 1200-1400, but a second transmitter comes on 17615, 190 degrees at 1300-1600, while VP 17895 is 295 degrees at 1200-1500. And 17705 is Program I, 1200-1500 at 310 degrees, the only one of these aimed USward, but really for Europe. Also JBA seems Arabic on 21505 at 1357, must be BSKSA as scheduled 12- 15; could not detect them on 21460, 21530, 21600 or 21640, also scheduled at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Word has it that Allan Weiner got a haircut at the demand of Brother Scare. I'll resist the temptation to judge that scenario. I've noticed that Scare's broadcasts have gotten more stylized, with sound bytes and all. Ahhh, Show Business (Chuck Ermatinger, St Louis MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. DRM: 9780 REE, Noblejas. Reasonably steady 0610 in Spanish, SNR to 16dB, 28/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SPAIN. 1820-1850 Aug 14 [Saturday] a good "Amigos de la Onda Corta" of REE on 17755 kHz (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 16 via DXLD) See also INTERNATIONAL News to us, time not on schedules we`ve seen (gh, DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, usually has big signal aimed 340 degrees USward, but Aug 20 at 1319 almost equal CCI from something in Russian, i.e. BBC via Woofferton, scheduled here from 1300, 300 kW at 70 degrees. At least it`s a sign of possibly improving conditions from Europe. See also PORTUGAL. But by 1405 REE definitely atop starting ``Paisajes y Sabores``, traipsing senderos incógnitos, including Córdoba, Andalucía; Cordillera Pirenaica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 9740, Radio Miraya, 0358-0412, August 21, Arabic talk. English news at 0401-0411 about freedoms in Southern Sudan. “Radio Miraya” IDs. “Miraya” jingles. Gave website : _www.mirayafm.org_ = http://www.mirayafm.org Arabic talk at 0412. Poor to fair with adjacent channel splatter (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, HCDX and dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.05, Tajik R. (presumed), 0018 Subcontinental music with vocal by W and M. Studio W briefly at 0022 in language, no doubt Tajik, then back to music with haunting flutes and M vocal, more Middle-eastern sounding than Subcontinental. Start of song with more flutes at 0027 and talk by same W. Music with W vocal and male chorus again, Subcontinental in style at 0029 and running over BoH. W returned at 0034, flute music bridge, then more announcements, and then Subcontinental pop-like song not really fitting in the format. Gradually fading towards 0100. Nice grayline reception this time of year here, and peaking around 0025 with around 75% readability. Surprised to find this. Will have to wait until late November for the best opportunity to hear their English on 7245 at 1300 when it`s near grayline, and hope the auroral zone doesn't suck up the signal. (17 August) (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 6676-USB, Bangkok Volmet; Aug 12 at 0810, English weather \\ 11387-USB; ID "Bangkok Volmet". 6765-USB, Bangkok Meteo; weather in Thai, Aug 12 at 0758 IS, 0800 ID "Thiini ..." continued in Thai, 0805 English weather for region ending with ID "Bangkok Meteo", frequencies and address (Gerhard Werdin, Bang Saen, Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 22 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** TURKEY. 15450, checking VOT Aug 19, another Thursday whether ``Live from Turkey`` still exists, but tuned in too late, 1320, just as starting filler Question of the Month? But cut off the air for a minute so it was missed. Perhaps the transmitter operator, like the audience, is sick of hearing the same thing on every English broadcast for three weeks? By the time resumed, moved on to news headlines, hard to copy due to YL announcer speed/accent, and only fair reception, fading; IS once and off. Two hours later I check the website for this broadcast on demand, http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx but not only is today`s not available yet, neither is yesterday`s, the latest linked being Aug 17. So maybe Thursday`s will be there by Saturday? Ho, hum. 15450, VOT, fair Aug 20 at 1323, sign-off English and IS played twice before carrier-off, an improvement over yesterday, only once. But there are multiple piano variations to the same tune, some of them quite subtle. As of 2300 UT Aug 20, the latest English audio linked on TRT website is still for Aug 17, so I can`t check whether there was a ``Live from Turkey`` on Thursday Aug 19. Webmaster on holiday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4750, Dunamis Shortwave, Mokono. Nice African hi-life music 1833 tune/in, fair, announcements. 1901, to 1902*, 29/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** UGANDA. 7195 kHz at 1702 UT: Program in (British accent) English. Dear Intruder Busters, just now, August 11, since 1702 UT I can hear a program in (British) English voice with S=9 with QSB. I guess the tx- er is somewhere in Africa. Do you also listen? Tnx! (Uli dj9kr - Aug 11 INTRUDERALERT mailing list) E.H.M. Alleyne wrote: Hello Wolfgang, I hear this S=9+30dB but it is rather noisy. Part of this program was coming from Kabale in western Uganda, and broadcast from Kampala, Uganda. Today I spoke to CCK yet again about the Kampala broadcasts on 7195 kHz, and they said they would refer it back to the monitoring service. The trouble is that Uganda is a separate country within the EA Community and go their own way, so there is no great hope of any rapid action. I am sending copies of this message to colleagues in Uganda who may be able to raise it with their Authority. 73, Ted 5Z4NU Nairobi (E.H.M. Alleyne-KENYA, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 13) R. Uganda just now 2040 UT on 7195 kHz? Our colleague in Kampala, Bill 5X1JM, is investigating this station which has been on the air again. It is certainly in Uganda, but he is unsure of the origin, which sounds in some ways like Radio Uganda but could be one of the proliferating religious stations which are now being set up and which could be trying to establish itself on the frequency. He is taking it up with the Uganda authority and will inform us when he has anything of consequence to report. 73, (Ted 5Z4NU - E.H.M. Alleyne, Nairobi, Kenya intruderalert ng, Aug 17, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) UBC Radio (Radio Uganda) heard this evening on its daytime channel of 7195 (instead of 4976 kHz). Heard with weak signal around 1700 tune-in improving to fair by 1830 when carrying phone-in discussion in English about the Ugandan elections. Still audible at 1950, now with English- language pop music. Thanks to a tip from Zacharias Liangas in Greece (via DXLD 10-33) who reported Uganda on 7195 after 1600 on 9-11 August (Dave Kenny, Caversham, Aug 19, AOR7030 +25m Long wire, bdxc-uk yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) 7194.98, R Uganda, 1932-2117, Aug 19, English, DJ played western pop songs, among which Celine Dion: "The Power of Love", Elton John: "Candle in the Wind", late night musings. Pips at 2100 TOH while same program continued to abrupt 2117 s/off in mid-song. Just about reportable, badly splattered over by VOIRI & RFI at S9+40 on 7205. Had not heard them here since one-day appearance on April 13, tnx to Zacharias Liangas for report in DXLD 10-33. 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 7705, DWL intermodulation. Was macht denn die Deutsche Welle da leise in Deutsch auf 7705 kHz? Dreisatzrechner ran, was fuer ein Mischprodukt mag das sein? 73, Nils DK8OK, WinRadio Excalibur& SDR- IP/GPS& Perseus, 96 m delta loop, 42 m windom (Nils Schiffhauer-D, A- DX Aug 14 via BC-DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) Beim Dreisatzrechnen liegen die Intermodulationen immer unter- oder oberhalb, hier sieht man aber das Wunderkind in der Mitten. Intermodulation 7705 [+ 6075 = 13780 kHz], alles vom WW II Sender aus 1943year. 1600-1959 13780 WOOFFERTON 250 75 Ost-Europa 1600-1959 13780 WOOFFERTON 250 120 Sued-Europa u. Nahost 1700-1759 15275 WOOFFERTON 300 128 Europa u. Nord-Afrika 1700-1800 1548 TRINCOMALE 400 35 Sued-Asien 1600-2000 6075 WOOFFERTON 300 105 Europa 1700-1800 6150 KIGALI 250 190 Sued-Afrika (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 14 via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ** U S A. The Summer issue of News & Views from AFGE Local 1812, representing VOA workers, has some eye-opening items about working conditions there, grievances: http://www.afge1812.org/userfiles/file/NewsAndViews.pdf (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIN DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 13710, Aug 20 at 0532, SSOB in African-accented French, news of Africa including Niger; cholera in Nigeria. Don`t recall hearing this before, but soon refers to ``les nouvelles en direct de Washington`` and VOA is scheduled 305 degrees via MADAGASCAR, M-F 0530-0600. 7550, Aug 20 at 1414, weak talk, only third signal left on 40m band following WWCR 7490, RA 7240; o yes, it`s via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, VOA`s Indonesian service on Thu-Fri-Sat only, mostly US pop music, I thought; with ACI from 7546, see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. First airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1526 confirmed on WBCQ, Wednesday Aug 18 at 1900; by webcast, as in- to just-barely audible here on 7415 at that hour across mostly absorbed full day summer path. Just how far does 7415 reach with a usable signal at that hour? Next few scheduled airings: Thu 1500 WRMI 9955, Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415, Thu 2100 WRMI 9955, Fri 0330 WWRB 3185, Fri 1430 WRMI 9955, Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825. Full schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. WORLD OF RADIO ON SHR --- World of Radio has moved to new time slots effective now! Sundays 13.00 - 13.30 UK / 1200-1230 UT Wednesdays 01.30 - 02.00 UK / 0030-0100 UT Listen Again http://www.southhertsradio.com/again.html Listen Live http://www.southhertsradio.com/live.html Shortwave 6255 & Internet http://89.238.166.194/south_herts_radio most Sundays carrying the external service http://www.southhertsradio.com/external.html Next External service broadcast Sunday 5th September. Local service 87.8 FM 24 hours a day See all the new changes and more website development ongoing at http://www.southhertsradio.com Enjoy the videos on the secret life of the radio. 73 (Gary Drew, South Herts Radio, Aug 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9512v, Aug 20 at 1303 as I am approaching Indonesia, distracted by the unique raspy voice of Brother Scare, hetting something weak on 9515 and the het is varying. BS is on three intentional 31m channels at this time, 9265 WINB, 9385 WWRB and 9980 WWCR, but since none are synchronized, 9512 audio only matches 9385, yet another defect of this transmitter. Did not find such a spur on the other side, on 9258. Previous spurs from this have been wide distorted blobs rather than precise carriers with readable modulation. At the same time, PPPP on WTWW 9479 was overloading as far as 9512 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9478.978, 8.8 2359, WTWW Lebanon, TN avslutade dagens program med frekvensen. Spelade lite osannolikt ”Rawhide” och annonserade bytet till 5755. Gick lite renare här. QSA 3. JE 9478.978, 8.8 2359, WTWW Lebanon, TN terminated the daily program on this frequency. Played a little unlikely "Rawhide" and announced a shift to 5755. Heard with a cleaner signal here. QSA 3 (Jan Edh, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 22, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``Rawhide`` is frequently played by PPPP/SFAW (gh) ** U S A. 11520, WEWN English transmitter is still putting out swishy spurs plus and minus 10 kHz. Aug 21 at 0146 I am hearing one QRMing WYFR 11530 in Portuguese, but WYFR has a // free of it right up the dial at 11550. WEWN spur also audible with BFO on 11510. WEWN 13835 slushy spur messing up neighboring WWCR 13845, Aug 21 at 1408, made obvious by fundamental 13835 being so much stronger than 13845 at the moment. I have tried to make both stations plus other victim WYFR aware of this problem, but apparently nobody cares, as it`s been going on for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR, Aug 20 at 1402, poor with preacher about government, Jesus being king whether we vote for him or not. Please! We had enough of divine-right monarchies by 1776y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550 USB, WJHR, Milton, FL, 2145-2200*, August 22, English religious talk. Sign off at 2200. Poor. Weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** U S A [non]. UNIDENTIFIED, 17545, YFR US religious program relay site at 1200-1300 UT at S=7-8 signal level. First noted and reported by Ralf Ladusch in Austrian A-DX ng on Tue Aug 17. Today Aug 19 at 12-13 UT logged YFR religious English service "Open Forum" phone in program, not in \\ to 17555 YFR program in English too. At 1227-1228 UT ID, YFR website announcement, URL and real audio 24 hour service mentioned, as well as phone-in-# of 1-800-322-5385. I guess this 12-13 UT transmission is meant to East Asia too, via Almaty-KAZ relay site, like two others 11-12 UT 15560alm, 13-14 UT 13820alm, latter according to WRTH 2010 spring PDF file update. Not mentioned in Aoki, Eibi or HFCC tables. 17555yfr from Okeechobee Florida logged only with tiny S=3 signal here in Germany, at same time slot. Latter though 100 kW at 160 degrees in opposite direction. HFCC list shows Spanish, but heard always in English at 1200 UT. 17545alm? is rather stronger on S=7-8 level. Hymn at 1259, TX off at 1259:36 UT, and opening hymn on 13820alm then at 1300 UT even. Always publication of YFR whole broadcasting schedule leaves a lot to be desired. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 95.3, weak signal on caradio Aug 17 at 2018 UT, ad for a car dealer mentioning both Poteau [pronounced POE-toe] OK and Fort Smith AR. Must be KERX Paris AR, 50 kW ERP, transmitter site halfway to Fort Smith, east of it. 228 miles, not bad on a bright summer afternoon (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1090, WCAR, Livonia MI; 0155, 18-Aug; Been hearing Koranic chanting & Sub-Continental music after 2400 past few days; finally heard, "Let your voice be heard, 525-1111". The later is WCAR's phone #. Fair sig on peaks, but mixing with WBAL, WAQE & others (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All dates and times for all logs are UTC unless otherwise noted, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Michigan Catholic Radio had been programming WCAR and was attempting to buy it, but gave up and quit after July 31, 2009; see http://www.catholicradio.org/ It seems the station has undergone a radical conversion. Birach Broadcasting runs it with ``brokered religious programming`` per Wikipedia, but I can`t find a website of its own to get any idea of the language(s). Probably not 100% Moslem. Birach homepage http://www.birach.com/ shows all his stations plus a Warning to the Public about a fake Birach in Virginia. Link to WCAR on the left side is dead, but it`s one of the stations with streaming, on the right side, not tried (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KMPH 840 MODESTO CA TO CLOSE DOWN AT AUGUSTEND http://www.radio-info.com/news/modesto-am-kmph-840-will-turn-off-the-transmitter-august-31 It’s the 5-kw fulltime station that Pappas Radio of Modesto built to essentially replace the 860 (KTRB) that it moved into the San Francisco market. KMPH hit the air in July 2006, originally playing “Modern Standards” and then in March 2008 switching to a conservative talk approached named Patriot 840. Now Pappas Radio says it’s going to sign the station off at 9am Pacific time on Tuesday, August 31. Jim Pappas blames that on “the ongoing national, state and local economic downturn, combined with the insufficient growth in revenue” at the 5- kw AM. He says “the company is no longer willing to fund” the station’s operating losses. His letter ends with this promise – “when future circumstances permit, KMPH-AM will return to the airwaves.” One problem for the four-year-old station: very different day and night patterns. The daytime signal goes Southeast and, with what the engineers call a tight null to northwest, doesn’t hit Stockton very well. The nighttime signal goes north and south, centered on Modesto (radio-info.com via Artie Bigley, DX LISTENING DIGEST) To me, this is simply another indication that there are too many AM stations crammed into the band and that some, with today's unfortunate economic conditions for radio, simply aren't going to make it. Regardless of what KMPH has for antenna patterns, their skip seemed to get out very well to the east as I caught them a few times here in IL via both sunset skip and once when they should have been on night pattern. This was on Phased BOGs aimed west and prior to KOA's IBOC. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, NRC-AM et al., via DXLD) You are sure right. There are way too many AM & FM stations to support in the US, especially with the downturn in the economy. It has been amazing to me that there have not been more failures. If the economy does not improve, going into Winter expect more I am sure. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside Oregon, "Come visit us for the 2010 IRCA convention held Sept 24-26 at the Inn At Seaside," ibids.) Well that's great news. Maybe now I can hear WHAS again, I hope. Thank you (Derek Vincent, IRCA via DXLD) Yeah, or One Hundred Mile House once again :-). (Don Kaskey, SF CA, ibid.) 100 mile House is probably headed for FM unfortunately. Easy to log here with phasing out local KSWB (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) ** U S A. Re 10-33, WSB adding FM relay: I think the problem in Little Rock -- and Atlanta -- and Nashville -- among plenty of other places -- is that there are few to no AM stations with market-wide signals. Does even KAAY cover the entire Little Rock market at night? (I forget where their transmitter is.. they're protecting Baltimore.) Hereabouts, WSM is the only market-wide AM signal. With the poor ground conductivity and the soaring outer suburban population, not even WSB can really cover the Atlanta market. We've had a successful 100 kW FM talker here for 15 years; as well as a Class C1 FM sports station (heck, we had *two* FM sports stations for a few years). Note that FM talk is relatively rare in Midwest markets. Due to better ground conductivity (and often, the ability to locate an AM DA so as to blast signal across the market), AM stations like WCCO and WTMJ and KFAB and KFYR can do a pretty good job of covering their markets. -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Aug 16, WTFDA via DXLD) KARN-AM covers the immediate Little Rock metro well at night, but I think it gets weak past Conway. It`s not well heard nighttime in Pine Bluff AR (40 mi SE of LR), and its "DX/just-there" quality here . KAAY (QTH at Wrightsville AR) blasts in here at night in Star City; well at least it did before nighttime IBOC from WTAM and KRLD started keeping the once-mighty 1090 covered in a fog of hiss. Moreover, the null from KAAY makes the station very weak in the Saline County suburbs at night as well as some parts of the NE section of the LR metro. KARN-FM makes the trip down here fine although I occasionally hear WMSI in Jackson MS via the car radio when tropo kicks up strong (Fritze H Prentice Jr, KC5KBV, Star City, AR, ibid.) ** U S A. Something for everyone BY DAVID A JOHNSON 2010-07-30 16:00:28 MARFA Far West Texas is one of the last places one would expect public radio to exist, let alone thrive. Then again, the Big Bend consistently upends expectations. Marfa Public Radio, or MPR, has the slogan "music for a wide range," and they ain’t just whistling "Dixie." A 300-foot tower on Brown Mountain near Fort Davis broadcasts its local, original programming — including the genres of news, Americana, astronomy, rockabilly, ambient, indie and Spanish — at a 50,000-watt equivalent. That means that on a good day, people from Sierra Blanca to Big Bend National Park and Grandfalls to Ojinaga can turn their dials to KRTS 93.5 FM and expect to get a signal. . . http://www.oaoa.com/common/printer/view.php?db=odessa&id=50783 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** VANUATU. 5055, R. Vanuatu, Vila. Weak but clear with fades in English, 2001 on 8/7 (Gavin Hellyer, Ararat Vic, Australia, FRG- 8800/R-2000/DX440, Longwires/Inverted V, Aug Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) Absent during our week at Mullimburra Point (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) July 26-30 ** VATICAN [and non]. UT August 21 compared the VR relays to North America, going from French to English at 0250 on 7305 and 9610. 7305 Santa Maria di Galeria cut off the air at 0249:03 while French was still speaking; back on with better signal via Sackville about a semiminute later with IS briefly, 0250 opening English show about Pius X. 9610 Bonaire, au contraire, had an overlap of a few sex before 0250 with ripple SAH, then clear via Sackville only and // synchronized 7305. 15235, Aug 22 at 1314 VR IS, and 1315 opening Vietnamese, fair with S9 peaks; still at 1356 recheck. VR`s Vietnamese services are a regular in NAm, far offbeam from SMG at 72 degrees, so we are closer to off the side than off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. El Hugazo missing another Sunday, from ``Aló, Presidente`` Cuban relay frequencies at 1555 check Aug 22: nothing on 12010, 13750, 17750. I heard somewhere that he has suspended the show during elexion campaign, which would seem to be counterintuitive and counterproductive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Venezuela: No habrá "Aló Presidente" hasta el mes de octubre En lugar del programa, el día de mañana se transmitirá el simulacro nacional de votación que llevará a cabo el CNE así como de los partidos finales del IV Campeonato Mundial de Béisbol Femenino. EL UNIVERSAL sábado 21 de agosto de 2010 01:07 PM Caracas.- A fin de otorgar las "máximas garantías de respeto" a las normas establecidas por el CNE para la campaña electoral parlamentaria, el Ejecutivo Nacional decidió suspender las transmisión del programa Aló Presidente hasta el mes de octubre. La interrupción iniciará este domingo 22, cuando el programa ceda su espacio para la transmisión televisiva de las actividades del simulacro nacional de votación que llevará a cabo el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), así como los partidos finales del IV Campeonato Mundial de Béisbol Femenino, informó la emisora radial YVKE Mundial. Con el inicio de la campaña por las elecciones parlamentarias, el próximo miércoles 25 de agosto, las emisiones del programa comprendidas en la última semana de agosto y todo el mes de septiembre, serán suspendidas también para garantizar que se respeten las normas de propaganda establecidas por el CNE. "Aló, Presidente" retomará sus transmisiones con normalidad el próximo 3 de octubre, refirió un comunicado del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación e Información, citado por la emisora. Fuente: http://bit.ly/cr6quW (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, already on the air when I tuned in, 0558 Aug 21, music mixed with talk; 0600 3-pip timesignal 38 seconds late, anthem on tinny band, dead air, 0602 YL announcement and into OM chanting. Wonder how much before 0558 they were on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 4965, Christian Voice, Lusaka. Still audible 2356, music, only traces after 0000 – hanging on late, well into our daylight hours, 26/7 (Craig Seager, Mullimburra Point NSW DXpedition, NRD 515 and 525, Icom R71A and R75 and Racal RA6790, 50m EWE, split, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. August 18, 2150-2201 Hilife music, male and female in English talks. Het, 23332. 6045, R. Zimbabwe, Gweru. August 18, 2203-2213 choral music, African music, male talks seems in vernacular. Strong QRM, 22422 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 560, Aug 17 at 2010 UT, very weak with some T-storm QRN, clip of ``Heartbreak Hotel``, and unID host/DJ inviting calls. Also with SAH from a second station. KWTO Springfield MO is closest, talk format, and just barely makes it here on groundwave. KWTO schedule at http://www.newstalk560.com/schedule.aspx shows Tuesdays 3:00PM - 4:00PM Chestnut Chiropractic (1st, 3rd), and this was the third, so do they go off the air on 2nd, 4th and 5th? The other suspects are KFDM Beaumont TX, WHBQ Memphis TN and KLZ Denver CO. NRC AM Log 2010-2011 shows all of them are some variety of talk. Looking at the NRC Pattern Book, all about the same distance from here, under 500 miles, but only KFDM is non-direxional day, and has the ground conductivity advantage over Memphis; while KLZ has quite a null usward. On caradio at a western Enid store parking lot, a fairly hot spot, tho now some frequencies marred by tones, expanded store security systems? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 630, again clear of WWLS OK IBOC from 640, Aug 20 at 1530 and 1700 chex on caradio in western Enid, weak talk including news at 1700, but too much T-storm QRN from westward. WWLS turns off IBOC unpredictably and this has nothing to do with when there is live play-by-play as some stations do, to avoid AM/IBOC asynchrony. Maybe someday everything will mesh: no IBOC, lo noise, good daytime propagation and I can definitely ID 630 as KHOW Denver on groundwave. There still may be weaker IBOC from the other side, the mickey-mouse station in the Metroplex, KMKI 620, hijacked from Wichita Falls, ex- KWFT, once a full-service station which even put me on the p-mailing list for their program schedules (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1580, KOKB Blackwell OK, still in weekend open-carrier mode Sat Aug 21 at 1240, facilitating monitoring of what else is on frequency by suppressing noise level with no annoying modulation of its own. Several stations in English mixing before 1300 UT. 1302 I hear the first traces of Spanish too, on the E-W 110-foot longwire. 1305 I switch to the longer NW/SE wire which picks up less local noise, and favors KREL in CO, soon mentioning Longmont studios. But no more Spanish made out on either antenna in next semihour. {BTW, on 1570 at 1307 there was YL in Spanish, presumably XERF.} At 1333 I try the DX-398 in the yard, and now I hear Spanish, OM interviewing YL; this is best in the KOKB null, but I cannot get a definite DF on the SS station. 1340 I am back on the E/W antenna as the Spanish host announces a `pausa` followed by screaming ad or promo. Briefly better on the NW/SE antenna but so is KREL with the Home (based) Business Radio Show, mention Radio Colorado network. 1345 losing Spanish; 1348 back briefly; 1349+ no further Spanish heard. Just before 1359 KREL ID but it`s losing out too, 1400 USA Radio News. So much for the 1580 Spanish mystery this week. I hope someone else gets something more definite (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA Radio News is KREL, they break from the Radio Colorado Network for local stuff and USA news at TOH 73 (Wayne Heinen, CO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s what I thought (gh) The only other possibility I could come up with through Internet research was KIRT Mission, Texas, relaying 1430 XEWD, but the XEWD website is incomplete and useless. Maybe XEWD has "La Zona" sports program on Saturday mornings? That would fit with mentions of pesos in ads. – (Bruce Conti, NH, http://www.bamlog.com MWDX yg via DXLD) 1580, KOKB open carrier understations, Sunday Aug 22 at 1340-1345: no Spanish, but mix of music and English talk, KREL CO no doubt being one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7544-USB, Aug 20 at 1415, Spanish 2-way with pauses, QRMing VOA 7550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15570/15572, het Aug 19 at 1422 between two weak signals. Aoki shows: ``15572*VOICE OF TIBET 1407-1430 1234567 Tibetan 100 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N VOTi a10``; only audio I hear is on 15570, seems like Chinese, so likely CNR1 jamming VOT. Originally in A10, DW in Amharic via Sri Lanka was on 15570 during this hour, but apparently no longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ You boom in on WWCR on 60 meters --- bravo!!! I'm reading your logs in the NASWA reports --- very interesting commentaries (what, oh what are we going to do with Cuba and their slopping up of the spectrum? I suspect Arnie never sees complaints sent; surely they're filtered by the regime)... The detail of your loggings, and your frankness in expressing your opinions, are a boon to the hobby. I remember your announcing why you had to leave Florida --- yikes (Chuck Ermatinger, in St. Louis, MO with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ RADIO DATABASES Check out the two most recent posts on RadioTraveller: http://radio-timetraveller.blogspot.com/ (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, Aug 18, ABDX via DXLD) Refers to how to extract official MW info from Australia, USA/FCC, Canada, Mexico, and some oddities on MW (gh, DXLD) SHORTWAVE MUSIC +++++++++++++++ KRAFTWERK Amigos, me permitam falar sobre algo pequeno que descobri há apenas dois dias, mas que me deixou impressionado. tem a ver com ondas curtas e por isso tomo a liberdade de relatar. o fato diz respeito à questão de muitas vezes gostarmos de músicas em outras línguas e nunca nos preocuparmos em saber o que está sendo dito. acontece que desde minha adolescência, nos anos 70, mais precisamente em 1974, me tornei fã do grupo alemão de música eletrônica kraftwerk. em 1975 eles lançaram o disco radio aktivitat, que no brasil levou o nome em inglês radioactivity. apesar de a capa do disco no brasil reproduzir um aparelho de rádio (frente e verso), sempre achei que o tema central do disco fosse a radioatividade. e de fato o é. tanto que a capa original da alemanha é aquele símbolo de radioatividade. uma de minhas músicas preferidas deste disco (embora muitos possam achá-la bastante soturna) é radioland. pois bem. não sei porque cargas dágua resolvi buscar no google a letra de radioland. e no resultado, no verso que acho mais bonito eles dizem (com a voz modificada por um vocoder): Turn the dials with your hand Till you find the short wave band Electronic music sounds from Radioland e segue: We are turning dials of the radio We are hearing the sound of transmission By pressing a button fast We reach the short wave band After fine tuning by hand We are listening to the Morse band Electronic sounds from Radioland Um abraço a todos (Lucio Haeser, Brasília, radioescutas yg via DXLD) O clipe desta música está disponível em: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfTqy4kdKc&feature=fvw Inclusive este clipe da banda mineira "Pato Fu" faz um tributo ao Theremin, recomendo à todos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6dfUpLKfE 73, (Rodrigo de Araujo, ibid.) Also check out Radioactivity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pi2YqIy_94&feature=related There is a lot more discussion along this line (in Portuguese, of course) in the re yg thread accessible rom: http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/radioescutas/message/57027 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ AN 80-YEAR-OBSESSION WITH PLUGS AND SWITCHES BBC News 20 August 2010 A youthful passion for all things electrical became a lifelong obsession for Gerry Wells, who has converted his home into a museum to accommodate his 1,200 old radio sets, says Nick Rankin of the BBC World Service. . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11035689 (comments also added) "The Wireless World of Gerry Wells" was on the BBC World Service on Friday 20 August. For those that missed the broadcast, it's available as a podcast on the BBC World Service website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive (duration 24 minutes). (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ CQ, CQ, C...Sorry... I meant CPAP. Trust me: this will come around to radio in just a bit. I went to the Doctor this summer for a physical. I've been feeling a little lethargic the past of couple of summers and I'm tired of being tired. Other than a calcium deficiency and a Vitamin D deficiency, all was well. However, my Doctor suggested I go for a sleep study to see if I have sleep apnea. A mild case was confirmed after spending two nights taking part in the sleep studies. So Monday, I went to pick up my brand new, state of the art CPAP machine. Difficult as it is to get used to sleeping with a mask over your nose every night, I have encountered another problem. The machine wreaks havoc with the MW dial. Noise and static galore! I have no idea what to do. Even using the radio on batteries offers no relief. Any ideas? I'm tired of listening to FM every night. Thanks, (KI4SYC, Bert New, Watkinsville, Georgia, Proudly Serving You Since 1964!, IRCA via DXLD) I feel your pain. My wife wears one on occasion and it is the worst noise maker in the history of the universe. There really is nothing you can do other than not wear it and your health is far more important than DX. To get around it, I have a netbook that I bring into the bedroom, put on headphones and listen to whatever station I want to hear that is on AM. I close the screen to prevent light from keeping us awake. Its about all you can do. DX before you get in bed, bring in the laptop and stream what you want to hear. I also have XM and listen to that often at night. Wish I could be of more help (Kevin Redding, TN, ibid.) Thanks. I was hoping someone might have a solution out there. It hasn't been very fun so far, but I guess I have the rest of my life to get used to it. However, there's a slight chance I could get off the thing, but that's a ways down the road (Bert New, Watkinsville, Georgia, Proudly Serving You Since 1964! Ibid.) CPAP = continuous positive air pressure. Seems the machines can cost close to a kilobuck, per a quick google (gh, DXLD) MW DX SWEET SPOT Re 10-33, OKLAHOMA, KALV 1430 into daytime Denver? The static or RFI is constant in that one spot. When I drive through the spot the static/RFI on the radio sounds just like when you are driving along utility/power poles and pass one that has a bad insulator and hear momentary static. The static in the spot is constant. If I stop my Jeep in the "sweet spot" I hear the static/RFI and can sometimes hear the other radio station. Sometimes the other station comes in quite well for a second or two while the local is blasted out (John ];') Kugellagers, Aug 14, mwdx yg via DXLD) Over the years I have noticed the same thing. I believe it is a partial Faraday cage effect where the signal is blocked by the electrical wires in one direction but not in another. What do others think? (Bill Harms, ibid.) And aside from the increased line noise problem, the wires serve as a super-beverage boosting weak signals from the favored direxion. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Think what you could get in such a sweet spot if they turned off the current! (gh) Maybe that is the case as the direction the wires point is in the general direction of the three possible "KA**" stations I mentioned in my earlier post. Here are the coordinates of the exact spot. Put them in Google Earth to see where the "sweet spot" and utility lines, etc. are. 39.749336 -105.219577 You can see the utility lines running along the road from the SW to the NE. The area is in a valley with two mesas to the east and the Rocky Mountains to the west. Anyway, it is all fun; no conclusive ID on the station yet but I'm sure I will eventually grab it (John ];') , MWDX yg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See U S A +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also AUSTRALIA; PORTUGAL; SPAIN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TWO WEBINAR SESSIONS ON DRM --- 22nd September 2010 Nautel's Digital Radio tutorial features industry experts focusing on need-to-know information for international broadcasters. Attendees will learn the benefits of Digital broadcasting and the basics of how these technologies can be implemented. Multiple bands such as FM, MW, LW will be addressed. Implications for your overall broadcasting facility will be discussed. Webinars are free to all participants and listeners can tune in using only an internet connection. You will have an opportunity pose questions to our expert presenters. Asia/Pacific DRM Tutorial, 07:00 - 08:00 AM UTC: The first webinar will be hosted by Hal Kneller, Market Development Manager at Nautel and will feature special guests Sharad Sadhu, Technical Director of the ABU; Ruxandra Obreja, Chair of the DRM Consortium and Lindsay Cornell, Chair of the DRM Technical Committee. They will be discussing the merits of digital radio (especially DRM and DRM+ solutions) and looking at some of the technical details and regulatory issues that apply to the Asia Pacific region. Europe/Middle East/Africa DRM Tutorial, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM UTC: The second webinar will be hosted by Hal Kneller once again and this time Ruxandra Obreja and Lindsay Cornell will focus the discussion on technical and regulatory issues that apply to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Station managers, government broadcasting representatives, broadcast engineers, and contract engineers are welcome to attend these webinars. To find out more, go to http://www.nautel.com/webinars/ (August DRM Newsletter via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE SOLAR ROTATION Geomagnetic field during the following solar rotation should be: active to disturbed: Aug 23, 31 unsettled to active: Aug 24, Sep 1, 5 quiet to unsettled: Aug 16, (19, 26 - 27,) Sep 6 - 7 quiet: Aug 13 - 15, (17,) 18, 20, (21 - 22, 25,) 28, (29 - 30,) Sep (2 - 4, 8) Survey: quiet: Aug 7 - 8, mostly quiet: Aug 6, 10 quiet to unsettled: Aug 9, 11 quiet to active: Aug 5 quiet to minor storm: - quiet to disturbed: - mostly unsettled: - unsettled to active: - unsettled to minor storm: - minor to major storm: - active to disturbed: Aug 4 disturbed: - Notices: Days in brackets refer to a lower probability of possible activity enhancements depending on previous development on the Sun. (F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interested Group e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz Aug 13 via WORLD OF RADIO 1527, DXLD) ###