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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1578 HEADLINES: *DX and station news about: Anguilla, Asia and non, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Congo DR, Equatorial Guinea non, France, Germany, Guinea, International Vacuum, Korea North non, Libya, Micronesia, Netherlands and non, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uganda, UK, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela and non, Zimbabwe non, unidentified SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1578, August 18-24, 2011 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast; jammed on 9955] Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 Thu 2130 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0330 WWRB 5051 [confirmed] Fri 0500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, no jamming] Fri 1430 WRMI 9955 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WRMI 9955 Sun 0400 WTWW 5755 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1530 WRMI 9955 Sun 1730 WRMI 9955 Mon 0300 WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [time varies later] Mon 1130 WRMI 9955 Mon 1530 WRMI 9955 Mon 2130 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 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 DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN. Ascoltato dalla spiaggia con tecsun pl660 e antenna degen de31ms. 6102, R. Afghanistan, Kabul, 1620-1630*, Aug 14, traditional songs with sporadic talk by female voice mentioning "Afghanistan", then again songs, final announcement with talk in local language and sign off, good. L'ho poi ricevuto anche oggi pomeriggio a casa con Kenwood e Wellbrook con segnale S9+10 (Leonardo Bolli, Italy? Aug 16, playdx yg via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. The previous Taliban station ”R. Voice of Shari’ah, Kabul” on 7085 ceased after U.S. bombing Oct 08, 2001 (Anker Petersen, Ed., DSWCI DX Window August 10 via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [and non]. Re Mike Barraclough's item in DXLD 11-31, I have the 1979 WRTH. It shows a foreign service with Russian at 1700- 1730 on 11820, half-hours of other languages (Arabic, English, German) also on 11820, and half-hours of Urdu, English, Pushto and Dari on 4775, both 100 kW. Transmitter locations are not identified, but the country listing has "stations" as "Kabul/Yakatut," I believe the latter in Uzbekistan (also in Alaska, but not very likely). This edition of the WRTH of course went to press at least a year before the Soviet invasion, but the government in Kabul at the time was a fave of Moscow -- their purported justification for the invasion was to "protect" the incumbent regime -- so it's conceivable that there was some provision of transmitter time (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., Aug 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chuck, See further discussion in 11-32. Thanks for the research. But no, Yakatut is referred to as a site next to or part of Kabul, in other new and old info. There certainly were relays from USSR for a while, but Yakatut was and is the in-country site. I think WRTH terminology with the slant also typically means the site next to a major city, not in some other country (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction. I'd checked the 1979 listings for the USSR and didn't find anything for Yakatut, but remembered the Russians weren't overly forthcoming with xmtr info, so not surprised at the absence (Chuck, Sent via BlackBerry, ibid.) Axually the Alaska town, just across the SW corner of Yukon, is spelt Yakutat. I haven`t been to it, but I once knew a guy from Yakutat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA [and non]. MEZ TDP Denge Mezopotamya 11530 kHz from Mykolaiev, Ukraine from Sept 3rd, is scheduled on new 7460 (registered formerly 7540) kHz from Sept 4th (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, Aug 8, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12 via DXLD) That next door registration selection hits Radio Tirana Shijak broadcasts on 7465 kHz at 1700-2000 UT heavily, so RT should probably find and replace to another channel for Sept/Oct 2011 months. 7465 1700-1730 27,28,37NE,38N,39N SHI 100 0 234567 ITALIAN ALB ALR 7465 1730-1800 27,28 SHI 100 300 234567 FRENCH ALB ALR 7465 1901-1930 27,28 SHI 100 310 234567 FRENCH ALB ALR 7465 1931-2000 27,28 SHI 100 310 234567 GERMAN ALB ALR (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 8, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12 via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 13625, Monday Aug 15 at 1430, R. Tirana still missing, one transmitter down all month (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 1232 kHz --- Hans-Friedrich Dumrese noticed during his trip in Namibia, that the Angolan nominally on 1233 kHz is on its old frequency: 1232 kHz. I checked John Plimmer's file from March 2010 and there is a clear carrier on 1231.98 kHz. Nothing visible now here in northern Europe, but Victor Goonetilleke's remote Perseus in Sri Lanka has a carrier on 1231.977 kHz. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland Via mwoffset group via Steve Whitt, Aug 16, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. RNA ANGOLA - Misterio no ar !!!!! Não acredito que ela esteja fora do ar, quase sempre noto a portadora dela em 4950 kHz no waterfall do SDR, porém muito fraca. Não escutamos a RNA por falta de propagação mesmo, ou talvez pela transmissão ser direcionada sòmente ao território angolano, com pouca potência. 73's!! (Thiago P. Machado, http://bsbdx.blogspot.com Aug 14, Brasília-DF, Brasil [GH54XC], radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. After missing about 3 weeks to replace curtain antenna wires, Caribbean Beacon is finally back with Dead Gene Scott, August 14 at 0442 on 6090, and also at 1236 on 11775, the latter atop DentroCuban pulse jamming, left way over from R. Martí in the evenings. 6090, Caribbean Beacon, gone again, August 16 at 0548 check; also gone again from 11775 at 1341. It had resumed on August 14 after about 3 weeks off for antenna work; I think I also heard it on Aug 15 but did not bother to log it, assuming it was back to stay. DGS really has nothing new to say, so why bother? This station does nothing whatsoever to promulgate Anguillan arts and culture, let alone those of the Caribbean in general. In fact, it never even IDs by that name. 6090, Aug 17 at 0510, C.B. still missing; also missing from 11775 at 1321 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And it was back again from Aug 18 ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, weekly update on LRA36: still nothing at 1327 August 12, nor chex at least once almost every morning. However, general propagation is often so poor, that I am not sure it could be detected now if it came back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, R. Nacional, General Pacheco, 2136-2154, 06/8, football; 44443, QRM de B. Best in LSB as the upper side had very strong splashes from a DRM signal on 6065 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. VOR via KALININGRAD (gh) RAE: 15344.035 at 2130 UT Aug 11 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, BC-DX Aug 12 via DXLD) How is the CCI from Morocco 15345v now during the RAE German hour? Can it ever be heard on ordinary receivers? Of course, close enough to Morocco there is a skip zone, but Germany should be beyond that (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15344.13, RAE, 2335-2356*, August 17, local ballads. Spanish talk. ID at 2345. IS at 2355. Weak but readable. // 6059.99 - weak, poor with adjacent channel splatter (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ASIA [and non]. Unidentified stations on 13m band Dear Wolfgang, On Aug 16 at 0535 UT on 21830 kHz I received some signal (S4-S5) of new station in Chinese. I couldn't find any info to identify it. Also on Aug 12 at 0436 on 21490 there was a station in Chinese. Do you have any information about these new stations? If so. please let me know. Thank you (Lev Lytovchenko, Western Canada, Aug 17, to and via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) New STRATEGY of US IBB BBG propaganda, to use frequency hopping on 13 mb, every day to use another channel, i.e. RFA Chinese til 0600 UT and Tibetan from 6-7 UT, to avoid Chinese jamming. Usual Tinian and UAE registered on 21500, 21550, 21580, 21690 kHz So, the Chinese jamming organisation uses there CNR programs to jam IBB RFA Chinese and Tibetan service, as always. Today Aug 17, Mandarin at 5-6 on 21580 and 21845 kHz via Tinian; and Chinese jamming. Tibetan 6-7 UT on 21475, 21645, 21680, 21690UAE, 21710, 21750, and 21775IM, latter I guess an intermodulation of 21645/21710 kHz channels. At 0640 UT check on 21475 poorer, 21645, 21680Intermodulation?, 21690UAE, 21710, 21775 Intermodulation?, 21835, 21845. 73 de wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency-hopping is exactly what I suggested several times here recently that IBB should employ rather than sit there and take the ChiCom jamming. So they took my advice. See 11-32, DX Mix News was reporting `new schedules` almost every day for RFA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. The new Chinese language station on 1638 recently reported in Brisbane is a 24/7 relay of Voice of Huaxia, CNR7, from China. The station was inaugurated early May (David Ricquish via MW- OZ, via Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K ABC-NTs (via Katherine), Aug. 6, 1330. Fair to good, but clobbered by nasty "bonker" station splashing over from 2483. Noted VL8A (Roe Creek) on 2310 and VL8T (Tennant) on 2325 also coming in with good signals. (Barton-AZ) 2485, Aug. 7, 1115. The "big three" ABC-NTs stations on this band no- shows today, probably conditions; but noted the "bonker" station on 2483 that hammered VL8 yesterday still bonk-bonk-bonking away 24 hours later. 2325, VL8T (Tennant Creek). noted //s 2485 (VL8K) a little better (via Katherine), 2310 poor (VL8A-Roe Creek). (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: Late Night Live --- ``It seems I'm not the only one who absolutely, positively must spend his morning with Late Night Live, and is disappointed to see it gone from RA's lineup on shortwave. It's still possible to hear Phillip Adams and his guests. Go to ABC's Radio National site, and listen live at the usual time, or get the audio from LNL's page. I get the podcast and listen as I go around town. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ `` I just got a reply from Roger Broadbent of Radio Australia. He said that they had "a number of enquiries" re: Late Night Live, and they will be bringing it back, at a different time. Starting August 15, it will air Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 1605 UT. I'll have to experiment to see if I can receive it at that time, or if I'll have to continue to listen via podcast, being one of Phillip Adams' "poddies" (Dan Malloy, KA1RDZ, Aug 11, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) Good news, and good to see Roger's name; he's been less visible in recent months at RA. LNL would also be available via live streaming (on both RA and RN) if you are near the Internet at that time. That time of day will likely be dicey in Eastern North America via SW but might still work out West. It may be possible later in the year as shorter days return (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, ibid.) Which is why RA is one of the best, if not the best, international broadcaster(s) out there. They are responsive to their listeners. It's truly a "two way street" they've built there P.S.: I'm one of Philip's "poddies", myself! I load each program into the iPod for my morning 4 mile walks. I should write Mr. Adams and tell him that his show is good for my health! Ha! (John Figliozzi, ibid.) ** BOLIVIA. 4865, 0429, Radio Logos suspected the source of a relay of “Radio HCJB International” heard here with Spanish religious programs 15/7 at good level past 0815 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.39, R. Pio Doce, *1031-1058 Aug 12. Popped on in mid- program at 1031:20; an announcement about an event "este viernes" was followed by more announcements or local news items, with man and woman alternating; several phone calls were taken. Fair signal at tune-in but losing steam and bothered by *1058 of CRI on 5955. Noted several times this week coming on right around 1030 UT (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) When logging and reporting this one, be careful with your Roman numerals; more than once I have seen them upmixed. Pio Doce means Pius XII, and the location is Siglo XX, which means Twentieth Century; yes, a strange name for a town, especially now (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. BOLÍVIA, 6134.8, R. Santa Cruz, St.ª Cruz de la Sierra, 2155-2216, 06/8, Castilian, religious songs, advertisements, warnings on forest fires, ID + frequency announcement at 2205, then the lengthy full version of their national anthem and comments thereon; 34443, adj. QRM (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SDR-COM: getting the ID of Radio Santa Cruz/Video Hi - I recorded the complete 49 m broadcast band for 12 hours to tune into the "sweet spot" of some identifications of more or less rare broadcasting stations. The video shows one example, how the player of SDR-COM software can be easily used to be at the right time at the right place: * went to 6135 kHz * from top of the hour, I switched in steps of one hour to listen when there Radio Santa Cruz can be heard (due to off-channel frequency, some fine tuning of the signal (-200 Hz, LSB, because otherwise the synchro detector sometime locks to a stronger station right on the nominal channel) * when the signal and signal/interference ratio is best, I do shuttle in shorter steps, e.g. 10 s or so to spot the identification Just drop a view on YouTube to see how it is working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92KW0VmxaGc -- 73, (Nils DK8OK Schiffhauer, Germany, Excalibur, SDR-IP/GPS, Perseus, 2 x 20 m active quad loop (90 ), 42 m windom, DX-One prof, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.80, 2325-2335 12.08, R. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Spanish ID: "Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra en Bolivia", conversation, another ID and romantic songs, 34333, heterodyne (Anker Petersen, heard in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 6134.79, Radio Santa Cruz, 0055-0108*, August 17, Spanish ballads. Spanish announcements. Closing announcements at 0105. Sign off with Santa Cruz song at 0106. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 4845, 0458, Rádio Meteorologia Paulista, Ibitinga gave good reception 14/7 & 15/7 despite WWCR 4840 splatter. Gives full ID of the Jovem Pan network from São Paulo at this time. Thanks to Rocco Cotroneo in Rio de Janeiro for confirming the identity (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) Is it 24 hours? Not to be confused with: ** BRAZIL. 4845.2, R. Cultura, Manaus AM, 2233-2248, 02/8, news bulletin, songs; 44433, CODAR QRM. The conditions improved towards the 9th, and this station was found daily with very strong signals. 4877.2, R. Dif.ª de Roraima, or simply R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2235- 2249, 03/8, station slogan "Rádio Roraima - mais perto de você!", advertisements, songs; 45343. 4885, R. Club do Pará, Belém PA, 2137-2158, 05/8, sports program Cartaz Desportivo till 2152, advertisements; 55433. I could detect a tiny signal underneath that I disregarded as it was not disturbing: R. Difusora Acreana perhaps. 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2120-2138, 06/8, program Com a Mãe Aparecida, sermon from the sanctuary of the same name; 45332, weak modulation. I suspect it's either the audio feed that experiences this problem or then every transmitter (5035, 6135, 9629.9 [the poorest case], 11855) is deliberately on low modulation level. 5035, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2208-2228, 09/8, mass, songs; 25321. I could easily separate their signal from the undermodulated signal from co-channel R. Aparecida: the former via the CeAm Beverage, the latter via the SAm Beverage, but bet this trick wouldn't work should Aparecida be in normal modulation level. [How many degrees apart are those two antenna lobes? gh, DXLD] 5045, R. Cultura do Pará, Belém PA, or R. Guarujá Paulista? (*), 2140- 2210, 09/8, talks, phone-ins, A Voz do Brasil at 2200; 13331, utility QRM; better signal at 2200, but unable to identify this one. In Radioescutas, I was told this is actually R. Guarujá via their 500 watt transmitter until the main unit is put to service (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Guaruja 5045 khz chegando no Rio --- sinal regular apesar de mais fraco do que aparecida 5035 khz. Transmissão futebol em rede. Bairro do suburbio do Rio sangean 909x. Acredito que o transmissor esteja ainda com 250 watts (Sarmento Campos, 14 August, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Caros, A Guarujá voltou! A ouvi hoje à tarde, em um parque de Goiânia, livre de QRN: 2036 14/08, 5045, BRASIL, R. Guarujá, transmissão do jogo entre Corinthians e Ceará, pelo campeonato Brasileiro, em rede com a Jovem Pan AM, chiado, fading, 25432; 73's (Arthur Antonio Raimundo, Goiânia GO Brasil, ibid.) R Guaruja Paulista - SP - 5045 kHz - 250 watts --- Segue gravação da captação da R Guaruja hoje a tarde em um bairro no suburbio do Rio: Utilizei um radioportátil Sangean ATS909x e um fio de 7 metros. 73s (Sarmento Campos, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 5990, R Senado, Brasília, DF, verified an electronic report (used radio @ senado.gov.br and ondacurtas @ senado.gov.br ) with a full data Portuguese/English “Satellite Dish” card in 25 days, a nice personal letter and “Catedral Metropolitana” souvenir card (Rich D’Angelo, PA, DSWCI DX Window Aug 10 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010.00, Radio Inconfidência, 0135-0200, August 17, local ballads. Portuguese talk. Weak. Poor with QRM from a tentative LV de Tu Conciencia on 6009.85v. Very weak // 15189.98. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 9586.69, Super Rádio Deus é Amor, 0324-0335, August 11, usual Portuguese preacher. Weak but readable. Stronger on // 11764.92 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 9565.26, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2114-2129, 03/8, healing testimonials, sentence translation into Castilian; 44433, QRM de R. Martí, USA. 9565.26, ditto, 0930-1055, 05/8, music, rlgs. propag. prgr often shouting David Miranda's name; 24431, QRM until 1000. 9586.7, SRDA, São Paulo SP, 2116-2132, 03/8, cf. \\ 9565.26 via Curitiba PR; 34432, splatter de GABON on 9580. 9629.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2137-2153, 02/8, rlgs. propag., ballads; 44433, but extremely weak modulation. 9645.4, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, 2202-2213, 02/8, ads, chatter on foot/ball; 43442, adjacent QRM de CRI in Castilian on 9640. 9665.1, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2120-2143, 05/8, rlgs. propag. Prgr Eu Creio em Milagres, then newsreel Radiofactos at 2131; 45433. No trace of them on \\ 5940v. 9819.9, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2134-2153, 03/8, news, weather report at 2140, commentary; 43442, QRM de CHINA on 9820 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Congrats: all these 31m Brazilians 0.1+ kHz off frequency - gh] 15190, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2145-2204, 04/8, news from "Inconfidência - Notícias, edição especial!", traffic information, economic report, weather report, A Voz do Brasil at 2200. Family R, USA, usually puts a strong signal over here, but the situation is normally overcome with the SoAm Beverage. 15190 ditto, 1359-1521, 05/8, talks about football,..., weather report at 1513, announcements from "Serviço Nacional de Emprego" advertising vacancies available for a wide array of jobs; 25443 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Plus many other Braz. logs in CG`s full report in the dxldyg (gh) 15190, 2332, Rádio Inconfidência, man announcer in Portuguese with soccer match coverage, quick ads and IDs. Generally Poor but fair on peaks. 2357 – 27/7 (Richard d’Angelo, Wyomissing PA, Ten-Tec RX-340, Eton E2, Drake R-8B, Lowe HF 150, Eton E5, Alpha/Delta DX sloper RF systems Mini Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) Where was WYFR? (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. 1140, CBI, NS, Sydney – The CBC has put their CP to move to 94.1 MHz on the back burner (if not cancelled altogether). For now, CBI remains on 1140 with U2 10000/1000 (Bill Hale, AM Switch, NRC DX News Aug 15 via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** CANADA. It turns out that Cogeco and Quebec's provincial transport ministry aren't the only parties interested in returning two of CANADA's handful of AM clear channels to the air. As NERW readers know, Cogeco and the transport ministry were poised to put the former CINF (690) and CINW (940) back on the air to serve as French- and English-language all-traffic signals to assist drivers navigating through Montreal construction traffic. But while the ministry announced the impending launch of the stations as a fait accompli in a press release earlier this summer, the regulatory reality was a bit more complex: while Cogeco had acquired the former CINF/CINW transmitter facility in Kahnawake as part of its purchase of Corus' Quebec operations, the licenses for the two 50,000- watt AM signals had been surrendered to the CRTC back in 2009. And while Cogeco had hoped to restore the licenses quickly and quietly through a "non-appearance proceeding" at the CRTC, other broadcasters intervened - and that means those two AM channels now go up as part of a call for competing applications, which are due August 29 (Scott Fybush, Northeast [sic] Radio Watch Aug 8 via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) The CRTC has asked for applications to fill the frequencies of 690 and 940 kHz, vacated in Montreal. When received, the potential applicants will be judged on several factors including: programming proposals; their business plan; Canadian content; contributions to Canadian content development; and, where applicable, the percentage of French-language vocal music. The initial plan to make these frequencies All-Traffic stations was withdrawn due to opposition from the public and interventions filed by several broadcasters citing that the frequencies could be put to better use (AM Switch, NRC DX News Aug 15 via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. CFAC heard in south Wyo --- hey All, Heard CFAC 960 out of Alberta on 08/15/11 and around 4:oo am local (about 0959 UT) with a good signal down here into south Wyoming! I`ve already logged this one (some time ago) but nice to hear them anyway! Good DX to all, Robbie in Wyoming, Aug 16, IRCA via DXLD) He won`t say exactly where he is in southern Wyoming, but number 82901 is in his e-mail address, = zip code for Rock Springs (gh) Years ago, I could only get CFAC [Calgary AB] after KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa signed off at Midnight local time. Now it seems like CFAC is in most evenings at a decent strength under KMA. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) CFAC was heard here this morning in Eastern PA at 0600 EDT with a legal ID at ToH and ESPN sports. I also got 850-KOA at 0405 EDT with a local weather forecast and "Newsradio 8-50 KOA" IDs. Tried for KSL on 1160 but only heard a mix with WYLL dominant. The above stations were heard in the Allentown, PA area using a 2002 Toyota Car radio and a whip antenna. 73, (Chris Knight (N0IJK), Whitehall, PA, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) CFAC is sometimes heard here in Oklahoma in the fall and winter, despite KGWA being only 26 miles (42 km) away (Richard Allen, 36?22'51"N / 97?26'35"W, (near Perry OK USA), ibid.) its direxional lobe is more toward OKC (gh, Enid) Hmm; CFAC into eastern PA in August --- simply more evidence that these guys are running 50 kW ND. I don't believe they've used proper night pattern for several+ years. 73 KAZ Barrington IL where these guys are a pest on antennas oriented that way (Neil Kazaross, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) CFAC has been running 50 kW ND for years. They're a pest into NE CO even against 950-KKFN's IBOC. CFAC is not as strong into eastern PA though. :) 73, (Chris (N0IJK/3), Whitehall, Lehigh County, PA, ibid.) ** CANADA. BIRTHS & DEATHS Saturday August 13, 2011 AUGUST 3, 1913 - AUGUST 8, 2011 'This is Lamont Tilden, speaking' That voice, speaking the line that ended thousands of CBC radio newscasts, arts and entertainment programmes, and live broadcasts of state events on both radio and television for 40 years has been stilled. Neil Lamont Tilden, known affectionately as Monty Tilden, died this week in Toronto having just passed his ninety-eighth birthday. Lamont Tilden was a presenter for the CBC from the late-1930s to the mid 1970s. He was the longest-living CBC broadcaster from an era when formality and precision in language and personal presentation was the hallmark of the public broadcaster. . . http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20110813.93271984/BDAStory/ (obit via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) "Longevity runs in the family as Lamont celebrated his brother Bill's 100th birthday on February 28, 2009. Sadly, not a lot written about his death. But I did find a 40 minute television special done live on CBC TV on the day of the death of John F. Kennedy, which was hosted by Lamont Tilden: http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/clips/16070/ Interesting to see him on TV, as he was famous for his work on radio." (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. CHCH TV Hamilton ON to go DTV --- CHCH 'Canada's Superstation' will move to DTV on RF ch. 11 the morning of Aug 15th. http://chch.com/index.php/digitaltv During this time the transistional ch. 18 transmitter will be shut down. The new ch. 11 signal is only 6000 Watts so good luck! CTV moves from ch. 40 to 9 on Aug. 31/Sept.1. Should be a fascinating week! TVO cuts to DTV on the morns of Aug. 16th & 18 http://www.gopublic.org/?page_id=914 Another article on Canadian DTV – REBIRTH OF TELEVISION http://business.financialpost.com/2011/08/13/rebirth-of-television/ (Andy Reid, Ont., Aug 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Do you know the power of the Toronto digital TVO transmitter when they switch? (Andy K3UK O`Brien, Fredonia NY, ibid.) 106500 kW. CBC on RF 20 will also increase power to 106900 kW at the end of the month when ch. 5 closes [I hope I will then get them here - both] (Andy Reid, ibid.) Time to get my UHF antenna out again. I am about 90 miles away but with mostly a lake path. CBC and TVO in HD would be nice! (Andy O`Brien, ibid.) CHCH-DT 11.1 on now --- Analogue CHCH-11 just switched to DTV. Around 10:29 AM according to my autolog. Wonder if this is permanent? (William R Hepburn (VEM3ONT22), Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.5 -79 33 34.3, 1437 UT Aug 15, WTFDA via DXLD) RF 18 is off. Analogue 18 Peterborough now in the clear (Hepburn, 1442 UT, ibid.) WCFE/CKMI ---- A few local notes: WCFE-38 Plattsburgh NY has been off the air for about 24 hours now. Website indicates that transmitter was hit by lightning atop unfriendly Lyon Mountain. CKMI-DT channel 20 is on the air in Quebec City. Flashcut from analog. CKMI1-46 analog in Montreal has been off the air since yesterday. This should indicate that they will switch to digital in a short time on 15. 73, (Charles Gauthier, Brossard, QC, 1838 UT Aug 15, ibid.) CIII-DT-6 on air in Ottawa Flashcut this morning for CIII-DT-6 in Ottawa ON with apparently 3.3 KW. Loads of people in the region are already complaining that they are not getting it at all or that they are unable to decode it. But then many of these same people are using UHF bow-tie antennas! In any case, there's a new DTV E-skip target for you. Good luck! 73, (Charles Gauthier, Brossard, QC, 1903 UT Aug 15, ibid.) CANADA's low-profile digital TV transition is coming in just a couple of weeks, but several prominent stations aren't waiting until the August 31 drop-dead date to shut down their analog transmitters. Public broadcaster TVO will shut down its analog signals in London, Kitchener, Ottawa and Thunder Bay tomorrow, followed Thursday by its analog transmitters in Toronto, Belleville, Chatham-Kent, Cloyne and Windsor. All those transmitters will be flash-cut to digital, as will the Hamilton transmitter of independent CHCH (Channel 11), which makes the flip this morning (Scott Fybush, Northeast Radio [sic] Watch August 15 via DXLD) ON DTV flashcuts tonight --- CICO28-28 Kitchener, ON and CICO18-18 London, ON analogues supposed to go dark at 1 AM tonight. Back on by 6 AM in digital (before the parent CICA-19 does!). wrh (Bill Hepburn, Grimsby Ont, 0110 UT 16 August, WTFDA via DXLD) CICO-DT-28 Kitchener already on the air! The flashcut just happened. Amazing how clean 27 & 29 are now when pointed at 28 wrh (Hepburn, 0418 UT 16 Aug, ibid.) CFTM-DT-10/CFCF-DT-12 on air It was only an overnight test after all for these two. They're back in analog today. Flashcut date is still September 1st. That test was great though because I could experiment with the reception of adjacent channels. Reception of WVNY-13 improved quite a bit, from 60% to 72% on my Bravia. CKMI-11 also improved from 50% and being marginal to a steady 66%. Looks promising. Other note: CICO-DT-24 Ottawa ON is also on the air as of this morning. 73, (Charles Gauthier, Brossard, QC, Aug 16, WTFDA via DXLD) ** CANADA. CRTC ALLOWS CBC TO CONTINUE BROADCASTING ANALOG TELEVISION SIGNALS IN 22 MARKETS UNTIL AUGUST 2012 OTTAWA-GATINEAU, August 16, 2011 ? Today, the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) gave the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) permission to continue broadcasting analog over-the-air television signals in 22 markets until August 31, 2012. This decision gives the CBC an additional year to find solutions for viewers who may lose access to its over-the-air signals after the transition to digital television. More at: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2011/r110816.htm (via Saul Chernos, Ont., Aug 16, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** CHAD. CHADE, 6165, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, Gredia, 1548-1615, 05/8, vernacular, talks, drum beat at 1600, more talks; 25342. Good signal at 1930 when broad/casting in French. 6165 ditto, 2207-2226, 05/8, French, newscast followed by African pops; 54433, adjacent QRM. Overmodulated during the news bulletin (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165, RNT, N'Djamena, 2144-2232* French; M announcer with talk and hi- life music; (Presumed) drums and ID at ToH into news; indigenous music at 2215; announcer with s/off over music at 2230 followed by NA; p-f at best; 8/7 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL- 1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) 6165, RNT, *0428-0433, August 17, sign on with Balafon IS. National Anthem at 0430. Fair signal at sign on but covered by Radio Japan 6165 at their 0429 sign on (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CHILE. 6145, 0935, Radio Japan NHK via Santiago 9/6 with news in Portuguese, bad hum on transmitter and faulty modulation (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4450 [sic], Voice of Pujiang, Aug. 7, 1210. Soprano vocal, moderate CODAR QRM (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Either you meant 4950, or on 4450 you had one or both sides of the N and S Korean radio war (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 15330, CNR1, 1312. Mandarin program, presumed used to jam an unknown target. Using regular CNR1 audio and not the echo jamming audio. Only known station this time and frequency would be BBC’s Uzbek program but no idea why they would jam that. Strong. 8/1/11 (S. Handler, IL, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) As we pointed out long ago, it`s because Uzbek is spoken, or at least understood by speakers of closely-related Turkic languages, such as Uighur, in western China (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 10300, Firedrake jammer on July 28, 1000. //s 12600, 14700. 10300, Firedragon music jammer. Aug. 7, 1100. Only fair, and only one noted in quick bandsweep. 16100, Firedragon/Firedrake music jammer, Aug. 15, 0510, with Sound of Hope via Taiwan being probable jamming target. Very strong here. 16500, Firedrake music jammer. Aug. 15, 0625. Good. no target station heard underneath. 11500, Firedrake music, Aug. 15, 1230. Fair to good signal. Noted //s on 10300 (powerhouse), 14700 (good), 7970 (VG), 12980 (VG). 12025 also Very Good. 12270, Firedrake music station, Aug. 16, 1030. Very strong, only one audible here this listening session. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Are you drawing some distinxion between `Firedrake` and `Firedragon`?? Firedrake August 10, 2011: 10300, Weak 1037, Fair 1118 and 1143 11500, Fair-Good 1118, Good at 1146 August 11, 2011: 10300, Fair-weak 1151, Weak 1244 11500, Fair 1151, Fair-Good 1219, Fair 1245 12980, Good 1247 13920, Strong 1154, 1220 and 1248 13970, Strong 1154, 1220 and 1249 14950, Strong 1157 also strong + at 1221 one of the strongest Firedrake signals ever. Strong at 1250. 15445, Weak 1222 and 1251 15670, Fair 1151. At 1200 Firedrake xmtr switched to audio from CNR-1 with no Firedrake, CNR-1 only still at 1222 16980, Fair 1223 and 1252 (S. Handler, IL, Aug 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 11: 12025, very poor at 1329 under CNR1 jammer 12980, very good at 1329, 1338, 1349; none in the 11`s or 10`s 13920, poor at 1327, 1345 13970, fair at 1327, 1345 14950, good at 1327; very good at 1345 15285, fair at 1324 15525, fair at 1344 16980, very good at 1324, 1338 17300, very poor at 1338 // 12980; nothing in Aoki Aug 12; vs SOH? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) August 12, 2011: 10300, Weak 1237 11500, Fair-Good 1238 12500, Fair-Good 1240 12980, Fair 1240 13920, Strong 1241 13970, Strong 1241 14700, Strong Carrier with very suppressed or undermodulated audio neither language of which or sex of the person talking could be determined, 1242 14950, Strong 1242 and 1437. At 1437 this frequency was the only one on which I heard Firedrake. 14950, Strong 15545, Weak 1245 16980, JBA 1246 (S. Handler, IL, Aug 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 12, before 1300, on internal antenna due to thunder: 7970, poor at 1227. Last log of this one was June 21 at 1244 10300, good at 1228 // 7970 11500, very poor at 1225, I think, with open carrier mix? 12500, fair at 1225: this is an ``outlier`` as S. Handler calls them, NOT // the others but about 2 sex ahead of 10300, etc. 12980, poor at 1225 13920, poor at 1230 // 12500, these two being `outliers` After 1300, back on external antenna: 11500, only S9+22 open carrier at 1319 11775, very poor at 1317, beneath CNR1 and noise jamming mix; still no Anguilla 12025, poor at 1320 over CNR1 jammer, unusually; none in 13`s, 14`s 15280, poor at 1325 15425, good at 1325 // 15280; none higher up to 19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Band conditions have been highly varied depending on the day. Today, August 13 conditions to the Far East were excellent - August 13, 2011: 10300, Fair 1137 and Weak 1221, nothing heard lower at either time 11500, Good 1138 12270, Good 1139, Good-Strong at 1222 12500, Good 1140, nothing heard 1222 12980, Fair 1140, Good-strong at 1223 13130, JBA 1140 and Strong 1223 (Due to drastic increase in signal strength I assume they changed transmitter site, or power or antenna or a combination thereof. 13830, Fair-good 1141, strong at 1223 both times with CNR-1 in Mandarin underneath. 13870, JBA 1226 with unid swbc station underneath but too poor of a signal for any details 13920, Good-strong 1142 and strong 1226 13970, Strong 1226 14700, Good 1143 and strong 1227 14950, Fair 1143 and Good 1227 15545, Weak-Fair 1228 15670, Fair at 1144 and at 1228 Firedrake was gone and replaced by CNR-1 in Mandarin. On many days, Firedrakes transmitter changes audio at 1200 from the Firedrake broadcast to CNR-1. 15900, Fair 1145 and Good 1228 16100, Weak 1145 nothing heard higher at 1145 and Good 1228 16980, Fair 1229, nothing heard higher at 1229. (S. Handler, IL, Aug 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 13, before 1300: 7970, very poor at 1245 10300, very good at 1253 12270, very good at 1255 12980, very good at 1255 13130, very good at 1256 13830, good at 1256 13920, very good at 1255 13970, very good at 1255 14700, very good at 1256 14950, good at 1256 15545, fair at 1257 15900, very good at 1257 16100, good at 1257 16980, very good at 1257 That makes 14 at once, assuming the lowest one was still on when I got to the highest one; and they all go off at 1300 for a few minute break Before 1400: 16980, fair with flutter at 1338 16100, good at 1338 15900, good at 1338 15280, poor at 1341 vs het on 15278 14950, very good at 1342 14700, very good at 1342 13970, good at 1342 13920, very good at 1342 13830, fair at 1342 13130, very good at 1343 12025, poor at 1341 under CNR1 jammer, // 13130 10300, fair at 1345 After 1400: 17560, fair at 1412 over V. of Tibet via Madagascar 15790, good at 1419 // 17560 15285, poor at 1416 with het on hi side 14700, good at 1420; none in the 13`s, 12`s, 11`s 10300, poor at 1423 Also had CNR1 with echo on 15180 at 1415 // 11990, 12040, vs what? Not in Aoki, nor anything listed at this time to account for it. However, EiBi does have CNR1 jammer on 15180 at 14-15, but also without any target known. Nothing in HFCC either. When any log of your programming is first assumed to be a jammer, as the odds dictate, you should know you have a P.R. problem, not only public relations but ``People`s Republic`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, Firedrake (music jamming), 0959, August 12. Rather strange use of FD; was listening to Wai FM with decent reception till China carrier on about 0959; heard FD for only about 45 seconds; was used as filler till ToH when the normal CNR1 echo jamming started vs. RTI. http://www.box.net/shared/spkggjxev7vf5jog1ao4 has MP3 audio (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Here are the Firedrake logs for today August 14, 2011: 10300, Good 1124, Fair 1139 11500, Good 1137, Good 1215, 1259 Fair s/off at 1300 12270, Strong 1217 and Good 1259 12500, Good 1122, 1138 Strong 12980, Fair 1120 Fair and 1137 Good 13130, Weak 1121, Good 1139, 1218 Good, Fair 1258 13970, Fair 1131, 1140, Good 1219 and 1257 14700, Weak 1131 and 1140 and Good 1257 15970, Weak 1133 and 1140 and Strong 1220 and Good 1256 16100, Fair 1220 and Good 1255 16980, Fair 1255 Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 14, before 1300: 16100, very poor at 1230 15970, poor at 1228 14700, JBA at 1231 13970, JBA at 1233 13130, fair at 1231 12270, good at 1233 11500, fair at 1235 10300, very good at 1238 Before 1330: 12270, good at 1325 13130, fair at 1325; none in the 14s, 11s 15425, poor at 1326 15970, fair at 1326 16100, poor at 1326 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FLAMING GOOSE REPORT Crash & Bang Chinese Opera Music Jammer, aka Firedrake, From 2011 posted logs (various sources). All broadcasts originate from East Jammerstan. Transmissions will typically change frequency and time often, as the jammer's target moves. (t) means tentative * Not reported on this frequency during 2010. 6030 13 7355* 18 7415* 17 7445* 17 7970* 06, 09, 11, 12, 13, 17 7990* 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 8400 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 23 9170* 12 9350 13 9355 13, 14, 17, 18, 19 9365 13 9380 13 9450 15 9455* 17, 19 9540 17 9905 17, 19 9910* 13 9920* 13 10300 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 23 10965* 09, 10, 12, 13 10970* 01, 12, 13 11545* 12 11500 01, 04, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 11540 13 11590 13 11595* 14 11750 16 11870* 17 11940* 17 11945 19 11950* 08 11980* 12 11990* 13 12025* 13 12175* 12 12180* 11, 12, 13 12240* 04, 05, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 12270* 10, 11, 12, 13 12500* 11, 12 12600 11, 12, 13 12900* 06, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 12980 11, 12, 13, 23 13060 12 13100 12 13130* 01, 11, 12, 13 13500 03, 12, 13 13600* 13 13625 13 13700* 13 13795* 13 13800* 01, 10, 12, 17 13830 11, 12, 13 13850* 04(t), 11, 12, 13, 14 13900* 13 13920* 00, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 13960* 23 13970 01, 03, 12, 13, 14 13980* 12, 13 14400 03, 04, 11, 12, 13, 14 14700 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 14720* 01, 03, 04, 11, 12, 13, 14 14900 00, 03, 09, 11, 12, 13 14950* 11, 12, 13, 14, 23 14970 11, 12, 13, 14 15230* 13 15260* 14 15265 13 15275* 13, 14 15280* 13, 14 15285 13, 14 15290* 13 15295* 13 15375* 13 15425* 13 15430 13 15445* 11, 12 15515 13 15520 13 15525* 13 15530 14 15535* 13 15540 12, 13 15545 12, 13 15550 12, 13 15555 12, 13 15560 13 15565* 13 15570 13 15670 11, 12, 13 15700* 14 15745* 12 15760 13, 14 15770* 14 15795 12 15780* 14 15785* 12 15790* 13, 14 15795 13 15800* 11, 12 15900 00, 01, 03, 06, 08, 09, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23 15970 05, 09, 12, 13, 14, 16 16100 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11, 12, 13 16160* 12 16480* 12 16500* 07 16970 01 16980* 00, 03, 05, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 17170* 01, 03, 06, 12, 13, 23 17560 14 17575* 14 17735* 04 17705* 13(t) 18180* 12, 13 --Updated 15-August-11 (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 15, before 1300, generally poor conditions: 10300, very good at 1237 12980, good at 1241 13920, fair at 1243 14700, very poor at 1243; none higher After 1330: 15280, poor at 1341; none higher up to 19 MHz 14950, good at 1342 13920, fair at 1342 12270, good at 1342 12025, very poor at 1342 under CNR1 jammer; none lower Before 1430: 15720, very poor at 1424. Nothing in Aoki, EiBi or HFCC to account for this, so probably Sound of Hope or maybe Voice of Tibet landed here 15280, fair at 1427, also with grind jammer; no others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Had to stop listening earlier than usual today but here is what I have (note the use of 16500. Today is the first time I have heard that frequency in use although it has been reported by others during A11. Firedrake August 16, 2011 10300, Weak 1219 12980, Fair 1220 13920, Strong 1221 14950, Strong 1222 15670, 1147 Fair and nothing lower or higher at this time [mix CNR1??] 16100, Weak 1223 16500, Weak 1223 Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake August 16, just before 1300, quick scan; all with flutter, much heavier than usual: 10300, fair at 1257 12980, poor at 1257 13920, fair at 1257 14950, good at 1258; none higher After 1300, not a complete scan, but noted: 15290, fair at 1312 After 1330: 15280, good at 1344, also with grind jamming; ex 15290 previous check 15525, very poor at 1345; no others 10-18 MHz Firedrake, Aug 17, quick scan before 1300: 10300, good at 1256 12500, good at 1256 12980, good at 1256 13920, good at 1257 13970, good at 1257 14700, good at 1258 15545, poor at 1258 16100, fair at 1259 16980, poor at 1259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 9570, CUBA, Easy FM/China Radio International. 1304 August 13, 2011. Airing "China Drive on Easy FM's weekend edition" (listed as 95.8 MHz in Beijing, and other channels across one time zone ChiComLand when Googled) with English man and woman reading light news items and patter, a couple of sentences in Chinese a couple of times. Not sure if this is a regular segment via CRI, but a bit different. Perfectly parallel 9650 (presumed Sackville) almost as good, so I guess RCI and RHC are capturing the satellite feed. Recheck at 1355, just CRI's closing announcements. Per Wiki: "Easy FM is a radio station in Beijing, China on 91.5 FM and Shanghai, China on 87.9 FM. It is a member of the China Radio International group of radio stations. The programs are mostly in English (some of them being bilingual), while the commercials are in Mandarin Chinese. Internet streaming is available." So, maybe the very short Chinese speak I heard were government-sanctioned quasi- commercials? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Curioso brinde: RCI --- Amigos, Recebo periodicamente o fanzine do serviço de língua portuguesa da Rádio China Internacional. No entanto, recebi hoje pela primeira vez uma publicação do serviço em espanhol, chamada "Donde florece la amistad" com 8 páginas em formato de jornal. Incluíram também um postal "56-24" "Sa-la-zú", "Salar ethnic minority group" e o que mais me impressionou: mandaram também uma lembrança delicada e artesanal em papel de finíssima gramatura (papel de arroz, seda, japonês ou algo semelhante). Trata-se de um recorte artístico, os chamados "Jian Zhi". Mais sobre esse tipo de arte aqui: http://www.minhachina.com/cultura/arteJianZhi.htm Infelizmente estou sem scanner, mas assim que possível disponibilizarei imagens dos últimos QSLs e brindes recebidos das emissoras. 73, (Rodrigo de Araujo, SWARL PY4004SWL, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 16 Aug, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Olá amigo. Também recebi hoje a mesma carta que você do serviço em espanhol da CRI, mas sem o postal. Só recebi o jornalzinho e um belo papel recortado (retratando um porco). 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso, Bandeirantes - PR, ibid.) ** COLOMBIA. BERNARDO TOBÓN DE LA ROCHE, COFUNDADOR DE TODELAR, MURIÓ EN CALI A SUS 92 AÑOS El cofundador de la cadena radial Todelar de Colombia era propietario de 35 emisoras en todo el país. Sus exequias se llevarán a cabo en Cali este martes en la tarde --- Por: Elpais.com.co Bernardo Tobón de la Roche, cofundador de la cadena radial Todelar, falleció en la madrugada del pasado lunes a los 92 años de edad, en una clínica de Cali. Había nacido el 19 de abril de 1919, en Rionegro, Antioquia, y fue una de las figuras claves en la historia de la radio colombiana. En 1953 creó la emisora La Voz de Cali y dio el primer paso hacia la consolidación de Todelar, sigla que se refiere a sus apellidos, pero también a su filosofía periodística: “Todo en la radio”. En años posteriores adquirió emisoras en varias regiones de Colombia. Todelar llegó a estar conformada por 70 estaciones radiales. Actualmente, Todelar cuenta con 31 emisoras en todo el territorio nacional. Bernardo Tobón de la Roche ejerció la Presidencia de Todelar desde que la fundó junto a su hermano Jaime, fallecido en 2009, y sólo abandonó sus funciones en febrero de este año. “Hasta que ya se vio muy agotado mental y físicamente, trató de estar atento a todo lo que ocurría en Todelar. Sólo se retiró cuando el médico le recomendó reposo total”, cuenta Héctor Navarro Calvo, administrador de Todelar Cali. “Con la muerte de Bernardo Tobón de la Roche se cierra un capítulo muy importante en la historia de la radio colombiana”, sostiene el periodista Mario Fernando Prado. “Fue un precursor de las cadenas radiales y mantuvo a Todelar a la vanguardia de la sintonía durante muchos años, a pesar de tener a competidores tan fuertes como RCN y Caracol”, añade Prado. De acuerdo con el periodista Óscar Rentería Jimenez, “hoy en día hay empresas radiales más poderosas, pero en la memoria de los colombianos Todelar fue la pionera”. Para Rentería, el carácter visionario de esta cadena radial se debe, precisamente, a que Tobón siempre estuvo dispuesto a “constituirse en una figura trascendental para las comunicaciones en Colombia”. Según Navarro, “Bernardo Tobón de la Roche decía que había formado a Todelar a punta de sacrificio. Nunca gastaba más de lo que ganaba y nunca le negaba nada a la parte técnica”. “Vivía dedicado a su empresa las 24 horas del día. Cuando oía una emisora que sonaba mal, llamaba inmediatamente a reportar el daño, sin importar la hora que fuera. Tenía un oído bastante particular para escuchar la radio. Detectaba cosas que muchos otros no podían notar”, agrega Navarro. El periodista Mario Alfonso Escobar constata la regurosidad de Tobón por el aspecto técnico: “Él era un enfermo del sonido. Quería que todas las emisoras de Todelar sonaran de manera excelente”, asevera Escobar. Para este periodista, más conocido como el ‘doctor Mao’, el fundador de Todelar fue “el más importante radiodifusor del país”, porque especializó las emisoras de acuerdo a los géneros musicales. Además logró que “las personas más destacadas de la radio pasarán por Todelar”. Según el periodista Jairo Aristizábal Ossa, Tobón siempre concibió Todelar como “la universidad de la radiodifusión en Colombia”. “Todos los que trabajamos en radio hemos tenido que ver con Todelar y con don Bernardo Tobón de la Roche”, opina Aristizabal. En Todelar laboraron personalidades de los medios como Yamid Amat, Hernán Peláez, William Vinasco, Iván Mejía y Édgar Artunduaga. Gracias a este afán de rodearse de talentos, la cadena radial marcó la vida de toda una generación con programas, como el Noticiero Todelar de Colombia; radionovelas como Kalimán, El Derecho de Nacer y Las Aventuras de Chang Li Po; programas de humor político como Contrapunto, y de opinión, como La Huella de los Hechos. Además, “Bernardo Tobón de la Roche internacionalizó la radio colombiana, porque Todelar transmitió juegos olímpicos y la Vuelta a México”, señala Aristizabal Ossa. Todelar En 1953 Bernardo Tobón de la Roche fundó en el occidente del país La Voz de Cali. Dada la ausencia de una cadena radial en el Valle del Cauca, Tobón empieza a configurar una tercera cadena radial. En 1956 logró consolidar el Circuito Todelar, sigla que salió de su propio nombre: ‘TObón DE LA Roche’, integrado por La Voz de Cali, Radio Reporter y Radio Musical. En diciembre de ese año amplió su número de afiliados en Medellín, Barranquilla, Cartagena y Bogotá. En 1957 compró Radio Sintonía conformando una filial en Medellín, y compra una de sus afiliadas: Radio Continental de Bogotá. Con la afiliación de Unión Radio al Circuito Todelar, ésta traslada gran parte de sus instalaciones a Unión Radio en Bogotá hasta 1970, cuando regresan a Cali. En 1993 se impuso el sistema de la música de los años 60. En 1995 se hicieron cambios estructurales. Cívico y reservado Octavio Perlaza Valencia, director del programa Inspector Todelar y quien conoció personalmente a Bernardo Tobón de la Roche, recuerda una anécdota que sucedió cuando el fundador de esa cadena radial llegó al aeropuerto Alfonso Bonilla Aragón con su familia, después de un viaje fuera de la ciudad. Perlaza y un empleado de confianza fueron a recibir a Bernardo Tobón de la Roche al aeropuerto. El empleado convenció a un agente de seguridad para que dejara salir a Tobón y a su familia sin que ellos hicieran la fila. El agente aceptó y Perlaza fue a decirle a Bernardo Tobón de la Roche que no era necesario esperar como todos los demás viajeros, sino que podía dirigirse de inmediato ante el agente de seguridad. El fundador de Todelar se negó a hacerlo, al decir: “Hay que respetar la fila”, e hizo el trámite “como cualquier otro ciudadano”, en palabras de Perlaza. “Aunque don Bernardo fue uno de los grandes pioneros de la radio en Colombia y un hombre de ideas muy originales, no le gustaba autopublicitarse. Procuraba que figuraran los directores de los programas y los administradores de las emisoras, pero no asistía a eventos. Era una persona muy reservada”, cuenta Perlaza. FUENTE: http://bit.ly/qiZQn5 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) Obit ** CONGO. 6115, R Congo, Brazzaville, 1958, Jul 28, male speaker chatting in French, fair (Graham Bell, Cape Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window Aug 10 via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 5066.3, R Tele Candip, Bunia, 1630, Jul 30, female and male speakers in French then shifting into vernacular, fair (Graham Bell, Cape Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window Aug 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) CONGO-Kinshasa, 5066.5, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1834-1905*, 04/8, French, [unreadable] talks, songs, announcements (presumed), African song, drum beat prior to closure; 25241 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5066.3, R. Tele Candip, 1900-1902 S/OFF, Aug 10, afro music with percussions, then sign/off without any ann, fair/good (Leonardo Bolli, Italy, Aug 11, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) R. Candip: Measured on exact 5066.334 kHz on Aug 11 at 1840-1850 UT on various remote SD receivers in southern Europe, but only in sound peaks heard a French accented male voice. Very tiny signal tonight (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Aug 12 via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** CUBA. 1620, Radio Rebelde, unknown site (western Cuba). 1632+ August 14, 2011. Baseball coverage, frequent "Rebelde" slogans and the nine-note Rebelde sounders, but not parallel all other audible Rebelde MW channels and 5025, with the exception of the multiple weaker ones on 1180 (under the Rebelde AM, a/k/a R1 audio), so presume baseball is Rebelde FM (a/k/a R2). Very good, mid-day. As expected, Noticiero Nacional de Radio cycled in at 1700 on R1, while R2 continued with the game. In fact, I need to make note and check -- when I stumble upon R2 somewhere on a non-game day -- to see if they even default patch NNdR like their big brother R1 does. Hmmm, announcer clearly stated "baseball" just now, so "béisbol" must be more interchangeable with "baseball" down there compared to most other places in Latin America. Oh, and he just mentioned Radio Artemisa is also carrying the game. Well, I think not. Soft Cuban vocals on 1000, parallel 1020, that's assuming they are patching Artemisa on both channels today, vs. Radio Mayabeque or something else. I love NNdR; it's such a good source for A/B-ing things. And wow, what a big, big overblown musical production with a voice-over, opening the NNdR newscast: a NNdR greeting to Fidel on his 85th birthday (it was yesterday). I wonder if they aired this greeting yesterday, or if this is a "forgot your birthday card" greeting. That lasted till 1704:42. I hope Fido sends a thank-you note to the NNdR staff via bicycle courier for this. Now, let's get to the news. There are more important things happening, like sugar cane and rice harvest stats, and what corner the cutest and youngest AIDS-free jinetera is presently at [¿you kid?]. But wait! I re-tune to 1620 kHz at 1729, and the usual male canned "Rebelde la Habana, emisora de la revolución" return intro to R1 programming is heard. So, did the baseball game end while NNdR was still streaming, and that's why R2 patched back to R1 audio feed? Qualifies only as a minor CRFU (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, Radio Habana Cuba. 1607-1613:53* August 13, 2011. No doubt the one, a big open carrier till plug pulled. Presume RHC leaving a transmitter on late, as they occasionally do. Qualifies only as a minor CRFU (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or WYFR test 6060, R Havana Cuba with DXers Unlimited, Arnie C talking about the current solar conditions and the last month’s trends in cycle 24 etc. This was pretty much the best channel, SINPO 5454+4 but // 6150 43+4+43 with a FUNKY noise in the background, 6010, 444+43+ with SSB needed to wipe out QRM from 6020 China 6050, 4+4+54+4 using LSB to get rid of splatter – this channel is not listed; was it a mixing product? 0513-0523 8/Aug (Kenneth Vito Zichi Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) `Funky noise` on 6150 is what we call squeal, same kind of transmitter defect caused by ``bad modulator cards`` as on certain WEWN, WWCR, etc. frequencies. 6050 not listed WHERE? It`s been there for years (gh, DXLD) 11760, August 12 at 1318, I notice that this RHC transmitter has a squeal on it now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5025, August 14 at 0439, R. Rebelde, just open carrier, while RHC was nominal on 5040. RHC missing from scheduled frequencies 15360, 13680, 11690, Sunday August 14 at 1404, when only 15120 is supposed to have gone off. Still there on 11730, 11760, 11830, 12040, 13780, 15230. RHC continues to upset its schedule on Sundays, despite the absence of any transmitter-hogging Venezuela relays for months. At 1535, still nothing on `Aló, Presidente` channels 11690, 13680, 13750, 15370, 17750. Well, there was something on 13680, in Chinese, CRI Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. Radio Prague's 75th birthday is around the corner - if you'd like to be a part of the anniversary show, please contact us at english @ radio.cz or here on Fb, and include a telephone no. and the best time of day to call you. Thanks for listening! http://www.facebook.com/radioprague Radio Prague broadcasts via satellite and the internet. Some programmes can be heard via the satellite service of World Radio Network in London (Radio Prague, Facebook, 16 August 2011, via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) And? And? Shortwave maybe? Typical dissing of WRMI relays because it contradicts the narrative that Prague is ``no longer on shortwave`` (gh, DXLD) ** CZECHOSLOVAKIA. RADIO PRAGUE is celebrating their 75th anniversary and anyone who wants to be included in the anniversary celebration can e-mail at english @ radio.cz or via their Facebook page. I was interviewed for their last show on shortwave but I will definitely be skipping this opportunity for sure (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, ODXA yg via DXLD) Sequitur? ** DJIBOUTI. 4780 is not on air (19-21 utc) (Leonardo Bolli, Italy, Aug 11, playdx yg via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Radio Africa, 2234-2240, 07- August-2011, in English. Male announcer with sermon, Rádio Inconfidência audible underneath, good signal (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet Aug 14 via DXLD) ??? Where was WYFR (in Portuguese)? Nothing but it audible here e.g. at 2245 Aug 15, clear Family Radio ID in Portuguese and Oakland address (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, WYFR Family Radio, Okeechobee FL; 2237-2245+, 15-Aug; Non- Camping huxter in special English (on purpose?); Portuguese ID, program notes at 2242 and continued in Portuguese. SIO=4+44 well over Portuguese, Inconfidência (presumed). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There you go --- even if you hear English after 2200 on 15190, it could be WYFR, NOT Radio Africa. I continue to await any *definite* loggings of Equatorial Guinea since it vanished three months ago. Like, in English BEFORE 2200, and even with an ID! And English at 10- 11 on 15190 other than CRI! And between 1730 and 1930 on 15190, other than R. Pilipinas! There are still windows such as 1930-2200 when there should be nothing else on 15190 except Brasil which would not be airing American gospel huxters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I had a similar situation back on May 31/June 1, per the following log. Suggest when in doubt if it's WYFR on 15190, try to check for a // frequency to confirm it's them or not. My August 2nd query about the status of Radio Africa on 15190, per your suggestion, sent to Robin Boggs at Pan American Broadcasting, has gone unanswered as of August 15 (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ``** USA. 15190, WYFR, randomly from 2228 to 0013, May 31-June 1. How long have they been broadcasting in English here or was it just an error in their audio feed? Tuned in to hear religious programming in English, mixing with station in Portuguese. Was almost fooled into thinking it was R. Africa, but I stayed with it to hear positive Family Radio IDs (BoH and ToH); 2330-2357 "Family Bible Reading Fellowship"; // 15440 (strong). Unable to ID station in Portuguese; by 2330 WYFR in English was stronger than the UNID station. If WYFR continues on in English here, folks will need to be very careful as to whether they are hearing them or Radio Africa! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Ron, Your May 31/June 1 log was in the aftermath of May 21, when WYFR temporarily dumped most foreign languages and replaced them with English. On the grossly curtailed schedule from June 17 and still in effect, the only Portuguese // is 17725, at 2200-2300 only, and again from 0000. There is not supposed to be any English during the 22-23 hour, but apparently the Portuguese service includes some English segments (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. 7110.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0315-0335, August 11, Horn of Africa music. Vernacular talk. Fair signal strength but very weak modulation. Fair on // 7174.99 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ERITREA [non]. via Ethiopia, 7235, Voice of Peace & Democracy, *0356-0431*, August 17, sign on with Horn of Africa music and IDs. Talk in listed Tigrinya at 0400. Some Horn of Africa. Poor to fair with some adjacent channel splatter. // 9559.39v - varying up to 9559.49. 9 MHz frequency audible after China 9560 sign off at 0359. Mon, Wed, Fri only (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, R. Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 2056-2100* vernacular; Up-beat music and Afropops; W announcer between techno music bits at 2057; M announcer with s/off and NA; fair; 8/7 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) And then: NIGER ** EUROPE. 4015, Laser Hot Hits, G?, IRLAND?, 2235-..., 02/8, English, pops; 45343; 6940 not parallel (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Glenn, Regarding your comment in DXLD 11-32 regarding RFI English to NAm, there used to be a morning broadcast in English that was easily heard here, though I think you are right that NAm was not the intended target. As much as I have been a listener and supporter of RFI English, the new program format is really uninteresting. It sounds very bare bones, with a strong emphasis on African news. There is very little European news, even less (if any) news from the Western Hemisphere. And there now seems to be a prejudice against North American listeners in the weekend "Sound Kitchen" news quiz. Until the recent format change, there were a few listeners in the U.S. or Canada who were mentioned as quiz winners on a regular basis. Not any more, however. There hasn't been a "winner" from the Americas in the many months since the change. I sense that no one at RFI English is happy about the changes forced on them. Presentation is dry and unenthusiastic -- and pretty uninteresting, in my opinion. I really miss their daily produced features. Cuts in broadcasts and staff and the planned move to the suburbs are no doubt discouraging to RFI staff in all languages. Increasingly, reporters are being asked to file for the France 24 television channel and for RFI. So, reports we hear increasingly sound like TV audio, instead of a correspondent report written by someone experienced in radio. RFI's French service is still good, in my opinion, but I'm hearing a little fraying around the edges, increased use of TV reporters and repetition of short news features. Regardless, RFI English seems to be even less interested in North American listeners (and news) than ever. It's very disappointing (Mike Cooper, GA, Aug 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 9805, good UT Sunday Aug 14 at 0452, feature report in English, announcer sounds like Sandra Tsing Loh, but surely not; RFI ID and cut off at 0457* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 1539 to close --- This item from our friends at the Arctic Radio Club:- 1539: According to a an email just received from ERF in Wetzlar, they are using this frequency only 0400-0800 UT, valid until 31.12.2011. After that MW will no longer be used due to the costs (Bengt Ericson 12.8.2011) [0500-0900 after DST?? gh] Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, UK, Aug 16, MWCircle yg via DXLD) See also NETHERLANDS [non]: 531 kHz ** GERMANY. HCJB 3995 tests --- Hallo Wolfgang! Kleine Info am Rande: schau mal morgen abend (1800-2200 UT) auf der 3995 rein. Wenn alles glatt geht, wollen wir morgen mit ersten Tests auf "unserer" neuen Frequenz starten und diese etwas anwärmen. Sendeleistung, Antenne etc sind noch nicht final, also bleibt abzuwarten, wie das Signal sein wird. Ich bin mal gespannt, wie schnell sich das dann rumspricht und wie weit der Empfang reichen wird. Im Moment ists ja noch recht lange hell draussen... Gruss, (Stephan Schaa, HCJB Europa, Aug 12, via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 18-22 UT tests of new HCJB tx site in northern Germany close to Now BRE ITU location replaced by WNM Weenermoor-D at 53 12 N 07 19 E TX started at 1756:40 UT, HCJB interval signal S=7-8 in Holland, S=9+10dB in Weimar, S=9+20dB in England S=8 in Heilbronn S=7 in Austria. But depends on the rx antenna used on remote SDR units. At 1800 UT German service started. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) At 1815 check, signal rather weak, a bit weaker than Vatican R 4005 and a lot weaker than Croatia on 3985. 73, (Jari, Finland, Savolainen, ibid.) Thanks to tip from Wolfgang Bueschel on DXLD yg, currently hearing tests from HCJB via new HCJB site in Weenermoor, Germany on 3995 kHz. Programmes in German, currently with some interesting world music. SIO 453 here in Caversham (Alan Pennington, Caversham,UK, AOR 7030+, Wellbrook ALA 1530, 1913 UT Aug 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) In English now 1945 UT, again very good strength (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, ibid.) Hi folks, test going fine on my side: http://fromdctodaylight.splinder.com/post/25442231/hcjb-testing Ciao, (Chris Diemoz, Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just note in a thread of the "low level forum" http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?8773,918538,page=2 that the current transmissions on 3995 originate from Krekel, as announced at http://www.classicbroadcast.de/news.html Airtimes are specified there as 0400-0800 and 1800-2200. If so there is, as the "low level forum" points out as well, a clash with IBB Biblis that uses 3995 for VOA Croatian 1830-1845. Those who do not like the "low level forum" (not that I would really like it either) may find these pieces of information also in the tons of related postings sent to the A-DX list since yesterday, just way too much to check if any of them contains more than "I hear it, too". End of rant (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Hello Wolfy, I'm a bit confused about the TX location for the HCJB tests on 3995 kHz. It is listed by http://www.classicbroadcast.de/frequencyplan.html but no tx site is given. I thought it was from a TX site in East Friesland, wheras Kai Ludwig on DXLD said it was from Krekel. Are you able to confirm where it is from and the tx power? 73s (Dave Kenny, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Hello Dave, To overcome standstill. Veiled TX site yet, to start this HCJB Germany branch project immediately, daily at 0400-0800 UT and 1800-2200 UT in A-11 season, in winter B-11 schedule finally 1 hr later, until definitive transmitter site is ready. At present new HCJB tx site, the 10 kW 3995 kHz TX location in northern Germany, close to Weenermoor-Germany, like ITU location registration, is under construction, - but not yet ready. Global HF Transmitter Site Table, of 27 July 2011, see Weenermoor entry http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/broadcast/hf/refdata/reftables/site.txt So for the time being HCJB uses another TX within Germany in 1 to 10 kW power range. An unspectacular decision, to avoid attracting attention. Keep it cool. vy73 de Wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6140, 0945-1000* Sunday 07.08, MV Baltic R, Wertachtal. English ID, address and website, English songs, 55544. 9480 was not audible in Denmark, maybe because of being in its dead zone (Anker Petersen, heard in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6189.92, Deutschlandfunk Berlin-Britz 2322-2334 German; W announce at tune/in; music at 2324; M announcer at BoH into classical music; poor but improving; 8/7 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Deutsche Welle is encouraging all listeners to answer a survey to help make their service better using the link below and clicking on "Start the survey now". The one sad thing is if you want to tell them how you plan to listen to them in the future you cannot choose shortwave radio. You have to choose "Other" and type in shortwave radio. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,4865,00.html (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 9480 RWANDA (relay) R.D.W. on 8/12, 0357. DW i.s., fair to good, being pounded by one of those mysterious "jackhammer" blasters (reputed OTH-Radar). Caught s/on by M in German (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) OTH radar does not sound like a jackhammer. I think this is what we call bonkers, caused by something called TADIL-A. ? or not? He does refer to a `bonker` on 2483, see AUSTRALIA, different? Also UNIDENTIFIED 16000 (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 17800, August 12 at 1306, no signal from DW Hausa via Rwanda, usually good here, but a weak one on 17820 via Portugal, and Spain also in well on 17595; strange conditions, with many other usual signals missing from 16m, and not much on 19, 22 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Sines and Kigali to western hemisphere, (Re: DXLD 11-32) >>> Perhaps I missed it, but seems that Rwanda had not been deliberately targeted across the Atlantic, tho it obviously worx well. It already has plenty of antennas like the 280 originally intended for part of Africa. Sines, Portugal site was set up for Europe and Africa, but now it`s aiming west too <<< The oldest reference I have at hand is WRTH 1994. It shows Kigali in use for Spanish to SAm/CAm 0200-0250 on 9765 and 11785. The same goes for Sines, it was in use for Spanish 2300-0050 on 6040 as well as for English to NAm 0100-0150 on 9745 and 0300-0350 on 9535. It was even more pronounced at the former Malta station, actually meant for coverage of North Africa and the Middle East. To make best use of the shortwave transmitters the site also got a pair of bidirectional curtains for transmissions to South Asia and the Americas, respectively, and the majority of DW's own use of these transmitters were such services. And not to forget is the use of Sines for RNW Spanish a few years ago (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Noted today Radio Filia ERT ERA5 in Arabic at 0930-1000 UT on 17705, S=9+25dB powerful signal in central Europe. So, seemingly 17705 kHz is now in use by ERA5 two hours prolonged at 0600-1000 UT. Aug 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear John, today August seemingly also public holiday in Greece and Cyprus. Noted very same Greek language program of ERA5 ERT on 9420, 11645, and 15630 at 0930-1000 UT slot. Multilingual service not on 17705 kHz today, probably only Monday to Friday on weekdays, but not on holidays? 73 wolfy ``According to the belief of Christians of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglicanism, the Assumption of Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life.`` [source?] (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 15, dxld yg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And noted Kosmos on the live stream instead of Filia (like yesterday) (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, 1007 UT Aug 15, ibid.) As far as I remember from last year, Kosmos was relayed during the holiday month of August. 73, (Erik Koie, CPH, Denmark, ibid.) Good afternoon Wolfy: It looks as though they have all left for the villages to enjoy the holiday! (John Babbis, MD, ibid.) On Sunday and Monday only KOSMOS program in Greek on air. regards de (Wolfy, ibid.) ** GREECE. Original Newsreel Video of the inauguration SW Transmission station in Avlis in 1972. Click on the VIDEO clip in the center with antenna snap photo. [9:28] http://mam.avarchive.gr/portal/digitalview.jsp?get_ac_id=3747&thid=14493 (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. RELIGIOUS BROADCASTER TWR TESTS ITS NEW SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER KTWR Love Asia By Radio blog, 9 Aug 2011, dgregson: "We are pleased to report on 9 August 2011 we successfully accomplished an initial power up RF test. For about 10 minutes we aired a station ID test and music tone at 0500 UTC on 31M at 57KW." -- KTWR is the Guam station of religious broadcaster TWR, formerly known as Trans World Radio. More posts about the construction of the transmitter are available at the blog. http://ktwrdrm.blogspot.com/2011/08/testing-testing-testing-and-rf-on.html (kimandrewelliott.com, Posted: 12 Aug 2011 via DXLD) Notice how DRM has wodrmed its way into the URL; will KTWR be foolish enough to broadcast in DRM even tho a new transmitter is capable? WTFK? Illustration says 9920 AM DSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad, 8/14, 0547. Very strong this sesson [season? session?] with religious hymns. At TOH, several good IDs made it thru the static crashes, with M announcer and several mentions of "Guatemala" (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ- 200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ, 7125, R. Guinée, Sonfonya, 1833-2105, 08/8, French, sports news,..., vernacular prior & after 2100, news at this hour; 34332, decreasing amateur QRM. Rated 45433 at 2100 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, August 11 at 0608, Qur`an, fair signal from RTG. On earlier than usual, and I haven`t heard it for some weeks by not staying up late enough past 0630 or 0700. Maybe extended for Ramadan, but how early, or still highly variable? Still don`t hear it before 0600 August 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7125, Rdif Nationale, 0555-0620, August 15, Afro-pop music. Local chants. Local tribal music. Vernacular and French talk. Fair. 7125, Rdif Nationale, 2225-2259*, August 15, vernacular talk. Local marimba music. Indigenous vocals. Local tribal music. Abrupt sign off. Fair. Irregular (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) Intruder 0630 UT, 7125 kHz, BC transmitting music and voice in French every day. 73 (Gerd OE3GSA Schweidler, 16 August, Intruder Alert via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) http://iaru-r1.org/mailman/listinfo/intruderalert_iaru-r1.org After some months of silence Conakry is back on 7.1 to 7.2 MHz amateur radio segment. 73 wb (Büschel, ibid.) Has it been off? It`s a bit erratic (Mark, Anglesey, ibid.) Subject: Re: [dxld] Fw: [INTRUDER ALERT] 7125 --- Rather irregularly in past months. Not heard past 2 months. Not heard between late April and end of May 2011. Not heard between Sept 2010 and Feb 2011 (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? There are reports of Guinea in all but two issues of DXLD in the last two months: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Today Conakry Guinea heard at 0612 UT with news in French, from 0615 UT West African typical music, and from 0616 UT hit by Danish amateur radio operator co-channel. At same time Mauritania with Holy Quran prayer; much, much stronger on 7245 kHz, like Tunis on 7275 and 7335. At 0626 UT today on SDR radio remote unit in Raleigh North Carolina with S=8-9 fine signal. 73 wb (Büschel, Aug 17, ibid.) ** INDIA [and non]. AIR Kolkata 4820 kHz rises above China PBS Xizang Since yesterday 14th August 2011 I can make out the signals of AIR Kolkata on 4820 kHz loud and clear, SIO 444 and understand the program both for their morning and evening transmissions. Living barely 30 km away from the station, I monitored that for almost the whole of the last decade; it was swamped by China PBS Xizang with some faint copy possible around 1700 hours on a few days. Is it a transmitter upgrade after complaints from the fishing communities about difficulty in listening to AIR Kolkata weather bulletins? It might be propagation variation because we are through an unusual long depression in weather. Could also be malfunctioning PBS Xizang transmitter. AIR Kolkata 4820 kHz 0025-0215; 1220-1745 UT (Supratik Sanatani, Kolkata, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 5010, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, 0021-0035, Vhandi Mataram at tune/in; announcer in vernacular with bits of Hindi music and vocal chants; wind instrument at 0029 into news; English news at 0035; p-f in ECCS-LSB; 8/8 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) 5010, AIR - Thiruvananthapuram, 0040-0050, August 11, sub-continental mx. Weak but readable (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** INDIA [and non]. Propagation and India – eve of Independence Day August 14 --- Hi Glenn, All summer long I have had fair to good propagation for many of the PNG and Asian stations I check on almost daily, but on August 11, 12 and 13 the reception of many of my normally decently heard stations (R. Fly, NBC Sandaun, etc.) was terrible. Very noticeably just hovering around threshold level or below. Rather a drastic change from what it had been for some months now. Malaysia (9835 and 11665) and Myanmar (7185.75) are still doing well, but little else. Makes me wonder what conditions will be like August 14, as that is one of my favorite days to listen to regional AIR stations. It will be the eve of Independence Day in India and assume as usual the President of India will address the nation. Should be carried live via just about every SW station in India. Look for President Prathibha Devi Singh Patil to give the speech first in Hindi and repeat it again in English. Assume it will be at the usual time of 1330 UT (7.00 PM IST) on Sunday, August 14. Of special interest is the question of AIR Kohima (4850). Will they broadcast on this important occasion? They were not on the air last year for her speech, but certainly worth checking just in case they do turn on their very rarely used transmitter (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, Aug 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4775, AIR Imphal, 1319-1411, August 14. On the eve of Independence Day this was the strongest 60m AIR; CODAR QRM. Northeast India doing especially well. 1319-1323 Advertisements in Hindi. 1323-1328 Subcontinent songs. 1328 Marching band 1330 “This is All India Radio. On the eve of Independence Day we now bring you her Excellency …”; National Anthem (instrumental). 1331-1351 President’s speech to the nation in Hindi. 1351-1409 President’s speech to the nation in English; followed by NA. President’s address //: kHz kW AIR Station 4760 8.5 Port Blair (Am fairly sure was not AIR Leh) 4810 50 Bhopal 4835 10 Gangtok 4840 50 Mumbai 4880 50 Lucknow 4965 50 Shimla 4970 50 Shillong (second strongest 60m AIR, still with hum) 5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram 5015 50 Delhi (no long with hum) 5040 50 Jeypore 9425 500 Bengaluru 9470 250 Aligarh (presumed - only open carrier; no audio) Edited MP3 audio with marching music, intro of the president’s speech and NA http://www.box.net/shared/gii9vh7gkya1l7bixr22 Her speech: http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails140811g.php Another year of very enjoyable reception for this special broadcast! Per Jose Jacob’s posting to dx_india yg, AIR Kohima was not scheduled to broadcast today or tomorrow, but “SW broadcasts from the station may resume from this station at a later stage only.” We can only hope this is true. 4970, AIR Shillong, 1256-1315, August 14. “Country Roads” Sunday show; YL DJ in English with C&W songs (Kenny Rogers, John Denver, etc.); ID “North Eastern Service of All India Radio”; 1315 into Hindi; still with prominent hum (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All India Radio (AIR) special I-Day broadcast Monitored! Heard All India Radio (AIR) special broadcast of the running commentary in English and Hindi about the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minsters speech held at Red Fort, New Delhi between 0140-0220 UT today on 15th August, 2011 (Monday) on the following frequencies. I have used ANJAN DTS-10 Digital receiver and a 20 mt. long dipole external antenna for this and QTH location is Jorhat in Assam (Latitude: 26 45' 0 N, Longitude: 94 13' 0 E). Shortwave, UT: 0143, 4775, AIR Imphal- Running commentary in English- SINPO 54434 0146, 4835, AIR Gangtok- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 34233 0148, 4895, AIR Kurseong- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 33333 0150, 4940, AIR Guwahati- Running commentary in English- SINPO 45434 0152, 4965, AIR Shimla- Running commentary in English- SINPO 33233 0153, 4970, AIR Shillong - Running commentary in English- SINPO 45333 0155, 4990, AIR Itanagar- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 35333 0156, 7270, AIR Chennai- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 35222 0157, 9870, AIR Bangalore- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 55444 0159, 15050, AIR Delhi- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 24222 0202, 9595, AIR Delhi- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 55555 0205, 11620, AIR Aligarh- Running commentary in Hindi- SINPO 55444 0207, 17510, AIR Delhi- PM's Speech- SINPO 55555 0210, 13620, AIR Bangalore- PM's Speech- SINPO 55444 0212, 15050, AIR Delhi- PM's Speech- SINPO 43333 Tried to hear AIR Kohima on 4850 kHz, but nothing heard because of heavy noise there. Medium Wave: 0215, 567, AIR Dibrugarh- PM's Speech- SINPO 55455 0217, 639, AIR Kohima- PM's Speech- SINPO 35333 0218, 675, AIR Itanagar- PM's Speech- SINPO 35233 73's, (Prithwiraj Purkayastha, Jorhat, Assam (India), Aug 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitoring Observations of Independence Day broadcasts Sub: Monitoring observations of AIR Special broadcasts on SW for Independence Day 1. 14 Aug 2011 1330 UTC - President`s address to the nation. kHz Station SIO 4760 Port Blair 151 4775 Imphal 353 4800 Hyderabad 555 4810 Bhopal 454 4820 Kolkata 322 4830 Jammu Not heard 4835 Gangtok 232 [see also SIKKIM] 4840 Mumbai 454 4850 Kohima Not heard 4880 Lucknow 454 4895 Kurseong 252 4910 Jaipur 252 4920 Chennai 544 4940 Guwahati heard from around 7.10 pm only 252 4950 Srinagar 252 [see also KASHMIR] 4965 Shimla 353 4970 Shillong 353 4990 Itanagar Not heard 5010 Trivandrum 454 (Slight Hum noted) 5015 Delhi 353 5040 Jeypore 454 5050 Aizawl Not heard 6030 Delhi 222 6085 Delhi 111 9425 Bangalore 555 9470 Aligarh only strong carrier (no audio) 9575 Delhi 333 9835 Delhi 333 2. 15 August 2011 0135 UTC - Running Comment`ry: English: 4860 Delhi 151 11830 Delhi 232 13620 Bangalore 353 15050 Delhi 454 Later very rough audio noted 17510 Delhi 131 Later 454 Hindi: 6030 Delhi 242 6155 Bangalore 555 7340 Mumbai 444 9595 Delhi 444 9870 Bangalore 555 11620 Aligarh 353 15135 Delhi first not heard. 151 at 0230 Observations on Regional stations on 15 Aug 2011: Bhopal started on 7430 at 0115 UT, Co channel interference from Voice of America English Chennai started on 7380 at 0130 Hyderabad continued as usual on 4800 Kolkata 7210 not heard Shimla started at 0025 on 6020. Severe co channel interference from China Radio in English Trivandrum started on 7290 at 0132 Receiver: Icom IC 7000 Antenna: Inverted V Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, India, Aug 17, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325.00, 2025-2135 10.08, RRI, Palangkaraya, Bahasa Indonesia announcement, Indonesian songs in early Ramadan programme, talk by more persons, 2109 Muslim chanting, 2118 talk, 35333 AP-DNK 3345.00, 2040-2110 fade out, 10.08 RRI, Ternate, Bahasa Indonesia talk, 2100 Song of the Coconut Islands IS, Jakarta news (?), music, 25222 (Anker Petersen, heard in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 7290, 0655, RRI Nabire poor but improving signal 13/7 with Indopops, ‘Song of the Coconut Islands’ theme at 0659, RRI ident at 0700 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9524.974, Stimme Indonesiens in D auf 9525 kHz um 1807 UT, SIO: 544 (Frank M. Muth, Germany, A-DX Aug 8 via BC-DX Aug 12 via DXLD) One of three Cimanggis transmitters now 1 kHz down! Die remote SDRadios zeigen heute 9524.974 kHz als VOI Frequenz. Man war ja an die 2-3 Jahre auf der krummen 9526v zugange, hat aber seit einigen Tagen einen der 3 Sender in Betrieb, die etwas genauer im Kanal liegen. Eine nette Dame stellt soeben Musikinstrumente in deutscher Sprache vor (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 8, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL. During the past weeks, a number of QSLs arrived, which regrettably are useless for my collection, and they may be returned to the relevant stations: Radio Australia (date 6 Dec. 2011), WWCR (date 7 Aug 11), World Harvest Radio (wrong transmitter), World Music Radio (after 7 years, but no time), The Overcomer Ministry (no exact date, no time, wrong frequency, wrong station), Radio Japan (no transmitter). It is also regretted that Family Radio did not yet send the QSLs for my 21 reports of 2010. - I would like to congratulate Brian Webb of Upper Hutt and Des Davey of Te Kuiti, who were both mentioned in Radio Romania’s “Listeners’ Letterbox” last July 8th, but I myself did not yet receive from the English Service of Radio Romania eleven QSLs for detailed reports of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and in the meantime they let me wait already altogether for more than 7000 days! Finally I can report a few incoming QSLs, namely from: International Radio Serbia 9635 (NEW address: Hilandarska 2, P. O. Box 72, 11103 Beograd), CRI via Chile 17640 (it took almost 3 years), IBB Sri Lanka Transmitting Station 7485/9395/9930, Deutsche Welle Trincomalee 12000 (maybe one of the last DW TRM QSLs).” (Günter Jacob, Passau, Germany, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) It was good of you to share your memories and frustrations with us this month, Günter, and I sincerely hope some of the miscreants who haven’t responded correctly, do so before long! (Mike Butler, Auckland, editor, Mailbag, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) Browbeating stations, even returning ``incomplete`` QSLs to them is a sure way to diminish any QSLing by them at all. You treat them as if they OWE you QSLs just they way you want them, and if you send them 21 reports in a year they should really send you 21 replies? Obviously some of them already consider you a pest. I suppose the ones with `wrong` dates in the future, are simply reversing numerical months and days from the only way you think is correct (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Media Network Plus Aug 13: BBC Far East relay Media Network Plus this week (Aug 13) visits the BBC Far East Relay Station in Singapore (Kranji): "..this week's edition of the program will be coming from the BBC [sic] Far East Relay Station in Singapore. My special guests will be Cindy Yeo the Manager of the station and Tan Lam Soon the Senior Engineer. You can catch MNP on the World Radio Network and fine radio stations that relay the program. For times on WRN check out our home page http://www.pcjmedia.com/home " There's some photos of Keith Perron's visit already at http://medianetworkplus.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/pck-media-network-plus-visit-to-the-bbc-far-east-station/ Since 30 July, Media Network Plus has been available on WRN on Saturdays: WRN Africa / WRN Asia - Saturday at 1000 UT WRN Europe - Saturday at 1300 UT WRN North America - Saturday at 2100 UT This means, amongst other outlets, it can be heard here in the UK at 1000 UT (1100 BST) via WRN Africa on WorldSpace Afristar's west beam so dust off those old WorldSpace receivers! [still in use here also to catch Glenn Hauser's World of Radio at 0800 UT (0900 BST) Saturdays on WRN!]. Media Network Plus will also be available to download or listen to at: http://www.pcjmedia.com/medianetworkplus (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. BBC RADIO 1 ON SIRIUSXM INTERNET RADIO FROM 19 AUG Sirius XM Radio has announced that BBC Radio 1 will be available to its listeners on SiriusXM Internet Radio beginning Friday, 19 August at 5:00 pm ET as part of a new multi-platform agreement with the BBC that brings subscribers additional concert performances from the BBC vault. In addition to being available online, BBC Radio 1 programming will be broadcast on satellite radio at various times throughout the year coinciding with major events in BBC Radio 1’s programming schedule. SiriusXM will also broadcast concerts from the extensive and wide- ranging BBC Radio archive, many of which are not commercially available. SiriusXM listeners will hear classic performances by Led Zeppelin, U2, Lady Gaga, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Queen, The Cure and other music legends. The concerts will air on various SiriusXM music channels. “BBC Radio 1 has built a loyal and passionate following across North America. We’re delighted that we are able to continue and extend our relationship with SiriusXM, to bring BBC Radio 1 and our catalogue of classic BBC concerts to the North American audience,” said Salim Mukaddam, Head of Radio, BBC Worldwide. (Source: SiriusXM Radio) (August 17th, 2011 - 10:32 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) 4 Comments on “BBC Radio 1 on SiriusXM Internet Radio from 19 Aug” #1 David on Aug 17th, 2011 at 10:46 I was going to ask what is the point of having BBC Radio 1 on SiriusXM Internet radio when any one can get BBC Radio 1 on normal internet radio. The answer is in the press release: “BBC Radio 1 will be time-shifted by 5 hours…” and regarding the other content: “. The concerts will air on various SiriusXM music channels….” I wonder then if this is mainly a branding exercise on the part of SiriusXM. I can’t imagine is any problem -from a satellite capacity point of view- with keeping BBC Radio 1 on SiriusXM satellites. #2 Jonathan Marks on Aug 17th, 2011 at 15:18 I can understand the reason to match the breakfast shows to a local time. But having 5 hour old news? Or that is spliced in live in some clever way? I remember listening to the Kenny Everett specials on Radio 2 a few Christmas’s back, produced by Howard Shannon. They were programmes from the 80’s but with up to date news bulletins. That sounded very freaky….. #3 David on Aug 17th, 2011 at 16:09 Splicing in live news shouldn’t be such a problem. BBC WS do it all the time, as does NPR. I wonder though how many people would tune in to BBC Radio 1 online to get the news. I would have guess it’s not the main reason. #4 David on Aug 17th, 2011 at 17:55 Could we not have some American radio services available here via Sky and Canal Digital maybe? If people were prepared to pay for them? CBS Radio from New York as a starter maybe! Related story: Sirius XM drops BBC Radio 1 (MN blog comments via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 9235, Galei Zahal (presumed), 0405-0418+, 14-Aug; M in LL [not meaning language lessons, but unknown language, not Latin, Lingala, etc., either] with series of items; interviews, music excerpts, phone calls. Probably Galei Zahal, but too buried in QRN to get language. Strong hiss QRM, need LSB to detect anything. 0054- 0103+, 15-Aug; Pop music to 0059; commentary (news?) by M in Hebrew 0059-0102+ and back to music. SIO=352, no hiss this time. Very weak signal on 15850 -- can't tell if it's //. 15850, Galei Zahal (presumed); 2112-2118+, 12-Aug; M in Hebrew with English pop tunes -- mentioned BBC. SIO=354; 9235 not there (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. via ROMANIA. 15610, IRRS, 1301-1359, August 11, lite instrumental music. English Overcomer Ministry program with Brother Scare. Gospel music. IRRS IDs and contact information at 1359 but quickly covered by a strong WEWN sign on at 1359. IRRS weak. Via Romania, 15610, IRRS, *1300-1400*, August 17, abrupt sign on with English Overcomer Ministry program with Brother Stair. Some gospel music. Closing announcements with IRRS ID at 1359. Poor to fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** JAPAN. 9840, CANADA (relay), R. Japan NHK, Aug. 9, 1-15 [sic] program marking anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Only 9840 NHK transmission is direct, not a relay, at 1000-1030, so `1-15` presumably typo for 1015 (gh, DXLD) ** KASHMIR. ÍNDIA, 4950. R. Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 2201-2213, 05/8, Indian language, Koranic chant, talks; 35332. Better on 08/8, at 2230 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On early for Ramadan (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, 1402, August 14. Ex-5985; in Korean with no jamming (yet!); het from assume Madagascar on the high side, which this is now blocking; scheduled from 1330 to 1430 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650 CANADA (relay) KBS World (S. KOR) Aug. 7, 1200. Not heard at s/on, only DPRK co-channel station on frequency. but by 1210, Angie Park's K-Pop pgm faded in and was dominating the channel, tho the signal still was fair at best. South Korea wins today's "battle of the bands". (Barton-AZ) 9650, CANADA, KBS World (via Sackville) 8/14, 1200. Poor. fair signal, co-channel DPRK, and splash from below (China) and above (New Zealand). 9650, CANADA, KBS World, Aug. 15, 1225. South Korea wins today's battle of the bands, having fair to good signal, but still readable and over top of North Korean co-channel station. Nothing as needle banding as sign-on of R. Netherlands (via Tinang, Philippines relay) on the hour [1300] (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. via Ukraine, 11530, Voice of Mesopotamia, *0400- 0430, August 16, sign on with National Anthem. Local Kurdish music at 0403. Indigenous vocals. Poor to fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** KURDISTAN [non]. The trial of the Kurdish satellite channel Roj TV begins on Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark and will end with a verdict that either confirms or repudiates the alleged links between Roj TV and PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party or Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan). Read the story from kurdishrights.org: http://kurdishrights.org/2011/08/13/the-trial-of-roj-tv/ (August 14th, 2011 - 10:50 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) A.k.a. Voice of Mesopotamia on SW ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait --- Does anyone have the website and mailing address of Radio Kuwait. I just listened to a great broadcast today on 15540 that was coming in very loudly and clearly on this rainy Sunday. Any help would be appreciated (Ralph Sorrentino, Huntington, NY, Aug 14, ptsw yg via DXLD) WRTH lists it as info @ media.gov.kw (Harry Taylor, ibid.) ** LIBYA. Our new Wavescan correspondent in Italy, Luigi Cobisi, provides us with an update and a correction regarding our feature item on Radio Broadcasting in Libya. You will remember that Luigi Cobisi was previously a contributor to the popular DX program, DX Partyline, from HCJB in Quito Ecuador. However, now that the HCJB DX program has been discontinued, we are pleased to welcome Luigi and his excellent information to the AWR DX program Wavescan. In our feature item on the history of radio broadcasting in Libya, we made the statement that the first radio stations in their North African country were BFBS stations, British Forces Broadcasting Service stations, that were launched in 1946, in both Tripoli & Benghazi. However, Luigi states that there was an earlier broadcasting station in Libya, and their first broadcast was made on December 29, 1938. The station was launched in Tripoli as an official Arab version of the Italian Radio Broadcasting Service and the first programming honored Libyan & African musicians during a live broadcast. Programming was extended a few months later, and loud speakers carrying the radio programming were installed in the center of Tripoli. And yes, we have since discovered that our information files in Indianapolis do contain just one brief reference to this early mediumwave station in Libya, a short one line entry for this elusive station. This entry gives the callsign IITP, standing evidently for Italy Tripoli and the station was listed with 20 kW on the mediumwave channel 1104 kHz. Our information is found in the 1941 edition of the New Zealand publication, Radio Calls of the World; and Luigi’s information is taken from a doctoral dissertation in the Italian language. Our thanks to Luigi Cobisi in Italy for providing us with this interesting radio clue; and if any other listeners can provide us with corrected and updated radio information, we would always welcome your communication (Adrian Peterson, AWR Wavescan script for Aug 14, via DXLD) ** LIBYA. 17725, Voice of Africa, 1404-1415, August 11, English news at 1405-1406. IDs at 1406-1408. Local drums. Local African music. Weak, but readable (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 17725, Voice of Africa, 1425 Aug 11. English, ending program called “The Way to Freedom”, followed by “Voice of Africa, Radio Jamahiriyah, presents...”, a profile of Senegal. At 1512 checked and no signal heard; faded out or off? Fair-good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening lakeside from my car, with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17725, August 13 at 1413, the intermittent VOAFTGJ was on today, hilife music, fair signal; also heard before 1400 in presumed Swahili (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fighting reported near Libyan SW site --- There have been several tweets today (Saturday) reporting fighting in Sabratha (aka Sabratah, Sabrata), the coastal town between Tripoli and the Tunisian border, where the SW transmitters are. Watch 17725, 15215, 8500! (Chris Greenway, England, 1826 UT Aug 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I assume he meant today Sunday (gh) 17725 and 15215 seemed to be silent today (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, 2006 UT Aug 14, ibid.) Jean-Michel - On Saturday [sic] August 13, I guess on German TV news report were SW masts visible, hit by guerrilla forces. Probably close to Sabrata site? I'll check 17725 at 1200 UT this afternoon. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, 0911 UT Aug 15, ibid.) I also heard it here in Western Siberia between 13 and 14 but no signal at the moment (1410). (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia, Aug 15, HCDX via DXLD) 17725, V of Africa from Sabrata not on air at 1200 and check at 1210 UT today Aug 15. Clashes of the rebel guerrilla fighters on last Saturday [sic] again around and close to "oil refinery town of Az Zawiyah". TX center Sabrata located 38 km distance southwesterly of oil refinery town of Az Zawiyah. Libya started irregularly today Aug 15. Now at 1313 UT is Libya ON AIR in Swahili language. But then at 1316 UT again TX OFF again. And now at 1318 UT again on air. S=8 signal in Europe. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17725, Aug 15 at 1428, no signal. Chris Greenway pointed out that fighting was getting near to the Sabrata shortwave site yesterday; but V. of Africa has been quite sporadic anyway. Wolfgang Büschel says Sabrata is 38 km from Al Zawiyah, but 17725 had been on and off earlier Aug 15, 1313-1316*, *1318- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Schedule: English Days Area kHz 1400-1600 daily CAf,EAf 17725sab French Days Area kHz 1600-1800 daily Af 17725sab Hausa Days Area kHz 1800-2000 daily WAf 11805sab Swahili Days Area kHz 1200-1400 daily EAf 17725sab (presumably WRTH update via Wolfgang Buschel, dxldyg via DXLD) French is on 17725 from 1600 to 1700 and on 15215 from 1700 to 1800 15215 observed with good reception some weeks ago (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) As shown on a BBC TV news report on the 15th, Tripoli is now experiencing power cuts/outages, and maybe this is the reason for the breaks in transmission? BTW - where are the Tripoli medium wave transmitters located (1053, 1251 and 1404 kHz). (Noel R. Green (NW England), Aug 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 48 shortwave antennas at LBY Sabratah 48ant_500kW_90,130,160,180,230,270,340degr 32 35'57.00"N 12 20'35.00"E http://maps.google.de/maps?q=32%C2%B035%2757.00%22N++12%C2%B020%2735.00%22E&hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=32.595117,12.342519&spn=0.027334,0.055747&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.897603,57.084961&vpsrc=6&t=f&z=15&ecpose=32.57810118,12.34329759,3272.05,-2.209,30.676,0 LBY Tripoli km 8 westwards MW 1053 50kW; 1404 20kW 32 51'32.39"N 13 04'39.83"E http://maps.google.de/maps?q=32%C2%B051%2732.39%22N++13%C2%B004%2739.83%22E&hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=32.858672,13.077765&spn=0.003407,0.006968&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.897603,57.084961&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=18 4 mast in the background http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/30852093.jpg LBY Tripoli km 16 westwards MW, former 558 kHz 300kW; 1251kHz 500kW 32 49'48.44"N 12 59'43.15"E http://maps.google.de/maps?q=32%C2%B049%2748.44%22N++12%C2%B059%2743.15%22E&hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=32.830116,12.996579&spn=0.006816,0.013937&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.897603,57.084961&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=17 http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/36085277.jpg http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/18668144.jpg 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17725, August 16 at 1348, no signal from V. of Africa; it`s been so sporadic anyway that we have no idea whether rebel attacks approaching the Sabrata site and/or power outages are the cause (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Great Jamaheriya radio on 8500 --- Hello DXers, while checking Libya on SW band I noticed that 8500 kHz was on around 1545 UT; no other SW frequencies for Libya are on. Mainly chat about Ramadan and fasting. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Aug 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello DXers, I have been monitoring Liby for the last couple of hours and here's my report: 8500 khz went silent around 1730 UT and till now 1930 it is still silent. About the MW frequencies in Tripoli: 1251 is having voice of Africa I picked up an ID around 1920 UT with the news in Arabic followed by the news in Swahili 1053 is having religious programs with Qur`an recitation; didn't manage to catch any ID but I reckon it is the Great Jamaheriya Radio 972: I can't trace any sign of Libya on that frequency. The opposition frequencies of 675, 1125 and 1449 are having Radio Free Libya according to the cities they are transmitting from: 675, R. Free Libya from Benghazi 1125, R. Free Libya from the Green Mountain 1449, R. Free Libya from Musrata All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, 1940 UT Aug 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA FREE. BBC LAUNCHES FM RADIO IN BENGHAZI AND MISRATA The BBC has announced the launch of World Service content on FM radio in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Misrata. BBC Arabic has an established audience in Libya on TV as well as SW and MW radio has extended its to FM radio. The programming is principally in Arabic, with the addition of the World Service English Newshour programme once a day. Liliane Landor, BBC Controller of Languages, said: “This year has been a very difficult one for Libyans. It is important for local people to have access to news and information that they can trust, and the BBC has experience of delivering that. We know the people of Libya are keen listeners of BBC Arabic and they regularly participate in our interactive programmes, use our Arabic web service and watch BBC Arabic TV. The new FMs will give the people of Benghazi and Misrata somewhere to turn to for news they can trust and know is accurate.” The new FM radio services, both on 91.5 MHz, are now live in Benghazi and Misrata. Output is predominantly the live stream of BBC Arabic radio with the WS English Newshour 1300 UTC edition incorporated. (Source: BBC World Service Publicity)(August 12th, 2011 - 16:19 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) BBC LANZA UNA EMISORA DE RADIO AL SERVICIO DE LOS REBELDES EN LIBIA [sic] Por: Elespectador.com Este jueves comenzaron las emisiones en Bengasi y Misrata. La radiotelevisión británica BBC inició este jueves emisiones de una radio FM en las ciudades rebeldes libias de Bengasi y Misrata, informó el grupo mediático. BBC Arabic ya opera con un canal de televisión en Libia y con una emisora de media y onda corta "y tenemos el placer de extender nuestra oferta a la radio FM", anunció el grupo en un comunicado. Las emisiones serán en lengua árabe, con un programa informativo en inglés una vez al día. Liliane Landor, directora de lenguas de la BBC, aseguró que "este año ha sido muy difícil para los libios. Es importante para la población local tener acceso a noticias y a información que pueda creer y la BBC tiene experiencia en ello", agregó. Los rebeldes libios de Misrata atacaron el jueves la ciudad cercana de Tuarga con el fin de detener el lanzamiento de misiles que impactan sobre su ciudad casi a diario, seis meses después del inicio de la revuelta contra el régimen del líder libio Muamar Gadafi. Reino Unido es uno de los países que participan en la campaña militar libia, dirigida por la OTAN por mandato de la ONU con el fin de proteger a los civiles. FUENTE: http://bit.ly/qMaJu8 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Aug 11, DXLD) ** LIBYA [non]. Libya propaganda, RE: ``At the beginning of the air war, the United States dispatched its secret, specially outfitted C- 130J transport plane known as "Commando Solo" to warn Libyan ships to stay in port or risk being destroyed by NATO.`` Why is Murray Brewster claiming this is a "secret" operation? The 183rd has QSLed me (and presumably others) by snail mail and in person for the old over-Haiti operations on 1035 kHz and for the old Radio Martí relays on 530 over the Straits of Florida. They've allowed visitors to walk through the airframe from front to back, giving us the opportunity to view all of the transmitters and receivers, when on display at airshows. They've even sold cloth arm patches and other trinkets in person, the proceeds going to? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, Aug 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noch immer werden aus einem Flugzeug Propaganda-Sendungen gegen die Regierung in Libyen in englischer und arabischer Sprache auf 10125 kHz in SSB-USB ausgesendet. Das 30-m-Band ist kein Exklusivband (Ulrich Bihlmayer, DJ9KR; via Deutschlandrundspruch des DARC Aug 11 via BC-DX Aug 12 via DXLD) see also RUSSIA [and non] ** MADAGASCAR. 5010, 1936, Radio Madagascar now transmitting here in LSB (AM and USB almost inaudible), vgd with accented French ident 23/7. Runs extended sked Saturdays, Also vgd 2018 30/7 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MADEIRA. 1530, PEF [Posto Emissor do Funchal?], Poiso (ex- Encruzilhadas), 1334-..., 07/8, songs, news bulletin, station slogans, advertisements, music; 35453. They finally moved to the new site of Poiso, near Chão dos Balcões, where 1530 is served by a 60 m high tower which I believe is a folded dipole so as to include the VHF-FM antennae on top. The old Harris transmitter is not kept at 10 kW for a number of reasons, viz. costs reduction and the age of the tx itself; power level is in the region of 3 kW only. Meanwhile, the old tower at Encruzilhadas is expected to be dismantled until [meaning by] September next. It's quite a change in their daytime signal which I last logged on 16/7, rated 25342, weak audio, then found them putting an unusually strong signal evenings, and the daytime observation on the 7th confirmed something had changed for the better: today, I was told the move is nearly a fortnight old. RTP MW stations: The remaining active transmitters at 1125 Ponta do Pargo and 1332 Sr.ª do Monte were shut down, possibly due to costs saving. Needless to say the only remaining active station on MW is PEF (see above). (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. MALÁSIA, 7295, Traxx FM via RTM, Kajang, 1537-1610, 09/8, English, pops, a few talks; 15431, but improving, but then adjacnt QRM degrades reception (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM/RTM Kajang, 1036, M & W announcers in listed Malaysian; passing mention of Malaysia over music at 1038; (Tentative) jingle and ad/string; poor; 8/9 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Bamako. August 13, 0930-0940 male in French talks, Tribal music (child voice and strings), female talks back Tribal music. 34433 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9635, RTVM, *0800-0835, August 17, abrupt sign on with vernacular talk. Local instrumental music. Local tribal music. Fair (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6009.9, R. Mil, Mexico City 0951-1005 Spanish; Pops at tune/in; M announcer at ToH into martial/anthem type music and ID at 1002; ad/string; brief announcer and back to music; p-f with dramatic improvement in audio at ToH; 8/8 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. REPRESIÓN EN LA ONDAS HERTIZANAS EN YUCATÁN La situación en México de las estaciones de radio siempre ha sido asunto incómodo para el gobierno y su sistema gubernamental, independientemente de su orientación política. Ya hace algún tiempo. No hace poco dirigentes del STIRT (Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Radio y la Televisión), tentáculo del PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) el cual durante casi tres cuartos de siglo gobernó México, se proclamaron contra las radio comunitarias con el afán de proteger el sistema “establecido” de las emisoras comerciales y no comerciales . De igual forma arremetieron contra las emisoras en situación “irregular”. Pues bien, recientemente en Yucatán, personal de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), la Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada en Delitos Federales (SIEDF), la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL), Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Trasportes (SCT) y Policía Federal Ministerial, todas ellas instancias fuereñas que se intrometen en asuntos de Yucatán, desmantelaron una radiodifusora de FM en la colonia Chenkú, aquí en Mérida en cumplimiento a una orden de cateo y asegurando equipo de cómputo, transmisión y recepción así como su acervo de audio: http://www.sipse.com/noticias/116414-desmantelan-merida-radiodifusora-pirata.html No tardaron los medios en festejar la “hazaña” cometida por las “autoridades” y besarles la mano por hacer cumplir el “respeto irrestricto al estado democrático de derecho y mantiene su compromiso con la sociedad de combatir frontalmente cualquier manifestación de delito” http://www.gruporivas.com.mx/noticias/?p=47869 ¿Desde cuando es un delito la libertad de expresión? ¿Acaso tienen miedo que sea una emisora zapatista o talibán? ¿Porqué se orinan los pantalones y tienen tanto miedo a los medios de comunicación independientes? ¿Por qué tanto requisito para establecer difusoras hasta el grado de considerar peligrosos delincuentes a una simple señal de radio? Por lo visto, toda esta gente hace esto para que el pueblo diga que “están trabajando” cuando en realidad solo vienen a meterse en asuntos que sólo nos corresponden a los yucatecos con su prepotencia que los caracteriza sintiéndose superiores a nosotros, cometiendo abusos contra la ciudadanía en completa impunidad y apoderándose de las propiedades de los demás. De nadie es un secreto la corrupción en el sistema; ¿por qué no van tras la delincuencia organizada? ¿Por qué los crímenes se encuentran sin resolver? Ya estamos hartos que sólo vengan a jugar a policías y ladrones. ¡Qué se regresen a su tierra de origen! ¡Fuera de aquí y llévense su podredumbre! Queremos de nuevo el Yucatán tranquilo de antes. Atte: (Ing. Civ. Israel González Ahumda, M.I., Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sporadic-E TVDX: Turning on at 1502 UT August 13, I find Spanish from the south in progress on channel 2 analog. In and out, with CCI, one station at 1508 with much louder audio than the other; 1510 Azteca-7 net promo at normal audio level, back to `Los Hechiceros de Waverly Place` dubbed US sitcom, and the announcer also speaks the translated program title as is customary in México. 1522 a glimpse of a local ID in small white letters upper-left corner, but could not make it out, and soon removed and faded. These appear at roughly 30- minute intervals automatically, but you never know just when to expect them. Seems same sitcom still fading up occasionally to 1555. Az-7 on 2 is usually XHTAU Tampico, but this one seemed to peak more to the SSW, so maybe XHDRG Durango or XHCSA in Chihuahua with almost ten times the power of DRG. At 1602 UT, ch 2 had very rapid flutter fading for several seconds from signal at same antenna heading, probably Perseid meteor scatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. UNID, 4755.463, probably FSM The Cross R, Pacific Missionary? Is that service on air at present? Modern pop music at 1240 UT. But could be a Brazilian station instead? Aug 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably via California SDR like his MYANMAR log. That would be too late for Brazil, and: (gh, DXLD) 4755.4, The Cross, 1325 Aug 11. Christian songs, 1332 woman with ID, songs continued and were noted on several checks till 1430, when signal had almost faded out. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening lakeside from my car, with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755, PMA-The Cross Radio (tentative). August 13, 0941-0956 male talks alternating soft music (sometimes sounding like Folk music). Too weak to be Brasil, although the weak propagation today; 25422. 73’s (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5770.018 (Tentative), Myanmar Defence Forces radio station, from Taungyyi area. S=6 poor to weak, just above threshold, heard on remote SDR radio in CA-USA. 1245 UT Aug 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 7185.74, Radio Myanma, Yangon. 1113-1120 August 14, 2011. Clear but low audio with female talking in presumed Burmese (or does the government prefer to call it Myanmaese?). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Terry, Very nice selection of logs. Am pleased to see that Myanmar was making it all the way over to you. August 14 they were especially good till 1219:53*. One of their better days, per attached audio. Thanks for posted your items. Always enjoy reading them (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, cc to DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Victor Goonetilleke wrote: > Myanmar increased strength and quality on 7185.75m 0030-0300, > 1030-1220 aprox. No question about it, Myanmar doing very well these days. Hi Victor, Hope all is well in Sri Lanka! You are of course right about Myanmar. I continue to be surprised at how well they are being heard on 7185.75. Attached audio is of today's reception of their usual signature indigenous theme music played every day at 1220. Today suddenly off the air at 1224:34. Good listening! (Ron Howard, Aug 17, cc to DXLD) ** MYANMAR [and non]. MYANMAR PAPERS LIFT SLOGANS ATTACKING FOREIGN MEDIA Myanmar’s state-run newspapers dropped back-page banners attacking Western media for the first time in four years today, the latest indication its new government could be softening its stance towards opposition voices. Three official newspapers dropped half-page slogans that were running daily, accusing the Voice of America (VOA) and the BBC of “sowing hatred among the people”, and other Western media of “generating public outrage”. The slogans also told readers not to be swayed by “killer broadcasts designed to cause troubles”. They had been a fixture in state newspapers since a bloody army crackdown on monk-led protests in August 2007. The BBC, VOA and two other foreign news organisations provide local-language news bulletins on shortwave radio frequencies and satellite television that are primary news sources for many people in the former Burma. Myanmar’s government has long struggled to control overseas’ news. Removing the slogans is seen as the latest gesture of openness since elections last year ended five decades of army rule and ushered in a civilian-led administration. Some private media, which routinely exercise self-censorship, have run stories recently quoting lawmakers critical of government policies and the country’s reclusive Information Ministry announced last week it had formed a “Spokespersons and Information Team” to assist journalists. State newspapers have also been less critical of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the figurehead of Myanmar’s democracy movement who was freed last year when her period of house arrest expired. However, Myanmar’s television media remains strictly controlled by the government, foreign journalists are still mostly barred from legally reporting in the country and most foreign media websites remain blocked. Most expect Western sanctions to remain in place until an estimated 2,100 political prisoners are released (Source: Reuters)(August 17th, 2011 - 10:12 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** NEPAL. RADIO NEPAL'S POKHARA STATION ON 684 KHZ RUNNING ON GENERATOR AS POWER SUPPLY CUT OFF A report published in "The Himalayan" says The Nepal Electricity Authority cut off power supply to 15 government offices in Pokhara after they failed to clear power bills within a 15-day deadline, among them was the western regional broadcasting centre of Radio Nepal, the state-owned broadcaster. According to NEA (Pokhara), Radio Nepal’s broadcasting centre owes it Rs 63,00,000. Durganath Regmi, chief of Radio Nepal’s regional broadcasting centre, said, “The power cut-off has not affected transmission from the broadcasting centre. The only thing is that we will have to rely on generators, which will cost a lot more.” (Source: The Himalayan) --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Aug 10, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) Wonder if SW 5005 has similar problem (gh, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. DUTCH AUTHORITIES GET TOUGH WITH RADIO PIRATES Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands will soon launch a new tougher policy to deal with pirate radio stations, according to a report in De Telegraaf. The illegal broadcasters may soon have a fine of 2,500 euros imposed on them as soon as half an hour after they receive a warning letter. This the agency’s latest move in a cat and mouse game with the pirates. It used to take months before someone was punished for illegal broadcasting. That has been reduced to several weeks, and could now be cut to half an hour under the new policy. There have already been 1600 warnings this year, and 60 people have been fined. The fine is not necessarily for the pirate, but for the owner of the land which is used for broadcasting. The radio pirates have responded by adapting their methods. They are now increasingly using mobile stations, so after receiving a warning letter they simply move to a different place to broadcast. The collapsible masts used for the broadcasts are sometimes more than forty metres high. The Radiocommunications Agency wants to introduce its new policy as soon as possible, so that these “nomadic broadcasters” cannot escape punishment. The pirates sometimes interfere with legal broadcasters, and can also interfere with air traffic communications (August 16th, 2011 - 10:55 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. KBC RADIO TO START MEDIUMWAVE TESTS ON 19 AUGUST Dutch-based KBC Radio carries the following updated announcement on its website: “KBC has received a test license for 531 kHz in Burg Germany. We start testing on Friday the 19th on AM 531. More dates coming tonight. “We are trying to return on SW in November 2011. Minimum power is 100 kW. We are also checking if we can beam again to the USA on shortwave. “For reception reports please mail to KBC531 @ gmail.com or write to The Mighty KBC, Argonstraat 6, 6718 WT Ede, The Netherlands. Send 2 USD if you want to receive our Mighty KBC QSL card.” (Source: KBC Radio)(August 16th, 2011 - 15:19 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) 1 Comment on “KBC Radio to start mediumwave tests on 19 August” #1 Jonathan Marks on Aug 16th, 2011 at 15:35 I wish them success - and tons of money keeping that transmitter going. It’s an expensive hobby! (MN blog comment via DXLD) I wonder which Burg in Germany this station is testing on 531 from. According to a National Geographic Atlas there are 4 places in Germany with that name and also what would be the connection with Holland? Is this going to be a domestic service of RNW? None of the Burgs are close enough to Holland for this station to throw a local signal into Holland so I wonder what the objective is. I think that 531 is not a frequency allocated to Holland and if that's the case and it can only be used in Germany then why is the transmitter site so far away. The nearest town called Burg is 90 miles north-east of the Dutch border and the next one more than 200 miles due east. A third one is 200 miles north-east near Denmark and the fourth is almost 300 miles east. And all are small towns shown as the smallest of location dots in the atlas. Is anyone in radioland attempting to log this station when it becomes active? It'll be interesting if a signal on the lowest medium wave frequency in Europe will travel across the pond in the middle of summer. Perhaps the IRCA guy in eastern Newfoundland can try his luck at snagging this one (Bill in BC Kral, Aug 17, IRCA via DXLD) Why do you think this has anything to do with RNW?? Unfortunately the supposedly comprehensive EMWG does not have any German on 531, yet: http://www.hermanboel.eu/emwg/online-mw1.htm (Glenn Hauser, Aug 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: KBC RADIO ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE OF TESTS ON 531 KHZ Dutch-based KBC Radio has received a test licence for 531 kHz in Burg, Germany and will start testing on Friday 19 August. The test schedule for the next few weeks is as follows, UT: Friday 19 August 1700-2200 Saturday 20 August 0500-0700 and 1800-2300 Sunday 21 August 1000-1200 and 1800-2100 Monday 22 August - Thursday 25 August 1800-2100 Friday 26 August 1700-2200 Saturday 27 August 0700-0700 & 1800-2300 Sunday 28 August 1000-1200 & 1800-2100 Monday/Tuesday 29/30 August 1800-2100 Wednesday 31 August 0800-1000 Thursday 1 September 1900-2100 Friday 2 September 1700-2100 Saturday 3 September 1000-1400 & 1800-2100 Sunday 4 September 1000-1200 & 1800-2100 Monday 5 September/Tuesday 6 September 1800-2100 Wednesday 7 September 0800-1000 Thursday 8 September 1900-2100 Friday 9 September 1700-2100 Saturday 10 September 1000-1400 & 1800-2100 Sunday 11 September 1000-1200 & 1800-2100 Monday 12 September 1800-2100 Tuesday 13 September 0400-0600 Wednesday 14 September 0800-1000 Thursday 15 September/Friday 16 September 1700-2100 Saturday 17 September 0500-0700 & 1800-2100 Sunday 18 September 1000-1200 & 1800-2100 Monday 19 September 1800-2100 Tuesday 20 September 0400-0600 Wednesday 21 September 0800-1000 Thursday 22 September/Friday 23 September 1700-2100 Saturday 24 September 1000-1400 & 1800-2100 Further tests are planned to run till the end of October. The KBC Radio website adds: “We are trying to return on SW in November 2011. Minimum power is 100 kW. We are also checking if we can beam again to the USA on shortwave. “For reception reports please mail to KBC531 @ gmail.com or write to The Mighty KBC, Argonstraat 6, 6718 WT Ede, The Netherlands. Send 2 USD if you want to receive our Mighty KBC QSL card.” (Source: KBC Radio)(August 17th, 2011 - 10:00 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) 5 Comments on “KBC Radio announces schedule of tests on 531 kHz” #1 Jonathan Marks on Aug 16th, 2011 at 15:35 I wish them success - and tons of money keeping that transmitter going. It’s an expensive hobby! #2 Poul Foged on Aug 17th, 2011 at 10:17 Does anyone know whether it’ll be KBC Radio or Big L programmes. #3 Andy Sennitt on Aug 17th, 2011 at 10:25 These are test transmissions, not regular programmes, and Big L has no financial involvement in the project. It’s very unlikely that the tests will even be audible in the UK. #4 Roy Sandgren on Aug 17th, 2011 at 13:26 I’m not sure that I did listen to 531 kHz Burg on my car radio when it was DDR times. Noted that a second 531 kHz was on air from Greifswald with 5 kW, this into the 90-ties.can be that TX i tuned in in south of Sweden, Malmo. #5 Glenn Hauser on Aug 17th, 2011 at 21:13 Perhaps it`s obvious to Europeans, but a [North] American is wondering which of the four Burgs in Germany (found in atlas) 531 will be coming from? And is no one concerned about Faroe Island co-channel? Perhaps it`s obvious to Europeans, but an American is wondering which of the four Burgs in Germany (found in atlas) 531 will be coming from? And is no one concerned about Faroe Island co-channel? #6 Kai Ludwig on Aug 17th, 2011 at 22:14 Ha! As a child I had the idea it would be the one in the famous Spreewald region when seeing Burg listed in the program guide (which had daily two pages reserved for radio, always illustrated, including many photos taken in the studios). Of course no transmitters there; next one was a small 1 kW, on 1584 kHz I think, at Cottbus. This is about the Burg northeast of Magdeburg, on the routes from there to Berlin. It is the largest East German MW/LW site, in its hey- day in the eighties with 1 x 1000 kW (783 kHz), 2 x 250 kW (657, 1575 kHz) and 1 x 20 kW (1089 kHz) on mediumwave plus a 200 kW longwave transmitter for Radio Volga, the Soviet forces station that had its studios pretty close to the famous Glienicker Brücke at Potsdam. No 531 kHz there at this time, it was instead in use with 100 kW from Wiederau, a small village near the town of Pegau, usually listed as “Leipzig”. In 1996 the sites for 531 and 783 kHz have been swapped because Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk found the interference from Beromünster unbearable. Of course by doing so they sacrificed quite a lot of groundwave coverage. The mentioned 5 kW transmitter at Greifswald carried in the past the same programming as the Wiederau main transmitter, Radio DDR 1. Groundwave accross the Baltic Sea during daytime of course would have been rather Greifswald, but for the skywave mix it would hardly have been more than a slight subaudible heterodyne and/or reverb. And Faroe island is still a DX catch in Central Europe. Dominating station on 531 kHz is now, with Beromünster being shut down, Algeria. In Switzerland it was a major problem, resulting in the establishment of the separate 1566 kHz nighttime channel, which again led on the 1975 Geneve conference to the agreement that the Wiederau transmitter may use 531 kHz, too. One question remains: Is it believed that East Germans will have a major interest in this kind of English-language programming? If the hope is to reach Berlin and maybe Leipzig: Not in listenable quality. Not with the 10 kW transmitter brought in to Burg for Truckradio (the old tube gear is of course long gone). Ah, and since 100 kW are the “minimum power” for the intended shortwave transmissions they may well be run by the same provider. (MN blog comments via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Re 11-32: 5 Comments on “Technical adjustments to temporary signal on 648 kHz” [via Orfordness, England] #1 Kim Elliott on Aug 8th, 2011 at 13:00 One of the secrets to a happy life is 2 dB less bass and 2 dB extra treble… #2 Kai Ludwig on Aug 8th, 2011 at 21:36 Which of course first requires a sufficient amount of modulation. Sounds trite? Maybe, but there indeed appear to be people who think that a giant carrier is all that is needed. And another secret: It is well worth [it] to send out the OBV [outside broadcast vehicle] to a venue completely unrelated to the program format the radio station runs. It could make a big change, even without a complete relaunch. In the meantime these two decibels suffice to eliminate the muffled appearance. But what counts in the end is how the whole affair sounds in the car and on a ghetto blaster. #3 Jim on Aug 10th, 2011 at 22:21 The audio does sound far more crisp with that change in place, but has NPO considered sending the transmission provider an unprocessed feed to the transmission provider? That would allow the Optimod on-site to do all the work, as it should be doing. #4 Bob Baird on Aug 12th, 2011 at 14:23 Get Peter Chicago on to it - he worked wonders on the offshore radio transmitters! #5 Kai Ludwig on Aug 13th, 2011 at 10:21 Meanwhile I got an opinion about Radio 1 on satellite: Studio talk is pretty much compressed there. So it is really no surprise how it comes out on 648 kHz, with excessively loud breathing noises as particular issue. My contact has not caught Radio 1 playing music so far, thus has no complete picture yet. And this way Radio 1 is indeed a different story than RNW, here the “RNW 1? feed with the Dutch programming. He says it’s basically “clean”, without thick compression, instead with talkshows having a classic radio sound of condenser mics worked not too closely. It would be pretty good, but there is another issue: MPEG artifacts and mush, clearly inferior to what can be achieved with the 192 kbps in use, sounding rather like a cheap 128 kbps feed. My contact says it reminds him of past issues with ARD services, caused by a certain configuration of a certain encoder model (I feel it would be inappropriate to mention it in public here). Another reason can of course simply be multiple reencodings (MN blog comments via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9650, Aug 17 at 1324, RNW Dutch is atop CRI in English! So continues this longstanding collision ignored by frequency managers of both stations, but before long it will be moot as RN`s Dutch service is doomed. CRI is via Sackville and ought to have a dominant signal across North America, while RNW is 200 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, so they just can`t believe there would be a collision as far as central North America. Directly off the back of the 200 antenna would be 20 degrees USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA SOUTH [non]; SAUDI ARABIA [and non] 13700, GERMANY, Radio Netherlands at 1528 with an edition of “Souvenirs of War” from “The State We're In” - Fair Aug 17 – according to RN's website this is supposed to be Dutch programming. Perhaps the slashing of Dutch services is happening right before our ears? -- (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Or feed mixup, which happens too often with them (gh, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. DOES PUBLIC BROADCASTING HAVE A FUTURE IN NZ? IF PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS TO SURVIVE IT MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES By Chris Whitworth The National government’s current media policies read like an obituary for public broadcasting. TVNZ’s charter has been laid to rest, TVNZ 6 kicked the bucket last year and the writing’s on the wall for TVNZ 7. Radio New Zealand is considered by many the last beacon of hope for public broadcasting, but even that is on life support. Last night Auckland’s Unitec held a timely forum on reinventing public broadcasting in New Zealand. A media panel discussed how technology and new thinking can cut a fresh path for public broadcasting in New Zealand. Host and business columnist Rod Oram says the old model of public broadcasting no longer works. But says a new business model and the merging of old and new media will breathe life into the public service. “The conventional model of public broadcasting is pretty dead; it’s certainly dead [in terms of] where the Government stands on those issues,” he says. “If we learn how to do things in better and more interesting ways we will reclaim [the public’s] interest.” He says a move online is the “obvious choice” but not necessarily the best. “It’s not just a case of the widest possible audience but also the greatest possible convenience.” The forum comes just days after Radio New Zealand announced a possible venture into television. John Barnett the CEO of South Pacific Pictures, who is working with RNZ on the deal, was on the panel and says “National Television” could offer high quality content at a low price. He says the station would broadcast 18 hours a day and mix Radio New Zealand’s existing content with fresh local content and overseas news, documentaries and current affairs. “At its core would be the current affairs and the news and the debate and discussion that we currently have and I think that it would invigorate Radio New Zealand,” says Mr Barnett. But other panellists fear without sufficient funding the service would become simply a webcam in a radio studio – the public forced to watch “talking heads”. Panellist Terri Bryne, broadcast manager for Planet FM, says public broadcasting must start from the ground up. She says communities are already creating their own content and resources should be utilised to build on this. “Just doing it is the best solution,” she says. Ms Bryne says if local communities are encouraged to generate their own content, a natural audience will grow, the Government will take notice, and “policy will follow the people”. However, Mr Oram says public broadcasting will be ineffective unless it has the required size and gravitas to throw its weight behind national issues. “Politics and business is a very bruising experience where powerful people, powerful organisations throw their weight around and you are either an incredibly feisty, strong-minded individual or your better off having a large organisation behind you.” Mr Barnett made this point clear saying even Radio New Zealand sometimes struggled to get airtime from politicians, who did not perceive them to have a large enough audience. Underlying the discussion was a tension between creating quality content without reliance on Government funding. State money has always dictated public broadcasting on a national-scale in New Zealand but the way media is created and distributed is changing. It’s just not clear how public broadcasting fits into this new landscape. Mr Oram says New Zealand’s small size rules out pay-per-view broadcasting like that in the UK. He suggests public broadcasting look to the St John’s ambulance business model, which blends the use of volunteers with professionals. Media in New Zealand has reached an interesting crossroad. Next year is the digital switch over and ultra-fast broadband rollout, and if public broadcasting is to survive it must move with the times. Everyone, at this meeting at least, saw a future for public service media but the battle for the medium may be more important than the content itself. Talk of a move online may be prudent but with the online market in New Zealand already a highly competitive place for news and current affairs, public service online may have its work cut out. Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Does-public-broadcasting-have-a-future-in-NZ/tabid/421/articleID/221981/Default.aspx#ixzz1V0DBb4WI (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** NIGER. 9705, LV du Sahel, Niamey, 2101-2143 French; audible after Ethiopia s/off with continuous format of M announcer with lengthy talks between bits of vocal chants by same; fair at best; 8/7 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Nice propagation toward Africa on MW on Sunday, 14th. Here some tips in Bocca di Magra (Liguria, Italy) with Eton E1 and LFL 1010 Wellbrook loop. 594, 2021, FRCN Kaduna, Nigeria, talks in Hausa mentioning Nigeria too, fair in LSB to avoid Morocco on 595 917, 2015, Radio Gotel, Yola, Nigeria, talks in Vernacular, in LSB to avoid 918 kHz strong QRM, poor. Buoni DX a tutti (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, August 12 at 0523, with hum, V. of Nigeria in financial news about the naira. RFA reported to have quit the frequency, so we hoped CNR1 jamming would too; yet, there was still some QRM under VON. O, CRI Beijing site is still scheduled on 15120 at 03-07 per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: more QRM is back Abuja-Lugbe F.Pl. --- Another GE imagery update of this site. Still no HT power poles to site? Anyone heard anything more about this site status? (Ian Baxter, NSW, Aug 16, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) In May they said it will be on "in the next few months". 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 102.3, August 12 around 2000 UT as I was in NW OKC, could hear intermittently Alex Jones, and hourtop ID a minute late only as GCN radio network; some co-channel QRM, since this pirate has been tracked to the SE side of the city. Same far-right wingnuts used to appear on 107.1 from the central part of OKC with better coverage to the NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.1, UT Monday August 15 at 0515, Harry Shearer`s `Le Show` is in progress via KWOU Woodward, interview about Pfizer avoiding taxes. That makes a semi-convenient time for us to hear it on the KGOU network, 0500 UT Mondays. I see on their schedule they also have `Joe Frank` 24 hours earlier at 0500 UT Sundays, before going to BBC overnight relays at 0600. Also webcasts via http://www.kgou.org (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. MAN STILL ON TULSA RADIO TOWER ONE DAY LATER http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110812_11_0_Amanwh951596 A man who climbed a radio tower at 27th Street and Memorial Drive Thursday has now been in the air more than 24 hours with no signs of relenting, police said. The 25-year-old man, who police said has a history of mental health problems, made it about two-thirds of the way up the tower near the Clear Channel Communications studios in a rain-and-lightning storm shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday. He has been up the tower since, only touching the ground once and climbing up again before he could be apprehended by Special Operations Team members, said Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham. The incident has drawn crowds at times, with families with young children watching the spectacle Thursday evening. People could be seen in and around their vehicles watching the man Friday morning. Shari Keim and her daughter, Stephanie, were parked watching the man through binoculars Friday morning. Shari Keim said the unusual nature of the incident and the opportunity to see how police handle such a situation was a draw. “It’s unbelievable he could stay up there this long,” Shari Keim said. They live near the area and heard officers talking to the man over a loudspeaker. “It’s intriguing,” Stephanie Keim said. “At first I was sad for him. It’s kind of irritating now.” At one point Thursday, the man “made the statement: ‘what are these people thinking?’” to officers on the ground, referring to the spectators, particularly the children, Willingham said. The man is a topic of conversation on the social networking site Twitter, where Clear Channel radio hosts were sending updates to their followers. The man was given water once Thursday evening but has not been given any food, Willingham said. He was seen on the roof of the building Wednesday but was chased off, Willingham said. He returned the next day and climbed the tower. Willingham said he does not have a substantial criminal history, but officers are aware of a history of mental health problems. On Thursday evening a police Special Operations Team member climbed roughly halfway to where the man was on the tower and left a plastic bag containing a cell phone and water for him. The officer then climbed back to the ground, and the man retrieved the bag. He then climbed back up to a spot about 90 feet above the ground and talked to police on the cell phone. It initially appeared that the man was contemplating suicide, but as Thursday wore on, he indicated that he just needed some time, Willingham said. Assuming that the man comes down safely, police probably will cite him for trespassing and will take him to a mental health facility, Willingham said. He did not anticipate that the man would be jailed (via Kevin Redding, Aug 12, ABDX via DXLD) It`s obviously a studio-transmitter link tower, self-supporting so relatively easy to climb and perch on it; and little if any danger from the small amounts of RF coming off it (gh, DXLD) TULSA TOWER MAN RETURNS TO GROUND AND IS HOSPITALIZED Posted: Aug 17, 2011 11:37 AM Updated: Aug 17, 2011 12:53 PM TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A man who finally came down from an Oklahoma TV tower he scaled last week has been hospitalized. The 25-year-old man came down Tuesday night after six days on a Clear Channel communications tower. Video posted on KTUL-TV's website showed the man climbing into a lift Tuesday night that was attached to a Tulsa Fire Department ladder truck. Police spokesman Leland Ashley tells The Associated Press that the man was taken to a hospital for treatment of dehydration. Ashley says he will probably be transferred to a mental health facility for observation. Ashley says he's not sure if the man will face charges. He says the only possible charge would be for trespassing. The man had been on the tower since Thursday (Newschannel6, Wichita Falls via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Some 55 years ago, I was a "stringer" for channel 4. In those days it was still WKY-TV and was owned by OPubCo. Each and every one of its on-air news people had to use a fake name, one that the station owned, so that any on-air reputation they managed to achieve could not be taken anywhere else! For instance, Jim Terrell was known to the audience as "Grant Foster" while Ross Cummings was known as "Reed Connelley." And then there was Ed Foster/Frank McGee. On the few occasions that I went on the air "live" from a remote location (actually faked from a news truck in the fleet garage), I was "Doug Knight." The practice of "shunning" the talent to prevent them from taking any reputation to another station is definitely nothing new, nor is it confined to the current management (Jim Kyle, Aug 5 okctalk.com via DXLD) Axually, Frank McGee was ``Mack Rogers`` when at WKY-TV. Boy, were we surprised when at NBC the same guy became Frank McGee (presumably his real name) (Glenn Hauser, OKC & Enid, DX LISTENINGN DIGST) ** OKLAHOMA. K48KE, OETA Buffalo: see USA, grouped with TX TVDX ** PAKISTAN. FLASHBACK: THIS IS RADIO PAKISTAN http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/14/flashback-this-is-radio-pakistan.html (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Radio Pakistan with surprisingly very strong signal - 15265 kHz, 1755 Aug 16: I was very surprised to hear very good reception of Radio Pakistan with clear IDs at 1800 in presumed Urdu, following a selection of Qawwali or similar music. This was while sitting outside with a Tecsun PL-660 and its supplied antenna (15-20 ft.) Best reception of Pakistan ever! (Bruce Fisher, visiting in Connecticut, USA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1204, August 14. The start of the usual Sunday syndicated Christian religious program “Beyond Today” in English; chatting about gay marriages and cultural war; almost fair. 5960, R. Fly, 1123-1201, August 14. YL DJ in Tok Pisin playing pop and island songs (The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin On”, etc.); poor; unable to hear 3915 and believe not repaired yet (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. Radio Nacional del Paraguay is replacing the transmitter on 920 kHz with a new Harris 100 kW. Since 2002 the power has been 20 kW. Future plans include two new radio stations – one in the southern and another in the northern part of Paraguay. This to strengthen public broadcasts in the country (Levi P. Iversen, Paraguay, ARC SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS DESK Aug 2011, Tore B. Vik, ed., via DXLD) ** PERU. 1400, Callao, Súper Radio regular again this winter, good & clear 0445 25/7 with Spanish report on Copa Americana match Uruguay vs Paraguay. Regular idents (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 15285, 0159, Radio Pilipinas Manila opening with fair signal in English but noisy transmitter 18/7. Parallel 11880 heard at weak level (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9520, August 17 at 1326, very heavy CCI producing a fast rippling SAH, the top station being R. Veritas Asia, with IS at 1327, ID in English, ``from Quezon City, following program in Sinhala on 9.520 MHz at 2030 hours UTC``. Can`t be 2030, but that`s what it sounded like, also a minute later repeating announcement with slightly different wording. Much stronger than Indonesia 9525-. The CCI continues past 1330. Consulting HFCC, you do not find anything but RVA here, but in Aoki there is PBS Nei Menggu, Hohhot, China, at 0950- 1605. Perhaps the ChiCom should register their domestic transmissions; why not?? In this case it`s not a disguised jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non: PAKISTAN]. RADIO VERITAS APPEALS TO CHURCH The program director of Radio Veritas Asia has urged local bishops to make the Church-run radio station an integral part of their pastoral plans. “We need more cooperation from the local Church. It is an excellent institution for promoting our programs but has been slow in doing so,” said Manila-based Father Gabriel Htun Myint. He was addressing a gathering marking the 24th anniversary of the RVA Urdu service recently at the WAVE (Workshop Audio Visual Education) Studio in Lahore. He said economic woes in Europe and the March tsunami in Japan have seen key sponsorship deals dry up and are causing a funding crisis within RVA. The Catholic shortwave radio station now plans to decentralize its operations as part of a three year plan. The new strategy involves relocating all the Asian coordinators, presently based in Quezon in the Philippines, to their respective countries. The Church in each country will now produce its own programs and sponsors need only pledge to fund transmission costs of around US$4 per minute. Father Htun Myint [Burmese name?] also hinted that Radio Veritas may shift to FM. “We want our service to be utilized by the bishop’s conferences around Asia and for them to deal with it as some additional ministry,” said the priest. Father Nadeem Shakir director of RVA’s Urdu service said the move would be a positive step. “The patronage of bishops will see more involvement from the clergy and thus attract more Christian listeners; something we had been struggling to achieve for years,” he said. Source: ucanews.com Cathnews India http://bit.ly/rjyq5O (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Aug 16, DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Possible 6 month RTP Analogue TV switch off delay. If delayed by 6 months that would take it to October 2012 so one more season maybe.... [of DX possibilities] http://www.advanced-television.com/index.php/2011/08/09/portuguese-to-evaluate-dtt-implementation/ (Hugh Hoover, Portugal, Aug 16, WTFDA via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Radio Rossii routing (Re: DXLD 11-32) >>> 189 kHz (Konstantingradokva, Amur, FE) listed at 1200 kW is about 500 mS (0.5 sec.) ahead of the audio on 5930 kHz, and the 279 (Sakhalin Island listed at 1000 kW) is about 50 mS fast compared to 5930 kHz, so at least three different satellite audio-feeds are being used by the various LF and HF transmitters of Radio Rossii in the Russian Far East. <<< Beware, such comparatively small delays can also be the result of different receivers, even hardware-wise identical receivers with different software, being used to pick up the very same DVB-S feed. The persistent echo problem that plagued the Wertachtal/Nauen synchronized transmission of Hrvatski Radio some years ago resulted from such a constellation, and I assume that a revival of the former Wertachtal/Sines synchro operation on 6075 from the UK failed for the same reason (failed means that in this case the attempts have been terminated altogether after some time). On the other hand in this case, the frequencies involved are supposed to carry not only program windows from different regional broadcasting organizations but also different time-shifted versions of Radio Rossii. This raises the question how much, if any, of its programming Radio Rossii still plays out in this old manner from the USSR days, which inevitably requires prerecording anything? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Krasne site (Re: Voice of Russia - frequency changes in July and August) > w> Or wait a moment: Is 936 still on air? > > It has been off air since February 1. So with the cancellation of the Voice of Russia transmissions the site is now off air altogether. This raises the question if it has been closed, temporarily or even permanently? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Re 11-32: 9800 still on air --- Both very strong, 9800 Armavir-Krasnodar, and 9665 Grigoriopol Moldova both S=9+25 dB at 2222 UT Aug 11. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Russia odd frequency --- German heard since 1545 on 12012 approx. Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, 1607 UT Aug 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably one of those spurs WB has been getting? No, Samara listed on 12010 for this (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Ein Codar-Meereswellenradar aus Russland ist seit Anfang August stundenlang zwischen 10135 und 10170 kHz zu hoeren. Sein Standort ist der Baikalsee in der Naehe der Stadt Irkutsk. Im Juli und August wurden von der Bandwacht Ionosphaeren-Radare gehoert aus Australien, Japan, Russland, Tuerkei und Zypern. Manche dieser Radare sind wissenschaftlicher oder kommerzieller Natur, andere Radare gehoeren den Streitkraeften der Laender (Ulrich Bihlmayer, DJ9KR; via Deutschlandrundspruch des DARC Aug 11 via BC-DX Aug 12 via DXLD) See also LIBYA [non] ** RWANDA. 11865 at 2100 on Aug 13 noted carrying "The State We're In" from Radio Netherlands. Every other day this week it has been Deutsche Welle programming. Normal // (also via RWANDA) had news and Radio D. I'm not sure if this is a change or was a mistake as neither the Deutsche Welle nor Radio Netherlands websites make note of it. They went // 15640 at 2115 for "Radio D", so the plot thickens (Mark Coady, Ont., Cumbre DX via DXLD) See also NETHERLANDS [non] ** SAO TOME. 4960, 0425, VOA Relay fair, clear in English with sports news 19/7 // 4930 Botswana poor. A new time for this frequency/site (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Heard in 16 mb around 0900-1000 UT slot on Aug 12: 17614.966, BSKSA Riyadh, Holy Qur`an Friday prayer, S=9+15dB 17785.032, BSKSA Riyadh, French, S=8-9 17804.980, BSKSA Riyadh, 1st program, Arabic sermon, S=9+15dB, (scratches on audio feeder line). 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15379.980, Odd frequency of BSKSA Riyadh carried Holy Qur`an Prayer program. At 1218 UT Aug 15, S=9+10dBm. 21504.980, BSKSA Riyadh, 1st Arabic program, phone interview in Arabic at 1232 UT Aug 15. S=8-9. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So both were only 20 Hz low, like 17805 (gh, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI ARABIA BLOCKS RNW WEBSITES Published on: 12 August 2011 - 12:08pm | By Willemien Groot (Collage: RNW/lintmachine) Internet users in Saudi Arabia have been unable to access Radio Netherlands Worldwide websites for the past couple of weeks. People attempting to visit the site are presented with a message stating that the website has been blocked. A possible cause is a video published on the RNW Arabic site which shows a migrant being beaten up in Saudi Arabia. . . http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/saudi-arabia-blocks-rnw-websites (via Media Network blog via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. QUESTIONS ABOUT SAUDI BLOCKING OF RNW WEBSITES --- The Christian Democrat CDA and the right-wing Freedom Party want Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal to ask the Saudi ambassador for clarification about his country’s decision to block the websites of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Read the story from RNW News (August 14th, 2011 - 10:35 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) Viz.: Questions about Saudi blocking of RNW Published on 13 August 2011 - 8:52pm http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/questions-about-saudi-blocking-rnw The Christian Democrat CDA and the right-wing Freedom Party want Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal to ask the Saudi ambassador for clarification about his country’s decision to block the websites of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. People attempting to visit the site are presented with a message stating that the website has been blocked. The message includes a link to the Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC), where unblocking requests can be made. It is unlikely that many web users click on the link as it could lead to an unwanted 'courtesy call' from the authorities. In parliament, Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders wanted to know whether Minister Rosenthal was willing to give the Saudi ambassador “a talking to” about the blockade. He also asked whether the Dutch embassy in Riyadh would issue a statement rejecting the Saudi measure. The Freedom Party has called for international action against this form of internet censorship. The Saudi measure comes after the publication of a video showing a migrant being beaten up in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year, RNW exposed the dismal working conditions of domestic staff at the Saudi Embassy in The Hague. Deputy Editor in Chief Ardi Bouwers said "However balanced our reporting may be, apparently it occasionally touches a raw nerve with the Saudi authorities." She said it was rare for such a government measure to be rescinded. The Arab world is closely monitoring Radio Netherlands Worldwide. A recent interview with Syrian human rights activist Haitham Maleh, who has been awarded a major Dutch human rights medal (Geuzenpenning), led to numerous reactions from the Arab world, including many from Syria's secret service. Their reactions were conspicuous because of the remarkable level of praise for President Assad's regime, expressed in identical words and phrases across the messages. (gsh/imm) © Radio Netherlands Worldwide (via DXLD) RNW WEBSITES AVAILABLE AGAIN IN SAUDI ARABIA RNW is no longer blocked for internet users in Saudi Arabia. Internal research and web statistics for the Dutch public broadcaster show that user activity was more frequent on Monday. “During the day, we registered an increase in the number of visitors from Saudi Arabia,” says deputy editor-in-chief Ardi Bouwers. Read the story from RNW News http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/rnw-site-available-again-saudi-arabia (August 15th, 2011 - 16:11 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** SERBIA. Re 11-32: That`s funny. I had same problem with Serbia other nite figuring out whether they were speaking English (Sheryl Paskiewicz, WI, Aug 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM. INDIA, 4835, AIR Gangtok, 1552, Jul 30, Hindi interview, fair (Graham Bell, Cape Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window Aug 10 via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. See INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See ITALY [non]; U S A: WWCR ** SPAIN. Glenn: Thanks for outpointing "Desde el Infierno" on REE, which I listened to today. It's pretty bizarre, though it's great to hear some of this type of atmospheric-electronic music on shortwave. Not speaking Spanish, what on earth is host Luis G. Chapinal going on about? I'm very glad to hear an offbeat show like this on an external service. I can tell you that RNE3 (available via C-band satellite in the U.S. and, of course, by audio streaming) has a number of shows devoted to electronic music, such as "Atmosfera" and "Fluido Rosa," which are quite good (Mike Cooper, Aug 14, DXLD) ** SPAIN. Got a nice surprise in the p-mail, a p-book, softcover, from REE, ``Cuentos Irreverentes`` por Miguel Angel de Rus, thirteen `tragicomic` short stories, 170 pp., Madrid, 1995y. De Rus has worked for RNE, but the book has no official support or imprimatur. It has a prolog by another RNE journalist, Carlos Castillo. (I am wondering if he is the same but pseudonymous onetime Castilian broadcaster for Austrian SW, `Carlos Arturo del Castillo`.) Unfortunately, I hardly have time to read books in English, but it`ll keep. It came as my prize for participating in the REE survey of `how do you listen to us`, to which I replied to several programs, ¡onda corta! (Glenn Hauser, OK, August 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 11800, 0359, ENGLAND, Sudan Radio Service Darfur program in Arabic via Rampisham opening with instrumental theme and Arabic ident including references to “SRS”, fair 17/7. Also heard on // 13720.4 which was running 43 seconds ahead with vgd signal (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) 13720, 0400, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Sudan Radio Service via Dhabbaya opening in AA, very good strength 15/7 but no trace on listed // 11800 this day (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 13620, 0429, MADAGASCAR, Radio Dabanga opening in English for Sudan, very good signal 18/7 but almost immediately ‘jammed’ by heterodyne whines from 13619 and 13621. Parallel 15550 was very good over unID Asian broadcast (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) Opening in English, but not much else in English, right? Het whines a.k.a. 1000 Hz tone on DSB (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 11560, 0300, RUSSIA, Radio Miraya beaming to South Sudan with mainly English language programs and delightful HOA music. Identifies as “Radio Miraya, the pulse of the new nation” 14/7 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH. ST0R ---> ST0R (South Sudan) has been approved for DXCC credit. The DXpedition went QRT at 7 UT on 10 August, after 121,286 QSOs (55458 CW, 47696 SSB and 18132 RTTY) with 27,994 unique callsigns. "We are very excited about how well the ST0R DXpedition went", Paul N6PSE says. "The DX Friends and the Intrepid-DX Groups worked well together and really enjoyed our three weeks together. We are already talking about our next DXpedition/Adventure! We are quiet happy that we met our goal of 120,000 QSOs and set a record for RTTY contacts during a new country activation. We wish to thank all of our donors and supporters. Ordinarily we thank our donors with an individual message, however the Internet in Juba was very unreliable and we were often without any connection to the outside world other than Amateur Radio. This week, we held another meeting with the Engineering staff of the Ministry of Communications to guide them in their ITU prefix application. We are also providing them with guidance to develop and improve their Amateur Radio program and policies". Tony, EA5RM (Team Co-Leader and QSL manager) will investigate your 'busted call' requests, if you email him directly (13 August 2011 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1058, *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 14295 - harmonic from Tajik Radio Dushanbe Yangi Yul. The 3rd harmonic from Radio Tajik on 4765 kHz is still disturbing 14295.140 kHz daily, all day. Earlier complaints of the German PTT in previous years were not regarded. ITU Monitoring Reports. The ITU Monitoring Reports are always interesting, because our bands were observed, too. You can get the reports here: (IARUMS Bandwatch Newsletter July 2011 via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 7260, Radio Thailand, Udorn. 1128 August 14, 2011. Tune- in to the tale end of (listed) Khmer, chimes interval signal, accented English male, "HSK9... This program... to 1130 GMT" and plug pulled. Very good signal. Soviet-era test tones up for a few seconds at 1138, same signal level. Them, punching up in error for a moment? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. CHINA, 4820, XZDT PBS Xizang from Lhasa, Tibet at 2015-2100 UT Aug 11, with English pop music for dreaming hour, like "[Don`t] Cry for me, Argentina". 4820 - endlos Englisch sprachige Schlager aus den 60zigern/70zigern... {BOTSWANA tentat.} 4820 um 2034 UT - ist das R Botswana?, die Chinesen in Tibet werden wohl andere Musik abspielen... S=8 aber gewitter-verkratztes Fading. Und gleich daneben ein OHRadar 4822 bis 4840 kHz, und daran anschliessend eine CODAR Meereswellen Aussendung auf 4840 bis 4878 kHz. Und jetzt um 2045 UT dann doch die chinesische Ansage aus Lhasa Tibet. Also nix Botswana. Trotzdem war die Musik zum Hinwegschweben ... und jetzt geht's weiter um 2047 UT - "Cry for me, Argentina" ... 73 wb - mag die Musik zum Traeumen (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 11, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12 via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, 15542.0, V of Tibet from Dushanbe Yangi Yul at 1220 UT Aug 15, S=8. Firedrake jamming music from China mainland, on adjacent channel 15545 kHz S=6. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TINIAN. [Northern] MARIANA ISLANDS, 15319.985, Odd frequency signal IBB, R Mashaal in Pakistani-Pashto language service here in Europe S=7 strength at 1215 UT Aug 15; Tinian site 250 kW 303 degr. ONLY at 1200- 1230 UT, afterwards from 1230 UT via IBB BBG Udorn Thani Thailand relay site. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15 Hz low ** TURKEY. 9515, VOT 8/12, 0320. Arabic [sic] music program "inbooming" as some would say, then sank into the soup after that (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R- 8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) 15450, Sat Aug 13 at 1302, `DX Corner` was ending after reading a reception report from Japan, with poor signal; so this date confirmed as an on-week for the fortnightly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4750, Dunamis BC, Mukono, 1835-1902ª, 04/8, [unreadable] talks, songs, abrupt closure; 25241. 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, 2212-2228, 09/8, English, c&w, then switched to African pops, but it just for a while as the transmitter went off at 2218; 45332. Their tx did go off at 2218, surely due to some fault, but in these cases I just deep observing the frequency for some more time just in case they resume transmission - this has happened in many other cases. 2228 was the time I left the frequency. 7195, R. Uganda, Kampala, 1931-1949, 05/8, Swahili (presumed, but did sound like it), talks; 45333. Off at recheck, 2000 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4976 on late for Ramadan even in Uganda? (gh) ** U A E. 6145, GFA-Athmeeya Yatra Radio, Dhabbaya, 0108-0129* M announcer in listed Tamil; W announcer over music at 0112 with (Presumed) contact info tho couldn't make out anything discernible; filler music; Hindi-like music at 0115 into M announcer; music bridge then lengthy talk; contact info at 0126 with (Tentatively) mention of Hyderabad; music bridge and quick "...GFA Radio broadcast" in English at 0127; W announcer in vernacular and wind instruments until pulled the plug at 0129; p-f and improving; 8/9 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** U K. FORMER BBC 'BRAIN OF BRITAIN' HOST ROBERT ROBINSON PASSES ROBERT ROBINSON, who hosted BBC RADIO 4’s “BRAIN OF BRITAIN” quiz show for 38 years before retiring last year, passed away FRIDAY (8/12) at age 83 in LONDON after a long illness. After writing for the LONDON-based WEEKLY TELEGRAPH edition of the SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH and for the SUNDAY TIMES, ROBINSON joined the BBC as host of television’s “PICTURE PARADE,” “POINTS OF VIEW,” and “BBC3,” then took over the popular quiz shows “CALL MY BLUFF” and “ASK THE FAMILY.” Moving to radio in 1971, ROBINSON hosted RADIO 4’s flagship “TODAY” program through 1974 and “BRAIN OF BRITAIN” starting in 1972. He also served as Chairman of RADIO 4’s panel show “STOP THE WEEK.” allaccess.com (I loved the way he would answer an incorrect "Brain" answer with "Noooo." (Brock Whaley, HI for WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) obit ** U K [non]. 15720, 0129, NEW ZEALAND, BBC World Service relay via Rangitaiki closing 30 minute broadcast with ident for “BBC Pacific Service” 18/7, excellent strength (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) BBCWS has a `Pacific Service`, per se? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 15780, August 14 at 1225, very poor signal with soft song, then 1228 some Arabic and more upbeat music. HFCC shows IBB Arabic [= R. Sawa], 08-13, 100 kW, 132 degrees from Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Giovedì 12 agosto 2011, 0546 - 10000 kHz, WWV - Boulder-CO (USA), EE, IDs OM-PC e T/S. Segnale sufficiente. No more continuous tones during the minutes? (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) Depends on which minutes. There used to be a clock showing exactly what happens in each minute on WWV and WWVH; where is it now? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Links --- 25910, 25950 & 25990 all on today. Sure is odd that these three always seem to be on only at the same time (Harold Frodge, MI, 1716 UT Aug 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? I`ll bet they are on all the time. You only get them when there is a sporadic-E opening over the path from Fort Worth and/or Denver (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) No studio links this morning (Frodge, 1348 UT Aug 12, ibid.) 25910/FM, WQGY434, Fort Worth TX, studio relay for 820 WBAP; 1431, 13- Aug; News-Talk 8-20 AM & 96.7 FM WBAP; ad for Courtesy Nissan. Good peaks. Not heard at 1908. 25950/FM, Denver CO, studio relay for 850 KOA; 1429, 13-Aug; News Radio 8-50 KOA; rabid bats and skinks in Wheat Ridge. Good peaks but very fady. There but weak at 1908. (Frodge-MI) 25990/FM, Fort Worth TX, studio relay for 96.3 KSCS-FM; 1429, 13-Aug; New Country 96-3 KSCS; C&W music. Good peaks, Not heard at 1908 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1577 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WRMI webcast, Thursday Aug 11 at 1500; also confirmed on 9955 which signed on at 2059, then WOR at 2100 without jamming except a bit o` bleed from 9965. Also confirmed on 9479 WTWW starting a semiminute later, and on WBCQ webcast of 7415 until 2200 August 11. And confirmed on WWRB 5051 at 0355 UT Friday August 12. Besides all the many WRMI repeats, other times are: 0400 UT Sunday on WTWW 5755 0300v UT Monday on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB 1730 UT Sat & Sun on WRN via SiriusXM 120, also Sunday 0830 Full schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html 9955, Sat Aug 13 at 1500, WORLD OF RADIO 1577 barely audible on WRMI, atop CCI/SAH from presumed Taiwan; no jamming. Remaining WRMI airings are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 1130, 1530, 2130, Tue 1530, Wed 1530. WORLD OF RADIO 1577 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 5755, UT Sunday August 14 after 0400. Also confirmed on WRMI 9955, at 1535. Besides several more WRMI repeats, next being Sunday 1730, the other airing upcoming is UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. There be WATER --- Water pressure - 32 lbs. WTWW XMTR # 2 got a water test today. Aug. 11, 2011. # 1 & 3 are in service (George McClintock, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There be AIR --- August 12 saw the main blower in operation for the first time in years. Modification continues on the transmitter, step by step. There was water, then there was air (George McClintock, Aug 12, ibid.) WTWW # 2 transmitter update 8-16-2011 [captions to six photos:] Frequency change buttons installed. David Klimkowski working on front door releases. Front door interlock solenoids installed. Water purity digital meter installed and working. New pump had to be installed due to a leak. IPA driver tube installed. Waiting for the final tube socket to be reworked by Continental Electronics. Transmitter # 1 & 3 working fine and serving the world (George McClintock, WTWW, August 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9480 [sic], (TN), WTWW Aug. 14, 1255. Pastor Peter Peters talking about some local Colorado city and a conspiracy against him to TOH and good ID. Looks like this can go on forever, a-la Gene Scott, with archival materials (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) 9479, WTWW due to being super-strong and 1 kHz off-frequency, produces false carriers by overload thruout the 31m band: 9750, August 12 at 1312 I am hearing a 1000 Hz tone under Japanese, so another of those mystery tests? No, it goes away on the FRG-7 when I switch on the attenuation. Another one like that on 9410, etc., etc. These are NOT transmitted by WTWW, just result from overloading the receiver. The overload would still be there if it were on 9480, but not so obvious beating against on-frequency signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12100, August 16 at 1342, WTWW is still in Arabic, signing on circa 1300. On Aug 14, Jean-Michel Aubier, France, found this at http://wtww.us/pages/program-schedule.php (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: New schedule to start shortly: [nothing but Bible readings] Central UTC 6 - 9 am Russian 1100 - 1400 9 - 12 noon Arabic 1400 - 1700 12 - 3pm French 1700 - 2000 3 - 6pm German 2000 - 2300 6 - 9pm Spanish 2300 - 0200 9 - 12 midn Portuguese 0200 - 0500 12MN - 3am English 0500 - 0800 3 - 6am English 0800 - 1100 (via Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Aug 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15809.44, 15840.56, WWCR Spurs, 1650-1700, August 11, weak, but readable spurs from WWCR 15825. Spurs +/- 15.56 kHz from 15825 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX Listening Digest) 15825, Sat Aug 13 at 1256 tuning by WWCR, heard horribly distorted audio from program in progress, listed as `Church of Apostolic Faith of Columbia`; I believe that is one of those insane screaming gospel huxters. At 1259 clear audio as `Musical Memories with Martha Garvin` was starting a bit early. 7465, August 14 at 0448, very strong blues music, and nothing on 3215. WWCR-1 must be on wrong frequency; 7465 still shows on the transmitter schedule as of August 6 at 2200-0100 only. According to August 1 sked, `Last Radio Playing` is the show at 04-05 UT Sundays on `3215`. 7520, Aug 15 at 0159*, WWCR-1 QSY announcement to 3215, which did come up within a minute, instead of 7465 where they were by mistake(?) the night before. 9980, Aug 15 at 1419, WWCR-4 with Brother Scare, extremely strong, and clearly audible in the background other audio which we found // 13845 WWCR-3. WWCR fails to isolate one transmitter/antenna from another sufficiently, a longstanding defect. Or the mix could be getting into the audio chain before transmission. 15825, August 15 at 1423, WWCR-1 is extremely strong too, must be aided by sporadic E not reaching VHF, with squeal as bad as ever on this transmitter, splashing out to 15810 and 15840, where the much weaker but detectable spurs are with same modulation; and furthermore once again putting wideband modulation spikes roughly covering 15620- 15710, and a weaker range from 15500 to 15560, QRMing numerous other stations in these ranges. Longstanding problems that WWCR has failed to solve (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 13562, August 11 at 1347, the swishy 18-kHz spur from WEWN 13580 is obvious with BFO, along with the stronger 9-kHz one on 13571 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mercoledì 10 agosto 2011, 0542 - 11512+11528 kHz, Spurie di WEWN 11520. Riproduzioni distorte. Su 11528 disturba Denge Mezopotamya. Arrivano anche in Italia! (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) 15592, Aug 13 at 1417, squishy -18 kHz spur from WEWN 15610 is audible, and also on +18 kHz, 15628 where it bothered a weak V. of Greece. Mother Angelica does not make a good neighbor; cares nothing about such unnecessary interference from her defective transmitter, which is only getting worse beyond its primary parasites at plus and minus 9 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11714.85, NM, KJES, Aug. 8, 1535, heard with responsive readings, faint, used USB to hear thru static and even detect the carrier in the beginning. 11715.85, KJES, 8/11 1445. barely audible, but could hear responsive readings, ID at TOH. 11714.85, KJES Aug. 14, 1655. Young M with announcement for TOH ID and off. Only thing I could make out of very poor signal, reduced modulation (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ- 200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Family Radio English snarfed from EiBi 8-8/11 kHz Time(UTC) Xmtr ==================== 5930 0200-0300 GUF 5985 0200-0245 o 6020 1900-2100 MDG 7270 1900-2000 AFS 7360 0000-0100 GUF 7395 1700-2000 MDG 7425 2100-2200 D-w 7520 0000-0100 o 9365 1400-1500 KAZ 9385 0200-0300 o 9465 0900-1100 TWN-p 9610 1900-2200 D-w 9770 1800-1900 UAE 9775 1900-2000 UAE 11520 1300-1400 TWN-p 11580 2300-2400 o 11605 1500-1600 UAE 11655 1500-1600 RUS-a 11740 0300-0400 o 11850 1600-1700 UAE 12060 2000-2200 ASC 12155 1300-1400 TWN-h 13750 1800-1900 D-w 13820 1300-1400 KAZ 15195 2000-2100 ASC 15255 2300-2400 o 15440 2200-0200 o 15520 1500-1600 UAE 15560 1100-1200 KAZ 15580 2000-2100 MDG 17545 1600-1700 ASC 17580 1500-1600 ASC (MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ** U S A. The following is the Tentative 30 October 2011 to 25 March 2012 High Frequency Schedule for WYFR, Family Stations, Inc. FREQ TIME AZ ZONES PWR 5950 0145 0400 355 4,5,9 100 5985 2145 0400 181 11 100 6875 0300 0700 285 10 100 6890 0100 0400 222 11 100 6890 0400 0500 222 11 100 7570 0045 0300 160 16 100 9355 2300 0300 160 16 100 9430 2245 0045 160 15 100 9680 0145 0300 315 2 100 9690 2145 0045 142 13 100 9930 0045 0145 142 13 100 9930 0145 0500 222 11 100 9985 0100 0300 151 15 100 11580 2200 2245 142 15 100 11720 2245 0045 142 13 100 11825 0045 0200 160 14 100 11885 2300 0145 140 13 100 12160 2200 2245 151 15 100 13615 2300 0045 160 14 100 15400 2300 0045 151 15 100 15440 2145 0300 285 10 100 17575 2145 2245 140 13 100 (Evelyn Marcy, WYFR, August 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they plan to continue on air ONLY between 2145 and 0500, except for -0700 on 5950 for Taiwan. As usual in B-seasons, 15190 will be vacated, benefiting R. Inconfidência (and R. Africa should it ever come back) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only the both Americas section ? 3230 1900 2000 52S,53SW,57N MEY 100 5 English AFS YFR BAB 3955 1600 1800 27,28 WER 100 0 Deu D YFR MBR 3955 1900 2000 52S,53SW,57N MEY 100 76 Portuguese AFS YFR BAB 3975 1800 2000 28 WER 250 0 HunSrp D YFR MBR 3995 2200 2400 27,28 WER 100 0 Deu D YFR MBR 5745 0500 0600 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 5745 0600 0800 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 5745 0800 1000 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 5745 1900 2100 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 5925 1700 1800 53S MEY 100 76 French AFS YFR BAB 5930 0200 0300 12,14 GUF 500 215 Eng F YFR MBR 5950 0300 1200 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 5950 2100 0300 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 5960 2100 2200 37,38W NAU 250 210 Ara D YFR MBR 5960 2200 2300 37,38W NAU 250 210 Ara D YFR MBR 5965 1800 1900 29,30 WER 250 60 Rus D YFR MBR 5985 0445 0700 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 5985 2000 0445 11 YFR 50 181 USA YFR FCC 6000 0500 1000 11 YFR 50 181 USA YFR FCC 6000 1000 1200 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 6010 2100 2200 37,38W WER 250 210 Ara D YFR MBR 6020 1900 2000 52E,53W,57N MDC 50 255 Eng MDG YFR RNW 6020 2000 2100 52E,53W,57N MDC 250 255 Eng MDG YFR RNW 6045 1700 1800 48,52NE,53NW DHA 250 225 Amharic UAE YFR BAB 6045 1800 1900 52S,53SW,57N MEY 100 15 English AFS YFR BAB 6050 1800 1900 28E WER 100 90 Ron D YFR MBR 6085 0945 2000 11 YFR 100 181 USA YFR FCC 6085 2245 0100 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 6100 1900 2000 52S,53SW,57N MEY 100 335 Portuguese AFS YFR BAB 6105 0800 1100 15 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 6105 1700 1800 40 NAU 500 95 Pes D YFR MBR 6120 1800 1900 37N WER 250 230 Spa D YFR MBR 6140 1700 1900 29,30 WER 250 60 Rus D YFR MBR 6155 0000 0100 12,14 GUF 500 215 Spa F YFR MBR 6155 0200 0300 12,14 GUF 500 215 Eng F YFR MBR 6155 2300 2400 12,14 GUF 500 215 Spa F YFR MBR 6175 1600 1700 53S MEY 250 76 Malagasy AFS YFR BAB 6175 1800 1900 28E WER 100 105 Ron D YFR MBR 6875 0300 1200 10 YFR 100 285 USA YFR FCC 6890 0100 0500 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 6890 0900 1300 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 6915 1800 2200 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 7305 2100 2200 46E,47,52N NAU 500 180 Fra D YFR MBR 7360 2200 0100 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 PorEng F YFR MBR 7385 1700 1800 52,53W,57 MDC 50 310 Mul MDG YFR RNW 7395 0000 0100 12,14 GUF 500 215 Spa F YFR MBR 7395 1800 1900 47E,48,52E,53 MDC 250 320 Eng MDG YFR RNW 7395 1900 2000 47E,48,52E,53 MDC 250 320 Eng MDG YFR RNW 7455 0100 0445 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 7455 0700 1345 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 7520 0100 0400 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 7520 0400 0800 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 7570 0045 0400 15 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 7730 0300 0500 15 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 7730 0500 0745 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 9355 0400 0500 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 9355 0500 0800 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 9355 1945 2300 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 9355 2300 0400 16 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 9405 1600 1700 41 NAU 500 94 Hin D YFR MBR 9430 1600 1700 39 WER 250 120 Ara D YFR MBR 9430 1700 1800 28SE,39NW SKN 300 110 Turkish G YFR BAB 9430 2245 0045 15 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 9445 1600 1700 48 NAU 500 140 Orm D YFR MBR 9465 2200 2300 12,14 GUF 500 215 Spa F YFR MBR 9465 2300 2400 12,14 GUF 500 215 Spa F YFR MBR 9495 0500 1000 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 9500 1900 2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 Ara D YFR MBR 9505 0000 0445 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 9515 2000 2100 37,38W NAU 250 210 Ara D YFR MBR 9525 0100 0400 10 YFR 50 285 USA YFR FCC 9530 1700 1800 38E,39SW SKN 300 110 Arabic G YFR BAB 9535 1800 1900 46E,47W NAU 500 183 Hau D YFR MBR 9555 0800 1400 16 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 9565 1800 2000 57 WER 500 165 XhoKirundi D YFR MBR 9575 0900 1200 15 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 9590 1600 1700 48SW,52E,53NE MDC 250 320 Swa MDG YFR RNW 9595 2000 2100 46E,47,52N NAU 500 180 Fra D YFR MBR 9605 0800 1100 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 9605 1100 1300 12 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 9630 1700 1800 30S,39N,40 WER 500 105 Kur D YFR MBR 9660 1800 1900 37S,38W SKN 300 140 Arabic G YFR BAB 9660 1900 2000 48,52NE,53NW MEY 250 19 Swahili AFS YFR BAB 9680 0145 0800 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 9680 0800 1100 13 YFR 100 140 USA YFR FCC 9685 1900 2000 46S DHA 250 260 Hausa UAE YFR BAB 9690 2145 0045 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 9695 1900 2000 37,46 WER 500 210 Fra D YFR MBR 9705 1900 2000 46S,47SW,52N MEY 250 340 English AFS YFR BAB 9715 0400 1245 10 YFR 50 285 USA YFR FCC 9715 2345 0100 10 YFR 50 285 USA YFR FCC 9800 1500 1600 41E NAU 500 84 Guj D YFR MBR 9840 1800 1900 37E,38 WER 250 150 Ara D YFR MBR 9845 1900 2000 37,46 WER 500 180 Fra D YFR MBR 9850 1700 1800 39 WER 250 120 Ara D YFR MBR 9855 1400 1500 41S DHA 250 105 Marathi UAE YFR BAB 9885 1700 1800 29,30 WER 250 60 Rus D YFR MBR 9885 1800 1900 28SE,39NW RMP 500 105 Turkish G YFR BAB 9885 1900 2000 52S,53SW,57N DHA 250 210 English UAE YFR BAB 9895 1800 1900 48,52NE,53NW DHA 250 230 English UAE YFR BAB 9925 1900 2200 46,47,52 WER 500 180 Eng D YFR MBR 9930 0100 0145 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 9930 0145 0500 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 9985 0100 0500 15 YFR 100 151 USA YFR FCC 9985 0500 0900 46 YFR 100 87 USA YFR FCC 11530 0500 0800 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 11530 1200 1400 13 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 11565 1345 1700 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 11565 2000 2145 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 11580 0400 0900 46 YFR 100 87 USA YFR FCC 11580 2200 2300 15 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 11610 1500 1600 41S DHA 250 100 English UAE YFR BAB 11610 1500 1600 41S WER 500 90 Kan D YFR MBR 11665 1500 1600 41E NAU 500 84 Guj D YFR MBR 11665 1700 1800 48,52NE,53NW RMP 500 120 Somali G YFR BAB 11665 1800 1900 46SE WER 500 180 Eng D YFR MBR 11665 1900 2000 46S,47SW,52N ASC 250 65 Yoruba G YFR BAB 11690 1700 1800 37,38 WER 100 180 Ara D YFR MBR 11700 2100 2300 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 11720 2245 0045 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 11725 1100 1600 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 11730 0100 0200 11 GUF 250 306 Hap F YFR MBR 11740 0800 1600 15 YFR 100 151 USA YFR FCC 11740 1600 1700 41 DHA 250 90 English UAE YFR BAB 11740 2145 2345 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 11825 0045 0300 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 11830 1100 1300 13 YFR 100 140 USA YFR FCC 11830 1300 1700 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 11855 1300 1700 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 11855 2000 0100 11 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 11875 1800 1900 46S,47SW,52N ASC 250 65 Igbo G YFR BAB 11885 1600 1700 40 NAU 500 95 Pes D YFR MBR 11885 2300 0145 13 YFR 100 140 USA YFR FCC 11935 1500 1600 41SE NAU 500 94 Tam D YFR MBR 11955 1900 2000 47S,52N NAU 500 177 Kikongo D YFR MBR 11970 1145 1345 10 YFR 100 285 USA YFR FCC 11975 1600 1700 47,48 ISS 500 131 AmhSwa D YFR MBR 11975 1700 1800 47,48 ISS 500 131 AmhSwa D YFR MBR 11995 1500 1600 41 DHA 250 90 English UAE YFR BAB 11995 1600 1700 39 WER 250 120 Ara D YFR MBR 12015 1800 1900 57 ISS 500 155 Sesotho F YFR MBR 12140 1800 1900 57 WER 500 165 Xho D YFR MBR 12140 1900 2000 57 WER 500 150 Kirundi D YFR MBR 12160 2200 2300 15 YFR 100 151 USA YFR FCC 13605 1400 1500 30S,40N WER 250 75 Uzb D YFR MBR 13615 1200 1600 15 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 13615 2300 0045 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 13655 1400 1600 41S WER 500 90 SinKan D YFR MBR 13660 1600 1700 48 ISS 500 125 Orm F YFR MBR 13660 1800 1900 57 WER 500 165 Setswana D YFR MBR 13695 1200 2100 4,5,9 YFR 100 355 USA YFR FCC 13700 1400 1600 41 NAU 500 95 Hin D YFR MBR 13750 1800 1900 46SE WER 500 180 Eng D YFR MBR 13820 1300 1500 41E NAU 500 85 Ben D YFR MBR 15115 1700 2245 46 YFR 100 87 USA YFR FCC 15130 1245 2345 10 YFR 50 285 USA YFR FCC 15195 2000 2200 46S,47SW,52N ASC 250 65 English G YFR BAB 15210 1400 1600 14 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 15250 1600 1700 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 15315 1400 1500 41S NAU 500 105 Mal D YFR MBR 15325 1400 1500 41E WER 500 90 Ori D YFR MBR 15355 1245 1400 12 YFR 100 222 USA YFR FCC 15355 1400 1600 13 YFR 100 142 USA YFR FCC 15400 2300 0100 15 YFR 100 151 USA YFR FCC 15440 2145 0300 10 YFR 100 285 USA YFR FCC 15520 1400 1500 41 DHA 250 90 Hindi UAE YFR BAB 15520 2000 2100 46S,47SW,52N ASC 250 65 English G YFR BAB 15565 1400 1500 41E WER 500 90 Ori D YFR MBR 15565 1800 1945 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 15795 1600 2000 28 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 17535 1700 2200 2 YFR 100 315 USA YFR FCC 17545 1600 1700 48,52NE,53NW ASC 250 85 English G YFR BAB 17545 1700 1800 47S,52N ASC 250 85 English G YFR BAB 17555 1400 1600 13 YFR 100 160 USA YFR FCC 17555 1700 2145 10 YFR 100 285 USA YFR FCC 17575 1700 2245 13 YFR 100 140 USA YFR FCC 17660 1830 1930 47S,52N ASC 250 85 French G YFR BAB 17665 1600 1745 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 17690 1600 2245 46 YFR 100 87 USA YFR FCC 17735 1300 1400 41S DHA 250 100 Kannada UAE YFR BAB 17760 1345 1700 10 YFR 100 285 USA YFR FCC 17760 1700 1900 28 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 17810 1300 1400 41S DHA 250 100 Telegu UAE YFR BAB 17810 1400 1500 41S DHA 250 100 Tamil UAE YFR BAB 18930 1600 1945 27 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 18980 1600 1800 28 YFR 100 44 USA YFR FCC 21840 1500 1600 52S,53SW,57N ASC 250 115 English G YFR BAB (July 22, 2011) (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn! I'm wondering that they have a B11 schedule at all?! Or is this a first sign of a Post-Camping era at YFR? 73, (Stephan Schaa, HCJB Europe, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) We`ve already had the first sign --- HC, if you`ll pardon such an abbr., is no longer heard on WYFR or at least not doing any new programs. They do say ``tentative``, so they are covered in case the world does end a few days before B-11 allegedly starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) They had sent out a tentative B11 schedule, not reflecting the severe cut-back yet, already on May 25, cf. under USA at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1121.txt Indeed the whole thing is remarkable, to say the least. I suspect that the Okeechobee operation is separated from Oakland to such an extent that they do not care about the parent branch claiming that there will not be a B11 season at all. Does no one of the engineers realize and/or not care about the circumstance that this way they make a complete mock of their employer, that they provide evidence of Family Radio not believing itself it what it was screaming out with pretty bad results? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. CMDR. BUNNY ATTEMPTS FRAME-UP OF ARTIE BIGLEY FOR TCS BUST WITH FAKED EMAIL Dear radio friend, Please forgive me for again bringing this matter to your Email Box; I hadn't expected to need to make another such mailing any time soon. However, since this matter concerns the slander of a well-known DXer, Artie Bigley, through the use of manufactured Email messages -- which I can and do prove are fake, irrefutably -- I thought it prudent to notify as many radio people as possible about this posting. The alleged email, purportedly from Bigley to the FCC in Detroit, has been published by the pirate operator known as "Commander Bunny" or WBNY, on his website. However, the supposed email references websites which were not in existence on the purported date of the Email, proving that it is a fake, manufactured by CB in order to deflect blame for the FCC bust of TCS, from "Commander Bunny" to Artie Bigley. We are confident that Bigley had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever, and the publishing of this manufactured email may tend to answer the remaining doubts of some, about whom it really was that passed information to the F.C.C. Read about it here: http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2011/08/desperate-lies-of-desperate-snitch.html -- (John Poet, The Crystal Ship, Aug 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update on WBNY, claiming I snitched on The Crystal Ship: http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/myxomatosis-madness-alert-bunny-frames.html (Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. CUOMO SIGNS NY STATE PIRATE RADIO BAN --- NEW YORK is now the largest state with its own state law banning pirate radio. It's been a month and a half since state lawmakers passed a bill that echoes similar laws in New Jersey and Florida making unlicensed radio operation a state-level crime, and while members of the New York State Broadcasters Association were hoping to see Governor Andrew Cuomo sign the bill into law at their June convention near Lake George, they're pleased to see it signed, period. Unlike other state laws that make unlicensed broadcasting a felony, New York's version makes a first-time conviction for pirate radio only a class A misdemeanor, though it also provides for confiscation and destruction of the equipment used by pirate operators. Those penalties still promise to be a somewhat stronger deterrent than the typical FCC sanction of a $10,000 forfeiture order, a sum that's rarely paid by pirate operators who often aren't even US citizens. As in Florida and New Jersey, the idea behind the law is to give local law enforcement a greater incentive to help beleaguered broadcasters fight an onslaught of pirates that has so far proved to be beyond the capacity of a budget-strapped FCC Enforcement Division to control. Even with the new law in place, the challenge of quelling New York City's pirate operators is a huge one: many of the illegal stations come and go on a regular basis from transmitter sites that are well hidden in the city's forest of high-rise buildings, making it hard sometimes even to pin down a pirate's transmitter location, never mind catching the broadcaster in the act before the signal is moved to another site. And unlike Florida, where the state's Department of Law Enforcement has become an aggressive partner with legitimate broadcasters in hunting down and arresting pirates, law enforcement in New York City and vicinity is largely the purview of local police departments, many of which already have their own hands full with other serious crimes. We'll be watching closely, of course, as the new law takes effect in November (Scott Fybush, NE Radio Watch Aug 8 via DXLD) ** U S A. SCRUTINY OF KUSF DEAL CONTINUES AS USF AND CPRN RESPOND TO FCC’S INQUIRY LETTER --- Posted on August 11, 2011 by Jennifer Waits http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/08/11/scrutiny-of-kusf-deal-continues-as-usf-and-cprn-response-to-fccs-inquiry-letter/comment-page-1/ (via Current via DXLD) ** U S A. Is AM dying? Why yes. Yes it is. GB ENTERPRISES COMMUNICATIONS CORP. is selling Regional Mexican WHNR-A (LA PODEROSA)/CYPRESS GARDENS, FL to FRANCISCO ARREDONDO’s FLORIDA SPANISH COMMUNICATIONS CORP. For $1,000 (Allaccess.com, via Brock Whaley DXLD) BW notes: In the 1960’s, this station was WINT, a Top 40 daytimer, licensed to Winter Haven. Now it runs 5,000 watts day, 2500 watts night. Directional. Different patterns day and night, on 1360 (Brock Whaley, HI for DXLD) ** U S A. Anyone who knows me knows that I love radio jingles and occasionally find some that I like so much I want to share them with others. I airchecked a station`s webstream for 2 hours and edited it down to about 90 seconds worth of jingles, station imaging and ID's. Here they are, from "The Best of Sutton Summersville, The Boss 97 FM" WDBS 97.1 Sutton, WV, a BIG Class B Signal that can be heard just about from state border to state border. http://www.onairdj.com/TheBoss97FMWDBS971SuttonWV.mp3 (Paul Walker, Host, "The Afternoon Get Together" 3 to 7pm, 97.5 The Hound WDDH, St Marys/Ridgway, PA, Aug 14, http://www.houndcountry.com IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. More morning tropo from the west Aug 17, tipped off by KWOU 88.1 Woodward enhanced, so I soon start searching for analog or DTV translators in the TX panhandle and OK, UT: 1428 on 34 DTV KOMI Woodward is decoding, and KUOK 35 is not, as usual 1431 on 48 DTV, OETA translator with antenna west, Sesame Street. Has to be K48KE in Buffalo OK, 11.8 kW, and indeed comes in best slightly to the WNW of due west. Still decoding at 1540, perfect reception also of OKLA on 48-2! As I was swinging the antenna around, analog 48, KWDW OKC was also visible. Nothing on 17, 20, 22 or 28 from Cherokee/Alva OK, which are closer. 1428 on 53 analog, trace of video from west. By 1455 I am also getting analog on 45, 47 and 49, a sure match again for the Follett TX translator group at the NE corner of the Panhandle. W9WI.com listings, all including Booker at 36-22-24.00N, 100-16-0.00W: Booker, Etc. [47] K47BP 0.924 0.00 NH TX-LIC KACV (2 PBS) Follett [45] K45AU 1.040 0.00 NH TX-LIC KVII (7 ABC) Follett [49] K49BB 1.040 0.00 NH TX-LIC KAMR (4 NBC) Follett [51] K51BC 1.040 0.00 NH TX-LIC KFDA (10 CBS) Follett [53] K53EE 1.040 0.00 NH TX-LIC KCIT (14 Fox) I was getting all these with the correct input, except no signal on 51, off the air?? {O, I almost forgot about KSBI-DT, OKC, blockage!} 1455 on 53, analog video is now locking in; weak audio at times surges to much louder, strangely; 47 has PBS; 49 produces a local ID and promo for FOX 14, KCIT AMARILLO, 1458 disclaimer for an infomercial starting early, Sharper Image ovens. 49 has a 3 and 7-day weather forecast graphic, believe with YL meteorologist; resembles KFOR-4 but not at this moment. 1459 on 47 I catch a KACV ID too. 1459 on 49 an ad for Shoe Carnival, 1500 NBC News TODAY, a few sex ahead of KFOR as received here via cable. 1501 on 45, THE VIEW, which matches ABC from KVII input. 1502 on 47, PBS is now not // OETA. At 1506 I am also getting weak analog video on 23, likely K23EC Canadian TX, of KACV, close by to Follett area, previously DXed. At 1511 I compare the relative strengths of the Follett group, from strongest to weakest: 53 > 47 > 45 > 49. Same at 1521, why? They are supposedly exactly the same power from the same tower, 1.040 kW, except 47 is 116 watts lower. At 1515, K48KE is still decoding, and holds up more or less until 1600. Folletts are out by 1515, but back at 1521 as above, out again; at 1620 still trace of analog video on 47 only, the lowest powered one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. MENORES VÁNDALOS DEPREDARON PLANTA DE CW155 RADIO SARANDÍ DEL YI --- DAÑOS A LA EMISORA SUPERAN LOS 8000 DOLARES AMERICANOS Sarandiyenses asombrados por el vandálico ataque a radio local y al estadio de menores. Los vecinos de la ciudad de Sarandí del Yí no salen aún del asombro producido por los ataques vandálicos de que fueran objeto el estadio de menores y la planta transmisora de la radio. Carlos Maggi | 12/08/2011 Accionar de menores tiene en vilo a la segunda ciudad del departamento La preocupación por lo que se considera son hechos de violencia desmedida quedó de manifiesto. Se entiende que solo personas que no están en sus cabales pueden generar este tipo de ataques; en el caso de CW 155 prácticamente no dejaron nada sano. Con desolación los propietarios se encontraron con módulos en el Arroyo Malbajar, mientras otros equipos fueron dejados en el medio del campo. "Nos cuesta creerlo, después de trabajar toda una vida en el periodismo y brindando un servicio comunitario; enfrentamos una situación inesperada", dijo Nora San Martín de Porro. Por la violencia empleada para destruir puertas, ventanas y equipos, cuesta pensar que los autores sean menores, esto es un llamado de atención a la sociedad, agregó. Entre 9 y 11 años. Las edades de los tres chicos que provocaron los destrozos oscilan entre los nueve y los once años y fueron detenidos por personal de la seccional 14 en el lugar de los hechos. . . http://bit.ly/ r9mc8w Publicado por (El Acontecer Diario via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, condiglist yg via DXLD) P.D.: Es la misma emisora que irradió en Onda Corta por un tiempo en 6155, con el nombre de "Banda Oriental" (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, ibid.) ** VANUATU. 7260, 0102, Radio Vanuatu on measured 7259.98 fair with news in Pidgin 13/7 but missing since this date (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper, EWEs to NE, E and SE, plus various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, August NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) 3945, R. Vanuatu Port Vila 0937 Announcer with indigenous music and talk; audible when not blown out by the perpetual ham net on 3947-LSB; would have been fair without; 8/8 (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MBL-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENIING DIGEST) 3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. August 13, 0857-0907 Pop music, top of the hour female announcements seems in English, short Islands music, male outside talks. Poor, 25532 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. I was amusing myself by Googling up the RNV Canal Internacional website to see if there was any explanation why they have been missing from Cuban relays for about a month. Of course not, but goes right to that colorful frequency map, all but one of which have been wrong since shortly after service was revived, dated 2003y, and the times are local in each target area, disregarding DST! http://www.rnv.gob.ve/noticias/index.php?pg=internacional Then I did an internal website search on `Calabozo`, the new SW transmitter site under construxion and supposedly almost finished. Naturally, I get no hit on that, but on calabozo as a common word in some lengthy socialist declaration text, leading me to uplook it in my P-dixionary; it means: ``Dungeon, prison cell, pruning knife``. Not many SW stations have been able to name their transmitter site so negatively! Maybe that`s why what little publicity comes out about the SW plans downplays the name {Cognate: calaboose, of course. Not to be confused with Carabobo, another town, meaning Clownface} (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINAS, 1550, Polisario Front, Rabouni, ALG, 1036-1302*, 08/8, Arabic, talks, chanting,..., news at noon, songs, closed with the "national" anthem; 25443; \\ 6300 silent, and is still off evenings (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rather 6297.1, last known landing place (gh, DXLD) ** YUCATAN. Repression on the airwaves: see MEXICO ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 6015, R Tanzania, Dole, Zanzibar, heard at 0505, Aug 03, chant-like song and plucked string instrument, then male and female speakers chatting in Swahili, good (Graham Bell, Cape Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window Aug 10 via DXLD) 0505 much later than heard in Euramerica, but possible apparently in wintry RSA. Sunrise Zanzibar circa 0330. 300 kW RNW via AUSTRIA is also on 6015 from 0500 (gh, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. Madagascar. Radio Voice of the People. 9445, Talata-Volondry. 2011/08/10 Wednesday. 1615-1628* Listed as English (Aoki, EiBi), but it is Ndebele or Shona, not sure which. Talking about Zimbabwe. Back to English at 1626, just in time to be cut off in mid sentence at 1628*. Poor. Jo'burg sunset 1546 (Bill Bingham, RSA, WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Some logs for the NIMBY CME [Coördinated Monitoring Event] from my TenTec RX-321 computer controlled receiver, fed by a Par Electronics End Fed SWL antenna, approximately 40 feet long, in my front yard in downtown University City, Missouri (St. Louis suburb). All times are GMT, all dates are GMT Saturday morning, August 13: 679.23 +/- about 20 Hz, UnID, 0320 somebody mostly atop channel here with open carrier causing a terrible heterodyne. --- Unless local in origin or (seldom heard) KFEQ, and I have no reason to believe it`s them. Otherwise, technically counts for the NIMBY CME? Sincerely, (Earl Higgins, MO, ABDX via DXLD) NIMBY: out-of-state logs only UNIDENTIFIED. 6104, 1108 August 14, 2011. Who is here with some type of fast RTTY-type continuous data stream, fairly weak? Audible on the JRC NRD-535 and ICOM IC-R75, so surely not an image. Presume well west of me, maybe even Asia-Pacific. Similar but stronger one on 4905 same time (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6150.03, 0141-0224, Aug 15, bits and pieces of pop songs noted during occasional peaks at S6. Frequency is clear but suffered some splatter from AIR on 6155. Atrocious modulation, finally gave up in despair. Would seem to be the same station I reported last year to DXLD 10-13 (see "Unidentified") and 10-14 (see "Cyprus Northern") and which I therefore assume is R Bayrak. 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands /TenTec RX-340, 30 m. longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Atrocious modulation fits profile of RHC on 6150, but not normally on air at this hour: confirmed absent (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 6780, 1543-1818 August 14, 2011. Just a huge AM mode open carrier. WYFR, Okeechobee in equipment test mode followed by fall asleep mode? A Cuban ute that left the transmitter on and fall asleep mode? After all, it is damn hot out there, whether you're just north of Lake Okeechobee or in Habana. Siesta time (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6925.0, August 14 at 0447, very poor signal buried in noise level, with bits of music, talk, presumably a pirate. Since the chilling effect of the WEAK and Crystal Ship busts, pirate activity has declined precipitously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6925 2200 GMT --- Can anyone tell me what station this is? The are playing rock music and giving station ID in English but I just cannot make it out (Jonathon King, location unknown, 16 Aug, ptsw yg via DXLD) Could it be a pirate? Check here. http://www.easyshopdiscountzone.com/radio/pirate/archive/archive1002.html (Spencer G. Sholly, KB5WQW, 10-10# 43794, S.O.C.# 681, Killeen, TX, ibid.) I believe this was Radio Mustang in the Netherlands. Thanks (Jonathon King, ibid.) Why do you believe that? The sesqui-year- old reference cited has Radio Mustang on 6301 and 6325. 6925 is a favorite hangout of North American pirates, not Europeans. Are you in Europe?? Beware of that archive, which pops up a `free game`; looks like a gotcha advertising site, anyway. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) As I listened for a longer period of time I heard the ID reference to Radio Mustang and pirate radio from the Netherlands. I was listening from Italy (Jonathon King, Aug 17, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 9250-9280, August 11 at 1334, very strong pulsing like OTH radar, but not the same sound as from China or Cyprus; peaks at 9265, and would ruin WINB or WMLK if they dared use out-of-band frequency at this time. Split-second breaks every 16 seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9300+, Aug 17 at 1332, carrier slightly above channel compared to Firedrake 10300, nothing but continuous buzz/whine, still going at 1403, 1410. The kind of thing Cairo and Riyadh are capable of generating; no broadcasters at all on 9300 per HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, but there are plenty of Qahirans nearby at various times, e.g. 9290, 9305, in this favorite out-of-bandsexion of ERTU. EiBi has another intriguing nearby, but this was not DRM to my ear: 9295 0800-1600 irr ALASKA DART WE2XRH DIGITAL NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 16000, "Jackhammer Blaster", Aug. 8, 0150, really strong (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Aug 16, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R- 8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) See also AUSTRALIA; GERMANY [non] UNIDENTIFIED. 17919.958, female Chinese voice, probably against SOH Taiwan which is registered on 17920 kHz? 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or SOH itself? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ LIVE WEB BROADCAST HUNTSVILLE HAMFEST AUG 20-21 It's time again for the Huntsville Hamfest and you can join in the fun at http://w5kub.com for live streaming audio and video of the hamfest. Join in on the chatroom where everyone can talk to each other or directly to the W5KUB crew. During our last show we had over 30,000 hams in about 150 countries follow us the entire week. We will be giving away several thousand dollars of prizes to some lucky viewers that tune in. Prizes include Yaesu FT-950 grand prize announcement, LDG auto tuners, tentec mics, G5RVs, Handi-talkies, Baluns, Rollable Solar Chargers, KPC-3+ packet communicator, ARRL handbook, Communication speakers, subscriptions to CQ, CQVHF, and Poplar Communications, and QSL cards to mention a few. Thanks, Tom W5KUB, http://w5kub.com (via Southgate http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2011/huntsville_hamfest.htm via Mike Terry, Aug 16, dxldyg via DXLD) But some audio/video already launched at 1553 UT August 16 as I had left the webpage up, ``recorded live``, from last year?? (gh, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ Recent changes of ITU calls [country abbreviations] i.e. Netherlands NLD instead of HOL; Myanmar MMR instead of BRM; Bulgaria BGR instead of BUL; Netherlands Caribic BES (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba) (Patrick Robic, Austria, Guenter Lorenz, Germany, A- DX Aug 6 via BC-DX via DXLD) ADDITIONAL Q-SIGNALS Thought we might be able to use some of these new Q signals in the contest. Original List by John Queen, KA0SEY & Mike Colyar, K7ITL Additions by Thom LaCosta K3HRN and members of QRP-L Some Q signals have never made it to the ARRL's official list. Here are some that may agree would be useful in appropriate situations. As with regular Q signals, each can be a statement or a question, depending on whether a question mark follows it. * QAS - I am speaking out of my ass * QAS? - Are you speaking out of your ass? * QBA - My antenna is BIG! * QBA? - How big is your antenna? * QBO - Don't sit next to that guy in the meeting. * QBO? - Buddy, can you spare some soap? * QBS - It's getting deep in here. * QBS? - Did I tell you about the one that got away? Alternate suggested by ken cubilo w8ob * QBS - Clean the bird sh*t off your antenna so you can hear me * QBS? - Should I clean the bird sh*t off my antenna so I can hear you * QCP - I am using Cat Power(From Rotary Cat Power Wheel) Suggestions made for spark gap transmitter on QRP-L mailing list * QCP? - Are you using Cat Power? * QCW - I am going to whistle Morse Code on FM (or SSB) * QCW? - Why are you whistling Morse? * QDR - Damn Right the frequency is busy!} In response to QRL * QDR? - Do you have a Receiver?} In respone to QRL Contributed by Don Melcher = W6ZO * QET - Phone home. * QET? - Has anyone called me from another planet? * QEW - Copy is difficult due to Ear Wax. * QEW? - Is copy difficult due to Ear Wax? Contributed by John L Sielke W2AGN * QFF? - HOW HI IS YOUR FRONT FEET ON YOUR RADIO? * QFF 2 - MY FRONT FEET ARE 2 " Contributed by TOM CARROLL, W9CSX * QFH - This frequency is MINE! - go elsewhere. * QFH? - Is this frequency hogged? * QHI - I am jumping in quick to say hi, then going QRT. * QHI? - Are you leaving after only one transmission? * QKB? - How many knobs does your radio have? * QKB n - My radio has "n" knobs. Contributed by Fred K6DGW * QKN? - How many of them do you know how to use? * QKN n - I think I know how to use "n" of them. Contributed by Fred K6DGW * QLF - I am sending with my left foot. * QLF? - Are you sending with your left foot? * QLK - I am sending with my left foot and keyboard. * QLK? - Are you sending with your left foot and keyboard? Contributed by Thom LaCosta K3HRN * QNO - I am sending through a non-standard orifice. * QNO? - Are you sending through a non-standard orifice? Contributed by Thom LaCosta K3HRN * QOF Yes, I am an Old Fart. * QOF? Are you an old Fart? Contributed by Jim W7RY * QOK - Your last transmission was Okie Dokie. * QOK? - Was my last transmission OK? * QPM - Your signal is purr modulated. * QPM? - Is my signal purr modulated? * QRC - Warning, rag chewer on frequency. * QRC? - Are you a rag chewer? * QRG - You are transmitting in or near the ... (wave length or frequency) amateur band. * QRG? - Am I transmitting in or near an amateur band, and if so which one? * QRW - Means Qrp - Really Weak * QRW? - Qrp, you are Really Weak? contributed by w0rw * QWC? - Who cares? } Courtesy of * QWC - I don't care } Fred Bonavita, K5QLF * QWC - I have to go to the bathroom } Courtesy of * QWC? - Do you have to go to the bathroom? } Fred Bonavita, K5QLF * QZZ - I fell asleep at the mike. * QZZ? - Is that a 60Hz hum, or are you snoring? ] (via Dick Pache, DXLD) MUSEA +++++ 'Broadcasting House' item - Sunday 14th August Amidst all the gloomy news of the week it inevitably had to cover, BBC Radio 4's popular "Broadcasting House" programme this morning included a very modestly titled item: "STEVE WRIGHT'S HISTORY OF RADIO IN THREE CHUNKS" Though Mr Wright is not everybody's cup of tea, this proved very interesting. The second "chunk" occurs about 35 minutes into the programme and looks - yes - at Pirate Radio; good timing. The third and final bit, just before the end of the programme, celebrates the transistor radio, and then goes on to some musings which I know will appeal to some members of this group, about the superiority of AM. SW even suggests that the digitalisation of radio may take another thirty years! The programme will be available on BBC i-player for the next seven days. The reason for this celebration of the wireless? Apparently today is the 117th anniversary of Mr Lodge transmitting the first morse code message some sixty feet, wirelessly. Therefore, it's been suggested that this date marks the "birth" of radio, and should be celebrated as World Radio Day. Mmm... (Mark Savage, Feltham, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) MUSEUM WILL HONOR THE ‘CINCINNATI LIARS’ Radio World By Ken Rieser August 16, 2011 (The author is president of the board of directors for the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting). The Voice of America Bethany Station was built in 1944 on a wartime basis under the direction of broadcasting pioneer Powel Crosley. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was determined to broadcast radio messages overseas. Powel Crosley committed his innovative team of engineers in Cincinnati to building transmitters and antennae system capable of this. A 640-acre site was selected north of Cincinnati in the rural community of West Chester and not far from neighboring Crosley’s powerful WLW transmitter. Here, engineers set about building something that had never been built before. Intricate antennae systems would soon be scattered throughout the property and an impressive art-deco structure resembling a WWII airfield control tower was built to accommodate the six new 200- kilowatt transmitters (10 kW was the standard power at the time). The transmitters were designed and built by Crosley engineers with every component custom-made; and they would remain in service to the U.S. government for the next 50 years. The technology was top secret and perplexed Hitler and others as America’s Voice continued to permeate Europe and South America. Frustrated by the inability to block this powerful voice, Hitler referred to the facility as “those Cincinnati Liars.” The structure itself, while built during the shortages of war, was designed to highlight and pay tribute to the powerful technology held within its walls. The art-deco building is made of glazed block with a four-story tower that during time of national crisis held armed guards. The bulk of the building was referred to as the Great Concourse, an open space with a 25-foot ceiling, curved balcony and six transmitters on two podiums. This impressive space in the 1940s would have been a vision of technology and progress. Powel Crosley referred to this concourse as “The Temple of Radio.” Unique American message: While the structure of the building is significant in an architectural sense, it is the story of The Voice of America Bethany Station that speaks to our nation’s history. This building represents American ideals in so many ways. In service of their country, a group of innovators united to create technology that had only been imagined. They made it possible for the unique American message of freedom and democracy to be shared with people oppressed by tyrannical leaders yearning for the truth. For the next 50 years, these engineers used their imaginations and their skills to make sure America’s message was always heard, defeating jamming efforts and overcoming technological challenges. In times of war and in times of peace, The Voice of America Bethany Station delivered the news and culture of America, including the music of Louis Armstrong and others, to victims of war, the oppressed, the curious and service men and women serving their country around the globe. With the advent of newer satellite-based technology, ground stations like VOA’s Bethany were no longer needed, and the facility was decommissioned in 1995. Shortly afterward, dozens of radio towers and curtain antennae were razed at the West Chester location, and the facility and about 500 of the surrounding acres were turned over to West Chester Township and Butler County Metro Parks for public use. The VOA Bethany Station and its surrounding 20 acres were given to West Chester Township for historic monument purposes. Joining efforts: Over the next several years interested citizens worked to convert the Bethany Station into a museum. Most notable among them was the local VFW Post and the West Chester Amateur Radio Association. As the museum took shape it was evident that the space was larger than needed for just the VOA Museum and West Chester Amateur Radio Association, which was operating an amateur radio station out of the building. At the same time two local museums were looking for new homes. They were the Gray History of Wireless Museum and Media Heritage. Both were excellent fits for the VOA Museum. The Gray History of Wireless Museum boasts one of the largest collections of antique radio equipment in the country and was assembled by Jack Gray, a former VOA Bethany Station engineer. Media Heritage is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and maintenance of historic broadcast recordings, photographs, scripts, film, printed text, oral histories and other media related to the history of radio and television in the Greater Cincinnati area, the Midwest and the nation. Both of these museums are now housed in the Bethany Station building. In order to facilitate three museums and an operating radio station (WC8VOA) occupying one building, West Chester Township formed an independent board. Its mission is to develop and operate the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. To determine the best way to merge these entities into a cohesive experience the board commissioned Jack Rouse Associates to develop a Concept Master Plan. Meanwhile West Chester Township, with a grant from the state of Ohio, has spent $1.5 million restoring the building to its original 1944 exterior façade. This restoration was completed in 2011 and they are planning additional major repairs to the building for 2012. The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting Board has accepted the Rouse Master Plan. The plan can be viewed on the museum website. The fundraising campaign to complete the detail engineering and construction has begun. The goal is to raise $12 million to convert the Bethany Station into a museum that will preserve the rich history of VOA, wireless radio and Cincinnati broadcast history. Please visit www.voamuseum.org for more information on the affiliated organizations. If you are interested in contributing, please click on www.givevoa.org; it links to the West Chester/Liberty Community Foundation, which is collecting the donations. For photos see: http://radioworld.com/article/museum-will-honor-the-%E2%80%98cincinnati-liars%E2%80%99/24135 for photos (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) RADIO PHILATELY +++++++++++++++ "VERIFIED RECEPTION STAMPS": NEW CATALOG PUBLISHED One of the challenges of collecting Ekko stamps is knowing the relative rarity of various stamps. "Verified Reception Stamps" is a new catalog by the author of Official Seals of the World, Bank and School Savings Stamps, and College and School Stamps, James N. Drummond. In the just concluded American Philatelic StampShow (a national level philatelic exhibition), this work won a Silver Award in the Open Literature Competition. Quoting the author, "In the mid-1920s, listening to distant AM radio stations was a very popular hobby. To prove that a listener had in fact heard a particular station, verified reception stamps were received from the stations and then placed into special albums. The fad lasted until the early 1930s for most people, though some continued to request stamps from stations for several more decades. Collecting these stamps remains popular even today." The catalog is printed in color on 8½ by 11 inch paper. It is three- hole punched and the 635 pages will fill a two inch binder. A binder is not included with the catalog. Brief histories of nearly 1,400 early radio stations accompany the images of most of the known Ekko, Bryant, and privately-produced verified reception stamps. The book includes over 2,500 images, almost all of which are in color. The stamps are arranged in alphabetical order by call sign. Details about where the station was located, who owned the station, what the callsign letters meant, and so on are all included. An 80 page introduction comprehensively covers the history of each company that produced the stamps, as well as much background information about the hobby. There has never before been a verified reception stamp catalog as detailed as this one. If you have an interest in this area, you will find that this catalog will answer most of the questions that you might have had, including: How many different Ekko stamps were printed? How many different Bryant stamps are there? Which radio station was owned by Sears, Roebuck and Company? Which stamps are rare and which ones are common? and much more. The catalog doubles as a stamp album. The stamps can be hinged directly onto each page. Each copy of the book has a unique serial number. The work is available in the United States from professional philatelist Eric Jackson, P.O. Box 728 in Leesport, Pennsylvania 19533. Contact the firm via their web site http://www.ericjackson.com ( http://www.ericjackson.com/email.asp ). The price of "Verified Reception Stamps" in the United States is $89.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Contact the firm for shipment rates outside the United States, but be aware this is a heavy publication (via Bill Matthews, USA in DXplorer, Aug 16 via Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Mi Blog: http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/ radiostamps yg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See CANADA; OKLAHOMA; PORTUGAL; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BRODCASTING --- DRM See ARGENTINA; GUAM; UNIDENTIFIED 9300 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [all of which are non/passing references] RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE THREAT WE ARE WOEFULLY UNPREPARED FOR: WHEN, NOT IF Altho from the Heritage Foundation, a lot of good and rather alarming discussion here; aired live on CSPAN2, morning of August 15: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Puls and also archived forever at Heritage.org, they say (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Perseids and August skip From Burnt River ON: [Here`s a fine example of what can be accomplished by really going after meteor-scatter FM DX; times presumably EDT = UT -4 --- gh] Still working on sorting out the unIDs, thought I`d post... Aug 7 MS (BR) 0638, unID 106.7 .. ... Franklin Town Centre in Brownsburg (clip to be posted soon, not sure if I have it right) Aug 8 MS (BR) Perseids 0720, KQKX 106.7 NE Norfolk Go to 106Kix, that`s KIX.com, Kix Country 0950, KBBK 107.3 NE Lincoln You`re on L`s #1 at-work stn B- 107-3, soft AC 0940, KTHR 107.3 KS Wichita Welcome back to the Bob & Tom Show... 1850, KKOW 96.9 KS Pittsburg 96.9 the Cow Aug 9 MS (BR) Perseids 0700, CJME3 107.3 SK Warmley CJME 1420, CKWM 94.9 NS Kentville For more information visit Magic949.ca 1748, KYTZ 106.7 ND Walhalla Co-op Home Entertainmt&Appliance, no GST-PST Aug 10 MS (BR) Perseids 0245, unID 107.3 .. ... Q-Q-107 in jingle (yes, two Q?s) 0700, CBW 98.3 MB Winnipeg 7 in Brandon (as in 92.7) 0750, KQDS 94.9 MN Duluth Here`s the Police, classic rock KQ... 0801, WFRN 104.7 IN Elkhart WFRN and wx; +0803 WFRN News (prev Tr) 0810, CJME3 107.3 SK Warmley Wx Gravelbg, Swift Curr, etc; +0835 CJME News 0830, unID 98.3 .. ... The Light (WLGT Greenville NC till 2008 ? ?) (not taped) 1026, KHOZ 102.9 AR Harrison The most country KHOZ (prev Es) Aug 11 MS (BR) Perseids 0431, CKOY 107.7 QC Sherbrooke French 1020, CION2 106.7 QC Saguenay Man and woman talk French re wellbeing 1024, WJJY 106.7 MN Brainerd WJJY; +1036 Forecast on way next here at WJJY 1028, WTCB 106.7 SC Orangeburg On WTC 1045, KQKX 106.7 NE Norfolk Norfolk Public Library book sale 1120, KKOW 96.9 KS Pittsburg Ad: Pambino Ford (Columbus KS) 1423, unID 107.7 .. ... 107-7 the Peak (weak, stupid didn`t tape this) 1437, unID 107.7 .. ... C-Hall/Home Pharmacy (again, stupid didn`t tape it) 1445, K... 107.7 MN ... MN Twins baseball (or so it seemed) 1556, KCMO 94.9 KS Shawnee Thu aft w/Mike O`Brien; +1655 KCMO Kansas City`s 1830, unID 97.9 .. ... FM in Briarwood (KFNW Fargo?) (recording soon to be posted) 2023, KWQW 98.3 IA Boone Meteor?st John McLaughlin Super Doppler 4cast 2340, WPGB 104.7 PA Pittsburgh Sudden Michael Savage talk re Blair (no one else on 104.7 runs this far as I can tell) Aug 12 MS (BR) Perseids 0840, WRSA 96.9 AL Holly Pond Today`s lite 96-9 1115, KSOU 93.9 IA Sioux Center Throughout Sioux land; +1815 RDS: KSOU 1125, KSPQ 93.9 MO West Plains Q94 Jack FM 1450, WRZQ 107.3 IN Greensburg WRZQ Greensburg 1450, WKTG 93.9 KY Madisonville Ad: GlemaCenter.org 1558, WCGQ 107.3 GA Columbus An Inner Monologue with Damon Free on Q-107.3 1620, unID 107.3 .. ... CBC-like mention of Province of Ontario - I`m stumped 1701, CJME3 107.3 SK Warmley Wx ments Weyburn, Swift Current, Moose Jaw 1720, KSSZ 93.9 MO Fayette Hannity??? 1730, KTHR 107.3 KS Wichita 1073TheBrew.com 1816, KRBB 97.9 KS Wichita CO Stables ad 722-2680 Aug 13 MS (BR) Perseids 0010, unID 107.3 .. ... Pershing a player in baseball game 0200, KCCD 90.3 MN Moorhead This is 90.3 KCCD Moorhead-Fargo 0454, KSSZ 93.9 MO Fayette Political talk 0603, unID 107.7 .. ... Playing thousands of songs... (not taped) 0610, unID 93.9 .. ... The Faith Network, call now (not taped) 0726, unID 89.5 .. ... The Classic IQ...89.5 (tape soon to be uploaded) (+ French, CIUT?) 1604, unID 107.3 .. ... Baseball talk, recorded and will upload in case the announcer is familiar 1604, unID 97.9 .. ... Bud Night at Quaker State&Lube Rrnt this Wed 1648, CKWM 94.9 NS Kentville Kentville...for more info...Magic949.ca 1650, unID 106.1 .. ... Spanish (tape soon to be uploaded) 1651, unID 107.3 .. ... GB Shoe Warehouse 1655, CJME3 107.3 SK Warmley CJME 1710, KQRN 107.3 SD Mitchell 2010 North Main in Mitchell 1715, unID 107.3 .. ... `Classic hits` (not taped) Aug 14 MS (BR) 0240, unID 106.7 .. ... Ad for Superior (WI) (it`s taped, will upload soon) Aug 15 MS (BR) 1030, KSSZ 93.9 MO Fayette 93-9 the Eagle, Columbia City in news (Saul Chernos, AMFMTVDX mailing list via DXLD) Geomagnetic Indices (From Phil Bytheway), July 2011: Geomagnetic summary tabulated from daily e-mail data. Flux A K Space Wx 1 88 12 2 no storms 2 86 5 2 no storms 3 86 8 2 no storms 4 85 7 3 no storms 5 85 13 2 minor 6 85 11 2 no storms 7 86 7 2 no storms 8 86 8 3 no storms 9 86 14 4 no storms 10 91 13 3 no storms 11 90 15 3 no storms 12 92 9 1 no storms 13 95 8 2 no storms 14 94 8 2 no storms 15 94 5 2 no storms 16 94 5 1 no storms 17 104 4 2 no storms 18 102 9 2 no storms 19 100 13 3 no storms 20 100 17 2 no storms 21 96 11 2 no storms 22 92 11 3 no storms 23 88 10 2 no storms 24 86 5 2 no storms 25 87 11 2 no storms 26 94 5 1 no storms 27 99 4 1 minor 28 107 4 2 no storms 29 112 4 1 no storms 30 113 11 3 moderate 31 119 13 3 no storms (NRC DX News Aug 15 via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity began the week at generally quiet to unsettled levels with isolated active and minor storm periods at the high latitudes. Activity decreased to quiet levels for 11-12 August and then increased slightly to quiet to unsettled levels for 14 August. Solar wind observations from the ACE spacecraft showed a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream from 08-10 August. Solar wind data also indicated a solar sector boundary on the 13th at about 2000 UTC, followed by the onset of a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 17 AUGUST-12 SEPTEMBER 2011 Solar activity is expected to be very low to low for 17-23 August. An increase to low to moderate is expected as old Region 1263 returns and transits the disk from 24 August to 06 September. Activity levels are likely to return to low or very low levels for the remainder of the outlook interval from 07-12 September. In addition there continues to be a chance that a new, rapidly emerging flux region could increase activity to moderate or greater levels at any time during the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to increase to high levels for 18-23 August. Moderate levels are expected for 24-27 August, followed by a few days for high levels for 28-29 August. Low to moderate levels should prevail for 30 August through 04 September, followed by another increase to high levels for 05-07 September. Normal levels should resume on 08 September and continue through the end of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be generally quiet to unsettled for 17-22 August as there may be weak driving from a coronal hole high speed stream (HSS). Quiet levels should prevail for 23-25 August and another increase to quiet to unsettled is expected for 26- 28 August from another HSS. Quiet levels are expected to return for 29 August through 02 September. An increase to unsettled with a chance for active periods is expected for 03-05 September due to another recurrent HSS. Quiet levels should predominate for 06-10 September, and another increase to quiet to unsettled from a recurrent HSS is expected for 11-12 September. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2011 Aug 16 1738 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2011-08-16 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2011 Aug 17 95 10 3 2011 Aug 18 95 5 2 2011 Aug 19 95 5 2 2011 Aug 20 97 5 2 2011 Aug 21 97 8 3 2011 Aug 22 100 5 2 2011 Aug 23 100 5 2 2011 Aug 24 105 5 2 2011 Aug 25 110 5 2 2011 Aug 26 115 15 3 2011 Aug 27 115 10 3 2011 Aug 28 110 8 3 2011 Aug 29 110 5 2 2011 Aug 30 110 5 2 2011 Aug 31 110 5 2 2011 Sep 01 105 5 2 2011 Sep 02 105 5 2 2011 Sep 03 105 8 3 2011 Sep 04 100 10 3 2011 Sep 05 100 10 3 2011 Sep 06 95 10 3 2011 Sep 07 95 7 2 2011 Sep 08 90 5 2 2011 Sep 09 90 5 2 2011 Sep 10 90 5 2 2011 Sep 11 90 8 3 2011 Sep 12 90 12 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1578, DXLD) ###